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Lady Hockey Warriors going to State The Warroad Girl’s Hockey Team defeated Roseau 2-1 in East Grand Forks Thursday night, February 19th, to earn a spot in the State Tournament. The two teams faced each other three times this year, and the Warriors won each game in overtime. The
Minnesota Class A Girl’s Hockey Tournament starts on February
25th at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul and winds up on February
29th. |
Ashlee Hewitt Concert
Ashlee and Katrice in concert at the Roseau School Theater. Ashlee Hewitt and sister Katrice put on an hour performance at the Roseau Community School Theater Saturday evening. The concert was sponsored by North Country Inn and Suites and the People to People Ambassador Programs for Badger-Roseau students 2009. The theater was mostly full as the two sang 14 numbers. Ashlee wrote or co-wrote all but two of the songs. The first number wasBig Sky Blue, followed by Calling Home Again, Georgia, Breakin’, Right About Now and Walk Away. She and Katrice then sang About a Boy, a song Ashlee said she co-wrote about an old boy friend. Next came Sun Don’t Shine on Me, I Gotta Sing (Ashlee and Katrice co-wrote this one), Let it fly, Is That so Wrong and You Ain’t Seen Crazy. Her next song was probably her most well known, Mike’s Hard Lemonade. Ashlee and Katrice finished up the concert with Johnny Cash’s I Fell into a Burning Ring of Fire. Ashlee sang the melodies and played the guitar as Katrice sang the harmonies for the numbers. The two have performed together since they were five and seven years old. Ashlee was a contestant on Nashville Star last year and spoke briefly during the concert about her tenure on the show. She said, “I think most of my support came from Minnesota, thank you very much!” Ashlee introduced each number with a short explanation, usually of who she worked with to write it and what inspired the song. Ashlee has lived in Nashville for two years and said at one point, “ I’m glad to be back home, but, it’s cold up here!”
The audience consisted of folks of all ages; it was
common to see young families as well as older couples interspersed
throughout the audience, telling of Ashlee’s widespread appeal to
her home audience. Ashlee conducted an autograph session after the show
to sign CD’s for her fans. |
Southwest Angleby Rob Crowe I
was talking to my brother Jody the other morning and he mentioned that
he was being interviewed for a story in the Star-Tribune. Jody is the director
of TEAM Academy charter school in Waseca, but he has been studying
aspects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome throughout his education career and
has come up with some rather startling observations. He recently wrote
a book about FAS that was noticed by someone at the newspaper. After
the interview, the reporter told Jody that the story should be on page
1A this next Sunday. Needless to say, my brother was ecstatic, since
he’s been unable to get too many to take notice of his ground
breaking work on this issue.
To let you know a little about Jody’s work,
I’ll plagiarize one of my own columns on Jody’s cause. The
column was published in the May 2, 2007 edition of the Aitkin Independent Age about the Virginia Tech shootings that occurred shortly before then:
Another possible explanation comes to me courtesy of
my brother Jody, an educator. His teaching career started at the
Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig school, he was principal at the Nay-Ah-Shing School
for several years, now he is the superintendent of schools for Fort
Hall, Idaho. He wrote a timely article about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder (FASD) and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) that was published in
the Idaho State Journal one day before the Virginia Tech incident. The
title was: "Are we asking the right questions about school shooters?"
Since that column, Jody wrote his book about his
research and has gone through the arduous task of editing and self
publishing it. The Star Tribune interview is one more step on the path
to getting the problem recognized.
On to other things. I’ve heard that some
people are wondering what has happened to Ms Toyota since
she hasn’t been mentioned recently in this column. Well, probably
good reason since she deserted the area for some time. Hard to believe
that a hardened Minnesotan such as Ms Toyota would leave during the
winter for regions south, but that is what she did. She and Gerry Reed
left here one morning and eventually ended up in Costa Rica. Evidently
it was a pretty good place for her since most of the vehicles
apparently are Toyotas, at least that is what she says. They spent
their time riding horses through the country side and flying through
the jungle treetops on cables. She does have pictures of the flying
activities but no evidence of the number of Toyotas, we’ll just
have to believe her on that, if we want…
Last Saturday was spent in the metropolis of
Karlstad watching the Little Girls play basketball. I did manage to
work in a nap during a break in the action. The old Mavica didn’t
perform too well, but I did get a couple of pictures. I’ll have
to let Management know I’ve written down a camera for sports
action shots on the wish list...
The breakdown gremlins have struck us here at
Roseen’s Corner. Trapper and sidekick Earl have been wrestling
with a broken Skidder. Late in the week, the electric jet assembly on
the 440 John Deere failed and they had to order a new one. The new one
came in on Monday, but when they installed the $200 part, it
didn’t work. Craftsman Earl dismantled the old one, found a
broken wire, soldered it and got the skidder running again.
Not to be outdone, the new printer I bought last
week suddenly decided it didn’t want to take the color cartridge,
even though it was new, right out of the package. This has caused me
some real problems, since the other printer in possession decided it
didn’t want to print in color either, even with a brand new
cartridge. Like Earl, I had to resurrect one of the old printers I had
in storage. We’ll see how long that one lasts. I picked up
another printer from the thrift shop since new ones seem to have a half
life of a couple of days or so. This is a continuing story, maybe
I’ll write a book about it some day. Star Tribune interview, here
I come! |
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Warroad JV Hockey completes season
The junior varsity girls hockey team completed their first ever season with 12 wins and 8 losses. The last five games results: The top six girls in points for the team were:
Goals Assists
Total Points The goalie for all 20 games
was Kallie McBride who finished with a save percentage of 83.85
and a goals against average of 3.15 (Submitted by Rick McBride)
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Up and Comers
A Roseau boy’s basketball team plays a local team in the Karlstad Tournament on Valentine’s Day.
