Homecoming parade marches downtown for 4th year

Hillsboro High School will celebrate Homecoming Week September 17-21.
For the fourth year, a Friday parade is planned — complete with three marching bands.
The week will open with coronation of Homecoming royalty Monday night at 7:30 at the HHS gym.
Candidates for Homecoming King and Queen are HHS seniors Jake Olsen, Jake Rust, Brian Smelden, Jenessa Duval, Katrina Meyer and Brittany Wilson.
Last year’s royalty Jake Luithle and Mary Huotari will be on hand to crown their successors.
Guest speaker for the event is Jon Bertsch, a 2005 HHS graduate.
After the ceremony, the traditional tug-of-war between classes will be staged on the old gym floor. Ice cream bars will be served as well.

Secret of 110-year-old ‘Whynot’ rediscovered

By ANNA AUSTIN
Every town — large or small — has its history. But what about those that no longer exist?
Jerry and Julie Higgins of Reynolds, N.D., have been working diligently to resurrect memories and the likeness of the small town of Whynot, which would have turned 110 this year.
The Higgins moved to the farm, the original birthplace of Whynot, eight miles east of Reynolds in Bentry Township, in 1991.
“Every now and then a neighbor would mention Whynot,” said Higgins. “We never really thought anything of it.”

Too many bridges, not enough money

By NEIL O. NELSON
When bridges crossing the Goose River and smaller streams in Traill County were built around 1950 or before, the structures easily handled the farm equipment of the era.
Riverbanks were holding firm when the single axle trucks carrying 200 bushels of wheat crossed Traill’s rivers 60 years ago.
Plus, it’s likely, at the time, the county had more than enough money to spend on its bridges. Designs were simple; superstructures were neither wide nor long.
Repairs were often simplistic.

Street project runs out of gas

Work on Hillsboro’s city-wide street improvement project is done — at least for this year.
A supply shortage shut down the work by Central Specialties and its subcontractor Morris Seal Coat, according to Rebecca Oppegaard, resident project representative for Advanced Engineering. The remaining paving work will be done next spring.
Landscaping crews will be in town soon to seed boulevards disturbed by curb and gutter work, Oppegaard said. Other clean-up work will be completed, she added.
Streets that were seal coated or “chip sealed” will be swept for loose rock over the next few days, the city has been told.

Daily operation of Vets Club taken over by directors

Faced with decreasing revenues, contributed to a drop in business over the last eight months, the board of directors of the Vets Club have taken over management of the Hillsboro bar.
Directors of the club, in addition to members of Hillsboro’s Legion and VFW posts, will work on a volunteer basis to keep the club’s doors open.
Manager Angie Aasen and employees Margaret Liska and Kasey Schreiner have been released by the club.
It was strictly for financial reasons that the directors made the decision to release all paid employees, said board president Jim Beach.

September 14, 2007

50 YEARS AGO
September 12, 1957 — Howard Carver was the new city police chief in Hillsboro. Carver served with the military police in the U.S. Army. He replaced Ed Hill.
Hillsboro veterans discussed plans for how to spend $200,000 collected by Traill County as a war memorial fund levy. Hillsboro veterans had asked county officials to donate $30,000 toward the new National Guard armory project. The funds would be earmarked for creating a veterans room in the armory, providing a kitchen and good flooring in the assembly hall. The four-mill levy was expected to raise more than $35,000 a year and be in place for four years.
Hillsboro High School’s football roster included John Oman, Roger Dahlstrom, Darrell Rotvold, David Soholt, Butch Fankhanel, Jerry Lindgren, David Shafer, Ronald Thorsrud, Charles Mueller, Wesley Fossum and Bruce Kaldor.

MaryAnn Olson

MaryAnn Olson, 77, Crookston, Minn., formerly of Ada, Minn., died Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at Villa St. Vincent Nursing Home, Crookston.
Funeral services were Monday, September 10, 2007 at Faith United Church in Ada, Minn. Burial was in Ada City Cemetery.
Fredrikson Funeral Home of Ada was in charge of arrangements.

Lois Houge

Lois Houge, 66, Huron, S.D., died Thursday, September 6, 2007 at her home.
Funeral services were Monday, September 10, 2007 at American Lutheran Church, Huron. Burial was in Restlawn Memory Gardens Cemetery. The family prefers memorials to the American Lutheran Church or Huron Regional Medical Center Hospice.
Kuhler Funeral Home of Huron was in charge of arrangements.

Vergie Boeddeker

Vergie Boeddeker, 82, Hillsboro, N.D. died Monday, September 10, 2007 at MeritCare Hospital in Fargo, N.D.
Funeral services were Thursday, September 12, 2007 at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Hillsboro.
Burial was in the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Cemetery near Hillsboro.
Wildeman Funeral Home of Hillsboro was in charge of arrangements.