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THE WALSH COUNTY PRESS ° ~/VEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
FROM THE
EDITOR'S DESK...
BY ALLISON OLIA4B
EDITOR, WALSH COUNTY PRESS
Ever heard the phrase "phoning
it in"? If you give it the "Urban
Dictionary" once over it basically
means to have completed an action,
especially giving a performance,
while showing a minimum of ef-
fort.
I did the work last week, but I
can guarantee you that ifI spoke to
you for a story or discussed an
event with you over the phone, I
was doing so from the dock of the
lake at Tipsinah Mounds Camp-
ground near Elbow Lake, Minn.
Me and my laptop were doing
layout from the beach while my
munchkins were splashing in the
water. If you ask Brook, I proba-
bly should have lost my cell phone
and made it a real vacation, but
tried. I was pulling in a bass or two
offthe dock with my daughter be-
tween deadlines. I am almost in-
capable of not working, which
you can take either way. My brain
is always in job mode and there is
no one to replace me in the office
and do the work I do unless I hire
out. But I digress...
The week was beautiful. The
sun was shining. The bugs were
minimal. The water was just right.
And the company couldn't have
been better.
It was my family, my sister-in-
law, my mother-in-law, and my
nieces and nephews.
The Olimbs have been doing
this weeklong gettogether for years, last February and we pulled in a
I still remember my first trip. In big one. It was a bass her grand-
2008, my husband (then boyfriend) pa would have been proud of.
asked ifl wouldjoin in on their an- We pulled him off the hook and
nual tradition. We had only been to- tossed him back in with a fishy kiss
gether for a few months and I de- and a "good luck." Two seconds
cided to take the opportunity, later we pulled in a bigger one. I
My sister-in-law was a little could almost hear what her grand-
shocked. She looked at me and pa would have said.., what he
couldn't believe that I was willing said that first year when he could-
to go on this trip hours from home
with his whole family (some I n't believe I was snagging them off
was just meeting for the first time) the dock when he couldn't catch
without an escape plan -- no ex- a thing the year before after hours
tra car, no way out. out on the boat. He would have
It ended up being a great time. spent hours on that dock with
There was fishing, jet skiing, those kids. I made sure they all got
swimming, boating, kneeboarding, a line in if they wanted to.
attempts at water skiing, tubing, For all of those times over the
board games, and more food than year when work took priority over
anyone knew what to do with. The the "hey, morn" moments, I made
faces have changed over the years sure that this week I was keeping
with a couple of losses and a few priorities in check and while I
more babies, but the idea still is the might have been "phoneing it in"
same. for work, I definitely wasn't when
I sat on the dock with Olivia as it came to family.
she fished with the ice fishing
rod she got from the Park River "Like" the Walsh County Press on Face-
Parks and Rec. Fishing Derby book.com.
Hello,
This is a column that is kind of
like the Seinfeld show. A column
about nothing. Or it could be con-
sidered a column about every-
thing.
This has been a tough year be-
cause of the drought. Hay was hard
to find. I stooped to cutting kochia
weeds in the old city lagoon. Now
kochia is a big, bushy green weed
that thrives in adverse conditions.
It is the kind of week that helped
livestock survive the thirties.
But one of the problems is it can
be high in nitrates. And that can be
fatal to cattle.
I was telling a friend about it
and that I would need to test it. He
said his neighbor had a unique way
of testing his standing crops for ni-
they survived he calls up the cat-
tle's owner and tells him his cows
are out again.
I guess it works fairly well
and is cheaper, at least for the crop
owner, than sending the crop in for
a test.
I always get comments about
Shirley. People think she gets
picked on in my column! Really!
They think she gets picked on in
my column. I don't have the slight-
est idea where that could come
from.
And one more thing.
We were having coffee with a
neighbor the other day and were
visiting about patrolman picking
people up. Because I had been re-
cently received a verbal warning.
No ticket mind you. Just a warn-
ing.
This guy had been picked up for
wonderful bunch of horses being .going 10 mph over the speed lim-
sold by a good friend. The auc- it.
tioneer is also a good friend of As the patrolman was walking
mine. up he quickly reached up and
In comes this kind of plain hurriedly fastened his seat belt.
looking mare. She wasn't carrying The patrolman quizzed him
any chrome. Just a pretty nice kind about his seat belt usage.
of mare with no particular mark- "Did you have your seat belt
ings. fastened before I stopped you," he
The auctioneer was pointing asked?
this out to the crowd and made the "I certainly did"!
remark that "dancing girls don't The patrolman smiled slightly
make the best cooks"! and asked, "Isn't it hard to drive
I guess at that point I shouldn't with your seat belt fastened
Now, yesterday we attended a have poked Shirley with my elbow through the steering wheel"?
