05/29/15 - Williston Herald

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FRIDAY May 29, 2015 50 Cents

Williston Williams County’s Newspaper of Record

116th Year Number 229 Williston, ND

Herald www.willistonherald.com

Saturday: Williston High School Graduation, 2:30 p.m.

Ubri, Longtin win popular vote

• Inside

Will speak to fellow grads on the lessons of diversity and ‘just being yourself’

Taking aim

After a year off, Williston High’s Paul Suess leads Coyotes back to state.

Sports, Page B1

• Event of the day The Great Outdoors, a band based in Fargo that has toured and played all over the country takes the stage for the first of three nightly shows starting at 9 p.m. at Champs.

• North Dakota rig count

81

BY CHARLEE GUILD WILLISTON HERALD

WILLISTON — While most high schools appoint their graduation night student speakers on cumulative grade point average alone, Williston High does it differently and democratically. Those ‘elected’ to be the speak-

ers at Saturday’s graduation, set for 2:30 p.m., are Angelica Ubri and Logan Longtin. They will stand up in front of the peers who voted for them to enlighten them on their latest accomplishment and offer words of encouragement. When asked how it felt when appointmented the student speakers, Longtin said, “It was tough, with the competition from others wanting to be elected. It is an honor to represent our class and get the chance to make a fool of myself.” Longtin is graduating with honors and will be attending UND-

Per tradition, a tree is planted in honor of this year’s Williston High graduating class. See Page A2. Grand Forks in the fall. Ubri, also graduating with honors, will be attending the University of Alabama where she will be studying business marketing. “I am grateful and honored to represent my class. I have only been here for 3 years, so it shows me that my peers thought my speech was fitting towards what they wanted to hear and how they wanted to be represented,” said Ubri.

Logan Longtin

Longtin’s speech will center around telling his peers that it is OK to be normal, that you don’t have to

BY JAMES MACPHERSON ASSOCIATED PRESS

eggs three times a summer. In water samples taken this year, each pint of water had about 20 mosquito larvae in it. Figuring that half are female, each pint of water would hold a future potential of 4,500 mosquito eggs — but for the spraying project the U.S. Air Force

MANDAN — A Texas company that already has obtained shipping commitments from oil companies to build a 1,100-mile pipeline from western North Dakota to Illinois is having a tougher time getting permission from North Dakota landowners. Chuck Frey, vice president of engineering for Dallasbased Energy Transfer Partners LP, told the state’s Public Service Commission on Thursday that subsidiary Dakota Access LLC only has acquired 56 percent of the easements needed despite wanting to begin construction on the $3.8 billion project this year. “Our goal is to reach voluntary agreement with all landowners,” Frey told the three-member panel that oversees a slew of public interests, from pipelines to grain elevators. He said the company “would be forced to use the eminent domain process” if agreements can’t be reached. Zachary Pelham, a lawyer working for the Public Service Commission, said the panel has had complaints from some landowners that the company had used “strong-arm tactics” and “some even felt threatened” if they refused to sign off on easements. Frey told the panel that he was aware of the allegations and that the company has established a toll-free telephone number to report any concerns. Energy Transfer Partners announced the Dakota Access pipeline last year only days after Gov. Jack Dalrymple urged industry and government officials to build more pipelines to keep pace with North Dakota’s

SEE MOSQUITOES, PAGE A3

SEE PIPELINE, PAGE A2

Source: North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources.

• Oil prices RENÉE JEAN/WILLISTON HERALD

Major Mark Breidenbaugh, directing the Air Force Reserve’s two-week mosquito-control operation in Williston, keeps in constant communication with the planes that are releasing a larvaecide on flood waters of the Yellowstone and the Missouri River on land managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Williston.

USAF Reserve spray-bombs for seventh straight year

North Dakota Northern Area $37.00 Change (+.25) Light Sweet $43.00 Change (+.25) NYSE Crude $58.17 Change (+.49) Gas Prices/Gal. National Avg. $2.736 Last Week $2.735 Last Year $3.651 Source: AAA

• Weather

WILLISTON — Know your enemy. It’s an oft-repeated maxim, and no less true for a small enemy. In this case, as small as a mosquito. For the seventh straight year, members of the U.S. Air Force Reserve returned to Williston to help wage an important campaign, one that improves the quality of life in Williston. That campaign is mosquito control, and, while it’s a peacetime mission for now, it’s also practice for future combat scenarios, when efficiency and speed could well be of life-saving essence in countries where mosquitoes carry lifethreatening diseases. Maj. Mark Breidenbaugh, directing the Air Force Reserve’s two-week operation in Williston, said the mosquito has been described by

some as the most dangerous animal in the world. “Malaria is killing almost a million kids in Africa every year,” Breidenbaugh pointed out. “It really is a scourge. We don’t have that in the U.S. historically — we did — but through mosquito control, we have pushed it out.” Mosquitoes in North Dakota are generally not the ones that transmit malaria — winters here are too cold — although some of the state’s later species do transmit West Nile virus. Mosquito populations get a big boost in North Dakota because of the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. The Yellowstone annually spreads out into flood zones thanks to ice melt and/or mud-slide producing rains in Wyoming or Montana, and all that joins with the Missouri River. Mosquitos lay their eggs

SEE SPEAKERS, PAGE A2

Pipeline needs OK from many land owners

War on bugs

BY RENÉE JEAN WILLISTON HERALD

Angelica Ubri

in the muddy flood zones during summer. The eggs will await the right combination of flood waters and warmer temperatures before hatching into larvae. The eggs can remain viable for years and years, too, waiting for just the right conditions. Each female mosquito can produce a batch of 150

‘Through my art, I want to change the perceptions about myself and society.’ — Shaun Kama

Partly Cloudy

High: 64 Low: 39 High Saturday: 68, partly cloudy Page A5

L.A., Sturgis ink star Shaun Kama working Tattoo Cafe through June 6

• Index

BY ERIC KILLELEA WILLISTON HERALD

Classifieds B3-B5 Opinion A4 Comics B2 Data A5 Sports B1 Religion/Life A7

WILLISTON — A werewolf on the forearm. An angel on the shoulder. Batman on the ribcage. These intricate tattoos are the handiwork of Shaun Kama, a 45-year-old tattoo artist from Los Angeles who boasts a huge following at motorcycle rallies and a string of celebrity clients including Rihanna, Janet Jackson and Nelly. Influenced by the dark and macabre, the longtime

artist and musician, with a reputation as the “King of Halloween tattoos,” has become a regular in the tattoo and horror convention circuit, while serving as the producer behind the annual Buffalo Chip Tattoo Cafe in Sturgis, S.D. Last summer, Kama and fellow tattoo artist Rob Hill of Ventura, Calif. met the owners of Williston’s Elite Health and Fitness. Co-owner Dr. Marty Haug, a native of Williston, does not have any tattoos, but his

wife and business partner, Stacy Haug, got her third during the motorcycle rally. The encounter among the four sparked friendly conversation and eventually the concept to organize the first Williston Tattoo Cafe, which started Thursday in the aerobics room of the 34,000 square foot health facility on Main Street in downtown Williston. The tattoos artists are sharing their talents with the oil patch by

SEE TATTOO, PAGE A2

24th Annual Fort Union Rendezvous Run Saturday, June 20, 2015 Run/Walk/Fun for the Whole Family! Register now at American State Bank & Trust Co. For more information call Christine at 774-4100

Jerry Burnes • Williston Herald

Tattoo artist Shaun Kama tattoos the arm of a client at Elite Health and Fitness on Friday as part of its Tattoo Cafe, which runs through June 6.

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