Thank you to all the area residents that decorated for the holidays

January 22nd, 2010 by grace

I realize this is a little late.. but here are the winners of the Decorating Your homes contest,I beleive this to be the third annual event. Georhings, Pat Scotts, and Kay Heinz. Please Thank them when you see them. And Thank Eldore Gilje for taking the photos for us.

LOCAL PEOPLE DOING FUN THINGS AWAY FROM HOME!

January 22nd, 2010 by grace

I read the Devils Lake Journal today (you can to.. at www.devilslakejournal.com) I found a wonderful group of kids. These middle school children wanted to help the victims in Haiti. They were told by the principle raise $5,000 and I will shave my head. Another teacher said raise $7,000 and I will shave my head. Our Own Hometown BOy Todd Lagasse… said raise $10,000 and i will shave my head. Well my friends… Todd is now bald. The kids pulled together and raised $15,000 for Haiti relief and donated it to the local Red Cross association.
NOW that is something to be proud of.. way to go Todd! Nice to way to Motive, although I am going to keep my hair!

Just-Wind in Rolette

December 17th, 2009 by jogilje

www.just-wind.com

Just Wind is looking to develop a wind farm in Rolette County. A large group of land owners need to sign up for this to happen. A meeting was held at the Rolette school wed. 12/16. Just Wind handed out info and Jeff answered questions. The next meeting will be in 3 weeks.

Just Wind - Wind Farm Development -

Wind farms provide economic benefits such as local tax revenue and employment. Wind power produces no emissions or waste. Land owners agree to a 30 year lease and are paid $2.00 per acre per year. A payment of $4,000 per year is paid to landowners who have a turbine on their land. A pool payment is shared equally among all the landowners.

Jeffrey Metzger Pres. jmetzger@just-wind.com

RADA supper update for the Free Exercise Room and Library

November 10th, 2009 by jogilje

Treasurer Gary Linson counted out $382 in cash.  I put in my own $25 and $20 to make change or $337 plus $192 in checks for $529.  I don’t yet know what I owe Linda Lilley and crew for cooking and serving.  Carole Johnson scooped out the RADA ice cream with help from her husband Rodney.  I know all but two rows of table were filled plus takeouts.  I hauled a fifty pound table from upstairs in more than I should have done.  Mary Patton’s sister J. helped with another table to fill in the empty space to the South.  People filled in music and book preferences with Vince Flynn, Stephan King, Westerns (3). 20s and 80s Science Fiction, 3 Classical music, Love Stories, and Mysteries.  I figure I can get about 10 books and CDs.  When I ordered Vince Flynn on espionage and governmental insuficiences, my Wikopedia seemed to be tapped to see who was ordering.  His Pursuit of Honor: A Novel may be his most popular.  I thoiught I had a Stephen King in hardcover but don’t so will pick up one at a bookstore.  A New Kind of Love Story: Love is Love by Donna Barnes is brand new so cost more.  It will be shipped November 12th.  Clue At The Bottom of the Lake (Cabin Creek Mysteries) by Kristiana Gregory is a mass market paperback. A Western Leadville is by James D. Best in a new paperback.  Dark Matter by S. W. Ahmet is a paperback.  I went for latest publication date in belief you probably didn’t alread have these.  I will put these out on the fiction shelves in the mall.  I almost have to go to Grand Forks and geet more disc space into my laptop so I can keep new CDs in the music room after ripping them.  Thanks to the Rahns and all of you I know from cafes, coffee, churches, sports who have swapped stories, done condolances, and just being good neighbors.  Duane Crawford

4-H Haunted House at the Gurr Building

November 2nd, 2009 by jogilje

The 4-H had a Haunted House at the Gurr Building.  It was a spooky good time. Thanks to all who paid to got thru and all who help set-up, run and clean-up the haunted house.  The Gurr building is a Historical Building on Main Street Rolette.  It has been a grochery store and Moturary. Karen Armstron and Jo Gilje did lost of set-up but we go the most help from Tom Lucus who add quite a bit of scare to our design.  Thanks Tom. 

McCumber Cow Auction was a Great Succes

November 2nd, 2009 by jogilje

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McCumber Angus had their cow sale last week.  It was a great success. Cow were bought by local ranches, out of state Angus ranches and a few going to Canada. As usual the Tastad family is a very positive benefit to the Rolette community.

Trip to Bismarck was good.

September 24th, 2009 by jogilje

Trip to Bismarck was good. The speaker had been raised poor which is not always the case for people speaking about poverty. I don’t think she had may solutions….just the point of “look at things from the other persons view”.

Don’t judge people against YOUR experiences in life.  Judge people against THEIR experiences in life.

We gat a portable speaker system.  Not very big but a nice size.  We could have used it for leadership plenty.

Here is a office news release from Gayle Gette.

