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Whats Going On around the Area

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Blue Christmas, the Barnes County Annual Community Memorial Service, is set for 4 p.m. at Congregational United Church of Christ, 217 Fourth St. N.W., Valley City. Coffee, bars and hot cider to follow. Sponsored by the Barnes County Ministerial Association, Lerud-Schuldt Funeral Home and Oliver-Nathan Funeral Chapel.

been diagnosed with liver cancer, is hosted by the United Methodist Women at Epworth United Methodist Church, Valley City, starting at 5:30 p.m. More info: Jodie Rae Ingstad, 701-490-1876. Barnes County North boys basketball plays Finley-Sharon/Hope-Page at North Central starting at 6 p.m. Valley City Rotary meets every Tuesday at noon at the Valley City VFW Club. Cora Mikkelson Art Exhibition is on display from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the VCSU Gallery.

Monday, Nov. 28
Maple Valley high school boys basketball plays LaMoure/LitchvilleMarion at Litchville starting at 6 p.m. Buffalo Senior Citizens meet every Monday at the Community Center, Buffalo, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cora Mikkelson Art Exhibition is on display from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the VCSU Gallery.

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Wednesday, Nov. 30
Tower City Senior Citizens meet every Wednesday at the Community Center in Tower City from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A meal is served. More info: Betty Gibbons, president; 701-840-0184. Valley City Kiwanis Club meets meets every Wednesday at 12:04 p.m. at the Valley City VFW.

Tuesday, Nov. 29
A benefit supper, bake sale and silent auction for Rita Harris, who has

BY DENNIS STILLINGS stillings@gmail.com ABOVE. An early photograph of the elevators at Leal, N.D. RIGHT. A 1918 envelope for a letter from the Leal Roller Mill to Dr. Haggard of Minneapolis. NOTE: Weve renamed this feature and are expanding its focus. To learn more about Museum Without Walls, see page 5.

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Club. Open Mic at Duttons Parlour in downtown Valley City runs from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Entertainers (music, comedy, poetry, etc.) and audience-members welcome. No cost. The reading club of the Valley City-Barnes County Library meets at 2 p.m. at the library. Under discussion: The Soloist by Lopez. Bingo Night, sponsored by the Buffalo Community Club, starts at 7 p.m. at the Old 10 Saloon and Grill. More info: 6335317. 11th Annual Soup & Sandwich (and bake sale) is hosted by Buffalo Daycare, Inc., at the Buffalo Community Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free-will offering. No Storytime at the Valley City - Barnes County Library this week. Cora Mikkelson Art Exhibition is on display from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the VCSU Gallery. holiday showcase from 5 to 7 p.m., Valley City. VCSU Concert Choir and University Singers perform at St. Catherines in Valley City at 7:30 p.m. Free-will offering. Northstar Classic begins at 1 p.m. at the North Dakota Winter Show, Valley City. advisory board meeting for District 6 begins at 7 p.m. at the Eagles Club in Valley City. The event is hosted by the Barnes County Wildlife Club. More info: Perry Kapaun, 4901797; or advisory board member: Joel Christoferson, Litchville, 973-4981. Northstar Classic at the North Dakota Winter Show in Valley City continues, with shows opening at 8 a.m. and a dance from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. featuring The Great Outdoors at the Eagles in Valley City. music. Proceeds from the sale of treasures old and new benefit the 1916 Buffalo High School renovation project. The school is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. More info: Liane Stout, 701-633-5000. Maple Valley high school boys basketball plays Oakes at Tower City starting at 6 p.m. UpStage Productions presents Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. at City Auditorium, Valley City. Christmas goodies served. Tickets: $8 adults; $5 students. Group reservations: Amy, 840-8056 or upstage@live.com Valley City Farmers Market, now indoors at 314 N. Central Ave (Next to Valley Fashions), runs from 3 to 5 p.m. The Smithsonians Service Learning: Connecting Local Heritage with Local Learners is 3 to 5 p.m. at the Barnes County Historical Society Museum in downtown Valley City. The event features VCSU students service learning projects on cultures and ethnic foods unique to the area.

Friday, Dec. 2
UpStage Productions presents Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol at 7 p.m. at City Auditorium, Valley City. Christmas goodies served. Tickets: $8 adults; $5 students. Group reservations: Amy, 840-8056 or upstage@ live.com Maple Valley high school boys basketball plays Central Cass at Central Cass starting at 6:15 p.m. Barnes County North boys basketball plays Carrington at Carrington starting at 6 p.m. The fall North Dakota Game and Fish Department

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A Buffalo Community Christmas at the Old School Gift Shoppe located in the historic 1916 Buffalo High School at 303 Pearl St. N, Buffalo, is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event features handcrafted beadwork, local photography, wines, handmade candies, Scandinavian specialty foods, and more. Enjoy coffee, Christmas treats and holiday

