25 Years Ago â 1996
Julie Kottsick, sponsored by the Hair For You Salon, has been crowned the 1996 Winter Daze Queen during the annual pageant held at the Mandan High School Auditorium. Peggy Wright, sponsored by Brunsoman, Leifur and Mattern Dental Associates, Bismarck, was chosen as the Winter Daze Princess. Kottsick will reign over all Winter Daze events during February. This yearâs theme was âRemember When.â Nine candidates participated in the pageant.
This yearâs Winter Daze activities include: a Caribbean Beach Party, with dancing in the sand to âNight Lifeâ and the âWay Hot Horns,â held at the Mandan Community Center. Tournaments were also held for indoor sand volleyball, wheelchair and amateur basketball, Squirt hockey, co-ed snow softball and a âHeartbreaker Runâ road race, beginning from the Community Center.
Mandan Public Schools will hold a special election in April for a proposed $84 million bond issue that would fund a new high school and elementary school.
BISMARCK, N.D. (PNS) – North Dakota families facing hardships could see some relief from state lawmakers, with a bill that calls on the state to cover school meal expenses for all students over the next two years.
This week, the House Education Committee heard testimony on the bill. House Bill 1413 would set aside more than 80-million dollars in Legacy Funds to ensure each public-school student has access to free breakfasts and lunches through the school year. Supporters say it’s a response to increasing need, but also to help end lunch-debt shame for lower-income kids.
Krisanna Peterson, a parent and paraprofessional at Mandan High School, believes more families need this help than one might think.
Jan 16, 2021
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The Strengthening the Heartland program has reached youth and adults throughout North Dakota. Map courtesy of South Dakota State University.
Farming and ranching are businesses that often involve the entire family.
So when the farm or ranch operation faces challenges such as poor growing and harvesting conditions, low commodity prices, trade wars, a shortage of livestock feed for winter or injuries, the stress affects everyone in the family, according to NDSU Agriculture Communications. These stressors are risk factors for prescription opioid misuse.
North Dakota State University Extension has partnered with South Dakota State University Extension to provide services that prevent opioid misuse in rural communities, particularly in the farming/ranching industry, across the two states through a program called Strengthening the Heartland (STH). They received a $563,825 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and a