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July 21, 2011 Page 3 To00edbor Global warming - Capitol Report By Shirley Meyer State Representative, District 36 To the editor: We continually hear the liberals talk about manmade global warm- ing. Now they are trying to fool us by referring to it as "climate -change" and are still saying it's manmade. I've never fallen for this garbage. True, weather patterns are changing. They have been doing so since the beginning of time and probably will continue until the end of time. However, I have been doing some thinking and possibly maybe man is causing global warming! Allow me to explain. Consider the deterioration in this country and around the globe. There is an effort like never before to remove God out of everything from our schools, to our govern- ment, to every facet of our daily Committee votes for health another theory insurance exchange We've been busy haying, hoping that the federal health care It's liberalism. Liberalism does- n't believe in the one and only true God of the Bible. They may believe in a god, but not necessarily thee God. They want a God that they can stuff into a quart jar, screw the lid on, and only let him out and use him to promote their twisted point of view. I do not believe that a per- son can be a true Christian and a liberal also. No way! The word of God (the Bible) makes it very clear that all of us will be held accountable for our deeds and actions. But God's word tells that we will be blessed as a nation if we repent and turn from our evil ways back to God. Very possibly climate conditions may change for the better. Think about it! Ralph Muecke, Gladstone lives. Crime is continually on the increase. They want to and already have in some cases taken "'one nation under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance, they want to take "in God we trust" off our currency, remove the Ten Commandments from wherever they are displayed; the thousands of babies that are aborted. Six states now allow same sex marriages. There is not to be any references to Christmas, Easter, etc. Government has become so corrupt with the most corrupt administra- tion in history. I could go on and on. We too are guilty by tolerating these types of activities. They expect us to remove any reference to our God so as not to offend them but they could care less that they are offending us by not letting us have our references to God. :Committee joins ghost towns of ND N.D. Matters By Lloyd Omdahl work," Old Sievert pointed out. "Let's start a ghost town," sug- gestel Little Jimmy, the online col- lege student waiting for his parents to come back from hunting for gold in the Yukon. "I see on Facebook..." Jimmy started. Einar Stamstead interrupted, "What's Facebook?" "It's for people who don't read newspapers," Jimmy responded and then continued. "These two guys in Fargo have started Ghosts of North Dakota for towns that are past their prime.'" "Well, we passed that about 1936," Einar interjected. "How'd you make money being a ghost town'?" "They have 10,000 ghost town fans on Facebook and if we declared ourselves a ghost town these people would come and expe- rience overnights so we could start bread and breakfast places to raise money," Jimmy explained. "'Well, I have one double bed so I could make room for one, sort Of stay on my side of the bed," offerbd Holger. "That would be an experience," Madeleine observed. "We don't have big breakfasts at our house," Orville noted. "'Can't hardly chargeanybody for a bowl of corn flakes." "It would be more of a ghost town kind of thing if we put them in empty houses," Holger proposed. He didn't like the idea of sharing his bed with strangers, anyway. "There's the old Duccek house across the tracks,'" suggested Orville. "Nobody lived there since Golvin slugged Gerda and headed for Deadwood and she ran off with that kettle salesman from Kansas City." "Then every weekend we could put on a ghost dance here in the hall," Jimmy suggested. "We could hang some old lanterns around...have a few can- dles..,make it real creepy...charge by the dance." "Great idea!" Garvey exclaimed, "I move we declare ourselves a ghost'town open tbr business." "Might as well, seeing as how we're going to be a ghost town whether we want to be oneor not." Holger added. Ork banged his Coke bottle. "Evez2cone in favor say 'aye', the motion is carried and we are offi- cially a ghost town." The meeting erupted in cheering not heard since 1935 when Satchel Paige waved from a Pulhnan car as the Great Western Zephyr roared through town on the way to an exhi- bition baseball game in Devils Lake. ; "The mayor says he can't bal- ; ance the budget with the expense of ;the community hall on his back," announced Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ork Dorken ; to the town citizenry assembling in the building doomed by the mayor. "'If we don't support ourselves, he's going to abolish the committee, shut out the lights and lock the door," "'It's the hard facts," added Alert Officer Garvey Erfald. "I saw the figures myself. We lost three people in the Census so we will be getting less money from the state. It's snow removal or the