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YOUR HEALTH: November is American Diabetes Month

very 17 seconds someone is diagnosed with diabetes. And recent estimates project that as many as one in three American adults will have diabetes in the year 2050 unless we all take steps to stop diabetes. Looking at this in another way means that one out of three 3 babies born after the year 2000 will develop diabetes. Presently, 10 percent of the population in the United States has diabetes, with another 25 percent that have the precursor to diabetes called prediabetes. The disease is taking a devastating toll physically, emotionally and financially on our country. Nationally, the cost is $174 billion each year. The average medial expenditure among people with diabetes is almost two-and-a-half times higher than those without

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the disease! Let me ask you a question: Are you at risk for diabetes? If you are By Sharon 45 years or Buhr older you are at risk and should be tested for diabetes, particularly if you are overweight. If you are younger than 45 years and have one or more of the risk factors, you should get tested: RISK FACTORS 1. If you have a parent, brother or sister with diabetes. 2. If you had gestational diabetes or gave birth to at least one baby weighting more than 9 pounds. 3. If your blood pressure is 140/90 or higher, or have been told that you have high blood pressure. 4. If your HDL cholester-

ol (good type) is below 35 mg/dL or your triglycerides are above 250 mg/dL. 5. If you are inactive or exercise fewer than three times a week. 6. If you have polycystic ovary syndrome (women only). 7. If you had, on previous testing, a blood sugar of 100-125 (pre-diabetes). 8. If you have a history of cardiovascular disease. It is very important that anyone at risk be tested. MEASURING BLOOD SUGAR Normal: 80-99 mg/dL Pre-Diabetes: 100-125 mg/dL Diabetes: 126 and above To be diagnosed with diabetes, an individual must have two separate fasting blood sugars done

(i.e. on two different days) and the blood should be taken from the arm, not the finger. If you are diagnosed with diabetes, it is important that you see your diabetes team, which consists of your doctor, your dietitian and your diabetes educator. All three are essential for you to receive the best care. Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurance companies will pay for three to four visits to

the dietitian, and a certain number of visits to the diabetes educator. This year, the American Diabetes Association is asking individuals to be tested if they are at risk, and to take a pledge and raise their hand to Stop Diabetes. Now is the time to act!
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MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS
INTRODUCTION: We are initiating a new regular column with the title Museum Without Walls, which will be devoted to photographs and articles on special sites and artifacts of historical interest in and near Barnes County. These sites will include buildings and town views, monuments, sites of geological and cultural interest, old bridges, cemeteries, farms, dams, and many other things that will never be housed in a museum with walls and that illustrate the history of this area. In addition, we will occasionally showcase in these pages an artifact found in one of the area museums or in a local residents personal collection allowing you to enjoy and appreciate our local history from outside the museum walls. By Dennis If you have ideas for this Stillings column, photos or background information on any of the subjects weve covered, please contact Dennis Stillings at stillings@gmail.com

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.S. Wilde was a pastor just beginning his ministry at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Valley City. He was a great friend of Henry M. Quackenbush, a former parishioner when Wilde was pastor of the Herkimer Methodist church in Herkimer, N.Y. Henry M. Quackenbush (1847-1933) is perhaps best known for inventing the extension ladder (1867), the nickel-plated, solid steel nutpick and springjointed nutcracker (1913). He invented a machine to standardize shot size. This allowed his air guns, when used with his shot, to function flawlessly. His shot also functioned in most other air guns of the same caliber without malfunctioning. Dennis Quackenbush, a distant relative of Henry Quackenbush, is currently a maker of high-quality air guns. Visit his website, its quite interesting for gun buffs. The following letter, in manuscript form, was acquired by the author, and has been donated to the Barnes County Historical Museum: VALLEY CITY, N.DAKOTA, JANUARY 1ST, 1917. My dear Brother Quackenbush,A Happy Year to you. I am writing with the New Year sun shining upon my type-writer in all its resplendence. If there was ever a more beautiful first of January, I do not remember. We have had it cold previous to Christmas, but there

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has been a rise of 50 degrees in 48 hours, so that today is one of great charm, beauty and comfort. We are enjoying life among these western people. They are doing all they can to make us feel at home. The church is well organized, and progressive. We have a great number of Normal professors, some of whom are ministers of our church, who are teachers in the State Normal School here and on our official board. One of the leading physicians and surgeons of this section is very active in our church, and a number of business men are good livers and fine givers. Our parsonage home is very neat and convenient. A service flag and Roll of Honor was presented to the church by our hardware merchant and his wife at the Christmas Entertainment. The flag [of the church?] contains 27 stars which represent the number of young men who have gone to the front [World War 1] from this

church, either as members or of our constituency. Despite the cold, dry weather, I have not been afflicted with sore throat, hoarseness or colds since living here. I think that possibly this climate will be good for me, as the steady cold weather always seems to put ginger in my blood, and I always feel better when the weather is snappy than when it begins to thaw. Mrs Wilde and the children seem quite contented. Marie has a good opportunity to take cello lessons here from the teacher in the Normal. She received a Christmas present of a cello, and has already begun to take lessons from a Norwegian teacher. Harley has been working during the holidays at the jewelry store, the proprietor of which is a member of our church. This is a beautiful spot in summer I imagine. They tell me that it is the most beautiful place in North Dakota. It is wholly surrounded by hills, so that the Northern Pacific has built a high bridge spanning the basin in which the city is located. The Soo Line also runs through Valley City, giving us very good train service. Mr. Grover and wife from Lisbon, my wifes brotherin-law, spent the Christmas holiday at our home, the first time we have ever been together at any anniversary. . It seems strange to live in a place where nobody was born ex-children. The rest came from Missouri, Ill., Iowa, Indiana, and New York. Of course the LETTER, 11

