On this date in 2000, a Fingal, N.D. family who lost two homes to fires was settling into a newly rebuilt house and preparing to thank their community during a holiday home tour.

Here is the complete story as it appeared in the paper that day:

By Deneen Gilmour

FINGAL, N.D. – In August Donna and Randy Liebenow’s family didn’t have a home. It was destroyed by fire — the second home they lost to flames.

Now they’re home again. Home for the holidays, you might say, and thrilled to again be under a roof of their own.

As a way of saying thanks to friends, neighbors and family members who helped in the dark days after the fire, they will open their new home Saturday as part of the Enderlin Clio Club’s annual holiday home tour.

The Liebenows’ farmhouse burned Aug. 4. They had just put on ne

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