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September 10, 2009 Page 3 I I 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 6 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, ul 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 Playing ** Meryl Streep, Amy Adams 281 E MAIN - BEACH ND 701-872-4362 Pull Bingo Black Tabs Clara Michels $50 Jack Live Friday & Saturday Hours: Mon-Fri. 3pm-lam Sat. lpm-lam Happy Hour: Mon.-Thurs. 5:30-6:30pm procession, as he was sure that he 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 The Golden Valley News and Billings County Pioneer welcomes letters to the edi- tor. The letters must include the author's signature, address and phone number for verification of author- ship. Mail them to: Golden Valley News/ Billings County Pioneer PO Box 156 Beach, ND 58621 We reserve the fight to shorten letters, edit out factu- al errors and reject those deemed libelous, in poor taste or of a personal nature. All opinions expressed are those of the author and do not represent the opinions of the GVN or BCP. 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." i "1 i Golden Valley News P,O. Box 156, Beach, ND 58621 (U.S.P.S. Pub. 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