Nice relief map..... Turtle Mtns bump is pretty distinct.

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/maps1/nd.gif

North Central Education Cooperative

The mission of the North Central Education Cooperative schools is to ensure, through a comprehensive K-12 curriculum, that students will develop and demonstrate scholastic, technological, physical, social, and problem solving skills essential for achieving academic, occupational, and personal success today and in the future.

http://www.bcc.k12.nd.us/about_bcc/index.htm

2003-04 Bottineau County Consortium Board Membership
Bottineau.................................Les Christian, Vice President
Dunseith..................................Mary Medrud
MLS.........................................Shan Haarsager
Newburg..................................Larry Christenson, President
Sherwood................................Roger Artz
Westhope.................................Myron Hanson
TGU...........................................Karolee Kaylor

The Pearls Before Swine, a late 1960s studio group, was basically one man called Tom Rapp, born in 1947 in Bottineau, North Dakota. He learned to play guitar from a countrysinger. The story goes that he once came second in a talent contest in Minnesota whFew figures in the history of popular music are as deserving of the epithet "cult hero" as Thomas D. Rapp. His muse has been invoked in hushed tones whenever advocates of underground folkrock are gathered peacefully together for nigh-on thirty years now, for few things separate the wheat from the chaff as quickly as dropping the name Pearls Before Swine into a conversation amongst the supposedly knowledgeable. Tom the attorney Their mystical, innovative arrangements centred around Tom Rapp's politically acute, surreal lyrical observations of blood-letting, space travel, lepers and the abstract masquerading as love themes have long endeared them to adherents of the psychedelic, and yet until relatively recently - in 1992 in fact, when a small English magazine called The Ptolemaic Terrascope proudly published the first all-encompassing interview with Tom Rapp in twenty odd years - little was known about an artist who has either directly or indirectly influenced a whole lot more of what's gone down in today's music than you'd scarcely give him credit for, including innumerable figures as David Bowie, and the Velvet Underground. Forgotten, overlooked, or just plain criminally ignored, the recorded legacy of Pearls Before Swine remains, and it's the objective of this site to restore interest in these folk-rock nuggets in order to get the original albums released from the vaults. rockmuse.com

http://members.chello.nl/cvanderlely/pearls.html
http://members.chello.nl/cvanderlely/pearls/articles/lawjournal.html

Web sight with graphics of tommy turtle, and some other collages of ND.,
The Ehlke's seem to have lot of time on his hands. Originally from Maxbass and Newburg.
http://members.fortunecity.com/ehlke/page7.html#
http://members.fortunecity.com/ehlke/#

The turtle made and album cover in 1998.

Hometown: Hoboken, NJFormed: 1984
Members:Ira Kaplan -guitar, vocalsGeorgia Hubley -drums, guitar, vocalsJames McNew -bass, guitar, vocals
Bands In The Family:The Schramms, Dump
Notes:Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley founded Yo La Tengo as a low-key extension of their obsessive musical fandom. The band went through innumerable line-ups before settling on the trio of Kaplan, Hubley, and McNew in 1992.



http://www.yolatengo.com/
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,334980,00.html

Origin of name
Their name comes from a baseball anecdote. During the 1962 season, Richie Ashburn, the center fielder of the New York Mets, was crashing again and again with Venezuelan Elio Chacón. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, "I got it! I got it!" only to collide with the 160 pound (73 kg, 11 stones 6 pounds) Chacón, who spoke only Spanish. Ashburn learned to yell, "Yo la tengo! Yo la tengo!" which is "I've got it" in Spanish. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón backing off. He relaxed, positioned himself to catch the ball, and was instead run over by 200 pound (91 kg, 14 stones 4 pounds) left fielder Frank Thomas, who understood no Spanish.
The band wanted a name that sounded foreign in order to avoid any connotations and Kaplan is a devoted baseball fan (and a fan of the New York Mets in particular). However, it still irks them when they are asked the origin of the name. [1] The band once performed a cover of the Mets theme song "Meet the Mets" during a benefit appearance on radio station WFMU's pledge drive.

