Hello Everyone, July 4th 1776 the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence.\u00a0 Since 1980 the titles \u201cIndependence Day\u201d and \u201cFourth of July\u201d are both utilized to identify the event\u2019s celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The week of the Fourth is a festive time with family gatherings, food and fireworks.\u00a0 Fireworks explosions are dangerous, from losing fingers, eyesight and even death so be safe.\u00a0 Please be respectful of your neighbors by detonating at reasonable times and cleaning all debris from your fireworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fireworks detonation times are: July 1, 2 & 3, 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM with July 4th being 8:00 AM to 1:00 AM July 5th.\u00a0 Enjoy and be SAFE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summer goes so fast, gosh, we are nearing the fall sports season already with players, coaches and game officials in their early stages of preparation for her\/his sport of choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week I was privileged to work at the Sioux Empire Football Officials\u2019 Clinic.\u00a0 There were about 75 campers from nine different states who attended the Sioux Falls clinic.\u00a0 Officials from Valley City and other North Dakota communities were there taking part in two days of classroom presentations and on-field officiating overseen by high school, college and NFL clinicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My profession was working with the North Dakota High School Activities Association (NDHSAA).\u00a0 The NDHSAA is located in Valley City and is the service organization of North Dakota\u2019s member schools.\u00a0 Some responsibilities are administering eligibility, providing rules clinics and administering the fine arts & sports region and state tournaments.\u00a0 My purpose for sharing the aforementioned is, to have fine arts and sports competitions, judges and game officials are needed.\u00a0 Because, \u201cWithout officials, they\u2019re just scrimmages\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why consider officiating?\u00a0 It is an opportunity to \u201cgive back\u201d, it is a competition, it is physical fitness, you will network and realize lifelong friendships.\u00a0 Please contact the NDHSAA at 845-3953 or ndhsaa.com.\u00a0 Try it, you may love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201c<\/em><\/strong>The only way to have a friend, is to be one<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>~ Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Blessings, Pray, be Grateful and Respectful,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dave<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dave Carlsrud <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello Everyone, July 4th 1776 the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence.\u00a0 Since 1980 the titles \u201cIndependence Day\u201d and \u201cFourth of July\u201d are both utilized to identify the event\u2019s celebration. The week of the Fourth is a festive time with family gatherings, food and fireworks.\u00a0 Fireworks explosions are dangerous, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":273461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284063","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284064,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284063\/revisions\/284064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/273461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}