Category: Northside News

Wondering how you will get health insurance by 2014? With new subsidies, legal rights and marketplace (MNsure), there’s health insurance coverage for you! Explore your new options and connect to excellent community healthcare resources at our Artists’ Health Fair on Saturday, October 19. Stop by anytime from 10am to 2pm to:

–  Talk to providers of health insurance, low-cost healthcare, nutrition and fitness.
– Meet with Springboard for the Arts for demos and assistance enrolling in healthcare coverage on MNsure.
– Get free preventive healthcare screenings
– Watch presentations on healthcare reform and the health insurance requirement.

Date: Saturday, October 19, 10am – 2pm
Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis
Tuition: FREE, but please RSVP online or by phone

It’s time for fall inspections in the neighborhood, here’s a brief notice from the city that you’ll be seeing in your mailbox soon, a friendly reminder to do your best to help our neighborhood look great!

Join us as we work ALL TOGETHER NOW! 

A new initiative sponsored by the Department of Regulatory Services in partnership with neighborhood associations and participating businesses throughout the city.

The City wants to partner with residents, neighborhood associations and local businesses to help make our neighborhoods a safe and clean place to live. Starting October 15, inspectors from the Department of Regulatory Services will be going out into your neighborhood, with a special focus on vacant properties or properties with repeated nuisance violations.

Do your part to tidy up your yards and alleys by:

• Picking up and removing rubbish, old tires, and litter in yards & alleys.
• Trimming bushes and trees that hang into the alley, sidewalk or street.
• Removing volunteer trees and bushes from alleys and around the foundations of buildings.
• Removing inoperable vehicles from your property (including unlicensed vehicles) or storing them in an enclosed garage.

This is all part of our “All Together Now!” neighborhood fall yard cleanup pilot initiative we hope to extend throughout the city in the future.  By taking care of your property now, you’ll not only make the neighborhood a better place, but City inspectors won’t have to follow up with any written orders.

How we can help:

We’ve contacted a number of local businesses who agreed to provide discounts on things that will help you spruce up your property as part of the cleanup. Visit our website at www.minneapolismn.gov/regservices for a list of businesses who have agreed to provide you with a discount on home improvement supplies if you show them one of our letters or orders, including this one, or call 311 or 612.673.3000 for a list of resources and participating businesses near you.  Check back on the website as we’ll be adding businesses to the list every time they make a commitment to help their communities by participating in this initiative.

So go out and check your property for any improvements that need to be done before we come through and issue orders.  If you do get an order from the city, take in your order to a participating business and get a discount on supplies that will help you correct it before a reinspection.

This is your chance to make a difference in the city by improving your neighborhood – join in, help a neighbor, and let’s work All Together Now!

Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde

Director of Regulatory Services

Are you a North Minneapolis resident growing your own fruits and vegetables? If you, or someone that you know has extra bounty to share, there’s an innovative resource available to help you earn money while sharing your produce with the local community. The Community Aggregation and Distribution Table is a resource at the West Broadway Farmers Market.

Working with the Community Ag. Table is as easy as following these simple steps:

• Contact Matthew McGlory at matthew@westbroadway.org or 612.353.5178.
• Drop off goods to the table at the Camden Farmers Market (4400 Osseo Rd, Thursdays, 3pm—7pm) or the West Broadway Farmers Market (900 West Broadway, Fridays, 3pm-7pm).
• McGlory sells your produce on your behalf. You collect 100% of the sales.

The role of the Community Ag. Table is to support the local food system by keeping Northside-produced food and money spent on food within the Northside community and economy. The Community Ag. Table is coordinated by the West Broadway Coalition as part of the Fresh Corners project led by Appetite for Change and supported by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota’s Center for Prevention.

Contact Matthew McGlory at the West Broadway Coalition at 612.353.5178.

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