Where can I get name tags like this one in Northfield?
I want to have them for attendees at the upcoming banquet commemorating last fall’s Save the Penis campaign at Carleton.
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Steve was cited for violating several provisions of the new EDA dress code including (see enlarged photos with red arrows): Left photo: Section 2b “pants no lower than 1 inch below waistline”; Section 4d “no wallet marks on back jean pockets” Right photo: Section 7d “no writing utensils and papers in front shirt pockets”; Section 9f “belt buckles must be 50% or more smaller than Chip DeMann’s belt buckle.
It would connect the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce to downtown Northfield near Bridge Square. “We think this is a perfect example of our firm’s ability to ‘think outside the bridge’ said consultant Kris Chroamdoam. "Not only would this solve the problem of connecting both sides of Northfield for pedestrians, it could be a huge tourist attraction.” Councilor Jim Pokorney, the only member of the Council to vote against the $50,000 study (officially called the Hwy 3 & 19 Multimodal Transportation Study) could not be reached for comment as he reportedly was on his way to visit the Aerial Tram in Portland Oregon.
Northfield’s Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) launched a tourism campaign earlier today, hoping that its similarly catchy 8-syllable phrase will convey to out-of-towners that the Carleton Arb in summer is the perfect place for a little sex alfresco, with plenty of nearby restaurants and pubs in downtown Northfield to enhance one’s visit before and aft. “Since the media is going crazy over this development right now, I thought we’d strike while our irons are hot,” said CVB Executive Director Red Ruffensor who created the campaign.
Left: Yesterday afternoon NHS Executive Director and blogger Hayes Scriven messaged me a photo of the new ‘no biking’ stencils painted on sidewalks all over downtown this week. Center: Queen of the Triumvirate Tracy Davis tweeted the photo of the stencil on the sidewalk in front of Rare Pair. Right: I was riding my bike around downtown this morning taking photos for a blog post about all this when I got busted for, um, riding my bike on the sidewalk. Unlike last month’s citation, I didn’t swear. See Ross, I’m learning.
Competition is good. Welcome to the neighborhood, boys.
Click play to listen. 30 minutes. You can also download the MP3 or subscribe to the podcast feed, or subscribe directly with iTunes. Continue reading Podcast: Northfield News publisher Stan Getts On Monday, the Strib reported that Some Minnesota counties struggle with empty jails.
With the RIAA’s successful 2007 prosecution of Jammie Thomas, a 30-year-old woman from Brainerd, and the rapid increase in broadband penetration throughout the county, Weers thinks “this situation is a major O in our SWOT analysis for keeping the jail full. Northfield’s college population in particular is low-hanging fruit.” Also of particular interest to county officials is the RIAA’s effort to stem the increase in people who publicly whistle or hum copyrighted songs without permission. “It’s fine to engage in these activities in the privacy of one’s home,” said Commissioner Gabe Malkovich. “But people have to realize that musicians are artists who need to be paid for the use of their work. Publicly using music without paying for it has to be stopped.” Continue reading Plan to keep Rice County jail full proposed
While driving Interstate 494 near Bush Lake Road in Edina yesterday, I noticed that someone hacked the MNDOT sign near Bush Lake Road and inserted a message with a Northfield slant. Could it have been those guys at Monster Games in cahoots with Ross?
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You can see FB proprietor David Hvistendahl in the background (red arrow) of this crowd shot from earlier this morning.
But there’s an upside. “Hospitals are hurting right along with most other businesses in this recession,” said Northfield Hospital spokesman Scotch Richmondson. “But our ER revenue has been 20% ahead of last year thus far this winter and most of that is due to sledding injuries on the local hills that got iced up a couple weeks ago. It’s been a real godsend for both us and our Orthopaedic & Fracture Clinic. Icy sidewalks are our bread and butter, of course, but Northfield just doesn’t have enough sidewalks to make it lucrative for us.” Some local attorneys were looking to capitalize on the trend. St. Olaf quickly put up a warning sign on the Old Main hill that reads, “Persons engaged in sliding, sledding, or other hazardous activity, do so at their own risk.” Dave Hviscerate, an attorney with the local law firm of Ludefisk, Hustler, and Hviscerate LLC, said (continued) Continue reading Northfield’s medical economy gets a boost. Will law firms be next?
