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Today, we hit 25 memberships: 8 businesses/organizations and 17 individuals/couples. Let’s call them the Founding Members! To celebrate our modest success, I’m turning off the ad banners for a while to give everyone a break. (They’ll be back!) Founding members include:
Tim Freeland at KYMN has blogged that schools are closing early. Kids love to climb trees so why not give them some rope, saws and clippers and have them trim your trees today? If they fall, the snow cover should protect them just fine. If they cut off a digit or two, no biggie, the Northfield Hospital has a great surgical team, plus it helps the local medical economy.
Since it’s the first week of the month, Friday’s memo also includes the monthly Boards & Commissions report. Additional items of note this week include:
You can find all the above on the memo page for the week. There will be a City Council meeting and work session on Tuesday, Feb. 9. You can view all upcoming City meetings on the City calendar.
As you can see from their Valentine’s Day poster, girls are encouraged to dress up in sleazewear (that links to my June 2008 blog post with 61 comments). Take a look at some of the photos posted to Synergy’s Facebook group. (Anyone with a Facebook account can view them.) The dancing often includes freak dancing (simulated sex acts), which schools nationwide have been trying to crack down on. The videos posted to Synergy’s Facebook group show the dance. Should parents be worried? Or is this a way for teens to safely release sexual urges on the dance floor instead of elsewhere?
But I can’t seem to find it on the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce site nor on their Convention and Visitors Bureau’s Visiting Northfield web site. It’s not linked to or mentioned on the City of Northfield’s visitor page and I couldn’t find it on the Northfield.org or NDDC blogs either. I know, I know, the print version is the main thing and it’s distributed about town. But why not make it easy for Northfielders to email it, blog it, tweet it, and post to their Facebook Walls about it so that their non-Northfield friends and colleagues take a look at it? It costs virtually zero to do this. Plus, the thing is full of great photos, BTW. Heh. So allow me to do my part. Here’s the PDF version, courtesy of LoGroNo. Here’s the Flash version, courtesy of Hayes Scriven and the NHS. Go forth and multiply it, by which I do NOT mean what Brits mean when they say go forth and multiply. Looks like a great place for a romantic night under the stars. And with Valentine’s Day coming up… hmmm, this gives me a great idea. Cheap, too.
What kind of owl is it? (Hint: it doesn’t hoot.)
It features a roundtable discussion (“chatfest”) about “marriage, dating, romance and relationships in general” with some Northfield-area guys including Hans Olsen, Mike Miller, Adam Andreasen, Nathan Kuhlman, Ed Kuhlman, Drew Weis, James Schlicting, Jason Hoffman and Dan Freeman.
RCHS board member Kathy Jasnoch, pictured here with volunteer Sandy Vesledahl, commented here that over 400 people attended. Here are four more photos:
After a few twists and turns, it happened yesterday. Barbara wrote at the end of a blog post:
Barbara’s book is The Napkin, The Melon & The Monkey: How to Be Happy and Successful by Simply Changing Your Mind. Hay House’s (publisher) Heal Your Life website has a blog post on the book here. The Hay House page for the book says this about her:
Do you have questions for her that you’d like us to consider asking? (Note the word consider, please.) If so, attach a comment here or use our Contact Us form. Update: 2/2, 7:25 am: Ross wasn’t able to attend. And the live show went for a full hour. Yikes! Click play to listen. 60 minutes:
You can also download the MP3 or subscribe to the podcast feed, or subscribe directly with iTunes. Our radio show/podcast, Locally Grown, usually airs Mondays at 6:00 PM and Sundays at 10 AM on KYMN 1080 AM.
The Feb. 2010 issue of the Northfield Entertainment Guide (PDF) includes the results and is now available throughout Northfield, and in Flash format on the NEG site. Rob writes in the intro to the Best of 2009 section:
NO CITY COUNCIL MEETING next Tuesday, Feb. 2: It’s caucus night! (You can find info about your precinct caucuses on the MN Secretary of State website.) You can view all upcoming City meetings on the City calendar.
For reference, see the 2009 Council Vision and Goals and 2009 Council Goals and Initiatives. See the photo album of the meeting (mostly photos of Council-generated content posted on the walls), the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
We’re now following 80+ Northfield-area people and organizations who are using Twitter. If you don’t see our LoGroNfld Twitter account among your followers, follow us and we’ll likely follow you. Or let us know that you’d like us to follow you by attaching a comment here or by using our Contact Us form.
