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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Archer House celebrates 140 years, appears as vibrant as ever

PROGRESS/ PORTRAITS 2017 A special section of the Northfield News 115 W. 5th St., Northfield, MN 55057 507-645-5616 Publisher & Editor Chad Hjellming Associate Editor Nick Gerhardt Creative Services Jenny Schoenbauer Advertising Sales Joan Koester Jay Petsche Editorial Philip Weyhe Matt Paulsen

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In terms of iconic Northfield attractions, the Archer House is toward the top of the list.

The riverside hotel turns 140 this year and much like the Cannon River it resides next to, it too has survived the ebbs and flows of time.

As the hotel celebrates its 140th birthday this year it’s at one of its healthiest moments in its existence.

“This year our occupancy has been rising significantly faster than we expected,” said Todd Byhre, chief operating officer and director of operations for Rebound Hospitality, the parent company of the Archer House. “The biggest turnaround since I’ve been here is summer times. You could count on strong business through the first 10 days in June and again pick up in late August. In that interim, summers were sort of a disaster for the hotel. Now July is one of our stronger months.”

From July of 2009 to 2017, the Archer House has seen a 250 percent increase in revenue, Byhre said. The hotel sees around 20,000 guests annually these days, which comes after several years of revamping the building.

The hotel opened Aug. 23, 1877 with 50 rooms and underwent a series of ownership changes before Dallas Haas purchased the building in 1981. The hotel was known as Stewart Hotel when Haas bought it but had previously been known as the Ball Hotel and as the Manawa Hotel.

Haas poured considerable time and money into revitalizing the building and brought retail shops and restaurants into the space. Fifteen tons of brick on the third floor

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alone were removed, according to the Northfield News archives. But after he died in 1995 due to a heart attack in the Archer House, the hotel’s future wasn’t clear.

A group of investors stepped forward to purchase the hotel and keep it vibrant. That group included Rebound Enterprises CEO Brett Reese, who continues to head the parent company of the Archer House.

“It’s such an important asset to the community, to the downtown,” Reese said. “It’s a pillar of the downtown. It brings people here to spend their money. It’s an economic driver. It’s an icon.

We wanted to try to carry it on.”

It wasn’t easy to do at times as the landscape of downtown started to shift. Buildings had started turning into condos in the area and discussions about the Archer House’s future started taking shape.

“At the time in 2006, a lot of the downtown buildings were starting to become condoized,” said Rebound Hospitality Chief Strategy Officer and Principal of Rebound Enterprises Jennifer Sawyer said.

“One of the ideas for the Archer House was, is this something that would be condoized. We also knew there was a spirit of the Archer House that really connected to St. Olaf and Carleton.”

The group studied other hotels near colleges like the Hanover Inn at Dartmouth, the Inn at Harvard, which later closed in 2013, and Morris Inn at Notre Dame to understand the connection those colleges had to hotels in the community. They found out the hotels and colleges shared a unique relationship.

“They said it’s everything to us,” Sawyer said. “We thought

about it and said this is too important of an asset on a downtown main street to condoize. It may have been more profitable, but the spirit of this is to remain as it is.”

Once the group decided to hold on to the hotel it sought out someone who could not only manage it but make it thrive.

They found Byhre, who had once turned down a group who asked him to manage it back when Haas died in 1995. Byhre had grown accustomed to managing larger hotel operations, like the Crowne Plaza in Eagan, a 430-room complex near the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport.

“I said I couldn’t even consider moving to something that small,” Byhre said. “…No one builds 36room hotels for a reason.”

But Byhre took a look around in 2008 and found the building in good shape structurally, though there was plenty to update inside.

Serious renovations took place shortly after Byhre’s hiring. The building needed upgrades to its life safety components and needed to become compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Byhre led efforts to revamp the guest rooms and later the fourth floor great room.

The Archer House got $100,000 from the city of Northfield for the restroom renovations while a total of $1.2 million poured into fixing up the hotel in a span of three years from 2009 to 2012.

Tenants

The hotel has had longtime tenants like Chapati, the Tavern, A Bag Lady and Paper Petalum to drive traffic.

“We’re a boutique model and the hotel is one important piece of that,” Sawyer said. “We honor all of

The Archer House back when it was known as The Manawa shows the former brick exterior. (Photo courtesy of the Archer House)

these spaces in a different way. It’s just a different concept. It’s really a community space. It’s a community mall where all are welcome.”

Having those tenants, along with the recent addition of Smoqe House keeps the area one of the busiest in Northfield.

“That just adds to the vibrancy of the building, which adds to the vibrancy of the downtown,” Reese said.

Rebound Hospitality operates two other hotels – Hotel Winneshiek in Decorah, Iowa and Des Lux Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa —and the Archer House is the busiest in part because of the boutique model it employs.

“Out of the hotels we have this is the busiest one,” Byhre said. “There’s a volume of traffic that goes through this building on a day. I don’t know if there’s a busier building outside of Target and Cub in Northfield.”

Future

With the 80-room Marriott Fairfield Inn and Suites hotel, which is also owned by Rebound Enterprises, set to open in the spring of 2018, the Archer House

expects to see even more traffic coming.

“With the extension of the Marriott property we’re now extending that front door,” Archer House Manager Arianna Eagar said.

Since 2009, the Archer House has completed renovations to every room and will begin the second wave of upgrades. With the new hotel on the horizon, the Archer House has plans to scale back on the number of rooms it will have.

The Archer House will reduce its rooms from 36 to 31 in the future.

This summer exterior work will take place and the last of the 10 small rooms will be consolidated into five, larger rooms.

“It’s really important to us, it’s really important to Brett and Jennifer, to make this something that’s going to be passed on generationally,” Byhre said. “We invested in the infrastructure, not just the cosmetic.”

Nick Gerhardt is the Northfield News Associate Editor.

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Communication, collaboration and community part of NDDC Greetings from Downtown Northfield! This past January, I became the Executive Director of the NDDC and I spent my first weeks on the job learning about the history, current work and future goals of the organization. In case you’re not familiar with the Northfield Downtown Development Corporation, it is a nonprofit organization dedicated to sustaining a vibrant downtown.

We support downtown business owners, service providers, property owners and residents because we believe that our community is only as strong as its core. Our work is made possible through private donations and a contract for services with the city of Northfield. As a main street organization, we aim to be the hub of the wheel for downtown — connecting all the important spokes that

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It has a unique sense of place that is becoming increasingly rare in America. This year at the NDDC, we are celebrating that spirit of unity and connection by focusing our efforts on communication, collaboration and community.

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Northfield area. As the NDDC fulfills our contract with the city of Northfield, we are researching the creation of a Special Services District and Main Street America Community Designation status. We also continue to assist the city with economic development initiatives and work alongside the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce and the Northfield Convention & Visitors Bureau to promote downtown and help its businesses thrive.

Our vision group is developing other ways we can enjoy more community downtown, working on ideas like parklets, Bridge Square updates, bike trail signage and coming this fall, monthly First Fridays art walks.

The future looks bright for downtown Northfield. With the opening of two new breweries, a new restaurant, and the groundbreaking of a new Marriott hotel, 2017 has been an exciting year.

Join us in making 2018 even better! Learn more about our work at www.downtownnorthfield. org, send your ideas to me at jenni@nddc.org and consider supporting our efforts with a tax-deductible donation. See you downtown!

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Carleton College Weitz Center music building set for September

By PHILIP WEYHE

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This September, six years after opening its doors, the Carleton College Weitz Center will do it again.

This time, the doors will face the southeast corner of the property and open to the newest and last addition to the center: the music and performance commons. The new 58,000-squarefoot space adds on to the existing 135,000-square-foot building and includes a 400-seat music hall, rehearsal rooms, classrooms, practice rooms, storage space and more.

In 2010-11, Carelton refurbished the former Northfield Middle School building to suit the college’s needs while also retaining the historical and architectural integrity of the original building. The Weitz Center, which opened in 2011, is home to dance, theater, cinema and media studies, bringing the disciplines together in one space.

Starting with the 2017 school year, it will house music as well.

“The idea of building this place was to bring the arts back to the forefront at the college,” Carleton Director of the Arts Steve Richardson said. “And for five years, we’ve been very successful in doing that, and to bring music in here is a tremendous opportunity.”

The $35 million project is made possible, in part, by contributions from Wally and Barbara Weitz and their family, to the tune of $20 million. The Weitz family has provided more money to the college than any other donor.

Wally and Barbara graduated from the school in 1970. Their three children later followed.

The family has shown specific interest in areas of financial aid and opening up opportunities for students to take part in the arts.

“The Weitz family’s vision and generosity is humbling — a singular example of the dedication of Carls to their alma mater and the strong tradition of giving that exists here at Carleton,” said Carleton President Steve Poskanzer.

Music and performance commons

McGough previously worked on the Guthrie and Palace theaters in the Twin Cities, music centers at Macalester College and St. Paul Academy, and many other similar projects.

McGough Construction Superintendent Dave Meyers explained some of the design features that allow rooms in the new Weitz Center building to provide high quality acoustics.

“The [Weitz Center] is designed with three separate structures to allow acoustic separation between the spaces,” he said. “All the different spaces are isolated structurally. The [concert hall] is set up to modulate between a reflective and absorbing state. You have the ability to set up differently for a vocalist, dance performance, orchestra.”

