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Monday, January 4, 2016

End of an era...Englevale building which last held Sportsman Bar is razedBy Janet Hansen

An Englevale building which has housed businesses for well over a century and which last housed the Sportsman’s Bar, no longer exists. After the last people to run the bar, Travis “Bud” and Terri Adolfs, closed the establishment, the building and lot were sold to Chad Wagner. Rather than renovate the building, which had deteriorated to the point where it needed much in the way of repair, Chad decided to demolish the building and clear the lot. The razing of the building, which took place during the fall of 2015, marked the end of an era in that small community.

The interior of the building, which, if it could talk, could tell many interesting tales about the various businesses it has housed, was recently burned, in preparation for the demolition. Then Daleyn Baasch bulldozed down the brick exterior and hauled the debris away. All that remains where the building once stood is an empty lot.

According to the Englevale history book from 2006, the history of the former Sportsman’s Bar building goes back to around the turn of the 20th century. The book states that the brick building, which last housed the bar, stood on Lot 8, Block 19, in Englevale. Its first recorded history states that the building was deeded to Myron Davis from Mark Davis in 1904.

It may be that the Myron and Mark Davis were related to Mr. Marshall T. Davis, a New Yorker for whom the town, which would later become Englevale, was originally named. In 1881, Marshall Davis is said to have bought 900 acres of land from James E. Wisner. Wisner, a land speculator and entrepreneur, had come to Lisbon in the fall of 1880 and had pur-chased 35,000 acres of land west of the newly platted town.

In 1882, the railroad survey crossed Mr. Davis’s ranch and located a town site on his property. Davis named the town Marshall, in honor of his first name. Later it was learned that there was already a post office with that same name in Dakota Territory. As a result, the name of the new town was changed, in 1892 or 1893, depending upon which account is read, to Englevale, after Mathias Engle, one of the town’s promoters.

In 1907, the building, which most recently housed the Sportsman’s Bar, was deeded from Mark Davis to Earl Davis. Later in that same year it was deeded to the First State Bank of Englevale. Not much could be found in the history book about the First State Bank, although a list of Englevale businesses which existed in 1910 listed the bank. Its cashier, at that time, was William Narum.

Narum was born in Iowa in 1876. He and his wife, Helen, were mar-ried in Iowa in 1902 and moved to Englevale shortly thereafter. His biog-raphy, which can be found in the Englevale history book, indicates that he operated the First State Bank of Englevale. The Narums moved to Fargo in 1919, where William became district manager of closed banks. He died in 1958.

According to Jim Dick, Englevale, in 1921, the building which most recently housed the bar survived a fire that burned down a large general store belonging to J. T. Peterson, plus an adjacent building. According to the Englevale history book, the fire was first noticed at about 5 a.m. and

was believed to have started in the basement of the store.It took the combined efforts of the local fire department and the cit-

izens of Englevale to prevent the early morning blaze from spreading beyond the two buildings. The firefight was difficult, since the village had no water system.

The main loss was the Peterson Store, which burned to the ground, along with all the business’s stock and fixtures.

The barber shop belonging to Oscar Nelson, which was situated between the main Peterson’s Store building and its furniture department, also burned to the ground.

In 1930, the deed for the building, which last housed the bar, was transferred to R. L. Baird. In July of 1930, the lot and building were deeded to Peter Q. Peterson and the building was turned into a general store run by J.T. Peterson.

The new owner, Peter Q. Peterson, and his wife, Dagmar, lived about four miles south of Englevale. Dagmar was born in Denmark in 1871 and emigrated to the United States at age 24. She and Peter were married in Iowa and, in 1917, moved to the Englevale area, where they farmed

Photo by Chelsey JonesThe interior of the Enderlin building which last housed the Sportsman Bar burns in preparation for the razing of the build-ing. The sign on the building’s side wall, which dated back to the early 1950s, when the building housed the Niles General Store, read “Headquarters for Lee Overalls, Union Made, Earl W. Niles.”

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Submitted photosNorman Brown and his daughter, Shirley Johnson stand in front of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.

Norman Brown takes Honor Flight to DCBy Jeanne Sexton-Brown

Norman Brown, 89, Milnor, is a life member of the McLeod Vet-erans of Foreign Wars Post. He served in the Army in World War II and had the pleasure of going on the most recent Honor Flight on Sunday, October 18 and Mon-day, October 19.

“I was staying at the North Dakota Veterans Home after an ice fishing accident, I broke my leg,” said Brown. “While I was there, they nominated me to go on the Honor Flight to Washington, DC.”

His daughter Shirley Johnson, Milnor was his escort.

“Most everyone who goes has to have an escort,” said Shirley. “They gathered all of the wheel-chairs from the Fargo Hospitals for the Veterans on the flight to be able to get around Washing-ton. The escorts help them get the NORMAN BROWN...

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Going after cattle was Margaret Carroll’s chore on the farmBy Terri Kelly Barta

Margaret Carroll is the new-est resident at Parkside Lutheran Home, having moved in December.

“I like it here, they all take such good care of me,” said Carroll.

Carroll was born in McLeod in 1927. A few years later the family moved to rural Lisbon.

She attended Scoville Coun-try School between Lisbon and McLeod.

Growing up on the farm was both work and fun.

“Going after the cattle was my job,” laughed Carroll.

She has four brothers and two sisters and a half sister. Lots of help-ing hands on the farm. With such a big family, there were always play-mates for games. They played tag, drop the hanky, merry-go-round and other games of the day.

“We played a lot of “Jacks” recalls Carroll. “It was fun.”

Jacks is played with 10, 6- pronged metal pieces and a bouncy

ball. Players had to throw a ball up into the air and scoop up a Jack before the ball bounced. The game progressed from picking up one jack for onesies, then two jacks for twosies and so on. The first child to win all ten rounds was the winner. Children could carry the game with them in a pouch in their pocket and play on any hard surface.

On the farm they had many animals, but Carroll loved horses the best. She remembers riding her horse every chance she got. When she was an adult, Carroll had three parakeets. Only one could talk but she just really liked those birds.

When she was a little girl, Car-roll wanted to be a mom when she grew up. She got her wish.

She married Don Holmstrom in 1945 and they had six children. Sadly, they lost one of the boys as a baby. She has a picture of him hanging in her room along with other relatives.

Her family of three girls, Lola,

Loretta, and Elaine and two boys, Donnie and Neil live nearby. Neil and Cheryl Holmstrom live in Lisbon. The others live in nearby towns within an hour from Lisbon. Carroll has 10 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren who visit her often.

Don and Margaret divorced and later she married Ed Carroll and had even more people to love as family.

Margaret was a stay-at-home mom and homemaker while her children were growing up. At one time she worked at Island Park Motel and Dahlgren’s Seed Co.

“I was blessed with many things,” said Carroll, talking about her life.

At Parkside her room is deco-rated in her windchime collection, a few of her dolls from her doll col-lection, pictures of her siblings, her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Her family is clearly her best blessing of them all.

She used to crochet before her fingers got stiff and her eyesight lessened. Now, she finds joy in sim-ple pleasures; like adult coloring which she has enjoyed since com-ing to Parkside. Carroll said it is fun and relaxing. She has some of her work displayed in her room.

She used to sing and dance, two activities she loved in her younger years. As a teen, she went to dances in Venlo and McLeod and other small towns in the area.

“It was so much fun!” she said. “Barn dances were the best.”

She has many wonderful mem-ories of her life. In Parkside, she finally gets to rest. She takes part in the many activities Parkside offers its residents. She enjoys going out and about when she gets the oppor-tunity.

Carroll is a quiet person, but she enjoys visiting, especially with her family. Her ready smile and the gleam in her eyes make her easy to get along with in her new home.

2015 - More Year in Review(Editors note: This is the year that was, 2015.

Each week for the next three weeks, we will cover the happenings taken from the front page of the Ransom County Gazette over the past year. We will also share a list of names of those who have passed away over the same time period. This is the second quarter of those stories.)

There was an omission in the February Obitu-aries in last week’s Year in review. Georgia M. Sandvig, 68, Sheldon, died Tuesday, February 3. We regret the omission.

April 2015Sheyenne Valley Drug sold to NuCara

A sale that has been a year in the making was finalized on Wednesday, April 1 as NuCara Phar-macy, an Iowa based company took over ownership of the former Sheyenne Valley Drug.

“Walt (Spiese) was looking to downsize and invited us to have a look back in April of last year,” said Brian Wegmann, CEO of NuCara. “We own the former Foss Drug in Valley City, so this was a good fit for us.”

NuCara, privately held company for over 40 years, specializes in community driven services. They own 26 pharmacies in four states.

City approves water/sewer rate increasesThe city of Lisbon approved an increase in sewer

($2.25) and water (2 cents) rates at their April 6 meet-ing of the council. The new rates would be reflected on the July billing from the June meter reading. The raise was a recommendation of the finance commit-tee who discussed the pros and cons in a committee meeting. Walt Johnson, Julie Cole, and Tim Meyer serve on the finance committee.

The water rate increase of 2 cents/month is for operations and repairs on the water plant. The sewer rate increase was to fix a shortage of revenue for a bond that was for a past water and sewer project done back in 2008 and 2009. Those projects were to be paid for with sales tax dollars but sales tax was not generating enough revenue at that time.

School lunches increase by 15 centsThe Lisbon School Board raised meals at Lis-

bon’s three schools by 15 cents per meal at their

April 7 meeting.

Burn ban extendedIn spite of the .25 inches of rain in Lisbon on Sat-

urday night and Sunday, April 18 and 19 into Mon-day, April 20, the danger of wild fires still exists, according to the Lisbon Fire Department. The Gov-ernor has extended the Fire Emergency and Burn Ban through April 30 for the entire state of North Dakota.

April ObituariesRhys Herbert Jones, 97, St. George, Utah, for-

merly Enderlin, died Friday, March 13. Jean Zeto-cha, 88, Stirum, died Saturday, March 28. Arlys A. Carter, 80, Lisbon, died Monday, April 6. Irving Olson, 95, of Milnor, died Sunday, April 5. Jan-ice E. Koerner, 78, Roseville, MN, died Monday, March 23. Wayne A. Muilenburg, 88, Ender-lin, died Wednesday, April 8. Beverly B. Maack, 91, Lisbon, died Sunday, April 5. William (Bill) Michael Hanna, 72, Billings, MT, formerly Lisbon, died Tuesday, April 14. George A. Westphal, 69, Fargo, formerly Enderlin, died Sunday, April 19. Mavis E. Hanson, 77, Fargo, formerly Fort Ran-som, died Sunday, April 19. June V. Stroh, 91, Lis-bon, died Saturday, April 18. Enid L. Martin, 93, Lisbon, died Tuesday, April 21.

May 2015Berg still making a difference

Josh Berg graduated from Lisbon High School in 2007. He attended Jamestown College, later named the University of Jamestown. Josh would have graduated in May 2013. Unfortunately, Josh died at Jamestown Regional Hospital from a pulmonary embolism on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013.

Josh was majoring in mass communications with one of his instructors being Steven Listopad. Josh’s college class went to the North Dakota State Legis-lature with Listopad in January, 2013, just a month before his death. Their mission was to shed light on the need for change. Censorship had been creeping into high school and college journalism since the passage of some federal laws in the 1980s which

It only takes one...‘Make Someone’s Christmas’ a successBy Jeanne Sexton-Brown

“If I raise $500, I will eat a Ghost pepper and record it,” said Tayler Goettle, founder of Make Someone’s Christmas. “If I can raise $1,000 I will bleach my hair for all of January, and If I can raise $2,000 I will wax one of my legs!”

Tayler Goettle is a senior at Lisbon Public School. He set out to make a difference. The idea had been brewing in his head for a while. He wanted to create a charity that had a big impact. His belief that “It only takes one” to make a difference in someone’s life is the basis for his campaign.

“As a small community we have so much power to help bring life to the holiday season,” said Goettle. “It is the giving season, so why not help give someone a well deserved Christmas? I want to show this com-munity that anything helps and that doing something small like this can end up having such an impact.”

Goettle announced his plan in the Gazette’s December 14 edition. He had a big challenge to raise the money before his self imposed deadline of Monday, December 21. On Tuesday, December 22 word was received at the Gazette office that Goettle had reached his goal, $2000 to be given to a deserv-ing local family who will be enjoying a much better Christmas this year, thanks to the efforts of one young

man who set out to “Make Someone’s Christmas.” Goettle sought the council of Pastor Norm Ander-

son to help determine the recipients of the money. Ini-tially he had planned to give the money to one family but with the help of Pastor Norm, the decision was to split it between four deserving families.

“I actually reached my goal on Monday, December 21,” said Goettle. “Mr. Adair forgot to give me $127 from the teachers that had been donated earlier. I had $1,810 before that. Then, Mrs. Louden wrote a check for the rest to get me to the $2,000 mark.”

As far as each of the challenges Goettle had given himself, the ghost pepper, the bleached hair in January and the waxing of one leg. He has already eaten the ghost pepper.

“This afternoon, before basketball practice, I ate the ghost pepper,” said Goettle. “I picked the small-est one I could find. It wasn’t as bad as everyone said it would be, but it was bad. I ate it before basketball practice so all of that running up and down the court was kind of hard but I made it.”

He is actually dreading the waxing the hair on one leg more than anything.

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YEAR IN REVIEW...CONTINUED ON BACK

Children of five local families had a blast sledding on a hill that is part of Sandager Park on Dec. 29. The kids with red cheeks climbed up the hill, got on their sleds and raced down the hill hamming it up for the camera. The children sledding (in no particuloar order) were Aubrey Opp, Cameron Opp, Ethan Gilbert, Owen Gilbert, Greyson Lyons, Alayna Lyons, Alyssa Sherman and Aurora Shelton.

Celebrating Christmas Break

Ransom County Gazette • January 4, 2016 • Page 2

Life isGood by Jeanne Sexton-Brown

A Look Back in Time

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A texting and Facebook phrase that my sister-in-law in Indiana taught me is: SMH or Shakin’ My Head. This is used when some-thing doesn’t make a lick of sense and you just want to shake your head at the curiousness of the situ-ation.

Over the weekend following Christmas, our family decided to get together at our nephew Craig’s house in Fargo. Brownie and I called a local hotel there to make reservations for two rooms. One for us and one for Auntie Earth Mother. The plan was to have a place to get away and chill if we needed to. Being an introvert I do need my down time.

When making the reservations I asked if they had any adjoining rooms. The answer left me “Sha-kin’ my head” because the desk clerk said, “Yes we do have adjoin-ing rooms but there is no guarantee that you will get two together.”

Can anyone tell me what the point of having adjoining rooms is if you can’t get a room next to someone you know? Why bother? SMH.

My next question was, could we get two rooms across the hall from each other? The answer was, ‘we can’t guarantee that either.” SMH.

So, when people check in, do they just reach their hand into a fishbowl and take out keys and say, ‘Here you go! Good luck finding your room!’

Having picked the hotel for its closeness to Craig and Car-rie’s home, we went ahead and made the reservations. When we checked in, sure enough, Auntie Earth Mother was in room 110 and we were in room 103. She was way

across and down the hall from us. Her room had a connecting door to the next room, but we were not in that room. I still don’t know if anyone was in that room. We never heard anyone in there. We had a balcony room but someone had taken our table and chairs off our balcony and we had just a big open space on our balcony. Again, odd way to run things, in my opinion.

Brownie and I decided to treat ourselves to a jacuzzi suite. The jacuzzi sat in the middle of the room. I had asked if it was in the bathroom or separate. They said ‘separate from the bathroom’ but did not say it was in the middle of the room that had two doors, one to the balcony and one to the hall with two large picture windows. We took a photo of the unused jacuzzi, sitting in the middle of a huge draft, in a big room, down the hall from Auntie Earth Mother, with no patio furniture on the bal-cony, SMH.

