Lidgerwood, ND

Our city is having elections soon. We have many city council seats open this year. Our past leaders have done a great job. They have given others the chance to step up to the plate. Yes, the people listened and have done this. We have people running for all of our open seats. This is a great time for our town. New ideas and energy are always needed and appreciated. I would like to think that our Horizon project has had some impact in bringing our needs to the forefront. Thanks to all who are participating in the upcoming elections.

Last week our main street was a sea of orange vests and men holding strange stick like objects. They talked to each other with walkie talkies and took time to visit with the kids and I. The State of ND is mapping the area. Planning for a new surface for our main street which is also a state highway. This will have an impact on our community in several ways that are obvious to me. Business will be disrupted for a time for all our merchants. This also brings to the forefront the obvious cost of a project of this type. If we do our Main Street does this also open the door for other street projects? Can we affoard this? Can we affoard not to do this? I will be looking to our City Council for answers.

The Library Board along with the Womens Club and other volunteers will be sponsoring a summer Story Time in Lidgerwood in June. This is a chance for all the kids to gather and listen to wonderful stories and do projects together. Last year the kids had a great time.
My grandkids are looking forward to seeing their friends and working at the tables. Making the library a fun place to visit is so important to the kids. Gives them a good foundation for visiting their library for other services. Thanks so much everyone.

A meeting on June 3, 2008 will explore the idea of starting a friends of the library group.
Other communities in our area have support groups for their libraries. The groups provide support in funding, program ideas, and collection improvements. Our group will start at the beginning. We will work with the library board to identify needs and then move to help accomplish some exciting things for our library and community.

Lidgerwood is moving ahead under the leadership of John Popp and Curt Brownlee.
They are the president and vice president or the Lidgerwood Community Club. This organization has evolved from the LBA or the Lidgerwood Business Organization. By opening the group to the entire community, this will allow all folks of our community to join together to help make our town better. Our upcoming projects are Heritage Day. This will be joined with our Kolache Day. On July 26, 2008 we will celebrate our past and look to the future.
Should be a great day. The LCC also has other projects in the works.
Good job guys.

The grant application has been turned in and now we wait. The grant that we applied for is the Minnesota Twins Grant for field improvment. We hope to get agralime for the fields and build a new fence. We have also planned a community fundraiser for Tinky Field.  The fundraiser is taking place Saturday May 31 at the KC Hall, 5:30 to 11:00.  We are excited to how much support the comunity can show. Stardust and the Fust Band will be providing our entertainment. Come on out and join us for food and fun for Tinky Field.

As the new City Auditor I am face with many new experiences. One that I am looking forward to is the upcoming city election. I will be Lidgerwood’s election inspector. It sounds scary but I have a group of voulenteers that hve worked elections in the past and I know they will help me through. We dodn’t have any big issues on our ballot this year so I am hoping for a big turnout without too many problems. I hope the members of our comunity come out to show support of their community by voting. I hope to see some of the yourger people in town voting too. I’ll write an update after its all over and let you know how we all faired.
Till later,
Kristin

My mother does some outreach at the local retierment home, doing some range of motion exercises. She has taken my three girls along with her the last few times and they LOVE it. They ask all the time if it is exercise day yet. I’m not sure yet who enjoys it more the girls or the residents. I’m planning on putting in an few pictures and a video if I can figure out how to do it. Till then it was a good time for all of us. They are eagerly wating for next Monday, “Exercise Day”!