Rolette, ND

The e-bay class at the Rolette Technology center was a great success.  Dan from Bowbells was a great teacher with real eBay experience.  He show how to research items to set the right price, add an item to sell on eBay with a good picture and how to use paypal and ship the item that was sold.  So much useful information.  This class taught students how to make a little extra money selling items.  Items sold were new and old, big and small, expensive and cheap.  Congratulations to the students for learning a new skill that they can pass along to others.  Thank you to Dan for bringing all of his experience to Rolette and sharing it.  It would not have been possible without the efforts of Karen Armstrong who organized the class.eBay

Its hard to know who is working harder  during this session of Leadership Plenty; the instructors or the students.  With a smaller groupof people involved, the dynamics are much different…and all are working their brains hard.  We are entering the 4th session; which we have a meal plan for. Hopefully the food will revitalize our tired brains.  See we are working hard!

Everett Brown is the answer if you ask him. Keeping his body limber and flexible is the only reason he says he continues to take dance class, not for the girl to boy ratio. As his mother I doubt that!  He is one of several students from the Rolette area that are involved in dance classes.  He is the only boy in is class which also makes him the oldest boy in the dance school directed by Kim Samuelson.  This spring these young dancers could be found entertaining at basketball half time shows; as far away as St. John.  They were invited to dance a the regional district for class B boys as well but declined as the games were during the day!  Education proves to be first in the minds of these dancers; but dancing is in their feet and hearts.

A group of concerned citizens in the Rolette community is taking it upon themselves to remodel the memorial halls kitchen.  This is being done to increase use of the facility.  It is also being done with the questionable blessing of the American Legion Post, the auxiliary, the city and the county commissioners. We do have the full support of RADA and they are our parent organization.  Just to get permission to start this project has been strange.  The county owns the building, the city pays all the bills, and the legion rents it!  Crazy how life evolves.  Gordy has given us his blessing although he doesn’t know why we would want to start this without any money.  The city and the county also give us their blessings and blessing alone.   Although the city offered their tax id number for us; so they are our fiscal agent.  The thought process has boiled down to getting actual costs and estimates.  Now the process of finding the right grant for the right project begins.  Therefore we are calling ourselves the “Kitchen Nightmare”.  Not to be confused with the popular show that can be found at http://www.fox.com/kitchennightmares/.  Keep checking back for more info. and progress.  I am sure there will be a time when your help will be needed.

Rolette Art Students have 20 chosen from the 21^st Annual Student Art Show in Cando. We are excited to announce these winners chosen for the ND State Student Art Show 2008 in Minot, April 15-May 1.  These students are: Kindergarten: Connor Beck Grade 1: Chelsie Mattson, Harrison Snell, Everett Brown, Connor Grenier, Brooklyn Kavlie Grade 2: Kinze Martinson, Katelyn Pigeon    Grade 3: Kacey Mongeon, Lucas Johnson Grade 4: David Arstein, Bryce Leonard, Sonje Gilje, Lexi Wittmeyer Grade 5: Izak Snell, Clay Entzi, Delaney SelvigGrade 6: Cheriah Arpan, Michelle Biberdorf Grade 12: Samantha Pigeon, Tracy MortensonCongratulations to these students for their fine achievement!!! You may view their work at the Taube Museum downtown Minot.(838-4445) April 15 -May 1.  Both shows are free and open to the public. 

The Rolette County 4-H clubs got together for Project Expo at the Turtle Mountain Community College.  Six members participated in 2 divisions. 4-H members pick project they are interested in, research and learn something new about the subject and them create a poster relating what they learned.   Titles for the projects were “Horse Tack”, “Photography”, “Daisy Chain”, “Just a Note”, “Help Your Horse” and “Flower Fundamentals”.

   Rolette young artists are at it again! This time they have entered a local area competition at the Cando Art Center, March 4-14^th.  This K-12 Student Art Show may be seen 1pm-4pm Tue.-Friday or by appt. with Shelley Lord, Art Director. 968-3655   It’s a magnificent collection of art work and free to the public. It is a real thrill to see the talent these youngsters display in their special efforts. Today, 20 art works were chosen to compete in the North Dakota Student Art Show at the Taube Museum in Minot. You will know by the small sticker on each one.  This show will be open to the public April 15-May 2, 2008. There are some significant awards to be acquired at this show, such as The Governor’s Award, The Traveling Show Award and Senators Award to list just a few. This could be a great family outing and recognition is very important for our young artists. See you at the show!