{"id":211707,"date":"2020-11-02T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T16:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=211707"},"modified":"2020-11-02T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T20:29:08","slug":"message-mayor-carlsrud-nov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=211707","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Carlsrud: Courtesy is Contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Valley City Mayor Dave Carlsrud has issued an updated message for Valley City Resident, on Nov. 2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>*Even with \u201cCOVID Fatigue\u201d, we are grateful, seeing acts of kindness such as, people leaving Halloween Treats for a family in quarantine, drivers yielding to pedestrians and some friendly \u201cwaves\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Battle \u201cCOVID Fatigue\u201d and be friendly as \u201cCourtesy is Contagious\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>*Thank you to the people on our Beautification Committee.\u00a0These folks do volunteer work all over town, securing grant monies, planting trees, planting flowers, and providing upkeep for their many projects through countless volunteer hours.\u00a0One of their projects is the beautiful Hi-Line Prairie Gardens &amp; Orchard located at 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Avenue and 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Street NE.<\/p>\n<p>*Walking:\u00a0When you are out walking, be sure to <em>wear high visibility colors and always face traffic when walking on the streets.<\/em>\u00a0There are many distracted drivers and more hours of darkness so it is important you see them and they see you.\u00a0Please be safe.<\/p>\n<p>*COVID numbers are exploding around the USA and North Dakota.\u00a0I saw one statistic saying if North Dakota were a country, it would have the most positives per capita in the world.\u00a0Wow.<\/p>\n<p>*Last week a \u201cMask Plan\u201d was implemented to help slow the spread and protect all of us.\u00a0Some people are not accepting the experts\u2019 knowledge telling us \u201cmasks help\u201d. \u00a0Maybe we could liken the COVID battle like we battle floods.\u00a0Our whole community \u201ccomes together\u201d for the good of all.\u00a0Like the floods, to slow COVID, we need to \u201ccome together\u201d again.\u00a0Masking-up helps protect your family, friends and fellow workers.\u00a0Please help.<\/p>\n<p>*Businesses need to help too as nonessential businesses in certain areas are being shut down.\u00a0We want you open, have employees and customers wear masks in your stores.\u00a0You are in control of your destiny.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWe are in this together.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(Anonymous)<strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blessings, Pray and Be Safe,<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n<p>Dave Carlsrud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Valley City Mayor Dave Carlsrud has issued an updated message for Valley City Resident, on Nov. 2, 2020. *Even with \u201cCOVID Fatigue\u201d, we are grateful, seeing acts of kindness such as, people leaving Halloween Treats for a family in quarantine, drivers yielding to pedestrians and some friendly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211724,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211707\/revisions\/211724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}