The FCCLA should start finishing their STAR Events for District in February. If you haven’t started, start NOW!!! Just kidding. You don’t have to, but we’d like you to. FCCLA also is having upcoming cake walks. One on February 5th and the other on the 15th. We will be having awesome music and 8 cakes at each walk. Hope to see you all there!! 
The Farm and Home Improvement Club is bursting as the seams. Lots of new and continuing members.
We are meeing on Monday night at 6:30 at the Maddock Community Center and always have a good time. The Hippology team just returned from the National Hippology Contest in Colorado and will bring a sweet report. These are the future leaders of North Dakota and the world.
Go 4-H!
Maddock School opened it’s doors to help the Horizons’ group get bloggin’. Now there’s many posts to enjoy.
This year, the American Legion will be hoding the division oratorical competition will be held in Maddock. The competition will be held at the Maddock Public School auditorium at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday January 19th. It is open to the public, so be free to come and watch (I will be there, too.).
The Maddock A.S. Gibbens FFA Chapter was represented by several members this past month by attending the leadership camps in Bismarck. Some of the Freshmen attended Greenhand camp, which is a program specifically designed for them and is projected to introduce them to leadership skills that the FFA strongly urges. Other camps attended were ALD and MFE. The FFA members not only learned some new skills, but also had a lot of fun while doing so, including attending the dance.
We have lots of resources available to the community to improve literacy for all ages and abilities. Storytime is Thursdays at the Head Start and there is a lively group of preschoolers to engage in listening and participating. If you come to the library you will find a wide array of new and used books for sale too. $1 for a whole bag can fill a lot of winter evenings with reading.
The Maddock school choir has been very active this year. We have already had the Fall concert and the Christmas concert. Right now, we are starting to practice for Regional Music Contest, which will be held at Maddock School in April. State Music Contest will be held in Bismarck in April, also. Pretty much the whole choir is involved in Music Contest. We have also been working on this year’s Dinner Theatre/Dessert Theatre, which will be held in May. This is the part of the year when the school choir is very busy. So it should be fun!
The girl’s basketball team has been doing quite well this year. They started out their season with a win against Rolla/Rock Lake. Then, there was the CNDC tournament in Maddock and the girls won their first two games to take them to the championship against New Rockford where they fell short by only four points. Next, they attended the Shootout On The Prarie in Minot. They played Kenmare and ended up losing, but took home a win the next day. So far in the season they have lost two district games to Carrington and Harvey and have won three against Midkota, Four Winds, and Lakota. Us girls have worked hard and are hoping to go far in the postseason.
The After School Activities Program (ASAP) is starting on Tuesday, January 22nd at the Maddock Public School. One of ASAP’s main goals is to have a place for kids to go after school when both of their parents are working. There will be daily actvities, study time, and a snack. If you would like to be a volunteer contact Addie Mathison @ 438-2453.
