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omething was missing in Valley City. Community members were forced to travel west to Jamestown, or east to Fargo, or south to Lisbon, or north to Cooperstown to enjoy a Pizza Ranch dinner. In a short time, traveling will not be required. It was kind of my dads idea, said Tommy Bergan, director of operations for the soon-to-open local Pizza Ranch franchise. He and a buddy of his thought it was a shame they had to travel to Lisbon to enjoy Pizza Ranch. The new restaurant is slated to open in the former Robys building, which is undergoing extensive renovations. We hope to open in midMay, Bergan said. A May 12 opening is the target open-

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ing date. We think its a great location, with Valley City State University in town, and when we decided Tommy Bergan to go with Pizza Ranch, there wasnt a buffet choice in town. Thats changed though, with the recent opening of Kirin House, which offers buffet eating in the former Valley City Pizza Hut building But Kirin House serves strictly Chinese cuisine. Pizza Ranch will serve American fare, to include pizza, chicken, salads and cactus bread. The new eatery, 1066 W. Main Street, will join two existing local pizza restau-

rants, Pizza Corner and Jimmys Pizza. Were really excited, said Bergan, who is currently working to fill new staff positions in preparation for the restaurants mid-May opening. Besides offering numerous part-time positions for local workers, Bergan said the eatery will provide four manager positions along with a general manager. Weve filled about half of the 40 job positions we

have, Bergan said. The new franchise is also in the midst of launching a community give-back program. We will have Community Impact nights to support local non-profit groups, Bergan said. Any organizations interested may call our number -- 701-845-4455 -- or email us at vcpizzaranch@ gmail.com RANCH: 15

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elebrate Earth Day Tuesday, April 22, at Medicine Wheel Park in Valley City. The third annual Valley City State University Earth Day festival will be from 5:30 to9 p.m. Featured performers are the Buffalo River Dancers, a Native American group from the FargoMoorhead area, who will perform at 7 p.m. Free hotdogs and chips will be served to the first 200 people. Free tree seedlings will be given to the first 100 families. Children will have the opportunity to do hands-on projects using recycled materials, and, at 6:30 p.m., they may also participate in a variety of oldfashioned games and win prizes. Entertainment will include music performances by Jamestown musicians Marie and Mike, and members of

holds it Second Annual Benefit Spaghetti Supper and Silent Auction from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Valley City Eagles Aerie. More info: Kathy Martin, 701-8451302. MOVIE NIGHT: The Vault Coffee Shop at Central Avenue in Valley City will show How to Tame Your Dragon at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $3. More info: Kimberly Brekke 701-8407519. LITCHVILLE: The Litchville Community Center hosts regularly scheduled events, including: morning coffee from 8 to 10 a.m. Monday-Saturday; On the Move exercise group Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 a.m.; and cards (Hand & Foot) with refreshments Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. No fee, but donations accepted. More info: Myrna McGregor, 701-762-3621. AA: AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meets every Saturday at 8 p.m. at Fellowship Corner, 320 Second Ave. S.E. in Valley City. On the last Saturday of each month, it is an open speakers meeting - for all to attend, not just alcoholics. More info: Sister Suzanne Stahl, 701-8452864.

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nior Citizens meets every Tuesday at noon at the ValMonday at the Community ley City VFW. Center, Buffalo, from 9 a.m. LITCHVILLE: The Litchto 5 p.m. ville Community Center LITCHVILLE: The Litchhosts regularly scheduled ville Community Center events, including: morning hosts regularly scheduled coffee from 8 to 10 a.m. events, including: morning Monday-Saturday; On coffee from 8 to 10 a.m. the Move exercise group Monday-Saturday; On Tuesdays and Thursdays the Move exercise group at 8 a.m.; and cards (Hand Tuesdays and Thursdays & Foot) with refreshments at 8 a.m.; and cards (Hand Wednesday evenings at 7 & Foot) with refreshments p.m. No fee, but donations Wednesday evenings at 7 accepted. More info: Myrna p.m. No fee, but donations McGregor, 701-762-3621. accepted. More info: Myrna HEALTH BOARD: The McGregor, 701-762-3621. City-County Health Board LIARS DICE: Play progressive liars dice at the Vault in Valley City on Mondays from 6 p.m. to midnight. More info: Paul Stenshoal, 701-840-9313. CITY MEETING: The Valley City City Commission meets the first and third Mondays of each month at 5 p.m. at city hall. BABY SIGNS: A free, sixweek Baby Signs class will be held Mondays, through May 12, at the Valley City - Barnes County Library, 410 N Central Ave, in Valley City. Recommended for children ages 8 to 18 months. Class size is limited. More info: 701-8458528 to register. AA: AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meetings take place every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and every Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Fellowship Corner, 320 2nd Ave. S.E. in Valley City. At 5:30 p.m. Fridays, the meeting is in the Sheyenne Care Center conference room. The last Saturday of the month is open for all to attend. More info: Sister Suzanne Stahl, 845-2864.

