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News .................... Page 2
Opinion ................ Page 3
Classifieds ............ Page 4
Public notices ....... Page 6
Comics ................. Page 7
Ready to serve, page 5
Soldier recognized, page 2
Ip
Weekly papers thriving, page 3
.......... Honor- roii,"page 5
Winter scene, page 2
WHAT'S
• Health. screening, 9- noon,
1-2:30 p.m., business meeting
following, April 15, Belfield
Senior Citizens Club.
• Potluck with M-Z serving,
12:30 p.m., April 19, Belfield
Senior Citizens Club.
• - Parent discussion, spon-
Sored by the West Dakota Parent
& Family Resource Center,
regarding creating positive feel-
ings or esteem in children,
Thursday, April 16, 6:30-8 p.m,,
at Golden Valley Extension
Office. Register by calling 1-
877-264-1142.
• City of Medora Board of
Equalization meeting, 6 p.m.,
Tuesday, April 14, Medora
Community Center.
• District 8 N.D. Game &
Fish Department Advisory
Board Meeting, April 13 7
p.m.; Eagles Club, Dickinson.
• Beach Area Chamber of
Commerce meeting, Monday
April 13, noon, at La Playa
Mexican Restaurant.
• Bingo, pool, 1-3 p.m.,
Belfield Senior Citizens, birth-
day party following, April 27.
Beach Show House struggling with low attendance
By Richard Volesky
Editor/Reporter
Due to low attendance at movies,
the owner of the Bijou Show House
in Beach says he's moving toward
the idea of no longer showing
movies on a weekly basis.
Movies that are believed to have
the potential of drawing a large
number of customers may be sched-
uled on a movie-by-movie basis
instead, assuming that movie dis-
tributors will be on board with pro-
viding film on a non-regular sched-
ule. said Emanuel Culman.
Culman. with the help of a
USDA grant and his own money,
made major technological improve-
ments to the building's equipment
last year.
"I do this with
deep regret,"
Culman said in a let-
ter to the Golden
Valley News. "My
first love in the arts
is movies. My origi-
nal intent was to maintain showing
movies while introducing the other
technologies. I will miss seeing the
'faithful' who come to see almost
every movie because, they, like me,
love the form. To them I offer my
sincere apologies for taking this
step."
He said owning and operating
,the Bijou Show House has been
thrilling on many counts and that it
" I will miss seeing the 'faithful' who
come to see almost every movie because,
they, like me, love the form."
Emanuel Culman
has been an opportunity to meet and
know the people from southwestern
North Dakota and southeastern
Montana.
"When Margaret Walz agreed to
sell me the theater, she passed on 60
years of ownership by one family.
Wreaking the changes has been a
mighty task, but there were well
worn paths to follow. Now the time
has come to consider a major
change for the
Bijou," said
Culman.
"When I
fi r s t
approached the
prospects of
buying the the-
ater, I was encouraged to design a
business plan. Part of the plan was
to estimate how revenue will flow.
both out and, more particularly, in. I
called on many people in, and out
of. the theater business for input.
Consensus was to aggregate that
about one third of the immediate
community*may attend once per
month. Thus, with a real population
figure of 3,000 people within a
radius of 25 miles, it was fair to
assume 1,000 people. To play it
safe, the number was cut to 800 per
month."
Culman said the costs of operat-
ing a theater were difficult to assess.
"I was cautioned to be prepared for
a two-year duration to grow my
attendance. In that period I paid my
bills, almost all out of pocket, to a
sum total of tens of thousands of
dollars."
Last year, through Prairie West
Development in Beach, Culman
sought and received the $92,000
USDA grant"for the building.
Struggling
(Continued on Page 8)
Water pipeline
receives funding.
Additional funding for the
Southwest Water Pipeline will help
extend the pipeline's service area,
and doing so may benefit existing
customers as more customers share
in the costs of operating the project.
"The $8 million in federal fund-
ing for the Southwest Pipeline that
was approved by Congress last
month will speed up the delivery of
good-quality water to southwestern
North Dakota counties, and we
intend to keep funding it until this
project is complete," said Sen.
Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.
Dorgan delivered his 'message at
a Dickinson meeting of water
pipeline officials. Dorgan is the
chairman of the appropriations
panel that funds the nation's Water
and energy projects.
