Lyndale Neighborhood Association

I’m excited for my first Open House at Lyndale! We’re gearing up for a fun time on Friday, March 22nd from 6:00-8:30 at the Lyndale Community School. This year’s theme will be Intersections. We’ll be thinking of all the ways our multi-cultural community connects. We’re thinking of places we run into each other—on street corners, out for dinner at Pat’s Tap, shopping Victoria’s and the Family Dollar, and at Painter Park. We’re thinking of the food we can share across cultures. In spite all of our differences, our theme this year is about what we have in common and the way we connect.

Many of us in this neighborhood who have lived here since the mid 1990’s recognize Laura Johansson as the bright, calm, forward thinking and fluent-in-Spanish community leader of the Lyndale Neighborhood Association. She helped start a Latino women’s group, and a Somali group. Several years later, Laura made more than a professional commitment to this neighborhood when she and her husband Dan Prince bought a house and began raising their family right across from Painter Park.