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School Supply List for Sunnyside Elementry in Minot ND

Hopefully you did NOT miss orientation day yesterday at Sunnyside School but if you did and if you missed the supply lists posted at Kmart and Walmart here it is. Please pardon the highlighted items as those were what we needed personally for our own Sunnyside student, Timmothy.
The flood that destroyed the river vally of Minot was particularly hard on several elementary schools. School has been post-poned a week and is scheduled to start on Tuesday September 6th. Many think that another postponement is inevitable. Some schools were totally destroyed and are meeting in temporary classrooms. Word has it that some have no desks, chairs, teaching materials and so on. It's going to be interesting.
I can only encourage you to keep checking the Minot Public Schools website for more information.

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What I learned In School Today by Bobby T
This post was inspired by Myrl Jeffcoat who commented on my last post, asking how Broker School is going.
Today was a definite school day for me. While I only spent 2 hours in the classroom today (virtual classroom) I also spent an hour with my representative from Home Warranty, whom I strongly recommend, and I spent some time at my 9 year old sons school for his orientation and then at my 11 year old daughters school for her orientation.
ND requires 60 hours of class prior to being able take the Brokers exam and yet there is no place in ND or anywhere else that I am aware of to get those 60 hours in other the on-line. This is really so much fun trying to learn to study again after nearly half a decade.. trying to put ones life back together again after the flood.. while working.. while living in my mother-in-laws basement.
(OK break out the violins).
I am enrolled in Cooke School and actually it is going very well and I am enjoying the course.
Very fittingly today's lesson included disclosure and environmental hazards. Listen up East Coast Realtors! I highly recommend you check your State guidelines for reporting if/that a home has been flooded and if there is evidence that the seller can prove they have taken appropriate measures to stop mold in that home. Here is my personal example:
I, Robert L. Timm, have never been happy with the stucco on my home. I think it makes it cold and I don't like the maintenance. I saw the flood we experienced as an opportunity to have the stucco removed. Everyone, including my contractor told me not to remove the stucco. Actually my contractor begged me not to make him remove it. I was assured by him and several other "experts" that with all the materials removed from inside the house down to the boards supporting the stucco that it would dry out just fine. Well, I'm stubborn and I did not like the stucco so off it went. My contractor immediately started singing a different tune, he was amazed at the moisture between the cement ant the wood walls supporting it. Over and over he has now repeated that it is a really good thing we removed the stucco.
Between the school lesson and the "life lesson" I learned that if I am showing a Buyer a stucco house that has been in the flood I will disclose that there may be a very serious health hazard in that house for he and his loved ones. There is going to be a whole lot to disclose due to our flood as well as what you on the East Coast have just experienced.
I also learned something (that I already knew) from my 9 year old sons orientation day. The generosity of others in times of trouble is nearly endless. Each "flood family", and about 80% of us that have children at this school qualify, were given a large box of groceries and the children were given a new backpack filled with school supplies. At my 11 year old daughters school the company who takes the school pictures, Lifetouch, had a package for every child of last years portraits in case families had lost them in the flood.
Today was a school day. Many lessons were learned.

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Free Music, A Nice Little Bonus!
I love those little individual serving pecan pies. I picked up a four pack the other day at a bread thrift store. This was on the box. I liked the music well enough that I want to share it with you. The pies were pretty good to but they are gone now so sorry I can't share those with you. I'm not sure what the association is between pecan pies and CW truck driven music is but it works for me.
We have two excellent bakery thrift stores in Minot ND. If you live here and you are unfamilular with them they are close together with one just off the SW corner of the Kmart parking lot and the other just SW of the Broadway and 20th Ave MarketPlace Foods. Bonappitite!
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GOSH, I Hope This Headline WRONG! Please note the sign to the right of the Movie marquee. The river crested a few days ago and has dropped about 2 feet at this point. This is the first time I've seen my office since the mandatory evacuation. That evacuation will most likely be in place another month yet me my area of town. I may be able to return to the office in about two weeks. I hope my color copier enjoyed the bath.
Now a post I did NOT get up from Monday.
This 4th of July my family and I are celebrating our day at "The Festival Of the Parks". While the two large parks in Minot are still under a lot of water a much smaller but very beautiful park is working out fine.
The theme for the event is "Forget The Flood!". Everything is free. Free T-shirts, free foods, and free entertainment. The bulk of it is sponsored by River Of Life Assembly Of God. It is very scaled down as they usually have all kinds of giant inflatables for the kids.
The only thing that is not free is a T-shirt that has gained cult status thanks to Face Book. Our Public Works Director, Allan Walters, has taken a bit of a beating over this whole ordeal. One day he was a little frazzled, the day the announcement was made that the water supply had been contaminated. Reporters were beatig a dead horse over what the implications were over the contaminated water.
Fed up with the reporters insistance for an ansewer to a question that didn't have an answer Allen said: "Guards people are standing in the water, they get their hands wet, they eat with those dirty hands, JUST BOIL THE DAMN WATER!".
The T-shirts have Allans face on it and "JUST BOIL THE DAMN WATER". I guess it's gone viral.
Well it's time to go grab some free food and then it will be off to Reverend Kruegers house to blow-off more gun powder then was used in WWII. I could stand to skip the fireworks but it's also a fish fry and pot luck. Can't miss that!
Happy 4th to everyone.
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