goodies

At the start of the school 

year, senior Bennett Lystad 

started daydreaming at a 

school assembly. 

“It was the usual boring 

stuff,” Lystad said. 

When the new rules regarding 

school lunches were 

announced, Lystad perked 

up. 

“They said that we 

couldn’t have seconds,” he 

said. “A lot of people were 

mad at that.” 

After the assembly, Lystad 

quickly huddled with his 

football teammates. 

“We knew we couldn’t eat 

lunch in school anymore,” 

said senior Tim Swanson. 

“We thought a new system 

up instead.” 

For the first weeks of 

school, the group of eight 

senior football players 

brought portable grills for 

barbecuing during their 

lunch period. 

Cooking on a small propane 

grill on the back of a 

pickup is no easy task considering 

they only have a 

short lunch period to set up, 

grill, cook and eat. 

“We rotate who brings the 

food,” Swanson said Thursday. 

The 200-pound defensive 

tackle said he would rather go 

through the trouble of grilling 

every day instead of eating 

what’s offered in school. 

“It’s just not enough,” 

Swanson said. 

Inside, school lunch for 

the day consisted of a twoounce 

portion of roasted 

chicken, a half cup of sweet 

potato fries, brown rice and 

salad. 

Swanson instead drove 

to the grocery store to pick 

up sirloin steaks while his 

teammates assembled the 

grill. 

It’s no low-key event. 

While one student cooks 

steak, others prepare brats, 

buns, chips and drinks. 

During previous lunches, 

the students prepared 

chicken, pork chops and 

homemade hamburgers 

while socializing with each 

other. 

“It’s not a bad way to 

spend lunch” Lystad said. 

The students got some 

bad news Tuesday, however, 

when it was announced the 

extracurricular grilling must 

come to a halt. 

“It’s a liability to our 

school,” said Principal Travis 

Frank. “With an open 

flame and propane tanks 

there is a chance that something 

could happen.” 

Frank said most senior 

high school students have 

permission to leave campus 

during their lunch period. 

“As long as they have 

parent permission to leave 

school during lunch they 

can go where they like,” he 

said. 

Frank said he will monitor 

the parking lot to make sure 

students comply with the 

new rules. 

“We will allow seniors to 

leave school property and 

grill at somebody’s house 

as long as it’s okay with the 

homeowners.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No fries, no trans fat, low salt. 

Divide County High School cook Sandra Kocher 

has to follow these new guidelines for every student 

meal this year. 

Starting about two hours before lunch time, 

Kocher carefully plans the meals to fit within the 

new rules set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(USDA). 

The new regulations were passed last year but 

schools were not required to follow them until 

this fall. 

Now meals have to be within a specified range 

of calories -- between 750 and 850 calories for students 

grades 9-12. Lunches for elementary students 

must be between 550 and 650 calories. 

A variety of vegetables like orange fruits (carrots, 

summer squash, sweet potatoes), beans and 

peas must be offered weekly. 

“I agree with trying to get rid of the junk food,” 

Kocher said. “But it’s hard to give out small portions 

to hungry kids.” 

Kocher said she’s seen a drop in the number of 

students eating school lunches. 

Students were allowed to have seconds on 

meals in the past, provided that leftovers were 

available. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A joint agreement entered by the 

Crosby Park Board and the Crosby 

Blue Line Club would allow future 

sales tax revenue to go to a proposed 

health and wellness center. 

Parks Director Bob Gillen told 

park board members last week 

the Crosby city attorney was concerned 

over the relationship between 

the park board and the Blue 

Line Club, given the park board’s 

intention of sharing sales tax revenue 

with the private group. 

“We had issues with them being 

a non-profit and us being a political 

subdivision,” Gillen said. 

“We had to draw up a joint powers 

agreement.” 

Because tax dollars would go 

into the wellness center project, 

the residents of Crosby will get fair 

access to the facility, Gillen said, 

and at some point, the city could 

own some portion of the facility. 

“If, down the road, other parts 

get built we can always transfer 

ownership.” 

Park Board President Don Anderson 

said the agreement “does 

not obligate us financially.” 

The park board could receive 

funding from both sales and property 

tax revenue starting next year. 

If approved by the voters, an 

amendment to the city charter 

would allow the board to levy a 

one percent sales tax in addition to 

existing property tax income. 

Certification of the ballot language 

for the sales tax proposal 

will take place at the county level 

on Sept. 7. The issue will be on the 

ballot Nov. 6. 

The park board agreed last week 

to budget for 35 mills this year but 

keep a levy of 10 mills in future 

years, if the proposed sales tax is 

approved. 

 

 

 

As Marcia Lallum feeds 

maroon fabric through a 

sewing machine, she makes 

small talk with five surrounding 

volunteers in the church 

basement. Nearby, six ladies 

flatten and fold the finished 

blankets, which are put into 

boxes with a note: 

“Merry Christmas. Concordia 

Lutheran Church, 

Crosby, N.D.” 

The shipment is bound for 

six North Dakota guardsmen 

from the area who are now 

stationed in Afghanistan. 

While thoughts of a frigid 

winter remain distant for 

many in North Dakota, it will 

take several months for the 

blankets to travel across the 

globe to the soldiers. 

The project started with 

a donation of 40 yards of 

fabric. More has since been 

purchased. 

Originally, the group was 

going to make blankets for 

the local troops, but the team 

knew they could do more. 

“We decided that not every 

soldier is lucky enough 

to have people behind 

them,” Lallum said. “I’m sure 

it’s tough to go through that 

and be away from family.” 

The volunteers set aside a 

whole day to produce a rainbow 

of over 100 blankets for 

the entire company. 

Lallum said it takes up to 

two months for shipments 

to make it to Afghanistan, 

so it was important to start 

early. 

“We’re going to have a 

special offering to help pay 

for the fabric,” she said. 

“Williston Tire has offered 

to ship the boxes overseas 

for us.” 

The church has sent the 

six locals a supply of goodies 

frequently during their 

deployment. 

“They love beef jerky,” 

Lallum said. “They’ve asked 

us to also send suckers for 

the children in Afghanistan.” 

Concordia church members 

also plan on sending 

the troops helmet liners. 

“It’s like a stocking cap designed 

for the helmets,” Lallum 

said. 

The church previously 

sent care packages during 

the hot summer months to 

prepare the six local troops 

for the extreme heat. 

“I can’t imagine wearing 

a full uniform in 120-degree 

heat,” Lallum said. 

The weather can be one of 

the biggest enemies to soldiers, 

Lallum said. 

Sand, sun and altitudes 

are dramatically different 

than conditions found in 

North America -- even by 

North Dakota standards. 

While the troops have 

been on deployment for half 

the year, they are all but far 

from the minds of the community, 

Lallum said. 

“We had a special service 

for them when they left,” she 

added. “We’ll have one for 

them when they return.” 

Lallum said the six troops 

are currently transitioning 

between posts. 

“They are supposed to 

be moving soon,” she said. 

“We’ll make sure the blankets 

get to them.” 

Support for the troops 

has been overwhelming, Lallum 

said. “We had so many 

people want to step up to 

help,” she said. 

Troops with local ties include 

Rodney Johnson, Ian 

Placek, Nathan Wolter, Austin 

Jamtgaard, Joe Francetich 

and Kaleb Anderson. 

 

 

 

Fire ban briefly in effect 

Divide County imposed a burn ban last week that restricts 

anyone from starting a fire with an open flame. 

Elevated fire danger due to the lack of rain caused 

much of North Dakota to implement bans. 

A ban in neighboring Williams county has been in 

place since early March. 

The ban placed into effect last week was set to expire 

Tuesday, but Divide County Commissioners could 

reinstate it at their meeting today. 

High winds and dry conditions could quickly turn 

small brush fires out of control. 

Farmers and firemen in the Alkabo area last week 

battled a number of flare ups due to sparks from passing 

grain trains. 

Once upon a 

Blue Moon 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crosby man dies in accident; 

wife is recovering in Bismarck 

A Crosby man was killed 

Tuesday night last week in a 

motorcycle accident south of 

Mandan. 

His wife was seriously injured. 

The Highway Patrol said 

Wayne Viscocsky, 32, was riding 

south on ND 1806 at around 7:30 

p.m., with his wife, Darci, 37, riding 

as a passenger. 

According to the report, 

the driver failed to negotiate a 

curve, was thrown off the cycle 

and died at the scene. 

Darci was taken to the hospital 

in Bismarck where she is being 

treated for multiple injuries. 

Her exact condition was not 

available. 

Children of the couple attend 

school in Crosby. The family 

moved to Divide County about 

a year ago.

Page 2 --The Journal Commentary Wednesday, September 5, 2012 

 

 

 

 

First there were the beatnicks. 

Then came the hippies and flower 

children of the sexual/drug/anti war 

revolution years, followed by yuppies, 

the me generation, DINKS (double 

income, no kids), nerds, geeks and a 

variety of others. 

Now it’s the two thousand and 

teens, and there’s a new group flooding 

our public spaces. 

Let’s call them “Podders.” 

They don’t have long hair, headbands 

and ripped out blue jeans like 

the hippies, or button down collars 

and twill pants like the yuppies. 

But they’re easy to spot because 

of the ear buds that apparently give 

license to be anti social. 

When you walk for recreation and 

exercise, you pick up some habits for 

greeting the people whose paths you 

cross. In places like Crosby or Tioga, 

you develop a signature wave and offer 

it to every vehicle that passes by. 

Passing 

Dreams 

 

You wave even if you don’t recognize 

a particular car or truck, because 

you don’t want to take the chance 

that they might recognize you and 

spread the word that you’re stuck up, 

or worse, snobbish. The worst that 

could happen is you’d be friendly to a 

stranger. 

In Bismarck, we often take the 

trail that encircles Tom O’Leary Golf 

Course. 

On the very first day we stopped 

waving at passing motorists after my 

arm shot up so many times I felt like a 

kid in need of Ritalin. 

But I continue with my friendliest 

“good morning” whenever other walkers 

or bicyclists pass by. 

Some of them are taken by surprise, 

but once they get their wits about 

them they realize some stranger 

actually spoke to them and, really, it 

wasn’t that painful. Most of them reply 

in kind. 

Others offer a preemptive greeting 

before you can get yours out, usually 

serving it up with a side of smile. 

Sunday morning, a gentleman even 

stopped us to point out a hummingbird 

darting back and forth between 

canna lily blossoms. 

But there are just as many, most 

with buds blooming from their ears, 

who avoid eye contact, much less an 

actual verbal greeting. 

These are the iPod snobs -- the Podders. 

They can be 18 or 58, but they represent 

a techno generation in which 

gadgets trump interpersonal communication. 

If their music isn’t turned up so 

loud they can’t hear you, their expression 

will speak on their behalf. 

“What? You spoke to me? Can’t you 

see I’m busy walking and listening to 

music and avoiding all contact with 

other members of the human race?” 

You can see the same look on faces 

of gadgeteers of all stripes, whether 

they’re texting, talking, tweeting or 

surfing. 

You have to wonder why, when 

your land line rings and there’s no one 

home to answer, it’s OK to return the 

call several hours or even a day later. 

But when your smart phone squawks 

you are compelled to stop whatever 

you’re doing and give some love to the 

device du jour. 

Soon, we’re going to need a 12-step 

program to cope with device addition. 

My name’s Steve, and I’m a deviceoholic. 

In fact, next year, for the first time, 

the appendix of the Diagnostic and 

Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 

will have a listing for “Internet use 

disorder.” 

“It’s this basic cultural recognition 

that people have a pathological relationship 

with their devices,” reports 

Kelly McGonigal, a psychologist at 

Stanford University. 

Now come reports that constant 

use of technological devices can have 

a physiological affect. 

“Newsweek” reports on research 

that says whenever your device pings 

a message of one type or another, a 

sense of expectation is triggered and 

your brain is treated to a pinch of 

dopamine. 

Over time, researchers believe, 

these quick fixes can result in diminished 

concentration, empathy and 

impulse control. 

Brain scans of Internet addicts often 

resemble brain scans of drug addicts, 

and symptoms can range from depression 

to psychosis. 

As we were heading out for church 

Sunday morning, Barbara scowled 

when I said I was going to leave my cell 

phone at home. 

My reasoning was simple. I’m not going 

to answer a phone call or text message 

when I’m in church anyway. 

More importantly, I detest filling my 

pockets, and now that I have to carry a 

wallet and house key everywhere I go, 

leaving the phone home would leave a 

pocket empty. 

So I did, and life went on without any 

shots of dopamine. 

Now I’m rethinking that whole walking 

routine. 

If I see ear buds, my “good morning” 

will get a little louder. 

I might even start wearing out my 

waving arm. 

 

 

O! Pioneer 

 

POP QUIZ time. 

Question 1: Who said that if it weren’t for his 

time in North Dakota he never would have been 

president? 

Pencils down. If you correctly answered 

“Theodore Roosevelt,” then you are either a history 

buff or you have been to Medora. I took my 

first trip to Medora recently. In the 30 hours that 

I was there, I heard no less than 127 times that 

Teddy Roosevelt credited North Dakota for his 

presidency. At every attraction, in every shop, 

on every street corner, they let you know. I suspect 

they track you somehow to ensure you’re 

getting enough exposure. I imagine a buzzer 

going off in a control room and a panicked Medoran 

saying “It’s been 15 minutes since John’s 

heard that if it weren’t for his time in North 

Dakota Theodore Roosevelt would have never 

been president. Quick, send in Amanda!” 

I know what you must be thinking. “Wow, 

John, you went a whole three weeks living and 

working in North Dakota before going on a 

vacation. Wherever did you develop such an 

outstanding work ethic?” To a writer, there’s 

no such thing as a vacation. What you consider 

a vacation I call “research.” (On a side note: 

Please contact me if you would be interested in 

financing a two-week research trip to Italy for 

me.) 

I had a great time researching North Dakota’s 

number one tourist destination. In my 

short time in Medora, I ate steak cooked on a 

pitchfork, toured a home built by a Frenchman 

who revolutionized the cattle industry yet still 

wound up a complete failure, rode in a stagecoach 

through the Little Missouri Bottom, was 

waited on by people who wore “Mr. Bubble” T- 

shirts, and watched the acclaimed Medora Musical. 

I enjoyed myself very much – a fact which 

surprises me a little. 

(Theodore Roosevelt once said that if it 

weren’t for his time in North Dakota he never 

would have become president.) 

I never had this kind of fun in Los Angeles. 

The obvious reason is that there is quite a 

shortage of stagecoaches in LA. The bigger reason 

however is that Los Angeles is too cool for 

Medora. Let me explain. 

I had a great time at the Medora Musical. 

The only thing that bothered me were the three 

pre-teen boys sitting in front of me. At every opportunity 

they mocked the spectacle going on 

around them. At the time, I thought these boys 

were not enjoying themselves at all. 

But now I wonder. Perhaps they were trying 

hard to prove to each other that they weren’t 

having the good time they were really having. 

They were at that rough stage of life where how 

others see you defines who you are. You can’t 

be caught “digging” (as the kids say) a group 

of enthusiastic performers dressed in glittery 

western attire singing and dancing their hearts 

out. These boys were too cool for Medora. 

(Theodore Roosevelt once said that if it 

weren’t for his time in North Dakota he never 

would have become president.) 

Los Angeles is a lot like those boys. The town 

is filled with perpetual adolescents who worry 

about what everyone thinks of them. They are 

called “hipsters.” Hipsters are grown men and 

women who wear skinny jeans and T-shirts with 

scarves. They enjoy entertainment ironically – 

they would call the Medora Musical “kitschy” 

and make little jokes about it, believing it to be 

beneath them. 

Now I’m no hipster. My “skinny” jeans are 

the ones that used to fit before I put on some 

extra pounds. Still I wonder if I don’t have some 

hipster tendencies. I worry too much about 

what other people think of me. I’m in danger of 

thinking myself above people who may not have 

the same background, experiences or education 

as me. 

This is yet another reason that I feel so 

blessed to be in North Dakota. People seem 

very straightforward and honest here. I don’t 

get the impression that everyone is looking over 

their shoulders to see if what they are doing is 

approved of by the cool kids. I guess you don’t 

have to when you’re in a state that the coolest 

president ever once resided in. By the way did 

you know that Theodore Roosevelt once said 

that if weren’t for his time in North Dakota... 

 

ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S QUESTION: The 

Flash_Matic has probably contributed to the 

obesity now prevalent. Invented in 1955 by 

Eugene Polley, a Zenith engineer, it was the first 

wireless TV remote. His invention prompted 

viewers to become a nation of couch potatoes. 

Mr. Polley died in May at the age of 96. He still 

had the original model. 

• Accidents were not uncommon in the early 

days, but could be unusual. Recorded at Fort 

Buford on Sept. 30, 1871, was the following: 

“Pvt. Thomas Abbott, Company D, 7th Infantry, 

very seriously wounded today at the sawmill at 

2 p.m. He fell against the circular saw when in 

motion and had the greater part of his left buttock 

sawed off.” 

• The brain-teaser puzzle Sudoku was originated 

in 1979 by Howard Garns. When the Dell 

Company published the first one, they called it 

Number Place. When later published in Japan, 

it was renamed Sudoku and gained popularity 

as such. 

• A common misnomer is calling our native 

bison a buffalo. A related species, Bison bison 

pennsylvanicus, roamed the eastern states. 

Now extinct, the last herd was killed in the 

Did You 

Know 

 

White Mountains in 1799 and the last individual 

was killed in 1825 in West Virginia. 

• Regarding evidence in a crime investigation, 

according to the National Academy of 

Science, the most disputed is a bite mark. With 

fingerprints, there is no scientific standard for 

percentage of matches. It all depends on the 

opinion of the expert. DNA is the only forensic 

test to be relied upon. 

• At last report, there were over 18,000 oil 

field landfills within the four Bakken impacted 

northwestern North Dakota counties. Each one 

of the clay- lined pits has the capacity to hold 

650 tons of solid waste and 200 barrels of liquid 

waste. 

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Who erected the 

“stone Johnnys” in western North Dakota? 

 

“I love you!” 

Now, who have you shared those 

words with? Recently? How often 

do you use them? 

My own family is a pretty verbal 

bunch, and those words are a part 

of almost every departure. You 

know, “Goodbye, be safe, I love 

you.” 

I’ve got a few close friends for 

whom the words come pretty naturally. 

But there are a whole lot of 

other people in my life that I really 

do love, but who seldom if ever 

hear me speak those three magical 

words. 

This all came to mind when I read 

a column last week, in which the 

author was complaining that the 

“Love you!” sign off his kids were 

using has become a replacement for 

“see-ya.” 

What’s to complain about? I 

thought. The words are pretty cool, 

as far as I’m concerned. 

Most folks probably know it if 

you love them. It shows. And thankfully, 

most of us have a body of 

John-a- 

Dreams 

 

friends who love us, whether or not 

they tell us so. But really, doesn’t 

the reassurance feel good? It’s sort 

of like a verbal hug. 

The gospels tell us that even 

Jesus needed that reassurance. On 

one occasion he asked his disciples 

three times, “Do you love me?” 

It rather annoyed them, probably 

even more so when after they had 

reassured him of their love, he told 

them to feed his sheep. 

Sometimes I think it just takes 

practice to use terms of endearment, 

particularly for men. A lot of 

us somehow have the idea that it 

isn’t really a manly thing to express 

love. 

Norwegian culture has taught 

many of us to keep our emotions in 

check. But just think how often and 

in how many ways the book of faith 

to which most of us ascribe tells us 

to love others. 

We’re even supposed to love our 

enemies. Imagine that! What often 

bothers me about that admonition 

is that we probably aren’t supposed 

to have enemies in the first place. 

And if you love somebody, how can 

they be an enemy? 

I always figured the best way to 

deal with an enemy is to understand 

them. When there is somebody 

in my life with whom I’m not 

very fond, or somebody who hates 

me, or somebody who is disagreeable 

and unhappy, I like to sit down 

and think about some of their good 

character attributes. 

Even our enemies have some 

good, admirable characteristics. 

Is there anybody you know who 

doesn’t have one or two great 

traits? 

In the final analysis I guess the 

most important thing is to love as 

many people as you possibly can. 

Then take time to tell them so. 

There was a hit movie back in 

the 1950s, and a theme song by 

the same name, which said it best: 

“Love is a many splendored thing!” 

 

The Gulf Coast has been pounded 

this week by another hurricane. 

That has to be a hard thing for 

them to handle, particularly those 

who were driven from their homes 

by Katrina. 

But it was interesting to note that 

this storm has had a hidden blessing, 

bringing heavy rains to a large 

expanse of land that has been in the 

grips of a serious drought. 

At the same time I read that the 

drought, with its lack of thunder 

storms throughout most of the past 

summer, has produced far fewer 

tornadoes than is customary. 

Nobody likes disaster storms, but 

it is interesting to note that they 

can have a bright twist to them. 

