Virginia News

Iron Trail Motors On Chrysler Closure List

2009-05-14T13:23:00.001-07:00

Iron Trail Motors of Virginia is among the nearly 800 dealers
nationwide that Chrysler has announced it has dropped as part of its
bankruptcy filing.

Community Housing Action Plan Workshops

2009-01-12T08:37:00.001-08:00

The Range Readiness Initiative Housing Work Team invites you to attend one of the sub-regional Community Housing Action Plan Workshops scheduled for the last week of January.

The workshops will all be held from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. with lunch provided.

Three Workshop Locations

Grand Rapids- Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Grand Rapids Public Library 140 NE 2^nd St

Hibbing – Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Hibbing Public Library 2020 5^th Ave East

Virginia- Thursday, January 29, 2009

Mesabi Range Community College room C156

1001 W Chestnut St

The Team is excited to share financial and technical assistance resource information with you and provide an opportunity for your community to develop a vision for housing and establish local housing priorities.

The workshops will highlight:

Assistance with matching innovative and existing financial resources with new housing development and rehabilitation projects locally.

Sub-regional housing five-year goals

Examples of small community housing development implementation

Group activities to identify local housing priorities and action steps

After the workshop an informal technical assistance session will be available for communities and developers…bring along your project ideas!

Professionals representing the Housing Expeditors, Lenders, Developers, and Planners will be present to discuss you projects and answer questions.

Please invite other community leaders to join you and attend a workshop at one of the listed locations.

If you have not responded already, please RSVP by Tuesday, January 20^th so an accurate lunch count and meeting space set-up can be determined. Provide us with:

1. Your Name

2. Organization or entity affiliation

3. The workshop location you'll be attending

4. Email address

5. The information of anyone joining you

Phone: #218-529-7535 or #1-800-232-0707 ext. 535 or email: lsarabia@ardc.org

Hope to see you at one of the workshops,

Northern Community Internet Community Reception

2008-10-08T05:37:00.001-07:00

Community Reception

Northern Community Internet Project

Thursday, October 16, 2008
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
(brief presentation at 5:30)
Virginia Elks Club
218 N 5th Ave, Virginia

Come hear about an exciting new project to build and strengthen our local communities using the Internet.

Join KAXE General Manager, Maggie Montgomery, Community Access Coordinator, Scott Hall, and Community Internet Project Director, Ross Williams at the Virginia Elks Club! Scrumptious hors d'oeuvres donated by The Whistling Bird, refreshments, cash bar and informal discussion of this exciting new venture.

We're looking for your ideas, suggestions and advice for creating a local Internet site that serves everyone in the community. A working
"beta" version of the site is under construction at virginia.northerncommunityinternet.org.

Quad Cities Community Journalism Club meets Monday

2008-09-25T14:52:00.000-07:00

Monday, September 29, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Room C157 Mesabi Technical College - Virginia Campus

September topic: Use Home Town Focus to spread the news. Executive
Editor Jean Dallas will demonstrate how to submit content from original
stories, commentary and news items, to photos and video/audio files.
Learn how to use Home Town Focus as a venue to promote your events and
fundraisers to the local community.

Free and open to anyone on the Range interested in using the internet to communicate.

Contact Jennifer Armstrong, Northern Community Internet Outreach, at
jen3344@gmail.com or 290-8020 to RSVP or ask questions.

SSponsored by Northern Community Internet (wwww.northerncommunityinternet.org)
a project of Northern Community Radio (91.7 KAXE).

Get together with like-minded people interested in using the Internet
to communicate.

Virginia Library sponsors brown bag lunch discussions with authors

2008-09-23T17:29:00.000-07:00

Author Brown Bag Lunch Visits @ Your Library!

Bring your lunch to the Virginia Public Library for our Visiting Author Brown Bag Lunch Visits. Each Brown Bag Lunch will be held in the library auditorium from noon until 1:00 on the Friday of each visit.
Call 748-7525 if you have questions.

September 26, 2008—Local author George Erickson will be here to discuss his most recent book Back to the Barrens: On the Wing with da Vinci and Friends and the writing process. He will also have a photo presentation with images of the Far North.

October 10, 2008—Did you know that this year marks Minnesota's sesquicentennial? Minnesota author Steve Keillor, author of Shaping Minnesota's Identity: 150 Years of State History, will be here to discuss his book and our state's 150th anniversary.

October 31, 2008—Tom Phillipich, local author of The 1951 Basketball Buccaneers, is coming to the library to talk about his book. The book includes photographic and audio work done by his parents during the 1951 basketball season.

November 21, 2008—Are you ready for the holidays? Do you need cooking ideas? Just in time, Beatrice Ojakangas will be here to talk about her most recent cookbook, The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever.