After several weeks, Tracy, Ross and I were together in the KYMN studio today, sans guests. After our fluff segment, we turned to — what else — the ongoing meltdown…
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How ’bout some happy news? I’ve been away for a couple of weeks, and during my attempts to get “caught up” (whatever that means), I ran into the little tidbit…
All of us who have purchased a home, know that it is a lot of work, requires a lot of knowledge and more than anything it requires access to resources and good financial planning. Without these and other key considerations, many people end-up in foreclosures.
In recent months, as part of the Newcomer Project that we […]
I’ve been pondering for weeks about our fair city, and have decided that our new city motto must be “Cows, Colleges, Contentment…. and Consternation.” But that same consternation does not apply to the Northfield Schools, where I think things are humming along quite smoothly. No, we don’t have 250 high school kids on heroin.
Consternation about […]
The Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce held their annual fall pub crawl tonight. The crawl started at J. Grundy’s Rueb ‘n’ Stein, moved to The Tavern Lounge, and then ended…
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?
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…
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