Author: Emily Welker

Thinking Green: Ventilating Your Home

Fresh air is hard to come by this time of year.

Keeping your house properly ventilated is always important, but during the winter months it’s trickier to do than almost any other time of year. In this week’s Thinking Green, Danny Lipford brings us a breath of fresh air for inside your house. Categories: Morning – Features

Ask Danny: Repairing Cracked Concrete

Winter's taken its toll on your paths and driveways. Here's how to fight back.

It’s been a long winter for all of us, and your concrete walkways and driveways are no exception. Ice and snow removal can be tough on those surfaces, causing cracks and crumbling and making footing even more unsure every time precipitation falls. Replacing an entire walkway or driveway can be cost-prohibitive, however — not to mention messy. Danny Lipford shows…

Pet Connection: Meet Sugar and Shasta

They go together like peas and carrots.

Sugar and Shasta are a bonded pair who stopped by KVRR with Homeward Animal Shelter worker Heather Klefstad for a live in-studio interview with Emily Welker about looking for a forever home for this sugar-and-spice pair of pooches. Shasta is a Papillon-Dachsund cross and Sugar is a terrier. The ladies are three and a half years old were surrendered to…

Thinking Green: Recycling Newspapers

Turn yesterday's news into tomorrow's green products.

Newspapers aren’t just useful for getting the scoop. They’re also recyclable in a lot of different ways. Danny Lipford shows us why recycling your newspapers won’t just free up space in the trash bin — it’ll give the planet some breathing room, too. Categories: Morning – Features

Local Maker Turns Pillows Into Art, Uniforms Into Memories

Creativity and nostalgia combine at Unglued Craft Fest 2017.

The Unglued Craft Fest is upon us this coming weekend at the Plains Art Museum — 70 or so local makers who craft, create, design, sew, paint, upcycle and delight us with their talent and passion for decor, home goods, art, jewelry and more. Emily Welker sat down live in studio with maker Emily Brooks and her embroidery machine to…

Inside Perspective on Downtown’s Arts Incubator

Artists are an endangered species in some communities. But Fargo's giving them their very own environment.

In an economy that can price artists right out of the real estate market, it’s rare to see a community that’s making an effort to give art and the people who create it a dedicated space to make art flower. That’s what downtown’s Fargo’s Art Incubator aims to do. The space was developed by The Arts Partnership and the Kilbourne…

Great Horned Owl Rescued From Construction Site

This is why they tell us to wear a hard hat, Owl.

Actually, the more likely possibility is that this beautiful apex predator was inadvertently poisoned through eating a rodent that had consumed rat poison. Check out the heartwarming tale of rescue from reporter Linda Williams. Categories: Morning – Features Tags: construction, owl, predator, rat poison, rescue, wildlife

Pet Connection: Meet Mckenna

A chocolate lab cross with a disposition as sweet as candy.

Mckenna came to the 4 Luv of Dog rescue to swing by for a live in-studio visit with Emily, along with rescue founder and volunteer Kish Hilmert. Mckenna is about 2 yrs old, a spayed female Labrador retriever mix. It’s hard to say what else the mix might consist of,  Kish said, not least of which because genetic tests often…