The concert hall is taller than it is wide. There is room for about 300 seats facing the stage in the lower level, while about 100 more audience members can head into the balcony above. The space, according to Richardson, is a needed upgrade from the existing Carleton music hall.

“The current concert hall is kind of a failed building. It leaks.

The maintenance of it is untenable. There’s no backstage,” he said. “There’s about 1,000 more cubic feet of volume in [the new concert hall] for acoustics, and yet it’s still more intimate.”

Meyers went on to describe some of the other features of the addition. He noted that many of the rooms throughout the building boast 350-400-pound doors, helping to keep noise contained. Some walls are also built with spaces in the middle to prevent sound from transferring through them.

“It’s all about acoustics and sound editing, so you’re not hearing music from one room to the next,” Meyers said.

According to Richardson, there are about 600 Carleton students enrolled in music courses, music lessons and/or campus musical groups, who will access the new commons at various times.

The site will also be available to the community, as the college plans to continue offering free performances from both students, faculty and outside talent.

“We have a lot of community support for the performances and the films we show. We’re not gong to start charging or anything,” Richardson said. “We bring in a lot of guest artists already. I think this space makes it possible to bring in more complex multimedia type events.”

Construction is well underway on the music and performance commons addition to the Weitz Center. The design was completed several months ago. The walls are up, mostly painted. Most of the small classrooms and practice spaces are ready to go. It’s now a Neighborhood concerns matter of details.

McGough Construction Cos. is the lead contractor on the and future plans The old music center and project and collaborated with Hammel Green & Abrahamson performance hall will see its architects to design the space for life temporarily extended, even maximum acoustic performance. after the Weitz Center addition

The Weitz Center addition includes a 400-seat concert hall, pictured here. The hall is designed to maximize acoustics, while also keeping sound from seeping out. (Philip Weyhe/Northfield News)

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Carleton Director of Media Relations Eric Sieger opens the door from the completed Weitz Center original building to the in-construction Weitz Center addition. The addition is complete with a new 400-seat concert hall, several smallersized performance halls, classrooms, offices and more. (Philip Weyhe/Northfield News)

opens in September. Carleton Director of Media Relations Eric Sieger said the old music space will become temporary science space, as the college embarks on its next big construction project: a new science complex. Sieger noted the college hopes to open that in 2020.

Once the science complex is completed, the old concert hall will be demolished. However, the music hall will not be, as it’s over 100 years old, and the college hopes to find new uses for the building.

Its newest projects represent a move toward the future for Carleton College. The liberal arts institution, established in 1866, is pushing ahead full throttle, renovating old spaces and/or building anew. It’s all part of keeping up with the times.

The Weitz Center is a perfect example.

“It’s an enhancement of what’s going on at Carleton,” Richardson said. “The reason for building this was to recognize the fact there are different ways of communicating, different tools we can give students. This building makes that possible.”

Carleton’s newest building is located within the heart of Northfield, surrounded by residential neighborhoods. Some of

Carleton College posted an FAQ on its website, in regards to its most recent major construction project: the music and performance commons addition at the Weitz Center. See the full FAQ at apps.carleton.edu/community/ planning/campusprojects/faq.

Why this project and why now?

“The music and performance addition is identified as one of the top-priority initiatives emerging from Carleton’s strategic plan and facilities master plan. The $35 million addition will house the majority of the music program and create a new performance space of high acoustic quality to replace the existing concert hall. These facilities will support a broad range of curricular and co-curricular music and performance needs and will further integrate creativity across the disciplines as rehearsal spaces, the music resource library, and teaching studios are relocated to this space.”

How will the music addition relate to Central Park?

“The new addition is being designed to complement the 1910 original school building and perimeter scaled to integrate with surrounding uses. Entrance to the new addition will be through the main doors off Third Street.

The college will continue to be considerate of Central Park and has no intentions of filling it with classes or anything else related to Weitz programming. Students are encouraged to not use the playground equipment and to be sensitive to other users of the park at all times.”

How is the project addressing sound and lighting at night coming from within the building?

“The new addition will utilize state-of-the-art sound proofing to ensure a quiet surrounding outside the building. After 10 p.m., lights inside the Weitz Center Commons are reduced by 40 percent. The new addition is being designed in a way to minimize night light. Windows in the new addition facing the park are primarily staff offices where lights will be off when not in use and the windows will have blinds installed.”

Will the community have access to the new addition?

“Carleton has a long-standing tradition of offering a variety of free public events and that will continue when the new addition is built. The college averages 1,000 free public lectures/athletic events/speakers/cultural events each academic year, several of them at the Weitz Center.

Carleton also accommodates many community events at the Weitz Center during times when classes are not in session and contributes more than $10,000 of in-kind donations annually to non-profit community groups for their events at the Weitz Center.”

the neighbors of the Weitz Center expressed displeasure with the ongoing project when Carleton brought its updated plans for the center to the Northfield Planning Commission last year.

Members of the Northfield Eastside Neighborhood Association said at the April 2016 meeting the college was moving quickly without taking public input. Residents complained of the original building’s lights flooding down the street, and the new addition bumping up against Central Park.

In 2006, after receiving a conditional use permit, the college was given the go-ahead to allow college-related facilities in a residential zone. Because the original construction did not utilize all of the available building space, the music commons addition does not require a new permit or amendments to the original permit.

The college attempted to answer some resident concerns with an FAQ on the Weitz Center website, and it has taken measures to alleviate concerns — dimming lights, putting offices in spaces facing the residences and placing the tallest part of the building (the concert hall) in the center.

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From Detour Days to destination, Dundas sees development

By NICK GERHARDT

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It’s pretty easy to see there’s a lot going on in Dundas these days.

A quick drive south on Hwy. 3 reveals a couple of big projects are underway, but farther into town shows the town known for “Detour Days” is becoming more of a destination.

With the purchase and remodel of the former Kmart building

by CJB Real Estate II, LLC out of Red Wing, it’s clear the spot will no longer be a place just for deals.

The remodeling of the building includes plans for a 10-screen movie theater, the relocation of Behr’s USA Flooring and Canvas Church. Next door in the former Sears building will be an MGM Wine and Spirits liquor store. Add in the opening of Chapel Brewing and the inflation of the Dundas Dome and there’s a lot of development taking place in Dundas.

Across the highway an Aldi is being erected and up the hill Bridgewater Heights will start seeing more homes built in the

future.

The road leading to Bridgewater Heights will see significant upgrades in 2018 as the county will repair County Road 1. The county will also construct a trail and a roundabout to make the road safer for pedestrians and bicyclists.

Dundas is well positioned for additional growth as well.

“The pieces that are in place — the water tower, the increase of services, everything is in place for the town to double commercial and housing without having to add any infrastructure and that’s key,” Dundas Mayor Glenn Switzer said. “We spent a lot of time figuring out where things should go, how they should go.”

City Administrator John McCarthy says the recent development has been serendipitous, especially considering the group from Red Wing completed similar work with a former Kmart building there. But Switzer says it’s also the result of a lot of work along the way to position the city for growth.

DUNDAS DEVELOPMENT Dundas has several projects under construction and others that finished recently. Among them are: Dundas Dome Aldi MGM Wine and Spirits Behr’s USA Flooring Movie theater Canvas Church Chapel Brewing Two other potential projects are in the works.

“Right now, where we’re at is the fruits of a lot of labor by a lot of people — not just this council but previous councils and previous administrations,” Switzer said.

“I think I’d argue that we’ve been in this position for a long time.

It’s a slow growth. Some would think it’s really, really fast but it’s a slow, steady growth. It’s just more recognizable with some development.”

Dundas saw close to $9 million in construction last year and

Development of the former Kmart building in Dundas along Hwy. 3 continues this summer. The redevelopment includes plans for a 10-screen movie theater, an MGM Wine and Spirits liquor store and Behr’s USA Flooring. (Nick Gerhardt/Northfield News)

has more plans in 2018. The city wants to build a new city hall just down the road on the old schoolhouse lot. It has $1.1 million budgeted for the new city hall and wants to use the former city hall as a commercial space. The new city hall could be four to six lots with a two-story mixed use building.

Dundas’ tax-increment fi-

nancing districts will begin to decertify at the end of 2017 as well. Though the city won’t see the impact of that right away, it’s a big step for Dundas.

“One of the goals that helped to trigger it at this time, because of the TIF districts being decertified there is an opportunity to pick up some additional money over the general tax base,” McCarthy said.

That would help pay for the city hall without having to increase taxes.”

Dundas weathered the housing bust by setting conservative estimates for the Bridgewater Heights development but it’s still been a long road to seeing more housing go up in the city.

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Northfield Area Family YMCA: Building and strengthening relationships 2016 was a milestone year.

The Y’s capital campaign pledge goal was achieved by year-end and for the first time in many years, the Y’s strategic plan priorities did not include raising capital funds for the new facility. At the Y, strengthening community is our cause so it’s no surprise that this year’s goals include ensuring we remain important and relevant to our community as well as expanding and growing the Y’s healthy living and youth development work.

Planning efforts began last fall with the completion of a community needs assessment. We also

documented our involvement in over 72 businesses, groups and organizations in a wide array of Y partnerships and collaborations.

