Master Sgt. Casey Heinz ran in the New York Marathon to help a cause – Homes For Our Troops. Homes For Our Troops is a nonprofit organization that builds and donates specially adapted custom homes nationwide for severely injured veterans from 9-11 to present. Originally from Grand Junction, ...
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – For the first time ever in the 60-year history of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles in the U.S. Air Force, a reserve Airman completed a 24-hour “alert” at a Missile Alert Facility. Capt. Ben Shea, 91st Operations Support Squadron minuteman combat crew commander ...
Minot Civil Air Patrol Wreaths Across America will be accepting last minute applications on Tuesday, Nov. 19, in the Veterans Room No. 105 of the Ward County Administration Building, Minot. Hours will be from 6-8 p.m., or until the last person has a chance to sponsor a wreath. Those who ...
As many as 200 local senior citizens will have the opportunity to enjoy Thanksgiving Day at Minot Air Force Base this year. For the 49th annual year, the men and women of the Minot base will be hosting a Thanksgiving event for senior citizens known as “Day of Love.” There they can enjoy a ...
Minot and area students have been nominated by Sens. John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer for appointments to the nation’s military academies. Students applying for military academies are required to receive a congressional nomination as part of the application process. Hoeven’s nominees include ...
Tina Timm graduated on Nov. 8 in the top 10 percent of 800 attendees at basic training at Lackland Air Force Base at San Antonio, earning a 98% in physical training and a 95% in the educational testing. This earned her the rank of airman first class. The daughter of Robert and Carol Timm of ...
Honor. Sacrifice. Commitment. With those three words, Pastor Daniel Andrus, Minot, began his address at the Veterans Day program in Minot Monday. The ceremony was held in the former armory, which is part of the Minot Municipal Auditorium complex. Andrus, a veteran of the U.S. Navy, told the ...
Paul Bodine ferried planes across the country for the U.S. military during World War II. Bodine, 95, of Minot, served in the military from Oct. 1, 1942, to Oct. 1, 1945. One of 18 children (10 boys and eight girls) of Frank and Elizabeth Bodine, the family resided on a farm southeast of ...
When three exceptional warriors from different military branches joined together in North Dakota last weekend to hunt ducks with The Foundation for Exceptional Warriors organization, not only was it an outdoor adventure but a time for camaraderie. The group, along with Daniel Haff, a ...
In honor of Veterans Day, Trinity Health's Employer of Choice Committee will display a Missing Man Table in three locations around Trinity Health - the Trinity Hospital Cafeteria, the entrance at Trinity Hospital- St. Joseph's, and the 1st Floor Centre at Trinity Homes. The Missing Man or ...
Minot and area communities will hold Veterans Day programs on Monday. Pastor Daniel Andrus, who served in the Navy, will give the address, invocation and benediction at the Minot program at 11 a.m. in the Old Armory. A native of Ohio, he joined the Navy in October 1971 and served until May ...
Ward County offices will be closed Monday for Veterans Day. The closure includes Ward County Public Library, the Courthouse and Social Services.
Honoring Those Who Served-Ministry breakfast group has placed small helmet banks at various businesses in the Minot community asking for change. Funds collected will help the North Dakota American Legion support children and youth programs and also veterans, survivors and eligible dependents ...
VELVA – In time for Veterans Day, Duane Brekke of Minot and Gene Watne of Velva have completed a project at the North Prairie Lutheran Cemetery recognizing military veterans from various wartimes and peacetime who are laid to rest there. Watne built the kiosk now in place in the cemetery. ...
Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota issued statements on Thursday after the Senate was blocked from considering the fiscal year 2020 Defense Appropriations Bill, along with three other full-year funding bills. “Our men and women in uniform deserve the certainty that comes ...
The Honoring Those Who Served-Ministry’s Veterans Connect Program is asking for volunteers to help prepare the home of a military member’s widow for winter and other items needing attention at her home. Anyone who would like to volunteer can contact Richard Reuer at 441-1170 or email ...
The Minot Vet Center is hosting their first ever Toilet Paper Drive starting today through Dec. 13. The 45-day event will help local nonprofit agencies with items that are in demand during the winter season. All items will be divided amongst the Minot Area Homeless Coalition, Community Action ...
A sailor from Mandan who was on the USS West Virginia battleship during the attack at Pearl Harbor has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on Thursday. Navy Fireman 2nd Class Albert Renner, 24, was assigned to the battleship, which was moored at Ford Island, ...
It’s not unusual for Minot Air Force Base to have a large number of non-appropriated fund job vacancies, says the Human Resources chief of the base’s 5th Force Support Squadron. Twyla Scott said non-appropriate fund positions are those “funded by business-generated funding versus ...
A Minot Air Force Base airman will serve seven years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for uploading child pornography to the internet in February 2018. Carl Deshawn Dean, 21, was sentenced earlier this week in U.S. District Court by Judge Daniel L. Hovland. According to ...