Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Can you smell it in the air? Kingfield Empty Bowls is tonight!

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Vegetables being chopped, meat being seared, soup beginning to simmer, bread being baked, sugar being spun…and friends texting and calling friends to make plans for dinner tonight at MLK Park. The sounds and smells of activity and excitement…

The neighborhood is busy getting ready for Kingfield Empty Bowls Tonight!

A huge shout our to our restaurant partners who sustain us today at our Community Center…and many, many other days each year in their own spaces. Today they donate their time and talents to support youth in our community who have experienced homelessness and reside at Nicollet Square, a project of Beacon Interfaith.

Bring your neighbors, bring your family, bring your checkbook/cash/creditcards and join KFNA at MLK Park from 4-8 PM tonight, Thursday February 6!

Thanks go to: Butter Bakery Cafe, The Lowbrow, Cafe Ena, Patisserie 46, Baker’s Field Flour & Bread, Nighthawks, Kyatchi, Apoy, Seward Co-op Friendship Store, Curran’s, Gigi’s, Pat’s Tap, La Fresca, Clancey’s Meat & Fish, Lake Country School, Breadsmith, Sun Street Breads, and Victor’s 1959 Cafe!

 

Thanking our Kingfield Empty Bowls Pottery Partners!

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Thank you to Fuller Recreation Center and Blaisdell YMCA, our pottery throwdown and paint-a-bowl partners! Interested in learning how to throw? Fuller has both how-to classes AND affordable open studio times with both daytime and evening options. Check them out if you are looking for some help learning…or want to get your hands back into the clay.

At Kingfield Empty Bowls we also work really hard to maintain connections with local schools and the artists that they are nurturing. This year art teachers from South High and St. Paul Academy worked with their students as part of the pottery curriculum, as did the professors from Augsburg.

We also receive donated pottery from many local artists, both associated with local studios and independently. This year we were given bowls from artists at Northern Clay, Fired Up, Dock 6, Edina Art Center, Minneapolis Clay Collective, Grey Fox Pottery, as well as Kingfield’s own Urban Crow Arts.

We appreciate the generosity of the many artists at all these locations!

 

Minneapolis police will no longer ticket for broken taillights or turn signals

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… instead handing out vouchers to pay for vehicle repairs under a new department policy unveiled Wednesday.

Under the new policy, instead of writing a ticket, officers will now have the option of issuing drivers a voucher from the Lights On! program — financed by the nonprofit group MicroGrants, which partners with local organizations to promote economic self-sufficiency among lower income residents.

Star Tribune article

Editor’s Note: MicroGrants is based in Kingfield Neighborhood.

4th Avenue Ramp to 35W Alternate Routes

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MnDOT staff has heard some concerns about the traffic during rush hour since the Fourth Avenue ramp to I-35W south reopened to one lane last summer.

Crews still have some work to do in that area, so the second lane cannot be reopened at this time.  Because this ramp opened almost two years early, not all work on the interstate is complete. All access out of downtown is limited to one lane across the bridge that goes over I-94, which is why we need the ramp traffic to be merged down to a single lane as motorists get on southbound I-35W.

The city of Minneapolis and MnDOT suggest taking alternate routes to I-35W south. [Read more…]

Interested the work that KFNA Does in (and for) our community?

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The KFNA Board of Directors is made up of people who live or work in the neighborhood or are business or property owners. There are 13 voting seats on the board and 3 non-voting seats. KFNA works to support and promote the common good and welfare of the Kingfield neighborhood. The KFNA Board demonstrates and encourages neighborhood leadership, provides a forum for community participation, and a structure to promote the vision and aspiration of the neighborhood.

The 2020 Annual Meeting & Board Election will be held on Wednesday, March 18, 5:30-8 PM at MLK Park, 4055 Nicollet. Dinner and childcare is provided! Learn more about the process of being elected to the KFNA Board below, and take a look at the Self-Nomination Form.

KFNA Board of Directors Description 2020

2020 KFNA Board Nomination Form [Read more…]

Kingfield Empty Bowls Sponsors

  • Baker's Field Flour and Bread
  • Seward Coop
  • Clancey's Meats and Fish
  • Curran's
  • Apoy
  • Cafe Ena
  • gigi's cafe
  • Kyatchi
  • Lake Country School
  • La Fresca
  • The Lowbrow
  • Nighthawks
  • Sunstreet Breads
  • Victor's 1959 Cafe
  • Breadsmith Edina
  • Butter Bakery Cafe