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Bowman school board passes COVID operating plan

Superintendent Wayne Heckaman explains part of the Bowman County Smart Re-Start Plan during the school board meeting Aug. 5 in the Middle School Commons area on campus. The meeting lasted more than three hours and ended with the board unanimously approving the draft plans for the start of the new school year Aug. 19 when students return. PHOTO/Brad Mosher

By Brad Mosher

bmosher@countrymedia.net In the new age of COVID, the Bowman County School Board has approved a plan to prepare for the start of school which focuses on flexibility as well as stressing the need for a heightened awareness of the need for cleanliness.

The dark, empty hallways at Bowman

County High School will soon be filled with students and staff as the school board unanimously approved draft plans to guide the school district.

The students will be returning to campus officially Aug. 17 as the first day of the new 2020-2021 school year.

There will be some noticeable changes over previous years for students, facul-

ty and staff, according to Superintendent Wayne Heckaman.

The superintendent presented the ReStart draft plan to the board for final approval and adoption when they met in the Middle School Commons area.

The board approved the changes made to the draft and passed it unanimously.

The plan was designed to be able to respond quickly to changes in regional, state and national conditions. Called the “Bowman County Smart Re-Start Plan”, it is tied to the state’s Blue/Green/Yellow/Orange/ Red system to determine what the school, faculty and students must do to protect the educational environment as much as possible.

Under the current Blue/Green level, instruction is delivered in-person with students going to school full-time. The school will follow the local public health guidelines while maintaining a normal school schedule.

If the threat level moves into the higher yellow level, the district plan would arrange for the school to move to a blended learning schedule which has student moving to a modified attendance schedule.

If the threat level moves up to the highest orange or red levels, then the district will move to a learning at home schedule using a distance learning plan similar to what was used in the spring.

The district also acknowledged that parents could apply for a distance-learning format.

Under the hybrid plan if the threat lev-

el rises to yellow, face coverings would be required for students and staff when social distancing is not possible. In addition, there would be temperature checks required of all employees and students when they enter the building, while the route buses will run with face coverings required by the students. Because of the problems with social distancing on buses, the board plan would also encourage parents to consider alternate transportation to school.

Under the yellow level plan, the lunch times could also be staggered to cut down on the number of students in the cafeteria and allow for social distancing. It may also allow some students to eat in other areas of the school or outside, depending on the weather conditions, the plan explained.

Under the orange and red level, the school would close and the learning would shift to the remote learning plan the district used during the spring.

The campus would be closed to the general public except by special appointment.

Under all the levels, the plan said it would follow the guidelines established by the North Dakota High School Activities Association for the extracurricular activities.

According to the superintendent, there are still some things to work out or adapt to extreme weather conditions. “What happens if recess can’t go out today.... what do those students do and what kind of accommodations do we need to make,” he said after watching the draft plan adopted. “Those are all plans that are in the works.”

T e i i m v o e M The Bowman County commissioners wrestled with math problems Monday as the five (l-r) - Jerry Jeffers, Rich Braaten, Lynn Brackel, Josh Buchman and Pine Abrahamson) were trying to come up with a very tight county budget after all the economic hits in 2020. PHOTO/Brad Mosher

Commissioners pass spartan $1.76 million preliminary county budget

By Brad Mosher

bmosher@countrymedia.net The Bowman County Commissioners took a microscopic look at the county budget in a meeting Monday (Aug. 10).

The five commissioners reconvened the Aug. 4 meeting looking at ways to deal with an estimated budget shortfall because of decreasing tax and fee revenues caused by a worldwide pandemic and the drop in oil revenues earlier in 2020.

Going line-by-line, the commissioners were working with County Auditor Sandy Tivis all morning in the Commissioners Room as the group tried to match the budget needs with the dwindling revenues.

“I think we are coming out of this looking pretty good,” Commissioner Lynn Brackel said as the meeting neared noon.

“You guys have been right on the money, “ he said, praising his fellow Commissioners.

“We are lucky to have oil money. Other counties aren’t so lucky,” he said. “We were fortunate to have the oil money to make it work. Hopefully we can do it again next year.”

In addition, the commissioners said that there still is a five percent discount for people who pay their taxes early by Feb. 15.

The commissioners spent four hours putting together a budget that passed unanimously just before noon.

The approved $1.76 million preliminary budget can be lowered but not raised, according to the commissioners.

The preliminary tax notices will be sent out to county taxpayers by the end of the month.

Building spartan budget “I’m surprised how much the coal severance is,” Brackel said early in the process Monday. He was noting that coal ac-

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tivities were low in Bowman County.

“We are looking at any way we can to cut expenses.

“This year, we had so many things go wrong with gas prices and this COVID thing,” he said.

As Commissioner Rick Braaten went over the county funding, he said “it is better off if we are high now,” as he looked over the cuts.

Part of the difficulty was finding what cuts needed to be made, while still providing needed service to the county residents. “I don’t think there is one of us who wants to raise taxes,” Pine Abrahamson said to his fellow commissioners.

Commissioner Jerry Jeffers mentioned that it would help the budget if a proposed wind farm in the county would start taking out permits, but he noted that it could be a while before that happens.

The commissioners were also looking at the increasing cost of insurance, in addition to the drop in oil revenues.

The group would come up with suggestions on how to meet current estimates, then have the auditor check the budget again as they proceeded.

“This year, we just have to watch what we do,” Commissioner Josh Buchman said.

The estimates of revenues from the state has yet to be released, so the county is trying to come up with a very spartan budget which would only need to be slightly adjusted, according to the county auditor.

No matter what decisions are made, it would have an impact on the county and it’s economy, one of the commissioners said.

The county workers are facing cuts in department funding as well a salary freeze.

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Bowman residents got a chance to watch a movie under the stars Thursday (Aug. 6) in Bowman City Park. PHOTO/Brad Mosher

Bowman’s movie in the park beats evening rain

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It was perfect timing.

In Bowman’s City Park, the “Movie in the Park” finished showing the animated movie Rio just as a rainstorm hit the community.

The 2011 animated movie told the story of a macaw named Blu that had never learned to fly and is kidnapped by smugglers before escaping.

But on Thursday evening (Aug. 6), it was the dozens of viewers who watched the film projected on the side of one of the buildings who were able to escape just as a rainstorm hit town around 9 p.m.

Rhame movie The city of Rhame hosted a meal and a movie in Hutchison Park Aug. 12, with the Disney animated file “The Lion King.” It is part of the Consolidated Communications Movies in the Park summer program. That community program has already shown Frozen II and Abominable in Dickinson and New England earlier this summer.

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Ruth Buzalsky, 93

On July 31, 2020, Ruth Buzalsky (nee Rocksvold), loving wife and mother of five children, passed away at St. Luke’s Nursing Home surrounded by her family at the age of 93.

On Jan. 26, 1927, Ruth was born on her parent’s farm on the Red River near Drayton, ND to Albert and Catherine Rocksvold.

Due to a shortage of teachers

during WWII, she volunteered to move from her home in the Red River Valley first to Minnesota then to the Badlands in the most south-west part of North Dakota. There she met her future husband, Gilbert Buzalsky, and after his return from Korea, they married on Aug. 20, 1952.

They raised two sons, Douglas and Ronald, and three daughters, Jawayne, Pamela and Nancy.

Ruth had a creative passion for sewing, knitting, quilting and service to others. She used her skills, extraordinary talent, and love to create linens, quilts and clothing for her family and friends. Her passion for artisan craftwork was passed down to all her children through sewing, writing, quilting and knitting.

Friends and family greatly admired her for her dedication to her local community. She was always an active member of her local church and the many local

volunteer service chapters from the American Legion to the Senior Citizens club. She was also known for her skill in bowling, competing at the national tournament, and quickly solving any word puzzle, her passion for life, and her kindness.

She is survived by her husband, Gilbert, her five children and ten grandchildren. She will be buried at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery in Mandan, ND, and a memorial mass will be held at a later date at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in New England, ND. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be given to New England Senior Citizens, St. Mary’s Catholic Church or St. Peter and Paul Cemetery in Amidon.

Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.stevensonfuneralhome.com.

Working to maintain and enhancing fishing opportunities in North Dakota

By Doug Leier

Dozens of local families took advantage of a free afternoon of swimming at the Rouzie Recreation Center pool. Dakota Dental sponsored the Aug. 6 event.

Swimmers took advantage of the giant slide along with the small kiddie pool at the Rouzie Recreation Center complex Aug. 6 in Bowman. PHOTOS/Brad Mosher

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Bowman’s Park and Recreation Department made a big splash when it hosted a pool party on a hot afternoon in the first week of August.

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the Rouzie Recreation Center pool at 305 First Street SW. After a few hours of fun in the pool, the event was forced to end about a half hour early when a thunderstorm arrived in Bowman.

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Growing up in North Dakota in the 1980s, the number of fishing waters dotting the landscape was less than half of the 400-plus waters today.

The quality of our fisheries, while fewer than some other states, is certainly worth bragging about. I remind anglers when the rod tip is bouncing, or the fish is frying, the scenery surrounding the water doesn’t matter.

A quality fish is a quality fish.

It’s the same mentality North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries crews carry in working to maintain and enhancing fishing opportunities in our neck of the Northern Great Plains.

An example. Rising water levels this spring created a unique challenge for fisheries crews to safeguard a lake in south central North Dakota that has long served anglers well. The challenge to stop the upstream migration of unwanted fish species into Rice Lake was met with a combination of North Dakota nice (cooperative landowners) and North Dakota smart (ingenuity).

According to Paul Bailey, Game and Fish Department south central district fisheries supervisor: “When Rice Lake in Emmons County met its natural outlet this spring, the lake was connected, via about a 30-mile drainage, to Lake Oahe.

And that provided an avenue for a bunch of different fish species in Lake Oahe to make their way into Rice Lake. It’s got northern pike, yellow perch, and is especially known for its walleye population in recent years.”

A combination of weather factors forced Rice Lake to reach its natural outlet for the first time since European settlement in North Dakota. Bai-

ley said Rice Lake hit one of its recent lows in fall of 2008, making it about 20 feet lower than it is today.

