Organizations

It’s the something annual MayFly Music Festival…two-days of outdoor (weather-permitting) performances of local and not-quite local musicians this Friday and Saturday night at the Contented Cow.  Friday night is, of course, Bob Dylan’s birthday, so expect a bit of the bard from the north country in the song-selection.

Friday, May 24th: MayFly, 5:00 p.m. to close, Contented Cow; Opening Reception: An Exquisite Body of Work, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., Northfield Arts Guild; 3rd Annual Latino Play Festival; High School Auditorium; and Craig and Maren Wasner, 8:00 p.m., Tavern Lounge.

Saturday, May 25th: Graduation Weekend Concert, 3:00 p.m., Skoglund Center on the St. Olaf College campus; MayFly, 5:00 p.m. to close, Contented Cow; and Alison Rae, 8:00 p.m., Tavern Lounge.

Sunday, May 26th: Quiz Night, 8:00 p.m., Contented Cow.

Please click here to view the May 23rd issue of The Chronicle newsletter.

Various Northfield faith communities are volunteering to help serve lunch and do clean-up for those in need in the summer. 1st UCC is stepping up to do this each Tuesday 10:45 to 12:45 June 10 – Aug. 30 at Jefferson Square; youth welcome. We will provide 5 volunteers each time, so please sign-up for times to nourish others and nourish our souls.  Sign-up sheets are available after worship, you can contact the church office, or you can sign up online by clicking here.

With the summer season approaching, the Church Council discussed the merits of moving worship time to 9:30AM starting June 9th.  Our hope that this will allow us to beat the heat and be more comfortable during the warmest days of the year.  The motion passed and we will begin meeting at 9:30AM on June 9th.  Worship will return to 10:30AM starting on September 15th.

Due to the number of great donations we have received there is an ABUNDANCE of books to sell in the lobby! 
We're having a $3 all you can cram in a library bag sale!

The Northfield Downtown Development Corporation (NDDC) is proud to present the 8th Annual Taste of Northfield, Thursday, May 30th, from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m.

This year the event will be in and around Bridge Square, including the Sesquicentennial Legacy Plaza along the Cannon River.  Featuring delicious food and beverages, a beer and wine garden, and live entertainment, the Taste of Northfield promises fun for everyone.

The event takes place rain or shine. Along with tasty treats being served up by a baker’s dozen of local food vendors and a beer and wine tent, this year’s Taste of Northfield will feature a special bank raid re-enactment by the infamous James-Younger Gang and performances by a variety of local musicians.

The Taste of Northfield is a private-public partnership, built on private contributions, public support, and hundreds of volunteer hours.  It is a community event with local businesses, local government, and local people coming together to help contribute to a vibrant and vital downtown Northfield, MN.

The NDDC is a non-partisan, non-profit community organization dedicated to the vitality of downtown.  We thank you for your support.

Bridge Square Band Photo Courtesy of Griff Wigley.

Today: Erin Mayberry: The Truth and Nothing But the Truth (Puczko)

Birthdays: Keith Covey and Jon Snodgrass (5/19), Robert Flaten (5/21), Chris Heineman (5/23)

Next Week: Mike Downey, Training Consultant, Northstar Problem Gambling Alliance (Deschamp)

Last Week: 

The Northfield Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) is entering its 21st year with a well-earned state and national reputation for youth development efforts. It is one of the longest-running initiatives of its kind in the country.

Zach Pruitt, executive director for HCI, said the group doesn’t provide direct programming, but is successful at convening key players around important issues and building successful collaborative partnerships.

HCI’s next major initiative is Northfield’s Promise: Every Child Cradle to Career. It is an effort to align community resources around a common mission: to give every child an opportunity to be successful. It is a logical extension of HCI’s longstanding youth asset-building work

HCI operates on a $300,000 annual budget. No longer eligible for federal funding, HCI is looking for more local support to sustain its work.

Here are some of the HCI efforts revealed through the HCI Bingo contest.

1,048
The number of youth who participated in Primetime out-of-school enrichment programming last year. Ninety-three percent of those attending saw their academic performance improve.

332
The number of youth served by TORCH (Tackling Obstacles and Raising College Hopes) last year, a four-fold increase from the program’s first year in 2005. Twenty-one TORCH students graduated from high school last spring. Fourteen alums have earned post-secondary degrees or certificates last year.

67
The number of Youth Investment Grants awarded last year by HCI. The grants involved thousands of local youth. More than half of the projects were developed and submitted by youth.

1,100
The number of scholarships awarded by the Northfield Youth Sports Collaborative since the shared scholarship pool was created in 2002. More than $106,000 has been invested to help youth become involved in youth athletic programs.

