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Representatives receiving checks from the Rolla Community Endowment Fund (RCEF) last week included, back row, left to right;
Tricia Hudson, Rolla Community Daycare; Sue Nelson, Rolla Forestry; Kristin Mitchell, Rolla Park Board; Hovi Mitchell, RCEF; and
Barb Frydenlund, Rolette County Public Health. Front row, left to right; Jim Langseth; and Esther Krumweide, Rolla Arts Council.
J The Rolla Community Endowment Fund to the Rolla Community Daycare for awnings in grant from the N.D. Community Foundation. The
awarded $7,300 to Rolla non-profit organizations the playground area primarily to provide a shade RCEF was started in October, 2002.
last week. for the 1 to 3 year olds; $300 to the endowment By December of 2013 there was a balance of
Those receiving a grant included $1,500 to the fund for postage and mailing. $5,967 and today the current fund balance is
,' Rolla Park Board for upgrade of sidewalks in the Each year the advisory board uses income gen- $227,987.
• park; $1,000 to Rolette County Public Health for erated from the Rolla Community Endowment The first grants were awarded in 2005 totaling
purchase of hearing testing equipment primarily Fund (RCEF) to make grants to eligible organiza- $1,440. Total grants awarded to local non-profit
for children with hearing disabilities; $1,500 to the tion. As the balance in the fund grows, so does the organizations have now totaled $41,824.
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Rolla Arts Council for supplies for additional mu- amount of money available to grant. For more information about the RCEF contact
rals within the city; $1,500 to the Rolla Forestry Primary funding for the RCEF is through two Jim Langseth at 477-6022 or see the website at
Committee for city beautification projects; $1,500 sources; an annual phon-a-thon and a matching www.ndcf.net/rolla.
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USDA Farm Service Agency vary by crop but are typically well
(FSA) North Dakota State Executive before the final acreage reporting
• Director Aaron Krauter has an- date of July 15. For 2014, however,
.... n°unced that prevented planting re: FSA has simplified the process due
porting -deadlmesi, .have been to the widespreadrainfall e,)ents by
extended this year'to¢ioincide with extending the various prevented
the final acreage reporting date of
July 15 due to planting issues caused
by North Dakota's cold, wet spring.
"Farmers need to visit their local
FSA office before July 15 to report
all their crop acreage, including that
which has been prevented from
planting," Krauter said.
USDA policy requires farmers
who request prevented planting
credit to report the applicable
acreage to FSA on form FSA-578
(Report of Acreage) and file form
CCC-576 (Notice of Loss) within 15
calendar days after the final planting
date for the crop. Final planting dates
planting acreage reporting deadlines
for North Dakota to coincide with the
final crop acreage reporting date of
July 15, 2014. Prevented planting
acreage reported on CCC-576 and
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Mr. and Mrs. Leo Tschepen are
pleased to announce the engagement
of their daughter, Laura Tschepen, to
Ryan Peterson, son of Terry and
Peggy Peterson of Castlewood,
South Dakota.
Laura graduated from Bisbee-
Egeland High School and Min-
nesota State Community and
Technical College in Fergus Falls,
Minnesota, in nursing. She is em-
ployed at Valley Oral & Facial Sur-
gery in West Fargo as a registered
nurse.
Ryan Peterson graduated from
Castlewood High School and South-
east Technical Institute in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, in Nuclear
Medicine. Ryan is employed with
Essentia Health.
The couple will be married June
28, 2014, at Thumper Pond Resort
in Otter Tail, Minnesota.
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FSA-578 after this date may be sub- that it is important to accurately report
ject to late filing fees. failed and prevented planted acreage
Farmers with highly erodible land for crop insurance purposes and in the
are reminded they are required to f01- event future disaster programs are
'low a conservation plan tO reffd'fl made available through USDA. For
conservation compliance eligibility, more information about the programs
If the weather conditions change a administered by FSA, visit any FSA
farmer's planting plans, they need to County Office or www.fsa.usda.gov.
ensure they still follow an acceptable
conservation plan.
Krauter also reminds producers.
Presentation Medical Center
has been providing local
health care for 75 years
That hasn't changed,t
!
We do accept all
insurance plans
including the
' Medicaid expansion.
The American Indian College
Fund has awarded four three-year
grants of $50,000 each to tribal col-
leges and universities (TCUs) in the
upper-Midwest through a program
designed to increase the intergenera-
tional transfer of artistic and cultural
knowledge and processes from eld-
ers to adults and children and to pro-
vide direct Support for Native artists,
while stemming the tide of lost and
endangered cultural art forms in
tribal communities. The program is
funded by a grant from the Margaret
A. Cargill Foundation.
Awardees include: Leech Lake
Tribal College of Cass Lake, Min-
nesota; Turtle Mountain Community
College, Belcourt, North Dakota;
Sinte Gleska University, Mission,
South Dakota; and Oglala Lakota
College, Kyle, South Dakota.
Turtle Mountain Community Col-
lege will strengthen offerings in Tra-
ditional Native Arts through four
interlocking strategies, including the
formalization of a cultural artist
committee which will provide the
cultural knowledge to broaden the
framework of traditional arts; de-
velop an archival body of knowl-
edge; establish a system to use
master artists and apprentices as in-
structors; and develop Traditional
Native Arts coursework in which the
schedule is adapted to the cultural art
form.
Leech Lake Tribal College will
create a Traditional Native Arts cer-
tificate program for enrolled stu-
dents; develop a master and
apprentice program for quillwork for
four to five members of the commu-
nity; create community classes to
teach how to process a whole deer
and its' hide; classes on birch bark
work including canoe-making; and
woodland clay pottery and basket-
making with various fibers.
Oglala Lakota College will use its
grant to provide existing academic
courses with more supplies and ma-
terials, cultural artifacts, and teach-
ing materials; hire additional
traditional artists for its summer se-
ries; and encourage instructional
centers to provide more mini-work-
shops on traditional Native cultural
art forms.
Sinte Gleska University will ex-
plore developing certificate pro-
grams in specific traditional arts such
as the use of bison products for cre-
ating ceremonial and daily use items
and as a medium for mixing other
arts (tanning hides, painting of hides,
skulls and other bone segments,
beaded and quilled items using pri-
mary bison bones and hides); pro-
vide workshops in each of the 20
reservation communities and on
campus; and develop competencies
for certifying master artists through
alternative credentialing and degree
attainment.
The American Indian College
Fund (the College Fund) is the na-
tion's largest private provider of
scholarships for American Indian
students. Founded in 1989, the Col-
lege Fund has been "Educating the
Mind and Spirit" of Native people
for 25 years, and provides an aver-
age of 6,000 scholarships annually.
The College Fund also supports the
nation's 34 accredited tribal colleges
and universities located on or near
Indian reservations. The College
Fund consistently receives top rat-
ings from independent charity evalu-
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For more information, 9o to www.ndsu.edu/Extension or
contact your county office of the NDSU Extension Service.
ROLETTE COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE
Karen Armstrong,
Extension Agent, Human Development
Mark Miller, Extension Agent,
Agriculture and Livestock
Box 430 • Courthouse
Rolla, ND 58367 701-477-5671
rolette@ndsuext.nodak.edu
Presentation Medical Center
477-3161
www.pmc-rolla.com
