Kingfield Neighborhood Association

KFNA is Hiring a Community Coordinator!

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Community Coordinator Role (15-18 hours/week)

Overview & Mission

The mission of KFNA is serving Kingfield by creating connections, building community, and fostering engagement. KFNA coordinates many much-loved events such as Empty Bowls, the Sap Tap & Pancake Breakfast, and Porchfest, as well as supporting neighborhood projects such as the Pollinator Pathway, community safety workshops, renter canvasses, and neighborhood history projects. This role serves as a key point of engagement and communication between Kingfield renters, homeowners, business owners, and neighborhood community members, and the KFNA Board of Directors. The position of the Community Coordinator will report directly to the Board of Directors.

Read more about KFNA’s Guiding Principles and activities on our website: kingfield.org/about/

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Kingfield Pancake Breakfast!

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Saturday March 25, 9-11 AM

Tickets Available Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kingfield-pancake-breakfast-sap-boil-2nd-annual-tickets-565640595247

As a celebration of our Community Sap Tapping program, KFNA is hosting the 2nd annual pancake breakfast fundraiser! Come to the north end of the park building to watch the sap boil and talk to the sap harvesters and cooks to learn how the process works outside.  Then sample some of our very own Kingfield-made syrup while you and enjoy a pancake breakfast. Breakfast will include pancakes, fruit, pork sausage, juice and coffee.

Breakfast is a donation of $10 per adult and $30 per family. This fundraiser will benefit both KFNA and MLK Park, and support this, and similar programs, that both groups organize in the neighborhood!

Order you sap-tap kit and participate in the Kingfield Community Sap Tap

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Order you sap-tap kit and plan to participate in the Kingfield Community Sap Tap (and pancake breakfast!)

Drip Drip Drip…know what that means? The Sap is coming soon!

Combine your efforts (and your sap!) and let’s make maple syrup!  Register now and pick up a Tree Tapping Kit from the front desk of MLK Park and go pick it to be ready for the sap run. Go home and wait for the message to tap a tree on your personal property (note, trees must be larger than 10 inches in diameter for it to not harm them). We will notify you when the sap looks ready to start, and we have volunteers who are willing to come help you tap your tree if this is your first time and you are nervous.

Note, the date of the event is weather dependent! We don’t know what day the boil will be on until the sap begins to flow.

When sap buckets are full, they should be dropped off at the park where it will be stored until we will have an outdoor communal syrup making party; participants will be able to sign up for a shift of syrup making, and will get to take a jar of syrup home with them too!

Cost $20/ Comes with a kit. Kits includes spline(s), tubing, 5 gallon food grade collection bucket, and how-to instructions. Register at https://apm.activecommunities.com/minneapolisparks/Activity_Search/communal-sap-tapping/133898 (event #135524).

Limit 10 participants.

Cost $10/ Participant must provide your own kit. Register at https://apm.activecommunities.com/minneapolisparks/Activity_Search/communal-sap-tapping-no-kit/133899(event #135525).

Limit 20 participants. 

Minneapolis Park Weather Updates

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All recreation centers are open Wednesday, February 22, 9 am-5 pm, closed Thursday, February 23, decision on Friday hours/programs will be made Thursday.

Recreation Centers and Park Buildings

Wednesday, February 22:
All recreation centers will be open 9 am-5 pm. Summer youth program registration opens at 12 pm on Wednesday, so staff will be available in buildings or by telephone to assist as needed.
Indoor programs scheduled at recreation centers between 9 am and 5 pm are on, except Rec Plus, see below. Evening activities and sports leagues are cancelled.
All other buildings, including MPRB Headquarters, Kroening Nature Center, and Phillips Aquatics Center will open and close at their regular time or no later than 5 pm.
Thursday, February 23: Closed, all activities cancelled.
Friday, February 24: To be determined. A decision will be made Thursday.

Drip Drip Drip…know what that means? The Sap is coming soon!

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Order you sap-tap kit and plan to participate in the Kingfield Community Sap Tap (and pancake breakfast!)

Combine your efforts (and your sap!) and let’s make maple syrup!  Register now and pick up a Tree Tapping Kit from the front desk of MLK Park and go pick it to be ready for the sap run. Go home and wait for the message to tap a tree on your personal property (note, trees must be larger than 10 inches in diameter for it to not harm them). We will notify you when the sap looks ready to start, and we have volunteers who are willing to come help you tap your tree if this is your first time and you are nervous.

Note, the date of the event is weather dependent! We don’t know what day the boil will be on until the sap begins to flow.

When sap buckets are full, they should be dropped off at the park where it will be stored until we will have an outdoor communal syrup making party; participants will be able to sign up for a shift of syrup making, and will get to take a jar of syrup home with them too!

Cost $20/ Comes with a kit. Kits includes spline(s), tubing, 5 gallon food grade collection bucket, and how-to instructions. Register at https://apm.activecommunities.com/minneapolisparks/Activity_Search/communal-sap-tapping/133898 (event #135524).

Limit 10 participants.

Cost $10/ Participant must provide your own kit. Register at https://apm.activecommunities.com/minneapolisparks/Activity_Search/communal-sap-tapping-no-kit/133899 (event #135525).

Limit 20 participants. 

 A program of the Kingfield Neighborhood Association and MLK Park.