Heart of New Ulm

Downtown Action Team Meeting
2022-10-21 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-09-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-08-19 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-07-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-06-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | 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
2022-10-20 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-09-15 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-08-18 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-07-21 17:30 - 18:30 | MN
3rd Thursday of the month from 5:30-6:30

Food Environment Action Team
2022-10-18 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-09-20 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-08-16 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-07-19 09:30 - 10:30, 2022-06-21 09:30 - 10:30 | MN
Monthly 3rd Tuesday from 9:30-10:30

Worksite Wellness Training: Ask a Question, Save a Life!
2022-10-13 11:00 - 13:00 | Turner Hall, 102 S State St, New Ulm, MN, 56073, United States
Register at https://tinyurl.com/OctQPRtrain

Brown County Chemical Health Action Team (CHAT)
2022-10-12 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-09-14 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-08-10 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-07-13 14:00 - 15:00 | MN
Monthly 2nd Wednesday from 2-3pm

Walk to School Day
2022-10-12 07:30 - 08:00 | MN
Flyer with details: Oct 2022 Walk to School Day

Worksite Wellness and Community Health Challenge Action Team Meeting
2022-09-27 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-08-23 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-07-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2022-06-28 13:00 - 14:00 | MN
Monthly 4th Tuesday of the month from 1-2pm

Coalition for Active, Safe and Healthy Streets (CASHS)
2022-09-15 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-07-21 08:00 - 09:00 | MN
3rd Thursday every other month from 8-9am (odd months)

"Paint the Pavement" at the New Traffic Safety Playground
2022-08-22 10:00 - 2022-08-24 17:00 | 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.

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

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.

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.
