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The word Halloween is of Christian origin and it dates back to about 1745. It means "hallowed evening" or "holy evening". Typical Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, bobbing for apples, watching horror films, attending costume parties, decorating, lighting bonfires, telling scary stories, playing pranks and visiting haunted houses. As a family, it's important to do things together, to create lasting memories. Halloween is a great opportunity to...
George Mitchell of Galveston, Texas passed away July 26, 2013. Mitchell earned a degree from Texas A&M University in petroleum engineering and then not only started an independent oil and gas company, Mitchell Energy & Development Corp, but he built it into a Fortune 500 Company. Mitchell had a passion for technology. When so many large oil and gas companies were interested in shale gas but could not get the gas to flow, or make the breakthrough in fracking, Mitchell spent ten years and $6...
Don’t feel alone if the terms “sell-by” or “best if used by” confuse you. Emily M. Broad Leib, a lecturer in Food Law and Policy at Harvard Law School and the co-founder of Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC), states “The labeling system is aimed at helping consumers understand freshness, but it fails - they think it’s about safety. And (consumers) are wasting money and wasting food because of this misunderstanding.” A recent study done by Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic...
While many states are turtle crawling, states that are fortunate enough to have a shale play such as North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana are hotfooting it. North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana are three states seeing the accelerated pace as their states’ economies are among the best in the nation. At the end of 2012, the unemployment rate in the Bakken was an utter 1.8%. The unemployment rate across the rest of North Dakota was just 3.2%, while South Dakota averaged 3.8% and Montana a...
Amanda Radke, blogger, author, Ag advocate and fifth-generation rancher from Mitchell, SD., will be the guest speaker on January 9th, 2014 at the Ag Days banquet in Sidney, MT. Radke grew up on her family’s purebred Limousin cattle operation in SD and is currently active in the day to day operations along side her husband Tyler and her parents. She became active in advocacy for the U.S. beef industry at a young age and continued her passion at South Dakota State University, where she obtained a...
Compressed natural gas, also known as CNG, powers more than 12 million vehicles on the road today. According to GE, only about 250,000 of these vehicles are being used in the United States. Since 2000, the U.S. has shown a steady increase of approximately 3.7% per year, while the global rate climbs at over 30% per year. However, as gasoline prices continue to rise, American interest in CNG is also rising. Production of CNG Most natural gas comes from three types of wells: oil wells like the...
In 2007 Jon McCreary laid it all on the line by selling everything he had and borrowing every penny he could to invest in the oilfield service business, JMAC Resources. Over the past six years JMAC has went through many changes and is now a very strong, well respected heavy civil and energy industry construction service company which holds a deep value in building relationships within their community. McCreary and JMAC Resources employees honor the community where they live and work. In doing...
CAF Airpower Museum and the Wings of Freedom III are pleased to present Aaron Tippin and special opening act The Copper Mountain Band on Saturday, September 7th at the Richland County Fairgrounds! Gates open at 6:00pm and the concert begins at 7:00pm! Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the Sidney Chamber of Commerce or any Sidney financial institution. Aaron Tippin: Growing up on a 110 acre farm in South Carolina, raising Black Angus, hogs, corn and soy beans, Tippin grew up with a work...
CAF Airpower Museum and the Wings of Freedom III are pleased to present Aaron Tippin and special opening act The Copper Mountain Band on Saturday, September 7th at the Richland County Fairgrounds! Gates open at 6:00pm and the concert begins at 7:00pm! Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the Sidney Chamber of Commerce or any Sidney financial institution. Aaron Tippin: Growing up on a 110 acre farm in South Carolina, raising Black Angus, hogs, corn and soy beans, Tippin grew up with a work...
Hydroponics is a combination of two Greek words, "hydro" meaning water and "ponics" meaning labor. It is a method of growing plants using a mineral solution in water, without using soil. Research has proven soil is not required for plants to thrive. When a plant root is placed in a mineral nutrient solution or in an inert medium, such as gravel, mineral wool, expanded clay, coconut husk or pebbles, it will grow at a rate of 30-50 percent faster than plant roots planted in soil and will produce...
Founded in late 2008, Bismarck based company, Blaise Energy is working hard to evaluate, test and deploy new forms of distributed gas processing. In other words, they are taking the energy from flares and converting it at the flaring location into more usable forms of energy - whether that be converting it to electricity to deliver back into the electrical grid, running the well site operations, or capturing the NGLs and trucking them off the site. Blaise Energy owner, Mark Wald, feels America...
The 42 unit community of Wolf Run Village and Wolf Pup Daycare, located at the corner of 3rd Street SE and 4th Ave. S in Watford City, will be holding a key ceremony and a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, August 7th at 10am. Governor Dalrymple and Attorney General Stenehjem are expected to attend both events. The agenda is as follows: At 10:00 am the Governor and the Attorney General will be introduced to some of the new tenants of the apartments and will have the opportunity to tour at...