Conversations quickly began on ways to deepen these relationships for greater community impact. Working together brings all our strengths and resources to the table for the greater good, while reducing duplication and costs.

New partnerships this year include nutrition and fitness programs with the registered dietitian nutritionist at Northfield Hospital, combined staff training for CPR, first aid and lifeguard certification with Northfield Com-

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munity Services, employment and volunteer opportunity work with Epic Enterprises and Laura Baker Services, utilizing space at Northfield Evangelical Free Church for our growing Tween Summer Day Camp and providing opportunities for Project Friendship and Big Brothers, Big Sisters. We’re also a safe, healthy and fun activity destination for the Union of Youth and for the Northfield High

School summer physical education program.

Key strategies to success also include expanding family opportunities, ensuring membership and programs are accessible to all and working to attract and retain the best employees.

Twenty-five percent of our community members (in a 10mile radius, population of 31,000plus) continue to participate in healthy and supportive programs and services at our Y. Additionally, a monthly average of 650 adults and youth receive financial support from the Y’s annual Scholarship Fund. Our goal is to eliminate financial barriers so that

anyone and everyone who wants to participate in swimming, recreation, fitness, family, summer camp or youth in government programs at the Y, can.

Everyone is welcome at the Y and you do not need to be a member to participate. In fact, on average, 125 guests visit every week. People come to play hoops in the gym, participate in one of 50-plus group or aqua exercise classes, enjoy family time in the pool, participate in recreation programs or walk/run in comfort on our indoor track.

To bring about meaningful healthy changes, we all need ongoing support, encouragement

and connections to others — all of which our Y provides in abundance. That’s why we focus our work on three areas: 1. Youth Development — nurturing the potential of every child and teen 2. Healthy Living — improving community health and wellbeing 3. Social Responsibility — giving back and providing support to our neighbors.

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Northfield Chamber serves vital role in community For over 97 years, the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce & Tourism has been working to improve the economic climate, business environment and community image of the Northfield Area. Started in 1920 as the Northfield Commercial Club, the Chamber today is “THE” business community resource, serving as the voice of the Northfield area business community.

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The Northfield Area Chamber is a versatile and powerful business tool that provides a variety of benefits to businesses and generates a return on investment. The Chamber is an action organization that concentrates its efforts in the areas of business development, business promotion, workforce educations, public relations, tourism, membership programs and services, economic development and government affairs.

In addition, the Chamber

manages the Convention & Visitors Bureau, connecting the local business community with out of town visitors. Through Chamber events like Crazy Daze, Winter Walk, Girls Night Out, and the spring Home & Garden Show, the chamber connects local business and Northfield area residents together. Our “Chamber Buck” and New Resident Welcome Kit programs help stimulate our “Be Local — Buy Local” campaign.

The Chamber has established the following values; member focus, respectability, collaboration, leadership, volunteerism and fun, that the organization operates by. Our objective is to serve as a leader and catalyst in providing a favorable business climate and cultivating the uniqueness to the com-

munity. We achieve this thru the implementation of our action plan around our goals of membership, economic development, advocacy, tourism, programming and fun.

Chamber members are dedicated individuals committed to providing excellent products and services, while giving back to their local community with their time and resources. Look for the 2017 Chamber sticker on the door or window of your Northfield Area businesses. It is your sign of their commitment to the business and local community.

Todd Bornhauser is the president of the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce & Tourism

A year of transition for Northfield Area United Way

By NORTHFIELD AREA UNITED WAY

2017 has been a year of transition for Northfield Area United Way. In January, after more than two years at the head of the organization, Executive Director Elizabeth Child stepped down.

Over the next five months, Associate Director Kathy Thacher and the Board of Directors did a great job keeping the United Way’s essential work moving forward.

In May, the Board hired Penny Hillemann to be the organization’s new executive director.

Penny has lived in Northfield for 27 years. Her former work at Neuger Communications Group included advising and writing for several local nonprofits, and she brings years of local volunteer board experience. Penny is deeply familiar with our community and its changing needs.

One of Hillemann’s first tasks was announcing our annual grant allocations. Grant applications were reviewed in the spring by the board plus 19

other community volunteers serving on allocation panels or conducting financial reviews.

This is truly a community-supported process.

Grants totaling $263,000 were announced to 18 nonprofit agency partners for the 2017-2018 funding year — $131,000 in the area of financial stability/basic needs, $76,500 in education, and $55,500 in health. Priority was given to programs that serve the greatest need and help the greatest number of community members.

Partner agencies play an essential role in Northfield Area United Way’s commitment to fighting for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in our community. Our partner agencies are listed at northfieldunitedway. org. Their essential work includes: • Hunger relief • Shelter and support for people in crisis, including victims of domestic abuse, and women and children facing homelessness • Job training and placement

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for low-income, underemployed and unemployed people • Preventing child abuse • Ensuring access to health care for all, regardless of income • Quality afterschool and summertime programs for lowincome and at-risk kids • Educational and recreational programs for youth and adults with disabilities • Chemical and mental health counseling for teens • Literacy efforts to make sure kids are reading at grade level by third grade • Making sure all youth graduate from high school with a plan for their future In addition to the grant allocations, this year the Northfield Area United Way also supported: • Imagination Librar y, promoting early childhood literacy by sending a free, ageappropriate book every month to children from birth to age five.

• Character Playbook, cosponsored by United Way and the NFL, introduced in Northfield Public Schools’ PRIMEtime pro-

gram, at Arcadia Charter School, and in Tri-City Schools — teaching students the skills to cultivate character and maintain healthy relationships.

• Northfield Public Library’s new Bookmobile, improving literacy and success in school, especially for children who lack transportation, and reaching isolated seniors.

No other organization meets the broad range of local needs addressed by the Northfield Area United Way. But the needs continue to be compelling. While we awarded more than a quarter of a million dollars in grants this year, grant requests exceeded the available funds by more than $175,000.

The United Way mobilizes the caring power of individuals, organizations and networks to help neighbors in need and have a lasting impact on our most pressing challenges. Our fall campaign will be gearing up soon, and our goal will be ambitious. Please watch for information on how you can step up to be a hero in our community.

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ANNIVERSARY: SWAG Name of Company: swag – Fine and Funky Art Address: 423 Division St. S, Northfield Owner: Mary Closner Year started: 2003 Tell us about your business and how you have remained a vital part of the Northfield Community for so long? By providing amazing customer service that you can’t get at big box stores. Also, having unusual stock that highlights art at every price point. We believe art is important for all parts of your life (i.e. for your dog, in your kitchen, in your bathroom, etc.).

How has your business changed over the years to meet your customer’s needs? We opened with a heavy emphasis on sculpture and furniture. We’ve now leaned toward one-of-a-kind and hard to find gifts. We pride ourselves on selling things you can’t find everywhere.

As an ex-greeting card manufacturer, I specialize in working with small, “mom and pop” size companies as well as individual artists.

My mom started this store in 2003 and at age 91 is still my favorite (and only) employee.

What is the best thing about operating a business in Northfield? Northfield is a really fun and eccentric town that appreciates artists and values handmade work. The colleges give us a chance to interact with students and meet their entire families over a course of four years. We’ve become friends with many of them!

ANNIVERSARY: GOOTERS DOUGH TO GO & MORE Name of Company: Gooters Dough to Go & More Address: 200 Schilling Drive, Dundas Owner or Owners: Peggy Weaver Year started: March 28, 2012 the doors were opened. Five years this year and counting!

Tell us about your business and how you have remained a vital part of the Northfield community for so long? It brings in lots of out of town visitors all year long. With the only gourmet ice cream in town from The Chocolate Shoppe in Milwaukee and goodies form the Amish and lots of different restaurant, institution, school and retail venues. Goodies you can take home and bake fresh yourself. Examples are: garlic cheddar biscuits like at Red Lobster, and breadsticks like Olive Garden, pastries like other bakeries, cinnamon rolls in three sizes, the list goes on and on. I also use Local suppliers such as Busy Bee of Cannon Falls for Local Honey Products.

How has your business changed over the years to meet your customer’s needs? Our product line is continually expanding, to our take-n-bake pizzas we have added grab-n–go pizza we make fresh on a great thin crusts and are in our freezer to grab and freeze until you would like to bake and enjoy it. The gluten-free area is also being added to with a variety of products that differs from any retail setting with yummy chocolate chip and ginger snap cookies in the dough form to take home and bake fresh yourself.

What is the best thing about operating a business in Northfield? The wide variety of customer base it has with the two colleges and other visiting families.

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Anniversary: Jesse james lanes as weddings, rehearsal dinners and birthdays for individuals, companies, churches, schools and both colleges. It’s a great venue for networking and team building.

In addition, we have experience. Our staff has been with us for many years and they get to know our customers by name and establish friendships.

Coaching, which is available at no charge, is another way we can help. We feel the better you are, the more you will enjoy the game.

What is the best thing about operating a business in Northfield?

Our customers! During the 40 years we have owned Jesse James Lanes we’ve got to know hundreds of people and run into them everywhere. Around town, the metro area and even on vacation. Sometimes we feel like celebrities. We’ve seen our youth bowlers turn into adults and our adult bowlers turn into seniors who now come with their grandchildren to enjoy the game.

Coming to Northfield was one of the best things that ever happened to us.

