The first tournamet at Tinky field this summer was great. The t-ball players had a great time and we did too. Thanks to all who came out and had fun!! Thanks to all the vouolenteers! Lots of work was done by a great group!! Hope to see you all again at future tournaments.
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.
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.
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
As you can imagine, Kids can have fun with almost any media. Searching though newspapers and boxes was no exception on Saturday, March 22, at the KC Hall in Lidgerwood. Kids and parents gathered for the Easter egg hunt. There were areas roped off for four different age levels. It looked like all enjoyed this time together. It went rather quickly for the kids as they found all the eggs. The 2-4 year olds had a more difficult time as many were a bit timid to pick up eggs, their parents assisted them.
A big THANK YOU! to the Knights of Columbus for setting up and sponsoring this event.
I just attended a confrence in Bismarck held by the ND Leagu of Cities. The league is an entire organization there to assist communities and leaders in the running of their towns and cities. I learned many things form the speakers and much more from the other participants. Everyone had good advice for a new auditor. We got to learn in a fun evvironment from each other. The most impressive speaker was the auditor from Northwood, Marcy. She did such an amazing job impessing on us the importance of being prepared. I hope that shoud a tragedy happen in my community we would be able to come together as much as they did.
It was also nice to meet some of the other Horizons community auditors. They were so excited about thier blogs and their communities. I hope to be able to talk with them again soon.
Kristin
I attended the most wonderful class on March 25. Kathy Skroch worked with Richland Co Extension Service to offer this opportunity.
The room was filled with grown ups who are just like me. We all felt a bit uncomfortable with our machines. I can only accomplish this writing because my daughter talks me through it.
We all worked on our assignments and helped each other. Some attempts were successful and others required a bit of help. We all agreed that is was a great class. We scheduled our next meeting in April. It was a great chance for folks from Lidgerwood and the surrounding area to stretch our skills. An opportunity we would not have had without the cooperation of the school, Richland Co Extension, and hard work from Kathy Skroch.
Thanks Kathy
See you in April
Kathy
What a difference a few days makes. Just recently several city council people resigned. Our community needed new leaders. The word got out and we have more that a few new people ready to accept leadership in our community. Every community needs willing people to help and take the time to make their town better. Hats off to all the folks who will be on the ballot in our city election in June.
Kathy