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Thursday, October 7th, 2010 The Official Newspaper of the City of Drayton and Drayton Public School
Volume 28 - Number 40
A group of visitors from Norway stopped by the Sugar Bowl Senior Center on Monday for dinner
and to provide some musical entertainment following the meaL Pictured above from left to
right, starting with the back row, Marlys Nelson, who helped organize the event, Ruth Ravneng,
Laila Ravneng, Kay Ravneng and Lyndon Johnson who also sang with the group and played
mandolin. Front row; Dagfinn Ravneng, Erma Raney, a good Norwegian, Hilde Haug, and Lars
Erik"Haug. Dagfinn, Ruth Laila and Kay are from Skjeberg, Norway and Hilde and Lars Erik are
from Sarpsborg, Norway. Hilde and Lars Erik's 12 year old daughter, Freda was traveling with a
group of fellow students from Sarpsborg, as part of a marching band and performing in Grand
Froks this week. Freda is also the grand-daughter of Lila and Kay Ravneng. Think I got it all
straight. Regardless, it was very clear that a good time was had by all.
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Noah Hanson, Valley News and Views Kid
of the Week
This week's Kid of the two sisters, McKenzie and
Week, Noah Hanson, is an Miranda. All three of the kids
energetic second grader in you might remember, were
Miss Portratz's second grade volunteers helping to serve
class. Noah's mom, Jennifer, at the Northland Rescue
works at Motel 66 and dad, Mission picnic a month or
Jonathan, works for the city so ago. They also have a little
water department. He has dog named Tommy, who
One of the first things second grader Noah Hanson wanted to
do was wish his grandpa, Dean, a happy birthday. That's what
he's doing in the picture. While not revealing Dean's age, /t
was decided that he could be defined as ancient. Noah, who
is a real Star Wars fan, would really like to be a farmer someday.
Farming would be good because he'll need the space for his
pet dinosaur, Rex, and will maybe have to reserve a few acres
to grow broccoli for his pet. The broccofi is to go along with
the corn chips. Noah likes recess, pizza, the Minnesota Vikings
and snowball fights with his grandpa, among other things. He's
also achieved local fame as this week's Kid of the Week.
Noah enjoys playing with.
Noah is a great fan of his
grandparents, Dean and
Mary Hanson and wanted to
make sure to give grandpa
Dean a shout out for his
birthday coming up on
October 14th. We decided
not to reveal Dean's age in
this issure, but in attempts
to provide some definition,
we decided it appropriate
to simply define him as
"ancient".
Noah's favorite color is
green even though the colors
for his favorite football team,
the Minnesota Vikings, are
purple. His favorite classes
in school are Art III, gym and
Math, in that order. He says
that in art they've drawn
potatoes and schools so far.
His favorite subject though
is drawing Minnesota Viking
football helmets. What does
he like most about going to
school each day? Well, recess
of course. And the chance
to get out and play with his
friends.
Speaking of friends, I tried
to find out who his favorite
girlfriend was, but he was a
little tight lipped about that.
Instead we ventured onto the
subject of favorite friends.
He started slowly naming
one name after another and
pretty soon the entire second
grade class was on his list.
I've noticed they're a pretty
tight knit group. Every time
one of the second graders is
being interviewed, some of
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BEST Robotics Students Kick Off Season
with Spaghetti Feed
The Drayton School BEST
Robotics Team kicked off
the year with a Spaghetti
feed, held at the school last
Sunday. The feed, which
served as a fund raiser for this
year's robotics competition
brought in over $600.
BEST stands for "Boosting
Engineering, Science,
and Technology". The
competition occurs annually
.~at locally organized hub sites
throughout the country.
"Bison Best", centered
out of NDSU in Fargo is the
! rgan l er f thn Pre:gtiioOn
:Twenty five schools around
the area, including Drayton,
are signed on for this year's
competition. Last year
Drayton Placed 8th out of 22
schools. This is Draytons's
3rd year as a competitor and
NDSU's 4th year as a hub
site.