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By Bonnie Jo Hanson avid and Ginger Podoll dont worry about which herbicides work best on resistant weeds, or when to apply chemical fertilizers or spray for pests. In fact, on their organic farm south of LaMoure, they dont use any chemical herbicides, fertilizers or pesticides. In addition they dont grow crops from genetically modified seeds (GMOs) and they follow rigorous standards set by the USDA to ensure that their crops can bear a Certified Organic seal. Organic farming is a method of farming that encourages the use of physical, mechanical or biological controls to eliminate weeds, pests and crop diseases. For example, certified organic farmers are forbidden to use chemical fertilizer, herbicides or pesticides. They also must take measures to prevent chemicals from their neighboring properties from reaching their own crops. They pull weeds by hand or mechanically (tilling) or by growing cover crops to discourage weeds from sprouting in the first place. Pests can be killed by introducing beneficial insects (ladybugs eat aphids). Buffer strips prevent chemical drift onto organic crops. And organic livestock is fed only organic feed, are raised in a humane manner and never given hormones or most antibiotics, although vaccines are allowed, according to the USDA. Organic farmers also depend on crop rotation to ensure the health of their soil and their crops. The Podolls, who farm with Davids brother Dan and Dans wife Theresa, primarily raise winter triticale and heavy vetch (raised in the same field, the heavy vetch climbs the triticale), durham wheat, buckwheat and millet all crops that lend themselves to organic production. David said he likes tall grains for biomass they make good green manure. And, he said, diverse rotation affects nutrient levels and weed control. The more diverse you can make a farm, the more resilient it will be, he said. Organic Farming takes a lot of thought and sweat equity, said Brad Brummond, Walsh County Extension Agent. Instead of responding after weeds or pest invade a field,

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David Podoll holds Dakota Black Popcorn seeds, one of the seed varieties he grows on his organic farm near LaMoure. Photo/Bonnie Jo Hanson

organic farmers prevent it from happening. You need to figure out why that weed is in your soybeans, Brummond said. Organic farmers are some of the brightest farmers in North Dakota, he added. Organic production in North Dakota has declined in the past several years. North Dakota rated number five in organic produc-

Organic farmers are aging, and the second generation doesnt seem as interested in producing organic crops...
tion in 1997, according to Brummond. In 2008, that number was down to number eight or just over 218,000 acres with 159 certified organic producers, he said, and the number is going down as organic producers struggle to compete with very large farmers. Also, organic farmers are aging, and the second generation doesnt seem as interested in producing organic crops. According to Brummond, when conventional crop prices were low several years ago, the price for organic crops was very

high in comparison, so more farmers were interested in organic production. Now that the price gap has closed, more farmers have gone back to conventional production. But, for organic growers that remain, organic farming is more than about producing crops, its a lifestyle or a belief system, said Brummond. CONTINUED 7

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A picturesque trio of organic crops all grown on the farm of David and Ginger Podoll, near LaMoure. Photos/Podoll Family

FROM 6 David Podoll was raised on the land he now farms. When his father died in the early 1970s, he took over the family farm near LaMoure. An interest in horticulture and gardening led David to convert to organic farming just to prove that he could. (Conventional farmers) have a weird idea about not using poisons, David said. Besides growing organic farm crops, David and Ginger also began growing their own vegetables for seed. In the early 70s, David read the book No Work Gardening, by Ruth Stout. Stout recommended heavily mulching the areas between garden rows. The rotting mulch deters weeds, retains water and provides fertilizer for garden crops and virtually eliminates the need for hoe, cultivate, weed, water or spade, according to Mother Earth News. David used a modified