Student Union. Use the West door for entry. LITCHVILLE: The Litchville Community Center hosts regularly scheduled events, including: morning coffee from 8 to 10 a.m. Monday-Saturday; On the Move exercise group Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 a.m.; and cards (Hand & Foot) with refreshments Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. No fee, but donations accepted. More info: Myrna McGregor, 701-762-3621.

POKER: Texas Hold em Tournament is every meets at 4 p.m. on the Wednesday at 7 p.m. at fourth Tuesday of each the Eagles Aerie, Valley month. (Note that meetings City. Open to all player may be canceled for a lack levels. More info: Richard Hass: 840-2612. Free, for of a quorum or a lack of people 21+. agenda items.) More info: 701-845-8518. STORY HOUR: Story Hour

WEDNESDAY, April 23
SENIORS: Tower City Senior Citizens group meets every Wednesday at the Community Center in Tower City from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A meal is served. More info: Betty Gibbons, president, 701-840-0184. KIWANIS: The Valley City Kiwanis Club meets every Wednesday at 12:04 PM at various locations in VCSU

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County Library begins at 10:30 a.m. More info: 701-8453821. CIRCLE TIME: Circle Time with Amanda Adams at the Valley City - Barnes County Library begins at 10 a.m. More info: 701-845-3821. OPEN MIC: Open Mic takes place at Dutton s Parlour in downtown Valley City every Wednesday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Entertainers (music, comedy, poetry, etc.) and audience members are welcome. No cost. AA: AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meets every Wednesday at noon and 7:30 p.m. at Fellowship Corner, 320 Second Ave. S.E. in Valley City. The 7:30 p.m. is an open speakers meeting - for all to attend, not just alcoholics. More info: Sister Suzanne Stahl, 701-845-2864.

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TOPS: Tops Club of Enderlin meets every Thursday at the Senior Center in Enderlin. Weigh in from 8:30 to 9 a.m.; meeting at 9. QUILTING: St. Catherine Quilters makes quilts for those in need every Thursday from 1 to 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the St. Catherine School gym basement, Valley City. Anyone is welcome; no experience necessary. More info: Lela Grim, 701-845-4067. LITCHVILLE: The Litchville Community Center hosts regularly scheduled events, including: morning coffee from 8 to 10 a.m. Monday-Saturday; On the Move exercise group Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 a.m.; and cards (Hand & Foot) with refreshments Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. No fee, but donations accepted. More info: Myrna McGregor, 701-762-3621.

