At the 2024 Joint North Dakota Water Convention and Irrigation Workshop held Dec. 12, 2024, in Bismarck Jeff Frith of Devils Lake was honored with the Water Wheel Award.

I grew up in the 1950’s on a farm located between the communities of Heimdal and Wellsburg. I went to grade school in Wellsburg which is about 14 miles south of Esmond and about the same distance north east of Harvey.

Five families from Devils Lake, ND, are receiving Welcome Home kits filled with household essentials through the Bremer Bank Home For Good initiative. Made possible by Bremer’s partnership with Greater Twin Cities United Way, the collaboration will provide 750 Welcome Home kits to families and individuals transitioning from homelessness to stable housing, including those who experience socioeconomic and/or racial disparities, throughout Bremer Bank’s footprint in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin.

Well, just like clockwork - winter in North Dakota is here. The season when our vehicles refuse to start, our eyelashes and sinus infections freeze, and every step outside becomes a frightening journey on nature’s slip-and-slide. Forget risky things like high-speed car chases or skiing off a jagged mountain top that only a helicopter can fly you to. The real drama is watching folks navigate icy parking lots right here on the North Dakota prairie!

The Lake Region Public Library is thrilled to announce the establishment of a full-time Children’s Librarian, a position that has been part-time for decades. Beginning in 2025, there will officially be a Children’s Librarian at the Lake Region Public Library every weekday, as well as some evenings and weekends!

Sons, Like Father, are Electricians

I am featuring the Hymn “Silent Night” because the Dakota children learned this hymn in boarding school. This hymn is in Dakota, a language the boarding school children were punished for speaking. They learned this hymn in English as they do today. The Dakota people translated the English words into Dakota.

Have you ever been darkhouse spearfishing for pike? It’s relatively new compared to most outdoor recreation, having started a mere 25 years ago, but for those who have taken the opportunity it’s hard to compare.

James B Wentz, March 23, 1943 – Dec. 9, 2024, was born in Benson County. He was the seventh of fifteen children of Nick and Catherine (Scherr) Wentz. He grew up on a farm near Minnewaukan, ND.