In the early days of organic production, organic farmers were looked upon as a bunch of weird hippies...
version of Stouts method in his garden, which hasnt been tilled for nearly 30 years. Now, David and Ginger produce organic garden seed and David has made some of his own crop varieties. Their own organic lifestyle includes eating a lot of their own organically produced food and eating only minimally processed food. The Podolls also try to lead a sustainable lifestyle by creating as little waste as possible and by recycling everything they can. We try to be ecologically responsible in everything we do, David said. When David began producing organic crops in the mid-70s, the industry had a loose set of certification standards based on the European organic market at the time. Back then, most of the Podolls crops went to Europe. After the Iron Curtain fell, said David, producers in those countries began supplying more of Europes organic foods. At the same time organic foods became more popular in the U.S and in 1990 the USDA created the strict standards that certified organic farmers must follow today, according to the USDA. In the early days of organic production, organic farmers were looked upon as a bunch of weird hippies, said Brummond, and organic farming was limited to areas near big cities on both coasts. Now, its more acceptable to be an organic farmer. Weve come in out of the cold, Brummond said. Karri Stroh, Executive Director of Northern Plains Sustainable Ag, agreed that organic farming has become more mainstream. Consumers are demanding to know where their food comes from, said Stroh. Strohs organiation, Northern Plains Sustainable Ag, helps organic farmers, and helps conventional farmers become organic farmers by providing education, research

and advocacy. Organic certification can be a difficult process, and Northern Plains Sustainable Ag Society can help farmers make the transition. Other government programs are in place to help ease the transition financially. The North Dakota Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is just one of those organizations through its EQUIP program, according to NRCS. Thanks to changing attitudes and decent legisla-

ture, organic farming has begun gaining respect with organic farms becoming a viable part of North Dakota agriculture, said Brummond. Organic and conventional producers can co-exist together and be profitable, he said. No one thinks organic farming is going to take over the world, said Stroh. Its just another way of farming.
Bonnie Jo Hanson lives in Marion. Reach her at bjhanson@drtel.net