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n my early years with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, I was a district game warden. Prior to assuming responsibility for a district, new wardens learn differ- By Doug ent required skills from Leier experienced wardens at stations around the state. My primary training warden was Kurt Aufforth, who at the time was stationed in Watford City, and my weeks with warden Aufforth coincided with the paddlefish snagging season. Paddlefish are such a unique resource for North Dakota, and for a first-timer, working the paddlefish season was a highlight from the early part of my career. A lot has changed since then. Paddle- The North Dakota - Montana population of paddlefish is vulnerable to overharvest. Photo/NDGF fish are not only unique, but their North Dakota-Montana population is vulnerdays in 2000. Since 2002 the able to overharvest. These fish mostly live in Lake Sakakawea, then in spring the breeding- official season has been May age fish migrate up the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers into Montana to spawn. 1-31, but because of the harBoth North Dakota and Montana fisheries managers are protective of this paddlefish vest cap, the most open days population, and have made numerous regulations changes since my first patrol as a war- occurred in 2003 at 23 days. den nearly 20 years ago. The changes are all designed to provide a continuing paddlefish The shortest season was five snagging experience while closely managing harvest. days for harvest in 2008. This years paddlefish season, which starts May 1, as a few changes from last year, but 2002 First year that daily before I get to those, heres a rundown of major changes since the first paddlefish regula- snagging hours were re- Affordable Organic Kangen Ionized Water & Gluten-Free Foods Purification System tion was put in place in 1976. duced, from 24 hours a day 1976 First established daily limit on paddlefish, at two per day and two in possession. down to 16.5 hours per day Vitamins, Minerals Air Decontamination 1981 Daily limit reduced to one, but possession limit stayed at two. & Herbal Supplements & Purification System OUTDOORS: 16 1985 -- Possession limit reduced to one. 1992 First year of tag system. Each snagger could purchase two tags. ORTHWESTERN 1996 and 1997 Only one tag allowed per snagger per season. NDUSTRIES 1996 First year a harvest cap was established. The cap was 1,500 fish taken in North Dakota through 2002. From UPPLIER TO THE 2003 to the present, the annual harvest cap has been 1,000 HOOTING PORTS fish. 1998 -2000 Two tags per snagger again allowed. One tag per season allowed since 2001. 2001 First year the paddlefish season was closed early 14_0220#269 MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR LIFE! because of the harvest cap. Prior to that it ran for the full OWNER: LEON PYTLIK 416 WEST MAIN STREET VALLEY CITY, ND 58072 1015 5th Ave. NE Jamestown 701-952-9520 season length, which varied from 198 days in 1976, to 46

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hor isnt sure of himself right now. His brother, Loki, has a new home and Thor recently joined a foster family where there are already four dogs in the residence. Thor is a 6-month-old yellow labrador. He is currently awaiting adoption through the Sheyenne Valley Friends of Animals and is being fostered by Julee Russell of Valley City. Ive been fostering on and off since we started in 2007, Russell said. I havent had a foster for about a year because I got a puppy and I didnt think it was fair to the puppy. Fosters have a tough, but easy, job. I didnt think I wanted to foster a dog because I didnt know if I could love a dog and give it up, Russell said. I have to tell myself Im not keeping the dog. I know Im loving it and playing with it until I can find a family who will love it and keep it as part of the family. Some families have sent pictures of the dog in the new home and that makes it nice. Lost dogs, like Loki, a black lab, and Thor, are kept for five days and advertised through local media looking for the owner. After that, the animals are cared for by Valley City Veterinary Hospital. The animals are spayed or neutered and given shots, said Sarah Hass of Valley City, who is the lost and found coordinator for SVFA. We check for microchips and tags on all animals. After care is given, animals are relocated to fosters until new homes can be found. Its a lot of work, but its a labor of love, said Sheryl Solberg, president of the board of directors for SVFA. It takes a lot of money to care for these dogs. If a dog is found in the city, the city keeps it for five days and pays for the boarding, but if an animal is found in the county, it falls to us right away. Solberg said the Valley City Veterinary Hospital has been instrumental in helping the group with the animals. They have been wonderful, she said. They are very helpful in getting the animals whatever they need and working with us. One way the group raises money for helping homeless pets is through fundraising events. On Saturday, the SVFA will host its annual Spaghetti Feed and Auction at the Eagles Club in Valley City. LOVE: 9

Thor plays with Laura Axvig of Valley City Veterinary Hospital on Tuesday afternoon before being fostered by Julee Russell of Valley City.

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LOVE: from 8 Tickets are $5, Solberg said. Its a complete meal with all the fixings and there will be prizes given out and a silent auction. All the proceeds go to helping us with the animals. Music will be provided by Deb Miller. Its a fun event, Solberg said. We hope everyone can come out and help us raise money to take care of animals who need a home and someone to love them. The SVFA spaghetti dinner will run from 5 to 7 p.m. and the silent auction will conclude at 8 p.m. We have some great prizes and auction items donated from many of the local businesses, Solberg said. Its going to be a great night. In the meantime, Thor will be waiting -- but maybe not long. Ill have him Thursday and a family will be coming to see him (today), Russell said. They can either come to my house or I will take him to the dog park. I really hope they will take him. Hes a little shy, but hes a great dog. Plus, if Loki can find a home, surely Thor can as well.