Common carp, which tend to swim longer distances upstream and could have easily maneuvered into Rice Lake, if not for a drop structure built in spring on private land to halt the upstream invasion. Water started flowing out of Rice Lake’s natural outlet the last week of March and the drop structure was put in place the first week of April on land owned and operated by Dale Nieuwsma and Duane Nieuwsma downstream of Rice Lake.

“Rice Lake hits its outlet and flows very gently, not losing a lot of elevation for the first several miles,” Bailey said. “So, we’re fortunate to have this half-mile-or-so stretch that offered a little steeper gradient where we could install a drop structure. We’re very fortunate to have Dale and Duane Nieuwsma, who were willing to let us conduct this project on their property. Without landowners like these, these projects simply cannot be done.”

Dale Nieuwsma was born on the property in the early 1950s and has never seen the water this high.

“It was just determined a few years ago that Rice Lake would run over this direction, but nobody really knew where it would come,” Dale said. “It was actually early spring that Paul (Bailey) contacted me and we knew there was going to be a problem.

If not for the structure, my dugout (for the cattle on the property) would’ve been gone. The drop structure was just a good idea … it helped us both.”

Sure, it’s just one lake, but it’s an example of how North Dakota anglers, biologists and landowners will work together to maintain and enhance outdoor recreation.

Linking past and present, one photo at a time

Cemeteries hold a wealth of history. Each headstone is a slice of someone’s past, a timeline connecting them to the present. Someone just needs to connect the dots.

Thanks to the efforts of missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, those links are being made.

Because Covid-19 has curtailed the traditional work of sharing the message of Jesus Christ for many missionaries, including those serving in the Bowman County area, the Dakotas Mission President Scott L. Howell, a former sexton and an amateur genealogist, gave the local Elders cameras and sent them to the Bowman Cemetery.

“I thought,” President Howell said, “that it would be helpful for our missionaries, during this time of social distancing, to get out in the fresh air and do something meaningful, like taking photos of headstones in cemeteries for genealogy purposes.”.

Each picture is then uploaded to the BillionGraves website so the information can be accessed electronically by present-day family members and genealogists seeking information about their ancestors.

Elder Andrew Thomas, who participated in the project said, “This project connects people with their ancestors all over the world. We’re hoping to get people excited to learn more about it.”

Anyone who knows of a small or private cemetery in the area that would benefit from the BillionGraves project may contact the local missionaries at (605) 390-3374. Help them continue connecting dots!

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Pastor’s Corner: God’s not Siri

By Ed Kvaale

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? (Job 38:4a).� That’s the question God asks of Job, before asking him a hundred more of equal significance, none of which he can answer. In the end he can only say, “therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes (Job 42:2,5-6).� Job had spent many words affirming his innocence of any sin in the face of his friends’ accusations that his own evil actions had brought about his immense suffering, but they would not believe him, thus he turned to God to affirm his innocence and for an explanation as to his great misery, instead, God asks him a few impossible questions, showing Job his own insignificance and ignorance, that save for God’s grace and power, Job would quite literally be nothing!

God isn’t afraid of our tough questions, our complaints, our tears, our anger, the Psalms are full of them, but are we approaching Him as an equal or worse, as if He owes us something or has failed to do as we wish, as if He is an erring employee or child that just isn’t listening? To Job He reveals His

power, His wisdom, His glory and splendor, and Job rightfully replies that he is dust and even that is not of his own doing. It isn’t the questions, but rather the attitude with which we bring them, that matter to God. Are we willing, like Job, to say, “though He slay me, still I will hope in Him (Job 13:15a).�

Or will we be like Job’s friends, declaring their full knowledge of God and His ways and thus their own rightness in all they assert?

In approaching God, we must remember that we are His creature, that He is the Source and Power behind everything, that He is not our servant or slave but rather we are called to serve Him. We are free to express our feelings, but I am also thankful that He doesn’t do things our way. As C. S. Lewis put in the Chronicles of Narnia about Aslan “he’s not a tame lion, but he is good.� We would do well to remember that about our God; we serve a good God, but He is not at our beck and call!

Dakota Datebook: Walt and Evelyn Neuens Written by Merry Helm

Walt Neuens was born in Medora on Aug. 11, 1911, and grew up in the North Dakota Badlands. Along with his brother and a friend, he began working for a Wild West show when he was just 14. “When I was a young buck,� he said, “the tourists went by excursion trains that’d stop at different places and show them things. Medora was one of those places. Every time a train stopped we’d have a Wild West show for them. We rode broncs for two dollars and a half a head, and they were wild broncs – they weren’t used to being in a pen or nothing. One day my bronc fell over the fence on top of a new Chevrolet car.�

And, that’s how Neuens met Evelyn Connell – it was her father’s car. They got to know each other and got married in 1931. According to one story, Walt thought being married was greatly preferable to driving the 55 miles it took to see her where she was teaching.

The Neuens settled on the home place, and Walt made extra money competing in rodeos – saddle bronc riding, bareback riding and roping. Bonnie Wilson, a long-time friend, said, “Walt and Evelyn became the driving force behind every horse-oriented organization in the state.�

In 1947, the Little Missouri River flooded them out, taking half their horses and most of their cattle. They rebuilt, sold the ranch, and moved to the Bismarck area. Walt worked as a building contractor, a brand inspector and as a barn manager for the Bismarck Horse Club barn manager.

Eventually, Walt and Evelyn opened Neuens’ West-

ern Shop in Bismarck. In 1986, Wilson told the Bismarck Greeter, “Their store isn’t only a business; it’s an extension of their living room, with friends stopping to chat.�

Walt, however, still found time to do what he loved best: ride horses on the range and down along the Missouri River.

Orlin Lyng met Walt in the ‘60s when Neuens gave a horse tack demonstration to the Linton 4-H Horse Club. Later, when Lyng moved to Bismarck, they continued their friendship through the store and as a member of the Bismarck Mounted Police.

Lyng said Walt couldn’t handle seeing a gap between a horse’s stomach and the saddle’s rear cinch. “If he saw daylight,� Lyng said, “he’d take out his jack knife and say, ‘If you aren’t going to use that cinch properly we might as well cut it off!’ I never saw him cut one off, but he came close a couple of times.�

Neuens also objected to rewarding a horse with a pat on the neck while mounted. “Never reward your horse when you are on their back,� he’d say. “Get off and then give him a pat on the neck.� Lyng says, “Now when I tell someone to tighten up their cinch or not to reward their horse while on the horse’s back, they ask, ‘Who says that?’ I say, ‘My old friend Walt Neuens.’�

Walt Neuens was inducted into the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame last year. He died in 1990, but Evelyn continued promoting what was close to their hearts. This year, she, too, is being inducted, but under a new category: the Legacy Award. She is being recognized as a driving force behind the development of the Hall of Fame, itself.

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Scranton soldier provides feedback

Soldiers and Army civilian engineers meet with Army senior leaders at Fort Carson, Colorado, at the conclusion of an experiment using new robotic technology, Aug. 6, 2020 A soldier from Scranton, ND, has completed a soldier operational experiment, providing critical feedback to senior U.S. Army leadership on the potential integration of unmanned robotic combat vehicles into ground combat formations.

Specialist Andrew Sulzman of Scranton is a Bradley Fighting Vehicle gunner with C Troop, 4-10 Cavalry, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, CO, where the SOE was held.

Sulzman and his fellow soldiers spent six weeks conducting

field testing of modified Bradley Fighting Vehicles, known as Mission Enabling Technologies Demonstrators (MET-D) and modified M113 tracked armored personnel carriers, known as Robotic Combat Vehicles (RCVs) in the experimentation. Afterward, Sulzman and his fellow soldiers provided their feedback on the vehicles to Gen. John M. Murray, commanding general of Army Futures Command, and Sgt. Major Michael A. Ginston, the Army’s senior enlisted advisor. “The feedback provided by Corporal Woolery and his team today will help us to make the transformation needed into the Army of tomorrow. He and his team did excellent work,� said Brig. Gen. R. Ross Coffman, director of the Army’s Next Generation Combat Vehicles Cross Functional Team, which coordinated the experiment along with the Army’s CCDC Ground Vehicle Systems Center.

Sulzman was one of six soldiers singled out by Murray to receive his commander’s challenge coin, presented in recognition of superior effort.

The purpose of the Robotic Combat Vehicles (RCV) program is to develop of suite of

vehicles that can be remotely operated to do two things: provide additional time and space for leaders to make decisions by providing additional reconnaissance capabilities and standoff distance from and advisory; or to replace Soldiers in high risk activities like combined arms breaches or Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) reconnaissance. Ultimately, this program is about giving Soldiers additional tools to make them successful in a complex, and multi-domain battlefield.

NGCV CFT and GVSC, as part of the Army Futures Command, are committed to executing the Army’s modernization priorities. To that end, we are working to determine the feasibility of integrating unmanned vehicles into ground combat formations. Our ultimate goal with the RCV program is to reduce risk to Soldiers and give leaders more time and space for decision making on the battlefield.

Dan Heaton Communications Director Next Generation Combat Vehicles Cross Functional Team (NGCV CFT) Detroit Arsenal, Mich.

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ADHESIVE LABELS Buy labels of different sizes. If you buy blank ones, you’ll need to write your child’s name on them before affixing them to an object. If you have a lot of things to label, or if your handwriting isn’t as clear as you’d like, you can use a printer or label maker. For clothing, consider using iron-on labels or ones designed to stick to fabric. Alternatively, you can buy special labels made for identifying school supplies. Consider shopping for labels with your child and getting them to choose a type they like. Don’t write your child’s full name on the outside of their backpack or lunchbox. A stranger could approach them and gain their trust by using their name.

At school, children need to keep track of a multitude of supplies including binders, pencils, notebooks, erasers and more. All of these things need to be marked with their name, otherwise they could get lost or stolen. Here are two tools you can use to label school supplies.

PERMANENT MARKERS In most cases, fine-point permanent markers work best for identifying school supplies.

They’re great for writing directly on a wide range of surfaces and textiles. For wooden pencils, use a utility knife to scratch off the paint and expose the wood, which will take the marker’s ink much better. For clothing, write names or initials on the care label. Always make sure to let the ink dry before using an item. Retouch as needed.

