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Thursday March 21 st, 2013
The Official Newspaper of the City of Drayton and Drayton Public School
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Volume 31 - Number 12
St. Patrick's Day Fund Raiser Draws Large
• Crowd In Spite of Foul Weather
A Community Center renovations to repair areas to enlarge and improve the
fundraiser was held Sunday, of deterioration and to kitchen, replace the electrical
Hastings Landing. The event modernize the historic box, and to replace the east
included a fine buffet of beef, building for comfort andand west doors on the main
breasted chicken and all the usability. Anewroofhasbeen floor. Funds from the event
trimmings, and dessert, plus installed to solve the leaking will be going to help improve
entertainment and door problems and a gorgeous the kitchen.The event was
prizes. They even had a new wheelchair lift was sponsored by the City Hall
Leprechaun, seebelov, installed to accommodateCommittee and Ox Cart
H G ]ohnson Memorial those unable to negotiate the Trails Historical Society.
Hall is undergoing majorstairs. The next projects are
The Gordon Halcrow house on 5th Street looks like its all ready ford white Christmas. Someone
somewhere didn't get the message that the first day of spring was Wednesday. Wonder what
the 4th of July is going to look like.
Every Time We Turn Around, Another Storm
Gees, enough already.
Every time we turn around
it seems like we're getting
another round of snow. It's
starting to look a little like
that year we don't like to
remember very well.
Things got started on
Sunday. In spite of the
weather, the St. Patrick's
Day fund raiser at Hasting
Landing had a good turn out
and did very well.
Most of Monday we were
under blizzard conditions.
Kept things moving pretty
slow around town.
I got caught out at the
ranch, which between that
and a bit of a bug, made it
pretty hard to work on the
paper.
Looking at the National
Weather Service Snowfall
Map, the last blow it looks
like we got a pretty even
distribution of around 5
inches in the north end of
the valley. From Grand Forks
southward it averaged 4.5
and tapered down to about
3.5 in Fargo.
That 50% flood probability
number posted by the
National Weather Service
keeps inching its' way
upward and is approaching
41 feet.
Receives Award
That darn Saralee, out gallivanting all over the place and when she comes back to town, guess
what happens? She turns into a Leprechaun. That's her in the foreground and Danny Rudnick
in the background. They were a part of the St. Patrick's Day Fund Raiser at Hasting's Landing
held by the City Hall Restoration folks.
Public Health Week Recognized
April 1 through 7, 2013
Pembina County Public Health Encourages Residents To Support Public
Health Approaches to Save Lives and Save Money
Contributed by Jeanne Chaput, Pembina Country Health
BISMARCK, N.D. - During North Dakota 58.3 percent of Health Fair on Friday, April
The Drayton Water the federal Safe Drinking
Treatment Plant staff has Water Act, which consists of
been awarded a Certificate of 11 major rules. Alongwith the
Compliance for the year 2012 Certificate of Compliance,
by the ND Department of the water plant staff received
Health. The award recognizes a letter of commendation
successful compliance with and congratulations from
Helping to Keep North Dakota Clean
the Department of Health. National Public Health
Drayton City water plant 4Neek, April 1 through 7,
staff include ]ohnathan 2013, Pembina County
Guss, Perry DeGeldere and Public Health is highlighting
Nick Rutherford. the importance that public
health and prevention play
in keeping our community
healthy. The theme for Public
HealthWeek is "Public Health
is Return On Investment,
Save Lives, Save Money."
Every year in the United
States, seven out of 10 deaths
are due to preventable
chronic diseases such as
diabetes and heart disease.
In fact, chronic diseases
account for 75 percent
of national health-care
spending, yet only 3 percent
of our health-care dollars go
toward prevention. Here in
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The three third graders pictured above were the top three picks for the Drayton School, in
the Keep North Dakota Clean poster contest. The purpose of the contest is to help protect
North Dakota's environment by building public awareness end encouraging us folks to keep
North Dakota clean. Pictured above from left to right are thrid place winner Ariaunna Larocque,
second place winner Kayli Staskivge and first place winner James Knudson.
Peak F'ishitigtlhtnting Times ]his \~,eek
Weather TFivia
Newman Signs, who believe,
collectively, we can make
a positive impact through
every day choices and
actions.
The poster contest is for
students in grades 1-8 and
special needs. Participants
create artwork that reflects
his or her knowledge about
the responsibility we all have
to keep our state and water
clean, reduce waste, recycle,
plant trees, prevent wildfires,
create wildlife habitat, and
use all our natural resources
wisely. First place artwork
in each grade will be turned
into billboards!
All state winners, their
immediate family, and
teachers will be invited
to an awards ceremony
during Earth Day week on
Friday, April 26, 2013, at the
Memorial Hall in Washburn,
North Dakota. After the
ceremony, a luncheon will be
served and everyone will get
free admission to the North
Dakota Lewis and Clark
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Members of the Drayton
School third grade class
participated in the 45th Keep
North Dakota Clean (KNDC)
poster contest. The purpose
of the contest is to help
to protect North Dakota's
natural environment by
keeping North Dakota clean
and healthy for the people,
and animals that live and
visit here.
The KNDC contest is
sponsored by a variety of
partnering agencies and
organizations, including
our residents are living with
a costly and potentially life-
threatening chronic illness.
But there are steps we can
take to help turn these
statistics around.
Residents can learn and
be empowered to change
risky behaviors through
public health approaches
that include promoting
wellness in the workplace
and schools, and engaging
communities in changing
risky behaviors.
Small preventive changes
and initiatives in our
community, schools and
workplace can make a big
difference in living healthier
lives. Visit Pembina County
Public Health's booth at the
26th at the American Legion
in-Cavalier. We hope this
event encourages people to
learn more about the steps
they can take to prevent
diseases.
According to Kallie
Christenson, Public Health
Nurse, chronic diseases
can be prevented by taking
actions through more active
living, healthy eating, and
living tobacco free.
Public Health Week
is part of the American
Public Health Association's
annual celebration of
the role of public health
and helps educate and
engage Americans in the
movement to create a
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Calif. At Detroit. the display was said
to be "so brilliant as to blot out all
stars below first magnitude".
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record high temperature for t~Klay is 58" set in 1957. Expect partly cloudy skies tonight with an overnight
low of 3°. The record low for tonight is -12° set in 1965. Friday. skies will be partly cloudy with a high
temperature of 22". humidity of 69%. Skies will be mostly cloudy Friday night with an overnight low of
13°. Expect mos0y cloudy skies Sat~trday wilt~ a slight chance of snow, high lemperature of 28". Skies will
remain mostly cloudy Sunday with a slight chance of snt~w, high temperature of 21~~.
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