Yet another busy month here in Shingle Creek, at our last Board Meeting we had Council President Barbara Johnson and Wade Bryant from Owens Corning as guests. On Saturday the 15th there were two North side events that kept us all busy with the DFL Senate District Convention at Henry High School and the
Northside Housing Fair at North High School. Along with all of this, the City and State are working on deciding what is going to happen to the Neighborhood
Revitalization Program after funding is scheduled to end in 2009. SCNA Board members and I spent last week at City Hall and at the State Capitol, advocating
for the extension of our funding source and the continuation of the independent multi-jurisdictional Neighborhood Revitalization Program governing body
from becoming just another City department. NRP is an award winning program that is unique in the country! Its a proven program to help us improve our
neighborhoods! We want to be sure its around for future generations! At our April monthly meeting Shingle Creek will be have our annual meeting and Board of Directors elections. All members of the Shingle Creek neighborhood are welcome to become a board member with SCNA! Its free! Its Fun! And everyone is welcome!
SCNA would like to send out a heart felt Thank You to Gail Anderson, Cheryl Anderson, and Lynn Hauger three long time Board Members who have decided to retire and move onto other phases of their lives. Gail and Cheryl both worked very hard to put together the Predatory Lending Forum,along with helping with the Bird Spring Ecology tour around the Retention ponds at 52xx Thomas Ave N and Shingle Creek Clean-up. Gail has also served as SCNA’s Treasurer for the past three years, working very hard on the books and expanding her educational level by taking a grant-writing class. Lynn was my predecessor as SCNA’s Board Chair, during his term SCNA helped bring in the award winning Minneapolis Business Center at 49th and Brooklyn Blvd to our neighborhood, and began the process of the Shingle Creek Welcome sign’s, which were finally hung this week. Our logoed blue and green signs will be hard to miss in the neighborhood!
SCNA would also like to thank Pam Owens and Lori Hanson who represented Shingle Creek at our table at the Northside housing fair. They worked very hard at putting a face to the neighborhood, our organization, and try and help attract home owners and residents to our area. Both are residents who volunteered to spend a wonderful Saturday inside answering your questions about the neighborhood and our programs including our home repair loan packages and yearly events like the Shingle Creek Clean Up or Tour DeCamden. Thank you both for the time that you put in helping SCNA and working with the other neighborhoods tables.
SCNA is also very grateful to our neighbor Mary Scott who’s lending her professional talents and writing skills to help enhance our monthly newsletter and website.
We look forward to seeing many new faces at future board meetings and at our many upcoming events in the planning for the next year!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
March 2008 Greetings
SCNA has had a long history of educating residents about what’s going on at the city and in our neighborhood, promoting it, and advocating it as a great place to live, work, and play!
Bridging boundaries and working with our sister neighborhood to the east, the Lind-Bohanon neighborhood for joint meetings like the recent Winter Block Club Social, summer Tour de Camden, and year-long Youth Engagement Project have brought many benefits to our organizations and community.
Coming up in March, SCNA will have a table at the Northside Housing and Home Improvement Fair on the 15th at North High School to promote our neighborhood and the work we’re doing. Over 1000 residents and potential new homeowners attend. There is typically over 50 vendors tabling with ideas for all your home project ideas. So stop by and say hello and register for a free drawing!
April is a busy month! SCNA will be hosting our 14th Annual Shingle Creek Cleanup on April 19th. It’s a fun day for the whole family and a great way to give back to the community! Clean-up starts at 9:00 with lunch from 11-noon. Also on April 15th we’ll have our annual meeting and elections of new board members. Hard to believe it will only be a year this May since being elected chair. The board has done tremendous work this year on behalf of the neighborhood and we couldn’t have done it without them! Any resident of Shingle Creek is eligible to be a board member. So if you have two hours a month, ideas or talents to share please consider becoming an SCNA Board member.
Also the Common Ground Community Garden is looking for volunteers. Green thumb not required! This garden has been a community asset for nearly twenty years!
Vegetables, raingarden, hearty Minnesota prairie grasses, it’s all there! Contact Linda Eriksson if you’re interested in volunteering! 763-566-6618.
Our neighborhood signs will be springing up in March! Be watching for more details soon!
Til next month! See you in the neighborhood!
Brock Hanson
SCNA Chair
Bridging boundaries and working with our sister neighborhood to the east, the Lind-Bohanon neighborhood for joint meetings like the recent Winter Block Club Social, summer Tour de Camden, and year-long Youth Engagement Project have brought many benefits to our organizations and community.
