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This past weekend at the North Dakota State NASP Archery Tournament, the Rocket archery team reached new levels of success. First, New Rockford-Sheyenne took home its first state championship in archery as a team. The middle school team, consisting of 23 girls and guys, finished first in the bullseye team competition. Second, Layton Jacobson became a two-time state champion in the 3D individual competition. Third, six other Rocket archers finished in the top 10 of their division in individual...
A local business is hoping the community will give them the boost they need to reopen. When LaRae Sifuentes and her family first took over Bird Dawg Cafe and renamed it Loco Ketchup Cafe, many were excited to hear it would be open all year long. Loco Ketchup Cafe was humming along for a number of months, and many were enjoying the addition of delicious Mexican fare to the menu. As planned, Sifuentes then closed the cafe for the holidays to make time to update the 75-year-old building's...
Through their new business, Aura Aesthetics + Hydration, locals Chelsey Zeltinger, née Richter, and Taryn van Bedaf are teaming up to bring big-city amenities to the community. Located inside Breathe Health and Wellness at 740 4th Avenue South in Carrington, their new business offers aesthetic and wellness services – such as IV hydration, vitamin injectables, botox injections, and more – which typically aren't found outside larger cities. Zeltinger, a New Rockford native and NR-S graduate, said...
On Saturday, April 1, the community is invited to a medical benefit for Sharon Ludwig at Buck-It's Bar in New Rockford. Ludwig, a rural Eddy County resident, was caught up in a skid steer accident last October, suffering a compound fracture to the tibia and fibula in her left leg as it was caught under the track. Ludwig has since gone through multiple surgeries and months of healing and rehabilitation in the hopes of avoiding amputation. She was hospitalized for 10 days, endured seven...
Officials in Eddy and Wells counties are embarking on a strenuous – but very important – endeavor. Emergency managers from both counties, as well as city and county commissioners and other officials, are working to construct their new hazard mitigation plan. Hazard mitigation plans expire every five years, and the current plan for Eddy and Wells counties expires this August. Without a new one, neither county would be eligible for funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sho...
This winter will definitely be one we remember. NDSU Extension Service Foster County Agent Jeff Gale reported that the snowpack in Foster County had the equivalent of 3 inches of rain. Meteorologist Jacob Morse of KFYR-TV reported Monday that Bismarck had 19 inches of snow on the ground, surpassing the previous record set in 1982 by 8 inches. The last time Bismarck had 19 inches of snow on the ground in the spring was on April 3, 1975. Monday marked the 129th consecutive day the capitol city...
North Dakota State University Extension will host a Spring Calving Preparedness webinar Thursday, March 30 from 1 to 3 p.m. CDT (noon to 2 p.m. MDT). “With as much fog as we had in January, some producers are concerned we will have a repeat of last year’s winter storms this spring,” says Devan Leo, NDSU Extension agriculture and natural resources agent in McKenzie County. To address concerns about the calving season, NDSU Extension specialists will present sessions aimed at helping ranchers prepare for calving in potentially adverse weath...
Nicholas Poitra, the man accused of murdering 30-year-old Troyal Thumb at Rindy's Bar in Sheyenne, is scheduled to be at the Eddy County Courthouse for his preliminary hearing on April 13. Poitra allegedly shot and killed Troyal Thumb of Sheyenne with a short-barreled shotgun on Feb. 19, before breaking into more than one area farmstead as he led law enforcement on a 65-hour-long manhunt in the days that followed. After being taken into custody with the help of a local farmer and his fiancé,...
About half of all foster parents in the nation quit after a year, and only about a quarter make it past a second. "I would say that's a huge problem," said Annika Hapip, who felt her church needed to act. "You have a lot of kiddos who are in the foster care system, and they're waiting to be placed in a home, and foster families are stretched." Hapip's solution, the Lily Initiative, working within Evangel Assembly of God in Bismarck, aims to address burnout by supporting foster families and...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Teacher arrested during school hours for alleged felonies A Dunseith teacher was arrested last week and is facing six charges, including child abuse and retaliating against a witness. Federal authorities took Rhawnie Marcellais into custody during school hours and transported her to Minot for a court appearance. She appeared at last week’s hearing via video from the Ward County jail, whe...
It’s day 46. The Senate still has 234 bills to act on, and the House is still looking at 203. The committees have been hearing a lot of bills and have been listening to a lot of testimony. This week the Legislature heard from two different economic forecasts group. Each had a similar picture of where our state is going financially over the next two years. The appropriations committees took that information and took a middle of the road outlook. There are assumptions that show additional sales tax, motor vehicle tax, and income tax being greater...
Last Wednesday, Patti Clifton and Jan Loe were in Devils Lake to do some shopping. Friday morning, Jan Loe and Patti Clifton were in New Rockford for the funeral service of Mike Hillebrand at First Lutheran Church. It was a pickle party birthday celebration at the Sheyenne Senior Center on Saturday afternoon! Steph Loe hosted the party (and prepared the food) for her mom Jan's March birthday. Friends attending enjoyed dill pickle chicken, dill pickle roast and potato salad, as well as other dill pickle side dishes. Jan said, "We had a great...
