Category Archives: Community

DJJD Hog Roast

August 12, 2010 – 5:47 am

The Defeat of Jesse James Days committee hosted a hog roast for area business people and supporters of DJJD last night. In spite of a hot August night the turn out a the event was excellent. I’m up early most days and yesterday I passed the hog roast location and saw the workers there under [...]

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Willow River Days

July 26, 2010 – 5:43 am

  Ellen and I spent the weekend at our cottage in the Pine/Carlton County area. On Saturday we went to Willow River for Willow River Days. In spite of some rather rainy periods we had a fun time at this small town Minnesota event. The main feature is of course the parade. There were lots [...]

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Taste of Northfield

June 17, 2010 – 11:47 am

The Northfield Downtown Development Corporation (NDDC) is hosting their annual ‘Taste of Northfield’ event again this year. They are adding a new twist—-two days! It starts tonight at 4:00PM and also is being held tomorrow night. This has always been a well attended, fun event. Plan to come to Bridge Square in downtown Northfield and [...]

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Cemstone Lunch Seminar

May 26, 2010 – 12:10 pm

Today several of Northfield Construction Company’s employees and I attended a lunch and seminar at Cemstone Concrete Products. They are located right across the street from our shop. We have a long relationship with Cemstone. NCC purchases most of our concrete from Cemstone and also constructed their truck maintenance facility on the site. Many of [...]

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Home Show

April 12, 2010 – 5:38 am

Saturday was indeed a great day for the Northfield Home show. The weather was perfect and people enjoyed getting out and visiting the show. Groups of people started out right at the 9:30 opening and kept up very steady until early afternoon. I staffed our booth all day, showing people photos of some of our [...]

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Northfield Home Show

April 8, 2010 – 2:53 pm

Northfield Construction Company will once again be part of the Northfield Spring Home show. It is being held this Saturday, April 10th from 9:00AM to 3:30PM at Bridgewater Elementary school in Northfield. The show is free to the public, as always. It is a great time to wander around, look at new products, and visit [...]

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Atlanta, part two

March 3, 2010 – 6:36 am

When we were in Atlanta last week I was really struck by the geometric lines and designs of the newer buildings downtown. Atlanta has a lot of construction from the 1960’s on. In fact I heard some complaints from some of the local folks that Atlanta destroyed some of their fine historic buildings in the [...]

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Atlanta, GA

March 1, 2010 – 11:17 am

Ellen and I spent last week in Atlanta, Georgia. It was nice to get away to a different climate for a bit, although it was unseasonably cold there. We mainly had blue skies with full sun which helped warm things by noon most days. When we travel I always like to look at architecture. Atlanta [...]

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NAF Grants Breakfast

January 28, 2010 – 6:46 am

Because of my continuing education course conflict yesterday I was not able to attend the Northfield Area Foundation grants breakfast. I have served as a director for the Northfield Area Foundation (NAF) for several years. NAF is a community organization dedicated to improving Northfield. We raise funds and allocate a portion of the funds each [...]

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Continuing Education

January 28, 2010 – 6:19 am

Yesterday I spent all day in a contractor’s continuing education class. It was hosted by the Rice County building inspections divisions of the Cities of Northfield and Faribault, and Rice County. The event was held at the Northfield Ballroom and with 80 people was well attended. Lampert Lumber in Northfield was a sponsor as well, [...]

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