A 7-year-old girl, “Little Miss USA,” gets her picture taken in a white, jewel-encrusted hard hat. A volunteer shouts “Yee-haw!” as he cuts paving stones for a walkway. A hundred volunteers clad in matching blue shirts move like ants in the garage, on the sidewalk, and in front of the house as community members watch….
Category: General
October 13, 2010
This week Brittany and Yaw give us an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Update. Kaia and Tessa tell us some of our favorite Cobber cheers and there is big breakup news this week that Katie and Leah will tell us more about in A & E.
Concordia awarded $500,000 grant
The National Science Foundation awarded Concordia College a grant worth almost $500,000. Heidi Manning, the division chair of sciences and mathematics and associate professor of physics, received confirmation of the award on Sept. 9. Manning said only about half of students who start their education at Concordia with interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics…
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Fargo-Moorhead residents have volunteered to save the community from floods, but this week volunteers will build a house. A Moorhead family, the Grommeshes, will hear the excited, well-recognized “Move that bus!” from ABC-TV’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” and Cobbers are going to be a part of it. Bill and Adair Grommesh’s 9-year-old son, Garrett, was…
Concordia On-Air, October 6, 2010
This week, Yaw and Kari tell us about the Annual Writers Festival, Madeline tells us what we should expect this weekend for weather, Kaia and Tessa tell us which former Vikings player is coming back to play for the purple and gold, and in A & E, Le…
Concordia Celebrates Homecoming 2010
Homecoming 2010 is not a typical homecoming. Concordia favorites, like the bonfire, concert, and football game, are still a part of the tradition, but the Homecoming Committee has added or altered activities that highlight this year’s theme, “Cultivate, Celebrate, Cherish.” To cultivate new experiences, the Homecoming Committee created the “Homecoming Ticket.” Each student got a…
Concordia On-Air September 29, 2010
Today in news we talk about the Extreme home Makeover team coming to the Fargo/Moorhead area. In sports we talk about a MIAC athlete that has made his dreams come true, and in A & E we will tell you all about this weekend’s homecoming events.
How to ace that job interview
After years of working on impressive resumes, it is easy to overlook the importance of learning how to impress in person, and at the “Interviewing Skills that Lead to Offers” workshop, Concordia Career Center’s Assistant Director Sue Zern helped students prepare. There are major deal-breakers and key tips for interviewing for jobs, internships, and graduate…
Fresh Variety
Hand-made breads, organic butternut squash and fresh-picked golden cherry tomatoes were a few of the items sold at the Farmer’s Market in the Knutson Center Atrium last Tuesday evening. The four vendors ranged from Cobbers to a Fargo restaurant. Fresh vegetables were the order of the day, but vendors had different foods for different tastes….
Brown goes green with a high-tech water fountain
Brown Hall hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 14 to celebrate the addition of a new water fountain. However, it’s not just your average water fountain. This water fountain is high-tech. The Elkay EZH2O is an up-to-date bottle filling station that reduces dependency on plastic water bottle. According to its Web site, elkayusa.com, the EZH2O…