The Gazette is brought to you, simply because POOP happens. However,
according to Scott Hove, it's what you do with it that really matters.
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The current temperature is -10 degrees
The feels like temperature is -10
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 1/-19
Normal H/L temp for this date is 19/1
It was 46 degrees on this date in 1943
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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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Except for the hustle and bustle of local holiday shopping, it's
difficult to find much going on in Shivercity.
I understand the last of the remaining camper trailers will be pulling
out of the Leistikow Park Campground today or tomorrow. Rumor has it,
the remaining pipeline workers will be going home for the holidays and
will return to the area in a couple weeks to continue working on the
line.
It certainly has been wonderful having our campground at full occupancy
all summer. Even better than that is all of the improvements the
campground received this past summer.
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I'm guessing folks are still trying to "digest" the Grafton neon sign
issue and what might be the best direction for it's resolve.
Paul DeSautel shared his memories of The Sign while it was stored in
the City Hall. He wrote: >>> Re: The "sign"
I kinda remember it in the City Hall basement leaning against the
north wall behind Henry Bernard's 1903 Oldsmobile. I have no idea how
many years ago that could have been or when, if ever, it was up! There
were a lot of mystical things in that basement.
Paul <<<< Thanks for caring and sharing Paul. I'm wondering if by chance
you, or someone remembers seeing any of the "parking meters" once used
in town. It would be great to find one or two of them so they too could
be displayed with the large collection of yesteryears memories at
Grafton's Heritage Village.
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I mentioned Graftons two railroads the other day and it gave Bert
Overland reason to remember. Bert wrote: >>>>
Subject: Trains from Grafton of old.
Gary, your comments on the trains brought back some precious memories.
All the neighborhood kids used to watch the very long trains hauling
airplanes (with the wings off), tanks, trucks, artillery on open
cars. There were armed guards on them and passenger cars with troops.
This was on the Northern Pacific going through the east set of tracks
shipping to Canada.
On the Great Northern I never saw military equipment but us
Overland boys and the LeQuires used to take our burlap bags (gunny
sacks) and pick up coal spilled from the train along the tracks. We
would go just as the trains were filling on water at the big tank
because that was when the fireman would also shovel in more coal.
Sometimes he would see us waiting with our sacks and he'd throw throw a
couple shove fulls between the cars.
Those were tough days, and, in those days "oil" was not the only
"Black Gold".
Another interesting thing, One day In Seattle I went for lunch at a
restaurant featuring railroad memorabilia and lo and behold there was a
painting of the old Great Northern depot in Grafton North Dakota
looking from the south to north along the tracks and it had Grafton
right on it. <<<< Thanks a million for caring and sharing Bert.
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While I was doing a some "research" in the Gazette library the other
day I got to thinking about how our economy has gone down the crapper
lately (pardon the pun). I thought about how folks used to make a
concerted effort, to do business with folks that done business with
them.
--- That's NOT the case with the Fargo Perkins Restaurant by the way.
Just yesterday I noticed they are still using
sugarcane sugar just a few miles away from the corporate headquarters of
the largest beet sugar company in the country. ---
Anyway, I started thinking about the early days of the Walmart
dynasty...... Does anyone remember the ads of the mid to late sixties
showing Sam Walton driving to work in his old Chevrolet pickup with his
brown bag lunch on the seat? Does anyone remember Sam and later on his
executive staff say, "we only buy American products to sell to the
American public"? I DO! Can anyone possibly believe, in your wildest
imagination, the miniscule amount of American products Walmart actually
handles today. I CAN'T.
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"There is absolutely nothing wrong, with being wrong. As long as you
realize you are wrong, and make it right." GLM
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If you haven't read OH, POOP! authored by former Graftonite Scott Hove.
I think you'll really be surprised how much Scott's book will help you
get your POOP together. Just for the heck of it e-mail: tips@OhPoop.com
and ask for more information.
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The best test of good manners is how you put up with bad ones.
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GOTTA GO WORK ON MY DASH
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can think of."
Or so it seems to me.
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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