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Kenny Neighborhood Association Government and Public Service Numbers Kenny Neighborhood Association ...............................612-392-4477 www.kennyneighborhood.org Community Crime Prevention .....................................612-673-5407 5th Precinct, Sector 3 CPS Amy Lavender [email protected] Kenny Park Shelter ......................................................612-370-4901 Jerry Peterson www.minneapolisparks.org Washburn Library .........................................................612-630-6500 http://www.hclib.org Kenny Community School ...........................................612-668-3340 http://kenny.mpls.k12.mn.us Anthony Middle School ................................................612-668-3240 http://anthony.mpls.k12.mn.us City Council, 13th Ward ...............................................612-673-2213 Betsy Hodges http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/ward13/ State Representative, 63A ...........................................651-296-5375 Paul Thissen http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/ State Senator, District 63 .............................................651-297-8061 Ken Kelash http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/ Metro Transit ................................................................612-373-3333 http://www.metrotransit.org/ Kenny Neighborhood Association Businesses Penn Avenue South: 54th to 60th Streets ChiroMed Clinic 2214 W. 54th St. 922-4649 Enterprise Rent-A-Car 5504 Lyndale Ave. So. 824-8088 Penn Avenue Family Dentistry Fixt Rite Auto Repair 5556 Lyndale Ave. So. 824-5620 Dr. Fred Allis 5346 Penn Ave. So. 866-6641 Gill Brothers Funeral Chapel 5801 Lyndale Ave. So. 861-6088 Dr. Robert McNabb 5346 Penn Ave. So. 922-0894 Help-U-Sell Real Estate 5309 Lyndale Ave. So. 822-1771 Jensen’s Car Care 5400 Penn Ave. So 922-3834 Integrated Health Chiropractic 624 W. 54th St. 871-7190 Pennhurst Cleaners 5401 Penn Ave. So. 927-9882 Kowalski’s 5327 Lyndale Ave. So. 822-2935 Arbor Construction Lehman’s Garage 5431 Lyndale Ave. So. 827-5431 and Remodeling 5403 Penn Ave. So. 929-1999 Lyndale BP 5400 Lyndale Ave. So. 822-9686 Settergren’s Ace Hardware 5405 Penn Ave. So. 922-6055 Metro Inn 5637 Lyndale Ave. So. 861-6011 CP Nails 5406 Penn Ave. So. 252-0257 Midas Muffler and Brake 5445 Lyndale Ave. So. 827-4604 Cindy’s Barber 5408 Penn Ave. So. 922-3282 Minneapolis Counseling Clinic 5346 Lyndale Ave. So. 746-5511 Artistic Floors 5409 Penn Ave. So. 926-7693 Moore’s Bait and Tackle 618 W. 58th St. 861-7412 Dreadlocks for Dingoes 5410 Penn Ave. So. 920-3992 Mount Olivet Day Services 5601 Lyndale Ave. So. 861-3305 Café Maude 5411 Penn Ave. So. 822-5411 Mount Olivet Careview Home 5517 Lyndale Ave. So. 827-5677 Kwan’s Chinese Cuisine 5412 Penn Ave. So. 922-3432 Mulberrys Garment Care 615 W. 53rd St. 824-7787 Creative Fibers 5414 Penn Ave. So. 927-8307 Nancy Nelson’s Our Little Secret 6001 Lyndale Ave. So. 869-8290 In Season 5416 Penn Ave. So. Nokomis Chiropractic 5213 Lyndale Ave. So. 822-0149 Domino’s Pizza 5957 Penn Ave. So. 920-7171 Nordic Home Interiors 620 W. 58th St. 339-0000 Super USA 5965 Penn Ave. So. 929-0898 Patrick’s Bakery & Cafe (Bachman’s) 6010 Lyndale Ave. So. 861-9277 Penn Mobil 6001 Penn Ave. So. 869-4272 Prima 5325 Lyndale Ave. So. 827-7376 Crosstown BP 6004 Penn Ave. So. 920-0941 The Roastery 616 W. 54th St. 810-0769 DK&Y Inc. 6009 Penn Ave. So. 789-4071 Sigh Yoga 612 W. 54th St. 824-1317 Wagner’s Greenhouse 6024 Penn Ave. So. 922-6901 South Lyndale Liquors 5300 Lyndale Ave. So. 827-5811 Starbuck’s Coffee 5351 Lyndale Ave. So. 821-0686 Lyndale Avenue South: 53rd to 60th Streets Subway 5317 Lyndale Ave. So. 824-4877 Annunciation School 509 W. 54th St. 824-4597 Thrivent Financial Bank 5349 Lyndale Ave. So. 825-1860 Anytime Fitness 5309 Lyndale Ave. So. 823-3120 Time Out Pilates & Fitness Studio 6001 Lyndale Ave. So. 866-0832 Aqua City Motel 5739 Lyndale Ave. So. 861-6061 Uber Baby 6015 Lyndale Ave. So. 869-0930 Artiste Hair Stylists 616 W. 58th St. 869-1211 Uncommon Gardens 5750 Lyndale Ave. So. 866-3033 Astound Video Unity Business Networks 6015 Lyndale Ave. So. 604-5200 Bachman’s 6010 Lyndale Ave. So. 861-7600 Valvoline Instant Oil Change 5800 Lyndale Ave. So. 861-4499 Beek’s Pizza 5336 Lyndale Ave. So. 827-2567 Walgreen’s 5415 Lyndale Ave. So. 824-1121 Blue Cross Animal Hospital 5328 Lyndale Ave. So. 822-2149 Borton Overseas 5412 Lyndale Ave. So. 822-4640 Borton Volvo 5428 Lyndale Ave. So. 827-3666 Bubbles and Bows Pet Grooming 6001 Lyndale Ave. So. 920-3868 Caring for Children Daycare 5835 Lyndale Ave. So. 866-1632 Caribou 5309 Lyndale Ave. So. 823-3524 Coldwell Banker Burnet Realty 5516 Lyndale Ave. So. 827-4781 Diamond Lake Rental 5340 Lyndale Ave. So. 827-5525 Edina Realty 5318 Lyndale Ave. So. 827-3551 Kenny Neighborhood Association The Kenny Neighborhood Association (KNA) History of the Kenny Neighborhood is a volunteer-based community organization that focuses its Kenny Neighborhood, bordered by