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_I r,s Stage being set for new drama club
• Belfield Senior Citizens
Activity Center, Feb. 14, 1:30-
4:30 p.m., Valentine's Day Pie
Social, everyone welcome.
• Cancer support group meet-
ing, first Thursday of each month,
7 p.m. in Meeting Room B,
which is behind the cafeteria of
St. Joseph's Hospital and Health
Center in Dickinson. The group is
for anyone who has been touched
by cancer. Hospital CEO Reed
Reyman is scheduled to speak
about plans for the future of can-
cer care in Dickinson at the Feb. 3
meeting.
• Girls basketball, Beach vs.
Heart River, at Beach, A, B and C
squads, 4 p.m., Feb. 3.
• Boys basketball, Heart River
vs. Richardton/Taylor, at South
Heart, A, B and C squads, 4 p.m.,
Feb. 4.
• Girls basketball, Heart River
vs. Watford City, at South Heart,
A, B and C squads, 4 p.m., Feb. 5.
• Girls basketball, Beach vs.
Dickinson Trinity, at Dickinson,
A, B and C squads, 4 p.m., Feb. 5.
• Boys basketball, Beach vs.
Wibaux, at Wibaux, A and B
squads, 3 p.m., Feb. 8.
• Girls basketball, Beach vs.
Wibaux, at Wibaux, A and B
squads, 5:30 p.m., Feb. 8.
• Sentinel Butte City Council
meeting, 7 p.m., Feb. 14, at the
Sentinel Butte Fire Hall.
• Southwest Water Authority
board of directors meeting,
Monday, Feb. 7, beginning at 9
a.m., at the Elks Lodge,
Dickinson.
Reporter
Have your family or friends
thought that you get a little too "dra-
matic" at times? Well, now you can
put all your drama to good use.
Beach residents have started a
new club for those wishing to
become involved in plays, whether
through acting, stage decorations,
lighting, or even writing. The drama
club, now named The Badlands
Players, had its first meeting on Jan.
6, at the Bijou Show House. The
club has since been holding its
meetings at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays.
meeting, and a few faithful mem-
bers continue coming, hoping to
inspire more local residents to join
them.
It all began when Michaela
Applegate spoke to Emanuel
Culman, show house owner. He had
shared that it was getting more and
more difficult to get local residents
to come in and see movies.
Applegate asked why a drama club
couldn't be started. He replied that
he just didn't have the energy for
something as involved as that, and
so Applegate asked, "Why not me?"
WCCU looking
to build in Beach
By Richard Volesky
Editor/Reporter
Western Cooperative Credit
Union (WCCU) is planning a new
building in Beach.
The Beach Co-op Credit Union
in September voted to merge with
WCCU. The Beach co-op has been
operating in the Bijou Office
Building since May, after the co-
op's previous office on Central
Avenue was damaged in a fire.
WCCU is planning to purchase
two residential lots located north of
the Beach Pharmacy for the site of a
new building. Rezoning the lots to
commercial use is on the agenda of a
9 a.m. meeting of the Beach Zoning
Board on Feb. 24 at City Hall.
Sandi Peplinski, manager of the
Beach WCCU, said they have a
general idea in mind for the type of
building the co-op would build, but
the details of it haven't yet been
determined.
Meanwhile, plans areunder way
to move the Beach WCCU into a
bigger office within the Bijou build-
ing, with the new office to be the
former location of the M' Lord M'
Lady beauty salon.
The credit union in Beach previ-
ously was open from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. on Wednesdays only, but now
is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each
weekday, except for when Peplinski
is Undergoing training at a WCCU
Dickinson location. The Beach
WCCU is to become a full-service
location, according to Peplinski.
National Park Service personnel and a volunteer sharpshooter pack up after an elk was shot
in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. (Courtesy Photo)
TRNP official: Elk reduction a success
MEDORA - The elk reduction
effort in Theodore Roosevelt
National Park has concluded for the
2010-2011 season. A total of 406
elk were removed from the park.
As of the third week of January,
the North Dakota Game and Fish
Department had reported that 129
elk had been taken in units adjacent
to the park during the regular elk
hunting season. The goal for this
year was to remove 250 elk from
the population, including those
taken inside and outside the park.
The population was estimated to be
approximately 1200-1300 before
the reduction began.
Teams of up to four volunteers,
led by park staff, shot cow elk in the
park between Nov. 1,2010, and Jan.
20, 2011, to reduce the population.
During the program, 181 volunteers
participated in field activities. Most
of the volunteers were from North
Dakota and Minnesota, but others
came from as far away as Alabama,
Tennessee, Texas and California.
Reduction efforts took place
Tuesday through Thursday each
week, with no days lost to poor
weather conditions.
"The elk reduction effort exceed-
ed all of our expectations," said
Superintendent Valerie Naylor.
"The five National Park Service
team leaders did an exceptional job
of providing for the safety of our
volunteers in the field and exceed-
ing all elk reduction goals under
extremely difficult conditions. In
addition, we had no injuries or acci-
dents."
Working through North Dakota
Community Action, the park donat-
ed 13,315 pounds of meat to
Sportsmen Against Hunger. The elk
meat was used to stock food
pantries throughout the state.
