Hello from your friends at PNC! As I had mentioned in a previous article, May 6-9, I attended the N.D. Long-Term Care Conference in Bismarck. I also mentioned that I was set to give a presentation entitled “After Death Care: Supporting Staff and Families through Grief.” Last week you learned that I did survive the presentation, but let me fill you in on what happened leading up to that point.

Kids sometimes say the cutest things, and until they get full language formation, phrases and words will sound different sometimes. Case in point: a child saying “olive you a lot” to their mom at a restaurant. Maybe the child was really clever or maybe they just happened to be holding and eating an olive at the time, in any case, it was cute. It also brought me to thinking about olives and how people either love them or don’t with not much in between. I personally know of someone who treats olives as their own food group.

“A” Honor Roll Seniors Devin Bernstrom Kartheek Chapara Claire Chaput Brock Freer Shanna Gette Catelyn Goodman Tallia Johnston Ciara Kempert Kaylee Littlewind-Sabo Rylee Medbery Mikaela Olson Meredith Romfo Drew Rostvet Jacob Sanders Reed Scherr Alexandra Westphal Charlie Zbasnik Juniors Thomas Blackburn Madilyn Crump Samuel Davis Brayden Harris Mya Johnson Kiera Lien Danilynn Thompson Isabelle Vikan Freshmen Remmi Bodnar Heidi Crump Taya Feist Aiden Haraseth Meggy Hetletved Mya Hoffman Logan Landsem Oliver Lill Kaydence Lundquist Hadley Medbery Ryder Moser Abby Peterson Eastyn Schaefer “B” Honor Roll Seniors James Domres Michael Entzi Thomas Gendron Jordan Klindt Jacob Lowery Tori Mittleider Jaxen Rademacher Juniors Freshmen Jonathan Lill Nora Lorenz Sophia Nuelle Chloe Ottem Haven Radway Raeleigh Ratzlaff McKenzie Regner Jaymee Reidhammer Theodore Romfo Levi Swanson Keaton Ullyott Graci Witzel Sophomores Aubrey Badding Erika Bakke Ruby Davis Kennen Forest Devin Hakanson Colten Hein Max Henderson Maci Hoffarth Daisy Kuhn Matilda Lawson Nadia Lewis Claire Mehlhoff Landon Schneider Kennadee Cluchie Tyson Gemmill Christine Joyner Karter Lien Melah Mackall Zoey Padden Sophomores Terrell Henderson Oshun High Hawk Olivia Lorenz Maddux Stremick Dawson Downs Carson Entzi Kamrin Hicks Evan Ottem Ty Ramberg Patrick Ryan Cole Spanier Chase Thielbar Christian Tollefson.

“A” Honor Roll 8th Grade Lexi Gendron Luke Gilseth Chase Girodat Ella Goodman Thea Johnson Fenja Lawson Korbyn Rollness Mya Swanson Maci Witzel 7th Grade Jackson Borchardt Mason Brown Lexi Close Finley Crockett Colby Forest Gavin Gemmill Billie Hanson Carter Harris Harper Jacobson Chloe Koons Finn Lorenz Matthew Martin Oliver Mosher Sophie Myrvik Hallie Overby Tycen Restad Gavin Rime AryAnna Schaefer Dentyn Schill Sophia Vikan “B” Honor Roll 8th Grade Dyson Askvig Bensen Fetsch Kade Johnson Gracie Johnston Liam Johnson Jonathan Mack Eliot Olson Austin Wenzel Brianna Wild 7th Grade Carl Henry Demetrius Janis Samuel Johnson Maxum Mostad Kynlee Pengilly Aiden Vikan.

By Tammy Olson, Director We are starting our Summer Reading Program on Tuesday June 3. We will be running the program every Tuesday from 11:30-12:30. We will be serving lunch to the kids during this time. There are four great programs we will be running the whole month of June.

The following is a list of both the 'A' and 'B' Honor Roll students for the 4th quarter of the 2024-2025 school year. To be on the 'A' Honor Roll a student must obtain a quarterly GPA of 3.5 or higher, have no letter grade below a B- and no more than one letter grade below an A-. To be on the 'B' Honor Roll a student must obtain a quarterly GPA of 3.0-3.49, have no letter grade below a C- and no more than one letter grade below a B-.

I was feeling nostalgic the other day. My husband and I were driving four hours to our daughter’s college graduation.

“I am concerned your symptoms are due to Parkinson’s disease,” is something I have said to numerous patients over the years. This is a degenerative neurologic disease which is common enough that most patients have heard of it or even know someone living with it.

An Idaho company has released a glow-in-the-dark petunia called Firefly Petunia. By day, the plant looks like an ordinary white-flowered bedding plant. After the sun goes down, the plant reveals its superpower by emitting a faint green glow. While the glow is noticeable, it isn’t bright enough to keep your neighbors awake at night.

Proposed cuts to the federal food assistance program are coming at a time when agencies addressing hunger in North Dakota are already facing lost revenue and increased need. “There’s a lot of uncertainty right now,” said Darby Njos, spokeswoman for Great Plains Food Bank in Fargo.