Lyndale Avenue (East), energy on neighborhood-chosen issues. Highway 62 (South), 54th Street (North) and Logan Avenue (West) was originally settled in the 1920’s and 30’s. Many of In the past few years, KNA has reached out to the entire these original homeowners still remain and according to the neighborhood through door knocking, mail surveys and focus 2000 census, the senior citizen population in Kenny is 17%. groups to learn the concerns of residents and business owners. The result is a Neighborhood Revitalization Project which The Bachman family farm occupied much of Kenny south of includes beautification of Lyndale Avenue, renovation of Kenny 58th Street. This section of the neighborhood remained an open Park, building a sense of community among Kenny residents field until the early 1950’s, when the Bachman family moved through events such as the neighborhood festival, protection of their nursery out of the city. Today, the Kenny Neighborhood is the natural environment and incentive programs for residents largely residential with nearly 3,500 residents in 1,700 homes. to rehabilitate and improve their property. When completed, this The neighborhood also includes two churches and a number of extensive project will have put more than $1.25 million into the businesses along Lyndale Avenue. neighborhood. The center of Kenny Neighborhood is Kenny Park; a green KNA meets monthly on the third Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. at the space with a playground and wading pool, tennis courts, Kenny Park shelter building, 1328 West 58th Street. Check athletic fields and a park building. The park property originally the KNA website, www.kennyneighborhood.org or call the housed a gravel pit. Sharing the site are Anthony Middle School KNA message line at 392-4477 for time or location changes. and Kenny Community School (K-5). These meetings are open to the public and your participation is welcome! The hidden-jewel of the Kenny neighborhood is Grass Lake, a 27-acre wetland located on the southern end of the Kenny Neighborhood Association neighborhood. The lake is home to a large variety of birds and 5516 Lyndale Avenue South water fowl and is a favorite walking destination. Minneapolis, MN 55419 Message line: 392-4477 The neighborhood prides itself on its low crime, active E-mail: [email protected] neighborhood association and multi-generational population. www.kennyneighborhood.org In addition, the neighborhood is within walking distance of a drug store, library, doctor’s office, dry cleaner, coffee shops, KNA Committees/Groups hardware store, grocery store, liquor store, auto mechanics, • Grass Lake Committee banks, yoga studio, veterinarian and restaurants. • LASR-CC (Lyndale Avenue South Renewal-Creek to Crosstown): a joint committee with Windom, Tangletown and Lynnhurst neighborhoods • Communications Committee • Garden Club • Summerfest Committee Kenny Neighborhood Association From A to Z, City Streets Have a History of Their Own Did you ever wonder where the alphabetic street names in Minneapolis came from? Aldrich Avenue was named for Thomas B. Aldrich James Avenue was named for George P. R. James (1836-1907). Aldrich was a poet and editor of the Atlantic (1801-1860), an English novelist and writer. Monthly magazine in the late 1800’s. Aldrich hailed from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The street is also named for Knox Avenue was named for General Henry Knox Cyrus Aldrich (1808-1871), who came to Minnesota in 1855. (1756-1806), an artillery commander in the Revolutionary War He was involved in real estate and politics and served as the and later the U.S. Secretary of War (now Defense) from Postmaster of Minneapolis from 1867-1871. 1785-1795) Fort Knox in Kentucky is also named after him. Bryant Avenue was named for William Cullen Bryant Logan Avenue was named for John A. Logan (1826-1886), a (1794-1878), an early American poet and editor. Civil War General from Jackson County, Illinois. He served with William Tecumseh Sherman on his March to the Sea. Logan Colfax Avenue was named for Schuyler Colfax (1823-1885). also served in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the He was vice president of the United States under U.S. Senate. At one point he was a Republican vice presidential Ulysses S. Grant. candidate. Dupont Avenue was named for Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Morgan Avenue was named for Colonel George N. Morgan Dupont (1803-1886), a naval commander in the Mexican and (1825-1866). He enlisted in the 1st Minnesota Regiment in Civil wars. 1856 and later became a brigadier general. Emerson Avenue was named for Ralph Waldo Emerson Newton Avenue was named for Sir Isaac Newton (1803-1882), poet and transcendentalist. (1642-1727), a British philosopher and mathematician who wrote the theory of universal gravitation. Fremont Avenue was named for John C. Fremont (1813-1890), officer in the Union Army and later explorer Oliver Avenue was named for Deacon A.M. Oliver of the of the American West.