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April 7, 2016 Golden Valley News Page 3
Homeland Committee starts war on backpacks Golva Honor Roll
N. D. Matters
By Lloyd Omdahl
The following relates to oil and #19882- Ellison Creek 11-7TFH,
gas well activity for the week of NWNW7-143N-102W, Billings, Co.
March 27, in Stark, Golden Valley, #20174- Teddy 44-34TFH, SESE
Billings and Slope counties and is 34-143N-101W, Billings Co.
from reports of the Department of #20388 - DeMotes Federal 31-
Mineral Resources: 10TFH, NWNE 10-141N-102W,
Permit renewals: Billings Co.
#27967 - Whiting Oil and Gas #20421 Banner 44-33TFH,
Corporation, Pronghorn State Fed- SESE 33-144N-103W, Golden Val-
"Okay, what now?" barked Old
Sievert as he limped into the emer-
Elections are opportuniti meeti,,g o *he ommunit,
Homeland Committee carrying a
fifth of cranberry juice. He claimed
For most area entities, 4 p.m., new street.
Monday, April 11, is the filing dead- Instead of reserving your thoughts cranberry juice was good for his
line for residents who are interested and ideas for the coffee shop, get in- gout.
in serving on a local board, volved - seek election to a local "You all know that terrorists have
For school districts, you only need board, attacked Brussels," Chief Security
to file nomination and related paper- We can think of two entities in Officer Garvey Erfald started with an
work. Those interested in city, county particular that seem to need help in air of urgency.
and park district positions need to comnmnicating what's going on in "Where is Brussels?" Old Sievert
gather signatures on a nominatingpe- their communities - in which the quivered."Is that very close?"
tition, but in most cases only a small elected and appointed officials don't "It's a town over there somewhere
number of signatures are needed.The seem to quite realize their business is in Europe - next to Paris, I think,"
number of signatures and informa- the people's business. Namely the guessed EinarTorvald.
tion regarding the paperwork was problems are in the cities of Golva "I thought Brussels was a vacuum
published in previous editions. But and Sentinel Butte. One can argue cleaner,"Holger Danske wondered.
"'No, that's a Bissell," corrected
citizens can visit the N.D. Secretary that those are small towns, so every-
of State Office's website for the one knows what going on. But that's Little Jimmy.
forms, and should contact their re- not true, not everyone in a commu- Jimmy was now working on his
spective, city, county or school elec- nity is a part of the information-shar- sixth online m~(jor, this time with Del
tion officials for the derails, ing clique. Rio University. He was in entomol-
Quite often, residents complain In Golva and Sentinel Butte, there ogy. hoping to get a summer field.job
about what a local board has done or seems to be a culture of keeping even at the NDSU field station.
hasn't done. Never mind all the posi- the most mundane of things under "Let's get back to the terrorists in
tive things that are accomplished, wraps. That really should change, Brussels," Garvey ordered. "'If we
Unfortunately, that's the nature of the and so should some of those holding don't do something, the mayor will
business and of people. It's far more elected positions, replace us with a new committee."
likely that someone will complain The Golden Valley News & "Everybody in town is on this
about arough street, insteadofbring- Billings County Pioneer Editorial committee," countered Josh Dvor-
• "• chak. "Who's left for a new commit-
ing the city council an award for a Board tee?"
Chairperson Ork Dorken
Area oil activity report for week of Mar. 27 shrugged o t' the q.estion as he
pointed at Garvey. "As our chief se-
curity officer, what do you suggest'?"
"First, we need to screen people
coming and going through town,"
Garvey suggested. "Main Street is a
sieve for terrorists."
11- 16PH, NENW 16- 140N-" ley Co.
#20534 - Bell Lake Creek 44-
23TFH, SESE 23-143N-103W,
Golden Valley Co.
#20574 - Franks Creek State 21-
16TFH, NENW 16-141N-100W,
Billings Co.
#20701 Kordon ll-8TFH,
NWNW 8-143N- 101 W, Billings Co.
#21251 - Cymbaluk 21-25TFH,
NENW 25-141 N- 100W, Billings Co,
#21320 - Teddy 44-32TFH, SESE
32-142N-100W, Billings Co.
#21384 - Cerkoney 21-2TFH,
Lot3 2-141N-100W, Billings Co.
#21474 - Kjelstrup 44-24TFH,
SESE 24-142N-102W, Golden Val-
ley Co.
#21547 Teddy 11-20TFH,
NWNW 20-142N-100W, Billings
Co.
#21774 -Ash Coulee Federal 44-
18TFH, SESE 18-142N-101W,
Billings Co.
#24822 - Kjelstrup Federal 11-19-
1PH, Lotl 19-142N-102W, Billings
Co.
#25152 - Tescher State t 1-25PH,
NWNW 25-144N-104W, Golden
Valley Co.
#26269 - McDonald Family Trust
Federal 31 -SPH, Lot2 3-142N-t02W,
Billings Co.
