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City adopts new ordinances for grass clippings, industrial park zoning By BRYCE MARTIN Pioneer Editor

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Previous Bowman Sales owner dies at 85 Patterson remembered as hardworking, community advocate

By BRYCE MARTIN Pioneer Editor

If you purchased a vehicle from Bowman Sales and Service in 1961 to 1989 there’s a good chance you knew Eldon Patterson — or more commonly by his nickname, Bus. Cars and trucks played a large role in Bus’s life. He worked part-time throughout school at the Bowman Ford dealership, switched to full-time after graduating from Bowman High School and then became its owner, along with his brother-in-law, several years later. The Bowman resident and active community member died July 28 in Bismarck at the age of 85 from complications of Stage IV lung cancer combined with heart troubles. He was a man described by his loved ones as reserved yet deeply caring, well liked, and a successful businessman with an incredible memory. Troubles with math homework brought Debbie Patterson and her future father-in-law together. She would marry Bus’s only son, Bert, years later but first met Bus while a sophomore in high school. A self-described average student in math, Debbie was working on homework with Bert one night and when he couldn’t help any further, he summoned his father. “It was a little scary, but funny,” Debbie said with a smile. She shared that story Tuesday night at Bus’s visitation. Eldon Patterson was born May 27, 1931 in Bowman. He would later earn

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A lover of baseball and former Bowman Blue Sox player, Eldon “Bus” Patterson with his son, Bert, and daughter, Janet. the nickname Bus from his father, Bert Harold Patterson, who would call him Buster Brown, after the cartoon. The name stuck but was shortened to Bus, as his daughter, Karla Stack, recalled. In high school Bus was an avid athlete but found interest in his father’s business at Bowman Sales and Ser-

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vice. He purchased it from his father in 1961.Along with his brother-in-law, L.D. Crocker, Bus owned and operated Bowman Sales and Service in Bowman for 28 years, until he retired in 1989.

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Two ordinances presented to the Bowman City Commission this week were adopted with a unanimous vote from commissioners. The first ordinance discussed by the commission during its regular meeting Tuesday dealt with the obstruction of city storm sewers. Following passage of the ordinance, it is now against municipal code to place grass clippings, leaves or other vegetation onto any Bowman city street or other drainage into the city’s storm sewer system, according to the ordinance. Any person who violates, disobeys, neglects, omits, tries willfully to circumvent the intent of the ordinance or resists the enforcement of any of its provisions shall be guilty of an infraction, as stated in the ordinance. The second ordinance that passed has changed the zoning of the new industrial park. More than 210 acres were requested to be brought into city limits and to add necessary amendments to the city’s comprehensive plan

that would add a new land use designation. The former land use designations for that land did not conform to state requirements. Instead, Bowman Zoning Administrator Cheryl Ryan said a special planning area designation would need to be added. That allows for a range of land uses at the site including commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential instead of strictly commercial or industrial. While the ability to create residential zones on the land would exist, it doesn’t mean that it would necessarily occur, according to Teran Doerr, executive director of the Bowman County Development Corp. It was suggested at previous meetings on the industrial park that constructing residences at the site would not be a wise decision considering the poor quality soil. The city’s zoning commission, comprised of Darwin Wilke, Barry Mason, Warren Flath, Carole Vail and City Commissioner Chuck Whitney, held a vote in June that the matter would advance to the city commission for approval.

No deal reached in Parra case, now heads to trial By BRYCE MARTIN Pioneer Editor

A plea agreement in the Jovani Parra felony case has not been reached meaning it will now move on to trial later this year. Bowman County State's Attorney Stephanie Pretzer told The Pioneer on Tuesday, following Parra’s pretrial hearing in Dickinson, that neither side reached a deal in the gross sexual imposition case. The short hearing was held to ensure both sides, including Parra’s attorney John Bruhn of Dickinson, were “on the same page” concerning the case moving forward. Another continuance was requested on Bruhn’s behalf due to scheduling conflicts. Pretzer said the court is seeking an appropriate date to hold the felony jury trial but it is likely to occur sometime in October. A separate charge against Parra, a Class B misdemeanor for carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle, will also head to a jury trial. Pretzer said that could be sometime in late August. That charge

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PARRA could not be combined into his felony case since the incidences were unrelated, according to the state’s attorney. Parra was arrested last year by police in Bowman. He was charged with two Class A felony counts of gross sexual imposition of a minor and one Class C felony count of luring minors by computer. Gross sexual imposition is punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment, a $10,000 fine, or both. Luring minors by computer or electronic means is punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment, a $10,000 fine, or both.

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