Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Looking for Ways to Help Our City & Community?

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Looking to help our city our community in this very challenging time? A neighbor, complied this list of needs and site clean-ups. We will try to update this throughout the day as needs change, but please try and check-in with site organizers before you show up to make sure needs have not shifted or been filled.

Mural credit Greta McLain. Photo credit Jeff Pierson.

BUY/DONATE:
1) At the memorial site (38th & Chicago) organizers have asked for the following materials to help protect the items that have been made, left to honor George Floyd:
-bungee cords of various sizes
-packing tape
-any kind of plastic sleeve or coverings
-staples/staple guns
-free masks
-anything you can think of to help protect artwork, cards, posters should it rain

2) FOOD DONATIONS NEEDED FOR RESIDENTS IMPACTED BY FIRES TODAY:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2667157866940165/
Residents need: Peanut butter, bread, cold cuts, cheese slices, crackers, canned soup or stew, canned fruit, canned vegetables, canned fish, canned beans, pasta and sauce, rice, and toilet paper.
We’ll have curbside drop-off and staff will be wearing masks

MPS FOOD DONATIONS SITE CHANGES TODAY:
Some of the MPS food distribution sites have been changed, here is the update for those donations (box of fresh food for ANY child 0-18 who lives in the city of Mpls, no ID req’d)
-Brian Coyle Center (420 S 15th Ave) 11:15-12:00pm
-Willard Park (1625 Queen Ave N_ 12:30-1:15pm

GO/ATTEND:
Hamline/Midway Cleanup (today) (meet at Gordon Park High School)
https://www.facebook.com/events/536722810332008/
Minnehaha Mall cleanup (today)
https://www.facebook.com/events/284447382686074/
Lake St Cleanup (today)
https://www.facebook.com/events/591204518187429/
Community Dua (Prayer) w/ Imams (Saturday)
https://www.facebook.com/events/245941539971881/
National Day of Action (Saturday)
https://www.facebook.com/events/563296627946390/
Virtual Community Vigil for George Floyd (Saturday)
https://www.facebook.com/events/268424980944903/
SIGN THESE PETITIONS:
Minneapolis Public Schools to end MPD contract
https://www.change.org/p/parents-end-contract-with-mpd-in-a…
Defund MPD (City of Mpls)
https://secure.everyaction.com/eR7GA7oz70GL8doBq19LrA2

CALL:
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman
612-348-5550 (citizeninfor@hennepin.mn)
Minneapolis Police Union
612-788-8444 (info@mpdfederation.com

DONATE MONEY:
Independent Local Media:
https://minnesotareformer.com/
https://unicornriot.ninja/
https://www.minnpost.com/
https://www.mprnews.org/
Youth Groups:
https://www.migizi.org/ (serves Native youth, bldg burned down)
https://www.hclib.org/
https://www.ywcampls.org/locations/ywca-midtown/
Small Businesses/Lake Street/Shop
www.welovelakestreet.org
https://www.lakestreetcouncil.org/
https://www.northernsun.com/
https://midtownglobalmarket.org/
https://visitlakestreet.com/explore/stop-n-shop
https://www.ingebretsens.com/
http://mimercadocentral.com/
Community Groups
https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
https://ctul.net/
https://www.facebook.com/BlackImmigrantCollective/
https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/home
www.racialjusticenetwork.com
https://www.facebook.com/blacklivesmatterminneapolis/
https://www.copalmn.org/
https://takeactionminnesota.org/
https://mnvoice.org/
http://www.mplsnaacp.org/
https://www.cuapb.org/ (communities united against police brutality)
https://www.navigatemn.org/
https://voicesforracialjustice.org/

Free COVID-19 Testing this Weekend

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Governor Tim Walz announced that any Minnesotan who needs or wants testing for COVID-19 can access free testing at six locations across Minnesota throughout this Memorial Day holiday weekend: Saturday, May 23, through Monday, May 25. Testing is free and Minnesotans will not be asked for insurance cards or form of identification. No appointment is needed. 

Testing Locations:

East St. Paul – 1530 Maryland Ave. E, St. Paul, MN 55106.

Minneapolis Armory – 1025 Broadway St. NE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413.

Moorhead Armory – 1002 15th Ave. N., Moorhead, MN 56560.

Duluth Armory – 4015 Airpark Blvd, Duluth, MN 55811.