“The trends over the past 18 months in Northfield are unmistakable,” said Amanda B. Reckonwith, lead consultant from Reckonwith & Associates LLC. “The number of lawsuits per capita now put the city at or near the top of cities under 25,000 in population.” Milford Pliasence, District 3 commissioner and an outspoken proponent of the plan, said he’d hoped that the recent election of four new members of the City Council would have precluded going ahead with the plan. “But we’ve looked at the psychological makeup of the incoming City Council members and it’s pretty clear that, despite a desire to reform, the women councilors-to-be have ‘issues.’ Put that together with an episode or two of synchronized PMS’ing and it’s a recipe for disaster. The courthouse in Faribault is just not equipped to handle the likely flood of lawsuits.” Roscoe Curry, VP of Public Relations for the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce, expressed delight when he heard of the plan’s approval. “Downtown’s stool has three legs: the liquor store, the library, and the post office. If we lose the liquor store, our stool faces elimination. I’ve been pushing and straining for this courthouse plan for over a year, since the idea first emerged. So it gives me great pleasure to be able to release all that I’ve been holding inside and say, ‘Phew!’” The City of Northfield is rumored to once again receive a ‘Friend of the Bar’ award from MSBA like it did in 2007.
“We’ve gotten to third base several times with this company over the past few month,” said EDA member Vicki Summo. “With the Greenvale Township property annexation all but complete, we were finally able to score.” Roscoe Curry, VP of Public Relations for the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce, expressed excitement as word of the announcement traveled through cyberspace today. “These are exactly the kind of metal-benders we were hoping to attract. And the fact that the company stiffed Faribault in favor of us… well, I’m just happier than a puppy with two peters.”
He also announced that the company would be donating a bronze sculpture for placement on Northfield’s downtown River Walk, part of the new Arts Quarter. “It’ll be similar to the sculpture we placed here in a park near our Chicago headquarters. Having Mr. Happy standing at attention 24×7 is a constant reminder of what inspires all of us.”
A Kwik Kondom franchise (using the tag line ‘kows, kolleges, kondoms, kontentment’) has opened near the intersection of Hwy 3 and Heritage Drive, joining the nearby Kwik Kopy shop and Kwik Trip gas station/convenience store in the ‘kwik’ category of local retailers.
Yesterday morning, they brought in the heavy equipment. “We decided we needed an edge,” said club president Trudy Coade. “A monster flower garden, installed at the last minute, should be impressive to the judges.” When informed of this development, Spence Jonas, a member of the City of Northfield Park & Recreation Advisory Board (PRAB), was not pleased. “Bridge Square is a city park, so this should have gone through the PRAB for approval. Downtown residents, especially those living on Bridge Square, should also have been consulted.” Bardwell deMalicenon, downtown resident and building owner, agreed. “More flower gardens tend to attract more citizens who just loiter more in what is essentially my front yard. The city should be enforcing its loitering ordinance, not allowing fringe groups like the Garden Club to undermine it.” Coade also wanted to convert the Council chambers to a flower garden hothouse but “the CIP Nazis wouldn’t let us get on their list at this late date.”
Residents who got the rocks on their plates instead of the cookies saw through the scheme, however. “I’m used to eating cookies that taste like crap,” said Lynn Seebeck. “My children and grandchildren bring me their month-old cast-off cookies all the time. But these were over-the-top bad. Who do they take us for?” See the album of a baker’s dozen photos or this slideshow:
You can compare this new drive-up look to the old look by looking at our Sept. 7, 2007 blog post when the Northfield Historical Society (NHS) filed a protest against the bank. The rift has been healed, I’m happy to report. An agreement was reached for the bank to keep the historically-valuable previous photo of the drive-up facility on the bank’s locations web page until Dave Shumway retires. I checked this afternoon and the bank is keeping its word thus far.
At last week’s meeting of the Park & Rec Advisory Board (PRAB), members approved the installation of a skatepark for senior citizens in Riverside Park. It’ll be installed at the site of the old skatepark. The blacktop has been resurfaced this week and the equipment has arrived, ready to install. Click the photos to enlarge. The new skate park is a partnership with Village on the Cannon (VOC), a senior condo development adjacent to Riverside Park. “We see this as a real amenity for the active seniors in our condos” said Collin Peters, President of Collegetown Development Group, developers of VOC. “Skateboarding is not just for youth anymore.” Rich Vlasic, Chair of PRAB, said that he and his fellow board members felt this was something that they could do without consulting the neighbors or the City Council since it involves no financial commitment on the part of the City. “Frankly, we’ve gotten tired of the never-ending process, process, process that’s the hallmark of Northfield. And we’re feeling more than a little burned by the Lashbrook Park archery fiasco. This was opportunity for us to make a quick decision and implement it within a week, Master Park Plan not withstanding. We think that’s an all-time record.” Members of the Northfield Skatepark Coalition were not unhappy with this news. “More power to those geezers,” said spokesperson Marnie Kingfisher. “The more skateboard facilities the better, as far as we’re concerned. We just hope they’ll let kids use their facility until ours is built.” Update 5/23: It’s actually a roller hockey rink. See Susan Hvistendahl’s comment attached.
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Could “Walking the Carleton College Arb” have the same euphemistic cachet as “Hiking the Appalachian Trail” and be a boost for local tourism? 
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