Todays Gazette is being brought to you by in memory of Jennie Coulter
McAnn.
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The current temperature is 6 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 22/11
Normal H/L temp for this date is 14/-5
The SPOILERS hockey team squared off with the boys in West Fargo
Thursday night. Good ol' maroon and gold scored two points, and,... West
Fargo didn't.
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"Profanity makes ignorance audible."
"Smoking makes ignorance visible."
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L O C A L news & stuff,.. mostly stuff.
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For a while Thursday morning it was starting to look like Transystems
were going to use the intersection by Schumacher & Sons as a stockpile
site. Rumor has it, (it's a fact) the side of one of their trucks opened
up as the truck rounded the corner, and a few tons of sugar beets
spilled out.
Fortunately, within minutes, Denton Offut's Heavy Towing (and, beet
recovery) was on the scene and had them picked up and hauled away.
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Those that knew Frank Kubesh would agree, he certainly was a good one.
For those of you that couldn't make it to Frank Kubesh's funeral,... you
also missed a good one. I received the following note from Dave the day
after the funeral.
>>> Hi Gary,
I was hoping to shake your hand yesterday at Frank Kubesh's funeral for
the fine job you do on the Gazette. Unfortunately, it didn't happen. I
am glad to have had the opportunity to sit next to your brother A.K.
during the service and meal. A.K. and I were busy getting caught up on
each others lives, and reminiscing of our childhood years tearing up the
neighborhood with Goober in the late 60's and throughout the 70's and
remembering what a gem of a man Frank Kubesh was. I'm sure Frank is in
Heaven looking down saying "I can hear you just fine now"! When you go
home you always think about the good ol' days. A large part of those
days involved A.K., your brother John, sister Ann, your daughter Wendy,
Curt Shablow, Kathy Kirchoffner, Tommy Watkins (and GOOBERS SISTERS) the
Berg sisters, the Fishers, the Janikowski's, running around Chandler
field for hours in the summer almost nightly, playing "Army men with
Goober and A.K. in your dads greenhouses (and always getting scolded by
Ann on how much trouble we would be in if we broke a window or killed
any plants!)... on and on and on. I guess if there is anything good that
ever comes out of a funeral it's a flood of good memory's. I always seem
to forget or laugh about the bad ones. One thing I was hoping to ask
you, which I'm sure others are wondering, what are you referring to when
you close with "GOTTA - GO - WORK - ON - MY - DASH"?
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GARY, AND THANKS FOR WHAT YOU DO!
Dave Wosick <<< Thank you for caring and sharing Dave. There are many
ways to explain "the dash". Frank Kubesh may well be as good an example
as one could ever hope to find. Frank was born on May 13, 1915 ---
"DASH" --- January 14, 2007. You see Dave, it wasn't the date Frank was
born, that's so important, or, even the date Frank died, that is so
very important. It is the myriad of absolutely wonderful things that
Frank accomplished between those dates (the dash) that is truly
important. Or so it seems to me.
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The response from the Jennie Coulter McCann story has been nothing
short of fabulous. Ralph wrote. >>>
Frank McCann's story should be printed in a little book and everyone
should have a copy. It should sit right by that other book everyone
should have. The one that people started writing several hundred years
B.C.
When times get "tough" we should all read out of the old
book and then read Frank's. Just imagine what that woman must have been
made out of. Not to in any way take from her fortitude, and obvious
faith, but the truly amazing thing is that woman had a lot of company in
those times. Not everyone though. Otherwise she wouldn't have been able
to buy all that land from those who quit. That proves that she
recognized that for those who saw it, problems presented opportunities.
Ralph Kingsbury <<< Thanks Ralph
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Ruth wrote, >>> Hi Gary:
What a wonderful story about the McCann family. What a nice message from
the Ohio Fox Hunters. I was curious what brought them to North Dakota.
It was great to read about them -- why they picked "our great city" and
how nice they are and enjoyed by so many people in Grafton. Curiosity
killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back. Keep up the good work.
Ruth Glover <<< Thanks Ruth. I notice the for sale sign is still out
front of the old "Ringsak" home place" on Cooper Ave. We'd be happy to
have you back in town.
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Suzanne Burns sent this note. >>> Gary: Just wanted to let you and
Frank know how much I enjoyed the story of Jennie McCann. Thank you,
Frank, for writing it and you, Gary, for making it available to so
many. Suzanne <<
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Lloyd sent this one. >>>> Gary:
The moving story of a pioneer family coming into the Minto area of the
Dakota Territory is much appreciated. Perhaps some of your readers
would also be interested in another moving story of Dakota pioneers as
depicted in the novel "Giants In The Earth" by Ole Edvart Rolvaag. Here
is a short bio of Rolvaag.
Ole E. Rolvaag -- Biographical Notes
Date of birth: April 22, 1876, Donna Island, Norway
Date of death: November 5, 1931, Northfield, Minnesota
Ole Edvart Rolvaag. Author and professor. Fisherman in Norway, 1892-96.
Emigrated to the United States in 1896; worked as a farmhand in South
Dakota 1896-98. Graduated from Augustana Academy in Canton, South Dakota
(later Augustana College, Sioux Falls), 1901; B.A., St. Olaf College,
1905; M.A., St. Olaf College, 1910. Studied at the University of
Christiania (later Oslo), Norway, 1905-06. Professor, Norwegian language
and literature, St. Olaf College, 1906-31. Author of Norwegian language
textbooks and novels, essays, and poems about the Norwegian-American
immigrant experience. His novels, Giants in the Earth and Peder
Victorious, originally written in Norwegian, were published in English
translation in 1927 and 1929, respectively. They received international
acclaim as accounts of immigrant pioneer life on the Dakota prairies in
the 1870s. He worked to preserve and enrich the Norwegian cultural
heritage in the Northwest, 1914-25; helped found the Society for
Norwegian Language and Culture in 1910 and the Norwegian-American
Historical Association in 1925; was secretary there from 1925 to 1931.
Knighted (Order of St. Olav) by King Haakon VII, Norway, 1926. The Ole
Rolvaag Memorial Library at St. Olaf was named for him in 1944.
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Lloyd W. Hanson <<< Thanks a million for caring and sharing Lloyd. Proof
positive that Norwegians did more than just row sailboats across fjords
with giant horns on their heads.
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My sincere gratitude goes out to Lynn Flanagan and Lynn Ebert for
helping our area Firefighters be all they can be.
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GOTTA - GO - WORK - ON - MY - DASH
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"It is only by the 'exchange' of ideas that correspondence and
conversation can become a worthwhile pasttime." GLM
Write if you can, call if you can't, and, tell your loved ones they are,
before it's too late.
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