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have "doghouses" -- small heated buildings -- nearby and workers can go to them to get warm.
• "You have to know when to give them breaks, and learn to watch them so they don't get too cold," said Larry Dokken, 67, of Williston.
• Dokken has worked in the oil patch for nearly 50 years, with not-so-fond memories of working in minus-85 wind chill. He now operates a consulting firm that finds workers for oil companies, and prefers hiring cold-acclimated people from North Dakota or Montana -- with at least five years of experience, too.
• "If they've made it that long, they're probably going to stick around. A lot of people don't know what cold is," Dokken said.
• "My history books in grade school said George Washington and his army suffered at Valley Forge, and I'm sure they did," said Daryl Andersen, a North Dakota native and 30-year oilman who now runs a well services company. "But we're colder here than they ever were."
• North Dakota's notorious bitter cold isn't a deterrent for Dylan Grossman, a 23-year-old Alaska native who has posted a Craigslist ad seeking a laborer's job in the oil fields. Grossman is currently in Florida, where he's struggled to find work. He said he intends to move to North Dakota soon and has asked his mother to mail him his warmest clothes.
• "I've heard it's cold and flat in North Dakota," Grossman said. "I think I can layer for it."
• Hovet, who grew up in North Dakota, has heard that before. He recalls four Texans walking off a job site after being in North Dakota for just one day last winter.
• "It was about 5 above and sunny and really kind of a pretty day," Hovet said. "They got their truck stuck in a ditch and their equipment got frozen up. They said, 'The heck with this, we're going back to Texas.'"
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard says he will appoint Aberdeen lawyer Rick Sommers to be a state circuit judge in an area covering northeastern and north-central South Dakota.
• Sommers will fill a vacancy created by the pending retirement of Circuit Judge Jack Von Wald. The 5th Judicial Circuit includes Brown, Campbell, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Marshall, McPherson, Roberts, Spink and Walworth counties.
• In addition to working in civil and criminal law, Sommers specializes in water law and serves as city attorney for several municipalities.
• Sommers graduated from the University of South Dakota School of Law. He

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