OAKES, N.D. — On Thursday night, Aug. 14, they stood in heat and humidity for a popular summertime tradition — the Oakes CHI hospital annual Monarch Butterfly release.

It's all part of the hospital's popular Healing Garden project.

As the town of Oakes prepares for late summer's harvest to move into high gear, everything was put on hold Thursday.

"OK ladies, I will walk you around here," said master gardener Nancy Carda, who gave a tour of the healing garden to the Sisters of St. Francis in Hankinson.

"Here we have some sedum, some ground cover, here," Carda said.

It was Sister Dianna Hell who dreamed of a healing garden of flowers, trees and water at the Oakes CHI hospital.

"I think she would be very happy and she would spend as much time out here as she could," Sister. Jean Louise

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