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October 1st, 2012
Faculty, students, and community members from across the state will come to the Valley City State University Oct. 11 and 12 to attend the North Dakota University Systemâs 2012 Arts and Humanities Summit. During this biennial event, scholars and artists from across the state will gather to present and share their work in visual arts, music, readings, theater, and scholarship.
Jonna Ziniel, professor at VCSU and coordinator of the event, said the summit is âa really nice showcase of what the state has to offer.â
State House and Senate candidates and candidates for the Barnes County Commission have all been invited to participate in a candidate forum Oct. 16 at the Valley City HAC Gymnasium, said Doug Anderson.
Anderson is a Chamber Board member, leads its legislative committee, and is marketing and communications manager for Valley City State University.
The candidate forum is being sponsored by the Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce, and will take place starting at 7 p.m.
September 28th
The North Dakota Department of Instruction (DPI) is asking for all interested people to provide input on the new proposed guidelines for the professional evaluations of teachers and principals.
After several districts across the state failed to meet the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act, the state applied for a waiver from the act.
Submitting the waiver means the state must have established uniform guidelines for the evaluations. A DPI advisory committee worked from October, 2011, to July to develop the proposed guidelines.
I begin this prose in quite a conundrum.
Trying to find peace but havenât yet found some.
I begin every morning alive with the news.
CNN, FOX âthey give me the blues.
Iâm just the blonde, living on the prairie-
But tootâin my own horn (which is really quite scary!)
Iâm a woman with hormones and I have a gun.
Bring me a militant and Iâll get âer done.
My posse is housewives â women of strength.
Proverbs 31 proves theyâd earn âGeneralâ as ranks.
Each and every one of them is as patriotic as me.
So we wonder how dumb our elected can be.
Robert Odegaard of Kindred partially completed a practice barrel roll 5:55 p.m. Sept. 7 before the roll slowed and ultimately stopped just prior to the pilotâs fatal crash at the Barnes County Municipal Airport, the National Transportation Safety Board has determined.
According to the preliminary report released Sept. 21, a witness reported that the practice routine proceeded normally.
September 27th
Volunteers searching the Barnes County Municipal Airport found a missing memory card from a camera that was mounted on a plane that crashed at the airport, killing pilot Bob Odegaard earlier this month.
Two buckets of shrapnel â the remains from the Sept. 7 plane crash â sat on a table in the terminal of the Barnes County Municipal Airport on Wednesday morning, as about a dozen volunteers gathered to search the airport grounds for the important piece of wreckage.
Whooping cranes are beginning their annual migration south through North Dakota and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the North Dakota Game and Fish Department are asking people to report any sightings to either agency.
Mike Rabenberg, a USFWS wildlife biologist at the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge said the birds migration from Canada is just getting started and should run through October.
A wayward bird ended up interrupting power to downtown Valley City Wednesday morning, said Valley City City Administrator David Schelkoph.
âWe got the culprit in the office â a tweety bird,â Schelkoph said.
Businesses that lost power included the Times-Record and Duttonâs Valley Gallery of Photography.
Valley City electrical Superintendent Stan Hanson said Wednesday the the loss of power started with a circuit breaker outside the Ace Hardware store. âSomehow the bird got into the transformer and started an arc.â
September 26th
The Dan Faust farmstead off airport road was packed with first-year Valley City State University students Tuesday morning as the young people harvested thousands of pounds of squash to be given to the Great Plains Food Bank in Fargo.
An estimated 190 VCSU students, mentors and crew chiefs participated Tuesday, coming to the site by bus.
Arriving at the field about 9 a.m., the young men and women worked hard before breaking for a wiener roast at about 10:30 a.m.