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First Lutheran Church 326 Blu St (701) 437-3317 Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Pastor Thea Monson First Methodist Church 228 5th Ave (701) 437-3407 Trinity Lutheran Church 319 Fourth Ave. (701) 437-2433 Hope Lutheran Church (AFLC) (meets at Enderlin Methodist) Sunday School@10 a.m. Worship Service@11 a.m. 701-437-3777 Pastor Dennis Norby thenorbys@msn.com

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First Lutheran Church (701) 762-4297 506 5th St Trinity Lutheran ELCA 5809 Co. Rd. 60 SE (701) 669-2282

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Mercy Hospital Chapel 570 Chautauqua Blvd. 701-845-6400 New Life Assembly of God 520 Winter Show Rd. 701-845-2259 Our Saviors Lutheran 138 Third St. NW 701-845-1328 Rivers Edge Ministry (Interdenominational) 348 E. Main St. St. Catherines Catholic Church 540 Third Ave. NE 701-845-0354 St. Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church (WELS) 202 3rd St NW 701-845-0702 Sheyenne Care Center Chapel 979 Central Ave. N. 701-845-8222 Southwest Bible Chapel 826 Fifth St. SW 701-845-2792 Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA) 499 Fourth Ave. NW 701-845-3837 Valley Apostolic Sunday School 10AM Sunday Worship 11AM Pastor Tony Puckett 215 Fourth Ave. NW (701) 845-9590 pastor@valleyapostolic.com Valley Baptist Church 204 5th St. NW 701-845-6950

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My Redeemer Lives!
he congregation that I served in Illinois before coming to North Dakota had a practice that became a favorite of mine during the years I served there. On Easter Sunday, we would hold an early morning sunrise service. We did this remembering By the Rev. what the women did as recorded in Dennis NORBY Luke 24:1, which says on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. We gathered early and sang the praises of Jesus Christ the One who died and lives forevermore. We gathered and heard again the Gospel accounts of what happened on the third day after Jesus crucifixion. I know that many churches also have this practice of having an early service, perhaps even your own. The thing that made our practice a little different was that we wouldnt meet at the church for that early morning service. We would meet outdoors. That was always a little questionable when Easter was early in the year. We often debated whether the weather would allow for the service to be outside. And not only would we meet outdoors anyway, we would meet at the church cemetery that was a mile down the road. The women mentioned in Luke went to the tomb where Jesus was laid expecting to find a body, which they would anoint with the spices they had prepared. The scene they found was completely surprising and wonderful. The tomb was empty! The angels that appeared to them that morning spoke clearly saying, He is not here, but has risen. Remember how He told you, while He was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise (Luke 24:6-7). We gathered on the on those early spring mornings to hear those great and wonderful words. He is Risen. Our faith is based on the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ and His resurrection on the third day. We gathered in that cemetery because that is where so many believing family and friends were laid to rest. They were laid in their graves believing that the Savior had been resurrected and that one day their bodies would also be raised from the graves. We would usually sing on those mornings a beautiful song that perhaps you are familiar with. The title is I Know That My Redeemer Lives and the first verse is: I know that my Redeemer lives! What comfort this sweet sentence gives! He lives, He lives, Who once was dead, He lives, my everliving Head. It might seem a strange place to gather and worship but we gathered there because Christ has defeated death and those graves will one day be opened and all the faithful will live again. What comfort! What joy! What peace! What a gift is ours in Christ! Happy Easter!
The Rev. Dennis Norby pastors for HOPE AFLC in Enderlin. Reach him by email: thenorbys@msn.com

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A tale of a grave and a man with a broken heart

