Community Education Classes

Spring 2013

If you are interested in teaching a Community Ed class, or have ideas for a class, please email Julie Gamble at jgamble@pelicanrapids.k12.mn.us or click on E-mail Comm Ed link. 

*You do not need a teaching license or any certification to teach a class. 

 

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Personal Interest 


 

 

Smartphone’s: Learn the Latest and Greatest Technology
Sponsored by Arvig Communication Systems
Tuesday, April 9th
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Pelican Rapids High School Media Center
Please enter through the Library Entrance in the back of the building
Fee: Free

This class will cover the options and features of today’s latest Smartphones. Topics to be covered include downloading and utilizing apps, social networking, using email and calendars, personalizing settings and more. Bring your Smartphone if you have one, otherwise demonstration phones will be available for use. Each participant will receive a $25 store gift certificate for redemption at the Arvig/Verizon Wireless Store in Pelican Rapids.

Home Buyer Education (HOMESTRETCH)
Rosy Hjermstad, Housing Advocate MMCDC
Wednesday, March 20th 5:00pm - 9:30pm
AND
Thursday, March 21st 5:00pm - 9:30pm
Pelican Rapids Public Library
 Fee: Free

The Home Stretch workshop is offered throughout the state of Minnesota and covers start-to-finish, the entire home buying process. The workshop offers objective, practical information to help you get on the path to homeownership. It will be fun and informal with food and prizes, while providing important information to help homebuyers make housing decisions that are best for them. Invited presenters include local lenders, real estate agent, insurance representative, closing agent, a money management expert and much more.
Home Stretch is made possible by a grant from the Minnesota Home Ownership Center and Rural Lisc.

Cabinet Transformation

Home Depot staff

Monday, February 25th

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Pelican Rapids High School Media Center

Fee: $20.00

Learn how to easily change the color and finish of your cabinetry using Rust-oleum Cabinet Transformations System.  Transform the look of your outdated cabinetry with beautiful, professional-quality results, in days, at a fraction of the cost!


 

How to Build a DecK

Home Depot staff

Monday, March 25th

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Pelican Rapids High School Media Center

Fee: $20.00


 

Decks are a perfect area for outdoor entertaining and outdoor relaxing!  Learn about the different styles of decks, the materials you need to build one, and how to build it so you can be ready for Summer fun!

 

Cake Pops

Ellie Nettestad

Tuesday, April 2nd

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Pelican Rapids High School Foods Lab

Fee: $15.00

 

Ellie will demonstrate how to make fun and creative Cake Pops with a Spring theme.  Cake pops are basically little smushed balls of cake and frosting (kind of like when you used to smash your birthday cake all in pieces, maybe with ice cream, and eat it as goop).  You bake up a cake, let it cool, tear it into fine crumbs, stir in something to hold itall together and roll it into balls.  Bring a contatiner with you to take some treats home.

 

How to make Ruffle Scarves

Coleen Guhl

Tuesday, April 16th

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Pelican Rapids High School Room #416

Supplies:  Please bring your own knitting needles or crochet hooks

Fee: $10.00

 

One of the hottest new trends in knitting is the ruffle yarn scarf.  Coleen will show how easy it is to make this trendy scarf so you can wear them or give them to your friends as gifts.  You need to have basic knitting and/or crochet skills.

 

Dream Interpretation for the Dreamer

Sue Nyhus

Tuesdays June 4th, 11th & 18th

5:00pm - 7:00pm

Viking Elementary

Supplies: Please bring a notebook

Fee: $25.00 (minimum of 5 participants)

 

Everyone dreams, some of us remember our dreams, and some of us don't.  Dreams are messengers that tiptoe in our sleep.  The can be eerie, dreary and fun.  All of them carry messages in a language of their own.  In this 3 part class, participants will become dreamworkers, learning tips for remembering dreams and decoding the messages they bring.

 

American Red Cross Babysitter's Training

Ages:  11 and older

Mary E. Johnson

Tuesday, April 2nd & Thursday, April 4th

4:00pm - 7:00pm

Viking Elementary

Fee: $45.00 ( minimum of 5 students)

 

Get ready for summer babysitting jobs!  This course included first aid, rescue breathing, and instruction in basic infant and child care.  Upon completion of this course, students will receive an American Red Cross Certification in Babysitting Training.  Students must attend entire class in order to be certified.  The fee includes a babysitting handbook and a certificate from the Red Cross.  Registrations for this class must be turned in by March 15th.

 


Fitness

Zumba Fitness
Tami Seifert
March, April & May
Mondays & Thursdays 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Elementary School Gym
Fee: $25.00 month

Are you ready to party yourself into shape? That's exactly what the Zumba fitness program is all about. It's an exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow, Latin inspired, calorie burning dance fitness party for people of all shapes, sizes, and ages. No dance experience necesary, just come and have fun!

Hoola Hoop

Denise Lund-Smith

Tuesdays & Thursdays April 2nd - 25th

5:00pm - 5:30pm

Elementary Schoool Cafeteria

Come and hoola hoop to music!  Instsructor will have hoops available for those who need them at the the first session to try, then will sell the non-weighted ones for $25.00 and water weighted for $30.00.  Can have custom hoop made to size and color.  Health reasons to hoop:  Hooping exercises over 30 core muscles, improve balance, flexibility, dexterity and coordiation, tones and reshapes the abdomen, buttocks and legs with regular use, provides an alternative to going to gym and is accessible to people of all ages.

 


Gardening
 

Perennial Passion

Brown-Eyed Susans, LLC

Patti Boen & Connie Simons

Thursday, March 7th

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Pelican Rapids High School Media Center

Fee: $10.00

 

In this presentations you will experience and overview of perennial options and combinations to suit your personal preference and satisfy your artistic spirit.

 

Everything’s Going to Pot

Brown-Eyed Susans, LLC

Patti Boen & Connie Simons

Thursday, March 14th

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Pelican Rapids High School Media Center

Fee: $10.00

 

Explore the endless possibilities of flowers, foliage, herbs and vegetables creatively mingled in small, contained spaces. 

 

The Home Orcharidist

David Gottenborg

Monday, March 18th

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Pelican Rapids High School Media Center

Fee: $10.00

 

David shares techniques for increasing apple fruiting including pruning, limb-spreading and thinning.  He’ll cover apple growing from tree and rootstock selection to fertilizing and protection from those pesky things that fly and float around.

 

April Showers Fill Your Rain Barrel

Brown-Eyed Susans, LLC

Patti Boen & Connie Simons

Thursday, April 11th

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Pelican Rapids High School Media Center

Fee: $10.00

 

Bring back the age-old tradition of collecting rain to sustain your gardening passions.  A simple, informal approach anyone can utilize.

 

Salad Gardens

Brown-Eyed Susans, LLC

Patti Boen & Connie Simons

Thursday, April 18th

6:30pm – 8:00pm

Pelican Rapids High School Art Room

Fee: $20.00

 

Learn how to combine a variety of greens in one container to fill your salad bowl over and over.  This is a hands-on class, in which each attendee will plant and take home their own Salad Garden.