Articles from the December 23, 2017 edition
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Brendan Bushy on team u.s.a. at world junior a challenge
Brendan Bushy of Thief River Falls was one of twenty-one players chosen to represent Team U.S.A. at the World Junior A Challenge, an annual under-20 international ice hockey tournament sponsored by...
His Destiny was to become a lawman
At 35, Travis Olafson, a Warroad native with an adventurous spirit who ran his own construction company and later worked in the North Dakota oil fields, couldn't escape his calling. It's in his...
A Soldiers Christmas
By: Michael Marks The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, Transfo...
Remembering those who got you here
Merry Christmas to some old friends - alive and well or forever gone. There will never be another Kenny Byfuglien, who made wonderful copy over the years in this column when I needed a quick quote or...
THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS "MEAL" EVER PREPARED
Do you know what a metaphor is? Well the dictionary says,”An implied comparison between two different things; a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily means one thing is applied to another thing in order to suggest a likeness betw...
Mooney and Olson place third at Big Bear
At the end of the two-day, 40-team Big Bear Wrestling Tournament in Cass Lake last weekend, Chandler Mooney found little to smile about after losing his first match of the season. After winning three...
Wrestlers win one of three at TRF quad
With a depleted squad due to recent injuries, the Rams traveled to Thief River Falls on Tuesday to wrestle Blackduck-Cass Lake-Bena, Thief River Falls, and Grand Forks Red River. In the first dual...
RAMS BOYS DEFEAT TWO SECTION OPPONENTS
The boys basketball team had a very busy week last week with three games, one away and the last two back to back home games. The first game vs KCC I already reported on. The latter two were against not just section opponents, but our friendly rivals...
Rams Girls Hockey Team Beats Brainerd 3-0
ROSEAU 3 BRAINERD 0 (Friday, December 15th, 2017 @ Brainerd) Roseau traveled to Brainerd for the first of two regular season games on Friday, December 15th. This game was the first meeting between the Rams and Warriors since last February’s c...
Lady Rams Hockey Picks Up Three Section 8AA Wins
The Rams Girls hockey team improved to 4-0 in Section 8AA play by winning road games at Buffalo (7-0) and North Wright County (1-0) on December 8th and 9th and returning home to beat Moorhead (6-1) on December 12th. The Rams are now 7-3 overall headi...
Dale Joseph Bleau, 68
Roseau - Dale Joseph Bleau passed away from a heart attack in Salol, on December 10, 2017 at the age of 68. He was born in Rainy River, Ontario on April 6, 1949 to June and Leon Bleau. He was one of four children. He went to and graduated from Warroa...
Evangeline M. Christopherson, 96
Big Lake - Evangeline Maybelle Chase Christopherson of Big Lake, passed away on December 12, 2017 at home in Big Lake with her children present. She was born in Salol, on May 23, 1921 the daughter of Andrew Jackson Chase and Mary Marietta (Gould)...
Gary LeRoy Dahlgren, 75
Roseau - Gary LeRoy Dahlgren passed away surrounded by family on December 14 after a seven-month battle with cancer. Gary was born on February 12, 1942, in Roseau, to Oliver and Ruby (Norquist) Dahlgren. He grew up in the Falun township, where he was...
Leonard LeRoy Dahlgren, 53
Roseau - Leonard LeRoy Dahlgren was born on May 18, 1964, in La Crosse, Wis., to Gary and Gloria (Wolff) Dahlgren. The family lived in La Crescent, Houston, Lansing, Iowa, and Wausau, Wis., before settling in Falun Township in 1974 where Leonard atte...
Louise Hendershot, 102
Warroad - Louise died on Decembr 17, 2017 at the Warroad Senior Living Center. Louise Hendershot was born on September 15, 1915 to John and Marie (Arens) Meyers in Kenmor, N.D. Louise attended school in numerous locations as her family moved around...
Vivian Joyce Dunlop, 87
Fargo, N.D - Vivian Joyce Dunlop, 87, of Fargo, died Saturday, December 16, 2017 in Good Samaritan Society, Fargo, N.D. Vivian Joyce Larson Dunlop was born January 4, 1930 in Roseau County, Minnesota to Olaf and Esther (Thorin) Larson. She was...
