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The Eddy County Commission has started reviewing its departments annual budgets which need to be completed early again this year and the commission will continue to review budgets at the next meeting. They approved a two percent cost of living adjustment at their special meeting held June 6. The following budgets were reviewed and all budgets reflect the wage adjustment. They will be considered unchanged if the wage adjustment is the only change. Eddy County Commissioners budget: Unchanged and a...
Family members of dementia patients face many challenges, perhaps the greatest is how to communicate effectively. If anyone knows this to be true, it is Bob DeMarco who left his life as a Wall Street Executive to care for his mother, who had Alzheimer’s disease. He has since written much on the topic, and become an expert in the Alzheimer’s community. For DeMarco, things were most difficult at the beginning when he acclimated to his mother’s new reality. He says his mother “turned meaner than a...
The little yellow finches came back to my yard last week. My cat and I spotted them about the same time. We were both sitting in front of windows, me in the TV room and the cat in the living room. My recliner is placed near a pair of corner windows looking out on an old evergreen tree. These windows have become a favorite place to watch birds and wildlife over the years. However, on this particular morning, I was planning for an upcoming visit from my husband’s family when I heard the f...
When John Scanson retired, he knew that he wouldn't enjoy sitting around "doing nothing." He knew he was going to have to keep busy just to keep those aches and pains away. Not to mention the fact that he prefers to stay busy. After serving as Midkota School's janitor for 14 years, he had developed a strong bond with the kids and the school where he worked. When Scanson combined his desire to keep busy with his natural affinity for kids and interest in woodworking, the result has been pick-up lo...
The Eddy County Commission is proceeding with the quiet title action for the former Mill Pump and Cheers. Eddy County State’s Attorney Ashley Lies reported on the status of the action at the June 4 county commission meeting. A quiet title action is a legal proceeding to determine who owns which rights in a tract of land. The proceeding is initiated when there is a conflict or uncertainty, as to who owns which legal interest in the tract, such as, more than one person claiming ownership of the p...
This week I met a very nice man. I had heard about John Scanson several times as, one by one, parts of his story kept popping up on Facebook. As was mentioned in the front page article, the Transcript covered a story last year when he built 24 handmade birdhouses and gave them to the students in Mrs. Hager’s class at NR-S. Some time later, a friend posted a picture of her granddaughter’s smiling face, along with other Kensal elementary students who had just received handmade doll beds from him...
Although I am not a computer expert, I have come a long way since the days when I was certain the push of a button would forever render my computer useless. I also remember those first calls to tech support when, invariably, their first question was to ask if I had rebooted the computer. I must confess that on that first call, I had no idea what the technician meant. So, naturally, I hadn’t rebooted and was a little embarrassed when that was all it took to solve that problem. The dictionary d...
Central District Director for North Dakota State University Extension, Ron Wiederholt, visited with the Eddy County Commission at their regular meeting on Tuesday, May 21, regarding the recently vacated Eddy County Extension Agent position. Eddy County has arranged to pay for Tim Becker’s services on a part-time basis to assist Extension support staff Chandy Howard in coordinating 4-H Achievement Days. Wiederholt reminded the commissioners that the county is not without NDSU representation, a...
Memorial Day has taken on a new perspective for me this year, mostly due to articles that I have been reading in the news. While I’ve thought about Memorial Day, researched it and written about it; it’s always been from the perspective of an American who is grateful to our military. This story is written from the perspective of a foreign family grateful to our military. The story by Robin Wallace is a story of courage and inspiration for Memorial Day. Wallace says that even worse, it has been tu...
Have you ever experienced times when you offered to do something for someone and then you basically blew it off? Not intentionally, of course. Just one of those things when life gets in the way, you got busy… other things came up… and you just forgot? My one saving grace is that it hadn’t yet reached the stage where they were counting on my contribution yet because they had still been in the early planning stages at the time. Which is a good thing because life happened, and I never thought of it...
The Selective Service System is currently seeking representation from Eddy County to serve on the Selective Service Local Board. The board is comprised of five citizen volunteers whose mission is to decide who, (in the event of a national draft) among the registrants in their community, will receive deferments, postponements or exemption from military service based on the individual registrant’s circumstances and beliefs. The local board members are appointed by the Director of Selective S...
New Rockford-Sheyenne senior Logan Munson was recently named to the Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) College Advisory Council (CAC). The CAC is one of two national leadership councils that play a major role in the nationwide success of SADD. Members of the CAC, together with members of the Student Leadership Council (SLC), serve one-year terms and are chosen through a competitive application process. This is the second year in a row that a NR-S student was selected to serve on one o...
Some of you may already know this because I have been proclaiming it from the rooftops, but last week, I became a first-time grandma. That makes this Mother’s Day even more special. It’s my first Mother’s Day as a grandma and it is my daughter’s first Mother’s Day since her son was born. Their baby boy was born last Thursday, which just happens to be “paper day” at the Transcript. It is the day that we prepare the paper to go to print. Everyone here will attest to the pull I felt to make it to...
