Author: Emily Welker

LIVE: Long-Term Care Center Task Force

The coronavirus ravaged the centers. Now loneliness is doing its part.

North Dakota task force leaders are looking for your help crafting a strategy to help families get back together with their loved ones in long-term care facilities across the state. Nursing homes and other facilities across the country have been ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic. That prompted Governor Doug Burgum to close long-term care facilities off to visitors on April…

Thinking Green: Low-Flow Showers

Go with the flow and go green around the home.

If you’re heading in to work after a nice long weekend playing outdoors for Memorial Day, you know the quality of your morning shower is essential. Hey — gotta wash the barbecue smoke out of your hair before you go in, right? But you’re probably wondering whether a low flow shower head can get the dirty deed done right, or…

LIVE: Senior Volunteer and Companion Program

Staying home is keeping them safe from the virus. It's also putting them at risk for depression and loneliness.

As we spend this Memorial Day with our family members, thanking our lucky stars we’ve made it through lockdown and into the first big holiday since the coronavirus struck, you might not realize not everyone in our community is seeing much change. Those are some of our seniors, who are in the highest-risk categories and who often don’t have family…

Ask Danny: Fixing Nail Pops

Problems pop up. Smack 'em back down again.

It’s the unofficial start of the summer season, and the unofficial start “to doing all kinds of DIY projects around the house” season. Danny Lipford lets us in on one of his many handy tips for problems that pop up in your home’s drywall in this week’s Ask Danny.   Categories: Morning – Features

LIVE: Socially-Distant CPR and First Aid Training

You can still get training, and now that summer's starting, it's time you did.

It’s the unofficial weekend that kicks off the summer season, and a lot of people are going to hightail it for the lakes and prairies of the region to get away for the first time since lockdown ended nationwide. But when you’re heading out to remote areas, it’s always better to take some freshly-sharpened lifesaving skills with you — for…

Thinking Green: Living Off the Land

Declare victory in our quest to help the environment.

There’s been a resurgence this morning all across the region of interest in victory gardens. It’s the practice adopted by a lot of Americans during World War II of growing your own produce at home. Danny Lipford shows us how easy it is to get started growing goodies at home that aren’t just good for you, they’re good for the…

Ask Danny: Fixing Asphalt Cracks

Smoothing out the trouble spots with Danny Lipford.

This seemed like the winter and spring that would never end. And now that the weather’s finally warmed up, you’re probably seeing a lot of weather damage around your home. Home improvement expert Danny Lipford show us how to tackle one of the top trouble spots in today’s Ask Danny. Categories: Morning – Features

Employees at Fargo Assembly facilities test positive for Covid-19

NORTH DAKOTA – Officials at a Fargo-based electronics manufacturing company confirms an outbreak of coronavirus among their employees. Fargo Assembly says employees across the wiring harness manufacturers’ four North Dakota facilities tested positive for Covid-19. The business did not specify which plants the cases were confirmed at. Fargo Assembly has about 450 employees in the state. The company says it’s…

LIVE: Bike Safety Awareness Month

Coronavirus isn't the only risk out there.

We’ve been spending a lot of our mental efforts on staying safe from picking up the coronavirus when we go out into the world. Now, Fargo police are reminding us not to turn our backs on traffic safety dangers, too. May is bike safety, motorcycle safety and traffic safety awareness month. Good timing, because the message coincides with the return…

Thinking Green: Organic Food

Is it worth it?

What with all the stress over social distancing and staying safe as stores start to reopen, the last thing you want to do is add time and effort to the process of food-buying by wondering if organic is worth the extra cost at the supermarket. Check out Danny Lipford’s best recommendations on buying organic foods in this week’s Thinking Green….