It allowed us to raise our family and now spend time with our grandkids, who are growing up here as well, in one of the greatest communities, with the best schools, in the country.

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Name of company: Jesse James Lanes Address: 1700 Bollenbacher Drive, Northfield Owner or owners: Terry and Julie Heilman Year started: 1977 Tell us about your business and how you have remained a vital part of the Northfield community for so long?

Jesse James Lanes is a full service bowling center with 16 lanes, game room, pro shop, banquet rooms, food service and lounge.

In order to remain a vital part of the Northfield area, it has been our pleasure to reinvest in our business by upgrading and modernizing our facility to provide our customers with the latest and greatest in bowling equipment.

How has your business changed over the years to meet your customer’s needs? Our most recent addition came last fall when we installed a new scoring system that offers a whole new way to play, including all sorts of different games, animations and environments. You can even talk to one another on different lanes and access Facebook, if you like.

In addition to our league bowlers, we go out of our way to accommodate all ages and all types of parties and meetings, such

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2017 becoming a year of firsts for Northfield Shares It’s been a busy year for Northfield Shares in its efforts to advance philanthropy, inspire volunteerism and promote collaborative leadership. We’ve experienced some exciting developments thus far in 2017, and we are thrilled about our prospects for the remainder of the year as well.

We started 2017 with our largest grants cycle to date, providing over $68,000 in funding to 15 local nonprofits. Just a few of the grant recipients included Community Action Center, Healthy Community Initiative, HealthFinders Collaborative and Project Friendship.

Our organization expanded its capacity through a generous grant from the Ames Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation. With that grant, Northfield Shares hired its first full-time executive director; I’m honored to be here and look forward to helping spur Northfield Shares’ future growth.

In February and March, Northfield Shares began the pro-

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cess of managing all of our funds in Northfield. We currently manage $1.7 million in assets, and we are confident we will increase that amount to approximately $2 million in the next few weeks. Within five years, we hope to be managing $10 million in assets. These funds are important, as they not only spin off dollars to enhance the quality of life in the Northfield area, but also provide funds to ensure the health, vibrancy and sustainability of our community foundation long into the future.

Northfield Shares is currently in discussions with several local nonprofits interested in having their investible assets managed locally. These partnerships will enable both Northfield Shares and

the associated nonprofits to expand their collective community impact.

So what’s in store for Northfield Shares in the near future?

In just six weeks, one of the most important parts of our year will occur: the Defeat of Jesse James Days Run/Walk, presented by Community Resource Bank, on Sept. 10. Outside of this event, Northfield Shares really hasn’t reached out to the community for fundraising in an effort not to compete with local nonprofits for funding. However, until we build our endowments to a point where they can fund our daily operations, this fundraiser is vitally important for “keeping the lights on.” We hope you can join us for this event as a participant, sponsor or volunteer.

We will soon begin the research phase for determining the viability of a communitywide volunteer portal. During the process, we will be reaching out to community stakeholders

for their input.

Finally, Northfield Shares is also working to complete the National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations Accreditation Program, which reinforces integrity, professionalism and legal compliance by the charitable giving sector. The accreditation process is rigorous, and undertaking it demonstrates our commitment to accountability and excellence to our donors, community, policymakers, and the public. The Accreditation Seal is only achieved by those foundations that comply with 26 distinct standards of excellence.

Northfield Shares is excited about what’s happening at our organization, and we hope you will join us in our efforts to make Northfield a better place to live, work and play. Visit northfieldshares.org to learn how you can help.

Mike Krance is the executive director of Northfield Shares.

Northfield Public Library working on new initaitives We have been in our newly remodeled building for a little over a year, and we have settled in very well. We continue to have visitors and residents who have not seen the renovated space express their appreciation for the design, lightness and welcoming atmosphere of the library.

Last fall, we even received an award for the Best Library in Minnesota as voted by viewers of WCCO television! We find that our atrium in particular is a lovely space to read, meet friends, or hear a musical event or poetry reading. The acoustics are very good for performances of all types, and we will continue to take advantage of the space for upcoming programs this fall and winter.

And speaking of performances, our Books and Stars programming is having another successful year in city parks, with most events at either Way Park or Central Park. Magicians, musicians and Minnesota Zoo reptiles are among the roster of performers for these family fun events. Our last

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Books and Stars night will be on Aug. 2 at Central Park with Voice of Culture, a performance of West African drumming and dance. More information about Books and Stars can be found at mynpl.org. All performances are free and begin on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Books and Stars is a partnership of the Northfield Public Library, Northfield Public Schools, Community Services Division, the Northfield Hospital and Clinics, SEMAC and SELCO/SELS Legacy Grants.

We have several new initiatives that we are working on this year; our largest in fundraising and in size is the purchase of a new bookmobile for library outreach services. The Ames Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation is funding 55 percent of

the cost, with city of Northfield and community funds, including Northfield Rotary, Taylor Trucking, Northfield United Way and the Friends of the Library paying the remaining 45 percent. We expect to have the bookmobile by the end of the year.

Another visible addition to library services has been the library BookBike, designed by patron Eric Johnson and built by River City Builders. It is a very colorful blue and orange unit with a lively striped umbrella on top. We ride the BookBike to Books and Stars on Wednesdays and to the Riverwalk Market Fair on Saturdays, where we check out books to people just like a regular library! In addition, we talk a lot about library events and services, and provide community/visitor information to the RWMF attendees. On Thursday evenings, the BookBike becomes a part of Northfield Promise’s early literacy initiative, with book giveaways in several neighborhoods around town.

We are also collaborating with retired children’s librarian Kathy Ness to promote the creation and use of Boomerang Bags at the library. We purchase and give away many high-quality plastic bags for carrying books every month; in an effort to reduce the use of disposable plastic, volunteers have sewn bags for use and reuse to carry library materials. Just bring them back — the “Boomerang” part — and save a plastic bag.

Our IT Department, with IT Manager Kurt Wolf at the helm is exploring the possibility of high-speed internet for Northfield residents as a part of the city of Northfield’s Strategic Planning initiatives. We are in the preliminary stages of evaluation and planning to determine need, partners and costs, but this is definitely a worthwhile initiative to explore.

Teresa Jensen is the director of the Northfield Public Library and IT Services.

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Northfield Shares is a community foundation with the mission to sustain and transform the Northfield community by advancing philanthropy, inspiring volunteerism and promoting collaborative leadership.

Northfield Shares’ greatest assets are the people of Northfield. They drive our community forward with their generosity of time, generosity of financial resources and generosity of spirit. Join us today!

Special thanks to the Northfield News for its support of volunteerism and philanthropy.

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NORTHFIELD NEWS PROGRESS

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City’s progress is dependent on wise infrastructure investments One of the most important functions of city government is efficient and effective maintenance of our public infrastructure including our public buildings, drinking water systems, wastewater collection and treatment, and stormwater management systems.

This requires a large commitment of resources. According to our recently completed 2016 Comprehensive Financial Audit, the city’s investment in capital assets (net of accumulated depreciation) is about $83 million. The costs to manage and maintain the capital infrastructure assets we have can seem like a daunting task. Essentially, successful management of our infrastructure that supports our community objectives requires sustained fiscal commitment of resources in a well-planned manner.

Northfield’s ratio of capital assets left to depreciate is 60 percent, which is in line with our peer groups and illustrates that

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overall our assets still have significant useful life remaining. The city auditor emphasized that this is a financial strength of Northfield and encouraged the city to continue ongoing investments in its infrastructure.

The city continues to seek wise infrastructure investments with its current projects. Construction of a water well house in Spring Creek Soccer Complex includes an enhanced picnic space.

The Wastewater treatment plant is modernized with replacement of its Ultraviolet Disinfection System. Partial street reconstructions at a cost of over $1 million with added sidewalks to improve connectivity and pedestrian safety will be completed along with four miles of street crack sealing

and coating. The East Cannon River Trail project continues construction that residents and visitors will enjoy for many years.

Meadows Park Community gardens are now used by residents to grow fresh produce for their friends and families.

The council has an ongoing commitment to infrastructure investment in 2018. Street improvements are moving forward at an estimated cost of over $3.5 million, including reconstruction of Division Street from Sixth to Eighth and Seventh Street from Washington to Water Street as well as downtown parking lot improvements and upgrades to Spring Creek Road. Engineering analysis continues to evaluate capital management plans for our stormwater management system as well as a street pavement condition analysis that will be used for capital maintenance planning.

The city is also continuing to thoughtfully plan for the needs of our public buildings. Progress

continues on plans for an expanded joint fire station scheduled for construction in 2018 that will benefit Northfield as well as Dundas and area townships. Additionally, the city is analyzing options for the long-term needs for the ice arena and Northfield Liquors is looking at improving customer service and selection by considering a new location.

The city council has an ongoing commitment to the community’s infrastructure needs, which is demonstrated by identifying public infrastructure as one of the six key strategic priorities within its current three-year strategic plan that’s underway. Progress in infrastructure comes at a cost.

However, it is not only fiscally responsible to have a diligent commitment to ongoing investment in our infrastructure, but it’s the right thing to do for future generations.

Rhonda Pownell is the mayor of Northfield.

Northfield Public Schools adapting to economic challenges Northfield Public Schools will prepare every student for lifelong success within a world-class learning environment with a commitment to community partnerships and sustainability.

