NOTE: The Northfield Senior Center wrote the release below and ask NHS to help spread the word.

Help the Northfield Senior Center Find Out How to Better Serve You

The Northfield Senior Center (NSC) is surveying non-members ages 45 and up to find out how the NSC can better serve residents as they become senior citizens.

Thank you for taking the time to complete this quick, 24-question survey which has been compiled by the NSC Membership Committee with the assistance of the statistics students at Carleton College and support from the college’s Office of Academic Civic Engagement.

If this address is used by more than one member of your household, only one person will be able to respond. Your responses will remain completely anonymous.

Surveys must be completed by Friday May 4th, at 5 p.m. in order for the results to be analyzed by a second set of Carleton students. Because we’d like to glean information from as many non-members as possible, we will send
reminders to everyone on the list next Monday and again next Thursday.

Click here to go to the survey.

Your responses will help the NSC Board of Directors determine Senior Center priorities for the upcoming year. We value your opinion and look forward to acting on the useful information this survey will provide.

Thanks in advance for your participation,

Nancy Ashmore, Member, Northfield Senior Center Board of Directors and Adrienne Falcon, Director of Academic Civic Engagement Carleton College

Today, the Defeat of Jesse James Days Committee announced the 2012 Joseph Lee Heywood Distinguished Service Award Winner, Molly Woehrlin with a surprise party at NHS.

Molly Woehrlin’s finger prints are all over Northfield. It is hard to scratch the surface of almost any organization or issue in Northfield without finding Molly Woerhlin prominently featured.

She has been a catalyst for institutional and social change here for the last 50 years. Her role has been that of educator, advocate, politician and community organizer. Her habit has been to help convene people around important issues, start an organization or a movement, and once it is up and running, she moves on.

Her interests are many and varied. She has been an advocate for children with special needs. She has been involved in environmental issues. She was once a Rice County commissioner. She has been actively involved with the ABC program, the Northfield Historical Society board, the East Side Neighborhood Association, League of Women Voters, First UCC church and many, many other groups that have had a major impact on the life of this community

Through her imagination, leadership and sense of civic responsibility, Molly has helped shape the community culture that makes Northfield unique.

Congratulations Molly!