By ANNA AUSTIN
When Jesse and Bridgette (Breidenbach) Miller were told during an ultrasound that their unborn daughter, diagnosed with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), would have only a 50 percent chance of living if she was born at 40 weeks, they knew it was going to be an ongoing battle for her life.
CDH is a severe birth defect that affects one in 2,500 babies. Many CDH babies have minor lasting health problems such as feeding aversions, asthma, scoliosis, or short-term oxygen dependency. A small number have one or more major lasting health problems such as ventilator dependency, brain damage, or hearing problems. CDH can occur alone or with other birth defects, and sometimes as part of a syndrome. (more…)
Categories: People in the news
EDITOR: Much has been said in the past couple years about Traill County and its resistance to preserve history.
I have had a unique vantage point few do, owing to the fact that I have served on the County Historical Society Board and have also been a county highway department employee for the past 22 years. It has been personally disheartening to have the county portrayed as not encouraging preservation.
It was in fact the County Commission 42 years ago that allowed a fledging historical organization to have a stable annual income through a county wide mill levy, which has allowed the Historical Society to flourish for the past four decades. (more…)
Categories: Editorial · Letters to the Editor
A University of North Dakota communications major, who has been interning at the Hillsboro Banner this spring, will start contributing more local stories for both the Banner and Traill County Tribune at Mayville.
Austin, a Central Valley High School graduate and the daughter of Dan and Kristi Austin, rural Reynolds, will graduate from UND in December.
Familiar with the northern Red River Valley, Austin, is anxious to start writing stories from all across Traill County.
“Print is definitely for me,” said the communications major. (more…)
Categories: People in the news
Workers are tearing into the high school in a remodeling project expected to take most of the summer.
High school students next fall will find expanded administration offices, new science labs and lockers when classes resume in August.
In the elementary school, students will have new flooring and shelving in all classrooms. New flooring in the elementary school’s older bathrooms is also being installed this summer.
The remodeling project in the two Hillsboro School buildings will cost $465,000.
Diversified Contractors of Fargo is the general contractor. (more…)
Categories: School News
With one uncontested race for the school board on the ballot this year, Hillsboro School officials are not expecting a large turnout for the annual school election Tuesday.
Polls will open at 8 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. in the June 5 election. School district residents will vote in the high school library. Voters are asked to use the south (library) entrance.
Don Hanson, Jr. filed for re-election to the school board. Hanson represents Area 1 (Norway, Mayville, Blanc hard, Bloomfield and Bohnsack townships). The term is for three years. (more…)
Categories: School News
Three fields of barley and corn growing near Hillsboro this season were planted with a different sort of harvest in mind.
The 32 acres comprise a “growing project” for the Foods Resource Bank, a non-government humanitarian organization with a relatively new “Christian Response to World Hunger.”
FRB works on behalf of 16 mainline Christian denominations or their agencies “to mobilize and increase the resources needed to support smallholder, agricultural, food security programs” in some of the poorest places in the world. In 2005 FRB implemented 56 overseas programs in 30 countries. (more…)
Categories: Agricultural News · Area News
Traill County’s imperiled historic bridges may still find salvation.
In conversations with N.D. Department of Transportation officials this week, the Banner learned that two bridges in the county are on the state’s “short list” for restoration and preservation — the Viking Bridge, the oldest bridge in the state located north of Portland, and the Caledonia Bridge, which crosses the Goose River in the heart of the village of Caledonia.
Bob Christensen, cultural resources section leader, noted that both bridges are “under consideration” by the state. (more…)
Categories: Area History · Area News · County News
50 YEARS AGO
May 30, 1957 — Plans to build a new National Guard armory in Hillsboro suffered another setback when architectural drawings for proposed armories in Hillsboro and Mayville were rejected by officials in Washington, D.C. The veto came as a surprise to local officials since the plans were nearly identical to blueprints approved for a new armory in Lisbon, N.D. Without approval from the federal government, construction was not likely to begin as scheduled during the summer. The official reason for the rejection was that federal funds for new armories had been depleted. Hillsboro officials believed that federal funds had been allocated months ago and planned to resubmit the proposal for consideration at the start of the new fiscal year — July 1. (more…)
Categories: Over the Years
Berdean Smette, 84, a lifelong resident of Buxton, N.D., died Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at the Hillsboro Medical Center following a long, courageous battle with cancer. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Wildeman Funeral Home of Hillsboro is in charge of arrangements.
An online guestbook is available at www.boulgerfuneralhome.com.
Categories: Obituaries
Lynn E. Ege, 81, Blanchard, N.D., died Friday, May 25, 2007 at his home under hospice care.
Baker Funeral Home of Mayville was in charge of arrangements.
Categories: Obituaries