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Contact Tracing Scams

The coronavirus has created a perfect storm for scammers. One scam to arise this summer is scammers posing as contact tracers working for local or state health departments.

Contact tracing is an important part of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But legitimate contact tracers will never ask for money, bank account information, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, or medical insurance information.

If you receive a text message from someone who claims to be a contact tracer, do not click on any links in the message. It’s a scam and clicking the link will download software on your device to access personal and financial information.

People are also receiving calls saying they have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. The caller says you must be tested for the virus and asks for your mailing address to send you a test kit. Then they ask for your credit card number to pay for the kit and your test results. This is also a scam. Free testing is being offered in many locations around the state.

When in doubt, don’t act before contacting your local public health department or the state health department.

If you receive an unsolicited phone call from anyone asking for money or any personal information, just hang up!

If you think you have fallen victim to any type of scam, call the AARP Fraud Watch Network Helpline at 877-908-3360 for guidance and support, or visit the AARP Fraud Watch Network at www.aarp. org/fraudwatchnetwork

W.I.C. electronic benefit The Little Spurs rodeo competition ended its COVID summer of competition at the Bowman County Fairgrounds in the first week of August. According to officials, the recent loosening of regulations by the state allowed the young rodeo program to finish off the summer with a competition before school started. The last event of the season was calf riding, but it looked like the big winners were the calves. PHOTOS/Brad Mosher

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The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) started issuing the electronic benefit transfer (EBT) card to WIC families in July. The pilot program offers participants in the Bismarck/Mandan and the surrounding area with WIC food benefits on a card rather than paper checks.

“There are so many benefits of the card for families including less time to process the transaction at the store and the opportunity for families to visit their local grocery store multiple times in a month,” said Kristi Miller, WIC Program EBT Project Manager at the North Dakota Department of Health.

The WIC EBT pilot will continue for the next two months and be expanded to the rest of the state by October 2020.

Miller explains WIC helps ensure that mothers and young children have access to healthy foods, breastfeeding support, referrals to health and other services, and accurate health information.

“If you are pregnant, have a new baby, or children under the age of 5 years, you might be eligible for WIC,” Miller said. “WIC is available to working and non-working families. Medicaid, TANF or SNAP participants are automatically income-eligible.”

As WIC clinics across the state start to open their doors after closing due to COVID, staff are working hard to ensure families are welcomed into a safe environment. Staff are using personal protection like wearing masks and maintaining appropriate distances, cleaning all surfaces and limiting the number of time families spend in the office.

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Bowman County Emergency personnel are in the process of planning a large-scale exercise involving an active shooter in our Bowman County High School.

The exercise will involve local Law Enforcement, Ambulance, Fire and the Hospital personnel.

This is just a training exercise to better prepare emergency personnel to respond quickly and appropriately if such a tragic event should occur within our county.

We would like to utilize volunteers from the high school student body to participate as victims in this exercise. Their participation would be voluntary and with parental permission.

The exercise will be conducted with stringent safety protocols in place, so that students would not be in danger.

No firearms will be allowed in this exercise, just the use of airsoft guns that only shoot plastic pellets will be utilized by law enforcement personnel.

The students would be utilizing theatrical makeup to simulate wounds to stress the responders, the ambulance crews will triage

the students and some would be transported to Southwest Healthcare hospital so that they too can partake in the exercise.

It is not our intention to scare any members of our community by this exercise, but is our intention to be prepared if such an incident ever took place. The first responders of this county take pride in providing excellent service and care to our community, as such we have to train involving extremely stressful situations to prepare our minds and bodies to go where we have never been.

We are planning on doing the exercise on Aug. 29 around noon at the Bowman Lutheran Church, as the school is unavailable due to COVID- 19 concerns.

Expect to see multiple emergency vehicles at the church, chaotic noise and people being loaded into the ambulances for transport to the hospital for their share of the exercise.

It is our intent to make this as real as we can, to induce stress on the responders.

Any questions or concerns can be answered by contacting the Sheriff’s office 701-523-5421.

Remote Work Certification Program

North Dakota State University Extension is committed to preparing the North Dakota workforce for online opportunities for remote employment, and to help in this effort, it has partnered with Utah State University Extension to offer the Master Remote Work Professional Certification Program.

“This educational program is designed to equip workers with the tools and skills needed to work from home as a remote worker, freelancer or entrepreneur,” says Marie Hvidsten, NDSU Extensionrural leadership specialist.

“When you combine some of the benefits of remote work for individuals, which includes lower stress, advancement opportunities and better work-life balance, with the benefits for businesses, such as lower overhead and recruiting costs, and environmental sustainability, remote work can have benefits for all,” she adds.

“Remote work can even have significant benefits to rural communities,” says Jodi Bruns, NDSU Extension leadership and civic engagement specialist. “Remote work can stimulate job creation, strengthen the tax base and empower families to spend more high-quality time together, instead of time commuting to jobs in a larger city.

“Whether you’re a professional seeking remote work or a business ready to hire a virtual workforce, this program can help prepare you to join the remote workforce,” Bruns says.

The program consists of nine core modules, which are delivered in a self-paced, online format, and four interactive workshops.

Upon completing this program, participants will join a growing online community of remote work professionals who support each other by sharing best practices and job opportunities.

The cost of the course is $249, but NDSU Extension is offering a $199 scholarship for the first 100 North Dakotans who take the Master Remote Work Professional Certification Program. The final cost is $50 to take the course with this scholarship opportunity.

For more information, course dates and registration information, go to https://www. ag.ndsu.edu/lead/remotework/ remote-work-certification-program.

Course Dates Course dates for 2020 are listed below: Start Date: Sept. 7, 2020 End Date: Oct. 3, 2020 Application Deadline: Sept. 2, 12 p.m. MT Workshop Days: Sept. 10, 17, 24 & Oct. 1 Workshop Times: (1 hour) 2 p.m. or 7 p.m. CT Start Date: Oct. 5, 2020 End Date: Oct. 30, 2020 Application Deadline: Sept.

30, 12 p.m. MT Workshop Days: Oct. 8, 15, 22 & 29 Workshop Times: (1 hour) 2 p.m. or 7 p.m. CT Start Date: Nov. 2, 2020 End Date: Dec. 5, 2020 Application Deadline: Oct. 28, 12 p.m. MT Workshop Days: Nov. 5, 12, 19 & Dec. 3 Workshop Times: (1 hour) 2 p.m. or 7 p.m. CT

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Classifieds WANTED

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WANTED TO PURCHASE: Minerals and Other Oil/Gas Interests.

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BOY SCOUT COMPENSATION FUND - Anyone that was inappropriately touched by a Scout leader deserves justice and financial compensation! Victims may be eligible for a significant cash settlement. Time to file is limited. Call Now! 844-347-7225.

MISCELLANEOUS WE MAKE IT easy to place an ad in one or all the North Dakota newspapers. One order, one bill, one check. We provide the ad design and tear sheets. Call the North Dakota Newspaper Association, 701223-6397.

FOR RENT For rent in Bowman, 2 bedroom apartment, partially furnished. Call (605) 517-1796 _____________________________ 3 bedroom 2 bath MOBILE HOME for LEASE One year lease No Pets No SMoking Accepting Applications Now Contact 701 527 5510 for more information.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF BOWMAN COUNTY, STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA

HELP WANTED

In the Matter of the Estate of MARK DUANE EAGON, Deceased.

SHERIFF POSITION IN Benson County. Send applications to County Auditor, Box 206, Minnewaukan, ND 58351 (telephone: 701-473-5340). Application deadline Aug. 28, 2020, 4 p.m.

THE CITY OF HILLSBORO is accepting applications for a full-time City Auditor. For details and application information, see www. hillsboro-nd.com/jobs.html. Applications must be received by 4 p.m. on Aug. 14.

SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE SEEKS Associate Dentist because of increase in patient volume. Potential earnings $300K plus. Includes benefits.

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY CAFÉ LEASEHOLDER, HOPE, ND. Business-minded leaseholder sought to operate the Hope Café. Successful, profit-making community café in friendly small town. Centrally located. Serious inquiries only. Contact Heather Jacobsen Monday-Friday at 701945-2723.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above estate.

All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within three months after the date of the first publication or mailing of this notice or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be presented to Elda Eagon, personal representative of the estate, at the address shown below, or filed with the Court.

Dated this 20th day of July, 2020. /s/ Elda Eagon Elda Eagon 16805 92nd St SW Rhame, ND 58651 Erin Melling Melling & Roseland Law, P.C. Attorney for Personal Representative 602 Adams Ave, Ste 101 Hettinger, ND 58639 (701) 567 2418 Jan Werre Bowman County Clerk of Court 104 1st St NW Bowman, ND 58623 (701) 523-3450 First publication on the 31st day of July, 2020. _____________________________ Published in Bowman County Pioneer Aug 14, 21, & 28, 2020 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA IN DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF BOWMAN SOUTHWEST JUDICIAL DISTRICT In the Matter of the Estate of Norma Ruth Davis, Deceased Case No. 06-2020-PR-00024 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within three months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to Jerry John Davis, Personal Representative of the Estate, at 30132 Vienna Woods Ln, Wesley Chapel, FL 33545, or filed with the Court.

DATED this 30th day of July, 2020.

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LEGALS Dickinson, ND 58602-1202 Attorney for Personal Representative First Publication on the 30 day of July, 2020. _____________________________ Published in Bowman County Pioneer Aug 14, 2020 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BOWMAN COUNTY, BOWMAN, NORTH DAKOTA The Board of County Commissioners met in regular session on July 20, 2020, with the following present: Pine Abrahamson, Rick Braaten, Lynn Brackel, Josh Buchmann and Jerry Jeffers. Chairman Brackel called the meeting to order at 8:00 AM. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Pastor Ray Sherwood provided a prayer.

Apex Clean Energy Representative Drew Christensen was unable to meet today due to the cancellation of his flight. Brackel asked for corrections or additions to the agenda.

Braaten made a motion to approve the agenda, with Abrahamson seconding the motion, and upon a vote, the motion was carried unanimously.

The following July 20, 2020 vouchers were approved by a motion made by Buchmann, with Jeffers seconding the motion, and upon a vote, the motion was carried unanimously.

