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Above: Walsh and Pembina County Farm Bureau were host to District 10 and Disbict 19 Legislative Forums last Saturday. Mountain hosted a convemalJon among DistTict 10 legislatom and people they rep-
resent while Grafton was host to the District 19 event. Rachel Bina of the Walsh County Farm Bureau (far right) moderated the event in Grafton with (L to R) Rep. Wayne Trotlier, Sen. Tom Campbell, and
Rap. Gary Paur, Waish County is divided by the two disldcts westem Waish in Dis 'ict 10 and eastem Walsh in District 19.
GRAFTON, N.D. -- The Red Crystal Street Paving Project. The • $100,628.71 CDBG grant
River Regional Council (RRRC) City is planning to repave all of the funds to the City of Cavalier
awarded funding to three region- city streets later this year. The Housing Rehabilitation Project.
al projects at its Board of Directors CDBG funds will be used to pay These funds are part of the Phase
meeting on February 19 in the special assessments of the II funding package. These funds
Grafton. The awards are as fol- low and moderate-income house- match $163,278 recently awarded
lows: holds. This application will now be by the Federal Home Loan Bank.
• $224,030.84 of Community forwarded to the ND Department RRRC Funding
Development Block Grant of Commerce-DivisionofCom-
(CDBG) funds to the City of munity Services for a grant award. COl'it. page 5
GRAFTON, N.D. -- The The program's goals are to in- being offered in every state this
North Dakota State University crease the consumption of and ac- spring.
Extension Service is holding cess to locally and regionally pro- NDSU Extension, in collabo-
workshops in March to help those duced agricultural products, and ration with the North Central Re-
applying for a federal grant develop new markets for local gional Center for Rural Develop-
through the Farmers Market and farm and ranch operations. This ment, is partnering with the U.S.
Local Food Promotion Program. includes starting, improving or Department of Agriculture's
The statewide opportunity that expanding farmers markets, road-
will be taking place in Dickinson, side stands, community-sup- Local Foods
Minot, and Wahpeton will include ported agriculture programs and COnt. page 3
a stop in Walsh County. agritourism activities. Grants are
Photo: Larry Bid
By Allison Olimb
of The Press
PARK RIVER, N.D. -- Park River
Area senior Alexa Thompson, daughter of
Tom and Angela Thompson, has made a
name for herself among the region's ice
skaters.
In her final skating competition of the
year in Moorhead, Minn., on Feb. 13 and 14
she brought home a third place in the com-
pulsory event and a first place in the free
skate.
The compulsory event involved five re-
quired elements on half ice with no music.
The free skate, she said, is like you see on
TV where the skaters perform to music.
In either competition she beat out eight
other skaters to place.
She has been skating in the Park River
Figure Skaters program since she was five
and this summer she started skating with the
Grand Forks program to get a little more ice
time in her year. Along with the added train-
ing, she started skating competitively for the
first time in her skating career.
Her current level is preliminary flee skate.
She said she wants to continue her skating
and "keep testing as high as I can." She
Skating
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Lakota-Edmore takes Region 4
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