“Stress for farmers and ranchers isn’t new,” says Becky Kopp-Dunham, a licensed independent clinical social worker and farmer herself.
Abbey Messer and her husband, Marty, who is a KEM Electric Cooperative lineworker, both enjoy the outdoors, having grown up on farms and ranches.
The heart of the NDSF are the 4-H, FFA and open class exhibits vying for the top prize, Korslien says.
“I’m on bonus time,” he says. “Every day is a good day.”
Established in 1907, Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park is North Dakota’s oldest state park, and it presents many different ways to enjoy North Dakota
Henry Bajebo, a Liberian refugee, has endured similar tragedy. Bajebo watched his father die at the hands of a rebel soldier.
“What’s going on?” I asked. And then I listened. Her problems were not new. She’d been wrestling with these same issues for years.