Faribault Armory – 3000 W. Airport Rd, Faribault, MN 55021.

St. James Armory – 521 Armstrong Blvd N., St. James, MN 56081.

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Grocery Distribution Event for All Households In-Need

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38th & Pleasant (SW corner), Sunday May 17th, 10:30 AM- 12:30 PM

If you are experiencing, or anticipating, a shortage of grocery staples in the coming week, please know you are invited to participate in the Incarnation/Sagrado de Corazon Grocery Distribution Event this coming Sunday. Intended for low-income households, or those that have difficulties accessing food, there is no cost to participate in this event. Enough groceries will be available to provide food-security for the coming week to 1100 families.

Participants are asked to arrive by car, if possible. Four lanes will be formed and be directed to enter the parking lot from Pleasant Avenue. Boxes of groceries will be placed in your car by volunteers. Each box contains enough calories of food to feed a family of four for an entire week. Much of the food is dried or canned so will be shelf-stable.

Please know that you are welcome to share this information with others in our broader community. Zip codes will be collected at the event to allow for increased food distribution at this location in the coming weeks.

If you are interested in supporting this outreach you can make direct financial donations to the Incarnation COVID-19 Food Shelf at this link: http://bit.ly/IncarnationFoodShelf

Organized by Incarnation Church/Sagrado de Corazon

Still Sewing Masks? Help the Boomerang Sewists Help Local Healthcare Workers!

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Still sewing? We are still collecting completed masks (and delivering sewing supplies!) for health care sites and essential workers. In fact since yesterday we had requests for over 1400 ADDITIONAL masks. Please help us help Hennepin Healthcare, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Emerge Community Services, Minneapolis Public Schools, and Presbyterian Homes & Services of Bloomington.

Sign up be a Sewist today! (and share the link for masks too.)

Clinics Sign Up Here!
https://bit.ly/MasksforHealthClinics
If your clinic (not for individuals) needs homemade masks, please let our volunteer sewists know here: https://bit.ly/MasksforHealthClinics. We can now also accept mask orders from essential work sites including grocery stores, farmers markets, and other workplace locations that want to provide these to their employees.
Sewists Sign Up Here!
https://bit.ly/MaskPickUps
If you are sewing masks, please use this link to arrange for a volunteer to pick up your completed masks and deliver them to a clinic. Please place masks in a plastic bag and write the number of masks on the bag in Sharpie (so they don’t have to be recounted). You can also request more supplies to be dropped off.

DEED begins making Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) payments to self-employed & independent contractors

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The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) announced on Friday, April 24 the agency began making Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) payments to people who are self-employed, independent contractors, and other eligible recipients who are not eligible for regular unemployment benefits.

Here’s what you need to know about applying for PUA:

  • If you have already applied for regular unemployment benefits, you do not need to do anything extra to qualify for PUA. DEED will automatically establish a PUA benefit account for you if you are eligible.
  • If you have not applied for unemployment benefits yet, special instructions for self-employed and 1099 workers are available here. These instructions include steps you can take to make your account easily identifiable as potentially eligible for PUA.
    • If you applied for unemployment benefits without following those instructions, don’t worry – you don’t need to change anything. Your account will still be reviewed for PUA eligibility.
  • If you have not heard from DEED yet, don’t worry. We expect to be in touch with most people who are eligible for benefits under PUA by the end of April. There is no need to call or follow-up; you will hear from us proactively if we need additional information to determine eligibility.
  • You will receive information about PUA benefits in your online account, by email, and by mail.
  • Applicants who receive PUA benefits will also receive the $600/week additional payment.
  • PUA benefits will be backdated to whenever you first became eligible due to COVID-19.

Additional information, including answers to many commonly asked questions, can be found here: COVID-19 information for self-employed people and independent contractors

Kingfield Restaurants

currently open for take-out
(more info available here)

  • Tap Society
  • Sunstreet Breads
  • Royal Grounds
  • Rincon 38
  • Revival
  • Patisserie 46
  • Nighthawks
  • The Lowbrow
  • Hola Arepa
  • Grand Cafe
  • Good Times Pizza
  • Five Watt Coffee
  • Young Man
  • Dave The Pie Guy
  • Curran's
  • Cocina Latina
  • Cafe Ena
  • Butter Bakery Cafe
  • Boludo Empanadas
  • Apoy