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At a time when most people were making their living farming and ranching on the vast openness of sparsely populated prairies in North Dakota, John Larsen was creating his legacy in pharmacy. In 1952, he opened Larsen Service Drug situated in the heart of Watford City on a cozy corner of Main Street. Back then Joan Crawford was the iconic figure modeling Lustre crème shampoos and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was the hit television sitcom. Gas was just 20 cents a gallon and every woman...
“Pieces of the Prairie” Photography & Gift Show and the Pride of Dakota Food and Wine Sampling will be held Friday November 23, 2012. It will be from 12-9pm at the Long X Visitors Center in Watford City. Celebrate the season and spirit of Western North Dakota with a relaxing evening of wine, music and shopping. There will be plenty going on as you can shop throughout the day, with items including original photography and handmade gifts from four Western North Dakota women available. The Western North Dakota women are: Jessie Veeder Sco...
The 1st Annual Chamber of Commerce Christmas Celebration Extravaganza will be November 23rd. It will be held in the Watford City Veteran’s Building from 3-6pm. There will be music, food, vendors, free kids crafts, kids story time, a Christmas bake sale, a mailbox to send letters to Santa, and parents can take pictures of their kids with Santa. For further information please contact the Chamber of Commerce at 701-580-1493....
The Watford City Chamber of Commerce is “Celebrating a Storybook Christmas” this year for the Parade of Lights. They are looking for floats to participate in the parade, to make it fantastic this year. The theme for this year’s parade is, “Watford City Celebrates a Storybook Christmas.” The only guidelines set for the floats is try to follow the theme and that no other floats can contain a “live” Santa, as they only want one float with Santa on it. The parade will be November 23rd beginning at 6:30pm at McKenzie Electric and continue down...
Richland County Schools celebrated Red Ribbon Week last week. Red Ribbon week is celebrated nationally each year during the week of November 5th-9th. RRW is a week to promote healthy choices and for kids to say no to alcohol, tobacco and drugs. Sheriff Brad Baisch went around to each school in the county and the Boys & Girls Club and talked to them about the importance of staying drug free, and handed out bracelets to the kids. All this was organized by STAND, which is a community group...
Fairview kicked off the Christmas season with the annual Lighting of the Bridge and fireworks Saturday evening. A capacity crowd enjoyed huge ornaments in Sundheim Park and a spectacular fireworks display, all hosted by the Fairview Chamber of Commerce....
A few of this year’s Christmas Stroll festivities will be held at the VFW. The photos with Santa and the Children’s Activities will both be held in the VFW backroom from 3-6pm. The VFW is located at 124 2nd Ave NE....
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We hope that you will enjoy some great times with friends and family. Let’s start by congratulating everyone who participated in our coloring contest, you did a great job and your pictures really helped get us in the holiday spirit. But we don’t want the kids to have all the fun at the Library, so we have two special opportunities for the grown-ups and your favorite teddy bears and other stuffed friends. No really, I said grown-ups AND stuffed animals. I’m not kidding when I say we have something for everyone at th...
The Fairview Alliance Church will be hosting a free turkey dinner between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. We welcome everyone, especially those who have no family around for the holidays, to join us for a great meal with no obligation at 318 7th Street, Fairview, across from the high school. Please contact Pastor Kelly Sloan at 406-742-5425 if you need a ride or more information....
Mass of the Christian Burial for Norma Kaschube, 83, of Columbus, MT, formerly of the Brockton area, was 10:00 a.m., Friday, November 16, at St. Matthew’s Catholic Church with Father Jim O’Neil and Father Ned Shinnick. Interment was held in the Sidney Cemetery under the direction of Fulkerson Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers the family asked to please make a donation to the Catholic Daughter Society, St. Matthew’s Church, Montana 4-H Foundation or a charity of your choice. Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.f...
The holidays shouldn’t hurt, but for families living with domestic violence Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years can add stress to an already stressful living situation. There is the added stress of the need for extra money for gifts or travel. Extra family togetherness can cause the batterer to feel a loss of control over their victim. Some victims won’t leave the relationship during the holidays because they believe families should be together. Often people attend holiday gatherings where alcohol is readily available and consumed, lea...
The Beach Lutheran Parish Annual Lutefisk Smorgasbord will be Sunday, December 9 from 12pm until 2pm at Lincoln Elementary School in Beach. There will be a free will offering and silent auction. All proceeds will benefit the Golden Valley Manor & Wibaux County Nursing Home. For further information please contact Stacey Swanson at 701-260-9410....
