Cando, ND

Once again, Horizons has met a need in Cando.  When the Community Library was new (1999), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated a computer, server and printer to us.  It has been updated, and 3 others added, but it was time to replace our first NEW computer.  How could we afford this?

 The answer came through Horizons and its committees.  The computer and printer awarded for doing the required blogging has been donated to the Library!  Today the initial part of the installing was done AND many books from the NDSU Extension Service Center for Community Vitality Horizon Program were donated to the Library.  Come in and see the help we’ve been given!

A special thanks to Gail Getty for doing all the background work: arranging to get the computer and books, and now delivering all of these good things.  We are hoping to get this new computer networked with the computer at the main desk so that anyone can access our “card catalog” (Concourse Opac), something we have not had for a long time.

THANKS again for the many things that have been done to keep the Library open and improvements added!

Rain today! This is good for our garden’s! I see many garden’s starting to grow now that we are getting some rain.
Then we will be canning those veg’s soon huh! Does anyone have any good tips or recipes, that they would like to share?
Sharing ideas, tips, and recipes helps us all save money. I’m wishing for all to have a great growing season, good luck to all!

Where has the month gone?  Into history!  And what have we accomplished?  I like the thought that it’s not always what we have done, but what we’ve been that counts.

The positive response re: the Library was appreciated!  We are SO GLAD to know that there is support and our doors can remain open.  Another plus was over 80 hardcover books donated from the Bisbee School Library when they closed, and we were able to get a great buy on some children’s paperback books that we didn’t have.  Some shelves were also purchased; now to decide how to fit them into our Library!!

A special little thing happened last week at the Library: the 6 weeks of the Summer Reading Program was completed so we didn’t have a Story Time.  Two young girls (11 years old?) came and asked if they could do Story Time for 2 or 3 weeks!!  That’s leadership developing! and we are grateful.

Another note of interest for the summer is that the attendance at Farmers Market has been very good THE FIRST HOUR! and then, we wait!!!  Hours have been adjusted twice since the beginning of the Market to see if we can find a time that is best.  Maybe just being open 1 hour is the answer for our small community??    Any suggestions?

 
Cando celebrated the 4th of July with a big parade on the 5th of July.  It was quite a car show with around 60 cars entered plus 1 tractor and a motorcyle or two and one pickup closed the parade with a homemade lighthouse with red/white/blue flags in the back.

There were family reunions, class reunions and school reunions around and all these brought people to Cando.  Plus one Cando graduate of years ago and now a photographer from Colorado had a photo show in the Audi art gallery.  It was a hot day and just after the show and shine, there was a brief downpour with a few small hailstones.

Next year with be Cando’s 125th birthday so many BIG EVENTS are being planned. Just wait until then!!!

This is the last week to sign up for Art Camp!  Please do by July 1. Lots of great classes will be offered including:

Art Camp will be held at the Cando Art Center August 4-8 with artist Ali LaRock.  Wear an old shirt or paint smock to class. Call 701-968-3655 for more information.

Dear Bloggers:
With our pride of our community, we have a better understanding, of our mission to inprove in knowledge and awareness, to help the development of our community.
We have just been informed, that our community horizon group, has been awarded a computer and printer, for all our accomplishments to this program.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

The word is just in … Tuesday evening after the Primary Election.  The residents of the City of Cando voted to increase the mill levy for the Library from 4 to 12 mill so the Library CAN STAY OPEN!!

THANKS to ALL who support us in ANY way, Horizons group included!!!  It seemed we were looking into the dark hole of Poverty, but have seen hands held out, and we will do what we can to purchase the books, materials people want, making Cando, its residents and those in the surrounding community richer in knowledge and relaxation.

This evening we finished transplanting 2 acres of cabbages (at Johnstons).  It has been more drawn out with the rains we’ve had, but rain is better than drought!  Also several kinds of squash were transplanted, both slicer and pickling cucumbers; even a few watermelon and cantelope.  Now, we hope some of that will be ready before tooo long.  Mike Parker’s cabbages will be ready to transplant next week, weather permitting!

The Farmers Market here in Cando, at the City Park, is to start the first Thursday after the 4th of July; that would be July 10.  It was decided at a meeting the last part of April by vendors who could be there that we would change the hours from 5-7 PM so that those who work until 5 would have a better chance to get what they want.  No sales will be made before 5.  Another change is that a person can have half a table for $5.oo; a full table is $10.oo and those who don’t have many products felt they lost all their profit with a full table.

According to Market Manager Joleen Johnston, we will abide by ALL market standards (this excludes the sale of pickles, eggs, processed meat, salsas and a few other things), and prices are to be fairly even.  Jams, baked items, and hand crafted articles are acceptable.  The last Market Day (Sept 25)will be more like a flea market, allowing “home-party type products or individual consultant items”.

There will be door prizes each week, one name drawn from the list of those attending.    For more information, see the article Joleen is putting in the Towner Count Record Herald soon.  If you want to be a part of this activity contact her (Joleen Johnston) at 701-968-3035 or e-mail her at jmjohnston@gondtc.com

Maybe I should have said, I got a shot but I wanted your attention.  Several times I have been told that I should get a tetenus shot as I garden and work in the soil and do other ‘dangerous’ things.   Cando has a public health office and nurse in the Memorial Building and so it is so convenient to just stop in and get ’shots’.  This is a real money saver as if you go to the clinic, well, you know what the fees, etc are there.  This is where families can take children for the required ’shots’ and the costs are reasonable.    NO, it didn’t hurt and no I didn’t have any discomfort the next day.   I am grateful that Cando has this service available for everyone.   

There is someone new in town this spring!!! And not everything wants it here… it’s a turkey vulture!  Now, not everyone wants to see a turkey vulture but some people do. Two years ago, I heard there were vultures at a town over 50 miles away and I wanted to go there and see it.  Now, I hear that unpleasant ‘noise’ that it makes as it flys over town, often escorted by smaller birds, trying to drive it away, I know that the ‘old buzzard’ is flying over again.  Not all birds are cute little song birds but having a buzzard in town is something new for Cando.  We are working on getting a birder group going again and getting on a birding trail, all these work to bring interest into our Cando.  I was hoping that we could come up with a unique bird,,, never thinking we would get a buzzard.