Events

In 2008 Metro Transit awarded Charlie Stark with Commuter of the Year and again in 2012 they recognized him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Now Stark is at it again.

Stark made the transition to solar four years ago when he purchased a 7kW solar array for his Northfield home. He received incredible incentives from the State of Minnesota and Xcel Energy, along with a generous Tax Credit from the federal government. His experience prompted him to look further into solar. Now Stark is helping other Northfield Residents go solar for a fraction of the price by teaming up with a Minnesota Solar installer.

David Gergen, a Harvard University professor and senior political analyst for CNN who served during the administrations of four U.S. presidents, will deliver Carleton College’s convocation address on Friday, Feb. 8. Gergen will talk about his thirty-plus years of experience as a political insider and his views on leadership in American political life. Convocation is held from 10:50-11:50 a.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel, and it is free and open to the public. Convocations are also streamed live and can be viewed online at http://apps.carleton.edu/events/convocations/.

Bring your whole family to the Northfield Peace and Justice Gathering on February 24.  Join the festivities as we celebrate how local, national and international peace and justice efforts are being done in the Northfield area.  The community event will feature the music groups Bonnie and the Clydes and the Northfield Troubadors Youth Choir.  More than 20 organizations will share their work for justice and peace, including Northfield High School's Build Bridges, Not Walls.  There will be storytelling, face painting, a chance to make a peace pole, and experience walking the peace path and more.  A nursery will be provided for very young children.  This Gathering offers something for everyone!

At the Northfield Library you'll find, With poems, some piece of mind,
In the Poetry Patch, For young poets, a match,
And a place where your words can shine!

If you're a K-8 kid that loves Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, or maybe even Shakespeare, you're invited to join members of the St. Olaf Poetry house for Poetry Patch, a bi-monthly program for aspiring young poets.Noon to 1 with cookies, poetry reading, arts 'n crafts and more!

Check all the up coming programs http://northfieldpubliclibrary.blogspot.com/ Northfield Public Library 210 Washington St. 507-645-6606

An evening - just for women - is planned at the Northfield Senior Center.   Pamper yourself with a present of a stress-free, relaxing, and fun night.

During the evening, you may:    Sigh through a massage, get a facial or a make over (Products provided by Beauty Control and Mary Kay), have a Taro card reading, Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and beverages.  Take part in sample fitness classes (Zumba, NIA and Country Line Dancing).

$15   Register on-line at www.northfieldseniorcenter.org, under "Sign Ups +" tab.

Bestselling author William Kent Krueger returns to Northfield Public Library on Tuesday, January 29th. The program begins at 7pm in the library meeting room. Mr. Krueger will speak about “ his life with libraries”.

Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University—before being kicked out for radical activities. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at free-lance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota. He currently makes his living as a full-time author. He makes his home in St. Paul, a city he dearly loves.

Lynne Young has been the Northfield Public Library Director for 28 years, which is cause for celebration.  She plans to retire this spring, which mandates that the celebrations begin!

The Northfield Library Board and the Friends of the Northfield Public Library are planning a series of parties to honor and celebrate Lynne's many years of service.  The public is invited to any and all:

The League of Women Voters Northfield-Cannon Falls invites the public to join a discussion about how to elect and keep good, fair judges. The meeting will take place 7:00 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.
on Monday, January 28, 2013 at St. John's Lutheran Church, 500 3rd Street West, Northfield.

Judicial independence and the proposed Impartial Justice Act will be discussed by two persuasive supporters of this new way toselect and keep fair judges. Their presentation will be followed by questions and discussion.

Sarah Walker, President of the Coalition for Impartial Justice
Also Chief Operating Officer of 180 Degrees, Inc. and founder of the MN Second Chance Coalition, Walker is a Carleton College graduate, and is now completing her doctorate in sociology at the University of Minnesota.

The City has expanded its schedule of Website Open Houses (see below) and invites you to come to City Hall to "test drive" the new City of Northfield website and offer your input on its design.

