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Hello,
Man, am I glad we are into late
fall. Because that means my farm-
ing days are pretty well done for the
year. The harvest is running late,
and last nights rain will have farm-
ers pulling their last, thinning, gray
hairs out.
I have put the sprayer away. And
I suppose I should have drained
everything, but then, what would
you have to look forward to.
The drill is put away, although it
looks like maybe the lid on the grain
tank is open. Which doesn't make a
lot of difference. In fact, it may
keep the mice from living in the
drill if it is unprotected!
The harvested grain has been
sold. Which, since we don't have a
granary, makes our marketing plan
a simple one. Oh, I will admit, there
was not a lot of grain. Usually, I fig-
ure if we get out seed back, we did
pretty welt. In spite of the drought,
we did manage to get more than our
seed back.
° And our crop insurance agent
was here last week. He has been
here so much over the years, we are
considering having him over with
the rest of the family for
Thanksgiving dinner.
his year I raised durum. Now, if
you are a town guy, you might not
know what durum is used for. It is
the grain used in making pasta. And
there are several grades of durum.
' Like No. 1 Hard Amber, Milling. or
Terminal. And they talk about stuff
Hat Tips
By Dean Meyer
And our crop
insurance agent
was here last week.
He has been here
so much over the
years, we are con-
sidering having
him over with the
rest of the family
for Thanksgiving
dinner.
Other Views
By Ellen Feuerhelm
like "falling numbers" or
"bleached".
Trust me, if you live in a
drought area, and are determined
to make it rain, you plant durum. It
may not rain all summer, but two
days before that No.t HAD is
ready to harvest, the skies will
open up and God will bless you
with a downpour! And I honestly
think He will smile as that durum
begins to lose color! But then,
maybe I deserve it.
I used to raise malting barley.
Cause I felt you should produce
what you consume. My idea of a
supper would be a plate heaped up
with steak and macaroni. A bowl of
beer cheese soup for an appetizer.
And wash it all down with a mug of
beer.
But, my malting barley days
were also somewhat of a disaster.
I mentioned earlier that I don't
have a grain bin. Well, a little one to
keep oats in for the horses, but that
is about it.
So the year I harvested my malt-
ing barley, I just piled it on the
ground. It was only going to be
there a little while. I took a five-gal-
lon bucket to an elevator. An eleva-
tor that was a hundred miles from
the field. Cause he paid the most for
malting barley. The results were
outstanding. This was premium-
malting barley.
I quickly called a trucker to fire
that semi up and start hauling that
malting barley. And he did. He
called a couple other truckers and
they cleaned that pile up in no time.
We hauled that barley a hundred
miles to Discount Dan.
A week later, I received the set-
tlement sheet. The only barley that
made malting was the five-gallon
bucket Dad had hauled up! The rest
was feed barley. Which I could buy
back for twenty cents a more than I
received for it. And the trucker
would give me a ten percent dis-
count on the back haul!
You can see why I look forward
to winter!
Later, Dean
To the editor: have to grow a year before they blos- that they "gift" to you, they'll take
Dandelions! Let's clean up our som, so if you spray in September, until next year to bloom. And if you
town! If you spray your entire yard you will kill the small plants waiting spray next September, .you'll get
with 2, 4 D, (1 tbsp. to a gallon of to bloom next summer, them before they blow the follow-
water) around Sept. 15, you won't Don't worry about your neigh-ing year.
have any dandelions next year. They boys. If they don't spray the seeds - The Beach Garden Club
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The age of social networking has
pros and cons. Twenty years ago
people conversed mostly in person.
That has changed dramatically with
the additions of cell phones and mes-
senger services on the Internet.
Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are
now common "places" people go to
communicate with peers across the
country.
