Northeast Minneapolis Dog Parade & Sidewalk Sale
Friday, July 30, 2010
Dog Parade: 5 to 8pm - An evening for Dogs and Owners alike including “DogTail Hour” & “Flea Market”
Sidewalk Sale all day
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Sidewalk Sale all day
Visit NortheastMinneapolis.com for more details.
You are Invited - 3rd Ward CARE Meeting!
Join us in discussing problem properties and your neighborhood concerns.
This is an opportunity for you to interface with key city staff members and participate in the ongoing discussion to solve the issues in our neighborhood.
When: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 7:00PM
Where: Eastside Neighborhood Services,
1700 2nd Street NE
Staff Members in Attendance: 2nd Police Precinct Inspector, 4th Police Precinct Lieutenant, Fire Marshall Bryan Tyner, Area Housing Inspector, 2nd Pct City Attorney, UMPD Police and Hennepin County Probation.
See you there!
Council Member Diane Hofstede, 3rd Ward
MHNA has a new board of directors:
Doug Carlson, President
Arvonne Fraser, Vice President
Kelly Phillips, Secretary
Steve Swanson, Treasurer
Elected Directors: Bo Sherman, Ardes Johnson, Eric Nauman, Larry Prinds, Dan Lanske, Gordon Kepner, Jo Radzwill, Sonny Schneiderhan, Marnie Loven-Bell, Diane Savage and Tyler Thomson.
Appointed directors: Holly Engle, MSA rep and Martin Chorzempa, University Residential, Fraternal and Professional Organizations rep.
We have openings on the appointed seats for a SE clergy rep, a NE Business Asn rep and a Dinkytown Business Asn rep, which we will try to fill as soon as possible.
Missed the University District Alliance Community Energy Services
Workshops?
Community Energy Services is a one-stop residential energy program that has
served over 1,600 Minneapolis home owners. The program involves free
educational workshops, customized home visits, 12 months of energy tracking
and access to specialized rebates. University District Alliance home owners
are eligible to attend the following workshops:
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 @ 6:30pm, Sibley Park (1900 40th St E)
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 @ 6:30pm, Folwell Park (1615 Dowling Ave N)
Please RSVP to or for more information contact Kyle Boehm at 612-219-7334
Need to make some home repairs of energy upgrades? MHNA’s revolving loan program offers a low rate (4%) for projects costing up to $20,000. Check it out at: mncee.org
Interesting website for people in older or historic homes, includes an article on weatherizing older windows.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation (www.preservationnation.org) helps thousands of people each month answer their preservation questions. This assistance takes many forms, including contact information, answers to frequently asked questions, and publications on specific subjects.
FAQ Topics
How to Preserve Your Historic Home
How to Preserve a Historic Building
Working with Contractors and Architects; Finding Supplies and Furnishings; Interior Design and Decorating
Career and Education Opportunities in Historic Preservation
Historic Districts
Preservation Easements
The University of Minnesota will be hosting two Drum and Bugle Corp events this summer in TCF Bank Stadium from July 14-17, 2010.
Drum and Bugle Corp Marching Band Skills Camp
Wednesday-Friday, July 14-16
About 150 youth will participate in a Drum and Bugle Corp Marching Band Skills camp. The youth will be staying on campus and practicing at TCF Bank Stadium on July 15 from 9:30 a.m.-noon, 1:30-5:30 p.m., and 7-10 p.m. and on July 16 9:30-noon, 1:30-5:30 p.m. and 7-10 p.m.
Drum Corp International Saturday July 17, 2010
Twenty-five of the best drum and bugle corps from around the country will be performing at TCF Bank Stadium. Drum Corp International competition is expected to attract approximately 12,000 people and is open to the public. For ticket information go tohttp://www.dci.org/tickets/
The competition runs from 2-10 p.m. Bands performing early on the schedule could begin warming up by 10 am in the parking lots around the stadium.
Lots 33 and 37 off of 5th St SE next to the stadium will be used to park buses and trucks. There will be no alcohol sold in the stadium and tailgating is not part of this program. Many bands leave shortly after their performances. The University is asking Drum Corp International to direct guests to parking lots on campus near the stadium. Drum Corp International will be using the house PA system for the for announcements and some other programming, but the band performances will not be amplified on the house PA system.
Experience Corps www.experiencecorps.org, a program of Volunteers of Americaof MN, provides trained volunteer tutors ages 50+ to help students in K-3classrooms improve their reading skills. In 2009-2010, 7 tutors provided 2769 hours of tutoring to students at Marcy Open School.Experience Corps tutors volunteer at least 4 hours per week, during the school day, for the school year.
For more information on becoming a tutor, call Maria at
612-708-5651 or send an email to: mricke@voamn.org.
Stipends are available for those who volunteer 10 or 15 hours per week.
