THE WALSH COUNTY PRESS Wednesday, June 12, 2019
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Walsh County Press
Staff Report
MEDORA, N.D. -- The
Walsh County Press of Park
River was awarded top hon-
ors at the North Dakota
Newspaper Association Bet-
ter Newspaper Contest
Awards at the NDNA's
133rd annual convention,
held May 30-June 1 in
Medora.
The Press was awarded
the Sweepstakes award for
small weekly newspapers
by earning 2550 points ac-
cumulated through 15 first
places, 10 second places, 6
third places and 0 honorable
mentions for work done in
2018.
Among those first place
honors were special awards
for General Excellence and
Photo of the Year for pho-
tographer Larry Biri.
The judge's comments
regarding Biri"s photo, first
place in outdoor rectreation,
were that "The excitement
on the faces of frolicking
Photo: I any Bid
PJoeve: 2019 Photo of the Year- Caelan, (L to R) Uam, and Christian Pederson had fun tubing at Homme Dam on the
young folk make this photo
rise to the top in a very "Fourth of July. Judge's comments: ='l'he excitement on the faces of frolicking young folk make this photo rise to the top
competitive
race for the in a very competitive race for the photo of the year."
photo Of the year."
For General Excellence'
and Overall Design Excel'-
lence, each newspaper 'is
asked to choose three issues
Front Page Design--
Walsh County Press - Park
River by Allison Olimb
Second Place News
Awards:
Reporting--Hundred for
Haiti x 1.0 by Allison Olimb
Government Series--
from five preselected weeks.
General Excellence'sub-
missions are judged on'news
coverage, feature stories,
Brook Dahlgren, Larry Biri
First Place Photography
Awards:
Sports Photo--
Graflon/Park River Spoiler
captain Suda flipped upside
down by Larry Biri
Picture Story--Midway
3 on 3 Hot Shots by Larry
Biri
Pictorial Photo--Five
year old Dreger climbs
through pile of pumpkins by
Larry Biri
Portrait Photc 3reicar
Larry Biri
Third Place Photogra-
phy Awards:
News Photo--An Ice-
lander's welcome by Larry
Biri
Agricultural Photo--
Picking up the beets by Lar-
ry Biri
First Place Advertising
Awards:
Apparel Ad--Sun and
Snow Sale - Heartland Eye
Care by Allison Olimb '
Home/Gardening Ad--
Promo of Newspaper -
Advertising--Think spring
- Walsh County Press by Al-
lison Olimb
Promo of Newspaper -
Readershilr---Start chang-
ing the world right here by
Allison Olimb
Signature Page--We are
proud of you Grafton/Park
River Spoilers by Allison
Olimb, Brook Dahlgren
The Park River paper
competed in the small week-
ly (1-1,000 circulation) cat-
recipient of award in Senior Greenhouse Opening Soon egory, which includes 47
the News, Photography, and Awards: Citizen Division by- North Star Coop byAllison of the state's 79 weekly
Advertising categories. The ' Fe itUre -Park Biri " Olimb newspapers." CirculatiOn
results follows: l dver teen shmes a-fighton OutdrorRecremtmn Pho-Special Ad Section-- Group is based On the cir-
FirstPl iceNewsAwfii' ! SI ine Bowl by Allison toS--Recreational waters by Graduation Special byAlli- culation listed on the2019
news editing, photography Proposed restaurant requests
and cutliries, headlines and PR liquor ordinance variant
makeup, editorial page, ad- by Allison Olimb
vertising, typography and Sports Page-- Walsh
design and overall product. County Press - Sports Page
The Press finished the by Allison Olimb, Larry
aWards competition with a Biri, Kevin Skavhaug
well-rounded showing in Third Place News
Feature Reporting---Con-
nected to Mars by Allison
Olimb
Business News Report-
ing--Safe-T-Pull, Inc. gains
new, fan,i[ "at product line by
Allison Olimb
Olimb Larry Biri (Also selected son Olimb, Brook Dahlgren, NDNA Rate Sheet, which
AgriculturalCoverage-- for Photo of the Year in the Larry Biri was determined by the 2018
Piece of Park River comes weekly division.) Second Place Advertising Statement of Ownership.
down by Allison OlimbSecond Place Photogra- Awards: Additional divisions are
Personal Column - Hu-phyAwards: FoodAd--Papa Chuck's Mid-SizeWeekly (23 news-
morous--From the Editor's Spot News Photo-- BBQ Ribs - The Sandbar by papers), Large Weekly (9
Desk- March 7, 2018 byA1- Knocked sideways by Lar- Allison Olimb newspapers), Small Daily (6
lison Ofimb ry Biri Health Care Ad--Get newspapers) and Large Dai-
Overall Design Excel-Feature Photo--Spoiler back to a healthier you in ly (4 newspapers).
lence--Overall Design Ex- cheerleader Shantel Carl- 2018 - GPR Chiropractic Judges this year were
cellence by Allison Olimb, son reacts to close call by Clinics by Allison Olimb from Utah.