Later, Dean
trates.
He would simply open the gate
and let 4 or 5 of his neighbor's
cows in the field for a few days. If horse sale in South Dakota. A and said, "I love your hotdish"!
I", Happenings at Our
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-'~, ~ "i;~ Nannette Hoeger, Activities Dir.
We are so thankful for the shot
of rain last week, not as thankful
as the crops and the gardens how-
ever. We had one resident say it
was a billion dollar rain!
This week Aug. 6th - 12th
Aug. 6th 2:30 Worship w/Pas-
tor Brezenski, 3pm Making Pota-
to Salad, 5pm - 7pm Garden Par-
ty w/The K-Street Band
Aug. 7th 10am Embroidery
Group, 1:30 Drive RSVP, 5pm
Rosary, 6pro Men's Night
Aug. 8th 9am Peeling Potatoes,
1 pm Beading
Aug. 9th 3:15 Bingo
Aug. 10th 3pm Birthday Party
hosted by the Star Committee,
6:30 Movie Night
Aug. 1 lth Clergy Visits, 10:30
Nail Time, lpm Music Therapy,
3pm Rummage Sale, 7:30 Men-
nonite Singers
Aug. 12th 9:30 Mass w/Father
Miller, lpm Perseid Meteor Show-
er, 2:15 Bingo
Next week Aug. 13th - 19th
Aug. 13th 2:30 Worship w/
Father Miller, 3:30 Games/Cards
Aug. 14th Barber Cuts, 10am
Embroidery Group, 1:30 Drives
RSVP, 5pm Rosary, 6:45 Bingo
Aug. 15th 9am Peeling Pota-
toes, lpm Crochet Group, 3pm
Woodstock Anniversary
Aug. 16th 3:15 Bingo
Aug. 17th lpm Making Fruit
Kabobs, 6:30 Movie Night
Aug. 18th Clergy Visits, 10:30
Nail Time, lpm Music Therapy,
3:30 Outdoor Strolls
Aug. 19th 9:30 Mass w/Father
Miller, lpm World Honey Bee
Day, 2:15 Bingo
Thank you to our many volun-
teers; The Federated Church,
Shirley Sobolik, Mary Simundson,
Lois Ydstie, Mary Seim, Dorothy
Novak, Pastor Hinrichs, Pastor
Brezenski, Corinne Ramsey, Fa-
ther Miller, Joan Olson and fam-
ily for the P6nnukfkurs, Mary
Lund, Robert Arnold, and anyone
I may have missed I am sorry. If
you would like to volunteer please
call Rose Ulland at 701-284-7115.
OFF TO COLLEGE . . . WHICH
VACCINA'IT.0NS I)O I NEED? 8-2017
Walsh County Health District
Short Shots
Prevent. Promote, Protect.
August is National Immunization Awareness Month, and it's also
when most college students are getting ready to go to school. Any col-
lege under the North Dakota University System requires documenta-
tion of certain vaccinations. However, not all of the recommended vac-
cinations are listed as "required". Listed below are the vaccinations
that are recommended for any college-aged individual.
• 2 doses of MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella): given at the age
of 1 year and again with "kindergarten shots" in between ages 4-6.
• 2 doses ofMCV4 (meningococcal): given at age 10 (a requirement
for the entrance of 7th grade). A booster is administered between the
ages of 16-18 years old. This booster is REQUIRED for any college
under the North Dakota University System.
• Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis "whooping cough"): giv-
en at age 7 (a requirement for the entrance of Vth grade). After the im-
munization at 7 years old, a booster is recommended every 10 years.
Immunizations are very important for your protection against seri-
ous illness and disease. If you have any questions about requirements,
vaccinations, or your immunization record call Walsh County Health
District at 701-352-5139.
Your community, Your paper, Your story.
Contact Allison or Brook at the Walsh County Press
284-6333 or wcpress@polarcomm.com
ND Licensing Boards
Facing 2 Challenges
According to the Office of the
Governor, North Dakota has 45
boards, commissions and entities
charged with licensing various
professions to protect the health
and welfare of the consuming
public. These boards are currently
facing two challenges.
A well-funded group of liber-
tarians are arguing that many of
the licensing boards ought to be
abolished so that more people
could practice without qualifying
for a professional license.
The proposal is being passed
off as a jobs program but the real
motive is opposition to govern-
ment regulations of any kind, in-
cluding licensing of professions.
