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Articles written by Patti Clifton


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  • Sheyenne: Oct. 7, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Oct 7, 2024

    On Sunday, Sept. 22, Dave Karlsbraaten and Ken Ames were two of 215 veterans who were on the North Dakota/Minnesota Honor Flight. They were greeted at the Fargo airport with bagpipes playing patriotic music and motorcycle veterans thanking the vets for their service. Upon landing in Baltimore, Md., they loaded buses and the first stop was Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. This was the birthplace of "The Star-Spangled Banner" written by Francis Scott Key. They were able to see the cannons and bunkers from the War of 1812 and...

  • Sheyenne: Sept. 30, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Sep 30, 2024

    Patti Clifton kept a vehicle appointment in Carrington last Friday. While the car was being worked on, Patti and Deanna Erickson had lunch and a visit at Pizza Ranch. Later, Patti did some shopping before returning to Sheyenne. Dianne Hanson called bingo for Sheyenne Civic Association Saturday night, Sept. 21. Bob Hanson and Kathy Albrecht sold cards and Darlene Kolstad served the lunch. Since blackout did not go, $250 will be the amount for Sheyenne Fire Department on September 28. Patti Larson was surrounded by other Sheyenne residents when...

  • Sheyenne: Sept. 23, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Sep 23, 2024

    Tiffany Harr called bingo on Saturday, Sept. 14 while Denise Labrensz and Randy Keller sold cards. Patti Larson, Sharon Whitmer and Sandra Larson served lunch. Blackout will be $225 Saturday, Sept. 21, when Sheyenne Civic Association hosts. Gavin Brown had a full crew on Sunday, including his dad and sister, to help remove lathe and plaster inside as well as three layers of shingles outside at the old Sinclair Station on Main Street. The Sheyenne community is cheering him on! First Lutheran Church Council met at 10 a.m. on Sunday before...

  • Sheyenne: Sept. 16, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Sep 16, 2024

    Patti Larson visited Marilynn Kruger at Room 6, Grace Lane, Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd in New Rockford on Wednesday. Later in the week, Joanna and Patti helped Margo pick melons and tomatoes at the Kruger farm. Eddy County 4-H Roundup awards night and supper was held this year at the New Rockford Eagles Club. Several Sheyenne families attended as the youth were recognized for their achievements for the year. 4-H'ers will be serving a roast beef dinner at the Central North Dakota Steam Threshers Reunion the weekend of September 21. It wa...

  • Sheyenne: September 9, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Sep 9, 2024

    The $250 blackout had a lucky winner when Dianne Hanson called bingo last Saturday night. Other volunteers for Sheyenne Civic Association were Tim Hartl and Randy Keller selling cards and Darlene Kolstad serving lunch. Saturday, Sept. 7, when Sheyenne GRIT hosts, the blackout will be back to $175. The Sheyenne area saw another 1.80 inches of rain last week on Wednesday night. Combines didn't get rolling again for a couple days after that. The beautiful Labor Day weekend saw a lot of boat traffic on Sunday due to calm winds. The Sheyenne...

  • Sheyenne: Sept. 2, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Sep 2, 2024

    Jeff Labrensz called bingo for the Sheyenne Fire Department on August 24. Dave and Bryan Rieger sold cards. Becky Ames and Diane Karlsbraaten served lunch. Blackout was $250 on the last Saturday in August (31st) when Sheyenne Civic Association hosted. Trucks are starting to bring the wheat harvest in as area farmers began combining small grains. Cement trucks, gravel trucks and pavement crews were also seen working on projects in Sheyenne. Garden produce of sweet corn, tomatoes, cucumbers and more brought three growers to the Sheyenne Farmers...

  • Sheyenne: August 26, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Aug 26, 2024

    The Hunger Free Community Garden has onions, potatoes, cucumbers and tomatoes. Help yourself. Please pull a few weeds as you pick. Mother Nature's ample rain has made the Hendrickson Park tree planting project a joy this year. Only a few times all summer did the 20 new trees get watered. The park looked especially nice to welcome many campers for the Sheyenne Stampede weekend. Peter, Patti and Joanna Larson, Ian and Jon Gilley and Marge Anderson took in the Lifesavers in the Park supper. Many Sheyenne residents attended the event and are so...

  • Sheyenne: August 19, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Aug 19, 2024

    Wednesday afternoon, August 7, Patti Clifton and Jan Loe were in New Rockford where they had coffee at Rockford Café and did a little shopping and other errands. It was a busy week in Sheyenne when it came to cement work. Eddy Shop concrete pour took place on Friday. The same day, Joseph Concrete completed the basement footings at the Sheyenne GRIT 301 Pleasant Ave. location. Bobby Hoffner and crew from Esmond finished the concrete phase of the stone pit near Ostby Hall. After taking July off, some of the Sheyenne quilters met on the first...