Brownie’s sister, Biker Chick, came for a swim and brought her granddaughter who decided she wanted to stay overnight with our granddaughter. When Grampy told the girls it was time to go to bed, the Biker Chick’s granddaugh-ter said, “I’m not sleepy so I’m not going to bed.” Grampy said, “That’s not an acceptable answer.” Little free spirit seven year old atti-tude girl said, “I want to stay with Auntie. I don’t want to stay with you!”

Brownie, aka Grampy escorted her down the hall to Auntie Earth Mother’s room, where we under-stand she was still awake at 3 a.m. But, our room was nice and quiet and our granddaughter slept in until 9:30 am...Life is good!

SMH - Shakin’ My HeadEveryone says they want World Peace but no one does any-thing about it.

Smarter people than I have thought about World Peace down through the past generations, but progress is slow.

I remember in the 1960s and early ‘70s singing peace songs and going to peace rallies with other college students. Since the Vietnam War was raging and many young people (classmates, family members, and friends) were dying long before their time, peace was a passion for young people.

Yet, 45 years since then and though some small progress has been made, we do not have world peace.

Of course, individuals cannot control the world. We can moni-tor and control our own behavior and that is about it.

I include words here from peo-ple with way more wisdom than I on this subject.

There is a song out there called “Let Their Be Peace on Earth.” In the lyrics of that song is the phrase “Let there be Peace on earth and Let it begin with me.”

Another quote has been around for a couple of centuries.

“I am only one, but I am one. I can’t do everything, But still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”...Edward Everett Hale.

We, as individuals, can’t do everything but we can do some-thing. Mutual respect and kind-ness can go a long way to promote

peace. We can’t do anything about

world leaders and their decisions other than in our own country where we can vote someone in to office whom we hope will lead us in a peaceful direction.

It is a global world now. Mod-ern technology has put us in touch with countries all over the world in a way that was not possible 45 years ago. That makes all people on earth neighbors of one another.

Most people in the world play well with others, so to speak. Of course, there are a few radicals in most countries including the USA that like to stir the pot for their own agendas. The radicals of each country do not represent the majority of any country’s people.

In traveling to other countries, people find out that the population of each country are good people, who work hard, care about others and want world peace, as well.

Sure there are cultural differ-ences. Communication between people causes an understanding of each other’s culture.

This country was built on immigrants with different cultures moving here. In large cities, there are neighborhoods and people of one culture or another live near each other. Some are interspersed within the community. We have been doing this for hundreds of years and it has worked just fine. We learn something from each culture we are exposed to and they learn from us.

Mutual respect for differences seems to be the key to achieving peace.

Let it begin with me!

50 Years AgoJanuary 6, 1966

Reinke is named chairmanHarry Reinke of Lisbon is

the new chairman of the Ransom County Commissioners. The board reorganized at its meeting Tues-day. Heading the various depart-ments within the commission are Elmer Dick, finances; Ed Toyne, roads; Ardell Slattum, bridges; Ted Ulmer, printing and Reinke, prop-erty.

40 Years AgoJanuary 8, 1976

Fire Dept. Heads approvedLisbon City Council approved

the new fire department officials as their first order of business last Monday evening. Bill Lund was elected fire chief and Don Rehling

was named assistant chief. Jerry Humphrey was named rural fire chief and Gary Mykland is assis-tant rural chief. Russ Watts was elected secretary-treasurer.

25 Years AgoJanuary 7, 1991

Armstrong appointed Ransom County Tax Director

Jack Armstrong, Enderlin, has accepted the position of Ran-som County Tax Director. He will replace Dennis Prochnow, who has accepted a similar position in Bis-marck. Armstrong has been serv-ing as Ransom County Veterans Service Officer and was recently named 911 Coordinator for the County. Armstrong will continue as Veterans Service Officer but the County will begin to look for

a replacement for the 911 Coordi-nator.

10 Years AgoJanuary 9, 2006

Sheldon School Board meets to discuss next move

Do we dissolve or re-organize? Nearly 50 people assembled in the school lunchroom on Tuesday, January 3 to express their opin-ions to the Sheldon School Board on what should be done with the school. With a total enrollment of 25 in K-6 grades and a steadily declining student population, the writing is on the wall. The school building, like so many others in rural North Dakota, will be closing its doors permanently, mostly due to increasing costs of education and declining enrollment.

The day of reckoning for Black Friday has arrived and the credit card people want their money. Now we’re in trouble for buying stuff that doesn’t fit at a price we couldn’t resist.

To pay for our reckless spend-ing, we have to cut into the grocery budget. The problem with a lim-ited grocery budget is that we end up living on cheap carbohydrates instead of expensive proteins. And grocery stores don’t offer door-busters.

Black Friday is a scam. It is called “black” because retail America expects to make enough profit on one Friday to get into the black and survive another 11 months. In order for them to get into the black on one day, the rest of us must go into the red all year.

How can slashing prices result in more profit? If they sold their wares at regular prices the rest of the year, the profit margin should have been great enough to keep them in the black. This smells as fishy as lutefisk.

Maybe it’s the way everything starts with the “suggested retail price.” That is such an outrageous figure it makes us wonder who suggested it.

For the stuff from China, I

assume that the Chinese are set-ting the suggested retail price. Or maybe Walmart is telling them what they should suggest so it can be slashed without hurting the bot-tom line.

We know that Walmart is not really serious about the suggested retail price. During the regular season, they never sell for the sug-gested retail price so this big Black Friday discount is not really a dis-count at all.

But we play the game even though we know it is fixed. Every year we think we are going to win. In good faith, we clip out the doorbuster coupons and head off to the marketers offering 60% off and additional 10% if we use their credit card.

When we get to the cash reg-ister, we find out that we had to buy the mixer before 4 A.M. on Saturday morning to get the dis-count. Besides, the really small print (which we didn’t read) tells us that the discount applies only to felt shoes and leather mittens.

It’s a plot. The strategy is to make pricing so confusing that the clerks are the only ones who can figure out what we should pay and we have to believe them because we can’t calculate it ourselves.

If we buy a durable product, the first thing they ask is whether or not we want an extended war-ranty. This is an important ques-tion because warranties are not what they used to be.

At my age, I’m not paying to extend anything. Another thing: if we need to buy extra protection, are they telling us that the mer-chandise could fall apart on the way out of the store?

Following Black Friday is “fooled you” Monday. The deal for which we froze in line for six hours waiting to bust the doors on Friday is still selling at the door-buster price all of next week.

From the store, they went to the Internet for another week where they promised free shipping. That makes the whole game even more suspicious.

At the price of shipping these days, that must cost them a few bucks. This tells me that even at doorbuster prices, they have to make money after paying the freight or their Friday wouldn’t be getting black.

All of this paranoid griping aside, we must admit that Black Friday doorbusters are still more fun than anything on television. And some days we win.

Lloyd OmdahlFormer Lt. Governor of ND • Former UND Political Science professor

Their Black Friday now becomes our Red 2016

FOOD PANTRY Call the Food Pantry at 701-308-0905 or Social Services by Wednesdays at 5 p.m. to receive a food basket to be picked up on Thursdays between 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. at the Ransom County Food Pantry. LISBON DRIVER’S LICENSE SITE HOURS

The Lisbon driver’s license site at the Armory has new hours. With the exception of holidays, the hours will be the second Thursday of every month from 8:40 a.m. - noon and 1 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. The new hours of business will provide full drivers license services including drivers license renewals, duplicates, permit tests and road tests. CHOLESTEROL SCREENING Cholesterol screening will be held at the Ransom County Public Health Department at 404 Forest Street in Lisbon the first Thursday of each month from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Fast-ing is required, no appointments are necessary and results in minutes. Any questions, contact Ransom County Public Health at 701-683-6140.LISBON AL-ANON GROUP

The Lisbon Al-Anon group will be sponsoring newcomers to the families affected by alcohol/addictions group. They will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Monday evenings in the Fireside Room at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lisbon.IMMUNIZATION CLINIC Immunization clinics at Ransom County Public Health Dept. in Lisbon will be every Thursday of the month from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Immunizations also avail-able the 3rd Monday of the month from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. No appointments are necessary. Please bring your insurance card or Medicaid card. Call Ransom County Public Health Dept.

at 683-6140 should you have any questions or contact your family doctor. (No Monday clinics if they fall on a holiday.)LISBON PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Lisbon Public Library hours are:Monday 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.Tuesday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.Wednesday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Thursday 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.Friday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Closed Saturday and Sunday. www.lisbonpubliclibrary.com.

Book donations welcome.RANSOM COUNTY TRANSIT SCHEDULEVan: Public Transportation (In-town rides - $2 round trip.) Monday: Lisbon Tuesday: Lisbon Wednesday: Fort Ransom and Lisbon Thursday: Lisbon Friday: LisbonBus: Fargo, every 2nd and 4th Tuesday, and Thursday ($6 round trip.) Public transportation is open to the public. Seniors receive priority. Call 683-4295 to schedule a ride. For more information call 683-3131 or 1-877-857-3743.ABUSE RESOURCE NETWORK The Abuse Resource Network is located in the lower level of the Lisbon Library. 683-5061.AFTER HOURS EMERGENCY CALLS

Calls to the Ransom County Sheriff’s Office will be handled by state radio. Call 1-800-472-2121 for assistance. Their number is on back of driver’s license.

COUNSELING AVAILABLE/ARNFree counseling available for anyone with issues of

domestic violence or sexual assault available through Abuse Resource Network located in the lower level of the Lisbon Library. Call 683-5061.AA AND AL-ANON MEET MONDAY NIGHTS The Lisbon Alcoholics Anonymous group meets every Monday night at 8 p.m. at the Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisbon. KIWANIS MEETING

Kiwanis will meet each Tuesday at noon at Parkside Lutheran Home in Lisbon in the dining room. All are wel-come to join.LISBON EAGLES & AUXILIARY MEETING Lisbon Eagles men’s meetings are the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. Lisbon Eagles Auxiliary meetings are the second Tuesday of each month at 5 p.m. All meetings are held at the Lisbon Eagles Club.LISBON OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION

The Opera House board meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the community room of the LOH. Public is encouraged to attend.LISBON AIRPORT AUTHORITY MEETINGS Lisbon Airport Authority meeting will be held the last Monday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Lisbon Airport. If you have questions, please call Nancy Sitz at 218-439-3309.AMERICAN LEGION FLORENCE KIMBALL POST #7 MEETING

The American Legion Florence Kimball Post #7 monthly meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the Lisbon Eagles Club.

As we enter another new year, we first meet the month of Janu-ary. Since I am not a particular fan of winter, I usually dread that month, as it is often bitterly cold and snowy. If it stays as mild as the winter has been thus far, I certainly won’t dare to complain. However, if the temps fall to sub-zero lev-els, I’ll probably be freezing even more than ever, because my body will not have become acclimated to the cold due to the fact that we’ve been so spoiled thus far this winter.

Even though January has never been my favorite month, I decided that it might be nice to learn more about it. To satisfy my curiosity, I consulted the internet.

I initially learned that January, which was established as the first month of the year by the Roman Calendar, was named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and transitions. Janus is the Latin word for “door” or “gate.” This is appro-priate, I felt, because the month of January opens the new year.

Janus is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks both to the future and to the past. This also seems appropriate for a month beginning a new year.

Although this all seems to make perfect sense, my research then turned up the fact that early Roman calendars had only 10 months. They did not have the months of January or February, but started, instead, with March. To confuse the issue even more, some sources state that early farmers’ almanacs associated the month of January with the Roman god, Juno. “Interesting, but confusing,” I thought.

After some further digging, I found that March 1 was set aside by early Romans to honor Juno, their god of marriage and child-birth. That appears to indicate that Juno had more ties to March 1, the first month of the original Roman calendar, than to the month of Jan-uary, which was added later. “All right,” I thought. “Perhaps that brings us back to good old Janus as the namesake for January after

all.”Whatever the source of the

name January, it has served for many centuries as the month which welcomes the new year. With that start of the new year comes many traditions.

Modern traditions generally center around going out on New Year’s Eve and celebrating the coming of the new year. To some that may mean going out for a quiet supper with their spouse or with a group of friends. To many more, it means going to a New Year’s Eve party, where there is generally a lot of imbibing (if you get my drift).

In our younger days, my hus-band and I would occasionally go out for a fairly quiet evening with friends. That eventually gave way to a quiet evening meal at some local restaurant. More recently, it’s evolved into buying a couple of steaks at the grocery store, grill-ing them at home, and spending the evening in front of the TV or curled up with a good book. Gen-erally we stay up to watch the ball drop in Times Square and, if we’re not too tired, we may even stay up an additional hour to see the New Year come to North Dakota. If we’re tired, we retire for the night at 11 o’clock, knowing that the new year will arrive whether or not we stay awake to see the hands of the clock reach twelve. It really requires no countdown! We’ve learned all too well by this time that time marches on on its own accord!

I look forward to watching the Rose Bowl Parade on the morning of New Year’s Day! I don’t know why I find that parade so relaxing and enjoyable. Maybe it’s because I can imagine that I’m in Pasa-dena, CA, watching the parade in person. It seems to warm me up, somehow.

By the time you read this, New Year’s Eve will be over and the 2016 will have begun. Here’s hop-ing your New Year’s Eve celebra-tion lived up to your expectations! Here’s also wishing you a happy, healthy New Year!

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Nahla Ayriela ManginKelly and Janna Mangin of Fargo gave birth to Nahla Ayriela on December 14, 2015. She weighed 8 lbs. 7 ounces. Grandparents are Scott and Deann Mangin, Lisbon and Kevin and Martina Lyng, Clifford, N.D.

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By Janet HansenHarvey Bergstrom, Cayuga,

N.D., keeps busy nowadays farm-ing the Bergstrom family’s home farm and recently started welding at Dakota Precision Fabricating, Inc., in Forman, as a second job. How-ever, he still enjoys occasionally taking out his accordion or one of the three concertinas in his musical collection and playing a few tunes. He also enjoys entertaining at area nursing homes or an occasional anniversary or birthday party. He remembers when music used to be a bigger part of his life and loves to reminisce about the days when he and two of his brothers did a lot of traveling and entertaining as a “polka band.”

Harvey and his wife, Judy, live on the Bergstrom family farm located a few miles southwest of Cayuga. The well kept farm received recognition as a North Dakota Centennial Farm in 2000. The Centennial Farm program rec-ognizes families who have lived on and/or owned their farms or ranches for more than a century. Harvey, a third generation farmer, indicates that it appears he will be the last Bergstrom to operate the farm, as he and his brothers have produced only daughters, who are not interested in taking over the family farm. He jokes that he has a grandson who is very interested in tractors, but, since he is only three years old, it is not likely that he will be capable of taking over the farm-ing operation by the time his grand-father is ready to retire.

Harvey grew up in the very home in which he lives today, with three brothers, Gerald, who spent much of his adult life in Lisbon, but now lives at Baxter, Minn.; Harley, who passed away five years ago; and Leslie, who lives at Great Bend, N.D. The Bergstrom brothers had a sister, who died in infancy.

Harvey remembers becom-ing interested in accordion music when he was eight years old. His parents, the late Hilmer and Shirley Bergstrom, were not particularly musically inclined themselves, but they enjoyed listening to old-time music like polkas, schottisches and waltzes and sometimes took their family to events featuring “polka bands.” Hoping to encourage their young son to cultivate his inter-est in the accordion, they ordered a child sized accordion from the Aldens mail order catalog.

