There’s an article in Wednesday’s Nfld News titled Police upgrade emergency message system and an editorial today titled CodeRED should add weather alerts.
But a search of the City’s web site for the word ‘CodeRed’ brings up “Sorry, no data matching the query "codered " were found.”
It gets worse.
Northfield’s last big ball was the 2005 Sesquicentennial Governors Ball. Next week will rival it: NAG’s Beaux Arts Ball, part of Northfield Arts Guild’s 50th Anniversary season. I’ll be there with my sweetie, hopefully 1) not stepping on her dancing shoes; and 2) taking better photos than this one.
You can purchase tickets online here.
See the album of 147 Governors Ball photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
We got this via email yesterday from Doug Peterson, retired Northfield Public Schools guidance counselor.
Northfield held its Christmas Sharing program this week that involves a large number of residents. The idea of giving to others in the community started about 40 years ago when Mary Dyer-Bennet and friends collected used toys to be distributed by the Northfield Police Department. This year the expanded project served 363 families with 889 children.
Saturday, Dec. 12 is the annual Northfield Jingle Bell Run/Walk, sponsored by Carlson Capital Management, 5th Bridge, and the American Center for Philanthropy. The HealthFinders Collaborative is this year’s charitable recipient.
See my photo albums from 2005, 06, 07:
Tiger Woods has not only been a godsend to late-night comedians and cartoonists recently. Someecards has two e-greeting cards that are proving popular.
Since I’m a father, a former family therapist, and now a minister, I’ve been trying to imagine…
Andrea Een alerted me (again!) to Tuesday’s Norsk Julegudstjeneste (Norwegian Christmas Church Service) at St. Olaf’s Boe Memorial Chapel.
Strib columnist Kim Ode wondered this about holiday sweaters earlier this week:
How do you know whether your neighbor is wearing hers ironically — or sincerely? And how do you make sure people know that you’re wearing yours ironically?
Six more Norsk Julegudstjeneste photos:
According to blogger and meteorologist Paul Douglas, Northfield got 9.5 inches of snow yesterday, making downtown parking and walking, um, challenging. No problemo today, as crews worked all night to haul it all away. See Adam Gurno’s Winter storm round-up on Northfield.org for links to snow-related posts and photos around the Northfield blogosphere. Two more photos:
The issue of cookies seems to put a strain on my normally collaborative relationship with Gloria Powell, Museum Receptionist and Volunteer Coordinator at the Northfield Historical Society.
All year, there’s seemed to be considerably fewer Canada geese (AKA ‘sky carp’ or ‘flying rats’) in Ames Park than in previous years. Last week was no exception. The big flocks were landing south of the 5th St. bridge. Note the lack of goose poop on the walking trail in Ames Park.
