Date: Saturday, August 24, 2013 Heirloom tomato tasting: 11am to 1:30 pm Celebration program: noon
Location: Dowling Garden, 3901-46th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN
Dowling Community Garden is believed to be among the oldest community gardens in the nation. It is also one of only two surviving World War II Victory Community Gardens. The public land that has been home to the Garden for all these years has provided healthy food to thousands of Minneapolis families and also been a source of fresh food to local food shelves and neighbors in need of nutritious food.
We have enclosed a summary history to give you additional background information on the Dowling Community Garden. Given the history and impact of the Garden and the increased commitment to nutritious food and local sourcing of vegetables and fruit, we believe this celebration is news worthy.
Dowling Community Garden: 70 years and still growing! by Jerry Foley was published this summer and will be for sale at the Dowling Community Garden 70th Anniversary celebration on August 24, 2013, for $5.00.
We invite you to join us. Please let us know how we might assist you in your coverage of this celebratory event.
Contact persons: Jeffrey Loesch or Kathleen O’Brien, phone: 612-722-8475, From July 20 to August 4: Joan Krey, phone: 612-729-0510 or Jerry Foley, phone: 612-722-3072. E-mail: info@dowlingcommunitygarden.org
The Community Warming Party is tomorrow (Wednesday) night from 5:30-8pm at the Sea Salt Eatery! We are PUMPED for this party, which is happening rain or shine. Look out for us in the Pavilion tomorrow, and plan on buying your own food and drinks from the wonderous Sea Salt Eatery.
We have rounded up quite a few raffle prizes to give away! Detailed below…
Prize Pack #1
Box of Wine + $25 Junket Card + Zeke’s Happy Hour card
Prize Pack #2
Mother Earth Gardens + Fireroast Cafe + Zeke’s Happy Hour Card
Prize Pack #3
Parkway Pizza + 12 pack of beer + Zeke’s Happy Hour Card
Prize Pack #4
Riverview Cafe + Mood Palace Books + Zeke’s Happy Hour Card
Prize #5
Dinner for 2 at Zeke’s Unchained Animal
Prize #6
El Nuevo Rodeo gift certificate
Saturday June 1st, 9am to 3pm
The 2013 Longfellow neighborhood sale day will be held on Saturday, June 1st from 9am to 3pm. This will be the first neighborhood-wide sale day in Longfellow for many years, and we hope to make it a great event. In addition to the usual garage and yard sales at private homes, we are working with neighborhood schools, churches, and businesses to coordinate rummage sales, fundraisers, and other events on the same day.
- Sanford Middle School (3524 42nd Ave S) will be having a large sale and fundraiser, with proceeds benefitting the school.
- Junket (4047 Minnehaha Avenue) will be a community sale site, with several tables for individuals hosting sales. We hear they may even have a food truck there!
- Forage Modern Workshop (4023 East Lake Street) will be hosting a sidewalk sale. Be sure to check out their awesome items inside as well!
Community Sale Location
Interested in selling items but not hosting a sale at your home? Junket at 4047 Minnehaha has offered to host community members at their location! Provide your own table or rent one for $10. Contact Spencer for more information: spencer@longfellow.org or 612-722-4529 ext. 5.
Maps & Advertising
We will have maps and a detailed list of sale addresses (with sale item info) available here about a week prior to the sale day! Printed maps will be distributed at community locations the week before the sale day. The sale will be advertised in a variety of print and digital media. Look for printed maps at places like Peace Coffee, Blue Moon, Fireroast Cafe, Riverview Cafe, and Parka starting Wednesday May 29th.
Registration (Deadline: Thursday, May 23rd)
Registration is now closed! We have 135 sales registered! While its too late to have your sale added to the official printed map, we might still be able to add your sale to the online map and list of sales. Contact Spencer: spencer@longfellow.org or 612-722-4529 ext. 5. Don’t be afraid to have a sale even if you weren’t able to register. The more the merrier! Also, registration for a table at the community sale site at Junket is still open through Monday, May 27th (see above).
East Lake Library – Book Sale May 18-19
Saturday 10-5pm, Sunday noon to 5pm.
East Lake Library’s spring book sale offers thousands of books for very cheap prices – hardcovers are $1 and paperbacks are 50 cents. All children’s books are 50 cents! $5 bag sales begin 3pm on Saturday and all day Sunday!
