Ice Fishing Derby Results

It was a beautifully warm day on Watchic Lake on Saturday, Feb. 22, as Boy Scout Troop 875 hosted this year’s Standish Ice Fishing Derby.

The event was sponsored this year by Cabela’s and Jiffy Ice Drills along with HT, Steve Rodimak and icefishing4acause.com, Todd Boothby and icefishforkids, Emily Maccabe and Hooked on Fishing Not Drugs, Tabor’s Variety, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Wescott and Sons, Clam, Sebago Bait and Tackle, Northwoods Sporting Journal, Maine Sportsmen, Maine Street Grill, MCW Bait, Standish House of Pizza, Low’s Variety, Pirates, Red Claws, Rick and Ray’s Small Engine Repair, Buck’s Naked BBQ, Amato’s North Windham and Lee’s Family Trailer.

The overall derby winners were awarded based on the largest weighing fish of any species. Prize packages were a combination of donated products and gift cards.

First place ($500) in adult category, ages 16 and up, went to Joe Libby with a 5.48-pound pickerel; Second place ($300) went to Brian Boucher with a 5.07-pound pickerel and third place ($150) went to Anthony Folsom with a 4.84-pound bass. In the kids derby, including all kids up to the age of 15, first place ($100) went to Zoe Peters with a 2.93-pound pickerel; Second place ($50) went to Conner Blake with a 2.07-pound bass and third place ($25) went to Colby Sugherue with 2.06-pound pickerel. The winner of $263 from the 50/50 raffle was Steve Ambrose.

All proceeds from the derby are being donated by Boy Scout Troop 875 to the Center for Grieving Children. The 2015 derby will take place on Feb. 21. To see more photos from this year’s derby please visit Standish Ice Fishing Derby on Facebook.

Kindergarten Registration

For those children turning 5 on or before Oct. 15, 2014, kindergarten registration will be held at the times and locations noted below. If you miss the registration date at your school, you may go to the Registrar’s Office at 932 Long Plains Road any Monday or Friday during the month of March between 7 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Kindergarten screening will be scheduled for May during registration.

In order to make the registration process easier, bring all necessary documentation with you to register your student(s) at the school or registrar’s office. The registration form and all other documentation is available at your local school or for downloading at: http://www.bonnyeagle.org/parents.

Registration times and locations:

• Steep Falls Elementary School registrations will be held on Tuesday, March 18, from 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. and again on Wednesday, March 26, from 2 p.m.-7:30 p.m. For more information, call 675-3321.

• Edna Libby Elementary School registrations will be held on Thursday, March 6, from 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; Thursday, March 13, from 2 p.m.-7:30 p.m. and again on Thursday, March 27, from 8 a.m.-11:30 a.m. For more information, call 642-2500.

Parents/guardians are required to bring the following items to kindergarten registration: Completed registration form, completed Home Language Survey form, completed Maine Migrant Eligibility Form, birth certificate, immunization records, court-issued custody paperwork (only if applicable) and proof of residency, consisting of two forms of current documentation with physical address, such as recent Maine driver’s license with a physical address, a Maine vehicle registration or other credential, a utility, electric, water/sewer or cell phone bill, etc.; Maine resident hunting or fishing license; mortgage agreement, lease, insurance policy, insurance ID card; tax bill; voter registration form or a paycheck stub.

Contact the Registrar’s Office at 929-9149 or your local school with any questions.

Birthday Surprise

Today I have something personally exciting to share. Since 2010 my son, Tyler Patterson, BEHS ’04, has been living in Dickinson, N.D., where he has been working in the Bakken Oil Formation while developing a real niche in the art world through his interesting techniques using melted crayon. Until now, I have never been able to visit.

Tyler’s girlfriend of two-plus years, Tori Knutson (pronounced with the hard “K” sound), made all the arrangements and on his birthday, Feb. 6, I flew out to Dickinson as her surprise birthday present for him. Upon landing in Dickinson, Tori’s sister LeeAnn and boyfriend AJ picked me up and took me to “The Rock,” a local watering hole where Tyler thought he was going for a quiet celebration of his 28th birthday. He was sitting at a table just inside the door when I walked in. The look on his face was absolutely priceless and it took quite a while for him to digest that I was actually there.

I am grateful to have met the people in my son’s life that I have been hearing about and to see firsthand the oil rigs he has been working on, learning more about how the oil is harvested and what a boomtown the oil has created for Dickinson. It was a thrill for me to be able to see where he creates incredible works of melted crayon art, including the pieces he won six awards at the annual three-day Badlands Art Association Art Show held in November 2013. The awards he received from this show include one second-place, three honorable mentions, the Honor Award as well as the Most Innovative Award, which has only been given out six times since 1979. Tyler’s next art show will be held at the Brickhouse Grille restaurant (which I also had the pleasure of dining at) on Sunday, March 2. If you are interested in checking out more of Tyler’s art please visit http://www.etsy.com/shop/TPattMeltedCrayon.

I had many firsts during my eight days in North Dakota. I have seen my first butte and first wild horses; my first canyon and visited my first Native American reservation in Newtown, N.D., to go to my first casino. I also attended my first bull riding competition. They took me to visit Medora, N.D, home of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, however we learned that the park is closed in the winter. Medora is beautiful and is North Dakota’s No. 1 tourist destination. It is also the home of the summer-long, professionally produced, western-style musical dedicated to the legacy of America’s 26th President and the time he spent here in North Dakota’s Badlands.

I wish I could convey just how enormous of an economic boom the oil industry has brought to Dickinson. There are several sections of town bigger than the entire Standish Corner District which include businesses and housing that have been constructed even since Tyler has lived there (3.5 years). Their population grew by 50 percent in 2013 alone and their airport boardings grew by 177 percent. It was just staggering to see that kind of growth and the ripple effect it is having on the rest of the United States.

Zoe Peters was the winner of $100 first prize in the under-16 category of the Standish Ice Fishing Derby with her 2.93-pound pickerel. Inside Standish columnist Diana Allen recently took a trip to visit her son, Tyler Patterson, in North Dakota, and took a lot of photographs on her travels around the state that is the site of a shale oil boom. Allen, Patterson and Patterson’s girlfriend, Tory Knutsen, are pictured above.