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Obituaries 

The North Dakota Industrial 

Commission Oil and Gas Division 

website showed seven rigs 

working during the last month 

in Divide County, with a couple 

nearby in Burke and Williams 

County. 

Rig names, companies hiring 

them, names of the wells and 

their locations are as follows: 

Divide County 

NABORS 272, American Eagle, 

SILAS 3-2N-163-101, Dewitt 

Township, drilling. 

NABORS 152, SM Energy Co., 

AUGUST 4-26HN, Dewitt Township, 

drilling. 

PIONEER 71, Samson Resources 

Co., CORONET 2413- 

4TFH, Ambrose Township, 

moved in rigging up. 

CYCLONE 31, Continental 

Resources, MILTON 2-14H, Hayland 


ENSIGN 67, Baytex Energy 

USA LTD, JOYCE 4-9-160-98H, 

Frederick Township, drilling. 

EXTREME 16, Sequel Energy 

LLC, LOUIE 24-24H-2536-16095- 

MB, Stoneview Township, drilling. 

PRECISION 607, Baytex Energy 

USA LTD, MARJORIE 6-7-161- 

97H, Hawkeye Township, TDed. 

H & P 324, Samson Resources 

Co., BORDER FARMS 3130- 

2TFH, Ambrose Township, 

TDed. 

STONEHAM 17, Crescent 

Pt Energy US, CPEUSC Aldag 

36-35-164N-100W, Gooseneck 

Township, TDed. 

H & P 317, Hunt Oil Company, 

SIOUX TRAIL 1-8-5HTF, Sioux 

It Happened To... 

Larson recognized for 

outstanding productivity 

Conrad Larson, Noonan, 

was recently recognized by the 

American Gelbvieh Association 

(AGA) as the owner of 11 and/ 

or breeder of 11 active Gelbvieh/ 

Balancer cows exhibiting the 

consistent maternal efficiency 

typical of “The Continental 

Breed of Choice.” The AGA has 

designated these outstanding 

beef females as Dam of Merit and 

Dam of Distinction. 

Rig 

Watch 

Trail Township, TDed. 

TRINIDAD 36, Continental 

Resources, SELMER 1-35H, Frazier 

Township, TDed. 

Results released: 

#21447 - Samson Resources 

Company, DOVE 19-18-162-96H, 

Blooming Valley Township, 228 

bopd, 437 bwpd – Bakken. 

#21651 - Samson Resources 

Company, ARMADA 12-1-162- 

97H, Hawkeye Township, 506 

bopd, 768 bwpd - Bakken. 

#21735 - American Eagle 

Energy Corporation, CHRIS- 

TIANSON 15-12-163-101, Dewitt 

Township, 609 bopd, 506 bwpd 

- Bakken. 

#21656 - Continental Resources, 

Inc., PIERCE 1-21AH, Upland 


– Bakken. 

#21996 - SM Energy Company, 

TORGESON 14-19HN, Ambrose 


- Bakken. 

#22231 - SM Energy Company, 

TORGESON 2-30HNA, Ambrose 

Township, 751 bopd, 1034 

bwpd - Bakken. 


Inc., BORTEN 1-9H, Palmer 


- Bakken. 

 

ENSIGN 46, Petro Hunt LLC., 

WOLD 160-94-32A-5-3H, Thorson 


Bayer listed as a quarterfinalist 

at film festival 

John Bayer, Crosby, was a 

quarter-finalist in the Austin Film 

Festival Screenplay and Teleplay 

Competition. 

According to a letter only 10 

percent of the submissions made 

it to the quarter-final round. 

Bayer submitted a situational 

comedy script entitled “The 

Second Chris” and is currently 

employed at The Journal. 



Inc., LUCILLE 1-9H, Thorson 


- Bakken. 


Inc., OTTER 1-11H, 

Thorson Township, 422 bopd, 

1560 bwpd - Bakken. 


Inc., LIELAN 1-10H, Thorson 


- Bakken. 


Inc., POINTS 1-6H, Thorson 


- Bakken. 

#22032 - Hess Corporation, 

AV-FLUGGE-162-94-1918H-1, 

Keller Township, 80 bopd, 986 



Inc., BARMOEN 1-18H, Thorson 

Township, 356 bopd, 2083 


 

PATTERSON 183, Continental 

Resources, HOMER 1-14H, 

Hazel Township, TDed. 

CYCLONE 8, Continental Resources, 

LOVDAHL 3-16H, Sauk 

Valley Township, TDed. 


#21310 - Marathon Oil Company, 

MERLYN OLSON 34-8H, 

Scoric Township, 120 bopd, 

1316 bwpd - Bakken. 

#19878 - Kodiak Oil & Gas 

(USA) INC., HOLLAND 9-19H, 

Hazel Township, 188 bopd, 2309 


bopd - barrels of oil per day 

bwpd - barrels of water per 

day 

 

 

Life experiences and our respective 

relationships lead us 

down many paths as we travel 

our journey. 

Some paths lead us to fulfillment. 

Some paths lead to pain. 

There is danger and evil lurking 

in many areas of life, even 

within our churches. 

I have been faced with the 

loss of a family member and a 

friend. These times bring me 

face to face with reality, and I 

wonder even to myself in my 

quite moments, what will the 

future bring for me? 

I think we all have this question 

in our minds even when we 

don’t want to admit fear of the 

future. Naturally, I turn to the 

only source for complete guidance 

and direction, the Word of 

the Lord – the Bible. 

I have been thinking of the 

truth of God’s Word, where Jesus 

tells Nicodemus and us that 

“God so loved the world that he 

gave his only Son, to redeem 

the world and not condemn it. 

Rather, that the world should 

Pastor’s 

Corner 

By Ron Dahle 

Northwest United 

Parish 

be gathered together as God’s 

creation, to be in full relationship 

with God again. 

Sin, rebellion, stubbornness, 

and all sorts of human actions 

has separated us from the Love 

of God, and only God can repair 

the damage. 

So I have gone back to John 

3, to read again what Jesus is 

teaching us. I invite you to turn 

to John 3, but to concentrate on 

what Jesus says in verses 16,17, 

and 18. What we find there is so 

profound that we can’t begin to 

understand, yet so profoundly 

simple that a child can’t miss it! 

It is reflected in the simple tune, 

“Jesus loves me, this I know… 

For the Bible tells me so! Sing 

it to yourself, and you will find 

the profound love of God that 

satisfies the innermost longings 

of your heart – God’s love 

for you. We are built to worship 

God. By making our own gods, 

we miss the beauty of how we 

were built by our creator, to live 

in a love relationship with our 

creator God! 

Today, Jesus again invites 

you into relationship with him 

through faith in what God has 

done to and for you in the gift 

of his Son, who took your sin 

to death on the cross, and was 

raised again so that you might 

live in relationship with God 

through faith. 

This is the simplicity of the 

love of God for you. Trust it; 

believe it; it is done for you by 

a God who loves you beyond 

your wildest dreams. May God 

guide your steps as you continue 

on your journey in life. 

(Pastor’s Corner is a weekly 

meditation provided by members 

of the Divide County Ministerial 

Association.) 

 

 

The Grace Notes, a women’s 

singing group, will perform 

Sunday, Sept. 9 at 2 p.m. at the 

Crosby Moose Lodge. Coffee 

and goodies will be served following 

the concert. The cost is 

$5 and everyone is welcome. 

The concert is being sponsored 

by Vidda Lodge Sons of 

Norway. 

 

Elmer Dale Hoff, 80, Crosby, 

N.D., and formerly of Fortuna, 

passed away Monday, Aug. 27, 

2012 at the Good Samaritan 

Center in Crosby. 

Funeral services were held 

Sept. 4, 2012 at Stakston-Martin 

Funeral Home in Crosby 

with Chaplain Myra Osvold officiating. 

Burial followed at Oak 

Creek Cemetery in Bottineau, 

with military honors. 

Elmer was born June 2, 1932 

in Manitoba, Canada, the son of 

Albert and Mary (Elrod) Hoff. 

He was raised in Canada along 

with 12 brothers and sisters. 

Elmer enjoyed playing with 

his brothers and sisters while 

growing up and enjoyed helping 

on the farm. Elmer served 

in the US Air Force and received 

an honorable discharge in July 

of 1960. 

Elmer worked hard all his life 

and had a love for life and those 

around him. He enjoyed joking 

Thanks 

 

The family of Rodney Adams 

would like to take this opportunity 

to THANK all the people 

that helped Rodney during his 

short fight with cancer. 

The doctors, nurses, technicians, 

and receptionists at the 

Clinic in Billings, the Clinic and 

St. Luke’s Hospital in Crosby 

and the Mercy Hospital, Trinity 

Clinic and the Oncology Clinic 

in Williston were all so kind, 

compassionate, caring and patient. 

THANK YOU all for your 

help in making Rodney’s battle 

a little easier. It takes SPECIAL 

people to do what you do every 

day. 

Also, we would like to THANK 

our friends and family for all the 

cards, letters, phone calls and 

visits during Rodney’s illness. 

Court News 

Divide County 

Dean L. Throntveit (YOB 

1952), Crosby, reckless driving, 

four days jail with all suspended, 

fees $500. 

Lewis D. Burrows (YOB 

1973), Crosby, possession of 

controlled substance and drug 

paraphernalia, ingesting a controlled 

substance; deferred imposition 

with conditions, fees 

$325. 

Richard M. Padon (YOB 

1981), Plentywood, Mont., Possession 

of drug paraphernalia, 

unsupervised probation with 

conditions 11 months, 20 days 

jail time with all suspended, 

fees $575. 

Andrew D. Kreis (YOB 1991), 

Missoula, MT, driving while license 

privilege is suspended, 4 

days jail, fees $250. 

Vince A. Demers (YOB 1991), 

PLEASE NOTE: 

Crosby City 

Regular Council 

Meeting will be 

held on Monday, 

September 10th. 

Elmer Hoff 

and talking with friends. 

He lived the majority of his 

life in Fortuna where he worked 

on various farms. Elmer loved 

farm work and watching things 

grow. 

We appreciate your caring concern. 

In life, sometimes we meet 

someone very “special.” For 

us, Rodney was that special 

person. We will miss him more 

than words can say. If you have 

a special person in your life, 

please, remember to tell your 

special person how much you 

care for and enjoy being part of 

their life. 

God has a new mission for 

Rodney now and he is cancer 

free and pain free ready to meet 

the next challenge. GOD BLESS 

YOU ALL. 

Gail Adams 

Shawn, Cynthia, and Vanessa 

Adams 

Larry, Melissa, Paden and 

Lyndi Hoff 

Cary & Shirley Hegreberg 

and families 

Deerlodge, MT, driving while 

license privilege is suspended; 

possession of alcohol by minor, 

6 month probation with conditions, 

10 days jail time with all 

suspended, fees $550. 

Jacob R. Maher (YOB 1991), 

Butte, MT, possion of alcohol 

by person under 21, fees $250. 

Katrina J. Bogrett (YOB 

1994), Wildrose, ND, possion 

of alcohol by person under 21, 

fees $250. 

Danny D. Boen (YOB 1969), 

Columbus, ND, driving without 

liability insurance, fees $400. 

Christopher M. Harwood 

(YOB 1988), Columbus, ND, 

driving without liability insurance, 

false reports to law enforcement 

or other security 

officials, driving while license 

privilege is suspended, 30 days 

jail time with 15 suspended, 

Elmer had a wonderful smile 

and a twinkle in his eye when 

sharing jokes with those he 

loved. He loved to tinker and 

fix things taking anything apart 

and fixing it. 

He enjoyed the little things 

in life. Nothing was better than 

sharing a cheeseburger and telling 

stories. 

Elmer is survived by brothers, 

Fred and Alvin of Minot and 

a sister, Violet of Minnesota. 

Stakston-Martin Funeral 

Home of Crosby is in charge of 

arrangements. 

 

Regina R. Haugland, 88, 

Crosby, N.D., passed away Sunday 

evening, Sept. 2, 2012 at St. 

Luke’s Hospital in Crosby. 

Stakston-Martin Funeral 

Home of Crosby is in charge of 

arrangements. 

Marcus Fitzhugh & Veeann 

Hegreberg and family 

Roger Hegreberg and families 

John & Joanne Adams and 

families 

Marie Hagberg and families 

Dan Adams and family 

 

Special thanks to the Fortuna 

Fire Department guys and 

neighbors who responded to 

the recent fire by the ranch. 

Your dedication to the job 

that you get no compensation 

from and little thanks is greatly 

respected by me. 

Your quick response averted 

a situation that could have been 

deadly and costly. 

Thanks again for a job well 

done. 

Marvin Larson 

fees $575. 

Marcus L. Mugford, (YOB 

1987), DUI of alcohol or w/ AC 

.08% or more, 20 days jail time, 

11 months probation with contions, 

fees $750. 

Forfeitures 

June 21, 2012 - August 15, 

2012 

Speeding violations - 124 

Seat belt violations - 12 

Fish & Wildlife violations - 6 

Disregarding stop sign - 4 

Driving without a license - 3 

Speeding in construction 

zone - 2 

Careless driving violation - 2 

Registration violation - 2 

Open container - 2 

Overtook when prohibited - 1 

Improper turn around - 1 

Failure to merge - 1 

Care required - 1 

Littering - 1 

“Have you read 

about the 

newsman and 

the shot lady 

moving to 

Bismarck?” 

Foster Parents 

are Needed! 

Our communities are changing, but 

the need for foster parents is not. 

✸ Part-time or full-time foster parenting options 

✸ 24-hour Social Worker support 

✸ Financial reimbursement 

✸ Change the life of a child 

Call us at PATH to inquire 

701-572-7650 of 1-800-766-9387 

Jean and Charlie Altringer’s 

50th Wedding Anniversary 

Come-and-go 

Baby Shower 

for McGuire Lyle Ames 

son of Morgan and Travis Ames 

Sunday, Sept. 9 

from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. 

at the Red Rooster 

Appreciation & Farewell 

Supper and Social for 

Steve and Barbara Andrist 

Saturday, September 8, 5:30 p.m. 

Crosby Moose Lodge 

Come say farewell to the Andrists 

and share some stories of their 

Crosby Years.

Page 4 -- The Journal Neighbors Wednesday, September 5, 2012 

Grenora 

 

United Lutheran Church LCW 

meets at 7 p.m. Sept. 5 with 

Donna Solberg as hostess. Liz 

Fox will give the lesson. The 

stewardship project for this 

month is blankets and soap. 

The Legion Auxiliary will 

meet at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 5; at the 

Legion Hall. Their unit has been 

notified that the National Dues 

have been raised. They are now 

$20 for adults and $5.50 for juniors. 

When you receive a membership 

notice from National, 

please send your payment to 

the local membership chairman, 

Lois Sneva 1408 85th St. 

NW, Grenora, N.D. 58845; or to 

the local treasurer Dee Brorby 

PO Box 222, Grenora, N.D. 

58845. 

Sept. 6 the Volleyball teams 

will travel to play Trenton. 

Grades seven and eight, Junior 

Varsity and Varsity will all play 

with games starting at 4 p.m. 

Sept. 7 is College Colors Day 

at school. Wear your alumni or 

favorite college colors. Candy 

sales and hat day are also held 

Fridays at the school. 

The varsity football team 

travels to Rosebud Sept. 8. 

Their game will start at 1 p.m. 

The Today’s Women Club 

met for their annual picnic in 

the park July 29. As they were 

sponsoring the UMM counselors 

for Vacation Bible School 

they were the invited guests. 

Thank you cards were received 

from the Grenora Community 

Club, Williams County 4-H, Hannah 

and Halle Johnson, Sylvia 

Haven, St. Boniface, Ruth Carlson, 

Bonnie Kueffler, Lavonne 

Alkabo-Fortuna 

 

The past week has been busier 

than usual for the farmers 

as they tried to get fields combined. 

Last Monday was hot 

and very windy and got hotter 

shortly after the train passed 

by with a long load of cars 

filled with grain. A short distance 

from Alkabo smoke and 

then flames brought fire fighters 

from Westby and Fortuna 

as well as the locals helped supply 

water. Quick action did save 

some endangered wheat fields 

and fire breaks were created to 

keep the fire from spreading. 

About 80 acres were burned. 

The area was checked the next 

day and watered down some 

smoking areas. On Wednesday, 

Elsbernd, and Shannon Faller. 

During the meeting it was decided 

to give the teachers each 

$50 to help set up their classrooms. 

The music department 

and reading program at school 

were also given donations. In 

learning that the American Legion 

Auxiliary was not planning 

to host the city wide rummage 

sale this year, the club decided 

to take on that project. 

Randy and Bethany Carr 

were given a medical benefit. 

Liz Charlesworth also received 

a medical benefit and a special 

circumstance donation. Walmart 

Gift Cards were purchased 

for the Carr baby, Swenson 

baby and Olson baby. 

The Annual Old Bag and Pie 

Auction is Oct. 13. It was suggested 

mailing out a letter to the 

businesses that donate items 

for the Old Bag, so that items 

would be ready to be collected 

instead of having to make several 

trips to the business. 

Today’s Women supplied the 

cookies and juice for the VBS 

closing program. 

Mon-Dak Thunder Athletics 

was given $1000 to use as they 

wish to help set up their program. 

The next meeting will be 

at 7 p.m., Sept. 9 at the Grenora 

Ambulance Building. Plans will 

be finalized for the Old Bag and 

Pie Auction. 

Junior high football will begin 

at 4 p.m. and Junior Varsity 

at 5:30 p.m.; on Sept. 10 as the 

teams from Savage will be in 

Grenora. 

City Council will meet at City 

Hall Sept. 10. The meeting will 

start at 8 p.m. Remember if you 

a strong northwest wind was 

blowing and by afternoon the 

fire was again alive and this 

time heading southward to the 

railroad tracks where it was 

again brought under control. 

Thursday the fire was again 

threatening and the fire fighters 

spent several hours soaking 

areas. Another train with grain 

cars came Thursday evening 

and five vehicles followed it as 

far as Fortuna to check for any 

more areas igniting. 

Debbie and Larry Kallias of 

Minot visited Elaine Leininger 

on Monday arriving just as fire 

trucks were coming to the area. 

We drove to a nearby hill to 

watch the activity. 

Janice and Darrie Peterson 

of Bismarck spent the weekend 

CLIP ‘N’ SAVE 

NOONAN 

Vaccination Clinic 

Cats - 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. 

Dogs - 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. 

Saturday, Sept. 15 

Noonan Fire Hall -- Noonan, ND 

NORTHWEST VETERINARY SERVICE 

211 Main Street - Powers Lake, ND 58773 - 701-464-5121 

CLIP ‘N’ SAVE 

CROSBY 

Vaccination Clinic 

Cats - 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. 

Dogs - 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 

Saturday, Sept. 8 

Crosby City Hall, Crosby, ND 

NORTHWEST VETERINARY SERVICE 

211 Main Street - Powers Lake, ND 58773 - 701-464-5121 

Prairie Tumbleweeds 

TINY TOTS 

GYMNASTICS 

BOYS & GIRLS AGE 3-6 (KINDERGARTEN) 

Starts Tuesday, September 11 

from 5:15 pm to 6:15 pm ~ $60.00 each 

and each Tuesday night thru Nov. 20 

TEENY TOTS - Age 3 and under, 

with parent starts Oct. 2 

Any questions call 

Bridget Johnson 965-6365. 

want on the agenda you must 

call City Hall 694-3911 by Sept. 

6 at noon. 

The Grenora School Board 

meets for their monthly meeting 

Sept. 11. Please contact the 

school for the time of this meeting. 

The varsity Thunder volleyball 

team will play in Westby 

Sept. 11. Brockton will be there 

and the game will start at 6 p.m. 

The Grenora Senior Citizen’s 

Club will meet for their monthly 

meeting Sept. 12. They will 

meet following the noon congregate 

meal. Congregate meals 

are served at the Senior Center 

each Monday, Wednesday 

and Friday at noon. Plans will 

include their October membership 

drive. 

The usual steak fry has been 

replaced by a burger and brat 

fry. It is scheduled for Oct. 7. 

The Center will open at 1 p.m. 

and cards will be played and 

visiting will take place until 

supper at 5 p.m. Supper will be 

free to all who get their $5 membership 

card for this year. New 

members are welcome and necessary 

for the future of the club. 

Barb Olson is considering 

taking the place of Erwin 

Quarne on the Williams County 

Council on Aging. A lamp raffle 

was held and $613 was raised 

and donated to the Grenora 

Community Club to be used for 

Grenora’s 100th Celebration in 

2016. The lamp was made and 

donated by Sylvanus Twete. 

(To submit news for 

this column, please call 

Wanda Rasmussen, at 694- 

4823). 

with Alice Stromstad and also 

went to Crosby to see Allen. 

Carl and OrLynne Dahl went 

to Bismarck Aug. 24 to attend 

the wedding of their granddaughter, 

Justene Dahl and 

Dustin Kulseth. She is the 

daughter of Carl Jr. and Susan 

Dahl of Williston. Charlotte Wigness 

of Williston and Sharon 

Thompson of Glasgow as well 

as Carl Jr. and Susan also attended. 