Highlights during the past 12 months: • The district completed a strategic planning process with the help of 186 participants. The Board of Education adopted a new vision statement, updated mission statement, two ongoing priorities, and four near-term priorities.

• The Board of Education approved a Master Facilities Plan following a two-year process that included 25 meetings with parents, community, and staff as well as online engagement opportunites.

• Professional Learning Communities supported teacher collaboration, pursuing increased student achievement through high quality, relationship-based, and data-informed instruction.

• The District continued to support students having difficulty learning or struggling with behavior issues through Multi Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), Positive Behavior and

• Community support of the Operating and Capital Projects Levies, the District’s continued financial stewardDr. Matt ship and self-insured healthHillmann care allowed us to maintain all programs and staff for the Intervention Systems (PBIS), and 2017-18 school year.

Alternative Delivery of Specialized Instructional Services (AD- Future plans and SIS programming).

• Northfield students contin- progress • Despite fiscal stewardship ued to out-perform the state and that has allowed the district to nation in MAP, MCA, and ACT. • 86 percent of Advanced maintain current programming Placement (AP) tests taken at longer than outlined during the Northfield High School in 2016 2011 operating levy election, resulted in students earning col- long-term state underfunding of public schools creates challenges lege credit.

• The ninth grade Academy for maximized long-term finanand the TORCH programs con- cial planning.

• The district will ask voters to tinue to support high graduation consider two proposals on Nov. 7 rates and college entrance.

• Northfield High School that would: 1. repeal the district’s curSocial Studies teacher Sarah Swan-McDonad was identified rent operating levy and replace as one of 11 finalists for Min- it with an operating levy at the nesota Teacher of the Year and maximum amount authorized by Bridgewater Elementary Princi- Minnesota law for 10 years with pal Nancy Antoine was selected an inflationary factor included.

2. authorize the district to as one of three finalists for Minnesota’s National Distinguished sell $109 million in bonds for the purpose of implementing Principal award. the Master Facilities Plan. This Adapting to economic includes constructing a new high school on the current high school challenges property and raze the current

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high school, constructing a new elementary school at the same location as the current Greenvale Park Elementary site and repurposing that building as an early childhood center, and modest renovations at Bridgewater Elementary, Sibley Elementary, and Longfellow School. The new high school is estimated to cost $78.5 million and the elementary projects are projected to cost $30.5 million.

• The district will continue to address the achievement gap, focusing on all students reaching critical benchmarks on the cradle-to-career continuum. A new K-8 social/emotional curriculum will be implemented in 2017-18 and a new K-5 reading curriculum will be implemented in 2018-19.

Optimism for the future

• District staff deeply appreciates our supportive community and remains committed to delivering educational excellence empowering all learners to engage in our dynamic world.

Dr. Matt Hillmann is the superintendent of Northfield Public Schools.

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ANNIVERSARY: MONTESSORI CHILDREN’S HOUSE Name of Company: Montessori Children’s House Address: 2400 Division St. S, Northfield Owner: Megan Ray Durkin Year started: 2007 Tell us about your business and how you have remained a vital part of the Northfield Community for so long? MCH provides an authentic Montessori learning environment for children ages 2 1/2 to 6. We have been fortunate to enjoy steady growth in Northfield over these 10 years and have many alumni families who are near and dear to us. The children who have attended MCH carry within them the qualities we embrace at our school — a sense of independence and self-motivation, keen concentration and a collaborative and noncompetitive nature. The location of our property enabled us to build a school with a strong connection to the earth, with opportunities for young children to care for animals, gardens, and to play in a natural woodland setting. Our hope is to help children feel this connection and experience a true feeling of stewardship for our natural world.

How has your business changed over the years to meet your customer’s needs? Our second year brought quick growth with the addition of a second classroom and hiring of appropriately trained staff. Subsequent years provided opportunities to host Montessori trainees during their student teaching years, send more staff members for professional development and support new teachers in their pursuit of the Montessori teaching credential. MCH has been able to offer extended hours to our families during the school year and create a popular summer program at our facility for many Northfield children. Throughout our growth and development as a school we have continued to stay true to our mission and to the Montessori method of education as we provide excellence in the early learning environment of Northfield.

What is the best thing about operating a business in Northfield? To have touched so many lives here in Northfield through the shared commitment to young children is phenomenal.

We have hundreds of alumni families and love to hear from them and host visits on special days each year. There is nothing like walking down the street in our town and receiving a hug and a warm smile from a past student. We are indeed a family and that outcome from the seed planted so many years ago is the biggest joy and marvel we could imagine.

ANNIVERSARY: THE GOAT LLC Name of Company: THE GOAT LLC (formerly known as The Eclectic Goat LLC) Address: 413 Division St., Northfield Owner/owners: Shona Brooks − owns The Goat LLC; Camille Hughes and Jeff Vonbonk own Vintage @ 413 Year Started: 2009 Anniversary is Aug. 1 Tell us about the business and how it has remained a vital part of the Northfield community for so long: The store has evolved into a creative outlet, we support local artists, whether it is showcasing, marketing or trunk shows, we are here to help promote their work.

We offer multitudes of help; packaging, pricing, trade show ideas, resources, trunk shows and business advice. There are a lot of creative souls out there and some have no idea on how to promote or sell their creations. Half of our store is vintage, re-purposed goods, this section is for the DIY people who are looking for that next lamp shade, button or enamel bowl to complete the finished project. The vintage area is a collaboration of Camille Hughes and Jeff Vonbonk whom specialize in vintage picking and estate buyouts.

Shona Brooks is a coloring book illustrator. She has been doing the posters and books for seven years and was ahead of the coloring craze. She has eight published coloring books, but never forgets it all started at the store in Northfield seven years ago. It’s crazy to see customers ages 5-85 come in purchase poster’s and rave about how wonderful they make them feel. That is why this is worth it, the little things make a difference!

The Goat offers everything from re-purposed furniture, hooks, handles to paintings, the artists and vintage vendors are coming and going so we are in a revolving rotation of merchandise. There are many trinkets and treasures to offer.

How has the business changed over the years to meet your customer’s needs? The business has changed a lot − we are always looking for an avenue to support artists, entrepreneurs, and local folks.

The community has been our main support, the repeat customers who continue to come back in and purchase local goods is the key! BE LOCAL BUY LOCAL! Best thing about operating a business in Northfield? Local support and the downtown businesses. Winter Walk, GNO, Defeat of Jesse James Days and The Chamber are all assets to a successful business in Northfield.

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Dundas: Development abound with several highly visible projects From Page 4C “The developers had promised 80-90 houses in Bridgewater Heights out in four years,” Switzer said. “We said that’d be great but we don’t believe you. We were always conservative in the number of permits that would be pulled. As we keep working those projections into the future we keep adjusting to real numbers.”

When McCarthy became the city’s administrator in 2006 he saw 95 building permits for single-family homes. That dropped by more than half the next year and last year the city had just 12 building permits for houses.

Dundas is poised to work toward further developing the downtown area as well as part of its comprehensive plan. With the Mill Towns State Trail coming closer to fruition downtown Dundas will see more traffic.

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Construction continues for an Aldi grocery store in Dundas. The store is slated to open in the fall and is one of several projects in Dundas. (Nick Gerhardt/Northfield News)

Nick Gerhardt is the Northto see some growth, the City growth, so that the infrastructure field News Associate Editor.

Council has started discussions can handle growth.” on jumpstarting its economic deanniversary: laura baker velopment authority as well — something that has sat dormant services association since its creation in 1999.

“We’re working on positionName of Company: Laura Baker Services Association ing ourselves to grow,” McCarthy Address: 211 Oak St., Northfield Year started: 1897 said. “Uncontrolled growth isn’t Tell us about your business and how you have remained necessarily great. I think we want a vital part of the Northfield Community for so long? For to be able to, I shouldn’t say connearly 120 years, Laura Baker Services Association (LBSA) has trol the growth, but manage the been dedicated to bringing the power of possibility to people

anniversary: taylor truck line Name of Company: Taylor Truck Line Inc Address: 801 Hwy. 3 N, Northfield Owner or Owners: Robert Taylor Year started: 1957 Tell us about your business and how you have remained a vital part of the Northfield Community for so long? The Taylor Family has always kept its business philosophy simple and consistent.

Below are two quotes that really explain our success and describe our company culture: “A successful company will pick up and deliver on time − all the time, do everything possible to service the customer, be open minded and completely honest. That’s my promise!”

“We stress safety first and foremost! We never compromise the safety of our people or those with whom we share the road!”

These core values are the center of our success because they are focused on our company’s two vital components our employees and our customers. If you take care of them they will take care of you!

How has your business changed over the years to meet your customer’s needs? In 1989, Rob Taylor bought the company from Jerry Taylor. There were seven trucks and eight total employees.

Today, we have 315 tractors and 415 employees/contractors. We have a Northfield and Portland, Tennessee terminal both with office and shop facilities. In addition to those locations, we have six other drop trailer locations throughout the country. Taylor Truck Line began as a grain and flatbed company hauling out of Minnesota, servicing the lower 48 states and Canada. The need for dry vans started with customers like Malt-O-Meal and Ashley Furniture. The ability to have dry vans trailers pre-loaded at the customer improved our utilization and is now the largest part of our business. Taylor Truck Line was honored as the Service Carrier of the Year from Post Consumer Brands in May 2017.