32712 A2Z Printing $257.69; 32713 Steve Beylund Construction $83,218.25; 32714 Buckley Ranch $5,800.50; 32715 Burke Ranch Trucking $10,968.24; 32716 City of Bowman $2,653.72; 32717 Country Media $100.00; 32718 Consolidated $1,094.88; 32719 Eido Connect $56.00; 32720 First International Bank $896.73; 32721 Fisher Industries $59,614.00; 32722 Frontier Travel Center $118.99; 32723 Heick’s Service $285.00; 32724 Information Technology Department $555.13; 32725 Lawson Products $681.01; 32726 Lomco $1,653.71; 32727 Midco $85.00; 32728 Municipay LLC $625.00; 32729 Nelson International $628.63; 32730 Peters Trucking $25,619.17; 32731 Propoint Cooperative $5,330.40; 32732 Professional Auto Body $100.00; 32733 Slope Electric $514.85; 32734 Bonnie Stinchfield $52.14; 32735 Swanston $939.90; 32736 Trane $214.26; 32737 Tritech Software Systems $1,461.76; 32738 Verizon $332.72; 32739 Warne Chemical Company $174.00; 32740 Watch Guard $4,700.00; 32741 Wild & Weiss Law Office $1,250.00 Jeffers made a motion to approve the July 7, 2020 minutes with the correction. Braaten seconded the motion, and upon a vote, the motion was carried unanimously.

Buchmann made a motion to approve the North Dakota Department of Transportation agreement for the Federal Aid Project located on Highway 12 and 3rd Avenue SE to the Business District. A joint powers agreement will be executed with the City of Bowman as they will be responsible for the match dollars.

Braaten seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken with all members voting aye. Motion carried.

Bowman County Weed Officer Josh Hetland met to present the 2021 Budget.

Bowman County Library Director Sarah Snavely and board members Christi Miller and Edna Paulson met to present the 2021 Budget.

Bowman County Water Resource Board President Jim Septon met to present the 2021 Budget.

Bowman County Veteran Service Officer Keith King met to present the 2021 Budget.

Bowman County Auditor Sandra Tivis and deputy auditor Mindy Schumacher met to discuss options for voting options for the 2020 General Election, and the importance of providing options for the voters of Bowman County. The main room of the Four Season’s Pavilion provides ample space to place all of the election equipment and poll worker areas six-feet apart, which will comply with the Center for Disease Control guidelines. The voter will have a choice of voting in-person at the pavilion or by submitting an absentee ballot. Anyone that is a qualified elector of Bowman County, regardless of where their residence is located, will have the choice to cast their ballot in person on Election Day at the Four Seasons Pavilion, or vote via absentee.

The polling locations that have been historically located in the cities of Bowman, Rhame and Scranton will not be available for this election cy-

Notice The Slope County Courthouse will be closing at noon on Friday for the months of August and September. Open hours will be Monday through Thursday 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. and Friday 8:30 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.

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cle due to COVID-19. Abrahamson made a motion to designate the Four Season’s Pavilion as an election vote center for the 2020 General Election, with Jeffers seconding the motion. A roll call vote was taken with all members voting aye. Motion carried.

Bowman County Highway Superintendent Shane Biggs and Brosz Engineering representatives Gary Brennan and Lucas Doerr met to continue the discussion of the proposed penalty phase of the Griffin Road project for work completed by Central Specialties, Inc. Braaten made a motion to approve the gravel request from Gem Township to purchase 500 cubic yards of gravel, with Abrahamson seconding the motion. A roll call vote was taken with all members voting aye. Motion carried. The township will be responsible for one hundred (100) percent of the cost.

Bowman County Rural Ambulance Service President Pam Hestekin and Jennifer Hestekin were present for the annual meeting of the rural ambulance district. A quorum of the ambulance board members was not present, so the annual meeting will be rescheduled to September 15, 2020, at 10:00 am.

Dean Pearson, representing the Bowman County Historical Society and the Bowman County Weather Modification Authority, presented proposed 2021 Budgets.

Abrahamson made a motion to approve the Agreement for Sale of Gravel located under the following described land: West ½ of Section 21 Township 133N Range 100W. Jeffers seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken with all members voting aye. Motion carried.

With no further business to discuss, Braaten made motion at 4:07 PM to adjourn the meeting, with Buchmann seconding the motion, and upon a vote, the motion was carried unanimously.

Joan Lorge, Slope County Tax Director, met with the commissioners to give an update on a requested update from manufactured home to real estate. She will be requesting help from the State’s Attorney to explain the procedure to the taxpayer.

Colleen Germann, Slope County Treasurer, met with the commissioners to give them the June investment report.

Nathan Miller, Slope County Road Foreman, met with the commissioners to give them an update on roadwork. There is potential for Bowman County to crush gravel in Slope County. If this happens, Slope County requests that the haul road be maintained by Bowman County.

Other issues discussed were gravel crushing, calcium chloride applications, and culverts that may need to be replaced.

Pam Hestekin, Bowman Area Ambulance, met with the commissioners to give an update on the ambulance finances and to request a $16,000 tax levy as in previous years.

Forest Service representatives Misty Hays, Tina Thornton, and Curt Grudnewski met with the commissioners to discuss road maintenance agreements, scoria mining, and the potential Horse Creek road realignment.

Billy Doerr, Brosz Engineering, met with the commissioners to discuss the county’s ongoing road projects.

140th Ave is nearly completed. Commissioner Teske presented a motion which was seconded by Commissioner Sonsalla and passed with all in favor to approve the change order for 140th Ave. Commissioner Sonsalla presented a motion to approve pay application #8 for 140th Ave. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Teske and passed with all in favor. Discussion was held on the anchors that Slope Electric has in the ditch on the 140th & 74th project. Erin will send a letter to Slope Electric explaining that this needs to be moved out of the ditch at Slope Electric’s expense. Discussion was held on whether to seed grass now or wait. The commissioners would like to have everything seed that is ready.

Commissioner Sonsalla presented a motion to approve a change order for 140th & 74th. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Teske and passed with all in favor. Commissioner Teske presented a motion which was seconded by Commissioner Sonsalla and passed with all in favor to approve pay application #3 for 140th & 74th. Also discussed was the White Butte Road project and getting the pipes sized and determining if the south end is a wetland.

The meeting was recessed for lunch at 12 P.M. with the meeting being reconvened at 1 P.M. with all commissioners present.

Commissioner Sonsalla presented a motion to put this years PILT payment in the general fund. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Teske and passed with all in favor.

The auditor was instructed to increase Jamie Miller’s pay by .50 cents effective for the July 22 payroll since she has completed her 6-month probationary period.

The afternoon was spent in reviewing budgets with the department heads.

Commissioner Sonsalla presented a motion which was seconded by Commissioner Teske and passed with all in favor to approve the following vouchers subject to all withholding taxes: 181.49 Belfield Automotive Supply; 23175.00 Brosz Engineering Inc; 435.94 D & E Supply Company; 146.75 Dakota’s Best Coffee; 287.00 Denise M Andahl Inc; 9.50 Election Systems & Software; 540.23 Fitterer Oil Co Inc; 40.00 Flower Nook; 7837.10 Fox Hills Fencing; 51.85 Geraldine Andersen; 14567.08 Gooseneck Implement; 86.50 Joan Lorge; 47370.00 Kevin Miller Construction; 50.66 Kris Jacobson; 376.26 Lawson Products Inc; 15.89 Leah Honeyman; 79.03 Lynn Homelvig; 102.60 Marjean Schulz; 430.00 Mendoza Plumbing & Sprinkler Service; 35.00 Michael Teske; 35.00 Mike H. Sonsalla; 97548.00 Montana Fluid Solutions; 92.52 Nathan Miller; 75.00 NDACS; 40.87 Northwest Tire Inc; 1542.80 Nutrien Ag Solutions; 620.00 Postmaster; 8.96 Praxair Distribution; 340.39 Randys Welding Inc; 23845.00 RDO Equipment Co; 451.20 Scott Ouradnik; 192.89 SeaChange Print Innovations; 348.71 Southwest Business Machines Inc; 4874.64 Southwest Grain; 354.79 Staples Advantage; 62650.00 Steve Beylund Construc-

tion Inc; 61775.80 TrueNorth Steel Inc; 8184.00 Tyler Technologies Inc; 115.13 Verizon Wireless; 898.50 Warne Chemical & Equipment; 7.71 Wells Fargo; 283721.28 Wilson Construction Inc; 16.98 Woodley Construction Supply Inc; 197850.98 Payroll.

Having no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 5 P.M.

Lynn Brackel (s) Chairman Board of Bowman County Commissioners ATTEST: Sandra K. Tivis (s) Bowman County Auditor _____________________________ Published in Bowman County Pioneer Aug 14, 2020 Regular City of Marmarth July1, 2020 Meeting was called to order with Hailey Dschaak, Laurie Reichenburg, Bryce Lecoe, Donnie Sonsalla, Ward Clark and Jenn Lecoe present.

Minutes of the last meeting were read and a motion to approve the minutes was made by Donnie 2nd Ward all in favor. Financial reports and bills were reviewed and approved motion was made by Donnie 2nd Ward all in favor.

Donnie made motion to except the water contract $10.00 per thousand gallons Bryce 2nd all in favor.

All letters have been sent out to land owners waiting to hear from the State TC Energy would like to purchase water from the City of Marmarth starting in July Lecoe will be calling them.

Meeting adjourned next meeting August 5, 2020 at 7:30 _____________________________ Published in Bowman County Pioneer Aug 14, 2020 Slope County Commission Regular Meeting July 1, 2020 The meeting was called to order at 9:05 A.M. by Chairman Ouradnik with Commissioners Teske and Sonsalla present.

Commissioner Sonsalla presented a motion to approve the minutes of the June meetings. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Teske and passed with all in favor.

Jackie Kathrein, Slope County Superintendent of Schools, met with the commissioners to give an update on the dissolution of Central Elementary.

A request was made by some of the employees to implement summer hours. Since most employees are elected, no change was made at this time.

