Monthly Archives: July 2010

What ARE these signs all about?!?!

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.

Check out Growing Up Healthy’s July newsletter, featuring collaborative summer programming

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 [...]

“Beat Cancer: Cancer Jam 2010″ organizers named July “Making a Difference” Award winners

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 [...]

Y Kids Tri coming up!

Y Kids Tri Saturday, August 7, 2010 Northfield Old Memorial Park Pool area The new Y Kids Tri is a fun, non-competitive triathlon that’s all about getting kids excited to get fit! Youth ages 6-14 will experience a morning of encouragement, cheers and satisfaction of completing the swim, bike and run event.  There’s nothing like [...]

Rotary Club of Northfield makes huge commitment to local youth

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 [...]