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Physician assistant joins Trinity orthopedics

Jessica O’Neal, PA-C, a certified physician assistant, has joined Trinity Health’s orthopedic team. She assists orthopedic surgeons in various aspects of patient care, including pre-, intra- and postoperative care, patient assessment and care planning. She also provides nonsurgical care such as joint injections and osteoporosis management. Originally from Ocean Springs, Michigan, O’Neal earned her Bachelor of Science in kinesiology with minors in biology and Spanish from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and received her master’s in physician assistant studies from Red ...

NDSU Extension leaders attend national conference

Shana Forster, director of the North Central Research Extension Center and Extension district director, attended the Extension Public Issues Leadership Development conference held in Washington, D.C., recently. Also attending were Naeem Kalwar, Extension soil health specialist at the Langdon Research Extension Center, and Acacia Stuckle, 4-H youth development, and family and community wellness agent in Emmons County. Kalwar and Stuckle were nominated by their state Extension professional organizations to represent North Dakota at the conference, and Forster was selected by NDSU ...

Futures Files

Learning to Ride the Bear Our lungs, tides, and markets cannot endure by moving in one direction only. Our bodies would perish, continents would flood, and economies would self-destruct were it not for corrections and cycles creating sustainability or relative stability. A massive move in a single direction is eventually followed by a correction, which can be equally significant. For example, stock market speculators in 1928, 1987, and 2008 discovered an overbought market can become a house of cards and vanish overnight if liquidation begins. Economists, advisors, and IRA ...

Broadway Bean & Bagel hurdles inflation

As the nation finds itself in the grips of the creeping effects of inflation, the first to feel it in a community often are small business owners. With supply chain issues and ever rising fuel prices, local businesses have had to get creative and find ways to persist as society adjusts to the ...

Underwood legislator recognized as Lignite Luminary

UNDERWOOD — Representative Jeff Delzer, R-Underwood, has been named by the Lignite Energy Council as a Lignite Luminary for his leadership on the Lignite Council’s legislative priority bills that were critical to the coal industry during the 2021 legislative session. Lignite Energy Council President and CEO Jason Bohrer called the 2021 legislative session the most important one in the history of the Lignite Energy Council. “The legislative priority bills passed during the 2021 legislative session play a significant role in setting up the future for the lignite industry, ...

May recipients of the Minot Area Chamber EDC Eagle Award Program are:

Joe Bratvold, Main & Holmes Electric; Amanda Sebelius, Simonson’s Station Stores; Leslie Jundt, Trinity Health; Derek Hackett, City of Minot; Nathan Smith, Cheesesteak Factory; Shelley Jacobson, Trinity Health; Zach Lutz, Ryan Honda of Minot; William Wilson, Happy Joe’s Pizza; Bonnie Pangrac, CVS Pharmacy; Jerrica Maxson, Trinity Health Audiology; Leann Brossart, Homesteaders Restaurant.