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Mott plans improvements after tornado cleanup By Brad Mosher The Herald
not a small feat. Thanks to the fair board members, Alicia & Travis Gunwall, Ben & Heidi Marxen, Holly & Dusty Ebner, Travis Schmidt,and Justin & Lakrisha Augare. Special thanks to Gerritt & Jenni Swindler Farms and Laufer Farms as they assisted with the setup and with equipment. In the aftermath the Hettinger County 4-H family came to help with the cleanup in Mott. There were more than 30 4-H members and parents from the surrounding area, New England and Regent that came armed with
Mott will not only survive, but improve after sustaining millions of dollars in damage from a July 12 EF-1 tornado, according to the city’s mayor. “We haven’t assessed all the issues yet. We are still working on it. But there is at least a million dollars plus damage to our city, with all that Mayor Troy Mosbucker happened,” Troy Mosbucker said recently. “We were lucky. We got a proper warning and took shelter. We were very lucky nobody got hurt. “Getting 2.5 inches of rain in 20 minutes didn’t help either,” he added. One of the biggest impacts on the community was the loss of power until 6:30 a.m. the next day, the mayor added. “That led to a lot of water damage.” But, he saw how the community came together the next morning. “By six o’clock in the morning, we were hauling trees already. It was a steady line out to the landfill most of
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Workers sift through the flattened 4-H exhibition hall at the Hettinger County Fairgounds in Mott as they try to salvage what they can from the collapsed building. Submitted photo
4-H Recovery after the tornado By NDSU Extension Office The Hettinger County fair was one that will not soon be forgotten. What started as a wonderful fair was dealt a blow, when the 4-H Exhibit hall was destroyed by a tornado on Friday, July 12. The hall contained approximately 400 exhibits, projects that 4-H, FFA and adults had spent hours creating. The 4-H families were contacted and were asked not to come to the fairgrounds for safety reasons and that we were not able to get into the building on Saturday morning.
After being at the fairgrounds until 1 a.m. securing the area, the Hettinger County Fair board and NDSU Extension Office jumped into action as early as 5 a.m. on Saturday, along with Sheriff Sarah Warner and Mayor Troy Mosbrucker, it was determined that the parade and demolition derby would be cancelled. The fair board, then decided to move the meal to the Knights of Columbus Hall, were the work crews could be fed and get into the air conditioning for a while. They then coordinated the dance to be moved to main street along with the fireworks display for Saturday night –this was
Counties facing massive social services realignment By Brad Mosher The Herald There is going to be some big changes in how Hettinger
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County handles its social services needs. None will bigger than when the all of the counties in the state must adapt to a new state-mandated realignment of social services by New Years Day in 2021. Hettinger will not be the only county to combine counties into larger zones it will combine with Stark, Dunn, Golden Valley, Billings and Beach counties. The adoption of a zone system is part of a plan set up by the state several years ago and set up a timetable for the transition which ends in January 2021. The first step was to identify the counties in each human service zone, identify the host county and determine the board members for each zone as part of an agreement. By December 2019, each zone is supposed to have its zone agreements finished and a zone board established. According to the guidelines, the zone board needs to have no more than 15 board members appointed by county commissioners; have at least one county com-
Members of the Hettinger County Social Services Department and relatives planted nine trees June 27 to provide a living memorial for former board members of the Social Security. The newly-planted trees also survived the EF-1 tornado just two weeks later in Mott. File photo missioner from each county in the zone, elect a vice presiding presiding officer and appoint a secretary, and establish a procedure for review of the claims against the human service zone human services fund. The first zone payment will be due in early January. At that time, the zone payment will be based on
the most recent data for the area and be made to the host county. By the end of March in 2020, a zone director needs to be hired by the zone board. He or she would be employees by the zone and located within the service area. The director would also be serving as the presiding officer.
By the end of June, the board must have a zone plan organized with access points and covering the changes in roles with plans to meet the guidelines. Biggest change in history According to the Hettinger County Social Services executive director, Doug Weghi, the social services
department is going through probably its biggest change in Hettinger County history. “We have been county social services and each county has had its own social service boards since 1935. What is going to happen now is that we (Hettinger County) are going to a multi-county
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