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Check out the Northfield News article about Anna Sheehan and Elizabeth Penny, Northfield skaters who have made great strides in their skating recently.  Thanks to Jeff Wald, Northfield News Sports Editor, for taking the time to meet with us and recognize their story.

Come one, come all to our end-of-season celebration for skaters, families, staff, and friends of the Northfield Skating School. Everyone is welcome to help us celebrate a great season from 7:00-8:00pm on Tues 3/23 at Emmaus, 712 Linden St Northfield. Guests are encouraged to bring a snack, dessert, or beverage to share.

Here’s a quick update on the work we’re currently doing in the office.

Whole House Remodel on a lake near New Prague: Planning to add bedrooms, remodel the great room, expand the deck, give the house a new exterior image, improve insulation levels for energy efficiency, enhance the heating system with radiant floors, and relocate the garage for a more pleasing approach sequence. This is a master plan to be built in phases in few years.

Kitchen Addition and Remodeling near Cannon Falls: Expand the dining room and kitchen to better suit the owners desires, provide a place for family activities (making music, building muscles, and preserving farm produce,) re-side the exterior, and provide better views.

Master Suite Remodeling in Northfield: Without changing the footprint, provide an upscale master suite with his and hers dressing rooms and an updated master bathroom. Construction completion will be in early April 2010.

Historic Home Interior Master Planning in Northfield: Provide a modern kitchen, improve traffic flow, and open up views within the home.

Energy Efficient Cottage near Lengby: Design a new cottage for a lakeside lot, focusing on keeping it small, functional, and full of character. Construction in fall 2010.

New Lake Home near New Prague: Four bedroom, three bath walk-out for an experienced builder planning a home for his family. Construction in fall 2010.

New Custom Residence near Rochester: one-level living for a newly retired couple with grandkids, featuring structural insulated panels and insulated concrete form foundations. Bids are in and construction will begin in mid- to late-April, when road restrictions are lifted.

This is fairly standard for our office, a variety of larger and smaller projects, all focused on the needs and goals of our clientele. Some nearing completion, others starting design. We find each project to be unique in its pace, requirements and resolution. The variety is delightful and stimulating.

We welcome your call to help you into your new space.

Our workers ‘fought through the fog’ this morning to attend to a window installation for a client. The window is a triple casement replacement. The old window appeared to be salvaged from an earlier job and was not doing a good job any longer. We replaced the window with a new Marvin unit with clad exterior. This window has high energy glazing and qualifies for the federal energy tax credit.

With spring arriving now is a great time to consider some exterior and energy improvements to your home or commercial property. Contact us for help evaluating your existing conditions and preparing a budget for improvements.

On the outskirts of a small town in Iowa, Sebastian Prendergast lives in a geodesic dome with his eccentric grandmother, who has

spent the last eleven years homeschooling him on the teachings of futurist philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller. But when Sebastian’s grandmother has a stroke, he is forced to leave the dome and discover what it means to live a normal life.

Jared Whitcomb is a chain-smoking sixteen-year-old heart transplant recipient who befriends Sebastian, and begins to teach him about all the things he has been missing out on, including girls, grilled cheese sandwiches with grape soda, and Sid Vicious. Together they form a punk band called The Rash, and with the help of Jared’s sister, Meredith, prepare to take the local church talent show by storm. But when Sebastian’s grandmother wants him to return to the dome and take Bucky’s message to the world, will Sebastian have to give up The Rash—and lose his chance at winning Meredith’s heart?

Unexpectedly poignant and richly comic, THE HOUSE OF TOMORROWis a novel about the power of music, the exquisite torture of first love, and the many places we call home.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter Bognanni is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was awarded a Teaching-Writing Fellowship for his work. He is a 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee, and his short story “The Body Eternal” was chosen by Stephen King as on of the “100 Most Distinguished Stories of 2006 in The Best American Short Stories (2007). Bognanni is currently a visiting instructor of creative writing at Macalaster College in Saint Paul. He once played in a terrible high school punk band

You can help restock the pantry at the Northfield Food Shelf with a donation during March at Just Food Co-op! Non-perishable food donations can be dropped off in our collection baskets in the entryway. We’ve also got some excellent products that you might like to donate on sale in the store.

If you’d rather give a cash donation, you can do so at the register- add $5, $10 or $20 to your bill and we’ll use it to purchase natural, gluten-free foods at cost to give to the food shelf.

Our Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign goal is 1,000 pounds and/or dollars. We can do it (but not without your help)!

The weather has cooperated and brought cycling season a little early this year.  We decided to bring in some bicycling accessories early as well.  We have lights from Portland Design Works and a few Knog frog sets.

We also have some socks from Save Our Souls as well as Kenda tubes, WTB water bottles, Click multi-tools, Carb Boom energy gels and chews,  Park patch kits, pumps, gloves, and locks from Planet Bike

This video shows off the PDW Radbot 1000.

