Heart of New Ulm

"Paint the Pavement" at the New Traffic Safety Playground
2022-08-22 10:00 - 2022-08-24 17:00 (America/Chicago) | New Ulm Middle School, 414 S. Payne St., New Ulm, MN, 56073, United States
The Heart of New Ulm’s Safe Routes to School Action Team is inviting everyone to help bring New Ulm’s new Traffic Safety Playground to life at a Paint the Pavement event.
A traffic playground is a mini-street painted play space that provides children and families a fun space to practice safe walking, bicycling and scooting skills away from traffic. No real cars are allowed. A typical playground looks like a small version of a city’s streets, with travel lanes, crosswalks, stop signs, and places to visit like parks, businesses, schools and neighborhoods.
Starting Monday, Aug. 22 at 10 a.m., volunteers are needed to paint the pavement for the playground, which is located on the campus of the New Ulm Middle School and Jefferson Elementary at 414 S. Payne St. Painting will continue on the 23rd and 24th, and also on the 25th and 26th if needed. Volunteers can come and go anytime, so no matter how much time people have available, all help is appreciated. In case of inclement weather, painting will be postponed until weather allows.
Mural artist Greg Wimmer of Rochester will be onsite to oversee the painting. Wimmer has painted murals all over Minnesota and painted the Rochester Bicycle Playground. Refreshments and snacks will be provided for volunteers and there will be information on how to get involved with Safe Routes to School activities.
The painting event will also feature fun activities for kids, including a story stroll, where children and families can take a break and walk around the school and read a children’s book that will be set up around the school. Kids should bring their bicycles to get a free headlight and taillight and learn how they work.
The traffic safety playground is made possible by a grant from the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Boost funding initiative.

Downtown Action Team Meeting
2022-08-19 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-07-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-06-17 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-05-20 12:00 - 13:00 | New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center, 1 N Minnesota St, New Ulm, MN, 56073, United States
Every Third Friday from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm.

New Ulm Bike Group
2022-08-18 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-07-21 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-06-16 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-05-19 17:30 - 18:30 | MN
3rd Thursday of the month from 5:30-6:30

Upcoming Training on Trauma and Resilience Basics
2022-08-17 13:00 - 16:30 | Turner Hall, 102 S State St, New Ulm, MN, 56073, United States
The Brown County Mental Health and Wellness Action Team is hosting an upcoming training, “Surviving and Thriving: Trauma and Resilience Basics,” that is open to everyone in the community. The training will be held Wednesday, Aug. 17 from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the Sleepy Eye Event Center, 110 12th Ave NE in Sleepy Eye. There is no cost to attend.
One of the first steps in assuring a trauma-informed foundation for communities, organizations, schools and systems is to educate everyone — practitioners, their system leaders, supervisors, teachers and educators, community members and all those who care for and about people.
In a comprehensive approach, anyone touching the lives of a person who may have been touched by trauma needs to understand the basic principles of the impact of trauma and the hope of building individual and community resilience. This includes both the traumas of COVID-19 and the racism and racial inequities that plague our culture and systems.
The presenter will be Erin Schwab, a local health educator who is passionate about teaching and advocating for the health and wellbeing of all community members. A wife and mother of two boys, Schwab understands the importance of finding solutions to help our communities grow stronger, together.
To register, go to tinyurl.com/SEtrauma

Food Environment Action Team
2022-08-16 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-07-19 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-06-21 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-05-17 09:30 - 10:30 | MN
Monthly 3rd Tuesday from 9:30-10:30

Brown County Chemical Health Action Team (CHAT)
2022-08-10 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-07-13 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-06-08 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-05-11 14:00 - 15:00 | MN
Monthly 2nd Wednesday from 2-3pm

Power of Produce Day
2022-08-06 09:00 - 11:00 | German Park, 200 North German St, New Ulm, MN, 56073
The Heart of New Ulm’s Food Environment Action Team, along with the KNUJ Farmers Market, invite all youth ages 4-12 to a Power of Produce Day at the farmers market at German Park in New Ulm on Saturday, Aug. 6 from 9 to 11 a.m.

The first 50 families who stop by the Heart of New Ulm’s table at the market will receive $10 in produce dollars to use for produce at the market (no jams, jelly or baked goods). A variety of other fun learning activities will be offered.

The Power of Produce Day aims to encourage families with children to visit their local farmers market, support local produce vendors, and encourage youth to make healthier food choices by offering them money to purchase their own produce at the market.

