Valley City (CSi) Pioneer Park will have it’s fourth performance of the season on Sunday July 24 at 5:30 PM. On hand will be members of the award winning Valley City High School speech team presenting, “The Spoken Word”.

The Valley City High School Speech team is coming off an extremely successful 2021-2022 competitive season in which they were named Eastern Dakota Conference Team Champions and North Dakota High School Activities Association State Class A Speech Team Champions. The 2022 EDC team title is the 7th Consecutive title for the Hi-Liner Speech Team and the 18th regional title in team history. The 2022 NDHSAA State Class A Speech title was the 5th consecutive team state title and the 9th title in program history. The Valley City High School speech team was coached in the 2021-2022 season by Abby Ingstad (head coach), Madison Yoder (assistant coach), Elizabeth Gazeley (assistant coach), and Hannah Peterson (assistant coach).

Student performances for “The Spoken Word” will be:
Katy Borg – speech to entertain
Leah Hochhalter & Ada Gilbertson – duo interpretation
Amelia Meester- storytelling
Emmalee Jones- prose
Leah Hochhalter – poetry

In the event of rain or inclement weather, the event will be held downtown at The Vault. These events are free and open to the Public.

Remaining events in the “Sunday Afternoons in Pioneer Park” series are:

August 14th- the DeMasi Brothers
August 28th- Stand Up Comedy Night

Performances are sponsored by the Bridges Arts Council and Dacotah Bank. Additionally, this project is supported in part by a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information or questions about this and other upcoming events, please contact Bridges Arts Council Administrator, Nick Lee, at administrator@bridgesarts.org or by calling 701-840-6182 and leaving a voicemail.