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 [...]
Several members of the Northfield Mayor’s Youth Council helped members of the Northfield Garden Club and Northfield in Bloom plant flowers along the pedestrian bridge in downtown Northfield last week. This marks the third year that the Mayor’s Youth Council helped with this planting project. Many thanks to the Northfield Garden Club and Northfield in [...]
Need help with homework? Come to the Homework Zone on Monday and Thursday evenings at Greenvale Park School! The Homework Zone runs from 6:30-8:00 p.m. and is open to all Northfield students, elementary through high school. Laptop computers are available to use. Volunteer tutors are also able to work individually with students. There is no [...]
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 [...]
The Northfield Public Schools was recently awarded a $53,000 grant from Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation in support of the Tackling Obstacles and Raising College Hopes (TORCH) initiative. The money will be used to fund several staff positions, as well as provide TORCH students the opportunity to visit college campuses. Currently, TORCH serves over [...]
The article below was submitted by Alyssa Jilek, AmeriCorps Promise Fellow at Northfield High School. Many thanks to Northfield’s outstanding Promise Fellows — Alyssa Jilek, Jason Hallen, and Kevin Krein — for their work with these projects. The Promise Fellow positions are supported by the Minnesota Alliance With Youth. On Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 15 [...]
In case you missed it in Saturday’s edition of the Northfield News, please consider taking a minute to read Managing Editor Suzy Rook’s column, I don’t know any “bad kids”. This insightful column gently encourages us all to reflect on how we interact with and treat youth in our community. Kudos to Suzy and the [...]
