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| Lindberg: 'I just love Northfield' |
By: SUZANNE ROOK, Senior Reporter
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Posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:09 pm
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Editor’s Note — This story is part of a continuing series featuring candidates for Northfield City Council.
Northfield-born Al Lindberg moved from this city with his parents at the age of 3.
But not until he came back four years ago did the 55-year-old candidate for the city council’s Third Ward feel settled.
Al Lindberg
Age— 55
Family — Wife, Nancy; two adult daughters: Krista Steinhouse and Jennifer Lindberg
Education — Richfield High School, Dunwoody College of Technology, Minneapolis Vocational School and Hennepin Technical College
Occupation — air conditioning and sheet metal installer for Honeywell
It’s going to be a busy election season: seven mayoral candidates and two of the three council races are headed for the Sept. 9 primaries. The Northfield News is going to be there every step of the way. We’ll continue to run features on each of the candidates, giving voters a thumbnail sketch of who they are and what they’ll do if elected, and just before election day we’ll publish a question and answer chart where readers can compare and contrast candidates before casting their ballots.
Online we’ve set up a special election page where each of our election stories can be found. Visit it under News at www.northfieldnews.com. |
Lindberg, who only went as far as Richfield, returned to town frequently, visiting his grandparents or other relatives who owned the Corner Bar and a Northfield barber shop. It always felt like home, he said.
“I just love Northfield,” said Lindberg. That line, used by his uncle, Don Lindberg, who ran for city council in the late 1950s, is also Alan Lindberg’s campaign slogan.
Lindberg says if elected, he’ll do what’s best for Northfield.
The politics of personal agendas aren’t his style, he said, noting that the city’s dealt with too many pols who’ve put their interests first. “I’m looking for the betterment of Northfield, not personal gain,” said Lindberg.
The city council needs to set its mind to stabilizing Northfield, he said. The last year at City Hall has been tumultuous, and that, he believes, has been a detriment to the city.
“I’m about analyzing what’s going to be better,” he said. “I would work with the council to try to come up with some solutions.”
Lindberg, a Northfield police reservist for more than five years, said one of his goals is to continue working to eradicate drug abuse in the community.
He has not studied the individual projects and issues facing the city, but said if elected, he’d look at each idea and proposal separately to see “what’s going to give us the biggest bang for the buck to keep us living at this standard.”
— Suzanne Rook can be reached at srook@northfieldnews.com or 645-1113.
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