From the Forum Communications News Bureau
North Dakota
Annual Appreciation Day Wednesday at vets home
LISBON, N.D. – Volunteers with the North Dakota National Guard will show their appreciation to the men and women in the state who served before them during the annual Veterans Appreciation Day on Wednesday here at the North Dakota Veterans Home.
Guardsmen from across the state donated funds to purchase gifts for the 129 residents of the home.
This year, Tech Sgt. Tracy Zidon coordinated the effort. Master Sgt. Kathleen Shasky and Kristi Clifton, the 119th Wing’s director of psychological health, volunteered their time to purchase gifts on the veterans’ wish lists,SAXO BANK Cycling and other volunteers wrapped gifts.
Gate City Bank branch on S. University robbed
FARGO – Police here are looking for the man who robbed a south Fargo bank Monday afternoon.
Lt. Joel Vettel says a man in his 50s entered Gate City Bank at 1501 S. University Dr.Specialized Cycling around 4:05 p.Castelli Cyclingm., indicated he had a weapon and demanded cash.
Several employees were on hand at the time, Vettel said, and after handing over an unknown sum of money, the man left on foot in a northeastern direction. No one was injured.
The suspect is described as a white male with gray hair and a beard, roughly 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing about 200 pounds. He was wearing a camouflage hooded jacket, a light blue baseball hat and blue jeans.
Lettuce project asks for loan
JAMESTOWN, N.D. -- Organizers of Endless Harvest, the controlled-environment agriculture lettuce project planned for Jamestown, are looking for $2 million in loans from local development agencies to get the project off the ground.
Endless Harvest would construct a greenhouse near Jamestown to grow lettuce for the Northern Plains market.Garmin Cycling Lance Brower, a consultant for Endless Harvest, presented an update on the plans and the request for funding at the Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corp. Executive Board meeting Monday.
Costs for the project’s first phase were pegged at about $12 million, Brower said.
Cars strikes, kills man who had been left at roadside
BROOK PARK, Minn. -- Authorities say a pedestrian who was hit by a car and fatally injured in Pine County on Sunday evening had been drinking and fought with a relative — who abandoned him along a road — before he was hit.
Ryan A. Lockhart, 23, of St. Paul, was hit on Minnesota Highway 23 near Wildwood Road in Brook Park. He died at Essentia Health St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, Lockhart was hit by a westbound Toyota Prius about 8:20 p.m. The roads were icy. The 71-year-old driver remained at the scene and was not charged with any crime, according to the Pine County Sheriff’s Office.
A preliminary investigation by the sheriff’s office indicated that Lockhart and a male relative had been drinking at a local tavern and left together. While driving home, the two men argued, stopped the pickup, got out of the truck and scuffled.
The relative drove away, leaving Lockhart along the road.RadioShack Cycling Footprints indicate he walked down a county road and onto Highway 23, where he was struck by the car.
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