By JJ Day and Carrie Tiggas One of our featured people for this issue of Com-mini-cations is Marlene Berg, wife of Mini-School’s own Doug Berg. Marlene and Doug have been married for 30 years {one year longer than Mini-School} and have a son, Charles, 28. Marlene has been very involved in Mini-School over the years … [Read more…]
By Seth Stiebinger Y2K, or year 2000 for those of you that don’t know, is a computer term for a problem brought up by lazy programmers. Y2K breaks down to this. When programmers write programs that contain the current date they use a 2-digit system {e.g. 2-10-99} as opposed to a a 4-digit system {e.g. … [Read more…]
By Audrey Lopez Pauline left us for six weeks and had a baby girl, Samantha Anne, on the tenth of January. Born at Ridgeview Hospital, she weighed 8 lbs. 10z. She has blue eyes and brown hair. Pauline explains things being chaotic and there’s a lot more to do now. Alex (her other daughter) is … [Read more…]
Dear Doug Berg, I really enjoyed the holiday issue of Com-Mini-Cations. The description writing by Seth and Clare in Grantsburg was particularly well done. Their opening paragraph is worthy of National Geographic. Congratulations to Leah, Lacey and Audrey as well as student editors. By the way, we enjoyed Lacey’s brief visit to the district leadership … [Read more…]
By Leah Shoberg On the night of January 7, Mini-school Finally, FINALLY, got the national recognition it’s deserved these last twenty-nine years. As in the little article below (that was clipped from the school news bulletin that everyone in the district gets.) the award was given to us by the National Dropout Prevention Network. Doug … [Read more…]
By Randy Nelson On Monday, February 15, a large group of friends and families of Norm Garneau gathered to celebrate his life. Norm, who taught in Mini-School from 1980-81 school year until the 1988-89 school year, passed away at 67 while vacationing with his wife, Jane {former MHS bursar}, in Aruba. The Mini-School staff’s association … [Read more…]
By Doug Berg As will be indicated in articles throughout this issue of Com-mini-cations, much has been happening in Mini-School the first couple months of 1999. Awards, trips, babies, new students- a busy time. In addition, everyone’s excited as we move toward the end of the school year as the biggest trip time of the … [Read more…]
By Matt Thompson Gary Fisher mountain bike $300 Matt Merriam ***-**** Rockford Amp 200 watts by 2 channels $400 Matt Merriam ***-**** Cordless phone at&t $15 Katie Tierney ***-**** Black leather boots size 7 1/2 $15 Katie Tierney ***-**** Never Summer ‘94 Snowboard $200 Matt Thompson ***-**** Super Nintendo games call to find out which … [Read more…]
By Brooke Woitalla Y2k- One of the most controversial issues of today. Will our computer dependent world fail us? I would personally like to put in my two cents and say, “I think the majority of our population has created a problem that screams paranoia”. Many do not share the views as I do. For … [Read more…]
By Mark Thole and Aaron Sapp