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FEATURES<br />
15 Downtown Bismarck<br />
Comes Alive<br />
Several years ago, downtown Bismarck<br />
used to be a ghost town after 5 p.m.,<br />
but now it’s the place to be.<br />
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27 Birding<br />
North Dakota is a hot spot<br />
for one of the world’s fastest<br />
growing outdoor sports and you<br />
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<strong>Mike</strong> <strong>Armstrong</strong><br />
President of <strong>Armstrong</strong> Corp.<br />
34 Success Under 45<br />
Jon Lee doesn’t follow textbook<br />
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE<br />
HOW LONG<br />
MUST YOU PAY?<br />
Joe Hauer, publisher<br />
The election<br />
cycle is upon<br />
us. Republicans<br />
are demanding<br />
big cuts in federal<br />
spending and social<br />
programs to reduce the<br />
federal deficit. Democrats are demanding the<br />
nation’s wealthiest pay more taxes.<br />
Recently, N. Dak. Governor Jack Dalrymple<br />
provided the Republican national response to<br />
President Barak Obama’s weekly radio address.<br />
Governor Dalrymple suggested Presidenåt<br />
Obama and Democrats were responsible for<br />
the nation’s economic ills. He suggested they’ve<br />
mismanaged the federal budget, refused to cut<br />
spending and taxes are too high.<br />
No call from the Governor to cut farm<br />
subsidies. Federal farm programs bring millions<br />
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The fairness of taxes seems have come to a boiling point for many<br />
people. Real-estate taxes have received the most attention. There<br />
seems to be an attitude that citizens have very little control as to the<br />
amount one must pay.<br />
Several years ago, some of the burden shifted to the state. Many were<br />
comfortable with that decision but not satisfied enough to avoid a tax referral<br />
to eliminate the tax entirely. Since we have as many opinions as we have<br />
people, may I offer my opinion, also.<br />
As people become empty nesters, they begin assessing their new lifestyle.<br />
That begins with downsizing the home, which is the biggest expense. I<br />
don’t think people really want to downsize as much as allowing for more<br />
discretionary money. Since the real-estate tax burden is probably the largest<br />
expense item, why not begin there with a smaller place.<br />
So what if, at age 65, which is usually a retirement age, the real-estate tax<br />
would end. You have now paid the tax for about 40 years. You have helped<br />
educate your own children and maybe your grandchildren. You would think<br />
that a break might be in order.<br />
With the extra money, you may decide to stay in your house and you may travel a bit more. Or you<br />
might just spend the extra money in the local stores. That would be a win-win for all. I do not think that<br />
people want to move from their family home. I think it is more of a cost adjustment.<br />
Taxes shouldn’t be a burden but an investment in our community. Maybe 40 years of investing is long<br />
enough. Let’s give those over 65 the extra income to enjoy and maybe to save a little for the later years.<br />
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ELECTIONS PLAY THEIR PART<br />
Darrell Dorgan, managing editor<br />
into N. Dak. every year. Farm subsidies are<br />
important to the state’s economy and the<br />
Dalrymple farm.<br />
A report by the Environmental Working Group<br />
Farm Subsidy Data Base for 1995 though 2010<br />
shows Dalrymple Farms of Casselton received $4.3<br />
million in commodity, disaster, and conservation<br />
payments. That makes Dalrymple Farms, with<br />
payments that average more than $260,000 a<br />
year, the second largest recipient of federal farm<br />
payments in N. Dak. during that time period.<br />
If you’d like to see the list of the top 100 N.<br />
Dak. recipients of Federal Farm Program subsidies<br />
from 1995 though 2010, go to http://farm.ewg.<br />
org/top_recips.php?fips=38000&progcode=totalf<br />
arm®ionname=NorthDakota. It’s a fascinating<br />
read and a good look at who is getting what.<br />
For the record, when we asked, the Governor<br />
said he and 28 other family members who<br />
participated in the farming operation received the<br />
payments. He also says he fully supports limiting<br />
farm payments.<br />
Darrell Dorgan is the managing editor of content at <strong>City</strong><br />
<strong>Magazine</strong>. He’s a long-time, award-winning journalist who also<br />
produces and writes television documentaries.
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JULY 2012<br />
<strong>City</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> n<br />
Publisher’s Note 4<br />
Cover Story n<br />
<strong>Mike</strong> <strong>Armstrong</strong> 6<br />
Community Cluster n<br />
CM/KFYR Salutes 10<br />
Sportswatch 12<br />
Mandan On The Move 14<br />
Arts and Entertainment n<br />
Downtown 15<br />
Local Events 16<br />
Beer 19<br />
Taste of ND 21<br />
Hobby Hub n<br />
Info You Can Use 22<br />
Bismarck History 23<br />
Good Reads 24<br />
Crossword 25<br />
Birding 26<br />
Business and Money n<br />
Finance 28<br />
Business How-To 29<br />
Black Gold 30<br />
Ask The Professor 32<br />
Success Under 45 34<br />
Millionaire Moms 36<br />
Home n<br />
Pet Page 37<br />
CM Tip 37<br />
Home 101 38<br />
Realtor Tips 40<br />
Travel n<br />
Day Trip 43<br />
Feature n<br />
State Fair 44<br />
Western N.D. n<br />
Jayme Heick 46
COVER STORY<br />
MIKE<br />
ARMSTRONG<br />
President of <strong>Armstrong</strong> Corp.<br />
Discipline, self-reliance and<br />
sacrifice: <strong>Mike</strong> <strong>Armstrong</strong><br />
learned about those things on<br />
the wrestling mat at Bismarck<br />
High School in the late ‘60s, and they’ve<br />
gotten him to where he is today.<br />
<strong>Armstrong</strong> is a big player in a big game<br />
that is making N. Dak. famous around the<br />
country and the world and that game is oil.<br />
<strong>Mike</strong> is a wildcatter and he’s seen the<br />
highs and the lows of the oil industry. He<br />
once was sitting on 22 dry holes with $50<br />
in his pocket, he scrimped and saved for<br />
months, drilled and became a major success<br />
in the N. Dak. oil patch.<br />
Through it all, he has enjoyed what he<br />
refers to as “the hunt for oil,” a 24-hour poker<br />
game in which he has lost a lot of hands, but<br />
won overall in a big way. Nevertheless, life for<br />
him wasn’t always that way.<br />
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“Next to marriage,<br />
fatherhood is the<br />
thing that has most<br />
changed my life.”<br />
This is not a story about someone with a<br />
silver spoon in his mouth who enhanced daddy’s<br />
already-established fortune. No, this is a story<br />
about someone who had nothing and, despite<br />
plenty of risk, made everything from it.<br />
<strong>Armstrong</strong> was a 95-pound sophomore wrestler<br />
on the varsity wrestling team at Bismarck High<br />
School in the late ‘60s. He eventually built himself<br />
up to a 115-pound competitor by his senior year,<br />
earning a wrestling scholarship to North Dakota<br />
State University in Fargo.<br />
This he accomplished while bussing tables and<br />
then working at Conrad Publishing in Bismarck,<br />
some days until five in the morning; sleeping a<br />
little and then going to school.
