Join your neighbors in shaping our city to become a healthy, sustainable, and thriving place for all. Minneapolis 2040 is an update to the City’s Comprehensive Plan, a document that shapes how Minneapolis will grow and change. The plan will cover topics such as housing, job creation, the design of new buildings, and how we use our streets.

Over the past year, City planners have learned a lot from Minneapolis residents about the future of our city. We’ve heard that as the city grows, everyone must benefit from that growth. You told us that it can be difficult to access jobs that are not located nearby. We’ve heard concerns about the rising cost of housing, and that not everyone has access to the type of housing that meets their needs. We’ve also heard that people value well-designed and environmentally sustainable buildings, and that there is a desire for the city to be more walkable, bikeable, and mass transit-friendly.

Please attend one of four upcoming family friendly, interactive open houses in early December. Enjoy complimentary refreshments from local vendors. For more information and to sign up for updates at minneapolis2040.com.

 If you cannot attend the meeting in Kingfield, feel free to attend any one of these other Open Houses: [Read more…]

Celebrate Small Business Saturday!

Browse for gifts, connect with neighbors, and learn more about the artists living and working next door. Artworks at all price points will be available for sale.

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The Center for Performing Arts is dedicated to the vitality of the creative process and supports practitioners from a range of traditions to teach, learn, workshop, and practice.

Free parking available across the street in the Lake Country School lot.

All Neighborhoods Open House and Community Thank You Party!

 

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Council Member Elizabeth Glidden, the Ward 8 office, and the neighborhoods of Ward 8 invite you to an open house celebration to enjoy food, fun and good company – this is a free event and all are welcome! For the past twelve years, the Ward 8 community has been at the center of incredible accomplishments contributing to the vitality and wellbeing of the Central, Bryant, Bancroft, Field-Regina-Northrop, Lyndale and Kingfield neighborhoods. With a new Council Member for Ward 8 in January 2018, new beginnings are just around the corner and our community momentum will continue. The Ward 8 office would like to thank Ward 8 residents, businesses and organizations for your commitment to community. We hope you can join us for an open house –celebrating you! [Read more…]

Kingfield is a neighborhood of Voters!

Drop by either tent on the north side of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center on Election Day. November 7th, either before or after you vote and enjoy fresh hot coffee, tasty treats, and scintillating conversation with KFNA volunteers!  Really good at scintillating conversation?  You could volunteer to staff a shift at a tent!  Really it is a great way to fuel-up, make connections, and celebrate our freedom to cast our individual vote for those people that represent us.

Join us at King Park!

• Volunteer at the Kingfield Polling Party at MLK Park on Election Day!

Want to help others remember to get out and vote?

• Participate in Doorknocking Saturdays, 1-3 PM, every Saturday until the election. Contact KFNA Board Member Dan Myers at .

Hennepin County 4-H Youth Development has partnered with the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board for three summers now, and we are ready to deepen our partnership with a school-year, community-led 4-H Club hosted at Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center in South Minneapolis. We have the strong partnership and staff to oversee it, but now we need YOU, the community, to make it happen:

Community action is required for the creation and delivery of a 4-H Youth Development Program at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center.

Starting this fall, join Hennepin County 4-H and Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center staff in a 3-event open house series to learn all about 4-H, and what it takes from your community to build a successful and impactful program in the Kingfield Neighborhood and beyond.

Please join us for this first event! Bring the entire family and:

• Create colorful SPIN ART 
• Make a GRAPHITE CIRCUIT with just a pencil, battery, and LED
• Meet 4-H and Minneapolis Parks and Recreation STAFF
• Get involved in LEADERSHIP opportunities to sustain a successful club
• Make new friends and meet fellow COMMUNITY MEMBERS

And mark you calendars for the following open house events on December 7th, 2017 & February 8th, 2018.