“It wasn’t for any special occa-sion, as I recall,” states Harvey. “They just knew I had expressed an interest in learning to play the accordion and they wanted to encourage that musical interest. I remember the day the accordion arrived and how excited I was when I took it out of the box in which it was packed. The only problem was, I didn’t have an instructor to teach me how to play the little instrument. That didn’t bother me, however. I took the new little accordion up to my bedroom and experimented, teaching myself to play some little tunes by following the directions which came with it. However, the little instrument soon broke down and my parents ended up boxing it up and sending it back. That was the end of my accordion playing for a couple of years.”

Then, in April of 1967, when Harvey was 10-years-old, a trav-eling salesman from Watertown, S.D., came through the Cayuga area selling accordions. Several area families had purchased an instrument from him and, appar-ently, one of the neighbors who had heard of Harvey’s interest in the accordion, sent the salesman to the Bergstrom farm. Not only did his parents purchase an accordion for him, but they learned from the trav-eling salesman that Shirley Vail, of Milnor, was available to teach the area students how to play their new instruments.

“Dad began taking me to For-man once a week, where Mrs. Vail gave lessons, of all places, the office at Seavert’s Ford Garage,” Harvey recalls. “I remember there was a dim, probably about a 40-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling for light and it was so cold in the room that we could see our breath.”

After learning that there were several children in the Cayuga/Geneseo area who were interested in accordion lessons, Mrs. Vail began going to Cayuga, where she had arranged to give private les-sons in the Legion Hall. “I was a fourth grader at the time,” explains Harvey, “and was attending school in Cayuga. I would have to take my accordion with me on the bus when I went to school on the morning of my lesson. It was pretty heavy to lug around. Then, after school, I had to carry the heavy instrument two blocks to the Legion Hall. The Legion Hall was not heated unless something was going on there. Its sole source of heat was a little oil-burning stove in the corner of the room. The guy assigned to starting the stove to heat the room for our lessons usually forgot until I was already there, and, since my les-son was the first one of the day, the room didn’t have time to warm up during my half-hour lesson. It was even colder in that building than it had been in the office at the Ford Garage. After a while Mrs. Vail started giving lessons in her home in Milnor. From that time on I had hour long lessons and it was much more comfortable playing there, since it was nice and warm.”

After taking lessons from Mrs. Vail for four years, Harvey began taking lessons from Sister Salu-taris, a nun from the convent in Hankinson, who had started com-ing to the school in Rutland to give music lessons. “We would carpool with people from the Rutland area to get to those lessons. The family whose student had the last lesson of the day was responsible for giv-ing Sister Salutaris a ride back to Hankinson,” Harvey recalled. “I continued to take lessons from Sis-ter Salutaris for four years. By that time I was a senior in high school at Sargent Central and, with helping on the farm and my other activities, I no longer could fit the weekly les-sons into my schedule. Besides, by that time I had pretty much learned as much as I felt I needed to know about accordion playing.”

Two years before that, in 1973, when Harvey was a sophomore in high school, he and his brothers, Harley and Leslie, started a polka band. Harley had shown an inter-est in stringed instruments and, with his parents’ encouragement and instruction from Mrs. Vail, had learned to play the guitar and banjo. Leslie played drums in the school band, and, with what he had learned in school and what he picked up on his own, he became the drummer for the brothers’ polka band. The brothers began playing for vari-ous functions, first in the Cayuga area and eventually branching out to play for anniversaries, birthday parties, barn dances, dances at bars and other events within a hundred mile radius of their home.

“I remember that our first real gig was in Hankinson, in 1973,” said Harvey. “We got $35 for our travel expense and playing three or four sets.”

“I give mom and dad a lot of

credit for sacrificing other things so that we could have musical instru-ments and lessons,” Harvey states. “If it wasn’t for their encourage-ment and their willingness to buy us instruments, we would have never had the opportunity to enter-tain so many people.”

Harvey graduated from Sar-gent Central High School in 1975. About that time his parents retired from farming and Harvey and his brother, Harley, took over the farm. It became more difficult, at that point, to schedule their musical gigs, but they continued for a while because they enjoyed it. “When we had a gig lined up a considerable distance away, we’d have to quit work on the farm around 3:00 p.m. and drive to wherever we were playing,” Harvey explains. “We’d often play until midnight and then not get home until around 4:00 a.m. It made it difficult to get up early the next morning to do our work on the farm.”

After a few years the brothers realized the crazy schedule was not working, so they ended up going their own separate ways, but Har-vey continued to entertain as a solo act. “I played for dances for 17 years,” he states. By around 1993, live music had lost its popularity for the most part and deejays (disc jockeys) were being hired to play for most weddings, anniversaries, singles dances and other events.

“I wore out several accordions over the years,” Harvey recalls. “I would generally buy used instru-ments, since that is what I could afford. In the late ‘70s, I attended a polka festival in Gibbon, Minne-sota, which is located in the heart of polka music country, in south cen-tral Minnesota. Many of the enter-tainers at that festival were playing concertinas (a musical instrument with bellows similar to an accor-dion, but with buttons on both ends) and it was there that I fell in love with that instrument. At first I rented a concertina from Browns Music, in New Ulm, Minn., to see if I could learn to play it. Although some people think concertinas and accordions are played in the same way, they are really very different. Through sheer determination, how-ever, I taught myself to play the concertina. I then bought a concer-tina from Brown Music.”

In 1980 Harvey purchased a second concertina. That one was made by the late Christy Hengel, a legendary New Ulm concertina maker. Hengel made chemnitzer concertinas. That sort of concertina is generally square in shape. They are bisonoric, meaning that each button corresponds to two differ-ent notes: one when the bellows is compressed or pushed together and another when it is expanded or pulled apart. On most instru-ments, two or more (and as many as five) reeds sound for each note. “I worked at Bobcat in 1979 and 1980 in addition to my farming, in order to pay for that concertina,” he recalls.

“I played for a lot of wedding dances during the ‘70s and ‘80s,” he stated. “I often played for old dances at the pavilion between Wahpeton and Breckenridge. The pavilion has since been torn down. I also played for dances at the Sons of Norway Hall and Eagles Clubs, in Fargo, and the Eagles, in Lisbon, as well as singles dances at the LaMoure Supper Club. I remem-ber playing at a barn dance north of Barney around Easter of 1980.”

In 1993, Harvey married a neighbor girl, Judy Kleingarn, who grew up north of Cayuga. They raised two daughters, Kari and Kayla. Kari lives in Grand Forks; and Kayla, in East Grand Forks. Both are married. They have blessed their parents with three grandsons.

Harvey and Judy have always loved to go to old-time dances. Harvey recalls attending dances at the Galaxie Supper Club in Barnes-ville and in the Alexandria area where Jimmie Jensen, known as the “Swingin’ Swede,” performed. “I got to know Jimmie pretty well. He would occasionally ask me to play a set for him and, one time when he played in Geneseo and was not feeling well, he asked me to take over for him. We met 40 years ago and remained friends until his death this past August at age 84.”

“Jimmie Jensen’s type of old-time music has lost its popularity with the younger people,” observes Harvey. “I’ve had children come up to me when I play my accordion

or concertina for some function and say, ‘What is that?’ I was asked to play a set during my daughter’s wedding dance, for which a young deejay had been hired. When the time came for me to play, the deejay was completely taken off guard. He was amazed that some-one could actually play live music to which people could dance. I told him that people always used to dance to what I referred to as ‘homemade music.’”

Harvey eventually sold his two concertinas and, from 1983 through 2001, did not own a concertina. In 2002, he decided he wanted to get back into playing the concertina, so he looked into purchasing a Hen-gel instrument. The instruments had originally been produced by Christy Hengel, a legendary New Ulm, Minn., concertina maker. The Hengel concertinas were noted for their wonderful sound as well as their elaborate designs, which included hundreds of sparkly rhinestones.

At around that time, Harvey had been diagnosed with cancer. On his trip back from Rochester, Min-nesota, where he had undergone surgery for the same type of can-cer which had earlier taken the life of his brother, Harley, he stopped in New Prague, Minnesota, where Hengel concertinas were then being manufactured by Jerry Minar (JBM Sound, Inc.). Minar had studied under Hengel and eventually taken over the manufacturing of his con-certinas. Harvey found out that the type of concertina he was looking for was selling for around $14,000, something that he knew he could never afford.

Some time later, Harvey received a call from Minar, who explained that he had acquired a used A-flat Stradivarius concertina from someone in Wisconsin. He thought it might be just what Har-vey had in mind. Harvey again trav-eled to New Prague, where he tried out the concertina. The instrument, decked out in rhinestones like the Hengel models, looked like new, worked perfectly, sounded great and was much more affordable than the new models he had been looking at. Harvey purchased the concertina and brought it home. It is a Stradivarius Deluxe concertina, built in Italy in the mid-‘70s.

Harvey explains that he now has in his collection, three concer-tinas and an electric accordion. For the past several years, his enter-taining has been limited to gigs at nursing homes. “I am pleased to say that I have been a cancer survi-vor for six years,” Harvey states. “I am thankful for each day that I’ve been given and, as a result, I like to do what I can to brighten other people’s days. I sometimes play at area nursing homes on a Sunday afternoon or for monthly birthday parties,” he states.

He is sometimes called upon to entertain at Four Seasons Health Care, Inc., a nursing home in For-man. He also enjoys entertaining at Rutland’s annual “Uffda Day.”

He is occasionally called upon to perform at the Dakota Estates

Retirement Center, in Lidgerwood, N,.D. “They sometimes call and say that they need their ‘Harvey Fix,’ “ he states with a smile.

“I was playing at Parkside Lutheran Nursing Home, in Lis-bon, on one particular occasion,” he recalls. “Around 12 to 15 resi-dents were seated in the lobby area at the front of the building, listen-ing to me play. One of the most popular tunes that I play is the ‘Blue Skirt Waltz.’ I noticed that when I was playing that tune, one of the ladies seated in the front row had tears running down her cheeks. While talking to me later, she told me that she had first met the man who would become her husband when he had asked her to dance. The tune to which they had danced was the ‘Blue Skirt Waltz.’ The tune brought back fond memories of her husband who had passed away.”

Harvey goes on to say that the “Blue Skirt Waltz” holds special meaning for him as well, as it was one of the first tunes he learned. “I remember that my grandparents found the sheet music for that tune in a music store in Williston and sent it to me, asking if I could learn that piece for them. It wasn’t music for an accordion. It was actually written for piano. But it worked. I could read the melody off that and make up the chord accompani-ment.”

Harvey went on to explain that he usually receives no compensa-tion for playing at nursing home events. He does it just because he loves being able to touch people’s hearts with his music. “If I can get a few smiles, that is compensation enough,” he says. “It’s my way of showing my appreciation of the talent God gave me. I like to pay that forward by making someone’s day a little brighter. I have never pretended to be a professional musician. I generally refer to myself as a ‘shade tree’ musician. If I can play for my own enjoy-ment and bring some happiness to others in the process, it is worth my time.”

He explains that, although he likes to keep up his playing, it is made more difficult by trouble he has been having with his hands. “My years of driving tractors and doing heavy lifting on the farm has taken a toll on my hands,” the 58-year-old farmer explains. “The vibration of the steering wheel is hard on hands. Right now one of my fingertips is numb,” he explains. “I have had carpal tunnel surgery in the past and probably will need to have it done again. I also have had some repair done to take care of trigger finger issues. It sometimes makes it more difficult to play, but I still enjoy entertain-ing at local events.”

Harvey and Judy still enjoy attending old time dances when-ever possible. If none are sched-uled, Harvey can always play the music himself in the confines of their beautiful country home – the same home in which he spent so many hours practicing the accor-dion as a child.

Harvey Bergstrom has been making music for 50 years

Photo by Jeanne Sexton-BrownHarvey Bergstrom plays a tune on his Stradivarius Deluxe con-certina, one of three concertinas in his collection of instruments. He also owns an electric accordion. He has now been making music for 50 years and still enjoys playing his accordion and concertinas at area nursing homes and other venues. He enjoys brightening his audience’s day with his old-fashioned “home-made” music.

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Zion Lutheran Church420 1st St SE, Gwinner – Missouri Synod. Pastor Matthew Richard 678-2401. Cell 680-2658. www.ziongwin-ner.org Sunday: Divine service 10 a.m., Sunday School for adults and children, 9 a.m., Communion 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month. Wednes-day: Pastor’s Bible Study 9 a.m. “The Lutheran Hour” radio program heard Sundays 7:30 a.m. on KFGO 790 AM, 4:30 p.m. on KFNW 1200 AM, Con-firmation, 4 pm.

Faith Assembly of God1010 Forest Street, Lisbon Pastor Bill Busch 683-5756. Sunday School 9 am.; Morning Worship 10 a.m.; Wednesday Bible study 7 p.m.

St. Mary’s Catholic ChurchSheldon, Father John Artz, Priest Sun-day Mass - 5:30 p.m.

St. Patrick’s Catholic ChurchEnderlin, Father John Artz, 437-2791 Sunday Mass - 8:30 a.m.

St. John’s Lutheran ChurchVerona, Pastor Cheri Danielson, 432-5688 & Pastor Carl Glamm, 883-4515;

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Englevale, Pastor Cheri Danielson, 432-5688 & Pastor Carl Glamm, 883-4515, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 7 p.m. Study of Islam @ Verona Bear Creek Lodge, Sunday, Jan. 10, 9 a.m. service, 10 a.m. SS, 1:30 p.m. Confirmation at St. Johns

Gustaf Adolf Lutheran Church207 1st St. SE, Gwinner Phone 678-2552 Pastor Ivy Schulz, Sunday, 9:30 Worship. 7th Grade Conf. 3:30 p.m., 8th Grade Conf. 4:30 p.m..

St. Aloysius Catholic Church701 Oak St., Lisbon Father Jerald Finnestad, Priest Mass at 5 p.m. Satur-day; 9 a.m. Sunday.

St. Raphael’s ChurchVerona, Father Jerome Okafor, Priest Phone 883-5987 See Verona News for current Worship schedule.

St. Vincent Catholic ChurchGwinner. Father Jerald Finnestad,

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Anselm Trinity Lutheran ChurchAnselm Trinity Lutheran Church (LCMC) Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ services at 9:30 a.m.; Coffee hour at 8:45 a.m., Sunday School following the service. Com-munion 2nd and 4th Sunday of every month.

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First Baptist Church4th and Forest St., Lisbon, Rev. Steve Swanholm, Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.; Morning Worship Service 11 a.m.; Wednesday Awana Club, 6 p.m.; Bible Study 7:30 p.m.; Thursday Men’s Bible Study at 7 p.m.

Community ChurchRev. Steve Swanholm, Sunday Wor-ship at 9 a.m.; Tuesday Bible Study 2:30 p.m. (at Four Season Health Care

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Association Free Lutheran Congre-gation, 228 5th Ave., Enderlin Pastor Dennis Norby, Phone 437-3777, (815) 883-1673. www.hopelutheranender-lin.org. Sunday School 10 a.m.; Adult Sunday School 10 a.m, Sunday Wor-ship 11 a.m.

Redeemer Lutheran Church 801 Forest St., Lisbon, Missouri Synod, Phone 683-3462; Pastor Aaron Hambleton; Worship service 9:15 a.m. Sunday with Bible Class at 10:30 a..m. (Communion 1st & 2nd Sundays).

First Presbyterian Church 10 6 Ave. West, Lisbon, Pastor Juwle S. Nagbe, Pastor Office: 683-4479; Residence: 683-5996; Cell (701)318-4273; email: lismeth@drtel.net. Sun-day Worship 11:15 a.m.