  • Sheyenne News: August 12, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Aug 12, 2024

    A week ago, Jan and Steph Loe joined Jim and Marjean Woodrow and Pam Hill for a drive up to Sarles and Calvin to check on the Woodrow/McBain family gravesites. Sheyenne condolences go out to family and friends of Donna Weber whose graveside service was held last Wednesday at the Nystrom Cemetery, rural Sheyenne. Sorting and marking rummage items kept the 14 Sheyenne residents who are having a sale busy. Patti Larson continues to receive calls from vendors. Ed Houston of Sutton, one of the original "Good Junk & Stuff" flea market vendors, will...

  • Sheyenne: August 5, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Aug 5, 2024

    The tomato plants at the community garden are struggling to come back after the hail storm on July 16. Michelle Gilley and Patti Larson picked off about five gallons of damaged fruit so the plants could focus energy on new blossoms. The setback will be significant before new ripe tomatoes are seen. A couple of large tree limbs at both Hendrickson Park and Warsing Dam also fell victims to the strong winds of that hailstorm. Eunice Throlson volunteered at the sign-in table of Vitalant Blood Drive in New Rockford last Monday. Patti Larson was one...

  • Sheyenne: July 29, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Jul 29, 2024

    Some of the lush crops and garden plants in the Sheyenne area took a hit last Tuesday afternoon when the brief hailstorm with a strong north wind and heavy rain came through about 4 p.m. The onions and tomatoes at the Hunger Free Community Garden really got beat up. Stan Kruger and Patti Larson had been there weeding the evening before, when the onions, potatoes and tomatoes looked so amazing prior to the hailstorm. Last Tuesday evening, Dylan Rue began digging out and around the cement fire pit next to Ostby Hall to prep the area for the...

  • Sheyenne: July 22, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Jul 22, 2024

    After the July 4th weekend, mowing went into full gear in and around Sheyenne. There was a stretch of good haying weather since the overnight rain on July 8. Monday, a new steel roof replaced the shingles on the shop and store of Route 281 Station. The work was part of the Rural Slum and Blight Removal Grant offered by N.D. Chamber of Commerce to make improvements to mixed-use Main Street businesses. Patti Clifton joined family members for the graveside service of Marla Nelson at the New Rockford Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon. Marla was a...

  • Sheyenne News: July 15, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Jul 15, 2024

    Many households in the Sheyenne community welcomed families home for the 4th of July celebration. Last week started out wet. It rained Monday evening, so the community garden volunteers didn't meet. Any time is a good time to pull weeds in the cucumber, corn or onion rows. The potatoes have been hilled up and are shading out the weeds. Tomatoes are mulched. Stop by anytime and pick cherries that are plentiful in the Prairie Dawn Orchard. Steve Loe, his daughter Madison and her friend Joe, all of Lincoln, Neb., arrived in Sheyenne on June 30...

  • Sheyenne: July 8, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Jul 8, 2024

    Last Sunday, Bonnie Deegan and Jan Loe had breakfast at the American Legion in Minnewaukan. Bonnie went back to Sheyenne while Jan stayed in Minnewaukan to spend the afternoon visiting with Brian and Pam Hill at their summer home there. As the Sheyenne community prepared to host another Independence Day, more scraping, painting, mowing and trimming took place the past week. The last blighted house and a few more scruffy trees came down in Sheyenne, which completed the Rural Workforce Housing Grant expenditures. Dave and Nathan Rue of NCZ...

  • Sheyenne: July 1, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Jul 1, 2024

    Four youth gardeners helped lay drip tape and straw mulch on June 17. Youth Garden Club will continue to meet with Michelle Gilley at 3 p.m. each Monday for a lesson in gardening. Rain every few days has the Sheyenne Hunger Free Community Garden looking lush. The potatoes, tomatoes and onions are especially nice this year. Ian and Michelle Gilley, Joanna Larson and Dianne Hanson planted onions, seeded cover crop and put down mulch just ahead of the rain last Monday. Many around Sheyenne have been mowing, trimming and sprucing up ahead of the...

  • Sheyenne: June 24, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Jun 24, 2024

    The Sheyenne youth garden club met Monday at 3 p.m. (note new time each week) to finish planting their garden. This week, mulching will be the lesson. In the main Hunger Free Community Garden, more onions were planted and the sweet corn replanted due to poor stand. The potatoes, onions and tomatoes look great. Mondays at 6:30 p.m. continues to be the time for volunteers to work in the community garden or anytime you wish to weed! Greg and Cindy Hegland and Peter and Patti Larson finished putting fences around the remaining new trees planted at...

  • Sheyenne: June 17, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Jun 17, 2024

    On Monday, June 3, Bonnie Deegan was in Fargo for a medical appointment. Prior to her appointment, Bonnie met her sister Margaret Brink from South Carolina for a visit and lunch. Fourteen children from seven families joined Michelle Gilley, NDSU Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent, at the Community Garden in Sheyenne on Monday, June 3. It was the first of weekly youth garden club hands-on lessons that will be offered every Monday evening from 3-4 p.m., weather permitting. The first week, the kids planted tomatoes, tomatillos,...

