Today in History revisits the Tuesday, Oct. 9, 1990, edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story of a Minto, North Dakota, farmer getting bit by pig and friends and neighbors coming together to harvest beets for him.
Pig bites man, but friends ease the pain
Neighbors harvest beets for farmer laid up by porcine attack
By Molly Blue
Herald Staff Writer
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Craig Jarolimek hasn't had many friends visit him in his United Hospital room, where he's recovering from a pig bite on the leg. They're all too busy bringing in about 80 acres of his sugar beet crop.
When Jarolimek, 33, tried to squelch a swine skirmish last Sunday, a battling boar, named LE-2, bit him in the right thigh. Now, he's laid up in The United Hospital for at least four days and there's harvesting to be done.
That's where some 65 friends and neighbors decided to help.
"I've got a lot of favors to pay back." — Craig Jarolimek
Minto-area farmer
According to a friend of Jarolimek's, neighbors pitched in with five harvesters, eight rotobeaters and 35 trucks to bring in the sugar beets from Jarolimek's farm, near Minto, N.D.
"It's all volunteer. All the neighbors got together to do this for him," said o...