VCSU junior named Athlete of the Week

A junior at Valley City State University was honored this week by the Association of Independent Institutions (A.I.I.) Sekani Milligen, a 6-4 junior guard from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was named the A.I.I. Male Athlete of the Week. Milligen was named the Viterbo University Invitational MVP after helping guide the Vikings to a 2-0 record and the championship in the tournament. Milligen finished with 42 points and 10 rebounds in wins over Viterbo University and Waldorf College as he shot 60 percent from the field and 72.7 percent from beyond the 3-point arc.
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oure traveling through another to stay strong as the wolves zero in on her family, and parts. dimension, a dimension not only Edward has to decide whether to actually express an Author Stephanie Meyers final book-to-movie effort, of sparkling vampires and muscuemotion or continue to stare awkwardly at everyone who while more action-packed than the first three, doesnt lar werewolves, but of glamorous tries to interact with him. Twilight: Reaching soap-opera- offer up enough substantial material to stretch out across weddings, overhyped melodrama and the like levels never before seen in theaters! two full-length movies. Part 1 takes more than the time it sounds of shrieking girls buying overpriced I am continually amused at the ludicrous world of needs to meander through the drawn-out wedding scene theater tickets. Next stop, the Twilight Twilight. The series takes itself so seriously, it borders on and Bella and Edwards honeymoon. By Kaylee zone. camp. And it would have been so much more entertainThese two movies could have been whittled down to Erlandson Its finally going to happen. The invitaing if these movies were meant to be taken as a parody, one longer-than-average film. But the studios want to tions have been sent out, the dress has been especially with telepathically-connected CGI werewolves wring every penny out of this franchise. selected, and the grooms cold feet (literadded to the mix. The only thing surprising about TwiWith ticket prices increasing every year, they may just ally!) have nothing to do with pre-wedding jitters. Bella light: Breaking Dawn Part 1 was the PG-13 rating, skating have to call the next installment Twilight: Breaking Bank, Swan (Kristin Stewart) and vampire beau Edward Cullen along the edge of an R rating with an intense, gory livein honor of the millions of people who will dig into their (Robert Pattinson) are finally going to tie the knot. When birth scene and racy honeymoon scenes. pockets to see Part 2 next November. Bellas friend and long-time admirer Jacob Black (Taylor Following the trend that the two-part Harry Potter Kaylee Erlandson is a student at Valley City State University. Lautner) hears the news, he angrily goes for a run in finale started, the Breaking Dawn story is split into two the rain, ripping his shirt off in the process (60 seconds into the movie, a new record for the Twilight films). JaTINY BITES & FREE-RANGE THINKING cobs angst doesnt stop the wedding of the century, a lavish ceremony so highly anticipated by fans of the series, it threatens to reach Williamand-Kate-like proportions. ince its Thankswas responsible for keeping the idea of a show interest in heritage birds instead of Bella and Edward exchange their giving week, Im day of thanks in the forefront of peoples commercially raised poultry. North Davows, promising to stay together thinking about talkminds. Some 46 years later, President Linkotas 16 turkey producers raise 1.2 million till-death-do-us-part, an ironic ing turkey when writing coln declared it an official holiday on the birds that are shipped to Minnesota to be pledge for an undead vampire to about local food. First a last day of November. processed and then distributed. Thats a make. Once the brides bouquet has little background. Along came the Depression. President nice little industry, but we never know if been tossed and the last toast has Thanksgiving wasnt Franklin Roosevelt thought the economy we are eating a bird raised in our state or been given, Bella and Edward leave By Sue B. Thanksgiving until 1863 needed a boost and in 1941 moved the not. for their honeymoon at their own Balcom when during the Civil holiday to the fourth Thursday of NovemSeveral of the local vegetable producpersonal island off the coast of Rio. War President Abraber which is this week. ers on small farms are including flocks A mere two weeks later, Bella ham Lincoln proclaimed a day of giving Traditionally, North Dakotas governor of turkeys and offering a pastured bird to discovers she is pregnant. [Dun dun thanks. America has been celebrating this pardons a turkey as part of this day of customers on a limited basis. These birds duuunnnn!] With the half-vampire, day since with tables full of food, family, roasted stuffed bird, sweet potatoes, cranare the forefathers of todays turkeys. half-human baby growing at an acfriends and opportunities to serve the less berries, that green bean dish with onion According to the Heritage Turkey Founcelerated rate, Bellas life is in danger: fortunate with community hot meals. rings on top and pumpkin pie. dation, Raising Heritage Breeds is more Jacobs wolfpack has decided the Turkey wasnt always the heart of the When I was growing up, Thanksgiving costly and time consuming than raising baby is an uncontrollable threat to celebration meal. In 1620, the Mayflower turkey was something we all looked forWhite Breasted Toms. While supermarket the nearby towns and plan to murder brought 102 passengers to the east coast ward to with great anticipation. It was the turkeys grow to an average of 32 pounds it. Jacob has to pick a side, Bella has of our country. It was a long harsh winter TURKEY TRIO. Three wild turkey toms display their full plumage. Says columnist Sue and the group mostly lived on board the Help students help troops B. Balcom, who captured this image: They live in my backyard and I love them. They ship. However in the spring, Squanto an walk through at about the same time every day and roost in our large tree branches. To with Books for Soldiers English speaking Native American taught Students in Valley City State the colonists about foraging, planting corn get up there, they run as fast as they can and fly up to roost for the night. These are wild turkeys and can run up to 55 miles per hour. Photo/Sue. B. Balcom Universitys Human Communicaand extracting maple syrup. In essence tion class are collecting items for he taught them how to feed themselves. overseas troops through the Books Because the methods of the native peoples only day that such an extravagant feast was over 18 weeks, Heritage birds take anyfor Soldiers project. were so successful for the early Americans, prepared in a time when turkeys were not where from 24 to 30 to reach their market To help, readers can contribute the governor decided to have a feast in readily available year round. weight. But those who have tasted Heritage books, international phone callNovember to celebrate. Turkeys were part of seasonal eating 30 Breeds say the cost-and the wait-are well ing cards, DVDs and care items/ Of course, that meal did not include years ago. They take longer to hatch and worth it. toiletries at drop locations inside pies and sweets because much of the ships mature than chickens. With the evolution Usually, you have to order your bird long Valley City businesses or at Room larder had been emptied over the past year. of our food industry, bigger, faster and not before you are planning your Thanksgiving 204, McFarland Hall, on the VCSU Rather seafood, which was plentiful, along necessarily better, the turkey has been bred meal to insure that one is available. campus. Donations of items or with traditional Native American dishes to mature faster with larger breasts for Are heritage birds for everyone? Perhaps funds may also be mailed to: VCSU, was served. more white meat. not, but I am thankful for this opportunity c/o: Jonna Ziniel, 101 College St., Later, New York actually recognized a Somehow, having turkeys available all to begin our discussion on local food and Valley City, ND 58072. day of thanks as early as 1817. However it year long has lessened the anticipation of seasonal eating. Any funds collected will be used was the author of the nursery rhyme Mary that wonderful Thanksgiving Day feast. Have a blessed Thanksgiving Day. to pay for the cost of shipping the had a little lamb, Sarah Josepha Hale, who Today, many people are beginning to items. The collection effort ends Dec. 1.

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WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE GUEST VIEW

The Toulna Coulee

No recourse for folks downstream if no demands are made now
By Richard Betting Why arent more people involved? the lady asked me after we had discussed what might happen if Stump Lake water is added to what will be pumped into the Sheyenne River next year. I told her that I couldnt say. Perhaps they dont know what the results will be in Valley City. Its understandable in some ways because neither the State Water Commission nor the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has included downstream effects in their plans. There are three Devils Lake drainage projects being built or considered right now, and the West Bay Outlet is already in operation. That will pump 250 cubic feet per second from the lake into the Sheyenne again next spring. Then the East Bay pump is scheduled to start pumping another 350 cfs into the river next summer. So the two together will pump 600 cfs, enough water to remove about a foot from the lake each year. [In addition, of course, evaporation will remove at least two-and-a-half feet from the lake.] What will that much water do to the Sheyenne and to towns like Valley City and Lisbon? If they are pumped when the river is already high or close to flooding, what will be the results? No downstream effects have been estimated, predicted or mitigated. Worse, however, is that two more projects could be operational soon. Work has begun on the Tolna Coulee Outlet and Control Structure. When completed, the structure will not operate until Devils Lake rises to an elevation of 1458 feet mean sea level. Then the overflow could erode the coulee as it flows through the control structure. If the coulee erodes down to the bottom of the control structure at an elevation of 1446 feet msl it will mean that all of the water in Devils Lake above that level will flow immediately into the Sheyenne River. Forever. Because the Corps operating plan requires that none of the logs in the control structure will be replaced. What will the effects of these constant flooding events be along the Sheyenne? How much damage will the addition of at least 3,000 cfs water from Devils Lake do when added to whatever is already in the river? Shouldnt residents living in Valley City and Lisbon, and others along the river, of course, require that the Corps and the State Water Commission determine the effects of all of the outlets being planned or built, including who will be responsible for downstream damages? Including what can be done to mitigate damages in the first place? If residents along the river fail to insist that studies be done to determine downstream effects and, in addition, that the Corps and the SWC take responsibility for all downstream damages, they will have little recourse after the projects have been built and the damages done.
Richard Betting is a member of the group People to Save the Sheyenne. He lives in Valley City.