Bethany Lutheran ChurchMcLeod, Pastor Wayne Quibell, Holy Communion first Sunday of the Month; Sunday School 9:15 a.m.; Worship Service 10:30 a.m.; Confir-mation Wednesday 5 p.m.

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Wahpeton Branch 505 Richland Ave., Wahpeton Phone 642-2463; Lee J. Allen, President 701-241-9929. Meet-ings on Sunday: Sacrament 10 a.m.; Sunday School and Primary 11:15 a.m.

First United Methodist Church 602 Forest St., Lisbon. Rev. Juwle S. Nagbe. Office 683-4479, Residence 683-5996. Sunday Worship 9:45 a.m.

Trinity Lutheran Church 418 5th Ave. W., Lisbon, Pastor Nor-man Anderson Phone 683-5841. Wednesday, Jan. 6, 6 p.m. Confirma-tion, 7 p.m. WOW w/Holy Commu-nion, Sunday, Jan. 10, 9 a.m. Liturgy of the Word, 10 a.m. Sunday School

Trinity Lutheran Church LCMC319 4th Ave, Enderlin, Phone 437-2433. Pastor Grant Patterson. Sunday Service, 9:30 a.m., Sunday School, 10:40 a.m.

Larry Allyn Seavert

Larry Allyn Seavert, 68, of Plymouth, Minnesota, devoted educator, cigar aficionado, car buff, ball cap fanatic, and proud grandpa, died after a sudden heart attack on Friday, December 18, 2015 in Goodyear, Arizona.

Larry was born on November 14, 1947 to Glenn and Corrine Seavert, of Forman. He gradu-ated from Valley City State Uni-versity in 1969 where he met Kathy, his bride of 45 years, and they moved to Minnesota to begin teaching careers and raise their two daughters.

Larry taught with the Spring Lake Park School District for more than 15 years, also serv-ing as a coach and referee. He received a masters degree from the University of Minnesota. In 1986, he took a position as executive director of the Educa-tion Minnesota-Osseo, where he found his true calling, fighting for educators. He was also an entrepreneur, opening Golden Leaf Tobacco shop in Uptown Minneapolis in 1983. In retire-ment, Larry continued his ser-vice to community as an usher

and supervisor at the Goodyear Ballpark in Arizona, and took his bucket list job, mowing the Rush Creek Golf Course in Maple Grove. Among his other treasured quirks, he fancied him-self as king of bathroom humor, bacon connoisseur, expert taste tester of craft beer, and goofiest grandpa ever. Larry was a man of few words, but his stoic nature softened with the birth of his three grandchildren. In his final years, his “I-love-yous” came freely and without fail. He rep-resented love in action until his final breath.

Visitation will be held at the Kozlak-Radulovich Maple Grove Chapel (13745 Reimer Dr.) from 4-7 PM on Sunday, January 3rd. A funeral at LORD OF LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH (7401 Cty. Rd. 101, Maple Grove) will begin at 11 AM on Monday, Jan-uary 4th with visitation one hour prior and a lunch will follow. Wear your favorite ball cap as a tribute to his life.

Larry is survived by his wife Kathy Seavert, Maple Grove, Minnesota, daughter Lindsey Seavert Harrison and son-in-law Ian Harrison of Minneapo-lis, daughter Allyson (Seavert) Hammer and son-in-law Carlos Hammer of Scottsdale, Arizona, and three beloved grandchildren Ty, Landyn and Stellan. He also leaves behind his brother, Michael Seavert, of Forman, and brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Duane and Jan Hanson, of Lis-bon.

Memorials preferred to the Osseo Area Retired Educators (OARE), District 279 Founda-tion, and American Heart Asso-ciation.

There goes Christmas and all its shopping, some in terror. This rover did not shop this year, instead made 73 cards and off they went with a card and letter in all but the Hoenhause farm which got the homemade card and a pen. No hazzle in crowds nor slipping on this ice and minor snow the Val-ley has. What a gift session came as Alice Hieggelke supplied this rover with stamps which is an addiction to Irene. Then Harv and Kathy came with a couple sweat-ers to wear while bringing in the news but not only that but a ream of paper to keep the Valley News on clic. Then there was Andy Hoenhause with a slate to mark down where she went in case she’s loused up in the pasture looking at the cattle so they have a clue to where she went--even after mak-ing this mincemeat pie. Then to keep her days straight was a cal-endar of all the kids in the Mitch and Heidi Hoenhause family for the whole year 2016. That isn’t the whole of it. How was Irene to get to these places? Daleyn Baasch of D-Excavating solved this--He came with a supply of gas to keep the outfits on the road to bring in news, play three to six times a week. There is Nick Anderson who came with a great box to keep the innards from starving while doing this running, plus Bea Hoaby Schildleberger with a box of all mixed stuff to lay on her pickup or car seat in case she gets hungry. Thanks to all these people plus the ones who sent cards and especially the ones with letters from relatives she has not heard from for moons. Then there is Ilene and Brian Lar-son making the best candy in the world plus nuts added to keep this rover going even more. Mike Hoaby came bouncing in and he had turned over jars of his canned pickles which hit the spot. She in turn sent ham bone-bean stew and meat loaf which he loves beans, however, no use sending Ilene beans because that is not her reper-toire. Thanks for all the pictures of families which is super.

“Hope all is going well there,” states Ellery Kundert who taught this rover how to pick mushrooms off a tree and really cook them and still be alive. Now it has been some time and she has forgot the tech-nique so he will have to make the Valley to keep us in the know. This rover loves mushrooms but would rather pick them and know what she’s doing rather than buy them in a store. Milton Bartell of the Gwinner area was picking them in the farm yard by the pail fulls and getting a great meal. Ellery’s words were “Wishing you a dream to bless, a star to guide and peace and harmony inside.” Taken from Corinthians 16:23. Thanks!

There was Nathan Lyons doing a visit job with Ilene Larson. She was thinking of more wood cutting but decided to wait another day when Mike Hoaby will then do the

same. They both burn wood and now a huge elm tree went down so more wood and more work. By the way Ilene states Nathan’s wife works in a bank and she is Amber Lyons so it is “hi” to her.

Mike Hoaby opened his door and there was his son Tony and family. Tony has a family of three and is a State Patrolman in maybe now Casselton.

Moving The OuthouseApprox. 1945

Alice Bartell tells of an adven-ture in moving their outhouse which all country people had to move once in awhile. This is the story.

“The old outhouse hole was about full so Dad decided it was time we should dig a new hole. This was done in front of where the outhouse stood. Then we would simply slide the outhouse over onto the new hole. But, as luck would have it, it didn’t turn out that simple.

The outhouse consisted of a five foot square slab of cement for a base with a wooden structure on top of that. With Mom’s help, Dad pried the base up a little to make sure it was loose. Then throwing a log chain around the base and over the new hole, he got the team out and hooked them up to move the outhouse.

Bananas was a live wire that could move mountains, but team mate Sally was lazy and not inclined to do any more than she had to, and often needed prodding to keep her moving.

After hooking the team up Dad tried moving the outhouse, but it didn’t want to move, so he urged the team to greater effort as he applied the whip to Sally. Both horses dug in as the out-house jerked but still didn’t move. Bananas worked hard as she was bid but Sally backed up---and down into the six foot deep hole she went. She filled it nicely with just her head and front feet stick-ing out.

Now Dad had a new problem. How was he going to get Sally out of the hole? He had to work quickly before she tired and sank deeper. Dad unhooked Bananas. He and Mom managed to get the tugs of Sally’s harness under her. Then using them as a lift he hooked Bananas to Sally and tried to pull her from the hole. Though Bananas put her best effort into it Sally would not try to help get her-self out.

Mom suggested maybe they should try using the truck. Mom took Bananas to the barn as Dad backed the truck over to the hole as close as he dared and fastened Sally onto the end of the box hop-ing it would give enough lift to get her out. With a couple of trys Dad finally managed to get Sally out. She didn’t try to help herself till she was almost out. Dad backed the truck up for another attempt at moving the outhouse. This time

they got it placed over the new hole.”

Another year went speeding by states Jennifer Baasch Polhemus of Perry, Mich. Scott had a damper put on his police work when he had knee replacement then the other six weeks later. They now have their new home and barn com-pleted but would you believe light-ning struck the house in a major storm three weeks after moving in. They are alive and that is more important than any building. They lost some appliances and a chunk of something blew off the side of the house plus a leak appeared in the basement and Scott remarked, “We must have built on an Indian burial ground--we are jinxed.” All is fixed and going fine until the next one, amen.

There is son Kenney 19 a fresh-man at Grand Valley State Univer-sity, focusing on getting his core classes out of the way. Then Kevin is next. At 25 he is in U.S. Army stationed in Fort Bragg North Car-olina. In January he is going to tie the knot at Michigan State Univer-sity Chapel, reception to follow at the MSU Union. Here comes the youngest witty personality Jes-sica Evelyn seven years old in the first grade at Perry Elementary, involved in soccer, T Ball, dance and girl scouts. Dad Scott is at the Lansing Police Dept, a detective in the Property Crimes Unit. He has sixteen months before retirement which is, a nugget in the brain from retiring and getting bored. Jennifer is still at Michigan Dept. of Correction which she enjoys and the autonomy of it--whatever that is. They attended Scott’s 30th year class reunion and a reunite with college classmates. He gradu-ated at Grand Valley State Univer-sity in 1989.

Sven got a job in a fertilizing plant and the Manager checked to see what he knew. He asked Sven if he knew about nitrates. “All I know is dey are cheaper dan day rates.”

Harvey and Kathy Hoenhause had all three sons Andy, Mitch, Jody and families for Christmas Eve at their Valley home. Won-derful to have your family able to come. They all reside at close range so no problem.

There was a pickup pulled in and who should it be in it but Jerry and Julie Hieggelke and son to the Alice Hieggelke at Beverly Anne. There was a surprise gift from Jerry to Alice and that brought a smile.

Here comes dinner at the Ernest and Norann Carter’s as Cindy Prochnow family of Wahpe-ton, Mary Lundy Slettland family of Devils Lake, Pam Soholt family, Mayville bring it in. The Carter’s are planning on leaving for Texas soon so it is kind of a Christmas, New Years farewell party.

A word from Alice Bartell of rural Gwinner states it is a down-hill battle for her with her health.

She had to give up the paper because her eyes will not do what they are supposed to as far as read-ing. She sees very little of most of her family as far as siblings except a sis near Gwinner. Distance and health problems make a difference but Milton and Tim are there for all the chores which include chickens for great cream puffs and now Ma cow will come into labor and oh that cream plus homegrown cot-tage cheese.

This rover was ready to follow Ilene Larson’s recipe for Mince-meat pie. She was headed to the cowyard to cut a chunk out of one of those steers to grind for this pie. Instead Ilene and Brian searched Fargo and found a couple jars. Then this rover went into action and made the Mincemeat pie. It is very good but Ilene is afraid of it-she hates raisins in anything and this is full of them besides ground beef and apples. She will get a piece regardless.

Jean Hoaby is the daughter of Ernest Hoaby and Jane so that leaves this rover an Aunt. Liv-ing at Plymouth, MN is the Hills. Ron, Jean Hill, Sean and Alec had a busy year. Son Sean works at an Interactive Design Agency as Web-site Designer in Mpls. Then there is Alec who graduated from Iowa State University in May and is back home for now--yeah his Mom says.--He is working as a Market-ing Asst. for Minnesota United FC Professional Soccer team. Also at Wayzata Country Club. Dad Ron is still at Wells Fargo and Mom Jean at Maccabee Public Rela-tions. They celebrated thirty years of wedded bliss at Maui, Hawaii this year and decided they loved snorkeling in that beautiful place. Christmas to them is heading in three places, first their family, then to sis, Cathy in Nisswa, MN. The third place is already in the off-ing but was held at Ron’s family in Fargo.

There is Cody Behm Chief Pharmacist at Thrifty White Phar-macy. Would you believe he has a smile that brings people in and he is not afraid to get from his stage and help you locate stuff and the smile persists. Thanks for the friendly soul.

Alice Hieggelke heard from brother Gene and son Steve. Steve and Erica had their first baby, a little boy so it is congrats to them at Longdale, CA.

There is Maryann Bartell a very ambitious soul ready to help anyone in need. She zipped to the Vets home and enjoyed Sound of Music and Trinity choir. The cars were iced up and roads slick but people still arrived. Maryann’s basic instincts are to “kick in” ease up to a stop sign--don’t jam on the brakes, have an ice scraper handy and a survival box in the car with extra clothes and a comforter--Irene states newspapers also and extra gloves. Maryann attended the “Don’t be Alone Dinner” at

the Center and offered to help in the kitchen if needed, take a meal to shut ins and enjoy the entertain-ment. On the 26th she heads out to Mpls. She has a medical consulta-tion and prayers for her to come out in tip top shape. Thanks for her working ability.

Ruth Carlblom zipped into Jim Carlblom’s vehicle for a trek for dinner at the bowling alley, Ender-lin Christmas Eve. There is Teresa home for a stint at Le’s and other relatives.

There comes a Pastor into the Veteran’s Home this rover did not know and he stated, “You’ve seen me around for fifty some years and I’ve listened to you.” He is Allen Polsfut and lives at the home. He had to be a Pastor at one time or he could not have put out a good sermon like he did Sunday. How wonderful for people to step in and take over. There was Pastor Qui-bell who was asked to say a few words and he did. He simmered in from McLeod and Fargo accompa-nied by Ann Schluter with her vio-lin and doing a super job of many tunes plus following this rover on any melody. Thanks to all who came and Susan Gibson for lead-ing the songs. Pastor Quibell stated they had a great surprise when Ted Hoaby zipped into John Quibell’s home for a get together. Ted is a musician and the son of Ernest Hoaby who left this world but was NDSU Instructor in Engineering. Ted’s Mom Jane lives in Fargo as well as twin brother Tod, alto, near Alexandria. Pastor Quibell has had the Hoabys in his life since they were born. Back to the service--Pastor Allen was a jokester put-ting this rover in his talk such as “Is there anyone here would give to a collection to give the piano player some lessons?” Well, Allen I did not hear all your innuendos but this one was forwarded to me--Thanks for getting reacquainted and you did great. He sits in the back of that huge room for church so there is a reason Irene did not know him.

A jaunt to the Trinity church did not find Pastor Norm Sunday. He has a birthday Jan. 6th or 7th and stated he loves Mincemeat Pie. After having Alice Hieggelke check in town with no results, sis Ilene and son Brian were put to the test. This rover was going to bake him a pie along with the home-made birthday card but how did she know they would check the Fargo area for the jar of Mincemeat which Ilene states she can’t stand. They found two jars. This rover got on the cell phone and asked him where he was. He stated Nebraska-if I remember-taking off for some-time. He was to call on his return to get his pie and card for his big day. Oh, these Pastors put Irene to the test. She had a little problem over the Christmas Eve so read the story in the Bible. Woke up in the night getting fresh hay for the Baby Jesus to be born in the morning.

Monday, Jan. 4Exercise ................................10:45Bingo ......................................1:00Dinner: Meat loaf .................12:00

Tuesday, Jan. 5Dinner: Turkey roast ............12:00Hand and Foot ........................1:30

Wednesday, Jan. 6Dinner: BBQ’s ....................12:00

Thursday, Jan. 7

Dinner: Baked cod w/alfredo sauce .....................................12:00

Friday, Jan. 8Dinner: Pork roast ................12:00

Saturday, Jan. 9Open mornings for activities

Sunday, Jan. 10No Cards

Monday, Jan. 11 Pork chops

~ Senior Schedule ~

Hope everyone had a joyous and blessed Christmas!

