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THE WALSH COUNTY PRESS - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 20 5
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BY ALLISON OLIMB
EDITOR, WALSH COUNTY PRESS
It is awfully tough to complain
about a weekend as beautiful as the
one we just had in northeastern
North Dakota. While everyone
around is digging out of the cold,
snowy, muck in a typical De-
cember fashion, the only thing
that signaled the Winter season in
Park River was the holiday decor
and Super Santa Saturday hijinks.
My family and I started off the
Saturday bright and early in Park
River with a family photo shoot
worthy of a Christmas card at
Larry Biri’s studio in town, 1
More Photo. We managed to do so
Hello,
Once in awhile you run into a
deal that you can’t possibly tum
down. You know, one of those
deals that are too good to be true.
So it most likely isn’t. It may be a
phone call about winning the lot-
tery. It may be your phone number
was chosen randomly and you
have won a new TV or siding on
your house. It may be that the
guys blacktopping the highway
have enough leftover to do your
driveway for almost nothing.
Or you may be having a drink
with friends after the cow sale and
someone offers to sell you a bull for
two dollars. Not two dollars a
pound. Not two dollars a hundred.
But two dollars! Two dollars for an
entire bull!
There was a little catch. The bull
was in a relatively inaccessible
area on the reservation. The bull
was crippled. The bull was on the
fight. It would be a challenge.
Shannon and I decided it would
be an adventure. At our age, getting
up at night to go to the bathroom is
an adventure. Let alone going into
the wilderness after a mad bull.
The next day, bright and early,
about eleven, we loaded up and
headed north. Since we didn’t
know where the bull was, we de-
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Thank you to Darcy Gibbons for
having a Christmas concert here on
the 5th . We have been getting
ready for Christmas and Lany has
worked how playing the part of Mr.
Christmas the residents are enjoying
all his hard work it looks wonder-
ful. Please join us Sunday night at
6:45pm for our Community Prayer
Group with Pastor H inrichs.
This week Dec. 6th - 12th
Dec. 6th Worship 2:30 w/ Zion
Lutheran Youth, 3pm Giving Tree
for the victims of the fire in Grafton
in November, 6:45 Community
Prayer Group
Dec. 7th 10am Embroidery
Group and Men’s Time, lpm— 7pm
Books are Fun, 5pm Rosary
Dec. 8th 10am Crochet Group,
3:30 Bible Study
Dec. 9th 3:15 Bingo
Dec. 10th 3:30 Gilt of Magi, 6:30
Movie Night
Dec. 11th 10:30Nail Time, 3pm
Christmas Wrapping/ Cards, 7pm
Mennonite Singers
Dec. 12th 9:30 Mass w/ Father
Luitcn, 12 Days of Christmas, 2:15
Bingo
Next week Dec. l3th —- 19th
Dec. 13th Worship w/ Father
Nannette Hoeger, Activities Dir.
with far fewer tears than we end—
ed up with last year, but that’s how
it goes with, babies. It gets easier
once they figure out who Santa
Claus is and that there may be
treats in their near fiiture. I am not
above bribery.
After a few quick clicks we
made it to First United Bank for a
“sleigh rides” via horse drawn
wagon. As our new pony friends,
Dan and Dell, took off down the
street my daughter grinned bigger
than she dared to at photo time and
shouted out, “I like it! I like it!”
It was a priceless moment.
We still had time to grab lunch
and do some shopping at the H01—
iday Mall before visits with the big
man.
We grabbed our canned goods
to donate to the Walsh County
Food Pantry in exchange for vis—
its with Santa and hustled over to
get in line.
This year Gary was finally
ready for him. Olivia was a little
more skeptical, but by the end of
their visit she said, “Bye! Thank
you, Santa!" I would call it a suc-
cess.
We even managed to snag a
couple of seats at the Lyric for the
free showing of “The Peanuts
Movie” featuring the antics of
Snoopy battling the Red Baron and
Charlie Brown’s quest to impress
the Little Redheaded Girl.
The kiddos were delighted. We
only had to get there about an hour
ahead of time to get our pick of the
Hat Tips
by: Dean Meyer
cided to take 4—wheelers instead of
horses. We could spot the bull, de—
termine if he was worth two dollars.
and get him the next trip. Just in
case, we took a couple of panels,
two catch ropes, a halter, and a dart
gun with some medication to put
him to sleep. Oh yes, and a bale of
hay. I figured we could dart him,
halter him, tie him to a tree, give
him a bale of hay, and get him the
next day.
We unloaded, went over a cliff
with the 4-wheelers, through a
gate, and the search began. I ex—
plained to Shannon that if one of us
spotted him, to circle your outfit un-
til the other guy saw you. That was
an old time signal to come if you
were horseback. Back before radios
and cell phones.
