Morning – Features

Melinda’s Garden: Planting Under Trees

Give a little love to your giving tree.

They give us shade from the sun, shelter from the rain, snacks of fruit, and a swell view of squabbling squirrels playing among their branches. Trees give a lot to any garden space, as well as bringing adding to your home’s property value and cooling your home during hot weather. With all that, though, it can be tough to figure…

Tech Tip Today: Google Drive

All hands on deck.

Google Drive can help everyone on your team pitch in, whether it’s making changes to a paper, a picture or a presentation. It’s a way to allow everyone access to a project while it’s in process, instead of passing it back and forth among individual team members. Francie Black walks you through the best ways to access Google Drive in…

A Hero’s Welcome: Remains of Fessenden WWII Sailor Return to North Dakota

Arthur Neuenschwander will be Buried this Weekend in Fessenden

FARGO, ND — It’s the day known in United States history as the “date which will live in infamy”. More than 2,400 Americans lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor and for more than 70 years, the identities of 400 servicemen were unknown. But because of new technology and DNA testing, many of those servicemen are able to…

Thinking Green: Carbon Footprint

Adam's a size 15.

We hear a lot about what kind of carbon footprint we leave, but do you really know what it is? Or how to calculate how big yours is? (It isn’t your shoe size, in case you were wondering.) In this week’s Thinking Green, Danny Lipford explains the concept of the carbon footprint for all us carbon-based life forms. Categories: Morning…

LIVE: Yoga On the Water

KVRR's Jackie Kelly Learns How to Do Yoga On the Water at Detroit Lakes

KVRR’s Jackie Kelly travels to Detroit Lakes to learn how to do yoga on the water from Jess Stuewe, the owner of Lakes Pace, LLC. More information about yoga on the water can be found here.   Categories: Morning – Features, Morning – In The Community Tags: Detroit Lakes, lakes pace, yoga on the water

Ask Danny: Squeaking Wood Floors

Is it a ghost? A noisy mouse? Probably there's an easier fix than for either of those.

Are your noisy wood floors keeping you up at night? Sure, the creaking and groaning could be a supernatural haunting of some kind. Or, it could be haunted by a rodent infestation squeaking away under the floorboards. But as Danny Lipford shows us in this week’s installment of Ask Danny, the fix is probably much easier. Categories: Morning – Features

Experiments with KVRR Meteorologist Scott Sincoff: Finding the Human Density

Fun and Easy Science Experiments

This week, Meteorologist Scott Sincoff worked with Barry Olson of Benjamin Franklin Middle School to find the human density. What You Need: Ruler Scale Bathtub or human-size container full of water (big enough to completely submerge yourself in it) Pen and Paper a friend How to do the experiment: 1st you must find your weight on a scale in pounds…

Melinda’s Garden: Layering

Think layering your hair looks good? Try layering in the garden.

This time of year is the time you want to fill up all the spare corners of your yard with as many beautiful new plants as possible. But buying a bunch of new plants at the nursery or garden center can get expensive. Melinda Myers has a cost-effective and nifty technique you can use in your own garden, in this…

LIVE: Midwest Kid Fest

KVRR's Jackie Kelly Talks With Jessica Korynta of the Fargo Park District About the Midwest Kid Fest

KVRR’s Jackie Kelly talks with Jessica Korynta of the Fargo Park District about the Midwest Kid Fest. Jackie also tries out the belly bumper game, which is one of the fun things to do at the festival. Categories: Morning – Features, Morning – In The Community Tags: belly bumpers, Fargo Park District, Midwest Kid Fest

Pet Connection: Meet Romeo

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou so cuddly?

Romeo is one handsome charmer, but unlike his Shakespearean namesake, he’s only looking for platonic companionship. That’s because the roughly two-year-old pit bull terrier was neutered recently. 4 Luv of Dog rescue worker and founder Kish Hilmert says neutering and spaying your dog is the way to go, unless that animal is going to be bred. Left intact, the hormones…