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Fifteen years and counting...Abuse Resource Network hosting Silent Auction and Chocolate FantasyBy Jeanne Sexton-Brown

Friday, February 12, Abuse Resource Network, (ARN) will host their 15th Annual Silent Auction and Chocolate Fantasy fundraiser. This event has grown over the years, prompting a move from the ARN offices in the basement of the Library to the community room of the Ransom County Court-house.

ARN is a 501c3 non-profit organization that relies on grants from federal, state, local and foun-dations. The Silent Auction and Chocolate Fantasy event is their main fundraiser. Items can be donated by contacting ARN or by dropping them off at their office during regular business hours.

Silent auction items vary from baskets to gift certificates. They also have baked goods and any sweet chocolaty treat imaginable.

This fundraiser gives ARN the flexibility to help victims in ways that many of the grants don’t allow.

“The funds from this event give us room for direct services to victims who we can’t use other grant money for,” said Liz Anderson, director ARN. “Items such as food, extra nights of safe shelter, diapers, personal hygiene items and bus tickets. Without this event money, we could not get victims out of unhealthy living situations.”

Anderson has worked with the Silent Auction and Chocolate Fantasy fundraiser for 10 years, first as services coordinator and most recently as direc-tor of ARN.

“I look forward to this event each year,” said Anderson. “Members of the community have got-ten involved in the friendly bidding wars, stopping in again and again to up their bids, making it a fun event for everyone involved.”

ARN started more than 30 years ago, without a name, as just a group of volunteers who trained as advocates with Rape and Abuse Crisis Center in Fargo. The year was 1982.

“I never felt more alone and helpless than when I was in an abusive relationship as a young per-son,” said Kris Carlson, the first director of Wom-en’s Advocacy Network. “Having escaped that, it seemed natural to reach out to others when I moved to Lisbon. The Rape and Abuse Crisis Center was offering advocate training and I knew I wanted to attend. I placed an ad in the Gazette to see if anyone else would be interested.”

It was Carlson, along with Bernice Ptacek, Gail Bergemann, Val Becker and a few other people, who started informal advocacy. They felt that a local program would better serve the area.

In 1988, Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) was founded. Later the name was changed to Abuse Resource Network (ARN), for inclusion.

“As the director for the first six and a half years, what stands out are the wonderful, brave, com-mitted people,” said Carlson in a recent interview. “Many are still friends. I also owe a huge debt to my husband, Wally. His support for the program was shown in acts like childcare, opening our home for safe shelter, and most of all, helping me emo-tionally through some roller coaster times!”

ARN has grown over the years from a small core group that worked under the guidance of Rape and Abuse Crisis Center to a formal board operated 501c3 program housed in the basement of the Lis-bon Public Library.

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On February 6...Fair Board to sponsor Laurie Bischof support event at Lisbon Expo Center

A Laurie Bischof Support Event is being planned for Sat-urday, Feb. 6 from 5 p.m. - Midnight at the Expo Center in Lisbon.

The supper will be served between 5-7 p.m. with a Silent Auction during supper. A Live Auction will follow at 7:30 p.m.

Game Boards, Karaoke and Blow Up games will be part of the fun evening.

Bischof is battling cancer and is ahead in the battle. Let’s see how many people it takes to fill the Expo Center to show the Bischof family support from this community.

Silent Auction and Live Auction items can be donated at the Ransom County Exten-sion office in the basement of the courthouse in Lisbon or the FSA office at 700 Main Street. The contact person is Janice Bishop, volunteer and friend at

Rod and Laurie Bischof, a cancer-fighting team.

Special presentation for Valentine’s weekend...Lisbon Opera House and Hodenattes on Main present ‘Love Letters’By Jeanne Sexton-Brown

The Lisbon Opera House and Hodenattes on Main are hosting a special presentation for Valen-tine’s weekend. “Love Letters” by A. R. Gurney, is a Pulitzer prize award nominated in drama from 1988. This production features Jane Overmoe, Lisbon High School English teacher and Greg Heitkamp, also a teacher with Lisbon High School, who will perform on the Lisbon Opera House stage on Saturday, Feb-ruary 13 and Sunday, February 14.

“This is something different and fun to do for Valentine’s Day,” said Overmoe. “I have wanted to do this for a long time.”

With Overmoe in the part of Melissa and Heit-kamp in the role of Andy, this production will take you though a 50 year relationship via their love let-ters. The plot is simple, but very moving.

Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, played by Heit-kamp, and Melissa Gardner, played by Overmoe, both born to wealth and position, are childhood friends whose lifelong correspondence begins with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards. Their letters continue through the board-ing school and college years. Andy goes on to excel at Yale and law school, while Melissa flunks out of a series of “good schools.” While Andy is off at war Melissa marries, but her attachment to Andy remains strong and she continues to keep in touch as he mar-ries, becomes a successful attorney, gets involved in politics and, eventually, is elected to the U.S. Senate.

The Love Letters continue over the years. The bond between the two shows how much they really meant, and gave to, each other over the years, physi-cally apart, perhaps, but spiritually as close as only true lovers can be.

Vocalist Elizabeth Overmoe will be providing pre-show musical entertainment. Elizabeth is a grad-uate of the University of South Dakota with a Juris Doctorate. She is the daughter of Jane and practices law in Sioux Falls, SD.

Elizabeth Overmoe has a beautiful voice and has selected numbers that are very fitting for the produc-tion of “Love Letters.”

Hodenattes on Main will provide wine and cheese for the Saturday, February 13 performance which starts at 7:30 p.m. One glass of wine will be comple-mentary with the ticket price. “Additional wine will be available for purchase during intermission.

Sunday, February 14 will be a matinée starting at 2 p.m. Dessert, along with coffee, hot chocolate or hot apple cider will be served during this perfor-mance.

Advanced tickets will be on sale at Hodenattes on Main.

The Lisbon Opera House and Hodenattes on Main invite you to celebrate with your Sweetheart in the comforting atmosphere of the historic Lisbon Opera House with good wine and cheese from Hode-nattes on Main, or delicious desserts made by board members and volunteers. What could be better?

Former Lisbonite, Paula (Ranes) Thompson, publishes novelBy Janet Hansen

Paula (Ranes) Thompson, who was born and raised in Lisbon and who graduated with the Lisbon High School Class of 1974, has recently self-published a novel entitled “When I Get Home.” The book is loosely based on her memories of growing up in Lisbon.

Paula, the daughter of long-time Lisbon residents Betty Ranes, now of Fargo, and the late Bob Ranes, currently spends her summers in Columbus, Ohio and her winters in Fort Meyers, Florida. She is looking forward to coming back to her hometown of Lisbon for a visit next summer. She comments that she would love to participate in a book signing event during that visit, if that can be arranged.

Paula explains that she has always been interested in writing. She remembers that, even as a young child, she was always writing poems and stories. She recalls that, as a high school student, one of her Eng-lish teachers, Marie Bott, encouraged her to write, something that she believes has continued to influence her throughout her life.

There was a time, in the early 1980s, when Paula, who comes from a musical family, became involved in writing country music. Six of her songs were published and, as a result, she made many trips to Nashville, TN, better known as “Music City.” She still has a good friend in the music business with whom she keeps in touch. She has learned through that friend, as well as through the media, that the music industry has changed dramatically since the days she was involved in it. For that reason among others, Paula states, she has no desire to go back to song-writing.

“After attending UND for a time and pursuing some other inter-ests after high school, I ended up in Columbus, Ohio in 1978,” Paula recalls. “That is where one of my two children was born and where I eventually got involved in the insurance and employee benefit busi-ness.” Paula is currently the regional vice-president of account man-agement for a large health insurance company.

Even though she has been kept busy with family and career obli-gations, the urge to pursue some type of creative writing outlet has never left her. She looks forward to her retirement, at which point she hopes to devote more of her time to writing.

Paula was moved to write her first novel, which began as a gift for her family, after watching a television talk show while relaxing at home during a holiday break from work in December of 1995. Some-one on the show was talking about wishing she could go back to her teenage days, with the knowledge she has now, as an adult. That idea seemed to turn on a light bulb in Paula’s brain and the creative juices started to flow.

Paula began thinking about Lisbon, the town in which she was

born and raised. Memories, especially of her teenage years, began flooding back. “As I thought about Lisbon,” she said, “I realized that, growing up in that small, caring community, I had the best of all worlds. It was a place where people really looked out for each other. It’s an amazing, wonderful community. She began to recall spending time at the Ranes farm southeast of Lisbon, where Donald and Elaine Anderson have lived for many years. She remembered the Christmas programs at school and at church, where she and her two sisters, Sara and Carol, had often shared their musical talents. She remembered watching Santa ride down Main Street on a sleigh as he arrived in town on Santa Claus Day. She remembered the home in which she

Paula Ranes Thompson has recently published her first novel and is working on a sequel.

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Lisbon High School Music Department to present annual dinner/dessert concerts on February 5 and 7

By Janet HansenThe Lisbon High School Music Department will present its annual

dinner and dessert concerts on Friday, Feb. 5 and Sunday, Feb. 7, respectively, at the high school commons. The Friday evening dinner concert begins at 6 p.m. and the Sunday afternoon dessert concert begins at 2 p.m. Tickets for both were still available at press time and may be purchased at the high school office.

This year’s dinner and dessert concert programs, directed by Mr. John Monilaws, features an assortment of hits from the past, entitled “A Trip Through the Decades” or, as the students enthusiastically refer to it, “Classic Vinyl.”

According to LHS seniors Brock Aberle and Jessamine Schell and junior Rory Waliser, performers who were interviewed for this article, the process of choosing musical selections for the show was a joint effort between LHS Music Director Mr. Monilaws and the students. The songs included are from the decade of the ‘50s (Count Basie) through the ‘90s (Bette Midler) and the decades in between.

The students have been working on learning the music every day during their band and choir periods. Practices started immediately after the school’s Christmas break.

Around 25 to 30 students, including the members of the LHS Swing Choir and Jazz Band plus about five additional music students, are involved in the actual performance. However, the entire music department is involved in the production in one way or another. Many of the students have been busy making posters and designing stage decorations. Stetson Scott and McKenzie Froehlich have been working on putting together a power point presentation to accompany the performances. And, of course, the students also serve as waiters and waitresses when it comes to serving the dinner and desserts to their audience.

When asked which, of all the music to be performed, is her favor-ite, Jessamine Schell had a hard time deciding. “It’s all a lot of fun!” she said. “But I guess I’d have to say that the medley of six or seven hits from the late ‘60s and early ‘70s is probably my favorite.”

Brock Aberle commented that Daniel Sagvold’s solo, “Soul Man,” a 1967 song written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter and first recorded by soul duo Sam & Dave and, around a decade later, by the Blues Brothers, was his favorite.

For Rory Waliser, the men’s ensemble’s rendition of the Beach Boys’ “In My Room” rates as his favorite number in the show. The

song, written by Brian Wilson and Gary Usher, was first released on the Beach Boys’ 1963 album “Surfer Girl.” It contains some nice harmony, which the group, of which Waliser is a part, has enjoyed perfecting.

Schell explained that evening practices started on Monday, Jan. 25, with two more evening practices for that week and three eve-ning practices during the first week in February scheduled before the actual performances. Working practices around all the other school activities in which the multi-talented students are involved is always a challenge.

“Our practices have, so far, been pretty much the ‘get down to business,’ variety, “ explained Waliser. But, all three of the students being interviewed agreed that they were looking forward to dress rehearsal, which always proves to be a lot of fun.

When asked how the participants come up with their costumes for the show, the students explained that each person is responsible for finding their own costume. Most of the students started by using the search engine “Google” to check out pop groups from the vari-ous decades and how they dressed or simply by researching fashions of the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, or ‘90s on the internet. Some followed up by searching through thrift stores while others chose to order online. As usual, Brenda Elijah, Lisbon, who has a collection of vintage cloth-ing, has been helpful in loaning items of clothing to some of the stu-dents.

“I think my mom spent a week and a half searching on eBay to find the perfect stuff for me,” commented Waliser. She must have been successful, since he talked about ending up with a pair of vin-tage ‘60s-era pants which had never been worn. They still had the original price tag attached.

“That’s the best part,” added Schell. “It’s so much fun to hunt for just the right outfit!”

After talking about going back through the decades long past to find music appropriate for their show, the students were asked their opinion on which type of music they like better, the old music they’ve been working on for the show (most of which was recorded before the students were born) or the popular music of today.

Their comments were quite surprising. “I think it took more musicianship to perform the earlier music

The LHS Swing Choir practices a number for the Music Department’s upcoming dinner/dessert concerts. Pictured: (l to r) Elizabeth Bartholomay, Rory Waliser, Carly Cavett, Stetson Scott, Lindsay Dow, Taylon Sad, Livia Dick, Kyle Odegard, Payton Lund, Daniel Sagvold, Myah Jund, Brock Aberle, and Jessamine Schell.

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Ransom County Gazette • February 1, 2016 •

Life isGood by Jeanne Sexton-Brown

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A Look Back in Time50 Years Ago

February 2, 1966No diversion payments in ‘66

wheat programThe Department of Agriculture

has withdrawn the option for more than the minimum acreage for eligibility for price support loans and marketing certificates according to Ed Lukes, Chairman of the Ransom County ASC Committee. This means, according to Lukes, that there will be no diversion payments in connection with the 1966 wheat program. Eligibility for price-support loans and marketing certificates will be established by planting within the wheat acreage allotment, devoting an acreage equal to 15 percent of the allotment to conserving uses, and maintaining the conserving base acreage.

40 Years Ago

February 5, 1976Ask farmers to continue

grain holdA steering committee elected

to guide farm protest action in North Dakota has decided to ask farmers to continue holding grain. A formal holding action will begin Monday, February 9. According to the group, which calls itself the North Dakota Farmers Steering Committee, the holding action should continue for 10 marketing days, or through February 20.

25 Years AgoFebruary 4, 1991

N.D. Senate passes Sunday Opening bill

The North Dakota Senate last week approved a Sunda Opening bill with some modifications from the one passed by the House. Those modifications may cause a disagreement that could cause the bill to go into a conference

committee that would try to iron out differences. The Senate version tacked on a Sunday Opening time of noon and also made arrangements for a 9.5 million dollar rural development fund.


January 2006 brought record warmth to Ransom CountyThe month of January 2006

will go down in the record books as a warm one in Ransom County. “It’s the first January of record keeping that the official temperature did not go below zero in the Lisbon Area,” said Bruce Dougherty, local weather recorder. “The coldest morning recorded at KQLX which is an official National Weather Service observation station was the morning of Saturday, January 21 at three degrees above.”

FYI & MeetingsFOOD 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 Depart-ment at 404 Forest Street in Lisbon the first Thursday of each month from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Fasting is required, no appoint-ments 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 available the 3rd Monday of the month from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. No appointments are necessary. Please bring your insur-ance 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/ARN

Free 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 Lis-bon in the dining room. All are welcome 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.PRIVATE PESTICIDE APPLICATOR MEETING

Private pesticide applicators who wish to be certified or renew an expiring private applicator license can attend a training meeting put on by the Ransom County Extension Service. • Thursday, February 25, 2016Ransom County Courthouse Community Room, Lisbon. 8:30 a.m. Registration, 9 a.m. Training• Tuesday, March 8, 2016Fire Hall, Enderlin. 8:30 a.m. Registration, 9 a.m. Training• Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Ransom County Courthouse Community Room, Lisbon. 5:30 p.m. Registration, 6 p.m. Training. Re-certification only. Preregistration is preferred so please visit or call the Extension to get a registration form. For more information or other area meetings contact the Ransom County Extension Service at 683-6128. AMERICAN LEGION MEETING

American Legion meeting on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 7 p.m. at the Lisbon Eagles.

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

State government has just the job for youEven though five percent of the North

Dakota workforce is still claiming to be unem-ployed, there are plenty of jobs for the taking. Of course, the big downturn in the Bakken oil field has released a number of good workers who are filling a few of the 25,000 jobs seeking warm bodies.

But there is still room for you. According to the nd.gov/omb/public/state-jobs listing of positions, the state government is looking for 127 good men, women or others to fill vacan-cies.

Even if your first choice isn’t available, it would be a good idea to take any of the jobs, considering that the fast food places pay mini-mum wages and nothing like the health, vaca-tion and retirement benefits offered by the state.

We run into a little difficulty if you are an older job applicant. Of course, the first problem is that you are older. It may be illegal to dis-criminate on the basis of age but the color of your eyes may disqualify you. If your hair is thinning or missing, a hairpiece wouldn’t hurt.

You can apply for state jobs only online, meaning you must be computer literate. That screens out most old applicants. If you think that L.C. Smith typewriters are irreplaceable, forget the seven openings in the Information

Technology Department.You can apply by smart phone but most peo-

ple with smart phones already have good jobs. A smart phone is not really smart but the people who put it together are smart and they have put their smartness into this electronic thing. Smart phones are manufactured by unsmart people in China. Compared to some of their users, smart phones are.

While we’re on the subject of technology, there is an opening in the Industrial Commis-sion for a temporary Information Technology Assistant.

To qualify, you will be asked to compute the amount of excess flaring in the oil fields and calculate the annual loss of income for property owners and revenue for the state. If you come up with the right answer, your job will be more temporary than originally planned.

You also may be required to calculate in American dollars the ratio of a fine levied for pollution and the actual amount paid. Some oil companies would like to see the same computa-tion in Canadian dollars.

If online and smart phone are not in your areas of expertise, you can apply for state jobs personally at any Job Service office, if one is still open in your part of the state. Otherwise,

South Dakota has an office in Aberdeen.One-fourth (35) of the 127 openings are in

the Human Services Department. If you can’t hack the online system, you’re probably eli-gible for their opening for a Director of Aging Services.