The Richland County Tavern Association was pleased to again donate 25 Thanksgiving baskets to the Salvation Army. Each basket included a turkey or chicken and all the trimmings for a delicious dinner. The RCTA also donated $500 to the Food Bank and $500 to the Domestic Violence Coalition. The RCTA wish to thank the community for their support for our yearly fair raffle as it allows us to continue to support groups and individuals in need. Members of the RCTA include the Cattle-Ac, Cheerio, Club...
Richland Shrine Club of Sidney is starting its 2012 Shrine Fund drive. The overhead of the direct mail campaign; envelopes, postage, etc. are furnished by the Richland Shrine Club. Last year we gathered $7,032.05 and sent that same amount to the Shrine Hospital. Richland Shrine Club is currently sponsoring many patients in various stages of their treatment. The typical patient makes several trips to the hospital in Spokane, Salt Lake City or Minneapolis. The average hospital stay is seven to eight days, but surgery and/or treatment may be over...
On November 15th, The Basin United Way announced they had just reached 25% of their $250,000 campaign goal for 2012. With just over $63,000 collected, the board has confidence and faith in the community that they’ll be able to reach their target by the end of the year. Each year, thousands of individuals, organizations and businesses come together in efforts to raise money to help the United Way help their local communities in the areas needed most. The Basin United Way currently supports t...
Bismarck defeated the Watford City 19U team 8-2 in their first home game of the season. (Photo by Kathy Taylor)...
For the 22nd year, the MonDak Heritage Center is proud to host a miniature art contest. We received over 30 submissions from several states, including Montana and North Dakota, Florida and New York. The Miniature Art Show is one of the best and most anticipated shows every year. The eye for detail and the ability to produce that vision on a small scale is amazing. Artists are restricted to creating works no larger than 5” x 7”, and many produce work far smaller, sometimes as small as a postage stamp. The show includes oil, watercolor, acr...
This year’s Parade of Trees award winners were Joan Nelson, Sidney High School BPA, Nancy & Rocky Carpenter, Patti Iversen, Joan & Christy Nelson, Tim Anderson and Wildcat Trucking. The People’s Choice award went to Joan Nelson with her ‘Winter Dreams’ display, while the Children’s Choice award went to the Sidney High School BPA with their ‘Frosty’ tree. The Best Use of theme award was given to Nancy & Rocky Carpenter with the ‘Charlie Brown & Gang’ tree. The Best in Show award went to Wil...
The Prairie Badlands Rattlers competed and brought home a silver and bronze medal in the Montana State Special Olympics basketball tournament in Great Falls, MT November 9th and 10th. The Rattlers consist of athletes from Sidney, Glendive and Richey. Special Olympics is a not for profit organization providing year round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Each year, our local team raises money through raffle ticket sales, car washes and many other...
Trevor Swisse harvested this nice 5x6 Whitetail Buck November 14th on public land near Crane, MT. Pictured with him, his son Mason (2 yrs old) and daughter Jordan Swisse (5 yrs old)....
Junior Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court Mother Cabrini #1766 installed new officers and received new members during Mass in November.That evening, after a cake reception, the membership prepared Christmas boxes for children in need....
This year’s Light Up Harmon Park Parade is looking bright! Come down to main street and celebrate the season by enjoying a parade of sparkling lights. You can pick up some hot cocoa from a few of our local organizations and businesses, hear some beautiful caroling, take photos with Santa and more!...
The Christmas season will kick off Friday, November 23rd, courtesy of the Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture. Scheduled events include kid’s face painting, petting zoo, soup contest, shopping opportunities, visits with Santa, live entertainment and the evening’s parade of lights. There will be all kinds of food vendors on the sidewalk from 4-7 pm offering treats including mini-donuts, kettle corn, and burritos. The day’s special events begin at 10 am with a new event, the 1, 3, 5 Turkey Trot put on by the Sidney High School Cross...
With the Parade of Trees auction coming up on November 23rd, the Sidney High School Key Club has taken the time to decorate their tree that will be up for auction. This year’s Key Club consists of about 30-35 students, which delegated a committee responsible for this year’s tree decorating. The committee decided upon was Jesse Staffanson, Heather McDonald, Amy Bieber, Michaela Lofthus and Amy Schaffer. The committee got together Thursday, the 8th to decorate their tree. They chose the theme “Wh...
There will be live entertainment on East Main from 4-6pm. This year’s entertainment so far will include: Cutting Edge Dance Studio with both solo and group performances, Larry Riggs with a vocal performance, Tami Meras with a vocal performance, Fred Barkley with a vocal performance and high school girls, Shawnee Tyler & Taylor Thiessen with a vocal duet. There may be a few more added just before the evening. If you are interested in performing, contact Diane Sorenson at 406-4...
