Another adjustment of the sails on life s journey
Your circumstances change. Your situation is not always what you dreamed it would be. Adjust your goals and keep working to achieve new goals and live out your dream. 6:00 am, May 8, 2021 ×
Nathan, Hunter and Katie Pinke following Hunter s last game serving as a UND football team captain, May 2, 2021, in Harrisonburg, Va. Katie Pinke says we’ve all experienced moments of struggle over the past year during a pandemic, some of us more vocally than others. Don’t let the wind keep blowing you in a direction you don’t want to go. Adjust your sails, relating to their family s journey with Hunter s spinal cord injury.
Lloyd Omdahl
At the outset, let us agree that most people would like to see the 400 billion tons of coal under western North Dakota put to economic use. After all, we dreamed that dream for decades.
But the reality is that using lignite for coal-burning generators is no longer feasible, economically or environmentally. Nevertheless, the legislature made a major effort to float the industry through the next five years, hoping that coal can be made more economically and more environmentally feasible.
No Coal Market
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, coal consumption in the United States has declined from 98MMst in 2000 down to 48MMst in 2019. In 2020, the market required less coal than any year since 1905. And the market will continue to decline until the last power plant is shuttered.
In the latest on Teddy Talk, we re joined by a former North Dakota Governor, US Department of Agriculture Secretary and University of North Dakota President all in the same person! Ed Schafer joins the show.Posted by What s On Your Mind on Thursday, May 6, 2021
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RON GIBBENS, NDAD s CO-FOUNDER AND LONGTIME LEADER, DIES AT 80
SPECIAL TO DEVILS LAKE JOURNAL
The co-founder, retired chief executive officer and only board president in the nearly 46-year existence of charitable nonprofit NDAD has died.
Ron Gibbens died in hospice care Sunday morning at the Grand Forks home of his son, Mike.
Inspired by Mike, their only child, who has cerebral palsy, Ron and Faye Gibbens built the charitable nonprofit North Dakota Association for the Disabled from an informal Grand Forks support group for parents of children with disabilities.
Since its 1975 inception, NDAD since has provided more than $60 million in program services for people with disabilities and health concerns from its offices in Grand Forks, Fargo, Minot and Williston. NDAD has charitable gaming operations and owns a for-profit business to generate the funds needed to support its charitable services statewide.
The West Fargo School District announced Thursday that Candida Braun has accepted the position as assistant principal.
Braun began her career in education in 2000 as a science teacher at Grand Rapids High School in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. While employed in Grand Rapids, she also spent one year as interim high school assistant principal and taught remedial science courses at the Grand Rapids Learning Center. She joined West Fargo Public Schools as a middle school science teacher in 2010 and was named the dean of students at Cheney Middle School in 2016.
Braun holds a bachelor’s degree in fisheries and wildlife biology from the University of North Dakota, a master’s degree in science education from the University of Minnesota, and a specialist degree in educational and administrative leadership from St. Cloud State University.