Month: December 2021

The Dolly Parton Imagination Library is up and running in Crookston and children who are registered received their first book from the program.  As you can see from the picture down below, Audrey Donarski is thrilled to get a book mailed to her home.  Parents with children birth to age 5 are encouraged to register their child for free and will receive a book each month.  Dolly Parton began this amazing program 20 years ago and believes that if you can read, you can do anything, dream anything, and be anything.  Through the imagination program, she wants to ensure all children have books at home, regardless of the environment in which they live. If you would like to donate to the amazing program, you can do so online, by going to www.ImaginationLibrary.com and if you’d like to write a check, please contact Gina Gunderson at ginagunderson@isd593.org. 

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The Minnesota Association of Townships (MAT) is proud to announce its 2022 Scholarship Program, which will award up to five $2,000 scholarships to high school juniors. All students currently enrolled in 11th grade and attending a Minnesota public, private, or parochial school, or a home-study program, are eligible to apply for this program. Since its inception in 2001, the MAT Scholarship Program has had over 2,000 submissions and 92 winners.

Applicants should submit a written essay using critical thinking on the topic of promoting awareness of township government by May 1st, 2022. Winners will be chosen by an independent panel of judges and will be notified in August 2022. They will also be invited to attend MAT’s annual conference in October 2022.

The 2022 essay question is, “The Minnesota Association of Townships has the responsibility to promote public understanding of the heritage and future of township government and its role in the state and federal systems. What are some ways that MAT could promote awareness of township government and inspire township residents and boards to become involved?”

For more information and application details, please call the MAT offices at 1-800-228-0296 or visit https://www.mntownships.org/about/scholarship-program.

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The University of Minnesota Crookston will hold a session to discuss the John Martin Socha murals on Thursday, December 9 at 7 p.m. in Bede Ballroom. The discussion will be facilitated by Sandra McNichol of the Crookston Community. The format will be a talking circle approach, a process that draws on indigenous ways of teaching and for which she is trained and certified. 

“As shared in previous communication from the UMN Crookston campus, we will not permanently destroy the murals and we acknowledge that the content of the murals is inconsistent with our values at UMN Crookston,” said Chancellor Mary Holz-Clause. “The goal of the listening session is to engage in respectful dialogue that will inform future decisions about the place and role of the murals within our broader educational work.”  

If you are interested in attending the event please RSVP with Chris Winjum (or 218.281.8343) so UMN Crookston can plan for the size of the group. You can attend in person or via Zoom. Please inform Winjum of what mode of communication you will be utilizing for the discussion.

The murals are located in Kiehle Auditorium. They were created by John Martin Socha, a native Minnesotan and a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Socha taught at Marshall High School in Minneapolis and studied at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and with renowned Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Numerous Socha murals and other works are exhibited throughout the United States and Mexico. Several of Socha’s works are on display in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Socha was commissioned to paint the murals in Kiehle Auditorium as part of the United States Federal Art Project (1935-43), part of the larger Works Progress Administration initiative. The Northwest School of Agriculture Class of 1932, who donated funds for the art materials, presented the murals to the school on November 7, 1942. More information on the Socha murals can be found here.

UMN Crookston’s land acknowledgment statement says, “The University of Minnesota Crookston is situated on the lands of the Native Nations and carries the legacy of their struggle for survival and identity. Elements of their story, represented in the murals in Kiehle Auditorium, reflect painful events in history interpreted through the lens of a dominant culture. As a part of our core value to embrace the richness and value of differences, ideas, cultures, and communities, we acknowledge these Native Nations, to learn from their ways of knowing and being, and to work with them to create a more equitable and inclusive future for this region.”

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