The idea for a BEST
Robotics competition
originated in 1993 by two
Texas Instruments (TI)
engineers, Ted Mahler
and Steve Mature. North
Texas BEST was the first
competition held in 1993
with 14 schools and 221
students participating.
Since then it has grown to
a nation-wide competition
with hundreds of schools
aroundthe countryorganized
and competing in regional
hubs with the top winners of
regional meets moving on to
national competition.
There are two parallel
competitions associated
with the BEST program -
the robotics competition
~l~deach ther°b°tiCSparticipatingBEST compefifion,Award'schoolF°r
is provided an identical kit
of equipment and parts, a
set of game rules, and given
six weeks to design, build,
and test a Radio Controlled
robot that outperforms of the BEST Award include:
other robots. Engineers, • project engineering
University faculty members, notebook
technical professionals from • oral presentation
l°Caimentors,industryalong withserve aSparentsteam ° table display
and local teachers, advising • spirit and
and guiding students sportsmanship
throughout the design and ° robot performance
construction of their robot; Today, the competition
however, students perform is centralized under BEST
all of the work. Robotics Inc. (BRI), a non-
In addition to the robotics profit, volunteer-based
competition, students organization headquartered
compete for the BEST at Auburn University (AL).
Award, which is presented to For more information,
the team that best embodies simply Google best robotics
the concept of "Boosting or bison best and you'll
Engineering, Science, and be overwhelmed with
Technology". The 5 elements information on the subject.
Boosting Engineering, Science and Technbology
Kelton Karboviak demonstrates the robot they built last year at
Sunday's spaghetti feed and fund raiser. The students raised
over $600 to be used for this year's project.
Growing
Have you ever wondered
what your county, or
community has to offer?
Have you ever thought about
volunteering on a committee
or even running for office?
What about becoming an
entrepreneur? These and
many other questions are
being answered for a group
of eighteen registered
participants from Pembina
County and one participant
from Walsh County. Once
a month, for eight months,
these participants will
embark on a program that is
designed to build confidence
and leadership skills,
increase awareness of assets,
services and businesses
available in Pembina County
and develop leadership
opportunities within the
community. At the end of
the sessions, a graduation
ceremony will take place
and more knowledgeable,
confident leaders will
Leaders
in Pembina County
Legislators. There is even a Stremick, Corene Vaughn
trip planned to Bismarck, ND and Helen Volk-SchilL The
in March 2011. This trip will Leadership Group, led by
allow the group to meet with Lynette Flage, North Dakota
Legislators, North Dakota State University Extension
Association of Counties and Leadership Specialist, spent
League of Cities leaders and the morning getting to
attend hearings, know the other participants
ThefirstsessionofGrowing and committee members,
Leaders in Pembina County understanding different
took place on September behavioral styles and how
22nd in the Heritage to communicate more
Center at Icelandic State efficiently with others. They
Park in Cavalier, ND. The learned program details,
participants were greeted course agenda and discussed
by Mayor Ken Briese and a group project that is to
District 4 Pembina County benefit Pembina County.
Commissioner, Corene The afternoon was spent
Vaughn. An introduction touring three businesses
of the steering committee in Cavalier: Pembina
members followed. County Memorial Hospital,
Committee members Woodside Industries and
include: Lynette Flage, Amy North Country Veterinary
Hall, Shari Hanson, Kathy Continued on Page 2
emerge.
Each month, the
participants will meet in
a different community
learning more about
successful leadership
and then tour different
highlights, or hidden secrets
of that community. The
training will host presenters
from North Dakota State
University Extension
Service. Local Leadership
Plenty trained facilitators
and outside experts from the
community, region and local
Pictured from left to right are Orange Team participants, Colton
Huffman, Kathy Stremicl~ Kyle Gagner, Mikka Willits and Helen
Volk-SchilL
Economic Meltdown
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ND Calfish Capital of the
