A cool experience for the students of Dana Schindele Paulzine's Spanish class at Holdingford High School. They got a chance to learn a little Chinese. It was part of a movement in Minnesota to recognize China's importance to the global economy and expose teachers and students to the language Minnesota Department of Education efforts include starting to train people to teach Mandarin Chinese. Qualified teachers are difficult to find right now, Holdingford Superintendent John Haas said.
It was Haas, who is in his first year at Holdingford, who jumped at the chance to have the China delegation at the high school for several hours.
"We don't have a lot of different cultures in Holdingford. It would be good to expose as many students as we can to a different culture."
Heres a link to the whole article in the
St Cloud Times There is a video also.
11/01/2006
Minnesota Trails | Lake Wobegon Trail Expands
I thought you might like to see this information from the Minnesota Bike Trails site.
Tags:Lake Wobegon TrailHoldingford, Minnesota
10/30/2006
Healthy Communities Partnership training
The City of Holdingford's last Healthy Communities Partnership training will be at the Initiative Foundation, Thursday, November 2, 2006 in Little Falls and it will be a fun day of learning and celebrating what the different committees have accomplished over the last year. Thanks to the support and much help from the Initiative Foundation. With a special thanks to our 'case workers' Dan Frank and Carrie Tripp. And our local leaders Mayor Ernie Schmit and co-chairs Craig Dewar and Roxanne Urbashich.
10/26/2006
mural, garden club, housing addition
It looks like the murals on the box car will have to wait until
next spring. The weather cooling down a lot.
The garden club is going full steam with the garden area.
They are in process of getting electricity to the area they are going
to have a Christmas tree. They planted a small one but have a large
one coming for what is to be a annual tree lighting ceremony. Their
plans include having the school choir 'help' with the singing.
Inviting the public , Serving hot chocolate and cookies. It will be
a good community get together.
Another house has been started at the Ridgeview Addition,
the street and utilities are in. One of the things I like is they
planted grass on the whole development, It will look nice next
spring. Instead of looking like a war zone on the empty lots.
10/14/2006
Painted Murals
One of the murals on the boxcar at the Lake Wobegon Park is being
finished by Holdingford High School Art teacher Frank Gosach. It's
really looking nice. The other panels will be done next year.
10/10/2006
New Well
The City is drilling a new well this fall. All the preliminary work
has been done and we will abandon the oldest one. We will have two
wells servicing the community. With plenty of capacity for many
years in the future.
10/03/2006
Dates of beginings of local cemeterys
There was a question of late about the local cemeteries. My
information tells me that
1894 Highland Cemetery started This is the Presbyterian and
Lutheran, actually it is two cemeteries in one as one side was the
'Union Evangelical Church Holding' and the other and the other
Highland Cemetery
1896 St. Mary's Cemetery started, German Roman Catholic
1947 St. Hedwig's Cemetery started, Polish Roman Catholic
Tags: Holdingford Christmas Lights
Minnesota Stearns County Lake Wobegon Trail
On October 2 there was a well attended 'meet the candidates' event sponsored by the Holdingford Lioness Club. at the Holdingford City Center. Participating candidates include Michelle Fischbach and Paul Stacke, District 14 state senator; Barb Beniek and Dan Severson, District 14A state representative; Vince Schaefer, Stearns County Board of Commissioners District 3; Ernie Schmit, Holdingford mayor, Mike Odden and Lloyd Rausch, Holdingford City Council.
10/01/2006
public informational meeting at the Holdingford Community center
On Sunday Oct. 1, at 1PM the Comp Plan task
force will be hosting a public informational meeting at the Holdingford
Community center. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the draft comp
plan and solicit input from the public. The public is incouraged to attend to
learm more about the Plan and provide input.
The plan can be found on the City web site.Mike Odden
9/18/2006
Area Family Picnic
The family picnic was a great success ! A good turn out considering
the hostile weather. Many people from Holdingford and the surrounding
area. Many thanks to the hard work of the Lion's Club in organizing
this event. They had a free barbecued pork dinner with the
trimmings, there were booth's set up by local organizations show
casing their interests. Music was provided by a local old time band,
" The Gene Ostendorf Band" they have been together for years and are
really good. Fun to listen to. There were games for the young ones,
horseshoes and other events.
the hostile weather. Many people from Holdingford and the surrounding
area. Many thanks to the hard work of the Lion's Club in organizing
this event. They had a free barbecued pork dinner with the
trimmings, there were booth's set up by local organizations show
casing their interests. Music was provided by a local old time band,
" The Gene Ostendorf Band" they have been together for years and are
really good. Fun to listen to. There were games for the young ones,
horseshoes and other events.
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