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To make sure everyone is

allen_kruse — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:56:26 -0600

To make sure everyone is clear - because I KNOW people will get this wrong.

CH Consulting's Call Center was purchased BY Synergy Solutions - years ago.

So the call center closing its doors has NOTHING to do with CH Consulting or Christa Heibel.

It's another sad day on the Economic Development front for International Falls.

Congratulations to Allen

roj2000 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:31:29 -0600

Congratulations to Allen Kruse on getting so many votes. It renews my faith that the "good ole boy" network in the Falls may be going away. I have nothing against Mayor Mason, but it's good to see that over 1,000 Falls residents decided there was an alternative to "the same old thing"!! Maybe next time Allen!!

Congradulations to Stuart

six-shooter — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:49:02 -0600

Congradulations to Stuart Nordquist and Willi Kostiuk on your election to the school board. At least on the local level we will see the change that we need for our school district.

Anton, Bravo, wow that sums

viperboy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:51:13 -0500

Anton,
Bravo, wow that sums it up you can expect i will be there, and he definatly needs to either be here or there, i say to him if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence then jump on over to the other side cause you are doing any good here. And if you are going to be in another town running a school how can you be in this town running another school, you can't handle both so nows the time where you pick one or another.

It seems to me the position

Anton1965 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:43:22 -0500

It seems to me the position should be neither part time or full time for this person. If Ely wants him, let Ely have him. We need a person who has the ability to manage our schools and require more time then what is available to do the job in. For 16 months I have seen nothing but amateurish performance and gaffes from someone with not only a part time performance but a part time mind, as well.

He also has extra time to

kay — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:14:13 -0500

He also has extra time to want to work at another school along with his job here in I Falls. It seems the position here should be part time.

I think your right there

Anton1965 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:59:55 -0500

I think your right there shooter. If the end is ever exposed, as I am sure your right about, it might well be a bloody end for sure. Just to prove something one way or the other, I guess we should have him there, if not for any other reason then to hear his side of it told in front of everyone else who might know or think otherwise. I personally don't at all think the man is capable of managing manpower and other resources in our school district. I just get the idea he sits in a cloudy fog day after day.

Anton1965----there is a

six-shooter — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:53:06 -0500

Anton1965----there is a saying----"Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end." I find that to be so true here.

"Shooter", I expect there

Anton1965 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:01:35 -0500

"Shooter", I expect there actually is not much reason for the super to be there. I mean, other then throw rocks at him, thats figurativly not actually anything I would condone, what value would he be. I mean, I have proven more then once, I can not find my hind end with both hands and a flaselight, why would anything I said now be of much value.

I find it much to the credit

Anton1965 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:55:40 -0500

I find it much to the credit of Mr. Everson and Mr. Hilfer that they would want and ask the community for their input as to how they might make the schools safer and implement procedures that would make the parents in this community feel confident that a procedure was in place to respond to any emergency. Thank you and congratulations on your efforts to the both of you. Having said that, I find it much to the discredit of the superintendant, who is actually responsible for having done this work before the fact, and hasn't done so, in this matter and the incident previously, and has not at all responded to various requests by parents and grandparents in the community. I guess two out of three is not such bad odds in most cases but I desire to have three out of three doing good work in this instance. Again thank you Mr. Everson and Mr. Hilfer. The thanks to these two men, rersponsible for the welfare of our children, is deliberate. I wished I could have said thank you to all three men responsible for our children. In addition, I would still like to feel warm and cozy, as I mentioned to the mayor a year ago, as to the feasibility of our plans with respect to interoperability between all emergency response teams to include the OPD and other government agancies, if there is a plan in the event REA or other power grids were knocked out to the area and do we have a plan to handle a real hasmat incident without some dog and pony show I have had the displeasure to have to undo in other communities in the country. I mean, is everybody on the same page here???

I too am very glad that they

six-shooter — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:51:09 -0500

I too am very glad that they are holding this meeting for input on safety proceedures in emergencies. One thing I ask tho is was there even one to implement with the 2 threats last week? If there was it should have been carried out immediately as we have talked about. If there wasn't --why? Why hasn't the super not even given a statement ? Also Mr. Super are you going to be there? I truely hope so-- ya know what I mean?

I know of one boy and his

gardennut — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:46:40 -0600

I know of one boy and his friends that were walking home - the school told them that if they had a way to get home - then just go. Isn't that against some type of a policy? Aren't the kids the responsibility of the school at this point? They should have NEVER been allowed to walk home if they were not living within a block or two. Not cool.

I truely believe that Langan

six-shooter — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:41:37 -0600

I truely believe that Langan owes this community a public meeting to answer questions face to face with the people who need these questions answered. His yacking in circles means nothing. I truely believe that how this went down was wrong and I won't settle for his tipping turning reasoning. This school district owes this to the people of IF.

Hello six-shooter...I caught

jbsfighter — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:23:53 -0600

Hello six-shooter...I caught Langans "public address" on local radio station at 4pm...don't know if it will be on again or not, apparently it is on in the morning normally, but they replayed it because of the important content. Anyway, facts according to him are they DID know about it by 7:15 am, he and Everson were at school by 7:30, and he says they chose not to send kids right back home because some kids were already at school, some busses do double runs, blah blah blah....I agree 100% bad call by administrators and reiterate once again, only now with more facts known, they should NOT have continued dropping kids off at school, I don't care what specifics the threat said or what age they believed them to be!!! Langan also said they were hoping to identify the person who made the call, brought teachers etc in to try to identify the caller in hopes to apprehend someone without closing school. GOOD GRIEF!!! They are not the police, not their job to apprehend anyone, especially someone who threatens violence. Not sure how Channel 3 news would know specifics of threat as Langan didn't state...maybe from law enforement. Bottom line, I stand behind all my blogs, especially with this statement from Langan, and no my child will NOT be going to school on Friday!!!

Ok I'll clue in on why some

viperboy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:25:34 -0600

Ok I'll clue in on why some of us are unhappy, there was a bomb threat at 7 am they listened to it what 61 times or so, mean while they know that there has been a threat, but yet conduct business as usual, as our kids are sitting in class or in the school somewhere, while the staff at the school knows there is potential for a very bad out come to this, but yet they drug their feet until about 10 then decided "OH GEE THINK WE SHOULD GET THE KIDS OUT OF HERE, YEAH I THINK SO BUT HOW DO WE DO IT, WE BETTER WAIT UNTIL SOMEONE HAS TIME TO EXPLAIN WHAT TO DO , ALTHOUGH THIS HAS HAPPENED ATLEAST 10 TIMES HERE AND WE SHOULD KNOW WHAT TO DO BUT EHH I WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION""HEY THINK WE SHOULD LISTEN TO THAT A MESSAGE AGAIN JUST TO BE SURE ITS A THREAT, I MEAN THE KIDS ARE STILL IN CLASS AND WE HAVE ONLY LISTENED TO IT 45 TIMES"... And yes i think the school district deserves every bit of it we leave our kids in your hands while we are supposed to be worry free at work and doing what we do while there at school, you really let us down.