Taco or Chef Salad Available Thursday, January 13th: Salmon patty, cubed potato, green beans, pears, roll and milk. Friday, January 14th: Lasagna, lettuce salad, pineapple, garlic bread and milk.

Thought for the week: “A person doesn’t have to change who he is to become better.” -- Sidney Poitier 1927-2022 The weather has been bitter cold this past week. It did warm up later in the week and this coming week is going to be warm for January.

Imagine a condition with symptoms that present differently in each person who has it and no currently approved lab test can definitively confirm the diagnosis. Imagine that the symptoms can flare up and then mysteriously disappear, including fatigue, low grade fevers, joint pain, and mouth sores. All these symptoms overlap with multiple other conditions further complicating a diagnosis. Imagine that the best available method for diagnosing this ailment is a manual checklist of eleven criteria and if the patient suffers from at least four, they receive a diagnosis on a scale of definite, probable, or possible.

NE Local student and the Missoula Theatre performed the play The Emperor’s New Clothes on Saturday, January 8th in the Ainsworth Community Schools Learning Center. There were two performances of the play based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale.

Looking back at last year’s forage management and production can help us learn what to improve to make it better this year. Stick around and I’ll give you some ideas to consider.

As the calendar year flips to 2022, the Ainsworth High School speech team is ready to start dedicating their Saturdays to America’s greatest fear - public speaking, that is! Speech is a competition that consists of nine events to encompass different strengths in public speaking: Informative, Persuasive, Poetry, Entertainment, Extemporaneous, Humorous Prose, Serious Prose, Duet Acting and Oral Interpretation of Drama. There is an event for everyone, and Coaches Heather Lutter and Tammy Hancock are excited about the variety of speech competitors the Ainsworth team is bringing.