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FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Carbon dioxide pipeline hearing goes positive STAFF REPORT
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owman County hosted a local public hearing Thursday (Feb. 6) for sections of a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline which will cut across southeastern Montana to connect drill sites north of Baker and in parts of Bowman and Slope counties in North Dakota.
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Bowman still battling influenza season BY BRAD MOSHER bmosher@countrymedia.net
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Lynn Brackel gives interview to Renee Cooper of KX news about the Denbury Green proposed pipeline. PHOTO/Casandra Horn
According to the North Dakota Public Service Commission which held the hearing, the Denbury Green Pipeline-Montana, LLC, is proposing to construct an approximately 9.23
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he battle is far from over when it comes to influenza, according to the Southwest Health Clinic in Bowman. In fact, the community is only about halfway through the flu season and needs to make sure to take precautions to protect against contracting the virus. In order to avoid being overrun with cases and to help prevent people from contracting it, the clinic is still using a system to control the number of walk-in patients coming into the healthcare facility. According to Lisa Knopp, the clinic manager and a registered nurse, the visitor restriction plan the facility has been using will continue through the remainder of the active flu season in the region. “It will be for the duration of the flu
season. We are still seeing several cases a week,” she explained Monday. “We are still continuing to limit the visitors because … with the nursing home, we don’t want anyone bring it in. “So we will continue to limit the visitors,” she said. Last year, the control was continued into the end of the flu season in April. The restriction of visitors started around Christmastime, she explained. “When people come in with a cough and a fever, we recommend that they wear a mask. It is to protect them and to protect the rest of us too,” Knopp said. Although it seems that there may be slightly less of a problem in terms of numbers locally, Knopp said that it is still serious enough to keep the controls in effect. “We are seeing more of the ‘B’ strain as opposed to last year when we saw more of the ‘A’ strain. The ‘B’ tends to affect more
of the kids, not necessarily the young kids, but the school age kids. “We have had a lot more school age kids this year,” she said. “We gave out as may flu vaccines this year as we did last year. I still have them available. We are still recommending that people get vaccinated if they have not.” She said that the facility offered flu shots in the fall and a lot of people attended the events. “Now, if a person comes in asking for a flue vaccine we will handle it so they are in and out and not in the area where people with influenza are at – kind of a separate area of the clinic. They are usually in and out very fast and not mixing with people,” she said. “We have given over 500 vaccinations at the clinic this year.” That figure does not include the vaccinations given by the public
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ore than 220 members of the FFA and 4-H Clubs from Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota converged on the Four Seasons Pavilion Saturday for the Badlands Judging event, with Adams County winning both the senior and junior 4-H Livestock competitions. In the senior 4-H competition, Adams County finished ahead of Golden Valley, Oliver Valley, Bowman County, Stark-Billings County, Morton County and McKenzie County. A second Oliver County 4-H team placed eighth. In the junior 4-H competition, Adams County also took the top spot in the junior 4-H Livestock competition, followed by Grant County, Stark-Billings County, McKenzie County and Morton County. A second team from Grant County placed ninth in the competition. According to the Slope County NDSU Extension agent, Shelby Hewson, Slope County competitors were part of the Adams County contingent which placed first in both categories. In the FFA team livestock judging, Dickinson had two teams place first and second, followed by Belfield, Watford City, Scranton, Grant County,
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PHOTO/Brad Mosher
Mandan, Mott-Regent, New England and Flasher. A third team from Dickinson placed 11th in the team standings. In the FFA Agronomy competition, Grant County placed first, in front of New England, Belfield, Mandan, Mott-Regent, Hettinger, Watford City, Dickinson and Flasher. In the individual competition, while Laura Muggli of Grant County was first, Slope County’s Grace and Emily Dinius were second and fourth in the scoring. Competing for New
England FFA, Grace Dinius scored 826 points, just 10 behind the leader. Emily Dinius was fourth with 747 points. New England also had William Schmidt (13th), Emma Bock (15th), Katie Schmidt (16th) and Samantha Fitterer (30th). In the FFA Livestock category, Avery Roth of Grant County placed first, followed by Rylie Dohrmann, Isaac Binstock and Haeden Bullinger, all from Dickinson. Wyatt Dorner, competing for New England FFA, was eighth. Scranton’s top finisher
was Dani Maychrzak, who finished 17th, while Ella Anderson was 24th in the competition. The Scranton team placed fifth, while a pair of Dickinson teams placed first and second. According to Max Robison, the Bowman County NDSU Extension agent, the turnout was a big increase over previous years for the Bowman County-Scranton FFA who sponsored the event. “We had quite a few more in the FFA Agronomy/ Ag Sales side,” he said. “We also had quite a few more judges for FFA and 4-H. Last year, the weather had a lot to do with it and we had a storm. Things were kind of nasty and a lot of teams could not make it. “But, it is a really good turnout this year … and a little warmer,” he added. “There is a good number more FFA judges as well
as quite an increase in the junior 4-H.” He also said that the quality of the animals is also a key to the success of the Badlands competition. “One of the reasons that Bowman has a pretty successful contest is that we can get the quality of livestock from within Bowman County and Adams County as well. They were really helpful this year and able to find us the sheep from Dave Pearson at the Hettinger Research Center, the hogs from Larson’s over in Adams County and the cattle came from Murnak Herefords and Dry Creek Red Angus,” Robison said. The county extension agent said that the competitors are evaluated not only on their ability to numerically rate livestock but also on the ability to justify their ratings to judges in a verbal presentation.