Month: May 2022

The Crookston Alliance for Literacy and Learning (C.A.L.L.) Committee is teaming up with eight other organizations at Castle Park on Tuesday, May 10, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., for the final event of the Celebrate the Young Child Collaborative’s “Imagine If You Were……” series, with the theme this time being “Imagine If You Were…… Going on a Bear Hunt” and to celebrate 20 years of existence.

This is the final event with this theme done by the Committee, with the first one happening back in September at Wildwood Park with the theme “Imagine If You Were…… Where the Wild Things Are” and the second one happening back at the beginning of March in the Crookston Public Library with the theme “Imagine If You Were…… The Very Hungry Caterpillar,”

The C.A.L.L. Committee is a group of people who work with children and families that plan events to bring children together to participate in various activities of creativity and education based on different famous media sources aimed to help kids learn and grow. “We gear these events to children that age birth to age 8. Older children are invited, but most of the activities are geared for that age group. We have lots of really fun outside events scheduled for this one because we’re looking for a bear,” C.A.L.L. Committee Chairperson Francine Olson explained.

Olson then went through some of the main event stations that will be at the park for the children to participate in at the event. “We’ll be having a scavenger hunt, an obstacle course, and the actual Bear Hunt. We’re going to have some yoga and dance areas for the kids,” Francine Olson explained. “We’re going to have lots of activities to choose from, five, six, or seven things for kids to do between 5:30 and 7:00 p.m.,” she added. The event will also provide a light dinner for families that will be given out, consisting of a turkey sandwich, fruit, trail mix, and a Green Bean provided by the One Vegetable, One Community organization. The children will also receive a map to guide them to each of the activities around the Park to make sure they do not miss any of them. “We’re having a map made up of Castle Park, so people will not miss any of the activities,” Olson explained. “Whether we’ll be able to walk through the woods depends on the weather and whether it’s dry or not, but there is a map that will tell you where things are located, so you know where things are located during that hour and a half time period,” she added. At the end of the event, the children will receive a free copy of Going on a Bear Hunt that they can take home with them. Seven other organizations will join the C.A.L.L. Committee to help work the event. The organizations are the Crookston Public Schools, Early Childhood Family Education, Polk County Public Health, Crookston Public Library, RiverView Health, Head Start Child and Family Programs, and the One Vegetable, One Community organizations.

The C.A.L.L. Committee is planning to repeat these three events next year with hopes of potentially adding a fourth event starting in November but is currently keeping the theme of the events secret. The “Imagine If You Were……Going on a Bear Hunt” event will take place in Castle Park on Tuesday, May 10, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., with a rain date planned for Wednesday, May 18.

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At midnight on May 1, 2022, the Red Lake River at Crookston crested at 24.52 feet.  As of 11:30 am today, the Red Lake River level at Crookston was at 23.95 feet and is slowly receding.  The Crookston Emergency Operation Center (EOC) remains fully operational and is continuing to monitor river levels, levee systems, and future weather predictions. 

The city is looking for volunteers to help walk the levees in Ward 5 (Jerome’s Addition).  Anyone may volunteer; they do not need to live in Ward 5. If you are able to help, please call 218-281-1038.

For additional information and/or to report any high-water concerns, please call the Emergency Operation Center at 218-281-4363 or 218-281-4383

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The City of Crookston is looking for volunteers to help walk the levees in Ward 4 (Wood’s Addition) starting at noon today. Volunteers do not need to live in Ward 4.

If you are able to help, please call the Ward 4 EOC at 280-4461.

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During the month of April, Montague’s Flower Shop and KROX Radio had a contest asking for nominations for an Administrative Professional that worked at their place of business. The winning Administrative Professional was drawn on Wednesday, April 27.  Cara Hendrickson, Executive Assistant at RiverView Health in Crookston, was nominated by a lot of people, including Carrie Berquist, Stacey Bruggeman, and Holly Anderson. Cara will receive a floral arrangement once a month from Montague’s Flower Shop.  Hendrickson already received her first bouquet of flowers.  “I received the most beautiful surprise on April 27, a bouquet of flowers for administrative professionals week,” said Hendrickson.  “I am very thankful and grateful for this honor and to have been nominated.  A heartfelt thank you to all involved.”

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The Crookston Public School District held a special School Board meeting in the District Office Conference Room in the Crookston High School this morning to discuss the resignation of Superintendent Jeremy Olson and the plan moving forward for replacing him.

After the call to order, the meeting began with School Board Chairperson Frank Fee presenting the motion to accept the resignation letter from Superintendent Jeremy Olson enacting on June 30. The Board approved the motion unanimously and wished Olson luck in his work in Bemidji.

The Board then moved to discuss the plan for replacing him. Chairperson Frank Fee reported that the Minnesota School Board Association said that many Superintendents were moving or leaving schools throughout the year. Board member Dave Davidson made a motion to hire an Interim School Superintendent to allow the school to run a search and advertise for a new one, and that the search may take up to at least mid-June or July. “The Minnesota School Board Association recommended that we get an Interim Superintendent because the search might not be contusive to us with so many replacements going on with Superintendents around the State,” Chairperson Frank Fee explained. “So, if we hire an Interim for a year, that’ll give us time to start the search next year, and hopefully, there will be a lot more candidates out there,” he added.

Olson told the Board that they needed to decide how long it would take them, decide on a salary, level of the desired experience, and begin advertising for it with a contact person people can send information to and send it to the School Board Association. After some discussion, the Board chose to begin a 2-week advertising campaign today for the new Interim position with the Minnesota School Board and Association of School Administrators and chose Business Manager Laura Lyczewski to be the contact person for any of the applicants. “As a Board, we will then take a look at all of the candidates and see who would fit our criteria and our needs and hopefully find somebody out of that. If not, we’d have to redo the search or start looking internally, but hopefully, the search will get us hooked up with somebody for an Interim position,” Chairperson Fee explained. “That Interim could also turn into a full-time position if he or she did it for a year, and we were excited about that, and they wanted to stay for longer. That’s our process, and hopefully, we’ll get some good candidates starting today,” he added.

Chairperson Fee reminded the Board that whoever they chose with the advertising wasn’t locked into the position and could make a change if they did not believe they would work out. The Board approved the motion unanimously.

Chairperson Fee then told us some of the qualifications and qualities they are looking for in their Interim Superintendent, “We’re looking for somebody that has experience for that year. Crookston’s currently in good financial shape, and we want somebody that will keep us in that position for the year, especially since we have new building projects in Highland School, and they’ll have to help us accelerate that as we go forward,” Chairperson Fee explained. “We also have the referendum for the football field and track & field facility coming up in August, and for a month or two, they’d be the lead person on that campaign. So, we’re mainly looking for someone to keep the ship steady,” he added.

The Board will close applications for Interim Superintendent on Monday, May 16, and have a regular Board meeting to decide which applicants they will choose on Monday, May 23.

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The Cities of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks have rescheduled their annual Spring Clean-Up Week to May 16th – 20th.  This is a change to the original schedule due to the extremely wet conditions.

Residents are asked to place their items (household quantity) where they normally place their garbage by 7:00 a.m. of their regular collection day.

The landfill will also have extended hours during Spring Clean-Up week.  The extended hours are Saturday, May 14th from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., May 16th to May 20th from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and Saturday, May 21st from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Grand Forks residents can bring household quantities there for free during those hours.  Simply show proof of residence, like a utility bill.  

For more information regarding Spring Clean-Up Week, visit the City of Grand Forks website at //www.grandforksgov.com/cleanupweek.

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