North Dakota

AnnMarie Klorgba Blamoh, also known as Annmarie Blamoh Bereuter, Fargo, Chapter 7

Justin Bradley Olivieri and Amy Lynn Olivieri, formerly known as Amy Lynn Holmberg, West Fargo, Chapter 13

Jamie L. Taylor, Grand Forks, Chapter 7

Jennifer Ernst, Horace, Chapter 13

Joseph Edwin Earl Denault and Kjersten Autumn Timm, Fargo,, Chapter 7

Shawn R. Parsley, Fargo, Chapter 13

Stephen Curtis Kelly, Fargo, Chapter 7

Kevin Jon Noyes and Nicole Ann Noyes, formerly known as Nicole Lawson, Grand Forks, Chapter 7

Lacey Jae Christianson, Cavalier, Chapter 7

Arlene Carrie Arrayan, Minot, Chapter 7

Arlene Carrie Arrayan, Minot, Chapter 7

Troy Aaron Gerlach, Jamestown, Chaper 7

Vincent Michael Castleman, Horace, Chapter 7

William Benjamin Moon, Grand Forks, Chapter 7

James Robert Wilson and Sara Jean Wilson, formerly known as Sara Blaufuss, Wahpeton, Chapter 7

Michael Samuelson, Fargo, Chapter 7

Benjamin J. and Samantha W. Buck, Grand Forks, Chapter 7

Minnesota

Bankruptcy filings from the following counties: Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail, Polk, Traverse, Wadena and Wilkin.

Katelyn Patricia Kohls, Osakis, Chapter 7

Luke Daniel Walvatne, Fergus Falls, Chapter 7

Tyler David Benjamin, East Grand Forks, Minn., Chapter 7

Brittni Nicole Hatlestad, Sabin, Chapter 7

Krista Agnes Ross, Henning, Chapter 7

Damien Saul Abdo, Waubun, Chapter 7

Stormi Le’ Amber LaCombe, Park Rapids, Chapter 7

Chapter 7 is a petition to liquidate assets and discharge debts.

Chapter 11 is a petition for protection from creditors and to reorganize.

Chapter 12 is a petition for family farmers to reorganize.

Chapter 13 is a petition for wage earners to readjust debts.

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JAMESTOWN — A woman born and raised in Dawson, North Dakota, continues to advocate for the recognition of the women — often known as “Rosie the Riveter” — who worked in the defense industries during World War II.

Mae Krier, who will be 100 years old on March 21, was born as Anna Mae Burkett when she grew up in Dawson. She now makes her home in Pennsylvania and has lived an active life of work and advocacy for women and veterans.

“I’ve worked for over 50 years for recognition of the women and what they did,” she said. “The women were the ones who made the airplanes and the landing craft.”

She earned her title as a “Rosie” at the Boeing factory in Washington during World War II.

“I was just a teenager when Pearl Harbor got bombed,” she said. “My sister and I had been in Steele (North Dakota) for the matinee and came home to find our parents listening to the radio coverage of the Japanese attack.”

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. The U.S. declared war on Japan the next day and entered World War II.

When school ended in the spring of 1943, Krier, her sister and a friend went to Seattle for the summer and stayed for the duration of the war.

“We were happy with the work,” Krier said. “They trained us well. Trained us in drilling, placing the rivets and bucking the rivet.”

Bucking a rivet requires two people. The gunner operates an air hammer on one end of the rivet while the bucker holds a small anvil against the other end. The result is a rivet with a head on both ends that holds metal pieces firmly together.

Krier worked bucking rivets on the B-17 and later the B-29 as part of the war effort. On May 12, 1944, Krier and the rest of the crew signed their names to the 5,000 B-17 Flying Fortress built at the Boeing factory after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Krier took pride in the work that she and the other Rosies did, producing the tools of war. She also feels the women were ultimately shortchanged when it came to recognition by society.

“The men came home to parades,” she said. “We got a pink slip.”

It is this injustice that she has worked for decades to correct.

Through the efforts of Krier and other advocates, March 21 has been observed annually as Rosie the Riveter Remembrance Day since 2019.

In 2020, the Rosie the Riveter Congressional Gold Medal Act passed Congress and was signed into law. The medal, which Krier helped design, was presented to her on April 10, 2024.

The medal honors the millions of women who worked in defense factories during World War II. The original medal is housed at the National Museum of American History.

Bronze replicas of the medal are available through the United States Mint.

Families of Rosies can register with the American Rosie the Riveter Association for inclusion in the records maintained by the organization. Krier hopes more North Dakota women will be recognized.

“I want North Dakota women to realize they were important,” she said, referring to the efforts on the home front of WWII. “Everything was important … When the men left, the women stepped in.”

Recently, a children’s book about Krier’s life was published. The book — “We Can Do It!” by Dave Winters and friends — targets readers between ages 8-18.

Proceeds from the book benefit The Black Dagger Military Hunt Club in assisting recovering veterans and the WWII Women’s Memorial Foundation in its effort to build a permanent memorial on the mall in Washington, D.C.

The WWII Women’s Memorial Foundation hopes to raise $17 million in private funds for the construction of the memorial. The memorial would honor the estimated 18 million women working in all fields during WWII.

Krier said she is living an interesting life and wants to promote the lives of women of all ages.

“I hope to promote women and young girls,” she said. “They don’t know their own strengths.”

WASHINGTON — The wife of former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will help lead a national initiative to further prioritize addiction treatment and recovery.

Kathryn Burgum and husband Doug Burgum,

now U.S. Secretary of the Interior,

were part of an executive order signing at the White House on Thursday, Jan. 29, to launch the Great American Recovery Initiative.

The initiative will be co-chaired by Kathryn Burgum and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

She spoke briefly at the event, beginning with thanks to President Donald Trump who was seated near her.

“Your leadership today, relative to this announcement about the Great American Recovery, is a gift to all Americans who are suffering from the brain disease of addiction,” she said.

Kathryn Burgum spearheaded addiction recovery efforts in North Dakota

through the Office of Recovery Reinvented while her husband was governor.

She began speaking openly about her own battle with alcohol addiction that she said started in high school.

“I was a blackout drinker from the start,” Kathryn Burgum said at the White House event, now marking more than 23 years of sobriety.

Over her husband’s eight years as governor, the couple hosted Recovery Reinvented events,

with speakers and activities focused on ending the stigma

around the disease of addiction.

“I was asking people to share their stories openly about addiction, so we can eliminate the shame and stigma, so more people would reach out for help, and more lives could be saved,” she said from the Oval Office.

The Great American Recovery Initiative will create stronger coordination across government, the health care sector, faith communities, and the private sector, the White House website said.

Kathryn Burgum said it represents a fundamental shift from reaction to prevention, fragmentation to coordination, stigma to science, and short-term fixes to long-term recovery.

“For the first time, we’re aligning federal leadership across health, justice, labor, housing, veterans, social services, the faith office and education around one single shared truth: When addiction is treated early and correctly, people recover and families heal,” she said.

Kylie Cooper/ Reuters

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A comment from Trump during the ceremony drew laughs from those gathered, when he hinted he had chosen Doug Burgum to serve in his Cabinet because Kathryn had caught his eye.

“You know, I saw them riding horses in a video. And I said, ‘Who is that?’ I was talking about her, not him,” Trump said, the audience chuckling.

“And I explained it, I said, ‘I’m gonna hire him,’ because anybody has somebody like you to be with, it’s an amazing tribute. And it’s a great couple,” Trump said.