Category Archives: Action Squad

Some might say he was preaching to the choir last night. Jay Walljasper remarked on it himself as he opened his presentation at The Grand for the NDDC’s Partnership Celebration. In fact, he said he was working with folks in Brainerd recently and he asked them what they wanted their downtown to be like whenContinue reading “Preachin’ to the Choir?”

…actually, the first one was just a test model. This latest appearance is that of the real thing. On the north side of 4th Street, just east (up the hill away from the river) of Division Street, is a way-finding sign. It’s part of a planned series of signs in and around downtown to helpContinue reading “Way-finding Sign Returns!”

In the category of celebrating life’s simple pleasures, such as fresh paint on crosswalks, new way-finding signage, and the installation of additional bike racks, there are now the new railings installed at the Ames Mill dam overlook. My appreciation for them last week was almost ecstatic. The old ones were in pretty rough shape. Personally,Continue reading “New Railings Installed at Ames Mill Dam Overlook”

Bike racks, trash receptacles, street striping…how low can I go on the civic investment “to-do” list? Don’t ever underestimate me. Try to imagine my unbridled joy when I saw City of Northfield crews filling potholes in downtown the other morning. Let me help to stimulate your imagination. Personally, I believe that unaddressed potholes are theContinue reading “Celebrating Life’s Simple Pleasures”

One of the most exciting things that the Northfield Garden Club announced (as part of their Northfield In Bloom initiative) at the NDDC’s April Forum was their plan to place flower boxes on the Pedestrian Bridge. I thought it would be a symbolic, but vibrantly visual, uniting of the east and west sides of theContinue reading “Flowers on the Bridge”