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Friday, May 19 Country Fried Steak/Country Gravy/ Mashed Potatoes/Peas/Cherry Crisp with Topping Monday, May 22 Swiss Steak/Baked Potato/Mixed Vegetables/Fresh Grapes Tuesday, May 23 Chicken Burger on WW Bun/Potato Salad/Carrot Raisin Salad/Berries Wednesday, May 24 Fish/Macaroni Salad with...

Spring Junk Shop Hop held

This year’s spring “Junk Shop Hop” event took place on Saturday, April 29. There were multiple local shops that participated, including locations in Langdon, Walhalla, Cavalier, Edmore, Park River, and Osnabrock. Jeremy Ratliff stopped at every store that participated that day and took photos.

Drayton student succeeds in Class B Music Festival

On Thursday, May 4 Ian Peterson represented Drayton at the Region 3 Class B Music Festival. He received a star rating and also received Outstanding Perfor-mance.

Along the way

“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community...Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Life in the slow lane?

Back in North Dakota I have been back in North Dakota for almost one full week as I write this. I have spent this time taking care of some things that needed attending to, but mostly resting and getting reacclimated with my surroundings. During the time that I was gone, I forgot where things were.

From the pastor’s desk

Several days ago (May 6) Great Britain held its first royal coronation in 70 years. Prince Charles became King Charles III and the 62nd British monarch. He and Camille were brought to the palace in a golden carriage with hundreds of soldiers, guards, and others in the procession.

Dakota train dreams

One hot Summer day I drove into Drayton, the population in twenty-twenty was seven hundred fifty seven It's the baseball capital of North Dakota and Dawn's catfish taste like manna from heaven Motel 66 was full-up and I was about to burn-up until I found a tree oozing true maple sy-rup Hungry &...

Reverse snowbird: Into the tomb of Jesus

Dear Valley friends and neighbors, welcome back for another plate of travel stories. Alright, without any shilly-shallying let's get right to one of my memorable visits to Israel. Don't hate me, as I've been blessed to visit the holy land nine times, best I remember.

Frost Fire ENCORE Arts Camps

The Pembina Gorge Foundation and Frost Fire Summer Theater will be hosting two arts camps this summer. The first is a Visual Arts Camp to be offered June 5-9 followed by a Performing Arts Camp scheduled for August 7-11. Both camps are for students going into grade 3 through grade 12.

Dakota Gardener: Spring lawn problems

The winter of 2022-23 just keeps on giving! With the snow mostly melted, our Dakota Gardener readers may notice their lawns are a mess but for vastly different reasons.