Up By Roots Workshop
RAW is hosting the Up By Roots workshop featuring James Urban, author of Up By Roots: Healthy Trees and Soils for the Built Environment on June 28th at the University Center Rochester.
Up By Roots is a one-day workshop highlighting the principles of soil science and their use in facilitating the growth of healthy trees and developing water-efficient landscapes. This workshop includes lectures and field work intended to introduce the underlying scientific principles guiding tree biology and soil-water relations. It is only through a healthy respect for these guiding principles that one can effectively design, install, and manage soils and trees
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RAW Winter Workshop – Thursday, February 16, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Rochester International Event Center
7333 Airport View Rd. SW • Rochester, MN 55902
Airport exit on Highway 63 South
Featuring
Don Blair Arborist, Author, Lecturer
John Ball Professor of Forestry
ISA Certification
7.5 CEUs
Registration
Registration is $95/person. Use a copy of this registration form and mail to register now or go online at our website (which is open for online registration with PayPal payment). To ensure the quality of the workshop, space is limited.
Mail registrations:
Rochester Arborist Workshop
3930 Hwy 14 East • Rochester, MN 55904
Questions should be sent via email or call Jacob Ryg at 507-328-2515. Vending information contact Jay Maier.
Schedule
7 am Registration
8 am The History
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2012 Spring RNeighborWoods Tree Grant
2010 Fall Tree Grant winners Homestead neighbors worked together on a gorgeous fall day to plant 20 trees and add leafy trees to their historic neighborhood boulevards.
Trees make good neighbors.
Since its creation in 2004, RNeighborWoods has organized 3,246 volunteers to plant 3,535 trees on Rochester boulevards. These trees provide multiple ecological and other public benefits including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. This spring, once again the City of Rochester, RPU and RNeighbors is offering a grant for a winning neighborhood to receive free boulevard trees.
Announcing the RNeighborWoods Tree Grant!
We have 50 trees that will all be awarded to two neighborhoods that want to pitch in and help get the trees in the
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Electrical Hazard Awareness Program (EHAP)
Electricity is a serious and widespread hazard to the arborist. Electricity causes about 30 percent of the fatalities in the tree care industry, making it the leading cause of worker fatality. Furthermore, almost all arborists in the field have at least some exposure to this hazard.
Join us on the day following the Winter 2012 Rochester Arborist Workshop, for Electrical Hazard Awareness Program (EHAP). This workshop certification helps you fulfill OSHA safety requirements for working near utility lines.
Friday, February 17
8 am – 4 pm
Rochester International Event Center
7333 Airport View Rd. SW • Rochester, MN 55902
Airport exit on Highway 63 South
Cost
$170 for New
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Alternate Side Parking Pilot Program Update
The Alternate Side Winter Parking Pilot Program will not be enacted this year.
Kutzky Park, Eastside Pioneers and Slatterly Park have opted-out of the pilot program. Discussions during the pilot program raised questions about the current parking restrictions in these neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are being given the opportunity to review the location and effectiveness of existing parking restrictions in their neighborhood. All existing signs in the City of Rochester will be replaced with more reflective signs by the year 2018. The Public Works Department has asked the neighborhoods to take a lead and present to the Department their requests for parking
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Raingardens 101: Why Retain the Rain?
City of Rochester Announces Free Raingarden Class
Is minimizing pollution of local waterways important to you? Are you looking for a way to draw more birds and butterflies to your yard? Do you want to spend less time mowing your lawn? Join us to learn how retaining the rain can make all the difference!
This class will cover the basics of raingarden functions, the benefits of long rooted and native plants, and the importance of managing storm water on site. A photo tour will highlight raingardens throughout the city, including those installed as part of the Realize Raingarden Rochester cost-share grant program.
In
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Wishing You a Colorful and Happy Holidays
This holiday season we’re thankful for each of you who have contributed in big and small, seen and unseen ways to RNeighbors in 2011. It was a positive year for Rochester neighborhoods.
With your help over 7,995 neighborhood volunteer hours were logged in 2011; this amazing number does not even include all of the work our neighborhood leaders have done. When multiplied by $21.36 (the estimated value of volunteer time by the National Independent Sector), this year’s volunteer work equals $384,373 of value to Rochester neighborhoods.
Please take a moment to check our website at www.RNeighbors.org and take a look at our
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Winterfest Cardboard Sled Challenge
Make a sled out of cardboard, make it with style, make it fast and race it down the hill!
WINTERFEST 2012
Cardboard Sled Challenge
February 4, 2012
Willow Creek Golf Course
Online registration is encouraged prior to Feb. 2nd. On-site registration will be available.
ENTRY FEE Youth/Teens ages 6-18…..$25
Open 19 & up…………………$75
Sled may be made of only cardboard, duct tape, paint, and wax.
Awards will be given for entries in these categories:
Youth ages 6-12
Teens ages 13-18
Open ages 19 & up
Everyone ages 6 and older. Individuals may enter, as well as teams of up to 4.
Individuals or teams from your neighborhoods, schools, organizations, and businesses.
FREE stocking hat for
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Citizen Representative on ROCOG Policy Board
The Rochester-Olmsted Council of Governments (ROCOG ) is inviting Olmsted County residents to apply for an opening on the ROCOG Policy Board as a Citizen Representative. Range Transportation Plan and meeting other state and federal planning requirements associated with transportation projects (highways, transit, bikeways, etc.) in the Olmsted County/Rochester area.There are 2 Citizen Reps on the Board with one current opening, with the other 14 members comprised of local elected officials. The Policy Board generally meets 6 times annually. The Citizen Representative term is 3 years. For further information and an application, please visit the Olmsted County web site. Or
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Rochester Neighborhoods Community Forum
Tuesday February 21
7-8:30 pm
Barlow Event Center
Calling all people that live in Rochester neighborhoods! Parents, kids, transplants, boomerangers, etc…We want to learn more about YOU!
In extension to the distribution of a community-wide survey, the Community Asset Inventory Project is hosting a series of forums aimed at learning more about specific communities and individuals within those communities. Individuals, who live in any of Rochester’s various neighborhoods, are invited to attend a forum on Tuesday, February 21st, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Barlow Event Center. Come join us for an evening of feedback and fun to learn more About You and the
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