Things were cruising along pretty good<br />
at NDSU until he lost some focus and fell<br />
one credit shy of maintaining his athletic<br />
scholarship after the first quarter of his<br />
sophomore year and found he had to, once<br />
again, rely on his perseverance.<br />
With $40 in his pocket and the keys to<br />
a ’59 Buick station wagon in his hand, he<br />
called LeRoy Boespflug, the wrestling coach<br />
at Dickinson State College, who had once<br />
been the wrestling coach at Mandan High<br />
School. After a brief conversation, he became<br />
a member of the DSC wrestling team.<br />
He suffered through some shoulder<br />
injuries initially but went on to become<br />
a North Dakota Hall of Fame wrestler<br />
and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in<br />
business administration in 1975.<br />
Meanwhile, in 1973, he had spotted a<br />
freshman coed, Connie, walking up the steps<br />
to the science building and told his friend,<br />
Brian Jesperson, that he was going to marry<br />
her, despite the fact that she had a boyfriend<br />
at the time. They were married on Jan. 3,<br />
1975.<br />
After college, he went on to work in real<br />
estate with Bill Everett of Everett Real Estate,<br />
having earned his real-estate license while<br />
attending college. By the time he was 26, he<br />
bought a ranch, just south of what had once<br />
been Theodore Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch<br />
in the Badlands, to raise cattle. <strong>Armstrong</strong><br />
loved the outdoors and the Badlands and<br />
wanted to provide a place for his boys to<br />
hunt.<br />
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It was about this time that Everett was<br />
dabbling in oil and, naturally, <strong>Armstrong</strong><br />
also got involved, soon dumping real estate<br />
as a career and concentrating mostly on oil.<br />
Throughout the years, he has also owned<br />
car dealerships, computer companies, health<br />
clubs, a funeral home, founded public<br />
companies, ranched, bought and sold horses,<br />
coached wrestling and started the Dickinson<br />
Wrestling Club.<br />
“In the ‘80s, the<br />
success rate of a<br />
wildcat oil well<br />
was one in ten. The<br />
success rate now is<br />
99 percent, and the<br />
benefits for the state<br />
of N. Dak. long term<br />
are a whole lot better.”<br />
He has also financed baseball leagues,<br />
been on the board of directors of many<br />
organizations, owned bars and nightclubs<br />
and helped with a lot of things nobody<br />
knows about, behind-the-scenes. For<br />
example, he and Connie recently purchased<br />
a $150,000 Theodore Roosevelt rare book<br />
collection, some of which are signed by<br />
TR, and that is currently housed at the<br />
Dickinson State University Alumni and<br />
Foundation house.<br />
The collection will eventually be housed<br />
at the Theodore Roosevelt Center and,<br />
maybe someday, at the Theodore Roosevelt<br />
Presidential Library on the DSU campus.<br />
“It doesn’t begin to pay back what DSU<br />
and the community of Dickinson have given<br />
us,” <strong>Mike</strong> says. “And who makes a better role<br />
model for our students than TR?”<br />
Of course, <strong>Armstrong</strong> had a good role<br />
model growing up, too, who showed him<br />
what hard work could produce. That was<br />
his mother, Myrt <strong>Armstrong</strong>, who worked<br />
herself up from being a secretary to the<br />
head of the North Dakota Mental Health<br />
Association, at a time when women in top<br />
positions were not a part of the norm.<br />
In addition, his older brother Steve, who<br />
they called “Army” because of his size, was<br />
an all-state, heavy-weight wrestler in high<br />
school, a starting linebacker as a freshman<br />
and ultimately a star football player at<br />
NDSU and a Division I coach at Texas<br />
Christian University. He also served as a big<br />
inspiration to his little brother, <strong>Mike</strong>, who<br />
they called “Little Army” at the time.<br />
Interestingly, when he was asked about<br />
the latest N. Dak. oil boom, <strong>Armstrong</strong> said<br />
that this one does not even compare to those<br />
in the recent past. “In the ‘80s, the success<br />
rate of a wildcat oil well was one in ten,”<br />
<strong>Armstrong</strong> says. “The success rate now is 99<br />
percent, and the benefits for the state of N.<br />
Dak. long term are a whole lot better.”<br />
You see, <strong>Armstrong</strong> is a unique<br />
combination of oil man and<br />
environmentalist, loving nature while<br />
also understanding the importance of oil<br />
to N. Dak. and the nation. Still, despite<br />
<strong>Armstrong</strong>’s enormous success, the things<br />
that mean the most to him are family and<br />
friends. “Next to marriage, fatherhood is<br />
the thing that has most changed my life,”<br />
<strong>Armstrong</strong> said. “I love what our sons have<br />
done, but I am most proud of them being<br />
good daddies and husbands.”<br />
<strong>Armstrong</strong>’s story can remind you of a<br />
quote by President Theodore Roosevelt who<br />
said, “Far better is it to dare mighty things,<br />
to win glorious triumphs, even though<br />
checked by failure...than to rank with those<br />
poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor<br />
suffer much, because they live in a gray<br />
twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”<br />
This is a very profound and meaningful<br />
statement. It also seems to very successfully<br />
describe the life that <strong>Mike</strong> <strong>Armstrong</strong> has<br />
lived.<br />
Kevin Holten is the communications and events<br />
coordinator for the Dickinson State University Foundation<br />
See <strong>Mike</strong> <strong>Armstrong</strong>’s extra questions that didn’t make the magazine by visiting<br />
thecitymag.com and clicking “Extra Content.”<br />
CITY MAGAZINE COVER STORY
COMMUNITY CLUSTER<br />
CITY MAGAZINE AND KFYR SALUTES<br />
NORTH DAKOTA COUNCIL ON<br />
ABUSED WOMEN’S SERVICES<br />
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Police<br />
Confirm<br />
“Dickinson<br />
Reported<br />
Rape of 83-Year-Old Woman”<br />
“Bismarck Man Accused of<br />
Striking Infants, Threatening<br />
Wife”.<br />
“Grand Forks Man Charged<br />
With Attempted Sexual<br />
Assault”.<br />
These alarming 2012<br />
headlines from N. Dak.<br />
newspapers serve as a<br />
reminder that domestic<br />
violence and sexual assault are<br />
an everyday reality in N. Dak.<br />
In fact, a point-in-time<br />
survey conducted Sept. 15,<br />
2011, counted 229 victims<br />
served by crisis centers across<br />
the state on that single day.<br />
Eighty-nine of those victims<br />
found refuge in emergency<br />
shelters or transitional<br />
housing.<br />
All 21 of the local domestic<br />
violence and rape-crisis<br />
programs operating in large<br />
and small communities across<br />
N. Dak. participated in the<br />
survey.<br />
Executive Director of<br />
NDCAWS, Janelle Moos,<br />
helps thousands of victims<br />
across the state each year.