What is the best thing about operating a business in Northfield? Northfield is our home town and growing in the Northfield community has always been very important. Loyalty is vital to every business and a big reason for the success and growth of Taylor truck Line. Loyalty to our employees, owner-operators, customers and our Northfield community provides a stable base to build our business on. The best thing about operating in Northfield is the quality of employees we are able to attract being located here.

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How has your business changed over the years to meet your customer’s needs? In 1897, Miss Laura Baker founded The School for Nervous and Backward Children in Minneapolis, dedicated to the idea that people with disabilities could be educated and become productive members of society. A year later, she relocated to Northfield, and eventually renamed her school The Laura Baker School. It closed its doors in 2016, ushering in a new partnership with the Cannon Valley Special Education Cooperative to offer public education on site at Laura Baker Services Association.

Today, our mission extends beyond the school itself, and we are confident that Miss Baker would be thrilled by how her vision has transformed the lives of so many people: clients, their families and staff. Miss Baker’s vision continues to guide our philosophy of care: we strongly believe that all people need to live their own, best lives.

What is the best thing about operating a business in Northfield? The best thing about Northfield goes beyond business as usual for LBSA families and clients − it is about community. We work to build a supportive community that embraces all people and to ensure that community members actively engage with and consider the needs of people with disabilities. We aspire to see Northfield serve as a model of collaboration and engagement.

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anniversary: paper petalum Name of Company: The Paper Petalum Address: 212 Division St. S # 8, Northfield Phone: (507) 663-0565 Owner or Owners: Eleanor Croone and Al Croone Year started: 1987 Tell us about your business and how you have remained a vital part of the Northfield community for so long? Paper Petalum has unique and affordable gifts for all occasions.

We’re a small shop with exceptional customer service in a big box store world. Our staff is fantastic and a big reason for our success − customers come back because of our friendly and inclusive atmosphere. Every person who works in the shop knows our merchandise − they’re part of selecting the items we sell.

They’re genuinely interested in our customers and in helping each one find just the right gift for a special occasion or just the right personal indulgence for the customer. Some customers have become friends over the years.

Since moving to Northfield in1983, both Al and Eleanor have been involved with community organizations throughout their years in Northfield. Organizations include: Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Northfield Arts Guild, the colleges, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church and Sertoma.

Both Eleanor and Al are teachers at heart and the demos they do, especially during Winter Walk, give them the opportunity to broaden customers’ experiences with Scandinavian traditions such as lefsa and krumkaka making. One year when we made lefsa for Winter Walk, it snowed and our carpet turned from flour to paste. After that, we decided to stick with krumkaka which leaves crumbs, but is easier on the clean up crew!

We remain vital by having unique gifts that aren’t in other Northfield stores. Eleanor makes it a point to carry products different from those of other local merchants. For instance, although both Eleanor and Al are Swedish to the core, The Paper Petalum only began carrying Scandinavian items when a competitor who specialized in them left Northfield.

We keep our inventory new and fresh by going to market six times a year and shopping with multiple, generational perspectives. Since our first year in business, we’ve had a “Do you have ...?” list. Every time a customer asked for something we didn’t carry, we made a note of it and made a point of looking for it at market. It’s so exciting to find just the right item and have it available when the customer returns to the shop. We’ve developed a reputation for making that extra effort and our customers appreciate it.

We also have a wide variety of gift items − something for everyone. From cooking gadgets and serving dishes to specialty foods to children’s books and puzzles. Plus a wide selection of Minnesota-made items and, of course, Scandinavian gifts, foods and kitchen devices. And yes, we still have napkins and cards.

How has your business changed over the years to meet your customer’s needs? While our merchandise is always changing, our core mission has remained the same: provide unique, affordable gifts for customers of all ages.

We started The Paper Petalum to fill a gap. We were looking for napkins for Kia’s graduation and couldn’t find them in Northfield.

Thirty years later, we’re still filling gaps in the local market.

What is the best thing about operating a business in Northfield? The very best thing is making friends and welcoming people to Northfield. Last week a couple stopped in to make one last Abdallah candy purchase and to say goodbye. After eight years and two kids at Carleton, they didn’t think they’d make the return trip from Anchorage, Alaska, until the next reunion five years from now. We look forward to seeing them when they return.

Some of our local customers have been coming back for 30 years. Some of St. Olaf and Carleton graduates also stop to say hello and shop a bit when they’re back in town.

Last winter, a 30-something mother stopped in with her toddler.

Her first “Hello, Kitty” purse came from Paper Petalum and she wanted to share that with her daughter. This helps make lasting memories like that is priceless.

Meeting all these people – long-term residents and visitors – gives me the chance to promote our wonderful Northfield community. I love encouraging them to get involved in local activities – Winter Walk, the concerts, finding specialty stores throughout the community that are locally owned. It’s fun for me to share our community with them and it helps people new to Northfield feel welcome while they find Northfield’s richness and diversity of activity.

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Northfield High School activity director leaves legacy of leadership

By NICK GERHARDT

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In a town like Northfield some people’s cars become recognizable. Tom Graupmann’s silver 2004 Toyota Tacoma has become ubiquitous but not so much because it’s moving around the streets of Northfield but because most of the time it’s stationed outside of Northfield High School.

Come Jan. 1 that truck will be replaced by a different vehicle.

After 16 years as Northfield High School’s Activity Director, Graupmann is set to retire. His last day on the job will be Dec. 31.

“I’m going to go out kicking and screaming,” Graupmann said.

He’s got no plans of slowing down prior to his end date. He expects to continue to work his 70-plus hour weeks until the final week but he wants to go out while he’s still capable of working those

types of hours with the same enthusiasm, passion and drive he’s had for the last 16 years.

The school district has posted the available position already though some in the Graupmann family think it might be false advertising with the way it’s listed now.

“The position is posted as a 1.0 FTE [full-time employee] and one of the kids in the family said I wonder if it should’ve been posted as a 3.0,” Graupmann said.

“There’s some truth to that.”

His job description doesn’t include many of the tasks Graupmann can be seen doing but being helpful is just in his nature.

“The job has an amazing amount of variety,” Graupmann said. “I might have to fix a toilet, all the way to I evaluated Dave Stead, the Executive Director of the [Minnesota] State High School League.

I’m the garbage guy at times, I’m the evaluator of eligibility.”

Northfield girls basketball head coach Tony Mathison has worked with Graupmann since 1989 when he joined Graupmann’s coaching staff as an assistant coach. Mathison jokes that he wasn’t Graupmann’s first choice, second choice or even his third choice. It was more like his fifth choice, Mathison said, but that number has grown over the years, he added.

“Tom has been all-in,” Mathison said. “It’s his passion, it’s his hobby. I half joke that I worry what he’s going to do when doesn’t have this. It won’t surprise me to see him get back into something youth. I see him giving back in the community somehow to Northfield.”

Graupmann has given a lot to the community since he moved to Northfield from St. Peter in 1987.

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Northfield Activities Director Tom Graupmann speaks during the NHS Athletic Hall of Fame reception at Northfield High School. (Nick Gerhardt/Northfield News)

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Maltrata, Northfield’s sister to the south

By PHILIP WEYHE

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Northfield, Minnesota and Maltrata, Veracruz, Mexico may not be official sister cities, but they are undoubtedly linked by DNA. Over the last 25 years, according to some who have researched the topic, likely well over 1,000 people have made their way from the state of Veracruz to the city of Northfield. The majority came from the mountain valley city of Maltrata or its surrounding villages. From a few workers taking jobs at Ryt Way Packaging to hundreds of families forming a transnational community, since 2000 Northfield has watched its Latino population explode.

It’s mostly thanks to one city about 1,800 miles away in the mountains of southern Mexico.

Maltrata

The city of Maltrata lies within a mountain valley, surrounded by the peaks of Maltrata. It is situated on the western edge of the state of Veracruz in the south central portion of the country.

The city is about 1,000 feet above ground level, and the mountains reach up to 9,000 feet.

The population is about 12,000, but adding in the many surrounding villages and smaller towns, the number climbs closer to 20,000.

Former Northfield Middle School Principal and current Kenyon-Wanamingo Superintendent Jeff Pesta has visited Maltrata each of the last six summers. He collected and recorded a bevy of historical and cultural knowledge on the city.

According to Pesta and other researchers, the city was originally an indigenous Mexican settlement, which was destroyed by Aztecs around 1184. The settlement was then populated by new Aztec citizens. It was later influenced by passing Spaniards and by the Franciscan evangelization from 1530 to 1550, which brought in Catholicism. Today, the community is estimated to be 95 percent Catholic.

The modern economy of the city had long been built on agriculture — beans and corn — in addition to the manufacturing of brick blocks. The latter economic force was severely disrupted in the 1990s.

According to Pesta’s research, the exhaustion of clay resources and the passage of the North American Free Trade Act depressed the economy in the 1990s.

At that time, young men, without jobs or suitable wages, ventured toward the United States border, in search of employment.

Rigoberto Lazaro, 50, now a 22-year resident of Northfield, was born in Maltrata, coming of age there in the 1970s and early 80s. He said his childhood was simple but happy. He played baseball and soccer, and he did what everyone in the community did: gathered.

