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Myrdell Vern Skalet – Obit

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Myrdell Vern Skalet, 93, of Crookston, MN, and a former longtime Beltrami, MN farmer, passed away Sunday, January 2, 2022, in the Benedictine Living Community of Crookston after a brief illness.

Myrdell was born in Nielsville, MN on May 27, 1928, one of five children of the union of Nils and Grace (Howland) Skalet. After graduating from Climax, MN High School with the Class of 1946 he worked on area farms until enlisting in the US Army on November 10, 1950. Myrdell served in Germany for 15 months with the 17th Army Engineering Battalion before returning to the States and receiving his honorable discharge at Ft. Custer, MI on November 8, 1952. He was united in marriage to Sady DeYoung Menke in the Scandia Lutheran Church near Beltrami, MN on September 4, 1959. The couple made their home in Nielsville for a little over two years before moving to a farm they purchased in Reis Township, rural Beltrami. Together, Myrdell and Sady operated their farm until retiring in 1991. Retirement meant that Myrdell could devote more time to the Polk County Historical Society in Crookston. He and Sady continued to live on their farmstead until moving to Crookston in October of 2015.

Myrdell and Sady were former members of Scandia Lutheran Church, where Myrdell served on the Church Board. For the past twenty-five years they have been members of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Crookston. He also held membership with Nielsville American Legion Post 336 for over 60 years. Myrdell was extremely proud of his collection of antique tractors. When it came time to sell them at auction he was very happy to see them go to buyers who would appreciate having them just as much as he had. He and Sady enjoyed attending the annual Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion at Rollag, MN until recent years.

Myrdell will be deeply missed by Sady, his beloved wife of 62 years; his brother and sister-in-law, Lawrence and Linda Skalet of Fargo, ND; sister, Janis Thompson of Caledonia, ND; sister-in-law, Doris Skalet of Brainerd, MN; Sady’s nephew, Wayne DeYoung of Shelly, MN; and several other nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Nils and Grace; sister and brother-in-law, Leatrice and Kenneth Sondrol; and brother, Marlys Skalet. Blessed be the memory of Myrdell Vern Skalet.

The location for the funeral service for Myrdell Skalet has been changed to the Trinity Lutheran Church in Beltrami, MN at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 10, 2022. It was originally scheduled to be at the Fairview Cemetery near Beltrami. Visitation at the church will be for one hour prior to the funeral. The service will be livestreamed by going to Myrdell’s obituary page at www.stenshoelhouske.com and clicking on the prompt to view.

Please send messages of condolence to Sady Skalet at www.stenshoelhouske.com

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CROOKSTON POLICE RESPOND TO THREE-VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON N. MAIN ST. AND 3RD ST.

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On May 3, 2022, at 12:24, officers from the Crookston Police Department were dispatched to the intersection of N. Main St. and 3rd St. after the report of a three-vehicle accident.

Initial investigation of the accident revealed that a 2009 Dodge Journey was driving South on N Main St in the middle lane and attempted to turn East onto 3rd St. colliding into a 2000 Jaguar. As a result, the Journey spun out and struck a 2017 Dodge Ram that was stopped at 3rd St. and N Main St. No one was injured in the crash, with minor damage to all vehicles.

The driver of the Dodge Journey is identified as Taylor Johnson of Crookston and was cited for Turning at Intersections and Driving without a valid Driver’s License.

The driver of the Jaguar is identified as David Macierzynski of Crookston. Macierzynski was not injured in this incident.

The driver of the Dodge Ram is identified as Austin Richter of Fargo. Richter was not injured in this incident.

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TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITY ASKS COUNTIES TO COMPLETE ASSESSMENT SURVEY

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The Tri-Valley Opportunity Council, Inc. is completing a Community Needs Assessment that involves conducting a survey of the strengths and needs of the people and communities in their service area. They are asking for the residents of the 74 counties in their service area in Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota to complete the Assessment to help them plan services to meet the public’s needs. The questions are about issues affecting housing, employment, health care, and other vital topics. While at first, it may look rather long and intimidating, it can easily be completed within 15-20 minutes.

You can complete the survey online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DQF5QBK, or if you prefer to fill out a hard copy, one can be mailed to you as well.

If you have any questions about the survey, please call Mitch Bakken at 218-281-5832 or at 800-584-7020.

For more information on services offered and job opportunities at Tri-Valley, visit the website at www.tvoc.org, or follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TVOCInc or on Twitter at @TriValley_TVOC.

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UMC HANDS OUT STUDENT-ATHLETE AWARDS, INCLUDING ATHLETES OF THE YEAR

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The University of Minnesota Crookston held their annual Student Awards Program, a celebration of student service, leadership, and academic athletic achievement, Thursday, April 28 in Bede Ballroom on the UMC Campus.  They handed out the following student-athlete awards –

Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year – Ben Thoma
Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year – Lauren Wallace
Male Athlete of the Year – Jake Dykhoff
Female Athlete of the Year – Jada VanOverbeke
Justin Knebel Award (Men’s Basketball) – Uzo Dibiamaka

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UMC HANDS OUT AWARDS AT STUDENT AWARD PROGRAM

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The University of Minnesota Crookston held their annual Student Awards Program, a celebration of student service, leadership, and academic athletic achievement, Thursday, April 28 in Bede Ballroom.