For the CO2 races, each student shapes a block of wood into a car body shape, drilling holes for the axles and the CO2 cartridge. Considerable sanding, sealing, and painting in involved. Students attach two eyehooks to the bottom of each car so that a string can be used as a guide to keep them on the track. On the day of the race, student cars are paired up to race against each other but the key metric is the elapsed time for each car. Mr. Biegert inserts the CO2 cartridges and a student triggers a mechanism that punctures the seal on the cartridges and sends them down the track at 20-50 MPH, taking about a second to finish. Finishing times are automatically recorded to a computer and displayed on the screen, with rankings likewise updated after each race. It was quite an exciting event to watch and clearly exciting for the students. Here are 6 more photos and a 10-second video clip of Chad’s race.
It didn’t work.
Let’s critique the speech and his first year in office.
Update: 01/27, 6:50 am: 15-page PDF: Written Agreement by and among NORTHFIELD BANCSHARES, INC. Northfield, Minnesota COMMUNITY RESOURCE BANK Northfield, Minnesota and FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS Minneapolis, Minnesota
Click play to listen. 30 minutes:
You can also download the MP3 or subscribe to the podcast feed, or subscribe directly with iTunes. Our radio show/podcast, Locally Grown, usually airs Mondays at 6:00 PM and Sundays at 10 AM on KYMN 1080 AM.
See these PDFs: 2009 Council Vision and Goals and 2009 Council Goals and Initiatives. Also, see the Jan. 5 Northfield News guest column, Mary Rossing: How do we measure the city’s success?
A search of the phrase “Highland Group” on the City’s website only comes up with the disbursements to the company in October and in December. I can’t find anything that indicates there’s been Council discussion of this. I checked with Jim Gleason, new president of the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce/Convention and Visitors Bureau, who indicated that he wasn’t aware of the market study being done. I’m not ready to argue that conducting a study is a bad idea. I’m questioning the process. It seems like the Council should be involved in a public discussion about an expenditure like this, especially one that’s likely to ruffle the feathers of local business owners. According to the Nfld News, City Administrator Joel Walinski said study was done to facilitate the conversation among local developers and hotel owners. Seems backwards to me. Last night’s NDDC 10th anniversary/Partnership Celebration at The Grand was a huge hit. See the album of 80 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
I very much appreciated 1) a personal invitation to the party from Board Chair Nate White; and 2) Jessica Peterson White (the "Quiz Mistress") including this question in the trivia contest: “What local web site referred the most traffic to Northfield.org during 2009?” See Jane’s blog post for links to her photo album/slideshow.
We’re aggregating her blog’s RSS feed to our lower right sidebar.
Friday’s memo can be found on the memo page for the week. There are some interesting tidbits this week, like the fact that the City needs to spend down the monies available for streetscape enhancements (we have some good people working on recommendations ), and information about the new Cooperative Facilities Bonding Bill being introduced at this year’s MN legislative session; if passed, the bill could provide a significant incentive for regional cooperation, and be a source of funding for facilities. The City Council is having a “goals meeting” in the board room of the Northfield Hospital on Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 5:00pm. At the time of this writing there is no further information available about the meeting. You can view all upcoming City meetings on the City calendar.
I saw Northfielder Ryan Heinritz working out at the Northfield Athletic Club last night and he had some news: he’d just been selected to be the new Executive Director of the Paradise Center for the Arts in Faribault. I guess they liked the fact that, under pressure, he could eat a lot of goldfish crackers and whistle in a relatively short period of time. See the story in the Thursday edition of the Faribault Daily News.
I’ll be there with my sweetie, taking photos. It’s open to the public, no cover, free d’oeuvres, lots of live music, and a helluva raffle. Update 2 PM: Here’s the flyer on the raffle
For more details, see Ross’ blog post, or this email from Jessica Paxton:
Click play to listen. 30 minutes:
As an atheist, it makes no sense to me, of course, and I last blogged about God’s role in natural disasters back in 2007. But for those of you who do believe in God and who might quickly dismiss John’s assertions, consider how often you pray or participate in prayers that ask God to intercede in some way in your physical world or the physical world of others.
It’s Northfield’s Carnegie Library that’ll be hitting the century mark this year. On Monday, Margit stopped by my corner office at GBM to show me the planning document for the centennial celebration. See her guest column in today’s Nfld News, Library building celebrates 100 years in 2010.
See the album of 18 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
The text of the law itself is found in Minn. Stat. §13D.01. However, as often happens, what people think the law says may not be the way the OML has been interpreted by the Minnesota courts, and court interpretations form precedent that is used in applying the law to other cases. People should be cautioned against making declarative statements about whether the OML was violated in a particular situation based only on their own reading of the law. |
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