Bonnie Christensen was in Fargo Thursday, December 17 to Saturday, December 19th and attended Jaiya’s Daycare Christ-mas program. They also visited Nancy Christensen at Sanford Hospital.

Butch and Pat Posbt recently visited Elaine Tang.

Marvin and Margie Man-gin received word Wednes-day evening December 23 that their grandson, George Thomas Buehler had entered the world.

Marge Williamson of Oregon spent December 18th to the 27th with Jack and Shirley Ragan.

Friday evening coffee guests of Don and Eileen Geske were Marvin and Margie Mangin.

Visiting Bonnie Christensen Monday were Carolyn and Sharon Berry, Shirley Ragan, Marge Williamson and Margie Mangin.

Peggy and Steve Bartholo-may arrived at Jack Ragan’s on December 18th for the holidays.

Margie Mangin paid visits and delivered Christmas good-ies to Al and Irene Dohn, June

Podoll and Warren and Donna Nelson in LaMoure Wednesday.

Christmas Eve guests of Jack and Shirley Ragan were David and Patti Ragan, Justin and Kar-ina Ragan and Brittany Ragan, Pat and Ann Ragan, the Mike Kowalski family and the Jerry Ragan family. Bill and Nancy Ragan and Aaron were Christ-mas Day guests.

Bob and Barb Rauhauser and kids spent Christmas with Elaine Tang.

Christmas Day guests of Marvin and Margie Mangin were David and Ginger Podoll.

Mike and Nicole Ragan vis-ited at the Jack Ragan home on Saturday.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!

Verona News by Margie Mangin

Valley News by Irene Hoenhause

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The Minnesota Vikings scored 49 points, their highest total since the 1998 season.

Coming in to Sunday night, the Vikings were still not assured a playoff spot. Needing to win at least one of their two remain-ing games to punch their playoff ticket, the Vikings were solid in all three phases of the game and took care of business in the prime time match up, beating the New York Giants 49-17.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Teddy Bridgewater had himself a great game. Show-ing his customary poise and quick decision making, Teddy completed 15 of 25 passes for 168 yards, one touchdown and zero interceptions. Bridgewater could’ve had bigger stats, but this contest became out of reach early,

leading to a heavy dose of the run game. He was also pulled from the game with almost 10 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, giving way to Shaun Hill who simply took snaps and handed the ball off.

Speaking of the run game, the entire unit from the running backs to the offensive line had one of their best games of the season. Adrian Peterson ran the ball 22 times for 104 yards and a touch-down, but it was Jerick McKinnon who stole the show. McKinnon only ran the ball seven times, yet he still had 89 yards and two touchdowns, including a spectac-ular 68 yard score with under four minutes left in the fourth quarter. As a group, the Vikings ran for 222 yards which was their second highest total of the year.

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By Angela KoldenA group of about 35 beef cattle

producers gathered at the Buffalo Community Center Dec. 17 to hear presentations on a variety of industry related topics.

The Beef Cattle Update was sponsored by the NDSU Exten-sion Service and included guest speakers from Cass, Ransom and Traill County extension offices as well as several industry special-ists.

Ransom County Extension Agent Brian Zimprich presented on “Expected Progeny Difference (EPDs).”

“The holiday season for you guys isn’t necessarily about Christmas or the holidays. It means bull buying season,” said Zimprich.

EPDs can be a tool to help producers determine what bulls will fit into their operation. EPSs show the merit of an animal as a potential parent, in comparison with others.

Zimprich said it is a predic-tion of genetic transmitting from parents to offspring and it can be used as a tool in any operation. Specific uses include utilizing it when selecting a bull, as a way to determine the right bull for your operation. He suggests studying EPDs in the breed of interest and studying what traits within that breed are reported.

“Use EPD to identify traits that will make a positive impact on your herd,” he said.

He cautioned producers about the fact that not every cow is suit-able to a particular bull.

“Differences in cows require differences in bull genetics. Don’t use it as the only tool. You still need to visually appraise.”

Bill Hoffmann, of Wheatland, said he thought all of the presenta-tions were valuable. However; he could have been a little bit biased, as Kelcey Hoffmann is his daugh-ter-in-law, one of the presenters.

In addition to the presenta-tions, producers were also able to receive Beef Quality Assurance certification at this program.

That is what attracted John McDonald of Forest River to at-tend, and although certification was his primary mission he said he also enjoyed all other aspects of the program.

Kevin Elliot, a partner at Elliot Livestock of Clifford, presented on Feeding By-Products.

In an open forum type discus-sion, Elliot shared how he utilizes by-products in his own operation.

He offered tips on things to take into consideration when in-corporating By-Product Feeding into any operation. Things like, freight costs and availability of product topped the list.

He encouraged producers to calculate the cost of pick up and delivery before accepting free by- product. In addition, he said the availability of the product is a crucial element to By-Product Feeding.

“It’s great if you can get the

product, but when they cut you off, then you have to change your rations.”

He suggested consulting with a nutritionist and/or feed salesman to test for nutritional quality.

Some by-products used in his operation include beet pulp and corn screenings. If using a wet product, storage must be given special consideration as it tends to get “pretty hard” during the winter months.

“Tailing on beet plants have a lot of water and mud,” he ex-plained. “You have to take into consideration shrinkage.”

Lastly, producers must be pre-pared to calculate the nutritional value of any by-product.

“You have to figure out how much energy and protein are in it and what it is worth compared to the value of corn.”

In closing, Elliot said the pri-mary benefit to By-Product Feed-ing vs. conventional feeding is cost savings. Secondary reasons may include palatability and a good source of roughage.

“I feel like I’m preaching to the choir,” Elliot said. “Most of you guys know as much about this, or more, than I do.”

Other presentations through-out the event included Vaccination Handling and Bio Security, Cow Calf Budgets, Net Wrap, Cover Crops, Veterinary Feed Directives and Producer Research Updates.

Those who attended found the information valuable.

Producer Andy Lyons of Enderlin said he found Traill County Extension Agent Alyssa Scheve’s presentation on Net Wrap to be interesting. David Martin, a producer from the Emb-den/Wheatland area concurred.

Scheve addressed whether it is harmful not to remove plastic net wrap before feeding.

One steer study at the NDSU Beef Unit followed ten steers that had been fed net wrap.

The study showed that after 14 days of incubation in the rumen 80 percent of the consumed hay had disappeared. Seventy percent of sisal twine disappeared and zero percent of three types of net wrap as well as zero percent of biode-gradable twine had disappeared.

Twin and net wrap has been involved with confirmed deaths in cattle that resulted from Esopha-geal Net Wrap Impaction.

Shelby Albert of Erie was one of the few females in attendance. She said she is hoping to break into the cattle business with her father, Lowell Albert and that she learned a lot by attending the seminar. Perhaps the most valu-able information for her was Cow Calf Budgets presented by Cass County Extension Agent Kelcey Hoffmann.

Hoffmann cited recent record cattle prices, market volatility and declines, rapidly rising costs and changing margins as reasons why budgeting should be implemented as a managing tool.

Budgeting, she explained, is

an effective way to plan for profit, analyze costs, compare alterna-tives, set benchmarks and produce break-even analysis.In conclu-sion, the event was deemed a suc-cess.

Photos by Angela KoldenNDSU Extension Agents who presented during a recent Beef Cat-tle Update in Buffalo included Kelcey Hoffmann, Cass County; Brian Zimprich, Ransom County and Alyssa Scheve, Traill Coun-ty.

• Former University of James-town quarterback, Josh Kittell, has been selected by his alma mater to be the new head coach of the Jimmies. Josh (29) joins his brother as a head college coach in North Dakota. Older brother, Joe, is the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Mary.

• North Dakota’s record popu-lation now stands at 756,927. Since 2004, our population has grown by 110,000 people.

• Despite 39 points from Gra-ham Hurlburt, Enderlin lost to Breckenridge 79-71.

LHS and NDSU graduate, Adam Coykendall is teaching and coaching at Breckenridge High School. Adam is an assis-tant coach in football and track

and field and also runs the weight room.

• Tylee Irwin has become Wah-peton High School’s all time girls’ scoring leader with 1,178 points breaking Sue Hesch’s record that has stood since 1986. Tylee is a 6’ junior forward and the daughter of former NDSCS men’s basketball coach Craig Irwin.

• And then there was one, Maple Valley senior and NDSU recruit, Rylee Nudell is averaging 36.2 points per game. Nudell has now a career point total of 2,937. Tanya Fischer of Bowman (1989-93) is the North Dakota girls’ all time leading scorer with 3,148.

• In Class A basketball, Minot and Fargo Shanley are the top ranked teams in boys and girls.

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With Odell Beckham serving a one game suspension for fighting with Josh Norman, combined with the Vikings getting their top three defensive players back, the Giants were unable to get much going offensively. Manning finished with 234 yards and a touchdown, but also threw three interceptions. Ryan Nassib replaced Manning in the fourth quarter and threw for an additional 68 yards and a touch-down in garbage time.

The Vikings really played together as a team and showed what they can do when all the cylinders are hitting. Because of that, the player of the week isn’t just one player, but four. Jerick McKinnon showed plenty of ath-leticism and speed, keeping the offense running when Adrian left the game. Jarius Wright led the team in receiving yardage, and besides having the best last name in football, he really stepped up and made some big plays. Harri-son Smith was third on the team in tackles, while also snagging an Eli Manning pass and return-ing it 35 yards for a score. Tied with Smith in tackles was Tom

Johnson, who also pitched in two sacks and two additional quarter-back hits.

There isn’t too much to com-plain about after this victory. If I had to choose one area that could use the most improvement, it would be the defense allowing big plays because of the occasional sloppy effort and poor tackling. There is an excuse to be made because of the weather (I know I wouldn’t want to tackle a 200 pound athlete who is running at full speed when the tempera-ture is in the single digits), but that excuse only goes so far. The Vikings defense allowed 12 plays of 10 yards or more, including plays of 50, 72 and 25 yards.

Looking forward, the Vikings will play the Packers in Green Bay for the NFC North crown next Sunday night, as the game has been flexed to the Sunday Night game on NBC for the sec-ond week in a row. The Packers are coming off an embarrassing loss to the Arizona Cardinals, losing 38-8, and will be look-ing to get back on track before the playoffs start. If the Vikings

Round-up By: Jordan Wrightplay like they did against the Giants, they have a legitimate shot to dethrone the Packers and secure a first round playoff game at home. However, it should be noted that as it stands now, the loser of the Vikings Packers game

will play the Redskins in Wash-ington, while the winner will play the Seahawks at home. A home playoff game would be nice, but I think the Vikings would have a better chance against the Red-skins.

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The Minnesota Vikings scored 49 points, their highest total since the 1998 season.

Coming in to Sunday night, the Vikings were still not assured a playoff spot. Needing to win at least one of their two remain-ing games to punch their playoff ticket, the Vikings were solid in all three phases of the game and took care of business in the prime time match up, beating the New York Giants 49-17.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Teddy Bridgewater had himself a great game. Show-ing his customary poise and quick decision making, Teddy completed 15 of 25 passes for 168 yards, one touchdown and zero interceptions. Bridgewater could’ve had bigger stats, but this contest became out of reach early,

leading to a heavy dose of the run game. He was also pulled from the game with almost 10 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, giving way to Shaun Hill who simply took snaps and handed the ball off.

Speaking of the run game, the entire unit from the running backs to the offensive line had one of their best games of the season. Adrian Peterson ran the ball 22 times for 104 yards and a touch-down, but it was Jerick McKinnon who stole the show. McKinnon only ran the ball seven times, yet he still had 89 yards and two touchdowns, including a spectac-ular 68 yard score with under four minutes left in the fourth quarter. As a group, the Vikings ran for 222 yards which was their second highest total of the year.

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By Angela KoldenA group of about 35 beef cattle

producers gathered at the Buffalo Community Center Dec. 17 to hear presentations on a variety of industry related topics.

The Beef Cattle Update was sponsored by the NDSU Exten-sion Service and included guest speakers from Cass, Ransom and Traill County extension offices as well as several industry special-ists.

Ransom County Extension Agent Brian Zimprich presented on “Expected Progeny Difference (EPDs).”

“The holiday season for you guys isn’t necessarily about Christmas or the holidays. It means bull buying season,” said Zimprich.

EPDs can be a tool to help producers determine what bulls will fit into their operation. EPSs show the merit of an animal as a potential parent, in comparison with others.

Zimprich said it is a predic-tion of genetic transmitting from parents to offspring and it can be used as a tool in any operation. Specific uses include utilizing it when selecting a bull, as a way to determine the right bull for your operation. He suggests studying EPDs in the breed of interest and studying what traits within that breed are reported.

“Use EPD to identify traits that will make a positive impact on your herd,” he said.

He cautioned producers about the fact that not every cow is suit-able to a particular bull.

“Differences in cows require differences in bull genetics. Don’t use it as the only tool. You still need to visually appraise.”

Bill Hoffmann, of Wheatland, said he thought all of the presenta-tions were valuable. However; he could have been a little bit biased, as Kelcey Hoffmann is his daugh-ter-in-law, one of the presenters.

In addition to the presenta-tions, producers were also able to receive Beef Quality Assurance certification at this program.

That is what attracted John McDonald of Forest River to at-tend, and although certification was his primary mission he said he also enjoyed all other aspects of the program.

Kevin Elliot, a partner at Elliot Livestock of Clifford, presented on Feeding By-Products.

In an open forum type discus-sion, Elliot shared how he utilizes by-products in his own operation.

He offered tips on things to take into consideration when in-corporating By-Product Feeding into any operation. Things like, freight costs and availability of product topped the list.

He encouraged producers to calculate the cost of pick up and delivery before accepting free by- product. In addition, he said the availability of the product is a crucial element to By-Product Feeding.

“It’s great if you can get the

product, but when they cut you off, then you have to change your rations.”

He suggested consulting with a nutritionist and/or feed salesman to test for nutritional quality.

Some by-products used in his operation include beet pulp and corn screenings. If using a wet product, storage must be given special consideration as it tends to get “pretty hard” during the winter months.

“Tailing on beet plants have a lot of water and mud,” he ex-plained. “You have to take into consideration shrinkage.”

Lastly, producers must be pre-pared to calculate the nutritional value of any by-product.

“You have to figure out how much energy and protein are in it and what it is worth compared to the value of corn.”

In closing, Elliot said the pri-mary benefit to By-Product Feed-ing vs. conventional feeding is cost savings. Secondary reasons may include palatability and a good source of roughage.

“I feel like I’m preaching to the choir,” Elliot said. “Most of you guys know as much about this, or more, than I do.”

Other presentations through-out the event included Vaccination Handling and Bio Security, Cow Calf Budgets, Net Wrap, Cover Crops, Veterinary Feed Directives and Producer Research Updates.

Those who attended found the information valuable.

Producer Andy Lyons of Enderlin said he found Traill County Extension Agent Alyssa Scheve’s presentation on Net Wrap to be interesting. David Martin, a producer from the Emb-den/Wheatland area concurred.

Scheve addressed whether it is harmful not to remove plastic net wrap before feeding.

One steer study at the NDSU Beef Unit followed ten steers that had been fed net wrap.

The study showed that after 14 days of incubation in the rumen 80 percent of the consumed hay had disappeared. Seventy percent of sisal twine disappeared and zero percent of three types of net wrap as well as zero percent of biode-gradable twine had disappeared.

Twin and net wrap has been involved with confirmed deaths in cattle that resulted from Esopha-geal Net Wrap Impaction.

Shelby Albert of Erie was one of the few females in attendance. She said she is hoping to break into the cattle business with her father, Lowell Albert and that she learned a lot by attending the seminar. Perhaps the most valu-able information for her was Cow Calf Budgets presented by Cass County Extension Agent Kelcey Hoffmann.

