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What Movie Do You Want To See On The Parkway? June 13th

First Vote

Cast your vote in the Viewer’s Choice Movie in the Park poll for after Live On The Drive on June 13th. We’ve got a great selection for you to choose from! Voting will end on June 6th, one week before the showing. Movies start at dusk and take place on Victory Memorial Parkway near 35th Ave. Bring a blanket, some popcorn and your neighbors out for a family fun evening. And don’t miss an amazing concert by Bruce Henry at 6pm before the movie. It’s going to be a great summer!

Help us spread the word and you could win $25 to the Lowry Cafe!

 

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Book Fiesta Support Community Literacy! – June 8th

BookFiestaYou know the saying: “The Community that reads together stays together, is safer, more connected, more caring, and just a better place to live.” (Really? You haven’t heard that one before?). This summer we’ll kick-off a project to promote literacy in the Cleveland community as a tool to connect neighbors with one another.

The Book Fiesta is a great community event for the whole family. We’ll have music, food, games and prizes all in a concentrated effort to promote reading, writing and building community. The event will take place at Lucy Laney school from 10-2pm the Saturday after school let’s out. Be sure to stop on through or if you’re interested, we’d love to have you volunteer! Contact the office for more info.

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Bruce Henry Band Kicking-Off Live on the Drive on June 13th

brucehenryThe summer concert series we all love, Live On The Drive, is right around the corner, hope you’re as excited as we are! In one month, on June 13th at 6pm, the Bruce Henry Band will be playing along with special guest Debbie Duncan. We’ll also be showing a movie after dusk in partnership with Minneapolis Parks. Vote for your Family favorite today! You can also help us get the word out by inviting your friends and win a great giveaway while you are at it. This year we’ll have food trucks and sponsor North Memorial will be on-site offering free screenings. We’ll continue to bring you the great music you love and so much more for this wonderful community event, see you in June!

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Northside News

Don’t Miss out on North First Summer 2013 – June 11th

NorthFirst_Spring2013_008Join your neighbors this summer for the second of our quarterly 2013 North First social events. This is a great opportunity to get to know other residents, neighborhood organizations and community, enjoy some delicious food catered by Avenue Eatery, have fun with some great name tags from Give & Take, stop by the Information Exchange, and hear some brief presentations about a variety of topics of interest to neighborhoods. Our first event was a great success, and we wouldn’t want you to miss out on the fun the second time around. Come for a bite and stay for some conversation. Just make sure you reserve your spot today!

6:00-6:45pm Social hour
6:45-7:15 Presentations
7:15-8:30pm Networking and information sharing

The work that must be done to bring north Minneapolis neighborhoods into tomorrows vision for healthy neighborhoods will take some heavy lifting – it is work better done with friends! So, join the Northside Neighborhoods Council for an evening of socializing and networking with others committed to seeing north Minneapolis through.
Make your reservation now. We look forward to seeing you on June 11th, and bring a friend who might be interested!

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Crime and Safety

Considering Speed Bumps on 34th Avenue North – Penn to Russell

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The City of Minneapolis is considering speed bumps on 34th Avenue N between Russell Ave and Penn Ave. This will improve safety for students at Lucy Laney School and others walking or biking to Cleveland Park. This is a part of a federally-funded Safe Routes to School Project serving North and Northeast Minneapolis Schools.

Things to Know:

  • Speed bumps reduce the speed of automobiles by an average of 7 to 25 mph.
  • Traffic accidents are reduced. In a study of speed bumps in Portland, OR, accidents went down by 48%. 
  • If approached at a reasonable speed, speed bumps do not cause vehicle damage.  Signage and pavement markings will be used to alert motorists of approaching speed bumps.

Please share your thoughts on these potential speed bumps with Forrest Hardy, Minneapolis Public Works, 350 S 5th Street, Room 233, Minneapolis, 55415, 612-333-3410, forrest.hardy@minneapolismn.gov 

Monday, May 6th, from 6-6:30pm Forrest Hardy will be available to answer questions and talk with residents out at 34th Avenue North between Russell and Penn Avenue regarding the speed bumps being proposed there.

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7:00-7:30pm Cleveland Neighborhood residents will meet at the CNA Office, 3333 Penn Ave (on the south end of the school building) to discuss the proposed speed bumps and whether the neighborhood should support the effort. (This will be the second half of the monthly Crime and Safety meeting)

If you have any questions regarding these gatherings please contact Ariah Fine
, 588-1155, cna@clevelandneighborhood.org

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Committees Youth

Youth Committee Tonight!

Laney students with Mayor Rybak

Why take an hour out of your evening for a youth committee? Here are a few reasons:

  • There are 700+ youth under the age of 18 living in the Cleveland Neighborhood
  • Cleveland is home to Lucy Craft Laney Community School were 600+ students from Pre-K through 8th grade spend the majority of their day learning and becoming engaged citizens.
  • Cleveland Park, though unstaffed, draws youth and families to picnic and play with it’s splash pad, basketball courts and playgrounds.

