Scoping It Out

On Friday, beginning at 4:45 p.m. CDT, you can tune into News Radio KEYZ 660 AM and enjoy our interview on “Scoping it Out” with Dave Tri.

With March Madness in full swing this is a perfect time to chat with the former Coyote basketball player who played his college basketball at Gonzaga.

Tri was a trailblazer for the Zags as the cage program has taken huge steps into national prominence.

Tri recalls that during his playing days his team traveled to Williston and met up with North Dakota State University at the Williston HIgh School Field House.

This should prove to be a great show.

Mother Nature must have handed out an extension order to Old Man Winter and he is having fun making a lot of folks miserable.

A raging storm is working its way across the state, while it appears at this point Williston has been spared for the most part.

With reports of more than a foot of additional snow expected, this can only add to the problems already created by the mass flooding.

Reports from several locations, including our friends to the south in Watford City, have been battling the high waters.

Especially the Class B boys basketball team that earned the state championship Saturday night in Minot, only to find a good portion of their town evacuated when they returned.

That celebration of a state title has been rescheduled.

For now all everybody can do is pitch in together and make the best of a bad situation.

NIGHT OF MUSIC IS APRIL 4

Make plans to attend the 3rd annual Night of Music set to begin at 6:30 p.m. on April 4 in the courtyard of the Airport International Inn.

This has proved to be a fun event and you don’t want to miss out on some great entertainment.

While the term “March Madness” has been dubbed for the college basketball playoffs, we must say 2009 will go down as a month that is truly mad.

The way Mother Nature has treated us of late will be one for the record books.

The worst part is she isn’t about to let up with even more snow and wet stuff on the way.

That means folks had best get out and take advantage before another blast of winter comes roaring in.

Sooner or later it will be nice enough to get outdoors.

But by then we will be complaining because we have to mow the grass and put up with the heat.

To top that off those pesky mosquitoes will be swarming.

Hey, that’s for another day.

SCOPE SALUTE TO WATFORD CITY

We take this opportunity to send out a Scope Salute to the Watford City Wolves on a strong showing at the Class B boys basketball tournament.

The Wolves in a tough go in the opener, but bounced back in the second, putting themselves in position to grab some tourney hardware.

Once the Class B tourney is complete sports fans can turn their attention to spring activities, if and when that happens.

One word we fear these days is “glich.”

Basically, glich really means something has gone wrong.

The Scope ran into that word on three occassions over the past few days and that should be enough to last for a long time.

The first experience came after being in a long line at the checkout counter at Wal-Mart.

Low and behold after finally getting to the checkout we learned the system wasn’t functioning due to which was termed as a “glich.”

While we managed to make it through this obstacle, later we learned it was human error as someone nipped a phone line.

The second “glich” came with a phone call to the Veteran’s Administration regarding a billing procedure.

After being on hold for more than 15 minutes and being able to talk with a human, it was only then we heard that word again.

A “glich” in the system didn’t allow for proper posting.

The final blow came with a drive through at McDonald’s, only to find out a “glich” shut that system down and required patrons to come inside.

That didn’t happen as Hardees seemed to be up and running.

After three strikes in a very short period of time this only confirms our lifestyle which is centered around electronic machines functioning properly.

At the same time it makes one wonder how we ever survived.

Yes folks, those were the good old days.