Scott Ouradnik Chairman Lorrie Buzalsky Auditor _____________________________ Published in Bowman County Pioneer Aug 14, 2020 Minutes of the Regular City Commission Meeting held on July 7, 2020 at City Hall at 4:00 PM. Present: Lyn James, Myron Vail, Ryan Shear, Benjamin Schaaf, Chief Headley, Stacy McGee, Kristi Blaser, Sarah Snavely, Todd Hofland, Bill Mason, Jean Nudell, Edna Paulson, and Darwin Wilke.

Absent: Limesand President James called meeting to order at 4:00 pm. Motion by Shear, second by Schaff to approve the agenda as presented. RCV= all aye, MC. Check #: 12041 – 12070; Direct Deposit: $30,395.52; Salary Checks: None; Bills: Art Johnson $35.93, Postmaster $358.05, Advanced Business Methods $152.15, Bill Mason $218.10, Bowman Auto Parts $11.29, Bowman County Development Corporation $10,000.00, Bowman Grain $16.05, Bowman Lodge $90.00, Bowman Park and Rec $63,106.16, Bowman Sales & Service $36.58, Brosz Engineering $125.00, Carmel’s Cleaners $87.12, Catherine Hedge $350.00, Cenex Fleetcard $2,907.67, country Media $699.91, Coyle Electric $1,307.82, Dakota Dust-Tex $93.40, Dakota Pump and Control $2,556.01, EIDO Connect $252.00, Fallon Country Treasurer $4,748.75, Loretta Olind $400.00, Mahlon Smith Repair $1,080.00, MDU $7,214.94, Newby’s Ace Hardware $179.23, One Call Concepts $4.20, Propoint $241.54, Randy’s Welding $14.73, VISA $512.36, Western Frontier Insurance $121.00, and Woodley Construction $41.60.

Tax and Tourism Checks: #1207112074 Tax and Tourism Bills: Bowman Chamber of Commerce $2,000.00, Bowman County Development Corporation $9,050.00, Little Missouri Saddle Club $100.00, and Little Spurs Rodeo $500.00.

HOFLAND: Dept. Head Report: The Street crew will be finishing up with the dura-patch machine this week.

Within the next couple weeks, PSC will be filling in the sink hole with concrete waste at the Halleck Mine located near the City Landfill.

Sink Hole: Hofland was notified of a sink hole near Stebbins property. Nothing out of the ordinary was found, so the Street crew filled in the hole.

MASON: Dept. Head Report: The well located near City Hall has been updated and repaired.

Parts have been ordered to fix a few minor repairs at the West Lift Station.

CHIEF HEADLEY: Dept. Head Report: The 2012 Chevy police car is broke down. Waiting to hear an estimate to decide if it will be worth repairing.

The 4th of July was quiet due to the evening rain, but July 5th was very busy patrolling ignition of fireworks.

Discussion was held on the number

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NOTICE Bowman County Zoning Meeting August 13th, 2020 6:00PM Bowman County Commissioners Room

DECLARATION OF FIRE EMERGENCY AND BURN BAN for SLOPE COUNTY (Effective 08/05/2020)

WHEREAS, Slope County, North Dakota has and is currently enduring dry conditions, has a large volume of dry vegetation, and WHEREAS, Slope County has committed all available resources to protecting life and the property of its citizens, and WHEREAS, the impact of fires would threaten the health, wellbeing, and safety of the citizens of Slope County, and WHEREAS, the cost of such fires may exceed the resources of Slope County, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of County Commissioners of Slope County declare a Fire Emergency and AUTHORIZE THE FIRE CHIEF OF EACH FIRE DISTRICT OR THE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER TO DETERMINE IF BURNING WILL BE ALLOWED WITHIN THEIR DISTRICT. This shall include ignition of fireworks, garbage burning, campfires, vegetative burning, and non-essential off road vehicle operation.

Individuals wishing to burn must contact their District Fire Chief or the County Emergency Manger before burning.

Anyone who violates this resolution could be charged with a Class B Misdemeanor.

Scott Ouradnik, Commission Chair

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of days fireworks can be ignited, no decision was made.

MCGEE: Gaming Site Authorizations: The BCDC office is renewing their gaming site authorizations: Crystal Bar – Pull Tab; Windy’s Bar and Grill – Bingo, Pull Tab, Electronic Pull Tab; Silver Dollar Bar – Bingo, Pull Tab, and Electronic Pull Tab; and Grazers Burgers and Beer – Pull Tab. Motion by Schaff, second by Shear to approve the gaming site authorization forms for the Bowman County Development Corporation for the following locations: Crystal Bar, Windy’s Bar and Grill, Silver Dollar Bar, and Grazers Burgers and Beer.

RCV= all aye, MC. Covid-19 Related Items: City Hall keep glass door shut; City Hall Room Rental - closed for the month of July; City Commission Meeting occupancy level – continue at 25 occupancy.

Casey Hande Renaissance Zone Project Completion: Casey Hande has finished his Renaissance Zone project located at 112 South Main Street. It was a “commercial purchase with major improvements” project. The occupancy date was February 18, 2020 but the project wasn’t complete until 6/17/20 when Allen inspected it.

Motion by Schaff, second by Shear to give final approval of the Casey Hande “commercial purchase with major improvements” Renaissance Zone project located at 112 South Main Street; allowing 100% exemption from property taxation for 5 years for the purchase of the commercial property with improvements. RCV= all aye, MC. Cleaners Building Update: There is an interested party in purchasing the Cleaners Building and would like approval to take approved items to the city landfill. Hofland stated all asbestos items will have to be a hauled to a licensed landfill; otherwise all other accepted material could go to city landfill. Cleaners building decision is on hold until we hear if the interested party is able to finalize the purchase.

Auditor Bond Resolution #2020-B12: McGee presented the annual resolution for the auditor bond in the amount of $2,000,000.00. Motion by Schaff, second by Vail, to approve the Auditor’s Bond Resolution #2020B-12 in the amount of $2,000.00.00.

RCV= all aye, MC. BOWMAN REGIONAL LIBRARY – SNAVELY Library 2021 Budget Request: Snavely gave an update over the past year of the happenings at the Library.

Snavely requested sustainable funds for the 2021 Budget.

KRISTI BLASER: Rock the Block Request: In place of Summer Fest the Chamber will be hosting Rock the Block on July 30 in the center of Main Street from 4pm – 10pm. A portion of Main Street/Divide St. will be roped off to provide an area for the band, food and alcohol vendors. Request was made to allow liquor license establishments to set up in a designated area. Motion by Schaff, second

by Shear was made to allow On/Off Sale Liquor License holders, who fill out a Special Event request, the approval to set up in a designated area.

RCV= all aye, MC. Blaser asked permission to set up fire pits in the roped off area. Discussion was held on the downtown district being in a “No Fire Zone” and how to protect the pavement from the heat.

Motion by Vail, second by Shear to allow fire pits in a designated area upon the approval and recommendations of the Fire Chief, Street Superintendent and Police Chief. Maps are requested on location of each fire pit.

RCV= all aye, MC. Blaser requested the use of 2 dumpsters and blocking off the streets for the event. Shear will visit with Hofland on the requests.

BILL FIEGEL: Grand Opening for Silver Dollar: Cancelled JAMES: CENSUS: James reported

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bowmanextra.com the State Census would like to do a Census Drive through in our area, to encourage residents to fill out the quick questionnaire. The BCDC is acting as our local Census staff and would organize and run the project.

With the time and money put in to promoting the Census, the BCDC is asking if the County and City could help defray the costs. Motion by Schaff, second Shear to help with ½ of the uncovered Census expenses to date, in the amount of $244.33.

RCV= all aye, MC. VAIL: Boulevards: Mendoza provided a quote to repair and fix sprinkler in the boulevards and fertilize and plant grass, in the amount of $19,072.00. Discussion was held on rock versus grass in the boulevards.

Motion by Shear, second Schaff to approve Mendoza boulevard quote for sprinkler repairs fertilize and reseed. RCV= all aye, MC. Vail will visit with Mendoza on setting up an approved contract by both parties prior to start of work.

CLOSE OF MEETING: Next Meeting: 7/21/20 at 4:00 pm.

Motion by Shear, 2nd by Schaaf to approve the 6/16/20 minutes and the 6/23/20 Organizational Meeting Minutes and the May 2020 Financials.

Lyn James President of City Commission Stacy McGee Utility Auditor _____________________________ Published in Bowman County Pioneer Aug 14, 2020 Minutes of the Regular City Commission Meeting held on July 21, 2020 at City Hall at 4:00 PM. Present: Lyn James, Ryan Shear, Myron Vail, Benjamin Schaaf, Chief Headley, Peggy Allen, Bill Mason, Todd Hofland, Marie Johnson, Johanna Johnson, Josh Buchmann, Charles Headley, Chanell Walby, Jane Nelsen, Mariah Botha, Teran Doerr, and Kevin Bucholz. Absent: Darren Limesand President James called the meeting order at 4:00 pm. James asked to add the DAPL Pipeline Update to the agenda. Motion by Shear, second by Schaaf to approve the revised agenda. RCV= all aye, MC. Direct Deposit: $ 25,398.55; Salary Checks: None; Voided Checks: None; Check #: 12075 – 12090; Bills: Art Johnson $50.31, Bowman County Auditor $600.00, BCDC $244.33, Consolidated Telecom $1,257.07, Grimm’s Pump & Supply $98.55, Hawkins $959.76, ND Dept. of Environmental Quality $58.26, Schmitz-Holmstrom $1,000.00, Slope Electric $1,525.00, SBM $85.44, SW District Health Union $120.00, Taylor Wanner $350.00, Verizon Wireless $379.89, West Plains Implement $1,184.37, Westlie Crossroads Truck Center $2,824.07, and Wild & Weiss Law Office $200.00.

HOFLAND: Storm Drain Repairs: There is a storm drain at the corner of 4th Avenue and 3rd Street that is eroding away from behind. The cinder block is also disappearing from the water boiling up behind it.

The concrete is eroding and cracking around the metal plates, Shear said it is a safety issue. Hofland left messages for Cal Meschke to get a quote to fix it, but Meschke hasn’t got back to Hofland. The Commission is ok with fixing it because it’s in the budget.