The Parks & Recreation Department needs an interpreter at Lake Metigoshe State Park. It doesn’t say what languages you will interpret but a good understanding of Canadian would help, since the Park is close to the international border.

The Department of Transportation is look-ing for a temporary pilot. The plane is old so they don’t want to make a long-term commit-ment.

The Department of Corrections and Reha-bilitation has openings. If you want to be a pro-bation officer, you will be required to carry a gun. If you apply for this job, you must show that you have at least four toes left on each foot. This is the only department that provides funeral insurance and survivor benefits.

Well, I’ve offered you the best of the avail-able state positions. If none of them interest you, you should be warned that states are now requiring able-bodied food stamp abusers to work. So get with it.

Guess whose birthdayis coming up!

Guess whose birthday is coming up! Morris Saxerud. Yes. Ross Cole. Yes. Mary Kaczmarski. Yes.

All of them, along with the late Ronald Reagan, the late Babe Ruth, baseball great, Axl Rose, rock singer, and Tom Brokaw, media, and many many others celebrate their birthdays on Feb. 6.

Oh, wait, did I forget someone?Well, what a Quinky Dink, my

birthday happens to be on Feb. 6, just like all of the people above. Whoo Hoo!

I will be 64 years old on Feb. 6. How in the world did I get to this point so fast? It seems like just yesterday that I was in the trenches raising four boys and working at the Gazette. I must have blinked. Ah well, I take life as it comes, good along with the bad. It is an adven-ture!

This year for my birthday I am going to the Support Event for Lau-rie Bishof, co-founder of Riding For Dreams and past longtime fair board member. She has a heart of gold and a willingness to help others. She put her love of horses to work helping kids with disabilities.

She is battling cancer and she is ahead in this fight. The community will pull together and support Laurie through this challenging time in her

life. More importantly, the support of the community in her battle will help her fight harder. We want a winner!

Kick cancer’s butt, Laurie, we are all cheering for you. I hope to see everyone there!

And Laurie, I might just have to mention that it is my birthday, and Morrie’s birthday, and Ross’ birth-day and Mary’s birthday on Feb. 6.

I am working on staying away from sugar (public enemy #1) so as to get my blood sugar back to a nor-mal level. So, I won’t be having cake this year. I could have it if I wanted to, but this time I am choosing not to.

I just love people gathering together to celebrate people in the community who have made a differ-ence like Laurie Bischof.

Special thanks to the Ransom County Fair Association for sponsor-ing this night.

******************Just a reminder that there are

only 56 days of winter left. And the icing on the proverbial cake is that in just 48 days (March 13) Daylight Savings Time begins by springing forward. One more hour of sleep. Whoo Hoo! It is already staying lighter later. Unless March is just a bearcat, I am going to declare the winter of 2015-16 to be one of the balmiest we have had in years.

What’s in a decimal point, or a comma?

Do you realize how important punctuation is? Do you have any idea how much damage can be done if a simple comma is left out of a typed number?

I learned a huge lesson recently when I sent an entire department into panic. Here’s the scoop.

While reporting on a meeting for one of the other Kelly Ink, Inc papers, the statement was made that one of the department funds was down to “about $900” but not to worry, they could put in an additional $2,000 if needed by the end of the year.

When that department read the story in the paper, it was the first they had heard of a shortfall and were understandably concerned. They sent a representative to the business manager. After some looking at the books they realized that I had left out a number and a comma. It should have read:

“The fund is at about $6,900 but that should be enough, if not, an additional $2,000 can be trans-ferred from the general fund.”

As I once told the teller at my bank, “I am not a thief, I am just bad at math!”

I don’t know if that excuse would hold up in a court of law, but I really am bad at math. I live in fear that our grandkids will soon be able to beat me in math flash cards.

One of the best things about marriage for me is having Brownie to balance my check-book. Oh, I did it just fine for the 18 years of my single adulthood. There was that one time when I

added $54 instead of subtract-ing it from my checkbook and sent checks bouncing all over the southeastern part of the state. Hard lesson learned in overdraft payments alone!

When the automatic payment system came in at our local bank, Brownie informed his best man from our wedding, that it would be up to Jake to get me out of it should anything happen to him. The first time Brownie told me I would have to use a bank card I broke out in cold sweats, actually, I cried. I hate numbers and tech-nology.

I am getting better.However, my seven year old

granddaughter did beat me at Monopoly over the weekend. When we counted up the win-nings, she had $7,447 and all but six of the properties, with two houses on each and controlled two sides of the board. I had $1,600 with only the six proper-ties that she didn’t have. (I did double check these figures and they are correct.) I think she only let me have those six properties because she felt sorry for me.

This morning my grand-daughter told me that she enjoyed spending time with me because we make the best memories together.

Now I ask you, does this not put it all into perspective? I’m sorry I scared that unsuspect-ing department with the missed number and comma, but I am so glad that at the end of the day we know...Life is good!

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~Hot Lotto~Wednesday, Jan. 27

11-12-25-33-41 Hotball 18

Saturday, Jan. 232-10-21-30-36 Hotball 19

~ Wild Card 2 ~Wednesday, Jan. 27

5-8-12-32-33 Jack of Spades

Saturday, Jan. 237-10-12-22-26 Queen of Diamonds

Results ~ 2 by 2 ~Wednesday, Jan. 27

Red Balls: 3-20 White Balls: 7-11Tuesday, Jan. 26

Red Balls: 19-25 White Balls: 20-25Monday, Jan. 25

Red Balls: 11-20 White Balls: 2-25Sunday, Jan. 24

Red Balls: 5-22 White Balls: 19-25Saturday, Jan. 23

Red Balls: 3-13 White Balls: 7-21Friday, Jan. 22

Red Balls: 5-24 White Balls: 21-22Thursday, Jan. 21

Red Balls: 4-14 White Balls: 1-21

How fast the months roll by! Gen-erally, January drags on for what seems like forever. However, with the mild January we’ve had this year, it seemed to pass in the blink of an eye. As I write this column, February is just around the corner and will be here by the time some of you read this.

Most Februarys go by quickly, since it is the shortest month of the year. However, since 2016 is a leap year, the upcoming month has 29 days, instead of its usual 28.

That brings us to something that puts most of us in a quandary. Accord-ing to what I’ve been able to find, the formula for calculating whether a year is a leap year or not is as follows. If a year can be evenly divided by 4, such as 2016, it is a leap year . . . UNLESS (Why do there always have to be exceptions to every rule?) it can also be evenly divided by 100.

Now that you are thoroughly con-fused, do I dare go on to try to explain why we need leap years at all? I guess I’ll step out on a limb and attempt the impossible. According to what I’ve read (if I understand it right), a day on planet Earth does not really last 24 hours. Who knew? It actually takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds for the Earth to make a complete rotation. Do you suppose that explains why I can never get everything done that I’ve planned for a day? At least it gives me an excuse, right?

Anyway, the reason for adding an extra day approximately every four years is to help synchronize the cal-endar year with the solar year. I’m not even going to try to explain why leap year is skipped three times out of every 400 years, because reading the explana-tion is giving me a headache! Besides,

if it only happens three times in 400 years, I don’t think any of us should spend much time worrying about it. I think we should just let the people who are paid the big bucks to figure out things like that go ahead and do it.

An interesting event which occurs on the second day of February is Groundhog Day. According to folk-lore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on Groundhog Day, it is an indication that spring will come early. If it is sunny, the ground-hog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, meaning that winter will stay around for another six weeks. Now, anyone living in North Dakota knows that winter is apt to stick around for another six weeks regardless of whether a groundhog sees its shadow or not, but it’s an interesting concept.

The largest Groundhog Day cel-ebration is held in Punxsutawney, PA, where Punxsutawney Phil, the local weather forecasting groundhog, receives widespread attention.

The day has gained notoriety since the 1993 film “Groundhog Day” came out. In the movie, Phil Connors, an arrogant Pittsburgh TV weatherman played by Bill Murray, finds himself in a time loop, where the same day is repeated again and again.

As busy as this day is, with the staff rushing toward deadline, extra pages to fill, and writers rushing to create arti-cles to fill them, I’m really hoping that we don’t get stuck in such a time loop today! One day like this each week is great plenty!

Here’s hoping Punxsutawney Phil doesn’t see his shadow! And, readers, start planning now for how you intend to spend the extra day you’ll be given at the end of this month!

Just A Noteby Jan Hansen

Extra days and groundhogs always make us smile

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A Look Back in Time50 Years Ago

February 2, 1966No diversion payments in ‘66

wheat programThe Department of Agriculture

has withdrawn the option for more than the minimum acreage for eligibility for price support loans and marketing certificates according to Ed Lukes, Chairman of the Ransom County ASC Committee. This means, according to Lukes, that there will be no diversion payments in connection with the 1966 wheat program. Eligibility for price-support loans and marketing certificates will be established by planting within the wheat acreage allotment, devoting an acreage equal to 15 percent of the allotment to conserving uses, and maintaining the conserving base acreage.

40 Years Ago

February 5, 1976Ask farmers to continue

grain holdA steering committee elected

to guide farm protest action in North Dakota has decided to ask farmers to continue holding grain. A formal holding action will begin Monday, February 9. According to the group, which calls itself the North Dakota Farmers Steering Committee, the holding action should continue for 10 marketing days, or through February 20.


N.D. Senate passes Sunday Opening bill

The North Dakota Senate last week approved a Sunda Opening bill with some modifications from the one passed by the House. Those modifications may cause a disagreement that could cause the bill to go into a conference

committee that would try to iron out differences. The Senate version tacked on a Sunday Opening time of noon and also made arrangements for a 9.5 million dollar rural development fund.


January 2006 brought record warmth to Ransom CountyThe month of January 2006

will go down in the record books as a warm one in Ransom County. “It’s the first January of record keeping that the official temperature did not go below zero in the Lisbon Area,” said Bruce Dougherty, local weather recorder. “The coldest morning recorded at KQLX which is an official National Weather Service observation station was the morning of Saturday, January 21 at three degrees above.”

FYI & MeetingsFOOD 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 Depart-ment at 404 Forest Street in Lisbon the first Thursday of each month from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Fasting is required, no appoint-ments 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 available the 3rd Monday of the month from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. No appointments are necessary. Please bring your insur-ance 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/ARN

Free 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 Lis-bon in the dining room. All are welcome 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.PRIVATE PESTICIDE APPLICATOR MEETING

Private pesticide applicators who wish to be certified or renew an expiring private applicator license can attend a training meeting put on by the Ransom County Extension Service. • Thursday, February 25, 2016Ransom County Courthouse Community Room, Lisbon. 8:30 a.m. Registration, 9 a.m. Training• Tuesday, March 8, 2016Fire Hall, Enderlin. 8:30 a.m. Registration, 9 a.m. Training• Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Ransom County Courthouse Community Room, Lisbon. 5:30 p.m. Registration, 6 p.m. Training. Re-certification only. Preregistration is preferred so please visit or call the Extension to get a registration form. For more information or other area meetings contact the Ransom County Extension Service at 683-6128. AMERICAN LEGION MEETING

American Legion meeting on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 7 p.m. at the Lisbon Eagles.

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

State government has just the job for youEven though five percent of the North

Dakota workforce is still claiming to be unem-ployed, there are plenty of jobs for the taking. Of course, the big downturn in the Bakken oil field has released a number of good workers who are filling a few of the 25,000 jobs seeking warm bodies.

But there is still room for you. According to the nd.gov/omb/public/state-jobs listing of positions, the state government is looking for 127 good men, women or others to fill vacan-cies.

Even if your first choice isn’t available, it would be a good idea to take any of the jobs, considering that the fast food places pay mini-mum wages and nothing like the health, vaca-tion and retirement benefits offered by the state.

We run into a little difficulty if you are an older job applicant. Of course, the first problem is that you are older. It may be illegal to dis-criminate on the basis of age but the color of your eyes may disqualify you. If your hair is thinning or missing, a hairpiece wouldn’t hurt.

You can apply for state jobs only online, meaning you must be computer literate. That screens out most old applicants. If you think that L.C. Smith typewriters are irreplaceable, forget the seven openings in the Information

Technology Department.You can apply by smart phone but most peo-

ple with smart phones already have good jobs. A smart phone is not really smart but the people who put it together are smart and they have put their smartness into this electronic thing. Smart phones are manufactured by unsmart people in China. Compared to some of their users, smart phones are.

While we’re on the subject of technology, there is an opening in the Industrial Commis-sion for a temporary Information Technology Assistant.

To qualify, you will be asked to compute the amount of excess flaring in the oil fields and calculate the annual loss of income for property owners and revenue for the state. If you come up with the right answer, your job will be more temporary than originally planned.

You also may be required to calculate in American dollars the ratio of a fine levied for pollution and the actual amount paid. Some oil companies would like to see the same computa-tion in Canadian dollars.

If online and smart phone are not in your areas of expertise, you can apply for state jobs personally at any Job Service office, if one is still open in your part of the state. Otherwise,

South Dakota has an office in Aberdeen.One-fourth (35) of the 127 openings are in

the Human Services Department. If you can’t hack the online system, you’re probably eli-gible for their opening for a Director of Aging Services.

The Parks & Recreation Department needs an interpreter at Lake Metigoshe State Park. It doesn’t say what languages you will interpret but a good understanding of Canadian would help, since the Park is close to the international border.

The Department of Transportation is look-ing for a temporary pilot. The plane is old so they don’t want to make a long-term commit-ment.

The Department of Corrections and Reha-bilitation has openings. If you want to be a pro-bation officer, you will be required to carry a gun. If you apply for this job, you must show that you have at least four toes left on each foot. This is the only department that provides funeral insurance and survivor benefits.

Well, I’ve offered you the best of the avail-able state positions. If none of them interest you, you should be warned that states are now requiring able-bodied food stamp abusers to work. So get with it.

Guess whose birthdayis coming up!

Guess whose birthday is coming up! Morris Saxerud. Yes. Ross Cole. Yes. Mary Kaczmarski. Yes.

All of them, along with the late Ronald Reagan, the late Babe Ruth, baseball great, Axl Rose, rock singer, and Tom Brokaw, media, and many many others celebrate their birthdays on Feb. 6.

Oh, wait, did I forget someone?Well, what a Quinky Dink, my

birthday happens to be on Feb. 6, just like all of the people above. Whoo Hoo!

I will be 64 years old on Feb. 6. How in the world did I get to this point so fast? It seems like just yesterday that I was in the trenches raising four boys and working at the Gazette. I must have blinked. Ah well, I take life as it comes, good along with the bad. It is an adven-ture!

This year for my birthday I am going to the Support Event for Lau-rie Bishof, co-founder of Riding For Dreams and past longtime fair board member. She has a heart of gold and a willingness to help others. She put her love of horses to work helping kids with disabilities.

She is battling cancer and she is ahead in this fight. The community will pull together and support Laurie through this challenging time in her

life. More importantly, the support of the community in her battle will help her fight harder. We want a winner!

Kick cancer’s butt, Laurie, we are all cheering for you. I hope to see everyone there!

And Laurie, I might just have to mention that it is my birthday, and Morrie’s birthday, and Ross’ birth-day and Mary’s birthday on Feb. 6.

I am working on staying away from sugar (public enemy #1) so as to get my blood sugar back to a nor-mal level. So, I won’t be having cake this year. I could have it if I wanted to, but this time I am choosing not to.

I just love people gathering together to celebrate people in the community who have made a differ-ence like Laurie Bischof.

Special thanks to the Ransom County Fair Association for sponsor-ing this night.

******************Just a reminder that there are

only 56 days of winter left. And the icing on the proverbial cake is that in just 48 days (March 13) Daylight Savings Time begins by springing forward. One more hour of sleep. Whoo Hoo! It is already staying lighter later. Unless March is just a bearcat, I am going to declare the winter of 2015-16 to be one of the balmiest we have had in years.

What’s in a decimal point, or a comma?

Do you realize how important punctuation is? Do you have any idea how much damage can be done if a simple comma is left out of a typed number?

I learned a huge lesson recently when I sent an entire department into panic. Here’s the scoop.

While reporting on a meeting for one of the other Kelly Ink, Inc papers, the statement was made that one of the department funds was down to “about $900” but not to worry, they could put in an additional $2,000 if needed by the end of the year.

When that department read the story in the paper, it was the first they had heard of a shortfall and were understandably concerned. They sent a representative to the business manager. After some looking at the books they realized that I had left out a number and a comma. It should have read:

“The fund is at about $6,900 but that should be enough, if not, an additional $2,000 can be trans-ferred from the general fund.”

As I once told the teller at my bank, “I am not a thief, I am just bad at math!”

I don’t know if that excuse would hold up in a court of law, but I really am bad at math. I live in fear that our grandkids will soon be able to beat me in math flash cards.

One of the best things about marriage for me is having Brownie to balance my check-book. Oh, I did it just fine for the 18 years of my single adulthood. There was that one time when I

added $54 instead of subtract-ing it from my checkbook and sent checks bouncing all over the southeastern part of the state. Hard lesson learned in overdraft payments alone!

When the automatic payment system came in at our local bank, Brownie informed his best man from our wedding, that it would be up to Jake to get me out of it should anything happen to him. The first time Brownie told me I would have to use a bank card I broke out in cold sweats, actually, I cried. I hate numbers and tech-nology.

I am getting better.However, my seven year old

granddaughter did beat me at Monopoly over the weekend. When we counted up the win-nings, she had $7,447 and all but six of the properties, with two houses on each and controlled two sides of the board. I had $1,600 with only the six proper-ties that she didn’t have. (I did double check these figures and they are correct.) I think she only let me have those six properties because she felt sorry for me.

