Volunteer at Green School

Members of Green School Community Center are looking for volunteers to help document playground equipment and to complete an inventory of school records and ephemera. The work day will be held Saturday, June 4, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. GSCC will provide work gloves and masks; volunteers are asked to dress appropriately for the weather, as the school is not air conditioned. A wash station and port-a-potty will be available. GSCC members will serve lunch and provide water throughout the day.

Green School Work Day
Saturday, June 4, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Green Consolidated School
11108 39th St SE - Valley City
From Valley City: Take I-29 west to ND Highway 1 (south) exit; travel south on ND Highway 1 4 miles; take gravel road west 2 miles to school
For more information: Jennifer Pickard, GSCC President - greenschool@live.com

About Green School Community Center
GSCC is a 501(c)3 organization and member of PND's Local Affiliate Program. GSCC's mission is to preserve the historic Green School and what it meant to the rural community, and to continue to use it as a community gathering place.

Green Consolidated School was built in 1916, mainly educating children in grades 1-8 until it closed in 1974.

1916 Green Consolidated School - rural Barnes County

Classroom - Green Consolidated School

Merry-Go-Round at Green School

Swing Set & Teeter-Totter at Green School

"Many Hands Make Light Work" - Work Day at Manfred a Huge Success

On Saturday, May 7th, volunteers from across the state met in the tiny village of Manfred, ND (approximately 80 miles SE of Minot on ND Highway 52) for the first widely-publicized volunteer work day to clean out the 1910 Manfred School and 1899 Solheim House.

With the help of twenty-five volunteers, members of Rural Vestige Alliance (a PND Affiliate) accomplished this enormous task in just under seven hours. Both the school and neighboring house had been used as storage and eventually were abandoned with mounds of "stuff" inside, but this did not discourage RVA members who knew that with a little help, these places could be cleaned out and restored to be one day used again.



1899 Solheim House & 1910 Manfred School



Second floor classroom - before

Second floor classroom - after

Burnable garbage - out the window, into a sturdy farm truck, and headed to the burn pile

The other second floor classroom - before



The other second floor classroom - cleaning up nicely! The football helmets were saved...

In other Manfred news...

The east grain elevator has finally given up the ghost, so to speak. It was demolished shortly before the work day. What a huge change to the landscape...



East grain elevator - Fall 2010




Remains of east grain elevator - Spring 2011




Remains of east grain elevator - Spring 2011