2017-12-27

Days Gone By



This undated Record file photo is of the choir at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Warsaw that was one of the groups featured at UND’s Ethnic Music Festival in Grand Forks. No identification of the choir members was listed on the back of the picture and no article accompanied the picture in the file. Anyone who can identify members of […]

Political Cartoon



City Court Report



NOVEMBER 2017 DISPOSITIONS Raul Garcia, Grafton, DUI. Defendant shall pay a $1,500 fine, $250 indigent recoupment, $125 court administration fee and $25 victim assistance fee. Sentenced to 20 days in the Walsh County Correction Center, all suspended for one year on condition defendant has no further criminal violations of law, obtains an alcohol evaluation, attends DUI classes, participates in the […]

Toni Monsebroten

Edinburg

Toni P. Monsebroten, 69, Edinburg, died Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, at First Care Health Center of Park River. Services were held Friday, Dec. 22, at Trinity Lutheran Church of Edinburg, with burial in the church cemetery. Tollefson Funeral Home of Edinburg was in charge of arrangements. Toni P. Talbot, daughter of Sterling and Ruth (Stenslie) Talbot, was born Oct. 10, […]

Caroline Olson

Edinburg

Caroline Olson, 49, Edinburg, died Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, at Altru Hospital of Grand Forks. Tollefson Funeral Home of Edinburg is in charge of arrangements. Caroline J. Shephard was born July 17, 1968, in Grafton, the daughter of George Albert and Eileen (Bjornson) Shephard. She grew up north of Edinburg and graduated from Edinburg High School in 1986. She married […]

Richard ‘Sarge’ Munoz

Grafton

Richard “Sarge” Munoz, 71, Grafton, died Monday, Dec. 25, 2017, at Altru Hospital of Grand Forks. Visitation will be Friday from 2-7 p.m., at Tollefson Funeral Home of Grafton, with a prayer service at 7 p. m. Military rites will be provided by Grafton American Legion Post No. 41 and North Dakota National Guard Honor Guard. Richard M. Munoz was […]

Gayle Sobolik



Gayle A. Sobolik was born on Oct. 24, 1931, to Bertina and Herman Sobolik of Fordville. She died Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, in Rochester, Minnesota. Gayle retired from California State University, Fresno as Professor Emerita of Information Systems and Decision Sciences in the Craig School of Business, where she taught from 1969 to 1999. Her specialty was business communication. Gayle […]

Brian Misialek

Minto

Brian Allan Misialek, age 58, passed away Thursday morning, Dec. 21, 2017, in his home surrounded by his family. Brian was diagnosed in October 2017 with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a rare brain disease that affects only one in one million people. Brian was truly a one in a million man. Brian Allan Misialek was born the son of Leo and Genevieve […]

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From the Pastor’s Desk




How Christmas defeated evil As I sat down to prepare for this column, I began thinking about Christmas and the end of the year. I pondered some of the recent news headlines like the Texas church mass shooting, a potential war with a nuclear weaponized North Korea and the ever-growing political divisions. I wondered, “With all this, how can we […]