Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Calling All Green-Minded, Trivia-Wonks to Help Plan Our First Green “Hoppy Hour”!

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Kingfield & Minneapolis Climate Action are set to host our first local, green-focused Trivia-based Hoppy Hour on Tuesday July 9, 5:30-7 PM at Pat’s Tap and we want your help!

Besides the parameters outlined above (place, date, time, and trivia) we have nothing figured out and this is why we need you! Are you a Trivia junkie? A Zero waste pro? A happy hour fan? A mildly interested neighbor who wants to connect and do something fun with other fun neighbors?

We need a group to plan the format, questions, timing, scoring, greeting, advertising, and fun! Let me know if you are interested and can attend a planning meeting on Wednesday June 19 from 5:30-7 PM) for a brainstorming-planning session.

Our goals for this event are:

  • To educate neighbors about composting and zero waste
  • To celebrate a local business already doing sustainable practices
  • To have fun and meet new like-minded folks
  • To start building local, green leadership who will continue to plan information/educational/environmental events focused on spreading knowledge and working to build sustainable practices one household at a time.

Sounds fun but you can’t make the planning session?  Be sure to put the event on your calendar for July 9.  We will be recruiting leaders to plan the next Green Hoppy Hour there, and we are thinking it might be based around a Jeopardy style face-off of pros…so obviously we need your clever brains to help with that one too!

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.

Modified Kingfield Annual Garage Sale May 18th, 2019

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Although we did not get enough volunteers to have our traditional garage sale, the Kingfield Neighborhood Association is happy to support our neighbors that would like to have a garage sale. Here is what we propose:

For folks interested in having a garage sale on Saturday, May 18th, we can post some information on our social media platforms stating that there will be multiple families having garage sales. We can also make our KFNA garage sale yard signs available for you to pick up and place throughout the neighborhood a few days before the event.

Before we take these steps, however, we need to know that there will be sales that day. So, if you need some motivation to get in gear, make a plan for your sale and send an e-mail to Cheryl@Kingfield.org. If we receive at least 10 e-mails, we will start advertising. So start taking a page out of Japanese decluttering queen Marie Kondo’s book and releasing yourself of unwanted items, and start planning your garage sale for 5/18!

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.

 

Kingfield PorchFest Sponsors

  • Locus Architecture
  • The Lowbrow
  • Butter Bakery Cafe
  • Twin Town Guitars