This morning my grand-daughter told me that she enjoyed spending time with me because we make the best memories together.

Now I ask you, does this not put it all into perspective? I’m sorry I scared that unsuspect-ing department with the missed number and comma, but I am so glad that at the end of the day we know...Life is good!

ND Lottery Results~ Powerball ~

Wednesday, Jan. 27 Powerball

3-12-40-52-67 21 Saturday, Jan. 23

Powerball22-32-34-40-69 19

~Hot Lotto~Wednesday, Jan. 27

11-12-25-33-41 Hotball 18

Saturday, Jan. 232-10-21-30-36 Hotball 19

~ Wild Card 2 ~Wednesday, Jan. 27

5-8-12-32-33 Jack of Spades

Saturday, Jan. 237-10-12-22-26 Queen of Diamonds

Results ~ 2 by 2 ~Wednesday, Jan. 27

Red Balls: 3-20 White Balls: 7-11Tuesday, Jan. 26

Red Balls: 19-25 White Balls: 20-25Monday, Jan. 25

Red Balls: 11-20 White Balls: 2-25Sunday, Jan. 24

Red Balls: 5-22 White Balls: 19-25Saturday, Jan. 23

Red Balls: 3-13 White Balls: 7-21Friday, Jan. 22

Red Balls: 5-24 White Balls: 21-22Thursday, Jan. 21

Red Balls: 4-14 White Balls: 1-21

How fast the months roll by! Gen-erally, January drags on for what seems like forever. However, with the mild January we’ve had this year, it seemed to pass in the blink of an eye. As I write this column, February is just around the corner and will be here by the time some of you read this.

Most Februarys go by quickly, since it is the shortest month of the year. However, since 2016 is a leap year, the upcoming month has 29 days, instead of its usual 28.

That brings us to something that puts most of us in a quandary. Accord-ing to what I’ve been able to find, the formula for calculating whether a year is a leap year or not is as follows. If a year can be evenly divided by 4, such as 2016, it is a leap year . . . UNLESS (Why do there always have to be exceptions to every rule?) it can also be evenly divided by 100.

Now that you are thoroughly con-fused, do I dare go on to try to explain why we need leap years at all? I guess I’ll step out on a limb and attempt the impossible. According to what I’ve read (if I understand it right), a day on planet Earth does not really last 24 hours. Who knew? It actually takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds for the Earth to make a complete rotation. Do you suppose that explains why I can never get everything done that I’ve planned for a day? At least it gives me an excuse, right?

Anyway, the reason for adding an extra day approximately every four years is to help synchronize the cal-endar year with the solar year. I’m not even going to try to explain why leap year is skipped three times out of every 400 years, because reading the explana-tion is giving me a headache! Besides,

if it only happens three times in 400 years, I don’t think any of us should spend much time worrying about it. I think we should just let the people who are paid the big bucks to figure out things like that go ahead and do it.

An interesting event which occurs on the second day of February is Groundhog Day. According to folk-lore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on Groundhog Day, it is an indication that spring will come early. If it is sunny, the ground-hog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, meaning that winter will stay around for another six weeks. Now, anyone living in North Dakota knows that winter is apt to stick around for another six weeks regardless of whether a groundhog sees its shadow or not, but it’s an interesting concept.

The largest Groundhog Day cel-ebration is held in Punxsutawney, PA, where Punxsutawney Phil, the local weather forecasting groundhog, receives widespread attention.

The day has gained notoriety since the 1993 film “Groundhog Day” came out. In the movie, Phil Connors, an arrogant Pittsburgh TV weatherman played by Bill Murray, finds himself in a time loop, where the same day is repeated again and again.

As busy as this day is, with the staff rushing toward deadline, extra pages to fill, and writers rushing to create arti-cles to fill them, I’m really hoping that we don’t get stuck in such a time loop today! One day like this each week is great plenty!

Here’s hoping Punxsutawney Phil doesn’t see his shadow! And, readers, start planning now for how you intend to spend the extra day you’ll be given at the end of this month!

Just A Noteby Jan Hansen

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Samantha Penberthy joins Storhaug, CPA firm

Samantha (Ritten) Penberthy has joined the accounting firm of Nick Storhaug, CPA, Lisbon.

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Samantha Ritten grew up in Wyndmere and married Bryar Penberthy, Lisbon on January 16, 2016. The couple live in Lisbon.

Penberthy enjoys working on her mom’s farm when she has time. Samantha Penberthy

Five generations of Hitchcock family gather

Alex Lee MeyersAlex Lee Meyers was born January 20th 2016 at Ridgeview Medi-cal Center in Waconia MN to Scott and Lisa Meyers of Cokato MN. He weighed 9# 2oz and was 20 inches long. He was wel-comed home by big brother Cameron. Grandparents are Keith and Brenda Dick of Lisbon, Ray Meyers of Lisbon, Loretta Sen-ger of Bismarck and Jerome Senger of Strasburg.

Five generations of Evelyn Hitchcock’s family gather on Dec, 19, 2015 to celebrate the birth of Leah Schlecht. Pictured back row: (l to r) Alison Schlecht, Leah’s mother, West Fargo, Julie Olson Schlecht, Leah’s grandma, Lisbon, and Phyllis Hitchcock Olson, Leah’s great grandma, Fargo. Front row: (l to r) Adam Schlecht, Leah’s father, holding Leah, both West Fargo and Evelyn Hitch-cock, Leah’s great great grandma, Lisbon.

Dr. Nathan Wiederholt, protecting vision in the Black HillsBy Jeanne Sexton-Brown

Nathan Wiederholt, son of Gail and the late Vincent Wieder-holt, graduated from Lisbon High School in May, 2000. He went on to North Dakota State University where he received his degree in Zoology.

Zoology? “It is almost like a biology

degree except for a couple of classes and is one of the health-care track,” laughed Wieder-holt when questioned about the degree. “Because of my mother’s years of being a nurse, I knew I wanted to do something in medi-cine, but wasn’t sure exactly what until my third year at NDSU.”

Wiederholt received his degree from NDSU in 2004. He received his Doctorate of Optom-etry from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon in 2008.

“I was a teaching assistant for two lab classes in both the sec-ond and third year of optometry school,” said Wiederholt. “We do three externships during the fourth year.”

These externships took Wie-derholt to Cass Lake, MN at an Indian Health Hospital; to Coon Rapids, MN at Allina Hospital, and the last one, to Hot Springs Veterans Affairs Hospital in Hot Springs, SD.

“The last is one of the reasons I decided to move to the Black Hills,” said Wiederholt. “In July, 2008, I moved to Custer to be an associate of Dr. Wilkinson who owned the office. I purchased the same office in June of 2009 and have been here ever since.”

Wiederholt met his wife, Katie, who is originally from Sturgis, though mutual friends. They were married in October, 2013 and daughter Amelia was born July 2014. They are happy to call Custer home.

Katie brought her miniature schnauzer, Norman, into the rela-tionship when she met Nathan. Norman now believes that Nathan is his human.

What Wiederholt likes best about being an optometrist is being able to help people every day with glasses, eye infections or injuries.

“Everyone is different, every day is different,” said Wiederholt. “I get asked if I ever get tired of saying, ‘which is better, one or two’ but it isn’t like that. There is something different all the time.”

Wiederholt has also been involved in the South Dakota Chapter of the Volunteer Opto-metric Services to Humanity, (VOSH), making four mission trips to Mexico to provide eyec-are. He served as president for the South Dakota VOSH chapter for the 2014-15 year.

“All of the trips were very memorable,” said Wiederholt. “On each trip we see between 2000-2500 patients per week and hand out 4000-5000 pair of glasses. While I do not have any

specific cases that stick out, the things that do stick out the most are how thankful all of the people are and how welcoming our hosts were.”

On the trip that Wiederholt’s mom went on, he was the director of the American side of things. For him to have his mother along and be in charge of operations, made it more memorable than others.

“We usually have four to six doctors and up to 10 volunteers on each trip,” said Wiederholt. “There have been cases where we have gotten patients other things that they need, like cataract sur-gery, canes, wheelchairs, or eyeglass vouchers to go to local optometrists to get prescriptions filled because we may not have that in our supply.”

He is a member of the Ameri-can Optometric Association and South Dakota Optometric Society. Wiederholt is also an active member of both the Custer Rotary and Lions Clubs and has served as president for both orga-nizations. He is also on the board of both organizations.

Wiederholt enjoys golfing, hiking in the hills, hunting, fish-ing, and spending time with his

family. He is still interested in sports, playing both intermural softball and volleyball.

Wiederholt has fond memo-ries of Lisbon; the people, family and friends.

“And of course the great bas-ketball and football teams that we had in high school,” remembered Wiederholt.

His mom, Gail, still lives in Lisbon and sister Sara is a social worker who lives in Dilworth, MN with her significant other, Jason, and their two boys.

Where are they Now?

Nathan Wiederholt, class of 2000

Dr. Nathan Wiederholt, OD and his wife Katie with daughter Ame-lia who will be two in July.

By Terri Kelly BartaPheobe differs from most cats

as she won’t play with toys and cat nip does nothing for her.

The pet of Lynn and Charlene Kaspari is a Maine Coon whose coat is dark gray, almost black, with golden brown markings.

The 17-year-old feline was found in Rugby, ND when she was just a kitten. Charlene is from Rugby and she found four young kittens near her parents’ home on a visit to them. Her dad took a liking to Pheobe. Her mom did not.

Pheobe stayed in Rugby for four years until Charlene’s dad passed away. Her mother kept telling Charlene that she would have to take the kitten who was now age 4 back home with her. Charlene, who is a retired school teacher, told her that she would take the kitten home with her in May after school got out.

But Charlene’s mom had other ideas where the cat was concerned.

One day on a vist to her mom’s house, her mom told Charlene that she would need to take the cat with her. Charlene reiterated that she would come back and get the kitty in May.

As Charlene was getting ready to go home, she noticed a box, that was duct-taped shut and had holes in the top, sitting in her car. A ter-rible meowing sound was coming from the box.

Charlene gave up and took the kitten with her. That is how she got Pheobe whom the Kasparis have had for 13 years.

“She is always by my side,” said Charlene. “When she knows I don’t feel good, she lays on my chest.”

She was an inside only cat at Charlene’s parents’ home but when she came to Lisbon she learned to be an outside cat. She has her own chair outside which stays available for her all year around.

Pheobe likes to sit in her chair or lay on the cement and stretch.

Oh and as long as her humans are out here anyway, she likes them to rub her belly.

She is a lucky cat because-Lynn gives her treats when he gets up in the morning and then later when Charlene gets up, she gives Pheobe treats, too.

It takes Charlene a while to get moving in the morning and Pheobe is not always patient.

“She starts out with a soft meow and the sound rises until Pheobe gets what she needs,” said Charlene, imitating her cat.

Pheobe gets very nervous when a suitcase comes out because she knows her humans are going somewhere and they probably won’t take her with them.

At age 17, sitting is mostly what Pheobe does all day. At 8 p.m. she sits on the sofa and shoots looks at Charlene until Charlene comes and sits down and pets her.

At bedtime, Pheobe heads for the bedroom and lays with Char-lene until Lynn comes. Some eve-nings Pheobe bonds with Lynn over discussions on football.

Pheobe has her quirks, like watching Charlene fill her water bowl so that she gets fresh water every time.

The only game she will play is Paws. In this game, she puts her paws on Charlene or Lynn’s hands and they shake it around. They just say “Paws” to Pheobe and she joins in the game.

Pheobe eats prescription Sci-ence Diet. She only likes two peo-ple foods, cheese and yogurt.

She has already used up one of her nine lives. She somehow got her head caught between the boards of the deck when Tony Kelsen was working on their deck.

“I had a terrible time getting her head out,” said Charlene.

Another time Pheobe got acci-dentally locked in a closet for the night but that was more annoying than life threatening.

The Kasparis enjoy their pet’s personality.

Pet Corner: Meet Pheobe


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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 Sun-day of the month. Wednesday: Pas-tor’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, Confirmation, 4 pm.

Faith Assembly of God1010 Forest Street, Lisbon Pastor Edwin Williamson 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; Tuesday, Feb. 2, 7 p.m. Study of Islam @

Verona Bear Creek Lodge, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 7 pm Council meeting, Sunday, Feb. 7, 9 a.m. Worship service, 1:30 p.m. Confirmation @ Englevale.

Good Shepherd Lutheran ChurchEnglevale, Pastor Cheri Danielson, 432-5688 & Pastor Carl Glamm, 883-4515, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 7 p.m. Study of Islam @ Verona Bear Creek Lodge, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 7 p.m. WELCA, Sunday, Feb 7, 11 a.m. Worship service w/Annual meeting, 10 a.m. SS

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, Priest phone 683-4620. Holy Mass

Sundays at 11 a.m.Anselm Trinity Lutheran Church

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

Standing Rock & Preston Lutheran Churches

Fort Ransom, Marli Danielson, Sun-day, 9 a.m. Worship Service at Pres-ton; 10:30 a.m. Worship Service at Standing Rock.

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.; Thurs-day 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 Center, Forman)

Hope AFLC

Association Free Lutheran Congre-gation, 228 5th Ave., Enderlin Pas-tor Dennis Norby, Phone 437-3777, (815) 883-1673. www.hopeluther-anenderlin.org. Sunday School 10 a.m.; Adult Sunday School 10 a.m, Sunday Worship 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: [email protected]. Sunday 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.

Seventh-day Adventist ChurchFor more information regarding our

church, please contact us at 1-877-525-2113.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Wahpeton Branch 505 Richland Ave., Wahpeton Phone 642-2463; Lee J. Allen, President 701-241-9929. Meetings on Sunday: Sacra-ment 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, Feb. 3, 6 p.m. Confir-mation, 7 p.m. WOW w/HC, 8 p.m. Church Council, Sunday, Feb. 7, 9 a.m. New Member Sunday Worship w/HC, Sunday School sings, 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.

Luverne J. Holweg

Luverne J. Holweg, 80, of Grand Forks, ND died peace-fully on Thursday, January 21, 2016 in Lutheran Sunset Nurs-ing Home in Grafton, N D.

Luverne Jack Holweg was born on February 17, 1935 in Lisbon, the son of Carl and Amanda (Barnowsky) Holweg. He moved to Grand Forks and married Marcella “Marcy” French in 1970 and was employed as a custodian for 35 years at the University of North Dakota, before his retirement. After retirement, he enjoyed mowing lawns. Luverne was also an avid collector of John Wayne memorabilia and spent many hours watching western movies on television.

Luverne was a quiet man who was so kind to everyone

and who took such good care of his wife of 44 years, espe-cially after she became ill. His dog Foxy was very special to him and became his close com-panion after Marcy’s death. He was diagnosed with ALS shortly before his death and as a result could no longer speak. How-ever he will be remembered for his ‘thumbs up’ sign meaning everything was OK - especially with Foxy by his side.

He is survived by several brothers and sisters.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Marcy; brothers, Vern and James; sis-ters, Lucietta, Elsie and Marga-ret.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are requested to Lutheran Sun-set Nursing Home, 333 Eastern Ave., Grafton, ND 58237.

Mass of the Christian Burial was held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 26, 2016 in St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Grand Forks.

Visitation was held one hour prior to the liturgy in the church on Tuesday.

Burial will be at the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Oak-wood, ND, in the spring.

The online memorial registry may be signed at www.norman-funeral.com.

(The Historic Norman Funeral Home, Grand Forks, ND)

Happy Birthday to our resi-dent Jim Wiltse (January 26th)! Jim celebrated his 90th birthday on Tuesday with family, friends, Beverly Anne residents and staff. Everyone enjoyed delicious home-made cake with ice cream! Happy 90th Birthday, Jim!

On Tuesday, January 12th we had quite the afternoon of beanbag horseshoes! Our winner of game one was Bernice Carlson and our winner of game two was Betty Bierwagen! Great job, ladies! Everyone had such good games and fun lucky shots we thought luck was in our favor to win the $1.5 billion powerball! Oh well, maybe next time!

Beanbag horseshoe winners for Tuesday, January 19th were Betty Bierwagen winning game one and Betty Bierwagen winning game two! Awesome job, Betty!

Carol Piatz was in on Tuesday visiting her father Glenn Weisen-haus. Linda Mathern was also a visitor of her father, Glenn, this week.

Jerry Thompson stopped in on Wednesday to visit his parents Lorraine and Vernon Thompson. Dave & Phyllis Thompson were in on Friday to visit his parents.

Kim and Cheryl Jacobson were in on Thursday visiting his father Orlin Jacobson.

Marie Anderson and Lianne Bjugstad were in this weekend having coffee with Betty Bierwa-gen.

Thank you to Pastor Ed for providing worship services for us on January 15th and thank you to Pastor Norm for providing wor-ship service for us on January 22nd. Thank you to Irene for pro-viding us with worship music. We really appreciate all you do!

On Tuesday, January 19th, Trinity Lutheran’s Deborah Circle got together in the blue room. Ber-nice Carlson is a member of Debo-rah Circle.

Nancy Ann Johnson was in on Sunday to visit Maurene Bock, Delores Bell and Jim Wiltse.

Lianne Bjugstad was in on Sunday morning to have coffee with her mother, Betty Bierwagen, and visit with the Beverly Anne residents.

On Tuesday, Angela Bartelson and her son Asher, Benttendorf, IA, were here visiting her grand-mothers Bernice Carlson & Evelyn Hanson. They also enjoyed dinner together at the Beverly Anne.

