Donnybrook News

MEDORA If people think Kinley Slauter plays at his job all summer and takes the winters off, they are partly right.

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Ervin O. Gandrud, 89, Grand Forks, North Dakota, died Friday, April 10, 2009 in Valley Memorial Homes Eldercare Center.

Wait and hope...and sandbag. That's about all to be done for people along the Des Lacs and Mouse Rivers.

A flare-up from a fire thought to be extinguished yesterday has led to the destruction of a farm house just west of Carpio.

Lynn Bryans, 84, Carpio, died Friday, Feb. 13, 2009, in a Minot nursing home. Lynn Earl Bryans was born Oct.

Dagny O. Ferm, 80, Minot, formerly of Bowbells, passed away Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, in a Minot hospital.

The cognoscenti were in the room. They spoke with the lilt of privilege, walked with the lean of those who'd never worked a day in their lives.