This week’s Hotline! includes the following articles:

• Heat plant ribbon-cutting to be held Tuesday morning
• United Way to host spaghetti feed April 9
• Viking sports update
• What’s happening at VCSU and around Valley City…

The VCSU Hotline! online newsletter is published every Monday during the academic year. Deadline to submit articles (photos encouraged) is 3 p.m. the Friday before publication.

Heat plant ribbon-cutting to be held Tuesday morning

A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new VCSU heat plant will be held Tuesday, April 3, at 10:30 a.m.

Margaret Dahlberg, VCSU interim president, will emcee the event; Mark Hagerott, chancellor of the North Dakota University System, will give remarks. Wesley Wintch, vice president for business affairs, and Larry Robinson, executive director for university advancement, will also speak at the ceremony.

Tours of the facility will be available after the ribbon-cutting.

United Way to host spaghetti feed April 9

The Barnes County United Way invites you to its first annual Spaghetti Feed at the Valley City Eagles Club. Join the United Way on Monday, April 9, from 5:30–7p.m. at the Valley City Eagles Club. Freewill donations will be accepted for the spaghetti feed, with all proceeds going to the Barnes County United Way to support local nonprofit groups.

When you support the United Way of Barnes County, you can know that you are making a difference in your local community—98 percent of the funds are managed locally for operation expenses and distribution to the following agencies:

• Abused Persons Outreach Center
  
• Alano Society
  
• American Red Cross – Dakotas Region
  
• Barnes County Senior Citizens Council
  
• Boy Scouts
  
• Girl Scouts
  
• Great Plains Food Bank
  
• Hospice of the Red River Valley
  
• Legal Services of North Dakota
  
• Lutheran Social Services Senior Companions
  
• PATH
  
• Sheyenne Valley Imagination Library
  
• Valley City Barnes County Public Library
  
• Valley City Public Schools Milk Break Scholarship Fund
  
• Valley City State University Community School of the Arts

This is one of the first events to raise funds for the 2018 allocations. Other annual United Way events include the Sub Sandwich Sale, Golf Tournament and Annual Door to Door Campaign. We appreciate all who have supported the Barnes County United Way in the past and hope that you will continue to support this and all United Way events.
 
For more information on this or other United Way events, please call 701-840-4044 or email barnesunitedway@gmail.com.

Viking sports update

Softball
Friday: VCSU 10, Jamestown 7; VCSU 6, Jamestown 3; Jamestown 3, VCSU 1
The Valley City State University softball team won two of three games against No. 16-ranked University of Jamestown on Friday in Aberdeen, S.D. The Vikings, who are receiving votes in the Top 25 poll, improved to 25-8 overall and are tied with Jamestown for first in the NSAA standings at 8-3.

Baseball
Friday: Jamestown 10, VCSU 1; Jamestown 4, VCSU 1; Jamestown 6, VCSU 2
The Viking baseball team dropped a tripleheader Friday against No. 12-ranked University of Jamestown. The games were played in South Sioux City, Neb. VCSU is now 8-17 overall and 2-5 in the North Star Athletic Association.

Upcoming Events (all events are weather permitting)
April 7: Track & Field @ Al Bortke Open (Bismarck, N.D.)
April 7: Baseball @ Bellevue University (Neb.), 1/3:30 p.m.
April 7: Softball @ Bellevue University (Neb.), 1/3 p.m.
April 8: Baseball @ Bellevue University (Neb.), noon/2:30 p.m.
April 8: Softball @ Bellevue University (Neb.), 1/3 p.m.
April 8–9: Golf @ Dickinson State Invite (Bully Pulpit Golf Course, Medora, N.D.)

What’s happening at VCSU and around Valley City...

Monday, April 2
No VCSU classes

Tuesday, April 3
12:05 p.m. Rotary, VFW

Wednesday, April 4
noon Kiwanis, Valley City Town & Country Club

Thursday, April 5
7 a.m. Optimists, Vicky’s Viking Room
noon Toastmasters, Student Center Norway Room
8:30–10:30 p.m. Vikings for Christ, Student Center Skoal Room

Friday, April 6

Saturday, April 7
Viking track & field @ Al Bortke Open, University of Mary, Bismarck, N.D.
1 p.m. Viking softball @ Bellevue University, Bellevue, Neb. (doubleheader)
1 p.m. Viking baseball @ Bellevue University, Bellevue, Neb. (doubleheader)

Sunday, April 8
Viking golf @ Dickinson State Invitational, Bully Pulpit Golf Course, Medora, N.D. (April 8–9)
noon Viking baseball @ Bellevue University, Bellevue, Neb. (doubleheader)
1 p.m. Viking softball @ Bellevue University, Bellevue, Neb. (doubleheader)

Monday, April 9

Tuesday, April 10
12:05 p.m. Rotary, VFW
4 p.m. Viking baseball @ Presentation College, Aberdeen, S.D.

Wednesday, April 11
noon Kiwanis, Valley City Town & Country Club

Thursday, April 12
7 a.m. Optimists, Vicky’s Viking Room
noon Toastmasters, Student Center Norway Room

Friday, April 13
Viking track & field @ Lyle Hokanson Classic @ NDSU, Fargo, N.D. (April 13–14)
Viking track & field @ Sioux City Relays @ Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa (April 13–14)

Saturday, April 14
1 p.m. Viking baseball vs. Dakota State University
1 p.m. Viking softball vs. Dakota State University

Sunday, April 15
Viking golf @ Concordia Invite, Maple River Golf Course, Mapleton, N.D.
noon Viking baseball vs. Dakota State University
1 p.m. Viking softball vs. Dakota State University

Go to www.valleycitynd.org/calendar.php to see more events happening in and around Valley City.