The wedding was held 

at the Evangel Assembly of God 

Church in Bismarck. 

Betty and Fred Albert of Williston 

visited Elaine Leininger 

on Saturday. 

(To submit news for this 

column, please call Elaine Leininger, 

at 834-2423). 

Portal 

Geraldine and Jr. Swenson 

had visitors over the last weekend. 

Kenny and Donna Swenson 

from Backus, Minn., were here 

and also Geraldine’s sister, Beryl 

Richards, from Wawota, Sask. 

We had a very nice visit with all. 

What’s Up 

 

Bridal Shower for Amy Larsen, 

Crosby Moose Lodge, 5 p.m. 

 

Business meeting and bingo, 

DC Senior Citizens Center, 1:30 

p.m. 

 

Grace Notes concert, Crosby 

Moose Lodge, 2 p.m. 

 

Progressive pinochle, DC Senior 

Citizens Center, 1:30 p.m. 

 

Open house bridal shower 

for Brittany Smithberg, Crosby 

Moose Lodge, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. 

 

DC Food Pantry, Concordia 

Lutheran Church, 10 a.m. - 1 

p.m. 

Almanac 

2012 2011 

Lo Hi Pr. Lo Hi Pr. 

Aug. 28 55 85 50 86 

Aug. 29 66 94 61 87 

Aug. 30 53 79 61 82 

Aug. 31 54 83 59 82 

Sept.1 64 90 59 82 

Sept. 2 59 80 56 73 .13 

Sept. 3 53 78 47 74 .05 

Sept. 4 50 41 71 T 

Prec. Aug. 2012 ........................27 

Prec. Aug. 2011 .....................1.51 

Prec. 2012 to date ..............12.95 

Prec. 2011 to date. ............18.90 

Normal Prec. to date .........11.50 

Average high for today .........74° 

Average low for today ..........48° 

Sunrise today........................7:17 

Sunset today .........................8.26 

Columbus 

 

The last rites for Margaret 

Ann Myers, wife of the late Cal 

Myers took place at Noonan at 

St. Luke’s Catholic church last 

Saturday. The prelude solo “Ava 

Maria” was sung by son Mick 

Myers; the readers were sons 

Joe, Brian and John with daughters 

Mary and Marcie Pederson 

as “giftbearers.” The organist 

was Mary Jane Dhuyvetter and 

Deanna Dhuyvetter was cantor. 

Cal and Margaret’s son Jim had 

preceded them in death. 

The community expresses 

sympathy to the family of Lawrence 

Oas who with his wife, 

Marjorie, raised their family 

Brenda, Rick and David south of 

Columbus. 

Those that came a distance 

as former Columbus people 

to the funeral of Margaret Myers 

were Quentin and JoAnn 

Benson of South Dakota, their 

children Connie, Lemmon, S.D., 

Rhonda, South Heart and David, 

Steele. 

George and LaVon Holm’s 

and Lisa Holm have had a lot of 

company with the the Benson 

girls Connie and Rhonda, Lisa 

(Bonsness) Watterud, Rocky 

Bonsness, Hazen, Gary Hansen, 

Williston and daughter Sandra 

(Holm) Larson, Ray who 

brought birthday wishes to La- 

Von. 

Keith and Patti Denzler, Sheridan, 

Wyo., have been in the 

Columbus area helping with 

harvest at Wallen and Dorothy 

Helseths and son Roger. 

Shirley Engstrom, Williston, 

spent an overnighter with sister 

Pat Horntvedt of Edgewood 

Vista and also visited Ernie and 

Shirley Erickson at Dakota Terrace 

and Beulah Koppelsloen of 

Edgewood Vista. 

Judy Durick has arrived 

home after good family visits 

with brothers of Philadelphia 

and Denver. Gas prices were 

$3.35 per gallon in Denver and 

Flaxton 

 

Great Granddaughter Emma 

Nelson visited Thursday at Donald 

Benges of Flaxton. 

David and Linda Peterson of 

Kalispell, Mont., have been in 

the area taking in the harvest 

days and visiting friends and 

relatives. 

Kenny and Arlene Peterson 

attended the football game in 

Stanley Tuesday evening. 

Graham and Dottie Shamah 

were to Minnewauken and Maddock 

as Graham attended a 

waste water meeting there on 

Wednesday. 

Melvin Christiansens had 

word that Lyle Sorenson of 

Ruskin, Neb., passed away Aug. 

29. He was the son of Frits and 

Olga Sorenson. 

Deepest sympathies to Brad. 

News n’ Views 

 

Saturday afternoon residents 

got some exercise by playing 

Ring Toss, making sure they 

were done in time for coffee 

and bingo. Isabel Sigvaldsen, 

Olga Rait Carol Brodal and Nettie 

Torgerson won two games; 

single game winners were Lorrain 

Wells, Ann Brandt, Charlotte 

Grote, Adeline Schell, Alice 

Anseth, and Donna Sandberg. 

Volunteers Arlene Olson, Evie 

Hagen, Beverly Bummer and 

Arlene Anderson ran the games. 

Residents found Sunday afternoon 

a perfect time to relax 

on the patio and walk outside 

accompanied by activity staff. 

Pastor Nelson of the Noonan 

parish sang and led the weekly 

worship service. 

“Let’s Talk,” the Monday 

morning activity, covered a 

Dakota 

Theatre 

Fri, Sat, Sun, Sept. 7-8-9, 7:30 p.m. 

COMING SOON: 

THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN 

PG13 

$4.00 at Willison. Here in Minot 

are $3.90. Judy is already going 

to be subbing at Burke Central 

and won’t turn down the opportunity 

for bridge playing 

with Sharon Lautenschlager, 

Gary and Myrnie Tveter, Ardath 

Kihle and Mary Powell even 

had Mary’s daughter Janet join 

them. 

Our granddaughter Kaloni Erickson 

spent the weekend with 

us and is presently practice 

teaching in Bottineau after attending 

MSU. Her mother Kathy 

and Jim Ellingson watched her 

take part in her running which 

took place at Trestle Valley, Burlington. 

Kaloni has taken an active 

part in running through her 

high school years. 

A little more history about 

Lawrence Oas’ family tells us 

that the children born to Nels 

and Olivia Oas were Chester, 

Irene, George, Ardis, Ina, Orien, 

Margie (Oas) Trihub and Colleen 

(Oas) Lee. Margie is the 

only remaining Oas and resides 

at Edgewood Vista. 

We received news of one time 

Portal girl Lois (Alpers) Erickson, 

(daughter of the late Paul 

and Irma Alpers) has moved 

from Cassleton to Atascadero, 

Calif., with her daughter Linda 

whose husband recently passed 

away. Lois was married to, now 

deceased, Wally Erickson and 

they had three children. Ernie 

and I spent many good times 

with Lois at Casselton. Paul and 

Irma Alpers owned Alpers Hardware 

store in Portal at one time. 

Mary Hagen recently moved 

from The Wellington her new 

address is: Knife River Care 

Center, 118 22nd St NE, Room 

311, Beulah, N.D., 58523. 

Doug and Arlene Beck with 

the aid of a family moved from 

Edgewood Vista to a little home 

located close to son Darren 

and Brenda. Their new address 

is 1124 6th St. NE, Minot, N.D., 

58703. 

On Aug. 28, it was four years 

Brett, and Brenda and their families 

in the loss of their father, 

John Halverson. 

On Thursday Jeannie Kalmbach 

drove Mary Bjergaard to 

Minot for a doctors appointment. 

They stopped and picked 

up Jeannie’s mother, Betty Frick 

and enjoyed lunch at the Olive 

Garden. 

Thursday evening Mary Bjergaard 

attended a birthday party 

for her great-granndaughter, 

Kennedy, at the city park in Portal 

Winners at pinochle at the 

Senior Citizens on Wednesday 

were Greg Hostbjor and Marion 

Swenson. 


column, please call Mary 

Bjergaard at 596-3563). 

range of topics including coffee 

and cookies. The afternoon 

gardening season had residents 

noticing the first signs of fall. 

“Shake Loose a Memory” was 

played after 3 p.m. coffee. 

Myrtle Hagen, Hazel Nelson, 

and Carol Brodal won games 

of “Card Matches” on Tuesday 

morning. That afternoon Helen 

Anseth, Alice Anseth, Charlotte 

Grote, Elda Macklin, and 

Mildred Walter were driven by 

activity staff to look at the new 

home being built by the Country 

Club, they also saw fields 

being harvested; all the while 

enjoying ice cream treats. Back 

at the Center the Music Makers 

were keeping every one else entertained. 

Wednesday was Journal Day 

and shopping day. The afternoon 

was filled with reading 

Now Showing 

“The Bourne Legacy” rated 

PG-13 with Jeremy Renner and 

Rachel Weisz. 

Aaron Cross (Renner) is a 

genetically modified CIA assassin 

who belongs to a program 

similar to the one that engineered 

the now-infamous Jason 

Bourne. When his program is 

discontinued, Cross is targeted 

for assassination himself. He is 

also cut off from the drugs that 

give him his mental and physical 

superiority. 

After surviving an initial attempt 

on his life, he is compelled 

to seek out Dr. Marta Shearing 

(Weisz), the scientist who could 

administer a serum that would 

since we moved here. We have 

been blessed with good neighbors, 

all people stopping to see 

us and keeping up with Columbus 

news which you all have 

helped with. Our address is 

3120 7th St., SW Apt #24, Minot 

and telephone 852-7573. 

~~ 

Descendants of Art and Lillian 

Watterud gathered for a 

reunion at the Doug Watterud 

farm southwest of Columbus 

on August 17-20. Those attending 

were Bonnie (Sharrell 

Watterud) and Brad Tucker of 

Maple Valley, Wash., with sons 

and their families: Steve Campbell, 

Kennewick, Wash.; Scott 

and Lyndee Campbell, Naches, 

Wash., and children Sasha and 

Trevor; and Shane and Brooke 

Campbell, Cutbank, Mont., with 

boys Luke and Caleb; Byron 

and Rosie Watterud, Bismarck, 

and their daughters: Cheri and 

Kevin Oswald, Williston with 

daughters, Emilee and Christina; 

and Shelley and Lorne Duppong, 

Bismarck with children, 

Jacob, Isaac and Kali Jo. Doug 

and Diana Watterud hosted 

the event with their children 

and grandchildren also attending: 

Todd and Danielle Watterud, 

Williston with children, 

Savannah, Sierra, Sofia and Ty; 

Tara and Jason Mercer, Helena, 

Mont., with daughters, Mariah, 

Ellie and Olivia; and Josh and 

Jessica Watterud, Fargo with 

son, Hunter. The weather was 

perfect, making for a great 

weekend of reminiscing, reconnecting, 

playing and making 

many new memories. 

Visitors at Tveters’ last weekend 

were Ryan Tveter and 

hunters, Justin Hansen and Tyler 

Odegard with their German 

shorthair puppies in training. 

Garry and Myrnie Tveter 

drove to Williston Aug 27 to 

celebrate Livvy Tveter’s fifth 

birthday and visit the rest of 

the families. 

Noonan 

 

 

Marilyn Hansen visited with 

Jody Schwanz last Monday afternoon. 

Rick and Vicki Lofgren 

were Sunday visitors at Chuck 

and Marilyn Hansen’s. 

Chuck, Marilyn, and Scott 

Hansen were supper guests of 

Scott and Brenda Busching. 

William was home from NDSU 

so they got to visit with him. 

Dave and Kathy Fagerland 

met Tim Ungeman and Tena, 

and Blake Henke and Kelsey 

in Minot and helped Tena celebrate 

her birthday. 


column, please call Iola 

Rosenquist, at 965-6297, or 

Kathy Fagerland, at 925- 

5614). 

and talking about the fire and 

other happenings reported in 

the Journal. A midweek bingo 

party put smiles on the faces of 

black out winners Mildred Walter, 

Nettie Torgerson and Jeanette 

Finnesgaurd. 

A memory game was played 

Thursday morning. Dare to 

Care visits featured walks in 

the back yard. Swede and Stella 

Benson invited Lou Oien and 

Myrtle Hanson to play cards 

with them in the activity room 

then had coffee together. Activities 

for the Soul were held in 

the Chapel. 

Dietary staff served fish for 

Friday’s dinner and since fish is 

supposed to be brain food another 

memory game was played 

in the afternoon, followed by 

card matches and a soda social. 

make his enhancements permanent. 

With the termination of the 

Outcome program, she is also 

to be tracked down and killed, 

so she and Cross go on the run 

together. 

Charged with cleaning up the 

mess Bourne left behind in the 

last film, Col. Eric Byer and Admiral 

Mark Turso play damage 

control from the halls, offices, 

and command center in Washington. 

The whole thing comes 

to a head in Manila where Byer 

and his team deduce Cross and 

Shearing are headed to concoct 

a serum that will make Aaron’s 

physical and mental superiority 

permanent

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 News Page 5 -- The Journal 

 

 

 

On popular meal days, this 

meant that “some kids would 

come back for thirds and 

fourths,” Kocher said. 

Students are now allowed 

only one portion of meat and 

grain, but may help themselves 

to the salad bar for seconds. 

“If uneaten food can’t be used 

for the salad bar the next day, 

I have to throw it out,” Kocher 

said. 

 

USDA regulations now stipulate 

the school must serve only 

whole grain bread in limited 

amounts. High school students 

must receive five cups of fruits 

and vegetables, with a maximum 

of 12 ounces of meats (or 

“meat alternates”) per week. 

That means big hits like beef 

stroganoff and French fries 

were wiped from the menu this 

year, replaced with options that 

are low in fat and salt. 

 

At the start of lunch service, 

Kocher takes two giant serving 

tubs out of the walk-in freezer 

and dumps in a large bag of 

greens. 

Students don’t like the new 

mix of romaine instead of last 

year’s iceberg lettuce, Kocher 

said. 

“We put out some romaine 

last year to get them ready for 

the change.” 

Students are free to take 

seconds from the salad bar, 

which offers greens, fresh fruit 

and other healthy options, 

with more variety likely on the 

way. 

“We’ve already got the green 

light to boost it up a little bit,” 

Kocher said. 

She intends to add hard 

boiled eggs and cottage cheese 

to the lineup to make the salad 

bar more appealing. 

 

Falling lunchroom numbers 

suggest students are getting 

food from home or eating out -- 

potentially turning students to 

unhealthy options outside the 

lunchroom. 

Only 76 out of the total junior 

high and high school enrollment 

of 131 students ate lunch 

on Thursday. 

Because the new regulations 

state other food supplies must 

not compete with school lunches, 

the cafeteria snack machine 

is turned off until the last five 

minutes of the lunch period. 

That’s when a rush of junior 

high students line up to 

await their turn to buy candy 

and chocolate, even as school 

lunch trays return with uneaten 

food. 

Senior high students have 

the option of leaving campus 

for lunch. Many return with 

fast food items or snack food 

staples. 

“It’s better than what they 

have at school,” said one student. 

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Funding for school lunches 

increased about six cents per 

student, the first increase in 

payouts to schools in 30 years, 

as part of the new lunch program, 

according to the USDA. 

The school receives $2.77 

for each student enrolled in the 

free lunch program. 

As long as the school district 

continues to accept federal 

funding, it must abide by the 

stricter rules. 

“There is nothing we can do 

about it unless we want to lose 

our funding,” said Principal 

Travis Frank. “I don’t know of 

a single person who likes this 

change.” 

Frank said students were 

passionate about the new lunch 

system at an assembly at the 

beginning of the year. 

“We want to see if there is any 

way to offer seconds,” Frank 

said. “We don’t want to throw 

food out.” 

Frank said he is looking into 

solving the problem of the lack 

of food. 

Possible solutions include 

providing second helpings 

to students at their own expense. 

Extra food paid for by the students 

does not qualify for the 

nutritional limits imposed by 

the federal government. 

If that option is allowed, 

Frank said it could be approved 

within a month. 

 

 

 

 

 

Plans to submit two budgets to the county -- 

one with sales tax revenue, one without -- was 

snagged when the city auditor refused to accept 

two budgets. 

A request to the park board for a copy of the 

approved budget went unanswered last week. 

Revenue from sales tax won’t kick in until next 

year, said Anderson, so they need their full 35 

mills in 2013. 

If the sales tax amendment fails, the board will 

keep collecting property tax at their full allotment 

of 35 mills per year. 

Last month the board proposed $2.4 million in 

improvements to local park facilities to the city 

council. Major projects included $537,000 for a 

bathroom facility in West Park and $215,000 for 

new equipment for the park shop and office. 

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On one of the longer road 

trips of the season, Divide County 

racked up the season’s third 

straight grid win against Hettinger 

on Friday. 

“We got our big road trip out 

of the way. We should have left 

a little earlier and took the kids 

a bit farther south to see Mt. 

Rushmore and the Black Hills,” 

Maroons Coach Nate Nelson 

joked, following the win. 

The Maroons defense held 

Hettinger from scoring until 

very late in the fourth quarter 

for a 38-6 victory. 

“The kids handled the long 

trip very well. We were ready to 

play against an athletic team.” 

The Maroons were held 

scoreless though half of the first 

quarter before Bennett Lystad 

scored on a 37-yard pass from 

Lance Knudson. 

Knudson would rush the next 

three DC touchdowns to hold a 

dominating lead for the remainder 

of the match. 

“I was very pleased with how 

ready to play and focused the 

players were after a six hour 

bus ride,” Maroons Coach Bob 

Brown said. “The offensive line 

dominated and the execution 

was sharp.” 

“The backs really carried out 

their fakes well and make some 

nice cuts.” 

The Maroons completed two 

of three passes and stuck to 

rushing the ball for most of the 

game. 

 

 

 

“We only threw one pass because 

we were getting yards in 

chunks in the run game.” 

Both Knudson and Lystad 

eclipsed the 100-yard rushing 

mark with Knudson leading 

the way with 121, while Lystad 

rushed 104 yards. 

Isaac Jacobs and Taylor Johnson 

set the pace defensively 

with 27 and 16 points respectively. 

The Maroons will be back at 

home on Friday night when they 

host Center, but the coaches are 

looking at the game with guarded 

optimism. 

“It will be nice to be at home 

again this weekend. We are excited 

to play under our new 

lights for the first time. Center 

is short on numbers, but they 

have a couple talented kids that 

would start for any team in the 

region,” Brown said. 

Nelson agreed that it was going 

to take a solid effort by the 

DC crew. 

“Now we get to stay home for 

a couple weeks and the games 

continue to get tougher each 

and every week. 

Center has some good athletes 

and are a physical football 

team. We really need a good 

week of practice.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Divide County volleyball team began 

regular season action on the road, falling to 

Watford City 4-1 and to Ray 3-0 last week. 

 

The Divide County volleyball team traveled 

to Watford City last Tuesday to open 

their season. 

The team fell in four games, but the players’ 

teamwork and effort were the positives 

for the night. 

“The girls had a great start in Watford. We 

made some small errors that will get better 

as we grow,” said head coach Morgan Ames. 

Jacey Wissbrod led the team with seven 

aces, while Gabi Wigness stepped up on offense 

and defense with seven kills and eight 

digs. 

“Gabi had a great night at the net and in 

digs,” Ames said. 

The Maroons lost the first two games, won 

 

 

 

the third, and lost the fourth in best out of 

five matches. 

 

After a tough opening loss to Watford City, 

the Maroons traveled to Ray two days later 

to take on the Jays. 

The team started the game with a positive 

attitude, but the young players could not 

keep up with the Jays, losing the match in 

three games. 

“We are a young team and we make silly 

mistakes sometimes, but everyone came out 

with a great attitude and is ready to learn 

from each game they play,” said Ames. 

Ames said she appreciates the team’s wiliness 

to learn from hard losses this past week. 

The Maroons struggled to get serves over 

the net, allowing the Jays to capitalize. 

“Our girls really struggled with our serves 

during this game,” said Ames. 

“Haley Glasoe led for us at the net,” Ames. 

Glasoe tallied five kills and three blocks. 

The team missed former Maroon, Hanna 

Gillund, who transferred to Ray this school 

season. Gillund was a standout on last year’s 

team. 

Despite the two opening losses, the DC 

Maroons look to improve with every practice 

and game. 

The team will face Powers Lake on Sept. 

6, then head for the Watford City invitational 

tournament on Sept. 8. 

They play another road game in Tioga on 

Sept. 11 before a four-game homestead in 

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One Time it was News 

 

Wednesday, September 4, 2002: Local horsewoman 

Carol Hay can feed her horses in relative 

peace, knowing they already have some protection 

from West Nile Virus. After receiving two 

shots this spring, they’ll need a booster shot every 

year to continue to be protected. A local vet 

says the virus is in Divide County, even though 

the state has yet to report a lab-confirmed case 

here. 

