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Habitat receives Wells Fargo help to repair home

Wells Fargo donated $15,000 and sent employees to help repair a home in Minot for Habitat for Humanity Northern Lights last week.  The Northern Lights chapter was one of more than 230 Habitat for Humanity affiliates awarded a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation as part of its nationwide ...

Let’s Cook: Casting a Stitch

Will you select the main floor seating? Or perhaps you are more of a balcony person — after all, the views are stunning. Whatever you choose, be assured your eyes and ears will be in for a feast as you enjoy the comic operetta “Die Fledermaus” (The Bat) by Johann Strauss as presented by ...

City of Minot to hold fall cleanup

The City of Minot will hold its fall cleanup week from Sept. 19-23. Twice a year, the City of Minot designates a week for city sanitation customers to place excess refuse onto boulevards for collection. Crews will work in quadrants throughout the city, beginning at 7 a.m. For information on the quadrants and items that will be accepted, visit https://www.minotnd.org/709/Spring-and-Fall-Clean-Up. The Minot Landfill also will accept waste at no charge for City of Minot garbage collection customers during the clean-up week.  Participants must bring a copy of their water bills. 

Let’s Cook: The Steps of Ruth

Ardell and Ruth Fedje were one of the first couples that we met when we moved to Rugby in 1988. This happened because Ardell, and my father-in-law, Norman Thompson, were roommates when they attended North Dakota Agricultural College now NDSU. They had common interests: farming and Norwegian ...

Is that a zucchini on my porch?

“Mom, it looks like a cucumber but smells like the sea!” my older daughter commented. She was a lot younger then. She was admiring two small shiny green zucchinis on our counter. She rolled them around and sniffed them again. I’m not sure that why she thought it “smelled like the ...