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Little Safer smiles after splashing water at his brother, Thaer.

Photos by Josiah C. Cuellar / The Dickinson PressWith the weather cooperating this year, the Splash Bash at the West River Community Center, allowed the community to enjoy some outside fun.

Courtesy of the CountryHouse Facebook pageRichard and Joan Hintz on the day of the vow renewals at the CountryHouse Residence.

Married couple renews vows after 62 years

By Matthew CurryThe Dickinson Press

Richard and Joan Hintz were young when they married in 1958; Joan was 18, and Richard was close behind. This year marks more than 62 years of a love that only grows stronger each day. On June 12, with the help of the CountryHouse Res-idence for memory care facility, the couple were able to make their bond even stronger by renew-ing their wedding vows.

In the backyard of the CountryHouse Residence, despite not being able to have their children pres-ent, the wedding set-ting could not have been more authentic for the Hintz couple. a beautiful, bright blue sky with small smudgy clouds that looked to have been painted into

the sky. On a table to the side were two bottles of champagne, a strawber-ry shortcake and plates and napkins emphasiz-ing “love” with a banner hanging from the table saying “MR. and MRs.”

Residence members were able to be pres-ent, and both Richard and Joan dressed for the occasion. Richard dressed in all black and a shiny black top hat, while Joan walked down the aisle in an authentic wedding gown and white flowers. Joan was also given away to Richard by Chris Kenny, the enrichment assistant and close friend of the Hintz family. abi Rohrer, the life enrichment coor-dinator and ordained min-ister, was the one to do the honors by allowing the

By Kayla HensonThe Dickinson Press

Despite the partly cloudy 72-degree weather and concern

about the COVID-19 pandemic, residents of Dickinson emerged from their homes for the 4th annual splash Bash at West River Community Center’s outdoor pool, albeit in smaller numbers than previous years.

The four-hour event was sponsored by the american Bank Center, which covers admission costs.

“They actually cover all costs as far as any admission that normally people would have to pay for to get access to the outdoor pool,” said Caleb Burgard, facility supervisor with Dickinson

Parks and Recreation. “We do still encourage our members to attend and scan in; however, it is free to nonmembers, which it normally wouldn’t be. They bring in a DJ ... They provide free food, so we

have hotdogs, chips and drinks.”

There were also giveaways, which included a waterproof cellphone case and lip balm.

Keegan Knight, worked out some muscles participating in the hula hoop contest.

Dickinson residents attend 4th Annual

SPLASH BASH

Jennifer Brown and JR Gresser touch the water with their toes sitting poolside after the limbo contest.

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Roosevelt library to go forward after NYC statue removal

By Jeremy TurleyForum News Service

BIsMaRCK — The group behind the pro-posed Theodore Roos-evelt Presidential Library in western north Dakota says it will move forward with the project and aim to reflect the namesake’s complex legacy after new york City announced a controversial statue of Roosevelt will come down.

The american Museum of natural History asked new york City on sun-day, June 21, to remove the statue from its front steps following years of protests by activists who say it exemplifies white supremacist imagery, according to The new

york Times. The stat-ue features Roosevelt mounted on a horse, high above a native american man and an african man who walk next to him.

new york City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday he supports the remov-al of the “problematic” statue, which has stood facing Central Park since 1940. President Donald Trump said in a tweet the statue should not be removed.

The museum, de Bla-sio and some of Roo-sevelt’s descendants, including great-grand-son Theodore Roosevelt IV, have promoted the idea that the statue does not reflect the legacy left

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