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VPTA Meeting Locations 2010 – 2011

Robbie Wigley — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:42:11 +0000

The folling is a link to the 2010-11 VPTA Meeting Locations. We still need locations for the Feb, Mar and Apr. meetings. Please let Sherry Freking know or use the contact us page from this website, if you can host a meeting. Notice that the July 13th meeting has been changed to Solveig Bailey’s home at 1906 Lincoln St. S.

Skunk in a raccoon trap

Griff Wigley — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:11:00 +0000

We trapped a pesky raccoon a few weeks ago but kept putting the trap back out as we thought there might be another one raiding our bird feeders. Alas, a skunk found it’s way into the trap instead. It was a delicate removal operation that ensued, thankfully without, um, incident.

Lawn Care

Robbie Wigley — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:55:05 +0000

We will be discussing the present state of our lawn care at the June 9th Board Meeting. Sherry Freking has done some research for this discusion that would be helpful to take a look at so everyone has the same information. The link below will take you to the page on the VPTA site that has 8 articles from the University of Minnesota Extension. This is for your information.

Lawn Care (this blue copy is a link, just click on it and another page will open with the permanent information listed on this site in the Pages)

Agenda for the June 9th Board Meeting

Robbie Wigley — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:00:18 +0000

Agenda for June 9th, 2009 VPTA Meeting

Old Business:

Nomination and election of officers
Review of committee members
Review of audit committee report
Insurance quote
Flowers for Jean Leese – Sherry

New Business:

Fire in bldg. 2
Driveway sealcoating
Lawn Care information on blog
Board rep. guidelines

Please call or email Gary Freking, 645-6128, gafrek@gmail.com if you have additional items to be discussed.

The meeting will be at 1900 Lincoln St. S… on the Freking’s Deck at 7:00 pm.

Northfield Shade Tree Replacement Program

Robbie Wigley — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:37:31 +0000

I paid another visit to the NESNA website that I referred to in the last post. Ed Lufkin does a terrific job of keeping the site current. I found this information on their site about the Northfield Shade Tree Replacement Program. The trees are still available for purchase from the city until the 17th. Visit their website to get all the particulars.

This year’s program will offer 102 trees of 8 – 10 ft. (typical trunk diameter of 1- ¼ inches) from nine different species (see list below). Trees are offered for sale to residential property owners only, at a discounted price that includes the locating of utility lines, and planting (and a first watering) of trees by the City Street Department crews.

This looks like a really great program, does anyone have any experience with purchasing these shade trees from the city. I am all for letting them plant them. Here is the cities information on their website, however I found the info on NESNA more informative or at least more organized.