I was just about ready to deliver my May baskets, and now it’s June! Maybe next year. I’m anxious for sun and warm temps.

It’s been an exciting week here at The Borderland Press! Our new website has officially launched and can be found at https://www.theborderlandpress. com/ We are so happy to be able to provide such an easy way to access and sign up for your print or digital subscription.

Now that the fun and games and celebrating of graduation are over, it’s time to settle into summer schedules and jobs. The recent discussion on Facebook regarding the pool staffing situation made me think back to when I was a teenager and the summer jobs I held. My first job was the farm. ‘The farm’ being a very general job description because the work was different every day. My parents would be up and out the door to work early, and once us kids rousted ourselves from slumber, we all trudged out to the kitchen to check out the chore list. My dad’s typical list consisted of things like weed the trees, mow the lawn, pitch hay to the horses, and feed the cats. My mom’s list always consisted of cleaning in the house and doing laundry.

By Bob Simmons, CEO, Simmons Multimedia This week I’m in beautiful upstate New York in Tioga Springs attending the spring meeting of the International Broadcasters Idea Bank, which I’ve been a proud card carrying member since first being nominated for membership by a former boss back in 2004. Every industry has its various trade groups and organizations. Many of these industry organizations, be it car dealers, grocery stores, hospitals, furniture stores etc., have groups within groups, and then there are exclusive groups of 100 members that are often referred to as ‘skull and bones groups’ - that is what many in the radio industry perceive the International Broadcasters Idea Bank to be.

It’s a drippy day in the Borderland. Every spring I reach a point where I refuse to wear socks, even if I have to go home at the end of day and put on every sock I own because my feet are freezing.

Have you ever heard of the “how hard can it be” gene? Well, it’s not a scientifically classified gene. However, the character traits run strong if you inherit it from somewhere.

It seems appropriate that I’m typing my article on Mother’s Day. This year, we are celebrating without my mother-in-law, Carol, and the reality of that is heartbreaking as I spent my day purchasing flowers, mowing the lawn, and cleaning up some flowerpots - all things that Carol would have been busy with herself as she looked forward to summer, sunshine, and warmer weather. During my spring cleanup on the inside of the house, I ran across a storage tote of old high school memorabilia of Greg’s. In it was a letter from his mom that she put in his graduation card. Her advice was thoughtfully and carefully typed up 30 years ago, but the advice and general sentiments that most parents feel at graduation time still hold true.

Multimedia No matter where you go or who you talk to, it seems the universal issue impacting employers and, in turn, the general public, is a lack of employees, and it’s not just a Lang- everywhere. A friend snapped me a picture of a sign he saw in a Devils Lake eatery last week.

Dear Editor, As a nominal 'Independent/Republican' have voted in state elections in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin over the past many years, legally every time, but can never remember a more wasteful (money) and distasteful (tasteless ads in all the media) primary campaign for a party endorsement.

Technology has come a long way in the past 200 years. The telegraph was invented in 1837 and made rapid long range communication possible. Messages could be sent around the world through a series of connected wires. The telegraph had medical applications in the Civil War. It was used to order medical supplies and report information about injuries and casualties to medical teams. This was cutting edge technology at the time, but it now is considered an obsolete method of communication.