My cousin Paul Stenshoel of Stavanger Building fame passed on the following story to Museum Without Walls. It is one of several such stories written about people By Dennis and events in early Stillings Green Township by Imanuel Jacobson (Sept. 14, 1905 May 3, 2001). This story is dated August 19, 1964. It has been edited for readability. as a newcomer from Norway, and how he came so far inland to the wide open prairies, we will never know. As John Mosby traveled back and forth between Fort Ransom and Fort Totten during the years 18671869, he spotted what was to be his future home beside St. Marys Lake. He studied the shape and size of his future homestead and bought the land in the 1880s. Mosby established his claim in Section 20 of Green Township. The remains of that old claim shanty still stand. [written in 1964] The McPhail Trail is just a quarter-mile west of the western border of Mosbys claim. In the early days when our folks first settled the area, there were mounds of earth along this trail with flagpoles in some of them to guide early travelers. Sometime in the late 1890s, John Mosby became very attracted to a young girl. He admired her very much and thought the world of her, but since he was over 50 his attentions were not returned. At the close of the Spanish-American War, when the soldiers were discharged from the army, a handsome soldier became engaged to the young girl and they were married shortly thereafter in Valley City. John Mosby was entirely broken up over this and never got over it. He became a very heavy drinker. He attempted to escape his condition by taking a cure some years ago, but this time, worse went for worse and he never saw let-up or recovery. And so he had met our father, Isaac M. Jacobson (Isak Jacobson 12/29/1858 - 6/5/1946), in a Valley City saloon one day and as history has it, they were both feeling the results of the mystery liquid when Mosby offered the Isaac the homestead, including all the horses and farm machinery at a price of $2,100.00 which sum our father borrowed from K. A. Bonhus. And so, in this case a lot has been said, and little has been done, to remember this middle-aged man as one of the earliest pioneers to come to the great open prairies after the Generals Sully and Sibley marched through the Dakota Prairies in the early 1860s, and years before the coming of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1873. And so heavy drinking cost John Johnson Mosby his life. He was found sitting in a chair, dead, at the entrance to a saloon in Superior, Wisconsin in 1900 or 1901as far as we can gather information on the matter. John Mosby, a North Dakota pioneer, now rests in an unmarked grave in the Potters Field Cemetery in Superior, Wisconsin.

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A Forgotten Grave In August of 1957, a grave was discovered by a gravel-gang doing roadwork on a high ridge jus to the west of St. Marys Lake. The coffin had been made of one-inch cedar board fastened with square nails. No one locally had any information about the grave. The skeleton appeared to be that of a woman, and it was assumed that the woman had been a member of one of the families that traveled by covered wagon on the McPhail Trail, an old military road that ran from Fort Ransom to Fort Totten. It might be assumed that the area was not yet settled enough to have a newspaper notice or any other record of the death. The exact location of this old military road is on the old original township and county maps and was given to us by the State Historical Society in August of 1957. *** John Mosby John Johnson Mosby was a bullwhacker [driver of a team of oxen pulling a heavy freight wagonds]. Mosby was born in Gulbiansdalen, Norway sometime between 1848 and 1850. His father had been a builder of the great masts that were used on the old square-rigged ships that sailed all over the world in their day. Little or no details were known as to any other relatives of his in his days. He was known to be a good citizen and was a bachelor all his life. Like many other men, he came to this land in his younger years Bullwhacker with his oxen and wagon.