By the time I saw Shannon, he
said he had worn out the tires on
one side of his outfit circling. I
guess I should have explained to
him that you have to get up on a
Happenings at Our
Good Samaritan
Luiten, 3:30 Sing a Long, 6:45
Community Prayer Group
Dec. 14th 10am Embroidery
Group and Men’s Time, 1pm Bak—
ing Spritz Cookies, 3:45 Piano
Recital, 5pm Rosary, 6:45 Bingo
Dec. 15th 12:30 PRHS Choir,
3:30 Bible Study
Dec. 16th 10:15 Resident Coun-
cil, 2:15 PR Middle School Band,
3:45 OSLC Children’s Choir, 6:30
Awana Singers
Dec. 17th 1pm Baking Kolache
and Frosting Cookies, 3pm Birthday
Party Hosted by St. John’s Altar So-
ciety, 6:30 Movie Night
Dec. 18th 10:30 Nail Time, 3:30
Lipstick Tea
Dec. 19th 9:30 Mass w/ Father
Lui ten, 1pm Believe It or Not, 2: l 5
Bingo
Thank you to our many volun—
teers; Zion Lutheran Youth, Arnold
Braaten, Shirley Sobolik, Linda
Larson, Donna Settingsgard, Lois
Ydstie, Mary Seim, Mary Lund
and her mom, Bomiie VonBruggen,
Jeanean McMillan, Pastor Hinrichs,
Sue Fagerholt, Corinne Ramsey,
The Mennonite Singers, Terry Ha—
gen, and anyone I may have missed.
Cl-RISTMAS GIVING
PublicHealth Walsh County Health District
. Prevent. Promote. Protect.
Do you like to give something ex—
tra to a worthy cause at Christmas
time, or as an employer group do
you pick a place to give a special
Christmas donation? If so, I have a
suggestion.
The Walsh County Food Pantry,
located behind St. John’s Catholic
Church in Grafton, would greatly ap—
preciate your generosity. The food
pantry selves all ages of Walsh
County Residents. They provide up
to 6 food baskets yearly to people in
need.
Another worthy project of the
Food Pantry is the Back Pack Pro—
gram that provides foods in back—
packs to school children for every
weekend while the child is in school.
Short Shots
Over the years I have visited with
people who were recipients of a food
basket from the Food Pantry. They
are so appreciative of the help that
was given to them in their time of
need. During this holiday season, I
challenge you to support the Food
Pantry so they can continue to help
people in our county who are in need
of food.
A donation of money to the food
pantry will allow them to make pur—
chases of foods and other toiletry
type items that are in short supply
during the holiday season.
You can contact the staff at St.
John’s for further intbnnation at 352
0499.
Thank you.
hill.
He guided me to where he had
found the bull. The bull was in bad
sham: NM may urea hp crippled,
but also he had gotten tangled up in
some barbed wire. He was pretty
much harnessed. And the wire had
gotten wrapped up in a bulberry
thicket. It looked like he had been
there a few days. And he was
mad!
Shannon was going to cut him
loose, and I said, “Leave him!
We’ll get the pickup (Shannon’s
pickup) and trailer (Shannon’s
trailer). Back up against the bull.
And lead him.”
That sounded simple enough
but Shannon was worried about get-
ting the outfit in and out of there.
No problem. “You get in the pick—
up and I will find you a trail. Just
follow me.” And he did. He’s not
real smart sometimes.
We took a thirty thousand dol—
lar pickup and a fifteen thousand
seats, but I think 1 got my fill of
popcorn.
It was a long day and a good
one. To everyone who comes to—
gether each December to make
these special events happen (and
even the ones we didn’t make it out
to), thank you. We (as demon—
strated by the lines at Santa, packed
theatre, busy shopping center,
waitlist for sleigh rides, and more)
really do appreciate the work that
you all go through, to bring a little
Super Santa spirit our way.
There may be a few folks out
there who aren’t quite feeling in the
spirit just yet without their white
Christmas, but I know I am doing
just fine. Need some walking in a
winter wonderland to get in the
mood? Stop on over. I can hum a
few bars.
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dollar trailer over rocks, hills, and
trees. We slid down hills that you
would have been nervous riding a
horse down. But we got to the bull.
When I threw that mad bull a
chunk of second cutting alfalfa, he
decided the human race was good
after all. While he was eating we
backed up against him, set our
panels up around him, threw a lit-
tle hay in the trailer, cut the wire,
amt clapped him on the butt. He
climbed into the trailer!
Shannon the Coward would not
try to go out the same trail I had
found him going in. But I found an-
other way out. Oh, I’m not saying
it was easy. But I blamed him and
his cheap tires for that. We did take
down a few small trees. And maybe
smudged a little paint on his new
trailer.
But, we got the bull.
We called the owner and want-
ed a brand release so we could sell
this bull alter he recovered from his
ordeal. He informed us that was just
bar talk. He couldn’t give us the
bull. But he would buy us a drink!