Does Your House have Lead?
Sustainable Resources Center, 1081 Tenth Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55414
is offering a FREE IN-HOME VISIT to TEST YOUR HOME FOR LEAD.
CALL TODAY TO SCHEDULE (612) 872 -3281
Lead Poisoning is a serious public health concern! Children under six years of age who live or spend time in homes built prior to 1978 –- with chipping or peeling paint — are at greatest risk for lead poisoning. Sustainable Resources Center offers FREE In-Home Visits to test the amount of lead in your home. Homeowners may qualify for a lead hazard remediation grant and receive new windows!
Planning a National Night Out Block Party? Let MHNA know so we can help get out the word…also contact the office as we may have some prizes to donate. And finally, consider going green for your event:
10 Simple Ways to Go Green at a Block Party
• Provide recycling bins for cans, bottles, and other recyclables that may be produced at your event.
• Ask event attendees to bring their own reusable plates, napkins and utensils from home. As an alternative, consider using compostable paper plates and ask for neighborhood volunteers who are willing to compost them in their backyard compost bins. (Note: this may require extra water because of the high paper content.)
• Only serve beverages in reusable or recyclable containers. If you do not have enough reusable cups, ask attendees to bring a reusable cup from home.
• When possible, email information about your event to attendees to cut down on paper use. If that is not an option, print all event flyers double-sided or shorten to two flyers per page on a minimum of 30% post-consumer content recycled paper. Most copy stores sell recycled paper.
• Encourage attendees to use local food for potluck items, such as from a farmer’s market or even their own backyard garden. If food for your event is being provided by an outside source, talk to them about how they can incorporate local food into the menu and reduce wasteful packaging.
•Use decorations that can be reused in future years, and limit or don’t use balloons. If you are printing banners or other signs, making sure they are recycled at the end of the day. Also consider using a reusable banner, and not including the event year on so they may be used again.
• Provide condiments in bulk instead of individually wrapped servings. For example, provide bottles of ketchup instead of individual packets. Buy other products in bulk whenever possible.
• Provide an information table with greening resources for attendees, such as
information on native plants, rain gardens, and purchasing save energy and money from your utility company.
• Provide information for attendees on efforts your event has made to go green and how they can help.
If you missed the annual MHNA meeting, you still have a chance to take the University District Alliance Housing Survey. You can help identify housing concerns and needs by taking this neighborhood survey.
Selling your home? Or Have a quiet apartment you would like to rent to mature adults? Check out the Livenearyourwork.net website. Listing there is free and easy to do. Livenearyourwork.net is a project of the University District Alliance.
How should Mpls Parks & Recreation involve you when making changes in the parks? Do you get the postcards we send in the mail? Does your neighborhood association get the information out to you? Do you need a citizens advisory committee if we take down a backstop and put up soccer goals instead? Do you want an alert when the parkways are closed for marathons?
This is your chance to weigh in. Minneapolis Parks is asking us to take part in a survey to help improve park planning. Take the 2010 survey before August 1.
The deadline for registering your event on-line and blocking off your street for FREE is JULY 14! After July 14, the fee will be $100 to block off the street.
Register on-line using this link:
https://apps.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/blockeventapp
We are still looking for a site coordinator for our National Night Out celebration. This is a volunteer job to send letters to sponsors and food donors, get out the word (flyering), plan any games or fun activities, get volunteers to set up, take down, etc. In order to block off the street, we need to get our application in by July 14th Event is Tuesday, Aug. 3. Now is the time to start making preparations for your block party. The City of Minneapolis wants to make it easy for block clubs and neighbors to plan and have your block event.
For more information, visit: ci.minneapolis.mn.us/nno.
To volunteer for MHNA’s block party, contact the MHNA office 623-7633.
Minneapolis joins more than 170 cities worldwide with its recent addition of a bike sharing program.
Nice Ride Minnesota is currently the nation’s largest bike sharing system. Launched on June 10th, the first phase offers 1,000 bikes in 75 kiosks spread throughout downtown, by the University of Minnesota, and Uptown area. This comes on the heels of Minneapolis recently being named America’s most bike friendly city by Bicycling Magazine.
For $5 a rider can make as many trips as they like to different bike stations around town. If it takes longer than 30 minutes to get from one station to another, the price will increase. A $60 subscription is good for one year of unlimited use, with no added costs as long as trips are all under a half hour each. The bicycles will be available from April to November.
Other cities are considering or planning to follow suit, including Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, and Chicago. Minneapolis has the second largest number of bike commuters, with 4,500 daily. This year the city will be adding 40 miles of bikeways to the already 123 miles already in place.
In our neighborhood, sites are: 100 Main Street SE and 12th Ave SE & 4th St SE in Dinkytown.