Centennial 1906 -2006


10 AM – 5 PM
Registration
9 AM – 6 PM
Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit – "Inspirations from the Forests" – no charge
North Dakota Forest Service Field Office – 1037 Forestry Drive – (701)228-3700
6 PM – 7 PM
Social hour
7 PM – 9 PM
Opening Ceremony / Dinner / Gordy Lindquist entertainment
8 PM – 10 PM
Live Auction
All activities in BOLD TYPE are included in the registration fee.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
8 AM - Noon
Registration / Golf Tournament / Fishing Tournament
Forestry Tour –preregistration required (details below)
9 AM – 6 PM
Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit – "Inspirations from the Forests" – no charge
North Dakota Forest Service Field Office – 1037 Forestry Drive – (701)228-3700
1 – 2 PM
Lewis & Clark Program (Tom Gibson) / Meeting time for special groups (clubs, sports, dept., etc.) / Tree climbing demo / Art Show / Face painting - Balloons
2 – 3 PM
Gordy Lindquist Program / Meeting time for special groups (clubs, sports, dept., etc.) / Tree climbing demo / Art Show / Clown Show / Radio remote
3 – 4 PM
Rodney Nelson, Rural humorist / Meeting time for special groups (clubs, sports, dept., etc.) / Tree climbing demo / Art Show / Face Painting – Balloons / Radio remote
4 – 5 PM
Art Show / Game Show Program (Tom Gibson)
5 – 6 PM
Time Capsule Burial / Centennial Tree planting
6 – 8 PM
Dinner
9 PM – 1 AM
Dance – Kid Hollywood
Note: Saturday afternoon events on campus are all included in registration fee.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
10 AM – Noon
Church Service
12 – 2 PM
Brunch
1 – 4 PM
Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit – "Inspirations from the Forests" – no charge
North Dakota Forest Service Field Office – 1037 Forestry Drive – (701)228-3700
Saturday Forestry Tour Details—Must register by June 1, 2006—Call 228-5446 to sign up for tour.
8:00 a.m. Meet at the Molberg Forestry Center Conference Room
8:10 a.m. Depart for Turtle Mountains
8:30 a.m. Strawberry Lake Recreation Area and Mystical Horizons Overlook
9:30 a.m. Depart for Towner (juice/muffin)
10:30 a.m. Tour of Towner State Nursery
11:30 a.m. Picnic Noon Luncheon at Nursery
12:00 p.m. Depart for Bottineau

2006 State Basketball Champs
Girls Class B

Back row left to right: Brooke Marquardt, Kelsey Peltier, Whitney Aalund, Coach Forsberg, Maribeth Geiszler, Amanda Backman, Erica Wondrasek Middle row left to right: Kayla Roemmich, Bianca Lamb, Sarah Klingbeil, Kelsey Aide, Chelsea Kleven, Courtney Hahn, Mandee Keplin, Sara Neubauer Front row left to right: Sara Heth, Shawna Trebas, Brooke Hoffer

Friday, May 12th
Season Opener
7:00 p.m.
IMCA Mods, IMCA Stocks, North Star Hobbies and Bombers
Friday, May 26th
7:00 pm
IMCA Mods, IMCA Stocks, North Star Hobbies and Bombers
Friday, June 9th
Kids Night
7:00 p.m.
IMCA Mods, IMCA Stocks, North Star Hobbies and Bombers
Friday, July 7th
Pitman's Race
7:00 p.m.
IMCA Mods, North Star Hobbies and Bombers
Sunday, July 16th
Payout
7:00 p.m.
North Star Hobby & IMCA Stock Car Challenge
with IMCA Mods & Bombers
Friday, July 28th
7:00 p.m.
IMCA Mods, IMCA Stocks, North Star Hobbies, Bombers & Powder Puff
Friday August 11th
Championship Night
6:00 pm
IMCA Mods, IMCA Stocks, North Star Hobbies and Bombers
Saturday, August 12th
6:00 pm
Enduro 200 Laps or 2 Hours
Check back for Demo Derby info and dates (possibly Sept 9th)

http://www.thundermountainspeedway.org/SCHEDULE/SCHEDULE.htm

No rockin in 2006......

http://www.rockinthehills.com/
At this point there is no Rockin' the Hills this year, thank you for your support in the past!

Bottineau County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of 2000, the population is 7,149. The majority of the male population in the county consists of farmers and small business. Bottineau is well known for its winter park, snowmobiling & ice fishing. The capital city of North Dakota is Bismarck. Its county seat is Bottineau6.

The Territorial legislature identified Bottineau as one of the original counties or the territory in 1872 but it wasn't organized until July 17, 1884 at a meeting in Bottineau. It is named for Pierre Bottineau (c.1814-1895), a Métis pioneer, hunter, and trapper who became a successful land speculator.

LANDSAT IMAGE OF THE TURTLE MOUNTAINS REGION, NORTH DAKOTA & SASKATCHEWAN

The ovate feature in the right-central portion of this image is the Turtle Mountains: a mesa of upper Cretaceous and Paleocene bedrock thickly-draped by glacial sediments. The prominent river in the lower-left quarter of the image is the Souris River, which flows southward from Saskatchewan into North Dakota and then sweeps back northward around the western edge of the Turtle Mountains into Manitoba. The large, bluish water body northwest of the Turtle Mountains is Manitoba's Whitewater Lake.
The U.S.-Canadian border can be discerned below the northern third of the Turtle Mountains through a slight change in reflectance, representing differences in land use; the Canadian side reflects as a deeper red. The prominent blue line south of the Turtle Mountains represents a "dropout" or failure by the satellite to record one of its scan lines.