Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The winning design was one of nearly 700 submitted.
Richfield resident Ben Peters was recently announced as the winner of the Milwaukee Brewers' Design a YOUniform Contest. As previously reported by Patch, nearly 700 entries were submitted and a panel of judges narrowed the designs down to three finalists, including Peters' design. The designs of Ron Verrecchio of Catonsville, MD and Nicholas Fout of Madison, WI were the other two finalists. The winning design was chosen by fans and Peters was announced as the winner in late January. Peters got to go Milwaukee's spring training game on March 22 against the Cubs where the uniforms were worn. The uniforms were also worn March 30 when the Brewers took on the Chicago White Sox. In an interview with SportsLogo.net, Peters said this about his …
Monday, January 28, 2013
Several items connected with the "Miracle on Ice" team are going up on the auction block.
Richfield hockey great Steve Christoff will auction off his Olympic gold medal at an upcoming auction in New York. Christoff, a Richfield Spartan in the mid-70s and then a Minnesota Gopher, was a member of the 1980 mens hockey team often referred to as the "Miracle on Ice" team. The team beat the Soviet Union 4-3 with 10 minutes left in the semifinal game and then grabbed the gold when it beat Finland two days later. According to an Associated Press article, Christoff was the only player on the gold medal team to score multiple points and the first player from the "Miracle On Ice" team to be drafted and go to the NHL, playing for the Minnesota North Stars and the Los Angeles Kings. Christoff's medal is expected to bring in an estimated $…
Friday, January 25, 2013
Department of Health says there were an additional 15 deaths last week, but the number of people hospitalized with flu-like symptoms has fallen dramatically.
Influenza killed 15 more Minnesotans last week, bringing the total number of state deaths in the current outbreak to 75--more than the total number of state residents killed during the last big outbreak during 2009-10. But the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) weekly flu update, released Thursday afternoon, also contained good news: Only 208 people across the state were newly hospitalized last week with laboratory-confirmed influenza, a big drop from the 476 hospitalized the previous week. Health Department spokesman Doug Schultz told WCCO that it will be another week before officials know for sure where the flu season has peaked in Minnesota. But he added that trends are pointing in that direction. For example, there were only nine …
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Steroids for back pain may not be the only contaminated medications. The MN Dept. of Health said many clinics were customers of NECC, the implicated pharmacy in Massachusetts.
Update (3:30 p.m. Tuesday: The Minnesota Department of Health is contacting 129 clinics that received medications from the Massachusetts pharmacy blamed in the 15-state outbreak of fungal meningitis that has taken 15 lives in other states. The agency's action comes a day after the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) announced an investigation of other products of the New England Compounding Center, where steroids blamed in the outbreak so far were made. The state Health Department said in a news release Tuesday afternoon that the number of patients in Minnesota who got the potentially tainted drug treatments is unknown. ***Original Text*** Many more Minnesota clinics and patients may soon find themselves involved in the 15-state …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Officials are still trying to reach about 100 who received steroid shots at clinics in Edina, Maple Grove, Shakopee and Fridley.
Minnesota officials on Monday were still trying to reach about 100 people who received steroid shots tied to a multi-state outbreak of fungal meningitis that has killed 8 people and infected 105 others in nine states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Minnesota Department of Health staff worked through the weekend to call by phone 831 people who got steroid treatment at six nearby clinics located in Edina, Maple Grove, Fridley and Shakopee. Three Minnesotans Infected So far, three Minnesota women have been hospitalized with the infection but are doing well, according to MDH spokesperson Buddy Ferguson. The MDH said all three are in their 40s but hasn't said more about them or where they got the infection. …
Monday, October 8, 2012
More than 240 peanut butter and other nut products are now on the recall list, which includes items from Walmart, Target and Trader Joe's. The FDA reports a "fast-moving outbreak" of salmonella-induced sickness with one case in Minnesota.
The nationwide peanut butter recall is quickly expanding and a variety of nut products have now been added to the list—from chews and cookies to tahini and gelato. Responding to what it called a "fast-moving outbreak" of salmonella-caused sickness in at least 19 states, including one in Minnesota, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that the company recall of nut butter products made by Sunland, Inc. and sold under many labels has more than doubled to at least 240 products. The recall list includes a variety of Sunland peanut butter products as well as almond butter, cashew butter, tahini, and roasted blanched peanut products. Other companies have alerted the FDA about related recalls affecting various nut and seed …
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Earlier in the year Alison and her band received a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board to bring music to Minnesota communities that don't have access to many opportunities.
Richfield resident and musician, Alison Scott, and her band will set sail for New York Mills, MN this weekend as they kick-off a mini-Minnesota arts tour Saturday. Earlier in the year, Scott was awarded a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board that will allow her and her band to bring their music to “underserved” communities. “There are a lot of theaters in greater Minnesota that don’t get good acts coming through town very often—a lot of times because the theater can’t afford it,” Scott explained to Richfield Patch in January. “With the grant, the theaters will be able to just pay a portion of the fee and the grant money will make up the difference.” Following the New York Mill performance, six others are planned: All showtimes are at …
The city is working to save as many trees as possible, but replacing those it cannot.
For the last three years, the Richfield Public Works Forestry Division has been working to evaluate and either treat or cut down boulevard ash trees that have been infected by the Emerald Ash Borer. Emerald Ash Borers, an invasive bug from Asia, first made its appearance in the United States in 2002. It arrived in Minnesota in 2009 and just this year infected trees have been seen two miles east of town at Fort Snelling Golf Club. Newly hatched larvae burrow into the tree and feed on it, resulting in tree mortality. Richfield began to take action in 2010, dividing the city into three different zones working from east to west to chemically treat the ash trees, according to Jae Morrison, public works natural resources coordinator. The city …
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Washington Capitals defenseman and Academy of Holy Angels graduate Jack Hillen, along with some of his teammates, reflect on where they were when they heard the country had been attacked 11 years ago.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
What's the oddest, weirdest, grossest, funniest thing your kid has put in a place it didn't belong?
For three years, Salt Lake City dad Craig Lasson had no idea why his son, Isaak, couldn't breathe. Doctor and after doctor prescribed antibiotics for what appeared to simply be another sinus infection. Boy, were they ever wrong. Turns out poor Isaak had a wheel-shaped Lego up his nose. The Lego, swaddled in a ball of fungus, had caused the 6 year-old problems eating, sleeping and breathing for three years until a new doctor finally discovered the tiny toy in his schnoz. When asked by the doctor whether he'd put anything in his nose recently, Isaak responded, "I put some spaghetti up there, but that was a long time ago." That said, what's the weirdest, grossest, oddest thing your child put in a place it didn't belong? Tell us in the …
Caitlin Burgess
11:55 am on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
You're right, Rob. Jae Morrison actually said that Richfield is being looked at by other cities as an example, which is very cool. I'm no tree expert, but I imagine that The $50 it costs per tree for treatment, is definitely less than replacing that tree when you think of removal, disposal, buying the new tree and nurturing the new tree. more ›