Dinosaurs and newspaper archives...

Last week I traveled to Bismarck for the first fully in person North Dakota Newspaper Association board meeting to be held in person in two years.

You just gotta love it.

Almost two entire years. It does not seem possible that the benefit, held Sunday evening for Alecia Heiser, was the first benefit the Drayton Knights have helped put on in almost two years. Sunday evening Barbie Steenerson and I were visiting as we were preparing for Alecia’s benefit.

The Critical Need for Cognitive Flexibility

If the Democratic Party plans to influence public policy in North Dakota, it will need cognitive flexibility in abundance. Right now, it is in short supply. Cognitive flexibility means the ability to recognize the need for change but traveling in the same rut, not matter what.

Pastor Leroy’s Column

There is an experience in some churches called being filled/baptized in the Holy Spirit, with the initial physical (observable) evidence” of speaking in other tongues. Some people question or reject the reality of this experience; some going so far as to say it is of the devil.

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1811 “He disappeared in the dead of winter: The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted, And snow disfigured the public statutes.” (the beginning of the poem “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” by W.H.

Transparency of Transformation

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” - Henry David Thoreau There is in the extreme capacity to understand the perpetuating ability to accept.

I Have Medicare Advantage - Why Is a Medicare Premium Deducted from my Social Security?

Dear Rusty: My wife and I have a Medicare Advantage Plan, and we do not use Medicare for our claims. However, we still have the Medicare premium deducted from our Social Security checks. Is this correct?

Jubilee

Hastings Landing always does a great job of putting on special dinners. The one on December 31, 2021 is no different. With almost no promotion the New Years Eve Dinner is near the top of Drayton’s list of highlights for the year. It is once again a good way to close out the year and look to the new.

Bowesmont Lives

On December 16th Merv and Phyllis Holter visited John and Janell Nyegaard in Hallock to attend the 3rd birthday party for Shiloh. Vonn and Megan Pankratz and Colton Nyegaard also attended. That day Mike and Judy Stellon with Gregg Osowski drove back from their Lake Havasu winter home.

Dakota Datebook

What One Boy is Doing by Carole Butcher January 10, 2022 — In 1902, A.B. Graham started a youth club in Ohio. He called it the Corn Growing Club. About the same time, local after-school agricultural clubs caught on in many states.