Leisa Irwin is the August 2010 recipient of HCI’s “Making a Difference” award. The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. Irwin organized the Northfield Ballroom Dance Club last fall out of a desire to teach her own sons an activity she enjoyed. Interest by [...]
Northfield Hospital & Clinics will commemorate its 100 years of service to the Northfield community with a three-mile historical walk this Saturday morning, August 14, 2010. The event will benefit HealthFinders Collaborative, a local health care collaborative serving uninsured and under-insured residents of Rice County. Walkers will meet at Eighth and Water (the site of [...]
In spring 2010, the Mayor’s Task Force on Youth Alcohol & Drug Use launched a parent education and support campaign. Called “Talk. Listen. Connect. (TLC),” it encourages parents to engage in conversations with their teens about important topics and to actively seek out and connect with the parents of their child’s friends. The TLC campaign [...]
You have seen them in lawns around town. What ARE these signs all about?!?! Click HERE to learn more about the PRIMEtime out-of-school collaborative and the “It’s 4:00 p.m.” campaign. For a video about the PRIMEtime collaborative, click HERE.
The Growing Up Healthy coalition produces a monthly newsletter, detailing the coalition’s activities to empower and support low-income families with children in Rice County. Check out the July 2010 newsletter for a series of very interesting features on summer activities. Be sure to click on the “Summertime Achievement” video to learn more about a number [...]
Rachel Hanson, Leigh Langehough and Heidi Strike are the July 2010 recipients of HCI’s “Making a Difference” Award. The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. Hanson, Langehough and Strike, who all graduated from Northfield High School in June, organized the successful Beat Cancer: Cancer [...]
A giant round of applause to the Rotary Club of Northfield for their commitment to Northfield youth! Rotary announced that they will provide up to $40,000 in assistance to support the purchase of the new Key location in downtown Northfield (see photo below). They will also partner with the Northfield Union of Youth/The Key to [...]
When: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 — 6:00pm-8:00pm Where: Lion’s Pause, Buntrock Commons, St. Olaf College Moderator: Mary Crippen, Northfield Resident Sponsors: St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges, Northfield Mayor’s Task Force on Youth Alcohol & Drug Use, Healthy Community Initiative ********************************************************** April is Alcohol Awareness Month and the Federal Government’s Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention [...]
All are invited to an education session on Adolescent Brain Development on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Buckham Memorial Library in Faribault. The training will be led by Dr. Ken Winters from the University of Minnesota. For more information, click HERE. There is no cost to attend, but advance [...]
Northfield is fortunate to be hosting the Youth Work Institute’s Regional Forum on Tuesday, December 15, 2009. The conference will be held from 8:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Northfield Community Resource Center. The conference will feature a keynote from Dale Blyth (Director of the Center for Youth Development at the University of Minnesota [...]
