Blogs List
At the Library
 Larry Hlavsa |
NEW ULM LIBRARY ON "FACEBOOK"!Fri, November 20, 2009 @ 9:58AM The New Ulm Public Library is now on "Facebook." Our new assistant library director, Kris Wiley, has set up and will be maintaining these new informative pages. If you become a "fan" of the New Ulm Library, you'll get info on what's going on in the Library every time you log in to your Facebook acco.
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Rotary Exchange to Ecuador
 Katherine Joyce |
The Last...Wed, June 9, 2010 @ 7:45PM We left Machala early in the morning for Guayaquil to begin our last trip together as exchange students in Ecuador. We welcomed a couple new exchange students from Australia and Brazil and partied the whole week with those we met during the trip in Manabi. From the Rotary conference we went to Machala to see banana and shrimp farms. Then we officially started our mountain trip in Cuenca. Later we got went to Inca ruins called Ingapirca, a farm with llamas and off to the Quito, where we visited the middle of the world. Sunday morning we said our chaos and returned to our propio cities. Overall the trip created tons of memories especially during the many hours spent in buses and I learned quite a lot about Germany... oh and Ecuador too!!! (yes, I do realize my pictures are turned all sorts of ways..
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Park and Rec Happenings
 Cheryl Kormann |
New Playground Coming to North Market Park!Thu, June 17, 2010 @ 1:02PM The City of New Ulm is happy to announce they won a new Nucleus Playground, courtesy of BCI Burke Company out of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin! This new playground will be installed at North Market Park, 1414 N. German Street, New Ulm. The play unit itself is valued at over $20,000. Continue to check this site for updates on the projec.
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Tessa's Rotary Exchange Year
 Tessa Makepeace |
Travelling in EuropeThu, May 27, 2010 @ 10:49PM One month until the end of my exchange year. Just a little over a month until I see my parents and one of my best friends again when they come to Germany. I am still loving being here of course and having a lot of fun but it will be nice to be home. That’s logical though I guess. I am going to make the most of the rest of the year and then enjoy being back in a familiar place. The Europe Tour was absolutely incredible. We were gone from March 19th to April 10th and in those three short weeks we really saw a lot, experienced new things and got to know each other well as a group. We (46 exchange students from around the world all living in Northern Germany) drove in a coach bus from place to place and stayed in youth hostels in each city. We spent one night on the bus too as we traveled in Italy.
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Off the Record
 Kevin Sweeney |
That's my boy!Thu, April 15, 2010 @ 3:17PM My wife, Marijo, and I had a fun weekend. We traveled to Indiana University, in Bloomington, Ind. where our son, Michael, 27, is working on his Masters in Music Composition at the Jacobs School of Music. He was presenting his Masters recital, a concert of music he has written in the past couple of years there. Being the parent of a musical child is kind of like being the parent of an athletic child, only the opportunities to watch the kids perform is limited. In High School, choirs or bands perform a couple of major concerts a year, while athletic teams play two or three times a week during their season. So when you get an opportunity to hear them play, you go. It was a nice concert. Michael's music is very contemporary — don't expect recognizable rythms and melodies — but very entertaining, and the musicians were excellent. The best part of the weekend, though, was at the reception following the concert.
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