All invited to community appreciation barbecue at Northern

A community appreciation barbecue will be held noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at Montana State University-Northern at the Applied Technology Center.

The event was organized by several Havre residents who wanted to express the close ties between the community and the campus.

The showcase activity is the campuswide open house.

Organizers encourage everyone to take a campus tour. Maps will be available at the literature table in the ATC lobby indicating the buildings that are open and where people will find information or exhibits.

If the food lines are long, people can take the tour first and eat when the lines are shorter. Participants should also make sure they fill out a door prize drawing ticket and include their phone number and address.

Students will stop by the tables during the barbecue to collect tickets, and there will be a marked receptacle at the literature table. Organizers will draw for the following door prizes at the end of the day. People do not need to be present to win. If they listed their addresses and phone numbers, they will be notified.

• One drawing for a $200 gift certificate for the Northern Bookstore

• Two drawings for a $100 gift certificate for Gary & Leo’s Fresh Foods.

• Two drawings for a $100 Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Certificate that can be used at any of the 69 area businesses listed on the back of the certificate.

• Two drawings for a Game Day “N.’ Each N comes with two general admission tickets for the remaining 2014-15 regular season gym games and matches and two general admission tickets for the 2015-16 regular season football, volleyball, men’s and women’s basketball games and wrestling matches.

• People can take a self-guided walking tour, or if they need assistance or would like a guided tour, they can catch a ride with a Northern Student Ambassador on the college’s famous 1930’s era touring bus the “Goose,” or in one of the enclosed vans that will depart from the ATC.

• Vans will make a loop around campus to the buildings indicated on the map as being open. Students on the buses will serve as guides, and Northern faculty and administrators will be in the buildings to describe things of special interest.

• If people need assistance moving through the center of campus, golf carts will be available at the SUB, Pershing Hall, the library and Hagener Science Center. They will act as mini-shuttles between those buildings.

In addition to the door prize drawing, the bookstore in the Student Union Building will offer a 10 percent discount on regular-priced logo items during the tour. There will be a limited number of free tickets available at the gym for the Sunday 5 p.m. Skylights basketball game against Warner Pacific, and Montana Actors’ Theatre will have information about its new season productions in Cowan Hall.

The children’s area will include an inflatable “Atlantis” slide to entertain young people, with parental supervision, and face-painting by Tammy Cassidy.

The student group Enactus will make balloon animals from 1 to 2 p.m., and PAS Club students will have mini-golf. There will also be sack races and a bean bag toss game.