Misc

The Northfield Area YMCA is hiring youth coaches. For further information, please contact visit our website (to include an employment application) or call 507-645-0088.  You may send application to info@northfieldymca.org or mail to 519 Division Street, Northfield MN 55057.  More details about these and other positions are available on our website at www.northfieldymca.org (under "About Us" and "Jobs").

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Where were you four years ago today? Remember the tragedy (to our roofs) on that fateful day?  This is a video I shot from my house here in Northfield on August 24th, 2006 during the biggest hailstorm in recent history.  

The Northfield Public Schools Community Services Division Fall Brochure is arriving in your mailbox this week.  This brochure contains information on youth and adult recreation, KidVentures, youth and adult enrichment, Early Childhood Family Education, Project ABLE, and Adult Basic Education.  Online registration is available for all programs and registration begins on Friday, August 20.

Northfield Community Services; 1651 Jefferson Parkway, Northfield, MN  55057; www.nfld.k12.mn.us (follow the Community Services link); tel. 507-664-3649.

The Northfield Area Foundation (NAF) is seeking applicants from Northfield and the surrounding area to serve on its board of advisors. The nominating committee will review applicants and submit a slate of candidates to the full board at its November, 2010 meeting. Candidates shall reflect the diversity of the Northfield community, which the Foundation seeks to serve including, but not limited to, educational, religious, economic, racial, and sexual diversity.  Interested candidates are urged to submit a letter of interest, including a brief bio, no later than September 1, 2010, to: Northfield Area Foundation P.O. Box 802 Northfield, MN 55057.

The Northfield Area Family YMCA is hiring for fall positions.  If you (or you know someone) who loves working with children, has experience giving children direction and would love to be a role model - we'd like to hear from you.

Whether you want to work just a few hours a week or more - we've got a wide variety of positions available ranging from our Wiggles & Giggles program (open gym) to basic crafts classes to youth sport programs. 

You do not need to be a flag football expert to give direction to Preschool or early school age flag football programs.  If you are interested in learning a bit more, please contact the YMCA at 507-645-0088.  View job descriptions on our website at www.northfieldymca.org.

Referrals make the BEST staff team members - if you know someone, let us know (or let them know)!

At 1 pm Tuesday, this Union Pacific passenger train arrived in Northfield and picked up a bunch of Northfielders heading to Chicago for the game that night between the Twins and the White Sox. 

The Home Matters Cherry Street project has been nominted for a 2010 Minnesota Community Pride Showcase Award sponsored by the Minnesota State Fair, MinnPost.com and Minnesota Rural Partners Inc.

Home Matters is about stabilizing neighborhoods affected by foreclosure, creating healthy, affordable, and energy efficient housing opportunities and providing information and best practices to the public.  After rehabilitating foreclosed houses with the most healthy, efficient technology as possible, the project reaches out to the broader community through educational seminars, special tours, and a blog, with topics ranging from green building to healthy living to rainwater recapture.  Home Matters has it all; a multitude of collaborators, significant community outreach, green technology utilization, and creating healthy affordable homes for families. 

On September 13, the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium begins its 14th academic year with 12 eight-week courses covering a wide variety of topics. Jim McDonnell, our new curriculum director, has secured emeritus faculty from both colleges and the community; some are well known to Northfielders, and some are new.  

Shown in the photograph is Gary Wagenbach who taught biology and environmental studies at Carleton for 39 years. His course is entitled, The Cannon River:  A Watershed Perspective, Past, Present, and Future and will offer both classroom sessions and 3 field trips in our region.

The Community Action Center, in partnership with South Central College, will offer classes for those interested in becoming certified nursing assistants.  Tuition is free for low-income students.

Classes will be offered from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning September 14 and ending in December.  Classes will be held in Faribault and Northfield. 

An information session for interested students will be held on Monday, August 16 from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Three Links Care Center, 815 Forest Avenue in Northfield.  For more information, contact Bob Kell at 507-333-5036 or the Community Action Center ot 507-664-3550.

Have you noticed these bug-covered, dark purple objects hanging from trees around Northfield? The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is currently conducting a survey to detect the presence of the emerald ash borer. This detection trap is hanging in an ash tree in Central Park. The emerald ash borer is an insect whose larvae tunnel into the bark of ash trees and destory the tree's circulatory system. The state's more than 900 million ash trees are at risk for infestation by the emerald ash borer.

KYMN radio has pictures of the funnel cloud that came down north of town today: click here to view all the KYMN coverage!

Women in Northfield Giving Support (WINGS) has awarded its 2010 grants to local nonprofit organizations to help fund projects that improve the lives of women and children in Northfield.

The grants were presented at the organization’s annual Grants Luncheon held June 26. A total of $53,780 in grants was awarded.

The full list of recipients is available on the WINGS website.

WINGS, a Northfield women’s philanthropic organization, was founded in 2000 and has since granted more than $401,000 to fund local initiatives.  More than 300 women are members.  For more information, visit online at www.wings-mn.org or call 507-664-3541.

If we haven't heard from you then it's you we want feedback from!

Spend just a few minutes (we promise under 3 minutes) to complete our online survey and give us your thoughts about the bringing of a full YMCA facility to Northfield and partnering with the School District to build the YMCA on High School Property.  A complete Executive Summary and Appendix filled with details of our evaluation process is available online.

YMCA/School Partnership Proposal Informational Meetings - Join us!

Learn more, ask questions, provide your thoughts.  Open to the entire community.  We'll provide a short presentation on the proposal and then have time for Q&A.

Tuesday July 6th

Thursday July 22nd

Tursday Aug 3rd

7:30-8:30 pm

Location:  Community Resource Bank

For more information or to view the Summary Proposal and Appendix, visit the YMCA website at www.northfieldymca.org.

Neil Foley (Winchester, Mass.) recently earned a BA in geology magna cum laude from Carleton College. He wrote this account of a canoe trip with his fellow classmates from Northfield to Red Wing.

Rolling north through Northfield and Carleton’s Cowling Arboretum is the Cannon River. Although often enjoyed by sunbathers and fishermen along its banks, many people don’t think of the Cannon as a means of transportation. This spring, three friends and I canoed the Cannon from downtown Northfield—and on to Red Wing, Minnesota, where it joins the mighty Mississippi River. The journey lasted 13 hours and covered an ever-changing tableau of landscapes and wildlife.