The programs comprise the North Dakota<br />
Council on Abused Women’s Services<br />
(NDCAWS), a membership organization that<br />
provides leadership, advocacy, training and<br />
support in the identification, intervention, and<br />
prevention of domestic and sexual violence.<br />
Unfortunately, as the population of the state<br />
grows, so do the reported incidences of domestic<br />
violence. In 2011, 4,808 new victims of domestic<br />
violence sought help at crisis intervention centers<br />
across the state, an increase of three percent over<br />
the previous year.<br />
At least 75 percent of the victims were<br />
physically abused. Ninety-four percent were<br />
women, and an estimated 4,739 children were<br />
directly impacted by the violence.<br />
“Crisis centers across the state are<br />
encountering victims with very different needs,”<br />
reported Janelle Moos, executive director of<br />
NDCAWS. “And it’s not just in the oil patch.<br />
Jobs are plentiful across the state, and people are<br />
moving here for more than just energy.”<br />
According to Moos, new victims of violence<br />
who have moved to N. Dak. from other states are<br />
often far away from the support of family and<br />
friends. Instead of needing emergency housing,<br />
shelter assistance or protection orders, many of<br />
them are provided emergency assistance to leave<br />
the state.<br />
“With the changing dynamics and culture of<br />
the state, we’re at a crossroads,” said Moos. “This<br />
is a time we can set the tone for building healthy<br />
communities and declaring that violence will not<br />
be tolerated.”<br />
NDCAWS was formed in 1978 by five original<br />
member programs. The organization’s resourcerich<br />
website address is www.ndcaws.org.<br />
Tom Regan, a former editor of <strong>City</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>, has<br />
been a media professional for over 40 years.<br />
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COMMUNITY CLUSTER<br />
SPORTSWATCH Central time unless otherwise noted<br />
Monday, July 2:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Bismarck Governors vs.<br />
Dickinson, Bismarck Municipal Ballpark, 7 p.m.<br />
Dickinson Volunteers vs. Williston, Dickinson Southside<br />
Ballpark, 5 p.m. (MT)<br />
Tuesday, July 3:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Mandan A’s vs. Bismarck,<br />
Mandan Memorial Ballpark, 5 p.m.<br />
Mandan Chiefs vs. Bismarck, Mandan Memorial<br />
Ballpark, 7:30 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, July 4:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Mandan A’s vs. Bismarck,<br />
Mandan Memorial Ballpark, 2 p.m.<br />
Mandan Chiefs vs. Bismarck, Mandan Memorial<br />
Ballpark, 4:30 p.m.<br />
Saturday, July 7:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Mandan A’s vs. West Fargo,<br />
Mandan Memorial Ballpark, 2 p.m.<br />
Sunday, July 8:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Bismarck Governors vs.<br />
Williston, Municipal Ballpark, 2 p.m.<br />
Bismarck Representatives vs. Williston,<br />
Haaland Field, 2 p.m.<br />
Monday, July 9:<br />
Golf Tournament – The Grain Growers Golf Tournament,<br />
Hawktree Golfclub, 11 a.m.<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Mandan A’s vs. Williston,<br />
Mandan Memorial Ballpark, 1 p.m.<br />
Mandan Chiefs vs. Williston, Mandan Memorial<br />
Ballpark, 5:30 p.m.<br />
Dickinson Volunteers vs. Bismarck, Dickinson Southside<br />
Ballpark, 4:30 p.m. (MT)<br />
Tuesday, July 10:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Bismarck Representatives vs.<br />
Fargo, Bismarck Municipal Ballpark, 5:30 p.m.<br />
Mandan Chiefs vs. Fargo, Mandan Memorial<br />
Ballpark, 5:30 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, July 11:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Mandan A’s vs. Beulah, Mandan<br />
Memorial Ballpark, 5:30 p.m.<br />
Bismarck Governors vs. Devils Lake, Bismarck Municipal<br />
Ballpark, 5:30 p.m.<br />
Dickinson Roughriders vs. Billings, Dickinson Southside<br />
Ballpark, 5 p.m. (MT)<br />
Thursday, July 12:<br />
Golf Tournament – The Ag Association Golf<br />
Tournament, Hawktree Golfclub, 11:30 a.m.<br />
Friday, July 13:<br />
Golf Tournament – The ND Optometric Golf<br />
Tournament, Hawktree Golfclub, TBD<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Mandan Chiefs vs. Dickinson,<br />
Mandan Memorial Ballpark, 7 p.m.<br />
Sunday, July 15:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Mandan A’s vs. Dickinson,<br />
Mandan Memorial Ballpark, 1 p.m.
Monday, July 16:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Bismarck Governors vs.<br />
Mandan, Bismarck Municipal Ballpark, 6 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, July 18:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Bismarck Governors vs. Fargo,<br />
Bismarck Municipal Ballpark, 5:30 p.m.<br />
Mandan Chiefs vs. Devils Lake, Mandan Memorial<br />
Ballpark, 5:30 p.m.<br />
Thursday, July 19:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Dickinson Roughriders vs.<br />
Fargo, Dickinson Southside Ballpark, 5 p.m. (MT)<br />
Friday, July 20:<br />
Golf Tournament – The All <strong>City</strong> Golf Tournament,<br />
Hawktree Golfclub, 12 p.m.<br />
Saturday, July 21:<br />
Golf Tournament – The MDU Golf Tournament,<br />
Hawktree Golfclub, 1 p.m.<br />
Softball Tournament – Rug Rat Benefit Softball<br />
Tournament, Mandan Diamonds<br />
State Softball Tournament – 15-Year-Old Babe Ruth,<br />
Mandan Memorial Ballpark<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Bismarck Governors vs. Coon<br />
Rapids, MN, Bismarck Municipal Ballpark, 4 p.m.<br />
Sunday, July 22:<br />
State Softball Tournament – 15-Year-Old Babe Ruth,<br />
Mandan Memorial Ballpark<br />
Monday, July 23:<br />
State Softball Tournament – 15-Year-Old Babe Ruth,<br />
Mandan Memorial Ballpark<br />
Tuesday, July 24:<br />
State Softball Tournament – 15-Year-Old Babe Ruth,<br />
Mandan Memorial Ballpark<br />
Wednesday, July 25:<br />
Basketball Tournament – Lions All-Star Boys and Girls<br />
Basketball, Bismarck Civic Center, 6 p.m.<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Bismarck Governors vs.<br />
Dickinson, Dickinson Municipal Ballpark, 7 p.m. (MT)<br />
Thursday, July 26:<br />
Golf Tournament – The Lignite Council Golf<br />
Tournament, Hawktree Golfclub, 10:30 a.m.<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Dickinson Roughriders vs.<br />
Mandan, Dickinson Southside Ballpark, 7 p.m. (MT)<br />
Friday, July 27:<br />
Golf Tournament – The U-Mary Varsity Club Golf<br />
Tournament, Hawktree Golfclub, 12:30 p.m.<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – Dickinson Roughriders vs.<br />
Williston, Dickinson Southside Ballpark, 5 p.m. (MT)<br />
Sunday, July 29:<br />
Golf Tournament – The All-<strong>City</strong> Golf Tournament,<br />
Hawktree Golfclub, 12 p.m.<br />
Tuesday, July 31:<br />
Am. Legion Baseball – ND State Class ‘A’ Tournament,<br />
Mandan Memorial Ballpark
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COMMUNITY CLUSTER<br />
MANDAN ON THE MOVE<br />
MATURING MANDAN<br />
The stage is set<br />
for Mandan’s<br />
I-94 corridor<br />
to change<br />
dramatically in the next<br />
few years. Development<br />
interest was already<br />
stirring when, in January,<br />
a Wal-Mart spokesperson<br />
confirmed plans for a<br />
supercenter in the area.<br />
Wal-Mart intends to put its<br />
store near I-94, exit 152, at the intersection of Sunset Drive and Old<br />
Red Trail.<br />
The Wal-Mart announcement has boosted business confidence<br />
in locating in Mandan, particularly from retail, restaurant<br />
