The Borderland Press - January 13, 2023

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Friday, January 13, 2022

Volume 2, Number 1

Frosty lines bring extra work in Cavalier County

In this Issue:

Benefit scheduled for Maritz family Page 2

It’s been a busy January for Cavalier County Rural Electric.

The Saturday Tetrault referenced was last weekend, Jan. 7.

2023 Field to Fork webinar schedule set Page 3

“We saw lines collecting the frost with Mother Nature blessing us with that,” said Marty Tetrault, general manager for Cavalier County Rural Electric.

The Morning Run: Love for Damar Page 4

Tetrault reported seeing outages starting on Sunday, Jan. 1.

Musings from Munich: The mystery of Marianne Page 4

“We ended up having a few outages then Monday, Tuesday - off and on outages, not a real big deal, but on Wednesday we started cleaning, shutting some stuff off, knocking some of the frost off and trying to save some outages, basically trying to maintain our system without breaking wires and stuff like that,” he said. “Thursday, Friday, Saturday we kind of got our butts kicked - especially Saturday,” Tetrault continued. “At 5 a.m. I think we had 19 different lines out from the Canadian border to Edmore and then probably from Osnabrock to Starkweather, pretty much the width of our system.”

A post from Tetrault on the Cavalier County Rural Electric page said, “We started the day with 19 different line outages - around 400 accounts without power. We currently have around 100 off. Our guys are working very hard to re-energize your lines. We are sorry for the inconvenience but know we cannot battle mother nature so please be patient with us as we will do our best to get your power back on.”

Red River Farm Network headlines Page 3

New Year, New You by Katie Henry Page 5 Staying Hip with Halle: End of a sports saga Page 5 Walhalla Public Library News Page 5 Gearing up for Giving Hearts Day Page 6 Icelandic mid-winter feast planned in Mountain Page 6

That Facebook post was met with 20 comments of support for the work Tetrault and his crews were doing. It wasn’t just local crews - two other groups came in to provide help. Three linemen came from North Central Electric in Bottineau, bringing snowmobiles and work vehicles. Three linemen also came from PKM Electric in Warren, Minn., on Friday, Jan. 6.

Photo courtesy Cavalier County Rural Electric.

While the frost was a lot to deal with, Tetrault is thankful it wasn’t ice. “Ice is just a different animal; it adds a lot more weight. You see how far the lines hang down with frost. There is a considerable weight difference between the ice and the frost. It just seems that it’s a lot less destructive with frost than ice,” he said.

“I thought maybe I jumped the gun on Friday, but I was sure glad they were here Saturday morning at 7 o’clock

Munich class makes gifts for preschool/kindergarten Page 6 Post 98 500 Club winners Page 6 North Dakota Game and Fish updates Page 7 From the Pastor’s Desk by Fr. Kurtis Gunwall Page 8 Cavalier County Cancer Crusaders celebrate five years of service Page 9

Photo by Larry Stokke.

Cardinals get second win or year, beating Northern Cass 50-39 B1 Jake’s Take on Sports Page B1 Eagles knock down 14 3-pointers en route to 82-51 rout of North Prairie Page B2 Lady Cards get back to winning ways with wins over Larimore, NP Page B3 Eagles go on three game winning streak to move record to 6-4 Page B4 Pembina County North quad wrestling meet held in Walhalla Jan. 10 Page B5 A Look Back at 2022, Quarter 2 Page B8

Index:

News Agriculture Opinion Community Region Church/Obituaries Sports Classifieds Public Notices & Meeting Minutes

Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Pages 5 - 6 Page 7 Page 8 Pages B1 - B5 Page B6 Page B7

Photo by Larry Stokke.

when the guys started,” Tetreault said. “Our crews put many, many hours in. I want to put a thank you out to those guys. They go above and beyond during something like that. Our consumers as well - they hang on, and they understand we’re doing our best to get them back on, so we appreciate them too.”

Tetrault explained that if frost drops off the wrong wire at the wrong time, the wires can bounce up and hit each other, and those are the power outage blinks that you may notice. He said that could potentially burn one of the wires off and cause an outage, but he is hopeful moving forward. “I think after Saturday, we’re ahead of the game. We had a little bit of wind on Saturday, which helped us, and actually some sunshine,” Tetrault said. “The frost is starting to drop off.” Shanda Christianson and Sarah Hinnenkamp contributed to this story.

M A N W I T H LO CA L RO O T S P R E P S FO R N AT I O N A L C O M P E T I T I O N By Jeremy Ratliff

A man with ties to Langdon is preparing to again compete for a national snow sculpture competition. Josh Zeis grew up on a farm near Wales. He attended St. Alphonsus School for grade school and then went on to graduate from Langdon Area High School. For Zeis, his love of sculpting came from his time in the military. While deployed in Iraq as a medic, his brother sent him some clay from NDSU. “He sent me 15 pounds of North Dakota clay, and that meant so much,” said Zeis. He said once he started messing around with the clay, that is when he decided it’s what he wanted to do from that time on since it was so enjoyable. Zeis’s sculpting team has several types of sculptures in their future, including snow, ice, and butter - yes, butter. One sculpture will be created at the POW/MIA Plaza in West Fargo, one will be in the the Moorhead Business Association's Snow Sculpture Contest during the Fargo-Moorhead Frostival event on Jan. 28., one ice sculpture at 701 Eateries in Fargo, a butter sculpture at Drekker in Fargo for the Hotdish Festival, and one at the National Snow Sculpture Competition in Lake Geneva, Wisc.

“Last year we were the first team from North Dakota to compete at Nationals and earned the bronze medal,” Zeis said. The group launched a GoFundMe in early December to help raise funds for their artistic ventures. They are looking for company sponsors of $500 or more or individuals that can donate on the GoFundMe page. As of Tuesday, the group had raised $2,245 of the $8,000 goal. “We want to do the best we can as we represent our state. Your donations will not only help us cover travel and lost wages, but they will help us cover new tools and lost wages from the practice sculptures we plan on doing to prepare ourselves as best we can,” Zeis said. Zeis is also presenting a challenge to the Langdon community:

U.S. Nationals Snow Sculpture Competition, Team North Dakota takes 3rd place in Lake Geneva, Wisc. in 2022. Submitted photo.

“If we get a specific amount of donations, whether company or individual donations from the Langdon area, we will come to Langdon next December and do a snow sculpture for you,” he said. The group’s GoFundMe page is listed as “TEAM ND - National Snow Sculpture Competition”.

Zeis’ snow sculpture team from North Dakota qualified for this year’s competition in Lake Geneva, where they will be competing in February. Last year, his team won the bronze in the national competition. While there, 65,000 people per day came to the sculpture grounds to observe the artists working in real time. Zeis and his team remember how great it felt to hear people say they wanted to vote for North Dakota. Submitted photo.

Submitted photo.


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