Thane Lund works on his Eagle Scout project, 

painting a red, whte and blue flag motiff on the 

American Legion building at the Divide County 

Fairgrounds, just in time for the observance of 

the 9-11 anniversary. 

The town of Fortuna is facing another big water 

headache - and this one will be much more costly 

than the last. It will take an estemated $180,000 to 

make improvements to rid the town’s water supply 

of arsenic. The improvements are federally 

mandated by 2006. 

Divide County’s Chad Bakken had two Williams 

County players holding him back, but he managed 

to stretch for a few extra yards in the Maroons 

game at Ray Friday. DC claimed an 18-8 win 

in the season opener. 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1992: Three of six area 

school districts recorded a slight bump in enrollment. 

Divide County is up seven students to 432 

this year. Wildrose-Alamo is up from 75 students 

to 84, and Westby gained three students to 106. 

A 10-mill road levy authorized by voters last 

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June accounts for a $60,000 increase in Divide 

County’s preliminary budget for next year. 

David Jacobson is the new president of the Divide 

County High School student council. 

Audrey Faldalen is beginning a two year term 

as president of the North Dakota District 2 Veterans 

of Foreign Wars. 

Annalise Johnson, daughter of Brad and Denise 

Johnson, Crosby, was named grand champion in 

the State Fair open class competition for elementary 

students for a picture of a cat made out of 

scrap fabric. 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1982: Harvest got a boost 

from the weather with 70 percent of the area 

wheat harvest completed, according to Divide 

County Agent Leonard Biwer. 

Every area team picked up a win during the 

first week of girls basketball. The Wildrose Roses, 

led by Jill Solem, trounced the Burke Central 

Panthers 72-35. Denise Fortier and Candice Hanson 

both had double figure scoring. Columbus 

dumped Powers Lake 50-38 with 20 points from 

Mary Jo Benson, and 14 from Tina Darras. 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1972: Mr. and Mrs. Roger 

Nichols of Crosby became parents of a son Sept. 

3. 

Two Wildrose men, Howard Holten and Lloyd 

Bauste, were recovering from burns received in a 

furnace explosion. The Bauste home in Wildrose 

was badly burned and window glass was scattered 

all over the yard following the explosion. 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1962: Crosby Creamery installed 

a new butter printing machine, the largest 

of its kind in North Dakota, to market Country 

Style Butter. 

Wally Koppelsloen of Columbus, a lineman for 

Burke-Divide Electric, escaped serious injury 

when he fell 50 feet from a power line pole. He suffered 

a broken collarbone, several fractured ribs, 

and an electrical burn on one hand. 

Boys were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kaare Knutson 

of Ambrose Aug. 30, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis and Mr. 

and Mrs. Art Tysse of Crosby Aug. 31; and a boy 

to Mr. and Mrs. Oiva Maki of Crosby on Sept. 3. 

Edwin Carlstad, a Crosby native who has been 

living in Montana, has leased the former Hiway 

Texaco station and will operate it under the 

name, Ed’s Texaco Station. 

 

Thursday, Sept. 4, 1952: The first serious fire in 

town in the past few years occurred when Andy’s 

Cafe was gutted by flames. The equipment and 

stock of goods was a total loss and the damage to 

the building reached several thousand dollars. 

John Nordstog reported that a 94-acre field 

of wheat just south of Crosby yielded just over 

27 bushels per acre and weighed 59 pounds per 

bushel. 

Two Crosby men, Bob Steen and Jordean Listoe, 

escaped injury as did all others involved in a 

three-car accident near Bowbells. Steen was driving 

through a rain storm and rammed into the 

back end of a pickup without taillights. 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bratlien of Columbus became 

parents of a son born Sept. 2. 

A mink which bit a sheepdog on the Otto Vicha 

farm near Corinth had rabies. The mink attacked 

Vicha near his farm and he ran to the barn, got a 

pitchfork, and killed it. The sheepdog was vaccinated 

for rabies and isolated. 

 

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Lemier, both 21 years old and residents of Wildrose, 

were instantly killed in a car-truck crash 

two miles north of Williston on Highway 3. Edward 

Lemire was seriously injured and Marcus 

Stefonowicz, Archie Wrolson and Francis Homer 

escaped with slight injuries. 

Twenty-five new citizens admitted at a naturalization 

hearing held before Judge Lowe were 

Edwin Ralph, Torlief Anderson, Anders Anderson, 

Ulla Nielsen, Geo. A. Mitchell Jr., Bertha Wanner, 

Anton J. Mitchell, Christian Wanner, George M. 

Mitchell and Anna Mitchell, all of Crosby; Sigurd 

Johanson, Priscilla Bye, Tollef Bratlin, Gyda Bratlin, 

Krist Bratlin, Inga Bratlin, Jules Bourdeau, 

Julia Bourdeau, Archie Bourdeau, all of Noonan; 

Clifford Moss, McGregor; Carl J. Benson, Zahl; Esther 

Christenson and Berton O. Ekanger, Grenora; 

Margaret Parsley, Ambrose, and Christine Peterson, 

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 

New NCC general manager has a long history with phone co-op 

By Cecile Krimm 

When Northwest Communications 

Cooperative of Ray 

announced Mike Steffan as an 

interim general manager a few 

months ago, it was anything but 

a forgone conclusion he would 

take the job on a permanent basis. 

“The reason I decided to accept 

the position is because of 

the team of managers, supervisors 

and employees that we 

were able to keep in place for 

NCC,” Steffan said. 

Without that stalwart group, 

said Steffan, and their encouragement, 

his answer may have 

been different when board members 

approached him with the 

offer mid-summer. 

Afterall, “It is the employees 

that make the difference in the 

success of the business,” Steffan 

said, and he wanted to be sure 

the staff would accept him in his 

new role. 

Steffan had worked as the 

Mike Steffan 

chief financial officer for the coop 

for 15 years. 

His new position, as General 

Manager and Chief Executive 

officer, brings with it a host of 

challenges -- and also, some exciting 

new opportunities. 

“What we’re trying to get 

through right now is trying to 

upgrade all of our facilities,” he 

said, while also expanding the 

services the co-op offers to its 

patrons. 

Development of new services 

will be essential for the co-op to 

continue thriving, Steffan said, 

as long-available federal revenue 

streams go by the wayside. 

Regulations already in place 

call for the automatic reduction 

of federal revenues for telecommunications 

providers over the 

next 20 years. 

Cloud computing, data center 

services, environment and 

security monitoring are all new 

services either being put online 

now or into the planning pipeline 

for future delivery. 

But unlike the additional challenge 

most telecoms face today 

due to a decline in land line customers, 

NCC is also dealing with 

an avalanche of new customers 

-- particularly business customers 

lured by an oil boom. 

“We’re probably one of probably 

a half dozen telecoms in the 

country who are actually seeing 

growth in all of our services,” he 

said, including cable hookups. 

Meanwhile, the story in much 

of the rest of the nation is of 

people cutting out premium 

channels and services. 

In northwestern North Dakota, 

it is just the opposite. 

“As these new people come 

in, the average age is coming 

down,” and they have a tremendous 

appetite for technology of 

all kinds, Steffan said. 

“We’re struggling just to keep 

up with new businesses,” he 

said. 

While businesses with two or 

three line systems once were the 

norm, “These companies want 

30, 40, 50 lines, so everything is 

scaled up from what we’re used 

to working with,” he said. 

Finding and keeping employees 

is another challenge. NCC 

currently employs 43 full time 

staff and about 9 contractors, 

but Steffan sees the potential 

for 50 full time workers in the 

future. 

Like many employers in the 

oil patch today, NCC has become 

a “reluctant landlord.” 

“I don’t remember the day 

we haven’t been advertising for 

people,” he said, but housing is 

a key to landing or retaining all 

workers these days. 

Traditionally one of the higher 

paying employers in the region, 

NCC has seen even that norm 

challenged as high wage oil 

field jobs attract skilled workers 

away from the telecom industry. 

“We’re playing in a whole different 

ball game,” he said. 

The co-op recently expanded 

its Internet ring from 1 gigabyte 

to 10 gigabytes to insure a wide 

enough information highway in 

the region, and they’re already 

doing the engineering on the 

next upgrade -- to 100 gigabytes. 

As the co-op keeps its eye on 

the technological future, they 

also must keep a lookout for today’s 

boom to decline. 

“How do we expand our revenue 

base so that when that day 

comes, we’re prepared?” asked 

Steffan. 

That is the question he and 

his board must deal with at every 

monthly meeting. 

“We’re trying to stay ahead 

of the game and no one knows 

where this is going to end.” 

Not even supper table conversation 

is insulated from discussion 

of growth and change in 

the region. Mike shares that table 

with his wife, Kim, who is the 

Ray City Auditor and a member 

of the Williams County Planning 

Commission. 

“Sometimes our dinner is at 

10 or later,” he said, but rarely is 

there a lack of some new development 

to talk about. 

Time is ticking for Dakota Theatre 

By Cecile Krimm 

They’ve sold posters, collected 

odd change and sent letters 

galore, but a campaign to 

raise $75,000 for a new digital 

project has just kicked into a 

new gear. 

“We’re already having problems 

getting movies,” said 

Chrissy Garton, Dakota Theatre 

volunteer. 

The problem could become 

insurmountable if the new 

equipment is not installed by 

the end of the year. 

That’s the drop dead date 

movie companies are giving 

small theaters to make the conversion 

to digital projection. 

Also pushing the time limit 

is an offer by the theater’s projection 

contractor to make the 

install in October when several 

other theaters in the region are 

making the switch. If they can 

meet that deadline, the theater 

stands to save about $3,000, 

bringing the equipment and install 

down to under $72,000. 

In hand right now is about 

$38,000 -- just over half the cash 

needed to make the switch. 

“I really believe the community 

will come together,” 

Garton said, just as they did 

12 years ago when the theater 

was put under the auspices 

of the non-profit Meadowlark 

Arts Council. Since then, a volunteer 

management committee 

has kept the theater open, 

booking current movies every 

weekend. Though times were 

lean for many years, patronage 

is now growing. 

“The movies have been doing 

great,” Garton said, with family 

movies like last weekend’s “Ice 

By Sean Lee 

Plans for a 270-mile gas gathering 

system by Oklahomabased 

ONEOK would help curb 

the flaring of natural gas in Divide 

County. The new system is 

expected to be open next year 

and will gather natural gas from 

all around the county, according 

to a ONEOK press release. 

A compressor station and 

pipeyard recently received 

county zoning approval. The 

state also granted the pipeline 

approval last week. 

Cecile Krimm -- The Journal 

Young movie-goers Saturday peruse the candy at the concession counter at the Dakota Theatre. 

Age” doing especially well. 

“Every weekend has been a 

thousand dollars or more,” she 

said, but that income does little 

more than pay the help, keep 

the utilities on and the building 

maintained. 

Though a loan for a digital 

projector would probably be 

workable for a private business, 

it’s a step the non-profit 

group rejects for fear individual 

board members could be left 

holding the bag. 

Every few weeks as Garton 

attempts to book the next set 

of shows, her supplier is telling 

her there are some movies 

she can’t have -- there simply 

are not enough prints being 

made. Yet, if a digital projector 

could be installed, a whole new 

world of possibilities would 

be opened including teleconferencing 

over the Internet or 

Skype meetings. 

The arrival of such a project, 

said Justin Kringstad, president 

of the North Dakota Pipeline 

Authority, should be welcome 

news because pipelines are a 

more permanent and less hazardous 

solution than trucking 

Another benefit is that it 

stops the waste of natural gas 

through flaring, which has 

been necessary because gas 

from wells located too far away 

from natural gas processing 

stations is cost-prohibitive to 

take to market. The cost for 

Garton has made that information 

known to oil companies 

working in the area, in the hope 

they will see value in supporting 

the project -- not just for the 

quality of life for their workers, 

but because there are real benefits 

for their operations. 

Many of the new people in 

the area, she said, are also unaware 

of the fact the theater is 

non-profit and uses such outof-date 

equipment. 

“I tell them, ‘You know that 

thump-thump-click-click you 

hear? That’s our 40-year-old 

projector upstairs and it needs 

to be replaced.’” 

A digital projector may 

also allow the theater to offer 

expanded show times, such 

as matinees or later evening 

shows for workers who can’t 

make the standard 7:30 p.m. 

screenings. 

With the old equipment, only 

a few specially trained workers 

can run the films. But with 

digital, it’s all programmed and 

virtually trouble free. 

“We can get any preview we 

want, any movie,” said Garton. 

A donation form printed 

elsewhere in this week’s edition 

is just another stab at trying 

to collect enough money to 

put the campaign over the top. 

Though it may sound like an 

empty threat in September, she 

said, the theater could close by 

January if the money doesn’t 

come in. 

“You can’t go there and walk 

in off the street and buy cheese 

popcorn and a cherry pop,” as 

so many people do on a weekend 

night -- even if they don’t 

sit down and watch the show. 

Without current movies every 

weekend, the building may 

remain, “but it’s not the Dakota 

Theatre anymore.” 

ONEOK pipeline system should be easy on area roads 

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pipelines, said Kringstad, is 

much higher up front than other 

types of transport like truck 

or rail. 

“The major player right now 

is rail,” he said. 

Even a pipeline that runs just 

a short distance can give North 

Dakota roads a break. 

The ONEOK pipeline will 

be a system of lines to gather 

natural gas from individual 

wells and transport it south to 

a processing facility in Williams 

County. That facility will be capable 

of processing 100 million 

cubic feet per day, according to 

the company. 

“From a production standpoint, 

it’s an economic and safe 

way to transport product,” said 

Kringstad. 

Pipelines will become a 

greater part of oil and gas infrastructure 

as time goes on, he 

said. 

“As rigs continue to work 

in Divide County, we’ll see an 

increase in pipeline crews,” 

Kringstad said. 

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Times changing 

for Flaxton 

With more and more developers 

looking to build, some Flaxton 

residents are becoming concerned 

about keeping growth 

and development orderly. 

Three of them met last month 

with the Burke County Zoning 

Commission to talk about the 

possibility of initiating a system 

for zoning and building permits. 

Dorothy Shamah, Jeanie Read 

and Marcia Olney asked the 

commission for guidance in implementing 

planning and zoning 

procedures. 

Shamah has been combing 

through Flaxton City Council 

minutes dating back to the 

1970s, and has been unable to 

find any evidence of planning 

and zoning for the city. 

Now that develoment is occurring, 

the city has no control 

over what happens where. 

The three residents asked 

about the possibility of the 

commission taking over zoning 

for the city. Commission members 

advised that taking that 

step would require a city council 

resolution. 

-- Burke County Tribune 

Bowbells 

Two injured in 

explosion 

An explosion at an oil well 

site located between Alexander 

and Arnegard severely burned 

two men who were transported 

by air ambulance to a burn center 

in St. Paul, Minn. 

The McKenzie County Sheriff’s 

Department reported the 

Aug. 22 explosion was at a 

Statoil oil well site. Two workers, 

Bruce Ford, 52, and Rod 

Law, 48, were injured. 

“My understanding is that 

the men were working on a well 

tank that was empty except for 

gas fumes,” said Jim Larson of 

the Arnegard Fire Department. 

“Those fumes were somehow 

ignited, which caused the explosion.” 

Larson’s statement was confirmed 

by Ola Morten Aanestad, 

Statoil vice president, who explained 

that the two men were 

contractors performing maintenance 

on a production site for 

Statoil. 

Ford and Law were badly 

burned in the explosion and 

were stabilized at Mercy Medical 

Center in Williston then 

transported to Regions Medical 

Center in St. Paul, Minn. 

--McKenzie County Farmer, 

Watford City 

Clinic opening 

in Watford 

Two nurse practitioners are 

opening a private health center 

in Watford City. Anita Pedersen 

and Vonnie Johnson, both with 

long-time experience as registered 

nurses, are opening the 

ANOVA Family Health Center. 

The clinic will focus on family 

practice and primary care with 

an emphasis on health promotion 

and disease prevention. 

Johnson and Pedersen said 

nurse practitioners can practice 

independently with licenses 

from the State Board of Nursing. 

However, they have spoken 

with McKenzie County Healthcare 

systems about using hospital 

services like x-ray, ct scan, 

cardiac rehab and physical 

therapy. 

They also have discussed establishing 

protocols for potential 

hospital admissions. 

-- McKenzie County Farmer, 

Watford City 

Mountrail gets 

new offices 

A number of Mountrail County 

employees will be getting new 

offices when the county opens 

a new, 20,000-square-foot office 

building near the intersection of 

U.S. 2 and N.D. 8. 

Plans are to open the new 

building next week, with offices 

for the Highway Department, 

Planning and Zoning, Emergency 

Management, the county 

engineer and Mountrail County 

Extension Service. 

There also will be a conference 

room with video conferencing, 

to be used primarily for 

county meetings. 

In addition, there will be a 

large meeting room that will accommodate 

crowds of up to 200 

people. 

-- Mountrail County Promoter 

Ray cafe 

‘gits-r-done’ 

Driving to work Tuesday last 

week, Theresa Eubank, manager 

of the Top Drive Cafe in Ray, 

heard an advertisement about 

Larry the Cable Guy making an 

appearance in Williston. 

“I came to work and said, 

‘Wouldn’t it be cool if we saw 

Larry the Cable Guy today?’” 

Imagine her surprise when, 

just a few minutes before closing 

time Tuesday last week, in 

walked a man inquiring whether 

the eatery could accommodate 

a table for eight. 

The party included Larry 

“the Cable Guy” Whitney and 

seven of his “Only in America” 

show crew members. 

Known for his signature 

catchphrase, “Git-R-Done,” the 

History Channel star is as well 

known for his redneck comedy 

as for pitching products from 

NutriSystem to Prilosec. He also 

voiced the animated character 

of Mater in the popular “Cars” 

movie series. 

Whitney started the day at 

the Capital Lodge a few miles 

east of Ray, helping the maintenance 

crew set up a new 

housing unit, and ended with a 

ribbon cutting at a business in 

Williston. 

-- The Tioga Tribune 

Impact fees 

cause a rift 

A developer and the City of 

Ray are at loggerheads over the 

city’s plans to charge impact 

fees for developments. Joel 

Fremstad, Fargo, an attorney for 

Sandcreek Estates, complained 

that the impact fees are illegal 

in North Dakota. 

Mayor Ken Munson said the 

issue should be put on the next 

meeting agenda. 

“You are blindsiding us,” said 

Munson, without any warning 

or ability to prepare a response. 

Fremstad suggested infrastructure 

like a lift station, 

should afford the developers 

some credit toward the impact 

fees, if they are charged.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 Agriculture Page 9 -- The Journal 

 

 

Harvest going full steam 

Winter wheat acres 

increased significantly 

this past year as it 

County 

was a good option for 

some of the prevented Agent 

planting acreage from 

2011. Based on the 

success that producers 

had with winter 

wheat this year, it is anticipated that a significant acreage will 

be planted to winter wheat again this fall although the dry conditions 

we are currently experiencing are becoming a concern. 

With more producers planning on planting winter wheat this 

fall, there have been questions on the seeding rate for winter 

wheat. NDSU recommends a seeding rate of 900,000 pure live 

seeds per acre for winter wheat and suggests higher seeding 

rates for late seeding or poor seedbed conditions. 

Montana recommends a planting rate of 15 to 21 pure live 

seeds per square foot which would equal a seeding rate of 

around 653,000 to 915,000 pure live seeds per acre. In high residue 

no-till systems, they recommend increasing the seeding 

rate to 915,000 to 1.2 million pure live seeds per acre to compensate 

for some poorly placed seeds that won’t germinate. They 

also recommend that seeding rates be increased if seeding is delayed 

past the optimum period to compensate for the reduced 

opportunity for the winter wheat to tiller. 

Ducks Unlimited, which has done a considerable amount of 

work with winter wheat as part of their winter cereals program, 

recommends a seeding rate of 1.2 to 1.5 million pure live seeds 

per acre with the higher seeding rates recommended after mid- 

September to compensate for any stand loss from winter-kill 

due to reduced crown development in the winter wheat seedlings. 

They typically use a seeding rate of 1.2 million pure live 

seeds per acre for their winter wheat variety trials. 

From a research standpoint, a trial was conducted at the Langdon 

Research Extension Center a few years ago to determine 

the influence of seeding rate on hard red winter wheat yield and 

various agronomic characteristics. The trial was carried out 

from 2006 to 2008. Jerry winter wheat was used in the trial and 

it was seeded at rates of 0.75, 1.00, 1.25 and 1.50 million pure 

live seeds per acre. Final results of the trial found that there 

was no significant difference in yields between the 1.00, 1.25 and 

1.50 million pure live seeding rates but all of these seeding rates 

were significantly better than the 0.75 million pure live seeding 

rate. It should be noted that there was no significant difference 

in winter survival between any of the seeding rates and that 

winter kill was not an issue in the trial with over winter survival 

rates of 93 percent or better during the years the trial was conducted. 

