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Scranton flies donated flag Food bank BY BRAD MOSHER

makes stops in Bowman, Amidon

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r. Karyn Chiapella has been on a mission since 2001. She was teaching at a school in Michigan when terrorists attacked the Twin Towers. Shortly after the attack she became part of a program called “Any Soldier” which adopts soldiers overseas and sends them care packages. “Since I have been in Scranton for eight years now, we have continued to do that. This past Christmas, we had four units that we adopted. One of the units is based in Afghanistan and they sent us a thank you letter we just received last week with pictures of them holding the things we sent them and a flag. “They flew the American flag over their base in honor of our students and mailed it to us as a gift us,” Dr. Chiapella explained. The flag was raised over the Scranton campus Tuesday morning, the day after Presidents’ Day. “We flew that flag on our flagpole to honor them, took pictures of it and are going to sent it (pictures) back to the soldiers. We will have the flag, the letters and pictures framed to put on display in the hallways at the school here.” The unit is with the Air Force currently based in Afghanistan, Dr. Chiapella said. “Our soldier’s name is Marcelino Ruiz. “The unit we got was because of Col. Tyler Schaas. He went to school here with our elementary principal. He is our go-to guy every year and he gives us names of his units overseas,” she explained. The program is in its second year at Scranton. “Last year, we had a unit

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that had like 800 military members in it. “We send what they need and the community is part of it. We send boxes, care packages with socks, gloves,

protein bars – everything they request and need to help them through their time there,” she explained. “Primarily,

he Great Plains Food Bank is stopping by Southwestern North Dakota this week, weather permitting. According to Rachel Monge, the regional service manager, the food bank stops in Hettinger and Bowman Thursday, then heads to Amidon Friday morning. It is a trip which was postponed earlier because of weather. “We will be there on the 20th and 21st of February,” Monge said. “We went for years without rescheduling anything and now for the last couple of years we have definitely had to do that a couple of times. The stop in Bowman was scheduled for 3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Thursday at the fairgounds, Monge said. “That will be the last stop of the evening, right in front of their buildings. We will take up most of the front area of it at both entrances.” The food will available with a drive-thru distribution, she added. “There are no requirements. You don’t have to sign up beforehand. We welcome anyone in need of food assistance. “We will be lining everybody up. The food will be unloaded and each car will come through the line. All clients will stay in their vehicles and we will load their cars depending on their household size.”

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which could control minds over the telephone. The spies have been assigned to stop Silverthumb, but have a problem … the tape self-destructed before telling them about the mission. The sleuths will gather at the

ould you believe it takes a dream team of famous screen spies to try to stop the evil Silverthumb’s plan to take over the world? Would you believe the team will have one more chance Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Slope County Fairgrounds in Amidon? Reporting for the mission is the Girl from A.U.N.T., Josephine Solo. She is joined by James Blond (009 1/2), Carter Flint, Maxwell Sharp and Sharp’s wife, Agent 98.6, in an attempt to keep Silverthumb from using a mind-control device for world domination. Silverthumb kidnapped Dr. Schlock Maxwell Sharp, played by Tom Juntenen, tries on and his daughter his spyglasses as the other spy agents listen in. after the scientist Submitted Photo created a device,

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famous Argentum Manor on the Slope County Fairgrounds Saturday, February 22, 2020 to try to stop Silverthumb’s evil plan. But they will have to overcome obstacles, including themselves to succeed in saving Amidon, Slope County and the rest of the world. The dinner theater play “Mission Possible” is part of a community effort being put on by Slope County Fair Association as a fund-

raiser for the upcoming centennial county fair in August. Among the cast members on stage will be Kitty Galore (Jordyn Germann), Silverthumb (Alex Conlon), James Blond (Lane Hall), along with N, the head of British Intelligence, (Kasey Burke) and The Girl from A.U.N.T. (Shelby Hewson). The admission for the dinner theater is $45. All three of the showings have been sold out!

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