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