RADBOT 1000 from PDW on Vimeo.

We will have Kona Africabikes soon.

Our workers completed the foundation for the small addition at All Flex in Northfield. It was good that the addition was not any larger, as we were able to work under the tarps and get the foundation completed in spite of some wet weather.

We have moved inside on the trenching project. All Flex uses all sorts of processing materials that they pipe from area to area. With installation of some new equipment they needed the existing concrete floor cut out and a concrete trench constructed. We’ve removed the floor and poured the base of the new trench and are ready to install the sides.

We had ServiceMaster at our East side Northfield new home project yesterday cleaning and polishing. They do a fine job making sure the home is in move in condition for the owners.

It really struck me how nice and light the home is. Even with cloudy skies and drizzle yesterday the house had a very warm feeling. Some areas, such as the staircase, are flooded with light creating an interplay of shadows and designs on the balusters. Other areas, such as the eating nook, create a real cozy feeling.

The kitchen incorporates honed black granite countertop work areas. Most of the granite countertops we install is polished. This honed surface doesn’t reflect light and creates a softer appearance. The honed dark granite creates a nice contrast with the lighter bamboo countertop used on the island.

The fireplace is a three-sided gas unit. It was not embellished with extra materials, just wrapped with oak to match the bookcases that surround the unit. Being able to view the fire from three sides is a nice feature.

“Vivian is a master of the delicately constructed narrative. . . . Lamb Bright Saviors explores the relationship of the

Robert Vivian

torments of the present to the mistakes of the past, laying bare the strange twists and turns of our human and inhuman inner lives.”—Brian Evenson, author of Altmann’s Tongue and The Open Curtain

“Robert Vivian’s prose is lyrical and harrowing—harrowing in the Biblical sense,” Sven Birkerts said of The Mover of Bones, the first book in Vivian’sTall Grass Trilogy. That same lyrical power carries this new volume to a place of hard-won hope and redemption at once both spiritual and earthly.

Lamb Bright Saviors begins as an apocalyptically inclined itinerant preacher staggers across the Nebraska prairie. With his young assistant, Mady, in tow hauling a wagon stacked with bibles, it’s not long before the preacher finds he’s come to the final fulfillment of his self-proclaimed life’s work: to die in front of a group of strangers. Odd as his own end-of-days might be, the lives and struggles of the strangers attending this deathbed scene are even odder. As the dying preacher unleashes a barrage of hallucinatory ramblings and rantings in the hope of imparting wisdom, each ragtag member of this unlikely congregation must reckon with his own dark past. And through it all, the irrepressible Mady lends the preacher’s strange performance a surprising and unforgettable dignity and humor.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan and also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of Cold Snap as Yearning, available in a Bison Books edition, and The Mover of Bones (Nebraska 2006).

Sarah was diagnosed with an aggressive grade four glialblastoma brain tumor in 2008.  She has four children, Zoe, Abe, Max & Sam.  This Benefit Concert will be raising funds for on-going costs of medical and “life”.  Donations can also be made to : The Sarah M. Henson Benefit Fund @ Wells Fargo Bank 700 Water Street, Northfield, MN 55057

The  Friday, March 12th concert will feature three local bands:  Mark & Alec starting at 7:00, Sweet North at 8:00 and Chance Meetings at 9:00.  All three bands are a mixed genre of very good music ranging from rock, folk, pop, country, bluegrass, gospel and even “home grown originals.    Doors open at 6:30.

ANTIQUE & HOUSEHOLD & BOOK AUCTION

Sunday, March 21, 10:00 AM (doors open at 8:00 AM)

National Guard Armory

3050 Red Wing Ave,

Hastings, MN

Lunch available

Norma Mossman is selling her lifelong collection at public auction located at the Hastings National Guard Armory (3050 Red Wing Ave) in Hastings

ANTIQUES : Cherry band salt glaze pitcher, Rosemeade fawns, Ingraham wall clock, New Haven mantle clock, 2 gal & 6 gal RW crocks, misc crocks & jugs, old coin display, many pieces of graniteware, vintage hats & jewelry, trivets, sad irons, Rosenthal (Bavaria) china, 2 blue stained glass windows, Walbryzck china, Appleton MN souvenir vase, etched glass castor set, sterling candlesticks, stainless and quadruple plate, Royal Tara, Indian tree, etched and pressed glass, Cambridge glass, Wedgewood, opera glasses, Danish plates, toothpicks, Sadler teapot, bottles, pickle castor, Rosemeade pitcher, Josefina (Czech) tea set, depression glass, cups & saucers, Silesia bowls, cast iron figurines, vintage post card album, old Japan Mickey Mouse childs set, Germany friars, ukulele, ice tong, kerosene lamps, razors, Cresoline lamp, snowshoes, GI Joe, wooden keg, White Rotary sewing machine, fishing creel, Minolta SR-3 vintage camera, old tools, iron baby crib, child’s dishes, child’s chair, and more items too numerous to list

BOOKS:  Several thousand books of all sorts including travel, women’s studies, British Isles, religion, and cookbooks

FURNITURE & HOUSEHOLD

Story & Clark piano, rustic porch set, curio cabinet, painted antique secretary, glass topped rattan kitchen table & chairs, rugs, lamps, pictures, school desks, cookware, dishes, linens, couch, china cabinet, marble top fern stand, fancy hexagon table, knee hole desk, and much more

Auctioneer’s note:  It is hard to imagine how many interesting things you can collect in 45 years.   See more pictures by clicking on the ”auction gallery”  Don’t miss this auction.

