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It was past midnight, maybe 1 or 2 a.m., that I woke up some four weeks ago. I could not breathe. Thinking that my days as a COVID recipient, pneumonia and lungs holding water were gone, I got scared. Really scared. It was really difficult to breathe ... I was just gasping. My wife, a real night owl, was in the kitchen crocheting the little doll blankets used for the Shoe Box program. I wandered into the kitchen and told her, “Call 911, I need an ambulance right now!” She jumped to attention, ma...
A good friend of mine, some 50 years ago, was a basketball coach for a team I covered for my newspaper. Having just won an important district game over a tall and talented opponent, I told him, “Your boys did a great job last Saturday night.” (His tallest of 12 team members was 5’10”; the opponents had a much taller team.) The coach replied, “You gotta’ have a little luck, too.” Likewise, while playing fast-pitch softball, our team played in a 16-team league at Harvey. We qualified for...
My mother made me do it! Rather, she really didn't make me, she actually taught me how to do it through lots of hard work and all the time I spent in her garden as a kid. I have and never did regret it, though, because of what followed in my life to date in the hobby of gardening. The thought of this came to mind following the story carried in this paper a couple weeks ago featuring the Community Garden Project currently underway in the city. It all started, as I remember, that Dad and I were...
It was in the late 1940s and into the 1950s that I found myself with one more job. A much appreciated job, at that! Along with lawn mowing, helping my dad and stocking shelves in a grocery store, I also worked at the movie theatre. It was a large, well-kept auditorium on Main Street and owners Gottfred and Wilma Olson made sure the place was always open to the public. The movies ran every night and matinees usually on Saturday and Sunday. The reason was twofold. They drew paying customers and...
Workers spent time last week dismantling Stadium '76 at the CHS track and football field to make room for a new structure. Built in the summer of 1976 (thus the name), the general contractor then was Jim Bronaugh, assisted by volunteers of the Carrington Quarterback Club. The original stadium was made possible by a generous donation from Foster County State Bank. The new stadium is expected to be in place by the opening of the fall football season. Other contractors on the 1976 project were...
For the past 3-5 months, I have been going through some of my stuff that I filed away during the past 45 or more years. A lot of the paperwork I will turn over to the Foster County Museum and the Wells County Museum. Much was tossed in file “J” while other things lay in piles that are looking for a new home. So many things, stories, interesting tidbits and a host of other fellow Fourth Estaters’ columns that I thought some day I may use in this column. Well, this week is the week. I’ll use som...
Another of our extended family has hit the working world. And he was eager to start! That was because his sister was working, and earning some good spending money. He noticed just what she was saving, so he was anxious to do the same. This is my grandson in a suburb of Minneapolis. He’s about to complete his freshman year of high school. He needs a coin or two, especially to conform a medium-sized mountain bike into a motorized bike. This is not a cheap makeover! And, his sister, who will c...
Twenty-five entrants attended the second annual Five Spot Car Show in Carrington on Saturday, May 14. Following the showing from to noon to 4 p.m., 27 cars and motorcycles cruised past Golden Acres and then on to Glenfield, Kensal and Bordulac. The "People's Choice" award was won by Dawson Neis with his 1977 Buick Electra, 4-door, newly painted with specific tune-ups by Neis and students at Lake Region College in Devils Lake. The 1969 Corvette, owned by Mark Sellie of Cathay, was a project he...
Do you, like me, remember the first car you ever drove? Be it legally or illegally, some must remember like I do. It came to my attention about a month ago while I was cleaning out some files here in the office in preparation of moving from this 45-year position. I came upon, in a box of old photos, this one above that I thought I would never find again . . . this only pix of the first car I ever drove in my lifetime . . . a 1931 Dodge Coupe. And, it was an illegal drive. It all happened when I...
Over 70 students of the Art class, Speech and Music were on display at the CHS West Gym last Tuesday night, May 3, at the annual Arts Expo. Under the theme "Out of This World", art students displayed their creations while speech and music students were in the performing arts portion of the evening. Pictured is senior Rori Ricter, proudly showing her artistic work as a member of the Wet Media Class. The event was under the direction of Megan Trautman, Kristen Hewitt, Kayla Bjork and Kristina...
This weekend another chapter of the North Dakota Newspaper Association will happen when the Fourth Estaters gather for their annual convention in Bismarck. And, it will be a very special convention for our two newspapers here in Central North Dakota, the Independent and the Transcript at New Rockford. Your publisher/editor of the two publications will take the reins as Association president. Miss Amy will become one of a very few from this area to serve in this position. She has spent a lot of...
Fellow Fourth Estater Neil O. Nelson, who pens good and interesting stories at the Herald-Press newspaper for the Harvey/Fessenden area caught my attention last week. His personal column dealt with his serving in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam, where he went and returned without any fanfare. His father greeted him when he returned home from serving with the words, “Home, huh?” while mom went into hysteria for a good 10 minutes, “because I hadn’t been home in something like ten years.” At the local...
A friend recently said to me, “You must have many stories you can tell about the many years you’ve been affiliated with newspapers.” I told him, “Yes, I do and I remember a lot of them like they happened yesterday.” “Any of them that really stick in your mind . . . kind of situational, a bit on the edge or something like that?” he asked. “I’d like to hear a few more like you’ve been placing in this space off and on,” he quipped. Well, yes I do have another, in fact it came to mind recently when...
Maybe it's because there has been mega coverage of high school hockey in the state and region the past weeks . . . along with the fact that I do watch what and where the UND Fighting Hawks are as their season comes to a close. And, just maybe all that brought back a lot of memories for me as a kid. The sport of hockey was not organized in the winter sandlot days at our large pond close to where I grew up. And back then, we played a lot of hockey in the winter months as ice skating and snow...
There was a time in my life that I could eat almost anything . . . except chicken, turkey and lutefisk . . . and anything with feathers and fins! I never worried about what I placed into myself — eat until full and a variety of food that included fried onion sandwiches and liver and onions. It was all about taste, what I liked and the seasonings I placed on such food. I got along just fine, except for a time my weight began to fluctuate — and so it was time for a change. But I never thought a po...