The U has plenty to do this summer for you and the family, including free outdoor concerts, gardening classes, farmers’ market, natural history day camps, fashion, Sherlock Holmes, the physics of superheroes, astronomy in the state parks, and the “Uff Da Palace” at the MN Landscape Arboretum.
The University’s shuttle bus connecting the West Bank, East Bank, and Saint Paul campuses is free and operates throughout the summer. Please note there is no Saturday and Sunday service between sessions. See the route and schedule at http://www1.umn.edu/pts/busing/#conn
Are you ready for your Summer Writing Assignment?
Tell us what you like about living, working, playing here!
A simple online form makes it quick and easy!
Tell us—and become a Voice of the University District
Voices of the University District is a project to collect stories from the people who “live, work, learn, and play” in the University District (the neighborhoods of Marcy-Holmes, Prospect Park, Southeast Como, West Bank/Cedar-Riverside, and the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota).
This is an opportunity to voice your community pride: what you like about living here, why you choose to work here, how you play and learn here. If you have a story or thought you’d like to share:
· Visit udistrictvoices.com and submit online; or
· Send it in an email to submit@udistrictvoices.com; or
· Leave it in a voicemail at 612-259-8424.
(Be sure to let us know if we may identify your quote by name.)
From now until September 1, we’ll be gathering comments from residents, students, business owners, visitors and others, and compiling them into The Quotable District for use in community-building and marketing efforts. We’ll also be conducting interviews for a professionally-produced three-minute video. For more information, visit udistrictvoices.com.
Voices of the University District is made possible by the Good Neighbor Fund of The University of Minnesota and is being managed by the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association. The University of Minnesota Good Neighbor Fund is a resource for neighborhood communities that are adjacent to the Twin Cities Campus. Its purpose is to enhance and protect the beauty, serenity, and security of the communities impacted by the operation of the University of Minnesota’s on campus football stadium.
July Meetings
MHNA’s Safety & Livability Committee is meeting Monday July 12th at 6:30 pm, Dunn Bros at 6th & University.
MHNA Board and Land Use Committee will not be meeting in July. Land Use will resume on Tuesday Aug 10th (5:30 pm at University Lutheran Church of Hope) and board on Tuesday Aug 17 ) 6 pm, Univ. Lutheran Church of Hope).
Maxfield Research Inc., in cooperation with the Alliance Housing Committee and University of Minnesota, is conducting a survey to identify housing concerns and needs in the Cedar-Riverside, Como, Marcy-Holmes, and Prospect Park neighborhoods.
Your participation will provide better understanding to the housing needs and preferences of current and future residents.
To: MHNA Board and General Membership
From: Arvonne Fraser, president
Re: June 15, 2010 meetings - Board at 6, General at 7:30 pm
University Lutheran Church of Hope, 601 13th Ave SE
Board Agenda ( 6 pm)
1. Call to order, approve agenda (6:00)
2. Secretary’s Report, approve May minutes( 6:05)
3. Treasurer’s Report & Fund Raising (6:10)
4. Executive Committee report and vote to approve appointment of Dan Lanske and Larry Prinds to fill vacancies left by Brain Lundgren and Paul White’s resignations (6:25)
5. Elections- slate, ballots, help needed registering and counting votes (6:35)
6. Tabled items (6:40)
7. Safety & Livability Committee report (6:45)
8. Land Use Committee report (6:55)
9. Update on University District Alliance & Good neighbor Projects (7:05)
10. Maxfield Research/ Housing Market Study of University District (7:15 pm)
Note – the Maxfield item may bleed into the General Membership time, please come early if you want to join the discussion in its entirety
General Membership Agenda (7:30 pm)
1. Call to order, approve agenda (7:40)
2. Approve March minutes
3. Elections** : four officers and six board directors ( 7:45)
4. Board actions from earlier tonight (8:00)
5. CM Diane Hofstede (8:05)
6. Jessica Hill with an update on the Central Corridor Light Rail project/ traffic (8:15)
7. Jackie Dekker Travis on the Labyrinth project at Marcy Open School (8:30)
8. Ardes Johnson on the U of MN’s Urban Forest project (8:35)
9. The past year’s highlights and awards of appreciation to special MHNA volunteers (8:45)
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** Credentials required in order to vote.We need to verify that you are a current member, that you are who you say you are and that you currently reside here. Therefore, bring photo id with current address in the neighborhood or if your photo id does not have your current address, please bring an original bill for utilities or phone that has your address and a due date within 30 days of the meeting. If you are a student, you may show a student photo id along with registration or fee statement with your current address. You must be a current member (card on file) to vote. If you are a current member but lack the required documentation of residency, you may vote if a member who has the required documentation vouches for you. Thanks.
Meeting place is handicap accessible via elevator – enter through the parking lot door.
