SINGLE COPY $1.00 VOL. 135 ISSUE 13 PARK RIVER, NORTH DAKOTA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Top: Sheila Bjorneby
dishes up a bowl of
lutefisk for Meris Und-
sey to deliver to the
table at the 43rd an-
nual Lutefisk and
Meatball Dinner at the
Park River Bible
Camp. Bottom Left:
Tracy Monson feeds
her 1 year and 4
month old son Klai
some lutefisk while
dad Jared seemingly
looks on in disbelief
that he really likes the
stuff. Tracy said that
Klai has been eating
lue shcethe age of
6 months and really
seems to like it. Bottom
Middle: Preparing the
delicious lutefisk were
Paul Mohagen (Lto
R) Tom Gullickson
(holding a cod fillet)
and Harlan Brekke
showing the finished
r. d. Bottom Right:
an Larson gives
acuslorrer a rideto his
car. There were nu-
merous golf carts in
service at the Bible
Camp to give cus-
tomers rides to and
from their cars as a
steady rain fell dudng
the dinner.
By Allison Olimb
of The Press
BISMARCK, N.D. -- Earlier this month
Walsh County Emergency Manager Brent
NelSon was honored at the North Dakota
Emergency Management Association and
North Dakota Department of Emergency Serv-
ices annual conference in Bismarck with the
North Dakota Emergency Management As-
sociation's Lifetime Achievement Award.
"He's done some great work for his coun-
ty and all of us across the state," said NDEMA
President Kristen Nelsen.
Nelsen, who as been an emergency manager
for Ramsey County for the past seven years,
said that Nelson is one of the veterans in the
state that those in the field look to for advice.
As a member of the same district and a
neighboring county, she said that she was
thrilled to be able to surprise Brent with this
award.
The purpose of the award, which is not giv-
en out every year, is to honor and acknowledge
the superior achievement of a member's emer-
gency management career in North Dakota.
Anyone can make a suggestion, but ulti-
mately it is an award given out by the NDE-
MA Board of Directors. Karen Kempert, Cav-
alier County Emergency Management and
NDEMA past president threw Brent's hat
into the ring, so to speak.
"It was a unanimous decision," Nelsen
said.
The criteria for the award are as follows:
Any member of the emergency manage-
ment community with at least 20 years of serv-
ice directly involved in the emergency man-
agement field in North Dakota.
A current paid member of the ND Emer-
gency Management Association.
Emergency Manager
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PARK RIVER, N.D. -- Over fxom Graffon, N.D who received
$8,000 was raised for Altru's Hos- a beautiful Bright Colors Quilt do-
pice Camp Good Mourning on nated by First United Bank, Adams,
Sept. 17, 2017, during the sixth an- ND, and quilted by Arlene Peterson,
nual Quilt Bingo fundraiser at Park Petersburg, N.D Cathy Clapp, Ed-
River Area High School in Park Riv- inburg, N.D and Sandra Lindell,
er, N.D. Adams, N.D.
At Quilt Bingo, 15 games of bin- This event was coordinated by
go were played and the winner of
each game won a handmade quilt. Qui/t Bingo
The grand prize winner of the raf- Cont. page I I
fie drawing was Laura Satterlund
See page 2
Homecoming
comes
up short
See page 7
fish
Malcolm Mu
Three
distriCts, three
coronations
See page 6
Aggies topple
Grafton
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