Home on the Range, a facility for troubled youth, is in its third year of a capital campaign to raise funds to build a dormitory for 24 girls.

Ground breaking for the dormitory at the Sentinel Butte facility in western North Dakota took place in May. The project cost is $2 million. Right now, the campaign has raised roughly $1.8 million; about $250,000 is still needed, said Home on the Range Foundation coordinator Jolene Obrigewitch.

If that amount is not raised by Nov. 1, the project will lose a $250,000 grant, volunteer fund- raiser Karen Bonnet said. Bonnet said she plans to contact service organizations and businesses in the next few weeks to help raise the funds needed.

Home on the Range was established in the 1950s for boys only; the facility went co-ed in 1990. In 2001, the Home on the Range board of directors decided to build a new girls' dormitory. The facility will have 12 rooms with baths, therapy group rooms and study hall, kitchen and dining area, recreation rooms, laundry facilities and a nurses' station.

The new dormitory will be called Fahnlander Hall in memory of the late Rev. William Fahnlander for his years of service to Home on the Range.

For more information, contact Bonnet at 817-975-5957 or Obrigewitch at 701-872-3745.

In addition to the Sentinel Butte Ranch, Home on the Range operates Big Sky Ranch at Glendive, Mont., and Red River Victory Ranch at Fargo. The three facilities can care for a total of 95 youth.