Seward Civic & Commerce Association

Annual Legislative Update

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 / 11:45:am 1:00pm
Seward Towers East / 2910 E Franklin Ave

Dont miss this opportunity to hear about the latest legislative session
from local politicians! State Senator Patricia Torres Ray; State
Representative Jim Davnie; City Council Member Gary Schiff, Ward 9; City
Council Member Cam Gordon, Ward 2; and Hennepin County Commissioner [...]

Seward Redesign and the Seward Neighborhood Group have established a memorial fund for the immediate family of the three individuals killed at the Seward Market on January 6, 2010.
You may contribute to the fund in the following ways:
1. Drop off donations in collection jars at local businesses.
2. Drop off donations at Redesign’s office (2619 E. [...]

Naveen Shrestha opened Himalayan Restaurant just over one year ago. At the restaurant he serves traditional Nepalese food with beer and wine. For those of you who are rusty on geography, Nepal sits atop the Himalayan mountain range between India and Tibet. The food is quite similar to what you would expect from an Indian [...]

Jenny Larson runs her own home-based graphic design business called Jennifer Larson Communications Design. She started her career, though, as an editor for a local Minnesota publishing firm that printed children’s books. Besides editing the content, her work also consisted of making decisions about where to put the text, the graphics and which graphics to [...]

Fast & Furless Vegan Emporium / Animal Rights Coalition
by Megan Sheridan
As many of you reading this may know, a business idea is almost exclusively born out of our own experience. The entrepreneurs among us are keen to noticing when our needs aren’t met or desires go unsatisfied. For Jon Novick, owner of Fast and Furless [...]

Seward Market is one of four general grocery stores along the Avenue specializing in products for East African cuisine. For five years, Seward Market has been providing meat, injera and general grocery items to the community. The store is constantly stocked with a diverse selection of inventory to meet everyone’s needs. And it seems that [...]

For the past 20 years, Linda Coffin has been working out of one Seward home or another. Her work as a graphic designer for publications, though, could not continue to sustain her interest. “After a while,” Linda said, “it all started to look the same; I got bored.” In 2004, her quest for something more [...]

World Endeavers is one of SCCA’s newest members.
World Endeavors is easy to miss.  They are located on East Franklin Ave. between 30th and 31st Avenues. Their discreet signage, however, does not do justice to what goes on behind the front doors.  The brain-child of local Seward resident Tom Peden, this business sends students and adults [...]

SCCA member Birchwood Cafe is participating in a compost pilot program along with four other Minneapolis restaurants.  They’re able to compost 90 percent of their kitchen waste.  Read more in the Daily Planet article.

Rick and Cindy Siewert’s Wood from the Hood company was recently highlighted on WCCO.  The company recycles local wood–from elms and other trees cut down in the City of Minneapolis–for building projects.  SCCA member Rick Siewert owns Siewert Cabinets in Seward. Click on the link below for the whole story.
http://wcco.com/business/waste.timber.recycling.2.891592.html