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You know you are an introvert if you find crowds stressful, have a hard time meeting new people and you just kind of like to sit back with a good book or your phone and TV and do absolutely nothing. You know you are an introvert if you are courteous, a good friend and have an old soul. You know you are an introvert if are balanced; balancing alone time and socializing, an opportunity to have fun without burning out. But, when it comes to Spring Break season, a lot of introverts seem to miss out...
Friday, March 11th, was Rau School's Annual Science Fair. Kid's showed off experiments ranging from "Musically Influenced Cats", "Butter vs. Margarine Candles" and "Do Plants Really Need Just Water?" This years winners in the Junior Division (3rd and 4th Grade) were Marett Schieber 3rd place, Cooper McNally 2nd place, Jaxsen Reuter 1st place. Corbin Steinbeisser won Best of Show. Winners for the Senior Devision (5th and 6th Grade) were Jace Bell 3rd place, Kierra Huotari 2nd place, Shane...
ONEOK Partners won the Employers Choice Award 2016 with over 25 employees. The Employer of Choice Award Program was started in 2013 to recognize employers and employees who show leadership, initiative and creativity to accomplish needs and goals for the business and community. This year's Sidney JSEC (Job Service Employers Committee) winners were Gem City Motors for less than 25 employees and ONEOK for over 25 employees. JSEC members Kristin Kennedy from the Sidney Chamber of Commerce, Kelly...
On Wed., March 2, at the Lonsdale Methodist Church, the first session of an 8-week grief recovery program will be held. This will be the fifth group led by Deb Prevost over the last two years, along with her colleagues Sister Regina Murray, Sister Rita Rauschendorfer and Petrea Martin. Deb Prevost is a grief recovery specialist and was trained in Billings, MT. She has gone through a lot of loss, and when one of her closest friends died, she went and got some help for herself. Prevost went to a...
Sara Dukart, 2016 Mrs. Montana, reached out to Sidney High School to share her personal story on suicide and to discuss suicide prevention. H.O.P.E. is the platform for her suicide prevention outreach, and stands for "Hold on, pain ends." Her goal is to create a world without suicide and to provide the message that there is always hope. Dukart's personal message begins when she was born into foster care. Later in childhood, she was adopted into a good home. "Even though I was in a good home, I...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 was Watford City's Annual Chamber Meeting, where fellow business owners and politicians gathered together for good food, great drinks, and celebrated the highlights of the 2015 year. Caterers at the event were plentiful and included the newest members to Watford City, JL Beers and Door 204. Teddy Residential Suites brought a beautiful dessert bar and a full service bar. Wineries and distilleries at the chamber meeting were Dakota Sun Gardens and Winery, Wolf Creek...
Young Professionals of Watford City (YPWC) is an organization based on the values of community, leadership, contribution, personal growth and involvement. The group was started about 6 months ago by Kenny Leibel and a few friends, who have been living and working in the Watford City area since 2008. The idea came to be when they saw that Watford was a city built by leaders as well as an excellent community, and they wanted to give citizens a chance to advance their professional development and...
Saturday, January 30th 2015, sophomore Iida Lehto of Watford City, ND took 1st at the American Legion's Statewide Oratorical Speech Contest on the United States Constitution. Previous to the state competition, Lehto dominated at both local and regional competitions; now after winning state, she will be on her way to compete at Nationals April 15-16 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Oratorical Speech Contest is where contestants present an 8-10 minute speech on a section of the Constitution of their...
Tom Peters, a Sugarbeet Weed Specialist and Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University in the Department of Plant Sciences, will be at the MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show March 3 to discuss sugarbeet weed control at 4 p.m. Peters earned his BS degree in agronomy and soil science from the University of Minnesota, his MS in agronomy, specializing in weed science, from the University of Nebraska, and his Ph.D in agronomy, specializing in weed control in the sugarbeet, from NDSU. Most of...
Rhonda Steiger, who attended the University of Wyoming and got her degree in Agriculture, will be discussing the importance GMOs at the MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show on March 3 at 1 p.m. Steiger grew up on a farm in South Central Montana and her favorite times of the year include beet harvest and calving season. She currently lives in Clark Fork Valley with her husband, Cliff, and their two children. They grow sugarbeets, malt barley, cattle, corn and alfalfa. They also have a few pigs that...
Dr. Mark Petersen will be discussing his research done on livestock water quality at the MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show at 10 a.m., Fri., March 4. Petersen is currently the research leader at USDA-ARS Fort Keogh Livestock & Range Research Labratory. There, his responsibilities are to conduct range and range livestock research, supervise personnel and over all operations. He received his BS in Animal Science/Zoology from the University of Hawaii, his MS in Animal Science from the University of...
Dr. Justin D. Derner, a rangeland scientist and Research Leader for the Rangeland Resources Research Unit of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, will be discussing the theories of adapting cropping and livestock systems to a changing climate. He will be speaking at 9 a.m. on March 4 for MonDak Ag Days. Dr. Derner received his Ph.D in Rangeland Ecology and Management in 1996 from Texas A&M University. He leads a a team of scientists developing and providing land managers the necesary tools...
Kate Vogel, an accomplished business owner with her husband, Marcus Vogel, will be speaking on the importance of cover crops at this years 2016 MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show. Kate Vogel and her husband believe that cover crops have multiple benefits and can be designed to fit various goals of individual producers. Some of these goals and benefits include weed suppression, nutrient cycling, enhanced biological activity, residue building, reduced compaction, improved soil structure, increased...