Special News Section--
Walsh County Fair Pre Fair
Special by Allison Olimb,
Brook Dahlgren, Larry Biri
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MEDORA, N.D. -- North
Dakota's top newspapers by circu-
lation class are The Bismarck Trib-
une, The Dickinson Press, The
Walsh County Record of Grafton,
The News Monitor in Hankinson
and the Walsh County Press of Park
River.
They were the first-place winners
in the general excellence category
burn.
For small weeklies, judges re-
warded the Walsh County Press for
"Good news coverage and good use
of resources." Second place went to
The Mountrail County Record in
Parshall and third to the New Town
News.
Sweepstakes awards were also
handed out to the newspapers in
oftheNorthDakotaNewspaperAs- each category that received the
sociation's annualBetter Newspa- most awards in the Better News-
per Contest.
Judging of general excellence
covers pll aspects of the newspaper,
including news and advertising,
layout and design, and even head-
line writing.
The awards were handed out Fri-
day, May 31, 2019 during NDNA's
133rd annual convention, held in
Medora.
paper Contest.
Winning sweepstakes awards
were The Grand Forks Herald; The
Daily News of Wahpeton; The
Walsh County Record of Grafton;
The Hillsboro Banner; and the
Walsh County Press of Park River.
Several special awards were
also handed out Friday, including:
John Miller of The Forum of
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All awards are made in five cir-
culation categories: large dailies,
small dailies, large weeklies, medi-
um weeklies and small weeklies.
Judges called The Bismarck
Tribune a "beautiful newspaper
with great writing, coverage and
production."
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
was second and the Grand Forks
Herald third in general excellence
for large dailies.
For small dailies, judges called
The Dickinson Press a "Great news-
paper." The Daily News in Wah-
peton was the second place winner
m general excellence, The
Jamestown Sun was third and the
Wdliston Herald received honorable
mention.
The Walsh County Record is a
"very good newspaper on its way to
being excellent," said judges of
large weeklies, who particularly
like the p r s diverse bntent,:
cal editOrials;:and sc l tfid pOrts
sections.
Second place went to the
McKenzie County Farmer of Wat-
ford City; third place toThe Jour-
nal in Crosby; and honorable men-
tion to the Bottineau CouranL
For medium sized': weeklies,
judges said the News Monitor "ex-
cels in news reporting, photography,
and local opinion." Second place
went to The Hillsboro Banner and
third to the Leader-News of Wash-
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Fargo-Moorheadwas namedrook- :,4
ie reporter of the year. .
The award for Community
Service Journalism went to the
staff of The Forum of Fargo-Moor- =,
head for its coverage of problems ;;
with the community's outdoor skat-
ing rinks.
The First Amendment Award
wentto BradNygaard ofThe Jour- :: i:
nal in Crosby for coverage of an
election campaign dispute between
a state's attomey and a candidate for
sheriff.
The High School Reporter of
the Year Award went to Morgan --
Hovde of The Walsh County
Record in Grafton.
The Newspapers in Educa-
tion Newspaper of the Year Award
went to The Forum of Fargo-Moor
head.
The award for Public Notice
"Journalisin went to,The Grand
: FOrks' Herald f0r.its 0ntinuing '
=coverage of dysfunction on the
Roosevelt City Council in Min-
nesota.
Photographs by Eric Hylden of
The Grand Forks Herald and Lar- i
ry Biri of the Walsh County Press
in Park River were selected for Pho-
tos of the Year. Hylden's photo in
the daily division is of a cattle
drive during heavy snowfall, and :,5
Biri's is of three children being i!
pulled on an inner tube in a lake.
grants. The Northeast North Dako-
ta Heritage Association oversees the
buildings at the Heritage Center.
The Svold Community HallAs-
sociation has been working to install
indoor bathrooms that will also be
handicap accessible. The project will
cost about $30,000 with the addition
of volunteer work from a contrac-
tor and community members to
help. They have raised half of the
funding, and the $500 Heritage
Sites Grant will help them to
achieve their goal.
The ICA was able to provide
these grants through the money
raise at the auctions at the previous
year's Thorrablot. The support of
those that donate items for the auc-
tions and those that bid on the live
and silent auction items, and our
auctioneer extraordinaire, Dennis
Biliske is much appreciated! We
look forward to giving grants again
at the Thorrablot in February 2020
after the successful auctions at this
year's ThorrabloL,
MOUNTAIN, N.D. -- Shel-
by Byron received a $1000 schol-
arship from the Icelandic Com-
munities Association of Moun-
tain, ND, to participate in the
Snorri program this summer.
Shelby stated she was interested
in going to Iceland to learn more
about her ancestors and the Ice-
landic culture.
The Snorri Program is an op-
portunity for young people (18-
28) of Icelandic origin living in
Canada and the US. Shelby will
spend six weeks from mid June
until the end of July in Iceland
discovering the country of Ice-
land, its' culture, nature and lan-
guage. She will also meet with
relatives living in Iceland as part
of the Program.
Shelby grew up in the Ice-
landic community of Mountain
She said that influenced her de-
sire to be part of the Snorri Pro-
gram. "I have grown up hearing
stories of my ancestors at Borg
programs, the Deuce programs,
and even at church. I have been
surrounded by people who are
proud of their (Icelandic) culture
my entire life and it has definitely
rubbed off on me."