Parents of school-age children
should become familiar with these
sites even if it makes the students
feel intruded upon. Safety on the
Internet is important, and parents
should keep the computer in a room
that is available for viewing. During
my time at the
A1 Neuharth JournalismInstitute
in Vermillion, S.D., 1 had the pleas-
ure of interviewing John
Seigenthaler. Seigenthaler gave a
speech on the improprieties of some
Internet sites such as Wikipedia~
Wikipedia is an online encyclope-
dia that can be edited by just about
anyone. Seigenthaler contacted
Wikipedia because of all of the inac-
curacies posted about him. He was
outraged when the pattern continued.
The school year is starting and
kids are connecting with friends.
Facebook has some wonderful
aspects, but kids seeking jobs may
find that employers and even col-
leges will now search for a Facebook
or MySpace account before accept-
ing them. Kids have even lost schol-
arships to colleges over postings on
social networking sites.
Parents need to find out what their
kids are posting to not only keep
them safe but employable. It nmy
seem cool to post swear words and
photos with alcohol, but students in
Inver Grove Heights, Minn., were
kicked off the football team and
other events on campus for drinking
during the season.
Beach may be a small town locat-
ed in a rural area but it doesn't keep
people protected from Internet
surfers for soliciting teens. Take
time to look through your children's
profiles to make sure that their phone
number is only available to friends
or not listed. What goes on the
Internet stays forever.
Four years ago I was inept at
social networking, but now I check
my 17-year-old daughter's sites at
least once a week. In some cases the
Internet is like giving a chainsaw to
a 5-year-old, if used inappropriately,
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Seniors already getting the biggest bailout:
When the greed of the Wall Street
manipulators pushed the country
toward bankruptcy, citizens across
the country were outraged at the
bonuses being paid to the people who
created the problem. Then when the
Billings/Golden Valley County health clinics for September 2009 will be held as follows:
- Beach Senior Citizens Center, Sept. 15, at 10:30 - 12:30.
- Golden Valley Manor. Beach. Sep!. 23. at 9 - 12.
- Medora courthouse, Sept. 18, 25 at 9 - 12, and 1 - 3. (Please call for appointment scheduling).
- Beach health maintenance at the Public Health Office, 9 - 12, and 1 - 3. (Please call for appointment scheduling).
more expensive surgery. The cost of Offered screenings at these clinics may include blood pressure, pulse, immunizations, fasting blood sugar, hemp-
this medical care is beyond the per- globin, urinalysis, etc. For a complete list of services provided, please call (701) 872-4533. A small fee will be asked
sonal resources of most Medicare for these services. Please call for an appointment.
recipients. My stent surgery was a
bailout.
N. D. Matters
By Lloyd Omdahl
But for the sen- From Medicare we go to
Bush and Obama administrations put Medicaid, a program that was intend-
upbillions to stop the hemorrhaging, iors who turn pur- ed tOrbProvide medical care for the _,,i::inzl,,,,, no . .,,,. .,.,,, ,.,.nf program set
the public rhetoric reached hysterical pie raving about pop ut ended up benefiting the eld- I~ Jr
erly The program has been dwerted
proportions. Bailout became the • . . " MEDORA - Haunting will be 10:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Nelson, who is an adjunct professor of
nation'S.whiledirtiestthoseWOrd.resi:~ons.i.ble_ for the _...~_ xi/L_bailouts or=,===:~wh° to~0~nanc~` n~.a; .,.Ion term.~.~. ~.;nursmg ........ care~ Memories ..... fea" " tU[ll:" lg the Historys These will be the final History speech at Dickinson State University.
Untn one-mlna oi all rvlealcalo expen- ! v
~Ol.i[llltlll~ piui~l~"'~" Alive. characters of the Marquis de Alive, performances forthe season.The State HiStorical Society of
banking crisis deserve to be aban- dltures' ...... go for nursmg home care .............. ,
uni-sure-',, u it is . • Mores and Medora, Madame de The History Alive, character of Nbrth Dakb~a%ponsbi~s~tiie History
the
doned on some desolate Pacific
atoll,
uI me 5,800 North Dakotans in Mores, will-take place at the Chateau the Marquis de Mores is portrayed Alive! program to explore the lives
we seem to have lost our perspective time to admit that nursing homes, 55 per cent m'e being
on bailouts. Those of us in the Social financed by Medicaid. Some of these
Security age group - and there are a we are already 5,800 made themselves poor by
lot of us in North Dakota- have been standing in a pretty transferring their land and money to
benefiting from the biggest bailouts family and relatives so they could get
since theBerlinAirlift, big bailout trough, nursing home care at government
First, there's the cornerstone of expense.
