In January the group will resume meeting monthly each 3rd Tuesday, gathering from 6–9 PM, but we will move to the new Kingfield-Lyndale community space at 3537 Nicollet Ave South. The format is causal, so drop in for as much time as you have free. Bring your own machine if you are a sewer, or just show up and help iron, cut, and pin. All levels of participation are welcomed, and we look forward to connecting with each other and sharing conversations about how we can all leave a lighter footprint our earth. Stay in touch with the group via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/507876746461602/.

We will be busy sewing reusable shopping bags in the coming months for anyone that needs one, and are happy to support neighbors who need a bag to avoid charges and comply with the new Bring Your Own Bag Ordinance which goes into place on January 1^st. This important change in Minneapolis is one small step toward reducing unnecessary plastic consumption in our city. Kingfield Boomerang Bags is excited to keep sewing bags, and also to begin providing education on this ordinance, so that people are prepared for the 5-cent change.

Do you need a reusable shopping bag? Come to an event and we will help you make one!

Drop by the Blaisdell Y to paint a bowl for Kingfield Empty Bowls! Fuller Park artists have pre-thrown 100 bowls for the community to come decorate and be given away at our February community dinner which will be held on February 6^th.

Stop in and join the fun!

In August 2017, the City of Lakes Community Land Trust (CLCLT) acquired 210 West 46^th Street. The foreclosed property had been vacant for several months; however, the CLCLT saw the opportunity to create, in partnership with Kingfield Neighborhood Association, a long-term affordable home in the southwest area of Minneapolis, which is increasingly difficult to achieve. Through the CLCLT, the home will be sold to an owner-occupant earning 80% or less of Area Median Income and will remain affordable long-term through the community land trust resale process.

Please join us at the open house on Thursday, January 23 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. More information on sale of the property will be forthcoming.

Drop by Fuller Park to watch some pottery spin and to paint a bowl for Kingfield Empty Bowls! Fuller Park artists have pre-thrown 100 bowls for the community to come decorate and be given away at our February community dinner. These same artists will also be providing demonstrations of throwing pottery on a wheel, and providing information about Fuller’s pottery classes and Open Studio time.