Dorgan secured $12 million for
the Southwest Water Pipeline over
the past two years, including the $8
million he added to the fiscal year
2009 bill signed into law last
month.
Currently, construction is
planned to add rural users in the
counties of Golden Valley,
McKenzie and Dunn counties to the
pipeline. The next large segment.,
which will occur over the next five
fiscal years, will be to provide serv-
ice in Oliver,_-Mercer and northern
Dunn counties to 1,200 rural users
and eight communities, including
Hazen, Center and Stanton.
Meet the queen and king
Beach High School Prom Queen Teal Waldal and King Mike Olstad smile for a portrait after
being crowned this past weekend. Other candidates were: Dakota Cory, Ashley McCulley,
Lindsay Olson, Kristina Weinreis, Nathan Dolyniuk, Gregory Schmidt and Tyler Jandt. (Photo
by Cindy Makelky)
Brandon Ekre rehearses a scene in the upcoming Beach
High School junior class play. (Photo by Richard Volesky)
School play involves
a chocolate, mystery
The junior class of Beach High
School will be performing the
comedy/mystery, "Death by
Chocolate" on Sunday, April 19
and Monday, April 20, beginning
at 7 p.m.
Both performances will be at
Lincoln Elementary School.
In the play, the character of
Nick Noir, private eye, has fallen
on hard times. His botched last
case has cost him whatever jobs
may have come his way.
The 10 students in the play are
Stephanie Goodijohn, RaeAnn
Schulte, Katie Rohan, Kelsey
Schillo, Michelle Groll, Thomas
Littlecreek, Emily Hardy, Kayla
Dolyniuk, Tanner Tescher and
Brandon Ekre. Assistant directors
are Justin Maus and Kaitlin Maus.
In the play, Nick Noir is at the
end of his rope and is forced to fire
his devoted secretary, Selma. That
is, until a call from Coco Purvis
offers a tantalizing case that just
Play
(Continued on Page 8)
Locals offer help in Fargo
By Jane M. Cook
Golden Valley News
Friday, March 27, a Golden
Valley County ambulance was sent
to help with the flooding efforts in
Fargo/Moorhead.
The team of five - Alan Muckle,
Lee and Charlene Weinreis. Clay
Makelky and Eileen Goodijohn -
were called around 9 or 10 p.m., on
March 26, and were told that help
was needed in transporting patients
from hospitals and residents of care
centers or nursing homes to places
of safety.
Charlene Weinreis said the group
met with the ambulance board,
received the OK to go, and left
around midnight on March 27.
Because of road conditions, it
took them 9 hours to travel to
Fargo.
"The ambulance drivers, Lee and
Alan, were awesome," Weinreis
said, and they arrived at the staging
area at the Fargo-Moorhead EMS
Friday morning around 9 a.m. Area residents who traveled to Fargo to assist with flood
They waited at the staging area
evacuation efforts there include, from left, Alan Muckle, first
that day, then, as there was nothing
pending, got motel rooms to spend responder; Eileen Goodijohn, EMT; Lee Weinreis, driver;
the night. Charlene Weinreis, first responder; and Clay Makelky, EMT.
Golden Valley County (Courtesy Photo)
Emergency Manager Kitty well. They joined other ambulance need for help. Sixty ambulances
Knapkewicz said they had learned crews who came from Marmarth, were then released, one of which
• that a company had donated a cou- Bowman, Dickinson and Killdeer, was the Golden Valley County
pie of their planes to fly patients to just to name a few. crew. The team returned home on
various cities around the state so On Saturday, they found eight Saturday.
that the ambulance crews wouldn't rows of people waiting to help. The response of all the ambu-
have to travel over hazardous roads But then they were told that as lances and helpers who were there
and that the ambulances would be it had gotten colder, the Red was unbelievable, with everyone
used for quick transfers. River was beginning to freeze, waiting and willing to lend a hand
While there, the Beach thus slowing up the flow of the for the flood victims, said Charlene
crewmembers were treated very water and relieving some of the Weinreis.
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Crown him the Lord of life, Who triumphed o'er the grave, And rose victorious in the strife
For those he came to save; His glories now we sing Who died and rose on high, Who died eternal life
to bring, And lives that death may die. ~ Matthew Bridges, 1851
As we celebrate Easter, we're reminded of Christ's dead, burial, and glorious resur-
rection. We wish you a joyful Easter.