Mason Bates, a 2024 Horizon Christian High School graduate, fulfilled a lifelong goal when he signed a letter of intent last month to attend Trinity Bible College in Ellendale, North
North Dakota county with highest COVID-19 death rate now leads state in vaccinations
Dickey County has North Dakota s highest COVID-19 death rate per capita, but residents have flipped the pandemic narrative with the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines. Written By: Jeremy Turley | ×
Dickey County Health District nurses Amber Miller, left, and Laurie Wang work at the agency s building in Ellendale, N.D., on May 5, 2021. Jeremy Turley / Forum News Service
ELLENDALE, N.D. Dickey County, N.D., is a place of extremes when it comes to the coronavirus.
Last fall, the county south of Jamestown was the state s rural epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. With one of the highest infection rates in the nation, its perfectly rectangular shape often appeared colored in a deep red hue on virus heatmaps.
Recently retired Fargo pastor looks forward to 30th mission trip to Chicago
Pastor Cal and several others from the area have been going to the Chicago neighborhood of Englewood for years, and they ll return this summer to pour their hearts into the lives of the materially impoverished community. Written By: Roxane B. Salonen | 7:45 am, Feb. 12, 2021 ×
The Rev. Cal Thompson uses a megaphone to direct traffic in the summer of 2020 in the parking lot of Fargo s Northview Church as motorists received free 25-pound boxes of produce. Special to The Forum
MOORHEAD This weekend, as sweethearts exchange chocolates, roses and kisses for Valentine’s Day, the Rev. Cal Thompson will be contemplating love, too. But this love can’t be contained in a heart-shaped candy, for it springs from the cross of Christ, and it has seized Thompson’s own heart so fiercely, it permeates everything he does.