Beverly Anne News

Monday, Feb. 1Exercise .............................10:45Bingo ...................................1:00Dinner: Spaghetti & meat sauce ...........................................12:00

Tuesday, Feb. 2Dinner: Pork chops w/mushroom gravy .................................12:00Hand and Foot .....................1:30

Wednesday, Feb. 3Dinner: Grilled chicken on whole wheat bun w/tomatoes & lettuce

...........................................12:00Thursday, Feb. 4

Dinner: Breaded lemon pepper tilapia w/tartar sauce .........12:00

Friday, Feb. 5Dinner: Turkey roast .........12:00

Saturday, Feb. 6Open mornings for activities

Sunday, Feb. 7No Cards

Monday, Feb. 8 Salisbury steak

~ Senior Schedule ~

Two weeks ago Don and Eileen Geske spent four days at the MNTA Division Music Competi-tion at the University of Kansas in Wichita.

Shera and Leroy Schneider of Kindred visited Bonnie Christensen on Wednesday afternoon, Jan-uary 13.

Noon lunch guests of Don and Eileen Geske were Paul and Tammy Mathews of Cogswell and Elijah Mathews of UND two weeks ago Tuesday.

Eileen Geske attended the SE Music Teach-ers meeting at Grizzly’s in Jamestown a couple of weeks ago.

Bonnie Christensen and Margie Mangin had

noon lunch in Lisbon on Wednesday.Eileen Geske had lunch with Katie Miller at the

Fireside in Ellendale Wednesday.Marvin and Margie Mangin attended the James

Valley Grain Christmas party in Oakes Saturday evening.

Saturday evening supper guests of Don and Eileen Geske were Delvin and Karen Pfaff of LaMoure and Robert and Sephra Puffe of James-town.

Warren and Betty Wiltse, Jim Wiltse, Arlene Gibson and Susan Gibson all of Lisbon were Sun-day noon guests of Don and Eileen Geske.

Verona News by Margie Mangin

There is Daleyn Baasch, son of Evelyn and Dale in a better world, turning 46 on Jan. 17th and mind going back to his National Guard days when he had bullets going over him on his 21st birthday. He was in Saudia Arabia and Iraq. He is still in the Guard and that makes maybe 25 years and a lot of places over the world. He took pictures when he was in the tormented countries and they can be seen if they ask him. He now owns D-Excavating so is busy with tearing buildings down, fixing sewer pipes and this rover had him come to her house when water never made it thru the pipes to septic tank. He came down with equipment this rover wouldn’t know the name of. The frozen ground gave way some feet below and sure enough there was the ice plugged pipe. He did a thaw job, buried the pipes lower and his machine worked like magic as he ran the controls to cover this place up. On his birthday which was Sun-day it was very cold so he told Grams to wait for a warmer day to go out and celebrate with a meal and red cake. It came and it was at the Eagles where they had tables decorated in white already for his fun as well as the rest that came. He brought his two daugh-ters Ava and Ellie Baasch who joined Dexter and Sophie Hoen-hause for a gymnastic show. The party was great and the service matched as Nicole Dahl did the waitress work. There came Rural Water Chairman, Stretch Gilbert who finds a leak and wastes no time calling D-Excavating who shows up in record time and does a fix job. The party went on and Grant Baasch and Chel-sea arrived after filling up at the great Buffalo supper at the Methodist Church. Then Heidi and Tucker came after attending the Confirmation Class at Trin-

ity. Dean Baasch filled us in on his friend Rick Lee of Ender-lin, works at Sunflower Plant, a friendly soul who was a beaver hunter when the Sheyenne was flooding to the top some years ago and there was Irene to wit-ness the murder. All in all, the party was great with even enter-tainment so it is Happy Birth-day Daleyn and probably will be pushing snow if it comes and he does not relish. Now we find Dean Baasch and Thor from the Fort Ransom Cafe fishing Sun-day at LaMoure water way and were catching perch so waitress Haecherl had some stacked up in her freezer. Gaylen didn’t go fishing. Happy Day!!

There is Sheldon Headquar-ters going until nine at night to get all her ladies in a fashion plate, this included the rover. She does a super job in record time and in speaking of gift giv-ing we find maybe when they do not send or call to say they got the gift that should be the end of it. Her daughter was told she did not have to do this because she thanked people at the event. She spent the night making a thank you to everyone. This rover believes in that. When she does not hear especially those far off--maybe a good time to call a halt on gift giving and just smile when you see them and wish them the best. When this rover came into the fashion plate there was a friendly person getting beautiful. This was Sandy Black, she works at the Veterans Home in Lisbon so has seen this rover many times in her usual state and it was a pleasant visit that came about.

Wow! this was supposed to be my worst month but it has turned out to be gorgeous. Sure, I hated to see the cattle humped up because a few days had a sting but most days were tolerable, if you dressed for it. This Sunday was cloudy but thawing some without the sun to help it. The Valley road was super great so to the Veterans Home this rover skimmed. By 2:00 there were already people there and church in not until 2:30. Music begins at 2:00 and keeps on until it is ser-mon time with a Pastor present. Pastor Norm was at a pizza party and not checking his time so became a few minutes off duty but there was Pastor McKirdy to take over until Norm arrived. Pastor McKirdy told of 16 in his family and he is very interesting when you hear of that many in

one household. In comes Pastor Norm and of course some of his talk was on the prodigal son and how God takes care of situations like this. Maryann led the songs and Ruth did some work with the song book and its pages. All in all it was a great afternoon and of course there was Don with his chocolate candy and it is thanks. Also Knapp finished up clearing things away and he does super.

Would you believe a calf came into this pasture early. What must that feel like to drop from a warm haven to a chilly hades? They found the calf and it was taken care of but hope the rest wait until warmer weather.

There was Chelsea Nielsen working at the Vet home Sunday and came to get Carol Bass who attends every church service she can. Chelsea is a freshman at Valley City College and a friend of Grant Baasch. She also is next to Hannah Wittenburg at the College as apartments go, and a friend. Stay in college girls and set the world on fire!!

May the Lord cast a get well light on the Charles Jorgensons so they will make the 100 per-cent body report and take care of the hundreds of vehicles they have on their farm which is a sight to see.

Oscar Hanson and friend of West Fargo, he of Davenport zipped into Webster Manor to visit the Alice and Orville Han-sons recently. This rover remem-bers some boys coming up in a bloody boat by the Hoenhause bridge. They got close enough to the edge to get out so this rover could see maybe a murder had been committed. Ya, they said, there is one guy short. Jokingly they had been beaver stalk-ing and managed to take one to Heaven. This rover was told by Dean Baasch one of them was Rick Lee and his friends, a jolly and friendly bunch. Seems Dean has had visits with the friendly souls and thinks their names should be mentioned. This rover has only one name as yet and hopes they will send her more stories on their adventure on flooded Sheyenne.

Shirley Weight of Beverly Anne instead of going down for cookie time after the church ser-vice stayed and visited this rover after Pastor Norm left. He did a great sermon as usual and the residents sang up a storm. Alice Hanson and Ruth Carlblom were also present and what a friendly bunch!

Valley News by Irene Hoenhause


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Lisbon ChiropracticClinic

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

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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

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

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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:

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Swingbed • SurgeryEmergency Room

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SECTION 00100ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

CNOB-3721(054), CNOC-3721(055) & CNOC-3700(003)

RANSOM COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA

Sealed bids will be received by Ran-som County at the Auditor’s Office at 204 5th Avenue West, Lisbon, ND 58054, until 1:00 PM CT, February 11th, 2016, at which time they will be publically opened and read aloud for the furnishing of mate-rials, labor, equipment and skill required for the construction of Milling, Recycled Asphalt Pavement and Incidental items in and for said Ransom County, as is more fully described and set forth in the plans and specifications therefore, which are now on file in the office of the Ransom County Auditor.

Bids shall be upon cash payment on the following estimated quantities and types of work:

Contract Bond, 1.0 L Sum; Railway Protection Insurance, 1.0 L Sum; Com-mon Excavation-Subcut, 1,722 CY; Water, 122 M GAL; Aggregate Base Course CL 5, 4,503 Ton; Milling Pavement Surface, 175,111 SY; RAP - Superpave FAA 43, 31,296 Ton; Cored Sample, 190 EA; PG 58-28 Asphalt Cement, 1,659 Ton; Mobi-lization, 1.0 L Sum; Flagging, 830 MHR; Traffic Control Signs, 4,624 Unit; Type III Barricade, 16 EA; Tubular Markers, 528 EA; Pilot Car, 415 HR; Bituminous Labora-tory, 1 EA; Contractor’s Laboratory, 1 EA; Geosynthetic Material Type G, 1,000 SY; Geosynthetic Material Type R1, 3,749 SY; Rumble Strips - Intersection, 2 EA; PVMT MK Painted-Message, 265 SF; Short Term 4IN Line-Type NR, 172,236 LF; PVMT MK Painted 4IN Line, 52,119 LF.

The contract documents are on file and may be examined at the following:

Ransom County Auditor 204 5th Avenue West Lisbon, ND 58054KLJ1010 4th Ave SWValley City, ND 58072Complete digital project bidding docu-

ments are available at www.kljeng.com

“Projects for Bid” or www.questcdn.com. You may download the digital plan docu-ments for $21 by inputting Quest project #4225306 on the website’s Project Search page. Please contact QuestCDN at (952) 233-1632 or [email protected] for assis-tance in free membership registration, downloading, and working with this digital project information. An optional paper set of project documents is also available for a non-refundable price of $70 per set at KLJ, 1010 4th Ave SW; PO Box 937, Valley City, ND 58072. Please contact us at 701-845-4980 if you have any questions.

All bids are to be submitted on the basis of cash payment for the work and materi-als, and each bid shall be accompanied by a separate envelope containing the contrac-tor’s license and bid security. The bid secu-rity must be in a sum equal to five per cent (5%) of the full amount of the bid and must be in the form of a bidder’s bond. A bid-der’s bond must be executed by the bidder as principal and by a surety company autho-rized to do business in this state, condi-tioned that if the principal’s bid be accepted and the contract awarded to the principal, the principal, within ten (10) days after notice of award, will execute and effect a contract in accordance with the terms of his bid and the bid bond as required by the laws of the State of North Dakota and the regula-tions and determinations of the governing body. If a successful bidder does not exe-cute a contract within ten (10) days allowed, the bidder’s bond must be forfeited to the governing body and the project awarded to the next lowest responsible bidder.

All bidders must be licensed for the full amount of the bid as required by Section 43 07 05 and 43-07-12 of the North Dakota Century Code.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish Contract Performance and Pay-ment Bonds in the full amount of the con-tract.

Contracts shall be awarded on the basis of the low bid submitted by a responsible and responsive bidder for the aggregate sum of all bid items. A single contract will be awarded for the work.

All bids will be contained in a sealed envelope, as above provided; plainly marked showing that such envelope con-tains a bid for the above project. In addi-tion, the bidder shall place upon the exterior of such envelope the following information:

1. The work covered by the bidder2. The name of the bidder3. Separate envelope containing bid

bond and a copy of North Dakota Contrac-tor’s License or certificate of renewal.

4. Acknowledgement of the Addenda.No Bid will be read or considered

which does not fully comply with the above provisions as to Bond and licenses and any deficient Bid submitted will be resealed and returned to the Bidder immediately.

The work on the improvement for projects CNOB-3721(054) and CNOC-3721(055) must be completed by July 29th, 2016. The work on the improvement for project CNOC-3700(003) must be com-pleted by August 26th, 2016.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any informality in any bid, to hold all bids for a period not to exceed 30 days from the date of open-ing bids, and to accept the bid deemed most favorable to the interest of the Owner.

Should the Contractor fail to com-plete the work within the time required

herein or within such extra time as may have been granted by formal extensions of time approved by the Owner, there will be deducted from any amount due the Contrac-tor the sum of $1,600 per day and every day that the completion of the work is delayed. The Contractor and his surety will be liable for any excess. Such payment will be as and for liquidated damages.

Dated this 13th day of January, 2016RANSOM COUNTYLISBON, NORTH DAKOTAKristi Johnson, County Auditor

Publish Jan, 18, 25, and Feb. 1st, 2016

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH

JUVENILE COURTSUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

DEPENDENCYTHE STATE OF WASHINGTON, TO

WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, AND TO:1. Julio Cesar Perez Zeledon, father

of Jocelyne Carmen Perez-Zeledon, d.o.b.05/29/15, Dependency Petition 15-7-00616-5 filed 07/31/15.

A Preliminary Hearing on April 5, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. and a Fact Finding hearing on April 7, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. will be held on this matter at Snohomish County Juvenile Justice Center, 2801 10th Street, Everett, Washington 98201.

These hearings will determine if your child is dependent as defined in RCW 13.34.050(5). This begins a judicial process which could result in permanent loss of your parental rights. THE ABOVE NAMED INDIVIDUALS ARE SUMMONED TO APPEAR at both of said hearings regarding your child. If you do not appear at the first (preliminary) hearing, the court may cancel the second hearing and take evidence and enter an order without further notice to you. To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Dependency Petition, and/or to view information about your rights in this pro-ceeding, go to www.atg.wa.gov/DPY

SONYA KRASKI, Clerk of the Supe-rior Court; T. BROWN, Deputy Clerk

Publish February 1, 8, and 15, 2016

Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation welcomes incoming board president and announces new board of directors

The Sheyenne Valley Com-munity Foundation is proud to announce David Beierle as incom-ing Board President and the addi-tion of three new members to our Board of Directors. These indi-viduals represent the corporate and nonprofit sectors as well as having a strong commitment to the commu-nity. They will assist the Founda-tion in its efforts to invest in people and solutions to benefit the Shey-enne River Valley Community.

New board members recently appointed to serve a three-year term include:

•Kyle Sorby, President of Grot-berg Electric

•Sharon Buhr, Barnes On The Move and Young People’s Healthy Heart Program

•Jan Stowman, community

member“We are honored that Kyle, Sha-

ron, and Jan have agreed to serve on the Sheyenne Valley Commu-nity Foundation and are confident they will contribute greatly to our efforts to advance our mission,” said Foundation President David Beierle. “Each of these members brings with them a passion for the Sheyenne River Valley as well as experience and leadership that is vital for the Foundation.”

We would also like to recognize and thank George Gaukler as our outgoing President and our outgo-ing Board members:

•Dick Gulmon, Market Presi-dent of Dacotah Bank

•Jennifer Feist, Director of Eco-nomic Development

•Keith Anderson, General Man-

ager of Inter-Community Tele-phone Company

“Their drive and commitment to the Foundation during the begin-ning stages played a key role in launching our efforts,” said Andrea Nelson, Administrator of the Shey-enne Valley Community Founda-tion. “We are thankful for their time, leadership and vision as we embark on solutions and partner-ships that impact the Valley.”

Outgoing Board member Dick Gulmon comments on the impor-tance of a Community Foundation, “The Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation is a wonderful way to give locally and have an impact on “Quality of Life” and “Quality of Place” for our citizens.” Gulmon continues to say, “Philanthropy is defined as: the desire to promote the

welfare of others, expressed espe-cially by the generous donations of money to good causes. A Com-munity Foundation is the perfect vehicle to help people make a dif-ference in their communities, and provide tax advantages for those contributions.”

The Sheyenne Valley Com-munity Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization that brings together the financial resources of individuals, families, and busi-nesses to support a wide variety of nonprofit organizations in Barnes, Ransom, and Griggs Counties. For more information on the Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation or ways to give please visit us at 250 West Main St, Valley City or contact us phone 701-490-1596 or email [email protected]

Under the Telecommunications Act of 1966, “universal service” means basic telephone service is available to all consumers. Universal service is voice grade access to the telecommunications network which includes local usage, touchtone calling, single-party service, access to emergency 911 services, access to operator services, access to directory assistance, access to long distance telephone service and discounted services to qualifying low-income consumers. All of these services are available from DRN in these areas: Ashley, Crete, Dickey, Edgeley, Ellendale, Forbes, Forman, Fort Ransom, Fredonia, Fullerton, Guelph, Gwinner, Jud, Kathryn, Kulm, LaMoure, Lisbon, Litchville, Marion, Merricourt, Milnor, Nelvik, Oakes, Venturia, and Verona.As of January 2016, charges for these universal services are:Basic local residential & business service $22.50Access to directory assistance $.80/call

(If you call a long distance company for assistance, this company may charge for its services.)

Low-Income Programs:Lifeline discount on monthly basic service -$9.25

(Toll blocking available at no charge to low-income consumers, to prevent long distance calls from your phone.)

Federal, State and Local Prescribed Charges:Federal Subscriber Line Charge Residential and Single-line Business $6.50 Multi-line Business $9.20Federal Universal Service Charge Residential $1.18 Single-line business $1.55 Multi-Line Business $2.22Telecommunications Relay Service $0.04E911- Emergency Services $1.50344-5000 • www.drtel.com PO Box 69 • Ellendale, ND 58436

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Department of Health reminds residents to test for radonDuring National Radon Action

Month in January, the North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) reminds residents that January and other cooler weather months are a great time to test their home for radon, a leading cause of lung cancer among non-smokers.

“Radon is a cancer-causing, naturally-occurring radioactive gas that you can’t see, smell or taste, and it is found throughout the soil in North Dakota,” said Justin Otto, Indoor Air Quality and Radon Pro-gram Coordinator for NDDoH. “Its presence in the home can pose a danger to a family’s health.”

Radon is harmlessly dispersed in outdoor air at low levels, but when trapped in buildings, it can be harmful, especially at elevated levels. “The good news is that radon is a problem that can be managed,” said Otto. “By install-ing a radon mitigation system, homeowners can effectively lower the level of radon in their homes. These systems use many common building materials and require few specialized tools to install.”

