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The Hallson Icelandic Lutheran Church was constructed in 1897 and was named for Johann Hallson, who donated the land, bell, altar and money to the congregation. Today, the church has been preserved as part of the Icelandic State Park, just four miles from its original location on Highway 5, near Cavalier, North Dakota.
– Courtesy North Dakota Tourism –
Thank You for Helping Me Through 2020
There aren’t many jobs in which you’re lucky enough to make friends as you work out of your home office, connected only by a telephone.
But this column makes me lucky enough!
It takes me into the world of imaginative folks who respect and appreciate the people and pioneers of the Old West. I love how they take hold and won’t let go just like the folks they’re honoring with their preservation efforts.
they would never see. we waited a long time for this, and now we re number one. number one. i was at the last senators game september 30th, 1971. i was in the third grade. i never thought i would see championship and d.c. baseball in the same sentence. this is absolutely amazing. the nationals can clinch home fieladvantage in the playoffs by shall iffing the regular season with the best record in the national league. right now they re tied with the cincinnati reds for that best record. we bring in tom kierein. this is something a lot of folks are excited about because it just it doesn t happen. you can t help think about it that way. we had a terrific season. to clinch first place. if i had some gatorade, i d pour it on both of you. what a wonderful thing for washington, even though we had rain scattered around the region. take a look now. we do have a big area of rain advancing south to north headed into our area. it s a big area of low pressure to our nort
boom, boom, boom, it was going off last night. what was going on? nationals are the national league east division champs. so exciting. it was certainly worth getting that alarm out and that alert out to everybody. you probably got those going off on your phone too. this morning we re looking at rain moving in. there s a long line of it that stretched from florida all the way up into pennsylvania. we re right in the middle of it. we are getting some moderate showers, these areas in orange and yellow. warrenton and just about now exiting culpeper county and about to come into prince wil ma william. these are going in the western suburbs from loudoun county and western fairfax. right now montgomery county getting light rain, as is frederick and howard and points west. passing moderate showers there as well. there s some gorgeous color now out in the mountains. it s really looking quite like autumn there. near 70 around the bay now. closer to washington, low to mid-60s. pri
what will happen? the federal uer the federal reserve announced they will launch bond buying, hoping qe will stimulate spending and job growth.. have strong opinions on thahat, but first, , defense industry leaderers are warning congress an autotomatic tax cuts scheduled for january will have an automatic a catatastrophic impact. what is the alternative? a european aerospace jugrnaut is poised to provide stier coetition to chicago-based bong and maryland-based lockheed mtin.n. joining us marion blakey, presidident of the aerospace industries association a lobbying g group that represents momore than 150 mufacturers. you have seen her befofore. she was former administrat of e faa and chairman o off the national transportation safety board. thanyofor joining the news first reported by the walall street journal about a merger. i know you can not comment on e bubusiness side of this, but there is talk about whetheruc large companieshould be lowed to merge. i think the unite
that a reality in 12 years. we see what could be a factor into another bid to host the olympics. reporter: with the world focused on the london olympic games, there s new talk that the washington region and baltimore could consider trying again for the 2024 games. i supported our bid. i was hugely behind it. but this is a different story. we want to talk to our business leaders, our community before we step behind something like that. but it s really a consideration. former d.c. mayor tony williams helped promote the 2012 bid back in 2002. the d.c. region lost to new york city which lost to london. commitment would take a lot of thought even before going forward. wonderful partners, great venues, potomac river, chesapeake bay, so much going on around here, it would be a wonderful place to accommodate these visitors, having said that, it s an enormous undertaking. reporter: barbara lang was also part of the 2012 bid. it was a major undertaking. it would be nice if