August 5, 2010

It's rodeo time - and garage sale time! This Friday at 6 p.m. there will be a performance of the Max Rodeo. On Saturday, Slack will be held at 8 a.m. with the rodeo performance at 5 p.m. Mutton Busting will be held after Bull Riding both nights. All day long will be the city wide garage sales in Max. Don't forget to pick up your free map of all the sale locations - either at the C Store or at the bank.

Civic Club will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, August 9th at the Civic Center. This week, August 9-12th, Max School registration will be held, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. August 10th is the day for preschool registration, kindergarten registration, and for new students and returning students with schedule changes. Where did summer go?

Preschool starts August 31st in Max. Please contact the school at 679-2685 if you have a child who is 4 years old before August 1st of 2010, and if you plan to enroll them into the Max School Preschool Program.

Have you been able to help those requesting items on the Max Web site's Swap Shop? A wheelbarrow or garden cart; a pressure cooker, and juneberry and chokecherry bushes. For sale are the physical education room lockers. These will be selling for $5 each and will be sold on a 'first come' basis. You will need to dismantle these units. The lockers may be seen at the Max School now.

The City is requesting residents to watch for suspicious activity in the Park and to notify the Sheriff's Department at 701-462-8103. Because of all the previous vandalism, the restrooms will have to be locked at about 9 p.m. each night and reopened in the morning. Make Max a safe and clean community!

This past Sunday Lila Fannik and Lorna Sambor attended the Douglas Picnic at the Douglas Senior Center. They had a wonderful time. Visitors at Lila's and Lorna's homes in July were their nephew Don and Jan Meronuck of Fargo; their niece Kathy and Rick Kresbach from Bowman, and niece Carole Scurlock of Florida. Marvin and Madine Krueger and grandsons Reuben and David of Newport, Oregon also visited, as did Pat McIntyre of Max. The ladies appreciated all their wonderful visits.

Eugene and Margaret Zaderaka recently toured Devils Lake and visited with Darlene and Gary Rose in Rugby on their way home. Darlene is kept busy with sewing 70-some lap robes for the long term care departments there in Rugby. This is something she has volunteered to do in other years, too. Gary loves his job as a Maintainer driver for the Rugby area. They have purchased a very nice house in Rugby. Daughters Jenny and Kayla and their families visit often.

"Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you - enough chance to love you enough." Dinah Shore

--The Max News is written each week by Margaret Zaderaka. To have your information included, contact her at emz@rtc.coop.