VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – We have certainly been Blessed with a beautiful winter to date. As of this writing, there is still a nice blanket of snow insulating our water lines etc. There is some ice on roads so please be careful when driving or walking.

Wind created snowdrifts in some backyards so please clean around your garbage cans and dumpsters so our city crews can provide better service for you.

COVID-19 in one form or another is still lingering. The best mitigation has been vaccination; many unvaccinated patients in hospitals wish they had been vaccinated.

VERY SERIOUS: We have a large number of school buses transporting children to and from the various schools in our area. When a school bus has the “STOP ARM” extended, vehicles from both directions are REQUIRED to STOP. Most importantly for safety and it is THE LAW!

The Salvation Army Kettle Campaign continues through December 24th. Please contribute what you can and “Ring the Bell” yourself. Call 701-541-1418 or 701-840-1357 to sign up.

“It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a certain price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative.” (President Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Dave Carlsrud

Mayor of Valley City