Healthy Community Initiative

Rotary Youth Exchange Officer Vicki Dilley is the April 2011 recipient of the Healthy Community Initiative “Making a Difference” Award.  The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. Dilley oversees the application process for Northfield students who want to go abroad through Rotary, and she […]

Local business owner Randy Malecha is the February/March 2011 recipient of the Healthy Community Initiative’s “Making a Difference” award.  The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. Malecha, who owns Willie’s Shoe Service, was selected for his commitment to volunteering at Bridgewater Elementary School.  He […]

Gabriel Rysdahl, a senior at St. Olaf College, is the January recipient of the Healthy Community Initiative’s (HCI) “Making a Difference Award.”  The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. January is National Mentoring Month, and Rysdahl was selected for his commitment to mentoring youth […]

All the contractors, businesses and community members who donated labor or goods to help with the rehab and opening of the new Key building are the November recipients of the Healthy Community Initiative’s “Making a Difference” Award.  The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. […]

The Northfield High School girls soccer team is the October recipient of the Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) “Making a Difference” Award.  The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. The team was selected for its efforts to raise money for breast cancer research through the […]

Kathy Lansing is the September 2010 recipient of HCI’s “Making a Difference” Award.  The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. Lansing is beginning her eighth year as community director of Project Friendship, a mentoring program that matches college students at Carleton and St. Olaf […]

Leisa Irwin is the August 2010 recipient of HCI’s “Making a Difference” award.  The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. Irwin organized the Northfield Ballroom Dance Club last fall out of a desire to teach her own sons an activity she enjoyed.  Interest by […]

Rachel Hanson, Leigh Langehough and Heidi Strike are the July 2010 recipients of HCI’s “Making a Difference” Award.  The award celebrates those groups and individuals in the community who have a positive influence on Northfield youth. Hanson, Langehough and Strike, who all graduated from Northfield High School in June, organized the successful Beat Cancer: Cancer […]

A group of Northfield High School ESL students are the January 2009 recipient of the Healthy Community Initiative “Making a Difference Award”. The students were nominated for their efforts to organize an informational Latino gang forum in November 2008. Along with the planning and promotion of the community event, the students encouraged fellow students as […]