Coming up in March, SCNA will have a table at the Northside Housing and Home Improvement Fair on the 15th at North High School to promote our neighborhood and the work we’re doing. Over 1000 residents and potential new homeowners attend. There is typically over 50 vendors tabling with ideas for all your home project ideas. So stop by and say hello and register for a free drawing!
April is a busy month! SCNA will be hosting our 14th Annual Shingle Creek Cleanup on April 19th. It’s a fun day for the whole family and a great way to give back to the community! Clean-up starts at 9:00 with lunch from 11-noon. Also on April 15th we’ll have our annual meeting and elections of new board members. Hard to believe it will only be a year this May since being elected chair. The board has done tremendous work this year on behalf of the neighborhood and we couldn’t have done it without them! Any resident of Shingle Creek is eligible to be a board member. So if you have two hours a month, ideas or talents to share please consider becoming an SCNA Board member.
Also the Common Ground Community Garden is looking for volunteers. Green thumb not required! This garden has been a community asset for nearly twenty years!
Vegetables, raingarden, hearty Minnesota prairie grasses, it’s all there! Contact Linda Eriksson if you’re interested in volunteering! 763-566-6618.
Our neighborhood signs will be springing up in March! Be watching for more details soon!
Til next month! See you in the neighborhood!
Brock Hanson
SCNA Chair
Friday, February 1, 2008
February 2008 Greetings
Now that the holidays are over and we’ve all had a little time to breathe, its time to start thinking about the spring and summer activities which are
right around the corner. Coming up in February is a Joint Neighborhood Block Club Social, the Caucuses, and SCNA’s Monthly Meetings. March will be having
the Northside Housing Fair and the City Conventions. April SCNA will be having our Annual Meeting along with Board Elections, and Shingle Creek Clean Up. If you’re interested in any of these activities or have some other ideas in mind that you would like towork on that will help connect our community please contact us.Many great projects start with just a simple idea!
SCNA and LBNA are partnering once again and holding a Block Club Social on February 16. Keeping our neighborhood safe is important. Our hope is any one who would like to start a block club, or who already has, will come out so we can share resources and learn from each other about what everyone’s tried or is trying and to see what has worked best in building a strong safe block. We’ll have resources available and will have guests from the Guardian Angles and State Representative Joe Mullery who is the Chair of the Public Safety and Civil Justice Committee at the capitol attending. If you’re getting a little cabin fever, spent all winter in side and have had no chance to see your neighbors or would like to meet new neighbors here’s your first chance for 2008.
Shingle Creek is in the process of hosting many events this year, all of which we need help in planning and organizing some exciting new and old events and activities. We’d love your help! Some events on our list include a Duck Race, Tour de Camden, National Night Out, and the Shingle Creek Clean Up, just to name a few. SCNA and I would like to thank all of the people who helped make 2007 a great year for Shingle Creek. Be watching for one of the biggest accomplishments coming soon!~~ New beautiful blue street signs are being printed and will be hung throughout the neighborhood very soon! Can’t wait!
Remember also February 5 is the Presidential Caucuses, your first chance to deicide who will lead the nation for the next four years. SCNA always has room at the table for new neighbors and new ideas!
See ya soon!
Brock Hanson
SCNA Chair
right around the corner. Coming up in February is a Joint Neighborhood Block Club Social, the Caucuses, and SCNA’s Monthly Meetings. March will be having
the Northside Housing Fair and the City Conventions. April SCNA will be having our Annual Meeting along with Board Elections, and Shingle Creek Clean Up. If you’re interested in any of these activities or have some other ideas in mind that you would like towork on that will help connect our community please contact us.Many great projects start with just a simple idea!
SCNA and LBNA are partnering once again and holding a Block Club Social on February 16. Keeping our neighborhood safe is important. Our hope is any one who would like to start a block club, or who already has, will come out so we can share resources and learn from each other about what everyone’s tried or is trying and to see what has worked best in building a strong safe block. We’ll have resources available and will have guests from the Guardian Angles and State Representative Joe Mullery who is the Chair of the Public Safety and Civil Justice Committee at the capitol attending. If you’re getting a little cabin fever, spent all winter in side and have had no chance to see your neighbors or would like to meet new neighbors here’s your first chance for 2008.