Tuesday, Calvin Packard drove mom, Shirley, to Carrington where she had a medical appointment. Gary and Kathy Anderson were among those who enjoyed the VFW torsk dinner at the VFW in Sheyenne. Janet Laube and YipYip got a happy St. Patrick’s Day phone call from niece Shelly Nelson from Oklahoma. Eloise Lucht received a phone call from son Alan from his home in Germany. It’s 65 degrees there. Alan has been batching while wife Julie is at a quilting conference....
Margie Anderson enjoyed a phone call with Judy Swanson on Sunday. Both are hoping winter comes to an end soon. Saturday, March 18, Charlotte Koepplin called Jerry and Carol Clancy of Thompson and wished them a happy 51st wedding anniversary. Jimmy Indergaard enjoyed a visit and supper Wednesday at the Mervin Indergaard and daughter, Vicki Magill, home. Thursday, Jimmy was a supper guest at the Andy and Ruth Braaten home. On Friday, Shirley Packard, Diana Rue and Pastor Richard Biberdorf were afternoon visitors at the Charlotte Koepplin home....
It's officially spring. Well, at least that's what the calendar says. We observed the Spring Equinox on Monday at 4:24 p.m., in the midst of piles of snow and a temperature below the freezing mark. At least the sun was out in all its glory, blinding me as I made the short trek from New Rockford to Carrington and back home. Little more than 24 hours later, our area got yet another round of snow, and with it came "challenging travel conditions," in the words of the meteorologists tasked with...
When my three semi-grown daughters were young (and since I work in the lucrative world of public education), we’d spend our spring break holidays riding bikes to the park, making dad-sized pillow forts in the living room, and raiding the gift shop at the zoo. Now that two of the girls are in college and one is in high school, those days (and our gift-shop cash) are long gone. This year, I spent most of my spring break competing with my youngest daughter to see who could sleep in the latest without developing bed sores. She usually won (...
In 1965, in the landmark case of Griswold v. Connecticut, the U.S. Supreme Court, for the first time in our nation’s history, invoked the right to privacy for the purpose of upholding the right of married couples to access contraceptives. Griswold was hailed by women, who had been fighting for the right to use contraceptives for well over a century. It granted women control over their own reproductive organs and provided married couples with the liberty to decide whether to procreate, plan families and make decisions associated with p...
On a long car trip comes the question from a child in the back seat, “Are we there yet?” Many of us around here these days look at the calendar, think about spring and ask, “Are we there yet?” We have received so much snow this year. It started early and it is still here. The calendar says it is spring but our streets and yards and fields sure don't look like it. Even the 10-day weather forecast says it isn't Spring yet. I am hoping that forecast is wrong. I want a change in our weather patterns. This is a season of change; a season of transit...
Many are familiar with the beatitudes, which are a section of a larger discourse spoken by Jesus in His earthly ministry. They are found in His sermon on the mount in Matthew chapter 5, and some of them are mentioned again in the sermon on the plain found in the twentieth chapter of Luke. Both homilies are filled with spiritual wisdom and laid the groundwork for New Testament Christianity. There are also beatitudes found in the Psalms, and all of these truths are timeless and just as...
Do you know what an advance directive is? An advance directive is a legal document that provides instructions for medical care and only goes into effect if you are unable to communicate your own wishes. An advance directive helps you plan for situations that cannot be foreseen, such as a serious car accident or a stroke. The most common types of advance directives are a living will and durable power of attorney for health care. A living will informs medical providers how you want to be treated if you cannot make that decision on your own. It...
On Monday, March 20, members of Community Ambulance Service of New Rockford (CASNR) recognized Sandy O'Connor for 40 years of dedicated service to EMS in Eddy County. "It's hard to imagine how much change Sandy has seen in 40 years of EMS," manager Angie Hopfauf wrote on the group's Facebook page. Members of CASNR recognized O'Connor at their monthly meeting and enjoyed cake in her honor....
Layton Jacobson has done it again. He is a state champion in archery. He claimed the top spot in middle school boys' 3D for the second year in a row with a score of 285. Consistency and careful calculation have been the hallmarks of his championship run for two years running. His score improved from 282 in last year's state tournament. The North Dakota NASP State Tournament brought Jacobson and nearly 700 other archers to the North Dakota State Fair Center in Minot on Friday and Saturday, March...
From the sixth seed at Region 4 to a Cinderella appearance at the State Class B Tournament in Bismarck March 16-18, the Warwick Warriors gained a few fans along the way for their fearless, free-wheeling style. Even though Warwick, the smallest school in the tournament, lost all three games at the tourney to come home in eighth place and fell to 0-9 all time at the State B, Coach Ryan Brown's group has nothing for which to be ashamed. The Warriors were merely half a quarter from pulling off one o...
Although spring may not be here, track and field season is back. The New Rockford-Sheyenne Rockets traveled to the Turtle Mountain Reservation to compete in the Belcourt Indoor meet on Tuesday, March 21. Both the girls' and boys' teams placed second overall out of the six teams to compete. Let's start off with the girls' events. If any NR-S fans heard the song that starts off with "She's a runner, she's a track star...," you'd think of NR-S junior, Kelsie Belquist. Belquist secured three...
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." – Epicurus, Greek Philosopher, 300 B.C. If you have been following Archival Anecdotes this month, then you can now consider yourself adequately schooled on the role women's clubs had in our rural communities. You also gained an understanding of the national trends that were driving some of the club activities both at home and afar. As you travel across the country, especially in small communities, be on the l...