City disputes former VC PD chiefs story on money found in safe

ormer (Valley City) Police Chief Dean Ross told WDAY news on Nov. 9 that offi- By Jon cials from the Wagar City of Valley City were aware that he held $4,000 of money belonging to the Valley City Police Association in his office safe for almost seven years without giving it back to the association. He stated that the city approved the check, had a copy of the invoice and knew he was holding the money for special occasions and safekeeping, but if they forgot, that is their problem.

What city officials DID know was that in January 2005, the City paid for a portion of the cost for new service weapons for the police department with the Valley City Police Association paying $4,400 as 11 officers were going to purchase the weapons. No city official, other than Ross, was aware of or involved in the transactions between the individual officers when they purchased the weapons or how or where the money to reimburse the Association was handled in or subsequent to 2005. Police Association members, when contacted about the discovery of the funds in the office safe of Ross on Oct. 27, indicated they had

no knowledge that Ross had possession of those funds. Those contacted included David Swenson, the president at the time of the 2005 transaction; Andrea Suhr, the secretary/treasurer in 2005; and Doug Kiefert, the current president of the Association. Swenson stated he only became aware that the funds were in the safe approximately two weeks prior to it being opened by city officials and the agent from the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation. When contacted, former City Administrator Jon Cameron stated that it was ludicrous for Ross to publicly claim that city officials approved a check written

by the police association and had any knowledge that Ross personally retained the $4,000 of police association funds in his office safe for almost seven years. Cameron stated this is just another example of Ross bending the truth about his years of financial mismanagement to suit his own needs and version of the events as he wants them portrayed. The best place to keep the funds of the Police Association would have been in the existing bank accounts under the control of the members of the association, not in someones safe for seven years.
Valley City Commissioner Jon Wagar holds the Police/Fire Portfolios.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Mathern rises above politics
By Vicki Voldal Rosenau Valley City If North Dakota voters are as wise as we like to think, why didnt we elect Sen. Tim Mathern to the Governors Office in 2008? During the recent Special Legislative Assembly, Mathern again distinguished himself with highprincipled actions showing that he is not a politician, but a true statesman. Last March, alone among our 141 legislators, Mathern opposed a new law officially approving hydraulic fracturing or fracking, a controversial oildrilling procedure. Trustworthy organizations like Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Sierra Club and American Rivers say fracking poses health and environmental hazards and should be further studied and regulated. NRDC states flat-out that Fracking is a suspect in polluted drinking water in Arkansas, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. Yet Mathern was the ONLY legislator to vote against a blanket endorsement of fracking! What were the other 140 thinking? Perhaps they dont recall the tragedies that ensued when industries were allowed to rush ahead with new profit-boosting schemes without sufficient safeguards. Perhaps they dont even recall thalidomide. This month, Mathern again defended the publics interest by opposing setting aside $1 million to sue the EPA and prevent it from regulating fracking. Its baloney, Mathern said of spending taxpayers money to sue the EPA, also supported by taxpayers money. Next time Mathern runs for higher office, Ill write a much-larger check to his campaign fund and knock on a lot more doors on his behalf. Right now in America, statesmen are about as scarce as hens teeth. As a result, the very survival of our democracy is at risk. We should have enough sense to empower those extraordinary leaders who faithfully put the publics general interest above special interests, as does Sen. Tim Mathern. dent with serious concerns about this issue: Why were residents in the area not included in the discussions about this matter? For what reason does the parking restriction start at 10 p.m. instead of 2 a.m., as is the case elsewhere in town? For what reason is this policy in effect all year long, instead of winter months, as is the case elsewhere in town? Someone suggested to me that this is for street sweeping. A representative from the city says that they sweep the streets on weekdays between 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. - the very time cars can legally part on the street. If street cleaning takes place only during the week in summer months, why cant people park on the street on weekends? When establishing the 10 p.m. time, were the needs of non-residential students involved in rehearsals, science labs and library studies (the library closes at 11 p.m.) discussed?Valley City residents attending theatre events will have to park further away or move their vehicles during the show. During the discussion, did the city consider options used near college campuses in other winter cities? How many parking spaces did the city give the university for overnight parking? Will the number of available spaces decrease after significant snowfall? With increased enrollment, did the PARKING 10

