Big Stone County, Minnesota - Living Rural and Loving it!
Fun to see all of the interest! We’ll post links & latest information on this page as we get teams organized and ready to start. Would you like to be connected with a team in your community? Please complete this short form & we’ll match …
Sandy Hanson with her “A Camel’s Story Trilogy” and now Michael Larson’s “Easter Sparrows” have been translated in both Russian and Ukrainian and published in Ukraine! They shared their story at a celebration hosted by Living Hope Fellowship Assembly of God in Ortonville and during …
Dr. Yang Song’s NDSU Landscape Architecture Program students along with Brian Leaders of the National Park Service were in Ortonville on Monday (February 12th) presenting the work they’ve done so far to the Ortonville Park Board along with providing an overview of what they found as they toured the community earlier in the day (splitting the group in half and hitting two of our local eateries for lunch!)
The students have been reviewing the work that was completed by SDSU (see presentation video below) 2016/17 and laying the foundation for their work by utilizing the Big Stone County GIS mapping data (thanks to Terry Ocana and Darren Wilke of the County for facilitating that ability!)… the students then followed that up with a visit to Ortonville and direct discussions with Ortonville Park Board members along with a few community members. Becky Parker (Ortonville EDA President) commented on what an opportunity it was to have such a diverse group of students evaluating the parks in Ortonville – from Bismark, Madison, Russia, Peru, Buffalo, Fargo, St. Paul++ – providing their perspectives on what they saw in Ortonville and how to connect with the community needs and the work done previously.
Brief history: The Ortonville City Council, the Ortonville Planning Comission and the Ortonville Park Board had all voted unanimously to support the City’s application for assistance through the National Park System’s Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program. The process is intended to guide the long range and comprehensive decision-making process for the creation of a Parks Plan for the City of Ortonville.
Look for more updates on this project in the near future!
They are busy… and adults are so busy making sure that their kids are where they need to be for their next activity that sometimes we forget to stop. Take a breath… and celebrate their accomplishments and all that they are involved in! Take this …
So many are offering to help that we thought we’d share a post with links to the various avenues that you can help this family! Note from Becky Stattelman’s Facebook page: (and much help from Amanda Tatro on the post with information!) I’ve taken a …
We take our youth sports seriously – and enjoy a good Saturday morning basketball tournament! After watching the older teams play with serious reffing, it was fun to watch the refs taking their time and giving some great teaching/coaching pointers to the players… and they continued that help all morning!
I was at the tournament on Saturday not as an MNbump blogger but as an aunt with a 4th grader playing on the Ortonville School team; however, when I noticed that a younger team from the Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley school was also in the tournament, I took the opportunity to video one of their games also so that we could show off some of our MNbump basketball skills! Enjoy!
(Note: One video has the crowd cheering – the other has music background… the only reason for that is that my video skills are hit & miss… 🙂 I accidentally turned off the audio on the camera for part of a game!)
What brings two crews out to fish… Artie’s Bait and Tackle to shoot video for their advertising. Since Artie likes to have them out when the fish are biting – it is probably a good time to head out to Big Stone Lake! (I know …
It is that time of year again! And, for you that are not familiar with what the Arctic Open Golf Tournament is all about – take a look at last year’s post & video from the event. (click below on the “view original post” to …
Ortonville Trojans vs the Milbank Bulldogs has always been “the” rivals to watch!
Ortonville Area Health Services provided some halftime fun at the game last night. Anyone could sign up for a drawing (free bag of popcorn just for signing up). Two names would be drawn and they would play against Dr. Stacy Longnecker and Dr. Grant Botker in a friendly game of DOC (a version of PIG). Those drawn also received a few prizes for playing. It was all in fun… but a bit competitive.
Did Dr. Longnecker practice shooting some hoops before the event? Watch the video and you be the judge! The end of the video does include a few highlights from both the girls and boys varsity basketball games. GO TROJANS! Fun times, here on the MNbump.