Systems may be installed by a homeowner or a radon mitigation contractor. A list of contractors is available on the North Dakota Department of Health, Division of Air Quality’s website at http://

www.ndheal th .gov/AQ/IAQ/RADON/. Once in place, a prop-erly installed mitigation system will reduce radon gas and safely vent it outside.

Radon-related illness claims more than 21,000 lives in the United States annually. “In North Dakota, 63 percent of homes have an elevated level of radon above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ‘Action Level’ of 4.0 picocuries per liter (pCi/L),” said Otto. “In fact, the EPA lists North Dakota as Zone 1, mean-ing the entire state has the highest potential for elevated radon lev-els.”

The EPA has launched a new series of television, radio and print public service announcements encouraging people to test their homes for radon and remedy any problems. During January, events nationwide will focus on test-ing and fixing problems in homes with a radon level of 4.0 pCi/L or higher.

Radon test kits are available by emailing Justin Otto at [email protected] and including a mailing address. The radon test kits are available at no cost to the general public and they include all mailing and laboratory-analysis fees. The test kits are very easy to use and

come with easy-to-follow direc-tions, says Otto. Test kits also may be available for purchase at local hardware stores, building supply stores or local public health units.

For more information about radon, visit www.ndhealth.gov/aq/iaq/Radon, or call contact Justin Otto, North Dakota Department of Health, at 701.328.5188.


A pair of Lisbon senior basketball players, Riley Lau and Austin Pithey, are this week’s Bronco athletes of the week.

Lau is the son of Jeff Lau of Verona and Caren Lau of Lisbon. He plans on attending NDSU this fall but is undecided on his major. He is involved in football, basketball (all district), track, is an honor student, and a member of the National Honor Society. In the summer he works as a farmhand for Brent Strand Farms where he works with

former classmate and now Enderlin senior, Lorenzo Strand. “The best things about being a Bronco are my teammates and coaches,” says Lau. “I really like working and playing with and for them. Pro basketball player, Deandre Jordan of the Clippers is my sports hero and my favorite sports memory is beating Fargo Oak Grove this year in basketball. It was just a fun game!”

Austin is the son of Katie Tanner of Lisbon and Mike Pithey of rural Lisbon and Verona. He is an honor student and a member of the National Honor Society who is involved in football (all region), basketball, track and field (3 year state placewinner in the pole vault), baseball, FBLA, and Close Up. He works at the Pithey Ranch near Verona and plans on attending UND with a major in a medical related field. His sports hero is former Bronco multisport star Nathan Mangin. He says the best thing about being a Bronco is being with friends and being a good role model for the young students to look up to. Winning last year’s Goat Game and bringing RedNob back home is his favorite sports memory!

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Bronco boys impressive in win over KilldeerBy Joe Howell

Lisbon won a home game in Enderlin on Friday, January 22 by a count of 61-45. Why Ender-lin? The Lisbon Storhaug wres-tling tournament was in session in Broncoville. Former Killdeer AD and Enderlin graduate, Logan Midthun (Logan is now the AD at Williston High School) had set up a two night trip of basket-ball to Ransom County to play the Broncos and Eagles. The Cowboys went home winless but surprisingly, it was the Broncos that dominated Killdeer and the Region 1 preseason favorites, the Eagles needed two overtimes to defeat their guests one night later.

The Broncos needed a win DESPERATELY and they did it against a very good team. LHS graduate and Killdeer teacher Nathan Horgeshimer claims that Killdeer can win the Region 7 tournament and qualify for state.

Lisbon used a strong second quarter to extend their 13-11 first quarter lead to 32-22 at halftime. Despite the fact that the Bron-cos had increased their lead, foul trouble was a concern as Riley Lau and Austin Pithey each col-lected their second fouls and sharpshooter Noah Ward had his third.

Lau carried the Bronco offense in the second quarter with a pair of drop step baskets and a tip in and senior forward, Brendon Col-grove had a put back a rebound basket with 25 seconds remaining for the 32-22 lead.

Pithey scored the first five points of the third quarter with a

coast to coast driving lay-up and a three point bomb.

Killdeer’s flex cut baskets nar-rowed the gap to seven but Pithey and Marshall Bartholomay’s threes plus a 10 foot jump shot kept the Cowboys at bay with Lis-bon leading 47-35 with a quarter remaining.

The Cowboys have big strong and tall athletes as demonstrated by their back to back Class A foot-ball state runner-up trophies. The Broncos were patient on offense making the extra pass and their patience was rewarded with high percentage shots.

Lau and Pithey were too much of a 1-2 offensive punch for Kill-deer on this night. Lau led all scorers with a game high of 21 points and Austin was just one point behind.

“Tayler Goettle played his best game with seven rebounds and six assists. He was in the right place at the right time for most of the night. We did a good job of team rebounding as Lau had 7 and Pithey 6. Gunnar Fraase contin-ues to be a pest on defense,” com-ments made by Bronco Coach Kim Mark after the game.

Lisbon won the JV (Killdeer) and C (against Enderlin) games.

Lisbon 61, Killdeer 45 1 2 3 4

K 11 22 35 45L 13 32 47 61

K: Zander 9, H. LeMieux 8, Doe 7, Starr 6, A. LeMieux 5, Sadowsky 10.

L: Goettle 3, Ward 6, Ode-gard 2, Fraase 2, Bartholomay 5, Pithey 20, Lau 21, Colgrove 2.

Winter woes continue for Bronco boysBy Joe Howell

Lisbon suffered its sixth straight loss of the season at the hand of the Hankinson Pirates in a game played in Hankinson on January 19.

“We just don’t play very hard or smart and that is a bad combi-nation”, Bronco Coach Kim Mark said after the game. Mark contin-ued, “we like working with this group of students as they are very nice young men but as a coaching staff, we are going to have to be more demanding and create a dif-ferent atmosphere because what we are doing now in games is unacceptable.”

Noah Ward was singled out for praise by Coach Mark for playing very well at both ends of the court. Lisbon played without Gunnar Fraase who was out with an injury.

The Pirates jumped out to a

six point first period lead and kept extending their lead throughout the contest. Lisbon slipped to 2-8 overall after this Region 1 game.

Hankinson’s scoring parade was led by the trio of Bailey Her-nandez 15, Cody Mauch 14, and Ethan Mahrer ‘s 22 points.

Riley Lau was the Bronco’s leading scorer with 18 and his senior classmates, Noah Ward and Austin Pithey chipped in with 15 and 13.

1 2 3 4L 13 30 40 53H 19 42 56 71

L: Noah Ward 15, Kyle Ode-gard 2, Marshall Bartholomay 3, Austin Pithey 13, Riley Lau 18, Brendon Colgrove 2.

H: Bailey Hernandez 15, Cody Mauch 14, Ethan Mahrer 22, Ken-drick Lenzen 6, Daniel Round 2, Nick Mauch 6, TrevorWeidner 6.

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Bronco Athletic Boosters sponsor media nights

The LHS Boys Basketball Team will participate in Media Night on Saturday, Jan. 30. Pictured back row: (l to r) Wyatt Runck, Logan Jacobson, Garrett Oland, Stetson Scott, Maverick Coleman, Conrad Pederson, Ben Levos, Chase Johnson, and Kyle Mark (manager) Middle row: Matt Johnson, Kyle Odegard, Noah Ward, Austin Pithey, Riley Lau, Brendan Colgrove, Gunnar Fraase, Marshall Bartholomay, and Jacob Dawson. Seated on floor:(l to r) Managers Abby Shockman, Lida Le, Jocelyn Metzen, and Taeya Haecherl

The LHS Girls Basketball Team will participate in Media Night on Friday, January 29. Pictured back row: (l to r) Hope Huffman, Cole Turchin (manager), Brianna Nielsen, Sadi Deplazes, Elazea Broeren, Mckenzie Metzen, Livia Dick, Karly Schultz, Samantha Bergrud (manager), and Kalli Lautt. Middle row seated in chairs: (l to r) Elizabeth Lyons, Haley Anderson, Payton Ercink, Sydney Griffith, and Kaitlin Geyer. Front row: (l to r) Jamie Reinke, Preslie Ercink, Shaina Rasmussen, Lydia Lyons, and Grace Elijah.

The Bronco Athletic Boost-ers are sponsoring Media Nights for the girls’ and boys’ basketball teams this weekend.

Bronco Girls’ Media Night is Friday, January 29. Lisbon girls compete with Central Cass. The C

squad tips off at 4:30 p.m., JV at 6 p.m., and Varsity at 7:30 p.m.

Bronco Boys’ Media Night is Saturday, January 30 during the doubleheader competition against Ellendale. Girls’ and boys’ JV teams play at 4:30 p.m. Girls’

Varsity plays at 6 pm, and Boys’ Varsity plays at 7:30 p.m. on Sat-urday.

Copies of the team picture will be handed out to elementary stu-dents in school, and they can use them for free admission into the

game on Media Night. Follow-ing the conclusion of the varsity games, students can have auto-graphs signed on their pictures by their favorite Bronco Players.

“This is a fantastic opportunity for the varsity kids to interact with

the younger Broncos and for the younger Broncos to get to meet their idols,” said Kara Tuhy, girls coach.

The more people in attendance at the games this weekend the more fun it will be.

EKM Rebels dismantle the Bronco girlsBy Joe Howell

The Rebels of Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier have been turning heads as of late and after a 2-2 start to their season have run off nine straight wins. The latest victim was visiting Lisbon on Saturday, January 24 by a score of 63-37.

The young and the old of the Rebel team hurt the Broncos the most with their offensive punch. Freshman Katie Entzi, a 6’ for-ward, scored a game high of 17 points and 6’ senior, Olivia Ander-son added 16 with Allison Giesler chipping in with 13.

Lisbon answered with only one player in double digits, Elizabeth Lyons led the Broncos with 10.

After a tight first quarter with EKM leading by just two at 15-13, the Rebels continued to build on their lead. The Rebels led by 15 at half, 22 at the end of the third

quarter, and 26 at the final horn.This was a non region game

between two former members of the Southeast Conference.

Lisbon’s record now stands at 8-6 with Region 1 frontrunner FCT next on the schedule on Janu-ary 26. The Broncos play Central Cass on the 29th in Lisbon and Ellendale the next day.Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier 63Lisbon 37 1 2 3 4L 13 16 27 37EKM 15 31 49 63

L: Haley Anderson 6, Karly Schultz 6, Elazea Broeren 2, Syd-ney Griffith 7, Sadi Deplazes 2, Kaitlin Geyer 4, Elizabeth Lyons 10

EKM: Tallie Hanson 5, Taylor Mathern 3, Baylee Berg 4, Allison Giesler 13, Olivia Anderson 16, Kaitlyn Schiele 5, Katie Entzi 17

Frolek leads WL past Bronco girlsBy Joe Howell

Lisbon lost to Wyndmere-Lidgerwood 68-49 in a key Region 1 girls basketball game on the Broncos’ home court on Thursday, January 21.

In a game that featured four players standing 6’ or better, War-bird guard, Peyton Frolek was the difference maker. Frolek broke free for numerous fast break layups and the Broncos defense never had time to get back to catch the track star. Peyton led all scorers with 19 points.

Joining Frolek in double fig-ure scoring for WL were: Anna Mauch 15, Allie Mauch 14, and Bethany Oster 13. Oster turned a few heads with her fine play.

Elizabeth Lyons carried the Broncos to a first period lead of 16-13 before Frolek took over the tempo of the game. The Warbirds outscored Lisbon 53-33 during the finals three quarters of play.

Haley Anderson and Lyons were the only Broncos to score in double digits with 11 and 18.

1 2 3 4WL 13 33 50 68Lisbon 16 24 34 49

WL – Peyton Frolek 19, Anna Mauch 15, Payton Marohl 7, Beth-any Oster 13, Allie Mauch 14

Lisbon – Haley Anderson 11, Karly Schultz 6, Sydney Griffith 6, Sadi Deplazes 6, Kaitlin Geyer 2, Elizabeth Lyons 18

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The following Lisbon High School students achieved honor roll status for the third quarter of the school year.

Seniors4.0Brock AberleCaren BlaschkeBenjamin GemarEmilee HansenBrandon HoenhauseBrittany JohnsonAshley KramerRiley LauShelby MuslandMacKenzi NelsonAustin PitheyGeorge SmithCassie Witte

3.9-3.5Lindsay DowElizabeth BartholomayPayton ErcinkAmber GabelJerod GemarSydney GriffithJessamine SchellHaley AndersonAlec CooleyXanthe DickTayler GoettleNicki JohnsonLinsey LeadbetterKyle LereKyle MarkZachary StulzMarah Wittenburg

3.4-3.0Brendan ColgroveBrent LarsonJason SommerfeldBrady SorbyDaniel SagvoldLogan BrummundJamie VogelsangJose CortezEmily HardebeckHarrison Toyne

Juniors4.0Elizabeth BuscheMaverick ColemanSadi DeplazesMelanie GarciaLawrence LesmannMcKenzie MetzenSidney NeameyerEmily NelsonConrad PedersonJordan SaxerudSabrina ScolesRory WaliserEmma Weiss

3.9-3.5Kayci HannaBethany ShearerSamantha BergrudEthan ElijahCodee FleckMacKenzie IwenJaden OlsonDalton ReinkeTaylon SadSpencer SchwabHaley WheelerSarah HansenGunnar FraaseMaKayla FroehlichCaemon KellyJesse Steffes

Elazea BroerenGannon JohnsonCallista MartinezSoren McDaniel

3.4-3.0Makayla NgoHailey ChristensenNicholas HansonTyler StensbyMarshall BartholomayTyler EhrmannShaina Rasmusson

Sophomores4.0Grace ElijahKacie ElijahConnor FitzgeraldBrant JundPayton Lund

3.9-3.5Hannah OppSara BlaschkeZachary BearReagan KruegerBrenna LukesBrianna NielsenNickolas ToyneMyah JundMcKenzie FroehlichCoralea FussBen LevosAlexis OdermannShelby RickerStetson ScottCarlie SheltonJordan UrbachMakinzey Young

3.4-3.0Hunter BenttenDuncan ScolesMicaela UrbachTristin HowardHope HuffmanKarly SchultzNicholas BergemannKaitlin GeyerMarco Kellogg

Freshman4.0Madison BlackwellBailey BoehlerPreslie ErcinkGavin ReinkeNicole SaxerudAbigail Shockman

3.9-3.5Lydia LyonsLevi SchwabLida LeCarter HoenhauseKalli LauttCora WagnerTaeya HaecherlMeadow MaloneClarissa SoursJocelyn MetzenTylor Toyne

3.4-3.0Magi BrademeyerChase JohnsonLivia DickJamie ReinkeCodee BerubeWyatt RunckCarly CavettWyatt FraaseHayden McDaniel

During the playoffs and through the Superbowl, I will be bringing you coverage of the games as they happen, as well as news and notes from the Vikings. Skol!

New England Patriots at Denver Broncos

The Patriots flew to Denver to take on the Broncos, and this game was one for the ages. In possibly their last contest against each other, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning went back and forth in what has become one of the great-est rivalries in sports between two players, having now played 17 times (with this being Manning’s sixth win against Brady.)

Peyton Manning had one of the plays of the day, a play he called (finger air-quotes and all) “the run”. It was during the third quar-ter, with the Broncos facing third down. Manning dropped back to pass, didn’t see anyone open, so he decided to run for a gain of 12 yards and a touchdown. That play was one that helped seal the game for Denver.

To me, the biggest factor came down to the Broncos’ defensive line, which is one of the best in the league, against the Patriots’ offensive line which has been in flux this entire season. Brady was sacked or hit 23(!) times on Sun-day on his 56 drop backs, and he

was also pressured into throwing two interceptions with only one touchdown.

Even after taking a pounding all game, Brady and the Patriots still had a chance to tie the game in the fourth quarter. Down by eight points with under two minutes remaining in the game, Brady was able to drive the Patriots down the field and hit Gronkowski in the end zone with twelve seconds remain-ing, making the score 20-18. All of a sudden, this back and forth game came down to one play: the two point conversion. On the final play for the Patriots, Brady dropped back but was unable to find an open receiver before being rushed, which forced Brady to heave the ball into the end zone where a Den-ver player intercepted it and sealed the game for Peyton Manning and the Broncos.

Arizona Cardinals at Carolina Panthers

If the Patriots/Broncos game was an instant classic, the Cardi-nals/Panthers game must be con-sidered a classic beat down. The final score was 49-15 in favor of Carolina, and to be honest the score makes this game appear closer than it actually was.

Arizona was simply unable to get anything going offensively. Until this season, the knock on

Carson Palmer was that he is unable to win playoff games. He was able to get that monkey off his back when the Cardinals beat the Packers last week. But Palmer did not look like himself in the game against the Panthers, only able to throw for one touchdown against four (!) interceptions and two fum-bles.

Carolina looked like a jug-gernaut against Arizona, and Cam Newton looked like the best quarterback playing on Sunday. Cam was able to complete 19 of 28 passes for 335 yards and two touchdowns, while also running the ball 10 times for 47 yards and two more touchdowns.

Superbowl 50 is set, and Caro-lina is an early four point favorite. Denver will have to bring their A game if they want to bring the Lombardi Trophy back to the Mile High city. The biggest matchup to me will be Broncos’ defense attempting to slow down Cam Newton and the rest of Carolina’s offense. I know Denver was able to pressure Tom Brady 23 times on Sunday, but there is a big differ-ence between Brady and Newton. Brady is not known for being a mobile quarterback, while Newton will scramble to extend plays and can pick up yards with his feet if needed. Not to mention, Newton

is 6’5” and 245 pounds, so even if you get a hand on him it’s dif-ficult to bring him down. As much as I respect Peyton Manning and would love to see him get one more ring before he calls it quits, I just don’t think there is any way Denver will be able to slow Caro-lina down enough, and because of that I believe the Panthers will be the next Superbowl champions.

