Category Archives: Summer Festival

August 6, 2015 eNews – Summer Festival

Monday, August 10
6:00-8:30pm
at Armatage Park

  • NEW “MPLS Tap” for FREE water, so bring your water bottles (or buy one of ours for $2)
  • Magic show and balloon animals
  • Learn more about
    • Experience SW (representing our neighborhood businesses)
    • Fair Skies (working on the issue of airport traffic and noise)
    • City of Mpls (organics program, recycling info, graffiti abatement and more)
    • FixIt Fun (Armatage Neighborhood home improvement and emergency loan program)
    • The neighborhood survey (see sidebar)
  • Prizes
    • 50+ great items available in our NEW raffle (raffle tickets $5/each or five for $20)
      • Dine local options from Cafe Maude, Prima, Freestyle Yogurt, Lake Harriety Pizza, Broder’s and more!
      • Massage and spa treatments from Unwind Within and Nokomis Massage & Wellness
      • Lots of caffeine from Starbucks, Morning Star Coffee and Peace Coffee
      • Shop local at Kowalski’s, Lake Harriet Florist, Tangletown Gardens, Paperback Exchange, Settergren’s and Wagner’s
      • Fun gift baskets from MN Honey Company
      • Get out and about to Wild Mountain, the Old Log Theater, MN Lynx and St. Paul Saints
      • and more!
    • Special silent auction items
      • $100 to Hidden Health Chiropractic
      • 12 Beginner sessions at Tangletown Crossfit ($100 value)
      • Children’s book series from Bellwether
      • $250 gift card to R.F. Moeller Jeweler
      • Over $500 value from the Mathnasium including 1-month of tutoring and a bag of games and activities
      • Bowling party at Park Tavern ($520 value)
  • NEW all-inclusive wristbands ($7/each): bounce house, giant slide, face painting, carnival games and special preschool options
  • NEW carnival games including Plinko (sponsored by Experience SW), football toss, putting green and Feed the Elephant.

  • Live music by the Melvilles

  • Food TRUCKS: including Red Wagon Pizza, Tommy Veez Fish & Chicken, Kona Ice and Sweet Dreams Candy (cash only)
  • Skate park activities with


Please sign up to help at the Armatage Summer Festival 2015!

We only need a few more people to help out!
Please consider helping for 1/2 hr – 1 hr selling tickets or helping run a game.

Here’s how it works in 3 easy steps:

  1. Click this link to go to our invitation page on VolunteerSpot: http://vols.pt/7vMtPM
  2. Enter your email address: (You will NOT need to register an account on VolunteerSpot)
  3. Sign up! Choose your spots – VolunteerSpot will send you an automated confirmation and reminders. Easy!
    (Consider signing up for an hour-long shift instead of just 30 minutes. Each volunteer will receive a free raffle ticket for each shift they work!)

Note: VolunteerSpot does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually.

July 15, 2015 eNews – Meeting Highlights, Summer Festival

Meeting highlights

A few items from last night’s meeting that may be of interest:

  • We have seen yet another increase in airplane traffic, and with that comes an increase in noise complaints. Noise complaints are best sent directly to the airport commission online or you can call the hotline at 612-726-9411.
  • The fall parks brochure is available online and registration begins July 29 at noon online. SWAFA youth football has expanded their flag football program to include grades 1 through 5 and you must register online. In-person registration will be available during our Summer Festival for ACC/KPAC fall sports: soccer and volleyball. Other in-person dates include Tuesdays, July 21 and 28 at Kenny Park and Thursdays, July 23 and 30 at Armatage Park.
  • The Minneapolis Park and & Recreation Board (MPRB) is undergoing what may be the most comprehensive planning effort in its 130 year history. Minneapolis residents are encouraged to get involved and help the MPRB with three distinct, yet deeply intertwined projects: RecQuest, Service Area Master Plans, and Closing the Gap: Investing in our Neighborhood Parks. Learn more here.

    Tuesday, July 28 at Lynnhurst Rec Center (1345 W Minnehaha Pkwy), the public is invited to a meeting focused on Armatage, Kenny, Lynnhurst and Windom South Parks.

    To subscribe to receive emails from MPRB about one or more of the initiatives, visit www.minneapolisparks.org/subscribe, enter your email, then select the project(s) you are interested in under the “Planning” section.

Monday, August 10
6:00-8:30pm
at Armatage Park

  • Food TRUCKS: including Red Wagon Pizza, Tommy Veez Fish & Chicken, Kona Ice and Sweet Dreams Candy
  • NEW “MPLS Tap” for FREE water, so bring your water bottles (or buy one of ours for $2)
  • Magic show and balloon animals
  • Prize raffle (Raffle tickets $5/each or five for $20)
  • NEW all-inclusive wristbands ($7/each): bounce house, giant slide, face painting, carnival games and special preschool options
  • NEW carnival games including Plinko, football toss, putting green and Feed the Elephant.
  • Live music by the Melvilles
  • Skate park activities with

Please sign up to help at the Armatage Summer Festival 2015!

Here’s how it works in 3 easy steps:

  1. Click this link to go to our invitation page on VolunteerSpot: http://vols.pt/7vMtPM
  2. Enter your email address: (You will NOT need to register an account on VolunteerSpot)
  3. Sign up! Choose your spots – VolunteerSpot will send you an automated confirmation and reminders. Easy!
    (Consider signing up for an hour-long shift instead of just 30 minutes. Each volunteer will receive a free raffle ticket for each shift they work!)

Note: VolunteerSpot does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually.

August 6 & 11, 2014 Summer Festival

Please join us Monday August 11th from 6:00-8:00 at Armatage Park ( 57th and Penn Ave.) for our Summer Festival!

We will be accepting credit cards this year for tickets and our Silent Auction!
Food: hot dogs and vege burgers on the grill! Ice Cream from Sebastian Joe’s
New This Year:
Food Truck:

Fish and Chips basket
Walleye basket
Chicken Tenders basket
Chicken Wings
French Fries
Music: Stereo Confession
Games: The Hamster Balls are back! Bounce House and a new Basketball game
Magic show, Face Painting
A new craft marketplace
Collector Car Show

We are still looking for volunteers to help run games and sell tickets.  Please follow the link to sign up for a short 1/2 shift.  Thanks for your help!  See you Monday!

http://www.jooners.com/guest?l=f1fb9c9e-dc38-4266-b901-053a84d8e1cc

The Armatage Summer Festival is tonight!  6:00 – 8:00 at Armatage Park, 57th and Penn Ave S. 

We will have food, games, bounce house, hamster balls, collector car show, a “Buy Local” Marketplace, face painting, magic show, silent action and music!

New this year: We will be accepting credit cards for tickets and our Silent Auction!

Our band this year is Stereo Confession – one of the cities hottest new bands!

Our “Buy Local” Marketplace will feature: jewelry made with polymer clay, sterling silver and precious stones, paintings and photography, little gardens made from recycled materials, artwork featuring watercolor, wire and the word.

A food truck featuring walleye, fish and chicken.

There are lots of new things to check out as well as our neighborhood favorites – hot dogs and veggie burgers – on the grill, collector car show, and Silent Auction.

While the sky will clear this afternoon, this great neighborhood event will go.. rain or shine.  We will hold the event in the gym in case of rain.

See you tonight!