Hoffmann cited recent record cattle prices, market volatility and declines, rapidly rising costs and changing margins as reasons why budgeting should be implemented as a managing tool.

Budgeting, she explained, is

an effective way to plan for profit, analyze costs, compare alterna-tives, set benchmarks and produce break-even analysis.In conclu-sion, the event was deemed a suc-cess.

Photos by Angela KoldenNDSU Extension Agents who presented during a recent Beef Cat-tle Update in Buffalo included Kelcey Hoffmann, Cass County; Brian Zimprich, Ransom County and Alyssa Scheve, Traill Coun-ty.

• Former University of James-town quarterback, Josh Kittell, has been selected by his alma mater to be the new head coach of the Jimmies. Josh (29) joins his brother as a head college coach in North Dakota. Older brother, Joe, is the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Mary.

• North Dakota’s record popu-lation now stands at 756,927. Since 2004, our population has grown by 110,000 people.

• Despite 39 points from Gra-ham Hurlburt, Enderlin lost to Breckenridge 79-71.

LHS and NDSU graduate, Adam Coykendall is teaching and coaching at Breckenridge High School. Adam is an assis-tant coach in football and track

and field and also runs the weight room.

• Tylee Irwin has become Wah-peton High School’s all time girls’ scoring leader with 1,178 points breaking Sue Hesch’s record that has stood since 1986. Tylee is a 6’ junior forward and the daughter of former NDSCS men’s basketball coach Craig Irwin.

• And then there was one, Maple Valley senior and NDSU recruit, Rylee Nudell is averaging 36.2 points per game. Nudell has now a career point total of 2,937. Tanya Fischer of Bowman (1989-93) is the North Dakota girls’ all time leading scorer with 3,148.

• In Class A basketball, Minot and Fargo Shanley are the top ranked teams in boys and girls.

Dakota Sports By Joe Howell

With Odell Beckham serving a one game suspension for fighting with Josh Norman, combined with the Vikings getting their top three defensive players back, the Giants were unable to get much going offensively. Manning finished with 234 yards and a touchdown, but also threw three interceptions. Ryan Nassib replaced Manning in the fourth quarter and threw for an additional 68 yards and a touch-down in garbage time.

The Vikings really played together as a team and showed what they can do when all the cylinders are hitting. Because of that, the player of the week isn’t just one player, but four. Jerick McKinnon showed plenty of ath-leticism and speed, keeping the offense running when Adrian left the game. Jarius Wright led the team in receiving yardage, and besides having the best last name in football, he really stepped up and made some big plays. Harri-son Smith was third on the team in tackles, while also snagging an Eli Manning pass and return-ing it 35 yards for a score. Tied with Smith in tackles was Tom

Johnson, who also pitched in two sacks and two additional quarter-back hits.

There isn’t too much to com-plain about after this victory. If I had to choose one area that could use the most improvement, it would be the defense allowing big plays because of the occasional sloppy effort and poor tackling. There is an excuse to be made because of the weather (I know I wouldn’t want to tackle a 200 pound athlete who is running at full speed when the tempera-ture is in the single digits), but that excuse only goes so far. The Vikings defense allowed 12 plays of 10 yards or more, including plays of 50, 72 and 25 yards.

Looking forward, the Vikings will play the Packers in Green Bay for the NFC North crown next Sunday night, as the game has been flexed to the Sunday Night game on NBC for the sec-ond week in a row. The Packers are coming off an embarrassing loss to the Arizona Cardinals, losing 38-8, and will be look-ing to get back on track before the playoffs start. If the Vikings

Round-up By: Jordan Wrightplay like they did against the Giants, they have a legitimate shot to dethrone the Packers and secure a first round playoff game at home. However, it should be noted that as it stands now, the loser of the Vikings Packers game

will play the Redskins in Wash-ington, while the winner will play the Seahawks at home. A home playoff game would be nice, but I think the Vikings would have a better chance against the Red-skins.

Ransom County Gazette • January 4, 2016 • Page 6

BY ORDER OF THE LISBON CITY COUNCIL

To parents and operators of

SNOWMOBILESin the city limits of Lisbon

Snowmobiles will be permitted to operate within the city limits according to these rules...

The Following Rules & Regulations Must Be Followed:1. All snowmobiles must be registered with the State Motor Vehicle Dept. Registration must be displayed on front half of your machine.2. Operators must have a valid drivers license. Persons 12 years to 16 years with no drivers license must have completed a snowmobile Safety Training Course.3. Speed. Not to exceed 15 miles per hour.4. No snowmobiles allowed on Main Street or Highway 27. City streets to be used only for going out of town or returning to your home. This means any property in the City Limits is Not To Be Used For Recreational Snowmobiling! Jackson St., Prospect St. & Broadway may be used to go around Lisbon.5. Stay off all lawns & private property. 6. Absolutely no snowmobiling in Sandager Park. This includes the Dikes. 7. Persons under 18 years must wear a helmet while on snowmobiles.

Drift Skippers Snowmobile Club members will be assisting in the policing of these rules to help assure

any violators are caught.If you have any questions call 683-4141

Jeanette Persons - Chief of Police

Lisbon juniors, Ethan Elijah and Taylon Sad earned the title of Bronco Athletes of the Week.

Ethan, the son of Mitch Elijah of rural Lisbon and Lynette Elijah of Lisbon, is involved in FFA, National Honor Society, football, wrestling, track and field (state placewinner in the pole vault and 3200 relay), is an honor student, and has put his bull riding career on hold until after high school. He won a state championship in wrestling as a freshman at 106 and finished second last season at 113. “My favorite sports memory happened my freshman year in winning a state title as a freshman,”

says Ethan. Ethan works at Elijah farms with his dad and grandfather. His sports hero is professional bull rider, JB Mauney. According to Ethan, “The best things about being a Bronco are the coaches, team, and all of the hard competition tournaments that we go to, like the Frazee Duel and the Rumble on the Red, which is just a beast.”

Coach Joe Kern commented on both Elijah and Sad, “Ethan had a great weekend at the Frazee duals. He finished 3-0 and defeated the number 2 ranked wrestler in Minnesota A from Pierz in overtime. He has a pretty physical style of wrestling and does a good job of going hard all match.”

“Taylon has shown tremendous improvement from last season and continues to work hard. He had a HUGE pin against B-B-E in the last match of the dual to win it for us at Frazee.” Taylon is the son of Becky Sweet of rural Lisbon and Neil Sad of Lisbon and wrestles heavyweight for the Broncos. He is an honor student who is involved in football, wrestling, track and field, weightlifting, choir, and swing choir. He works at Teals Market in Lisbon whenever he can. The best thing about being a Bronco, according to Taylon, “is that I get to play the sports that I love with the people that I love.” His sports hero and role model is former Bronco Wyatt Smith. “My favorite sports memory is placing third at the Barnesville Tournament this year,” he states.

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Broncos down BBE for fifth at Frazee Wrestling tournamentBy Joe Howell

Bronco Wrestling Coach Joe Kern had both of his wishes ful-filled at the annual Frazee Team Duals on Saturday, December 19. “We need to see different individ-uals, teams, that are tough, to get ready for our February tournament push.” Wishes granted as Minne-sota state powers #1and defend-ing champion, Minneota (also the state A football champs this fall), #3 Frazee, #7 Pierz, #10 Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, and #10 Perham along with the Broncos were in the line-up in Becker County.

There were 34 top 10 indi-vidual state-ranked wrestlers on hand.

Lisbon drew Frazee in the opening round and the Broncos would be without starters Jordan Sours at 106 and Rory Waliser at 120 for the day due to sick-ness and injury. As a result, Lis-bon opponents were spotted a 12 point lead before the match even began. On top of being short two athletes to fill their 14 man squad, Lisbon did not have the depth and substitutes of the other five squads as the Bronco JV team competed in Valley City so those wrestlers would get more repetitions.

Opening roundPool 1

Frazee 55 Lisbon 10

Frazee 39Pierez 29

Pierz 42Lisbon 36

Pool 2Minneota 52Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 15

Perham 46Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 16

Minneota 48 Perham 20

ChampionshipMinneota 32Frazee 24

Third PlacePerham 33 Pierz 30

Fifth PlaceLisbon 38Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 37 (criteria)

The Hornets of Frazee are salty and Coach Clay Nagel’s squad came out very aggressive. The Broncos were limited to just three victories.

Ethan Elijah controlled #5 Tan-ner Eischens at 138 for a 6-2 vic-tory.

Dalton Reinke was also in charge during his 10-4 win at 152 and at 182, the Broncos, Soren McDaniel handled #7 Alec Bueltel with a major decision of 11-0.

Jordan Urbach seemingly scored two just before the buzzer at 170 but the Hornet’s #10 Tanner Bachmann was awarded a 3-2 vic-tory.

At 220 and 285 for LHS, Spencer Schwab and Taylon Sad lost close and very competitive matches.Frazee 55 Lisbon 10

106-Michael Miller (FRA) Won By Forfeit

113-Tanner Schemerhorn Fall Hunter Schwab (LIS) (1:47)

120-Kaden Hiemenz (FRA) Won by Forfeit

126-Tanner Reetz Fall Tristin Howard (LIS) (:34)

132-Ethan Beyer Dec. Brock Aberle (LIS) (6-0)

138-Ethan Elijah (LIS) Dec. Tanner Eischens (6-2)

145-Grant Jepson Maj. Dec. George Smith (LIS) (11-5)

152-Dalton Reinke (LIS) Dec. Charlton Wake (10-4)

160-Cole Hanson Fall Gannon Johnson (LIS) (4:27)

170-Tanner Bachmann Dec. Jordan Urbach (LIS) (3-2)

182-Soren McDaniel (LIS) Maj. Dec. Austin Beaty (11-0)

195-Jonah Lange Fall Caemon Kelly (LIS) (1:28)

220-Rory Drewes pinned Spen-

cer Schwab (L) (5:52)285-Tanner Tapper (4-1) dec.

Taylon Sad (L) Tristin Howard, Brock Aberle,

George Smith, and Dalton Reinke earned pins for Lisbon against Pierz. Pierz won the Minnesota state AAA football championship this fall.

Ethan Elijah defeated #2, Bran-don Ortman in overtime 12-10 and Soren McDaniel picked up a 7-3 decision over #7 Matt Kummet.

Taylon Sad picked up a win by forfeit.Pierz 42 Lisbon 36

106-Brandon Funk Won by Forfeit

113-Jake Andres Fall Hunter Schwab (PIE) (2:35)

120-Lukas Popp Won by For-feit

126-Tristin Howard (LIS) Sebastian Warzecha (2:40)

132-Brock Aberle (LIS) Fall Brandon Tomala (4:19)

138-Ethan Elijah (LIS) Dec. Brandon Ortman (12-10) OT

145-George Smith (LIS) Fall Luke Girtz (3:59)

152-Dalton Reinke (LIS) Fall Derrick Hall (3:30)

160-Lane Girtz Fall Gannon Johnson (LIS) (:32)

170-Kolton Eischens Fall Jor-dan Urbach (LIS) (1:00)

182-Soren McDaniel (LIS) Dec. Matt Kummet (7-3)

195-Brett Kapsner Fall Cae-mon Kelly (LIS) (2:59)

220-Ted Dehler Fall Spencer Schwab (LIS) (4:58)

285-Taylon Sad (LIS) Won by Forfeit

In Lisbon’s final match of the day, the deciding match came down to the big boys at heavy-weight. The Broncos trailed 37-31 and would need Taylon Sad not only to win but to win by pin to tie the match at 37 all. The pin would also give the tie breaking criteria to the Broncos as Lisbon would have the most pins with five(first crite-ria to break a tie). BBE (Belgrade-

Brooten-Elrosa) a program located south of I 29 south of Sauk Centre, had two pins.

Sad pinned BBE’s Leo Ziemer in 3:54 to the excitement of his teammates!

Picking up wins by pin for Lis-bon in addition to Sad were: Tris-tin Howard at 126, Brock Aberle at 132, Ethan Elijah at 138, and Caemon Kelly at 182. Standout Soren McDaniel was held out of this match.

Gannon Johnson won by deci-sion at 160 and Jordan Urbach posted a major decision at 170.

The Broncos were to compete at the Rumble on the Red at the Fargodome on December 29 and 30. Lisbon will open their 2016 season at South Border on Janu-ary 7. On January 8 and 9, Lisbon will take part in the annual Central Cass Letterman’s tournament.

Fifth PlaceLisbon 38 Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 37 (Criteria Most 1st Points)

106-Ryan Young Won by For-feit

113-Dylan Kampsen Won by Forfeit

120-Tyler Bents Fall Hunter Schwab (LIS) (5:14)

126-Tristan Howard (LIS) Fall Jebadia Jones (:59)

132-Brock Aberle (LIS) Fall Miguel Pablo-Lopez (5:57)

138-Ethan Elijah (LIS) Fall Isaiah Gilbert (1:38)

145-Adam Jaeger Maj. Dec. George Smith (LIS) (11-1)

152-Colby Schramel Fall Dal-ton Reinke (LIS) (4:50)

160-Gannon Johnson (LIS) Dec. Trevor Kern (10-5)

170-Jordan Urbach (LIS) Maj. Dec. Jonah Voss (16-3)

182-Caemon Kelly (LIS) Fall Orion Reutzel (:46)

195-Ben Thompson Won by Forfeit

220-Joe Reller Dec. Spencer Schwab (LIS) (3-2) (OT)

285-Taylon Sad (LIS) Fall Leo Ziemer (3:54)

Pictured are, front row: (l to r) Jacob Lyons, Chandler Dick, Ian Anderson, Noah Anderson, Ryan Enge, Eli Lyons, and Hunter Sanderson; back row: (l to r) Gabe Lyons, Jordan Nibbe, Zander Christopherson, Josh Shearer, Levi Sveum, Jordan Dick, Kashden Wadeson, and Caleb Schwab.

Lisbon Wrestling Clubyouth pre-season dual actionBy Brent Dick

Lisbon youth wrestlers grappled with four of the top ND USAW Division 1 youth dual teams on December 20 at the Express Duals in Valley City. This young group of matmen wrestled like true Broncos, never giving up and with great sportsmanship!

With the pre-season schedule wrapping up, the coaches and wrestlers now look forward to the regu-lar wrestling season. The regular season registration is Monday, January 4, 2016 from 5:45-6:30 pm at the Lisbon High School Gymnasium. The first practice is January 4 with PreK-2nd Grade practice from 6:15-6:45 pm and 3rd-6th Grade practice from 6:50-7:50 pm at the LHS Wrestling Room.

Overall at the Express Duals, the young Broncos

finished 0-4 competing against the Bismarck Goril-las, Tech Team-Fargo, Carrington Pitcrew, and VC Express. Individually, Gwinner’s Ryan Enge (55 lbs) went 4-0. McLeod product Levi Sveum (90 lbs) and Gabe Lyons (105 lbs) finished out 2-0. Enderlin’s Kashden Wadeson (65 lbs) and HWT Josh Shearer recorded two dual victories finishing 2-2 on the day. Others recording one dual win each were Ian Ander-son (50 lbs), Noah Anderson (60lbs), and Englevale’s Caleb Schwab (130 lbs). Picking up prelim match victories for the young Broncos were Chandler Dick (60 lbs), Eli Lyons (65 lbs), Jordan Dick (65 lbs), and Jordan Nibbe (78 lbs). Lisbon rounded out the team with Hunter Sanderson (65 lbs), Jacob Lyons (70 lbs), and Zander Christopherson (74 lbs).

