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No man is a success for more than a minute - the minute in which he
completes a successful job.
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The current temperature is 43 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 59/28
Normal H/L temp for this date is 50/29
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"Profanity makes ignorance audible."
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L O C A L news & stuff,.. mostly stuff.
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The canopy over the Cenex station fuel island on the west edge of town
is getting a new face lift. Now when you stop at the "Kum&Go" you'll see
little Cenex signs from every direction.
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Speaking of new things happening around town. A couple folks were
walking around the former Grafton National Bank building the other day.
If I was to guess, it would be that the north half of the building may
be getting a new tenant soon. Of course,... it's only a rumor at this
point.
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Speaking of rumors. The rumors about Wallys Supermarkets selling their
stores are starting up again. This time, according to rumor. Some folks
have been seen coming to town in hi-powered airplanes, wearing suits and
ties with briefcases stuffed full of "something".
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Former Graftonite David Rogalla posed the following question. >>>
Gary, do you remember when the first diesel train engine came to town?
I think it was during Grafton Days and I think it was either 1949 or
1950. Dave R <<< I'll be darned if I know Dave. Maybe someone out there
can supply the answer.
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Normally I don't like to get into discussions about anything pertaining
to elections of any kind. HOWEVER, this will be one exception. I
received the following e-mail from Ralph Kingsbury the other day and
even before I finished reading it I committed myself to forward it to
everyone I know. Personally, I hope everyone I know, will do the same.
The information I received from Ralph. >>>>
Grafton's own Dennis Elbert, Dean of the College of Business and
Public Administration, made the UND Presidential Search Committee's
first cut. There are a total of 16 applicants left. That may seem like a
large number, but this is the time to make our feelings known to the
search committee.
The addresses are:
Dean Paul Lebel
Chair, Presidential Search Committee
108 Law Building
215 Centennial Dr. Stop 9003
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9003
Or email: lebel@law.und.edu
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Dennis Elbert deserves our support not just because he is from
Grafton. He deserves our support because he has proven his leadership.
One example: recently the business school had a $20 million fund drive.
People told Dennis that was too ambitious. Dennis raised $22 million.
Further, Dennis has brought the business school to the point it was
accredited at the most prestigious business school accreditation level.
The only business school in North Dakota to reach this level. Much of
the fund raising has been specifically for student scholarships. I could
go on, but this is Dennis. I am asking you to do what you can to help
make this happen. Dr. Elbert deserves this position, and he is highly
qualified for it.
Many of you may remember the successes UND accomplished when Tom
Clifford was president. Many of those accomplishments were because
President Clifford was from North Dakota. I believe those same reasons
are relevant today. Dennis Elbert offers answers to that same situation.
Please pass this on to anyone you think could help. Thank you.
Ralph Kingsbury <<<<
Thanks a million for caring and sharing Ralph. I have known Dennis and
his wonderful Mother and Father for as long as I can remember. Our
community, state and most certainly the University of North Dakota will
search forever and not find a individual with a more impeccable
background than Dennis Elbert.
I wish Dennis the very best in his latest venture. His mother and
father began providing Dennis with the skills for such a position before
he could even walk.
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As promised in yesterdays Gazette, here is more of the Alchem alcohol
saga. >>>
One subscriber wrote: "Here's what happens when you convert a food
product to an energy product. Not only does it hurt the consumers with
higher food prices, it hurts the very industry it was supposed to help."
In response to this comment.... Ethanol is not the cause of higher food
prices. the price of the energy to make the food combined with the
increased price to transport the food around the country have risen
dramatically. Case in point, crude oil is now at an all time of high
$87/barrel. These increases get passed on to the consumer. Ethanol is a
blending component that reduces the price of gasoline! He continued:
"This is the tip of the iceberg, mark my words. We (Taxpaying legal
residents) will be subsidizing this industry big time somewhere down the
road." In response.... The ethanol is subsidized today, HOWEVER, the
ethanol subsidy comes in the form of tax credits, no tax payer dollars
are helping build corn ethanol plants. Further, ethanol has created a
demand for corn, raising the price per bushel giving farmers the ability
to sell their corn at reasonable prices and not rely on annual
government financial programs. He further continued: "I had the
opportunity to tour the Tesoro refinery in Mandan last spring. The
manager and I discussed ethanol and he echoed my concerns that it makes
absolutely no financial sense to produce ethanol. It costs more to
produce than gasoline from crude oil, it has less power than gasoline,
and it uses a food source as it's raw product, which drives the price of
corn up, which drives the price of everything else up, and even if every
available tillable acre of land in the U.S. was planted into corn and
converted to ethanol we'd still need to import a substantial amount of
foreign oil to keep our country going. Besides that, we'd all starve
eventually. Idiotic idea from the start!" In response..... The United
States is increasingly dependent on imported energy to meet our
personal, transportation and industrial needs. As a result the U.S. is
vulnerable to the whims of OPEC and events in unstable regions of the
world. As a domestic, renewable source of energy, ethanol can reduce our
dependence on foreign oil and increase the United States' ability to
control its own security and economic future. Today, ethanol reduces the
need to import 128,000 barrels a day of oil and the fuel additive, MTBE.
Just 23.8 gallons of ethanol can replace one barrel of imported oil. <<<
I will send out the remaining facts and figures to this issue in the
next Gazette.
And, I will include a very interesting message I received from Ryan
Johnston as well.
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Welcome to the Gazette family John.
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GOTTA - GO - WORK - ON - MY - DASH
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P.S. Thanks a million for your comments Joanne. "Sometimes it's hard to
see the sun, because of the sunburn."
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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