Dang, another deal too good to
be true.
Later, Dean
Committee Brainstorms for
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By Lloyd Omdahl
“We need to do some early
brainstorming for a big commu-
nity Christmas or we will be the
only dark spot in the county this
year,” Homeland Committee
Chair Ork Dorken warned the 13
town electors streaming into the
frigid community hall.
“I hope somebody brought a
brain this year,” sassed
Madeleine Morgan. “We went
without one last year and ended
up with a string of lights on the
big evergreen and no electricity.”
“Who knew we needed two
blocks of extension cords to get
to the nearest plugin?” Ork re—
torted defensively.
“Has anybody thought of ask—
ing the government for some fuel
assistance to warm this place up
for winter meetings?” queried
Holger Danske as he slapped his
sheepskin mitts against his
thighs.
“They don’t give fuel assis—
tance to community halls, just or-
dinary people,” Chief Alert
Officer Garvey Erfald explained.
“Well, let’s find an ordinary
person who doesn’t need all of
his fuel assistance,”
countered Holger.
“Let’s beat the other towns
with an early Santa Day for the
kids," suggested Einar Torvald.
“Whose kids are we going en—
tertain, seeing as how we have
none of our own?” asked Orville
Jordan, the railroad agent who re—
tired when the train left eight
years ago. “We have no kids to
sit on Santa’s knee even if we
had a Santa.”
“Well, there isn’t time or in-
clination to get more of our own
kids by Christmas so it looks like
a suggestion for the future,” ob-
served Josh Dvorchek. Then he
noted all of the gray heads and
realized he had just proposed an-
other Christmas miracle.
“Let’s make a deal with the
Salvation Army to sponsor a ket-
tle on our busiest intersection.”
suggested Little Jimmy, the
town’s youngest and most edu—
cated elector, having six-years of
online college in five different
majors and no intention to quit
school as long his parents were
in the Yukon for the gold rush .
“That idea may have worked
in 1920 when we had a busy cor-
ner,” responded Einar. “We
couldn’t even get enough cars in
town these days for a good acci-
dent. I even dropped my collision
insurance. ”
“How about having a horne-
town shopping day?” suggested
Orville Jordan.
“Where would we have this
hometown shopping day, seeing
as how our businesses are all
gone? “ Holger asked. He was
still bitter because his family’s
livery stable was the first to go in
1934.
“Maybe we should decorate
the big evergreen again and bor-
row longer extension cords from
Wickendorfer Salvage and Sep-
tic Repair,” Dorsey suggested.
“Don’t expect me to go up the
ladder again this year,” Josh
warned. “Gerda says she isn’t
going to nurse an old fool if he
falls out of the tree.”
“Maybe we should just run a
white flag up Street Light #6 and
let the world know that they can’t
count on us anymore,” Little
Jimmy proposed. “This town is
too small to light up this part of
the county.”
“I don’t know about that,”
Madeleine argued. “Aren’t we
supposed to let our little light
shine?”
“Even this little of a light?”
Jimmy puzzled.
“Maybe our light is intended
to be for only a township,” Einar
opined philosophically.
“I say We go for the big ever-
green again,” Dorsey insisted.
“The lights are still on it from last
year. It’s ready for an early
Christmas.”
The group pounced on his
suggestion as the last word and
started pulling on scarves and
coats.
“It is hard to brainstorm when
we’re so short of brains,”
grumped Orville as the group
headed into the arctic blast.
“Early Christmas! Humbug!”
Prairie Fare
NDSU Extension Service
By Julie Garden-Robinson, Food and Nutrition Specialist
Have You Tried a Grain Lately?
“You are determined to like
this food, aren’t you?” my hus-
band remarked with a grin.
I must have been “making a
face” at my bowl of grits, which
I had chosen for my second
breakfast meal of the week. I
regularly enjoy hot cereal such
as oatmeal for breakfast, so why
not try something new? In gen-
eral, I eat almost anything.
We were in a southern state,
and I was trying out foods that
are uncommon in the Midwest.
Along with my bowl of grits, I
had chosen my favorite breakfast
food: scrambled eggs.
If kids take 10 to 12 times to
like a new food, how many
times does a nutrition specialist
need to develop a taste for grits?
Pairing a favorite food with a
new food is what we suggest
with kids. Would I be different?
The bowl of cream—colored
cereal arrived with a light sprin-
kling of shredded cheddar
cheese. The first time I had this
grain food, the ratio ofcheese to
grits was about 5U:DU, 1 think. 1,
like cheese already, so I ate
them.
I tasted the grits at breakfast,
and I could tell nothing was
added. They were a “blank can—
vas” in need of something. I
thought about going to Google
on my phone to find out “what
to add to grits.”
