On May 5, new FFA officers were elected. Levi Slater was elected president, and Beau Buehler was elected vice president. Alexis Buckmeier became the reporter. Andy Backstrom will be the new secretary, and Kaidi Kenner was elected as the treasurer. Also elected were Tyler Sears as the sentinel, Preston Gilderhus as the student advisor, Rachel Olson as the chaplain, Ashley Foss as the parlimentarian, and Noah Engels as the historian.
There are 6 vocal groups going to the State Music Contest and 3 band pieces. They will be performing for state music on Saturday May 3rd. They have the privilege of going to state music because they starred at regional contest. But before they head off to state they performed a recital for the town of Maddock. This recital was on Tuesday, April 29th. It was a pretty pleasable crowd and everyone enjoyed it. Everyone did a wonderful job at the recital and i wish the best of luck to them all at state.
If you do not know what “Night Prowler” is it is a band that consists of Chris Ellingson, Taylor Arne, Ethan Markestad, Andy Bergrud, and Beau Buehler. Night Prowler is currently learning new songs for future events in the area. The band is excited to play and thinking about selling t-shirts to the community to advertise. You might hear Night Prowler play some nights in town if you listen carefully. If there is any updated news about Night Prowler the band will surely let everyone know.
On Tuesday, April 29th, the Maddock Varsity Boys’ Golf Team traveled up to Cando for a day off from school. It was a good day, but really windy, there were gusts up to 40 mph and it didn’t let up any. There were six teams in all that showed up. I’d name them if I knew them, but I don’t. The meet lasted the entire day, we arrived in Cando around 9 a.m. and left at about 4 p.m. At the meet itself, the Maddock team did exceptionally well. Levi Slater placed third in the overall meet out of one billion individual golfers. After the meet, the team stopped at Dairy Queen where Ethan cut in line and got out of there in record time, but most of the team, instead of going to DQ, went to Cenex across the street and loaded up on junk food and pop. I purchased a water and a Canadian Bacon pizza. It was good. When we arrived back at Maddock Public School, everyone got in their cars and went home. The End…
Come to the “He Never Failed Me Yet” gospel show!!! Where singers from the region present uplifting gospel music. The concert will be held in the New Rockford Gymnasium0 at 2:30 PM. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students, free for Preschool, and a family ticket (2 adults and children) will be $25. No reservations are being taken and open seating.
The Maddock High School, grades 7-12, were invited to the Fesseden School to listen to a speaker. When I first heard about this, I thought it was just going to be another boring lecture to sit through, but it was actually very good. It was about a girl that got killed in a school shooting nine years ago. The whole thing sent out a very good message that sometimes people nowadays forget-treat others the way you want to be treated. I think everyone that went enjoyed it. It was sad, but it did have a good message.
On Tuesday, Maddock students in grades 7-12 went to Fessenden to listen to speakers at the Fesseneden school. No one really knew what the presentation was about so when we got there we found out that it was about a girl that was killed in the Columbine shootings and about making the right life choices. One speaker was the girl’s little brother. The speakers talked about not falling into drugs and alcohol and also about being kind to others. The students enjoyed the presentation very much and I’m sure everyone learned something that day.
It is that time of year again, where several of the high school students participate in music contest. This year the regional vocal music contest was held in Maddock and the regional instrumental music contest was held in Langdon. There are several Maddock participants who stared at the regional contests, making them eligible for state, which is held on Saturday in Minot on the MSU campus. The students leave today, Friday May 2nd for an overnight trip to compete tomorrow. The public are welcome to sit in and watch the students’ use their marvelous talents and skills. Good luck too all participants!
Bethany AWANA – a Bible cenetered program where children and youth can learn about God and His Word, meet new friends, and participate in exciting games and challenging contests — ended this year with the annual Awards Night, Sunday evening, April 27, with parents and friends joining the AWANA members from all over Benson County. Captian Paul Backstrom led the service. The students led in the usual Flags Opening cerimony and sang several songs. Here you see the “Clubers” (3rd through 6th graders) singing. Besides the awards given out there were a couple of “highlights”: a contest of lining up all the Books of the Bible (in order) with two adult teams and two AWANA teams. The adults did beat, but it was close!! There was also an “Alumni Quartette” (all four 
members having gone through all the levels at Bethany AWANA in years past), who sang for us. Pictured here is the quartette: Ben Backstrom, Paul Rice, Levi Slater and Andy Backstrom. The evening concluded with an Ice Cream Social enjoyed by all. Look for AWANA starting again in the Fall.
