“Mail call!”
A voice rings out in a banquet room where more than 100 veterans are passing around stories of their military service. Their feet are tired from the journey that started before dawn at the Bismarck airport. But their minds and memories are youthful again in this space of shared experience and unspoken understanding. Murmurs of delight follow the mail delivery from table to table, a tradition on the Western ND Honor Flight journey.
With the holiday season upon us, gift shopping offers an opportunity to do more than check names off a list. By choosing products made close to home, gift giving can support local entrepreneurs, strengthen small businesses and help keep dollars circulating in the communities we care about most. And by investing in the people and places that make our state unique, every purchase makes an impact.
Fear.
Joan McKinzey knows it well. She knows it can stop time. She knows it can take root in your memory, keeping you from ever moving forward. She knows because a violent attack while walking home from a party in the 1970s nearly killed her. But the fear from that attack might have done worse.
“I’m sure he thought I was already dead,” McKinzey remembers.
Although she was stabbed multiple times and suffered a collapsed lung, she managed to escape her attacker and run to a neighbor’s house. The neighbor called an ambulance.
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It’s Co-op Month!
Every October, National Cooperative Month recognizes the people and principles that make the cooperative business model unique. Electric cooperatives are part of that celebration.
For more than 90 years, North Dakota’s electric cooperatives, guided by people-first principles and a commitment to service over profit, have helped rural communities not only grow, but thrive. By meeting new challenges and seizing opportunities, electric cooperatives and their communities continue to prosper.
This fall, Chase Dauenhauer will wake up each morning in his home off Bismarck’s River Road to the idyllic view of orange pumpkins streaming through his yard. His neighbor, Dave Pearce, knows the scene well. Every September through October for 43 years, it marked the start of a meaningful day’s work.
Before the military service or statewide public service, community service shaped Brian Kalk’s values.
Growing up in Bottineau, with a father employed by North Central Electric Cooperative, Kalk was inspired early to improve the quality of life for his neighbors. Cooperative values run deep in his story.
As students across the state settle in for another school year, North Dakota voters will decide whether to fund the food that fuels them.
If passed in the November general election, a constitutional measure brought forth by a citizen-led coalition – Together for School Meals – would require state funding for daily school meals. Measure 2 would provide one free breakfast and one free lunch each school day to every student enrolled in public schools and public charter schools. Private and tribal schools may also opt-in for the program.
Bismarck State College (BSC) delivers career-focused education “Done Right.”