  • Sheyenne: June 10, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Jun 10, 2024

    Patti Larson took in the May birthday party at the Heritage House in New Rockford last Tuesday. Her mom, Marge Anderson, was one of three that celebrated their May birthdays. Dianne Hanson and Patti Larson stopped at the home of Debbie Wetzel after the news of Dennis Bergrud's passing. Our condolences to all of his family and friends. Two more apple trees, both Honeycrisp, were planted at the Prairie Dawn Community Orchard, along with five rows of Honey Select sweet corn and one row of cucumbers in the community garden this week. The rains...

  • Sheyenne: June 3, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Jun 3, 2024

    Every Monday if it isn't raining, volunteers meet at the Community Garden at 6:30 p.m. The past week, Michelle Gilley, Stan Kruger and Patti Larson planted a couple more rows of tomato plants that Stan raised in his greenhouse. This week, sweet corn and cucumbers will go in. Michelle, NDSU Extension Agent, plans to use the back half of the garden for youth to get involved with growing vegetables. Area children are encouraged to come and "learn in the dirt" at 6 p.m. Monday, June 3. Two new apple trees were planted in the Prairie Dawn Orchard...

  • Sheyenne: May 27, 2024

    Patti Clifton|May 27, 2024

    Hogie and Harry Joseph and Joanna Larson worked on demo and clean up of the garages at 301 Pleasant Avenue in Sheyenne. Patti Larson visited Dennis Bergrud and Bobby Scott at Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd in New Rockford last week on Thursday morning. Joanna and Patti Larson attended the Sheyenne City Council meeting on May 6. Patti thanked Karla for getting the necessary paperwork ready for the city to receive the check for $25,000 toward the Hendrickson Park project. She also updated the board on the park project status. Tree and stump...

  • Sheyenne: May 20, 2024

    Patti Clifton|May 20, 2024

    On Saturday, May 11, Denise Labrensz and Allison Pfeiffer enjoyed a pre-Mother's Day outing at Cows & Co. Creamery in rural Carrington. They enjoyed lunch and time in the sun on the patio followed by a gelato treat for the ride home. Denise Labrensz traveled to rural Leonard, N.D., on Mother's Day late afternoon and stayed with her sister, Debbie. On Monday, Denise was in Fargo for medical appointments along with some shopping before returning home....

  • Sheyenne: May 13, 2024

    Patti Clifton|May 13, 2024

    Jeff and Denise Labrensz attended the Legends of Rock concert at the Civic Center in Jamestown on Saturday, April 27. This date was also their 50th wedding anniversary. Over the years, there have been many different weather events from 90 degrees the day they were married to up to 20 inches of snow some years on this day. This year it was rather gloomy and chilly. The Sheyenne community sends condolences to the family and friends of Arlyss Faye Loe who died Tuesday, April 30, at Sweetwater Retirement Community in Billings, Mont. Peter Larson's...

  • Sheyenne: May 6, 2024

    Patti Clifton|May 6, 2024

    Kent and Shelley Rigsby of Jamestown visited at the Peter and Patti Larson home last Monday. Patti and her sister worked on planning the August Sidewalk Market and city-wide rummage sales. Appropriate for Earth Day, the Rigsbys took a load of recycling back to the Jamestown facility. The NR-S school board met last Tuesday morning to review superintendent applicants. Kyle Alfstad and Patti Larson were among the six board members attending who agreed to hire an interim superintendent for the upcoming school term. Reopening the search this winter...

  • Sheyenne: April 29, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Apr 29, 2024

    Last Sunday afternoon, Brandon and Eva Garcia had fun helping feed two bottle calves on the L-B Ranch. They brought popcorn treats to Ian's pigs and Joanna drove them through the pasture to see all the calves. Neil Westby recently visited at the Larson home. Patti asked for carpentry advice on a summer GRIT project. Wednesday morning of last week, Stan Kruger brought fresh lettuce (grown in a cold frame inside his greenhouse) and a potted tomato plant to Patti Larson. She reciprocated with fresh baked brownies – a trade she would make any d...

  • Sheyenne: April 22, 2024

    Patti Clifton|Apr 22, 2024

    Monday, April 8, was too cloudy/overcast in Sheyenne to even notice that a solar eclipse was happening across the country. It was full sun in Carbondale, Ill., where Peter Larson and Sandra watched through special glasses as the moon covered the sun and turned daylight into darkness. "A phenomenal spectacle," Sandra remarked, "a hole in the sky and a 360 degree sunset. The traffic aftermath was good reason to ditch Google maps for a road atlas." Driving north on back roads through small towns, Peter got home to Sheyenne Wednesday afternoon. Gat...

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