Our server came by with
more coffee. I asked her what
she suggested I should add. She
said she liked butter and sugar on
grits. She also said that some
people liked to add butter, salt
and pepper. She also liked to stir
in scrambled eggs.
I had lots of options, but I
wasn’t going to use my eggs in
that manner, though. I decided to
try both seasoning methods. I
prepared one savory side and one
sweet side. My husband watched
me in amusement. Unfortunate-
ly, 1 MW? have ‘had a “poker
face.”
I will need a few more tries to
enjoy grits, but I did eat most of
my breakfast. I am sure that
some of the regional dishes we
eat in the Midwest would be met
with a similar reaction in other
states. We all tend to like the fa-
miliar, but “mixing it up” is a
good idea. Enjoying a variety of
foods in moderation is always
good advice.
Grits are made of corn, or
maize, and they are cooked to
form a porridge. Some recipes
add cheese, bacon and onion to
grits. Others suggest the typical
cereal toppings.
How adventuresome are you
with your grain choices? Try this
quiz to see if you can identify the
type of grain from these clues.
This type of grain. is high in
fiber and can» be used in baked
goods and breakfast cereals.
You might be familiar with the
“pearled” version, which is used
in soups.
This grain actually is the seed
from a family of herbs. It tech-
nically is not a cereal grain. It of—
ten is ground and used to replace
part of the wheat flour in pan—
cake mixes.
This grain food is made from
durum semolina and is very
popular in North African coun-
tries. It usually is yellow and re—
sembles rice but actually is pas—
ta.
'l‘hrs common whole-grain
breakfast food is available in reg-
ular and quick—cooking variw
eties, depending on the degree
the grain has been “rolled” dur—
ing processing. It is a heart-
healthy food.
This food is not a grain but is
a small seed that is grown in
Peru and Bolivia. It is cooked
similarly to rice.
This grain is the most com-
monly eaten grain in the world.
It is available in white or whole-
grain brown types.
This may be the smallest
grain in the world and is used as
a thickener. (If you get this
question correctly, you can pat
yourself on the back.)
This grain often is known as
the “staff of life” and includes
processed versions known as
,1 bulgur and farina.
How did yori'do? My thanks
go toan Extension'professional
in Oklahoma Cooperative Ex—
tension for inspiring this column
with her PowerPoint. The an-
swers are: l. barley; 2. buck-
wheat; 3. couscous; 4. oatmeal;
5. quinoa (pronounced keen—
wa); 6. rice; 7. teff; 8. wheat
Julie Garden-Rabi;Ison, Phil. R.1)..
L.R.D., is a North Dakota State Universitv Ex—
Iemion Service/00d and nutrition specialist and
professor in the Departure/1! o/‘Heal/II. Nutri-
tion and lirmrxise Skimmer.
Walsh County Crop
Improvement Annual
Meeting
Here is another reminder of the
Walsh County Crop Improvement
Annual meeting on Tuesday, De-
cember 15 at 6 pm. We will be
talking about unmanned aerial
drones, increasing fuel efficiency
on the farm and cover crops. We
will follow with our annual meet-
ing.
New Minnesota Spring
Wheat Release
Bolles (MN08165-8) was
grown through contract with the
Walsh County Crop Improvement
Association the summer of 201 5.
We had several growers and at
least one grower averaged around
70 bushels per acre with his re—
lease. It‘s claim to fame is that it
is a high protein, high yielding and
high quality spring wheat. Its
yield is higher than WB—Mayville
with about a 1% higher protein. So
if you are going for a high protein
wheat with some yield this may be
Dec. 15
Feb 23-24
Dates to Remember:
Walsh County Crop Improvement Meeting,
Park River American Legion 6 pm
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Around the County
Walsh County Extension Office
Park. River 284—6624
By Extension Agent Brad Brummond
it. It has excellent leafrust resist-
ance and a moderate rating for
scab and bacterial leaf streak. In
Minnesota variety trials for 3
years it averaged 15.7% protein
compared to 13.8 for Faller and
Prosper and 14.8 for WB-
Mayville. Vantage for the same
years averaged 15.4% protein.
Prosper and Faller averaged
around 80 bushels per acre with
WB—Mayville averaging 73.2.
Bolles averaged 75.5 bushels per
acre. So its reputation for high pro»
tein and decent yields seems to
prove out.
Bolles yielded 58.9 bushels per
acre in 2015 at the Walsh County
plots and had16.6 percent protein.
Faller yielded 61.7 bushels and
Prosper yielded 52.8 bushels and
15% protein WB Mayville did
56.4 bushels with 1.5% protein.
Bolles had a lodging score of 5.7
compared to Faller at 6.5, Prosper
at 7.4 and WB Mayville at 0.4.
WB Mayville definitely won the
standing game. Bolles is a better
stander than Prosper or Faller but
it is not a great standing wheat.
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