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By DEB BENTLY
Staff Writer
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“It is a very exciting thing,” observes Prairie Fire Theatre director Brianna Homan. “Traveling around and teaching young actors about the power and challenges of theater.”
Fellow director Meredith Ayedelott says the key is to show and share the same level of energy with the performers as is hoped for from them. In addition to that:
“Everything has to be planned down to the minute.”
The two-hour performance of “The Wizard of Oz,” as interpreted by writers and composers Daniel Nordquist and Deborah Pick, featured nearly 80 NRHEG elementary students from kindergarten through sixth grade. Prairie Fire directors Ayedelott (as the scarecrow) and Homan (as the wicked witch) joined their young proteges on the stage.
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By DEB BENTLY
Staff Writer
NRHEG School board members spent more than an hour during the April 17 meeting touring some of the newer Career and Technical Education (CTE) facilities at the secondary site and hearing about the opportunities the facilities, finished in the fall of 2019, have opened up for students.
First on deck was “shop” teacher Brad Root, who showed board members some recently completed student projects ranging from two-seated adirondack chairs to birdhouses. He indicated the entire room, telling board members that it was once divided into four separate work areas, leading to a lack of adequate work and storage space, not to mention some potentially unsafe working conditions.
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Hilltop Greenhouse and Farm has a love affair with flowers. Not just flowers that are placed in a vase, but all types of growing flowers and plants! They can be red, yellow, pink, orange or purple. How about green flowers, crazy striped flowers, flowers with spots even flowers that you have never seen before. This love of flowers keeps us searching for wonderful and exciting plants to grow each year.
We also love spreading that love to local communities. You will see Hilltop Greenhouse and Farm’s flowers hanging from baskets we plant for the City of Albert Lea, Alden, Austin and Glenville. In planters or in the gardens of Geneva, Hollandale and New Richland too. Or at local Cemeteries we deliver to just before Memorial Day.
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NRHEG band visits New Orleans, Memphis
By Harbor Cromwell,
NRHEG Sophomore
About 30 NRHEG students from grades 9 to 12 spent March 24-29 on a week-long trip to New Orleans. The trip was organized by Colin Zidlicky and Krista Reeder, the school's band and choir directors, as a way to introduce students to the rich culture, music, and history of the city. Students were accompanied by three teachers along with three supervising adults. All concerned feel that the trip was a great success.
The trip started with a long bus ride of roughly 22 hours to the great city; this long ride included hourly rest stops and a few hours at the Bass Pro Pyramid in Memphis, TN.