It was a blast.  Lot’s of positive feedback about a very successful event.  The soup provided by the Northeast Community Coop delicious!  Here’s a few photos from the day.

In Partnership with Minnesota Community Sings

Logan Park Neighborhood Association (LPNA) is excited to be sponsoring Minnesota Community Sings along with hot soup for a fun, free family event.
At a community sing, everyone sings together. Songsheets provided — songs old and new. All voices welcome! All songs led by great songleaders from Minnesota Community Sings.
Where: Logan Park Community Center 690 13th Ave NE MPLS, MN 55413
When:    January 14, 2012 Sing: Noon
Soup:  1:30 (Soup courtesy NE Community Coop)

Reminder that Logan Park community meetings are held
the third Wednesday of each month. Please come on
January 18, 2012 @ 7 PM Agenda 807 building, Logan Park Branding, Art A Whirl
February 15th, 2012 @ 7 pm    Agenda TBA

www.loganparkneighborhood.org
LPNA phone number is 612-516-5762

Don’t forget that judging for best decorations is on December 18th.  Have your lights on and have the chance to win a cash prize.

Andrew Commers from ArtSpace will be a featured guest discussing Jac Flats at 18 1/2 Ave NE and Jackson St NE.

November 16th.

7 p.m. @ Logan Park.

With over 100 bike stations in the Twin Cities the very successful Nice Ride bike program has  now include bikes located in Logan Park at the intersection of Broadway and Monroe St.

You can find all of the information on the Nice Ride program at their website www.niceridemn.org  There is a special being offered for the month of September and you can get an annual membership for $30, a $10 savings over the regular rate.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO QUALIFY FOR FUNDING TO KEEP YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAMS
Logan Park Neighborhood Association, LPNA, qualifies for City of Minneapolis Citizen Participation Program, CPP, funds. These funds will support the workings and outreach of your neighborhood association. In order to get these funds released to LPNA an application must be submitted. The application must prove that a cross section of residents reflecting the new 2010 census findings for Logan Park Neighborhood have been contacted and asked their opinion about neighborhood needs and issues. All responses are confidential. Any personal information gathered that might reveal the identity of the person(s) making the comments will not be shared.

You can download the survey form here.  Logan Park Survey

Logan Park is excited to sponsor Just Add Ink: Comic Cookbook – opening this August at Altered Esthetics.

Altered Esthetics
1224 Quincy Street NE
Minneapolis MN 55413

Gallery Hours
Tuesdays & Thursdays 1pm-7pm
Saturdays 1pm-5pm

cartoonistconspiracy.com/justaddink

Logan Park neighborhood on the third Wednesday of the month and the next meeting is July 2oth.

There will not be a meeting in August and we hope to see everyone at National night out on August 2nd.

September 21, 2011 will be the following neighborhood meeting.  Hope to see you there.

The next Logan Park Neighborhood meeting will be this Wednesday, June 15 at 7:00pm.

Please join us for community conversation which will include an update and conversation on the Jackson Street Artist Housing Project.

The meeting will take place at the Logan Park Recreation Center.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the first annual Logan Park Art A Whirl Brunch!

Donna and Paula helped set up Friday, Donna had gotten and donated the coffee set-up….Logan Park Blend from the NorthEast coffee people on 32 and Johnson.
The list of workers on Saturday:
Barb Frasee (bright and early)
Donna Norberg set up all the beverages and supplied lots of extras, Worked The Whole Time
Dale and Nancie Theissen (Dale mastered the pancake mixing) (Nancie was tireless in griddling)
Liz Wilenski from the Park Board roasted the sausages just right
Eli Anthony and friend Molly worked the gluten free station
Jay Fetyko took in money
Gail Stone used her skills from Emily’s to keep the pancakes going
Aaron Raivo-Lynch served sausages and pancakes with lots of enthusiasm
Dan Mossey was right beside him, two experts
Jacob Gerber came in, a little wet, dried out by working hard
Richard Betts ran the ticket table from noon and on.
Deborah Fiscus was able to fill for several people at noon
Pat Vogel split her shift up, and was able to run errands,
Paul Allan was rained out for chess, but was able to lend the pancake crew a hand
Jeff Kraker kept the batter going after Dale left
Terry Gydesen helped wherever needed and took photos
Our Park staffers Mary and Dustin, as well as several Friday night assistants were great
Now, if only the weather had been a little more cooperative.

Thanks also to Sentyrz for their donations. They do make the best breakfast sausage.  Left over food was donated to Little Kitchen food shelf.  Thanks to Donna and Jacob for delivering to the food shelf.

Neighborhood Leaders,

As you know, North Minneapolis was struck by a devastating tornado yesterday. The Neighborhood and Community Relations Department will provide updates to neighborhood organizations over the next few days to keep you informed of recovery efforts and what your neighborhood organization can do to help. Please note that the information below is the best information we have at this time. We will provide additional information as it becomes available. If your organization has any questions or comments, please contact Carrie Aspinwall Day at (612) 673-2243 or by email at [email protected].

