Lidgerwood, ND

May 4, 2008, found the Council 4778 Knights of Columbus members, family and friends helping make the roads to Lidgerwood a more welcome sight. The Knights and the helpers cleaned six miles of highway, three on Highway 18 North of Lidgerwood and three on Highway 11 to the West of Lidgerwood. As I approach from the west, I can truly enjoy this cleaner view into town. The knights have been part of the Adopt-a-Highway program in North Dakota for many years. We can all be grateful and enjoy the time and effort that they have put into this for all of us to be able to see the difference that it makes.

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.

Well we survived the election process and we have the official results. Some of you have read them in the paper but if not here they are. Bonnie Bubach, Gary Scheffler, and Ruben Medenwald were all elected to the 4 year terms they ran for. Bruce Lynn also won his 2 year term. We are still waiting on the write in for the open two year term. Kathleen Schultz won the Judge, and our two Park Board positions will be filled by Diane Aker and Carie Illies.
The election process was great. I enjoyed running the voting tabulator. I like machines. I was surprised at how quick and easy it is to keep your privacy with the macines. I hope to see a few use the auto mark machine to mark their ballots next time. It was the best way to see our government in action. Everyone can have a voice regardless of age, class, race or ability. I’m looking forward to the November election. I hope that all the ladies will be back to take another go at the Election process. Thanks to all who voted and gave us some work!!!!
See you in November!!!!
Kristin

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.

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

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