Benefit scheduled for Melissa Gedde
March 7, 2010
| April 11, 2010 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
A benefit is scheduled for Melissa Gedde and her family for April 11 at the Dilworth Community Center. The benefit will include a spaghetti feed, silent auction and bake sale between 4 and 7 pm.
A free will donation will be accepted at the door. The benefit will help the family defray some medical costs resulting from an undiagnosed medical condition.
The fund raising effort will be supported by Dakota Medical Foundation “Lend A Hand” who will match up to $5,000 of what the benefit raises.
Donations may be made at www.dakmed.org/lendahand or the Melissa Gedde Benefit Fund, American Federal Bank, 601 Center Ave., Moorhead, MN 56560.
For more information, call (218) 329-0022.
Flood options discussed in scheduled meeting
March 3, 2010
Flood view from Main Ave Bridge
The public meeting is scheduled for 7:30 tonight at the Dilworth Community Center at 709 1st Ave NW.
The FSWG will be deciding which diversion option should be built. Residents of the area prefer a diversion on the North Dakota side where as the FSWG is recommending a diversion on the Minnesota side on the east edge of Dilworth.
U.S Army Corps of Engineers officials will not be in attendance at tonights meeting. The corps has been the leader of research for costs and benefits for the various options which included dikes and diversion.
