Students/Youth

The Kimball Area High School Fine Arts Dept. will present it’s Spring Band Concert and Art Show at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 5. The concert will be in the north gym at KAHS, with art work on display in the hallways before and after the concert. The concert will include all levels of the program,…

All-Conference Academic winners: • Girls’ basketball-Tesslynn Callander, Brooke Merten, Kelsey Vigoren, Amanda Wittenberg, Emily Straley, Sarah Messer, and Rachael Arnold. • Boys’ basketball-Andy Dingmann, and Brett Ostby. • Wrestling-David Joseph. All-Conference Players: • Boys’ basketball-Scott Nystrom (not pictured), and Bobby Ames. • Wrestling-Luke Schiefelbein (not pictured). • Girls’ basketball-Emily Straley, and Tesslynn Callander.

The American Legion Auxiliary Post 261 is pleased to announce their candidate for Girls’ State. Abby Zoller is a junior at Kimball Area High School. Her parents are Vern and Kristi Zoller. Minnesota Girls’ State, an American Legion Auxiliary program, is a practical application of Americanism and good citizenship. To provide citizenship training for girls…

At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, on the high school football field, Kimball Area High School will be hosting a mock crash for Kimball High School students highlighting the frightening and tragic realities of an alcohol-related crash. Underage-alcohol use is a serious issue with recent statistics published by MADD reporting more than half of all…

Designs, design, designs. We got to see it all-Spiderman, Nature Scenes and Barb Hoffmann’s very first quilt. We welcomed expert quilter and former 4-H’er Barb Hoffmann to the Kimball Kruisers April 4-H meeting. After showing us many different quilts, we all learned how to make a pillowcase. The sewing machines were buzzing. Look for these…

Three Kimball Boy Scouts are headed to the State Pinewood Derby at the Mall of America Saturday, June 6. Pictured above are Riley Matthiesen (Wolf), Riley Miller (Bear), and Trevor Sorenson (Bear). The three competed in the 2009 Crow River District Pinewood Derby race Saturday, April 4, in Norwood, Minn., with about 100 participants. Matthiesen…

Sauk Centre Supt. Dan Brooks had concluded a portion of a workshop day, April 2, when he announced that personnel from diversiCOM were special guests. Dave Del Zoppo, diversiCOM CEO was in attendance to announce that EBD Special Education teacher Laurie Garcia had been chosen as diversiCOM’s 2009 Teacher of the Year. Several years ago…

With only five girls trying out for the fourth-grade team, the coaches recruited some very talented girls from the third-grade class. The Kimball fourth-grade traveling team had a good showing this season, with a 3-2 record for the season and a second place at the Holdingford tournament. Players learned new skills, gained valuable knowledge, and…

In February during “I Love to Read month” the Kimball Elementary School first-graders in Mrs. Gustafson’s and Mrs. Klein’s classrooms read more than 800 Accelerated Reader books. In doing so, 200 books were donated to children in need through Scholastic Books Classrooms Care project. Submitted photo.

Subsections … The Kimball Speech Team made their stand tonight (Sunday, March 29) at Eden Valley-Watkins in the Subsection 5A South Tournament, placing fourth out of six Subsection teams. The top six competitors in each category move on to compete at the Section 5A Tournament Saturday, April 4, at St. Cloud Cathedral High School. Tonight,…