{"id":288839,"date":"2024-12-02T08:14:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=288839"},"modified":"2024-12-02T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:19:19","slug":"news-and-notes-from-mayor-carlsrud-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=288839","title":{"rendered":"News and Notes From Mayor Carlsrud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Valley City &#8211; Hello,  the Thanksgiving Holiday certainly brought a taste of winter weather!\u00a0 Unlike weather in some other areas of the country, when it warms a bit, we can be grateful most of our buildings are still in tact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember the Barnes County Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign is underway.&nbsp; The Barnes County Salvation Army provides avenues for needy folks to get back on their feet and become self sufficient.&nbsp; Please give what you can, Blessings.&nbsp; To \u201cring the bell\u201d, please call 701-840-1357 or 701-541-1418.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kicking off the Holiday Season Saturday evening, a Light Parade and the Veterans\u2019 Park Lighting Ceremony were hosted by the Valley City Chamber of Commerce.&nbsp; The temperature was pretty cool though the wind subsided making a nice \u201ccrisp\u201d night for a larger than expected crowd.&nbsp; Thank you to all who made units and participated in the parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hats off to our city employees who do such a great job with holiday lighting, adding more lights here and there while tweaking some existing lights elsewhere.&nbsp; Along with lights and decorations on Main, Central and 8th Avenue being spectacular, Veterans Park amazes me every year.&nbsp; Light colors and unique placings in the park make a drive around looking at lights worth the trip.&nbsp; Oh, there are \u201cphoto ops\u201d all around Veteran\u2019s Park and the sitting area south of City Hall.&nbsp; Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ONLY 3% of us donate blood while over 90% of us will need blood at some time!&nbsp; Every 2-seconds someone in the United States needs blood.&nbsp; YOU can make a difference; call 701- 845- 4257 or 877-258-4825 to donate December 16, noon to 6:00 or December 17, 8:00 to 12:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to all who provide and proof material for this column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong><em>Success is not final, failure is not fatal; It is the courage to continue that counts.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong>~ <em>Bud grant<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Blessings, Pray, be Respectful and Grateful,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave Carlsrud&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City &#8211; Hello, the Thanksgiving Holiday certainly brought a taste of winter weather!\u00a0 Unlike weather in some other areas of the country, when it warms a bit, we can be grateful most of our buildings are still in tact. Remember the Barnes County Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":271545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288839","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\/288839","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288883,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288839\/revisions\/288883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}