Join us on Thursday, July 22^nd for the Fourth Annual Lyndale Garden Tour.  The theme for this year’s Garden Tour is the crafty gardener.  This year’s tour will include information on a different crafty project at each stop along the way.

The tour will start at 6:00 pm at the Blaisdell Rain Garden (32^nd & Blaisdell) and travel across the neighborhood, ending with a reception at Holly Reckel’s newly redone garden on 35^th and Garfield.  Tickets for the tour are $10 and include the tour, one raffle ticket, and the reception.  Additional raffle tickets are 1 for $3 and 2 for $5.  Tickets are available in advance at the LNA Office (3537 Nicollet Avenue) or here.   You may also purchase tickets on the day of the event at the Rain Garden starting at 5:30 pm.  Questions contact Mark at 612.824.9402 ex 16 or mark@lyndale.org.

The apartment is a second floor unit at 3537 Nicollet Avenue that was just remodeled to include a second bedroom, new carpet, built in dishwasher and lots of other updates.

Monthly rent is $975 with the unit currently available.

Apartment Amenities
1,500 sq ft total living area, including over 1,100 for the living room and kitchen area alone!
2 big bedrooms with lots of natural light and their own closets
12 foot ceilings
In unit laundry room with washer and dryer
Built in dishwasher
Updated kitchen and bathroom
Two off street parking spots
Quiet unit with lots of privacy
Also, includes a back deck area

For more information or to schedule a showing contact Norma at 612.824.9402 ex 15. 3537 Nicollet Upper Unit

5:00 to 8:30 pm
Music! Food! Friends!

Great kid’s activities from Leonardo’s Basement
Fun games for kids and adults
Live Music from the Tom Hunter Blues Band
Grilled Fish Tacos from El Meson
Bring your best cornbread to share

Everyone in the neighborhood is invited to this great Lyndale event
The event is free with a suggested donation of $5 per person for dinner

For more information contact Mark at 612.824.9402 ex 16 or check out this year’s Fish Fest Postcard.

The Nicollet Avenue Steering Committee will be hosting the first in series of public meetings on June 23rd concerning the reconstruction of Nicollet Avenue.  The meetings will be held at Zion Lutheran Church both meetings will have an identical format, to allow people to attend at the time most convenient for them.   The purpose of the meetings is to gather input from residents, businesses, property owners, and community members about issues along the corridor and people’s  vision for the future Nicollet Avenue.

The reconstruction of Nicollet Avenue is currently scheduled to begin in 2012 and will take two years to complete.  The construction process will involve a complete street and sidewalk reconstruction   The reconstruction of Nicollet Avenue will be both a challenging time for neighborhood businesses and residents as well as an important opportunity to plan for the future and to encourage investment in the community.

We strongly encourage businesses and residents of Nicollet Avenue to attend one of these meetings.  All community members are welcome to attend and share their thoughts.  The Steering Committee hopes you will give us your input on this incredibly important community project throughout the process.  See the Nicollet Avenue Construction Web Page for background information and for other ways to provide input on the project.

For more information contact Mark with LNA at 612.824.9402 ex 16 or Bev Warmka with the City of Minneapolis at 612.673.3762

Join us for the Lyndale Neighborhood’s Association Annual (LNA) Meeting on Monday, June 28^th at Painter Park.  The annual meeting is your chance to see what’s been going on for the past year and what’s ahead for the next year.  At the meeting we will be electing five board members to two year terms and up to five alternates to one year terms.  All community members are eligible to serve on the board.

This is your chance to show off your dessert making skills by entering your favorite dessert into the Annual Dessert Contest.

Annual Meeting Schedule
6:00 to 7:00 – Annual Meeting

• Presentations of Lyndale Community Service Award
• Board elections
• Lyndale Year in Review and What’s ahead for Next Year

7:00 to 9:00 – Live Music from Al’s Rockabilly Quartet

• Announce the Winner of the Annual Dessert Contest

Childcare is available for the meeting portion of the event through Leonardo’s at Lyndale for children 4 to 12 years old at Painter Park.  For more information about the meeting or about serving on the board check out www.lyndale.org, or contact Mark Hinds at 612.824.9402 ext 16.

