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The MonDak Heritage Center announces our next session of the Toddler Tuesday Program! Designed for ages 2-6, this fun, hands-on art program introduces children to different forms of art, including painting and clay work, through instruction and storytime. The session meets four Tuesdays, Nov. 6, Nov. 13, Nov. 27, and Dec. 4 from 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. at the MonDak Heritage Center, 120 3rd Ave SE, Sidney. Children for this class must be accompanied by an adult. Program fees are $50/child or $45 for MDHC members. Scholarships available!! Space i...
Glendive, MT – Makoshika State Park (stateparks.mt.gov) will host a Mystical Creatures Weekend on October 26 and 27. Join us on Friday, October 26, 6:30 p.m. for a fun program about Jackalopes. Despite (or possibly because of) their humorous nature, stories about jackalopes and other mysterious creatures teach us about the history and culture of the area from which they originate. Hear an old-fashioned jackalope story, talk about the reality of everyone’s favorite deer-rabbit, and go on a night hike to search for these elusive beasts at Mak...
McKenzie County, ND - The Community Foundation Fund is giving out over $5,400 in grants to local organizations. Applicants must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, government agencies. Groups without such designation may enlist a fiscal sponsor. Apply ONLINE only at www.NDCF.net/McKenzieCounty tab Apply for Grant. Applications are due by Nov 10th. The local advisory committee will discuss the applications and determine grant awards in November. The McKenzie County Community Foundation was established to fund priority needs of the community that would...
Friday night, October 26, 840 Sidney Wrestling Club supporters are in for a real treat. At 6 p.m. the Wrestling Club's Annual Casino Night fundraiser begins at the Sidney Elks Lodge. They will enjoy delicious parmesan chicken and chicken fried steak, music, prizes, bingo, poker, and other fun things as one would expect but this year the special guest is inspirational speaker, bilateral amputee, and Hodge Trophy Winner Nick Ackerman. According to Bob Dotson in a 2011 segment of Today's American...
In the spirit of Celebrating Co-op Month, Lower Yellowstone Rural Electric Cooperative is holding its Annual Coat and Food Drive. You can bring non-perishable food items, hygiene products, coats, mittens, scarves, boots or cash donations to LYREC’s office the entire month of October. All food items and cash donations will be taken to the Richland County Food Bank and all winter gear will be donated to the Salvation Army in Sidney. This is a great way to show your community that you care, and together we can make a difference...
A new action group has recently been assembled to help build stronger veteran services across this side of the state. The Northeast Montana Regional Veterans Services Action Group is striving to determine how many veterans are in this region so that current and needed services may be more effectively distinguished. Veterans can be challenging to connect with at times. They don’t always want to admit they are veterans and often don’t identify themselves for a variety of reasons. Some might feel that being a veteran is a liability, while oth...
The third annual Comedy Café starring Las Vegas headliner Jeff Civillico and comedian Bob Stromberg, is coming to Watford City on Friday, October 26 at 7 p.m. Central at the Watford City Performing Arts Center at Watford City High School. Featured comedian, TV Host Personality and Philanthropist Jeff Civillico has been a Las Vegas Headliner with Caesars Entertainment for 7 years, having performed 1000+ shows at The LINQ, The Flamingo, and now at The Paris Hotel & Casino. Jeff's Vegas show at...
It has been a rocky harvest with rain, snow and frost slowing progress on what should have been an excellent tonnage crop. However, good weather has provided good digging recently and beet harvest is coming to a close with Savage and Pleasantview completed and the other stations projected to be done by the end of this week. According to Sidney Sugars Agricultural manager Duane Peters, their earlier tonnage predictions have not born out due to cold weather in September and October, which stopped...
Ryan Kopp and his father, Ron, have found success farming pulse crops on the family farm. Ron's parents grew up in the Girard area, and Ron returned in 1981 to farm with Bill Lewis. Ryan followed suit, recently reducing his hours as a Civil Engineer at Interstate Engineering to spend more time on the farm. The family farms pulse crops- dry, edible legumes that are generally high in protein. These include chickpeas, peas, lentils and beans. This growing season, the Kopp's planted yellow peas and...
In 1903 Andrew Wisness staked his claim on a piece of land seven miles north of Keene, North Dakota. He began farming his quarter then passed the farm on to his son Lester. Now 115 years later, that piece of land has expanded into a large commercial beef cattle and dryland crop operation. The farm has been passed down from generation to generation and is now managed by Lester's son Milo, and Milo's two sons, Beau and Chase Wisness. Beau Wisness has been farming as an occupation for a little over...
Savage's Alex McPherson is grateful for his family's success in the beet farming industry. McPherson is a fourth generation beet farmer, delving into farming following his 2006 graduation from Savage High School. Alex began helping his father, Craig, and more recently began taking over more of the day-to-day operations. "It's figuring out what needs to go where, and who needs to do what," he said. The family has about 550 acres of beet crop, and has an otherwise very diversified operation....
Kale? Chard? Kohlrabi? Most adults say "eww" when offered those foods. Offer them to kids and the "eww" is just a bit louder! That was the reaction at the Boys & Girls Club last Wednesday when program director Janelle Buxbaum explained to her group of kids that their "Harvest of the Month" class would be about those three foods. Once a month, the kids are able to attend the after school class which is a program from MSU Bozeman that promotes eating locally grown foods. "It's a fun activity,"...
The Roundup held it's 15th annual beet decorating contest last week, and as always, the kids did a fantastic job of turning a rather ugly beet into something charming, and fun. Special thanks go to Tim Neu and his wonderful staff at Neu's Super Valu for hosting the event, and Powder Keg for providing prizes the kids, and parents, were excited to win. Click here for full album....
Nortana Grain Company, founded in 1939, buys and sells numerous agricultural commodities and has a long-established presence in Eastern Montana. As a premier marketer for agricultural commodities, Nortana has its thumb on the pulse of the ag industry. The Roundup recently spoke with Nortana General Manager, Shane Keller, about this year's crop yields and prices. Keller has been with Nortana for about twelve years. Keller told the Roundup, "Yield-wise, the earlier crops that went in were really g...
Montana author Ryan Acra is amidst a book tour for his book series, Sugarbeet Falls, teaching kindness and creativity to students both across Montana and the nation. The Sugarbeet Falls book series follows main character Xander Zackery, a seemingly ordinary sixth grade student, who discovers that he has the power to conjure up superheroes, a family trait passed to him from his grandfather. The superheroes don't have the typical superhero powers like Superman and Batman, but help Xander with...