They want more of a free market
in the personal service industry.
They get fodder for their case
from states like Illinois where li-
censing has run rampant and pro-
fessions are called professions
that are hardly professional.
That is not the case in North
Dakota. A review of our 45 li-
censing boards indicates that the
state is requiring licenses for pro-
fessions that need more than street
knowledge.
Since North Dakota cannot be
accused with overreach in license
requirements, this issue will not go
far in the Legislature. However,
a recent U. S. Supreme Court de-
cision poses a more serious chal-
lenge.
The controversy started when
the North Carolina Board of Den-
tal Examiners controlled by den-
tists issued a "cease and desist" or-
der to non-dentists who were en-
gaged in teeth whitening.
The Federal Trade Commission
ruled that the Board's action con-
stituted an unreasonable restraint
of trade and violated federal an-
titrust laws. By a vote of 6-3, the
Supreme Court agreed that li-
censing boards controlled solely
by the professions were a threat to
the free market.
The solution to this problem,
according to the FTC, is tighter
state supervision of the boards.
The North Dakota Legislature is
now studying methods by which
the state supervision requirement
could be met without revamping
all of the licensing boards.
North Dakota law gives pro-
fessions outright control of 43 of
the 45 boards. Of the 274 mem-
bers serving on the 45 boards, 55
are designated as consumer rep-
resentatives. The only licensing
units that could be controlled by
consumers under present law are
the Aeronautics Commission and
the Board of Abstractors.
There is no doubt that the leg-
islative interim committee will
leave no stone unturned to pre-
serve the present board structure.
It seems that the choices facing the
interim committee are either clos-
er state review of all decisions
made by boards or requiting a ma-
jority of nonprofessionals on every
board.
Requiring all licensing boards
to load up on consumers may
sound great to some reformers but
that solution is unworkable. Per-
haps most boards could add two
or three nonprofessionals but that
would be about the limit for most
of them.
Take the nine-member State
Board of Nursing Home Exam-
iners, for example. To represent
this important profession, the
Board has the following repre-
sentatives: one physician, one
hospital administrator, four li-
censed home administrators, a
nurse, the State Health Officer and
an executive from the Depart-
ment of Human Services..
In the first place, boards of
eight or more members are already
cumbersome so this board is al-
ready pushing the limit. To meet
Supreme Court requirements, 10
nonprofessionals would have to be
added, making it a 19-member as-
sembly. Unworkable!
Right now, the Legislature's in-
terim committee is faced with
defining what constitutes state
supervision. What does that mean?
How much oversight is needed? It
will be necessary to strike a deli-
cate balance between the Court's
mandate and preserving the pres-
ent system.
'Since these licensing boards
don't deal directly with con-
sumers, most citizens are un-
aware and unconcerned about
their performance even though
they are important for the quality
of health care, education and
scores of other services in North
Dakota.
Extension Exchange
Tomatoes are a
Can you name the top four veg-
etables? Do you think tomatoes
are on the list?
Potatoes, lettuce and onions are
at the top for the most popular
flesh-market vegetables, but the
tomato comes in just behind these
in fourth place.
Tomatoes are grown for the fresh
or processed market. Three-fourths
of the tomatoes Americans consume
are in processed form.
Tomato sauce, which is used on
pizza and in pasta sauces, and sal-
sa are the most common uses for
tomatoes. Consumption of processed
tomatoes has increased steadily
since the 1980s due to the rising pop-
ularity of pizza, pasta and salsa.
You also can use tomatoes in
soups, salads, sandwiches, quiche
and relishes, or roasted or stewed.
You can eat tomatoes fresh or dry,
can or freeze them for later con-
sumption.
A wide range of tomato varieties
are grown throughout the world.
Tomatoes may be green, red, pink,
yellow, orange, burgundy, purple,
streaked and striped or black, and
will vary in size and flavor.
Tomato varieties that have grown
sucp,,essfully in Noah Dakota include
Celebrity, Big Beef, Big Boy, Health
Kick, Sugary, Roma VF, Juliet, Jol-
ly and Early Girl.
Celebrity tomatoes have shown
disease resistance and high-quality
productivity in a wide range of
growing conditions across North
America. This variety is a great op-
tion for fresh slices or canning.
Early Girl will produce fruit in as
little as 52 days, staying true to its
name. Due to the short growing sea-
son in the Midwest, this is a great
choice for a slicing tomato. Roma
VF is the most popular canning
tomato in our state.
