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NO IDEA — Members of the 2013 state champion NRHEG girls’ basketball team were surprised and honored to be chosen Grand Marshals for this year’s Farm and City Days parade. Front from left: Maddie Wagner, Hannah lundberg, Marnie Wagner, Kelli Harrington, manager Anna Lundberg and manager Hailey Schuller. Back: coach John Schultz, Jade Schultz, Abby Crabtree, Raelin Schue, Katie Cole, Paige Overgaard and Anna Stork. Not pictured: Carlie Wagner and Ryann Hagen. (Star Eagle photo by Nicole Billing)
By NICOLE BILLING
Editorial Assistant
When the NRHEG girls’ basketball team was asked to help serve at the Hot Beef Commercial at City Hall on Sunday, April 28, they were in for a surprise.
At noon, the Farm and City Days Committee gathered everyone together and announced the NRHEG girls’ basketball team had been chosen as 2013 Grand Marshal for the Farm and City Days parade.
Along with the hot beef, there was also a bake sale with cookies, bars, and cupcakes. People were also able to buy basketball T-shirts.
The only girls missing from the team were Carlie Wagner and Ryann Hagen.
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Ellendale City Council
By SCOTT GROTH
Contributing Writer
The Ellendale City Council met Thursday April 25 with Mayor Swearingen, councilmen Lassahn, Goebel and Groth present. Also attending the meeting was Eric Haefner-City Engineer, Josh Otto-Maintenance, Steve Louks-Clerk and Don Anderson.
Eric Haefner, engineer with Bolten & Menk, was present to review options for street repair. Haefner said he had taken a tour of town with Mayor Swearingen and Josh Otto, City Maintenance. After the tour, Haefner said, he went back to his office and put together a proposal. Haefner noted there were three streets worse off than many others.
They were, in no certain order, 5th St., 4th St. and 2nd St. Mayor Swearingen told the council that 5th St. should be considered since the church there would also like to resurface and the projects could coordinate together. Haefner had some preliminary numbers for the council on the three areas.
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NRHEG spring musical draws rave reviews
NRHEG High School presented its 2013 spring musical, “Bye Bye Birdie,” to rave reviews for three shows last Friday and Saturday. Above from left: Kalana Shurson, Brina Bergland, Brenna Hagen, Brad Claycomb, Maddy Reed. Emmy Hobbs. Below from left: Brina Bergland, Nicole Edon, Brina Bergland, Kalana Shurson, Abby Christopherson, Brenna Hagen, Emmy Hobbs and Hailey Clausen. For more color photos from the play, see Pages 6, 7 and 14 of this week's Star Eagle. (Star Eagle photo by Chris Schlaak)
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By REED WALLER
Staff Writer
“In all my years of hiring people,” Dr. Dennis Goodwin told the NRHEG School Board, “you just know. Your gut knows.”
That seemed to be the case for NRHEG with Dr. Goodwin, as the board members and community group connected early on with the business-manager-turned-school-superintendent from Platte, S.D.
Nonetheless, the board went conscientiously through the steps of the superintendent selection process as laid out by South Central Service Cooperative (SCSC) facilitators Butch Hanson and Dale Brandsoy, interviewing and evaluating four semi-finalists April 15 and two finalists Thursday, April 25, before tallying their results and deciding to offer Dr. Goodwin a contract, contingent on a successful site visit and background check.
The phrase, “a good fit” was heard several times in casual discussion from several board members.
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New Richland City Council
By NICOLE BILLING
Editorial Assistant
The New Richland City Council held its second meeting of April Monday evening. The meeting started at 6:30 p.m. and lasted until 7:30. All members of the council were present. They approved the agenda with consent items added.
The first order of business was the People’s Service Report. They talked about cleaning up the sewer mains on Third Street Northwest and North Birch. Brad Field made the point that there is some Orange Bird around some houses in town, a substance that was used in the past. It’s not a good thing to have around, so they need to have someone clean it out.