MASON: Dept Head Report: The 2nd quote from Innovative Foundation Support Works was $12,000 higher than what they quoted last year. Jon Brosz has tried to get an answer on why it went up but has not heard anything back. Motion by Vail, second by Schaaf to approve the quote from Innovative Foundation Support Works, up to $80,000.00 for the water tower renovation for the east reservoir. RCV= all aye, MC. The pump guys will be here next Tuesday to install the pumps and

he has not heard back regarding the pump that was pulled three weeks ago.

BUCHMANN: Cleaners Building: Buchmann is thinking about purchasing the Cleaners building and wanted to know if he did get it purchased, and demolished it, could some of the building materials go to the landfill.

It has plaster, brick and lumber. Hofland said that any acceptable items could go to the landfill. Buchmann would like a laundromat and shop there. If Buchmann gets the building purchased, he will come to the next meeting to get formal approval to use the landfill.

CHIEF HEADLEY: Dept. Head Report: Nothing to report BOWMAN FIRE DEPARTMENT – BUCHMAN: 2021 Budgeted Funds Request: Requested operating funds in the amount of $26,775.00 and insurance in the amount of $6,800.00 for a total of $33,575.00. They will hold the State Firemen’s Convention in Bowman next year.

ALLEN: Raffle Permit #24-16: Allen presented the annual permit for St. Charles Catholic Church for their annual raffle drawing at their fall dinner.

Motion by Shear, second by Schaaf to approve raffle permit #14-16 for St. Charles Catholic Church annual raffle. RCV= all aye, MC. ND DOT Sidewalk to Business on Highway 12 Contract: The Commission decided to table this since Commissioner Limesand wasn’t here and they will talk about it at the budget meetings on July 28.

Special Event – Prom Grand March: They would like to block off the streets from the Silver Dollar Bar to Bowman Drug to have a Prom Grand March for the high school kids. This is to prevent having too many people in the 4-Seasons in tight quarters to watch the Grand March.

The Bowman PD will have 2 officers block off that city block with their cars.

Annual Conference: Due to COVID-19, this year’s annual conference will be a virtual conference. It was originally scheduled for 9/25/20 – 9/26/20, so please be looking for the revision in the City Scan regarding the conference and let Allen know if you what to register.

Lions Meeting: Allen asked if they would consider allowing the Lions back into the small meeting room for their monthly meetings, the Commission stated that they will talk about it again at the first meeting in August.

JAMES: Census Drive: Bowman County paid for half of the cost of marketing for the census hot dog day at Bronson’s Marketplace, and Doerr wants the City to pay for the other half. The city’s portion would be $112.50. Motion by Schaaf, second

by Shear to approve $112.50 in additional funds for census advertising.

RCV= all aye, MC. Dakota Access Pipeline: James signed a letter on behalf of the City stating we approve the pipeline and feel it is crucial to transport the oil.

James asked for a resolution to be done for the next meeting stating that we are in favor of the pipeline.

BCDC- DOERR: 2021 Budgeted Funds Request: Doerr presented their annual request budgeted funds as follows: operations $45,725.00, benefits $6,000.00, internet $600.00, SBDC $3,000.00, PACE $10,000.00, Store Front Grant $3,000.00 and she would like to see the Downtown Façade Program continue.

FIREWORKS PUBLIC INPUT MEETING: The Commission decided to have this fireworks public input meeting because changing the ordinance effects all the residents and there are only a few asking for changes.

Chief Headley 4th of July Report: We had a late rain on the 4th of July, so some people felt they could shoot the fireworks off the next day. There were 20 incidents, some were officer initiated, and not all were called in. Not much different than any other year.

There were a few residents that were non-compliant. It’s hard to chase down where the fireworks are coming from once they are shot off.

Mariah Botha: Botha was gone on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th so she was not around to know how the fireworks were. Having a rainy-day clause was another topic of discussion on Facebook.

Johanna Johnson: Johnson asked if anyone contacted the veterans and James stated she had contacted the nursing home and all the veterans from the nursing home that they said it did effect, have passed away.

James added that she spoke with various veterans as well.

Since Limesand was unable to attend the meeting, the fireworks ordinance will be brought to the next meeting to decide if they will make any changes.

BOWMAN PARK AND REC – CHANELL WALBY: 2021 Budget Request: Walby requested 2021 budgeted funds in the amounts of: operating budget $21,250.00, health insurance $25,000.00, 34% of the City’s State Aid and $4,000.00 for annual skid steer payment.

Addition to the Rec Center: They want to add an addition to the front of the Rouzie Rec Center to fix their drainage problem. They want the City to sign off on the bond, but there is a question on who should sign off on it, the city or the school. The school owns the land and the City leases it from them. Allen will get the lease and talk to Steve Wild about it.

C. Walby said she would organize a meeting between the City, Bowman County School and Bowman Park and Rec to talk about the project. The project estimate is $1.5 million.

3-5 Year Plan: Walby went over her Capital Improvement Projects 3 to 5 year plan.

CLOSE OF MEETING: Next Meeting: Budget Meetings will be July 28, 30 and July 31st (if necessary), the meetings start at 8:00 am and go to 4:00 pm with a lunch break from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm.

Motion by Shear, second by Schaaf to approve the meeting minutes of 7/7/20 and the June 2020 Financials.

RCV= all aye, MC. President James adjourned the meeting at 6:00 pm.

Lyn James President of City Commission Peggy Allen Financial Auditor _____________________________ Published in Bowman County Pioneer Aug 14, 2020 Minutes of the 2021 Budget Prep Commission Meeting held on July 28, 2020 at City Hall at 4:00 PM Present: Lyn James, Ryan Shear, Darren Limesand, Myron Vail, Benjamin Schaaf, Stacy McGee, Chief Headley, Bill Mason, Todd Hofland, Sarah Snavely, and Peggy Allen.

Absent: None President James called the meeting order at 8:00 am. Motion by Shear, second by Schaaf to approve the agenda as presented. RCV= all aye, MC. MASON: Water Dept: Reviewed Masons proposed 2021 budget for the water department. We will get the east reservoir water tower project done in August 2020. Any extra funds needed will be taken out of the water building fund and 2020’s transfer will help pay for the east reservoir project.

Sewer: Commission is okay with sewer budget.

CHIEF HEADLEY: Police Budget: Commission felt his budget looked good, he cut out as much as possible. They got new animal cages last year, so they are sitting good for animal control. Headley zeroed out special projects, police recruitment and equipment fund. They ordered an SUV in 2020, which has been saved up for a little at a time, for several years.

Silver Dollar Deck: The Silver Dollar wants to use a COVID-19 grant to extend his businesses outside. He wants to build a deck that will attach to the Silver Dollar, people would

be allowed to eat and drink alcohol on the deck if the Commission approved. Headley would like to see the deck screened in somehow. The Commission wants to be less restrictive.

HOFLAND: Street Budget: The cost of salt increased 2.68%. Commission is okay with street budget.

Municipal Highway/Street: Municipal Highway revenue is down so we will have a higher transfer from the General Fund to Municipal Highway for salary shortfall.

Sweeper: The Commission is hoping the sweeper will last 10 years, so no transfer to a savings fund this year.

Emergency Snow Removal Fund: We will transfer $7,500.00 in 2020 and hope it will cover us for 2021.

Sand and chips: We have a stockpile of sand and chips, no need to budget for either of them.

Hail Insurance Money: It was decided to have the unused hail insurance funds from 2009 go towards fixing the roof at City Hall. The roof is leaking again in the large conference room.

Chip Seal: Hofland reported that 7th Avenue to 3rd Avenue SE hasn’t been chip sealed. The cul-de-sacs and NW Estate Drive also need to be done. We won’t have any funds to transfer in 2021 for chip sealing, due to lack of revenue.

Garbage: We purchased a garbage truck in 2019 and borrowed money from the SUR fund to purchase it and it needs to be repaid. We were hoping to pay it back in 3 years when we purchased the truck, but we may have to take 10 years to pay back the SUR fund in increments of $6,500.00.

There will be a $1.00 increase on all garbage rates effective for 2021 garbage fees.

GENERAL FUND: Oil Revenue for 2021: The estimated oil revenue for 2021 is $500,000.00, if DAPL gets shut down they are estimating that our revenue will be $400,000 for 2021. 2020 Oil revenue is estimating to be $530,000 short of what was budgeted.

Insurance: Vehicle and Property Insurance was estimated to increase by approximately 3%.

Coal Severance is projected to be $1,900 less Interest Income: Checking Interest is estimated to be about half of what we received the last two years. Our checking interest will be rebid in December of 2020.

State Aid is projected to be about $35,916 less.

Zoning: The Commission did not talk about hiring an employee for zoning. Zoning supplies were moved to come out of the general fund on departmental.

Fire Department: They didn’t lower their request for funds because they never raised up their request after they were asked to lower several years back.

Library: The Commission lowered the City’s portion by $2,395, (not the levy).

BCDC: Their operation funds were cut by 10% lowered storefront grant by $2,000, no funds were given for access channel and we will transfer the $30,000 for the Downtown Façade in 2020. So 2021 will not have additional funds for Downtown Facade. If there is a Downtown Façade project that comes up, Doerr may come talk to the Commission and they will consider it depending on revenue.

Park and Rec: The Commission requested they lower their operations request to $21,250.00, and the health insurance was lowered by one plan allowance of $12,500 because C. Walby is under S. Walby’s city plan, generally the City covered a portion of the director and the maintenance person’s health insurance.

State aid was left at 34% of what the City receives.

Theodore Roosevelt Expressway: Klewin’s request was for $5,000 but was dropped to $4,250.00.

Pioneer Trails: The Commission asked them to drop to $25,500 for their operations request and that’s what they turned in, in 2020 their ask

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was $30,0000.

Chamber of Commerce: We asked them to drop back to $1,700.00 and that is what they turned in for a request, in 2020 they requested $2,000.00.

Golf Course: They were not lowered because they stayed low since 2016.

They requested $21,250.00.

Landfill Scoria: Hofland will purchase $500 worth of scoria in 2020 and zero out 2021 because there is still some on hand and those two together should carry him over.

Program Tractor: It was decided to go with the program tractor in January 2021.

TAP Project: This project is a safety concern, so the Commission wants to go ahead with it. They budgeted $140,000.00 for the City’s portion of the contract and the State will cover $200,000.00.