It’s not too late to send the Friends an email for a book pickup through May 16:
eastlake@supporthclib.org
Longfellow Community Council’s Annual Meeting, No Pie Charts Only Pies, is happening tomorrow (Tuesday) evening! It’s a great time to get to know your neighbors, find out what is happening at LCC, browse the resource fair, and eat some pie!
The resource fair starts at 6pm, Board elections start 6:30pm. Please bring a pie to share, and donations for Minnehaha Food Shelf (you will receive up to 10 raffle tickets for your donations for your chance to win great prizes from Longfellow businesses!).
Location: Minnehaha Academy North Campus, 3100 W River Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN 55406.
If you have any questions contact Jessica, jessica@longfellow.org, or call her cell at (six five one), three three eight, two eight two nine.
See you there!
From Wikipedia
PIE
A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients.
Pies are defined by their crusts. A filled pie (also single-crust or bottom-crust), has pastry lining the baking dish, and the filling is placed on top of the pastry, but left open. A top-crust pie, which may also be called a cobbler, has the filling in the bottom of the dish and the filling covered with a pastry or other covering before baking. A two-crust pie has the filling completely enclosed in the pastry shell. Flaky pastry is a typical kind of pastry used for pie crusts, but many things can be used, including baking powder biscuits, mashed potatoes, and crumbs.
Pies can be a variety of sizes, ranging from bite-size to ones designed for multiple servings.
Also From Wikipedia:
PIE CHARTS
A pie chart (or a circle graph) is a circular chart divided into sectors, illustrating numerical proportion. In a pie chart, the arc length of each sector (and consequently its central angle and area), is proportional to the quantity it represents. While it is named for its resemblance to a pie which has been sliced, there are variations on the way it can be presented. The earliest known pie chart is generally credited to William Playfair’s Statistical Breviary of 1801.
Pie charts are very widely used in the business world and the mass media. However, they have been criticized, and many experts recommend avoiding them, pointing out that research has shown it is difficult to compare different sections of a given pie chart, or to compare data across different pie charts. Pie charts can be replaced in most cases by other plots such as the bar chart.
Luckily, we will not be using any pie charts whatsoever at No Pie Charts, Only Pie, as our event name points out.
We will be using pie, community togetherness, board elections, and a resource fair with non profits and active groups from throughout the community to celebrate the fact that Longfellow is great. It’s actually the best. Join us on Tuesday, April 23rd at Minnehaha Academy at 6pm. Bring a pie. Bring a food donation for Minnehaha Food Shelf. Maybe you’ll win a raffle prize. Maybe you’ll just have fun. Either way, you can’t lose.
See you there!
Longfellow Community Council Staff
A Fun Home Improvement Event for the Whole Family
Whether you are giving a room a “make-over” or starting from the ground up, you’ll find answers to all of your questions at the 19th annual South Minneapolis Housing Fair.
FREE and Open to the Public
This event is FREE and open to the public and will be held Saturday, April 13, 2013, from 10 AM to 3 PM. With its convenient NEW location in the Minneapolis Sports Center, 2121 East Lake St., Minneapolis, centrally located in South Minneapolis, the Housing Fair is easy to find. (Behind the Midtown YWCA, parking on site or across the street.)
New this year! Co-located with the Fair for the first four hours (10 a.m.-2 p.m.) will be a Hennepin Fix-It Clinic. You can bring easily carried home appliances, electronics, toys, etc. that are not working properly, and get help fixing them. Bring instruction manuals and any tools you think might be helpful, and prepare to help. A great learning experience for kids, too, to watch with their adults. For more information on Fix-It Clinics, CLICK HERE.
Great Local Exhibitors and Door Prizes
We’ll have almost 100 amazing exhibitors and vendors to make your dreams come true with expertise and advice on home remodeling, basement finishing, kitchen and bath transformation, landscaping and much more.
All exhibitors are located in the Metro area and provide the highest level of professional services. In addition, you’ll enjoy making connections with local bankers, real estate agents and a broad range of community experts in a low-key conversational setting.
Volunteers – You can get involved!
A grass-roots neighborhood produced event like the South Minneapolis Housing Fair is built on hundreds of hours of volunteer time. Your efforts could help to insure the success of the Housing Fair and the improvement in the safety and value of your neighborhood. For more information on how you can get involved contact the Event Coordinator, Margo Ashmore MANAGER@HOUSINGFAIR.ORG or call 612-867-4874.