Exactly one year ago, I blogged about the city’s new Parking Quality Control Commission. The players: Has the Commission been effective? If not, what needs to be done?
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Additional awards were giving out at last week’s Adult Spelling Bee fundraiser. Click photos to enlarge. Left: Best-dressed losers, L to R – the NDDC team of Jerry Bilek, Tom…
The recent rains have made parts of the Lower Arb impassible. I took the photo on the left of the footbridge near Lyman Lakes on Hwy 19 last Thursday afternoon.…
Northfield News reporter Suzi Rook’s interview with Northfield Police Chief Gary Smith is in today’s paper in a piece titled Off the radar: Police Chief Gary Smith talks about the…
In today’s Northfield News, an article by Andrea Nelson titled Unhappy citizens walk out of Hwy 19 meeting; Officials answer questions on overlay, but not widening. “Vague” is how one…
Northfield Mayor Lee Lansing was the guest this week, mano a mano with Ross Currier, as both Tracy and I were out of town. I’ve not listened to it yet,…
I was walking in the upper Arb this afternoon, taking in the spectacular fall colors, when I luckily stumbled upon EQC co-chair Suzie Nakasian, her daughter, and Juliane Shibata, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Carleton, lending a hand to Minneapolis artist Jim Proctor who was beginning installation of his Buckthorn Menace art project.
Suzie twisted my arm, took away my camera, and made me help Jim. See the album or this slideshow, followed by the email I got from Suzie upon returning home with details on the need for volunteers tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday at both Carleton and St. Olaf locations. The project is a bit behind schedule because of the recent rains limiting the number of volunteers.
Dear Griff:
It was fun to meet you out on the buckthorn fields this afternoon! This is our last week of the project – any help you can provide (on the blog site or radio program or other) to encourage folks to come out to volunteer would be greatly appreciated. The work really is fun – most people who come out end up staying on longer than they intended…even when its pouring rain!
I have taken the liberty of writing up a draft of a blurb (below) that you are welcome to tweek and edit to fit your blog. It includes links to the project web sites and a link to the KSPT-TV news coverage of this project earlier this week.
Thanks again for your interest in this project!
Sincerely,
Suzie Nakasian, Co-Chair
Friends of the Library celebrated their 25th anniversary and held their second annual Adult Spelling Bee fundraiser tonight at The Grand. And once again, the St. Olaf team won, this…
I was the trainer last night for a community blogging class in New York Mills, MN, home of the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center and the Great American Think-Off.…