“People were friendly. Everybody,” he said. “We all knew each other. In my culture, you have everybody around — cousins, all

the family.”

Lazaro was the oldest of seven siblings. By the age of 13, he was working for one of the brick manufacturers. He’d head home after school, change into his uniform and go to work.

He quit at age 17, tired of the rigorous schedule. His mother helped him get a job in a different town at a pharmacy, but then he was traveling an hour away and wasn’t returning home until past 11 p.m.

“And I’d still have homework to do,” he said. “I was not doing well in school.”

Lazaro managed to graduate high school, but by then, in 1985, work in Maltrata was already sparse. His attention was drawn elsewhere.

“It was not decent work (in Maltrata). They paid low,” he said.

“I wanted to help my parents. In those days, it was a big dream to come to the United States. I thought, ‘I want to try this.’”

So he did. He was among the first of his generation of Maltratans to make the trek to America, entering first in California. Soon, he’d land in Northfield.

Northfield

At the turn of the millennium, as noted by Pesta, Northfield was promoting itself as the home of colleges, cows and contentment.

The community was driven by an agriculturally influenced microeconomy with some regional industry and the benefit of two prestigious liberal arts colleges.

The colleges helped attract a diverse and often educated populous to the city. That, in turn, made the community more welcoming to influxes of unique culture. The community, though, lacked some of the workers necessary to man local industry.

Around 1991, a couple of the young Maltrata men working in California were invited to take jobs, which paid them more than 10 times the amount they made back home, in Northfield. It represented an opportunity to sustain themselves in the United States and send money back to their families.

Years after the first few Maltrata natives made their way to Northfield, Lazaro headed there.

He had a friend from home who told him work was available, and it was. He found a job in Lakeville making cabinets within two weeks of moving to Northfield.

He quickly became comfortable in the community.

It was a bit like being home.

“After work, people seem like they know you,” he said. “They’re very friendly. I had a job and I worked the hours I wanted to.

I was making good money and sending some back to my family.”

Lazaro eventually moved on to Cardinal Glass, where he has now worked 15 years. He and his wife, Reyna, have raised two children, David, 25, and Nayeli, 23.

The family is joined by hundreds of other Northfield families with roots to Maltrata. Pesta estimates the numbers increased

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St. Dominic Fr. Denny Dempsey points to the city of Maltrata, as filmmaker and Carleton professor Cecilia Cornejo looks on. (Photo courtesy George Zuccolotto and Cecilia Cornejo)

from about 50 in 2000 to 1,500 by 2010.

Transnational community

Pesta defines a transnational community as a distinct migration paradigm that doesn’t follow a classic assimilation cycle.

“You think of a different immigration model — people come from somewhere and within a generation they’ve transitioned to the common culture of the community,” he said. “Transnational communities don’t assimilate at the same rate. Part of being in a transnational community is that you have kids operating in a family split between two countries.”

Maltratan immigrants living in Northfield, are intrinsically linked to one another and to people back home. Their connection to home is strengthened by advancements in communication technology and by a simple geographic fact: Northfield and Maltrata reside in the same timezone.

Cecilia Cornejo, a Chilean immigrant, who has lived in Northfield since 2010, teaching cinema and media studies at Carleton College, is working on a documentary exploring the connection between Maltrata and Northfield.

She is spending a few weeks this summer living in Maltrata.

She’s been collecting preliminary interviews since early last year and has now spoken with many members of the transnational community in both locations. During her time in the latter, the connections to Northfield seem to pop up constantly.

“We’ve encountered a lot of people, just walking in the streets, who once lived in Northfield and are now back in Maltrata,” she said. “We were recording a church service once, and there was a little kid with a shirt that said ‘Minnesota Orthodontics’ on the back.

He told us about his aunts living

Middle school students in a Maltrata, Veracruz, Mexico classroom raise their hand if they know someone living in Northfield, Minnesota. (Photo courtesy Jeff Pesta)

in Northfield.”

Those living in Northfield have helped inject life into the Maltrata community. The money sent back home has allowed locals to improve housing and roads. Relatives are also visiting home and spending money in the economy there. A major highway now built into the area links the city to larger economic activity elsewhere, though it also opens the community up to potential violence and unwelcome activity.

According to Maltrata resident Eunice Vega Diaz, any violence or destructive behavior has so far not affected daily life in the city.

She said, speaking Spanish and translated to English by Northfield resident Mar Valdecantos, that only those involved in the drug trade are subject to surrounding violence.

Vega Diaz lives in Maltrata but her four eldest children all live in the United States — three in Northfield. She said half the town seems to live in Northfield.

She visited Northfield for the first time this summer, meeting her grandchildren and seeing her children after many years. Though she misses them, she is glad they have found success in the United States.

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St. Dominic’s Church in Northfield and San Pedro Apóstol in Maltrata signed an agreement to become sister parishes in 2007.

According to the St. Dominic’s Church website, over 1,500 people of Hispanic background make Northfield and St. Dominic’s their home. About two thirds are from Maltrata and its surrounding villages and towns.

In February 2006, St. Dominic’s Fr. Denny Dempsey traveled to Maltrata with three members of his parish, who had ties to the city. During a second visit in 2007, he and Fr. Ernesto Ceronio, pastor of San Pedro Apóstol signed the accord. The partnership is not meant to be a giving and receiving relationship, according to St. Dominic’s, but rather an opportunity to develop closeness within the communities.

“We have preferred to center on the development of personal relationships as brothers and sisters in the same family of God,” Dempsey said. “Financial support and assistance on work projects may become part of the relationship in the future, but these will be organized by the parish of San Pedro Apóstol and Fr. Ceronio. Our role will be to work along with them, not for them.”

adulthood. Their experiences are unique from anyone around them.

“The kids born in America that are part of that transnational community will see their world expanded,” Pesta said.

“They know how to act at a basketball game at Northfield High School; they know how to act at a quinceañera for relatives; they know how to act when they go down to Mexico.”

Lazaro is happy in the Northfield community. His children received strong educations, both graduating from college after high school. He remains connected to Maltrata. He calls his parents and siblings there every day.

But he visits less. It’s a long trip. The city feels less like home than it once did. He recalls his childhood there, when home was defined by the people around him.

Today, he finds that in Northfield — his home away from home.

Cornejo and Pesta both found in their research that the Maltrata-Northfield migration pattern is not unique. It has taken place in many other places, though little research has been done on similar rural-to-rural migrations, according to Pesta.

“It seems like the way these develop is one person goes and they are able to figure out a little bit of how the system works, and then, soon after, others join,” Cornejo said. “Of course, this is all impacted by politics and policy.”

At 50, Lazaro represents one of the oldest permanent residents of Northfield who originated in Maltrata. When the migration started in the early 90s, it was young men making the trip, eventually joined by immediate family.

So now, about 25 years after the first Maltrata natives made their way to Northfield, the community is only a couple Reach Reporter Philip Weyhe generations deep, the first to be at 507-333-3132 or follow him on born in Northfield are reaching Twitter @nfnphilweyhe.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Area residents strive to preserve bluebird population

By MATT PAULSEN

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If you live in Rice County, chances are good you have seen a bluebird.

That hasn’t always been the case, but a group of area residents are intent on keeping it that way.

Carrol Johnson, of Northfield and the state coordinator of the Bluebird Recovery Program for Minnesota, along with members Fern Vesledahl and Keith Radel have been among those who strive to preserve the bluebird population.

“Orwin Rustad of Faribault, founder of the [River Bend] Nature Center records the very first time he sees every bird each year and in 1979 he never saw any bluebirds,” Radel said. “Now we raise 4, 5, 6,000 a year.”

That preservation can be attributed to the work of volunteers and the Bluebird Recovery Program.

“Our goal is to raise healthy birds without competition of predators and whatever else comes along and the weather,” Johnson said.

While some may feel like they don’t have enough time in their busy schedules to look after bluebirds, according to Johnson, the process doesn’t have to be super complex.

“It’s a joint effort, and some are putting in more effort than others due to their interest and time available,” Johnson said. “Everyone doesn’t have eight hours to spend on the bluebirds, but they probably have half an hour.”

Johnson explained how the process works.

“We check our bluebird houses every week,” she said. “We check them for whatever we see and we record it. The recordings are put together and posted and the results are turned in to the Bluebird Recovery Program by the 15th of September every year.”

In 2010, there were over 2,000 houses at roughly 1,000 sites in Rice County. The weather and predators may play a role in the decline of bluebirds, but a loss of habitat has certainly added to the decline.

“They are open-area birds but as the population increases people are moving out into their territory and they’re losing their habitat,” Vesledahl said. “The Bluebird Recovery Program organization recognized that and that’s when they started having volunteers set

up houses for them.”

If those in the know can stress anything about bluebird recovery, it is being knowledgeable. Even when people’s hearts are in the right place, they can sometimes obliviously do more harm than good. That is why Johnson and the rest have made it their mission to inform the public as much as possible.

“You get these people who want to do well but they don’t know how. What they do is detrimental to the bluebirds rather than helpful,” Johnson said. “That’s why I set up booths at different gatherings and celebrations and my main concern is education. The comment I hear from most people is I didn’t know that and if I hear that they

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Graupmann: Do-everything AD set to step down after 16 years From Page 2D basketball. Later he took on the role of middle school activities director in addition to his teaching and coaching.