Shingle Creek is in the process of hosting many events this year, all of which we need help in planning and organizing some exciting new and old events and activities. We’d love your help! Some events on our list include a Duck Race, Tour de Camden, National Night Out, and the Shingle Creek Clean Up, just to name a few. SCNA and I would like to thank all of the people who helped make 2007 a great year for Shingle Creek. Be watching for one of the biggest accomplishments coming soon!~~ New beautiful blue street signs are being printed and will be hung throughout the neighborhood very soon! Can’t wait!
Remember also February 5 is the Presidential Caucuses, your first chance to deicide who will lead the nation for the next four years. SCNA always has room at the table for new neighbors and new ideas!
See ya soon!
Brock Hanson
SCNA Chair
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
January 2008 Greetings
Happy holidays to the Shingle Creek Neighborhood from Chair Brock Hanson
As always the last month was a very busy month in Shingle Creek and Minneapolis. The reuse committee is plowing ahead with the work to find a reuse for Shingle Creek Elementary School. We just hired a research assistant though the University of Minnesota to work on getting us data to help us in the fight to keep the building up and find it a community beneficial long term reuse.
So in the coming months we’ll be having community charettes for residents to weigh in on the researcher’s findings. I hope that you can find time in your busy schedules to join us at a 6:30pm Reuse Committee meeting on the January 14 at the Shingle Creek Common
SCNA and I would like to thank A Rotta Love Plus, Kellie, Brit, and Madeline for the wonderful Bite prevention program they did at Jenny Lind. SCNA was able to facilitate this program that you might have seen featured on channel 4’s six o’clock news. We had over 80 after school children attend this program on how to approach dog that they would like to meet and what to do if scary dog does approaches them.
And in our push to make Shingle Creek safer, LBNA and SCNA will be teaming up to host a block club party in February. This will be a gathering of block leaders, block club members, anyone who is in a block club, or who might want to start a block club. It will be a time for all of us to mingle, network, and learn from other block clubs. A time for us to learn from each other and find out that our block club is not alone. We are planning on having special guests to come out and join us.
If you have any questions or would like to help in the planning please contact SCNA at 763-561-1616. SCNA and I would like to welcome you to come and join us. There are already many opportunities for you to come and help with improving the Shingle Creek Neighborhood. On the first Monday (1/7) of the month is our finance committee meeting, the second Monday (1/14) is the Reuse Committee meeting, and our monthly membership meeting is the second Tuesday (1/15). But we’re sure residents have more ideas! We want to hear from you. Have a Happy New Year and SCNA and I look forward to seeing you in the coming year
Brock Hanson
SCNA Chair
As always the last month was a very busy month in Shingle Creek and Minneapolis. The reuse committee is plowing ahead with the work to find a reuse for Shingle Creek Elementary School. We just hired a research assistant though the University of Minnesota to work on getting us data to help us in the fight to keep the building up and find it a community beneficial long term reuse.
So in the coming months we’ll be having community charettes for residents to weigh in on the researcher’s findings. I hope that you can find time in your busy schedules to join us at a 6:30pm Reuse Committee meeting on the January 14 at the Shingle Creek Common
SCNA and I would like to thank A Rotta Love Plus, Kellie, Brit, and Madeline for the wonderful Bite prevention program they did at Jenny Lind. SCNA was able to facilitate this program that you might have seen featured on channel 4’s six o’clock news. We had over 80 after school children attend this program on how to approach dog that they would like to meet and what to do if scary dog does approaches them.
And in our push to make Shingle Creek safer, LBNA and SCNA will be teaming up to host a block club party in February. This will be a gathering of block leaders, block club members, anyone who is in a block club, or who might want to start a block club. It will be a time for all of us to mingle, network, and learn from other block clubs. A time for us to learn from each other and find out that our block club is not alone. We are planning on having special guests to come out and join us.
If you have any questions or would like to help in the planning please contact SCNA at 763-561-1616. SCNA and I would like to welcome you to come and join us. There are already many opportunities for you to come and help with improving the Shingle Creek Neighborhood. On the first Monday (1/7) of the month is our finance committee meeting, the second Monday (1/14) is the Reuse Committee meeting, and our monthly membership meeting is the second Tuesday (1/15). But we’re sure residents have more ideas! We want to hear from you. Have a Happy New Year and SCNA and I look forward to seeing you in the coming year
Brock Hanson
SCNA Chair
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