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Papka THE SECRET street GARDEN project A YEAR IN REVIEW halted by formal protests Nighthawk basketball teams both down Harding County
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By SHELDON CHRISTENSON For the Pioneer
Harding County came to cranton on Dec. 18 and 19 to ake on the Nighthawk boys nd girls’ basketball teams, and eft going 0-2 for their efforts. Hettinger-Scranton’s boy’s asketball team faced the anchers first and pulled out 64-62 win. The Nighthawk’s ull court pressure initially gave he Ranchers trouble as they uickly fell behind 12-0. On top
of that, their 6’4” center Mason Teigen left the game late in the first quarter with three fouls and would not return until the 2nd half. The Nighthawks built a 13-point lead at the end of the first half which was highlighted by a buzzer-beating long range 3-point shot by Haden Sadowsky, which made the score 38-25. With the return of Teigen in the second half, better shooting and rebounding, they outscored Hettinger/Scranton 37-
26 but the Ranchers fell just short by two points. They had a chance to tie the game with less than a minute to go but, Sam Kludt blocked a close in shot by Teigen which more than likely saved the game from being tied. The Ranchers got the ball back with 10 seconds left but could not get off a good shot. Kludt was having a problem finding his shooting touch but his blocked shot was definitely one of the key moments for the
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Nighthawks. Harding County girls w Sadowsky scored 34 for HS came in with a 1-3 record. which included five 3-point- Hettinger/Scranton girls a ers and Brandon Pierce added jumped out to an early lead 21. I had Clayton Koch lead- they were head 16-1 after ing Harding Co. with 23 points. first stop, and 25-15 at h The Nighthawk JV team also They held on in the second h remains undefeated as they although being outscored downing Harding Co. 63-53. 21 to pull off their second Harding Co. came into the of the season to go along w game with a 2-0 record and re- five losses. ceiving votes in the top five in Casey Joppa tallied 19 South Dakota Class B ranks. Kinsey Jahner added 11 The following night the the Nighthawks. Both had By COLEthe BENZ3-pointers. Nighthawk girls downed Record Editor
even if the mood strikes her right. The work and cost of garden upkeep is diminished as she has ‘save over plants.’ She has certain plants that she just brings inside and puts under artificial lighting during the fall and winter months. Shortly before spring, she will trim and fertilize them for regrowth as the weather warms and she’s ready to bring them back outside. “I just take a hedge clipper in the spring and cut them down to maybe four inches, and within maybe two weeks [they’re grown],” Kathleen said. Some plants she has kept around for more than 20 years. She has over 70 potted plants (half of which carries over from year to year), and even more that are buried in the ground. Combine that with the vegetation, Kathleen tends to well over 100 plants. The garden also features a decorative fountain. She had always wanted one and her late son always encouraged her to go buy it if she wanted it. Kathleen always said she would wait for her birthday or Christmas, and her son used to tell her she was acting like a ‘typical German-Russian, can’t just go buy something because you want it, it has to be for a reason.’ While on a trip to Minneapolis, she finally found her fountain. Most people don’t know about Kathleen’s little secret garden, and said people are surprised when they do see it. But she’s
The Papka 1st Addition street project has been halted by formal protests. North Dakota Century Code says that property owners have the right to formally protest if there is a special assessment required to pay for the work. Those protests were due to the city— in writing—by Sunday, July 31. If 50 percent of the square footage of the area being assessed was protested, the project would be stopped. At the city council meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 10, the council formally added up the protests they received and they accounted for close to 80 percent of the total land being assessed. The total area of the project was 1,503,900 square feet, and the lots that were protested totaled 1,190,046. According to sources with the city, a project has not been stopped by this processes in over a decade. Though there were a few residents of the area that didn’t sign or submit a formal protest, no one came forward in support of the project. Initial estimates for the cost of the project was north of $2 million, and early estimates of what it could have cost the property owners was as high as $4,627.08 per year per lot for a 10-year bond, and as low as $2,765.13 for a 20-year bond per year per lot, but it would have been up to a special assessment board to determine how the cost would have been divided among the property owners. The project would have consisted of curb, gutter, asphalt street paving, and fixing the draining issue. One way they would have solved the draining problem would to have been to install a detention pond, or an area of low-level land where storm water would have settled before a controlled draining process would have occurred. Storm sewers or ditches would need to be installed in the pond for drainage.
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(TOP) Kathleen Brackel has planted flowers to bloom in the shape of a heart in her garden next to KB Jewelers. (BOTTOM LEFT) Brackel has many different types of vegetation in her garden. (BOTTOM MIDDLE) Brackel uses multiple decorations throughout her garden. (BOTTOM RIGHT) In the middle of her side yard, a pergola gives some plants extra protection and makes the garden standout a little more. (Photos by Cole Benz/The Record)
Hettinger resident has little known plant sanctuary on Main Street By COLE BENZ
Record Editor It’s her secret garden. Though you wouldn’t know it by just walking by, but the little section of space between KB Jewelers and the building to the north has been transformed into a haven of vegetation and blooming flowers by store co-owner Kathleen Brackel. Guarded by a tall, brown fence, the little section of land was originally nothing more than a pathway for trucks to drive up to White’s Hardware’s propane loading tank. Thirty years ago, Kent and Kathleen Brackel bought the lot, with the hope of giving their kids some yard to play in as they grew up. “We had children and they had no place to play,” Kathleen said. “Instead of a backyard, we had a side yard.” The gardening and floral decorating occurred after Kathleen and Kent (her husband) became empty nesters.
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Currently she has nearly 10 different garden plants growing, including cucumbers, tomatoes, beets, swiss chard, carrots, beans, eggplant, celery, and green peppers. Kathleen told the Record that she needs to have specific types of plants because the area has limited sun exposure, but at the same time the exposure her plants get tends to make the area very hot, so she needs plants that can tolerate the temperatures, like tomatoes. “I have over the years, had less sunshine, because the trees just got bigger,” Kathleen said. “So now I just plant things that tolerate less sun.” After you enter the garden from the gate on Main Street, you walk past the garden and are treated to different flower arrangements. One, which lies right in the middle of the garden, was designed by Kathleen to grow and outline the shape of a heart, and another that spells out their initials, KB. There also is an ornate floral design under a wooden-built pergola at the midpoint of the side-yard garden. Kathleen said she has planted specific breeds of flowers so that she will have plants that bloom throughout the spring, summer and fall, ensuring her garden will always have at least some plants in bloom. Some of her flowers are planted directly into the ground, and some are potted so she can rearrange for weather or
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