50
The number of individuals or organizations that have been recognized by HCI with a “Making a Difference” award for making a commitment to the youth of the Northfield community.

8,600
The number of pounds of medication, both prescription and over-the-counter, that has been collected in Rice County since the “Take It To The Box” program was launched in 2009.

4,000,000
The amount of grant money that HCI has imported from outside the community over the last nine years to benefit local youth initiatives.

For more information about Northfield Healthy Community Initiative, go to www.northfieldhci.org.

Headline News:

On July 25, we will begin a six-month trial of a new meeting venue,  the United Methodist Church. At the end of February, we will vote to decide if we should stay or should we go…back to the Northfield Golf Club. Queen Jane said an extended trial will give us an opportunity to see how a different venue influences membership and our comfort. She underscored that this is an experiment, not a permanent change.

Last Week Guests: Xiaoxia Williams (Robertson) and our Exchange students: Diatou, Adnan, Cindy and Rachel. This was Diatou’s farewell meeting. Last Saturday, she returned to her home in France. She said she had an “amazing experience” during her nine months in Northfield and will take many nice memories home with her.

Scholarship Enhancement: Exchange students with an assist from Virginia Kaczmarek

Announcements:

Laura Palmquist, St. Olaf student and Northfield native, has been awarded a $30,000 Rotary Peace Fellowship to study peace and conflict resolution in Sweden next year.

Charlie Cogan announced that another $4 billion has been pledged to finish the polio eradication project by 2018. The Bill Gates Foundation is contributing $1.8 billion and Bloomberg Philanthropies $100 million. Other partners include Rotary, World Health Organization, UNICEF, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as national governments around the world. More info: www.polioeradication.org. Charlie reminds us that giving to this project counts for Paul Harris recognition. 

We are inviting nominations for the Marston Headley Service Above Self Award. The award is given each year to a club member who has given of his or her time and energy to make the club a success and has demonstrated strong involvement in the community. Nominations are available today at the front desk. Please return them to Scott Richardson, Jack Hoschouer or Jim Pokorney or e-mail your nomination with supporting material by May 30.

Youth at The Key are organizing a community fundraising-all-ages concert for July, and our Rotary club will partner with them to help with promotion, ticket sales, food and other tasks.   Look for more information soon.

On Thursday, June 6, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. please join club members and families for the exchange student graduation party at the Estenson Ranch.

Coming Up:
June 6 — Lin Bruce, Tales of Biking Across the USA (Prowe)
June 13 — Bob Showers, author of “Twins At The Met.”
June 20 — TBA

This Week at the Northfield City Council Meeting

• Council Approves Refunding of Tax Exempt Notes
• One More Step toward TIGER Trail Completion
• Several Streetscape Projects Move Forward
• Dan Patch Moratorium Still in Place
• November Special Election Ordered

Each June, First UCC provides volunteers at the CAC foodshelf weekdays for 1-2 hour time slots. Please sign-up for an individual time slot or several or once a week. Youth can do this simple but important volunteer work too, and often pairs of people do the same time slot.

Nine Zumba instructors and around 60 community members filled the Northfield High School cafeteria on Saturday, May 11, for a Northfield Zumbathon! A Zumbathon is an extended Zumba class, Latin dance-based fitness, that serves as a fundraiser for a cause. For this event, the instructors chose to have all donations benefit the Northfield Youth Sports Collaborative scholarship fund because the scholarship fund helps all youth in Northfield participate in sports regardless of income. It was amazing to have the Zumba community come together to take a little of our time to dance so that we can provide more opportunities for Northfield youth to move and groove if they so choose! Participants won various raffle prizes, including an hour private yoga session with instructor Melissa Sharpe and an hour personal training with Juliana Lima. We all had a wonderful time, and we raised nearly $900 that will go to sports scholarships for low-income Northfield youth! Keep your eyes peeled for the next Zumbathon!
  - From Kathryn Schmidt, AmeriCorps Promise Fellow serving in Northfield through the Minnesota Alliance With Youth

Come ponder liberal, activist theology with expert and Back Bay Mission activist Chris Marlin-Warfield. Wed., May 22, 5:30 p.m. SSR will provide pizza; bring a salad to share. Back Bay Mission is an UCC Community organization serving the Mississippi Gulf Coast since 1922. Marlin-Warfield has a Masters of Divinity from Chicago Theology Seminary and has been for years helping Back Back realize its mission.

