This week at the Weitz Center

 

Upcoming public events at

Carleton’s Weitz Center

(Note: times and venues are subject to change.  Carleton recommends verifying before you attend:
http://apps.carleton.edu/calendar/ .)

Film (Weitz Cinema)

Mon., May 13      7:00   Sneak Preview: “Breakup at a Wedding”

A new independent comedy, the first feature film by LA-based husband-and-wife filmmaking duo Anna Martemucci and Victor Quinaz (who will conduct a Q&A after the showing).

Wed., May 15      7:00   Music in Film Series: “O Brother Where Art Thou?” (2000)

The Coen Brothers re-tell the Odyssey with an Americana-inflected score.

Thur., May 16      7:00   International Film Forum: ”La Pirogue” (Senegal, 2012)

Directed by Moussa Touré.  “A group of African men leave Senegal in a pirogue captained by a local fisherman to undertake the treacherous crossing of the Atlantic to Spain where they believe better lives and prospects are waiting for them.” (imdb.com)

Museum exhibition (May 17 through June 14)

For Grandma: 2013 Senior Art Exhibition

Another Garage Sale

We thank Suzie Nakasian for this message.     Ed

Clear out your closets for the 2nd Annual

East Side Neighborhood “Goods for Good” Garage Sale for TORCH

Save the Dates Friday May 17th and Saturday May 18th  for
the 
2nd Annual East Side Neighborhood “Goods for Good” Garage Sale

Friday and Saturday, May 17 & 18, 8:00 am-3:00pm (rain or shine)
302 Maple Street  (corner of 3rd Street East; home of Molly and Bill Woehrlin).
Proceeds to benefit Northfield’s TORCH (Tackling Obstacles Raising College Hopes) Program which provides tutoring, mentoring and college access coaching and scholarships to income challenged to youth in our community.

Donations Eagerly Accepted! Please donate clean, useable items that are in working order! Accepted items include household and kitchen items, camping equipment, bikes, garden tools and pots, clothes, childrens’ equipment, toys and games. Sorry no electric or electronic items, shoes or large furniture items and mattresses.

Large Furniture Items can be sold through our Virtual Garage Sale! If you have large furniture or mattresses that you would like to sell, you may send photos totorchdonations@gmail.com with a photo(s), descriptive information about the item and your name and contact email and/or phone number. The Torch Team will post that information at the sale site. Interested customers will contact you directly, and if you make a sale, you can donate those proceeds to TORCH without having to schlep the item to the garage sale courtesy of this “virtual garage sale.”

How to donate: you are welcome to drop off items at the sale site on Saturday, May 3 and Saturday, May 10 from 9 to noon or call Molly Woehrlin to set up an alternate date/time.

If you are interested in helping out at the sale, or helping to set it up, please contact Molly at wwoehrli@carleton.edu /645-9619 or Suzie Nakasian suzienakasian@gmail.com /507-301-6756.

Thank you for your support of this sale, and for your support of the TORCH program which is making such a huge difference for income challenged youth i our schools! For more information about TORCH visit the program’s website by clicking here TORCH , or contact the Program’s  Director Beth Berry “Beth Berry at Northfield High School. Contributions to the TORCH program are tax-deductible.

The East Side Neighborhood Garage Sale for TORCH is part of the Goods for Good, Great Northfield Rummage Raid for Charity: a community-building, environmentally friendly, fun fundraising event that will be held May 17-18, 2013 (the weekend after Mother’s Day.

Thank you for your support of TORCH, and for your support for the East Side Garage Sale for TORCH!

TORCH Program in Northfield is Recognized by MPR

Many of our neighbors at NESNA will be pleased to hear of the recognition just given by MPR to the TORCH Program in Northfield.    Here is the link to let you see and hear exactly what was broadcast.    We thank Suzie Nakasian for this alert.      Ed

MPR salutes Northfield’s TORCH program!

An Invitation for Thanksgiving

 

LBSA Thanksgiving Invite

Hello Eastside Neighbors!

We at Laura Baker Services Association would like to invite you, your family, your holiday guests, your friends and your neighbors to our annual Community Thanksgiving dinner, on Thanksgiving Day, November 22 from 11am-1pm.

So if you don’t already have plans or would like to take this opportunity to get to know your neighbors here, consider making the short trip to the LBSA dining hall for food, conversation, and community spirit.

A full Thanksgiving Dinner of turkey, dressing, potatoes, vegetables, salad, rolls, milk, coffee and pie will be served.

We are even able to pick you–or deliver a meal to you. Call Jan at 507-645-8866, x107.

Sincerely yours,

Jan McCorkell

Laura Baker Services Association

jan@laurabaker.org


Are you an armchair traveler?

To all travel wannabees:    our recent tour of Ireland,  led by Jane and Jim McDonnell,   was so colorful and pleasant that I thought you might like to see a slideshow of it.    Eight of us went for two weeks, including several from our neighborhood.  Here are just a few pix to titillate your interest.    Copy and paste this link into your browser to begin the slideshow.     Ed

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4NNFkTW2Bg9LW92WHFDOUtkMlk/edit