MPR’s Paul Huttner blogged that we hit a record high of 64 degrees today. It sure brought people outside in downtown Northfield. Don’t put away the long underwear just yet,…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
I drove past Northfield’s Municipal Liquor Store this morning and notice that their window display has snowmen, Xmas trees, presents under the trees, and snowflake wallpaper. I’m guessing that in…
Peter Seebach and my wife both alerted me to a massive ice jam on the Cannon River today. It apparently extended from the 5th St. bridge back to the Hwy 3 bridge by Babcock Park. But by the time I got there at 5 pm 
to take a photo, it had broken up and mostly cleared.
Fortunately, Carlson Capital Management’s Tim Jackson (who also has his own web design company, Computer Titan) captured the breakup with a photo and some video.
Despite the efforts of one of her bodyguards, I 
managed to get a photo this week of the 2010 St. Patrick’s Day Celebration grand marshal, Emily Monaghan.
The screenshot on the right is from the ad in the March Northfield Entertainment Guide.
See this 20-second video of the Folding Chair Precision Marching Unit from the 2007 parage which included Northfield City Councilors Jim Pokorney and Noah Cashman. I’m not sure if this will be in this year’s parade:
I noticed a ‘Riverwalk Market Fair’ sign on the door of Dean Kjerland’s Art On Water Gallery on Water Street, now home to the Riverwalk Arts Quarter (RAQ). A Google…
Gail Moll and Ed Kuhlman stopped by my corner office at the 
GBM this week.
They each had flyers about the Sarah Henson benefit concert on Friday night at the Grand Event Center. Sarah, mother of 4 teens, has a grade four glioblastoma brain tumor.
Back in Nov. 2008, friends, family and the Northfield community held a big ‘house party’ for Sarah and enough money was raised to help pay her mortgage for a year. See the blog post with photo albums from the fundraiser. The photo on the left, with Sarah at the center doing a ‘thumbs up’,’ was from that event.
Sandy Vesledahl and Kathy Jasnoch met me at 
my morning GBM office early one morning last week to tell me about the American Cancer Society Relay for Life pancake breakfast fundraiser they’re hosting on Sunday morning, March 14, at the Eagles Club. (The actual relay, 2010 Relay For Life of Rice County, will be held on August 6, 2010 at the Rice County Fairgrounds.)
They each have their own Relay for Life web page with their personal fundraising goals where they explain their personal reasons for why they Relay:
Our guest this week, Steve Engler, currently Vice President of the City of Northfield Economic Development Authority (EDA).
The conversation primarily dealt with the recent debate on the EDA about the role of the Economic Development Director, Jody Gunderson.
I’ve turned off comments here. Continue the discussion on the blog post titled EDA struggles with its by-laws, process, effectiveness, election of officers.
The ‘Save the Depot’ committee held a public meeting last Monday, March 1 at the NCRC. Members include Steve Edwins, Lynn Vincent, Rob Martin, Pat Allen, Chip DeMann, Alice Thomas and Clark Webster.
I’ve turned off comments on this blog post. Continue the discussion that’s attached to the Oct. 8 blog post titled Is Northfield’s train depot worth saving?
See the album of 12 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow: