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Columnists
Mary Jane Breitling
West Fargo Pioneer - 07/17/2008
The rascally rabbits are driving me to distraction. It is bad enough that they regard my gardens as their own private buffet restaurant. On top of that, they love to dart out from shrubbery when I am in the area and give me a scare. They come in all sizes, large momma’s and poppa’s, juniors, and little baby bunnies. The neighborhood has several sheds that provide them with cool basement apartments.
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Keith Corliss
West Fargo Pioneer - 07/24/2008
Late July is not exactly prime time among the network of bird aficionados. In fact, you may even call it a lull of sorts. But standing out amid the humdrum of routine nesting species is one group in particular, the shorebirds. These are the birds that strut around in mudflats and shallow water on longish skinny legs probing the flats with long bills. Most are through nesting high up into Canada and are currently working their way south through the state, often in good numbers. Just last week a Bismarck-area birder reported over 2,000 shorebirds, consisting of 17 different species, at one location on Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
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Sue Cwikla
West Fargo Pioneer - 06/26/2008
It’s not often that a TV celebrity plans to spend their summer vacation in West Fargo, so when I ran across an old article in the June 26, 1968 issue of the West Fargo Pioneer, it caught my attention. The lead story on the front page that week told readers about Gene Blakely, an up and coming TV star who was home for a three week vacation visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Avon Blakely, who lived on 120 Francis St. in West Fargo.
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Chet Decker
West Fargo Pioneer - 07/17/2008
That’s right, only a month and a half until West Fargo football opens its season in Mandan. Diehard Packer football fans who want to see their team earlier than that only have to wait 36 days until the Packers scrimmage at Fargo North on Aug. 22.
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Karen Huber
West Fargo Pioneer - 07/24/2008
July is national blueberry month and what better time to take advantage of the sweet, succulent fruit during its peak bearing time, which typically runs from May through October.
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Nick Simonson
West Fargo Pioneer - 07/17/2008
Stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan once remarked that he normally doesn’t eat a burger, a bratwurst AND a steak in the same meal, but on the Fourth of July, he just wouldn’t feel like an American if he didn’t. I know I did my part to keep the beef, pork and odds-n-ends-in-a-casing industries going over the holiday weekend, and I’m confident you did too. After all, it is an election year and heaven forbid any of us be lumped into that “unpatriotic” category.
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