{"id":241398,"date":"2021-12-20T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=241398"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:38:02","slug":"message-to-the-vc-community-mayor-carlsrud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=241398","title":{"rendered":"Message to the VC Community, Mayor Carlsrud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-217744\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carlsrud-Dave-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Valley City (Chamber 12-20-21)\u00a0 Valley City Mayor Dave Carlsrud has released this week\u2019s message to the community<\/p>\n<p>Hello Folks,<\/p>\n<p>The weather forecast is for cool temperatures this week so we could have a beautiful \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d weekend if the wind doesn\u2019t blow it all away. \u00a0As of Sunday evening, it was still white and pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Recently there have been some pedestrians struck by motor vehicles in our region.\u00a0While pedestrians have right-of-way in many areas, we as pedestrians must be prudent too.\u00a0** Walk against traffic, wear \u201chi-vis\u201d clothing and remember vehicles cannot stop as readily in slick winter conditions.<\/p>\n<p>We are approaching the holiday season and our city employees are having fun learning with some \u201cteam building\u201d activities.\u00a0There has been fellowship, lots of food, numerous contests among individual employees and departments. \u00a0Way to go everyone and thank you for your investment in Valley City.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year there have been some changes in the MRES Board, two about which I\u2019d like to share a bit.\u00a0Don Johnston and Harold Schiebout served MRES Members for 43 &amp; 44 years respectively. \u00a0Harold also served as \u201cChairman\u201d for 34 years and a year as \u201cChair Emeritus\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0These two men were serving when the Laramie River Station was commissioned in 1980 through the completion of the $400,000,000.00 Red Rock Hydro-Project in 2020.\u00a0As of the 61 member MRES family, Valley City Citizens can be grateful for folks like Don and Harold.\u00a0Thanks guys.<\/p>\n<p>The Salvation Army Kettle Campaign continues through December 24<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to contributors again this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cTo us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><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<\/em><\/strong>(Barbara Bush)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blessings, Respect, Kindness and Prayers,<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n<p>Dave Carlsrud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City (Chamber 12-20-21)\u00a0 Valley City Mayor Dave Carlsrud has released this week\u2019s message to the community Hello Folks, The weather forecast is for cool temperatures this week so we could have a beautiful \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d weekend if the wind doesn\u2019t blow it all away. \u00a0As of Sunday evening, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241399,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241398\/revisions\/241399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}