The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Chapter 4 awarded the $1,000 Bob Fix Memorial Scholarship to Grace Alvarez, Minot, a student at Minot State University, during its business meeting held Thursday, Sept. 11. The scholarship was presented by Ron Garcia, chairman of the DAV Chapter 4 ...
BISMARCK — The State Historical Society of North Dakota is looking for actors ages 16 to 25 to audition for “North Dakota Voices of the Great War.” Auditions are Sunday, Sept. 28, from 2-4 p.m. at the North Dakota Heritage Center amd State Museum in Bismarck. This play is based on letters to and from North Dakota soldiers and nurses who served in Europe during World War I. While not a musical, it weaves in songs popular during the era. Singing experience is helpful but not required. “North Dakota Voices of the Great War” was written by University of Mary faculty Daniel ...
Are there any apples on our tree this year?” my older daughter recently asked. “There are lots of ripe apples high in the tree,” my husband responded. I thought about past autumns when she and our other two kids used an apple picker to harvest apples from our Haralson tree. Our ...
Perhaps you remember a special treasure that pacified and brought you comfort as a child. For me, it was a soft, red blanket decorated with a western theme that I drug around wherever I went – like Charles Schulz’s Linus. Whatever troubling elements came my way could be soothed by that blanket. First Corinthians 13:11 says, “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became [an adult], I put away childish things.” But even after childhood has fallen far behind us, life’s dark times and challenges continue to persist. ...
