12 I The Lovell Chronicle I January 1, 2015
PATTI CARPENTER
Rocky Mountain Middle School sixth-graders (l-r) Halley Davison, Taylor Despain and Alexis Minemyer
set up a sweets shop under the guidance of RMHS Future Business Leaders of America students. The older
students, who are members of the school's FBLA club, passed on valuable information they learned as
members during a "mini mall" event held on Dec.18 in the school gymnasium designed to get the younger
students excited about business.
Future Business Leaders pay it forward
BY PATTI CARPENTER
Future Business Lead-
ers of America club mem-
bers at Rocky Mountain
High School sponsored a
special event on Thursday,
Dec. 18, designed to pay-
it-forward by passing their
business knowledge on to
middle school students. The
event was designed to teach
middle school students how
to set up a business during
a simulated mini-mall ex-
ercise that was held in the
school's gymnasium.
"Most of the older stu-
dents have done this type
of project before and are ex-
cited to share what they've
learned with the younger
students," said FBLA advi-
sor Skye Mader.
Students set up booths
where they sold their wares
in exchange for "Grizz
bucks," with the incentive
of winning cash prizes for
the most sales of the day.
Mader said the club
has organized and held the
event for many years, after
Jennifer Jones started it
some years ago as a work-
to-school project.
"It's kind of cool to
watch them compete," said
Mader. "Some of them
really go all out for the
competition."
She added that the high
school students enjoy pass-
ing on what they've learned
as members of the club.
"Every year it's exciting
to see how excited the stu-
dents get about this proj-
ect," said Mader.
Rasmussen nominated for teaching award
BY PATTI CARPENTER
Though she doesn't
know who nominated her,
Kaylena Rasmussen is
thrilled to learn that she
has been nominated for con-
sideration for the Montana
State University Billings
College of Education Ben-
edict' and Frances Surwill
Memorial Teaching Award.
Rasmussen, who is in
her final year of studying to
be a teacher at MSU-Bill-
ings, was nominated by one
of her teachers for the pres-
tigious honor. Should she
win, she will receive a mon-
etary award of $1,500 and
her name on a commemora-
tive plaque that will be pre-
sented at the 2015 College
of Education Convocation on
May 1, 2015.
Rasmussen said initial-
ly she thought she wanted to
be a radiologist but quickly
found out after a very short
time in the program that it
was not a good career choice
for her. Once she switched
her major to teaching, she
knew.it was a perfect fit.
"At first, when I thought
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about college, I looked for a
career that would make me
the most money," she said.
"All that has changed now
for me. Now I realize that
what I really want is a ca-
reer that is rewarding in a
much different way than
money and teaching is that
career."
Rasmussen said she
first experienced the spe-
cial rewards connected with
teaching when she had an
opportunity to work one-
on-one with a fourth grader
who struggled in reading.
"I always struggled
with reading in school, so
when I entered the teaching
college, I wanted to learn
all about it," she explained.
"I took a reading clinic,
where part of the clinic was
to work with a fourth grade
boy who was struggling. It
was unbelievably reward-
ing to see his improvement.
He was a shy student, with
little confidence. I saw all
that change and it was just
so rewarding and so cool to
be a part of that. It made
me really excited about
what I could do for others
as a teacher."
Rasmussen, who is
originally from Burling-
ton but now lives in Cowley
with her husband Dylan,
said she hopes to land a
teaching position at either
Rocky Mountain Elementa-
ry School or Lovell Elemen-
tary School after she gradu-
ates from MSU-B. She will
realize a part of that dream
by doing her student teach-
ing work with kindergarten
teacher Eric Honeyman at
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success.
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Rasmussen said she is
proud to be the first in her
family to graduate from col-
lege. She said her moth-
er-in-law Geranne Ras-
mussen, a teacher, has
encouraged her and sup-
ported her efforts.
County adopts
strategic economic
development plan
BY KARLA POMEROY
While the final Big
Horn County countywide
economic development stra-
tegic plan still was not com-
plete, the Big Horn County
commissioners on Dec. 16
adopted the plan, with an-
ticipated changes to come.
Lovell Inc./Grow Big
Horn County (GBHC) Ex-
ecutive Director Sue Tay-
lor came to the commis-
sioners seeking adoption of
the plan and said consul-
tants Community Build-
ers Inc. (CBI) should have
the plan completed in early
January and it will then • be
made available to the pub-
lic on the Lovell Inc. web-
site and an CD version will
be given to each incorporat-
ed community.
"I think overall they did
a very good job. They did
quite a few changes from
the first draft and beefed
up some sections," Taylor
said. She also submitted to
the commissioners a list of
some of the changes that
still needed to be made.
"This plan divides the
county into three sections;
can you justify or explain
that a little bit better?"
Commissioner John Hyde
asked. "I thought the way
they had it is not really the
way it is."
Taylor said she talked
to CBI about the perceived
north versus south divide
and how to further tie the
county together. She said
in looking at data, CBI con-
cluded there are three cen-
sus tracks that show minor
differences in ages of peo-
ple, housing and education-
al differences.
"I don't know that it
makes a big difference in
how we move forward," she
said.
Hyde said, "I just go
back to I wonder if it's real-
istic or not."
Hyde also noted that
the plan does not provide
specific goals or timelines
for goals. Taylor said goals
in the plan for the county
and the communities are
defined as short, medium
and long-term.
Taylor emphasized the
plan calls for one group to
coordinate economic de-
velopment efforts in the
county.
"What we'd like to do as
an organization is to devel-
op an action plan. The mu-
nicipalities and the county
can choose to embrace the
action plan or not," Taylor
said. She said GBHC would
move forward with com-
munities currently work-
ing with action plans. Oth-
er communities could work
to develop their own action
plans.
Taylor said she still
would like to pursue a quar-
ter-cent sales tax increase
for economic development
in 2016 or 2018.
She submitted the first
action plan to the county -
business retention and ex-
pansion program.
The program for the
first year includes:
• Conduct a minimum of
five existing business inter-
views per month through-
out the county.
• Partner with chum-
bers, Northwest College,
Department of Workforce
Services and the Small
Business Development
Center and others to host
quarterly training sessions.
• Determine interest in
a peer network group.
• Submit a minimum of
three guest columns during
the year highlighting activ-
ities of existing businesses.
There is no financial
commitment from the coun-
ty in adopting the plan.
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