The
Roseau 4th grade girl’s team lines up after winning both of their
games at Karlstad. Each team received participation medals regardless
of their record in the tournament. A Roseau sixth grade girls’ team with their medals after their second
game at the tourney in Karlstad
Another Roseau sixth grade girl’s team after playing at the Karlstad tournament.
Roseau has two sixth grade girl’s teams.
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Area High School Box Scores
Boy’s Basketball 2/14/2009 Roseau 58 Crosby Ironton 83 2/17/2009 Warroad 81 Roseau 66 2/12/2009 Warroad 48 Crookston 51 2/13/2009 Warroad 47 TRF 52 Girl’s Basketball 2/10/2009 Roseau 52 TRF 65 2/13/2009 Roseau 46 Crookston 41 2/12/2009 Warroad 54 TRF 76 2/17/2009 Warroad 58 Northern Freeze 65 2/12/2009 BGMR 64 Northern Freeze 75 2/14/2009
BGMR
57
Red Lake Fall
s 77 2/12/2009 Roseau 3 TRF 4 2/14/2009 Roseau 8 Brainerd 1 2/17/2009 Roseau 7 I F 3 2/10/2009 Warroad 6 GFC 5 2/13/2009 Warroad 7 Bemidji 2 2/17/2009
Warroad
5
LOW
1 Girl’s Hockey 2/12/2009 Roseau 10 Park Rapids 0 2/16/2009 Roseau 5 Crookston 1 2/16/2009
Warroad
7
EGF
` 1 Wrestling 2/17/2009 BGMR 50 Mahnomen/Wauburn 22 2/12/2009
Roseau
18
Crookston
42 |
Warroad and Roseau Advance to Section 8A Girl's Hockey Final Both
Roseau County teams advanced to the Section 8A finals by defeating
their opponents on Tuesday night, February 17th to set up the third
game of the year between Warroad and Roseau in East Grand Forks on
Thursday, February 19th. Megan
Brettigan, Karley Sylvester and Lisa Marvin scored two goals apiece
while Beth Olson added another as Warroad defeated East Grand Forks by
a score of 7-1 in the 6:00 pm game. Nikki Heaser scored for EGF in the
second period. Warroad outshot EGF 31-19 in the win. Roseau
had balanced scoring as Abby Ness, Kylie Lane, Paige Moer, Mary Loken
and Punky Sunsdall scored in their 5-1 win over Crookston.
Crookston’s Shannon Kaiser scored in the first period for their
only goal. Roseau had a 33-20 edge in shots on goal in the late game. Warroad vs East Grand Forks Game Summary Period 1: 12:00-Warroad: Brook Story (30), assisted by Lisa Marvin and Megan Brettingen 3:37 -Warroad Goal: - Megan Brettingen (9) assisted by Lisa Marvin and Brook Story Roseau vs Crookston Game Summary
8:00 -Roseau Goal: Abby Ness ( 29 ) assisted by Punky Sunsdahl ( 11 ) 8:26 -Crookston Goal: Shannon Kaiser ( 22 ) Unassisted Period 2: 11:54 -Roseau Goal: Mary Loken ( 36 ), assisted by Kylie Lane ( 25 ) 12:33 -Roseau Goal: Punky Sunsdall ( 5 ) from Emily Hallie ( 7 ) and Mary Loken ( 29 ) Shots on Goal:
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Roseau vs Crookston in Wrestling Trailing
by one point with five seconds remaining in the match, Connor MacGregor
completed a reversal on unbeaten Javier Portillo and beat the Crookston wrestler
8-7. The showdown between the two ranked wrestlers was the highlight of
the match that Crookston won 42-18. In the 285 pound class, John Heinen
also continued his winning ways with an 11-2 decision over Nick Merten.
Jesse Eastman, KylrMcCourt and Travis Peterson were the other
winners for Roseau. Six Crookston wrestlers, Zane Baranski, Ben
Genereax, Mariano Portillo, Isaac Edlund, Brandon Reierson and Brody
Davidson had pins over their Roseau opponents. PIRATES- 42 Roseau- 18 Winner Results 103 lbs Nate Merten Jesse Eastman Ros 7-3 112 lbs Zane Baranski Zach Audette Crox Pin 1:50 119 lbs Ben Genereux Jarek Ludwick Crox Pin 2:23 125 lbs Blake Bergeron Kyle McCourt Ros 11-4 130 lbs Javier Portillo Connor MacGregor Ros 8-7 135 lbs Mariano Portillo Devon Peterson Crox Pin 2:42 140 lbs OPEN OPEN 145 lbs Anthony Caputo John Kruger Crox 11-6 152 lbs Cody Osland Nate Constante Crox 6-4 160 lbs Josh Edlund Travis Pederson Ros 16-1 171 lbs Isaac Edlund Cole Buley Crox Pin 1:11 189 lbs Brandon Reierson Tyler Crabtree Crox Pin :32 215
lbs Brody Davidson Ryan Karl
Crox
Pin :22 275
lbs Nick Merten
John Heinen
Ros
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Picture of the Week
Where is this? This stream is one of the few that doesn’t start here. It is one of the tributaries of one of the major rivers in Roseau County. Last week’s picture was
taken on Roseau County Highway 13, looking north near the intersection
with the summer road, Roseau County Highway 12. The road across
the flats has an inexplicable zig-zag which the slight telephoto lens
enhances. One old-timer was incredulous when he found out where it was,
saying, “I didn’t know there was a curve in that
road!” |
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