and lodging operations. The <strong>City</strong> of Mandan is working with<br />
commercial developers to maximize use of nearby properties,<br />
including 21 acres owned by the <strong>City</strong>.<br />
Besides easy access, other strengths of real estate close to and<br />
between Mandan’s Interstate exits is proximity to Mandan Middle<br />
School, Mandan High School, the Mandan Braves and Aquatic<br />
Center and All Seasons Arena.<br />
These facilities are hubs of activity. Parents, faculty and staff<br />
are customers of nearby businesses. Senior high students can go<br />
off campus for lunch. The two middle school gyms, tennis courts,<br />
football field, high school gym, pool, and ice arena host games,<br />
meets and tournaments, attracting visitors from throughout the<br />
region.<br />
Traffic is also generated by nearby major employers including<br />
National Information Solutions Cooperative (approximately 400<br />
employees), Cloverdale Foods Company (approximately 250<br />
employees), Medcenter One Living Center and Family Clinic<br />
(approximately 400 based in north Mandan), Kindred Hospital,<br />
USDA Farm Service Agency and Farm Credit Services.<br />
HIT, Inc. has a nearby facility for people with brain injuries<br />
and is completing a new 45,000-square-foot building, where about<br />
100 staff members will provide services for roughly another 120<br />
individuals. Residents to the north pass through this area enroute to<br />
other parts of the community. Major multi-family projects are also<br />
under construction in the area.<br />
Mandan is ready to work with businesses wishing to open in the<br />
community. To learn more, contact the <strong>City</strong> of Mandan Business<br />
Development Office at 701-667-3485 or visit www.cityofmandan/<br />
businessdevelopment.<br />
Ellen Huber is the Mandan business development director.<br />
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Five years ago, when Dawn Kopp<br />
became the Downtowners Association’s<br />
Executive Director, what was supposed<br />
to be the lifeblood of Bismarck was<br />
barely breathing.<br />
“After 5 p.m., the streets were almost empty,”<br />
she said. “Except for our well-established<br />
restaurants, Peacock Alley, Fiesta Villa<br />
and Pirogue Grille, drawing evening<br />
customers, there was little extended<br />
activity.”<br />
Fast forward and the hum of activity<br />
is evident throughout downtown. New<br />
restaurants, boutiques and niche stores<br />
are bringing people back to downtown.<br />
“The ultimate goal is to make<br />
downtown an experience and a<br />
destination,” Kopp says. “I believe our<br />
business community is well on the way to<br />
accomplishing that.”<br />
New businesses opened in the<br />
last 12-18 months are creating a new<br />
atmosphere, complementing dozens<br />
of businesses that are loyal downtown<br />
operations. Hey Ocean, Lot 2029, Sweet<br />
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT<br />
DOWNTOWN<br />
DOWNTOWN BISMARCK COMES ALIVE<br />
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Treats, Rhythm Records, Toasted Frog, Courtyard<br />
at Blarney Stone and Sandra Lee’s Boutique are<br />
just part of the new line up.<br />
Kopp said two “bookend” projects outside of<br />
Chancellor Square are much anticipated.<br />
Steve and Carla Pine are developing Broadway<br />
Centre located at Mandan Street and Broadway<br />
Avenue. The Centre includes ample condos with<br />
retail and office space spread throughout the<br />
building. “This was an area that we were really<br />
hoping someone would step in and help make the<br />
west end of downtown come alive,” Kopp says.<br />
Dr. Rick Becker’s new construction on the 500<br />
block of Main Avenue opens this fall. Kopp said<br />
a restaurant will anchor the street level, with a<br />
balance of office and retail space included. To cap<br />
off the experience, a third-level bar includes plans<br />
for a retractable glass ceiling.<br />
As new doors open, a wish list remains to<br />
complete the destination. Kopp said more<br />
downtown living space, a micro-grocery store and<br />
parking will tie everything together. In addition,<br />
Kopp said the Downtowners Association supports<br />
the city’s strategic plans to potentially create a<br />
town square for special events, food vendors, and<br />
a central gathering space.<br />
“I encourage people to come and see the<br />
changes and support all of our businesses that are<br />
the vitality of a re-emerging downtown,” she said.<br />
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT<br />
LOCAL EVENTS<br />
EVENTS TO ATTEND, MUSIC TO HEAR<br />
AND EXHIBITS TO SEE, OH MY!<br />
July 2<br />
Mandan PRCA Rodeo<br />
Experience the excitement of one of the oldest rodeos in<br />
the west – Dacotah Centennial Park, 7:30 p.m.<br />
(July 3-4)<br />
Art in the Park Festival<br />
See what amazing talents our local artists can do as they<br />
display their art in the park – Dykshoorn Park,<br />
9 a.m. – 9 p.m. (July 3-4)<br />
July 3<br />
Doll and Pet Parade<br />
Main Street, Mandan, 6 p.m.<br />
Party on the Prairie<br />
Featuring the Johnny Holms Band, 9 p.m.<br />
July 4<br />
Mandan Rodeo Days 5K and 10K Walk & Run<br />
Registration is from 6:30 a.m. – 8 a.m. Heritage Park/<br />
Mandan Depot, 8 a.m.<br />
Independence Day Street Parades<br />
Memorial Highway & Main Street – Mandan, 10 a.m.<br />
Independence Day Golf Tournament<br />
Two person best ball tournament – Prairie West Golf<br />
Course, 12 p.m.<br />
Fourth of July Spectacular<br />
Celebrate the birthday of our country with exciting<br />
fireworks, great food and entertainment galore – Capital<br />
Grounds, 7 p.m.<br />
July 7<br />
Animal Close-Ups and Face painting<br />
Dakota Zoo, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.<br />
Mandan Horse and Saddle Club Family Rodeo<br />
Dacotah Centennial Park Arena<br />
Tommy Cash and the Cash Crew Band<br />
with special guest Lynn Zachmeier – Dykshoorn<br />
Park, 8 p.m.<br />
July 8<br />
Watermelon Days<br />
Take a step back in time at the North Dakota State<br />
Railroad Museum. All visitors will receive a free watermelon<br />
and train rides on the “Sky Line Railway” for the kids – ND<br />
State Railroad Museum, 1 p.m.<br />
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My 4th photo<br />
Photo courtesy of Blake Kaul<br />
July 9<br />
Grease<br />
Classic ‘50s musical under the stars – Sleepy Hollow Arts<br />
Park, 8:30 p.m. (July 8-13)<br />
July 10<br />
Dakota Zoo’s Annual Members Picnic<br />
Dakota Zoo, 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.<br />
July 11<br />
Playful Pigs!<br />
Animal Ed-Venture – Dakota Zoo, 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.<br />
July 13<br />
Presidents Run<br />
Join BSC President Larry C. Skogen and the Friends of<br />
Don Russell on a motorcycle and car tour from the BSC<br />
Campus to Theodore Roosevelt National Park – Bismarck<br />
State College Campus, 9 a.m.<br />
Dakota Classic Modified Tour Championship<br />
A five-day IMCA Modified racing tour wraps up for a big<br />
night of racing – Dacotah Speedway, 7 p.m.<br />
Alan Jackson<br />
With special guest Billy Currington – Bismarck Civic<br />
Center, 7:45 p.m.<br />
Live Music<br />
All Aces – The Broken Oar, 8 p.m. (July 14)<br />
Live Music<br />
Fully Loaded - Fiesta Villa, 9 p.m.<br />
Family Zoo Snooze Camp Over<br />
Enjoy animal-related activities and a nighttime flashlight<br />
tour of the zoo grounds with your family before bed and<br />
awake to the sounds of the growling mountains lions –<br />
Dakota Zoo, TBA.