Photo by Joy Riggs. From left to right, Emily Schmitz, Joyce Schlossin and Beth Endert

Three local women who led an after-school sewing group at Northfield Middle School have received the Healthy Community Initiative “Making a Difference” Award for May 2013. The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth.

Joyce Schlossin started the group and recruited Beth Endert and Emily Schmitz to assist her. Over a 12-week period, they taught a group of about a dozen girls to make items such as scarves, mittens, headbands, placemats, potholders, pillows and cell phone holders.

“They were pleased – they couldn’t believe they could do it,” Endert said. “We’re already getting ideas for next time.”

Susan Sanderson, coordinator of the middle school TORCH program, said the women also taught the girls about the economics of sewing, how to save money and make the most out of every scrap of fabric.

“Joyce and her partners have great energy, and we are so fortunate to have them sharing their skills and love of sewing,” Sanderson said.

- Written by Joy Riggs, HCI Board member and freelance journalist

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The Healthy Community Initiative and the Northfield News present the Making a Difference Award cooperatively. If you know an individual or group that you would like to nominate for this award, click HERE for nomination guidelines and the easy-to-complete application or find HCI on Facebook.  Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis and are selected by a review team of HCI board members and local youth.

Join us for the Memorial Day Mass Monday, May 27, at 10:30 a.m. at Calvary Cemetery (located on the east edge of Northfield on Spring Creek Road).

Please bring lawn chairs or blankets. In case of rain, Mass will be celebrated in the chapel of the church. (There will be no 5:15 p.m. service on Memorial Day.)

The parish office will be closed in observance of the holiday.

Please click on this link for a readable/printable version of the sermon: “Acts 2: 1-21.”.

Please click below for an audio format:

 

Those interested in electronic transfer for sacrificial giving must complete the form below and return it to Shari at the parish office.

Electronic Giving Form

 

May 19, 2013

It’s been a long time in coming but now it’s arrived: the Northfield Arts Town Website.  It’s an event worth celebrating, so let’s do it.  Saturday evening: music, beverages, and a circus tent atmosphere at High Noon Tattoos and Art Gallery in downtown Northfield.  More info at http://northfield.artstown.us/town/

Friday, May 17th: Occasional Jazz, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Contented Cow; Sergio Mojica, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Hogan Brothers Acoustic Cafe; 3rd Annual Latino Play Festival, 7:00 p.m., Nothfield Arts Guild Theater; Jon Manners, 8:00 p.m., Tavern Lounge; Lau Hawaiian Collective, 8:00 to 10:30 p.m., Contented Cow; and Alluvian, 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., Contented Cow.

Saturday, May 18th: Wake-Robin, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., Bittersweet; Spring Dance Concert, 3:00 p.m., Northfield High School; Caryl and the Hitchhikers, 5:00 to 7:30 p.m., Contented Cow; Tom and Larry Quinn, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., The HideAway; 3rd Annual Latino Play Festival, 7:00 p.m., Northfield Arts Guild; Northfield Arts Town Website Launch Party, 7:00 p.m., High Noon Tattoos and Art Gallery; Jeff Ray, 8:00 p.m., Tavern Lounge; The Sleepers, 8:00 p.m., Contented Cow; and Optimum Trajectory, 9:00 to 11:00 p.m., Contented Cow.

Sunday, May 19th: Northfield Men’s Chorus: The Troubadours, 3:00 p.m., Bethel Lutheran Church; and Quiz Night, 8:00 p.m., Contented Cow.

TAB Garage Sale Sat. May 18th9:30 am—2:30 pmCity’s Maintenance Facility 1710 Riverview Dr. (Turn off Hwy 3 on Riverview Dr. (at Perkins Restaurant) Follow signs to large building with diamond shaped windows)    http://www.5thbridge.org/goodsforgood We're site #1
Bikes, trikes and sleds plus many bike helmets!
In tour gardening center you will find hoses, hose carriers, POTS, shovels, rabbit fencing, a trellis, edging, a seed or fertilizer spreader and many bird feeders!

The KIDS department is full of toys and games!

We have 2 toilets in great shape, LOTS of furniture!  Desks, tables, canvas tarp, Christmas and other holiday items
PLUS BOOKS!!!!!

This Week at the Northfield City Council Work Session

• Budget Development Begins
• Regulations Affecting Post Office Outlined
• Business Parks to be Rethought

Congratulations to Alan Alberg, our most recent recipient of the Paul Harris award.  A former member, Al joined our club in 1980 and fondly recalls when women were first allowed membership.  Al has always valued how Rotary brings community members together in friendship and service. His award was presented at the May 9th club meeting. You can learn more about the Paul Harris Fellow program at the Rotary International web site.