The Provider Team of the Rice County Chemical Health Coalition sponsors a monthly opportunity for parents dealing with a son or daughter’s substance abuse to meet and talk with other parents. The group offers both education and support. It meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Thus, the next meeting will [...]
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 [...]
Charles Reznikoff, M.D. is the May recipient of the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) Making a Difference award. The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. Dr. Reznikoff is an Addiction Medicine Specialist at Northfield Hospital. He began seeing patients with opiate addiction in Northfield [...]
Over 300 people attended the end-of-the-year PRIMEtime dinner and celebration on Wednesday at Bridgewater School. The party was for youth participants in the elementary PLUS program and the Middle School Youth Center, as well as their families. Volunteers from the Northfield Union of Youth/The Key and the Tackling Obstacles and Raising College Hopes (TORCH) [...]
Members of the Mayor’s Youth Council and other local young people assisted the Northfield in Bloom committee with planting flowers along the pedestrian bridge in downtown Northfield on Thursday evening. This marked the second year that local youth aided in this effort to beautify the community. Check out a few of the pictures below…
We are pleased to announce that there are two exciting full-time position openings working with Northfield youth for the 2009-10 school year. These AmeriCorps Promise Fellow positions are made possible through a collaboration with the Minnesota Alliance With Youth. One of the positions works with youth at the Northfield High School and one works with [...]
Don’t be alarmed if you hear the emergency vehicle sirens at about 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13. Northfield High School will be the scene of a mock crash. “One for the Road” is a reenactment of a fatal crash resulting from impaired driving and lack of seat belt use. NHS students will join local law enforcement and emergency [...]