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July 14<br />
Breakfast at Dakota Zoo<br />
Dakota Zoo, 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.<br />
Heritage Plaza Flea Market<br />
Dykshoorn Park, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.<br />
Dog Walking Class<br />
Central Dakota Humane Society, 1:30 p.m.<br />
The Sound of Music<br />
The heartwarming musical everyone loves – Sleepy Hollow<br />
Arts Park, 8:30 p.m. (July 15-20).<br />
July 16<br />
Junior Zookeeper Camp III<br />
Campers learn how to provide a caring environment and<br />
work on projects to enrich the lives of the zoo residents,<br />
help prepare diets and learn about animal health care –<br />
Dakota Zoo, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.<br />
Trespass America Festival – Five Finger Death Punch<br />
With special supporting guests Killswitch Engage, Trivium,<br />
Emmure, God Forbid, and Battlecross – Bismarck Civic<br />
Center, 5:30 p.m.<br />
July 18<br />
A Midsummer’s Night Dream<br />
A free showing of William Shakespeare’s classic of A<br />
Midsummer’s Night Dream – North Dakota Capitol<br />
grounds, 6:30 p.m. (July 19-22)<br />
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT<br />
LOCAL EVENTS<br />
July 19<br />
USDA Friends and Neighbors Day<br />
The Northern Great Research Laboratory celebrates 100<br />
years of research supporting family farmers and ranchers<br />
with food and entertainment – USDA Northern Great<br />
Plains Research Lab, 1 p.m.<br />
July 20<br />
Local Racing<br />
Dacotah Speedway – Dacotah Centennial Park, 7 p.m.<br />
Relay for Life<br />
Raise money for breast cancer awareness with your family<br />
and friends – Dickinson High School, 6 p.m. (MT)<br />
July 21<br />
Junior Docents, Snow Cones and Face Painting<br />
Dakota Zoo – 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.<br />
Family Rocket Day<br />
Build your own rockets and launch them with professional<br />
rocketeers – Bismarck State College, 12:30 p.m.<br />
Grease<br />
Sleepy Hollow Art Park, 8:30 p.m. (July 22-27)<br />
July 22<br />
Garden Walk<br />
A self-guided tour of 10 local gardens. Walk at your own<br />
pace and meet other gardeners – The Cathedral District,<br />
11 a.m.<br />
July 24<br />
Parking Lot Sale<br />
Bill Barth Ford – Bismarck Civic Center, 9 a.m.<br />
(July 25-Aug.1)<br />
July 25<br />
Bright, Beautiful Birds<br />
Animal Ed-Venture – Dakota Zoo, 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.<br />
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT<br />
LOCAL EVENTS<br />
July 27<br />
North Dakota Governor’s Stock Car Classic<br />
This prestigious two-day racing event invites the best<br />
drivers from all over the state to compete for the title of<br />
North Dakota Governor’s Stock Classic Champion –<br />
Dacotah Speedway – Dacotah Centennial Park, 7 p.m.<br />
(June 28)<br />
Family Safari Night<br />
Dakota Zoo, 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.<br />
July 28<br />
Animal Close-Ups and Face Painting<br />
Dakota Zoo, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.<br />
Dog Walking Class<br />
Central Dakota Humane Society, 1:30 p.m.<br />
Bluegrass goes Pink<br />
A special bluegrass concert featuring The Special<br />
Consensus and Cottonwood. All proceeds go to the<br />
Bismarck Cancer Center Foundation, Cross Ranch<br />
State Park, 7 p.m.<br />
The Sound of Music<br />
Sleepy Hollow Art Park, 8:30 p.m. (July 29 – Aug. 1)<br />
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July 30<br />
Junior Zookeeper Camp IV<br />
Dakota Zoo, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.<br />
July 31<br />
Junior A State Legion Baseball Tournament<br />
Memorial Ball Park<br />
<strong>City</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> Issue: June 20<br />
*The above are entertainment events in Bismarck-<br />
Mandan, which are subject to change.<br />
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Sunday, Aug. 5 • 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.<br />
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TIMING IS EVERYTHING<br />
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You may have heard the saying, “When<br />
it comes to craft brewing, timing is<br />
critical.”<br />
Timing begins when you plan your<br />
schedule around brew days, so your next batch is<br />
ready before the tap runs dry. Timing is a great<br />
concern when it comes to mashing, making sure<br />
proper starch conversion is achieved. And timing<br />
your hop additions, making sure your utilization<br />
rates are accurate and crafting what may become<br />
a citrus-laden IPA or maybe a delicate Pilsner.<br />
Timing is part of the science of brewing but<br />
the science can only get you so far. There is a<br />
craftsmanship or artisan quality about brewing<br />
that buffers the chemistry happening in the<br />
background and brings this craft to life.<br />
Timing couldn’t be better for the craft-beer<br />
industry. Consumption volume has not increased,<br />
but the number of breweries producing that<br />
volume has grown exponentially.<br />
Craft breweries still only possess a small share<br />
of the market, roughly six percent according to<br />
recent numbers. But that growth represents a<br />
boom in locally-made, hand-crafted beers around<br />
the U.S. and the world.<br />
Many entrepreneurs are realizing their dreams<br />
and making the leap to the professional brewing<br />
industry. And when you’ve decided that’s your<br />
fate, timing becomes the defining mechanism of<br />
your newly created venture.<br />
Most breweries are strapped for capital from<br />
the beginning. Equipment is expensive and<br />
margins can be thin. The timeline of a beginning<br />
brewery is captive to the licensing process, all<br />
which hinges on acquiring a location, which then<br />
triggers the financing phase of the project.<br />
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT<br />
BEER<br />
It’s hard to sign a lease knowing that the sales<br />
won’t be starting for three to four months in the<br />
perfect scenario, likely longer. Equipment must<br />
be purchased as the venture progresses, but<br />
waiting to spend the capital until the last possible<br />
moment is always a forward thought.<br />
Sometimes you lose out on that desired<br />
walk-in cooler and sometimes the timing couldn’t<br />
be more perfect as you hear back from your<br />
industry contact that they have a fermenter and<br />
brite tank in stock.<br />
Adventures will come with their ups and<br />
downs. It’s important to focus on what you set<br />
out to do and then jump through the hoops, or<br />
maybe hops, to make it happen.<br />
<strong>Mike</strong> Frohlich was assistant brewer at the Rattlesnake<br />
Creek Brewery and Grill in 1996-1997 and is currently in<br />
the process of opening a brewpub in Bismarck.<br />
751-4393<br />
