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Dickinson's fire departments seek volunteers
Good help is hard to find. But when the help is there, it’s even harder to keep around. Just ask the Dickinson Fire Department. Dickinson has been gro...
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Good help is hard to find. But when the help is there, it’s even harder to keep around. Just ask the Dickinson Fire Department. Dickinson has been growing quickly over the last four years due to an oil boom on this side of the state, but that growth has not translated into more volunteers for the city’s fire department.
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Drivers stopping at or passing by Frankie’s West Side late Tuesday morning got a glimpse of two men trying to set a Guinness World Record. Wayne Gerdes and Bob Winger spent a couple of hours in Dickinson putting diesel fuel in the white 2013 Volkswagen Passat TDI sedan they have been driving since June 7.
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