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It's hard to believe amid the piles of snow that severe summer weather isn't far away. In fact, thunderstorms were forecast for this past weekend in parts of southeastern North Dakota as of press time. April 25-29 is Severe Summer Weather Awareness Week. The National Weather Service, the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services, and other state, county and local agencies have come together to host Severe Summer Weather Awareness Week activities. On Wednesday, April 27, at 11 a.m.,...
It's no secret that this year's winter was notably bad, even by North Dakota's standards. High snow totals, bitterly cold temperatures and howling winds battered eastern North Dakota throughout winter, and not much has changed this Spring. From April 12-15, a historic snow storm walloped most of the state, rendering roads virtually impassable and leaving behind massive snow drifts. Out west was hit hardest, with the Minot area recording a whopping 48 inches of snow accumulation from Tuesday to S...
This summer, five students from New Rockford-Sheyenne will be attending the National SADD Conference in Orlando, Florida. SADD, which stands for Students Against Destructive Decisions, holds a national conference every year to empower and mobilize students from across the country to engage in positive change. This year's conference also celebrates SADD's 40th birthday. Taking part from NR-S are Vinnie Ruppell, Joshua Homiston, Andrew Presnell, Madison Myhre and Mya Cudworth, and joining them...
One of the movement experts at Peak Performance Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine, PLLC, was named the Employee of the Month for April. Melissa Ystaas, PT/DPT, has eight years of experience helping her patients get moving. She was nominated by Amanda Hegland, whose daughter, Piper, has been a patient at Peak Performance since she was an infant. "She is amazing. She communicates with her doctors and truly cares about the bigger picture," Hegland said. "She is so good with Piper, figuring out...
Joy Tandberg, a native of McHenry, N.D., is giving local seniors in the Red River Valley a chance to keep their independence. With more than 35 years of experience as an occupational therapist, Tandberg has all the expertise necessary to help senior citizens live free and independent lives for as long as it's safe to do so. To help seniors do just that, she recently started her own business, Dak-Minn Driving & Home Evaluations, LLC. She started her business after working as a driving evaluator w...
COVID-19 could very well be on the wane in North Dakota, but a new disease transmissible through animal/human contact has seen its first confirmed case in a seven-year span in the state. Highly pathogenic avian influenza, abbreviated HPAI, was detected in a domestic chicken flock in Kidder County late last month. The case was identified by the NDSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, and later confirmed by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) lab in Ames, Iowa. The birds on the...
Saturday evening, Patti Clifton, Steph Loe and Jan Loe joined friends and family for the 50th Surprise Birthday Party for Danette Houle at the Open Season Lodge in Sheyenne. Danette is the daughter of Pat Wetzel. It was a nice evening of visiting, food, birthday cake and an Easter Egg Hunt for the little ones in attendance. There will be an Open House Bridal Shower for Hope Gutschmidt, bride-to-be of Evan Swenson, on Saturday, May 7, 10:30 a.m. at First Lutheran Church parish hall in Sheyenne....
"Listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, on the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five..." These lines from the poem "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are familiar to many of us. We learned about Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonists that the British were coming. We also learned about the two lanterns in the steeple of the Old North Church, "one if by land and two if by sea," to signal which of the two routes the British were taking. What...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Garza brothers charged with felony assault Arrests were made over the weekend in the assault case of Kurtis Graver, who was severely beaten on 5th Street near Last Chance Bar and Grill early Sunday morning, April 3. Grafton residents Christobal Antonio Garza Jr., 27, Jacob Garza, 26, and Jason Rudy Rey Garza, 23, were arrested Saturday at a basketball tournament in Devils Lake. All three a...
Welcome summer 2022! Visitors are reminded about the historic treasures that await you in your own backyard. Fort Totten State Historic Site, located in Fort Totten, N.D., just south of Devils Lake, is just one of many historic places in North Dakota. With over 150 years of history, this historic site was used as a military post built in 1867. Many of the buildings have been restored and are complete with wonderful exhibits. Check out the fort on their web page at https://www.history.nd.gov/historicsites/totten/. Also included at the Fort, is...
There will be a bridal shower for Hope Gutschmidt, bride-to-be of Evan Swenson, on May 7 at 10:30 a.m. It will be held at First Lutheran Church in Sheyenne. Chad Getscher visited Lester Roberts on Sunday. Paul and Carrie Prince traveled to Denver, Colo. and spent a week with Carrie’s daughter, Becki Madson, and her grandsons’ Jesse, Andrew and Elias. They also got acquainted with their 1-year-old great grandson, Eli, and helped his father, Jesse, celebrate his 21st birthday. They returned home on Tuesday after spending the day driving in the bl...
Cousin, Stan Guler, called Shirley Packard on Monday, April 11, to wish her an early happy birthday, as the following day he was to have heart surgery. Stan did have his surgery and later Tuesday, Shirley got the sad news that Stan had passed away. Stan lived in Fargo. Vida Klocke finally made it home to Underwood after spending three extra days in Virginia as a house guest of her brother, Bill Womacks. Although enjoying the extra time with family, she was happy to get home. The delay was the flight plans to North Dakota, due to the snow...
Last Wednesday, Jimmy Indergaard was a supper guest and visitor at the Mervin Indergaard home and a Thursday supper guest at the Andy and Ruth Braaten home. Monday morning, brief visitors at the Charlotte Koepplin home were Karen Koepplin and Roxy. Tuesday morning, grand niece, Allyssa Lewis, stopped to see Auntie Charlotte, bringing breakfast pizza to share over a short, sweet visit. Thursday, Charlotte Koepplin enjoyed early birthday wishes through a phone call from Sandy (Koepplin) Johnson from Minneapolis. Sandy and husband, Steve, have...
