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Pearl Park

414 East Diamond Lake Road

Minneapolis, MN

Scavenger hunt for the kids, door prizes, food, fun and sun for all!

The fair is organized by the City of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Homeownership Center to offer a unique opportunity for residents to get their banking, lending, homeownership questions answered.

Homeownership advisors and educators, non-profit housing developers, and lenders including BMO Harris, Bremer Bank, Bank of America, Minnesota Housing, Twin City Federal, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo will provide resources at the fair. The Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors has also been invited. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Cherie Shoquist from Minneapolis Community Planning & Economic Development at (612)673-5078 or cherie.shoquist@minneapolismn.gov; or Ed Nelson of the Minnesota Homeownership Center at (651) 659-9336 Ext. 104 or ed@hocmn.org.

2nd             Communications Committee Meeting          7 pm

6th              Picnic Committee Meeting                              6:30 pm at HPDL office

9th              Garage Sale Committee Meeting                   6:30 pm at HPDL office

20th           HPDL Board Meeting                                       7 pm at HPDL office

(Sector 3 serves Hale, Page, Diamond Lake, Ericsson and a portion of Standish, Keewaydin, Minnehaha, Wenonah, Morris Park, Field, Regina, and Northrop neighborhoods. )

There have been several robberies of persons recently in some neighborhoods in the 3rd Precinct Sector 3 has had three robberies of persons since Jan. 1, none since mid-February. One occurred shortly before 9pm on Jan. 23 when a woman was robbed by 3 males in the 4200 block of 13 AV S. in Northrop Neighborhood. The men hit her on the head, knocked her down, and went through her pockets, taking keys to her house and car. On Feb. 1, a man reported he was robbed at gunpoint by two men at a business on the 4300 block of 4th AV. S in Regina neighborhood. The 3rd and last robbery occurred Feb. 12 near East 46 Street and 2 Av S when a male was assaulted and robbed of his cell phone around 11:30 pm. Two males were booked at the jail for probable cause-robbery. All of the cases are open and the investigations are continuing.

Attached are two-sided flyers that block leaders and neighborhood organizations can distribute to residents so that neighbors can be alert to potential incidents and receive tips on what to do. The flyers are in English, Spanish, and Somali. Contact me or your neighborhood association for extra copies: Field-Regina-Northrop (FRNNG) at 612-721-5424; Nokomis East Neighborhood Association (NENA) at 612-724-5652, Hale-Page-Diamond Lake ( HPDL) at 612-548-4735; or Standish-Ericsson (SENA), 612-7221-1601.

An organized block is the best defense against crime. If your block is not organized, please come to Block Leader Training held here at 3rd Precinct. The next training will be offered Tuesday, April 16, 6:30pm at the 3rd Precinct, 3000 Minnehaha. RSVP, please. More information is attached below.

Thank you. For questions, contact:

Sue Roethele, Crime Prevention Specialist

Minneapolis Police Department, 3rd Precinct

(612) 673-2839

sue.roethele@minneapolismn.gov

care choices. This workshop explores the latest in healthy yard care practices, including proper use of fertilizers, disposal and reuse of yard waste, keeping sidewalks ice free and managing runoff onsite. This workshop is designed to move participants quickly from an overview of healthy yard care practices to a completed raingarden design for their property with one on one assistance from Metro Blooms landscape designers and Hennepin County Master Gardeners. Register now. Some locations fill up fast. The $15 workshops will be offered from mid-April to mid-June:

27-Apr Saturday     10 – 1 pm     Audubon Park Rec Ctr.,    Minneapolis

9-May Thursday     6 – 9 pm      Nokomis Park Rec Ctr.      Minneapolis

11-May Saturday     9 – 12 pm     Longfellow Park Rec Ctr.,    Minneapolis

16-May Thursday     6 – 9 pm     St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church,    Minneapolis

1-Jun Saturday      1 – 4 pm      North Regional Library,    Minneapolis

Whether you are an experienced gardener or have never tried gardening before, these eco-friendly gardening workshops, sponsored by the City of Minneapolis, will help you learn how to:

• Capture rainwater on site with raingardens.

• Redirect our downspouts and install a rain barrel.

• Plan your own garden with one-on-one assistance from landscape designers and Hennepin County Master Gardeners.

• Use beautiful native plants in your garden landscape.

• Adopt healthy yard care practices for you and for our clean waters.

Participants are also eligible for a low-cost onsite consultation and raingarden design rendering from a landscape design professional.

“Metro Blooms has been partnering with Twin Cities Metro communities to provide low-cost raingarden workshops since 2005,” said Metro Blooms Executive Director Becky Rice. “Over 6,000 residents have attended our workshops and over 2,000 raingardens have been installed.”

To register, visit www.metroblooms.org or call 651-699-2426. Fee: $15 per workshop. Sponsored by the city of Minneapolis.

February Newsletter

Thursday, March 7th at 6:30 pm at Pearl Park

The City of Minneapolis is proposing two street resurfacing projects in 2013 that will affect the Page and Hale neighborhoods. One project includes many of the residential streets in the Page neighborhood, while the other is 54th St E, from Portland Ave to W Nokomis Parkway. Also, the Minneapolis Park Board is proposing to resurface E Minnehaha Parkway, between Portland and Park avenues. Maps of the proposed projects are attached, along with a general fact sheet about resurfacing. Over the last couple of years, the City resurfaced Chicago Ave and many of the streets in the Hale neighborhood, so you may already be familiar with this type of project.

A general overview is that resurfacing involves a two step process. First, we mill, or remove by grinding, a portion of the top layer of pavement. The second part consists of placing new asphalt across the entire width of the street. Because we don’t tear the street apart, it is a relatively quick process. Typically, this work takes a total of two days in front of anyone’s home, one day to mill and a second day to pave. These two days are typically not consecutive because we can mill faster than we can pave, but the street will be usable in between these two operations. We close only the streets that we are working on each day, and we open them again when we are complete with our work for the day. The attached fact sheet is very helpful in explaining this process.

Both the City and the Park Board assess for this type of project, and both assess at the same rate. For residential properties, the assessment rate for resurfacing is $0.20/SF of property lot, unchanged from last year. Most properties have five years to pay off the assessment. An information sheet on how the street assessments are calculated for each property is attached. Residents who live on corners often have questions about how this is calculated.