COVID-19 has brought out the best of North Dakota Nice.  A few posts from the past week: Huge props to our North Dakota school districts who, within a day of school closures, created free lunch programs for students (and in Minot’s case, adults with disabilities). Shown here are Jamestown, Minot, Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Forks – if you have a district to add, send it on! A number of businesses also rallied to provide free and reduced lunches to kiddos […]

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A brief pause in the news this week as my husband and I take my boys on vacation.  See you all next Thursday for the week’s nice news!

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The first weekly news comes out tomorrow!  Please keep sending on any nice social media posts or stories.

And while you’re here, let’s talk about prairie potholes.  Did you know North Dakota is a part of the Prairie Pothole Region, which is an area of the Great Plains defined by shallow wetlands left behind by glaciers? 

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I promise I’m not going to do this every week, for real.  Just this week to get everyone on the schedule.  And while you’re here, here’s a fact: did you know North Dakota grows 85% of the nation’s flax seed?  And did you know you can make an egg substitute with flax?  For those of you who have egg allergies, check this out.

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Thank you to everyone who weighed in on your preferred way to receive the news!  The (small) majority has selected a weekly post, so we’ll try that out for the next month.  If you like it, we’ll keep it going; if not, we’ll go back to the daily news.  I will post up the week’s news on Thursdays. Read on.

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