Category Archives: Events

Northfield Home and Garden Show

March 21, 2011 – 7:07 am

With the arrival of spring, it is also time for the Northfield Home and Garden show. This year has brought some changes to the show. It is no longer being held at a local school…instead it is being held at the Northfield Ice Arena. That should be a great venue for the show. All the [...]

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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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Certified Lead Renovator

March 30, 2010 – 5:51 am

Yesterday I spent the day in a seminar dealing with lead in the construction industry. I did this to obtain my Certified Renovator certificate for lead safety in renovation, repair and painting. The course was organized and sponsored by a partnership between Lamperts in Northfield and Andersen Windows. The course was taught by an instructor [...]

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Wisconsin

August 3, 2009 – 11:29 am

Ellen and I recently spent part of a weekend in Bayfield, Wisconsin. We had a lovely drive there through Wisconsin stopping at several small towns along the way. Bayfield itself is not a large city, about 700 people. It sits on the edge of Lake Superior where the Apostle Islands start. The views of the [...]

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Rotary Picnic

July 23, 2009 – 5:20 am

One of the really great things about Northfield is the wonderful organizations and groups active in the community, working to make it a better, stronger place for all. One of those groups is the Northfield Rotary Club. We held our annual summer picnic last night at a member’s rural home. The rain held up and [...]

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Home and Garden Show

April 21, 2009 – 9:57 am

The 2009 Northfield Home and Garden show was held last Saturday at Bridgewater Elementary school. It was a beautiful sunny day, which tended to focus more people visiting the show in the morning than the afternoon. We also had the Northfield High School prom on Saturday and I suspect there were lots of people busy [...]

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Visit with Governor Pawlenty

March 17, 2009 – 7:39 am

Yesterday I attended a luncheon with Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. The event was organized by the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and was held at the College City Beverage in Dundas. College City Beverage has a great training room in their new facility that doubles as an excellent gathering space for such an event.   There [...]

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Pizza Party

February 27, 2009 – 2:16 pm

I had to bring a load of equipment to the Faith Lutheran Church job in Dodge Center late this morning….and enjoy some pizza. The congregation hosted a pizza party for the construction workers on the site. This was a very nice gesture and was greatly appreciated by all those working on the church. They fed [...]

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License Class

February 12, 2009 – 12:50 pm

Last Monday I spent the day taking a building contractor’s continuing education class in Bloomington. The State of Minnesota requires all residential building contractors complete 7.5 hours of education each year. While it is never easy to fit in a whole day at a seminar, I always seem to enjoy the classes. I appreciate the [...]

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