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Sonya Heydt of Marketplace Foods, left, and Elaine Gunderson, advertising director at The Minot Daily News, stand in Lienâs Jewelry next to the boxcar that Heydt and her granddaughter created for the South Broadway Marketplace Foods. The holiday train contest entry, displayed at Lienâs, was the publicâs favorite in an online contest.
An eye-catching holiday boxcar created by Sonya and Ruby Heydt and displayed at Lien’s Jewelry in downtown Minot was selected as the community’s favorite in online voting.
The train received 58% of the public vote in a holiday train contest sponsored by The Minot Daily News.
Growing cotton and peanuts in northern North Dakota
North Dakota is famous for the number of specialty crops. An organic produce grower at Carpio, N.D., northwest of Minot, grows and sells small amounts of peanuts and cotton plants as novelty items for a farmers market. 5:30 am, Dec. 23, 2020 ×
Marvin Baker has accumulated about 4 pounds of cotton boll fiber from production at his organic garden at Carpio, N.D. Photo taken Oct. 11, 2020, at Carpio, N.D. Photo courtesy of North Star Farms.
CARPIO, N.D. North Dakota is famous for its variety of some 20 commercial crops. Now, you can add peanuts and cotton.
Growing cotton and peanuts in northern North Dakota
North Dakota is famous for the number of specialty crops. An organic produce grower at Carpio, N.D., northwest of Minot, grows and sells small amounts of peanuts and cotton plants as novelty items for a farmers market. 10:00 am, Dec. 23, 2020 ×
Marvin Baker has accumulated about 4 pounds of cotton boll fiber from production at his organic garden at Carpio, N.D. Photo taken Oct. 11, 2020, at Carpio, N.D. Photo courtesy of North Star Farms.
CARPIO, N.D. North Dakota is famous for its variety of some 20 commercial crops. Now, you can add peanuts and cotton.
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Vlad, a Russian tortoise, is shown in his habitat. A tortoise habitat built by a Longfellow Elementary School student in Karalee Maciverâs class in Minot was done as a virtual âHome Sweet Habitatâ program. The program was presented to first-grade classes in Minot virtually or in person.
First-grade classes in Minot Public Schools were offered the opportunity to learn about zoo animals through a grant for the “Home Sweet Habitat” program to Minot’s Roosevelt Park Zoo from Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Wash.
The grant is through Advancing Conservation Through Empathy (ACE), a network of AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums in seven states in the northern region of the U.S. based at the Seattle zoo. AZA stands for Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Trinity Health is ready to receive the first shipments of much anticipated COVID-19 vaccine, expected to ship as early as next week, according to information pr