Marah Mcdougal, a marketing major from Minneapolis, and Elaina Knott, an agricultural education major from Thief River Falls, were named the UMC Students of the Year. The award goes to a junior or senior who best demonstrates the skills and commitment required to succeed in college, business, and life while exhibiting Golden Eagle pride, professionalism, and a strong work ethic all while excelling in academics. You can access photos of the event at https://z.umn.edu/studentawards2022.

The full list of recipients includes the following:
Student Success Center: Tutor of the Year– Katie Hoehne
FYE Peer Mentor of the Year – Ben Olander
Outstanding Communication Student – Sandra Yerges
Leadership in Music Award – Monica Kustritz, Samantha Olek
Outstanding Health Management Student – Janice Carney
Outstanding Nursing Home Administration Student – Emily Schneider
Outstanding Marketing Students – Lachlan Larson, Conner Fonger
Outstanding Online Marketing Student – Rachael Moe, Sam Rook
Student Programmer of the Year – Anthony Kampa, Rachel Meany
Norman Pankratz Memorial Conservation Award – Jacey Tronnes
Outstanding International Student Service Award – Vinayak Sharma, Tseten Gurung, Yuan Song
Outstanding Student Employee of the Year – Benjamin Lee
Outstanding Management Student – Tasha Achermann, Peyton Hennen, Drew Winegar
Outstanding Student Orientation Staff – Savanna Weber, Sawa Yang
Computer Help Desk Student of the Year – Silas Xia
Outstanding Accounting Student – On-Campus – Kamryn Frisk
Outstanding Accounting Student – Online – Kien Pham
Outstanding Sport and Rec Management Student – Ben Thoma
Outstanding Sport and Rec Management Student-Online – Katherine McLaughlin
Sport Marketing Association Student Case Study – Josh Pieper, Kamryn Frisk, Madeleine Schneider, Josiah Bullivant
Outstanding Future Educators Award – Karlie Brekken, Gabby Blomdahl, Kylie Post
Outstanding Equine Science Student – Morgan Schelske
Outstanding Equine Business Management Student – Ally Eblen
Outstanding First-Year Biology Student – Evie Stuck, Tsebaot Getachew
Outstanding Horticulture Student – Johanna Stelljes
Most Improved Horticulture Student – Katherine Hansen
UMC Students of the Year – Marah Mcdougal, Elaina Knott
Harvard Global Case Study Competition Award – Tasha Achermann, Alyssa Pavlacic, Vinayak Sharma, Tseten Gurung, Madeleine Schneider, Derrick Cupp, Bianca Turman
Outstanding Animal Science Pre-Vet Student Award – McKenna Anderson, Maggie Brown
Outstanding Animal Science Student Award – Bea Streifel, April Klecker
Outstanding CSA Senator – Madison Elijah
Outstanding CSA Voting Delegate Award – Brett Hamre
Outstanding Finance Student – Online – Elsa Wood, Timothy Clark
Outstanding Turfgrass Student – Brady Nolan

UMC Students of the Year: Marah Mcdougal and Elaina Knott

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UMC BASEBALL TAKING ON NORTHERN STATE IN DOUBLEHEADER

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The University of Minnesota Crookston (UMC) Golden Eagles Baseball team is in their final week of the regular season, and it starts this afternoon with two games against the Northern State University Wolves. The first pitch in Game 1 is set for 1:00 p.m. from the UMC Baseball Field.

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GRAND FORKS POLICE RESPOND TO ACCIDENT BETWEEN JEEP AND MOTORCYCLE

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On May 3, 2022, at approximately 6:57 p.m., officers from the Grand Forks Police Department were dispatched to the intersection of N. Columbia Rd. and 2nd Ave. N. for an injury accident involving a motorcycle and another vehicle.

Initial investigation of the accident revealed that a 1993 Jeep Cherokee was driving northbound on Columbia Rd. when the driver attempted to make a westbound turn onto 2nd Ave. N. While making this turn, a 2018 Kawasaki ZX6 was traveling southbound on Columbia Rd. struck the Jeep on the passenger side. The motorcyclist was thrown from his motorcycle and was transported to Altru hospital for his injuries. The extent of injuries to the motorcyclist is unknown at this time. The driver of the Jeep was not injured.

There is an active investigation into the crash, and nobody has been cited at this time. The crash is being investigated by members of the Grand Forks Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Team and the Grand Forks Regional Unmanned Aerial Systems Team.

The Grand Forks Police Department was also assisted by the Grand Forks Sheriff’s Department, University of North Dakota Police Department, Grand Forks Fire Department, and Altru Health Systems.

Anyone with information regarding this accident is encouraged to call the Grand Forks Police Department at 701-787-8000.

Updated at 10:35 a.m.