Questions over parking rules

By Jenni Lou Russi Valley City I am disappointed with the new parking restrictions in the university area of our city. I realize that the city needed to make changes, but I believe including residents from the area in the discussions would have brought about a better, long-term plan. It is my understanding that the parking restrictions were made without documentation. This was not a formal commission decision, therefore, there is no record of the reasons for which the new 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., 12-month parking restrictions were made. I want to note that I have secure, offstreet parking. Although I am a faculty member at VCSU, and the parent of a VCSU student, I am writing as a resi-

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Hey Protesters: You are being heard! You are being heard!
hile each group consists of divergent motives and opinions, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street have one common thread: the demand to be heard. History tells us that this is not a new complaint. The American colonists did not revolt over the tax on tea but over the method by which it was imposed. They thought they should have been heard, even though the tax was completely justified. So they took up arms and threw King George out. But once assembled as a constitutional convention, the Founding Fathers were very cautious about hearing too much from the people. James Madison proposed a system of government to refine and enlarge the public views by PARKING: FROM 9 city ensure that there are enough winter parking spaces for students needing parking after 10 p.m.? Permits may be purchased by students who wish to park in the two new parking lots on the north side of the Alumni Walking Bridge. What is the plan for parking if we have to sandbag the two new parking lots (donated FEMA land)? What additional safety precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of the students as they cross the icy walking bridge to campus after dark this winter? Who is responsible for liability issues regarding the walking bridge in the dark? Has the city made allowances for student parking to accommodate snow removal from the university parking lots since theyll probably be fully used now? What was the total cost of the numerous 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. signs that have been posted? How much would two Welcome to Valley City signs cost the city?

LLOYD OMDAHL

passing them through a chosen body of citizens whose wisdom may best discern the best interest of their country. By Lloyd The Founders Omdahl thought that public views needed filtering. The Constitution provided for popular election of the House of Representatives but reserved selection of senators to the chosen body of citizens that made up the state legislatures. However, the movement to give the people a voice in choosing senators rolled through the 1800s and up to 1913 when the Seventeenth Amendment was adopted providing for direct election of senators. The people got another

voice. The election of the President was entrusted to the Electoral College, members of which were chosen by the state legislatures. Here again, the people wanted a voice and it wasnt long before conventions and primaries were naming delegates to presidential nominating conventions and Electors were being chosen by direct vote of the people. (We are not done with the Electoral College. History suggests that it will be replaced with direct election of the president somewhere in the future. The march toward more and more democracy has been relentless and will not be stopped by the Constitution.) In 1870, 1920 and 1971, new voices were added to the electorate when amendments and laws

provided for the enfranchisement of African-Americans, women and those 18 years or older. They were added to the masses entitled to be heard. Perfection of public opinion polling by George Gallup Sr. in the 1930s brought coherence to the public voice. Now the elite holding public offices could get reliable information about public demands. For the people, it was a new way of being heard. Then came the age of electronic communication with Facebook, Twitter and all sorts of informal communication systems. Everyone with a BlackBerry (or whatever) could now express opinions and be heard by millions. Guaranteed freedom of speech and assembly, the entire citizenry is free to be heard on every street

in the United States where they can underscore their grievances with placards, yelling and sit-ins. And we have a hundred television channels ready to report these grievances, imagined or real, to the world. The demand to be heard has bypassed the restrictive elitism of the Founding Fathers. We have abolished the idea that chosen bodies of citizens ought to be the mediators of the voices demanding to be heard. At no time has the opportunity to be heard been more available. We have come a long way since 1787. So whats the anger all about? You are being heard. You are being heard.
Omdahl was the Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota, taking office after Ruth Meiers died in 1987. Previously he was a professor of political science at the University of North Dakota.

Omdahl position misses mark on Measure 2 proposal

onstitutional Measure #2 would abolishes the property tax in North Dakota. The measure has little appeal for most politicians and bureaucrats because it is a prized goose that lays golden eggs on demand. In fact, this goose is so special that By Dennis it can produce on demand and Stillings in quantities determined by the perceived needs of government. Perhaps the first to attack Measure #2 was Lloyd Omdahl, and he has misrepresented and distorted the issues in ways that will be seen again and again as we approach the vote in June of 2012. Prof. Omdahl asserts that the legislators were not impressed with the Measure. Indeed, they were impressed though not favorably. Few legislators care to address a bill that takes away a good measure of government power, that eliminates a tax that holds ones home for ransom, and that unlike income tax and the sales tax promises to raise sufficient revenue for government operations regardless of ones personal financial situation or, for that matter, the economic conditions prevailing throughout the state and nation. It is a tax ready-made for political manipulation. It is an extortion tax. Its main difference from a feudalistic tax is that, generally speaking, feudal lords took only a percentage of ones produce. Nowadays, ones property is more often a liability than a means

