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By Malu Monrreal
Panther Press
NRHEG 9th graders attended “Career Day” at the South Central College campus in Faribault on Friday, November 5. The trip was organized by secondary school counselor Liz Stiernagle.
Approximately fifty students attended, divided into three groups, each of which had its own schedule and attended different sessions lasting about 15 minutes each. These included professionals and representatives from various fields who talked about the challenges and rewards of their jobs.
This field trip takes place every year. Ninth grade students get to step out of their comfort zone by attending Career Day. Students get acquainted with the Faribault college and get ideas for different careers that they could practice in the future. Stiernagle believes the opportunity is very valuable because it gives 9th graders the chance to think and talk about their futures. What she hopes students take home from the experience is an understanding that there are more career options than most people think of.
Presenters used a wide array of techniques to present their messages, including slide shows, games, and even hands-on activities which allowed them to build small items.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES - Pictured above from left are Knowledge Bowl participants Jadyn Surat, Jager Beck, Dylan Mosher, Michiah Van Syckel, Grace Cummings and Aubrey Johnson. Below is the caption that ran with this late December 2015 edition of the Star Eagle.
This team of 9th graders has successfully completed the Junior High Knowledge Bowl season. They finished in 12th place at the sub-regional tournament. There were 62 teams representing 22 schools in south central Minnesota. Regional competition was held on Friday in Mankato. They held on to their 12th place ranking. Most of these students will now compete as members of the senior high teams.
By NATHAN VANEK AND EVAN BECKMANN
Panther Press
The NRHEG Senior High Knowledge Bowl season started Wednesday, November 3 with an opening meeting: practices began the following week with about 12 participants in grades 9-12.
Theresa Buendorf, coach of the NRHEG Senior High and Junior High Knowledge Bowl team for the past five years and at Medford for eight, says she enjoys getting to know the students and seeing how they will do in competitions. She went on to say that she is equally excited about Knowledge Bowl this year as in years past even though there was no Knowledge Bowl last year due to Covid-19.
Team members practice Wednesday morning before school. About fifteen NRHEG competitors take part in typical meets, and comprise three teams of five people each. The team usually competes in four meets a year, three during the regular season and one playoff. All competitions are held in Rochester during the school day. Playoffs start in March. The season usually comes to an end at the beginning of April with State.
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Misgen Livestock building in Ellendale under deconstruction.
By BARB MROTZ
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The first stock buyers in Ellendale were Pete Rasmussen, followed by Frank Randall who operated it. At that time, the hogs and cattle were loaded from the stockyard chutes directly onto the railroad cars. Those stockyards were just north of the present Misgen building.
Frank Hayek took over after Randall and ran the Ellendale Farmer’s Shipping Assoc., organized by over 31 local farmers in January 1916. Spearheading the group were: Peter Bradley, German Borchert, Lyle Sloan, Jas. McFarland, Ed Jones, L.J. Brynestad, Butler Johnson, Ed Moore, Peter M. Johnson and Andrew Anderson. It was during Frank’s management that a small office was built. (All of the above taken from the Diamond Jubilee booklet, put together in 1975 by Art Lerberg, Gabriel Ohnstad, Myrtle Dahl, Mrs. Ole Davidson and Mrs. Emery Miller.)
John Misgen (the last owner/operator of Misgen Liverstock) was born in 1916 and died in 2003. At the age of 19 and 20 he was in the salvage business; he located discarded machinery, negotiated with the farmer, took the machine apart, loaded and delivered to Faribault, where he sold it for $15 per ton. He also hauled hogs for the Berg Bros. and ice for Johanna Jensen’s ice house, which was located behind her restaurant. Sometimes he’d drive truck for Frank Hayek, hauling livestock. In 1941, he bought the Ellendale Shipping Asso. Office building and Hayek’s truck and that was the beginning of Misgen Livestock.
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By MCKENNA SCHIELL
Panther Press
“Be everything to you, not everything to everybody.”
“Positive Mind, Positive Vibes, Positive Life.”
“Don't ever doubt your worth.”
These uplifting slogans were made into signs and posted around the secondary school by a sophomore health class taught by NRHEG health and phy ed teacher Onika Peterson. The 10th-grade class wanted to get out positive reminders to students that it is their responsibility to have a good, positive day.
The project was an extra credit assignment for a chapter on Self-Esteem and Self Worth. Class members Keira Lenort and Erin Petersonboth took part. “I chose my quote because, when something goes wrong, people tend to follow with a poor mood. I found this quote on the internet while searching for inspiration for this project. I think it relates to the needs of others because almost everyone can attest to the fact that they have felt down on themselves after a minor mistake. I liked this project because it has a calming and positive effect, and can lift others up in the process.”
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NRHEG Marching Band members Ethan Thompson, Dacoda Malakowsky, Evelyn Nydegger, Calvin Haun, Madyson Langfitt, Andrew Phillips and Jordis Kruger-Diaz practice for their Nov. 22 concert.
By Nathan Vanek
Panther Press
The Indoor Marching Band Concert is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, November 22 at the high school in New Richland. The band is vigorously preparing for the concert as they have been drilling their marching and practicing their music they plan to perform.
Miles Otstot, district band instructor and Marching Band director, says, “My favorite thing about marching band is how we get to take a limited time span of music and work for a long time to get our music and motions as close to perfect as possible. We have to have a high standard of excellence for it to look and sound good. This is a great lesson that can be applied to every day on how we break down the overall show and work hard to make sure every piece of the show is done as well as possible.” In addition, he stated, “I am excited to have the indoor marching band concert this year! Last year we lost the opportunity to have it and it is a great community event where we get to play fun music and showcase our talented students. I'm excited to be able to share this with the public again this year.”