There was also no significant difference in test weight, 

protein, heading date, plant height or lodging between any of 

the seeding rates. 

All of this would suggest a minimum seeding rate of 900,000 

to 1.0 million pure live seeds per acre under optimal conditions 

and that we should probably be looking at a seeding rate of 1.2 

to 1.25 million pure live seeds per acre under less than optimal 

condition. 

To determine the seeding rate in pounds or bushels per acre, 

a seed count is very helpful. When buying seed, ask the seller 

if they have a seed count on variety. Seed counts can also be 

requested when sending in samples for germination testing. 

In the trial at Langdon, the Jerry winter wheat had a seed 

count of around 15,240 seeds per pound. Assuming a 90 percent 

germination rate, that would equal roughly 13,700 viable 

or pure live seeds per pound. For a planting rate of 900,000 to 

1.0 million pure live seeds per acre that would work out to 66 to 

73 pounds per acre or 1.1 to 1.2 bushel per acre. For a seeding 

rate of 1.25 million pure live seeds per acre, you would need to 

seed just over 90 pounds per acre or about 1.5 bushels per acre. 

For a seeding rate of 1.5 million pure live seeds per acre as recommend 

by Ducks Unlimited under later seeding with less than 

optimal conditions, you would need to seed around 109 pounds 

per acre or about 1.8 bushels per acre. 

Seed size and the number of seeds per pound does vary between 

varieties and also varies within varieties from year to 

year. The germination percentage can also have an impact on 

final seeding rates with less seed need per acre with higher germination 

rates or more need with lower germination rates. 

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In the 2012 Fall Edition of the 

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NDSU Extension Family 

Economist Specialist shares the 

following article. Information I 

wish I had when I sent my two 

young adults to college. 

Here’s something to consider 

adding to a college student’s 

list of back-to school supplies: a 

stack of envelopes. No, not for 

sending you snail mail. Rather, 

for learning how to become financially 

independent. 

True financial independence 

requires living within your 

means. And that requires learning 

how to manage your day-today 

cash flow. The vast majority 

of investors practice what Steve 

Smith, chief executive officer 

of online budgeting-system developer 

Finicity, calls “account 

balance spending.” That is, they 

make their routine spending decisions 

based on the overall balance 

in their primary account, 

typically a checking account. 

This works pretty well until 

you have an “emergency,” such 

as the car breaking down or a 

long-forgotten insurance payment 

coming due. Smith says 20 

percent of our annual spending 

falls in the category of periodic 

spending: things such as vacations, 

holiday gifts and those 

dreaded car repairs. 

What if, instead, you set 

aside separate pools of money 

in advance – OK, maybe not in 

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and the periodic (holiday gifts)? 

This might be a daunting task 

for those with complex financial 

lives. But for a college student, 

it’s relatively easy and a nice 

way to build basic money skills 

and lay the foundation for a lifetime 

of healthy spending habits. 

“If you can get your child to 

start thinking in terms of envelope 

balances rather than account 

balances before they go 

off to school, you have done 

them a huge service,” says 

Smith, who has four children, 

including one entering college 

this year. 

Begin by helping your child 

identify all of his or her school 

costs (tuition, room and board, 

books) and living expenses (car 

insurance, gas, parking). Don’t 

forget discretionary items such 

as restaurant tabs and concert 

tickets. For the annual expenses, 

divide by 12. 

Then take your child’s income 

from all sources, including 

part-time or summer jobs, 

scholarships, loans and, of 

course, the Bank of Mom and 

Dad, and allocate it among the 

various envelopes. 

Finicity’s www.mvelopes. 

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by connecting with your 

existing bank account or accounts, 

tracking your deposit 

and spending transactions, and 

assigning them to various categories, 

or “envelopes.” The 

free version handles up to four 

online accounts and provides 

for a maximum of 25 envelopes, 

plenty for someone going off to 

school. 

You also can do a rudimentary 

version of this through Internet 

banks such as ING Direct 

and even traditional banks such 

as J.P. Morgan Chase, which 

give you the ability to set up 

and manage multiple subaccounts 

online. 

Scrutinize each expense, especially 

the discretionary ones. 

Sometimes the hardest thing 

for students to learn is how to 

say “no” to spending, especially 

when all their friends seem to 

be saying “yes.” 

What you’re trying to do is 

right-size their month-to-month 

expenses and build a cushion to 

absorb the periodic ones. 

With that in mind, don’t forget 

to include an envelope for 

longer-term savings, such as 

for a spring-break vacation or a 

new car. 

“The best way to curb your 

spending is by setting a financial 

goal worth saving for,” says Bob 

Stammers, director of investor 

education at the Chartered Financial 

Analyst Institute. 

Envelope-balance spending 

is hard-core. If the dining-out 

envelope runs dry before the 

month is over, your student 

will be forced to make a choice: 

Steal from another envelope 

(bad choice) or forgo dining out 

until next month (good choice). 

A word about credit cards: 

Some advisers feel college students 

should not have credit 

cards to fall back on. Others feel 

credit cards, used responsibly 

( paid on time and in full), are 

helpful in building a student’s 

credit history. 

San Diego financial adviser 

Deborah Fox had her son get a 

few credit cards when he was 

in college. He graduated last 

spring with a credit score of 

760, which enabled him to finance 

the purchase of his first 

car with an interest rate of 2 

percent. 

Of course, Fox also had her 

son earn $3,000 to $4,000 per 

year to cover the bills, “not to 

be mean,” she says, “but for him 

to learn how to live within his 

means.” 

It’s a lesson well worth learning, 

but one not likely to be 

found between the covers of 

those pricey college textbooks. 

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Uff da!: Hay can be purchased, but it’s not easy on the checkbook 

By Ken Ringwall, 

Beef Specialist 

NDSU Extension Service 

Seven hundred eighty dollars’ 

worth of hay for a calf: uff 

da! Seasonal and yearly trends 

repeat. In fact, in 2008, the same 

concerns were very evident as 

the hay yards were empty. 

If one drives around much 

of the country, 2012 is a lot like 

2008. The traditional summer 

hay is somewhat scarce in many 

areas and, in some areas, nonexistent. 

Maybe some solace 

can be found in the fact that we 

survived previous dry spells, so 

we also can survive this one. 

Unfortunately and with much 

regret, not all producers will 

be able to survive. Hay can be 

purchased, but the checkbook 

may not be deep enough. If one 

is to maintain a cow herd, the 

hay yard needs hay. Pricing hay 

is difficult, and this year is no 

different. It goes without saying 

that prices will go higher. In 

fact, at the center, pricing hay 

or establishing contracts for 

hay always is a challenge. 

When hay is plentiful, there 

may not be a market for hay. 

The hay yards will fill with copious 

quantities, and it is not unusual 

to put up enough hay to 

have a year’s hay crop carried 

over for next year. 

In years like this, the complete 

opposite is true because 

the hay is gone. For those who 

produce hay, this is a good year 

if some hay was put up and is 

available for sale. 

The challenge with hay is that 

it is hard to project. A feedlot 

knows how much grain it needs 

year in and year out. 

Cow-calf producers need to 

keep a tight handle on their 

livestock inventory because the 

hay needs are in direct correlation 

to the amount of animals 

that need feed, which is not 

consumed until after the growing 

season has ended. 

Last year, the center bought 

more than 225 tons of alfalfa at 

$50 per ton. That was even on 

the low side of the center’s seasonal 

hay purchases through 

the years. Two years ago, the 

center paid $65 per ton for alfalfa 

and grass/alfalfa mixed hay. 

During typical normal years, 

the price tag has been in the 

$60- to $70-per-ton range. Good 

grass hay at $30 to $40 per 

ton also has not been unusual 

through the years. However, all 

that has changed. 

The center recently purchased 

alfalfa hay cubes at $185 

per ton and felt that was a good 

price. The center is looking at 

the cubes as a supplement, not 

the main hay ration. 

The Ringwall drive-by approach 

to hay inventory figures 

that there ought to be one large, 

round bale for every cow and 

month one is planning on feeding. 

Obviously, the nutritionist 

will point out quickly that 

we need to know bale weight 

and the real need for a quality 

analysis. The veterinarian community 

will note the need for 

nitrate testing and monitoring 

for any other health concerns 

if the producer is using poorly 

prepared hay. 

However, for a generic starting 

point, the Ringwall method 

works. Also, the bales generally 

come in pretty heavy, so 

there seems to be enough extra 

weight on the bales to make 

sure there is some hay for the 

calves, bulls and a few horses. 

If the center tries to maintain 

350 cows through an anticipated 

six-month feeding period, 

the bale count should be 2,100 

bales. That would mean feeding 

cattle from November through 

April. For a large part of the upper 

Midwest, those dates coincide 

with the time forage does 

not grow. 

If we estimated the bale 

weight at 1,300 pounds, the 

center would need 1,365 tons 

of hay. The center would spend 

$136,500, or $390 per expected 

calf, if the center bought the 

hay at $100 per ton. At $200 per 

ton, the cost would be $273,000, 

or $780 per calf. 

Uff da! That is not going to 

work. 

Last year, the center would 

have supplemented raised feed 

with approximately 350 purchased 

bales. The year before, 

it would have been 700 bales. 

Fortunately, those purchased 

bales have kept some hay in the 

hay yard, so the center will survive. 

During the last dry season, 

the center put up approximately 

400 bales. The difference is 

simple math. We take the 2,100 

bales we need, minus the 400 we 

have, which means the center 

needs to purchase 1,700 bales. 

For many producers who are 

surrounded by drought, the 

transportation costs are prohibitive. 

The current price of hay is 

$100 to $200 per ton. However, 

that doesn’t include trucking. 

That is an uff da! 

There are a few price quotes 

coming in at less than $100 per 

ton. However, there are a considerable 

number of quotes 

coming in at more than $200 a 

ton. Let’s stop right there and 

take a deep breath and mutter 

uff da! 

After adding up the per-cow 

purchased hay cost last year 

and this year, the center spent 

about $60 per cow. With carryover 

and production, the center 

will be OK. However, current 

hay prices are going to be hard 

to justify. Uff da! 

May you find all your ear tags. 

Your comments are always 

welcome at http://www.Beef- 

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By Ron Smith, Horticulturist 


Q: Can you tell me why my tomatoes 

crack? I water regularly 

and fertilize with tomato spikes. 

Otherwise, the plants look 

healthy. We had the same problem 

last year, so we changed 

the variety, but it didn’t help. I 

would appreciate if you could 

help me. (email reference) 

A: Cracking on the stem end 

of the tomato is due to a surge 

of water coming in faster than 

the skin can stretch to absorb 

it to relieve internal pressure. 

As long as you are not growing 

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schedule, and mulch the 

plants two to three weeks after 

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that fact, it is still a good idea to 

provide water to the roots when 

no significant rainfall occurs for 

more than two weeks of extended 

drought and heat. Always water 

at and beyond the drip line 

to encourage the roots to follow 

the migrating water. If your soil 

is deep and well-drained, the 

roots will follow the percolating 

water through the soil profile. If 

the soil doesn’t drain well, the 

roots will tend to stay closer to 

the surface. 

Q: If it is oak galls the residents 

at Red Willow Resort are 

dealing with, would their yard 

be covered with leaves and 

stems from their oak trees? 

One resident has picked up 

many garbage bags of leaves 

and small branches that have 

snapped off. (email reference) 

A: Petiole galls would not 

cause that kind of destruction. 

The problem could be caused 

by squirrels, twig girdlers (beetles) 

or a combination of the 

two. Prior to chewing the limb 

off, the female beetle will make 

slits in the stem and lay eggs. 

The wind eventually blows 

these branches out of the tree 

and spreads the eggs around 

the area. The eggs hatch in the 

fall, and the small larvae burrow 

into the branch and lay 

dormant during the winter. In 

the spring, the beetle larvae 

will feed and develop rapidly 

in a tunnel inside the branch. 

Late in the summer, the adult 

beetles emerge and the cycle 

starts over. Chemical control is 

not effective or recommended. 

Collect the loose branches and 

burn them or place them in the 

trash to reduce the population 

for next year. While the damage 

can seem unsightly, very little 

damage actually is done to the 

tree. If this isn’t it, then I would 

need a detailed photo or two of 

what is going on. 

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Q: I was reading your Hortiscope 

from quite a few years 

ago where you mentioned that 

Siberian elms were hard to kill. 

Is there a chemical that can be 

sprayed to kill them? I had a 

producer ask me about what 

he could spray to kill a Chinese 

elm in his pasture. If you could 

help me out, I would greatly appreciate 

it. (email reference) 

A: Siberian elms can be 

wiped out with any good vegetation 

killer. Ortho and Bonide 

come to mind. The problem is 

that the effect might be compromised 

when used this late 

in the season. I’m not familiar 

with the product labels but, if 

you checked, the labels would 

have the details that you could 

relate back to your client. My 

comments from years ago were 

in reference to the many maladies 

these trees get hit with, 

such as herbicide drift or migration. 

These trees get hit with an 

encyclopedia of diseases and 

a battalion of plant-destroying 

insects but they somehow survive! 

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me what is wrong with my impatiens 

garden. It is in a rather 

sunny spot, properly irrigated, 

and there is no evidence of wilt. 

However, they quit blooming. 

Could the problem be powdery 

mildew? (Minnesota) 

A: It is impossible for me to 

determine what the problem is 

with your impatiens. I encourage 

you to contact the plant 

disease clinic at the University 

of Minnesota by going to http:// 

pdc.umn.edu/. The website will 

have instructions on where to 

send a properly prepared sample. 

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By Julie Garden-Robinson, 

Food and Nutrition Specialist 


Have you thrown out any 

food recently? Did you find lessthan-appetizing 

food hiding 

in your refrigerator? Was it in 

an opaque container that may 

have startled you when you 

opened it to view the contents? 

Have you happened upon food 

well past its “use by” date in 

your cupboard or refrigerator? 

If you discarded food for any 

reason, you aren’t alone, according 

to a report published 

by the Natural Resources Defense 

Council. About 40 percent 

of food in the U.S. is tossed out 

annually, with a price tag of $165 

billion a year. The losses can occur 

during farming, processing, 

distribution, retail and food service, 

and in households. 

Scientists estimate that cutting 

these losses by just 15 percent 

could feed 25 million Americans 

annually. 

Like many people our age, 

my husband and I grew up in 

families headed by parents who 

were young children during the 

1920s and ‘30s when economic 

times were tough. Because 

money was especially tight during 

their formative years, our 

parents and their parents avoided 

wasting food. The tradition 

was passed on to us. 

While growing up, we regularly 

had leftovers for lunch 

or made use of them in other 

meals. Leftover boiled potatoes 

might become hash browns the 

next day. Leftover roast became 

soup or stew. We enjoyed tasty, 

abundant meals. 

We in nutrition often call the 

practice “cooking once and eating 

twice.” You can save time 

and money in the process. 

Our frugal traditions continue. 

I eat leftover food nearly 

every day for lunch. I figure it 

saves me at least $120 a month 

because I’m not buying my 

lunch. That adds up to more 

than $1,400 a year. 

Making use of your leftovers 

is good on several levels. On a 

larger scale, wasting less food 

throughout our food system 

is good for our environment. 

It can decrease methane emissions 

in landfills. 

The Natural Resources Defense 

Council provided some 

excellent tips, which I have 

supplemented a bit with some 

of the available resources from 

the NDSU Extension Service. 

Shop wisely. Plan your meals 

and use a shopping list. For recipe 

and meal ideas, check out the 

online resources at http://www. 

ndsu.edu/eatmsmart. Click on 

“For Parents/Caregivers” to see 

more grocery shopping tips, 

shopping lists and economical 

recipes. Become a “Facebook 

friend” to get regular tips and 

video recipes. 

Know what the dates on the 

packages mean. Certain foods, 

such as baby food, “expire” and 

shouldn’t be used past a particular 

date. “Best if used by” indicates 

quality not necessarily 

safety, and you can use the food 

for a while beyond the date as 

long as it has been kept in the 

appropriate storage conditions. 

A “sell-by” date is meant for the 

store, which shouldn’t sell the 

product past that date. However, 

you still can use the food 

at home. For more information 

about food storage, including 

suggested storage times for a 

wide range of foods, see the 

“Food Storage Guide” at http:// 

www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/yf/ 

foods/fn579.pdf. 

Don’t overlook imperfect produce. 

Just because vegetables 

aren’t photo-ready doesn’t 

mean they are inedible. Be willing 

to purchase and use fruits 

and vegetables with variations 

in size, shape or color. Dark bananas 

make good banana bread! 

Freeze unused ingredients 

or leftover food. Use moistureproof, 

tightly sealed containers. 

Find out how to freeze a wide 

variety of foods by checking out 

the “Food Freezing Guide” at 

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ 

yf/foods/fn403.pdf. 

Here’s a tasty recipe that you 

can make ahead of time and 

freeze. Just take it out and pop 

it directly in the oven. Leftover 

lasagna makes a tasty lunch, 

too. 

Freezer Lasagna 

1/2 pound cooked ground 

beef 

1 (26-ounce) can spaghetti 

sauce (reduced sodium) 

1/4 c. Parmesan cheese 

8 ounces cooked lasagna noodles 

2 c. cottage cheese 

1 1/2 c. low-fat mozzarella 

cheese 

1 can (15.5-ounce) white 

beans, drained, rinsed 

Mix together beef and spaghetti 

sauce in a bowl. Puree 

beans and mix with the beef and 

spaghetti sauce. Mix together 

Parmesan and cottage cheese in 

another bowl. Layer in the pan 

the spaghetti sauce and cottage 

cheese mixes and then add mozzarella 

cheese. Repeat until you 

have three layers of noodles. 

Top with spaghetti sauce and 

more cheese. Freezer: Freeze in 

a 9- by 13-inch aluminum pan. 

Cook frozen, covered with foil, 

at 400 degrees for 90 minutes. 

Makes 12 servings. Each serving 

has 240 calories, 5 grams (g) 

of fat, 21 g of protein, 26 g of carbohydrate, 

3 g of fiber and 420 

milligrams of sodium. 

For more information about 

food preparation and preservation, 

see the Prairie Fare 

blog at http://www.prairiefare. 

areavoices.com. 

(Julie Garden-Robinson, 

Ph.D., R.D., L.R.D., is a North 

Dakota State University Extension 

Service food and nutrition 

specialist and professor in the 

Department of Health, Nutrition 

and Exercise Sciences.) 

Writing Rock Township 

is accepting bids for a 

FEMA Public Assistance 

project to construct a three-foot 

permanent grade along a 500-foot 

length of 90 th Street NW in section 

36S. All materials used in the 

project must come from a State 

Historical Preservation Office and 

US Fish and Wildlife approved 

source. The bid period will close 

on September 5, 2012. All bids 

must breakout all material, equipment, 

labor, and overhead costs. 

Contact Butch Sorenson at 

701-834-2320 for additional 

project details or to submit bids.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 Public Notices Page 11 --The Journal 

Divide County School Board Minutes 

AUGUST 14, 2012 

President Fagerbakke called the 

meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. with 

Busch, Feil, DeJardine, Lystad and Reistad 

present and Haugland, Johnson and 

Krecklau absent. Others present were 

Superintendent Hirning, DCE Principal 

Brown, DCHS Principal Frank and Business 

Manager, Aaberg. 

Motion 13-08-01: The agenda and the 

minutes of July 17th were approved as 

presented. Moved by Feil, seconded by 

Busch to approve the listed bills; MC, 

6-0. 

The monthly financial report was reviewed 

and accepted as presented. 

Motion 13-08-02: One bid from New 

Century Ag, as follows, was received 

and reviewed by the board: 

LF Gas ....................................$3.10 

Super LF Gas .........................$3.07 

RM Road Fuel ........................$3.42 

#1 Clear Fuel ..........................$3.57 

Propane ..................................$ .76 

Bulk Oil .........Based on state prices 

There was some discussion on the 

possibility of locking in a price for prepaid 

propane. Moved by DeJardine, 

seconded by Reistad to accept the bid 

from New Century Ag subject to further 

negotiation on propane. MC, 6-0. 

DCE and DCHS schedules were presented 

and reviewed. It was noted 

that the school day at the elementary 

school will begin at 8:40 a.m. and will 

end at 3:30 p.m. and that Physical Education 

and Music are now scheduled 

throughout the day, with the additional 

FTE staffing. DCHS will now have a fulltime 

Special Education Teacher and 

aide and will also have Physical Education 

classes scheduled throughout the 

day. 

Motion 13-08-03: While waiting for 

the budget hearing to begin at 7:30 

p.m. the board moved to agenda item 

12, 13 and 14. It was reported that the 

Consolidated Application for Title Programs 

will request $105,976.12 for Title 

I of which $2,907.12 is carryover funds 

from 2011-2012. Title II Part A will be 

requested in the amount of $37,046.39 

of which $998.39 is carryover funds 

from 2011-2012. The final application 

will be submitted by August 31. It was 

noted that $20,613.80 will be targeted 

towards required supplemental services 

due to having not met AYP and that 

10% of the allocation is required to be 

allocated towards professional development. 