Worksite Wellness and Community Health Challenge Action Team Meeting
2022-07-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-06-28 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-05-24 13:00 - 14:00 | MN
Monthly 4th Tuesday of the month from 1-2pm

Coalition for Active, Safe and Healthy Streets (CASHS)
2022-07-21 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-05-19 08:00 - 09:00 | MN
3rd Thursday every other month from 8-9am (odd months)

Poker Walk June 24
2022-06-24 10:00 - 16:00 | MN
The New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce and Ameriprise Financial, with promotional support from the Heart of New Ulm, invite everyone in New Ulm to participate in the 7th Annual Poker Walk every Friday in June to promote financial and physical wellness.
Here’s how it works:

Every Friday during the month of June, check out the Chamber’s or Heart of New Ulm’s Facebook page for the week’s designated one-mile route, which will include stops at five participating Chamber businesses. You can also pick up a printed copy at the New Ulm Chamber office at 1 N. Minnesota St.
Participants need to stop at each business between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and pick up a playing card, assemble their poker hand, and then stop at the Chamber office at 1 N. Minnesota St. to drop off and register their hand by 4:30 p.m. each Friday.
Each card has one, two or three star-hole punches. Make sure that the card you receive from each business is the same number of stars as your previous one. Poker hands must be submitted with all cards with the same number of star punches.
Email photos of yourself participating in the walk to chamber@newulm.com and you will be entered into a drawing for $10 in Chamber Dollars. Get creative, as these will be posted to the New Ulm Chamber Facebook page (for group photos, identify the people in the photo in your email).
The winning hand from each week will be entered into the Grand Prize Drawing to win $250 worth of gift cards to local businesses.

Poker Walk June 17
2022-06-17 10:00 - 16:00 | MN

Poker Walk June 10
2022-06-10 10:00 - 16:00 | MN

Worksite Wellness Event: All about Herbs: Growing – Cooking – Preserving
2022-06-09 11:30 - 13:00 | Hermann Heights Park Shelter, 14 Monument Street, New Ulm, MN, 56073, United States
Register by June 6 at https://tinyurl.com/basic-herbs
Or RSVP by June 6 to Jennifer.Maurer@allina.com
Growing herbs can be fun, easy and low maintenance. You don’t need a lot of time or know how to have a successful and rewarding herb garden that will brighten both your workplace and your culinary masterpieces.
Learn basic information about herbs – both common and uncommon — including growing conditions, therapeutic uses, flavors and varieties, cooking tips, harvesting and preserving.
Bring your own lunch.
Presenters:
Lynn Hacker, Master Gardener
Lynn Hacker has been a Master Gardener since 1992 and is a founding member of the Brown County Master Gardener group.

Linda Carruthers, Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist
Linda Carruthers is a registered dietitian-nutritionist at Allina Springfield Clinic.

Poker Walk June 3
2022-06-03 10:00 - 16:00 | MN

Understanding NEAR Science: Building Self-Healing Communities
2022-05-03 09:00 - 14:30 | Turner Hall, 102 S State St, New Ulm, MN, 56073, United States
Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/NEARscience
NEAR Science stands for Neurobiology, Epigenetics, ACEs and Resilience research.
Addressing intergenerational and historical trauma is going to take a lot of creative solutions and approaches. Although a short presentation does not provide all the answers, the key goal of this presentation is to build a common language and understanding about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the related research as a starting point.
Understanding NEAR Science: Building Self-Healing Communities is presented in three sections:

Neurobiology & Epigenetics focuses on how our brains adapt to our environment during childhood and some basic concepts about related to how toxic stress can impact healthy development.
Key Findings from the ACE study highlights some of the data from the original ACE Study.
Resilience provides a framework for thinking about resilience, and focuses primarily on attachment and belonging, supporting individual capabilities, and culture, community and spirituality as key protective systems.

After attending this presentation, attendees are encouraged to think about how this information could be applied within their own “sphere of influence” (family, workplace, school, community, etc.).
Agenda:
9 – 9:30 a.m. — Registration, refreshments, icebreaker
9:30 – 11:30 a.m. — Presentation
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. — Networking lunch (free)
12:30 – 2:30 p.m. — Presentation and reflection questions
Presenters:
Barb Sorum, Director of Prevention Initiatives, FamilyWise
Melinda Haupt, Masters in Social Work student, FamilyWise
Melinda is passionate about mental health and has years of Social Work experience, ranging from DD and MI to School settings.
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