The Jamestown Sun hands out these bravos this week:
Bravo to the volunteers and donors who help make the Community Christmas Dinner possible. There were 650 meals served at the Community Christmas Dinner at Victory Lutheran Church in Jamestown on Dec. 22. People dined at the church, picked up meals to take home or received meals through delivery. The free meal is for anyone.Bravo to students of Lincoln Elementary School, who raised funds to help a family that lost their home to a fire in October. The students raised $657 in December to help Andrew Heckelsmiller and Kaitlyn Reuther and their two children.Bravo to JoLene Barnick and Tiffany Dawson, staff members at Lincoln Elementary School in Jamestown who will be honored for their work with state awards next month. Barnick, a special education paraeducator, was named the North Dakota Council of Exceptional Children Paraeducator of the Year, and Dawson was named the North Dakota Council of Exceptional Children Special Education Teacher of the Year.Bravo to the increase in North Dakota’s population in 2024. Gov. Kelly Armstrong announced that the state gained more than 7,500 people since 2023, with a record population of 796,568, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.Bravo to Geneva Kaiser of Jamestown, who received the Water Wheel Award at the 61st annual Joint North Dakota Water Convention and Irrigation Workshop on Dec. 12 in Bismarck. The joint award, given by the North Dakota Water Users Association and the North Dakota Water Resource Districts Association, is given in recognition of distinctive leadership and perseverance for the protection, development and management of North Dakota’s water resources, thereby fostering a better quality of life for the state’s people. In 1989, Kaiser began working for the Stutsman Rural Water District and was promoted to general manager in 2007. The groups said her leadership has resulted in a substantial growth of Stutsman Rural Water members, seven separate expansions of the distribution system, and construction of several industrial projects.
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