In overtime Lisbon defeats Oak Grove boysBy Joe Howell

Trailing by 15 points routinely in the first half, Bronco Coach Kim Mark’s basketball team used their homecourt advantage to pull out an exciting 74-71 Region 1 victory over Fargo Oak Grove Lutheran. The Broncos and Gro-vers tied at 65 after four quarters of play. Lisbon outscored their guests 9-6 in overtime for their second win of the season.

Better choices in the second half of dribble penetration and ball movement helped the Bron-cos cause. The inside outside dual of Riley Lau and Noah Ward gave the Grover’s defense fits through-out the game. Lau and Ward each poured in 23 points. Noah con-nected on three baskets from beyond the arc and Austin Pithey and Kyle Odegard each added one.

Lau made 7 of 9 free throws and as a team, the Broncos were 19 of 30 from the charity stripe. The Grovers shot a better percent-age from the line making 11 of 13 but Lisbon made more free throws than Oak Grove attempted.

Junior Gunnar Fraase led LHS

in assists with 6 assists and Aus-tin Pithey and Marshall Bartholo-may each contributed four. Pithey also made 7 of his 10 free throw attempts.

Second chance points and uncontested threes were two areas of concern that Coach Mark expressed after the game.

“Senior Brendon Colgrove, and junior Maverick Coleman are good hustle players for us and Gunnar Fraase brings a hard-nosed toughness to our defense,” commented Mark.

The victory levels Lisbon’s overall record at 2-2 and Region 1 mark at 1-1.

Oak Grove is the two time defending Region 1 champ and suffered their second loss of the season.

The Broncos open the 2016 portion of their schedule against the Vikings in Kindred on Janu-ary 5.

1 2 3 4 OT FFOG 24 37 50 65 71 71L 15 29 46 65 74 74

Oak Grove – Christensen 24 (SEVEN three’s), Slagle 9, Berg 4, Paul 7, Bakkegard 13, Foster 14

Lisbon – Noah Ward 23, Kyle Odegard 5, Gunnar Fraase 8, Aus-

tin Pithey 12, Riley Lau 23, Bren-don Colgrove 3

(Left) Riley Lau skies a rebound against Region 1 defending cham-pion, Oak Grove. The Broncos won in overtime 73-71.

(Right) Mr Outside, Noah Ward strikes

from distance.

Broncos go cold in second quarter, Sisseton winsBy Joe Howell

Trailing 13-10 after the first quarter of play, the Lisbon Bronco girl’s basketball game went COLD as into the deep freeze. LHS scored just four points while allowing 14 and trailed 27-14 at halftime. The game was played on December 22 in Lisbon.

Bronco Coach Barb Sweet com-mented on the game, “Sisseton is a much improved team from last year. They kept us on our heels with their speed and had us scrambling on defense and on offense with a quick 2-3 zone. We just couldn’t find a groove offensively and had too many missed helps on the defensive end in the first half. Dis-appointing after watching us play so well for the past 5 games. We allowed 27 points in the first half - kudos to their offense, but it was the most points we have given up in a half all season. The second half we found a combination of girls that played very well together and brought us back to within 6. Elazea Broeren and Grace Elijah stepped in and played some valuable min-utes. We just couldn’t quite over-

come the hole we dug the first half, though and ended up losing by 7.”

Sydney Griffith led Lisbon in scoring with 12 points and contin-ues to play tough on defense. Haley Anderson, Kaitlin Geyer, and Eliza-beth Lyons each added 8 points into the scoring column.

Sisseton’s Shyli Toelle grabbed game high scoring honors with 17 points. The Redmen picked up their third straight victory after opening the season with back to back losses.

Lisbon won the JV contest and lost the C game.

The Broncos overall record stands at 3-3 and their Region 1 mark is 3-1. Lisbon next plays at Northern Cass on Tuesday, Janu-ary 4. 1 2 3 4Sisseton 13 27 37 47Lisbon 10 14 29 40

Lisbon – Haley Anderson 8, Karly Schultz 4, Sydney Griffith 12, Kaitlin Geyer 8, Elizabeth Lyons 8

Sisseton – Makenzy Frederick 3, Haley Duffield 2, Laci LaFrom-boise 6, Alyssa Magnuson 7, Tiarah Bissonette 6, Cami Goodhart 6, Shayli Toelle 17

10th year Rumble on the RedBy Joe Howell

The tenth annual Rumble on the Red wrestling tournament will be held at the Fargodome on December 29-31.

Rumble on the Red teams up with Minnesota State University Moor-head wrestling, Concordia College wrestling, West Fargo High School, and the Metro Tournament Committee to promote, sanction, and host this event.

Oakes and Lisbon are two of the 21 North Dakota teams that will be competing in this event. Oakes heavyweight, Michael Kelly finished sec-ond in his division last year. There will be 51 Minnesota schools, four from South Dakota, and one from Nebraska.

A pair of former Bison wrestlers co-manage this event. They are Steve Saxlund and Todd Fuller.

For further information go to: www.rumbleonthered.com.

North Dakota State Basketball Polls

Girls B 1. LaMoure Litchville Marion 6-02. Thompson 7-03. Rugby 6-04. Grafton 5-05. Dickinson Trinity 4-16. Park River FL 6-17. North Star 6-18. Our Redeemers 5-09. Shilo Christian 5-110. Watford City 3-1Boys B Basketball 1. 4 Winds Minnewaukan 2-02. Minot Our Redeemer’s 4-03. Hillsboro Central Valley 2-04. Bismarck Shilo Christian 2-05. Enderlin 1-06. Strasburg-Zeeland 2-07. St. John 4-08. Linton HMB 3-09. Parshall 2-110. Dickinson Trinity 3-1Region 1 WrestlingLisbon 2-0Napoleon 2-0Linton HMB 3-1Oakes 3-2South Border 1-1LaMoure LM 1-2EEK 1-2

Kindred 0-4District 1 Boys Basketball Region OverallNorthern Cass 1-0 3-0Milnor NS 2-0 4-0Central Cass 1-0 4-0Enderlin 1-0 1-1Kindred 1-0 1-2Richland 1-0 1-2Oak Grove 1-1 2-1Lisbon 1-1 2-2Maple Valley 0-1 3-1Lidg-Wynd 0-1 2-1Hankinson 0-2 2-2Sargent Central 0-2 0-3FCT 0-1 1-2Girls Region 1 Basketball Region OverallRichland 3-0 5-2Lisbon 3-1 3-3FCT 3-1 5-1Maple Valley 3-1 7-2Kindred 4-2 5-2Oak Grove 2-1 3-2Wynd-Lidg 3-2 5-2Hankinson 2-2 2-3Sargent Central 1-1 3-3Northern Cass 1-2 1-3Enderlin 1-4 2-6Central Cass 0-3 0-4

Milnor-NS 0-6 0-7Region 1 Wrestling Poll

December 8106 - 1. Coy Awendor Oakes, 3. Jordan Sours Lisbon113 - 1. Austin Burgard Oakes, 2. Hunter Schwab Lisbon120 - 1. Brayden Jangula Napo-leon, 4. Rory Waliser Lisbon126 - 1. Garrett Jangula Napoleon, 4. Tristin Howard Lisbon132 - 1. Wyatt Nagel Linton, 2. Brock Aberle Lisbon, 3. Grayson Roney Oakes138 - 1. Ethan Elijah Lisbon, 2. Kyle Moach Linton145 - 1. George Smith Lisbon152 - 1. Dalton Reinke Lisbon160 - 1. Gannon Johnson Lisbon170 - 1. Jonathan Gruenfelder Napoleon, 3. Jordan Urbach Lis-bon182 - 1. Soren McDaniel Lisbon, 3. Jared Roth Oakes195 - 1. Garret Roemmich Linton HMB, 2. Tyus Calloway Lisbon220 - 1. Austin Kauk South Border, 4. Spencer Schwab Lisbon285 - 1. Michael Kelly Oakes, 3. Taylon Sad Lisbon

Polls and Standings

Ransom County Gazette • January 4, 2016 • Page 7

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906 South Main Street, Lisbon, ND

Hours: Mon-Fri. 8am to 5pm Phone - 683-4582

Dr. Chad Olson and Dr. Corey Williams

Participating Provider of BC/ BS, Medica & MeritCare Medical Group

SHEYENNE VALLEYCHIROPRACTIC CLINIC

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Medical & Prof. Center 15 - 11th Ave. W., Lisbon, ND

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DR. ANNETTE I. BARTOSH-HEACOXDR. JODI K. SANDESS-RIEGER

Parkside Lutheran Home

501 3rd Avenue West, Lisbon

Skilled Nursing Service,Physical, Occupational,

Speech Therapy, & Respite Care

(701) 683-5239

17 11th Avenue West • Lisbon, ND 58054

Corey R. MairsO.D.

701-683-5815 Fax 701-683-9966

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Cards, Gifts, & All Your Health Needs

Mon-Fri: 8:30am - 5:30pm Saturday: 8:30am - Noon

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404 Main • Lisbon, North Dakota

REHABILITATION / FITNESSPHYSICAL THERAPY

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

11 Main Street NorthP.O. Box 586

Gwinner, ND 58040Phone: (701) 678-2244 Fax: (701) 678-2210

LisbonBrent Buchholz, PA-C

Kathy Siedschlag, PA-CLarry Hendricks, PA-C

Dedicated to the work of heath and healing102 10th Ave. West • 701-683-2214

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KRISTINA M. LONG, M.S. ED.

1006 Lincoln St., Lisbon, ND701-683-5086

Licensed Professional CounselorSheyenne Valley

Counseling Service

General Dentistry

420 Main St., Lisbon, ND

(701) 683-7695 or 1(866) 683-4654

DR. DUANE KRIVARCHKAGeneral Dentistry

11 11th Ave. W., Lisbon, ND

LISBON OFFICE - 683-4455Medical & Professional Center

ENDERLIN OFFICE - 437-2676

DR. FRANCIS H. ZECK, JR.513 Main, Lisbon, N.D.

(701) 683-5821

GENERAL/FAMILY DENTAL CLINIC

HOURSMonday: 9am-5pm

Tuesday-Thursday: 8am-5pm Friday: 8am-Noon

DR. MICHAEL L. KEIMSpecialist in Orthodontics

513 Main Street - Lisbon, ND

1-800-347-0170For an appointment Call:

Dr. Barbara Sheets-Olson, M.D.Katie Tanner, PA-C

Meredith Kelsen, C-NPStacey Spilovoy-Walton, PA-C

Family Medical Clinic

FMC

Clinic Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30-5:00 “Your Health • Your Choice • Your Clinic”

10 - 9th Ave. E., Lisbon, ND 58054

(701) 683-6000

St. FrancisMilnor Clinic

(701) 427-5300Clinic Hours: 8am-1pm

Monday-Thursday

SERVICES AVAILABLE:Lab, Xray,

Blood Pressure CheckDOT Physicals

CHILisbonHealth Clinic

(701) 683-6400Located At Hospital Main Entrance

905 Main Street • Lisbon, NDwww.lisbonhospital.com

DR. OSCAR FERNANDEZKEVIN JACOBSON FNP-C

Clinic Hours: 9am-5pmAppt. Hours: 7am-6pm

For Appointments Call:

(701) 683-6400SERVICES AVAILABLE:

Clinic ServicesLaboratory • Ultrasounds

MammogramsNuc Med • MRI/CT Scans

Swingbed • SurgeryEmergency Room

Mercy Home Care - Hospice905 Main Street • Lisbon, NDwww.lisbonhospital.com

Assisted Living Center

Retirement living apartments with several services and cares

available at your choosing.400 E. Jackson Ave., Lisbon

683-4092

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CHIROPRACTIC & MASSAGE EYECARE

Essentia Health-Lisbon Clinic819 Main Street | Lisbon701.683.4134

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Keeping care close to home

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QUESTION Of the Week!‘What do you want to see

in the new year?’

Steph Buhr, Lisbon: “Less drama.”

Julia Jahner, Enderlin: “My baby is due any day now. I want to see a healthy baby.”

Jaida Kunze, 9, Lisbon: “Everybody happy and with their family.”

Jason Kunze, Lisbon: “Good health and happiness.”

Riley Kunze, 12, Lisbon: “No snow, I want it to be sunny!”

Cassie McBenge, Lisbon: “I love flowers. It would be great to see more flowers planted around town.”

Tim Tiede, Englevale: “More rodeos!”

LISBON SCHOOLBREAKFAST MENU

Mon., Jan. 4-Assorted cereals, yogurt or cheese stick, fruitTues., Jan. 5-Waffles, yogurt or cheese stick, fruitWed., Jan. 6- Breakfast pizza, fruit Thurs., Jan. 7-Ultimate Breakfast Round, yogurt or cheese stick, fruitFri., Jan. 8-Assorted cereal, yogurt or cheese stick, fruit

LISBON SCHOOL LUNCH MENU

Mon., Jan. 4- Corn dog, baked beans, potato wedges, fruitTues., Jan. 5- Soft shell taco, black beans, all the fixings, fruitWed., Jan. 6- Tator tot hot dish, salad, fruit, cinnamon rollThurs., Jan. 7- Chicken strips, brown rice, glazed carrots, fruitFri., Jan. 8-Pepperoni calzone, green beans, fruit• All meals include choice of skim, 1% or fat free chocolate milk. Fruit/vegetable bar available at lunch. Menu is subject to change, check http://www.lisbon.k12.nd.us for latest updates. Peanut butter/jelly sandwich available instead of entrée for K through 8th grade. Parents/visitors welcome for meals, please call ahead of time.

FORT RANSOM SCHOOL

BREAKFAST MENUMon., Jan. 4- Cereal Tues., Jan. 5- Cook’s choiceWed., Jan. 6- Oatmeal Thurs., Jan. 7- Cook’s choiceFri., Jan. 8- Yogurt• Regular breakfasts are served every day and include toast, peanut butter, cheese slices, juice and milk.

FORT RANSOM SCHOOL

LUNCH MENUMon., Jan. 4 -PizzaTues., Jan. 5-Popcorn chicken Wed., Jan. 6-Tomato soup, grilled cheeseThurs., Jan. 7-BBQ’s, TTFri., Jan. 8-Chicken’n’Rice • Meals served with salad bar, fruit, vegetables and milk.

CITY LEAGUE 12/21/15

Team Scratch GameTri-County Lanes 788

Team Scratch SeriesSparetime Lounge 2327

Individual Scratch GameRick Hock 214John Welton 210Le Carlblom 204

Individual Scratch SeriesLe Carlblom 583Rick Hock 579John Welton 549

Team Handicap GameSparetime Lounge 782

Team Handicap SeriesTri-County Lanes 2303

Individual Handicap GameMychal Vaughn 248Al Stolz 223Scott Wertman 218

Individual Handicap SeriesMychal Vaughn 680James Carlblom 631

Al Stolz 611Team Standings

Sparetime Lounge 43-13Tri-County Lanes 35-21Heacox Team 29-27City Side Collision 28-28PGA 7--49

WEDNESDAY BUSINESSMEN’S LEAGUE

12/23/15Team Scratch Game

Maras Trucking 853Team Scratch Series

Maras Trucking 2463 Individual Scratch Game

Al Stolz 212Dale Kaber 204Don Pfaff 201

Individual Scratch SeriesKevin Robertson 546Dale Kaber 540Don Pfaff 527

Team Handicap GameMiller Lite 833

Team Handicap Series

Miller Lite 2425 Individual Handicap GameKeith Bartholomay 249Ben Holmgren 248Justin Analetto 242

Individual Handicap SeriesBen Holmgren 672Janie Mueller 655Roger Sandvig 652

Team StandingsShop n’ Fuel 4-0Page Body Shop 4-0Maras Trucking 3-1Miller Lite 1-3VFW 0-4 Dakota Plains Credit Union 0-4

MONDAY BANTAM -PREP 12/21/15

Wyatte Lund 73-51Dominic Marsh 27-15Gabe Hoy 23-38Jessilynn Lund 20-14Kierra Marsh 12-6Anthony Wendel 50-39Ayden Glarum 90-103

TUESDAY BANTAM - PREP12/22/2015

Kendra Iwen 48-62Aiden Chamberlin 83-71-42Eve Chamberlin 34-51-25Rylee Iwen 66-51Cami Lindemann 28-27

SUNDAYJUNIOR-MAJOR LEAGUE

12/20/2015Garrett Hanson 107-154-129Austin Glarum 134-96-116Michael Ripplinger 103-96-77

NewsBowling School Lunch Menus

Local students named toUniversity of Mary Dean’s list

Area residents are among 744 students named to the fall semes-ter Dean’s List at the University of Mary, in Bismarck. This number includes students in Mary’s under-graduate program and in adult edu-cation (Worldwide).

