Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Kingfield PorchFest Registration Opens Today, May Day 2019!

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June 20, 6-9 PM at a local porch near you!

For anyone new to the neighborhood or has been asleep the past few years and is wondering, “What the heck is PorchFest?” PorchFest is an evening of community all wrapped up in the sounds of summer. On this single summer evening, Kingfield musicians will perform acoustic music outdoors at their respective homes, or at neighbor’s porch or yard, while others stroll through the neighborhood, enjoying the sounds. This event regularly features over 50 musical performances on about 3 dozen Kingfield stages.

Got a band? Follow the link and register to play! Have a nice wide front porch or a flat front yard? Follow the kink and sign up as a potential host!

Have questions? Just contact KFNA Executive Director Sarah Linnes-Robinson at sarah@kingfield.org.

35W is closing for the weekend but KFNA isn’t!

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Reminder: I-35W in both directions will be closed between I-94 and Highway 62 from 10 PM Fri. April 26 – 5 AM Mon. April 29 for utility and drainage work…so you might as well plan to stay in the neighborhood and attend the KFNA Annual Election & Pizza Party on Saturday!

4-6 PM behind the Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant Ave. S.

Rain or shine! Bring the kids, but please not the dog (at least not if it is raining!) 

KFNA Annual Meeting & Pizza Party 4|27|19, 4-6 PM at the Kingfield Outdoor Oven

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Welcome Spring and elect a new Board of Directors to your neighborhood nonprofit, the Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA,) at the Outdoor Oven! Pizza, annual organizational report, introduction of current volunteers, great community conversation, and more! Children welcome—plan to join us!

As we get excited to welcome new KFNA Board members, let’s not to forget to honor those who are staying at the helm! Drum roll for Scott Mueller who is in the middle of his 4th term as a KFNA Board Director! Scott’s a communications guy and you can always count on him to tell you exactly how to connect to KFNA on Facebook, but at heart he is a DJ which is why the sound system is in his starter pack. He is also an avid Brewers fan, as well as a fan of partnering the consumption of brewed beverages with local trivia!

Scott loves bringing people together, so it’s no surprise that the effort he’s most proud of in his work with the Kingfield Neighborhood Association is the annual KFNA Polling Party held on Election Day at MLK Park.

 

KFNA Board Election this Saturday 4|27|19, 4-6 PM at the Outdoor Oven

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Welcome Spring and elect a new Board of Directors to your neighborhood nonprofit, the Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA,) at the Outdoor Oven! Pizza, annual organizational report, introduction of current volunteers, great community conversation, and more! Children welcome—plan to join us!

We are excited for new leadership, but thankful for those continuing their terms on the Kingfield Neighborhood Association board and super happy that Lisa Skrzeczkoski-Bzdusek has another year to serve!

As a public defender during the day Lisa stands up for the under-represented, and in her work with KFNA she likes to plan fun family activities that engage kids of all ages. She has been a leader of the both the Family Engagement Team and their First Saturday events as well as the MLK 4-H Council (hence a double meaning of the scales in her starter pack, balancing her career and her home life, as well as her volunteer commitments!)

Originally from Wisconsin, she also likes hiking, skiing, and swimming and has swam the Point La Point multiple times, be sure to ask her about open water swims in 60 degree water. She also enjoys good ol’ fashioned paperbacks with happy endings, hence Princess Bride in her starter pack. What’s a more feel good novel than that?!

Kingfield Annual Garage/Yard/Rummage Sale 2019?

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Do you love a great garage sale? Then we would love to have you help us plan this year’s event! Without volunteers, this event may not be possible…

Each year since 1998, generally on the third Saturday in May, Kingfield comes together to encourage folks to visit our neighborhood and help us recycle once-loved items. It is a perfect activity for those wanting to downsize, or for anyone caring about reusing and re-purposing stuff (Marie Kondo, anyone?!?), or wanting to turn unwanted treasures into a few extra dollars!

Please send an e-mail to info@kingfield.org to join the team that could make this year’s sale happen!  Your help would include creating applications, collecting information for maps, making flyers, distributing packets and signs, processing payments, and picking-up signs after the event. It takes about 3-5 people, meeting weekly for about 2 hours, beginning just as soon as we have interested helpers!