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I have a problem. I misplace my wallet – a lot. In fact, if losing wallets was an Olympic sport, I’m pretty sure I’d be investigated for doping. And according to a 2018 survey by Money- Tips, I’m not alone, joining the 62% of survey respondents who said they had also lost their cash taco, or had it stolen. I relapsed again recently on a Saturday morning road trip with my wife and some friends, trying to convince myself that I would enjoy attending a college basketball game more than sleepin...
There's an older, nice piano in our home today. I look at it every day and it brings back memories of many, many years ago. The piano was moved back home after several of our grandchildren took many years of lessons and became accomplished piano players, along with their mother. Since they all have moved on, once again the piano sits in our living room. I look at it because there was a time when I took piano lessons as a young seventh or eighth grader. It was maybe a year or two of lessons...
There is no doubt technology has changed the way we live. Even in the past 20 years, there have been phenomenal changes that make living on the prairie more bearable, and in some cases enjoyable. Think about medicine for example. it used to be that you had to go to Minneapolis or Denver to have heart surgery. Now, most of the major hospitals in North Dakota will do heart surgery. If you had cancer, it was too late. Today, there are numerous treatments available in most hospitals and some...
In the creation, it is rumored that the earth was without form and void. And that was before anyone ever saw North Dakota. The Jockey Club in New Jersey protested the creation of a state that was a blank nothingness. Minnesota claimed that we would never make it here. So we must ask: who suggested a state at this location. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern protested because they had no business here and North Dakota just made it farther to Seattle. While we filled a place that would...
Twila Klein told us last fall that the Hi-Way Drive In wouldn't be opening this spring unless she could find more help. Other businesses have reduced hours or services due to a shortage of workers. For years we have needed youth to come back or new people to come to fill our staffing needs, and the pandemic hasn't helped our situation. The Help Wanted ad for the Hi-Way Drive In is on page 2 of the PLUS, right next to several others with a variety of openings. Carrington Chamber Director Laurie...
Last weekend I was cleaning out a drawer and ran across a North Dakota map from 1956. It was in some of my dad’s belongings that I received after he passed away. On the surface, you wouldn’t think there is a lot of information, but when you unfold this map, there is a lot to unpack and it’s all very interesting. The most obvious piece of information I found was with the population of West Fargo. It had a population of 159 that was based on the 1950 Census. In 2020, West Fargo’s populat...
We all know they will be there, and for the most part, we dread the naysayers when we are planning a new community event, project, or community change of any kind. There is truth in the statement that change is hard; however, change is really hard for some people. I have heard from many communities that “nothing ever happens here because of the negative attitude in the community.” I have found that there is no stereotypical naysayer. Some are older and yet some of the youngest people in the com...
I was recently invited to speak at a local women’s organization meeting in my hometown. Apparently, I was pretty much their last option, right behind the auto-warranty telemarketer and the tax auditor. Since I couldn’t imagine what I would discuss that might interest a women’s group, I went for the obvious–my lifelong, chronic case of the girl crazies. In my younger years, it had always been my dream – even my goal – to be surrounded by women, and now I live in a house with four of them; I wor...
Do you remember a news story that started in 1985 about a Red River Valley potato sale to Honduras? Anyone who grows potatoes in the state should recall this newsmaker. It caused all kinds of ramifications for numerous people, including the state of North Dakota. The entire scenario started out innocent enough when the Ag Department’s marketing director Laurence McMerty made his best attempt to set up a major seed potato deal with Honduras. But McMerty later got into legal trouble and was c...
Last week, some of America observed the heroism of one Martin Luther King who was murdered because he thought that “We, the people” should include more than white European immigrants. While some celebrated, others did not, doing their best to see that black lives did not matter. In 2021, 19 states passed 34 laws aimed at excluding minorities from participating in elections. This is not about election fraud. It is about denying citizens of the United States their right to vote. Election Fra...
Dakota Datebook written by Sarah Walker. Almost any child will express excitement at the prospect of snow; and almost any school-aged student looks forward to the possibility of missing school if it snows too heavily. However, on January 24 in 1951, snow-covered roads proved to be no problem for at least a few young children. Tom Gilderhus was a farmer in Oberon, but he also flew airplanes. After one particularly bad storm, he decided to put his plane to good use; he flew his daughter to high school first, then went back home, picked up the...
“Am I going to get my paper on time this week?” a lady called and asked Friday. “Well, they’re not here yet,” Allen answered. “Where’s my newspaper? I haven’t gotten a newspaper on time in four weeks!” a man bellered on the other end of the line Monday. “I’m sorry,” I repeated, for probably the 40th time that day, and it was barely afternoon. Readers, here’s the scoop. Your newspapers have been delayed due to holidays, weather and/or driver illness four weeks in a row, and we understand your co...
As we move into the new year, a subject came up frequently during holiday gatherings and that was that our parents didn’t teach us a second language when we were children. Granted, some people who were parents in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s only knew English, but there were countless others who did speak a second, or even a third language, and for the most part, kept it to themselves. Perhaps the most obvious foreign language, at least in North Dakota, is German. A lot of our parents were the sec...
Hello, 2022. We hope you’re not expecting to get the honeymoon treatment that most new years have gotten throughout history. You see, 2022, most of us are very cranky here in the USA and we have our eyes on you. It’s nothing personal, 2022. It’s just that our hopes for the last two new years have fallen far short of our expectations. We remember the high hopes we had for 2020 — which seems many decades ago. That year got off to a really great start. The economy was thriving. Employment was hig...