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OPINION: ROB PORT

arlier this week a SayAnythingBlog. com reader emailed me a picture her son had taken outside of a convenience store in Fargo. Specifically, the Stop-N-Go By Rob on South 25th Street. Port The picture was of banner advertising the Rockstar line of energy drinks. If youve fueled up or stopped for snacks at one of our nations ubiquitous convenience stores Im sure youre familiar with these products. What you might not be familiar with is their eligibility for government nutrition programs, which brings me to why a reader was sending me a picture of a sign advertising energy drinks. At the bottom of the sign, in large and bold print, it read All Rockstar Energy Products Are EBT Approved. EBT standing for Electronic Benefits Transfer, or the debit cards the government now issues welfare and food stamps recipients. The sign was marketing energy drinks to food stamps and welfare recipients. After posting the picture on SayAnythingBlog.com another reader from the Grand Forks area sent a picture of a sign seen in a convenience store there. This one warned purchasers of FReal Milkshakes and smoothies that they must pay for the milk with their EBT card first before mixing it into a milkshake in the store otherwise food stamps wont cover the purchase. Milk and juice is covered by food stamps, you see, whereas convenience store milkshakes and smoothies are not. The idea that these programs cover junk food and other items that most of us wouldnt consider reasonable or nutritious purchases for those on assistance programs is nothing new. Im sure weve all heard the stories about people buying ridiculous things with food stamps, or perhaps youve witnessed it first hand. I know I have. But these signs go a step beyond that. This isnt welfare and food stamps beneficiaries putting one over on the taxpayers. This is an example of companies actively marketing their less-than-nutritious products to those on the government dole. Thats problematic. Even more problematic is that we cant even have a reasonable discussion about these very real problems PORT: 14

OPINION: LLOYD OMDAHL

Food stamp reform

Homeland committee considers sanctioning Pootin

This is it! This is it! complained Dorsey Crank as he entered the remodeled Bohemian Lodge Hall for another quick meeting of the towns 14 electors. One more of these emergency meetings and Im go- By Lloyd ing to demand that we get Omdahl paid at least, get health insurance, he grumbled as he chose the last remaining metal folding chair behind Old Sievert. Whats the deal this time, Ork? he demanded gruffly. Some crank told the mayor we ought to join the United Nations in sanctioning Pootin for bullying Ukraine, Ork explained. Who is the Ukraine? Holger Danske asked. Have they been sending terrorists after us? Being the chief alert officer in charge of terrorists, this question got Garvey Erfald out of his chair. The Russians claim they are entitled to grab any geography that has a lot of Russians, Garvey downloaded. And the Ukraine has a lot of Russians. If Pootin isnt sending terrorists after us, why should we get involved? asked Josh Dvorchek. Our town has enough trouble keeping the streets open, let alone pick a fight with the Russians. We dont even have a secretary of state to speak for us, noted Holger Danske. We need to appoint a secretary of state first. Well, everybody is afraid that this idea could be carried to its logical conclusion, Garvey reasoned aloud. If Pootin gets away with this, he could claim McIntosh County because there are Germans from Russia there and he could claim they were Russians claiming to be Germans. And I heard there are some Russians in McLean County. Einar Stamstead suddenly saw the light. He rose to his feet. If this idea works in the Ukraine, Norway could take half of North Dakota and Germany could take the other half. This is serious business, he declared. We need to stop them Russians in their tracks by sanctioning them, Holger Danske concluded. Whats a sanction? asked Old Sievert. Thats what your wife does when you celebrate too long and too loud at the Sadburg bar. She sanctions you no food, no washing, no nothing. Josh explained. A lot of no nothing, agreed Orville Jordan. I spose we could demand that the town bar if we had one - not sell any Russian vodka, Einar Torvald suggested. But that would sanction us more than them. The president is making sanctions personal by tying up the bank money of Pootins rich friends, Garvey explained. We could do that. Theres this Russian guy renting the old Sokerbeys farm for his cattle Irloff Pavlenkovich. Maybe we could impound his cattle or something, proposed Orville Jordan, Hes not a Russian; hes an American; moved here from Montana, Madeleine pointed out. How do we know who to sanction if we dont know whos a Russian? queried Stamstead Well, he has a Russian Tracker and we know that dog is Russian because he claims territory that doesnt belong to him and Ive got the tore pants to prove it, Jordan explained. So how do we sanction this Russian dog kick him if he comes to town? asked Josh. It just dont seem right to kick the dog because hes Russian, Madeleine countered. I think we need to appoint secretary of state to sort these things out for the next meeting, proposed Dorsey. That was the signal for a quick retreat from a troublesome problem and everyone headed for the door. This time Ork didnt care. He had a cousin in Ashley who claimed to be a German from Russia but her pet was a Russian Tracker. He just wasnt sure about her.

