July 2007 Greeting from Brock

Greetings from the Chair!
What do 52nd ; GIRARD AVE N, 49th; PENN AVE N, 51st; PENN AVE N, 49th & HUMBOLDT, and 49th & WASHBURN AVE N have in common? DoneGuessing? They all participated in 2006’s Annual National Night Out(NNO). Now you may be wondering what NNO is? According to the Minneapolis City Website “Every year on the first Tuesday of August, people across the country gather to celebrate National Night Out (NNO).
This year on Tuesday, August 7, close to 50,000 Minneapolis residents will celebrate neighborliness, safety and stronger community. It’s expected that more than 1900 Minneapolis blocks will host more than 1,000 block parties. Some will be as simple as neighbors sharing iced tea and conversation on a front porch, while others will have closed off streets, music, face painting, chalk art, potlucks, dancing, games, and piñatas.

The Minneapolis 2007 National Night Out theme is Join the Movement: Put “Neighbors” Back in the Neighborhood.”” In 2006 Lind-Bohanon and Victory Neighborhood associations had NNO participation of 26 different groups. As Chair this year, with your help, I am ready to help facilitate the exponential growth of the Shingle Creek 2006 statistics. We are a great community composed of families that believe that community involvement is the best way to protect our community status and meet our neighbors.

SCNA July 10th 6:30pm NNO Planning meeting at Creekview Park To help facilitate planning your first NNO party or to help with networking or get new and creative ideas, the Shingle Creek Neighborhood Association will be holding a meeting July 10th at 6:30 pm at Creekview Recreational Center, 5001 HumboldtAve N to plan, celebrate, and motivate neighbors to find out how simple it is to host a National Night Out (NNO) block party in their neighborhood and to increase their knowledge of who lives on their block. We look forward to seeing many new faces on July 10th for information, food, and helpful tools to build a closer block and to have a wonderful NNO block Event.

Tour de Camden July 28th at Creekview ParkIn the last newsletter I spoke of increasing our relationship with the Lind-Bohanon neighborhood. Inspired by the Tour de France, both associations are pleased to announce the Tour de Camden. The tour will be co-sponsored by Shingle Creek and Lind-Bohanon and is comprised of a fun,leisurely bike ride thru the Camden Community on themorning of July 28th. The tour route will have various points of interest and be another great opportunity for neighbors to get to know each other and their neighborhood. We hope this bike tour will become another fun annual event, adding it to the other keystone Shingle Creek events (such as the yearly Shingle Creek Clean Up led by Vice Chair Jeff Johnson).

I am very excited to be working with LBNA to coordinate the Tour de Camden. We invite everyone to join us. Any questions, comments, or wish to help or just take part in either National Night Out or the Tour de Camden feel freeto contact SCNA and we’ll be more then happy to talk with you to get you started. SCNA staff: 763-561-1616.
Brock Hanson
SCNA Chair