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SINGLE COPY $1.00 ISSUE NUMBER 13 • PARK •RIVER, NORTH DAKOTA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2.013
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Photo: Larry Biri
Above: Ryan Papenfuss delivers the message for the evening at Park River's See You at the Pole gathering held Sept. 25. More than 100 people were in attendance, including around 80 stu-
dents from Park River, Grafton, and Edinburg.
By Allison Olimb
of The Press
PARK RIVER, N.D. -- "Last
year we only had seven or nine
show up. That was at 7 a.m. This
was a good change," said Emily
Zikmund, one of the nine students
who helped to organize the See
You at the Pole event last Wednes-
day night in Park River. She wel-
comed the crowd of more than 120
students, parents, family, clergy,
and teachers who were in atten-
dance.
See You at the Pole is a world-
wide event that started in 1990
where a group of teenagers in
Texas gathered together in prayer.
As the movement grew, the flag-
pole was identified as a common,
easy to identify place at schools
across the country, creating the
name and location for the event.
This year, students from each
church in Park River worked to-
gether to organize the event in,
cluding: Zach Gaarder from Fed-
erated Church, Abby Zikmund and
Emily Zikmund from St. Mary's
Catholic Church, Rylan Setness
and Brittany Myrvik from Victory
Free Lutheran Church, Johathan
Cox and Ryan Papenfuss from
Bethel Baptist, and Andrew
Hylden and Cadyn Hunter from
Out Saviour's Lutheran Church.
The more than 80 students in at-
tendance broke off into three
groups to pray for: family and
friends, schools/teachers and our
nation, and students around the
world and all persecuted Chris-
tians. Some students had prepared
prayers to share, others spoke in
the moment, and some simply took
a moment of silence for their
group's intention.
Bethany Setness, who helped
with the youth group, said that
there even was a group of elemen-
tary students who broke off from
the group to pray around the ele-
mentary flagpole where they
brought up issues they wanted to
pray about.
She added that there was more
than just Park River Area students
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GRAFTON, N.D. -- In an
ongoing effort to end the prob-
lem of impaired driving, North
Dakota law enforcement agen-
cies are continuing unified en-
hanced enforcement. The
Northeast Grand Forks Re-
gional DUI Task Force is an-
nouncing that there will be an
enhanced law enforcement
presence and additional law
enforcement officers on rural,
city and state roads through-
out North Dakota for the entire
month of October.
"North Dakota recently en-
acted a law to strengthen DUI
penalties in the state" said
Kyle Ternes, Captain North
Dakota Highway Patrol. "The
bill doubles fines for drinking
and driving and increases po-
tential jail time. One of its
biggest changes is cracking
down on multiple offenders in-
cluding greatly increased jail
time and possible felony con-
victions. It also makes refus-
ing a chemical test a crime."
Law enforcement officials
believe that any number of fa-
talities due to impaired driv-
ing is too high. The success of
the enforcement campaigns en-
courages the Northeast Grand
Forks Regional Task Force to
continue their work to keep
North Dakota drivers safe.
"One of our bigger prob-
lems," says Lauren Wild, Sher-
iffWalsh County Sheriff's De-
partment, "is getting people to
understand that buzzed driv-
ing is no different from drunk
driving. You often don't begin
to acknowledge your impaired
state until far beyond the point
where you are unable to drive
safely. Any alcohol in your
system will affect you. If
you're going to drink, find a
safe way home."
Funding for this enhanced
enforcement is provided
through the North Dakota De-
partment of Transportation
(NDDOT).
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PARK RIVER, N.D. --
Prayer Chain for Life to be ob-
served Oct. 6. In Observance
of Respect Life Sunday, the an-
nual Prayer Chain for life will
be held Sunday, October 6,
along Highway 17 near St.
Mary's Church in Park River.
Beginning at 2 pm, partici-
pants will spend one hour in
silent prayer asking God's for-
giveness for our nation and to
end abortions. Pro-life people
will be participating in the Life
Chain across the nation. All are
urged to join.
The inter-denomination
prayer chain is sponsored by
Walsh County Right to Life in
conjunction with the Pregnan-
cy Help Center.
Refreshments will be pro-
vided after the prayer chain at
St. Mary's parish center. Ques-
tions may be directed to Shirley
Sobolik at 284-6534.
Obituaries
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Midway coronation
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'"Faith aflki ntg the fiurst
step even when you don't
see the whole slcaiircasey
Martin Luther King, Jr.
District Legion meeting set
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