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Obituaries ............ Page 2
Classifieds ............ Page
Social News .......... Page 5
Legal notices ......... Page 6
Sports .............. Pages 7-8
Hoops news on pages 89
Hat Tips
I took the little four-
wheeler over and fed the
mares yesterday. Face froze
up in no time. Hard on my
complexion. I can see why
Shirley wears that facemask
while she is running the
gates.
Full story on page 3.
Assistance
available
Small, non-farm busi-
nesses in 53 North Dakota
counties (plus neighboring
counties in Minnesota,
Montana and South Dakota)
may now apply for low-
....... interest disaster loans from
the U.S. Small Business
Administration (SBA).
These disaster loans off-
set economic losses because
of reduced revenues caused
by nmltiple disasters, includ-
ing frosts, drought, high
temperatures, heavy rainfMl,
overland flooding, hail, high
winds and insect and disease
pressure beginning January
1,2008. in 39 primary North
Dakota counties, announced
Alfred E. Judd, director of
SBA's Disaster Field
Operations Center-West.
Full story on page 5.
• - Beach girls basketball vs.
Mort/Regent at Beach, (A, B),
5:30 p.m., Jan. 29.
• New Salem "East/West"
wrestlin,. TBA, Jan. 30-31
• Beach boys basketball vs.
Ray, (A, B), at Ray, 1:30 p.m.,
Jan. 31.
• Beach girls basketball vs.
Hettinger at Hettinger, (A, B),
2:30 p.m., Jan. 31.
• Southwest Water Authority
board of directors meeting, 9
a.m., Monday, Feb. 2, Elks
Lodge, Dickinson.
• Heart River boys basketball
vs. Glen Ullin/Hebron in
Belfield. 3:30 p.m., Feb. 5.
• Heart River boys basketball
at Watford City, (A, C), 4:15
p.m., MST, Feb. 6.
• Southwestern District
Health Unit WIC Clinic, Public
Health Nurse's Office. Beach, 9-
noon, and 1-4 p.m., Wednesday,
Feb. tl.
• Valentine's Day, Feb. 14.
• Belfield Elementary kinder-
garten registration, 2-5 p.m.,
Wednesday, Feb. 18.
The Eaton Lodge is located at the former Badlands Ministries Bible camp south of Medora.
(Photo by Richard Volesky)
Supporters' hope to
give lodge a 'lift'
By Richard Volesky
Editor/Reporter
MEDORA - Supporters of
Badlands Ministries, the Bible
camp south of Medora, are working
toward the task of savin,g their for-
mer log cabin dining hal~i
Saving the huge cottonwood
structure involves moving it to the
camp's new site down the road
along the Little Missouri River. The
camp relocated there last summer.
At first, camp officials focused
on raising the $3 million needed to
prepare the new site, which includ-
ed a new dining hall, landscaping
and moving a former church and
other buildings there. The former
dining hall, built from cottonwood
logs around 1937. was not on the
list of priorities, said Nathan
Sorenson, president of Badlands
Ministries.
But since the new site and its
buildings have become functional,
that has allowed them to focus on
the former dining hall, explained
Sorenson.
"It's been the local point of the
camp forever," said Sorenson.
Moving the building a few miles
down the scoria road will be the
easier part of the project, relatively
"It's been the focal point of the camp for-
ever."
Nathan Sorenson, president
of Badlands Ministries
speaking, Sorenson said. He said
he's been told the most difficult part
would be to first raise it so that the
wheels of a flatbed trailer can be
placed beneath it.
Supporters of the move say
doing so is important because of the
building's historical and sentimen-
tal values, according to Sorenson.
More than $50.000 has been
raised for the moving project, h~-
said. The estimated cost is
$100,000,1which includes preparing
the building's new site and making
other improvements and repairs to
the building. An upcoming fund-
raiser at 3 p.m. at the Medora
Community Center on Valentine's
Day, Feb. 14, includes a concert by
North Dakota's centennial trouba-
dour, Chuck Suchy. A meal and a
dance are to follow later that day.
"Chuck's wife, Linda, is a for-
mer counselor of the Badlands
Bible camp, and has fond memories
of the times spent in the lodge," said
Mary Griffin-Abrahamson, an
organizer of the fund-raiser.
Supporters are calling the fund-rais-
ing effort the Love the Lodge cam-
paign, which fits in as a Valentine's
Day event.
The building is also known as
the Eaton Lodge, although research
has shown it has nothing to do with
the Eaton brothers who ranched in
4"that area in the late 1800s, said
Sorenson. The Eatons left the area
for Wyoming in 1904, and the name
Eaton Lodge resulted apparently
because someone at sometime
placed a sign on the building that
gave it that name.
R.S. "Dick" Johnson became the
owner of the ranch in 1931, and the
log building was built in the 1937 to
1938 time period, said Sorenson.
The Bible camp began using it
when it started operations in 1945.
Lodge
(Continued on Page 10)
This concludes our continuing
series that looks back at some of the
Golden Valley News headlines in
2008.