Random Vikings notesHarrison Smith has been

named to the Pro Bowl, which now makes three Vikings who will be in Hawaii (Adrian Peterson and Everson Griffen).

The Vikings brought in former Head Coach and recent offen-sive coordinator Pat Shurmur, although it is unclear what his role will be. The only opening on the Vikings’ coaching staff is at the running backs’ coach position, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see the Vikings create a position just for Shurmur. This is a great addition, in my opinion, as it never hurts to have more coaching experience on the team.

The Vikings have signed Ter-rell Sinkfield, a standout CFL wide receiver. Standing 6” and weighing 200 pounds, it has been reported that Sinkfield ran the 40-yard dash in 4.19 seconds in 2013 at Minne-sota’s Pro Day.

Round-upBy: Jordan Wright NFL

Named Nevada’s Coach of the Year...Lisbon High School Alumnus Rieger has made Pahrump a Wrestling TownBy Joe Howell

One year after guiding his Pah-rump Trojan wrestling team to its second state title in eight years, Lisbon High School and May-ville State graduate, Craig Rieger watched his team defeat Cheyenne and Western in a double dual on January 6.

On January 20, Rieger had his team in Las Vegas (Pahrump is 75 minutes northwest of Vegas) for another pair of duals that did not turn the Trojans way. “We lost 10 solid starters from last season who led all of our sports teams. We are a work in progress and will be tougher next year and look out in two years as we are very young this season.

In his twenty three years in Nevada, Craig has touched a lot of lives and built long lasting relation-ships. One of those who admires Rieger is Pahrump Valley News writer, Vern Hee. In almost every paper that I have read, Hee some-how manages to quote Craig in his articles.

Besides being the head coach at PV, Rieger is a physical educa-tion teacher who has weightlifting classes, an assistant varsity football coach, is the distance coach for the Trojans track and field teams at the 3A school.

According to Hee, Trojans wrestling coach Craig Rieger has told him on numerous occasions how important three-sport ath-letes are to the school. The former Bronco three and four sport athlete lived what he preaches (brother- in-law Brad Nims thought that he should spend his summers on a tractor instead of chasing a base-ball at Sandager Park). Rieger was a first team all state performer in cross country (terrific leader), a member of the Nick Storhaug wres-tling dynasty, and finished seventh at the state track meet in the 3200.

Craig and his wife Tina have one son, Alex. Craig and Tina met at Mayville State. Tina Weber Rieger is a native of Larimore. Tina works in Human Resources for CNS waste solutions and was flying out for meetings in California the morning that I visited with Craig. The company would be similar to our Waste Management System that is based out of Houston, Texas but serves all of our area. CNS han-dles all of the waste of California and Nevada.

It was interesting that on one of the pictures on Rieger’s face-book page, son Alex is dressed in a Volk’s Vultures t-shirt. Harlan Volk was a junior high coach in Lisbon and was recently inducted into the Lisbon Hall of Fame. “Coach Volk made those t-shirts up for us when we were in seventh and eighth

grade. I was 80 pounds as a seventh grader and 90 as an 8th. Alex can wear that shirt and he just turned 11 and is in 5th grade,” states Craig.

Craig was talking in his hoarse “coaching voice” the night after the duals in Vegas. “I preach a hard work ethic, there are not shortcuts to success, and we are really going to work hard,” he stated. Our kids buy into that and last year’s seniors took it above and beyond. We had won the last 3A state title in 2008 and Winnemauca from up north had won the last six straight. We placed nine in the semifinals at state and went 7-2 in the semis and had clinched the state title with-out wrestling a match in the finals. What an awesome feeling to have worked so hard as a team and to earn a state title!”

The community of Pahrump has experienced a 50 percent popula-tion increase with 36,441 living in the town.

Some notes from the Pahrump Valley Times and their sportswriter, Vern Hee after the Trojans defeated Cheyenne and Western.

Trojans coach Craig Rieger was pleased with the results.

“We have a young team this year that is still learning,” he said. “I really can’t get too upset with them when they lose, like they did the night before. I remember last year was different. I had a very dif-ferent team that was filled with vet-erans. I could get on them and I did. This team is different and I have to have more patience with them. The younger wrestlers have come a long way this year.”

He talked about Brandon Bun-ker and pointed out that this 285-pound freshman had never wrestled before.

“This kid came to us from South Carolina and played football and now he is wrestling for us,” Rieger said. “The young man is very coachable and listens well to what we tell him and he is a fast learner.”

Could he be a champion?Rieger was slow to answer and

said there are a lot of factors that come into play.

“He is good, but has a long way to go,” he said. “I have coached champions and they all work hard. Brandon could be one. He certainly works hard at it. The kid never misses practice and he works hard, but then I have had some wrestlers who start off well and then lose interest. If he sticks with us, Bunker can be good.”

Although Rieger is pleased with the way his young team is headed, he still thinks they need work.

“It’s really hard to explain, but these kids need that killer attitude,” he said. “I want my boys to always think ‘PIN’. There are some that

need to get that killer attitude and go for the pin and that takes experi-ence. I do like the fact that many of my starters are not giving up. I can’t get mad at that. These guys are all past the basics. They got that. So now they just need the experience.”

Trojans coach Craig Rieger was honored before the wrestling started on Wednesday, January 6 with a national award.

Each year the National Wres-tling Coaches Association selects one coach from each state for this honor. Rieger was nominated by longtime Las Vegas Cimmaron Memorial High coach Mike Garcia. Rieger explains. “I won the award because basically we stopped the six year state winning streak of Winnemauca. In southern Nevada and especially Clark County we have two thirds of the school popu-lation and yet we receive the same number of state qualifying wres-tlers as the north does. We did the improbable last season with an out-standing effort from our group of senior leaders. What a nice award for our team, school, and commu-nity.”

Just a short rundown on the Gary and Ilene Rieger family. The Rieger’s raised their five children two miles east of Lisbon where Gary grew up. Gary also man-aged the Stake-out with owner and brother Jack. Gary spends his time between Lisbon and Pahrump, where he rents a house every win-ter and is a fixture at the Trojan matches.

Ilene lives at Fargo Bethany Homes assisted living and calls every weekend.

Cindy and her husband Brad Nims live and farm west of Lisbon and they have two adult children, Lexi and Josh.

Brother Scott and Janelle Rieger live in the Detroit Lakes, Mn area and have one child, Chloe. Scott works for Action Fabrication and spends his time in both DL and in Virginia where the company has opened another facility.

Brother Dan and wife, Dr. Jodi Sandness Rieger, and their two children, Sam and Ellie, live on the former Ray Zirnhelt farm (Sam is on the Bronco wrestling squad). Dan works at Bobcat and Jodi is a practicing chiropractor here in Lis-bon.

Sister Bonnie Rieger Carter and husband Steve live in Vancouver with their four sons, Matthew, Nick, Jake, and Lucas. Bonnie works for the Vancouver school district and is running for public office.

The personable Rieger is always surrounded by a crowd when he comes home for family gatherings and class reunions.

Craig Rieger was honored by the National Wrestling Coaches Association on Wednesday, January 6 and was presented with an award.

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LisbonHighSchool • Number 4 and undefeated

Central Cass lost to number 9 Linton HMB 58-50 on January 19.

• One week after being drubbed by Milnor-North Sar-gent, Maple Valley fell to Northern Cass 71-43. Enderlin, Northern Cass, Central Cass, and Milnor-North Sargent appear to be the cream of the crop in Region 1 boys this season.

• The number 1 team in Class B girls, Thompson, defeated number 8 Grafton 67-38.

• The top two girls teams from Region 5 played each other on January 19 with Bismarck Shilo Christian toppling Garri-son 65-43.

• Jaden Mairs of Fargo Davies won by pin in 40 seconds in the Eagles 50-29 victory over Grand Forks Red River.

• Williston Trinity Chris-tian distance runner, Jonathan Bressler has signed a letter of intent to run at the U of Mary.

• Maple Valley senior Rylee Nudell was 60 points away from breaking the unofficial North Dakota Class B and overall girls basketball state scoring record of 3,148 points held by Tanya Fischer of Bowman County as of January 20. Nudell’s point total sat at 3,089 points entering the January 21st game against Cen-tral Cass. It did not take long for Rylee to leapfrog Fischer’s total as after the Central Cass game and the Raiders victory over Hillsboro-Central Valley on Jan-uary 23rd, the Nudell count stood at 3,173 and counting!

• Fargo Shanley senior Sarah Jacobson is climbing up the unofficial all-time Class A girls basketball scoring list. Jacobson scored 12 in Shanley’s 60-49 win over Fargo Davies on Tuesday and is now at 2,047 points for her career—good for No. 3 on the all-time list behind Jeanette Fox of Four Winds-Mandan (2,061) and Durene Heisler of Devils Lake (2,120). ... Shanley’s win against Davies puts the Deacons at 53 straight victories. Shanley is now only five wins away from breaking the Class A consecutive wins record held by Williston, who won 57 straight in the late 1970s.

• Fargo Shanley girls and the Bismarck Century boys teams are the top ranked Class A teams in the state.

• Weighing in at 145 pounds and standing 5’ 10”, the Minot Roosevelt Zoo has a new male giraffe calf.

• Number 3 LaMoure-Litch-ville-Marion fell to neighboring Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier 51-46 in girls basketball.

• Moorhead sophomore, Sam Haiby reached 1000 points dur-ing the Spuds win over West Fargo Sheyenne.

• Fargo North volleyball coach Brooks Dockter has resigned that position and accepted a coaching position in Arizona. Dockter led Kindred to a state B title and also took Tioga to state where they defeated Lisbon in the opening

round.• Four North Dakota under-

class men to watch in boys bas-ketball: Fargo North’s 6’ 4” junior guard Siman Sem, 6’ 3” Dickinson junior Aanen Moody, 7’ Dickinson junior, Jordan Meidinger, and Williston’ 6’ 6” sophomore DeSean Eikens. All four have received Division I offers.

• Bismarck Century’s Ron Wingenbach will lead team North Dakota as their coach at the annual Badlands Bowl between graduating seniors from North Dakota and Minnesota. His assistants will be Rod Breit-bach and Cory Volk of Century, Jim Dooley of Beulah, Marty Hochhalter of Carrington, and John Freeman of Richland. The game will be played at 6pm on June 18 at Dickinson’s Biesiot Center.

• The state’s number 7 ranked and undefeated Ellendale boys basketball team is flexing their muscles this year. The Cardinals throttled LaMoure-Litchville-Marion 60-44. Ellendale will be in Lisbon on Saturday, January 30 for a boys and girls double-header.

• Frazee dominated the Min-nesota Midstate Heart O’ Lakes wrestling tournament.

• In the battle of Class A and B wrestling powers, Bismarck handled Carrington 44-15. One day later, Carrington fell to Minot 32-30.

• Watford City won their own wrestling tournament with 183.5 points to win the nine team field.

• Maple Valley’s Rylee Nudell wasn’t the only area girls basketball player to go over 3000 points this season. Win-E-Mac’s (Erskine, Minnesota) Madison McKeever poured in 34 points in her team’s win over Lake Park-Audubon. McKeever will play at the University of South Dakota next season.

• North Dakota state cross country champion, Sam Claus-nitzer of Bismarck was named the state’s Gatorade runner of the year.

• North Sargent’s Sasha Hov-ind is continuing her success at Northern State. Sasha, a junior, placed third at the SDSU Indoor Invite on January 23 in the 3000 run with her time of 9:58.98. Her time at SDSU breaks her own school record that she set last season. Sasha also provisionally qualified for the national indoor meet with her effort.

• Minot Our Redeemer’s junior, Morgan Olson joined the 1000 point club recently.

• Pierre has stamped them-selves as the favorites to win the South Dakota big class wrestling title. The Capitol City won the East-West Duals in impressive fashion with wins of 60-11 over Rapid City Stevens, 49-15 over Rapid City Central, and 48-24 over Sturgis for the champion-ship.

• The Langdon girls cracked 100 in their 100-45 win over Dunseith.

Dakota Sports By Joe Howell


Broncos crown champions Elijah and McDaniel, roll to their third Nick Storhaug Team championshipBy Joe Howell

In the 22 years of the Lisbon Nick Storhaug wrestling tourna-ment, Lisbon has now won three team championships after an impressive two day TEAM per-formance. Valley City and Wah-peton were the favorites coming into this annual affair but it was host Lisbon that won the tourna-ment with a two day score of 209 points with Valley City trailing in second with 197.5.

Lisbon trailed Valley City in crowning individual champions with the Broncos Ethan Elijah at 138 and Soren McDaniel at 182 while the Hi-Liners topped that with three: Parker Larson at 113, Jakob Ashline at 132, and Jordan Magnuson at 220. The difference 13 of the 14 Lisbon varsity mat-men placed in the top 8 while Val-ley registered 9.

It was the first Storhaug team championship for Lisbon since 2008 when the Broncos won both the state team and individ-ual titles. The third Lisbon team championship came in 1995, the first year of the Lisbon KQLX (and now Storhaug) tournament.

Bronco placewinners were: Hunter Schwab 4th at 106, Jordan Sours 3rd at 113, Rory Waliser 6th at 120, Tristin Howard 6th at 126, Jacob Reinke 8th at 132, Ethan Elijah 1st at 138, George Smith 3rd at 145, Dalton Reinke 2nd at 152, Gannon Johnson 6th at 160, Jordan Urbach 3rd at 170, Soren McDaniel 1st at 182, Spen-cer Schwab 6th at 220, and Taylon Sad 5th at 285.

Bronco Coach Joe Kern com-mented on his team’s success. “Going into the tournament I didn’t think we would be able to beat Valley City. Our guys wres-tled a little better than I expected in a lot of weights. Getting three to advance to the finals was the key (big points) with Ethan Eli-jah, Dalton Reinke, and Soren McDaniel all accomplishing that. Ethan and Soren wrestled great in the finals to be champions! Just as important, Jordan Sours, George Smith, and Jordan Urbach coming all the way back to finish third and that was enough to out distance Valley City by 12 points. We had not won our own tourna-ment since 2008, so it was pretty exciting for everyone to experi-ence that for the first time!”

Oakes had another solid day with a young squad still trying to find itself. Heavyweight, Michael Kelly was not tested as he quickly pinned all three of his opponents on his way to a second straight Storhaug title. Coy Awender at 106 and Austin Burgard at 113 finished second for Coach Cory Schall’s squad. Other Tornado placewinners were: Logan Sell 7th & Marc Seyer 8th at 120, Taylor Schall 7th at 126, Grayson Roney 3rd at 132, Dillon Ost 5th at 145, Jarod Roth 3rd at 182, and Hunter Greenmeyer 8th at 220.

New Multiple Storhaug Champions: 106 & 113 – Parker Larson of Valley City, 182 – Soren McDaniel (2015 & 2016), 220 – Jordan Magnuson of Valley City (2014, 2015 & 2016), 285 – Michael Kelly of Oakes (2015 & 2016).

Magnuson is also a three time Bismarck Rotary champion and is headed to Moorhead State to play football and also wrestle for for-mer Lisbon great, Kris Nelson.

MVP’s: 106-132 - Drew Steidler of Bismarck St. Mary’s, 138-170 – Ethan Elijah of Lisbon, 182-285 – Jordan Magnuson of Valley City.

Charles Weber of West Fargo Sheyenne placed fifth at 195. Weber almost died in a snow-mobile accident three years ago. Charlie has not been allowed to play football but this is his first year back on the mat.

The Lisbon Star committee hosted the hospitality room with the Lisbon food and lodging. Power-aid was furnished to all athletes after weighing in on both days by Subway. The Lisbon wrestling club fed all wrestlers breakfast for FREE on Saturday morning. Just a few of the reasons why the tournament sponsored by former Lisbon matman and Hall of Fame Coach Nick Storhaug is the best!

2016 Team scores1. Lisbon 2092. Valley City 197.53. Wahpeton 1504. Central Cass 147.55. Oakes 1386. South Border 1287. EEK 1098. Bismarck St. Mary’s 929. Hillsboro Central Valley 91

& Larimore11. Linton HMB 7612. Grafton 5413. Killdeer 5214. Kindred 30.515. West Fargo Sheyenne 2716. Lisbon JV 2017. LaMoure LM 11

Lisbon Storhaug Team Champions

2016 – Lisbon2015 – South Border2014 – South Border2013 – South Border2012 – Apple Valley2011 – South Border2010 - Cancelled due to weather2009 – Oakes2008 – Lisbon2007 – Napoleon2006 – Napoleon2005 – Cancelled due to weather2004 – Detroit Lakes2003 – Napoleon2002 – Carrington2001 – Frazee2000 – Carrington1999 – Oakes1998 – Ashley-Wishek1997 – Hillsboro1996 – Hillsboro1995 – Lisbon

Multiple Storhaug team cham-pionships won by school: South Border (Ashley-Wishek) 5, Lis-bon 3, Napoleon 3, Oakes 2, Hill-sboro 2, Carrington 2

Individual Champs106 – Drew Steidler Bismarck St. Mary’s113 – Parker Larson Valley City120 – Austin Thompson Grafton126 – Noah Wiek Wahpeton132 – Jakob Ashline Valley City138 – Ethan Elijah Lisbon145 – Nate Volk Central Cass152 – Mark Hastings Hillsboro-Central Valley160 – Luke Hastings Hillsboro-Central Valley170 – Derek Tabor Killdeer182 – Soren McDaniel Lisbon195 – Ian Brown Bismarck St. Mary’s220 – Jordan Magnuson Valley City285 – Michael Kelly Oakes

Lisbon results106 – 4th Hunter Schwab –

The Engelvale 8th grader moved down from 113 and finished in a solid fourth. Schwab has shown nothing but steady improvement this winter. Hunter opened with a pin over Wahpeton’s Kyle Tedrow in 1:00, won a 6-4 decision over Andrew Volk of Central Cass, lost 8-3 to Bismarck St. Marys Drew Steidler, pinned Avery Dick of the Lisbon JV, and lost 7-2 to Lin-ton’s Chandler Nagel.

