July 2015 – Page 2 – Dustin Monke

Submitted Photo by Roxee Jones Actor Michael J. Fox, middle, walks with Denise Lutz of New England, left, and Sam Fox, who is bicycling throughout the country raising money for the Michael J. Fox Foundation while also climbing the highest peak in every state, walk toward White Butte near Amidon on Sunday afternoon. — Submitted Photo by Roxee Jones
Actor Michael J. Fox, middle, walks with Denise Lutz of New England, left, and Sam Fox, who is bicycling throughout the country raising money for the Michael J. Fox Foundation while also climbing the highest peak in every state, walk toward White Butte near Amidon on Sunday afternoon.

AMIDON — Roxee Jones drove from Dickinson to White Butte in rural Slope County on Sunday morning expecting a quick hike up North Dakota’s highest point.

The Grand Forks woman never thought she’d spend time with a famous actor who is the face of a cause near to her heart.

Actor Michael J. Fox fl ew into southwest North Dakota on Sunday to join Sam Fox, the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s outreach and engagement offi cer who is making a threemonth journey across the United States to raise money for Parkinson’s disease research.

Jones said the actor actually led the hike up the butte, which is 3,507 feet above sea level.

“It was just an awesome experience — overwhelming that he showed up there,” said Jones, who teaches Parkinson’s wellness classes at the Grand Forks YMCA and whose father, Donald Lutz of Dickinson, lives with the disease.

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A strong thunderstorm that moved through Dickinson in about 15 minutes on Tuesday evening left downed power lines Tuesday night near the 600 block of First Street East.

A nearly 100-year-old tree took down lines near one residence. Less than a block away, lines were down across a car and in the middle of the street.

Linda Schroeder said when she walked out of her home after 9 p.m., she didn’t even notice the tree that had taken down the power line in her yard. She had called the Dickinson Police Department about the street being blocked by her small fl at-bed trailer that had been pushed into the middle of the street by high winds.

“He (the officer) helped me push the trailer up the street and he goes, ‘Hey, you’ve got a big branch laying over the tree,” Schroeder said.

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