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Dear Savvy Senior, Is skin cancer hereditary? My 63-year-old brother died of melanoma last year, and I’m wondering if I’m at higher risk. Younger Sister Dear Younger, While long-term sun exposure and sunburns are the biggest risk factors for melanoma – the deadliest form of skin cancer – having a sibling or parent with melanoma does indeed increase your risk, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. Each year, around 100,000 Americans are diagnosed with melanoma, and about 7,500 people will di...
Challenging weather conditions due to a combination of excess moisture and cool temperatures have inhibited spring planting, resulting in the potential for above normal acres of prevented planting. In addition, many livestock producers in the region are short on forage due to severe drought in 2020 and 2021 and delayed pasture readiness this spring. “The increase in preventive-plant acres provides an opportunity for the production of supplementary forage for livestock to offset the shortage of forage supplies,” says Miranda Meehan, North Dak...
Lake Region State College (LRSC) announces the addition of an industry partner to its nursing apprenticeship program. Sanford Health will offer nurse apprenticeships as a career advancement opportunity for its employees. More health care providers are considering nursing apprenticeships as an opportunity to strengthen workforce numbers, which spurred LRSC to research offering nurse apprenticeships. Early in 2021, the North Dakota Board of Nursing approved nurse apprentices as an innovative educational model/approach. “We are so excited for o...
Many animal experts suggest that the pig is one of the smartest of all animals, if not the most intelligent of all mammals, maybe even more so than the average human. Daryl Lies of Daryl’s Racing Pigs may agree. What started as an FFA project, over thirty years ago, is now a major attraction at the North Dakota State Fair and many county fairs throughout the state. Daryl’s Racing Pigs will definitely be one of the main attractions of the 2022 Foster County Fair. They will “race” at 4:45, 5:45, and 8:30 p.m. both Thursday, June 23 and Friday,...
Enjoy a fun evening of outdoor entertainment at the Ranch Rodeo on Friday, June 24, at 6:00 p.m. at the Foster County Fairgrounds. Contestants will compete in a variety of different timed events based on the type of work that would be done on a ranch every day. Wede Stein is the announcer and admission is free. Contestants can register their team by calling or texting Chelsey Harding at (701) 653-5062. The entry fee is $400 per team, for 4 person teams. Buckles will be awarded to average champs and prize money will be awarded to the top four...
Twenty-five members of the Carrington FFA Chapter attended the 93rd North Dakota State FFA Convention, June 6-9, on the NDSU Campus in Fargo. The Carrington FFA Chapter again brought home numerous awards and recognitions. Jacob Rexin received his State FFA Degrees during ceremonies on Wednesday of the Convention. There were a total of 132 State FFA Degree recipients. Two members were recognized for their outstanding Supervised Agricultural Experience through the Proficiency Award program. Ian...
Calling all card sharks! Join us for the annual pinochle tournament during the 2022 Foster County Fair on Friday, June 24. The tournament will start at 1:00 p.m. in the Merchant building on the fairgrounds. Entry to the tournament is free and refreshments will be served. Prize money will be paid to first, second and third place at $250, $150, and $100. The team with the highest cumulative score will win after eight rounds have been played. You must bring your own partner. Teams that go set will be charged $0.25 per set. Pre-registration is not...
The 2022 Foster County Junior Livestock Point Show will take place Sunday, June 26 at the Foster County Fairgrounds. Livestock exhibitors age 8 to 21 are invited to participate. The one-day event is expected to attract youth from across the state who will exhibit more than 150 head of beef, sheep, swine and goats. Registration will take place on Sunday, June 26 from 7:30 a.m.- 9:00 a.m. at the CAC Building at the Foster County Fairgrounds. The Junior Livestock Point Show will begin at 10:00 a.m. The Foster County Junior Livestock Point Show is...
Midway Aerie 2923 recently donated $5,000 to the Carrington High School FBLA for their trip to the National FBLA Leadership Conference in Chicago, Illinois June 29 - July 2. Donations like this are made possible with gaming proceeds from New Rockford Eagles Club in New Rockford and the Shamrock in Carrington. Above: Dillon Hewitt (left) representing the Eagles Club presented check to Lauren Skadberg from the CHS FBLA....
Ten Foster County 4-H'ers competed in the state dairy judging contest in Fargo on June 7, 2022. The junior team beat out three other teams to place first in the state contest. Cyrena Kuss led the team, finishing third overall. The senior team placed second in the contest. Kennedy Wendel had the highest score among the members of the senior team, finishing fourth among all competitors. Participants in the contest were asked to judge five classes of dairy heifers and give oral reasons for their...
The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) is kicking off the 2022 construction season with the help from the Associated General Contractors of North Dakota and the North Dakota Highway Patrol. This year’s construction season consists of approximately $500 million in projects throughout North Dakota to enhance the state’s highway system. “We are extremely excited to begin this construction season and invest critical dollars into our state transportation system,” said Bill Panos, NDDOT director. “This summer we hope motorists...