So whether you are a kid, or have kids, or just want to make sure our youth have an opportunity to become active and productive members of our community, it’s worth coming out and helping the Cleveland Neighborhood be proactive in engaging the young people in our community. Here are some of the items on the agenda for this evening:

  • Summer Park Program – We’ll be partnering with Plymouth Youth Center for the third year in a row to provide a drop-in day program at Cleveland Park for neighborhood youth. We’ll discuss the program, gather feedback and think about how to improve collaboration with community organizations.
  • We’ll discuss the potential for evening programming in the Park once a week.
  • STEP-UP youth internships – We’ll share about opportunities to have young people working with the CNA staff to connect with more neighborhood residents and help with programming.
  • New Ideas – We’ll leave plenty of space for you to bring your ideas. This is a new committee and we are in need of new energy and voices. If you’d like to be a part of it we’d love to have you join us.

We hope to see you tonight at 6:30pm at the Cleveland Neighborhood Offices. Call if you have any questions 612-588-1155

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This is What Community Looks Like

Community Conversations
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A wonderful group of residents turned out on Tuesday evening for pizza and conversation about their community. The topics ranged from Business and Commerce to Community Gardens to how to get neighbors involved in their community and in the schools. Residents joined the topic that was most interesting to them and were free to move around from table to table as their interest and passion guided them. The result was a couple rounds of great conversation, a collection of notes and a lot of new connections between neighbors.

In the coming weeks we’ll share report backs from the different conversations here on the website and encourage more resident input. The purpose of these conversations is to have residents drive the conversation about what they’d like to see happen in their community and form action plans for moving us there. The next Community Conversation event will be June 25th and will build off of Tuesday’s meeting with more topics of discussion driven by residents and then a “pro-action cafe” that will focus on next steps to reaching the goals and vision the community wants. RSVP for the June Conversation today.

This event was made possible through a grant from the Bush Foundation. We would also like to thank the amazing staff at The Lowry Cafe for the delicious pizza and discounted space rental. Be sure to stop by for their first open evening this Friday for the Open Mic.

(Coming soon at the bottom of this post: Notes from yesterday’s event)

April 30th – Community Conversation Notes

Thanks to our funder’s for making this event a reality!

 

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Pizza Conversations, Youth and Open Mics

IMG_0691We have a full week in the Cleveland Neighborhood, we hope you’ll be able to join us for some of the fun.

  • Cleveland Conversations – Tuesday night, April 30 6-8:30pm, we’ll have a pizza dinner and conversation about our community and what the future of the neighborhood looks like. There are just a few spots left, so we hope you can join us with a quick RSVP today!
  • Youth Committee – Thursday night, May 2nd 6:30-7:30pm, the CNA Youth Committee will meet to discuss the upcoming summer programming. A great chance to meet other youth and families and play a role in making sure Cleveland is a great community for our young people. More details here.
  • Open Mic at the Lowry Cafe – We’ll be back at the Lowry Cafe on Friday evening for a great community event featuring local artist and neighborhood residents sharing their art with the community. The open mic will feature a family Open Mic from 6-8pm and an adults-only open mic from 8-10pm. The Lowry Cafe will be open with a full menu, so bring the family, grab some dinner and enjoy some great performances.
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Northside News

Cleveland Home on the Home Tour

Cleveland Home Tour HomeIf your looking for something to do this weekend and are into visiting historic homes, be sure to check out the Minneapolis and St. Paul Home Tour. There’s even a house in the Cleveland Neighborhood on the tour! Here’s the description of this magnificent home from the tour brochure:

This home is a perfect example of a classic with great bones but victimized by neglect and bad remodeling decisions. The exterior had great appeal, with stucco and Tudor architectural features, but the second floor was falling apart, uninhabitable; the “octopus” gravity furnace, broken and inefficient, consumed the entire basement; and the kitchen was unusable. We salvaged carpet-hidden maple floors, as well as fantastic cove-mouldings. We brought this beauty back to life by remodeling the second floor into a spacious bedroom, with skylights, bamboo floors, plenty of storage, and spray-foam insulation. A designer gourmet kitchen fit into a modest space, and the basement is now comfortable, warm, and dry, with a spa-like bathroom, full bedroom, and family room. Now boasting infloor radiant heat that’s 97 percent-plus energy-efficient, this is the perfect house!

Take a visit on Saturday or Sunday!

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Neighborhood Conversations at The Lowry Cafe – April 30

I Want Neighborhood BadgeA community gathering you are not going to want to miss is coming in April and June. Mark your calendars for either April 30th 6-8:30pm or June 25th 6-8:30pm. The Cleveland Neighborhood Association will be hosting Neighborhood Conversations at The Lowry Cafe for all residents in the Cleveland Neighborhood. We’ll enjoy a delicious meal together and spend an evening talking with our neighbors about what the future of the Cleveland Neighborhood could be. Conversations will center around the theme “I Want _____ In My Neighborhood.” The conversations will be hosted by renowned facilitators Dave Ellis and Barbara Epps.

And if you can’t make it in April (and even if you can), join us in June!

This event is funded through a grant from inCommons.