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Yard waste and organics recycling
Yard waste and organics recycling is free or low cost to most Northeaster readers in Columbia Heights, St. Anthony, and Minneapolis. Easily compostable items such as food scraps and food-soiled paper, even pizza delivery boxes and egg cartons, are collected and brought to a facility, along with yard waste, and turned into nutrient-rich compost. Columbia […]
Find out more »ESNS Events for Older Adults
Aging with Gusto: Tuesdays, June 22, and 29; 1:30-3 pm. An interactive Zoom series of discussions to expand a positive view of aging and grow a capacity for living meaningful, satisfying lives in older years. Upcoming topics led by trained facilitators and current research: What contributes to your aging with gusto? How can you recognize […]
Find out more »Structure + Connection at Kolman & Pryor Gallery
Practicing within the same natural medium, encaustic or beeswax, with a visual language inspired by nature’s forms, gallery artist, Jodi Reeb, and guest artist, Dietlind Vander Schaaf of Portland, Maine, depart from each other and the traditions of encaustic painting in new work presented in Structure + Connection at Kolman & Pryor Gallery.
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Find out more »AmeriCorps seeks reading and math tutors
AmeriCorps is seeking 121Reading Corps and 16 Math Corps tutors in Minneapolis for the 2021-22 school year.
Find out more »Northeast Calendar call for art
The call for art is open for the 2022 Northeast Calendar, coordinated by the Northeast CDC d/b/a Minneapolis Arts District. Images are sought that represent Northeast in various ways and seasons. The deadline is Sunday, Sept. 12. All art mediums are welcome, submitted through print-ready digital images. Artists/photographers are invited to include brief background on […]
Find out more »Dining hosts and escorts at Eldercare
Catholic Eldercare seeks volunteers for dining hosts and dining escorts on Saturdays and Sundays at 10 a.m. Residents can use your help serving beverages or bringing them to/from their rooms. Call or email Diane Lucas, Director of Marketing & Communications, if interested: 612-362-2492, dlucas@catholiceldercare.org.
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Community Adopt-a-Drain Challenge
Andover, Blaine, Columbia Heights, and Fridley are competing to see who can get the most drain adoptions and cleanings from now to Oct 31. Help the City of Columbia Heights win by adopting a drain today at www.adopt-a-drain.org. If you adopt a drain, make sure to give it an awesome name; the best drain name […]
Find out more »St. Anthony Falls Lock & Dam Tours
The Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam opens to the public for the 2021 summer season on Memorial Day Weekend. The lock wall will be open Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am-5:30 pm, from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. Last entry will be at 5:15 pm. Free ranger-led tours of the lock and dam are […]
Find out more »lately ii at CIRCA Gallery
CIRCA Gallery debuts lately ii, the second of CIRCA’s bi-annual group shows featuring work from their roster of artists. The online show is featured until August 25 at circagallery.org. The gallery recommends viewing the show on a large screen such as a computer or tablet for optimal viewing. lately ii includes new and otherwise contemporary […]
Find out more »Northeast Library events
Northeast Library, 2200 Central Ave. N.E., Minneapolis, 612-543-6775 / www.hclib.org/northeast. For online programs, www.hclib.org Afternoon Snack Program: Northeast Library will have daily snacks available for youth ages 18 and under, every Tuesday-Saturday 2-3 pm. HelpNow: Free online tutoring for all ages. Get help from a tutor in English or Spanish. Online every day from 1-11 […]
Find out more »Immersive Van Gogh
"Immersive Van Gogh" takes the Dutch artist's paintings and projects them on the floors, walls, and ceilings at Lighthouse Minneapolis, 1515 Central Avenue NE. Exhibit visitors will be immersed in 60,600 frames of video, 90,000,000 pixels, and 500,000+ cubic feet of projections, and curated selections from Van Gogh's 2000+ lifetime catalog of masterpieces. Designed and […]
Find out more »Help build Logan Performance Pavilion
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, Logan Park Neighborhood Association and local non-profit Spark-Y are partnering in a project to create a new timber frame shelter at the north side of Logan Park, 690 13th Ave. NE, next to the recreation center patio. You can help build the shelter and learn about this fascinating style […]
Find out more »Columbia Heights Library Events
For more information, contact Brianna Belanger, Youth Services Librarian, 763-706-3683, bbelanger@columbiaheightsmn.gov Family Storytime: Mondays, Sept. 20-Nov. 20, 10:30-11 am. Share books, songs, and rhymes with your children at this storytime designed to promote school readiness in 2- to 5-year-olds. Librarians, caregivers, and children will sing, talk, read, write and play together to build early literacy […]
Find out more »Hold Your Hand Out in the Dark
Dreamsong, a new contemporary art gallery at 1237 4th St NE, presents "Hold Your Hand Out in the Dark," works by Lee Noble, through Oct. 2; opening reception Aug. 19, 5-8 pm. Littered with masked intruders, retrospectively poetic B-movie titles, and eerily magnified CCTV footage, transitory figures appear in Lee Noble’s paintings like missing person […]
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St. Anthony Falls Lock & Dam Tours
The Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam opens to the public for the 2021 summer season on Memorial Day Weekend. The lock wall will be open Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am-5:30 pm, from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. Last entry will be at 5:15 pm. Free ranger-led tours of the lock and dam are […]
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Closing the loop with plate to garden compost
The Columbia Heights High School Key Club is hosting their annual compost fundraiser, called Plate to Garden, during gardening season at the Columbia Heights Recycling Center, Saturdays from 9 am to 1 pm. Plate to Garden is a program developed by the Minnesota Composting Council (MNCC), “to complete the loop of growing food, eating food, […]
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Ss. Cyril and Methodius Church Festival
Church Festival at Ss. Cyril & Methodius, 1325 2nd St. NE, Saturday, Aug. 21, 10 am-9 pm. Food, fun and games including soccer and volleyball tournaments, Ecuadorian food, kids games, beer wagon, ice cream, and much more. Raffle with $1,400 in prize money; drawing at 5 pm.
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Ard Godfrey House Open for Summer Tours June – August
The historic Ard Godfrey House at Chute Square Park, 28 University Avenue Southeast at the corner of Central and University Avenues SE is now open weekends, Saturday and Sunday, from 1 to 4 pm, in June, July and August for tours led by guides dressed in period costume. Tours are FREE; no reservations are necessary. […]
Find out more »Help build Logan Performance Pavilion
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, Logan Park Neighborhood Association and local non-profit Spark-Y are partnering in a project to create a new timber frame shelter at the north side of Logan Park, 690 13th Ave. NE, next to the recreation center patio. You can help build the shelter and learn about this fascinating style […]
Find out more »CHPD Eat & Greet rescheduled
Columbia Heights Police Department has rescheduled its Eat & Greet for Saturday, Aug. 21, 1-4 pm, at McKenna Park, 4757 7th St. NE. Meet officers from the Police Department, and members of the Fire Department. Other city departments including Recreation will also be on hand, and Anoka County will be there with information about their […]
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Keller reading at Eat My Words
Martin Keller will do a reading and Q&A with participants at Eat My Words Bookstore, 214 13th Ave NE, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2 pm, with interlocutor TD Mischke, former writer, radio broadcaster and current podcaster who hosts the Mischke Roadshow. Keller will read from his book, "The Space Pen Club: Close Encounters of the 5th Kind, […]
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