Noah Wormstadt was honored at Artesian First Lutheran’s church service on May 8 as the senior graduate of the congregation. The church ladies presented Noah with a fleece-tied blanket they had made for him, and the congregation enjoyed lunch and fellowship following the service.
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At around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, fire departments from Artesian, Fedora and Carthage were called out to a blaze north of Artesian on property owned by Don Klinkner. There was a controlled burn at the same location a couple weeks ago, so Artesian Fire Chief Brad Zobel stated that something got stirred up from what was burned before and got air to it to get the fire started again.
With the torrential winds the area has been experiencing, it takes a lot to get a fire out right now. Zobel stated that if it wasn’t for the three farmers who were at the scene of the fire with their tractors and disks, he wasn’t sure they would have been able to contain the blaze. He also credited the farmers who are baling up all the cattails and other dry brush on dried up sloughs as a factor in keeping the flames from spreading too far and too quickly for the firefighters to get a handle on things.
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The CorTrust Bank ALM (Artesian, Letcher, Mt. Vernon) Community Foundation Board of Directors recently awarded the following grants: Fedora Fire Department for $1,500 towards the purchase of new wildland coats, pants and gloves, and the Letcher Youth Program for $2,000 towards equipment for the new teener baseball program.
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