Moved by Feil, seconded by 

Lystad to approve the Consolidated 

Application for Title programs. MC, 

6-0. 

It was requested that the first reading 

of the ELL Policy be deferred and 

will be discussed at the next Policy and 

Curriculum meeting. It was noted that 

there is a teacher on staff that is ELL 

certified. 

Motion 13-08-04: The DCSD Attendance 

Policy was distributed for a 2nd 

Reading, in addition, the Administrative 

Guidelines were reviewed. The 

policy states that a loss of credit will result 

when a student exceeds more than 

eight absences for a semester course 

or sixteen absences for a year course. 

It was noted that most area schools 

have policies that are similar. After 

discussion the board and administration 

agreed that the statement “will 

result when a student exceeds these 

City of Noonan 

Second Regular Meeting 

August 28, 2012 

Present: Richard Haug, Dallas 

Lund, Cyndie Fagerbakke, Arron 

Elsbernd, Dwaine Waller, and 

Zack Verlindie. Doug Clemens 

was absent. New Business: A 

motion by Richard Haug giving 

permission to Uno Mas to build 

a Caretaker cabin west of parking 

lot next to alley. The motion 

was seconded by Dallas Lund. 

 

 

 

 

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF 

DIVIDE COUNTY 

STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA 

IN THE MATTER OF THE 

ESTATE OF ROY H. TONDER, 

DECEASED. 

TAKE NOTICE that Dick Keller 

has filed a Petition to Determine 

Heirship with the Divide County 

District Court. The Petition will be 

heard before the Honorable Joshua B. 

Rustad, Judge of the District Court, 

on October 24, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock 

a.m. (local time), by telephone, at the 

Divide County Courthouse, Crosby, 

ND, for the entry of a degree determining 

heirship as stated in the 

Petition led with the District Court. 

Dated this 28th day of August, 

2012. 

MALCOLM H. BROWN, P.C. 

Attorney for Petitioner 

209 East Broadway Avenue, 

P.O. Box 2692 

Bismarck, ND 58502-2692 

Telephone: (701) 224-8825 

Facsimile: (701) 224-8820 

By: /s/ Malcolm H. Brown 

(#02842) 

(9-5,12,19) 

limits” should be revised to “may result 

when a student exceeds these limits”. 

Moved by Feil, seconded by Reistad 

to approve the 2nd Reading of the Attendance 

Policy including the revision 

changing “will” to “may” in the second 

sentence. MC, 6-0. 

President Fagerbakke called for a recess 

of the meeting at 7:27 p.m. 

Motion 13-08-05: The Public Hearing 

to consider increasing the property tax 

levy began at 7:50 p.m. with President 

Fagerbakke noting that no members of 

the public had arrived for the budget 

hearing. Superintendent Hirning presented 

a summary of the requirements 

for a public hearing. A copy of the Proposed 

2012-2013 Budget for the Divide 

County School District was distributed 

and reviewed. It was noted that the 

revenue was estimated conservatively 

and there is about a 12% increase in 

expenditures due to an additional 5 ½ 

new positions as a result of increasing 

student enrollment. The maximum 

levy request is 12% over the previous 

year’s request which would result in 

a request of $927,584. The board also 

determined that there is a need to request 

the 10 mills for the building fund 

that had been utilized prior to the 2006- 

2007 fiscal year. The estimated mill calculation 

used, considering new valuations 

and growth, resulted in a request 

of 63.32 mills and includes a building 

fund request of 10 mills. The total new 

request of approximately 71.32 mills 

for 2012-2013 turns out to be less than 

the 74.78 mills requested in 2011-2012. 

It was pointed out that the dollars requested 

for 2012-2013 is less than the 

2006-2007 request of $1,018,300. With 

no one present to provide comment, 

it was moved by Feil, seconded by 

Busch to approve the 2012-2013 budget 

with total anticipated revenues of 

$4,585,718.54, total anticipated expenditures 

of $4,585,718.54 and a general 

fund tax levy in dollars of $927,584.00. 

MC, 6-0. Thanks were expressed to Superintendent 

Hirning and the Business 

Manager, Aaberg for their work on the 

budget. 

Motion 13-08-06: Moved by Reistad, 

seconded by Lystad to approve a five 

day stipend to the Counselor for attendance 

at the CTE Professional Development 

Conference. MC, 6-0. 

Motion 13-08-07: Moved by Feil, seconded 

by Lystad to approve Open Enrollment 

and Non-Tuition Agreements 

for five Burke County resident students 

to attend DCSD and a Non-Tuition 

Agreement for five Divide County resident 

students to attend Grenora Public 

School. MC, 6-0. 

Motion 13-08-08: Moved by DeJardine, 

seconded by Reistad to approve 

Dr. Sherlock Hirning as County Superintendent 

of Schools. MC, 6-0. 

Motion 13-08-09: Moved by Busch, 

seconded by DeJardine to approve a 

resignation letter from Donna Bummer 

as high school secretary. MC, 6-0. Ms. 

Bummer was thanked for her services 

to the district. 

Notification from Thrivent Financial 

for Lutherans was reviewed notifying 

the district that it was listed as a 

beneficiary for a contract held by the 

late Earl Johnson in the amount of 

$1,305.02. The board expressed sincere 

appreciation to the family of Earl 

The motion was approved. A 

motion by Dallas Lund to approve 

sensor radio drive by system 

from Springline Construction. 

The motion was seconded 

by Zack Verlindie. The motion 

was approved. With no more 

business the meeting was adjourned. 

Dwaine Waller 

Auditor 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


DIVIDE COUNTY, STATE OF 

NORTH DAKOTA 

In the Matter of the Estate of 

STUART PANDOLFO, aka STEW- 

ART PANDOLFO, aka STEWARD 

PANDOLFO, deceased. 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 

that Preston Pandolfo has led herein 

an Application for Formal Probate 

and Appointment of Personal Representative 

in Intestacy and to Establish 

Succession of Property. 

Hearing has been set upon said 

petition on the 26th day of September, 

2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M., 

Central Time at the Courtroom of 

the above named Court in the City 

of Crosby, County of Divide, State 

of North Dakota. 


2012. 

/s/ Bruce A. Selinger 

Attorney for Applicant 

P.O. Box 1173 

Dickinson, ND 58602-1173 

 



NORTH DAKOTA 


Thelma H. Granseth a/k/a Thelma 

Granseth, Deceased. 


that Richard G. Granseth has led 

herein a Petition for Formal Probate 

of Will and Appointment of Personal 

Representative of the estate of 

Thelma H. Granseth a/k/a Thelma 

Granseth, deceased. 


Petition on the 10th day of October, 

2012, at 11:00 A.M. at the Courtroom 

of the above-named Court in the City 

of Crosby, County of Divide, State 

of North Dakota, and any person 

interested may appear and be heard. 

In order for any objection to 

be considered, objections to the 

Petition for Formal Probate of 

Will and Appointment of Personal 

Representative must be in writing 

and must be led with the Court 

and the attorney for the Petitioner 

no later than seven (7) days prior to 

the date set for hearing. Any such 

written objection must contain a 

concise and thorough account of 

the facts upon which the objection 

is based. 


2012. 

Maxson Law Ofce, P.C. 

BY: /s/ R. James Maxson (ID 

#03102) 

Town & Country Center 

1015 South Broadway, Suite 15 

Minot, ND 58701 

ATTORNEY FOR THE PETI- 

TIONER 

Telephone No. 701-839-6704 

(9-5,12,19) 

 

 

 

 

 



NORTH DAKOTA 


LUCILLE D. THATCHER, 

Deceased. 

To all heirs, executors and persons 

who may otherwise be interested in 

the will or estate or both of LUCILLE 

D. THATCHER. A Petition for Probate 

of Will and Appointment of a 

Personal Representative has been 

filed by BARBARA THATCHER 

MCELHINEY in the District Court 

of DIVIDE COUNTY, STATE OF 

NORTH DAKOTA. The Petition requests 

that BARBARA THATCHER 

MCELHINEY be appointed as 

Personal Representative to administer 

the estate of the decedent. The 

petition requests that the decedent’s 

will and codicils, if any, be admitted 

to probate. The will and codicils are 

available for examination in the le 

kept by the court. 

A hearing on the petition will be 

held in this court as follows: 

Date: September 26, 2012 

Time: 11 a.m. 

Address: 300 2nd Ave North, 

Crosby ND 

If you object to the granting of 

the petition, you should appear at the 

hearing and state your objections or 

le written objections with the court 

before the hearing. 

If you are a creditor of the decedent, 

you may le your claim with 

the court or deliver or mail it to the 

personal representative. 

Dated: August 10, 2012 

/s/Barbara Thatcher McElhiney 

P.O. Box 892 

Bodega Bay, CA 94923 

(707) 875-2506 

(8-22,29,9-5) 

Johnson for the contribution. 

A list of DCSD personnel was provided 

to the board as was a list of athletic 

team game schedules. 

Finance Committee Report 

Motion 13-08-10: The committee 

again discussed non-certified wages 

and raising the base hiring rate to 

$11.00 per hour from $10.00 per hour. 

Moved by Busch, seconded by Feil to 

raise the base hiring rate to $11.00 per 

hour and to provide an additional average 

increase of $0.15 per hour to classified 

personnel. 

C, 6-0. 


seconded by Feil to increase the daily 

rate for bus drivers from $47 per day 

to $57 per day, increase mileage from 

$0.1144 per mile to $0.25 per mile, pay 

suburban feeder routes $35 per day, 

and increase the activity bus driver 

rate from $8.00 per hour to $12.00 per 

hour. MC, 6-0. It was noted that there 

continues to be a need for bus drivers 

and suburban drivers. 


seconded by Reistad to increase the 

business manager salary to $46,500 

plus benefits. MC, 6-0. Note was made 

that the increases were built into the 

budget earlier reviewed and concerning 

the additional responsibilities that 

have resulted because of growth in 

enrollment and administrative requirements. 

The committee also discussed 

making office arrangement changes in 

the District Office and considered the 

possibility of obtaining extra help to 

assist in the reorganization of duties. 

Housing was again discussed by the 

committee. 

Policy and Curriculum Committee 

Report 

The committee reviewed several policy 

revisions recommended by the ND 

School Board Association with more 

to review at a future meeting. Also 

reviewed were recommended policies 

for the administration of Medication, 

School Attendance and Senior Privileges. 

The committee agreed to recommend 

that senior privileges begin the 

spring semester rather than a full year. 

A procedure in regards to unpaid meal 

charges was discussed recommending 

that the guidelines with reminder letters 

be reviewed. 

Buildings, Grounds and Transportation 

Committee Report 

The committee had not met. One 

member did contact the state road department, 

who agreed to allow the use 

of roadside site at the junction of Hwy. 

5 and 85 for the purpose of transferring 

students from bus to bus. 

REA – no meeting was attended. 

High School Principal Report 

-Enrollment is currently projected at 

135 students with 38 being in Grade 7. 

It is estimated that enrollment could 

be as high as 150. It was noted that 

it takes 30 to 60 minutes to administratively 

enroll a student. Twenty-five 

new desks have been ordered because 

of the higher enrollment. 

-There have been five applicants for 

the high school secretary position. 

-Lockers have been assigned, student 

handbooks are completed, the office 

air conditioner has been repaired. 

The high school custodial staff is 

thanked for their work during the summer 

to provide a clean facility. 

-Motion 13-08-13: Moved by Feil, seconded 

by DeJardine to approve Mr. 

Hedtke as the Annual Advisor for 2012- 

2013. MC,6-0. There are some leads on 

a possible Prom and Junior Class Advisor. 

-The Department of Public Instruction 

now requires approval of dual 

credit courses. 

Elementary Principal Report 

-Enrollment is at 202 as of August 

14, with additional students who have 

been in touch but have not completed 

the enrollment requirements. 

-It has become necessary to split 

Grade 5. Ms. Overbo has agreed to 

return to teaching Grade 5 which then 

creates an open Title I position. 

-A new classroom aide has been hired 

and another aide position is open. 

-Bill Demaree will provide in-service 

to the staff on the district’s 2011-12 

NWEA testing data. 

-School pictures are scheduled for 

August 28, 29 and 30. 

-A parent night is scheduled for August 

20 at 7:00 p.m. 

-Thanks and appreciation to Continental 

Resources for their donation of 

212 backpacks with school supplies. 

-Title I requires supplemental services 

providing tutors who are selected by 

the Department of Public Instruction. 

Since the service is optional to parents 

and students, budgeted funds that go 

unused can be targeted for other Title I 

purposes upon approval. 

-Due to growing enrollment additional 

desks, lockers and active boards 

have been ordered. 

-A section of playground fence will 

be moved and an additional 100 feet of 

fence will be added to enclose the entire 

playground area. 

-It has been determined that the elementary 

school doors will remain 

locked until 8:15 a.m. so that students 

will not be unsupervised in the building 

before breakfast. 

-The elementary guidelines and the 

high school guidelines for the administration 

of medications were distributed 

for review. After discussion it was 

noted that the new guidelines will be 

amended and provided to parents. 

-Motion 13-08-14: Moved by Feil, 

seconded by Busch to approve the hiring 

of Courtney Kilgore as a Grade K-6 

classroom aide. MC, 6-0. 

Superintendent Report 

-A copy of the bus route information 

letter to parents was distributed. 

There is still a need for one bus driver. 

Superintendent Hirning updated the 

board on the status of the bus routes 

and drivers. 

-Superintendent Hirning will be 

meeting with the county commissioners 

to negotiate a new two-year agreement 

for the maintenance of district 

buses. The assumption is that the cost 

will increase. 

-Not all buses passed a recent inspection. 

The county shop is currently 

working to get buses in inspection condition 

and ready for bus routes. 

-Motion 13-08-15: Moved by Feil, 

seconded by Reistad to allow the general 

fund to pay the 2011-2012 deficit 

amount in the athletic account. MC, 

6-0. 

-Motion 13-08-16: Moved by DeJar- 

 

IN THE DISTRICT COURT, 

NORTHWEST JUDICIAL 

DISTRICT, DIVIDE COUNTY, 

NORTH DAKOTA 


ESTATE OF BLANCHE ELVIRA 

SAMPLE, DECEASED 


that Ronald N. Sample, Petitioner in 

the Estate of Blanche Elvira Sample, 

deceased, has led herein a Petition 

for Formal Probate of Will and Appointment 

of Personal Representative 

a copy of which has been led with 

the Divide County Clerk of Court in 

Crosby, North Dakota. 


Petition on the 26th day of September, 

2012 at 11:00 o’clock A.M., at 

the Courtroom of the above named 

Court in the City of Crosby, State of 

North Dakota, or as soon thereafter 

as the matter may be heard. 

Dated this 21st day of August, 

2012. 

/s/Elizabeth L. Pendlay 


206 North Main Street 

PO Box 289 

Crosby, ND 58730-0289 

(8-29,9-5,12) 

 



NORTH DAKOTA 


Nelson J. Holter, Deceased 


that the undersigned has been appointed 

personal representative of 

the above estate. All persons having 

claims against the said deceased 

are required to present their claims 

within three months after the date of 

the rst publication of this notice or 

said claims will be forever barred. 

Claims must either be presented to 

dine, seconded by Busch to agree to 

participate in the federal and state hot 

lunch program and to allocate $14,500 

in the budget for hot lunch salaries. 

MC, 6-0. 

-Superintendent Hirning reported 

that both schools are ready to welcome 

students on August 22nd. He noted appreciation 

to Ms. Overbo for her agreement 

to again teach Grade 5 and that 

one application has been received for 

the Title I position. Principal Brown 

and Principal Frank were also thanked 

for going above and beyond to assist 

him in learning about Divide County 

Schools and his new position and that 

he couldn’t ask for better assistance, 

including Ms. Lagein and Ms. Aaberg, 

who have spent many extra hours during 

the last month. 

After welcoming the new board members, 

it was moved by Feil to adjourn. 

Meeting adjourned at 10:00 p.m. 

Dwight Fagerbakke 

President 

Lynn Aaberg 

Business Manager 

Approved bills: 

Lynn Aaberg $24, Apple Computer, 

Inc $8,040, Baker and Taylor Books 

$38.95, Carson-Dellosa Publishing Co, 

Inc $59.21, Cengage Learning $1,986.11, 

Chieftain Conference Center $85.95, 

City of Crosby $525.76, Connecting 

Point Inc $9,397.96, Crosby Hardware 

Hank $299.47, Crosby WOTM $400, Eckroth 

Music Co. $93, Ekness Super Valu 

$11.49, ETA hand2mind $28.90, Follett 

Educational Services $42.20, Gaffaney’s, 

Inc $1,909.40, Wendy Grote 

$114, Guardian Inn of Crosby $700, The 

Guidance Group, Inc $102.74, Hartley’s 

School Buses Inc $472.46, Hedahls 

Parts Plus $74.18, Houghton-Mifflin Co. 

$1,678.26, I.T. Supplies $2,525.89, J.W. 

Pepper & Son Inc. $ 446, Jerry’s Transfer 

Service $34, John Deere Financial 

$1,042.25, Kami Johnston $69, 

The Journal 1,112.36, Mari Kellogg 

$600, Suzanne Lagein $37.67, Lakeshore 

Learning Materials $1,035.16, 

Mcgraw-Hill Inc $9,534.93, MedCenter 

One Occupational Health Clinic $100, 

Music in Motion $65.85, NASCO $72.41, 

Nat’l Center for Youth Issues $124.79, 

ND ASSN. of Oil & Gas Prod. Counties 

$4,000, ND Insurance Dept $40, NDH- 

SAA $7, Nexus Security Solutions LLC 

$2,344.10, Ruthann Nielsen $1,260, 

North Dakota Safety Council IN $350, 

NW Communications Coop $501.16, 

Shalene Nygaard $270, Office Max Incorporated 

$702.09, Overdrive $1,500., 

Pearson Education $7,263.95, Poppler’s 

Music Store $85.75, Praxair Distribution 

Inc $244.68, Renaissance Learning 

$2,623.76, Scholastic Inc $35.67, Brenda 

Sebastian $20, Steven Selle $31.14, 

Seven Seas Inn $89, St Luke’s Hospital 

$90.75, State Supply Company 

Inc $299.91, Supreme School Supply 

$159.21, Teacher’s Discovery $42.94, 

Tractor & Equipment Co $44.21, Woodwind 

& Brasswind $339.97, Youthlight, 

Inc $211.47, Zaner-Bloser Educ Publishers 

$2,014.74. 

Fund Total: 67,455.85 

Checking Account Total: 67,455.85 

 

IN THE DISTRICT COURT, 

NORTHWEST JUDICIAL 

DISTRICT, DIVIDE COUNTY, 

NORTH DAKOTA 


ESTATE OF MARVIN SAMPLE, 

DECEASED 


that Ronald N. Sample, Petitioner 

in the Estate of Marvin Sample, deceased, 

has led herein a Petition for 

Adjudication of Intestacy and Formal 

Appointment of Personal Representative 

a copy of which has been led 

with the Divide County Clerk of 

Court in Crosby, North Dakota. 


Petition on the 26th day of September, 

2012 at 11:00 o’clock A.M., at 

the Courtroom of the above named 

Court in the City of Crosby, State of 

North Dakota, or as soon thereafter 

as the matter may be heard. 

Dated this 21st day of August, 

2012. 

/s/Elizabeth L. Pendlay 



PO Box 289 

Crosby, ND 58730-0289 

(8-29,9-5,12) 

Donna M. Holter, personal representative 

of the estate, at 11453 89th St 

NW, Wildrose, North Dakota 58795, 

or led with the Court. 


2012. 

/s/Donna M. Holter 

11453 89th St NW 

Wildrose, ND 58795 

Janet Holter Zander 

Zander Law Ofce, P.C. 

P.O. Box 2292 

Williston, ND 58802-2292 

(701) 572-4905 

Attorney for Estate 

(9-5,12,19)

Page 12 -- The Journal Public Notices Wednesday, September 5, 2012 

 

The North Dakota Industrial Commission will 

hold a public hearing at 9:00 a.m. Thursday, September 

27, 2012, at the N.D. Oil & Gas Division, 

1000 East Calgary Ave., Bismarck, N. D. At the 

hearing the Commission will receive testimony 

and exhibits. Persons with any interest in the cases 

listed below, take notice. 

PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: If at the 

hearing you need special facilities or assistance, 

contact the Oil and Gas Division at 701-328-8038 

by Friday, September 14, 2012. 

STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA TO: 

Case No. 18292: (Continued) Application of 

Samson Resources Co. for an order amending the 

eld rules for the Ambrose-Bakken Pool to create 

and establish ve overlapping 2560-acre spacing 

units comprised of Sections 13, 24, 25 and 36; 

Sections 14, 23, 26 and 35; and Sections 15, 22, 27 

and 34, T.163N., R.99W.; Sections 18, 19, 30 and 

31, T.163N., R.98W.; and Sections 6, 7, 18 and 19, 

T.162N., R.98W., Divide County, ND, authorizing 

the drilling of a total of not more than fourteen 

wells on each overlapping 2560-acre spacing unit, 

eliminating any tool error requirements and such 

other relief as is appropriate. 