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RECIPE<br />
CONTEST<br />
Your Favorite<br />
Summer Drink Recipe<br />
What you'll need to do: Submit your favorite recipe and<br />
photo to rrattei@unitedprinting.com by July 17, 2012.<br />
Winner will receive: Bragging rights, featured in the<br />
August 2012 issue of <strong>City</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> and a $50 gift<br />
certifi cate to a local restaurant. All submitted recipes will be<br />
posted online at thecitymag.com<br />
Funded by The Beef Checkoff
Preparation<br />
1. Spray four 18” squares of heavy-duty aluminum foil with cooking spray.<br />
2. Make four quarter-pound beef patties and place one in the center of<br />
each foil square.<br />
3. Place an equal amount of potato cubes or slices next to each beef patty<br />
(or on top). Dot potatoes with 1 tablespoon of margarine or butter.<br />
4. Place an equal amount of veggies on the other side of each hamburger<br />
(or on top).<br />
5. Season beef, potatoes and veggies generously with pepper, salt,<br />
Lawry’s seasoned salt or Mrs. Dash as desired.<br />
6. Fold top and sides of foil several times to seal food and prevent juices<br />
from leaking during cooking. OPEN CAREFULLY. CONTENTS ARE HOT!<br />
Cooking<br />
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Ingredients & Supplies (Makes 4 Hobo Meals)<br />
1 lb Ground Beef Heavy Duty Aluminum Foil<br />
4 tablespoons margarine or butter Cooking Spray<br />
3 to 4 small to medium potatoes Salt and Pepper<br />
1 to 2 cans of corn, green beans or carrots<br />
Lawry’s Seasoned Salt or Mrs. Dash<br />
Campfire: Place packets on hot coals near the edge of your campfire and<br />
allow to cook 25-30 minutes, or until beef is done and potatoes are soft<br />
when stabbed with a fork. Beef should be 160°F.<br />
Grill: Place packets on grill over medium/hot coals or heat for 20-30<br />
minutes or until meat is done and potatoes are soft when stabbed with<br />
a fork. Beef should be 160°F.<br />
Oven: Preheat over to 350°F. Place packets on cookie sheet and bake for<br />
30-45 minutes or until beef is done and potatoes are soft when stabbed<br />
with a fork. Beef should be 160°F.<br />
Mandy Hojian is a resident of Bismarck<br />
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Do<br />
high cable or satellite bills have you<br />
feeling down? Consumers can cut out or<br />
cut down on their cable and satellite TV<br />
costs with free and lower-cost options<br />
available via the Internet and the latest technology.<br />
Nationally, subscription-TV monthly costs rise about six<br />
percent yearly, but could shoot up as high as $123 a month by<br />
2015 and $200 a month by 2020, according to a recent report<br />
by NPD group, a national market research company.<br />
Locally website prices for Midcontinent Communications,<br />
DirectTV or Dish Network range from $45 to $69 a month<br />
for regular rates. Add on premium movie or entertainment<br />
channels and the cost can rise to $60 to $76 a month for<br />
additional content.<br />
A digital antenna pulls in local TV high definition<br />
signals, says Chelsie Baugh, a Radio Shack representative.<br />
She recommends an Antennacraft HDX 1000 for $84.99 or<br />
the Amplified Omnidirectional for $49.99. However, live,<br />
national sports are only available via cable or satellite.<br />
Many consumers supplement a basic cable or satellite<br />
package with internet-based services, says Russ Crupnick of<br />
the NPD group.<br />
A stand-alone-video-streaming player transfers free<br />
episodes available from network sites from a computer to TV.<br />
The average cost of these devices is $100 plus $30-$40 for an<br />
HDMI cable, says Cody Testroet of Bismarck’s Best Buy. But<br />
that method can expose the computer to spyware, malware<br />
and viruses, he adds.<br />
The solution? Testroet suggests using a streaming video<br />
service instead with a stand alone device or a video gaming<br />
console, whose average cost is $200. Subscription sites cost<br />
range from $0 to $7.99 a month, depending on content.<br />
Hulu Plus offers the newest TV episodes and indie movies<br />
available anytime for $7.99 a month. The free site, Hulu.com,<br />
offers new episodes but only for a limited time.<br />
Netflix offers older TV episodes and movies at the same<br />
price. For the newest blockbuster movies, Amazon TV and<br />
Vudu.com offer a pay per-view option with cost ranging from<br />
$2.99 to $3.99 per viewing to $2 for two nights.<br />
So if you’re tired of<br />
paying those outrageous<br />
cable bills, there are many<br />
options for your TV<br />
watching needs.<br />
Rina Szwarc writes about people who<br />
have passion for their lives. To suggest<br />
a topic, visit thecitymag.com and click<br />
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JUST A SLICE<br />
OF BISMARCK<br />
HISTORY<br />
The city of Bismarck<br />
was named for Otto<br />
von Bismarck, a<br />
Prussian statesman<br />
who unified Germany. He was<br />
Minister President of Prussia<br />
and Chancellor of the German<br />
Empire. Bismarck was nicknamed<br />
the “iron chancellor.”<br />
During the Austro-Prussian<br />
War (1866), he stirred up trouble<br />
in parts of Austria. He captured<br />
French Emperor Napoleon III<br />
during the “Battle of Sedan” in<br />
the Franco-Prussian War (1870).<br />
Bismarck was Chancellor<br />
under three generations of Kings.<br />
Kaiser Wilhelm I (1871-1888),<br />
the Kaiser’s son King Fredrich III,<br />
and King Fredrich’s son Kaiser<br />
Wilhelm II, who forced Bismarck<br />
to resign in 1890.<br />
Otto von Bismarck’s most<br />
famous words were, “Not through<br />
speeches and majority decisions<br />
will the great questions of the<br />
day be decided, but by ‘iron and<br />
blood.’”<br />
Ann Vadnie, a retired Bismarck English<br />
teacher, is a free-lance writer who also<br />
enjoys presenting about various topics<br />
including the history of Bismarck.
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GOOD READS<br />
IF WALLS COULD TALK | By Lucy Worsley<br />
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GLASSER<br />
Thank goodness for bathrooms.<br />
That’s almost always the first place you head in the<br />
morning, once you’ve gotten out of bed. And, come<br />
to think of it, thank goodness for beds. What would<br />
you do without a comfortable place to stretch out and<br />
snooze?<br />
You’re grateful for your kitchen, too, because that’s<br />
the second place you go in the morning. You can’t live<br />
without your microwave, stove, or fridge.<br />
So how did those things come to be essential in a<br />
home? Find out by reading If Walls Could Talk, a new<br />
book by Lucy Worsley.<br />
Terri Schlichenmeyer is owner of The Bookworm Sez, LLC, based<br />
out of LaCrosse, Wis., and writes book reviews for publications all<br />
across the country.