North Dakota American Indian
tribes received 21,543 pounds of
meat to be used in food pantries,
diabetes programs, elderly pro-
grams, and homeless shelters. The
remaining elk meat was made
available, through a donation
agreement with the North Dakota
Game and Fish Department, to vol-
unteers who participated in the
reduction effort.
• "It was a wonderful experience
working with the tribes on the meat
distribution," said Naylor. "We are
also very pleased at the amount of
clean elk meat that we were able to
donate to Sportsmen Against
Hunger for state food pantries. A
lot of people will benefit from these
donations."
Every elk removed from the park
was tested for chronic wasting dis-
ease. All tests have been negative.
As part of this project, the park
plans to conduct another reduction
in the fall and winter of 2011-12. A
news release will be sent out early
next summer to notify the public
when applications will be accepted,'
according to the Park Service.
ment, Applegate began spreading
the word that a drama club was
beginning.
"There are some people who
aren't into sports or winter activi-
ties, and I thought why not get a
club started for those folks?"
Applegate asked.
The club is open to all local resi-
dents, which includes the communi-
ties of Beach, Golva, Medora,
Sentinel Butte and Wibaux. People
of all ages are invited to join the
club, which is in the process of
becoming a non-profit organization.
A board has been set up, with
bylaws to be included as well. The
board members include Jo Kimery,
Michelle Moredock, Angela Hall,
Kayla Begger and Applegate.
Two types of member groups
have been set up, the Alphas and the
Betas. Alpha members would be
those who have attended 50 percent
or more of all the meetings, and
would get the advantage of voting at
the meetings for things that may
come up, such as plays they would
like to put on. Beta members would
be those who have attended less
than 50 percent of the meetings, and
though welcome to attend, would
not be allowed to vote on any meas-
ures that would come up.
But the club would not be for
only those wishing to perform. They
welcome anyone who has an artistic
side, such as painting and/or draw-
ing, anyone interested in stage light-
ing, and those who may have some
experience in a production's techni-
cal aspects. The group has found a
Web site where they can download
plays free of charge, but anyone
Club
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With a lack of skis, one brave Josiah Orluck of Beach tries
sledding downhill while standing up. (Photos by Jane M. Cook)
Cold day becomes a fun day
By Jane M. Cook
Reporter
MEDORA - Approximately 20
people showed up at the 3rd Annual
Fun in the Snow Day at the Chateau
de Mores State Historic Site on
Saturday, Jan. 29.
It was cold and sunny, but OK to
-be outside, unlike the days with bit-
ter cold temperatures that were
• expected to follow.
Youngsters and the young at
heart enjoyed sledding down one of
the site's hills, then later took a
break at the Chateau's Interpretive
Center with cookies and hot choco-
late or hot apple cider. An open pit
was also set up for those who want-
ed to roast some hot dogs that one
of the families provided for the
group.
Dee Linn, site supervisor, and
Ed Sahlstrom, assistant site super-
visor, invite anyone who wants to
utilize the hills for sledding fun to
do so.
However, since not all parts of
the hills are visible from the inter-
pretiv e center, they ask visitors to
check in at the center, so that the
staff knows there is someone on the
hills.
NDG&F:
Another
tough winter
for wildlife
It may sound like a broken
record; but North Dakota's weather
in February and March will once
again be critical to the health of the
state's wildlife populations.
Randy Kreil, North Dakota
Game and Fish Department wildlife
chief, said wildlife populations
have had to struggle with tough
conditions through three consecu-
tive winters. "Animals definitely
could use a reprieve," he said.
"They are not as resilient as they
were in the beginning of winter.
The longer winter drags on, the
greater the impact to wildlife popu-
lations and next fall's hunting
opportunities."
Record to near-record snowfall
has blanketed much of North
Dakota each winter since 2008-09.
Because of winter mortality, the
number of deer licenses in 2010
was significantly reduced by nearly
30,000, and the pronghorn popula-
tion was too low to sustain a hunt-
ing season last fall.
This winter, the Game and Fish
Department has received reports of
pheasant losses, but the extent is
unknown. Kreil said birds seem to
be doing okay in some areas, but no
doubt have suffered losses in other
areas. "What this winter will mean
in terms of pheasant hunting oppor-
tunities next fall is hard to tell," he
added. "For the most part, birds
were able to adapt the past two win-
ters under similar conditions. But
then again, good nesting habitat in
spring allowed them to rebound.
However, with the continued loss
of Conservation Reserve Program
acres, their ability to rebound could
be impaired."
Reports of dying or dead deer
are not uncommon in tough win-
ters, and this holds true this winter
as well. Mostly fawns and older
deer are affected by the cold and
wind. In addition, heavy snow
cover prevents deer from accessing
their usual food sources, which can
result in deer dying because of
grain overload - a result of deer
switching their natural diet to a diet
comprised of mostly corn and/or
other grains.
Because deer often gather near
farms and ranches in winter, depart-
ment personnel are working with
approximately 200 livestock pro-
ducers to protect stored feed sup-
plies. This number is similar to last
year at this time, but is still far
below the winter of 1996-97 when
Game and Fish staff worked with
more than 1,000 different producers
on deer depredation issues.
No wildlife species has suffered
the harsh realities of winter more so
than pronghorn, as the population
Wildlife
Sledders climb a hill for another trip down it on Jan. 29. (Continued on Page 8)
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