Hydroponics is a combination of two Greek words, “hydro” meaning water and “ponics” meaning labor. It is a method of growing plants using a mineral solution in water, without using soil. Research has proven soil is not required for plants to thrive. When a plant root is placed in a mineral nutrient solution or in an inert medium, such as gravel, mineral wool, expanded clay, coconut husk or pebbles, it will grow at a rate of 30-50 percent faster than plant roots planted in soil and will produce a...
The 42 unit community of Wolf Run Village and Wolf Pup Daycare, located at the corner of 3rd Street SE and 4th Ave. S in Watford City, will be holding a key ceremony and a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, August 7th at 10am. Governor Dalrymple and Attorney General Stenehjem are expected to attend both events. The agenda is as follows: At 10:00 am the Governor and the Attorney General will be introduced to some of the new tenants of the apartments and will have the opportunity to tour at...
The semi-annual Clean Williston will be held on Saturday, August 3rd at 9:00 am. Once again Williston residents and businesses will join forces to clean up the city. Kelley Rankin, STAT Oil Facility Coordinator and Communications Director, states “Choke Cherry Festival is August 9th - 10th followed by the 2013 Babe Ruth World Series on August 17th-24th. We’d like to take some pride and clean up the city before these events.” Cleanup is expected to last approximately two hours. The JMAC Resou...
Concerned about the potential of water contamination, many Americans have voiced their opinions and concerns about hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking. This concern is leading the U.S. towards waterless fracking. Is it possible to drill dry? The fracking process is a technique where millions of gallons of water are typically mixed with sand and chemicals and then injected at an extremely high pressure into a wellbore to create fractures in the rock formations - making space for the...
Have you ever wondered what 4-H stands for? The name represents four personal development areas of focus: head, heart, hands, and health. Through hands on experience and by practicing the 4-H slogan, “Learning by doing,” 4-Hers learn skills that’ll remain with them throughout their lives: decision making skills, leadership skills, interpersonal relationships, community concern and responsibility. For most 4-H families the annual county fair is the highlight of the summer. It’s the opportu...
The MonDak Ag Showcase is an annual public event showcasing and promoting the Mon-Dak region as an ideal place for new agricultural businesses and development. The event also promotes the irrigation development and potential in the region, as well as the crop diversity taking place on dryland conditions. The event is hosted to promote the region as a viable ag producing region on various crops and livestock and to showcase the current and potential ag processing located in the region. Some of...
The MonDak Ag Showcase is an annual public event showcasing and promoting the Mon-Dak region as an ideal place for new agricultural businesses and development. The event also promotes the irrigation development and potential in the region, as well as the crop diversity taking place on dryland conditions. The event is hosted to promote the region as a viable ag producing region on various crops and livestock and to showcase the current and potential ag processing located in the region. Some of...
The Mon-Dak Ag Showcase is an annual public event showcasing and promoting the Mon-Dak region as an ideal place for new agricultural businesses and development. The event also promotes the irrigation development and potential in the region, with the crop diversity taking place on dryland conditions. The event is hosted to promote the region as a viable ag producing region on various crops and livestock and to showcase the current and potential ag processing located in the region. One of the...
Nearly 10 years ago in August 2003 the 8,600-square-foot facility known as the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center, held its grand opening. The $2.2 million facility was built with local, state and federal funding approximately one-half mile east of Fort Buford, to tell the stories of the area near the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers and to share the views that Lewis and Clark Expedition members enjoyed when they visited in 1805 and 1806. In addition to the Conf...
ONEOK Partners along with the North Dakota Public Service Commission has announced the building of the new 100 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) natural gas processing plant near Watford City. This facility, Garden Creek III, will be adjacent to ONEOK’s Garden Creek I plant and will be located on the same 80-acre parcel where the company is currently building another natural gas processing plant, Garden Creek II. The expected cost of the Garden Creek III plant and its related i...
Mitchells Oilfield Service has been an oil field service provider in the Williston Basin and the Bakken Formation for over 30 years. Employing over 500 people throughout their 7 locations, Mitchells holds a strong footprint which allows them to serve customers in over a 6500 square mile radius of North Dakota and Montana. In order to be competitive and to provide services required by their customers, Mitchell’s continues to upgrade their equipment with the latest, most innovative technologies a...
Bad credit can affect every aspect of your life: from applying for a loan, filling out an application to get in to a rental property, applying for a credit card and in today’s world it can even determine if you get a job or not. Tony Baca and his team at Continental Credit will give you and your credit history the personal attention it deserves to get you on the road to credit recovery. Continental Credit is a full service credit correction company based out of Denver, Colorado with a n...
Many people believe the best way to teach others about the important role agriculture plays in each of our lives is through education. Williston State College Ag department held a “Living Ag Classroom” for Williston elementary and middle school students - giving the students the opportunity to attend different presentations showcasing various careers in agriculture. Each program of study at WSC set up presentations for the students. The Ag department set up a rotation with five different sta...
