Archive - Apr 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today at 12:45 p.m .the DJJD Committee announced the 2010 Heywood Award Winner, Dr. Will Healy!  Here are some photos from the announcement and the press release written by Will’s good friend and past Heywood Award Winner and current NHS Board Member, Scott Richardson.  Congratulations Will!

Here are some other posts about that announcement!

KYMN

Locally Grown

DJJD

Northfield News

 

After weeks of exhaustive investigation, one can only conclude that Will Healy has perpetrated one of the greatest frauds since Bernie Madoff.

Everyone tells me how involved he is, but save for a tour of duty on the Northfield Hospital Board in the 1990s and some work with the YMCA advisory board and United Way, nobody can tell me what he has done.

We do know this:

· He plays golf and he plays basketball. Not at the same time.

· We know he frequents downtown coffee shops.

· Attends a lot of basketball games.

· He has served Emmaus Church for 22 years as its pastor, apparently working mostly Sundays.

· He has been a member of the Northfield Ministerial Association for 22 years.

· He provided the community with great entertainment and local nonprofits with needed financial support through l6 years of Over & Back productions. He helped bring in top-flight entertainment and raised the profiles of many, many important community agencies and organizations.

· He was named Northfield Sertoma Man of the Year in 2000.

· He serves as emcee of the Laura Baker Association’s gala every other year.

· He works with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at St. Olaf College.

· He emcees the Friends of the Library Spelling Bee each year.

· He emceed the Northfield Rotary CIub’s "To China and Beck’ fundraiser.

· He has spoken regularly on parenting for the Northfield Community Service’ "Fabulous Fridays," "Wonderful Wednesdays," "Thrilling Thursdays” and "Saturday Night Live.” -

· He volunteers with Christmas Sharing.

· He served on the Northfield Area United Way Board of Directors.

· He is a member of the Northfield Area YMCA advisory board.

· Member of Northfield Hospital Board of Directors (seven years).

· Mentor at the Village School.

· Coached youth basketball.

So for a Heywood nominee, Will has taken the path fees traveled. He has not gone the institutional route, serving on tons of boards or commissions. But he clearly has had a significant impact on our community. He does this in numerous ways, sometimes very publicly from a community stage, often more quietly behind the scenes as community challenges and crises unfold. His work forces us to recalibrate our moral compass and challenges us to act on our best instincts. I-ie does this by:

· Giving voice and support to community initiatives that address the needs of our community’s most

· vulnerable;

· Reminding us to pm relationships first;

· Serving at times as the community conscience, challenging us to do the right thing;

· Providing comfort and counsel to youth and others when tragedy has visited our community;

· Inspiring others to do more in service to the community.

· Serving as an bridge between social groups, helping them discover their commonality.

Will has used his gifts as an entertainer, a speaker, a facilitator and a counselor to remind us to pay attention to the important things, to put people firs: and walk together with mutual respect and support.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Thursday, April 22 from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. NHS will open its newest exhibit, “Celebrating our Past, Building our Future.”  The exhibit explores the 100 year history of Northfield’s Carnegie Library Building.  The exhibit however, does not start in 1910.  It goes all the way back to the first reading room in Northfield Lyceum Society in 1856.  The exhibit then follows the Library to the reading room in the YMCA and chronicles the work of Hiram Scriver, George Huntington and others to acquire the Carnegie building.  The exhibit then tells the history of the building from the April 25, 1910 dedication to today!  The event is free and open to the public.  For more information please contact NHS at 507-645-9268 or email us.

This project was funded in part or in whole with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008 which dedicated funding to preserve Minnesota's arts and cultural heritage; from a SELCO/SELS Legacy Grant.

Last night at Froggy Bottoms River Pub, NHS hosted a Ole and Lena Joke night.  Here are some photos, and a tweeted video.  Keep an eye out for a Ole and Lena Joke Night DVD!

Thank you to Kathy Ness for the photos!