March 3 at 3 p.m. during the MonDak Ag Days and Trade Show, Dr. Mohamed Khan will be discussing his thesis on optimum sugar beet health strategies. Dr. Mohamed Khan is responsible for developing, conducting, and evaluating educational programs that will improve sugarbeet production practices in North Dakota and Minnesota and is currently Extension Sugarbeet Specialist for North Dakota State University and the Univeristy of Minnesota. Dr. Khan is also the secretary of the Sugarbeet Research and...
Brandon Ewen, a professional land surveyor with over 10 years of experience, will be speaking at 9 a.m. at the MonDak Ag Days in Sidney, MT, Thurs., March 3. Ewen will be discussing the use of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)/drone in crop production. Brandon Ewen has conducted many presentations about UAVs in agriculture and surveying, and has provided companies and farmers with the capability to produce infra-red imaging, precise survey data, and even aerial imagery. Brandon Ewen is considered...
Terry Murphy, a Richland County Compliance Officer since 2012, has some interesting theories when it comes to the Pallid sturgeon. Murphy spends two weeks on in Sidney, MT as the Richland County Compliance Officer and two weeks off at home in St. Ignatius, MT, and enjoys the many recreational opportunities that Eastern Montana has to offer. One of these activities is fishing in the Yellowstone River and the Missouri River. This past year, Murphy has been able to catch two pallid sturgeons. The...
Terry Murphy, a Richland County Compliance Officer since 2012, has some interesting theories when it comes to the Pallid sturgeon. Murphy spends two weeks on in Sidney, MT as the Richland County Compliance Officer and two weeks off at home in St. Ignatius, MT, and enjoys the many recreational opportunities that Eastern Montana has to offer. One of these activities is fishing in the Yellowstone River and the Missouri River. This past year, Murphy has been able to catch two pallid sturgeons. The...
On Wed., January 27th, at 7 p.m., Mike Backes with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) and Tom Hinz with Montana Aquatic Resources Services Inc. (MARS), invited the public to comment on a proposal to fund the purchase of a perpetual channel migration easement (CME) on 89.5 acres in Richland County along the Yellowstone River near Sidney, MT. The CME is a conservation easement that includes land bordering a stream or river where the Landowner (The Navratil Family) agrees not to riprap or...
Chris Young, a famous country singer who has written six chart toppers and nine Gold/Platinum singles, will be performing at the Richland County Fair Sat., August 6, 2016. Young's most recent album, "I'm Coming Over", debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. Young has traveled internationally for his music tours two times now, including countries such as Ireland, the UK, Australia, Norway and Sweden. Young was even awarded the British Country Music Award for International Act of th...
In Watford City, ND, citizens can find a brand new, local coffee shop owned by Beth Veeder, who also owns Meyers Department Store right next door. Door 204 is a comfy, yet contemporary designed coffee shop that is also a private postal service and art gallery. Watford City is a close-knit community, and Beth Veeder wanted to bring something new, different and special to the community. Beth Veeder has managed Meyers Department Store since September of 2011, offering Watford high quality...
This year Haidle Farms, owned by Ryan Haidle, received the 20/20 award for Top 10 Beet Growers. The 20/20 reward is given to beet farmers that produce 20 Tons Per Acre(TPA) of beets with a 20+% sugar outage. Haidle Farms managed to produce 31.28 TPA with 20.08% sugar yield on 489 acres. "We were very lucky with nutrient soil and great weather this year," said Ryan, when asked how he achieved this year's harvest. Haidle Farms is a family run operation which Ryan Haidle manages with his brother...
Dee Ann Sifuentes of Sidney Sugars has been an employee since September of 1977. When Sifuentes first started at the factory, she began at the beet end of things. Her duties included overseeing the beets coming in as well as extracting the juice. "When I first started working for Sidney Sugars 38 years ago, there were only 7-8 women that worked here. Now there are 61 female employees at the factory out of the 251 that are employed here," said Dee Ann when asked about changes in the factory over...
Jack Feenstra will be speaking at the February Williston Wheat Show and his passion is agriculture and lifelong learning. He is familiar with all facets of farming. From Dryland agriculture to irrigation, from feedlot to subsistence farming in Central Africa. Jack and his wife Annemarie run a crop consulting business called Chinook Crop Care Ltd. The business specializes in environmental compliance for large feedlots, dairies and hog enterprises. They maximize the financial return on crops by...
Join Elston Denzil Solberg, Canadian Director of Agri- Knowledge of Agri-Trend Inc. at the Wheat Show in Williston, ND, Wed., Feb. 3, as he shares his knowledge and expertise on the 7Rs of Successful Crops – Think Balance, Balance, Balance at 2:30 p.m., 3:20 p.m. and 4:25 p.m. Solberg has over 25 years of research expertise to Agri-Trend, through his work as Head Cereal Specialist and Research Agronomist with Alberta Agriculture. As an accomplished speaker and Head of The Agri-Knowledge D...
During the February Wheat Show in Williston, you can see Christ Augustin who works as an Area Extension Specialist/Soil Health at North Central Research Extension Center in Minot, ND. Christ Augustin grew up near the town of Crystal, ND where he worked on the family farm. It was here that Chris gained his love of agriculture and respect of the land while helping out with small grains, sugar beets and potatoes. After high school, he went on to college at NDSU where he earned his B.S. and M.S. in...