#26348 - DeMotes Federal 21-
IlPH, NENW ll-141N-102W,
Billings Co.
#26443 - Ellison Creek Federal
21-1PH, Lot3 1-|43N-1003W,
Golden Valley Co.
#26963 - McDonald 14-32-3PH,
SWSW 32-143N-102W, Billings Co.
#26964 - McDonald 14-32-1PH,
SWSW 32-143N- 102W, Billings Co.
#26965 - McDonald 14-32-2PH,
SWSW 32-143N- 102W, Billings Co.
#28009 - Roosevelt 23-29-1PH,
NESW 29-142N-102W, Billings Co.
#28010 - Roosevelt 23-29-2PH,
NESW 29-142N- 102W, Billings Co.
#30724 - Beaver Creek State 41-
36-2PH, NENE 36-143N-103W,
Golden Valley Co.
#30725 - Beaver Creek State 41-
36,1PH, NENE 36-143N-103W,
Golden Valley Co.
#30806 - Ellis0n Creek Federal
11-7-2PH. Lotl 7-143N-102W,
Billings Co.
#30807 - Ellison Creek Federal
-ll-7-3PH, Lotl 7-143N-102W,
Billings Co.
eral
100W, Billings Co.
#28009 - NP Resources, LLC,
Roosevelt 23-29-1PH, NESW 29-
142N-102W, Billings Co.
#28010 - NP Resources, LLC,
Roosevelt 23-29-2PH, NESW 29-
142N- 102W, Billings Co.
Operator transfers:
From: Five-Jab, Inc. To: Draw-
ings. LLC:
#05914 - Howie 1 SWD, SWNE
2-136N- 100W,.Slope Co.
#04971 - Howie llX2, NWNW
2-136N- 100W, Slope Co.
#06015 - Howie 2, NESE 2-
136N-100W, Slope Co.
From: Whiting Oil and Gas Cor-
poration To: NP Resources, LLC:
#08874 - Federal 10- l, NESE 10-
144N-102W, Billings Co.
#1.2626 - MOI 41-17H, NENE
17-144N- 102W. Billings Co.
#12712 - Elkhorn Federal 2,
NWNE 10-t43N-102W, Billings Co.
#12829 - MOI-15HCE, SENW
15-143N- 102W, B iltings Co.
# 12865 - MOI 44- 19H, SESE 19-
143N-102W, Billings Co.
# 12956 - Morgan Draw Federal 1,
SWNW 32-144N- 102W, Billings Co.
#12975 - Buckhorn Federal 41-
14H, NENE 14-144N- 102W,
Billings Co.
#13024 - Morgan Draw Federal A
2, NWNW 20-144N-102W, Billings
Co.
#13308 - MOI Morgan Draw 21-
19H, NENW 19- 144N- t02W.
Billings Co.
#13508 - Buckhorn Federal 23-
5H, NESW 5-144N-102W, Billings
Co.
#13614 - MOt Stillwater 41-5H,
NENE 5-141N-101W, Billings Co.
#15412 - Federal 32-4HBKCE,
SWNE 4-143N-103W, Golden Val-
ley Co.
#16036 - Federal 16-8H, SESE 8-
143N-100W. Billinos Co
#16448 - Buckhorn Ranch 3t-
16H. NWNE 16-143N-102W,
Billings Co.
#18451 - Dry Creek II-13TFH,
NWNW 13-143N-103W, Golden
Valley Co.
#18469 - Ellison Creek 11-1TFH.
Lot 4 1-143N-103W, Golden Valley
Co.
#18502 - Teddy 44- 13TFH, SESE
13-142N-101W, Billings Co.
#18759 - Teddy 44-30TFH, SESE
30-142N-101W, Billings Co.
#19050 Teddy 21-24TFH,
NENW 24-142N-101W, Billings Co.
#19100 - Haystack II-19TFH,
NWNW 19-142N-101W, Billings
Co.
#19135 - Odermann 41-31TFH.
NENE 31-142N-101W. Billings Co.
#19248 - Schneider I I-dTFH,
NWNW 6-141N-101W, Billings Co.
# 19416 - Teddy 44-2TFH, SESE
2-t41N-101W, Billings Co.
# ] 9417 - Teddy State 21-36TFH,
NENW 36-142N-101 W, Billings Co.
#19441 - Dry Creek 44-20TFH,
SESE 20-143N-102W, Billings Co.
#19469 - Schneider 12-12TFH,
SWNW 12-141N-102W, Billings Co.
#19648 - Mikes Creek Federal 12-
30TFH, SWNW 30-143N-101W,
Billings Co.
#19687 Clemens 34-9TFH,
SWSE 9-143N- 102W, Billings Co.
#19755 - Anderson Butte Federal
I 1- 17TFH, NWNW 17-142N- 102W.
Billings Co.