hall." "But the Homeland Security Committee is the only social life I have," argued Orville Jordan, the retired railroad depot agent who never left town when the railroad did. "Let's think positive," suggested Ork. "'We need to come up with a fundraiser to keep this place open." "We could have a rummage sale," proposed Josh Dvorchek, "but everything I own has already been through three rummage sales." "Now if we reorganized as a farm co-op and used vacant lots for raising crops like carrots or beets, we could oPen a vegetable stand, then if we had a crop failure, we could get crop insurance from the government," Holger Danske offered in one long breath. "Too much paperwork and we ain't got nobody who does paper- Conservation program turning 25 receive rental payments and cost- share assistance to participate in the voluntary program. "CRP pretty much did what it was supposed to do," according to Greg Link. assistant chief of the North Dakota Game and Fish Department's wildlife division. "Commodity prices gradually improved and soil erosion decreased. We knew it would bene- fit wildlife if enough landowners enrolled enough acres. As Wildlife populations flourished, interest from hunters grew. If anything, the program probably exceeded expec- tations." CRP was at its peak in North Dakota in 2007 when the state had 3.4 million acres of mostly idle grassland. A reduced nationwide cap, cut from 39 million acres to 32 million acres in the 2008 Farm Bill, along with other factors like high commodity prices, high cash rents, and demands for more cropland for food and fuel production, have slowly reduced interest in the pro- gram in North Dakota and else- where. With deliberations already underway on a new farm bill, feed- back points to an even lower nation- wide CRP cap in the luture. Once a staple on North Dakota's landscape, some projections indicate the state will have fewer than 1 million acres by the end of 2013. If that happens, ground-nesting pheasant and duck populations will be hit the hardest. In the future. Link said, finding places to hunt and finding game to pursue will be much more difficult. As a result, the number of resident and nonresident hunters most likely will decline. The Conservation Reser,)e Program turns 25 this year. While there is much to laud about this con- servation program that has benefit- ted ground-nesting birds and other wildlife while safeguarding mil- lions of acres of marginal cropland, it's a bittersweet celebration. Though North Dakota gained nearly 132,000 new CRP acres in a March-April signup, contracts involving about 387,000 acres will expir6 by fall, leaving the state 1 million acres poorer since 2007, when more than 3 million acres blanketed the landscape. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve • Program was signed into law in 1985 to reduce grain surpluses to jumpstart commodity prices, and decrease erosion on marginal crop- , lands. Lands enrolled in CRP are planted in grass and left mostly undisturbed for 10 years or more with periodic management, such as haying or grazing. Landowners DID YOU KNOW? 4t Farm Credit Services of Mandan www.farmcreditmandan.com Something Borrowed # BEAc. LEGION ely. 0 281 E MaIN - BEACH ND 701-872-4362 Pull Bingo Black Tabs LaDonna Egan- $50.00 Jack 7-8-11 L. F,  s=.,d, Hours: Mon-Fri. 3pm-lam Sat. lpm-lam Happy Hour: Mon.-Thurs. 5:30-6: 30pm i Nothing is as fun as pulling in and getting to make that first round and knowing that the hay this year is probably the best you will ever cut. After plugging up twice on the sec- ond round, some of the thrill was gone along with most of the skin on my knuckles, but perseverance is the name of the game. It's hard to believe that nearly three months have passed since the adjournment of the 2011 legislative session. The interim committees are already up and running and tak- ing their responsibilities to study issues very seriously. The Health Care Reform Review Committee is in charge of studying the current federal health care reform. This committee has been tasked with monitoring the Patient Protection and Affordability Act and its progress in implementation. In addition, the committee receives status reports from the North Dakota insurance commissioner, the Department of Human Services and other state agencies affected by the federal health care legislation. At the first meeting, the commit- tee heard from the former governor of Utah, Michael Leavitt, who also served as the secretary of Health and Human Services during the Bush administration. Leavitt now is a managing partner with Leavitt Partners, Salt Lake City, doing con- sulting with states regarding the new federal health care legislation. Leavitt explained that health care reform is not a choice any longer, it is critical to our economic future. His time with the committee cen- tered on the importance of develop- ing our own state health care insur- ance exchange to prepare for what is coming through implementation. These exchanges regulate the health care insurance market to promote competitive rates and appropriate levels of coverage. North Dakota has three options for the exchange: 1) Allow the federal government to