Last week I stopped by the Contented Cow to hear the Blue Grass & Old Time Jam session that happens there every Tuesday night at around 7:30 PM. That night, there were many local musicians and a few drop-ins from out-of-town so I took a few photos and captured a 1-minute video. (continued)
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I had the table across from Bill Woehrlin yesterday at the Red Cross two-day blood drive at the Northfield Ballroom. Bill quit his history gig at Carleton a long time ago and is now known for his Cannon Valley Elder Collegium courses. (continued)
The Red Cross has two-day blood drive in Northfield this week at the Northfield Ballroom, 1055 Hwy 3 North (formerly American Legion Ballroom) from 1-7 PM each day. You can do a double red cell donation either day, too.
Robbie and I paid a visit to Regi Haslett-Marroquin’s Finca Mirasol farm north of Northfield last Saturday to buy some of their frozen free-range chickens. Or ‘solar chickens’ as Regi likes to say.
Want chickens? Contact Regi at the Rural Enterprise Center where he’s Executive Director. They have more in the freezer and want to expand their Northfield area customer base in 2009.
I asked Regi to email me a little background on the operation.
He wasn’t named in the layoffs article in the Northfield News last week, News eliminates two supervisor positions, but Tim Freeland was their Advertising Manager. I got this email from Tim today:
Subject: Good news. I’ve accept a job as VP of Sales Operations at KYMN radio
Dear Friends and Family!
LoGro regular and former City Councillor David Koenig recently launched a Northfield group on the business networking site, LinkedIn. I’m interested in seeing how people use various websites and technologies…
For Xmas, I sent one of my sons the book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. I’d seen Beah on The Daily Show a while ago so when I saw the book at Monkey See Monkey Reads while doing my xmas shopping on xmas eve eve, I bought it.
I had already read Bonnie Obremski’s RepJ article a month earlier (Nationwide project soliciting participation from Northfield youth) describing War Kids Relief, a project being run by Northfield/Dennison-based Children’s Culture Connection (CCC). And I’d seen all the photos of the Iraqi kids on the walls of the Hideaway Coffeehouse and Winebar.
Here’s a Northfield-based business that I didn’t know about until I saw it on the cover of today’s Variety section in the Strib in an article titled Let the de-mess fest begin!
Nancy Aspaas (on the left in the photo of the paper) is professional organizer who has a business called Just Call RoomService.
I surprised Mayor Mary Rossing in her store Present Perfect this morning with my video camera. I mostly asked her questions that had to do with Monday night’s City Council meeting, which you can read a bit about here. We touched upon her changes in meeting procedure, her tactics on facilitating meetings and her outlook on information exchange in Northfield and on the financial health of the city’s businesses.