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North Dakota sisters celebrate the 1950s through YouTube channel, book and proposed film
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MENOKEN, N.D. — For many people, the Fifties conjures up flashes of Elvis Presley, sock hops and Dwight D. Eisenhower. However a few sisters initially from Menoken may quickly change our minds.
The Pfeiffer sisters are much less “Nice Balls of Hearth” and extra old school date balls as they share homespun recollections of their favourite decade in a twenty first century approach.
Jackie Pfeiffer McGregor and Janine Pfeiffer Knop are the authors of the e book “Whereas the Windmill Watched: A Slice of Rural America within the Fifties,” whereas internet hosting their very own YouTube present and making ready to hit the large display screen with tales of the postwar period.
The challenge began with older sister Jackie, now dwelling in Colville, Wash., jotting down tales only for the household. However in January 2020, Janine, who lives in Atlantic, Iowa, advised they work on a e book collectively.
“The entire objective in writing our e book was to honor our dad and mother, Jack and Eudora Pfeiffer, and the farming group of Menoken, N.D., wherein we grew up,” Janine says.
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The sisters needed to share tales of an idyllic time to be little women within the tiny city southwest of Bismarck.
“It was a decade in historical past when small farming communities thrived, not simply because that they had their very own faculties. They’d their very own gathering locations,” Janine stated. “It was a time when neighbor helped neighbor, we labored collectively, we performed collectively. It was only a time of group.”
That is what made the Fifties, for us, rising up in our explicit spot in North Dakota on the Nice Plains, so heartwarming and so memorable.
Janine Pfeiffer Knop, on the group really feel of rising up in rural North Dakota within the Fifties.
The e book is known as “Whereas the Windmill Watched” as a result of the sisters selected the windmill as “the sage observer of time,” watching over the women throughout their many adventures with 4-H (the place “the expectation was at all times to do our greatest”) to sporting attire made out of hen feed sacks and the time a fighter aircraft crashed into their farm area.
“We may have been beneath assault for all we knew,” Janine recollects.
Truly, in accordance with the Bismarck Tribune on June 12, 1954, the F-86D jet fighter from Ellsworth Air Pressure Base in Fast Metropolis, S.D., crashed within the Pfeiffers’ area after struggling mechanical failure. The pilot received out safely. Nevertheless it brought about fairly a stir for the Pfeiffers, who have been simply ending up their midday meal.
“I bear in mind seeing one thing go in entrance of the solar, then it was darkish,” Jackie says.
“I do bear in mind the sound of that aircraft and pondering that, in my very own little lady thoughts, that that is completely different and the aircraft sounds actually low. However by no means did we count on this crash. This growth,” Janine provides.
“Mother and Dad have been working out within the area and we have been left behind which was completely very scary,” Jackie says.
However the aircraft crash is certainly an anomaly within the e book. Many of the tales are candy, nice walks down reminiscence lane. They even embody a number of of their mother’s favourite recipes, together with the above-mentioned Previous Usual Date Balls together with Velvet Fudge and Baked Potato Sweet.
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The e book was the recipient of the 2022 Unbiased Press Award Regional Favourite. Nevertheless, the sisters aren’t resting on their laurels. They’ve launched a
YouTube channel known as The Fifties Enjoyable Chat
the place they go to with visitors about life within the decade.
“We had folks saying ‘You introduced so many recollections to my thoughts of the life that I lived.’ After which they begin speaking and so they begin sharing their recollections. And so Jackie and I stated we have to have a platform wherein child boomers can share their tales,” Janine says.
And the tales may additionally quickly be on the large display screen. The Pfeiffers are working with
Canticle Productions
to show their e book right into a film.
They’re at present within the means of elevating funds for improvement. In case you’re concerned about studying extra, go to their web site at
whilethewindmillwatched.com
. The sisters say proper now they aren’t benefiting from this financially. Their objective has been to advertise the ‘50s, their dad and mom and their hometown. They usually hope others may wish to take part.
“Within the Fifties, a lot good occurred within the nation, and particularly for rural America and the Nice Plains. It would simply be a narrative they wish to hear once more.”
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Plain Talk: 'I'm bringing people together'
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MINOT — Sandi Sanford, chair of the North Dakota Republican Party, joined this episode of Plain Talk from the GOP’s national convention in Milwaukee, where, she said, “the security plan changed drastically” after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Republicans have been focused on unity at this event — two of Trump’s top rivals during the primaries, Gov. Ron DeSantis and former ambassador Nikki Haley, endorsed him in speeches at the convention — but Sanford acknowledged to my co-host Chad Oban and me that this may be a heavy lift.
“People know that what we’re dealing with in North Dakota with the different factions,” she said, initially calling the populist wing of the party the “far right” before correcting herself and describing them as “grassroots.”
