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The Press
June 1, 2010
Walsh County Extension Office Park River - 284-6624
Anthracnose Hitting
Ash Trees Hard
Anthracnose is causing these
ash tree leaves to curl and the
edges to turn black and die.
A disease that's causing ash
rees to lose their leaves won't kill
trees.
Many people have noticed
leaves falling from their ash trees
and are worried the trees are
dying.
They can stop worrying,
according to Joe Zeleznik, North
Dakota State University
Extension Service forestry
specialist.
"The leaves are falling due to a
fungal problem called ash
anthracnose," Zeleznik says. "Ash
tissue grows normally.
"At this point, fungicide
treatments are not warranted,"
Zelezl ik says. "Fungicides for ash
anthracnose should be applied
only before the disease hits, and
we've missed that window of
opportunity."
The amount 6f leaf loss can be
worrisome to some people, but it
is not considered "major" until 25
percent or more of the leaves are
gone. At that point, a tree can
begin+to get stressed. Trees that
lose this quantity of leaves for
three or more consecutive years
are the most susceptible to
decline.
About the only action people
can take now is to help defoliated
trees grow new leaves by giving
anttuacnose occurs every year, them a light application of
and this year it's especially nitrogen fertilizer at the rate of 1
+ problematic." to 2 pounds per 1,000 square feet,
I ~ The cool, wet conditions that Zeleznik says.
followed initial leaf-out provided In the fall, raking and
' the fungus with near-perfect destroying fallen leaves also will
growing conditions. With the help minimize next year's disease
rapid leaf growth that followed pressure because the fungus
the recent warm temperatures, the overwinters in dead leaf tissue,
fungal population exploded, and among other substances.
many ash trees began losing their "Mostly, though, it's simply a
leaves, matter of waiting out the disease
Leaf loss may continue for a and allowing nature to take its
ouple of weeks .until drier course," Zeleznik says.
onditions prevail or, developing For more information about
' ]eaf tissue hardens off for the Ash Anthracnose contact the
summer. Leaves that don't fall off Extension Office at 701.284.6624.
may grow into curled shapes as
and die
the remainder of the leaf
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Till next week -Marty
Information adapted from NDSU
Agriculture Communications.
Happenings at Our Good
Samaritan
Monica Simon ADC
Hello,
I just arrived home from a road
trip. Not the kind we took in college.
But a business road trip. To Houston,
Texas. That is south of here. A long
ways south of here.
It was an interesting trip. First I
had to go over to Casper, Wyoming.
Then headed south into and across
Colorado. It was like traveling
through a Louis L'Amour book. Or
maybe Larry McMurty's "Lonesome
Dove". I would be crossing the
Oklahoma panhandle and into the
Texas panhandle north of Amarillo.
The next couple days I would be
crossing the rivers that Gus and
Cap'n Call trailed their herd across.
As I drove, I felt I could see the
Apaches on the horizon and had to
marvel at how huge and open this
world must have seemed a mere
century and a half ago. I was making
nearly 800 miles a day. Ten miles a
day was good on a trail drive.
I went through Last Chance,
Colorado. After being up here in the
oil boom, Last Chance looked as if
maybe it had missed its chance. But
then again, there was peace and quiet.
I passed through Kit Carson,
Colorado. Goodnight, Texas.
Quanah, Texas. Names that made me
recall wonderful stories of wild times
and strong men. Red Cloud,
Nebraska. Fort Morgan, Colorado.
Cheyenne, Wyoming. I drove in
thunderstorms rolling down out of
the Rockies and saw thunderheads
spewing tornadoes on the Oklahoma
plains.
I crossed the Republican and
Arkansas rivers. Looked down on the
Red River and saw the muddy waters
of the Cimarron, churning from the
burst of storms the past few days. I
passed over the Dismal, Canadian,
and Cheyenne Rivers. I traveled up
the Solomon river valley in Kansas. I
saw wheat fields ripening in Texas
and the wonderful green wheat in
Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. I
drove through the sandhills of
Nebraska, and as they proudly say,
saw "God's own cattle country".
But the most wonderful sight I
saw was a young lady in Te;~as. She
was driving a wrecker. Really! A fuel
line had busted on my pickup
between Dallas and Houston. It
wasn't the worst place in the world to
break down, but it dam sure isn't a
spot you'd pick.
Being too dumb to figure out the
GPS machine on the dash, which
would tell me exactly where I was, I
figured it out pretty close on the map.
I then called Carm in Camp Crook,
South Dakota. She googled me up a
wrecker from a small town. They
said they could be there in 45
minutes. I wasn't leaving, so that was
fine with me.
Then here comes this young lady
driving the wrecker. She wheels
through the traffic, backs up to my
truck, starts throwing chains and
cables around. Being a macho guy, I
quickly stepped in to help. Promptly
hooking everything up wrong.
Finally she politely asked that I just
step back and she would load my
truck up.
Turns out that she and her mother
each had a wrecker. Her grandfather
had started the business, but was in
bad health, so she and her mother
operated the company.
She had to hurry, because she was
a single mother, and had to pick her
son up at kindergarten in a bit. We
had a good visit as she hauled me
fifteen miles to a little fix it shop. She
impressed me. I gave her a nice tip to
buy her son something for
kindergarten graduation.
And the next day, as I headed
north, I was thinking, it was young
people like that young lady that
crossed those rivers and forged those
trails that we have been following for
the past couple hundred years.
And I was proud to knbw that
wrecker truck driver.