Graupmann helped start the Northfield Basketball Association and built the girls program at the youth level. He remained as the girls varsity basketball coach until the 1997-98 season when he stepped down to watch his son, Chris, play basketball. Mathison took the reins of the program at that time and has led it since.

Graupmann coached baseball for several years with Mathison as well and the two swapped coaching roles during baseball season so Graupmann could work with the varsity team and his son.

A drive to lead

Much of Graupmann’s work has revolved around developing students as leaders at Northfield High School. The programs at the school he cherishes include RALIE (Raider Activity Leaders Inspiring Enthusiasm), Life of an Athlete and captains’ training.

“I feel so good about what we have done here in the area of student leadership and how we have helped our student body, the kids who are in activities to learn leadership qualities, to understand what it means to be a leader,” he said.

Life of an Athlete, which focuses on nutrition, sleep, recovery, and staying chemical free has been led by John and Leah Sand for the past eight years.

RALIE started before Graupmann took over as activities director but he’s carried the torch as an advocate for student leadership.

“If I have any kind of legacy, I’ve always felt the importance of student leadership,” Graupmann said. “That’s one thing I would hope would continue. I know some of these programs have been modeled in other schools.”

The importance of leadership comes from Graupmann’s own experience as a baseball player at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Graupmann went from playing junior varsity his freshman year to being redshirted to becoming a captain of the team in his senior year. The team finished third in Division II his senior season.

“The team chose me as the spirit award winner,” Graupmann said. “I’ve been telling the kids that’s probably been one of the most significant award I’ve ever gotten because it was a teammate award. People recognized me as a teammate, as someone they enjoyed being with.”

He went on to receive the team’s most improved player award the next year before being named a captain.

“Schedulator,” which outlines each day’s events at every level day by day for each season. Schedulator is the actual name of the bifold cardboard document he uses, by the way.

Mathison jokes that Graupmann keeps the edges taped so they don’t fray.

“We always joke that Tom’s three years ahead on his ‘Schedulators,’” Mathison said. “He’s got masking tape around the edges so they don’t fray. Our joke was all you do is a little scheduling.”

But proper planning allows Graumpann to facilitate special events like hosting the 2013 Section 1AA gymnastics meet at Northfield High School.

“I really love to see events come to fruition,” he said. “We don’t normally host gymnastics meets at this high school. We had to do some intentional things when we redid our gym floor when we put a new gym floor in so we had the right anchors for the bars. As we’re constructing the floor we’re measuring and figuring out exactly where these brackets have to go.”

By hosting the section meet at the high school it allowed a larger audience to take in the special talents of the gymnastics team, which won the section title that year and took second at state.

A competitor

Graupmann’s work ethic doesn’t come without a competitive drive either. Though he doesn’t coach as actively as he used to, the fire still burns.

One of the more infamous Graupmann coaching stories comes from his days leading the girls basketball team. The team wasn’t playing well in the game and during a break in play Graupmann snapped a whiteboard over his knee to show his disgust.

Later in the game Graupmann needed to diagram a play and he did so on a half of the previously discarded whiteboard.

“I had to turn away because I was laughing,” Mathison said. “The girls were trying not to laugh. He does have fire and I can see it.”

That wasn’t the end of the broken whiteboard though. At the end of the season the girls presented him with the pieces of the board.

“That ended up being a really good lesson for me,” Graupmann said.

It might be hard to imagine Graupmann as such a fiery force on the sidelines of a game now but he was a feisty competitor on the diamond.

Graupmann played several years of amateur baseball out of Cottage Grove and with Dundas.

He played center field and caught and batted toward the top of the lineup. He played on the 1988 Dundas state championship team and gained a reputation as someone who played through injury.

Graupmann played through a broken wrist for a season when he was 28 and then later when he played over-35 baseball he played with a torn right rotator cuff. He could only swing with one arm, which the opposition knew, but he decided to put opponents on notice that he was going to swing.

Known for always taking a strike in his at-bats, he swung at the first pitch he saw in a tournament game where his team needed to win twice to win the championship.

“I took a little bit of a stride and my front foot slid a little bit,” Graupmann said. “I didn’t clean the batter’s box good enough and I took a big cut. I swung with one arm, deep fly to left field, I just missed it.”

Graupmann, who played in the Lion’s All-Star game as a high school senior in Grand Rapids, did end up getting some base hits but he reached base any way he could, which included leaning into pitches. Once on base he continued to play the way he knew how — all out — by trying to steal bases. He got thrown out twice but he also scored on a double from first base that day.

An educator

Birds: Locals revive bluebirds

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In addition to the PVC, other suggested brands include Gilwood and the Peterson boxes.

The Bluebird Recovery Program recommends mounting nest boxes on 1/2 inch metal electrical conduit over 1/2 rebar. The entrance hole should be 5 to 6 feet above the ground facing a tree and not a road or highway. To eliminate climbing predators, never mount on trees, fences, wooden posts or steel fence posts without baffles.

The more people who choose to volunteer the better, but it can’t be stressed enough that people shouldn’t install nest boxes if they cannot make the commitment. One way to help make that commitment is by getting youth involved in the process early in their lives.

“We want to educate the little ones,” Johnson said. “When you put a house in the front yard and have some little ones and tell them they have to check their houses on a weekly basis, they will want to check on the birds every day.”

There is no denying that population will fluctuate from year to year, but thanks to the efforts of the Bluebird Recovery Program and other volunteers, Rice County residents should have no problems spotting bluebirds for years to come.

will know that.”

According to the Bluebird Recovery Program, there are 10 steps to take for successful blue birding. The list includes commitment, habitat, selecting the right nest boxes, proper mounting, spacing, welcoming chickadees and tree swallows, dealing with house sparrows and house wrens, frequent nest checks, keeping bluebirds safe and reporting your results.

“We don’t want it to be like the passenger pigeon where you can read about how they used to be around but aren’t anymore,” Radel said. “That would be sad for the bluebirds because they are kind of a pretty bird.”

While there are plenty of different bluebird houses to consider, Johnson, Radel and Vesledahl all recommend the Gilbertson PVC due to its simplicity and the fact it meets all the needed factors along with keeping dry.

If people would rather pick a different brand that’s fine, as long as they take the time to research and make sure it is an appropriate fit.

“People put their trust in people selling the products, but it’s not always right,” Vesledahl said. “They need to do a little research. A lot of times when you go to your big box stores they will have what they call an ideal bluebird house. Unfortunately the entrance hole is probably too big and other predators get in.”

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Not only has Tom Graupmann served as activities director for Northfield High School, he has also held various positions with the Minnesota State High School League and the Minnesota Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.

From 2016-17, Graupmann was elected to the MSHSL Board of Directors. He served as vice president in 2016 and as president in 2017.

In 2014, the MnIAAA selected Graupmann as the Activity Administrator of the Year and he served as president of the organization in 2012. A clip of his acceptance of the Activity Administrator of the Year award can be found on YouTube.

Additionally, Graupmann has attended every state tournament the MSHSL put on.

you get to know them. [Former NHS Principal] Bruce Santerre invited me to his house … he said here’s the one way to look at it: you’ll have an impact and for sure you’ll build relationships with those kids in a way you can’t as the AD but the impact you can have will go to a great number of people as the AD. He said that’s really what got him out of the classroom.”

Northfield Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Matt Hillmann has seen the impact Graupmann makes with students through his own children in the district.

“He’s literally impacted thousands and thousands of kids in his time,” Hillmann said. “He’s made a big difference for kids and coaches. I think he really believes he’s serving the community of Northfield. He’s a servant leader.”

Since entering the world of teaching Graupmann has remain an educator at his core. He spent 14 years as a sixth-grade teacher and wasn’t convinced he’d have the same impact as an activities director at first. His daughter, Stephanie, was in high school at the time and the timing was right for the move.

Nick Gerhardt is the Northfield “You don’t get to do the relationNews Associate Editor. You can ship things that you get to do in the reach him at 645-1136. Follow classroom,” Graupmann said. “You him on Twitter @NfldNewsNick. get to be with these little kids and

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Why We Play

Graupmann became an advocate of Why We Play when the Minnesota State High School rolled out the initiative in 2012.

The four questions that are asked of those who take part in the training are: Why do I coach?

Why do I coach the way I do?

How does it feel to be coached by me? How do I define success?

The questions come from Joe Ehrmann’s “Inside Out Coaching,” “Art makes a book Graupmann keeps on his desk. The inside of Graupmann’s the world go book has a note from his baseball round!” coach at Minnesota State University, Mankato Dean Bowyer.

Graupmann read the book during a vacation to Chicago with his wife, Denise. Turns out he’s not much for a travel companion at times. But Denise allows him to take time out of his day to check emails so he can stay on top of things and not fall behind at work.

Scheduling

Graupmann freely admits his strengths as an activities director lie in his organizational skills and his work ethic.

“I am not the smartest, I’m definitely not the most creative but I work hard,” he said. “I work hard and I’m organized. If I trick people, that’s where I trick people.

I just outwork people and I’m relentless. I don’t know if that’s good or bad.”

His organizational skills are something to marvel. The spring schedule for 2018 is already done.

He keeps folders organized by month to let him know which tasks need to be done that month.

On top of that he has his prized

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