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A day to celebrate America’s freedoms

Memorial Day programs will be held in Minot and other communities in North Dakota and across the country to honor and remember those who have – and are – fighting for our freedoms. Most of the programs will be held on Monday. A few are held on other days. The White Shield community on the Fort Berthold Reservation always holds its Memorial Day service on the traditional day, May 30. Many celebrate Memorial Day weekend as a time to kick off the summer months and get together with family and friends. At its heart, Memorial Day is a day to honor the many men and women who have ...

School field trips bring rewards to students, city

When springtime arrives, so do dozens of buses from area schools, traveling on field trips to Minot with students aboard. Minot students also make field trips that take them to various locations around the city. It’s quite evident students, their teachers and others accompanying the ...

Happy Mother’s Day: Here’s to moms in our lives

Mother’s Day on Sunday will be celebrated by many to honor our mothers and other women in our lives who are mother figures, mentors and caregivers. The official Mother’s Day was established in the United States by Anna Jarvis in the early 1900s as a day to celebrate how much mothers sacrificed for their children. It became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. In honor of this day, the Marriage Strengthening Research & Dissemination Center led by Child Trends, based in Bethesda, Maryland, released some new facts on motherhood in the U.S. A few of those facts include: — 71% of ...

Projects contribute to quality of life in Minot, area

Three quality of life projects in the city of Minot are culminating – or a major portion of a project – within recent days. Last Sunday, Trinity Health relocated its hospital services, including the Emergency Trauma Center, from downtown Minot to the new Healthcare Campus and Medical District in the southwest part of the city. The move culminated hundreds of hours of planning and training. More than 14 Minot and area ambulances took part in moving patients. Many individuals were also part of the transition. Many healthcare providers also have moved into the new Medical Office ...

Honor fallen workers by doing your part for safety

In 2021, 5,190 workers died on the job in the U.S., including 34 in North Dakota (Bureau of Labor Statistics). Each day, 14 people suffer work-related deaths. These numbers remind us of the dangers many workers face. Behind these numbers, there are people who mourn each loss. For them, these statistics are loved ones: they’re parents, children, siblings, relatives, friends or co-workers. Of these fallen North Dakota workers, 30 were men and four were women. Eleven were close to retirement at 65 years of age or older. For those left behind the day their loved one was lost becomes ...

ND film’s original story covered by The Minot Daily News

Last weekend about 500 people attended a premiere of the North Dakota film “End of the Rope” at Oak Park in Minot, according to the film’s producer Daniel Bielinski. The Minot theater is one of seven theaters in the state to premiere the film. “End of the Rope” is a film about the last lynching in North Dakota, when on Jan. 29, 1931, Charles Bannon, a farmhand who had confessed to murdering several months earlier six members of the Albert Haven family who lived north of Schafer in McKenzie County, was hanged by a lynch mob. Through the reporting of the late Raymond C. ...