Later, Dean
Importance of loo% Smoke-free Work Places
Reports from the American Cancer Society, American Lung
Association, and American Heart Association all consistently
indicate that exposure to secondhand smoke has negative
health effects both for the smoker and the nonsmoker. Based
on several studies the US Surgeon General has concluded
there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke.
Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at work are at
increased risk for adverse health effects. Secondhand smoke
causes premature death and disease in children and adults
who do not smoke. Secondhand smoke has been shown to
cause heart disease and lung cancer along with a variety of
Democrats Continue
Their Suicidal Ways
Even though their ship is
listing as it struggles to port,
Democrats have continued to
demonstrate an uncanny ability to
disregard reality and destroy
themselves electorally. As the
water rises, they are too busy
fighting over the deck chairs to
launch the lifeboats.
Most Democrats are concerned
about the slaughter of moderates
in Republican primaries and
conventions, but Republicans are
not alone in running moderates
out of office. A cursory glance
across the electoral landscape
a campaign. Republicans have
held the govemorship for 16 years
in this Democratic state because
Democrats spend all of their
energy and money bleeding each
other in primary elections. It
seems that every Democrat in
Minnesota thinks that he/she is
qualified to be governor. They're
at it again in 2010.
Looking back in North Dakota
electoral history, true-blue
Democrats are reaping what they
sowed when they spumed the
nomination of John Hoeven as
their candidate for governor.
reveals scores of political battles When John was trying to find
It's hard to believe the month of May is over and June is here. We other health problems. In fact secondhand smoke has been
have many June activities scheduled: shown to increase a nonsmoker's risk of coronary artery
' June 3 2:30 Monthly Communion Service Rev. Jeff Johnson disease by 25-30%. "
June 10 WELCA Meeting in Edinburg
June 10 3:00 Monthly Birthday Party Hoople Lutheran Church
June187:30 Mennonite Singers Comprehensive smoke-free workplaces laws protect
June 24 3:00 GSCAuxiliary Lunch and Program hosted by Bethel everyone from secondhand smoke. In addition, smokd-free
I Baptist Church . laws also help the smokers, )The National Cancer Institute
I would like to thank the Mountain Lutheran Church of Adams for found that being employed workplace where smoking is
providing our Auxiliary lunch and program on Thursday. prohibited is associated with":a:-reduction in the number of
cigarettes smoked per day an increase in the success rate
Devotional leaders for the week were: Monica Simon, Lorene
Larson. Shelly Johnson, and Jan Novak. Accompanists were Susan
Johnson. Jan Novak and Monica Simon. We would like to thank Re.
Jeff Johnson for leading Sunday Services and Father Unger for Mass.
Shirley Sobolik led Rosary.
I would like to thank everyone who shared their times and talents
with us again this week:, Senior Band, Lois Ydstie , Auxiliary
members, Leona Walstad, Darlene K_nutson, Joyce Torgerson,
Lorraine Thompson, Janice Englerth, Pearl Kotaska,
and Yvonne Walstad.
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of smokers who are attempting to quit.
The Surgeon General has concluded that smoke-free
workplace policies are the only effective way to do away with
secondhand smoke in the workplace. However, due to
exemptions for certain workplaces, lack of understanding of
current smoke-free laws, and noncompliance it is estimated
that 25-40% of the U.S. population is still exposed to cigarette
smoke and its inherent risks.
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Do your part to help control the negative effects of
secondhand smoke. If you smoke, contact the ND Tobacco
Quitline at v8oo-QUIT-NOW for assistance in quitting. If you
continue to smoke, do not smoke around others. If you work
with or live with someone who smokes ensure that they
smoke outside away from others. Lastly, support smoke-free
laws that apply to all workplaces and public environments.
in which Democrats are spending himself politically, he let the
millions to destroy otherDemocrats know that he was
Democrats. persuadable.
They just fmished burying But true-believing Democrats
Senator Aden Specter in a resisted his nomination and have
Pennsylvania primary because he since lived with the consequences
wasn't the right hue of blue. of their ineptness. For that bad
Howard Dean former chair of the judgment, they lost the
Dem+oc+m fic National Committee, go em . And instead of
flew' candidate !:Republicarrg0:
against Rep. Jane Harman in the U, 2S. Senate in 2010, they
California because she is too would havebeensendinganother
centrist.
In Arkansas, Lt. Gov. Bill
Halter just forced Senator
Blanche Lincoln into a run-off
election because she was too
moderate. Of course, he doesn't
say that in conservative Arkansas
but that is the reason he is being
supported by the more liberal left.
(Having known a number of
lieutenant governors, I can say
that many of them do nothing but
prowl the political landscape,
willing to devour their own kind
to gain a public office. Lieutenant
Governor Halter is a case in
point.)
Then there is the perennial
Democratic mess in State of
Minnesota. Ineptness among
Democrats has become so chronic
that Republicans can bank on
winning the governorship without
Democrat to fill Senator Byron
Dorgan's seat.
Suicide in the Democratic
Party is nothing new. The
composition of the Democratic
Party is more diverse than the
Republican Party, and this
diversity results in greater
fragmentation and
disorganization.
Before Democrats can
challenge Republicans they must
first negotiate among.themselves.
Their behavior in current
primaries and conventions
indicate they are more willing to
go down with the ship than share.
the helm.
Unity would have had its
rewards in this tough political
year. when Republicans are
purgmg their moderate
incumbents
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