Case No. 18668: Application of Continental 

Resources, Inc. for an order amending the eld 

rules for the Hamlet-Bakken Pool, Divide and 

Williams Counties, ND, to alter the denition of 

the stratigraphic limits of the pool and such other 

relief as is appropriate. 


Continental Resources, Inc. for an order amending 

the eld rules for the Sadler-Bakken Pool to create 

an overlapping 2560-acre spacing unit comprised 

of all of Sections 14, 23, 26 and 35, T.161N., 

R.95W., Divide County, ND, authorizing the drilling 

of multiple horizontal wells from said well pad 

within said overlapping 2560-acre spacing unit; 

eliminating any tool error requirements and such 


Case No. 17848: (Continued) A motion of the 

Commission to determine the volume and value 

of the gas ared in violation of NDCC § 38-08- 

06.4 from the Baytex Energy USA Ltd. #3-161- 

98H Hall, SESE, Section 3, T.161N., R.98W., 

Whiteaker-Bakken Pool, Divide County, ND, or 

for such relief as is appropriate. 

Case No. 17849: (Continued) A motion of the 

Commission to determine the volume and value 

of the gas ared in violation of NDCC § 38-08- 

06.4 from the Baytex Energy USA Ltd. #4-161- 

98H Lindsey, SESE, Section 4, T.161N., R.98W., 

Whiteaker-Bakken Pool, Divide County, ND, or 

for such relief as is appropriate. 

Case No. 18701: Application of Samson Resources 

Co. for an order authorizing the drilling, 

completing and producing of a total of seven wells 

on an existing 1280-acre spacing unit described as 

Sections 29 and 32, T.163N., R.98W., Blooming 

Prairie-Bakken Pool, Divide County, ND, eliminating 

any tool error requirements and such other 



Co. for an order pursuant to NDAC § 

43-02-03-88.1 pooling all interests in a spacing 

unit described as Sections 18 and 19, T.162N., 

R.97W., Bluffton-Bakken Pool, Divide County, 

ND, as provided by NDCC § 38-08-08 and such 



Co. for an order authorizing the drilling, 

completing and producing of a total of seven wells 

on an existing 1280-acre spacing unit described as 

Sections 18 and 19, T.162N., R.97W., Bluffton- 

Bakken Pool, Divide County, ND, eliminating 

any tool error requirements and such other relief 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, 

that the City of Crosby, North Dakota, 

will receive sealed Bids at the Ofce 

of the City Auditor until September 

13, 2012 at the hour of 3:45 p.m. local 

time, for the purpose of furnishing all 

materials, labor, equipment, and skill 

required for the construction of the 

SOUTHRIDGE ACRES WATER, 

SEWER AND FRONTAGE ROAD 

IMPROVEMENTS, and incidental 

items, for said City, as is more fully 

described and set forth in the Plans 

and Specications which are now on 

le in the ofce of the City Engineer. 

Bids will be opened in the Ofce of 

the City Auditor at 4:00 p.m. local 

time and read aloud. 

The Work consists of all labor, 

skill, and materials required to properly 

construct the Improvements. 

Major components of the unit price 

contracts include: 

General Construction consisting 

bonding, mobilization, erosion 

control, and approximately 2,760 

linear feet of 12 inch water lines and 

appurtenances, 32 linear feet 8 inch 

water line and relative appurtenances, 

150 lf bored fused 12 inch water line 

in 18 inch casing, 1,588 linear feet of 

10 inch PVC sanitary sewer, 4 sanitary 

manholes, 3,580 linear feet of 36 

feet wide rural section gravel road, 

900 linear feet trenching in existing 

streets; and other components such 

as erosion control, incidental pipe 

dewatering and site restorations are 

also included. 

Complete digital project bidding 

documents, pursuant to which all 

labor, materials, or services must 

be furnished, are available at www. 

AE2S.com or www.questcdn.com. 

You may download the digital plan 

documents for Forty Dollars and No 

Cents ($40.00) by inputting Quest 

project #2208368 on the website’s 

Project Search page. Please contact 

QuestCDN.com at 952-233-1632 or 

info@questcdn.com for assistance in 

free membership registration, downloading, 

and working with this digital 

project information. Copies of the 

Bidding Documents may be examined 

at the ofce of Advanced Engineering 

and Environmental Services, 

Inc. (AE2S), 1115 16th Street SW 

Suite 2, Minot, ND 58701 (701 852- 

 

4048). The Bidding Documents are 

available in digital PDF form on CD 

by request from AE2S, 3101 Frontage 

Road South, Moorhead, MN for 

a NON-REFUNDABLE charge of 

Fifty Dollars and No Cents ($50.00) 

for each set of Plans and Specications 

requested. The Bidding Documents 

are available in the form of 

printed plans and specications by 

request from AE2S, 3101 Frontage 

Road South, Moorhead, MN for a 

NON-REFUNDABLE charge of 

One Hundred Dollars and No Cents 

($100.00) for each set of Plans and 

Specifications requested. Bidding 

Documents may also be examined at 

the following locations: Builders Exchanges 

in Bismarck, ND; Mandan, 

ND; Minot, ND; Fargo, ND; Grand 

Forks, ND; Minot ND, and Billings, 

MT. All Work shall be done according 

to the Bidding Documents. 

All Bids are to be submitted on the 

basis of cash payment for the Work 

and materials, and each Bid shall be 

accompanied by a separate envelope 

containing a Bidder’s Bond, payable 

to the City of Crosby, in a sum 

equal to ve percent (5%) of the full 

amount of the Bid, executed by the 

Bidder as principal and by a surety 

company authorized to do business 

in the State of North Dakota, conditioned 

that if the principal’s Bid be 

accepted and the contract awarded 

to him, he, within fteen (15) days 

after Notice of Award, will execute 

and effect a Contract in accordance 

with the terms of his Bid and a Contractor’s 

Bond as required by the laws 

of the State of North Dakota and the 

regulations and determinations of the 

City of Crosby, North Dakota. 

All Bidders must be licensed for 

the highest amount of their Bids, as 

provided by Section 43-07-05 of the 

North Dakota Century Code. Cost of 

preparation of Bids by Bidder. 

Contracts shall be awarded on the 

basis of the low Bid submitted by a 

responsible and responsive Bidder 

deemed most favorable to the City’s 

interest. 

All Bids shall be contained in 

a sealed envelope plainly marked 

showing that such envelope contains 

a Bid for the Project. In addition, the 

Bidder shall place upon the exterior 

 

of such envelope the following information: 

1. The Work covered by the Bidder 

(General Construction). 

2. The name of the Bidder. 

3. Separate envelope containing 

Bid Bond and a copy of Contractor’s 

License or Renewal Certicate. 

4. Acknowledgement of all Addenda. 

Bids shall be delivered or mailed 

to: City Auditor, City of Crosby, 107 

West Central Ave, PO Box 67 Crosby, 

ND 58730-0067. 

The City of Crosby reserves the 

right to reject any and all Bids, to 

waive any informality in any Bid, 

to hold all Bids for a period not to 

exceed thirty (30) days from the 

date of opening Bids, and to accept 

the Bid deemed most favorable to 

the interest of the City. After the 

Bid opening the Owner will return 

Bid Security of all except the three 

lowest responsible Bidders. When a 

Contract is awarded, the remaining 

unsuccessful Bidder’s Bonds will 

be returned. 

The Work on the improvements 

shall be completed and ready for Final 

Payment no later than November 

30, 2011, with intermediate completion 

dates for critical Work as detailed 

in the Specifications. Should the 

Contractor fail to complete the Work 

within the time required, as set forth 

in the Agreement, or within such 

extra time as may have been granted 

by formal extensions approved by 

the City and Engineer, there shall 

be deducted from any amount due 

him the sum of $500.00 per day as 

compensation to the City for each day 

and every day that the completion of 

the Work is delayed. The Contractor 

and his surety shall be liable for any 

excess. Such payment shall be as 

and for liquidated damages and not 

as a penalty. 

All Bidders are invited to be present 

at the public opening of the Bids. 

Dated this 15th day of August 

2012. 

By: /s/ Carol Lampert, City 

Auditor 

Publish 08/22/2012, 08/29/2012, 

09/05/2012. Crosby, North Dakota 

 

as is appropriate. 

Case No. 18351: (Continued) Application 

of Samson Resources Co. for an order pursuant 

to NDAC § 43-02-03-88.1 pooling all interests 

for wells drilled on the overlapping spacing unit 

described as Sections 13, 24, 25 and 36, T.163N., 

R.99W., Divide County, ND, Ambrose-Bakken 

Pool, as provided by NDCC § 38-08-08 but not reallocating 

production for wells producing on other 

spacing units and such other relief as is appropriate. 





























Samson Resources Co. for an order pursuant to 

NDAC § 43-02-03-88.1 pooling all interests in a 

spacing unit described as Sections 6, 7, 18 and 19, 

T.162N., R.98W., Divide County, ND, Ambrose- 

Bakken Pool, as provided by NDCC § 38-08-08 

and such other relief as is appropriate. 

Case No. 18717: Application of Baytex Energy 

USA Ltd. for an order pursuant to NDAC § 43- 

02-03-88.1 pooling all interests in a spacing unit 

described as Sections 27 and 34, T.162N., R.99W., 

Ambrose-Bakken Pool, Divide County, ND, as 

provided by NDCC § 38-08-08 and such other 






Ambrose-Bakken Pool, Divide County, ND, as 







Bluffton-Bakken Pool, Divide County, ND, as 







Bluffton-Bakken Pool, Divide County, ND, as 







Garnet-Bakken Pool, Divide County, ND, as provided 

by NDCC § 38-08-08 and such other relief 

as is appropriate. Case No. 18722: Application of 

Baytex Energy USA Ltd. for an order pursuant 


in a spacing unit described as Sections 4 and 9, 

T.161N., R.97W., Frazier-Bakken Pool, Divide 

County, ND, as provided by NDCC § 38-08-08 






Frazier-Bakken Pool, Divide County, ND, as provided 

by NDCC § 38-08-08 and such other relief 

as is appropriate. Case No. 18724: Application of 



in a spacing unit described as Sections 4 and 9, 

T.160N., R.98W., Skabo-Bakken Pool, Divide 

County, ND, as provided by NDCC § 38-08-08 


Case No. 18725: In the matter of the petition 

for a risk penalty of Baytex Energy USA Ltd. 

requesting an order authorizing the recovery of a 

risk penalty from certain non-participating owners, 

as provided by NDCC § 38-08-08 in the drilling 

and completing of the Joyce #4-9-160-98H 1BP 

well located in a spacing unit described as Sections 

4 and 9, T.160N., R.98W., Divide County, ND, 

Skabo-Bakken Pool, pursuant to NDAC § 43-02- 

03-88.1, and such other relief as is appropriate. 


Baytex Energy USA Ltd. for an order pursuant to 

NDAC § 43-02-03-88.1 authorizing the aring of 

gas from the Geralyn Marie 34-163-99H #1DQ 

well located in the NWNW of Section 34, T.163N., 


Pool, pursuant to the provisions of NDCC § 38- 

08-06.4 and such other relief as is appropriate. 




gas from the Lystad 23-162-99 #1QD well located 

in the SESE of Section 23, T.162N., R.99W., Divide 

County, ND, Ambrose-Bakken Pool, pursuant 

to the provisions of NDCC § 38-08-06.4 and such 





gas from the Sinclair #24-162-99H well located 

in the NWNW of Section 24, T.162N., R.99W., 

Divide County, ND, Ambrose-Bakken Pool, pursuant 

to the provisions of NDCC § 38-08-06.4 and 

such other relief as is appropriate. 



to NDAC § 43-02-03-88.1 authorizing the aring 

of gas from the Colby 23-14-160-99H #1PB 

well located in the SWSE of Section 23, T.160N., 

R.99W., Divide County, ND, Burg-Bakken Pool, 

pursuant to the provisions of NDCC § 38-08-06.4 


Case No. 18784: Application of Missouri Basin 

Well Service, Inc. pursuant to NDAC § 43-02-03- 

88.1 for an order authorizing the drilling of a salt 

water disposal well to be located in the NWNW of 

Section 32, T.163N., R.100W., Gooseneck 

Field, Divide County, ND, in the Dakota Formation 

pursuant to NDAC Chapter 43-02-05 and such 


Signed by, 

Jack Dalrymple, Governor 

Chairman, ND Industrial 

Commission 

 

 

 

 

The North Dakota Industrial Commission 

will hold a public hearing at 

9:00 a.m. 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 

at the N.D. Oil & Gas Division, 1000 

East Calgary Ave., 

Bismarck, N. D. At the hearing 

the Commission will receive testimony 

and exhibits. Persons with 

any interest in the cases listed below, 

take notice. 

PERSONS WITH DISABILI- 

TIES: If at the hearing you need 

special facilities or assistance, contact 

the Oil and Gas Division at 701- 

328-8038 by Thursday, September 

13, 2012. 

STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA 

TO: 

Case No. 17358: (Continued) 

Temporary spacing to develop an 

oil and/or gas pool discovered by 

the Murex Petroleum Corp. #1-1R 

Reistad, SESE Section 1, T.162N., 

R.102W., Divide County, ND, dene 

the eld limits, and enact such special 

eld rules as may be necessary. 

Case No. 18588: Application of 

Grit Industries Inc. for an order allowing 

a boiler to be located closer 

than 150 feet to oil tanks as an exception 

to the requirements of Section 

43-02-03-28 of the North Dakota Administrative 

Code, or for such other 



TD Services for an order pursuant to 

NDAC § 43-02-03-51 for authorization 

to operate mobile treating plants 

throughout the State of North Dakota, 



Marquis Alliance Energy Group 

USA, Inc., pursuant to NDAC § 43- 

02-03-51 for an order authorizing 

the construction of an oil treating 

and oileld waste treating/processing 

facility to be located in the NWNE 

of Section 36, T.163N., R.98W., 

Divide County, ND, for the purpose 

of salvaging, treating and recycling 

upstream petroleum wastes, and for 

such other relief as is appropriate. 

Signed by, 

Jack Dalrymple, Governor 

Chairman, ND Industrial 

Separate written bids will be taken for the purchase of the following 

tracts of land in Divide County, North Dakota suitable for waterfowl 

hunting: 

Tract #1 

Township 160 N, Range 100 W, Section 22: SW¼NE¼, 

NW¼SE¼ 

(Minimal tillable acres) 

(Approximately 40 pasture acres) 

(Approximately 40 wetland acres) 

Tract #2 

Township 163 N, Range 95 W, Section 26: SE¼SE¼ 




Tract #3 

Township 163 N, Range 95 W, Section 25: SW¼SW¼ 




Terms of Sale: 

OWNER/SELLER: Robert Walstad 

MINERALS: Only the surface interest will be sold as all 

oil, gas, and other minerals will be 

excepted and reserved by the Seller. 

NOT SUBJECT The land being sold not is subject to any 

TO FARM LEASE: farm lease for crop years 2012 or after. The 

land is not subject to CRP contracts or use 

agreements with neighbors. 

WATERFOWL The land is subject to a waterfowl manage- 

EASEMENT: ment easement. 

PROPERTY 

SOLD “AS IS” 

BIDS: 

OPPORTUNITY 

TO RAISE BIDS 

CLOSING: 

INFORMATION: 

By submitting a bid, bidders agreed to 

purchase the property in “as is” condition, 

with no guarantees as to the physical 

condition of the premises. 

Separate bids accepted on each Tract. 

Bids are to be in writing, specifying which 

Tract the bid is for and mailed to McGee, 

Hankla, Backes & Dobrovolny, P.C., Attn: 

Gene W. Allen, P.O. Box 998, Minot, ND 

58702-0998. Bids must be received by 1:00 

Central Time on Friday, September 21, 

2012. The top bidders on each Tract will 

be given an opportunity to raise their bid. 

The successful bidder will be required to 

sign a purchase agreement and pay 10% 

down upon acceptance of the bid with the 

balance payable within 45 days of 

acceptance. 

The top bidders for each Tract will be 

contacted and invited to appear at the bid 

auction at 1:00 p.m. Central Time on 

Thursday September 27, 2012, by 

telephone or in person at the ofces of 

McGee, Hankla, Backes & Dobrovolny, P.C., 

15 Second Ave., SW, Suite 305, Minot, 

North Dakota, at which time bidders will 

be given an opportunity to raise their 

respective bids orally. Other bidders may 

be invited to bid at the 

discretion of the seller. The sale may be 

temporarily adjourned to confer with the 

seller, and again after a high bid is 

established for all Tracts and before any 

bids are accepted, after which time a 

decision to accept or reject a bid will be 

announced. The successful bidder will be 

required to sign a purchase agreement 

and pay 10% down upon acceptance of the 

bid with the balance payable within 45 

days of acceptance. 

At closing the Seller will provide Buyer a 

warranty deed to the property, free and 

clear of all encumbrances, subject to 

easements and right of ways of record. 

Seller will pay 2011 and prior years real 

estate taxes with 2012 taxes prorated to 

date of closing. Seller will provide a title 

insurance policy. 

Bid forms and further information may be 

obtained at the ofces of McGee, Hankla, 

Backes & Dobrovolny, P.C., at 15 2nd Ave. 

SW, Suite 305, Minot, ND or by calling 701- 

852-2544. 

SELLER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY AND ALL 

BIDS, TO WAIVE IRREGULARITIES IN THE BIDS, AND TO 

MODIFY THE TERMS AND MANNER OF SALE AT ANY TIME. 

SELLER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ACCEPT A “BUY NOW” 

BID AT ANY TIME PRIOR TO SELECTION OF THE SUCCESS- 

FUL BIDDER AT AUCTION 

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 

Bidder name: 

Address: 

BID FORM 

Walstad Land Sale 

Bids Due September 21, 2012 

Telephone number(s) where you can be reached: 

Bid: 

Please indicate Walstad Land Sale on your bid. 

Submit this bid with a refundable bid deposit payable to McGee Law 

Firm Trust Account in the amount of 10% of your bid. 

In submitting this bid I agree to be bound by the terms of sale, attached 

hereto. 

Dated 

LAND FOR SALE ON BIDS 

DIVIDE COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA 

Bidder Signature 

 

 

Please take notice that the City 

of Crosby Planning & Zoning Commission 

has received an Application 

for Preliminary Plat Approval 

from the City of Crosby, PO Box 

67, Crosby, North Dakota 58730 for 

development of the commercially 

zoned area of the Southridge Acres 

Addition to the City of Crosby, described 

as: part of Section 32, Township 

163 North, Range 97 West of 

the Fifth Principal Meridian, Divide 

County, North Dakota, and hereby 

sets a date for a public hearing on 

said Application for Preliminary 

Plat Approval before recommendation 

for nal consideration by the 

Crosby City Council. 

The hearing will be held Monday, 

September 24, 2012 at 4:50 pm 

at Crosby City Hall, located at 107 

West Central Avenue, Crosby, North 

Dakota 58730. Any person wishing 

to comment on the Application for 

Preliminary Plat Approval may do 

so orally or in writing at the time of 

the hearing. 

By Order of the Planning & Zoning 

Commission 

Carol Lampert 

City of Crosby Auditor

The Journal & Tioga Tribune Classified Advertising Wednesday, September 5, 2012 

 

FOR RENT: REASONABLY 

priced lot with trees and lake 

view in Powers Lake; City water 

and sewer installed this 

Fall; City regulations require 

anchored mobile homes with 

pitched roof and skirting. $400 

a month plus utilities. $800 deposit, 

refundable. Call Jodi at 

701-468-5987 

 

WILLISTON VILLAGE RV 

Resort opening Sept. 3. Conveniently 

located in Williston. 

$795/month plus electricity. 

City water and sewer included 

in rent. Large 30’x70’ lots. 701- 

580-2287. willistonvillagervresort.com. 

 

140’ LOT WITH older building 

located at 389 2nd St. SE, Tioga 

$200,000.00/OBO call (701) 839- 

3213. 

 

OLDER HOME FOR sale, 1 

block from grade school and 

post office, 102 1st St. NE, Crosby. 

Marilyn Johnson, H: (701) 

881-0137, C: (701) 609-4214. 

 

HOUSE FOR SALE in Tioga, 

price reduced, 2000 sq.ft. living 

space, finished basement, 3 plus 

bedrooms, 1 3/4 bathrooms, 2 

car garage. Excellent location. 

701-230-1252. 

 

 

FOR SALE: THREE bedroom, 

one bath, nice Ranch Style home 

1,040. sq.ft., full basement, 2 car 

garage and large lot. $159,000. 