Chip Seal: Chip Seal is going to have to wait until we have more oil revenue coming in, otherwise a new funding option will need to be explored.

Vector: No increase planned for revenue.

Highway 12 Turning Land Project: The HSIP project is at no cost to the city, 10% is the state’s cost and 90% is federal.

President James recessed the meeting at 3:21 pm, the meeting will reconvene Thursday July 30, 2020.

The meeting reconvened at 8:00 am.

Attendees: President Lyn James, Myron Vail, Darren Limesand, Ryan Shear, Benjamin Schaaf, Bill Mason, Jon Brosz, Stacy McGee and Peggy Allen BROSZ: Brosz told the Commissioners about a loan with a 15% forgivable grant portion. The interest rate will be 1.875%. A decision will be entertained sometime this fall. This could be used for the repairs of the interior of the water tanks project.

General Fund: Transfers: Improvement Fund (trees): No transfer Building Maintenance Fund (City Hall Improvements): None for 2020 or 2021.

17 4th Avenue Project: No transfer, waiting to include with a water project and asphalt projected and oil revenue to go back up.

Chip Seal: No transfer Safe Routes: $140,000.00 will be transferred from the general fund.

This project was previously applied for in 2019 due to a safety concern; it will be completed in 2021.

Blade and Sweeper: No transfer Program Loader: Budgeted $5,000 to be done in January 2021.

Street Truck: No transfer Crossroads Business Park: This fund has a cash balance, Shear suggested using it for chip sealing, nothing was decided.

Streetlight: The fee will go up 25 cents per month per user to help cover repairs to Highway 12 streetlights.

Striping: Discussion was held on adjusting striping charges because we are not even covering our costs.

The rate has not been changed for at least 15 years. Motion by Shear, second by Schaaf to change the striping labor rate from $10.00 to $30.00 per hour with a minimum of a one-hour charge and the paint cost is based on actual cost, effective 7/30/20. RCV= all aye, MC. Commissioner’s Health Insurance: It was decided to put Vail’s (Water/ Sewer Commissioner) health insurance in the water department (9 months) and sewer (3 months) and Shears health insurance (Garbage Commissioner) in the garbage budget. The other Commissioners portfolios are in the general fund, so they will stay in the General Fund.

Employees Wages: Employees cost of living increase was decreased by 15%.

Mills: It was decided to raise the mills by 4.5 Mills. The mill levy will be 77 mills, with an estimated mill value of $5,190 = $399,630 Levy.

Lyn James President of the City Commission Peggy Allen Financial Auditor

Dakota Datebook:

Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher False Peace Flash Written by Merry Helm

Birders from around the state flocked to see a Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher following a sighting near Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge north of Jamestown, perched on utility wires and on windrows in a newly cut alfalfa field. Jamestown attorney and bird enthusiast Daniel Buchanan described it as “nearly unmistakable with its long forked tail and salmon-pink belly.”

Scissortails are up to 15” long, almost two-thirds of which is tail, and are very rarely seen this far north. Of his state bird, photographer Bill Horn writes, “Soon

after the birds arrive (here in Oklahoma), the males begin their famous ‘sky dance’... After climbing about 100’ in the air, the male makes a series of V-shaped flights, and then plunges down in an erratic zigzag course often somersaulting while uttering a rolling, cackling call. The performance has been described as ‘an aerial ballet of incomparable grace’...During flight, the bird opens its tail like a pair of scissors and folds or closes the ‘scissors’ when perching. The principal threat to scissortails is poaching,” writes Horn. “A great number of birds have been killed by poachers who wanted only the bird’s tail.”

Jesse James’ Door Written by Merry Helm

In 1902, this week’s edition of the Jamestown Alert reported, “the history of Frank and Jesse James has been revived in Minot.” D. H. Lord was erecting a new mercantile in Minot, and, in need of a vault door, Mr. Lord traded a new $1,800 model for an older one taken from a bank in his hometown of Northfield, MN. This Northfield bank was held up by the infamous James Gang 28 years earlier. The bank cashier tried to close the door on Jesse James, but Jesse got out of the vault before the teller could lock it. The incident became famous, because local townspeople surprised the bank robbers with gunfire when they came out of the bank – reducing the James Gang from eight members to six.

Written by Merry Helm

In 1945 on August 12, the nation learned that World War II was over. It was at 9:34 p.m., Eastern Standard Time that a news flash came from the United Press in New York saying that V-J Day had arrived. Carrying a Washington dateline, the flash was first fed into the UP’s southern wire service and stated that the Japanese had accepted the Allies’ terms of surrender.

A Fargo Forum article said that people who were out for Sunday evening strolls “stopped beside parked cars from whose open windows they could catch the radio bulletins.

Persons began streaming into the streets,” the article read, “calling to one another, ‘Hey, the war’s over.’

“A woman hurried along the street, her face wreathed in smiles, tears brimming in her eyes,” the article went on. “Automobile horns blared. Confetti dropped

into the street in front of the Fargoan hotel, tossed there by a boy on the roof.

A tiny paper parachute floated down from the same roof. Strangers smiled at one another, unable to keep outward expression of the joy in their hearts to themselves.”

Reporter Joyce Lang went on to describe her own experience of what happened next. “... I was on north Broadway, opposite the Holzer confectionery. I turned around and walked to The Fargo Forum office.

By the time I had gone halfway, I knew the report was unofficial without hearing the radio bulletins from cars along the curb. People’s expressions had changed.”

It turned out that the story was false. Lang said the telephones at the Forum rang off the hook, and paperboys wanted to know when the “extra” would roll.

But, then things quieted, and people once again took

up their vigil of waiting for peace.

Two minutes after the news flash went out, the UP figured out it had NOT originated at their Washington bureau, and they immediately killed the story. Within a half hour, White House secretary Charles Ross issued a report, saying, “President Truman went to bed about an hour ago. If anything comes in, he’ll be notified.

There is absolutely no word of truth in the report that the president has announced that Japan has accepted the Allied surrender terms.”

The United Press immediately reported the case to the FBI, and UP President Hugh Baillie offered a $5,000 reward for the identification and conviction of the person who fed the flash into the wire service.

The FCC also wanted to know what happened, and American Telephone and Telegraph – or AT&T – started its own investigation into

how the story got released.

There were 12 points along the telegraph poles where stories were regularly fed to the UP wires, and the flash could have been fed from any one of them.

The UP report also went on to describe the possibility of early-day hacking when it reported, “... it would be possible for a person with sufficient mechanical knowledge to hook another teletype on the UP wires and send a few words which would appear to come from a regular bureau point.”

The world would have to wait three more days for the official announcement of peace. The UP story on that day read, in part, “From New York to San Francisco, the people hailed the end of three years, eight months and seven days of struggle against a savage Asiatic foe. They celebrated as their feelings dictated, in simple prayer and in wild hilarity.”

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Zucchini coming out of your ears?

By Julie Garden-Robinson, Food and Nutrition Specialist

Christmas items, small appliances, lamps and kitchen items were just some of the choices for shoppers visiting more than 20 residences that were participating in the city-wide rummage sale Saturday. PHOTOS/Brad Mosher

Furniture was one of the bigger choices for shoppers as local residents try to sell off personal property during citywide rummage sale Saturday.

Citywide rummage sale draws bargain shoppers Staff Report

A man went to a doctor. He had a carrot in each nostril and a zucchini in each ear.

“I know what your issue is,” the doctor said. “You aren’t eating right.”

One of my kids told me that joke several years ago.

I am feeling like the man in the joke.

I have zucchini coming out of my ears, but not literally. Our garden is becoming a zucchini factory, and we have more than what we can use.

Poor zucchini. It often is the punch line of jokes at harvest time. You are advised to keep your doors locked and monitor your front porch step, or you might be the recipient of a pile of zucchini.

I decided to make Parmesan-roasted zucchini spears the other night. I drizzled zucchini slices with olive oil and sprinkled them with fresh Parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning. We ate the entire batch.

“How many zucchini did you use?” my husband asked.

“That was one zucchini,” I replied.

I think I heard a heavy sigh.

The next day, I prepared zucchini slices marinated briefly in Italian dressing and grilled in a perforated grill pan. I also made a super-easy zucchini chocolate cake, which I am including as this week’s recipe.

“How many zucchini did you use?” my husband asked again.

“One,” I replied.

I definitely heard a heavy sigh this time.

Zucchini is a versatile and prolific summer squash that can be used in breads, cakes, muffins, main dishes and side dishes. It can help stretch your budget as

More than 20 locations in and around Bowman found some success Saturday when the community held a citywide rummage sale.

For some, it was a chance to get rid of some extra or unused items.

For others, it was the first step in clearing house for an upcoming move.

In either case, it was a chance to find local bargains ranging from the eclectic and unusual to things every household needs.

The biggest rush came early in the morning, according to one seller. “There were people lined up before the rummage sale even started,” she said.

More than one family had a garage filled with items, more items on a driveway and even some displaying items on front lawns.

Some only scheduled their sale for Saturday, and others went on Sunday also.

One, started on Saturday, will continue through the week and into the next weekend.

For Saturday’s bargain hunters there were several hot spots in the town where sales were located within a few blocks.

a result. Its high water content means that it is low in calories.

Zucchini provides vitamins A, C and K, along with potassium and other minerals.

One cup of cooked zucchini has just 17 calories.

Maybe I will make zucchini boats filled with hot dish, make zucchini noodles (zoodles) or add some grated zucchini to a meatloaf.

Zucchini blossoms are edible.

Removing the blossoms means your plant cannot produce as many zucchini. If you allow the plant to produce a giant zucchini, you also may reduce the plant’s productivity.

I have two bush-type zucchini plants, which stay in their confined areas fairly well. Other varieties grow long vines that can overtake your garden.

Although my zucchini plants are behaving themselves and not spreading everywhere, I should have planted one plant.

Be sure to monitor your garden frequently because these “fruits of the plant” grow quickly.

If you miss harvesting a zucchini, you may find a giant “legsized” zucchini within a few days. Large zucchini have big seeds, harder skin and a spongy, fibrous cavity.

Small zucchini are very tender. In fact, try to harvest them when they are fairly small (2 to 3 inches in diameter). They grow a couple of inches a day, according to some sources.

