Congratulations to Rugby’s Braelyn Connot and Mott’s Jada Ottmar for winning the North Dakota Farm Bureau Week “Where does your food come from” art contest!

And speaking of awesome North Dakotans, today’s news is about the Mayville basketball team, Operation Hay Lift, and inmates giving back.  Read on.

“While he can’t run it down and back in 10 seconds, he does his best to get there in 11.” (Grand Forks Herald)

North Dakota’s Farm Rescue has launched “Operation Hay Lift” to help feed livestock in Nebraska’s flooded areas. (Minot Daily News)

Female inmates at the Dakota Correctional Center are giving back to help the 13 families affected by a Dickinson apartment fire. (KX Net)