Articles

Lind: Notice makes patients into comedians

The notice reads, “If you think you are pregnant, please tell the technologist before your exam.”

• Bob Lind

Lind: Number 14 significant in life of Fargo woman

This is May 14. So it’s something special for LaVerne Johnson of Fargo, not because of the date, but because of the number 14.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Miscommunication didn’t stop couple from happy ending

This is a story of a time in the lives of a young couple when the lack of good communication facilities led to a major disappointment.

• Harry and Lorraine Fuglie
• Wedding day

Lind: The glory of Goldie

You could count on one thing when you visited Goldie Houkom: You’d go home with a loaf of her bread, which a fan of hers calls “wonderful.” But it wasn’t just her bread that made her so appealing. She had a positive attitude despite life’s challenges, faith in God and a smile that lit up Edgewood Vista assisted living, Fargo, her last home before she died in October 2011 at 102.

• Goldie Houkom
• Bob Lind

Lind: The drug problem of yesterday

Yes, there is legitimate reason to be concerned about the drug problem these days. But that problem is nothing new. It was around years ago, too. Only in a different way.

• Bob Lind

Lind: A man’s waiting game pays off with a family

Listen up, you single guys: If you spot a girl who you think could be The One, don’t hesitate to ask her out and get acquainted.

• The Jarabek family

Lind: Pigeon prank outshines memory of basketball game

It was a big night for Ronnie Krueger and his friend Gordon Froehlich, both of McClusky, N.D.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Fargo’s Irish chaplain also proud to be American citizen

Twenty years ago, a Forum reporter sat down with the Rev. Peter Hughes in New Rockford, N.D., and learned from him that “In Ireland, they say the signs of respectability are to have a pump in the yard, a bull in the paddock and a priest in the family.”

• The Rev. Peter Hughes

Lind: Humor has served Lisbon, ND, native well through the years

He and his dad used to hunt and fish together along the Sheyenne River at Lisbon, N.D., when the kid was 10.

• Curt Johnson

Neighbors: Retired Lake Park man flying high at age 78

Being a couch potato would be “pretty boring,” Dorian Olson says. This certified public accountant who taught accounting at Minnesota State University Moorhead for 30 years, including 10 years as MSUM’s first accounting department chairman, has, at age 78, earned the right to cool it in retirement.

• Dorian Olson
• Seawind 3000 amphibious plane

Columns

Lind: Jargon from any field can be frustrating

Neighbors gets lots of mail, primarily from you readers with items for this column, which is greatly appreciated.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Memories of fashion, one mom’s award

To be fashionably dressed years ago, a woman wore gloves. That’s what a woman Neighbors recently wrote about said. Margaret Klinger, Oakes, N.D., agrees with her, both on the importance of gloves and of their disappearance.

• Bob Lind

Kaiser Frazers were ‘old people’s’ cars, reminiscent of ‘fancy upside-down bathtub’

Neighbors has received notes about the old Kaiser Frazer cars, including this from Sheila Froemke of Litchville, N.D.

• Kaiser Frazer
• Bob Lind

Lind: Oil Patch life not always flowing with cash

Williams County is smack in the middle of the Oil Patch, that North Dakota area that is drawing thousands of people to the state. Money is flowing – well, like oil – in that region these days.

• Lloyd Svendsbye
• Bob Lind

Lind: Prodigal son ‘Bill’ finds Salvation

Bill was who you might call a “street thug,” often preying on weaker and vulnerable people in downtown Fargo.

• Bob Lind

Lind: No sugarcoating it: Proper lefse etiquette one hot potato

We’re dealing with major issues these days, such as the economy and presidential politics.

• Bob Lind

Lind: A light in the blizzard

We’re into spring now. But Neighbors is looking back to a past winter storm: the killer March 15, 1941, blizzard, because it never leaves the memories of those who went through it.

• Bob Lind

Lind: Giving directions from nowhere

Neighbors received a phone call some years ago that it can’t forget. It’s been on hold because Neighbors didn’t want to get anyone in trouble. Hopefully by this time, it’s OK to tell of this call from one highly frustrated guy.

• Bob Lind

Lind: A peek into Wimmer’s past

Wimmer’s Jewelry in Fargo sponsored the “Man on the Street” program on WDAY Radio for several years.

• Wimmer's

Lind: Roommate fully clothed in shower

Roommates have been known to do strange things. But going into the shower while wearing pajamas?

• Bob Lind