October
- Tom Tescher, an area rancher
and family man who began an out-
standing rodeo career when a part of
the region was still wild, was laid to
rest.
- Christine Finneman, known as
"grandma" to Golva School kids,
has been providing them with
pumpkins for about 15 years.
The North Dakota State
Historic Preservation Review Board
will meet on Friday, Oct. 24, with
one of its agenda items including
deciding whether part of the Custer
Trail through the Badlands should
be listed in the National Register of
Historic Places.
Albert "Buzz" Olson, Jim
Muckle Sr. and Pat Bohn received
appreciation awards from Fire
Chief Aaron Brown of the Sentinel
Butte Volunteer Fire Department.
November
, - Beach City Auditor Kim
Golden Valley County employees and
officials on Dec. 2 held a farewell gathering
for Iongtime County Commissioner Irv
Bares.
Nunberg and Golden Valley County
Tax Director Stacey Heckaman are
to represent Beach during a
National League of Cities event in
Orlando, Fla. The two are to man a
booth regarding Beach's renais-
sance zone.
- Plans to expand the Golden
Valley Manor's kitchen were recent-
ly approved by the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban
Development.
- Foundation work to improve
the Golva Co-op Elevator's fertiliz-
er storage capacity is under way.
- Tim and Tom Marman, two
brothers from Beach. were recently
inducted into North Dakota State
University's Bison Athletic ttall of
Champions.
December
- Tim and Madonna Oech and
family were chosen as the 2008
Achievement Awed winner by the
Golden Valley Soil Conservation
District.
- Golden Valley County employ-
ees and officials on Dec. 2 held a
farewell gathering for longtime
County Commissioner Irv Bares.
J.L. Witkowski of Wibaux.
Mont., will be managing a new
Beach branch of Heiser Motors of
Dickinson.
The United States Census
Bureau on Monday released the
a,,encv's 2008 national and state
population estimates, showing
growth in North Dakota of 3,577
people to a new estimated popula-
tion of 641,481.
~) 2009 GVN
Meeting regarding book's
reprinting planned
By Jane Cook
For the News
In t976, a book titled Golden
Valley County Pioneers
Bicentennial Edition was pub-
lished and consisted of histories
Of families in Golden Valley
County, who had helped establish
the county and cities within.
Family names ranged from the
Abernetbys and Allens to
Zielsdorfs and Zinslis. Histories
of the towns, businesses, church-
es and schools were also includ-
ed.
Many people from the area and
former residents :from across the
country have expressed an interest
in purchasing a copy of Golden
Valley County Pioneers, but there
are no more in circulation.
The gentleman who owned and
ran the publishing company has
since passed away, and his pub-
lishing company is no more. Not
only that, all but one who began
compiling the information from
our area have also since passed
away.
It has been 23 years since the
book first came out.
Because of this, some local res-
idents have decided to meet to dis-
cuss the possibility of reprinting
the book. Anyone interested is
invited to meet at the Sentinel
Butte Fire Hall on Sunday, Feb.
15, at 1 p.m. to discuss the possi-
bility of reprinting the book.
Refreshments will be served.
One of the interesting stories in
A copy of the Golden Valley
County Pioneers book is
shown above (Photo by Jane
Cook)
the book is on the town of" Alpha
and goes as follows:
"The name of Alpha was cho-
sen for this community by an area
pioneer, Jake Irons, who had come
there by covered wagon from
Missouri. Irons suggested the
name to B. G. Odiorne while the
two were traveling to the neigh-
boring town of Burkey to seek a
permit for a post office at Alpha.
Odiorne gave the post office the
name Alpha, the first letter of the
Greek alphabet, indicating first or
chief, because this was the first
settlement in the area and he
expected it to become the chief or
leading town of the county."
Baertsch starts
own .business
By Richard Volesky
Editor/Reporter
For Steve Baertsch, retiring
from a longtime job meant he had
an opportunity to go into business
for himself.
Baertsch recently retired as a
district representative for
Montana-Dakota Utilities, and he
opened his own business, S&C
Heating & Applian'ce Repair
L.L.C. <
Baertsch saidhis career in util-
ities began 36 years ago in Rapid
City, S.D. He also worked in
Wyoming, and came back to
Beach in 2001. For MDU, his
work involved bill collecting and
responding to possible service
problems.
In his new business, Baertsch
said he'll do repairs on white
goods, such as washers, dryers
'and dishwashers, and he will also
work on furnaces and boilers,
including furnace checkups.
He said he will be limiting his
work to repairs, or that it won't
include installing new appliances,
or working on smaller appliances
such as toasters. It can be the case
that replacing a small appliance is
as cost effective as repairing it.
Baertsch said he is not a
licensed electrician, so he won't
be doing that type of work.
Baertsch said he typically does
the repairs on site, and his work-
ing territory essentially covers
Steve Baertsch
In his ,new busi-
ness, Baertsch
said he'll do repairs
on white goods,
such as washers,
dryers and dish-
washers, and he
will also work on
furnaces and boil-
ers, including fur-
nace checkups.
anywhere in Golden Valley
County.
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