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of producing income. Although he is obviously exaggerating, Prof. Omdahl has said (i)t would take a book as fat as War and Peace to enumerate the many evils of the property tax . He ups his hyperbole by implying that the evil consequences of Measure #2 would fill an even bigger book than War and Peace. Maybe so, if the book were printed triple-spaced with inch-high letters Yes, there will indeed be consequences to the passage of Measure #2. What good would it be if there werent? First of all, Prof. Omdahl seems to think that Measure #2 was drafted by a group of fumbling rustics. In fact, the document was drafted by competent lawyers and reviewed by the North Dakota Legislative Council staff. A further analysis was produced in November of this year (13.9150.1000) which addresses most, if not all, concerns regarding the known consequences of Measure #2. Another comprehensive source for information on consequences may be found at the Empower the Taxpayer site (http://www.empowerthetaxpayer.blogspot. com/), a source Prof. Omdahl understandably avoids mentioning. We have addressed consequences, but what about unintended consequences? Unintended consequences has been a popular expression in the last several years. It is a favorite bogeyman used by politicians to scare people and sound smart. In fact, the term is frequently used improperly. Prof. Omdahl follows suit, and he ought to know better. Unintended

consequences means that they are unforeseen and unforeseeable consequences. By definition, unintended consequences of any non-trivial human action are unknown. Their number, their severity, the very possibility of their existence, are all unknown. Naturally, we try our very best to avoid unintended consequences by careful thought and analysis, but they will be there pretty much no matter what. As is his wont, Prof. Omdahl puts on his Nostradamus hat and pontificates about substantial unintended consequences resulting from passage of Measure #2. By definition, he doesnt and cant, know what he is talking about. It has been said that abolishing the property tax is like blowing up a tractor with a hand grenade if a couple of things go wrong with it. One should just fix the tractor. The property tax has been fixed some 135 times since 1981. It is time to use the hand grenade. Bear in mind that the movement to abolish the property tax began with just a simple resolution to study the issue, which was presented to a legislative committee in 2009. The resolution was rejected, leaving only the possibilities of either dropping the matter or continuing by way of an initiated petition. Nearly 30,000 North Dakota citizens signed on in support. The legislature could have saved itself a lot of trouble by taking this issue seriously from the beginning.
Stillings lives in Valley City.

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LETTER: FROM 5 Norwegians and Danes and Swedes, of whom there are so many in this section came here directly from the old country. They seem to be loyal Americans and are very industrious, frugal, and progressive. There are a great many Lutheran churches in this city and this state. We have a Scandinavian Methodist Episcopal Church in addition to our own, and also the shouting Free Methodist. .. I do not hear as much patriotic talk out here, but the people certainly have done their share in the number of soldiers they have furnished, and the amount contributed to Y.M.C.A., Fed Cross etc. There seems to be no cry of hard times---no shortage of soft coal at least, and I am sure that this section is better off than many others of our country. The great hardship our farmers will experience is the number of young men taken from the farm into the army service. The Occident Flour Mills are located here, and it is a busy place running night and day. If it comes to the worst in the coal situation, the North Dakota people have the lignite to fall back on. It is being mined in the state in larger quantities than ever before, and a great deal of it is used in heating public buildings and to run factories. It seems to me I have heard you say that you have a nephew teaching at the State University in Grand Forks. Am I mistaken? We find some things cheaper here and more things bigger in price. Butter,eggs,milk and [a] few other things are cheaper, but dry goods, furniture and other groceries are higher. In a population of seven thousand there is but one laundry, and we have to pay pretty stiff prices. There is no redress. As for wet-washes, there is none here, and every home that can afford it have electric washers. If our Brother White were to come out here I think he could pick up a very substantial fortune in the laundry business. I wish you and Sister Quackenbush might drive up this afternoon in your fine car and take a ride across these prairies. I believe we would all enjoy it. We shall always be glad that, even for a short time, I was the pastor of Herkimer Methodist Episcopal Church. I certainly brought away a pleasant memory of our good times there, and the most delightful people whose acquaintance we made. It was a real hardship for me to leave just as I was best prepared to serve you. The thing that decided my coming here was the possibility of better health, and the pleasure it would give Mrs W. to be near her people. The fact is that from last August until I came away, I was not free of sore throat, and had an increasing tendency to hoarseness. Catarrhal symptoms also were developing. From a monetary point of view, I am money out, and will be, but if I shall be physically stronger, I shall entertain no regrets about any money loss. God has always taken care of me so that I was able to live comfortably and keep out of debt. What He has done, I believe He will do. . I always found you such good company, and your genial spirit and optimism made the day brighter for me after we met. Your ingenuity as a machinist helped to keep friction out of the ecclesiastical machinery which at times arises in an Official Board meeting. . I am very fraternally yours J.S. Wilde P.S. Mrs W. joins me in love and best wishes

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