Author: Emily Welker

Melinda’s Garden: Last Year’s Seeds

It's not quite time to start your garden. Here's a way you can get ahead.

Starting seeds indoors is a great way to get your garden on even though we’re still at risk of a frost until later in May. But how do you know whether seeds from last year are still worth trying to germinate? Melinda Myers has a method in this week’s Melinda’s Garden. Categories: Morning – Features

Reunion and Renewal: 28th Annual Woodlands and High Plains Powwow

It's been a long winter. Shake it off this weekend at the powwow in Moorhead.

If you’ve never been to a powwow before, you’re missing out. If you have been and don’t go this weekend, you’ll be missing all your friends. Committee member Jered Pigeon and Head Dancer Winona Goodthunder stopped by the KVRR morning show to talk live in-studio with Emily Welker about Saturday’s festivities. Watch the dances, hear the drums, eat some delectable…

Pet Connection: Meet Durand

He's about 80 pounds worth of puppy love.

Durand and his friend Carrie from 4 Luv of Dog stopped by the KVRR morning show to visit with Emily Welker live in-studio about what it would be like to bring the 80-pound, 1-year-old Staffordshire terrier home with you to join your family in a “furever” home. In spite of his size, Durand is fairly easy to handle, since he’s…

Tech Tip Today: Pinning Browser Tabs

Do you leave a bunch of tabs open? Clean up the clutter with Francie Black.

Do you like to leave a lot of browser tabs open when you browse the web? Turns out there’s a better way to do so, without cluttering things up. Francie Black does some light housekeeping in this week’s Tech Tip Today. Categories: Morning – Features

Thinking Green: CFL Myths

What are the common misconceptions about fluorescents? Danny Lipford busts them.

Choosing between fluorescent lights and LEDs can be tricky, especially when you’re trying to help the planet stay cool and cut your energy bill. Danny Lipford shows us how to sort out the myth from the facts when it comes to CFLs, or compact fluorescent lamps. Categories: Morning – Features

Ask Danny: Fixing Holes in Brickwork

It's spring. Get out there and tackle the stuff that's been waiting all winter.

Now that it’s spring and the weather has warmed up, you’ve probably noticed that the brickwork on your house has some small gaps and holes in it. And if you’re getting out and about, that means insects will be soon, as well. Danny Lipford shows us how to stop up those holes in the brickwork nice and snug without any…

Fargo’s Feathered Friends

They're crafting a new backyard chicken keeping ordinance, but they need your help to do it.

After sweeping urban areas of the country over the past few years, backyard chicken keeping could be coming to Fargo. After identifying some seemingly contradictory elements of city ordinance regarding keeping the birds in your backyard, Fargo City Commissioners directed the city attorney to work with Fargo Cass Public Health and other city departments to update Article 12–03, and other…

Live Long and Prosper

Donate Blood. It's the Logical Thing To Do.

Emily and Adam remind you every morning to donate blood. The folks at United Blood Services are wrestling with some serious shortages in our local blood supply, and they’re asking for your help with donations of much-needed blood types, and platelets too — all blood types are needed. Even green, as Adam pointed out. So live long and prosper, and…

Pet Connection: Meet Tux

A Chesapeake Bay Retriever who'd be right at home in lakes country.

Tux is a two year old male with much of the classic good looks of a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, a water-loving breed with a big heart, an athletic build, and a warm disposition. Tux is part Chesapeake, part pit bull, said Homeward Animal Rescue’s Heather Klefstad, who brought the friendly two-year-old to the KVRR studios for a live in-studio appearance…

Tech Tip Today: Facebook Encryption

Keep secrets where they belong: between you and your trusted friend.

With hackers running amuck online, sending personal information over the internet, even if it’s to someone you know and trust, can be nervewracking. But Facebook claims it can keep your secret data between you and your intended recipient with its Messenger function. Francie Black walks us through it in this week’s Tech Tip Today. Categories: Morning – Features