Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Tonight, MPD150 Part II: Creating the Future of Community Safety

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MPD150: A People’s Project Evaluating Policing

Join your Kingfield neighbors to learn about MPD150, a community-based initiative challenging the narrative that police exist to protect and serve. MPD150’s work seeks to shift the discussion around police and policing in Minneapolis from one of procedural reforms to one of meaningful structural change. These presentations were born out of a group of neighbors’ conversations about looking beyond policing to find alternative ways to create safe communities. KFNA is hosting these presentations as a way to start conversation in our neighborhood about the role that neighbors, and nonprofits (like KFNA), can play in creating a safe space for all.

Part 2: Tuesday May 4, 7pm-8pm

Creating the Future of Community Safety: Connect with neighbors to discuss harms we face in our neighborhood and City, measures we can take to prevent these harms, and alternatives we can create to address harms when they do occur.

Facilitators: MPD150 work group members, Sheila Nezhad 

More info and registration: bit.ly/3mFteEa

To view Session 1, The History of Policing in Minneapolis, visit here.

Kingfield Neighbors Invited to the Lyndale General Memebership Meeting to Learn about the Redevelopment of the Wells Fargo site

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April 24, 6:30 – 8 PM (Wells Fargo will be on the agenda closer to 7 PM)

On Zoom: contact for the Zoom link. [Read more…]

Actions to Promote Peace: Practice Safe Protesting

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Many gatherings, protests, and events will be happening in the coming days. It is important for you to particpate in these actions of protest, healing and support. However, it is important to particpate in ways that keep your own body safe, and protect the safety of others with whom you are gathering.

Please follow these Safe Protest Practices:

  • attend with a friend and designate a meeting place if you get separated,
  • let another friend or your family know where you are going,
  • write your name and number and an emergency contact’s name and number on your arm.
  • bring your fully charged cell phone and a mobile charger,
  • wear a good quality face mask and consider bringing safety goggles,
  • bring drinking water and a snack,
  • strip down your wallet but include your ID and a small amount of cash,
  • pack a basic first aid kit for your use, and also to assist others.

Stay aware of your surroundings and have an exit strategy. And above all else know your rights and be prepared to state them loudly and calmly. 

City of Minneapolis Curfew Tonight (4/13/21) from 10 PM-6 AM

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Today, April 13, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey issued Emergency Regulation 2021-2-2, which establishes a city-wide curfew in Minneapolis. The law goes is in effect at 10 p.m. tonight, April 13 and will last until 6 a.m. tomorrow, Wednesday April 14. The curfew comes after Frey declared a local State of Emergency, as is required under the City’s Charter before establishing a curfew. 

Little Kickers Soccer Program: summer 2021

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Located at MLK Park, in the field near Nicollet Ave. & 42nd Street
Fun Soccer Games Program for Young Children – Ages 4-8
Wednesdays: starting June 23 and continuing through August 18, 6:15-7:30 PM
$20 a season for Minneapolis residents

This summer, on Wednesday evenings from 6:15 to 7:30 PM, on the grass of ML King field #1, the Minneapolis Park Board and the Kingfield Neighborhood Association will again host a program for 4- through 8-year old boys and girls, of all nationalities and backgrounds. The program is designed around soccer basics and soccer balls, and lots of action. But the highest priority of the program is that the kids have fun; have fun playing games with soccer balls, and want to come back the next week, enthusiastically, to play the games with soccer balls again.

If you can imagine; dads, moms, aunts, uncles, and grandparents, (you!); joining in to play the games with your 6-year-old son, your 4-year-old daughter, and the the other 15-20 kids in their age-group, on the field. The adults are regularly invited to join in games kicking the soccer balls, and pretending with the kids for: “Ouch!”, “Allegators”, “Go Get It”, “Islands”, “Bandits”, and “Buffalo Hunter”.  There is the occasional soccer scrimmage for the older groups at the end of session, but mostly it’s about teaching soccer through these other, “silly”, games.

The Little Kickers Program uses these little-kid teaching-games, led by 2 or 3 parent-coaches trained in a bunch of the games, to groups of a dozen to 20, or so, 4-year-olds, 5-6 year-olds, and 7-8 year-olds. The games are about teaching skills and behaviors core to soccer, but the games are generally not soccer games, and we don’t do “drills”, we don’t form organized teams for the summer, and parents don’t commit to being team soccer coaches for the summer. Parent coaches don’t need to be athletes, nor need to have experience playing organized soccer.

If you want to be one of the “Official” parent coaches, we will provide training in June at a two-hour games-learning session from a one of several college-level soccer coaches who actually use these games in their professional roles, working with their upper level youth programs and their college varsity soccer teams. But they are fun, kid games. Not serious soccer drills.

Interested? Send and email to Michael Vanderford, at .

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