Seniors Michael Clifton, Emma Wolsky and Avery Schaefer were honored at the 9 a.m. Mass on May 22 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Carrington. Gifts and breakfast were provided in honoring the graduates....
Summer baseball for the Carrington American Legion Post 25 Redbirds kicked off at City Park Wednesday, June 8, and continued with three more varsity contests for a four-game string in six days. The Redbirds, coached once again by Tim Ranum, started off with a pair of wins by the count of 9-5 over the Nelson County Post 162 Owls, and a 12-9 win against rival Post 30 of New Rockford on June 8-9. However, their early run of success was neutralized to an overall split of the quartet of District 4...
The Carrington Pitcrew youth wrestling program was visited by two of the sport's premier coaches for a three-day Folk Style Extreme summer camp, held Monday through Wednesday, June 13-15, at the Pitcrew Wrestling Center. Troy and Terry Steiner, who are Bismarck Century High School alumni, national champion wrestlers for the Iowa Hawkeyes and most recently head coaches at Fresno State University (Troy) and the U.S. Women's National Wrestling Team (Terry), held an intensive three-day camp where yo...
North Dakota state law requires youth ages 12-15 who want to operate a boat or personal watercraft by themselves with at least a 10-horsepower motor must pass the state’s boating basics course. The course is available for home-study by contacting the North Dakota Game and Fish Department at 701-328-6300, or [email protected]. Two commercial providers also offer the course online, and links to those sites are found on the boat and water safety education page on the Game and Fish website at gf.nd.gov. While the home-study course is free, students a...
Anglers are reminded that it is illegal to import minnows and other forms of live aquatic bait, such as leeches and frogs, into the state. When purchasing live aquatic bait, anglers must buy from a licensed North Dakota retail bait vendor. Bait vendors can properly identify species and ensure all bait is clean of any aquatic nuisance species. For more information, refer to the 2022-24 North Dakota Fishing Guide, available at license vendors or online at the state website, gf.nd.gov....
Carrington's Babe Ruth baseball club took their first win of the season on Thursday, June 9, with a 12-8 road win in Wishek over the Ashley/Linton/Wishek Rattlers in District 6 play. Six runs in the top of the first inning and four more in the third gave the 13-to-15 year old Redbirds a big lead they would not relinquish, though A-L-W would make a game of it with six tallies in the middle innings to get to 11-8. Carrington tacked on an insurance run in the seventh for the final tally. Josh...
Harvey-Wells County senior Haleigh Lematta was chosen as one of the top 18 Class B softball players recognized for the All-State team. The right-handed pitcher and shortstop for the Hornets posted some very impressive statistics. Lematta batted .614 for HWC, with six home runs and 24 RBIs. She scored 33 runs and had 14 stolen bases this past season, and posted a .646 on-base percentage. In the pitcher's circle, she was equally dominant, posting a 13-6 record and a 1.77 earned-run average (ERA),...
NDSU senior Kari Wolfe concluded a great career in the javelin sector at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Wolfe threw a season-best toss of 175'8" (53.55 meters) to take 10th place overall and earn Second-Team All-American honors Thursday evening, June 9. It is the second All-American honor for Wolfe, as she placed on the First Team last season by taking fifth in the 2021 championships with a career-best of 180'6" (55.02 m). Kari is the...
Joel Lemer has won re-election to the Carrington School Board in an uncontested race. There were 128 votes cast at the polls on Tuesday, June 7. Unofficial results show that Lemer received 123 votes, and as a result will serve another 3-year term on the board, representing the rural part of the district. Jim Harmon got two write-in votes. Other write-ins who received votes live in the city, not in rural areas, CPS Business Manager Kimary Edland said, so they are not listed. The votes will be canvassed at a special meeting of the Carrington...
Carrington City Pool opened for the summer Monday, June 6, and swimmers of all ages converged on the pool to take advantage of the balmy early season temperatures before the heat of July takes over....
BISMARCK, N.D. – On Saturday, May 21, 11 high school seniors graduated from Midkota Public School. For six of these graduates, a local man they likely never met or knew, left part of the sizeable estate he grew during his lifetime as an investment in theirs. During remarks given at the Midkota graduation ceremony, North Dakota United Foundation President Lisa Wolf, delivered the news to the six graduates that they would each be receiving $3,300 scholarships from the Thomas and Garnet Wurst Scholarship Fund. “I am here today because of the gen...
This week the Carrington Garden Club chose Gary and Eileen Hoffman at 857 3rd Street N. for Yard of the Week honors. Nominations are welcome. Contact the Chamber EDC office at 652-2524 or e-mail [email protected]....
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