NDDC/Rotary wingding: anyone got photos or video?
Alas, I wasn’t able to stick around and take photos tonight at the Winter Dance Party at the Grand Event Center, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Northfield and the Northfield Downtown Development...
View ArticleEast Cannon River Trail now under construction. Will it be paved?
As the Babcock Park Lift Station & Interceptor Sewer Project nears completion, construction of the East Cannon River Trail (part of the Greenway Corridor) between Babcock Park and Dundas has...
View ArticlePhotos: Kids bicycle races at the Cuyuna Lakes Mountain Bike Festival. How...
The kids bike races at last weekend’s Cuyuna Lakes Mountain Bike Festival in Crosby, MN were a huge hit: lots of kids participating, lots of people watching and cheering with big smiles. The kids were...
View ArticleTo India and Back: Tickets on sale now for Rotary’s Youth Exchange fundraiser
Northfield Rotarian James Grabau stopped by my corner office at GBM earlier this week to show me the poster (PDF) for the Northfield Rotary Youth Exchange fundraiser “To India and Back” on February...
View ArticlePhoto redux 2008: To China and Back, Rotary Youth Exchange Fundraiser
The Rotary’s Youth Exchange fundraiser, To India and Back, is today. In case you’re wondering what goes on at one of these wingdings, I last took a ton of photos at the To China and Back fundraiser in...
View ArticlePhoto album: To India and Back, Rotary Youth Exchange Fundraiser
Northfield Rotary held their To India and Back Youth Exchange fundraiser last night at the Northfield Middle School. I only took a baker’s dozen photos because I kept getting distracted by the food....
View ArticleNorthfield Rotary welcomes a Group Study Exchange team from Brazil
On Friday morning, Rotarians Lee and Vicki Dilley, Rick Estenson, and Jean Wakely had coffee at GBM with members of Rotary District 4550 from Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilians are part of a Group Study...
View ArticleRotarians Nancy and Missi know how to handle Amy, much to the benefit of The Key
Last week I was working in The HideAway, one of my other Division St offices, when I spotted these women in a corner, appearing to be working/collaborating/scheming. Northfield Rotary Club members...
View ArticleSouthwest Neighborhood files discrimination lawsuit against the City of...
In what is perceived as a social stigma in a two-college town, members of Northfield Southwest Neighborhood Association (NSWNA) have filed a discrimination law suit against the City of Northfield...
View ArticleRotary’s cogwheel logo has nothing to do with bicycling. However…
Rotary International and the Northfield Rotary Club‘s logo is a cogwheel (some background info here.) Northfield area bikers like me see more in it than that, especially when I ride across the Peggy...
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