By Teri Knight, News Director
An estimated crowd of about 300 people attended Eric Trump’s visit yesterday to Felton Farms on Northfield’s northeast corner. Amid Trump flags and shouts of “four more years”, Trump told the crowd inside the shed that God put his father in office and that the race is no longer Republicans vs Democrats but right vs wrong, David vs Goliath. Most of those attending were not wearing masks. There was a heavy security presence that included Northfield PD, County Sheriff’s departments with the property situated at Dakota and Goodhue, State police and Secret Service. There were about a dozen protesters on the opposite side of Hwy 19 holding signs of Biden/Harris. It remained peaceful. Pictures below:
Policy 809 approved by Nfld School Board
The Northfield School Board gave final approval for Policy 809 which prohibits the naming of the buildings after individuals or families, historic or contemporary. Superintendent Dr. Matt Hillmann explained, “it encourages the District to consider things like local flora and fauna characteristics, things about a neighborhood. And those kinds of elements to be able to name a school building”. The idea is to avoid controversy should there be an issue with someone’s past, as has been the case recently around the country. It gives the District a year to rename two schools, Sibley and Longfellow. Longfellow will become the district office so the name will reflect that. They’ll start the process of renaming Sibley Elementary in a month, gathering information and taking stakeholder feedback, Hillmann added, “we’ll ask for people to submit and suggest names. We’ll have a group of folks who will filter that and bring the Board three or four names for their consideration to move forward”. While they have a year, Hillmann said they want the change to happen by July 2021 to start their fiscal year. Their intent is to include a historical society type display explaining the history of the building and the reasoning behind changing it. Hillmanns full interview is HERE.
Dundas looks at opportunity for neighborhood ice rink
The Dundas Council met this week. Councilors reviewed the health and dental insurance for employees who are seeing a 9.7% increase. Administrator Teppen explained that the increase is higher than they’ve seen in a number of years. The Council discussed an offer from neighbors in the Millstone area that want to put in a skating rink in Millstone Park. They provided the group with a list of questions and staff concerns on liability. Teppen said, “Council’s direction to staff was go work out some of the outstanding issues and see what we can come up with”. There is a regular hockey rink in Bridgewater Heights. Teppen said staff has put in a significant amount of time working on leveling the rink area and replacing boards. Teppen’s full interview is HERE.
Food Shelf needs your help
The CAC Food Shelf is in need of 2 volunteers to drive along with the Hiawathaland bus on Wednesday and Friday mornings each week from 9:45 am-noon. Volunteers would take bags of groceries off of the bus and deliver them to the doorstep of the recipient. It’s no contact delivery. We have more information HERE.
KYMN Election Guide
Be sure to check out KYMN’s Election Guide. Click on the button in the upper left hand corner of our website and find information on all the local candidates including School Board members. Tomorrow, Karen Jensen, the last of the school board candidates will be on the air with Jeff Johnson. David Ludescher and Rhonda Pownell will be on separately early next week to discuss why they should be Mayor of Northfield. Logan Wells updates it with candidate interviews from our Morning Show.