The driver of the Kawasaki motorcycle is identified as 20-year-old Blake Krpan of Logansport, Indiana. Krpan was transported to Altru with apparent non-life-threatening injuries. He was cited for care required.

The driver of the Jeep SUV is identified as 20-year-old Adam Hanson of Grand Forks. Hanson was not injured in this incident. He was cited for failure to yield at a controlled intersection.

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John Mark Onstad – Service Notice

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John Mark Onstad, age 56, of Ada, MN, died Monday, May 2, 2022, at Sanford Hospital on Broadway, Fargo, ND.

Memorial services will be held at 10:30 am on Friday, May 6, 2022, at Grace Lutheran Church, Ada, MN.

Arrangements entrusted to Anderson Family Funeral Home

Twin Valley, Minnesota

Online Tribute: www.andersonfamilyfh.com

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Gail Petersen Harwell – Obit

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Gail Petersen Harwell, 81,  passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at RiverView Care Center in Crookston, where she had been a resident since October of 2021.

She was born October 7, 1940, to Norma and Jerry Petersen at Minette’s Maternity Home in Fertile, where she also attended school, first grade through 12th. From her early years, she had a curiosity for the world and would stand on the front porch and say, “Just wait for me world, I’ll get there.”

To achieve that goal, Gail was a determined high achiever in high school, which led to a full scholarship at Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism. After earning her Bachelor of Science in 1962, she launched a career as an advertising writer in Chicago. She was named a Vice President of J. Walter Thompson Company-Chicago in 1969, where she worked primarily in television, writing for such accounts as Sears dishwashers, Kraft Foods, Sunbeam, and Jovan fragrances. In 1977, she moved to Boston and Arnold & Company; in 1979 to Manhattan and JWT New York; in 1983 to Los Angeles and Evans Advertising; and in 1993 to Marin County in the Bay Area.

Gail met her husband Richard Sterling Harwell in 1971 at Great Lakes, IL, at the end of a sailing race. They were separated by geography and circumstances, but fate brought them together again 20 years later, and they were married in 1993 at Concordia Lutheran Church in Fertile.

In 1995, Gail changed careers, becoming an independent editorial consultant in the engineering-construction field. She often worked alongside Sterling; writing, editing, formatting, and producing proposals, feasibility studies, and marketing materials for multibillion-dollar construction projects. She worked in Asia, Europe, Australia, and Central America, as well as across the U.S., continuing until her final retirement at the age of 73. From that time, Gail and Sterling enjoyed a life of tennis, travel, volunteering, and relaxation overlooking San Francisco Bay. They were members of the Belvedere Tennis Club and the San Francisco Yacht Club. Gail was an avid reader, and she belonged to a local book club for 10 years.

Friends will remember her for her meticulous planning and orchestration of many wonderful birthday parties, club gatherings, and class reunions.

Both Gail and Sterling will be remembered by family for initiating and maintaining the “Petersen-Harwell Perpetual Ping Pong Tournament,” complete with engraved trophy. Gail made sure the results with photos were posted in the Fertile Journal.

Family and friends recall her kindness, generosity, acute sense of humor, infectious laugh, courage, and fierce determination. She had a certain “twinkle in her eyes,” and she will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved her.

Gail was preceded in death by her husband, R. Sterling Harwell, by her older sister, and best friend, Marlys Ozga, and by an infant nephew. She is survived by brothers, Harold (Candy) of Brookline, MA, and Michael (Carol) of Fertile, and brother-in-law, Edward Ozga of Plymouth, MN, nine nieces and nephews, a host of grandnieces and grandnephews, and one great-grandniece.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Parkinson’s disease research or Hospice of the Red River Valley.

Memorial Service: 2:00 PM, Saturday, June 11, 2022, at Erikson-Vik-Ganje Funeral Home, Fertile, MN.

Inurnment: Concordia South Cemetery, Fertile, MN.

Please view our guestbook and share condolences online at www.fredriksonfh.com

Arrangements with Erikson-Vik-Ganje Funeral Home

Fertile, Minnesota

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Former President Donald Trump settles lawsuit with the District of Columbia over accusations of improperly spending non-profit funds

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Court documents show that former President Donald Trump settled a lawsuit on Tuesday with the District of Columbia over accusations of improperly spending non-profit funds. Trump agreed to pay $750,000 to settle the lawsuit that was filed against Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee, Trump International Hotel Washington D.C., and the Trump Organization.

The District of Columbia attorney general’s lawsuit accused the inaugural committee of spending more than $1 million in non-profit funds at the Trump-owned hotel. It said the committee misused $1.1 million in charitable funds to “dramatically overpay” the hotel for event space, to throw a private party for the former president’s children and to pay a private debt held by the Trump Organization. The suit was filed in 2020.

The inaugural committee raised $107 million for Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, more than doubling the previous record for any other incoming president. The money will be divided equally, with half going to the Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation, and the other half to the DC Action for Children Today DC ACT. Trump said in a statement following the settlement: “Given the impending sale of the Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C., and with absolutely no admission of liability or guilt, we have reached a settlement to end all litigation.”

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