retirement for many seniors - Social on Medicare have little sympathy for Medicaid is a bailout not only for
Security. The depression of the 1930s the 45 million uninsured Americans nursing home residents but it is also a
proved that millions of Americans waiting for some kind of health care. huge bailout for their families. With
didn't have the foresight or the means They favor more and better coverage Medicaid, families are off the hook
to provide for their retirement. The for themselves but no expansion of when it comes to caring for parents,
government stepped in with Social coverage to the uninsured, siblings, uncles, aunts and other
Security. The program can be called a Seniors are already gobbling up a loved ones.
bailout because millions of aging disproportionate share of the medical Social Security, Medicare and
beneficiaries are drawing out more dollar. As our bodies start falling Medicaid all have justifiable goals in
money than they or their employers apart, we look to Medicare to provide a humane society. But for the seniors
ever paid in. Other beneficiaries us with the better pills and more sur- who turn purple raving about bailouts
never paid anything at all. gery. Medical advances have resulted or who spurn the pleas of the unin-
From Social Security, we move to in longer lives, meaning more older sured, it is time to admit that we .are
an even bigger bailout - Medicare. people who need even better pills and already standing in a pretty big
According to recent polls, the folks bailout trough.
Cook's Conrer
By Jane M. Cook
000
de Mores State Historic Site on by Dickinson native Lance Rustand. and times of decades gone by.
Saturday, Sept. 12. The character of Medora, Madame Begun in 1988, the program corn-
The times of their performances de Mores, is portrayed by Karen bines the theater arts with history.
Recently I was reminded about
all the different phrases that have
been floating around our home, and
was wondering if other families had
some of their own personal or tradi-
tional phrases or sayings that seem
to pop up now and then.
One that came to mind was
when someone asked me to give
them directions to a particular loca-
tion. I smiled as I remembered one
of my Dad's favorite sayings: "You
can't get there from here." And in
some cases that was true. There
were occasions where it was much
simpler to show the person inquir-
ing about the location how to get
there, than telling them how to get
there.
One such occasion arose when a
gentleman had called to speak to
Dad as to how to get to the
Westerheim Cemetery in Golden
Valley County. A person who had
died had wanted to be buried at that
particular cemetery, but the person
in charge didn't know how to get
there. (I think the caller was from a
funeral home out of town). At any
rate, Dad just kind of chuckled and
said, "You can't get there from
here," which of course confused the
caller.
The gentleman then asked Dad if
he would be willing to drive him out
to the cemetery to see what Dad
meant. Dad agreed, and once they
finally got out there, the gentleman
turned to Dad and said something to
the effect, "I see now w'hat you
mean." He then asked Dad if he
would consider leading the funeral
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wouldn't be able to find his way out
there again. Dad agreed; and all
went well.
And I found out in my own way
that you couldn't get there from
here.
I was doing the Census one year,
and while doing that, we were also
required to mark on our maps roads
that had recently been made, or
roads that were no longer there. For
the most part. I would have to mark
out a new road, but not indicate an
unused road - until I stopped on the
side of the road to consult my map.
I was to make a right hand turn
and go about 2 miles or so to the
next intersection, and wanted to
,,et my bearings. I had gotten my
papers ready, then preceded to
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drive up a small knoll, where I
stopped. I looked at my map
again, and back at the road that
should have been there, but was-
n't. I took one more look at the
map, then I backed up and found a
different way to the intersection
that I should have been able to get
to, and smiling to myself as I
heard my Dad's comment come to
mind, "You can't get there from
here."
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