OPINION: LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Voters need to update addresses to vote

Letter from Beth Didier Barnes County, ND Auditor North Dakota voters need reminded that they will need to update their address if they have moved since they last voted. New residents of the state will also need to obtain their North Dakota ID by this same date. State law requires that voters must live in a precinct 30 days prior to voting in any election. This law applies whether voting by mail or in person. To update a Drivers License or Non-drivers ID, voters can:

Visit their nearest Drivers License site, or Use the online tool at vote. nd.gov, or Call (701) 328-2600 or 1-855-637-6237 The TTY Number 711 or 1-800-366-6888. Many voters have asked if its OK that their ID still has their old address printed on it, even though they have updated their record with the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the short answer is, yes its OK. The ND DOT can issue a new ID card for a minimal fee; however the free option to update the address with DOT will cause the correct address to appear in the

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date of birth. Not all tribal-issued IDs include all the required information, so it is important to check them ahead of time. Vote.nd.gov not only has a link for updating addresses online, but also has tools for finding your voting precinct, previewing your ballot and other information. It is vitally important to get the word out about this. Everyone who wants to vote and is eligible to vote will have that opportunity, if they make the effort to take these simple, but important actions now to make sure that their identification record is in order.

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PORT: from 12 in our social safety net programs. When Republicans proposed modest reforms to the food stamps program, for instance, Democrats were quick to claim that they wanted to starve little children and veterans. It is ironic that these are many of the same Members of Congress who bailed out the big banks, but when a family needs a little bit of help, they cant seem to find a way to help them, North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat, said in September of last year. Not only did they vote to kick nearly four million people off nutrition assistance including children, seniors, veterans, and disabled Americans but they have seriously jeopardized the passage of a long-term Farm Bill that would provide certainty to North Dakota farmers and ranchers. I think most reasonable citizens would agree that food stamps shouldnt cover energy drinks and milkshakes. Especially not when America is struggling with obesity issues that are particularly acute among the nations poor. But anyone proposing reform for these programs is attacked as being anti-poor by people like Senator Heidi Heitkamp. Thats a shame, because this needs to be fixed. Not just for the good of the taxpayers, but those leaning on these programs as well.

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OPINION: THE GADFLY

The American Gulag Archipelago and what it means now

he worlds most prolific and brutal jailers were Joseph Stalin of Soviet Russia and Adolph Hitler of Nazi Germany. Both created vast prisons scattered across thousands of miles in the 1930s to rehabilitate dissidents, force millions into slave By Ed labor camps, warehouse political Raymond foes and the mentally and physically disabled, and fill huge pits and furnaces with those they ordered killed. Its estimated that Stalin killed about 20 million with bullets and starvation while Hitler killed more than six million with bullets and gas chambers. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was a Russian soldier who served time in various prisons and labor camps, using his experiences to write two remarkable books about life in the gulags (prisons). In The Gulag Archipelago he described life and death in 53 major prisons and 423 slave labor camps scattered across the nine times zones of Soviet Russia from 1929 to the 1950s. More than 14 million Russians served time in the prisons and camps, more than half never having a judicial trial. More than a million died in prison, but many older prisoners were sent home just before they died, so they are not recorded as dying in prison. Solzhenitsyn, a Nobel Prize winner, also wrote One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, describing in great detail just one day in the life of Ivan who was sentenced to a long term in a Siberian labor camp. The Russian term golden sweat comes from the slave labor camps, meaning that Stalin and the Communists gained a lot of gold from slave labor. If you want a refresher on Hitlers Nazi Germany and his death camps, read William L. Shirers The Rise And The Fall Of The Third Reich. Its a good read. Are we running prison islands across four time zones? The United States may now rank third in the history of nations with the largest number of citizens behind bars. One in every 31 American adults is in jail or on some kind of supervised release. We lead the world in the number and ratio of people incarcerated. We have 5 percent of the worlds population and 25 percent of the prison population! At the present time we have 2.3 million behind bars and another seven million under some kind of correctional supervision (probation, court orders, etc.) Just prison inmates cost us $80 billion a year. More than 500,000 of our inmates are in for major or minor drug offenses. A gram of drugs may get you 15 years as a minimum sentence. The U.S ranks first among all nations for the

