Norman Deschampe was born in grand portage minnesota, life for him growing up as a kid he said there wasn't a lot of jobs in the community and not as much people as there is now. He grew up with out electricity untell he was in the tenth or eleventh grade, he said he loved growing up in a big family with 7 siblings, he said him and his brothers loved to go fishing and hunting for things they did for fun. he also said that him and a bunch of his friends would get together and play stick ball during the summer time, and in the evening time they would go play flash light tag down at the stockcade. his school he went to was the old log school and there was three grades in the lower part of the building and four grades in the upper part of the school, he said there was two rooms and two teachers in the bottom and lower part of the school, in his grade there was thirteen kids, he said that him and his class mates have got really close in his school cause it was such a small school. his parents both were good people he said his dad worked in forestry and his mom was a waitres, he said they worked really hard to raise seven kids and worked when ever they could.
his first job that he said he had as a kid was to go out and prune like saw the bottom of the trees and thinning them out so they could roll better. he also worked up at the gas station up at the border for a few years.
Norman said when he first ran for office at the RTC he was about twenty one years old, the reason he wanted to run for office\irman is because he wanted to help the grand portage community, he was very young then he said but he wanted to help out with all the unemployment so that people in the community can have there own homes and cars and stuff they need to plan out there future.
he became chairman because he wanted to see change in the community which is more discussed in the interview.
his first job that he said he had as a kid was to go out and prune like saw the bottom of the trees and thinning them out so they could roll better. he also worked up at the gas station up at the border for a few years.
Norman said when he first ran for office at the RTC he was about twenty one years old, the reason he wanted to run for office\irman is because he wanted to help the grand portage community, he was very young then he said but he wanted to help out with all the unemployment so that people in the community can have there own homes and cars and stuff they need to plan out there future.
he became chairman because he wanted to see change in the community which is more discussed in the interview.