Hillsboro Days – Parade, Fun and Sunshine

Unconditional love

By NEIL O. NELSON

Staff at the Hillsboro Medical Center nursing home were hesitant to call the syndicated TV program Missing Persons or the National Guard or the local law enforcement agencies.

Still, Daisy was missing.

She wasn’t sleeping under the nurses’ desk, resting in any of the offices and she wasn’t anywhere in the Sun Room. 

Comstock comfortable

By NEIL O. NELSON
Taking a short cut to school, as most kids will do, Joyce Crotty would cut across the wide expanse of the hospital’s front lawn.
Never thinking she would one day work in a building that today is being built on that very same front lawn.
Actually, when Joyce left Hillsboro High School for college at Fargo, she was determined to be a home ec teacher.

Hunter to spend deer season in jail

A 24-year old Grand Forks, N.D. man will spend the 2008 deer hunting season in the Traill County Jail in Hillsboro.
Ian August Noack was sentenced Wednesday in East Central District Court in Hillsboro by Judge Douglas Herman to 30 days in jail for hunting while his hunting privileges were suspended and for illegally posting lands to prohibit others from hunting. 

Museum dishes up ice cream, Abe Lincoln and Sons of Norway

For 25 years, Hillsboro’s Plummer House has been dishing up ice cream on the 4th of July.
Billed as an “old-fashioned ice cream social,” Friday afternoon’s party on the museum’s front lawn is all about yummy food, old-time music and relaxing fun.

Bluesox Legion team beats Mayville-Portland, Gardner

The Central Valley-Hillsboro Bluesox Legion baseball team improved to 5-2 Tuesday with two wins over Gardner.
The CV-H Legion team topped Gardner 14-0 and 8-7 on the Hillsboro field.
The Sox on Sunday beat Mayville-Portland twice, 23-5 and 6-4.
Aaron Meyer didn’t allow a hit in the 5-inning 14-0 win. The left-hander struck out five Gardner batters.
Chase Luchsinger picked up the win in the second game.
The Bluesox will be playing a “ton of baseball” in July, said manager Mark Rerick. The team has had a slow start to the summer, the manager added.
“We’re a sporadic hitting team, but we made up for it (Tuesday) by being selective at the plate and aggressive on the base paths.”
Dusty Brend and Nick Foley were the winning pitchers in the MP doubleheader.

Snooze button.

I’m a creature of habit. I settle into a routine without much encouragement or training. It’s not that I don’t like change; I just don’t change easily. That’s why I’ve been struggling with recent changes beyond my control. I’m shifting without my consent.

First, my alarm clock. I don’t own one. I’ve always relied on my husband — the early riser — to wake me by default, preferably around 6:30 a.m., according to my body clock. 

Summer celebration well planned, well attended, great fun

The sun was shining on Hillsboro last weekend.

Not surprisingly, the beautiful weather we experienced from Friday through Sunday helped produce good crowds for each of the events planned for Hillsboro Days 2008.

From start to finish, top to bottom, it was a great weekend, starting with the Hall of Fame dinner Friday night to the all-faiths worship service in the park Sunday morning.

Over the Years • June 27, 2008

60 YEARS AGO
June 18, 1948 — Flower thieves were threatened with “drastic action” by the park board. “Thoughtless youngsters” had been raiding the peony beds in Woodland Park in Hillsboro.
A Norwegian language film, “Vi Vil Leve,” was listed in the week’s schedule at Hillsboro’s Traill Theatre for a two-night run.
Hillsboro was set to host the Rogers Brothers Carnival for three days, featuring the “latest in thrill rides” — the Tilt-a-Wheel.
Joanne Wegge of Bingham Township earned top honors in state exams among 8th graders in Traill County rural schools.

Dr. Robert Reed

Dr. Robert Reed, 89, Fargo, N.D., formerly of Spirit Lake, Vergas, Minn., died Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at Triumph Hospital, Fargo.
A memorial service  will be held Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 11 a.m. at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Hillsboro.
Wildeman Funeral Home of Hillsboro is in charge of arrangements.