Congratulations to Grand Forks eleventh-grader Deanna Rose for winning a national scholarship award from the Alliance for Youth Artists and Writers for her work of art, entitled “Hand”!

And speaking of talented North Dakotans, today’s news is about “Gilligan’s Island,” Relay for Life, and a helpful coach.  Read on.

This may be the cutest article ever written about “Gilligan’s Island” (the musical). (New Rockford Transcript)

In case you need one more great reason to support Relay for Life. (Wahpeton Daily News)

NDSU’s Lars Larson delivered some North Dakota Nice to a woman in Omaha. (Grand Forks Herald)