Please also check the City’s website at http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/, or call 311.

For safety, and to assist with recovery efforts, three Exclusion Zones have been established in North Minneapolis. People will need to show I.D. and/or the reason they need to get into a zone. Our understanding at this point is that the Exclusion Zones are still in effect and checkpoints around the Exclusion Zones are still in place. For a map of the exclusion zone and checkpoints, please see http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/news/docs/TornadoExclusionZone.pdf. For more information on the Exclusion Zone, please see the City’s website at: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/news/20110523NMplsTordanadoUpdate_1.asp.

Updates for today include:

Officials visit the site: This morning, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, joined by Council President Barbara Johnson and Council Members Hofstede and Samuels, led a tour of the impacted neighborhoods with Governor Mark Dayton, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Representative Keith Ellison, and other local and state officials.

No curfew: Minneapolis Police have determined that a curfew is not needed for this evening.

Crews in the neighborhoods: Crews are working as quickly as possible to get the affected neighborhoods open so residents can return. Emergency managers have divided the area into three zones. Within these zones, staff are going block-by-block, door-to-door, assessing damage, evaluating the safety of structures, and clearing debris to reopen streets. One of the biggest safety concerns is downed power lines. As areas are cleared, residents (only residents) will be allowed to return to their homes.

Food and water for affected families: Three stations are set up to make food and water available to North Side residents. The three locations are:

• Lowry and Penn avenue
• Golden Valley Road and Penn Avenue
• Lowry and Lyndale avenues

Housing for affected families: 257 people stayed overnight last night in the shelter set up at the Northeast Armory, and there are now about 400 people getting assistance at the Armory. Today, Hennepin County and the City are working with social service providers to assess the housing needs of people in the shelter to move them into housing for tonight and to work with individual families on long-term solutions. Several dozen families with children will be staying at the recently-renovated Drake Hotel Downtown, and other arrangements are being made for others who need housing. The goal is to have as many displaced people and families as possible move out of the shelter and into better housing as early as tonight.

People on the North Side who have not gone to the shelter but who need assistance can still go to the Armory at 1025 Broadway Ave. If folks need transportation to the Armory, they can go to the Fourth Precinct for assistance, which is located at 1926 Plymouth Ave. N.

How the public can help: People throughout Minneapolis and the region have been asking how they can help people affected by the tornado. There are several ways to help:

• Donate funds, not goods – The Minneapolis Foundation has established the Minnesota Helps – North Minneapolis Recovery Fund to assist with both short-term and long-term housing and recovery-related needs on the North Side. To make a donation by credit card, visit www.GiveMN.org or send checks for the recovery effort to The Minneapolis Foundation, 80 S. 8th St., Suite 800, Minneapolis, MN, 55402. People can also donate to the Red Cross at www.redcrosstc.org. Please do not donate goods at this time.
• In the coming days, volunteers will be needed – There are crews working already in the neighborhoods, but the conditions are not yet safe enough to accommodate volunteers. The City and Urban Homeworks, a local nonprofit, will be making a call to volunteers in the coming days, but at this point it is not safe to bring folks in.
• Tree cleanup: Minneapolis Public Works and Park Board crews continue to work in north Minneapolis to make streets passable following yesterday’s tornado. After that work is done, the City and Park Board will provide debris pickup for property owners in the affected area.

Public Works and Park Board crews will collect large debris beginning May 25 through June 10 for properties in the city west of Interstate 94 and north of Highway 55 (Olson Memorial Highway). This service is for property owners clearing their property after storm damage only—it is not for contractors doing work for property owners or for regular tree pruning. Visit the City’s website or call 311 for more information.

Additional information:

• The Governor and other state and federal elected staff have toured the area for a better assessment of the damage. FEMA is on the ground and will be conducting their damage assessments.
• Corporations that want to donate goods or volunteer staff (not individual contributions): please email information including name, phone number and rough idea of quantity and type of goods and email to Marc Dronen ([email protected]).
• Catalyst and KMOJ have partnered and they are accepting non monetary donations at their location at Penn and Broadway.
• 94 exit ramps are closed and will be until the zones are cleared – anticipated that will take a few days.
• Minneapolis Animal Control is OPEN to bring animals to the shelter. ACC will respond as usual to loose dogs, etc. Customers can go to ACC to look for lost animals.

The following schools are open for shelter, food and water for those that need it:

• Patrick Henry High School
• North High School
• Folwell

Please consider re-posting this on your neighborhood website so everyone can have the proper information.

Just a reminder- we have our neighborhood general meeting coming up on Wednesday the 18th. We’ll be electing new officers to the board. Please join us at Logan Park Community Center at 7pm!