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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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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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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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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.
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Join our Youth Committee!

Laney students with Mayor RybakWe have a great group of neighbors that have begun gathering to talk about how the Cleveland Neighborhood can better support the youth in our community. If you are interested in getting involved, our next gathering is May 2nd, 6:30pm at the Cleveland Neighborhood office. To learn more give us a call or check out the Youth Committee page.

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Join us for Open Mic at The Lowry Cafe

voicesmergingPut May 3rd on your calendar, it’s the first evening The Lowry Cafe will be open this spring (besides our Cleveland gathering April 30th), and we’re helping them kick it off with a collaboration with Voices Merging to host an Open Mic event at the Cafe from 6-10pm. From 6-8pm is a family friendly, all ages open mic and the Cafe will be serving it’s full evening menu. From 8-10pm will be an adults only 21+ venue with a similar full menu.

More details to follow, but mark your calendar, it’ll be a great chance to get out in the neighborhood, enjoy the warmer weather and hang out with some neighbors. We’ll see you there!

Questions about the event can be directed to the office 588-1155 or contacting us.

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Sponsor Live on the Drive Today!

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Live on the Drive 2013 is right around the corner and we have an AMAZING line-up for you this year. You are not going to want to miss it. Check out LiveontheDrive.org for our concert line-up.

logoIf you or a business you know or work with is interested in sponsoring Live on the Drive 2013, today is the deadline for notifying us if you’d like to be included in our print advertising. What a great opportunity to support a community event, get your business in front of a large crowd of potential customers, and be a part of something we’ve all come to love. This year we’re partnering with Movies in the Park to host movie nights after each concert, allowing for even more opportunities for our sponsors to be recognized.

We’re also encouraging individual residents to contribute this year. There’s no deadline for individual donor contributions.

Finally, a big thank you to our current sponsors. Our founding partner, North Memorial, who continue to support the community now in our sixth year of Live on the Drive. Thank you to the Minneapolis Parks for partnering with us this year to bring you both a concert and a movie three times this summer. Also, Thank You, to our recent sponsors: Victory Neighborhood Association, Camden Music School, Washburn-McReavy, Max Checking, and resident John Helgeland. We’re looking for your name here too! Sponsor Today!

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Meet Our Neighborhood Conversation Facilitators: Bob-e

IMAG0206As we mentioned last week, Our upcoming Neighborhood Conversations event will be hosted by renowned facilitators who will lead us in a wonderful community discussion that will result in a vision for the Cleveland Neighborhood in the years to come. You met David last week, learn about our other facilitator today, Barbara Simpson Epps. Register Today!

Barbara (Bob-e) Simpson Epps has spent a lifetime working to enhance the operations and effectiveness of organizations in both the public and private sectors. Deeply committed to strong, healthy and resilient communities, she has used her expertise to build and sustain diverse environments. Believing in the richness each voice brings to any conversation, situation or need Bob-e seeks to engage all in conversations leading to the extraction of knowledge, wisdom and reflection of self and others.

Bob-e is a recent Bush Fellow and plans to engage others in creating a system-wide, community-based and culturally-specific approach to address trauma- and stress-induced health issues in the lives of African American and American Indian children and families using the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES) and brain research.

Bob-e has worked in public health for more than 25 years, taught at Minneapolis and St. Paul Community Colleges, presented on issues of health, early care and education, diversity/equity and inclusion, health policy, and numerous other topics on a local national and global level.  She is trained in Frameworks (public policy marketing), as a Master ACES Trainer, Community Resilience Coach and in Art of Hosting (processes and practices which she uses to create environments for meaningful conversations with individuals and groups).  She has received numerous awards locally and nationally for her work.

This event is open to all Cleveland Neighborhood residents. Dinner will be provided and the whole family is invited. Please RSVP online or by calling 588-1155. We look forward to seeing you and hearing your input. Thank you.