VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Whatever Holiday you may have celebrated over the weekend, I pray that you all experienced peace, love and hope.  We enjoyed catching up with family and friends, gosh those younger folks grow up so fast!

With our area schools on break, hopefully students and all personnel can enjoy a little time away from the “routine.”  It may be no homework, some building maintenance, fewer lesson plans or just “gone fishing.” What ever it may be, enjoy your break.

Our whole City Staff has done a great job battling MORE snow, more ice, fielding calls from citizens in need and all related activities.  Thank you to the team.

Good news, each day since the Winter Solstice we are seeing a few more minutes of daylight!

We have a great number of rough roads, high snow banks, ice everywhere and these conditions will be this way for quite awhile.  Driving & walking will be dangerous so both will require extra caution to be safe.  Please “Drive and walk as conditions dictate.”

Though there is a little more snow than most would like,  it did make for a beautiful “White Christmas.”

Thank you for recycling; will you please break down cardboard boxes to maximize room in dumpsters?

How about a “hats off” & thanks to our Garbage Crew?  They have been crawling over snowbanks, fighting bitter cold and ice getting to your garbage.  Will you all please clean a path to your garbage containers, the crew will appreciate it, thanks.

Blessings and thank you all who so graciously gave to the Barnes County Salvation Army Kettle Campaign this year.

“I am happy because I am grateful.  I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”                                      ~ Will Arnett