The NDGOP delegation to the national convention
wasn’t necessarily behind Gov. Doug Burgum potentially being Trump’s running mate
(Burgum himself was passed over for a delegate slot by the NDGOP’s state convention), but Sanford said she felt the delegates were “really confident in Donald Trump and his pick.”
“It gets dicey,” she said of intraparty politics. “It can get cruel,” but Sanford said her job is to keep the factions united. “I’m bringing people together.”
Sanford also addressed a visit to the North Dakota delegation from Matt Schlapp of the American Conservative Union (the organization which puts on the Conservative Political Action Conference). In March, Schlapp paid
a nearly half-million settlement
to a man he allegedly made unwanted sexual advances toward. “My delegation wanted to hear from CPAC,” she said, adding that Schlapp was “on a speaking circle” addressing several state delegations.
Also on this episode, we discuss how the assassination attempt on Trump might impact the rest of this presidential election cycle and whether Democrats will replace incumbent President Joe Biden.
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Sale of Ponzi scheme cattle company could benefit burned investors
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(North Dakota Monitor)
BY: JEFF BEACH
KILLDEER, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – A North Dakota investor says the purchase of a financially-troubled meat company is progressing with a percentage of the profits being used to pay back investors in the alleged Ponzi scheme over several years.
Wylie Bice of Killdeer, who is among those who lost money by investing in Texas-based Agridime, told the North Dakota Monitor that a price has been agreed upon to buy the company.
“Our offer is reasonable,” Bice said.
But several steps remain before the deal can close.
The court-appointed official overseeing the company said in a July 8 update on Agridime.com that federal law requires three separate appraisals for each parcel of property being sold, “which is not a quick process.”
The update did not say a deal has been reached, but when it is, it would be submitted to the court for a 30-day review and objection period before it can close.
Bice said the final agreement would likely include a percentage of the profits of the company be used to pay back investors over a designated period of years.
“There’s always a chance they might get more than they had invested if things go really good,” Bice said.
Investors in several states, including a high-concentration in North Dakota, lost millions of dollars by investing in Agridime. Agridime bought cattle, had them brought up to market weight at feedlots and processed in retail cuts of meat. The company then direct-marketed the beef through its website.
It also sold investments in calves, promising as much as a 30% return on investment without having to do the work of ranching.
The Securities and Exchange Commission in December accused the company of operating as a Ponzi scheme by taking money from new investors to pay off previous investors instead of investing that money into cattle.
The North Dakota Securities Department said a Killdeer-based sales agent, Taylor Bang, earned $6 million in commissions from illegal cattle investment contracts through Agridime.
Bang told the North Dakota Monitor in December that the figure was “way high.”
While it is under investigation, a slimmed-down version of the company has continued to operate as American Grazed Beef.
Bice said that if the deal is approved, he and his partners would likely keep the American Grazed Beef name.
The investments in calves, however, would not be a part of the business plan.
“No, I don’t think they’ll fall for that twice,” Bice said.
Bice, Bang, and other North Dakota investors lost an estimated $40 million in the Agridime scheme.
Overall, investors in at least 15 states are out an estimated $191 million.
The July 8 update also says investors should be notified by the end of the month with a calculation of what they are owed.
Investors will have 30 days to review these calculations and notify the court-appointed receiver of any issues.
“There were approximately 40,325 transactions made by Agridime between 2021-2023, and it took a bit of work in the company’s bank records to determine what amounts were being paid to whom,” the update said.
It also said a motion will be filed with the court outlining the forensic accounting analysis of Agridime between 2021 and December 2023. The motion “will provide insight into the company’s operations during that time period and whether the company was paying returns on older investor contracts with money received from new investors.”
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ND Rural Water Systems Association celebrates 50 years
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BISMARCK, ND (kxnet) — Members of the North Dakota Rural Water Systems Association (NDRWSA) celebrated their 50th Anniversary on Tuesday, July 16, at North Dakota’s Gateway to Science in Bismarck.
The association was established with a mission to ensure that all North Dakotans had access to affordable and clean drinking water. It was founded the same year that the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Gerald Ford.
Since then, the NDRWSA has helped many rural areas across the state with funding and construction of water systems, giving clean and affordable drinking water to many North Dakotans living in rural communities across our state.
“So, even after 50 years, there’s still people out there, in Rural North Dakota that are hauling water. There’s still people in small communities that drink sub-standard water,” said Eric Volk, Executive Director of NDRWSA.
Volk says the association still has more important work to do in the coming years to ensure other rural communities are not forgotten. “There’s partnerships out there, between the State of North Dakota, the Federal Government, and the local entities. I think we all can accomplish our goal,” of expanding access to more rural communities he said.
Volk adds that a little over 300,000 people in North Dakota receive their drinking water from rural water systems, that serve 268 towns across the state.
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