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Facebook, Silver Alert helps find missing woman
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ADAMS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
AWARDED $150,000 GRANT
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he saga of Clara Mae Braun started Sept. 16 when her relatives could not find her or her 2012 Chr ysler 300 in South Dakota. Days later she was found in a rural section of Hettinger County by local residents who helped get her taken to the West River Hospital in Hettinger by EMS responders. In between, Facebook and North Dakota's Silver Alert program played a major role in finding Braun. She was stuck and out of gas off a section road in southeast Hettinger County, close to the Adams County line. It was a happy ending for Jackie Christman, Braun's granddaughter, and the rest of her family. It was a ending which also played out on Facebook. It started Monday with Christman posting on Facebook that her grandmother was missing. Tuesday evening, the Hettinger resident reported on Facebook that a trucker had claimed to have seen Braun's vehicle south of the city of Lemmon on Highway 73 near Shadehill. Christman added a post Wednesday morning that her grandmother had been seen near Mott. “Grandma MISSING » PAGE 2
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A group of young volunteers help give the Hettinger Bowling Alley a fresh coat of paint. Submitted Photos.
FRANK TURNER
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eople looking to go bowling in Adams County may be in luck. The Adams County Development Corporation (ACDC) was recently awarded a USDA Rural Business Development Grant for $150,000.
According to the Executive Director of the Hettinger Chamber of Commerce and Adams County Development Corporation Jasmin Fosheim, the grant funds will go to improving the equipment in the Hettinger Bowling Alley. Funding from the grant becomes available in Oc-
tober. With those funds, ACDC hopes to have the bowling alley up and running sometime in 2020, said Foshiem. “We still have a lot of steps before we will have a bowling alley in the community, but we are cautiously optimistic,” said Fosheim. The grant marks the
next major step toward an operational bowling alley near downtown Hettinger. The news of grant funding comes nearly six months after the completion of ACDC’s feasibility study for the bowling alley, which found the building to be in relatively good condition with a
lot of potential for being a profitable business. Fosheim noted that the $150,000 grant will cover the cost of new restaurant and bowling equipment. “The feasibility found that the community strongly supports the BOWLING » PAGE 3
For the Beauty of Hettinger tackles tree removal FRANK TURNER
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or the Beauty of Hettinger is an organization dedicated to the beautification of Hettinger. While the organization is known more for their work with local flowerbeds, they recently have decided to tackle the dead tree epidemic in Hettinger. Recently, the organization was awarded a $10,000 matching grant from the North Dakota Forest Service to achieve their goal of cleaning up dead and dying trees on Hettinger’s public lands, according to For the Beauty of Hettinger President Jackie Hedstrom. “This year, we are specifically tackling dead tree removal,” said Hedstrom. “We were inspired by the people who approached us and said, ‘there are so many dead trees. It’s
so expensive to remove them. What do we do?’” To achieve their goal of a more beautiful town, For the Beauty of Hettinger worked with the city, the park board, and the tree board to find the matching funds and volunteers for the grant. “The Hettinger Park Board and Tree Board are offering their help as much as they can with volunteers, equipment, and tree identification knowledge,” said Hedstrom. Once funding was secured, an initial survey of the town found more than 80 trees identified as dead, poor, or very poor on Hettinger’s public lands. In total, the grant will facilitate the removal of 40 dead trees. Hedstrom said the tree removal process is planned for late October. “Right now, we TREES » PAGE 2
This map of Hettinger depicts all the dead and dying trees within city limits. Green dots mark the location of dead trees and yellow dots mark the location of trees labeled poor or very poor. (submitted photo)