To qualify for the honor, tradi-tional undergraduate students must earn a 3.50 or better grade point average while carrying at least 12 credit hours.

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Englevale building...Continuedand raised their seven children – Moses, Mary, Bessie, Jens, Ras-mus, Napoleon and Claus.

Jens T. Peterson, who gener-ally went by the initials J.T., man-aged the Peterson General Stores in Englevale and Lisbon. He was elected to the North Dakota House of Representative from Ransom County and served in the 1938, 1941, and 1943 sessions of the state legislature. He and his wife, Antoinette, a native of Norway, had three children, Viola, who died in 1915 from tuberculosis, Willard, and Harold.

Dick goes on to state that, in 1933, a fire destroyed most of Eng-levale’s business section, but, once again, the brick building, which at that time housed the Peterson Gen-eral Store, survived.

Information recorded in the Englevale history book states that the 1933 fire started sometime between 9 and 10 a.m. in the base-ment of the Hillius pool hall and restaurant, supposedly from the backfire of the engine of a light-ing plant. Oil and gasoline around the plant ignited and the flames quickly spread to a tank of gasoline in the same room. The fuel-fed fire, fanned by a strong wind, destroyed nearly an entire block of Englev-ale’s business section. Six business buildings, as well as a number of outbuildings, were destroyed. The buildings included: the Hillius pool hall/restaurant building; the land office and post office belong-ing to Leonard Gulden; the restau-rant and confectionary belonging to A. C. Niles; the Jake Stroh store; the building belonging to L.M. Tivis of Fargo; an empty structure (a former hotel) belonging to S.E. Salveson; another small empty building on the street; and the Hat-tie Keenan (widow of Englevale businessman George J. Keenan) residence. Only the J.T. Peterson store and the Keenan Hotel were left standing.

Another report included in the Englevale history book, this one from a diary kept by Carl Frey (a relief depot agent at Englevale and the father of Carl Frey, Jr., Lisbon) indicated that the big fire took place on Labor Day. It noted that the fire burned out all of Front Street except for the J.T. Peter-son store listed as being in the “old bank building” and Keenan’s Hotel. The Frey account states that the fire “started in the Hillius pool hall basement, then spread to the Post Office on the east and the Niles confectionary store on the west, and on to the butcher shop, cream station, and the old Tivis

store on the southwest corner.” Another report from the same

history book stated that, in June of 1938, a building occupied by the Trucke beer parlor, owned by J.T. Peterson and located next to the general store which Peterson oper-ated, had been destroyed by fire.

According to the history book account, the ownership of the store building changed from Peter Q. Peterson to his wife, Dagmar Peterson, in July of 1938. She ran the store until 1947, when she moved to Oakes to live with her daughter, Mrs. Ira Long.

In November of 1952, the estate of Dagmar Peterson was divided between her children, Moses, Jens, Claus, Rasmus, and Napo-leon Peterson, Bessie Hanson and Mary Long. In August of that same year, the property was deeded to Earl Niles. In May of 1962, the deed was changed to read Earl and LaVonne Niles.

Earl Niles’ parents, Albert and Paulina Niles, had owned the Niles Confectionary business in Englev-ale for several years. The business had burned down in 1933. In 1946, Earl, one of four Niles children, married LaVonne Bachman, the daughter of Jack and Marie Bach-man, who farmed in the Englevale area.

Earl Niles became Englevale postmaster in 1948. In 1952, he bought the general store from J.T. Peterson and located the post office in that building. Earl and LaVonne Niles continued to run the Niles General Store and Post office until 1973, when Earl was transferred to the Kathryn Post office. At that point, Lavonne took over as Post-master.

After Earl’s death, on March 30, 1978, LaVonne continued to run the store and post office until her retirement in 1983. After clos-ing the store, LaVonne moved to Lisbon.

In August of 1983, with the closing of the Niles store, the build-ing was sold to David Schwab, an Englevale area farmer, and the bar, which had formerly been housed in an adjacent building, was moved into the store building. The old bar building, which stood on the adja-cent lot, was torn down.

In January of 1987, the prop-erty was deeded to George Schwab from David Schwab. Various peo-ple ran the bar after that, includ-ing Christine McCann, Brad and Kristy Dick, Corey Adolfs, Shan-non Thompson, Jerome and Deb Thompson, and Amanda Thomp-son, and, finally, Travis “Bud” Adolfs.

wheel chairs out from under the bus and make sure they can get around safely.”

Brown enlisted in the Army on March 31, 1945 at the age of 18 and was assigned to the infantry.

“When I signed up I had been working for a farmer who could have gotten me out,” recalled Brown. “I saw him on the street and he told me he had been to the courthouse to fix it so I wouldn’t have to go. I told him I was going because I wasn’t any better than anyone else. He cried.”

Brown started out stationed in Oregon but was sent to Okinawa. He spent a full month on board the transport ship when they arrived at Okinawa because the island was so full of soldiers, there was no room for the men on his ship. Once he got off the ship, he was assigned to water purification for the island.

“We were there just before the bombing of Japan,” said Brown. “We were due to invade Japan. They told us there was no chance that we would come back alive. They dropped the first atomic bomb just three days before we were schedule to go in.”

The honor flight was special for many reasons for both Brown and his daughter. Brown had been to Washington, DC before but never to the memorials. There were 300 people on the Honor Flight with a common bond, according to Brown.

“They treated us so special,” said Brown. “There were three buses full of soldiers and escorts. We had police escorts and everyone had to get out of our way.”

His daughter was impressed with the number of people who stopped to thank the Veterans for their service.

“People wanted to have their picture taken with Dad,” said Shirley. “That was a wonderful honor for them and for Dad.”

One of the inscriptions on the World War II memorial wall that had a great meaning to Brown was: “THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTH-ERS-IN-ARMS. THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE. TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION.” Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

The Freedom Wall of the WWII memorial is a central wall of honor which has gold stars. There are 4,048 gold stars; each one represents 100 American military deaths. That means that more than 400,000 soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and military per-sonnel lost their lives or remain missing in action in

World War II. Of 16 million men and women in mili-tary service during the time, that number represents one death out of every 40.

According to the website, when an American went off to fight, the family often displayed in their window a flag bearing a blue star on a white field with a red border. If one of those dreaded telegrams arrived informing them of their family member’s death, they would replace the blue star with a gold one; revealing that family’s sacrifice.

“Here We Mark The Price Of Freedom” is inscribed below the gold stars on the Freedom Wall.

Brown and his daughter were also impressed with the miles of markers at Arlington Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

“The entire experience is one that I will never forget,” said Shirley. “I would like to go again. There are Veterans who can not go because they have no one to help them. Every Veteran has to have an escort. I would really like to go with a Veteran who has no one to help them. To be able to make that hap-pen for one of our Veterans would be wonderful.”

The Browns cousin, Joy Gregor-Kinney works in Washington, DC and was able to join them for part of the trip. She took many pictures and had a blanket made with those photos and sent it to Norman and Shirley as a memento.

Brown was able to leave the Veterans Home after recuperating from his injury sustained while ice fish-ing, alone at age 88. He now lives with his daughter and son-in-law, Kenny Johnson. He is very thankful for his experience on the Honor Flight.

“I’m no body special,” said Brown. “I was no better than anyone else in that war. I volunteered but so did a lot of other people.”

Brown earned the Asiatic Pacific Service Medal, Victory Medal and the Army of Occupation-Japan Medal. He was honorably discharged on November 30, 1946.

After the service he went into ranching. Brown married Veronica, “Fronie” on December 12, 1947. They had two children, Jack Brown and Shirley Brown Johnson. Fronie passed away on March 26, 2011.

In 1953 Brown started working for Red Lilyquist and T. B. Randolph. After their deaths, Brown pur-chased the ranch.

In 2006 Brown was awarded the “Agriculturist of the Year” for Ransom County.

Norman Brown...Continued

Norman Brown and Joy Gregor-Kinney are pictured at the Korean War Memorial in Washington, DC.

amounted to censorship and the loss of freedom of speech for students. That changed for North Dakota students when Governor Jack Dalrym-ple signed into law HB 1471, known as the John Wall New Voices Act.

Josh’s classmates and teacher invited his parents, Gerry and Deb Berg to be a part of the celebration.

Lisbon Opera House is out of debt“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if some grandmother was the one to give

us the final check to pay it off so we could honor her.”Bill Henderson, whose wife, Judy was the first Lisbon Opera House

Foundation secretary/treasurer said the word “Grandmother” struck a cord with him.

“I thought, I know of a grandmother who would do that if she were here,” said Henderson. “She loved the Opera House. She was a very benevolent person. She would have said, ‘Let’s do this’.”

Henderson presented a check to the Lisbon Opera House to pay off the loan in full.

Blackwood Quartet with Danny Elvis gives top notch performance

Photo by Jeanne Sexton-BrownElvis Tribute Artist, Danny Elvis strikes a signature pose dur-ing the Blackwood Quartet with Danny Elvis Concert on Friday, May 8 at the Lisbon Opera House. Pictured: (l to r) Danny Elvis, Michael Helm, at the keyboard, Steve Warren, Mark Blackwood, Casey Shepherd and David Mann. The show was sold out two full weeks before the show.

Governing board for ND Veterans Home finds no wrongdoingThe North Dakota Veterans Home Governing Board called a spe-

cial meeting on Tuesday, May 19. The meeting was to review and dis-cuss with the staff the records of three residents, one of whom was discharged from the facility recently.

They opened the meeting at 10 a.m. and immediately approved a motion to go into executive session according to North Dakota Cen-tury Code section 44-04-19.2. The topic of the executive session was to discuss closed or confidential records on three residents who were not identified because of privacy laws. At 12:00 noon, after two hours of reviewing, asking questions, and discussion, the board took a ten minute break and then reconvened their special meeting at 12:12 p.m.

Chairman Gary Skarphol gave a recap of the closed session.“We reviewed policies and procedures for three individual resi-

dents. One was a discharge,” said Skarphol. “We found that policies and procedures were followed in each

case,” added Dean Overby.

May ObituariesWarren Seykora, 65, Ulen, MN, and Fargo, died Tuesday, April

28. Ray Bartholomay, 83, rural Sheldon, died Tuesday, April 28. Byrne Beverly Ptacek Maack, 91, Lisbon, died Sunday, April 5. Wanda L. Greenley, 61, Moorhead, died Tuesday, April 21. John S. Tommeraus, 73, Enderlin, died Monday, April 27. Cecil Messer, 89, Lisbon, died Thursday, April 30. Mary Louise Brock, 84, Fort Ransom, died Wednesday, May 13. Betty Ann Anderson Johnson Hewitt, 86, Moorhead, died Thursday, May 14.

June 2015Dougherty goes to Greece to fulfill a dream

Patrick Dougherty, 26, graduated from Lisbon High School in 2007 and went on to college at North Dakota State University, Fargo, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in social science edu-cation in the spring of 2011. He settled on a teaching job at Enderlin Area Schools. He loved teaching in Enderlin and it was a perfect fit for him, but he wanted more.

“Living abroad has always been my dream,” said Dougherty, son of Vicki and Bruce Dougherty, formerly of Lisbon. “I had looked into studying abroad in college but financially it just didn’t work out.”

McLeod breaks 30 year recordMcLeod takes the prize for the wettest May in 30 years of record

keeping for Ron Sveum, McLeod.“We’ve had 8.73 inches of rain in McLeod from May 1 through

May 31,” said Sveum. “On Friday, last week we received 3.6 inches of rain in one day. Our cropland is 30 to 40 percent underwater out here.”

Sveum has been keeping track of precipitation amounts for the past 30 years and has never seen a wetter May. There was only 2.35 inches of precipitation for the month of May in 2014. The average for the past 30 years is 3.10 inches.

Warm welcome to visiting alumniThe 2015 All Class Reunion Committee headed by co-chairs Elise

Meyer and Connie Radcliffe and about 25 volunteers have worked hard for a year to provide a worthwhile and fun experience for alumni and their families who are returning and those alumni who chose to live and work in Lisbon.

Over 550 have registered for the All Class Reunion Banquet on Saturday night, June 20, at the Expo Center.

Owego landowners discuss township road issuesApproximately 25 people gathered at the Owego Township Hall

on Thursday, June 11 for an informational public meeting about some road issues which the township officers have been dealing with. Among those present were state and local representatives. Virgil Schultz, an Owego resident and former township supervisor, spoke to those pres-ent, pointing out on a map, several road issues with which the township has been dealing.

“We need help!” stated Schultz, who went on to explain that the township officers have spoken to the Ransom County Board of Com-missioners, the Ransom County State’s Attorney, and the Ransom County Sheriff’s Department for help, but indicated that all mentioned above have failed to provide it. He went on to state that he believes the only way to get the help they need is to get the problems out in the open by making the public aware of what is going on.

City receives emergency funds to repair lift stationTracy Eslinger, engineer, Moore Engineering, West Fargo,

announced at a special meeting of the Lisbon City Council on June 22 that Lisbon was awarded a grant of $150,000 of Emergency Gover-nor’s funds through Lake Agassiz Regional Council. The funds are ear-marked to either replace or rehabilitate the Main Lift Station in Lisbon.

June ObituariesMarian Elizabeth Sibley, 98, Fargo, died Saturday, May 30. Ervin

C. Perkis, 61, Lisbon, died Tuesday, May 26. Dorothy A. Petterson, 89, Forman, formerly of Gwinner, died Tuesday, June 2. Raymond L. Ciesynski, 78, Gwinner, died Wednesday, June 3. Geraldine M. McMahon, 91, Lisbon, died Monday, June 8. Verona L. Johnson, 91, St. Peter, MN, died Wednesday, June 10. Nellie Fischer, 96, formerly of Fergus Falls, died Saturday, June 20. Telvin Slattum, 87, Edmonds, WA formerly Kathryn, died Sunday, May 24.

Year in Review...Continued“I think that is going to be brutal,” said Goettle.All in all he is quite pleased with the community that came together to

help him reach his goal and to “Make Someone’s Christmas.”The largest single donation came from the Lisbon Student Council

who donated the $356 they raised at bingo during the Goat Game with Enderlin.

“That was pretty special,” said Goettle. “That money usually goes to fund the activities of the Student Council. When they donated all of the proceeds from bingo at the Goat Game, that meant a lot.”

Goettle set out to prove that one person can make a difference.“I set out to do this with very little preparation, just two weeks ago,”

said Goettle. “Look what we have accomplished in that short amount of time.”

‘It only takes one!’

Local Teen...Continued

Tayler Goettle, senior at Lisbon Public School has proven, ‘It only takes one’ to ‘Make Someone’s Christmas.’