Al's Rockabilly Quartet

Help the Lyndale Neighborhood rak up 1000 acts of kindness this June.  It’s easy, all you have to do to participate is be yourself.  Do a random act of kindness & let us know so we can post a flower in the LNA window in your honor.

What counts as a rak, any kind act.  Some examples of kind things you can do are:

Open the door for someone.

• Pay for someone’s coffee behind you.
• Give a helping hand when you see someone carrying a lot of stuff.
• Cook someone’s favorite breakfast you live with.
• Leave anonymous thank you notes to teachers.
• Invite a friend to the movies or dinner.
• Put change in a vending machine.
• Leave a book you have already finished somewhere for someone else to read.
• Drop off a toy or game at a homeless shelter.
• Send someone a small gift anonymously.
• Drop off flowers at your friend or neighbor’s house.

To record your act of kindness you can fill out one of the postcards all around the neighborhood, drop an email to kindness@lyndale.org, call the kindness hotline at 612.824.9402 ex 19.

Want to know more go to Random Acts of Kindness project page.

The awards will be presented at the Lyndale Annual Meeting on Monday, June 28th at Painter Park (34^th & Lyndale).  Each award winner will receive an engraved brick and certificate of appreciation, the brick is representative of their effort to help build a better neighborhood.

Community Service Award criteria are:

• Nominees must have been active in making the Lyndale Neighborhood a safe, vibrant, and sustainable neighborhood within the preceding 10 years.
• Nominees do not need to be active volunteers with the Lyndale Neighborhood Association.
• Nominees will be evaluated on the following criteria:
  • Impact their work and commitment has had on improving the Lyndale Neighborhood
  • The amount of time and energy they have spent working on behalf of the neighborhood
• Nominees may be individuals, groups of people, businesses, or organizations that work to make Lyndale a better place to live, work, and play.
• Nominees can not be current Board or Staff members of the Lyndale Neighborhood Association.

Questions should be addressed to Sarah Scott at sarah@lyndale.org or 612.824.9402 x 12.  2010 Community Service Award Form

Come gather with us to celebrate and honor the children in our lives and their friendships with one another.  We will be serving snacks and refreshments, have fun games and treats for kids, Face Painting, Magic and Balloon Animals by Barrillito the clown!  A Piñata! A Family Raffle

This is a free community event!  If it is raining, we will celebrate inside the Painter Park Recreation Center.

If you have talents you’d like to share for Día del Niño (eg. Magic, music, balloon animals, or face painting), if you are interested in helping with this event, or if you have questions call Sarah Scott at 612.824.9402 ext. 12 or sarah@lyndale.org .

Dia Del Nino will be followed by…

Summer Sampler and Music in the Park
Saturday, May 1^st
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Painter Park

Check out information about summer programs for kids and families.  Watch Kevin Anthony and the Playboys sing great Cajun music on the stage.  Take a jump in the moon bounce provided by the YMCA.  Make something at the Leonardo’s basement table.  Maybe there will even be ice cream treats!  Bring your own blanket or chairs to sit on.

For more information call Sarah Scott at 612.824.9402 ext. 12 or sarah@lyndale.org.

Tired of all the garbage on the streets?  Want to help clean up the neighborhood?

Come help clean up the neighborhood at the Spring Litter Outa Lyndale.  Join us on Saturday, April 24th as we help turn Lyndale into the neighborhood it should be.

Come pick up your route, bags, and gloves anytime between 10am and 1:00 pm at the LNA Offices (3537 Nicollet Avenue).  We’ll have some light breakfast food to help people get revved up to go!

For more information or to let us know that you’re coming contact Mark at mark@lyndale.org or 612.824.9402 x 16.