113 – 2nd Jordan Sours. As Schwab moved down, Jordan Sours moved up one weight class. Sours has solid technique and earned third place after los-ing a TOUGH overtime decision to Austin Burgard in the semifi-nals. Jordan received an opening round bye, won by major 11-3 over Hunter Berg Wahpeton, lost by fall in overtime to Austin Bur-gard of Oakes, won by tech 15-0 over Jake Herr South Border, and pinned Kindred’s Easton Ogren in 3:21 to capture third in his first Storhaug as a seventh grader.

120 – 6th Rory Waliser earned sixth place and pinned Dylan Tabor of Killdeer in his opening match in 1:57. Rory has come on strong this season and won by fall in his second match also over Mark Jochim of South Bor-der. In the semifinals, Waliser lost by tech fall to Grafton’s Aus-tin Thompson, lost by fall to Jer-emiah Sullivan of Central Cass, and finished sixth after losing by

fall to Jochim of South Border.126 – 6th Tristin Howard,

a sophomore, finished in sixth. Tristin won his opening match in ultimate tie breaker over Chase Gross of Central Cass, lost by major to Alex Alfson of HCV, pinned Jacob Edgerly of Kindred, pinned Ethan Carruth of EEK, lost by fall to Rylee Bjork of Valley City, and lost a tough 3-2 decision to Hayden Lunos of Wahpeton to place sixth.

132 – 8th Jacob Reinke an eighth grader stepped up to the plate with the big boys as a replacement for the sick Brock Aberle. Jacob received a bye, lost by fall to Jakob Ashline of Valley City, received a bye, lost by fall to Grayson Roney of Oakes, and Hunter Hennings of HCV.

138 – 1st Ethan Elijah cap-tured his first Storhaug cham-pionship in impressive fashion. In arguably the toughest weight class. Elijah pinned Dawson Dosch of St. Mary’s 1:06, pinned Colton Rall EEK :32, managed a late third period reversal to beat ND 132 state champion, Kyle Moch of Linton in the semifinals, and defeated Wahpeton’s Gavin LeNoue 11-8 in the title tilt. Eli-jah won a state championship at 106 in 2014, and was a state run-ner-up last year at 113.

145 – 3rd George Smith con-tinues to hustle on the mat and won third place. Smith pinned Ethan Ellingson of EEK :50, pinned LaMoure’s Brady Wendel in :53, lost to Nathan Volk 6-0 in the semifinals, bounced back with a pin in :36 over Austin Steffen of Larimore, and won 6-2 over Jon Langer of Valley City to win third.

152 – 2nd Dalton Reinke has hit the weightroom and it shows on the mat. Reinke pinned Dal-ton Meidinger of Larimore in :49, pinned Noah Flores of Grafton in 1:38, earned a berth in the cham-pionship match with a controlling major score of 15-6 over Logan Erlandson of Valley City, and lost to Mark Hastings of HCV 9-4 in the championship match.

160 – 6th Gannon Johnson received an opening round bye, won 6-2 over Jake Tangen of Valley City, lost by fall to Aaron Deike of Wahpeton, lost a major to Wade Berg of Central Cass, and lost by fall to Tangen in the fifth place match.

170 – 3rd Jordan Urbach just keeps getting better. The sopho-more received an opening round bye. Jordan pinned a good Wah-peton wrestler Carl Bjugstad in 2:45, lost in the final seconds 6-5 in the semifinals to Clayton Gru-eneich of EEK, pinned Chandler Hersch Central Cass 4:30, and won third with a pin over Brody Farmer of West Fargo Sheyenne in :58.

182 – 1st Soren McDaniel won his second Storhaug tournament at 182 in as many years. McDan-iel looked smooth throughout the two days. Soren opened with a pin over Sam Rieger of Lisbon JV, won by tech fall over Cole Spies of St. Mary’s, used a series of double leg take downs to hold off Jarod Roth of Oakes 9-1, and defeated Killdeer’s all state foot-ball player, Dillan Jepson 8-4 in the finals.

195 – Logan Mulder did not place. Austin Kauk of South Border and Tucker Renfrow of Larimore both defeated Mul-der by pin. Lisbon’s regular 195 pounder, Caemon Kelly was held out due to injury.

220 – 6th Spencer Schwab

has worked himself into wres-tling condition. Schwab is an extremely strong young man that is still learning the nuances of wrestling as this is his FIRST year on the mat. Spencer received a bye, pinned Dillon Knudson of Central Cass 3:50. Lost to cham-pion, Jordan Magnuson of Valley City by fall, pinned Adam Blondo EEK 4:18, and lost the third place match to Riley Molter of South Border 2-1.

285 – 5th Taylon Sad con-tinues to battle any opponent that battles him on the mat. Sad received a bye, pinned Jacob Entzie of South Border :29, lost 7-2 to Devin Roesler of Central Cass, lost by ultimate tiebreaker to Sam Harris of St. Mary’s at the edge of he mat, and won fifth with a pin over Drew Jacobson of Val-ley :53.

Lisbon JV results106 - 6th – Avery Dick placed

sixth as a seventh grader. Avery lost by fall to Drew Steidler of St. Marys, pinned Grant Schneider of South Border in 1:59, won 8-4 over Brett Wendel of LaMoure, pinned Aiden Olson –Tingelstad of CC 3:33, lost by fall to Lis-bon’s Hunter Schwab, and lost by major to St. Mary’s Reece Barn-hardt.

106 – Hunter Schultz did not place. Lost by fall to Coy Awender of Oakes, pinned Danny Monatukawa of EEK 3:45, and

lost by tech fall to Andrew Volk of Central Cass.

138 – Gabe Nieves did not place. Lost his opening match by tech fall to Matthew Schaffner of St. Mary’s, pinned Grank Villar-real of Grafton 2:27, lost by fall to Valley City’s David Peterson.

145 – Dalton Aabrekke did not place. Dalton received a bye and lost by fall to Logan Meyer of Wahpeton, lost 10-6 to Austin Steffan of Larimore.

152 – Chase Kemmer did not place and opened with a pin over Brandon Franchuck of St. Marys in 1:03, lost by fall to Logan Erlandson of Valley City and Kurt Dickhut of St. Marys.

160 – Hunter Bentten did not place and lost to South Border’s Clark Thielges by fall, received a bye, and lost a 5-2 decision to Weston Ellingson of EEK.

170 – Gavin Reinke competed up a few weight classes and did not place. Gavin lost to Carl Bjugstad of Wahpeton by fall, received a bye, and lost by tech fall to Chandler Hersch of CC.

182 – 8th Sam Reinke earned a spot on the podium in his first Storhaug. Sam is an eighth grader that lost by fall to teammate, Soren McDaniel, received a bye, won a tough 6-3 decision over Anthony Capistran of Valley City, and lost by fall to Brandon Steffen of Larimore and Cole Spies of St. Mary’s.

2016 Lisbon Bronco Wrestling Team celebrates its Storhaug Wrestling Tournament Championship!

PIN! Spencer Schwab wins by fall.

Gannon Johnson earned a 6-2 decision over Valley City’s Jake Tanner.

At 120, Rory Waliser earned a pin to advance at the Storhaug Invitational.

Lisbon wrestlers sweep EEK and LaMoure, Elijah wins 100th career matchBy Joe Howell

LaMoure played host to Ellendale-Edgeley-Kulm and Lisbon in a Region 1 triangular meet on Thursday, January 21. The Lobos fell hard to Lisbon and EEK losing to the Broncos 78-4 and to EEK 33-0.

The Broncos used pins by Rory Waliser, Ethan Elijah, George Smith, Spencer Schwab, and received three forfeit vic-tories from EEK as Lisbon defeated the Rebels 46-33.

Winning by decision for Coach Joe Kern’s squad were: Tristin Howard and Taylon Sad. Dalton Reinke picked up a vic-tory with a major decision.

Shrinking enrollment num-bers has struck the once proud wrestling program at LaMoure. The Lobos simply cannot com-pete in Region 1 with giving away points in each and every dual match. Lisbon received ten forfeits worth 60 points in their lopsided 78-4 victory over LLM.

Brock Aberle, Ethan Eli-jah, and Dalton Reinke picked up six team points apiece with their wins via pin. For Elijah, it marked a milestone as Ethan recorded his 100th career victory.

Lisbon wrestled without 195 pounder, Caemon Kelly, who sat out the night with an injury.

Lisbon competed at the Kin-dred Brawl on January 26 and will be at the New Salem East-West tournament on January 29 and 30.Lisbon 46Ellendale-Edgeley-Kulm 23106- Danny Monatukwa pin Avery Dick (L) (3:39)113- Jordan Sours (L) won by forfeit120- Rory Waliser (L) pin Wyatt Moch (:33)126- Tristin Howard (L) decision

10-4 Ethan Carruth132- Bridger Mathern pin Jacob Reinke (L) (3:04)138- Ethan Elijah (L) pin Colton Rall (:59)145- George Smith (L) pin Ethan Ellingson (4:53)152- Dalton Reinke (L) major 9-1 Dalton Schnabel160- Weston Ellingson decision 5-1 Gannon Johnson (L)170- Jordan Urbach (L) won by forfeit182- Clayton Grueneich decision 8-5 Soren McDaniel (L)195- Waytt Nitschke tech fall 17-2 Logan Mulder (L)220- Spencer Schwab (L) pin Adam Biondo (:47)285- Taylon Sad (L) decision 1-0 Josh FastnachtLisbon 78LaMoure 4113- Jordan Sours (L) won by forfeit120- Rory Waliser (L) won by forfeit126- Tristin Howard (L) won by forfeit132- Jacob Aberle (L) pin Chirs Heyd (2:26)138- Ethan Elijah (L) pin Brady Wendel (:29)145- George Smith (L) won by forfeit152- Dalton Reinke (L) pin Jacob Heyd (3:56)160- Gannon Johnson (L) won by forfeit170- Jordan Urbach (L) won by forfeit182- Soren McDaniel (L) won by forfeit195- Logan Mulder (L) won by forfeit220- Spencer Schwab (L) won by forfeit285- Taylon Sad (L) won by for-feit106- Brett Wendel Major Avery Dick (L) 9-0

Polls and standingsND State Basketball Polls

Girls BJanuary 19

1. Thompson 15-02. Rugby 14-03. Park River FL 14-0 4. Shilo Christian 13-15. North Star 13-16. LaMoure-Litchville-Marion 12-27. Watford City 11-28. FCT 14-19. Edgeley Kulm Montpelier 13-210. Grafton 10-3

Boys B BasketballJanuary 19

1. 4 Winds-Minnewaukan 10-12. Shilo Christian 10-13. Our Redeemer’s 10-14. Milnor-North Sargent 11-15. Ellendale 11-06. Hillsboro Central Valley 10-17. Linton HMB 10-28. Dickinson Trinity 10-39. Central Cass 10-110. Strasburg-Zeeland 9-2

Region 1 Wrestling January 19

Lisbon 5-1Linton HMB 4-1Napoleon 4-1Oakes 3-3South Border 1-2EEK 2-3

LaMoure LM 1-4Kindred 1-4

District 1 Boys Basketball January 23

Team Region OverallMilnor-NS 7-1 10-1Enderlin 6-0 10-3Central Cass 5-0 10-1Northern Cass 3-1 8-2Richland 3-2 5-6Hankinson 4-3 8-5Kindred 4-3 5-7Wyd Lidg 3-3 9-3Oak Grove 2-3 5-7Lisbon 1-5 3-8Maple Valley 1-5 7-5Sargent Central 0-7 1-9FCT 0-6 1-9

Girls Region 1 Basketball January 19

provided by Michael Sorlie

Team Region OverallFCT 10-1 14-1Richland 7-1 12-3Maple Valley 7-2 11-3Kindred 7-2 10-2Lisbon 6-3 8-6Wynd Lidg 8-3 12-3Oak Grove 5-2 8-5Hankinson 3-7 6-8Northern Cass 3-6 5-9Central Cass 2-7 3-11Enderlin 1-8 4-10Sargent Central 1-6 3-8Milnor-NS 0-11 1-12

January 5106 – 1. Coy Awender Oakes, 3. Jordan Sours Lisbon113 – 1. Austin Burgard Oakes, 2. Hunter Schwab Lisbon120. 1. Brayden Jangula Napoleon, 4. Logan Sell Oakes, 5. Rory

Waliser Lisbon126 – 1. Garrett Jangula Napoleon, 4. Tristin Howard Lisbon, 5.

Taylor Schall Oakes132 – 1. Wyatt Nagel Linton, 2. Brock Aberle Lsibon, 3. Grayson

Roney Oakes138 – 1. Ethan Elijah Lisbon, 2. Kyle Moch Linton, 7. Meyer145 – 1. George Smith Lisbon, 3. Dillon Ost Oakes152 – 1. Dalton Reinke Lisbon, 7. Meyer Oakes160 – 1. Gannon Johnson Lisbon, 6. Quandt Oakes170 – 1. Jonathan Gruenfelder Napoleon, 3. Jordan Urbach Lis-

bon, 7. Huemiller Oakes182 – 1. Soren McDaniel Lisbon, 3. Jared Roth Oakes195 – 1. Garret Roemmich Linton HMB, 2. Tyus Calloway Lis-

bon, 6. Hankel Oakes220 – 1. Austin Kauk South Border, 4. Spencer Schwab Lisbon,

Hunter Greenmyer Oakes285 – 1. Michael Kelly Oakes, 3. Taylon Sad Lisbon

Region 1 Wrestling Poll

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Lisbon High School Jazz Band participates in South Dakota Jazz Festival

The members of the Lisbon High School Jazz Band listen to comments from Judge Dennis McDermott, instructor of Jazz Improvisa-tion at Northern State University (NSU), Aberdeen, following the group’s performance at the South Dakota Jazz Festival held on the campus of NSU, Aberdeen on Thursday, Jan. 21. All three festival judges gave the Lisbon group top ratings. Over 10 groups partici-pated in the event. The LHS Jazz Band is now preparing for the Myra Jazz Festival, scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 3 in Grand Forks.

Huge crowd turns out for spaghetti supperThe Lisbon Band and Choir

Parents’ annual spaghetti supper was held on Monday evening, Jan. 25, at the Lisbon Elemen-tary School gymnasium. Although there are no numbers available, Dayna Anderson, one of the band and choir parents, reported that it looked like there were more people than last year’s event. The

organization deemed it a huge suc-cess.

Lisbon Public School music students provide dinner music at the annual spaghetti supper. This event is sponsored and served by Lisbon Band and Choir Parents. This year’s proceeds from the event will go to help fund the LHS Band and Choir trip to Los Ange-

les this summer.Musical selections from the

Lisbon Middle School Fifth and Sixth Grade bands directed by Mrs. Stephanie Falk, and the Junior High Band, Lisbon High School Jazz Band and Swing Choir directed by Maestro John Monilaws.

The performances of the jazz

band and the swing choir included selections from the upcoming LHS Dinner and Dessert Concert musi-cal program “Traveling Through the Decades.”

“We are saving the actions accompanying these songs for the musical in February,” said Monilaws at the spaghetti supper. “Hope to see you all there!”

The Lisbon Junior High Band’s trumpets and percussion added to the overall performance of the band. All the music students sounded great!

The Lisbon Sixth Grade Band plays for the large audience at the Spaghetti Supper.

The LHS Swing Choir did an outstanding job at the Spaghetti Supper on Jan. 25.

Lawrence Lesmann tickles the ivories with the LHS Jazz Band.

Mrs. Stephanie Falk directing the Lisbon Fifth Grade Band at the Spaghetti Supper performance.

Percussion instruments like the drums and electric piano are an integral part of the Jazz Band.

QUESTION Of the Week!“What is your

favorite game?”

Chandler Dick, 8, is in Mrs. Bunn’s second grade at Lisbon Public School: “Call of Duty -Ghosts.”

Rylee Erdmann, 7 1/2, is in Mrs. Bunn’s second grade at Lis-bon Public School: “Cards, slap jack!”

Taylah Erickson, 8, is in Mrs. Bunn’s second grade at Lisbon Public School: “Mario Cart.”

Annika Froemke, 8, is in Mrs. Bunn’s second grade at Lisbon Public School: “I like playing dogs outside and in the house.”

Griffin Greenley, 8, is in Mrs. Bunn’s second grade at Lisbon Public School: “Call of Duty.”

Tessa Griggs, 7, is in Mrs. Bunn’s second grade at Lisbon Public School: “Monopoly, I’m usually the dog.”

Zayne Johnson, 7, is in Mrs. Bunn’s second grade at Lisbon Public School: “Hi-Ho Cherry-O.”