The new website includes a citywide events calendar, an electronic bill pay feature (for utility and other bills), easy (one-click) access to meeting minutes and archival videos, a nifty "search" feature that gets you quick access to information on any City project; email links to your elected representatives and city staff, and a handy Community Comments portal where you can report a specific concern, question or suggestion AND track the City’s response to it.

Carleton College’s Department of Political Science will present Nathan Stock, assistant director in the Conflict Resolution Program at The Carter Center, on Monday, Jan. 28. His lecture is entitled, “Palestinian Politics: Hamas, Fatah and the Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” The lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Room 304 of Leighton Hall, and it is free and open to the public.  Mr. Stock will discuss internal political dynamics within the two dominant Palestinian parties. He will focus on the evolution of Fatah and Hamas, how the parties relate to one another, and how they view the conflict with Israel. A conversation on Palestinian politics can provide a new and interesting angle from which to understand the wider conflict with Israel.

With government deeply divided, many people are wondering what kinds of organizations are best equipped to address social problems. Philanthropic ones, according to Ann Mulholland, vice-president of grants and programs for Minnesota Philanthropy, who will discuss the power of philanthropy at the annual meeting of Women in Northfield Giving Support (WINGS) Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Viking Theater, Buntrock Commons, St. Olaf College. The event runs from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and is open to the public.

Attention all sixth graders! Jumpstart your History Day project by coming to the first ever Northfield Public Library History Day Hullabaloo, on Saturday, January 12, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

History Day mentors, (volunteers from Carleton College, St. Olaf College, and the Northfield community) will meet individually with students and provide guidance with topics, research sources, and bibliographic information. Mentors and librarians will demonstrate library and other databases available for research. Librarians will also display primary and secondary resources.

Come for help with your project and enjoy the fun! Refreshments will be served. $5.00 gift certificates to downtown businesses will be raffled off during the morning. Students attending the Hullabaloo will receive extra credit toward their project. All sixth grade students and their parents are encouraged to attend.

Stephen W. Pacala, Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Frederick D. Petrie Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, will present Carleton College’s 27th Annual Frank G. & Jean M. Chesley Lecture on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. in Olin Hall Room 149. Entitled “Global Warming and the Fate of the Land Carbon Sink,” Pacala’s presentation is free and open to the public.

Pacala also co-directs the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, an effort to develop solutions to the greenhouse warming problem, and is a founder and Chairman of the Board of Climate Central, a nonprofit media organization focusing on climate change. Pacala has researched a wide variety of ecological and mathematical topics. At Princeton, his work focuses on problems of global change with an emphasis on interactions among the biosphere, greenhouse gases and climate. He also researches solutions to the climate problem, the dynamics of forests, and the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function.

Feminist media critic and blogger Anita Sarkeesian will present the weekly Carleton College convocation address on Friday, Jan. 18 from 10:50 to 11:50 a.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel. A renowned popular culture critic and creator of the video blog, “Feminist Frequency,” Sarkeesian will explore the representation of women in pop culture narratives, including television, movies and gaming. Her presentation, entitled, “I’ll Make A Man Out Of You: Redefining Strong Female Characters,” is free and open to the public. Convocations are also streamed live and can be viewed online at http://apps.carleton.edu/events/convocations/.

“Feminist Frequency” is a video webseries that takes a critical look at depictions of women in popular culture narratives. Sarkeesian’s work focuses on deconstructing the stereotypes and tropes associated with women in popular culture as well as highlighting issues surrounding the targeted harassment of women in online and gaming spaces. Sarkeesian’s video series “Tropes vs. Women,” created in collaboration with Bitch magazine, which pays particular attention to science fiction and video games. “Feminist Frequency” can be found online at www.feministfrequency.com.

Ronald Henkoff ‘76, editor of the award-winning monthly magazine Bloomberg Markets and an executive editor at Bloomberg News, will present Carleton College’s weekly convocation on Friday, Jan. 11. Henkoff’s presentation, entitled “Money, Power and Trust,” will look at how the economy has been affected by scandals within financial institutions. Convocation is held from 10:50-11:50 a.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel, and is free and open to the public. Convocations are also streamed live and can be viewed online at http://apps.carleton.edu/events/convocations/.