Best of luck to Miss North Dakota USA, Samantha Redding, as she heads to Reno to compete for the title of Miss USA!

And speaking of North Dakota, today’s news is about three acts of North Dakota Nice – kindness from a stranger, a donation in celebration, and family support.  Read on.

Letters like this are the whole reason I started North Dakota Nice. (Grand Forks Herald)

To honor their mother, Jane Lundeen’s family used gifted memorial money to purchase 20 copies of a children’s book about homelessness for local schools. (Fargo Forum)

After Williston’s Patty Stillwell lost her hair to chemotherapy treatments, her family grew out their own hair to create a custom wig. (Williston Herald)