A way to be, a way to think and a way to live everyday, unless you plan to move to another planet. It is acknowledged and celebrated Friday, April 22 each year and like the song from around the first Earth Day of 1970 "In the year 2525" by Zager and Evans; 1969 ... "we've taken everything this old earth can give and we ain't put back nothin'." I ask you, all of you, to Google this song of over 50 years ago and listen to every word of it until it finishes. Following that, have a little visit...
It all started 10 years ago with a gray, cable knit sweater, a beautiful hand-knit piece a friend culled from her husband’s closet. “It doesn’t fit him anymore,” she insisted, holding out the neatly folded sweater smelling faintly of lavender, cedar, and mothballs. ”Plus, his ex-girlfriend made it,” she said, pushing the sweater toward me more firmly. When I pulled it over my head, it felt like it’d been mine from the beginning. I brought the beloved sweater with me when I went to Minnesota last fall to care for my father; preparing for...
“If it was not the most important decision in the history of the court,” Justice Stanley Reed observed of Brown v. Board of Education, “it was very close.” The Supreme Court’s opinion in Brown, delivered on May 17, 1954, held segregation in public schools unconstitutional, a decision that paved the way for the removal of racial discrimination from American law. By any measurement, the ruling placed Brown in the pantheon of America’s greatest judicial decisions. Justice Reed, the last of the three Southern members of the court to join Chief...
Stan Guler Fargo, N.D. Stan Guler, age 79, passed away Tuesday, April 12, 2022, at Essentia Health Fargo, N.D. Visitation was held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, 2022, with a Prayer Service following at 7 p.m., in West Funeral Home, West Fargo. Funeral was held at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 22, 2022, in St. Andrew Lutheran Church, West Fargo. Burial was held at Holy Cross Cemetery South, Fargo. Stanley Christ Guler was born May 28, 1942, in New Rockford, N.D. to Peter and Wilma (Christ)...
One of my father-in-law’s hobbies is collecting toys. He has a myriad of different collectible figures from different movies or TV shows. Recently he visited me and gave me five figures based upon the characters from the TV show ‘Lost.’ I find them fairly amusing because they are plastic models of actors attempting to portray people who never really existed. That thought makes me laugh a little inside. My father-in-law has figures from all sorts of movies (Star Wars, the Fantastic Four,) TV shows (Lost), and I believe he even has a few based...
I admit I am an emotional person. I recall going to see the Passion movie a few years ago and I was disturbed to say the least. It’s not uncommon for me to shed a tear when I witness something that moves my soul and this was no exception. Recently, I was watching a program about the “Make-A-Wish Foundation” and how they provide a way for very sick children to experience a happy, but most likely, last request and I cried through the entire program. As the agonizing scenes of what Christ went...
The Dec. 23, 1904, “Transcript” School Notes indicated where the teachers would spend the holidays: Miss Carolyn Trainor was going to Manfred, N.D., with her sister Miss Sarah Trainor. Miss Edith M. Schmidt would spend the holidays at her Jamestown home. Miss Belle Hutchinson would remain in New Rockford. Miss Anna B. Weiss would go to Crystal, N.D., and Miss Lillian Lund would go to her home in Kindred. The previous week, Miss Jeanette Ernst came down from Belcourt for the holidays in New Roc...
Dear Savvy Senior, My wife and I are planning to travel much more frequently in retirement and are very interested in educational trips and adventures. Can you recommend any groups or firms that specialize in this type of travel geared towards retirees? Love to Learn Dear Love, Educational travel, which combines travel with in-depth learning opportunities, has become a very popular way of travel among retirees. Here are a few good places to turn to find these types of trips in the U.S. and abroa...
Frequently as gardeners we concentrate efforts on our plants, focusing on what varieties will give us the best tasting produce or a beautiful landscape. However, I encourage all gardeners to “dig” a little deeper and concentrate some of our efforts on the soil. In the spirit of getting our hands dirty, let’s dig into carbon and soil organic matter. What is carbon? Carbon gets a reputation as being bad for us and the environment. While that is true for increasing levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, carbon is necessary as a build...
Whether having fished Devils Lake once or for 18 years, guide clients tell the same story, "We can't wait to get back." This north-central North Dakota lake has morphed over the past 30 years from 40,000 acres to nearly 200,000 acres and back to 160,000 acres. It will rise about two feet this spring due to a heavy snow pack. No matter what the lake is doing, the fishing remains constant – good to great to better than great – according to guides, tournament fishermen, locals, and especially tho...
Outdoor notes: *People are asked to report any dead birds and abnormal behavior in migrating birds, especially waterfowl, shorebirds, and raptors, to the N.D. Game and Fish Dept. on their wildlife mortality reporting form, (gf.nd.gov/wildlife/diseases/mortality-report), due to a national outbreak of highly contagious avian influenza. It can also impact domestic poultry. While rarely infectious to humans, hunters or anyone handling poultry should use precautions, such as avoiding handling sick...
In the process of fishing, I’ve seen a good deal and done a lot of it. I’ve read a ton, watched some more, and through trial-and-error learned quite a bit, but most days it feels like it’s never enough. Through trial-and-error with new ideas, patterns, and processes, I trade frustration for elation and vice versa on a variety of streams and lakes for the seemingly unlimited species available. Perhaps the greatest leap in all of that learning, which any angler makes, is gaining the under...