Select tomatoes that are firm,
smooth and plump with good col-
or. Green tomatoes will ripen but
will not have the same flavor as
vine-ripened tomatoes.
Handle tomatoes carefully to re-
duce bruising. Store them at a cool
room temperature away from direct
sunlight until ripe, then move them
to the refrigerator.
Nutritionally, tomatoes are an ex-
cellent source of vitamins C and K.
They also are a very good source of
vitamin A and dietary fiber, and con-
tain less than 20 calories per half cup.
Tomatoes also are known for hav-
ing a high amount of lycopene, a
pigment that gives many fruits and
vegetables their red color and may
offer health benefits.
Here's an easy recipe to make
with your own garden-fresh produce
or items you purchased at a farmers
market or grocery store.
Fresh Tomato Salsa
3 large tomatoes, seeded,
chopped
1 large onion (white or red)
1 small green bell pepper,
chopped
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 jalapefio peppers, seeded, fine-
ly chopped (optional)
2 Tbsp. fresh cilantro, chopped
(optional)
2 to 3 Tbsp. lime juice (fresh or
bottled)
1/2 tsp. salt
Rinse, then chop tomatoes and
transfer to a bowl. Wearing plastic
or rubber gloves, seed and finely
chop peppers. Finely chop onion and
cilantro. Stir pepper, onion, cilantro
and garlic into tomatoes; add lime
juice and season with salt and pep-
per to taste. Refrigerate.
Makes 14 servings. Each serving
has 15 calories, 0 grams (g) fat, 0 g
protein, 3 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber
and 85 milligrams sodium.
Any questions about this column
or something else may be directed
to the NDSU Extension office in
Walsh County at 284-6624, or email
me at: jamie.medbery@ndsu.edu. I
would be glad to help!
Source: Julie Garden-Robinson, food and nu-
trition specialist, and Allison Benson, program as-
sistant. The creation of the materials is part of a
project funded by the North Dakota Department
of Agricultare through grant 14~CBGP-ND-O038
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
(USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service.
Around the County
Walsh County Extension Office
Park River - 284-6624
Aphids, aphids
everywhere
I don't know what is up with
this year but there is almost no
growing plants that you cannot
find aphids on. We have many dif-
ferent varieties of aphids out here
and each one seems to have its fa-
vorite plant. They tend to be spe-
cialists so in many cases they
don't feed on plants that our not
their target species. The first thing
I will tell you when confronting
aphids is not to pull the trigger too
soon on aphids. We have tremen-
dous population of lady bug lar-
vae out there whittling down the
population. In many cases if you
just give them a chance they will
happily solve the problem for
you. When you go after the aphids
with an insecticide you kill your
little aphid munchers and they take
a long time to come back so before
you spray make sure you have
populations that warrant control
measures.
Waterhemp in
Walsh County
This past week we have dis-
covered two new fields that wa-
terhemp are present in. They were
both in the Grafton and Oakwood
area. Now is the time you need to
get out of your pickup and find out
what that weed is in your field that
two applications of glyphosate
did not kill and know the reason
why. They are going to start to be
fairly obvious if you just take the
time to look. If you have a pig-
weed in your field that you have
thrown two applications of
glyphosate at you really need to
make sure you get an identification
of it. Both cases I saw last week
had this history. One field just had
a few scattered plants and one had
enough that it was going to be a
job to get them out of there. I am
also getting phone calls and pic-
tures on this. If you would like me
to look at some in pictures they
can be sent to bradley.brum-
mond@ndsu.edu . I would like
some good pictures of them stand-
ing in the field and a nice close up
picture of one pulled up so I can
see the leaves and stems in detail
along with the seed head. So what
do you do if you have it identified
as waterhemp? These weeds are
starting to produce seed right now
so unless you are unless you are
doubly sure that they have not pro-
duced viable seed do not leave
them in the field. You need to bag
them or remove them from the
field and burn them in a very hot
fire so the seeds are destroyed. We
need to destroy the seeds in some
manner. I have this rotten feeling
that there is lot more waterhemp
out there then we have identified.
You need to be very vigilant in
scouting your fields right now to
prevent an infestation next year.
Do it now your chance to do this
is very narrow. We also have to
start you using our pre-plant her-
bicides and I am having a hard
time convincing producers to do
this. We have to use all of the tools
in our tool box just not our one fa-
vorite big hammer. We must the
use the many tiny hammer ap-
proach where we use multiple
strategies to throw curves at our
weeds. Consider all waterhemp
glyphosate resistant as it is com-
ing up from the south and it is all
resistant down there. Scout now or
pay later.
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