Harvey, ND

The Harvey FFA chapter went to Bismarck to attend the Greenhand Conference. Daniel Deck was in the top ten in the greenhand quiz. He won a pair of FFA socks. Jakob Zerr won a FFA jacket.

The mission of Wells Co. Mentoring is to strengthen our young people by providing them with caring, positive relationships.   Mentoring is simple.  It is caring, being yourself and spending consistent time (about an hour a week) with a young person.  It’s so simple that it is making a difference, one life at a time.  Mentors are not there to “fix” their youth or solve their problems, but to simply be a friend.  Become involved in one of the most effective prevention efforts and help today’s youth become tomorrow’s leaders - Be a mentor!

The St. Aloisius Community Volunteer Program is designed to reach out to others and make a positive difference in our community.  Volunteers assist in a variety of areas, such as providing transportation to and from medical appointments, assisting with light household and daily living tasks, meal preparation and providing social opportunities.  These services allow many people to continue independent living in their own homes, rather than going to a long term care facility.  Each month, one volunteer is selected to be recognized as the volunteer of the month.

The second annual Mr. HHS is taking place once again at the Harvey High School Gym on February first at 7:30 p.m. The fee is $1 per person. This gives the male students to be crowned Mr. HHS. The contestants will be judged on purple and gold attire, talent, and questions. After Mr. HHS, there is Taste of Harvey. This is a fundraiser where different organizations bring food and serve it to the public. Please come and enjoy a fun filled evening with your family. 

The past year four communities within our area participated in the NDSU Center for Vitality “HORIZONS” program. The communities involved include Maddock, harvey Anamoose and bowden. This required community surveying, study circles, and leadership training. The three communities that are connected by Highway 52 recognized the opportunity to bridge our communities. Since the blogging training representatives from harvey Anamoose, and bowden have met and plan to met in febuary to move forward with strengthening our communities together. If there is an interest to get involved please call Kim Moen at the harvey City hall @ 324-2000.

Take it Back is not an organization, it is a philosphy that gives young people the opportunity to change how their community percieves underage drinking. The facts are alcohol kills more kids than all illegal drugs combined, everyday 5,400 young people under age 16 take their first drink, kids under 21 spend over $5 billion on alcohol.

TAKE it BACK event is planned for March 4,2006 beginning at 6:30pm with a pizza party and speaker jacob howe from SADD. All kids age 12-21 are invited to the harvey High School for this event. Come meet jacob, who is an 18 year old from Valley City ND.

Harvey has an active SADD group which represents Students Againest Distructive Decisions. Beckee Keller is the advisor through the Wells County District health Unit.

For more information contact Tammy Neuhohr @ 324-4769 Ext#342. See you there!!

The St aloisius medcical Center Community Volunteer Program administrates the Faith in Action program for the harvey area. Specifically Faith in Action provides volunteers for people needing a ride to medical appt. that can not be done locally. The past two years alfred and Verna Weisser have provided 16,000miles of transportaion to medical appt. The FIA pays a mileage stipend to the volunteers. Our program is so blessed by the Weissers and other volunteers. We are so glad we can provide this service through the local medical institution.

Dakota Medical Foundation is providing a Match program on Febuary 14 for any donation to the Faith in Action Program of $25 or more through the impactgiveback.org website. Our FIA program is eliglble to recieve up to $5000 in match funding .

Please consider giving your donation and helping us to continue our ministry of providing medical trnsportation. Any questions call Beth Huseth @ 324-4769 Ext. 308.

The sisters of mary of the presentation (SMP) have always emphasized the importance of educational opportunities for their employees. St. aloisius Medical Center is a SMP Health systems organization and has accepted the task of continuing leadership training, in addition to inviting the communitiy to attend also. St. Aloisius Medical center’s Employee Assisance Program will be presenting two educational opportunities on febuary 13 in the Presentation Center at St. Aloisius medical Center.

The first program begins at 10:30am-12noon is titled Supervising Approaches to conflict Resolution. This class will address levels of conflict, styles of conflict management and address “desk rage” on the job anger management.

The second class is offered two times, 1pm-2pm and again at 2:30pm-3pm, this class is titled Managing Negativity. the session will provide ways to deal with negativity around us and identify our responsibility for change.

If there is an interest to attend contact Beth Huseth @ 324-4769 Ext. 308.

Every year the Harvey National Honor Society puts together a blood drive at the high school. The goal is to recruit teachers and even students to donate blood. Since blood is a constant need in the hospital it is very important to get as many donaters as possible because many times they will not take certain people’s blood due to low iron and other deficiencies. Having the blood drive at the high school gives students and teachers a chance to give blood during the school day and may even decide to donate on a regular basis. Last year the National Honor Society did a great job spreading the word about the blood drive and had the highest number of donors in years.

Each year the National Honor Society sponsors Daffodil Days. NHS sends out order forms to local businesses to order their daffodils. The daffodils sell for 10 daffodils for $10.00. All the procedes will go to the National Cancer Society. The daffodils arrive around the March 15, and then the students will hand out the daffodils to the people who ordered them. Daffodil Days not only brightens a persons day, but can also save a patients life dealing with cancer.