Kenmare ND - Upside Down Under
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Upside Down Under
By Marvin Baker, a new weekly column in The Kenmare News
A strange trend continues...
Back in the late ‘70s and right out of high school, I worked for a flax straw processor called Olin. We traveled to various communities and processed farmers’ straw to be made into Bible pages and cigarette papers of all things.
Posted 11/12/19 (Tue) read more »
We are getting bigger...
Have you ever watched that Smucker’s TV commercial where two boys are delivering jelly to their neighbors from a wagon in the early 1950s?
Posted 11/05/19 (Tue) read more »
Mr. Electricity retires from football...
After 11 seasons in the Canadian Football League, Bismarck’s own Weston Dressler has retired from the CFL and has joined Sanford in Bismarck as a senior community relations specialist.
Posted 10/22/19 (Tue) read more »
An oportunist's dream...
We hear about scams all the time. Many of them are telephone scams that annoy the dickens out of us but they seem impossible to trace.
Posted 10/08/19 (Tue) read more »
The running of the critters...
Several years ago when I was working as ag reporter at the Minot Daily News, I got a call from an individual who lived just west of Garrison. He wanted me to go out to his farm because he wanted me to see something unusual.
Posted 10/01/19 (Tue) read more »
An occasional promoter of our state...
Most of us weren’t even aware that Randy Bachman played a concert in Fargo back in January. It was one of those impromptu performances in a lesser known venue, something that has become somewhat common in Fargo.
Posted 9/23/19 (Mon) read more »
Recognizing those who deserve it...
OK, so three Walmarts get shot up or terrorized in a week, some crazy decides he’s going to take out as many people as he can at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, then there’s the Russian dude who decided to see what people’s reactions were if he walked into a Walmart with a loaded AR-15.
Posted 9/17/19 (Tue) read more »
Where have all the dairies gone?...
If you live outside of the Bismarck-Mandan area you may not have heard that Bessy’s Best milk is no longer available in Bis-Man grocery stores.
Posted 9/10/19 (Tue) read more »
Can we really modify the weather?...
Most readers know that I’ve written numerous articles about weather modification, or cloud seeding, over the past several years.
Posted 9/03/19 (Tue) read more »
A generation of zombies...
There’s been a lot of talk lately about how lifestyles have changed in just one generation.
Posted 8/27/19 (Tue) read more »