The money to support Shelby
was made possible through the
funds raised at the silent and live
auctions at the February
Thorrablot in Mountain
The ICA appreciates all those
that support the auctions so that
the scholarship can be given.
community diaper bank. Because Walsh County
doesn't have a dedicated diaper bank, the health dis-
trict discussed opening the baby shower idea to col,
lect items for children of all ages.
Social Services offered a number of suggested items
such as wipes, toothbrushes and small toothpastes, di-
apers of all sizes, Pull Ups, underwear, socks, pajamas;
outfits, bottles, and monetary donatiOns.
"We really had a great turnout of things," Ostenrude
said. The goal was to get "anything that any kid could
use if they were taken from their home."
The event was held in April as April is Child Abuse
Prevention Month. As the month went on, the idea ex-
panded to beyond the county offices with pick up lo-
cations popping up m Park River in. addition to
Graflon.
Ostenrude said that it was fun to see all of the items
that came into their office prior to distribution.
"They used everything that we collected," she said.
"We would love to do it again."
Novak said that some of the items went into social
service vehicles. Diapers, wipes, books, etc often are
needed in the immediate pick up phase. Thanks to the
donations delivered in early May, they are able to pro-
vide a child with something as simple as a toothbrush
or underwear and with it, something they can call their
By Linda Thorson, State Director
Concerned Women for America
EDINBURG, N.D. -- I pose this question:
"What if North Dakota, who leads the nation in
binge and underage drinking, partnered with An-
heuser-Busch (the largest beer brewing compa-
ny) to 1) provide teacher training on how to teach
'safe drinking,' 2) budget thousands for can
coolers, and 3) funnel grant money back to An-
heuser-Busch instructors?'" Most would agree it
would be irresponsible and a conflict of interest.
As preposterous as an idea this would be, a sim-
ilar scenario is playing out right under our noses
in the state. Despite last year's backlash from
North Dakota citizens, North Dakota State Uni-
versity (NDSL0 and Planned Parenthood have
teamed up yet again to offer kindergarten through
high school teachers' credit for a course that will
"promote healthy sexuality and relationships
among the youth they serve."
So why the concem? Because former em-
ployees have exposed that one of Planned Par-
enthood's company goals is for 12 to 18-year-old
girls to have three to five abortions - and they use
sex education to sell abortions by first breaking
down natural modesty of early elementary students
through materials like Robbie Hams- book It's Per-
fectly Normal, which includes pictures of nude
bodies and sexual demonstrations.
Planned Parenthood has a lot to gain by
teaching classes that include a budget of thousands
own.
There is a reimbursement system for foster parents,
but donations can be especially helpful when a child ';"7
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is placed. When kids are transitioned to an emergency
placement situation, "they might not come with any-
thing," Novak explained.
Novak said that they always are looking for people
willing to foster as the need is high and they really try :
to keep the children that they take into custody close
to home. "It takes a really special person to be a fos-
ter parent," she said.
Novak added that they are always open to mone-
tarydonations or purchased items. A cash donation
might then be used to purchase perishable items such
as baby formula, but Novak added, it might go toward
Parks and Rec. program activity fees. Donations like
,~
that can give a child a chance to participate when some
don't get that opportunity.
Thanks to the community coming together in this
way, Novak said that Social Services is able to fill the
gap for kids who just need a little.normalcy. :
They recently brought a foster parent to the office
with the collection of items brought in thanks to the gen- .:
erosity of people participating in this event, and they
asked her if there was anything she was in need of. "She -c
was just thrilled," Novak said. :,
STATEWIDE -- From April 1
through May 19, law enforce-
ment agencies across North Dako-
ta deployed extra patrols enforc-
ing the law against underage drink-
ing, as well as conducting com-
pliance checks and shoulder taps,
as part of the Drive S0ber or Get
Pulled Over campaign: ::
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of dollars for safe sex supplies designed to en-
courage sexual activity, such as condoms and birth
control kits. Their president, Dr. Leana Wen, is on
record saying Planned Parenthood's core mission
is to expand access to kindergarten through high
school-aged students-via sex education.
The truth is, Planned Parenthood's materials
funneled through NDSU to our classroom teach-
ers is a blatant attempt to normalize their propa-
ganda and push sexual relationships on young chil-
dren for the benefit of the abortion industry.
NDSU and our children have absolutely nothing
to gain by this partnership.
Editor's Note: Thorson, Concerned Women for
Amet4ca, North Dakota State Director, is from Ed-
inburg, N.D.
A total of 201 citations were at-
tributed to the added enforce-
ment, including 21 minor in con-
sumption citations, 17 minor in
7,:;
possession citations, 31 speeding :-i:
citations, seven drug-related cita-
tions, and seven Driving Under the "
Influence (DUI) arrests. :.i:
Deterring teens from alcohol ,
and/or drugs is a critical message
;r;'
for law enforcement to commu- ,;,
nicate. This additiOnal enforcement
is part oftheVision Zero strategy ,o,
to eliminate motor vehicle fatali-
ties and serious injuries on North
Dakota roads.
