2020-10-07 E-Edition

Polling location change for Kidder County Voters

Submitted by Jean Schoenhard, Kidder County Auditor Kidder County’s one polling location has changed from the Kidder County Ambulance Building to the Pifer’s Auction and Realty Building located at 510 7th Street NW, Steele, ND The COVID-19 pandemic has made changes to the 2020 General Election for us and every county in North Dakota. Kidder County is offering absentee/vote by […]

Community pulls together to provide continued COVID-19 testing


With weather changing from summer to fall, Kidder County District Health Unit (KCDHU) was facing not knowing how they would continue to provide COVID 19 testing for its residents. Testing requires manipulating small plastic vials and a long swab that is placed into the vial after scraping a sample at the back of someone’s throat or in the nasal cavity. […]

Savvy Senior

Helping Seniors Recognize Fake News and Propaganda

Dear Savvy Senior, Are there any resources that you know of that can help seniors detect fake news? My 75-year-old mother shares a lot of misinformation with her family and friends that she sees on Facebook. I’ve talked to her about it, but for some reason she has a difficult time deciphering real news from fake news and propaganda. Frustrated […]

Off the Bookshelf

FIRST WE HAVE COFFEE

This week’s Off the Bookshelf is “First We Have Coffee”, a memoir by Margaret Jensen. It is an accounting of her mother’s odyssey from Norway to America as a fifteen-year-old girl. Elvine traveled alone, arriving at the New York Harbor where she was so in awe of the Statue of Liberty and felt it signified the land of hope and […]

Fall flu shot clinics


Fall has arrived! With fall comes the beauty of changing leaves, cooler weather, football, and, unfortunately, flu season. At KCDHU, we are already busy with flu shot appointments and preparing for our upcoming flu shot clinics located all over the county. From the CDC website, “Every flu season is different, and influenza infection can affect people differently, but millions of […]

Coming Events

Steele Oct. 7 – Kidder County School Board meeting, 7:00 p.m. Oct. 17 – Kidder County Ducks Unlimited Banquet, Community Building Nov. 4 – Golden Manor Aux., 1:00 p.m.

From the Heart

Even though I try not to, many evenings I fall asleep in my chair watching TV. My family used to wake me up so that I would go to bed, but then I would probably lay there for hours before I would fall asleep. Now I just tell them to let me sleep right where I am. Friday night, the […]

Reminiscing…

(Looking back over past Ozone issues by Shirley Morlock)

50 years ago – Oct. 7, 1970 Deaths – Mrs. Andrew (Christina) Haibeck, 76, Fargo, formerly Steele; Bertha Kienzle, 61, Jamestown, formerly Dawson; Walter Kaczmarski, 74, Pettibone Weiser – Clyde Vogel received his discharge from the Air Force. Tuttle – Maynard Weisenburger was hospitalized after being involved in an automobile accident near Sterling. Dallas and Jimmy Zerr, Warren Wallenvein, and […]

Kidder Korner

Another three-year old put his shoes on by himself. His mother noticed the left was on the right foot. She said, “Son, your shoes are on the wrong feet.” He looked up at her with a raised brow and said, “Don’t kid me, Mom. I KNOW they’re my feet.” Rules of the air If you push the stick forward, the […]