Personally, I think they are underestimating the rate of growth.

You can freeze zucchini, but keep in mind that the freezing process will cause the plant cells to release their liquid. Be sure to drain the excess liquid thoroughly or you could affect your final product.

To freeze, rinse zucchini, then grate or slice it with or without

the skin.

Blanch (scald) in boiling water for one minute if grated or three minutes if sliced; allow to dry, then package in freezer containers. Label with contents and date.

Visit https://www.ag.ndsu. edu/fieldtofork to gather more recipes and ways to use and preserve zucchini and a range of summertime produce.

As promised, here’s a very easy dessert recipe using a chocolate cake mix. I adapted it from one I found online.

I don’t always trust online recipes without trying them first, so I bought the least expensive cake mix in the grocery store in case this didn’t work. I served it on a fancy serving plate sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar. My family gave it a two thumbs up rating. It is lower in calories and fat than a typical chocolate cake.

Super-simple Zucchini Chocolate Cake 2 eggs 2 tbsp. water 2 C. grated zucchini, packed in cup 1 chocolate cake mix (about 16 ounces) Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour a Bundt cake pan, or use two loaf pans.

Mix eggs, water and grated zucchini in a bowl or with a mixer. Add dry chocolate cake mix (do not add oil or additional water). Mix well. Place in a Bundt pan or divide between two loaf pans. Bake 35 to 45 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.

Don’t over bake or it will be dry.

Allow to cool. Remove from pan, and sprinkle powdered sugar over the top using a flour sifter, slice and serve.

Makes 16 servings. Each serving has 130 calories, 5 grams (g) fat, 3 g protein, 21 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber and 240 milligrams sodium.

ABBREVIATED NOTICE OF INTENT TO AMEND ADMINISTRATIVE RULES RELATING TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION

North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT)

will hold a virtual public hearing to address proposed changes to the N.D. Admin. Code.

Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020 10:00 a.m.

This virtual public hearing will be held online as a live event on the NDDOT website www.dot.nd.gov.

If you are unable to attend the virtual public hearing, space will be made available to physically attend by appointment only on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, at 10:00 am. at the Transportation Building, 608 East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, North Dakota 58505.

A copy of the proposed rules may be obtained by writing the Motor Vehicle Division Director, Lindi Michlitsch, 608 E Boulevard Ave., Bismarck, ND 58505 or calling (701) 328-2725. Also, written comments may be submitted to 608 E Boulevard Ave, Bismarck ND 58505 until Friday, September 25, 2020. In order to maintain social distancing guidelines due to COVID-19, those planning to physically attend the public hearing are asked to contact the North Dakota Department of Transportation at 701- 328-2725 prior to 5 p.m., Monday, September 14, 2020, so that we may plan for the number of attendees. If you plan to attend the public hearing and will need special facilities or assistance relating to a disability, please contact the North Dakota Department of Transportation at the above telephone number, address, or email at least 15 days prior to the public hearing.

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Backyard Composting

Home composting is an easy way to turn much of the waste from your yard and kitchen into a rich material that you can use to improve your soil.

• Some Reasons to Compost

1. Composting improves the soil and promotes healthy plants by returning valuable nutrients to the soil. Compost helps to aerate clay soil and helps sandy soil retain water.

2. Composting reduces landfill waste. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food scraps and yard waste make up 20 to 30 percent of what we throw away; it should be composted instead.

3. Composting saves money by reducing the need for pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.

4. Composting is fun and satisfying!

To learn more about composting contact the Extension office. 701-523-5271

DEPUTY AUDITOR

Bowman County is accepting applications for Deputy Auditor.

Pre-Employment background check will be conducted prior to hiring. This is a full-time position eligible for benefits including medical insurance, retirement, paid vacation, sick leave and holiday pay. Application and a job description are available at the Bowman County Auditor’s office or can be obtained on-line at www.bowmannd.com/county.

Application deadline is 11 AM August 28, 2020.

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Bowman coaches explain ‘new normal’ for fall sports

Nick Walker, one of the two athletic directors at Bowman County High School, talks to parents and athletes during a preseason sports meeting held Thursday (Aug. 6) on the campus. PHOTO/Brad Mosher

Staff Report

Parents of athletes planning to participate at fall sports in Bowman County High School were briefed on the priorities and plans for competition during the COVID-19 pandemic Aug. 6 at Reinhiller field.

The school’s two athletic directors, Nick Walker and Tyler Senn, joined with volleyball and cross country coaches to try explain the ‘new normal’ sports would have both in scheduling but also in traveling.

The previous night the school board had ap-

proved a plan not only for starting school, but also for allowing the athletic teams to compete that was tied to the governor’s new color code created over the summer.

Walker, who is also the football coach, rotated between the three groups of parents and athletes separated by the stands as he explained the guidelines the programs would be starting with.

Under the new guidelines, even the schedule became fluid with early contests with out of the area schools being canceled and attempts to reschedule more local competitions. The coaches even

5th & 6th grade boys division: Big Macs from Bowman Beyers Mescke, Mason Lambourn and Cansas Duffield.

explained that safety would be the main concern for travel with parents allowed to transport their athletes to competitions as well as take them home.

It also meant there would be changes in tickets available, especially on the road, to family members. Walker explained that under the green COVID-19 code, the visiting team would be allowed just two tickets per sport and the family members would have to be on a list to be allowed in. “If your name is not on the list, you will not be allowed in,” he told the parents and athletes.

He also explained that travel would change with the teams showing up for the competition and then leaving after the contests.

“I will be really honest. We are going to do our best to keep people safe,” he said to the group of players and parents.

“The game schedule is going to be very fluid. We are still looking for a couple of junior high games now that our triangular and quadrangular are done.

We still have to figure out if Baker can cross the state line. If they can’t then we are looking at more A, B and C volleyball games,” Walker said.

He also explained that if athletes had a physical from last year, it would be extended through the season. The students who did not have a physical from last year would need to get one before being able to participate in the fall sports. “It is only if you are new to Bowman County or a seventh grader, that we would need you to get a baseline (concussion) test,” Walker added.

Volleyball will be getting off to a later start than either football or cross country, the co-athletic director said, which gives that program slightly more time. Both football and cross-country started practice Monday, while volleyball practice begins

7th & 8th grade girls: Mikkelyn Walker (Bowman), Madison O’Connor and Avery O’Connor (Baker, MT).

Monday (Aug. 17).

One of the changes is the coaches and staff will create a record of the athletes and facilities used at any time. “We have to have a web if someone one were to test positive,” Walker explained. “We have to know where Nick Walker sat on the bus in relation to everyone else. We have to know where Nick Walker was in a drill, in relation to everybody else.

“Volleyball will be difficult. Football will be difficult – if not impossible – but we will give it a go. There will be lots of paperwork,” he said. The reason for it is for the contact tracing if a player or coach is found to have tested positive, he explained.

He also asked the parents to keep their children at home if they are sick.

“We need to be smart on how we are approaching this type of thing,” he said, acknowledging that some people may have allergies.

The school is not trying to violate health and privacy rules, but if students are getting tested for COVID, they should stay home until they have the results showing they are negative or positive, Walker added. “At that place or time, we’ll know if we have to go through the contact tracing model.”

The coaches will have seating charts for the athletes on the bus when the teams travel to games.

“Sisters will have to sit together,” he told the athletes and parents in the volleyball program. “We have three brothers on the football team that will have to sit together.”

He also told the parents and athletes that the coaches would recommend, but not require masks.

But that could change if the state changes the COVID-19 level upwards from green.

High school boys: Warren Richardson (Bowman), Carson Massey (Bowman) and Konner Flint (Baker).

Baker goes crazy with 3 on 3-hoop tournament Staff Report

It was a crazy time in Baker over the weekend.

The second annual Crazy Days 3 on 3-basketball tournament started July 31 in Baker and it didn’t take long to exceed the previous year’s turnout.

The two-day tournament jumped from 13 teams in 2019 to 22 even before the tournament began using parking lots next to the Bank of Baker and Russell’s Clothing. By the time the tournament ended, 29 teams had played on the makeshift courts, more than doubling in size.

“We did have a Lambert (Montana) team, but the family was from Baker and they were here,” Alissa Miller of the Baker Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture said.

Most of the teams had players from Baker, Plevna, Bowman and Miles City, she said. The tournament had teams in grades from third to twelfth competing in different age groups playing half-court on parking lots next to the Bank of Baker and Russell’s Clothing.”

The winning high school team was a mix of players from Baker and Bowman, “It was a last-minute put together team.”

According to Miller, it was a success. “It was great. Hopefully next year it will be bigger. Most of the teams said they would be back” In addition, the weather was good for most of the tournament. “On Friday, it rained during the championship game of the fifth and sixth grade girls, which was the last game of the day. It was a nice little cool off for the kids and everybody,” Miller said.

The local retailers told Miller they saw quite a bit of foot traffic come into the stores over the weekend.

“If we have more teams (next year), then we will have more courts. That would be great.

“Part of the reason for the tournament is to help promote people shopping in Baker,” Miller explained before the tournament.

“We had a lot of interest in and people asking if we are going to do it again,” Miller added. “They were excited to get a ball in their hands (over the weekend).”

Results It was an all-Baker team, which won the third and fourth grade coed title, made up of Hudson Coulter, Emma O’Connor, and Blake Enos.

Avery O’Connor, Jayda Harbaugh and Ryann Gorder made sure the fifth and sixth grade girls division title stayed in Baker.

It was the Big Macs from Bowman (Beyers Mescke, Mason Lambourn, and Cansas Duffield) who won the fifth and sixth grade boys’ division title.

Mikkelyn Walker (Bowman), Madison O’Connor, and Avery O’Connor (Baker) combined forces to win the girls’ seventh and eighth grade girls’ title.

Gentre Coulter of Baker joined with Carson Gardner (Miles City), Kyler and Warren Venable (Miles City) to win the boys’ seventh and eighth grade crown.

Codi Melton (Ekalaka), Chloe Tudor (Plevna), Tyler Rieger (Plevna) and Heidi LaBree (Ekalaka) won the high school girls division.

Warren Richardson (Bowman), Konner Flint (Baker) and Carson Massey (Bowman) claimed the high school boys’ title.

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