Three youth board members from the Northfield Union of Youth joined us yesterday to discuss the organization on its 15th anniversary. L to R in the photo with me and Jesse James: Maisie, Hattie, and Ruth. They’ll be at tonight’s open house at The Key. See my blog post from earlier this week on the event. There are over two dozen comments attached to it, many by young people talking about what the organization has meant to them. (continued)
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In a ceremony at the Archer House this morning, the Northfield Area Foundation (NAF) distributed checks totaling $25,680 to ten different Northfield area organizations. See my NAF blog post (they’re a client) for the list of projects receiving grants. (continued)
In this week’s NY Times: Coffee Linked to Lower Dementia Risk – “A 21-year study finds that moderate coffee drinkers are much less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.” A group of Northfield elders has formed a dementia prevention support group and they’ve begun to meet 6am daily at the GBM. Members are asked to turn off their iPods and place them on the table (continued)
[This is a sample advertorial blog post, an edited version of an actual blog post from late Dec. See the advertising discussion here on LG for more.]
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Just Food Co-op (AKA the Northfield Community Co-op) is in the middle of a campaign for new members, as you can see from these store photos (click thumbnails to enlarge) I took recently of the new member-o-meter (currently at 40, aiming for 50), and the ownership banner.
My wife Robbie and I have been members since they opened and we probably shop there 2-3 times a week. For years after we moved to town in the mid-70s, we watched various attempts to create a Northfield food coop flounder so we were thrilled when a group of locals got organized and pulled it off. (See the Just Food Co-op Grand Opening Dec. 2004 photo album.)
Although we don’t yet spend 100% of our food dollars there (see Co-op Owner and General Manager Melanie Reid’s letter below), we keep increasing it as we try to become better frugalistas (Nov. 24 blog post).
The LG Triumvirate often has staff meetings there in the aisles, which has occasionally led to tomato fights like this one (right) between Ross and Tracy in 2006. Rollie Jacobsen failed miserably to mediate the dispute.
Keep reading for an excerpt from the Dec/Jan issue of The Compost (PDF) in which General Manager Melanie Reid has an article titled Invest in Something You Can Feel Good About: A call to action from your General Manager.
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)
Our revamp has prompted me to go back and edit my faux news posts since I started doing them in October, 2006, fixing the category assigned to each. So now if you want too see them all (a couple dozen or so), just click the Faux news category wherever it appears (top banner, sidebar, blog post footer). (continued)
NCO/Northfield.org held their annual meeting last night at The Grand Event Center and featured a panel of local medial moguls.
See Tracy’s post from earlier this week, the album of 14 photos, or this slideshow: (continued)
I had no idea this was in the works until I saw the headline in today’s NY Times: Secretary of State Clinton Arrives at Foggy Bottom. You can see FB…
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