Category: Five Ate For Owe Won
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In Memoriam
I was at my high school reunion last weekend. I had an absolute blast. It was an utterly wonderful time, in just about every possible way. Of course, any gathering of mid-fortysomethings is going to have its share of bad news. Up until last year, we’d lost a total of six classmates out of 251;…
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Well, That Was Fun
I spent the weekend in North Dakota, at my class reunion. More later this week, hopefully.
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You Think You Have Problems?
In North Dakota, at least in my lifetime, all flooding west of the Red River is compared to the Great Flood of 1969. That year, pretty much every major town in the state – Fargo, Grand Forks, Jamestown, Minot, Bismarck – was inundated with runoff from record snow and rain falls. It was the standard…
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Just Saying
3-5 inches of snow in parts of North Dakota today. Let’s go over how the weather in the Twin Cities is really just the same as it is in the Northern Plains again?
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When Out And About
If you are down and about the downtown Minneapolis gallery scene anytime soon, stop by Circa Gallery (210 North 1st Street) and see the current exhibition, by Barbara Gilhooly. I was at the opening last Saturday. So was “Briana”, whom I do not know, but who brought a much better camera than I did, and…
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Winter Is Springing
Via the NWS, there’s a storm brewing over God’s Country: COLDER AIR MOVING SOUTHEAST FROM SASKATCHEWAN WILL RESULT IN RAIN CHANGING OVER TO ALL SNOW OVER WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA THIS MORNING AND THEN OVER NORTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA BY AFTERNOON. THE COLDER AIR WILL REACH CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA BY THIS EVENING. THE PRECIPITATION WILL BE IN…
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Just Getting Better
Caught this in the Jamestown newspaper from a couple of weeks ago. Jamestown’s Bruce Berg scored a hole-in-one at Hillcrest Golf Course on Thursday. Not bad for being ten days after his seventy-somethingth birthday. Congrats, Dad!
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Another Wet Spring
Meanwhile back in my hometown of Jamestown, ND, they’re getting ready for more flooding, as the two reservoirs north of town fill to records. Now, Jamestown is built at the confluence of the James River – the world’s longest non-commercially-navigable river – and Pipestem Creek. Both rivers drain a huge basin in central North Dakota…
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Attention, Jamestown High School Class of ’81 People
This is a closed-circuit message for the readers of this site who graduated from Jamestown (ND) High School in 1981. The rest of you can rejoin this blog with the next post. Thanks. ’81 people – the artist formerly known as Ruth Newman is starting work on the 30 year reunion. If you’re a classmate,…
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A Note From Fargo
A high school classmate of mine who lives in the “exurbs” north of Fargo writes: Just a note that if you’re interested in listening to local flood coverage in Fargo, below is a link.My daughter is out again sandbagging today.Many volunteers and homehowners are exhausted, many others still eager. Keep them in your thoughts and…
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All The Jamestown News That Fits
This one blows my mind; all you Jamestown natives who read the blog will get it. On Tuesday, the city’s airport was closed due to flooding: The airport is on the high ground. The airport remains closed to fixed-wing planes today. This, just in time for the blizzard, as the flooding in the lowlands of…
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The Spring Of ’66
A few weeks ago, I noted the 43rd anniversary of the greatest blizzard of my lifetime, the Great North Dakota Blizzard of ’66. Of course, all that snow had to go somewhere. The Army Corps of Engineers had put up a dam on the James River – the longest un-navigable river in the world –…
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Rumors of Winter’s Demise…
…are greatly exaggerated: The North Dakota Department of Transportation announced on Tuesday afternoon that the westbound lane of Interstate 94 from Mandan to Dickinson will remain closed tonight through Wednesday morning until the road can be cleared. Blowing and drifting snow with heavy accumulation will continue to create hazardous driving conditions in the westbound lane…
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Welcome Home, 817th Engineers
I wrote last year for Veteran’s Day about the history of the North Dakota National Guard from the Spanish-American War through Iraq. There was a bit of current history I’d missed; Jamestown’s National Guard company (renamed again – it’s now the 817th Engineer Company (Sapper), specializing in minefield clearance) has done its second tour in…
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It Was Forty Years Ago Today
My dad doesn’t remember this – but I do. We were driving down Sixth Street Southeast in Jamestown, heading toward the tracks. Dad was listening to the radio (tuned in to KEYJ, naturally) in our old Mercury. It was bright and clear outside. And the announcer led with a story about “Martin Luther King” being…
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Five Ate For Owe Won
First things first. My dad, Bruce Berg, has a book coming out in the next week or so. I think it’s called “Heard It Now And Then”, and it’s an anthology of his best guest editorials from his 25 year archive of material for North Dakota Public Radio. And I was surprised to learn that…