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41 Cat command<br />
43 Actor Wallach<br />
44 Ornamental carp<br />
45 Galley slaves<br />
46 Manicurist’s<br />
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48 Root vegetable<br />
49 Distort<br />
52 Eye drops<br />
54 Bauxite, e.g.<br />
55 Ace<br />
57 AARP members<br />
58 Commercials<br />
61 ___ cotta<br />
63 Netherlands city<br />
66 Mayhem<br />
67 Stocking stuffers<br />
68 Wine, in a Trattoria<br />
69 ___ good example<br />
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BIRDING<br />
BIRDING ON THE PLAINS<br />
Birding. Thousands of people<br />
enjoy this hobby, and it is big<br />
business with field guides,<br />
magazines, books, birding drives,<br />
guided trips, festivals, and more.<br />
N. Dak. is known as a hot spot for<br />
birding, with such species as Sprague’s Pipits<br />
and Baird’s Sparrows. The Badlands offer<br />
such temptations as Mountain Bluebirds,<br />
Rock Wrens, and Lazuli Buntings. The<br />
prairie pothole region of the state is teeming<br />
with birds, and Bismarck/Mandan has a<br />
very active birding club.<br />
Birding. There is an app for that. After<br />
all, there’s a smartphone application for<br />
everything and, now, along with binoculars<br />
and field guides, birders are finding Droid<br />
and iPhone apps to be indispensable.<br />
The Audubon Birds app includes all<br />
that one finds in a field guide and more,<br />
but always in your pocket or purse on your<br />
phone. It includes not only photos of the<br />
birds, but also several song recordings for<br />
each species, extremely handy when you<br />
just can’t spot the bird, but you can hear it<br />
(this is why the hobby is called “birding” not<br />
“bird watching”).<br />
You can also use My Content to store<br />
your sightings. Recently, I was in an area<br />
I hadn’t birded much before (this is how<br />
birders talk), and I used the Advanced<br />
Search, entered my location, the type of<br />
song I was hearing, and the time of year.<br />
The search results narrowed the possibilities<br />
to six birds. I listened to each trilling phrase<br />
on my phone and, voila, identified the bird<br />
song that had been entertaining me all<br />
morning.<br />
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a simple phrase, an innocent question, but my<br />
intrepid husband knows this kind of question<br />
usually means a road trip. In this case, Petersburg<br />
was the location of an unusual sighting of Barn<br />
Owls in N. Dak. in the summer of 2011. Off we<br />
went and, after a couple of hours of searching the<br />
tiny town, we located one, a fledgling, and the<br />
drive there and back was filled with many other<br />
bird sightings.<br />
Clausen Springs was our road trip this May to<br />
find a reported rare bird for N. Dak—a Summer<br />
Tanager. Again, it was an immature one, so not in<br />
full adult plumage, but thrilling nonetheless, and<br />
nicely posing in a thicket of blooming plum trees.<br />
Bonus was a lovely spring day in a wild prairie<br />
place, and yet another great road trip.<br />
Birding. On the first Sunday in June every<br />
year for the past 58 years, birders have gathered<br />
in Theodore Roosevelt National Park for the TR<br />
Nature & History Association’s annual bird walk.<br />
This year, more than 90 people attended,<br />
gathering at 6:30 a.m. and recording 56 unique<br />
species. We were rewarded afterward with a<br />
chuckwagon breakfast.<br />
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BIRDING<br />
Birding. Birding North Dakota by Dan Svingen<br />
and Ron Martin is a great print resource, and you<br />
can request a copy from North Dakota Game and<br />
Fish Department at (701) 328-6300.<br />
Another excellent resource for nearly daily<br />
updates, including sightings of rare species, is<br />
the e-mail discussion list ND Birds. To receive<br />
e-mails from this source, send an e-mail to the<br />
address LISTSERV@LISTSERV. NODAK.EDU.<br />
In the body of the message, type SUB ND-BIRDS.<br />
You will receive a computer-generated reply<br />
confirming your subscription with instructions<br />
for how to post a message. Save this message so<br />
you can unsubscribe later if you wish.<br />
Recent news on ND-Birds was the sighting<br />
of a Garganey seen in May at Horsehead Lake,<br />
Kidder Co. A Garganey is a small, dabbling duck<br />
from Europe and Asia, known in birding lingo as<br />
an accidental and a life bird for some lucky ND<br />
birders.<br />
Sounds like another road trip!<br />
Lillian Crook, a retired academic librarian, is the founder<br />
of Badlands Conservation Alliance and a volunteer for<br />
Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the TR Medora<br />
Foundation. She enjoys gardening, kayaking, and, of<br />
course, birding.<br />
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BUSINESS AND MONEY<br />
FINANCE<br />
REFINANCING FOR YOUR<br />
FINANCIAL FUTURE<br />
Are you a homeowner with a savings<br />
goal? Now is the time to look to a credit<br />
union for refinancing.<br />
“30-year mortgage rates are at an alltime<br />
low. In fact, rates haven’t been this good since<br />
the 1950s,” says Scott Bullinger, loan specialist with<br />
Capital Credit Union. According to Bullinger, some<br />
people are going from a 30 year loan to a 15 to 20<br />
year loan with no increase in payment.<br />
Here are some refinancing options and points to<br />
consider:<br />
Refinance to a Fixed-Rate Loan.<br />
When interest rates are higher, homeowners<br />
often choose adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs),<br />
which have lower interest rates during their early<br />
years. Now that rates have dropped, homeowners<br />
should consider a refinance to a fixed-rate loan,<br />
providing stability for the life of the loan.<br />
Lower Your Monthly Mortgage Payment.<br />
There are a few ways to do this:<br />
1. Refinance to a lower interest rate.<br />
2. Change the term of your mortgage.<br />
3. Refinance to an interest-only loan.<br />
Consolidating High-Interest Credit Card Debt.<br />
Credit card debt is often referred to as “bad<br />
debt” and your mortgage is considered “good debt.”<br />
Using home equity, rather than credit cards, to<br />
finance expensive purchases can be a smart move<br />
but be sure to consult your tax advisor first.<br />
Do Not Refinance for a Reverse Mortgage!<br />
A reverse mortgage is a special type of home<br />
loan that allows a homeowner to convert a portion<br />
of the equity in their home into cash. A reverse<br />
mortgage should only be considered if your<br />
income is such that you cannot pay your bills, and<br />
you plan on living in your home until your death.<br />
While reverse mortgages can provide quick<br />
cash, in the long run they can be difficult to<br />
understand and can result in high costs. Before<br />
taking out a reverse mortgage, it is wise to explore<br />
other methods of improving a financial situation.<br />
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To be eligible to refinance a mortgage, lenders<br />
will require:<br />
• At least five-percent equity accumulated in<br />
your property.<br />
• You provide the property value based on<br />
current market value and how much your<br />
home is worth.<br />
• A review of your credit score. If you have poor<br />
credit, the new low rates will not apply to you.<br />
<strong>Mike</strong> Christianson with First Community<br />
Credit Union says, “Someone considering<br />
refinancing should be lowering their interest rate at<br />
least one-percent and plan to stay in their home at<br />
least two years.”<br />
He says, “Moving or selling your home shortly<br />
after refinancing will not allow you enough time to<br />
recover the costs of a refinance. Another caution<br />
to watch is the amount of closing costs and points<br />
paid.”<br />
Deciding when to refinance your mortgage will<br />
depend on the circumstances of your situation,<br />
how long you will be in the home, your financial<br />
goals, etc. You can find out how much you could<br />
lower your payments at the Capital Credit Union<br />
Refinancing or First Community Refinancing<br />
websites.<br />
Consider refinancing today for savings in your<br />
financial future!<br />
Amy Jo Johnson, is the director of learning for the Credit<br />
Union Association of the Dakotas.
