Letter from the Publisher

Welcome back for this week’s edition of Valley News & Views. This is National Newspaper Week. That’s exciting to me because Drayton has and deserves it’s very own quality newspaper and I get to be a part of that.

Musings

Just about every time I turned around last week I heard someone talking about the upcoming first round football playoff game. Our Bombers were scheduled to host White Shield and expectations, in my opinion, were getting out of hand.

My Two Cents

I often like to reminisce in my weekly columns. I guess that’s what you do when you get old.I remember recently telling a younger co-worker, “I can’t believe that I remember 40 years ago.”If I was to tell the truth, I can probably remember almost 60 years ago.

Bowesmont Lives |

On Tuesday, Saralee Hoselton and Joyce McFarland went to the home of Liz Linster where they visited and viewed her pottery and the workroom where she creates it. Then they went to Grafton where Saralee treated Joyce to dinner at Shenanigan’s in a belated celebration of Joyce’s 80th birthday.

Check your smoke alarms

Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 6-12Gov. Doug Burgum has proclaimed Oct. 6-12, 2024, as Fire Prevention Week in North Dakota with the theme of “Smoke alarms: Make them work for you!”“A properly installed and maintained smoke alarm is your first line of defense against fire.

Prairie doc perspective

Prairie doc or prairie bot?Artificial Intelligence or A.I. has gone from Science Fiction to a reality. This technology continues to evolve and find new applications in the world, including the world of medicine.

Social security matters

By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation,Signed: Concerned HusbandDear Concerned: Your wife's benefit as your surviving spouse will be based on two things: ·1. Her age when she claims her survivor benefit, 2. The amount you were receiving at your death.

Musings | We walk among you - don’t worry we don’t bite…By Lyle Van Camp

Something I have been learning lately, which has filled me with joy, is that there seem to be more and more people who are calling themselves Libertarians.

My Two Cents | Another birthday...by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is currently promoting their publication, “The Duck Factory – A History of Waterfowl in North Dakota.”According to game and fish: “The 213-page, full color, soft-cover book traces the history of waterfowl species and their habitats in North Dakota.

Bowesmont Lives | by Saralee Hoselton

On Monday, Saralee Hoselton and Merv and Phyllis Holter were among those who had dinner at the Sugar Bowl Senior Citizen’s Center and attended the monthly business meeting where they discussed having both the monthly potluck dinner on Oct. 6 and the membership pizza party on Oct. 14., Columbus Day.