Six-year-old Logan drove himself to the operating room in a shiny red sports car. The young Pennsylvania boy was undergoing surgery for the second time to help repair a birth defect that had left him with a permanent soft spot in his skull. Logan and his parents were understandably anxious at the thought of him undergoing the surgery again. So, according to a report by “Inside Edition,” the medical staff at Wellspan York Hospital in Pennsylvania surprised the young boy on the day of his sur...
The Minneapolis-St. Paul based a cappella quartet, Tonic Sol-fa, will be performing in the New Rockford-Sheyenne gymnasium on Thursday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m. With a largely pop-music-oriented repertoire, their albums have sold over 2 million copies and the group has toured throughout the United States and abroad. Tonic Sol-fa, one of the leading forces in the world of vocal music with Emmy Award winning arrangements, has established itself not only as the most in-demand vocal group in the Midwest,...
Washington State Senator, Maureen Walsh has been walking back comments that she made while debating Bill SHB 1155. This bill was originally intended to protect the lunch and rest breaks for nurses who work 12 hours per day or more, a shift that is standard for most hospital nurses and to limit mandatory overtime. Her comments were specifically aimed at critical access hospitals in rural areas as the Washington Senate discussed an amendment that would exempt critical access hospitals that have 25...
It's hard to miss the dry fertilizer plant that CenDak Cooperative is building just north of New Rockford. The 42-by-101 foot structure, which is currently under construction just north of town near the New Rockford Municipal Airport, will house a 2,500 ton fertilizer plant with six large bins to store dry fertilizer. There will be two 16-ton blenders on the south side of the facility, which CenDak's agronomy manager, Tony Jochim, says will allow a truck to be loaded in under 10 minutes. This...
“Glue for Gravel Roads: Making Gravel Roads Great Again,” a course offered by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, is billed as a must for all “Road Scholars” who touch gravel or gravel roads. Eddy County Road Superintendent Todd Weber told the commissioners that he would like to see the entire road crew attend the course. The commissioners agreed and added that they will also be registering for the course. Attendees will learn to make poor and tired roads better by adding a small a...
Every spring, I love when the stores start bringing out the Easter decorations. With pretty pastel colors, vibrant spring flowers, beautiful Easter eggs, soft furry bunnies and fluffy yellow chicks, Easter decorations are undeniably adorable. Of all the holidays, Easter decorations probably win the award for the cutest decorations. So, even if I’m not buying anything, I usually like to browse through the stores and look at the new decorations. However, this year I haven’t found the same joy in...
It was 1943, a time when Franklin D. Roosevelt was President, the United States was involved in World War II and the Great Depression was officially ending. Meanwhile, a group of Fessenden area farmers joined forces in an effort to boost buying power and create better grain marketing opportunities. Their joint effort led to the development of Fessenden Cooperative Association, which held its incorporation meeting on April 10, 1943. The original charter members included Lee Lyness, John Mehlhouse...
Yesterday, when I was driving home from Fargo, I had a bit of a revelation. I don’t know about you, but a to-do list has been part of my daily life for as long as I remember. Over the years, the way I prioritize the items on my list has changed but I always keep a list. It’s always given me a sense of accomplishment to be able to cross things off my list. It seems like the list is a little overwhelming these days and I was thinking about that as I was driving. There’s a lot on that list right no...
At the meeting on Tuesday, April 2, the Eddy County Commission listened to Eddy County State’s Attorney Ashley Lies as she informed them about a process called a quiet title action, which may be advantageous regarding the former Mill Pump and Cheers property. A quiet title suit can be called to remove the cloud of any claim or potential claim to ownership of the property. The cloud can be a claim of full ownership of the property or a claim of partial ownership, such as a lien in an amount t...
The face of the newly appointed Eddy County Road Superintendent is hardly a new one to Eddy County residents. New Rockford native, Todd Weber has stepped in to assume responsibility for the Eddy County road department. Weber officially began his new role on March 11, and Mother Nature promptly welcomed him with a spring storm and several inches of new snow on March 15. This gave Weber the opportunity to get out on a blade and to get to know some of the more distant Eddy County roads. He said...
As I drove home the other night, I was happy to note that spring appears to be gaining ground and even might be winning in this power struggle it seems to be having with winter. The sun was low in the sky, turning the sky above the horizon a beautiful blend of pink and orange. The v-formation of geese in the sky was also a sign that the promise of spring was not too far away. However, it was the water standing in a field that caught my eye as the beautiful sunset was reflected in the flooded fie...
New experiences happen all the time as we move through this journey that we call life. People joke about hospitals being a place that you want to stay away from. You don’t want to go in and you can’t wait to leave. Truthfully, with a few exceptions, that’s been my experience as well. One of those exceptions happened during the last couple of weeks while I have been away from the paper. My husband’s health had been declining for months. He has missed a lot of work, lost a lot of weight without...
