Will I Have Any Social Security Benefits?

Dear Rusty: I’m 60 years of age and wonder if I will have any Social Security retirement benefits. After all, I did purchase them.

Breathe

You find yourself once again singing an old Hymn at Teien Covenant Church. It is not a big hymn but it has impact, “Breathe on Me, Breath of God.” Edwin Hatch (1835-1889) wrote this gem of a hymn. It describes the possibilities of a life lived through the Holy Spirit.

Bowesmont Lives

January 18th Saralee Hoselton went with the PCMT van to Fargo for an eye doctor appointment. That Friday Merv Holter went to Hallock where he visited at the home of John and Janell Nyegaard and returned home the next day.

Dakota Datebook

7 Months, 4 Governors by Merry Helm February 2, 2022 — Today, we bring you the story of four consecutive governors – or five, depending on how you look at it.

February is Black History Month...

What can we learn through learning a little more about Black History Month? We can always learn something new when we stop and study history. Particularly during this time when there continues to be a disparity in our country surrounding the race issue.

And the wind keeps howling...

Monday evening of this week it was predicted that, yet another storm would roll through our area.

…follow through on that commitment.

As all of my regular readers know, both of you, I have been faithfully riding our exercise bikes for quite some time now. Most weeks I am planted on the saddle of one of them for forty minutes to an hour and ten minutes, seven days a week.

Back in the Days of Mutual Respect

In early January of 1972 – 50 years ago - Lt. Governor Frank Wenstrom rapped the gavel to launch one of the most unique events in North Dakota history – the holding of a convention to update the state’s constitution. The only one since 1889.

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1813 “The guns spell money’s ultimate reason In letters of lead on the spring hillside. But the boy lying dead under the olive trees Was too young and too silly To have been notable to their important eye.

Compassionate Creation

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.