#19815 - Mikes Creek 21-3TFH,
Lot3 3-142N-101W, Billings Co.
at the bar when they came to town.
We could make everybody check
backpacks and that would be the end
of our worries."
"Well, we haven't had a bar since
Dinty closed shop in 1947 so where
would terrorists check their back-
packs?" worried Orville.
"'We could set up a booth on the
road into town and make everybody
put their backpacks in there while in
town and pick 'era out on the way out
- use an honor system," Einar specu-
lated.
"Honor!" steamed Old Sievert.
Third Quarter Honor Roll:
- Fourth and fifth grades: Tyler
Hauck, Carter Sarsland, Riley Hauck
and Cade Northrop
- Sixth, seventh and 8th grades:
Cassie Bosserman, *Chance Man-
hart, Kaden Volk, McKenzi Plum-
mer, and *Rachel Bosserman
(An * signifies the "A" Honor
Roll)
"Maybe should we put one of
those airport detector outfits in the
middle of Main Street," proposed
Orville Jordan.
"That's pretty high tech for our
level of incompetency," noted Gar-
vey. "Who would run it?"
"'Max Berkin over at Neckersville Game and Fish
Lawnmower Repair is pretty good
with a wrench," suggested Holger sponsors Earth
Danske. "They're coming to blow up our
"Better yet, the town should buy town. That's plain mean. What kind r~av Prniect
one of those drone things to fly over of honor is that'?"
Ilmllw ~
II ~ IlU
Main Street and watch for suspicious "We should at least pass a ruleThe North Dakota Game and Fish
activity," Orville added, against backpacks at our meetings," Department is once again celebrating
"That won't work," Einar warned. Josh proposed. Earth Day by sponsoring clean-up
"You have to register drones and ter- "'But nobody has ever come to our days on puNic-owned or managed
rorists would hack the register and meetings with a backpack," coun- lands.
find out that we have a drone thing tered Einar. "Of course, Madeleine With Earth Day recognized April
watching Main Street and they would has a monster purse bnt we know22, each member of a school, Girl
sneak into town on the dump ground her." Scout, Boy Scout, 4-1t club or youth
road." "'That's exactly the way terrorists organization who participates in
"Yup,'" added Jimmy."Ifthey can want us to think," Josh persisted, cleaning up public lands through
hack Target, they can hack anybody." "When our guard is down, some tar- May will receive a specifically de-
He had the only computer in town. rorist will walk into our meeting with signed conservation patch.
"'Backpacks are rally the weapons a backpack and wipe out the brains Last winter the Game and Fish
of choice for terrorists," Dorsey of our whole security system," Department sponsored a contest for
Crank. the retired mail carrier, "l'm sure those Brussels peoplestudents ages 6- 18 to design a North
pointed out. "If we could strip them are planning to fight backpacks. Dakota Earth Day Patch.
of their backpacks, they would be Maybe we should ask them for help," Groups participating in the Earth
harmless." Dorsey suggested optimistically. Day project are encouraged to take
"I've been reading about outlaw "Great idea! Wonderful idea!" ex- the following precautions to ensure
days in Dodge City," reported Old claimed Old Sievert cheerfully as he safety: keep young people away l'rom
Sievert as he took another healthy led a migration out the door. His fifth highways, lakes and rivers: and only
snort of cranberry juice, of cranberry juice was gone and his allow older participants to pick up
"Gunslingers checked their guns gout felt much better, much better, broken glass.
Interested participants are asked
to contact Pat Lothspeich at 328-
6332 to receive a reporting form for
their project.
School data committee can cut down paperwork
To the editor: more detail than is needed for poll- everyone can get behind.
Paperwork is the bane of any cymakers to make decisions'? Sincerely,
school administrator's existence. Our committee is working to an-Kirsten Baesler
One way to lessen it is to reduce the swer these and other questions, We North Dakota Superintendent of
number of reports that our North are certain these efforts will improve Public Instruction
Dakota school districts make to the efficiency and save our schoolsSen. Tim Flakoll
state, money, time, and aggravation. It will Chairman, North Dakota Senate
We are members of a special give our teachers and administrators Education Committee
more time to devote to the education • Rep. Mike Nathe
of our children. Chairman, North Dakota House
That is a goal that we believe Education Committee
committee that is identifying dupli-
cation in school data reporting and
figuring out ways to get rid of re-
dundancies and unnecessary data.
This group includes key legislators,
school superintendents and other ed-
ucation professionals.
The key questions we are asking
are, how is this information used'?
Does it serve an essential purpose?
Focused reports add to our under-
standing of how schools are using
their limited resources, and bow
these resources help our students to
learn. They promote transparency
and accountability. They give us the
ability to measure the success of our
school system.
But not everything that can be
measured is important.
Consider these examples. Is it
necessary for a school to report how
many computers and dial-up
modems that they have? Why are
paper copies of some reports distrib-
uted when they are already available
online'? Do some reports include
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