LISBON SCHOOL BREAKFAST MENU

Mon., Feb. 1- Assorted cereal, yogurt or cheese stick, fruitTues., Feb. 2- Waffles, yogurt or cheese stick, fruitWed., Feb. 3- Warm breakfast sandwich, fruit Thurs., Feb. 4- Ultimate Break-fast Round, yogurt or cheese stick, fruitFri., Feb. 5- Assorted cereal, yogurt or cheese stick, fruit

LISBON SCHOOL LUNCH MENU

Mon., Feb. 1- Chicken, brown rice, cooked carrots, bun, fruitTues., Feb. 2- Hot dog, baked beans, potato wedges, fruit

Wed., Feb. 3- Soft shell taco, black beans, all the fixingsThurs., Feb. 4- Tator tot hot dish, cinnamon roll, salad, fruitFri., Feb. 5- Pizza, green beans, angel food cake and strawberries• All meals include choice of skim, 1% or fat free chocolate milk. Fruit/vegetable bar avail-able at lunch. Menu is subject to change, check http://www.lis-bon.k12.nd.us for latest updates. Peanut butter/jelly sandwich available instead of entrée for K through 8th grade. Parents/visi-tors welcome for meals, please call ahead of time.

FORT RANSOM BREAKFAST MENU

Mon., Feb. 1- CerealTues., Feb. 2- Cook’s choiceWed., Feb. 3- Yogurt Thurs., Feb. 4- Cook’s choiceFri., Feb. 5- Bug Bites• Regular breakfasts are served every day and include toast, pea-nut butter, cheese slices, juice and milk.

FORT RANSOM SCHOOL LUNCH MENU

Mon., Feb. 1 - Pita pizzaTues., Feb. 2- Chicken ‘n’ Rice Wed., Feb. 3- Hamburger cheese hotdishThurs., Feb. 4- Chicken alfredoFri., Feb. 5- Turkey roast • Meals served with salad bar, fruit, vegetables and milk.

Local students named to NDSCS President’s Honor list

The North Dakota State College of Science has named 420 students to its fall semes-ter 2015 President’s Honor List.

The Honor List recognizes students who have achieved grade point averages of 3.5 or higher while taking at least 12 credit hours. The honorees include:

Enderlin - Evan Stensgard, John Deere Tech

Englevale - Shelby Schwab, Business Management

Fort Ransom - Payton Swenson, Practical Nursing

Gwinner - Chelci Shirrell, Pharmacy Technician; Jessica Warner, Practical Nursing

Lisbon - Alea Hegreberg, Practical Nursing; Nicole McRitchie, Occupational Therapy Assistant

Verona - Melinda Maley, Business Management

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Part 7 of a continuing series...Historical items from 1915 editions of the Sheldon Progress and EnterpriseBy Janet Hansen

(Editor’s Note: Karen Schultz, Fargo, formerly of Shel-don, does historical research and has a pile of clippings from the Sheldon Progress and Sheldon Enterprise, some of which date back to a century ago. She is sharing those clippings with the Gazette. We are picking out news items from her clippings which we feel might be of greatest interest to our readers and will be publishing them intermittently. We are also adding addi-tional information when we feel it is pertinent.)

It was reported in a 1915 edition of the Sheldon Progress and Enterprise that W. H. Smith of Sheldon had traveled to Minneapolis to visit with relatives and would be returning in his big 40-horse Case automobile.

According to information found on the J.I. Case Collector’s Association website, the J. I Case Threshing Machine Company purchased the Pierce Racine Automobile Company, Racine, WI, in August of 1910. From that point on, Case began to produce auto-mobiles in addition to its tractors and farm equipment. The Case Automobile was said to be a “high class car and the best car one could buy for the price.” Due to declining sales and competition from mass produced automobiles, the Case Company ceased pro-duction of automobiles in 1926/27. According to the website there were only around 24,000 Case automobiles produced. As a result, these cars are, today, highly prized by collectors.

The Enderlin News stated that County Superintendent of Schools C. E. Cavett had visited the Enderlin School on Tuesday afternoon.

C.E. Cavett is believed to be Chauncy E. Cavett, who served as Ransom County Superintendent of Schools for some time. Chauncey was the son of John Dean Cavett, who was born in Ohio in 1845. According to the Enderlin history book from 1966, John Cavett served in the frontier army and was acquainted with “Buf-falo Bill” Cody and other pioneer figures. In 1872, Chauncey settled with his parents in Mitchell County, Iowa, where he married Sarah Sherman and farmed until 1904. At that time he and his family moved to Moore Township, Ransom County, North Dakota, where he lived until his death in 1928. Two of John and Sarah Cavett’s sons, Chauncy and Charles, as well as their only daughter, Har-riette, became teachers. Chauncy and Charles both taught in Ran-som County. All three of the Cavett brothers, Fred, Chauncy and Charles, at one point or another farmed in Moore Township. Fred farmed the home farm and Charles settled in a farmstead across the road from that farm.

Chauncy married Jessie Storey and they had two sons and one daughter. After farming for a while, Chauncy returned to teaching, served as County Superintendent for a time, and later went into the insurance business.

Enderlin Veterinarian R. W. Bernhardt advertised his business in the same issue of the Sheldon Progress and Enterprise, as did Charles G. Bangert, attorney-at-law, Enderlin.

Dr. Bernhardt was mentioned in a bulletin from the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station published in 1948, which is avail-

able on the internet. Information in the bulletin indicates that Dr. Bernhardt was still practicing in Enderlin at that time.

Charles G. Bangert was an Iowa native who received his law degree through correspondence courses and served as Enderlin City Attorney for 40 years, as well as being active with the Enderlin Independent, the local paper, and serving as a state senator.

An article on the front page of the March 11, 1915 issue of the Sheldon Progress and Enterprise suggested that the Ransom County Courthouse should be moved from Lisbon to Sheldon. Rea-sons given included: Sheldon had a ten-acre tract of land where the building could be located; railroad facilities were said to be much more accessible at Sheldon than at Lisbon; and when the county needed a new courthouse, which the writer believed would be soon, it would be just as easy to build it in Sheldon and save freight for material being shipped from the east.

The same newspaper carried a report that T. J. McCully would be taking over the position of postmaster at the Sheldon Post Office. The headline referred to the postoffice as a “stamp shop.”

In an additional piece of news from the Nov. 18 “Sheldon Prog-ress” it was reported that the Thomas J. McCully farm had been rented by Jacob Kaspari for one of his boys.

The Anselm News, as published in the Nov. 11, 1915 edition of the Sheldon Progress, reported such earthshaking events as the fact that G. F. Sonensthal, Sheldon, had been laid up with “the grip” (an old term, sometimes spelled ‘grippe,’ for the common cold, influ-enza, or an upper respiratory illness) for a few days.

In the McLeod News, it was reported that there would be a dance in Brackey’s Hall on Saturday night, with music by the “Rag Time Pals.” It was also noted that the stockyards had been fixed up and a carload of cinders hauled in to make the yard nice and dry for the cattle being shipped out. Cinders had also been hauled in to fill up a low, wet place near the Atlantic Elevator, making it easier to drive into the elevator.

The Owego Township News mentioned that George Marks, a plasterer and mason from Anselm, had been out at the home of Ed Wall, doing some plastering and remodeling. According to informa-tion found by Enderlin historian Susan Schlecht in a paper read by Ed Pierce for an Old Settler’s picnic, a man named George Mark had lived south of Anselm, on Owego Township land homesteaded on June 13, 1879 by John H. Kratt.

The Casey Township News included information about a Mr. Lovejoy who had shipped a carload of popcorn from Anselm during the previous week. Will Jaster had been among those who had filed on homestead land at Minot during that same week.

The Casey News went on to state, “In seeing the comedy “Johnny Jones, Jr.,” you will see a brand new play presented by capable people and every person in the cast has been especially engaged for each part.”

In other Sheldon area news, it was announced that Miss Stella Burns would be teaching a term in the Utke School in Pontiac Township.

680-2823.Laurie Bischof has been a 4-H leader and Hip-

pology (horses) coach for 18 years. She served on the Ransom County Fair Board for ten years. She is married to Rodney Bischof and they have three adult children.

Bischof took her love of horses and helped, along with Lonnie Rotenberger and Stacy Roten-berger to start “Riding For Dreams.” The dream

was to provide a quality therapeutic riding pro-gram to help children and adults with physical dis-abilities through horseback riding. They opened in May of 2010 in a privately-owned building near Milnor with the help of volunteers.

Today, Riding For Dreams has its own facil-ity and has helped many children with disabilities strengthen muscles, improve posture and coordina-tion and increase joint mobility.

Fair Board to sponsor Laurie Bischof...Continued

had grown up as well as the home of her Dad’s aunt and uncle, where the Ranes family had so often gathered for Christmas dinner.

As the memories kept flooding into her brain, she felt compelled to start writing them down. “I sat down, then and there, and began writ-ing fast and furiously,” Paula recalls. “I decided that, by turning some of those memories into a story, I would end up with a gift I could give to my mother and siblings at our next Christmas gathering. But, as I wrote, I soon realized that it had to be more than a simple, short story. It needed to be a book to share not only with family, but with others as well. There had to be others who have wished they could return to an earlier time in their lives after having learned much more about living.”

Reminiscing about Lisbon also brought back sad memories of when Paula had lost her father, suddenly and unexpectedly, shortly after graduating from high school. There were things she wished she would have told him, but had not had the chance. She believed that many people have experienced similar losses, with the same regrets.

Those, she decided, along with stressing the importance of family, would be the underlying themes in her book.

The Ranes family’s roots run deep in the Lisbon area. Paula’s great-grandfather, Paul B. Ranes, emigrated to the United States from Norway, with two sisters and a brother-in-law, in 1871, at age 20. He and his wife, the former Rena Mattison, moved to Dakota Territory in 1882, where they homesteaded on Section 10 of Aliceton Town-ship, Ransom County, in what would become North Dakota. Soon he became the owner of a sizeable farm. Rena passed away in 1886, leaving Paul with two small sons. In 1889, Paul married Anna Bor-sheim, who had come to the area to teach at the Aliceton School. Paul and Anna had nine children. In 1894, Paul purchased a quarter in Section 3 of Aliceton Township, on the Sheyenne River, which would become the setting for the Ranes family’s “Valley Farm,” later known as the Ranes Stock Farm.

In 1903, the Ranes family moved into a new home on Harris Street in Lisbon, on the bank of the Sheyenne River (the home was recently removed as part of the city’s permanent dike construction project).

George Ranes, Paul and Rena’s second son, became a hero during World War I. After the war he returned to Lisbon, where, in 1919, he purchased an interest in the Lisbon Motor Company. His younger brother, Paul A., Paula’s grandfather, entered the business in the early 1920s. Paul A. Ranes married Anne Crichton, of Verona, in 1927. Paul and Anne had four children.

After George’s untimely death in an airplane accident in 1930, his brother, Paul A., took over the business, home, and farm, buying out his other siblings. His brother, Bert, later joined the Ranes Motors business. Bert married a teacher, Hazel Wilson, in 1935. Bert and Hazel lived at 708 Harris Street, where they raised three girls, Bar-bara, Roberta “Robbie,” and Beth.

Paula’s father, Bob, the oldest son of Paul A. and Anne Ranes, enlisted in the Navy in 1944 and served in the South China Seas during World War II. After the war, he returned home. He attended Macalester College in St. Paul and then returned to Lisbon once again, where he joined his father, Paul, and uncles, Bert and Lawrence, in the Ranes Motor Company. He married Betty Turner of Heaton, ND in 1954. Bob and Betty Ranes built a home at 316 Webster Street, where they raised three daughters, Sara, Paula, and Carol, and a son, Richard. In 1966, Bob joined the Melroe Company (now Bobcat Co. – Doosan Infracore), Gwinner, becoming National Sales Manager of the Industrial Division. In 1976, while working on the Ranes Stock Farm, a pastime he loved, he suffered a fatal accident. Betty moved to Fargo shortly thereafter, where she remains today.

Although Paula moved away from Lisbon shortly after her grad-uation from high school, she finds that remembrance of her home area is constantly present in her mind. “I’ve often realized, when I go back to North Dakota to visit Mom, that you can leave North Dakota,

but North Dakota never leaves you,” she states. “I love going home, which to me will always be North Dakota, particularly the Lisbon area. Facebook is an amazing thing. It has allowed me to become reacquainted with many of my old Lisbon friends.”

Many of her Lisbon friends and acquaintances turn up in her book, with their names slightly changed. Places she remembers from her childhood, such as Sandager Park, with its gazebo, swimming pool, ball diamond, playground equipment, and pavilion, the Presbyterian church where she and her family were very active, Main Street with its many business places, and the Webster Street neighborhood where she grew up, are also woven into her book. Again, some of the names of the places are slightly changed, but they are there.

Although her descriptions of some of the places, such as the park, her family home, and the home of her father’s aunt and uncle, are exactly as she remembers them, some things are changed. Some of the people are patterned after those she knew, while others are fig-ments of her imagination.

Paula’s love of music shines through in the book. Penny, the main character, enjoys singing with her two sisters, just as Paula and her sisters enjoyed singing together.

Paula explains that things just seemed to fall in place as she wrote her book. For example, at one point she hit a roadblock as she pon-dered what song she wanted to be playing on the radio in her story. She searched the songs which were popular in 1973, when the story line in the book takes place, and, be it sheer coincidence or divine intervention, the song at the top of the charts that year just happened to be one which fit perfectly into the scene in which she intended to use it. Another song, which Paula and her sisters liked singing at Christmas time and which they had enjoyed at a concert they attended together in Minneapolis, shortly before Paula began working on her book, also fits in perfectly toward the end of the book, by summing up one of the story’s main themes.

“It was so much fun writing this book!” Paula exclaims. “Who would not enjoy writing their own love story? She finished the manu-script last July and then it went through a rigorous editing process. She first asked one of her sisters to read it. Her sister was able to offer many helpful comments and suggestions. Paula then asked a couple of people outside of her family to read and edit the manuscript. They, too, were able to offer some nice suggestions. She had an artistically talented niece design the book’s cover. Once she felt it was ready, Paul sent the book to CreateSpace.com for publication. CreateSpace, Paula explains, is an Amazon company which helps people indepen-dently publish and distribute books, music, or films. The books were ready just before Christmas – just in time to give them to her family for Christmas as originally planned. Her mother was so overcome with emotion upon receiving the book that she couldn’t even talk.

Now that her first novel is behind her, Paul is working on a sequel, which she hopes to finish by next Christmas. “As with most authors, my first book drew on a lot of personal experiences,” she comments. “The second one has fewer personal connections, but I feel it will offer a good conclusion to the two-book series.” When that book has been completed, I will go on to write a third book, with completely different characters. I already have the outline in my mind for that book.

Paula (Ranes) Thompson is currently wintering in Fort Myer, FL, where she works from home and, in her spare time, continues work-ing on her second book. Her son, Jesse, lives in Columbus, OH, where she spends her summers. Her daughter, Meggan, lives in Detroit, MI. Paula also has a grandson, Sullivan, 7, and two granddaughters, Avery, 6, and Emery, 9 months, with whom she loves to spend time making additional memories.

Autographed copies of her book, “When I Get Home,” will soon be available at Hodenattes in Lisbon. The book is also available on Amazon.com.

Former Lisbonite, Paula (Ranes) Thompson...Continuedthan today’s music,” stated Waliser.

“I think the older music is more fun to play and perform,” commented Schell.

“There is more in the way of a message in the older music than in contemporary hits,” added Aberle.

All three of the students being interviewed agreed that the stu-dents have a lot more work to do during their last few rehearsals. Some of that includes adding additional choreography, fine tuning their solo and group selec-tions, and finishing up the deco-rating for the show. It’s all worth it, though, they state, because it will not only be a fun show to perform, but the show will raise funds to go toward their band and choir trip to Los Angeles, which is scheduled for June 2-6, 2016.

“There are still tickets avail-able for both performances,” commented Waliser. ‘But I’d advise people to get them as soon as possible, because they are going quickly.”

Waliser also mentioned that the group will be having their annual silent auction in con-junction with both concerts, so the public is invited to not only attend the performance but also to check out the many baskets on display in the library and help out the students’ cause by bid-ding on those items.

LHS...ContinuedCarlson was director until

1995, when she found herself stressed and burned out due to her caring spirit.

“Because I cared so much, I initially made the mistake of having the crisis line ring into my home,” said Carlson. “That stress led to burnout and a career change for me.”

The crisis line calls are handled a bit differently now. According to Bethany Peterson, ARN services coordinator, calls go to their office, but, after hours, the caller is directed to call the hospital. The hospital has a list of on call volunteers who will return calls to the person in need.

They used to carry pagers, but that was not the most effective method, according to Peterson. They have found that working with the hospital has been very beneficial to all involved.

“If someone comes into the ER, we have three staff persons who are on a 10 day on, 20 day off emergency rotation,” said Peterson. “Missy Schmidt, for-mer director, Liz Anderson, cur-rent director and myself, respond to those emergencies.”

Following Carlson’s depar-ture from ARN, Jean Thielman became the director, followed by Marilyn Isaacson. Missy Schmidt took over as the direc-tor in November 2002 and was

ARN Silent Auction...Continuedreplaced by Anderson in Febru-ary 2014.

The Silent Auction and Choc-olate Fantasy fundraiser was started with Isaacson and really took off while Anderson was working as the services coordi-nator, according to Schmidt.

“It was Liz who started get-ting the big items for the silent auction, such as the Bison foot-ball and those big draw items,” said Schmidt. “This year, they have added Rosi’s (Delites) soup and buns, which will be a great draw. I have always thought it would be great to add serving lunch to the event but with the limited space it just wasn’t pos-sible.”

Schmidt said the event has continued to grow. Back in the early days they were excited to raise $1,500.

“When we raised $4,000, we thought we just couldn’t go any higher,” said Schmidt. “Then we made it to $6,000 and were beyond thrilled.”

The monies raised by the Silent Auction and Chocolate Fantasy are crucial to the opera-tion of ARN, a group started long ago because there was a need and because people care for one another is still making an impact.

“The people who care enough to help are heroes in our midst,” said Carlson. “I am honored to have worked with them!”

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