oNanize the exchange, 2) Join in a regkmal exchange with neighboring states, 3) Organize a state exchange managed by the state. Leavitt recommended that North Dakota get moving and take action to manage a state exchange. His testimony was quite important to the work of the committee, in part because of who Leavitt is and his experience. Leavitt recognized that many in the Legislattn'e, including some on this committee, have been act would die and be found uncon- stitutional. During the past session several pieces of legislation were directed toward outright repudiation of the federal law, but Leavitt advised the committee to get beyond this resistance. He explained that he was a conserva- tive and believed in the free-market system, but he added his support for federalism and the importance of government participation in helping to develop competitive health insur- ance markets and to reform our health care system. Leavitt explained that health care refolxn is not a choice any longer, it is critical to our economic future. While Leavitt's support for action was not an endorsement of every aspect of the current federal health care reform program, his advice about complying with the law had an effect on the committee, especially for those who had resis- ted action during the session. Consequently, the committee voted unanimously in support of creation of a state health care insurance exchange. This will allow the insurance department to formulate actions that will be taken during the special session in November devot- ed primarily to redistricting. Please feel free to contact me about this or any other issue you have concerns about. I can be reached at sjmeyer@nd.gov or by phone at 225-2736. Bypass may be ready this week The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) is working on the construction of a temporary bypass on N.D. Highway 22, 18 miles north of Killdeer. The temporary bypass is expected to be complete this week, weather permitting. Once the bypass is complete, traffic will be allowed on N.D. Highway 22 between Killdeer and Mandaree. Earlier this year, Highway 22 was closed from Killdeer to Mandaree due to damage on the roadway caused by additional moisture and wet conditions this winter and spring. Work on a tem- porary bypass on Highway 22 two miles south of Mandaree was completed earlier: this year. Parks association honors Conrad Washington - For his record of preserving America's heritage through the growth and enhance- Tent of the National Park System, tle National Parks Conservation Association on July 13 honored Conrad with the Friend of the National Parks Award. "Our national parks are a sym- bol of our great heritage, a place for recreation and an important educational and training resources for our students," Conrad said. "We have a duty to care for our nation's historical treasures and ensure that they will continue to have clean air and healthy wildlife for future generations. I want to thank the National Parks Conservation Association for its great work and for this award." The National Parks Conservation Association paid tribute to Conrad's longstanding commitment to protecting and improving the Natio, nal Park System. NRCS announces signup for habitat funding BISMARCK The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is announcing over $3 million in additional Fiscal Year 2011 conservation program fund- ing specifically dedicated to accel- erate the implementation of con- servation practices to enhance wetland wildlife habitat on North Dakota working lands. Financial and technical assis- tance will be used to help produc- ers manage their wetlands and farmlands in an economical man- ner while protecting and enhancing habitats for wildlife populations. "These new funds present a wonderful opportunity for produc- ers in this state to select alterna- tives for managing cropland dur- ing wet conditions and, at the same time, provide sustainable habitats for wildlife species," said Jack Russell. acting NRCS state con- servationis.'t for North Dakota. " Funding will be disbursed through two previously estab- lished NRCS programs Environmental. Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP). Producers who want to learn more about these funding opportu- nities should 'visit the'ir i l0cal NRCS service center. Applications must be received by Aug. t, 2011. Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) is designed to insure against decliiing market prices;, Prott, steers, market hogs ......... Family f Frle.ds - O0e help our m0m Celebrate her $Sfh birthday! Hazel Pilot 85th Birthday Open House Sunday, July 24 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. CDT Wafford City Senior Citizens Center 205 5th St. NW Wafford City, North Dakota No gifts p/ease. Your preseoce is present enough. Greetings may be sent to her at: 529 4tb St SE, Watford City, ND 58854 Hosted by her children, Deb & Kent Fuller and LaRaye & John Anderson 3rd ANNUAL g WIBAUX RANCH RODEO July 30, 2011 • 2:00 p.m. Ranch cutting starts at 10 a.m. Events Team Branding Wild Cow Milking Trailer Race Double Mugging Water Race To enter, contact: Robin Smith 406-486-5501 ri Insurance Inc.