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Dedication and hard work is rewarded with great accomplishments, and few know this better than Watford City's 18-year-old rodeo competitor, Samantha Jorgenson. Among her many achievements, Jorgenson has claimed the title of NDRA Lady's All Around Champion the last two years, as well as the 2013 North Dakota High School Lady's All Around Champion. For the Jorgenson family, rodeo is a way of life. "It's definitely a family thing," Jorgenson says about her training. Both her parents and her little...
They say that farming is not just a job, but a way of life. This has certainly been true for 3rd generation Fairview sugar beet farmer Robbie Stepan. As Stepan reflects on his last 41 years of farming, and experiences his final beet harvest, his feelings expressed of retirement are bittersweet. Stepan has always enjoyed beet harvest and says that he couldn’t ask for a better one than this year’s. However, Stepan has not been able to say that about every harvest and remembers some very wet years,...
There have been many great memories made from hunting in the past 40 years for local Sidney pheasant and deer hunter Steve Bright. In his younger days, it was about having fun with his buddies. However, now that he is a father and grandfather of 2 up and coming hunters, the hunting experience has become more about spending quality time with his family. Bright remembers loving to hunt so much in his younger days that he and his buddies would shoot jackrabbits so they could afford ammunition. He...
This fall is a very exciting time for sewers to go check out Quilts and More with their new sewing machines, and fun, fall fabrics! Also, in conjunction with 4-H week, the store is offering a drawing for a chance to win a 520 sewing machine to any 4-H member in the surrounding area who purchases fabric from their store. Quilts and More, a local fabric store on the outskirts of Sidney, was opened in 1999 by owner Laura Van Hook and is now the largest fabric store in the area. The store is huge...
Pheasant season in Montana is upon us, and local Sidney hunter Doug Hill is gearing up with his hunting dog, Sonny,for a season of fun adventures. Hill started pheasant hunting at a young age where he grew up in Nashua, Montana and has been doing it ever since. The season in Montana lasts from October 12th to January 1st and Hill will be going out every weekend during this time. “I probably wouldn’t go every weekend if my dog didn’t make me,” Hill said laughing. Doug has a pointing dog named S...