 Rolete Horizons Members attend Bismarck Workshop 

Pat Beaver, Karen Armstrong, and Jo Gilje, Rolette Horizons Steering Committee members, participated in the Horizons Partnership Luncheon and workshop held at the Ramkota Hotel, Bismarck ND September 23, 2009. The purpose of the luncheon and workshop was to facilitate all North Dakota Horizons communities’ connections with partners, services, resources, and programs across North Dakota.  

 The keynote speaker was Dr. Donna Beegle, from Communication Across Barriers, a highly experienced national public speaker, discussion leaders trainer and author of “See Poverty, Be the Difference.”  Donna has worked with organizations all over the nation who want to make a difference for those living in the crisis of poverty.

Participants spent the afternoon attending a variety of resource roundtables for identified issue areas including housing development, community security, small business cooperative development, farmers markets, business financing, community marketing, tourism development, youth and adult entrepreneurship, youth-adult partnerships, non-profit development, business financing, community beautification/enhancement/welcoming and community infrastructure including essential services.

Rolette is one of 15 current Horizons communities in ND. The program is funded by the Northwest Area Foundation, and facilitated by the NDSU Extension Service.  The program goals are to address poverty issues in small, rural communities by building and developing local leadership bases.   

Divorce by Duane Crawford

September 24th, 2009 by jogilje

Ah, yes, dovorce…from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet  Robin Williams.Just another of our many disareements.  He wants a no-fault divorce wheas I would prefer to have the bastard crucified.  J. B. HandlesBeing divorcesd is like being hit by a Marck truck.  If you live through you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.  Jean Kerr.If marriage  means you fall in love, does divorce mean you climed out.  unknown..For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we made in life.  Joihce Brothers.An open marriage is natur’s way of telling you that ou need a divorce.  Ann Landers.A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymoe than a good mortician wants to finsih his job and then have the patient get up on the table.  Jean Kerr.The difference betwen divorce and legal separation is sthat legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.  Johnny Carson.Divorce is in Deuteronomy 24: 1′2,   Paul speaks against  divorce, I think, in 1 Corinthians 7:10-15 as does Mastthew in 19:9-9 except for marital unfaithfullmenes.Quotes of Encouragement in www. womansdivore. com/quotees-on-divorce.  Divorce is the Screwing You Get for the Screwing You Got.  Duane Crawford heard possibly from Lyle Becker, brother-oin-law.A Man Never Knows His Value Until He Gets a Divorce and His Wife Gets Half.  Alvin Arnstein.Rodney Johnson went past a new building that may have said Got Divorced because it was only half built.  FUNNY DIVORCE QUOTES from FAMOUS SAYINGS DIVORCE When people divorce, it’s always such a tradgey.  At the same trime, if people stay togeth it can be even worse.  Monica Bellucci.My mother always said don’t marry for mnoney, divorce for money.  Wendy Liebman.The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.I do not consider divorce an evil by any means.  It is justr as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal mastrs.To get over my divorce I got a prescription to live at the Playboy mansion for a while.  James Caan.Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage in liable to divorce.   Voltaire.I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriagew.  You can’t divorce a book.  Gloria Swanson.In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of the publicity.A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.  Marvin MitchelsonAlimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.Since her divorce:  I haven’t had a home since I left there, but hey, I’m glad.The only time my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers.  Woody AllenThe loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is.The happiest time of anyone’s life is just after the first divorce.Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.I am an excellent housekeepeer.  Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.  Zsa Zsa Gabor.One reason people gert divorces is that they run out of gift ideas.Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as gettng married just because you do.Appropriately Yours, Duane Crawford

Homecoming Parade and 5K fun run

September 5th, 2009 by jogilje

2009hcp.gif2009 Homecoming Parade was a great success. All kind of entries….Cars, Tractors and Fire Trucks.

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Homecoming starts by Duane Crawford

September 5th, 2009 by jogilje

Mall will close at 5PM on Saturday September 5th and be closed Sunday and Monday, Labor Day.Went to a Community Pep Rally which ws fun and am going to a Football game against the Rugby Black Panthers at 7PM.  Football player did backflips to win a Survivors-type contest Tribal Dance.  Whitney Belgarde is Queen and Josh Casavant King.  Played my CD of Latin Guitar while parade of tractors, ambulance, and firetrucks went down Main.  Lorraine Martinson was on a sofa on a cart pulled by her son.  Martinson girls were on Olivers.  A Ford car and Ford pickup were run by Stan Haagenson and another coffee drinker.  A Street Dance will be in the Wagon Wheel parking lot with Elvis Impersonator Tommy Patton.  I usually go with his uncle Tom Patton.  We may see Tom and Taylor Dayne Falcon perform at the Host Fest.  I should be singing to the choir at the Nondenominational Church Service September 6th, Sunday.  Also Class of 2011 Breakfast from 8to 1:30 at Memorial HallI got three Diet Lipton tea in with CDs in my car so may park where my lights don’t show if I have my car running.  Weather may get in 90s but is likely to be in mid 70s.  Duane Crawford