One bedroom, one bath, ready 

to move in, large lot. Nice retirement 

or rental. $84,000. Call 

Brad Torkelson. Coldwell Banker 

Real Estate 701-339-8907. 

 

HOUSE FOR SALE in Crosby, 2 

bedrooms upstairs, 1 bathroom, 

detached single stall garage. 

Asking $40,000. 701-641-8337. 

 

FOR RENT: 3 bdrm. house and 

6 bdrm. house for rent in Minot. 

Each has garage, central air and 

two baths. Call 701-833-6909. 

 

FOR RENT: 50’X50’ heated garage 

with 18’x30’ office in front. 

Large overhead door. Located 

in Minot. Call 701-833-6909. 

 

FOR SALE: ESTABLISHED restaurant 

in northwest North Dakota’s 

oil patch. Family-owned 

for over 20 years. Red Rooster 

Cafe, Crosby, ND, 701-641-8375. 

Serious inquiries only. 

 

 

THE CROSBY MOOSE Lodge 

is looking for a manager. Apply 

in person at the Moose after 4 

p.m. or send resume to: Crosby 

Moose Lodge 1209, PO Box 207, 

Crosby, ND 58730. 

 

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HECKMAN & SONS 

Construction & Remodeling 

Now Scheduling Fall 

& Winter Work 

* Free Estimates *Licensed and Insured 

 

 

Thank you for your Support! 

NEWSPAPER REPORTER 

If you’re curious, inquisitive and ambitious, we can teach 

you how to report and write. Tioga Tribune is seeking a 

full-time reporter to cover both hard news and features at 

our newspaper. A good work ethic and an interest in 

community are important; experience is not. Occasional 

evening and weekend work is required. Good pay and 

 

and resume to cecilew@crosbynd.com 

No phone calls please. 

Tio 

ioga Tribune 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE DIVIDE COUNTY School 

District is hiring bus drivers for 

next school year. Applicants 

must have a bus driver’s license, 

and background checks 

will be conducted. For more information, 

contact the district 

office at 701-965-6313. 

 

CHOIR ACCOMPANIST FOR 

HS and JH at Divide County 

School. 1 hour/day 12 - 1 p.m., 

M - F. Pay negotiable based on 

experience. 

 

HELP WANTED. FULL or parttime, 

Crosby Kids Daycare. Call 

Carrie 701-965-5437. 

 

TIOGA SCHOOL SEEKS an 

experienced and energetic individual 

to serve as the Junior 

Varsity Boys Basketball coach 

for the 2012-13 season. For details 

call Tioga School. 701-664- 

3606, DW Johnston. 

 

SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS fillin 

and fulltime needed. Tioga 

School is searching for drivers 

with CDL and the ability to obtain 

a bus drivers certificate. Interested 

applicants can obtain 

additional information by calling 

701-664-2333. 

 

 

LOOKING FOR FT BARTEND- 

ER, PT waitress. Bootleggers, 

Noonan, ND. Call Monte or Deb 

701-925-5700. 

 

TIOGA SCHOOL SEEKS and 

experienced person to manage 

district web sites at Tioga High 

School and Tioga Central Elementary 

School. For additional 

information contact DW Johnson 

at 701-664-3606. 

 

SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS AND 

Para assistants needed. Tioga 

School is seeking individuals 

who enjoy working with children 

and young adults on an 

as needed basis. Additional information 

is available by calling 

701-664-2333. 

 

FULL TIME, PART time cooks, 

waitresses, prep cooks, dish 

washers. All shifts, flexible 

hours. Red Rooster Cafe, Crosby, 

ND 965-6516. 

 

BARTENDER NEEDED, JOEY’S 

in Crosby; for hours, wages, or 

more info call 701-339-0339. 

 

 

MICK DEEZ AUTO and truck 

detailing at your location. Pressure 

washing homes and etc. 

Call for details and estimates. 

701-339-3452 or 701-334-0597. 

 

HANDYMAN SERVICES, COM- 

MERCIAL or residential. Plumbing, 

electrical and painting. Call 

Dennis at 951-545-4351. 

 

GREEN CAT SERVICES; Hydroseeding, 

landscaping, dirt work, 

lawn spraying, insect spraying, 

ground sterilization, tree 

work, demolition work. Local, 

Licensed, Insured Call: 701-609- 

0785 or email Joe@greencatnd. 

com. 

 

 

USED FURNITURE: QUEEN 

bed, $170; 20 sofas and sleepers 

from $70; full size bed, $75; 

crib, $25; 7 piece dining set, $90; 

TV-media stands from $25; room 

size carpets from $79; Springan 

Furniture. 628-2413. Stanley. 

 

Tioga Auto Sales 

(701)664-2786 Hours: mon-sat 9-7 

523 2nd St. NE, Tioga, ND 

www.tiogaautosales.com 

2002 Buick LeSbre..4dr V6...AT...Full Power Real Clean $5,995 

...4x4....V-8...AT....Full Power........3rd Seat 

..SD..Flatbed...4x4..V-8..5spd..Extcab...$8995 

...Crwcab...Dually...4x4...V-8...lowmiles...$8995 

.....4x4..V-8..AT...Extcab... 

2005Ford...E350...Boxtruck...Rollupdoor...... 

...2500...4x4..CumsDsl..Extcab..Lbed..$8995 

... 4x4... Ext cab...V6...AT...3rd dr...Full Pwr. $5,995 

Great benefits: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Free Life Insurance, 

Accidental/Death and Dismemberment Benefi t, Pension, Paid Time Off, 

Flex Spending Option. 

■ Nurses: 

■ Certified Nurse Assistants: 

Registered Nurses and Licensed $12/hour starting for uncertified 

Practical Nurses 

(In-house certifi cation provided) 

$4,000 sign on bonus, DOE 

$1000 bonus 

Inquire on positions available 

~~~ 

Contact Amy Larsen 

■ QA Coordinator/Infection Control Nurse: 

20 hours/week 

Contact Amy Larsen or Jon Stone 

■ Part Time Housekeeping/Laundry Assistant: 

Contact Shelley Power - spower@good-sam.com 

Apply online at 

www.good-sam.com 

For more information, 

701-965-6086 

 

Business Manager 

$1,000 Sign-On Bonus!!! 

Fully Paid Single Health,Vision, and Dental Insurance!!! 

Tri-City Cares is accepting applications for the position of 

Business Manager. This position assists the Executive Director 

with Fiscal control over a sizable budget. The job duties 

would include payroll, accounts payable, accounts 

 

The ideal candidate for this job is someone with a Degree in 

Accounting. If you would like more inforamtion or an 

application please contact Brad Solberg at 628-2990 

or stop by the center at 15 1st St. SE, Stanley. 

 

2 CLASS C Motorhomes For 

Sale: 2003 Tioga, 31-ft., 66,000 

miles, $32,000, 1 slide-out. 2004 

Dutchmen Express, 28ft., 40,000 

miles, $34,500. Both excellent 

condition, generators, queen 

island beds, sleeps 8, many extras. 

Will deliver from Colorado. 

720-201-7737. 

 

M GLEANER COMBINE, new 

engine, 2 headers, $3,500; 24-ft 

International cultivator, $1,500; 

Melroe pick up, cheap; John 

Deere 5-bottom plow, $800. 701- 

528-4302, evenings and weekends. 

 

2,000 YARDS OF black top soil 

available. Call Les , 641-0277 or 

Becky, 641-8877. 

 

FOR SALE: 1998 32-foot Sandpiper 

camper, 10-foot slide out, 

$7000. 701-834-2374 

 

SLIGHTLY USED PANASONIC 

KX-FL511 plain paper fax machine. 

New $325.00, yours for 

$100.00. The Journal, 701-965- 

6088. 

 

 

GUN SHOW: DAKOTA Territory 

Gun Collectors Association 

Annual Fall BISMARCK Gun 

Show. Saturday, September 29, 

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, September 

30, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. BIS- 

MARCK CIVIC CENTER. Roger 

Krumm 701-336-7533 or 701-851- 

0129. 

 

STEEL BUILDINGS: COM- 

PLETE for assembly Example 

24X24 Reg $6,678 Discount 

$5,640 (Quantity 1) 48x96 

Reg $32,470 Discount $27,057 

(Quantity 2). Call for Others 

Source#18X. 800-964-8335 

 

 

RUMMAGE, CRAFT AND Bake 

Sale: September 15, 2012, 11:00. 

am. to 3:00 p.m. at Beaver Creek 

Church South of Tioga and Ray 

off of 1804. Lunch served all 

day, hot donuts too! Drawings 

every half hour. 

 

Sherwood 

Inn 

Plentywood, Montana 

40 miles east of Scobey 

406-765-2810 

Clean, comfortable, afforadable rooms 

Crew rates available 

Customer laundry facilities 

Lounge & Casino 

Light continental breakfast 

HELP WANTED 

Wellsite Leasing, Inc. 

is looking for full-time 

or seasonal positions 

in the Stanley area. 

Apply online 

at wellsiteleasing.com 

or for more 

information email jobs 

@wellsiteleasing.com 

HELP WANTED 

TIOGA FOOD PRIDE 

is seeking friendly, outgoing 

people for the following openings: 

Cashiers/Courtesy Clerks, 

Produce Clerks, Grocery Clerks, 

Frozen Food Clerk, 

Bakery/Deli Clerk and a 

Meat Clerk/Cleanup. 

 

If interested in joining our team 

at Tioga Food Pride, please stop 

 

 

Eddie Valles for an interview, 

 

Parts Person 

Frontier Equipment is looking for a parts counter person. Experience is 

 

someone who likes working with people, good with computers, and well 

organized. We offer paid vacation, paid health insurance, a 401K retirement 

plan, eight paid holidays, and a yearly bonus program. If interested 

please contact Scott to set up an interview. 

FRONTIER EQUIPMENT 

Williston, ND 

701-774-0957 

1-866-774-0957 

Salesperson 

Frontier Equipment is looking for a salesperson to take over an 

established sales territory. Experience is preferred, but we will train the 

right person. We are looking for someone that has time management 

skills, likes to work with people, is self-motivated, and has the drive to 

succeed. You will be in charge of managing and maintaining your 

territory. A good driving record is required. This position receives a base 

wage plus commission. Frontier Equipment offers a yearly bonus, 401k 

retirement plan, health insurance, paid vacation, eight paid holidays, and 

a company vehicle. If you are ready to work in a great environment with 

great people, call Scott and set up an interview today. 

FRONTIER EQUIPMENT 

Williston, ND: 701-774-0957 or 1-866-774-0957 

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS 

 

Hospital and Long Term Care 

 

Tioga Cinic (Full time) 

 

 

Full time and Part time 

(Full time) 

(Full time) 

Competetive salary and benefits 

Applications available online at: 

www.tiogahealth.org 

Mail to address below, Attention: Human Resources 

or contact Amber Nelson, RN or Mary Ann Holm 

at the number below or e-mail: maryann@nccray.net 

Tioga Medical Center 

810 N. Welo St. 

Tioga, ND 58852-0159 

701-664-3313 

Equal Opportunity Employer 

TFT 

Check out our 

website....... 

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Page 14 -- The Journal News Wednesday, September 5, 2012 

Church Schedules 

 

 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 5 -- Mass 7 p.m. 

Friday, September 7 -- Mass 12 p.m. 

Sunday, September 9 -- Mass 9 a.m. 

Monday, September 10 -- Private devotion 

8 a.m. 

 

Tuesday, September 11 -- Mass 6 

p.m. 

 

Thursday, Sept. 6 -- Mass 8 a.m. 

Saturday, Sept. 8 -- Mass 7:30 p.m. 

 

Sunday, Sept. 9 -- Mass 11:30 p.m. 

 

 

St. Olaf Worship, 9 a.m. 

United Worship, 11 a.m. 

 

 

 

Sundays: SS, 9:45 a.m.; Worship, 

11 a.m. 

Wednesdays: Bible Study, 7 p.m. 

Jerry French 

BUILDERS 

New Homes - Remodeling 

All phases of construction 

Jake 701.651.7824 - Jerry 701.578.4159 - jfrenchbuilder@hotmail.com 

Northwest 

Veterinary 

Service, Inc. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stakston-Martin 

Funeral Home 

Dr. Philip Sedo 

Dr. Patrick Evans 

Shelley Bartow 

PA-C 

Jackie Lindsey 

FNP-C 

Ginger Warren 

FNP-C 

212 

 

 

 

 

Tim & Diane 

Werner 

 

For 

Home 

Town 

Health 

Care 

You 

Can 

TRUST 

~~~ 

CROSBY 

CLINIC: 

965-6349 

After Hours: 

965-6384 

BOWBELLS 

CLINIC: 

377-6400 

M-T-W-Th 

9 a.m. -12 

LIGNITE 

CLINIC: 

933-2220 

M-T-W-F 

2 -5 p.m. 

 

 

 

Sundays: Worship, 11 a.m. 

 

 

 

Weds.: Men’s breakfast, 7 a.m. 

Sundays: Worship, 9 a.m. 

Tuesdays: Quilting, 1 p.m. 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 5: Zion WEL- 

CA 2 p.m.; Bethlehem WELCA 4 p.m. 

Sunday, September 9: Bethlehem 

worship 9:00 a.m.; Peace Sunday 

school 10 a.m.; Peace worship 11:00 

a.m. 

 

 

Sunday, September 9 -- 9 a.m. Ambrose; 

10:30 a.m. Writing Rock 

COMPUTERS 

Laptops | Desktops | Accessories 

Laptops Start At $498.00 

Other Items In Stock 

V ariety 

Marketplace 

105 N Main St | Downtown Crosby 

701-965-3000 

VarietyMarketplace.com 

Check out our specials 

on Facebook! 

Deliveries to crosby on 

Thursdays for lunch. 

701-925-3334 

Bakken Shale mineral owners: 

With new wealth comes 

new opportunities. 

Business and Professional Directory 

Dave Bester 

licensed contractor 

612-669-7291 

 

 

 

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Theron Huwe 

Agent 

Errol Thvedt 

Sales Representative 

H: 701-751-2276 

C: 701-570-2264 

e-mail: emthvedt@bis.midco.net 

SEMI-TRAILER 

SALES & LEASING INC. 

4009 E Divide Ave. 

Bismarck, ND 58501 

Cell: 701-570-2264 

Office: 701-355-1000 

WATTS: 1-877-800-3400 

FAX: 701-355-1009 

Website: semitrailersalesandleasing.com 

CRAFTS 4-U 

Special discount EVERYDAY 

on ALL 

CARHARTT 

Flame Resistant & 

Regular Clothing 

Custom Embroidery 

DONE HERE 

701-965-6106 

Call me for a complimentary 30-minute consultation. 

Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. Member FINRA 

Protection is a 

family tradition. 

Call me today at (701) 258.9735 

Joel L Bird, CFP®, CRPC® 

Financial Advisor 

CERTIFIED FINANCIAL 

PLANNER practitioner 

Roger Koski & Associates 

practice of 

Ameriprise Financial 

Since 1927, families like yours have 

trusted our Family to protect them 

from unexpected losses. Call me 

today to discuss your needs. 

Kristi L Haugenoe, Agent 

Bus: (701) 965-6319 


http://www.kristihaugenoeagency.com 

KHAUGENO@AmFam.com 

505 E Main Ave 

Ste 100 

Bismarck, ND 58501 

701-258-9735 

joel.l.bird@ampf.com 

 

 

Wednesday, September 5 -- Afternoon 

Bible Study 1:30 p.m. at Community 

Center, Hostess: Anita Bjorgen; 

Confirmation 3:45 p.m.; LYO Meeting 7 

p.m. 

Friday, September 7 -- Immanuel Fundraising 

Committee’s Alaskan Salmon 

& BBQ Ribs Supper followed by Parcel 

Post & Silent Auction 6 p.m. at Community 

Center 

Sunday, September 9 -- Worship: SJ 

8:45 a.m., Imm, 10 a.m., Sunday School 

11 a.m.; Rally Sunday; SS Teacher Installation. 

Wednesday, September 12 -- Confirmation 

3:45 p.m. 

All types of 

electrical work. 

No job too small! 

Local references available. 

Oil, Gas & Mineral Law 

Pringle & Herigstad 

Law Firm 

Representing mineral owners 

on leasing, litigation and all 

other oil, gas, mineral & 

estate planning issues 

2525 ELK DRIVE 

MINOT, ND 58701 

Phone (701) 852-0381 

1-800-735-4064 

www.pringlelaw.net 

C 

B 

 

Inc. 

 

Hours 

M-F: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

Sat.: 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. 

Sun.: CLOSED 

Jason & Windy Smith 

900 4th Street SE 

Crosby, ND 

 

S C 

B Inc. 

Nearly half of all Americans turning 65 

will use nursing home care. 

STOP AND SEE US FOR 

Long Term Care Insurance 

Life Insurance 

IRA Plans 


Crosby, ND 

(701) 965-6335 

www.FarmersUnionInsurance.com/SimonsonHuwe 

T: 701.965.4727 

C: 701-339-2726 P.O. Box 197 

F: 240.485.0925 301 4 th St. NW 

E: jeremy@kcsrnd.com Crosby, ND 58730 

KCSR 

Kessler Computer Service & Repair 

Jeremy Kessler, Owner 

www.kcsrnd.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dan Osvold 

701-641-8549 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 5 -- Pastor in 

Lignite; 9:30 a.m. CLCW Bible Study; 7 

p.m. Meeting for all parents who wish 

to have their children participate in the 

youth Christian education program. 

Sunday, September 9 -- 11 a.m. Worship. 

Monday, September 10 -- 9:30 a.m. 

Quilting; 9:30 a.m. Foot Care Clinic; 6 

p.m. CLCW Board Meeting; 7:30 p.m. 

Quilter’s Guild. 

 

 

 

Sunday, September 9 -- 11 a.m. Worship 

Service - Mark Rubbert 

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 5 -- 12 p.m. 

Worship Committee meeting; 6:30 p.m. 

Mentor Supper for 8th & 9th grade Confirmation 

students and their mentors; 

7 p.m. Outreach Committee meeting 

Thursday, September 6 -- 9 a.m. 

Quilting 

Friday, September 7 -- 12 p.m. Senior 

Citizen meal in Fellowship Hall 

Sunday, September 9 -- 9:30 a.m. to 

10:30 a.m. Sunday School Registration 

& classes; 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 

with Communion; 11:30 a.m. Carnival 

Jim Simonson 

Agent 

S 

Arlen Olsen 

Construction 

Remodeling - Siding - Decks 

ALL SHEETROCK WORK 

Taping - Texturing - Painting 

Tile - Duraceramic - Laminate Flooring 

NO JOB TOO SMALL! 

Licensed & Insured 

Call 701-965-4334 

 

 

 

 

 

Individual Solutions from 

Independent Advisors 

Member FINRA/SIPC 

located at 

Aaron 

Schmit 

Financial Advisor 

Offering a complete 

range of financial 

products and 

services 

223 Main Street • Williston, ND 58801 

701-774-4165 

Securities are offered through Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., member 

FINRA/SIPC, an independent broker/dealer, and are not insured by FDIC, NCUA, 

any other government agency, or any other financial institution, are not deposits or 

obligations of the financial institution, are not guaranteed by the financial institution, 

and are subject to risks, including the possible loss of principal. American State Bank 

and Trust Company is independent of RJFS. 

Brad Johnson Insurance 

Brad 

701-965-3300 

www.lindsey-insurance.com 

Heckman Construction 

Licensed general contractors -- Local company 

New Construction 

Homes/Garages 

Shops 

Jen’s Drive In 

North 

OILFIELD 

P.O. Box 510 


greaves@nccray.net 

Tyler Heckman 

701-720-7628 

Open ‘til 9 p.m. 

Soft Serve Ice Cream - Pizza - Burgers - Chicken 

Daily Specials and Soup 

965-4371 -- 501 S. Main 

INC. 

West 

SERVICES 

Cell 701-641-8614 

Cell 701-240-6282 

Phone 701-965-6543 

time with lunch; Pastor Rob leaves for 

Leaders Conference in Medora 

Monday, September 10 -- Pastor Rob 

at Leaders Conference in Medora 

Tuesday, September 11 -- Pastor Rob 

returns from Leaders Conference in 

Medora 


John Bible Study in the Friendship 

Room; 3:45 p.m. 4th grade Confirmation; 

6:15 p.m. 8th and 9th Grade Confirmation 

- litter clean-up; 6:30 p.m. 

Finance meeting; 7:30 p.m. Council 

meeting 

 

Wednesday, September 5 -- 1:30 p.m. 

Zion W-ELCA 

Sunday, September 9 -- 10 a.m. Community 

Worship at Tioga’s Farm Festival, 

dinner follows 

Tuesday, September 11 -- 10 a.m. 

Text Study 


First W-ELCA, Sharon hostess 

Ag Buildings 

Additions 

And more . . . 

Jesse Heckman 

701-834-2482 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harry 

223 N. Main Street - Crosby, ND - 701-965-4200 

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