highest ratio of citizens behind bars at 716 per 100,000. Some comparative countries: Israel 223, England 139, Spain 125, Canada 116, France 85, and Sweden 73. Western European countries average 95. In 1979 we had only 314,000 in prison. By 2013 we had 2.4 million. About 160,000 of these inmates are lifers, with a third without the possibility of parole. About 10,000 of the lifers are in prison for non-violent offenses. We are certainly exceptional in this category. Our prison population has increased steadily since we changed our philosophy about retaining victims of mental illness in psychiatric hospital beds. We have lost 90 percent of those psychiatric beds since 1960. Prison authorities estimate that more than 15 percent of prison inmates have symptoms of severe mental illness. We are talking big business. The states and the federal government employ 500,000 correctional officers who make up one out of every nine government employees. New York City spends a shocking $167,000 a year on each inmate in its jails. We could send three inmates to Harvard for that price. The new Jim Crow law: Put them in jail We have more blacks under some kind of correctional control today than we had slaves in 1950. The Sentencing Project, an advocacy group dedicated to the study of crime and punishment, states that 60 percent of the prison population is now racial and ethnic minorities. As an example, one in every 10 black males between 30 and 39 are in jail on any given day. One of every nine blacks regardless of age is in jail. By committing a felony one out of every 13 blacks have lost the right to vote. More than 5.8 million Americans cannot vote because of prison records. The war on drugs has turned into a war on blacks and Latinos and a great money-maker for private prison companies infesting and desecrating the land. Remember the New York frisk law? Eightyseven percent of the 575,000 people stopped on the New York streets in 2009 were blacks and Latinos. The largest private prison corporation in the country made offers to 48 governors to buy staterun prisons if they would guarantee to keep the prisons at 90 percent of capacity! Is this in the public interest? Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Virginia made deals with the private corporations and have kept their guarantee to keep the prisons filled to 95 percent of capacity, regardless of the crime rate! Chicago has black communities with incarceration rates triple the U.S. rate which leads the world. These communities are marked by poverty, unemployment, poor schools and dysfunctional families. Seventy percent of Illinois in-

mates are nonviolent, but community functions such as mental health and employment programs are lacking, so more than 50 percent of former inmates of those communities return to prison within three years. The U.S. Congress commits the grand sum of $120 for rehab programs for discharged inmates. How can an ex-prisoner return to society with that kind of support after suffering from poor schools, possible substance abuse and other socioeconomic disadvantages? Blacks and whites use and sell drugs at about the same rate, yet blacks are sent to prison 12 times more often than whites. Blacks make up about 13 percent of the population, constitute about 14 percent of drug users, but make up 45 percent of those servoing time for drug offenses. George Bernard Shaw, an Irish socialist-atheist reprobate, founded The London School of Economics while writing 60 plays and numerous articles about marriage, religion, government boondoggles, health care and the exploitation of the working class. A cynic of note, he scribbled this sentence about Jesus Christ appearing in a modern court: If Jesus had been indicted by a modern court, he would have been examined by two doctors, found to be obsessed by a delusion; declared incapable of pleading (innocent or guilty); and sent to an asylum. This must be how blacks feel when they go into a white mans modern court. How to get life in prison without parole for stealing Gobstoppers candy Move to Louisiana if you want to become a lifer without parole. It leads the whole world in the ratio of inmates to citizens. Louisianas incarceration rate is three times Irans, seven times Chinas, and 10 times Germanys according to Charles Blow of the New York Times. One in 86 Louisiana citizens is in prison, double our national average, and it leads the nation in lifers without possibility of parole. It spends less than any other state on inmates. Bill Winters, an alcoholic 54-year-old black man with a long arrest record for minor burglaries, public drunkeness and drug addiction, is an example of what happens to blacks in this worldleading state. In 2009, Bill in a drunken state, entered an unlocked doctors office and took a package of Gobstoppers candy. He was arrested by security. In a series of trials and appeals, Bill was finally sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Dennis Winters had this to say about his brothers sentence: Hes not a violent person. Hes fragile. He wouldnt hurt anybody except maybe for himself. I just dont get how theyre going to give him life for some Gobstopper candy. If Bill lives a normal lifespan of RAYMOND: 15

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