            NORMA MOSSMAN: OWNER

Auctioneer

Ed Kuhlman Lic # 66-30

Northfield, MN

507-649-1983

We completely finished one elevator that we have been working on at Carleton College. The project involved a complete modernization of the existing elevator including a new car,hydraulic cylinder, controllers, equipment, doors, etc. The existing elevator had been a freight elevator only. These projects involve an incredible amount of work and coordination of trade partners and state elevator inspectors working with us. The end product looks great and will allow students and staff to use the elevator as a passenger elevator. Our work included locating and installing glazed clay tile blocks to match the existing work in some locations. The end product looks great and should serve the college well for decades.

I can’t say enough about this CD.  I love it.  Stop by the store and listen to a song or two.

Download the first single off TINY PILOT:
“Somewhere South of Sunday” (mp3)

Michael Perry and his band of Long Beds write songs that range from boot-stomping country to roughneck folk balladS. Like Perry’s Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award-winning books COOP and TRUCK, these songs are populated by characters drawn straight from rural and small-town America.

Many of Mike’s songs have direct connections to COOP, TRUCK, and his other books POPULATION 485 and OFF MAIN STREET.
Find out which song ties in with which book!

“You sound just like Gordon Lightfoot, only zippier!”
– that nice lady at the benefit concert in Mike’s old high school gym,
New Auburn, WI

“Mike Perry is a storyteller like the one namers, Waylon and Willie.  Stir in the Long Beds and you have a recipe for success.  TINY PILOT delivers a truckload of tunes that’ll stick with you for the long haul.”
– Jerry Bilek, Monkey See, Monkey Read,Northfield, MN

“TINY PILOT is full of heart, humor, and hurt.  Equally talented in stand-up comedy, performing music, and writing about life in the middle of the country, Michael Perry is the triple crown, winning for audiences in the Midwest and beyond!”
– Sarah Bagby, Watermark Books, Wichita, KS

Like so many before him, Michael Perry learned to sing in church. Then a Waylon Jennings 8-track got him hooked on boogety-boogety. This combination yielded the mix of straight-up twang and churchly harmonies found in his music.  Perry began writing songs in the early 1990s during long nights when he was struggling to survive on prose.  (And as we know now, he’s surviving just fine in that regard, having become a bestselling author both in the Midwest and nationally!)

“I was raised by farmers and preachers and tough country women, and I suppose my songs reflect that,” says Perry. “Then again, certain wisdoms are available only from whistlers, frauds, and sinners, so I try to slide them a line or two as well.”

• Learn new skills in our fun, professional, environment!
• Enjoy specialized classes with PSA Rated and Guest instructors
• Make friends and take part in a fun performance
• $5 Discount for each additional family member

No experience – Basic 2 (age 5-adult) Intermediate & Advanced

Basic 3 – Freeskate and Competitive Skaters Wed 3/17 4:00-6:00pm & Sat 3/20 1:30-4:00pm Wed 3/17  4:00-7:00pm & Sat 3/20 12:00pm-4:00pm

• Warm-up, Stretch, & Skate Lacing
• Small beginner classes using U.S. Figure Skating curriculum
• Structured practice and skill games
• Beginning Choreography & Presentation
• Rental Skates Available
• Parent info meeting
• Final Performance featuring campers & guests

• Warm-up & Stretch
• Sport Psychology & Goal Setting
• Yoga for Flexibility and Mindfulness
• Jump ‘N Spin Workshop
• Intro to Speed Skating
• Synchronized Skating Workshop
• Stroking & Power Class
• Performance Skills
• Private lesson and Choreography
• Parent info meeting
• Final Performance featuring campers & guests

Register Online or Download Paper Registration Form.

Registration deadline EXTENDED MON MARCH 15

The STARS from the Vancouver Olympics are coming to St. Paul on May 9th at 4pm (Mother’s Day) at the Excel Energy Center!

Discounted Ticket Prices:
Choice A – *$37.00 (100-level corners/ends low-mid rows)
Choice B – *$17.00 (100-level corners/ends mid-upper rows)

Ticket orders can be placed by emailing Allison (allison@jaranson.com) or at the front table during lessons. Order deadline is Sunday, March 21. Because Excel prefers one form of payment, parents should either write a check to Allison Jaranson or use cash. Check out www.starsonice.com for an updated list of who will be starring in the show.