Jun 16, 2015 | 2015, Inspired Woman Magazine, June/July
For 47 years, students have been designing posters for the annual Keep North Dakota Clean poster contest, with the hopes of having their poster made into a billboard. But in all those 47 years, there has likely not been a winner as enthusiastic as Naomi Hegwood. “We...
Jun 16, 2015 | 2015, Inspired Woman Magazine, June/July
It’s difficult for Miranda Lowman to go anywhere without seeing someone she knows. “I meet a lot of people through sports,” Miranda explains. The 17-year-old junior plays volleyball, basketball, and tennis at Mandan High School. But her favorite extra curricular...
Jun 16, 2015 | 2015, Inspired Woman Magazine, June/July
Mattie Shirley-Fairbairn is a girl on the run. Literally. The Wachter Middle School eighth grader just finished her second year running varsity cross-country and track. As a seventh grader, Mattie took second in the South Dakota state cross-country meet. She was 12...
Jun 15, 2015 | 2015, Inspired Woman Magazine, June/July
Bismarck High School is a big, intimidating building. “There are eight stairways!” says recent BHS graduate Lauren Sayler. “I was scared when I started at BHS.” But thanks to Lauren and the rest of the members of Bismarck High’s Sources of Strength group, it’s become...
Jun 10, 2015 | 2015, Inspired Woman Magazine, June/July
After seeing a story in the school newspaper about one of her teachers (Mrs. McKenzie) shaving her head for St. Baldrick’s in 2014, Kelsey Koester decided she would like to participate this year. “I didn’t tell my parents right away because (I knew) my mom would freak...
