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!

Bright Lights Bumming You Out?

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Kingfield, there has been a lot of talk about the new LED street lamps owned by Xcel Energy being a wee bit bright.  KFNA is compiling a photo file to prove this point.  Please send a regular photo (jpeg) of the offending fixtures and the light they cast to info@kingfield.org. Please include a description of the location of the light fixture as well.

Thank you!

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Besides this action please also take the following 2 actions:

  1. The lights being replaced do not belong to the City they belong to Xcel. Call Xcel Energy Customer Care at 1-800-895-4999 or visit https://www.xcelenergy.com/outages_and…/report_outage (if you go to the website continue as if it is an outage and leave comments in the box at the bottom describing the issue with a new bulb on a pole.) Xcel will send a team out within 3-5 business days to try and solve the issue including changing the angle or adding a shield. I would recommend that you request a shield so that the bulb doesn’t get tilted and go across the street into your neighbor’s home.  I have heard Xcel is backordered on shields so will try and angle the light first. If it doesn’t work, please contact them again. You can include your phone number in the comments and ask that the outdoor team contact you to discuss solutions & notify you when the work is done. this would be important, especially if after they do the work you can’t see a difference.
  2. Call the 8th Ward office at 612-673.2208 and speak with staff or leave a message that you are unhappy with the new fixtures.  The City needs to know if citizens are unhappy with the “amenity” that Xcel is installing throughout the entire City.  While the fixture may meet the energy efficiency and dark sky goals of the City, we have also been told the City was not presented with an example or a menu of lighting options to select from.

 

Seeking Volunteer Adult Leaders for Summer 2019 Little Kids Soccer Program

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The nine-week Little Kids soccer program at King Park starts June 19 at King Park but only if enough adults volunteer to staff the program. A minimum of 12-15 adults are needed for on-field parent coaching and to staff the registration/T-shirt table. Adults who volunteer are excused when they have a conflict but otherwise participate from 6:15-7:15 p.m. through Aug. 14. Training is provided; Spanish language skill is a plus.

To volunteer, contact Michael Vanderford (612-296-9647 or michaeljvanderford@gmail.com) by the end of March.

SW Area Park Master Plans: Comments Due by 3/31/19

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Comment on initial long-term plans for dozens of SW MPLS parks by the end of the month

On Feb. 1, 2019, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) published initial concept plans for more than 40 Southwest Minneapolis neighborhood park properties. Since then, more than 500 comments have been submitted through the online survey.

Please read KFNA’s comments for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park here.  Follow the links below to make your own comments on the proposed plans for this, or any of the parks, listed below.

KFNA Comments on SW Master Plan 2019

Park Design Concepts

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Register for Spring/Summer Sports and Activities in Minneapolis Parks!

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Yes, it will eventually be Spring in Minneapolis!  Register for spring/summer sports at our wonderful Minneapolis Parks! Here is a fun one for adults coming to MLK Park:

Dodgeball
When: Sunday afternoons, late March-mid May
Where: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation Center
Leagues: Co-Ed only
Season: Eight weeks of play, including tournament
Cost: $155

Not into sports? Browse hundreds of activities and classes offered

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