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Kingfield 100 Days of Community Information

February 23, 2021 By Sarah

Kingfield will be launching 100 Days of Community on March 1!! Fill out this google form to express your interest in helping to plan and participate in this campaign! You can also check out notes from the planning meeting last week with block contacts.

100 Days of Community is envisioned as a way to get neighbors connected, have conversations about safety, and come together as a neighborhood to take action for safety beyond policing. This campaign takes us through the rest of COVID winter, the start of the Chauvin trial, and leads up to the 1-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by MPD and the subsequent Black Lives Matter uprisings across our city and world. This is a campaign made up of 100 days of events and actions neighbors can plug into, both on an individual and group level.

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Kingfield Empty Bowls (Virtually!) Kicks Off Today!

February 2, 2021 By Sarah

Kingfield Empty Bowls

For ten years, Kingfield Neighbors have gathered together on a cold February evening to dine together on delicious soups and breads, and raise funds for community’s affordable housing partners. Although this year will need to look different, it was felt by the planning team that this year, maybe more strongly than any other year, we NEED this hold this event.

So how do we hold a community dinner when we can’t gather as a community? Empty Bowls is about more than soup!

What REALLY goes into the “soup” at Kingfield Empty Bowls?

  • Strengthening local businesses
  • Supporting affordable housing
  • Building community!

We can still do these things, AND have soup too! See the Menu of Actions Below!

Empty Bowls Action #1: Visit Butter Bakery Café or The Lowbrow for Soup!

Bring one of your own bowls from a past Empty Bowls event to show your support (or feel free to make donation and take a new one of ours!) When you order soup at Butter Bakery or The Lowbrow they will also donate the price of your soup to support affordable housing options in our community! You can even choose to eat it at the restaurant (make a reservation) or get it to-go!

Empty Bowls Action #2: Donate directly to KFNA by texting the words ‘Affordable Housing’ to #44-321 to Support This Work in Our Community!

Donated funds for bowls and soup will be divided between three partners: Nicollet Square, City of Lake Community Land Trust, and KFNA, to support ongoing work like we did this past summer with the unhoused folks at MLK Park. Please also support these amazing local partnering businesses by purchasing something extra with your soup (like a hot coffee, cold beer, or delicious dessert!) so they also benefit from you visit.

Empty Bowls Action #3: Share a photo with Your Community here!

Send a photo to KFNA of your family making soup, enjoying soup from a local participating restaurant, or eating soup at home. You can also take a photo of your favorite soup recipe, Grandma’s Borscht  or Auntie Mae’s Fiery Corn Chowder, and share that as well. KFNA will be creating a virtual “bulletin board” of you images to show the engagement and activity in our community! 

Empty Bowls Action #4: RSVP to attend the Empty Bowls (Virtual) Community Dinner & Trivia Event

RSVP here to save your household’s spot at the table for the Kingfield Empty Bowls Virtual Community Dinner & Trivia Event. Trivia will be hosted by Tane Danger and Heather Meyer, both Kingfield neighbors and members of the Theater of Public Policy!

Set the table, ladle out the soup, and plug in your laptop to enjoy a special show about Kingfield presented by our hosts Tane and Heather. Be sure to have your cell phone handy so you can also participate in the online Kingfield-centric trivia, focused on the history of Kingfield’s residents and dwellings. Tane says, “it’s going to be a super fun, interactive online trivia event, where YOU can play with, and against!, others in the neighborhood!” 

And did we say prizes? We should have, as there will be prizes too! 

Any questions about Kingfield Empty Bowls should be directed to KFNA Executive Director Sarah Linnes-Robinson.

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Free Postcards to create Waves of Thankfulness for Healthcare Workers now available!

December 22, 2020 By Sarah

Step 1: Go to Butter Bakery Cafe , located at 3700 Nicollet.
Step 2: Select several of the Artist designed postcards.
Step 3: Order a warm beverage and sit outside and add a personal note of “thanks” to each card, or take them home with you to do at the kitchen table.
Step 4: If you want to mail your cards to healthcare workers that you have a relationship with leave the right-hand side of the card free, and address and mail them (….and thank you for supporting the US Post Office!)
Or
If you want us to deliver them to local nursing homes, hospitals, and clinics you can fill the entire back of the card with text! Then just bring them back to Butter Bakery (3700 Nicollet) by end of the day December 24th (or on their December 31st New Year’s/Birthday Party) and place them in the Christmas Postcard box!

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Kingfield Cookie Swap, 2020!

December 11, 2020 By Sarah

Saturday, December 12 (Registration due in by 10 AM, 12/12/20!  https://forms.gle/yJLXPNZmwrCEY9CW7)

Smaller gatherings this holiday season means less baking (like seriously, who really wants 12 dozen cookies in your house?!) But it is nice to get a taste of all the holiday favorites, so this challenging year KFNA is excited to offer a cookie swap!

Sign up here to participate by baking and exchanging cookies on SATURDAY DECEMBER 12. To make sure those homebound by COVID concerns or quarantine also get a touch of kindness at the holidays, you can also register a neighbor to receive cookies.

10-11:30 AM OUTDOOR drop-off / 12-2 PM SCHEDULED pick-up at 3537 Nicollet Avenue South

Bake/Trade /Eat! [Read more…]

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KFNA December Board Meeting Presentation

December 10, 2020 By Sarah

The KFNA Board’s monthly meeting was held on Zoom last night. The beginning of the meeting focused on an update on the MLK Park Encampment from some of the lead volunteers who have been supporting the unhoused residents there since June 2020. Board business follows this discussion.

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The 3rd Annual Kingfield SapTap is just around the The 3rd Annual Kingfield SapTap is just around the corner. If you haven’t yet, register on Kingfield.org to get your kit. Only 60 remain! The sap boilings will take place on the 13th and 20th of March, so get those trees tapped by the 6th of March! #saptapping #kingfield #kfna
If you are missing Empty Bowls this year (like we If you are missing Empty Bowls this year (like we are), there are still pandemic ways to participate. Tonight there is a virtual community dinner with trivia tonight  from 6:30-8:00. More information on the KFNA website! #emptybowls #kfna #kingfield
Don’t forget, tonight at 7:00 pm there is a free Don’t forget, tonight at 7:00 pm there is a free virtual viewing of the film “I Am” sponsored by the MN Peacebuilding Leadership Institute. Registration on the January 7th on the Kingfield website #kingfield #kfna #antiracism #racialjustice
Minneapolis officials have declared a Snow Emergen Minneapolis officials have declared a Snow Emergency beginning today, Jan. 24.

Snow Emergency parking rules

Sunday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 25 (Day 1) Do not park on EITHER side of a Snow Emergency route until 8 a.m., or the street is fully plowed.
Monday, Jan. 25, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Day 2) Do not park on the EVEN numbered side of a non-Snow Emergency route until 8 p.m., or that side of the street is fully plowed, or on EITHER side of a parkway until 8 p.m., or the parkway is fully plowed.
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Day 3) Do not park on the ODD numbered side of a non-Snow Emergency route until 8 p.m., or that side of the street is fully plowed.
Today, we honor Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. The Kin Today, we honor Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. The Kingfield park is named after him. What is your favorite place in MLK park? #mlk #kingfield #kfna
As a reminder, the KFNA board will be participatin As a reminder, the KFNA board will be participating in the Mapping Prejudice Virtual Workshop, so the board meeting will be abbreviated on Wednesday from 8:00-9:00 #kfna #kfnaboard
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