BUSINESS AND MONEY<br />
BUSINESS HOW-TO<br />
HOW TO AVOID<br />
ECONOMIC TURMOIL<br />
Greece is the center of<br />
the on-going world<br />
financial crisis. I am<br />
Greek, now live in stock<br />
Dickinson and am watching the<br />
fiscal meltdown that is engulfing<br />
Europe with fascination.<br />
Socrates, Homer, mythology,<br />
civilization, culture, history,<br />
cuisine, magical islands, blue crystalline waters, hospitality,<br />
sunshine and golden beaches come to mind every time I think<br />
about Greece. During the last couple of years, economic crisis,<br />
debt, uncertainty and recession were added to my list.<br />
Since Greece is my home country, people often ask me,<br />
“What’s happening with the economy in Greece? Who is to<br />
blame? Will Greece survive this?”<br />
Greece has already been in recession for four years. Today,<br />
unemployment in Greece stands at 21 percent. I saw friends and<br />
relatives losing their jobs, lawyers and doctors not being able to<br />
find a job, entire families being unemployed, and people’s salaries<br />
and pensions decreasing by more than 30 percent. I also saw<br />
uncertainty for the future, minimal plans for economic growth,<br />
and lack of trust for politicians and other decision makers.<br />
Salary and pension reduction alone will not help the Greek<br />
economy revive. What Greece needs is leaders with vision<br />
for economic growth and development. Without economic<br />
growth and without jobs, people won’t be able to have a strong<br />
spending power. That is why today the outlook for Greece’s small<br />
businesses are worsening.<br />
There is no doubt that Greece was living beyond its means<br />
even before it joined the Euro. Greece was not well prepared<br />
to address the global financial downturn. Because of high debt<br />
levels, the country was no longer able to repay its loans. Greece<br />
was forced to ask for financial loans from its European partners<br />
and the International Monetary Fund.<br />
Uncertainty characterizes Greece’s future, but what I am<br />
certain of is that Greek people will not lose their spirit, strength<br />
and hospitality. I am certain that the picturesque Greek<br />
islands with the golden sand beaches and the crystalline blue<br />
and turquoise waters will still provide visitors with magical<br />
experiences. I am certain that the countless contributions that<br />
Greek culture has made to western society in the areas of art,<br />
literature, philosophy, drama, architecture and politics will give<br />
everyone the strength to fight for Greece’s survival.<br />
Kostas Voutsas, a tenured assistant professor of DSU at BSC,<br />
is a motivational speaker and consultant.<br />
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BUSINESS AND MONEY<br />
BLACK GOLD<br />
THE BOOM CONTINUES<br />
The frenetic pace of development<br />
continues in the western N. Dak.<br />
oil patch. Nearly 250 drilling rigs are<br />
now working in the state and more are<br />
enroute.<br />
People continue to make the move to high<br />
paying jobs in N. Dak. and school administrators<br />
say there may be as many as 3,000 new students<br />
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in the coming academic year. Just five years<br />
ago we were still closing schools because of a<br />
declining student enrollment. But enrollment<br />
increases means more teachers, classrooms and<br />
buses are needed. Educators say it might take<br />
$200 million dollars in added funding to handle<br />
the projected influx, double the projections of a<br />
recent state government study.<br />
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Meanwhile, the head of the N. Dak. Petroleum<br />
Council is calling on the state to invest $5 billion<br />
to build roads, classrooms and infrastructure to<br />
handle growing needs in the oil patch. Ron Ness<br />
says the investment should be made over a five<br />
year period and, “the magnitude of infrastructure<br />
required is going to take a lot of money.” Who’s<br />
money and who will pay is the big question. Ness<br />
is quick to note the oil industry already pays<br />
nearly a billion dollars a year in extraction taxes<br />
but locals are decidedly against paying the cost<br />
of new infratstructure, for a problem they didn’t<br />
create.<br />
“We need a timeout. We<br />
are so overrun we can’t<br />
plan, all we can do is react.”<br />
While the debate goes on over where to<br />
get funding to pay for needed improvements,<br />
the critical need for additional housing grows.<br />
Dickinson <strong>City</strong> Commissioners have approved<br />
a 3,000 person man camp on the city’s outskirts.<br />
Mayor Dennis Johnson says the housing is needed<br />
because The Stark County Community, that fewer<br />
than 15,000 residents just a few years ago, could<br />
grow to 40,000 people within the decade. Dunn<br />
County Commissioners have also approved more<br />
man camp beds, meaning the county will soon<br />
have more than 2,000 rooms.<br />
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BLACK GOLD<br />
Williams County has approved more than<br />
10,000 man camp beds the past two years.<br />
Williams County Commissioner Dan Kalil says,<br />
“We need a timeout. We are so overrun we can’t<br />
plan, all we can do is react.”<br />
A single bedroom apartment in<br />
Williston will rent for more than $2,300 a month<br />
and many senior citizens and others on fixed<br />
incomes are being forced out. A speaker at a<br />
recent housing conference in Williston says the<br />
city really needs 7,000 more homes.<br />
Work on some housing has started. Ground<br />
was recently broken on a new development that<br />
would provide more than 1,300 new apartment<br />
units in Williston. More than 2,000 housing units<br />
were built in Williston last year.<br />
But it isn’t just a dramatic need for housing,<br />
schools, and law enforcement that has many<br />
concerned. So is the rising damage to the<br />
environment. An environmental group that’s been<br />
tracking the handling of toxic wastewater from<br />
drilling sites says there were more than 1,000<br />
releases of chemical tainted wastewater in 2011,<br />
and many releases went unreported.<br />
The releases can effectively deaden the land<br />
it’s dumped on for years and harm wildlife.<br />
Landowner groups say the state lacks the<br />
resources to protect the environment from the<br />
spills until additional inspectors are hired.<br />
Darrell Dorgan is the managing editor of content at <strong>City</strong><br />
<strong>Magazine</strong>. He’s a long-time, award-winning journalist who also<br />
produces and writes television documentaries.<br />
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BUSINESS AND MONEY<br />
ASK THE PROFESSOR<br />
GENERATION JOBLESS?<br />
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Stock<br />
Young adults are facing one of the<br />
toughest job markets in history.<br />
According to a study released last<br />
month by the Pew Research Center,<br />
only 54 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24<br />
currently have jobs.<br />
It’s the lowest employment rate for this age<br />
group since 1948 when the Labor Department<br />
began tracking the data. In fact, things are so<br />
grim that The Wall Street Journal has coined this<br />
demographic group “Generation Jobless.”<br />
On the other end of the scale is N. Dak.<br />
where the oil boom has blown away all economic<br />
normalities. The law of supply and demand has<br />
kicked in across all sectors of the state. Young<br />
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According to RayAnn Kilen, regional director<br />
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Center, opportunity has never knocked louder<br />
than right now in N. Dak.<br />
Following are some words of advice for<br />
nascent oil-patch entrepreneurs:<br />
Look at the demographics of the people in the<br />
region. What are their needs?<br />
As our young entrepreneur examples illustrate,<br />
for every oil and energy-related job, there is an<br />
abundance of supporting jobs.<br />
Secure a good banker, lawyer and accountant.<br />
As your business grows, you will need these<br />
people to help you. Your chances of success are<br />
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Understanding cash flow will be challenging the<br />
first few months. The lending industry has changed,<br />
so expect the lending experience to be tighter<br />
and more difficult. You are going to need cash or<br />
collateral to make it through the early times.<br />
Build relationships. It is not the traditional<br />
business model in so many ways. Knowing people<br />
or hiring people who know people is an important<br />
strategy in the oil patch.<br />
Be patient. Licenses, permits, etc. are going to<br />
take time. Remember every part of the system is<br />
stressed.<br />
Although it will be tempting, don’t grow so<br />
quickly that you can’t maintain quality and integrity.<br />
Expect to put in long days and nights. Be willing to<br />
work hard and give it all you’ve got.<br />
Debora Dragseth, Ph.D. is a tenured professor of business<br />
at Dickinson State University. Her column provides common-<br />
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SUCCESS UNDER 45<br />
JON LEE<br />
President<br />
Bread Poets Baking Company<br />
Sonnets Sandwich Shop<br />
Bread Poets Franchising<br />
DOB: 2/14/68<br />
High School: Bottineau High School, 1986<br />
College: NDSU, 1990<br />
Family: Juanita, wife<br />
Jayce (son), 11<br />
Jessa (daughter), 8<br />
Jamison (son), 4<br />
Favorite Quote: “I believe in Christianity as I believe<br />
that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but<br />
because by it I see everything else.” - C.S. Lewis<br />
Reading now: “Venti Jesus Please” by Greg Stier<br />
Previous positions: <strong>City</strong> Manager,<br />
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Hobbies: Writing, Working out, Photography,<br />
Theology, Backpacking<br />
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Business partner, Damon Heupel,<br />
has helped Bread Poets become<br />
so successful over the years.<br />
As<br />
a bread baker and sandwich<br />
maker, Jon Lee has developed<br />
and changed many recipes over<br />
the years. But his personal recipe<br />
for success has always remained the same: Follow<br />
your dreams; learn and grow from people and<br />
experiences; all while remaining true to yourself,<br />
your family, and your faith.<br />
With one eye continually focused on his native<br />
Bismarck, Lee attended high school in Bottineau<br />
and college in Fargo. “After I got my degree, I<br />
decided I didn’t want to work for a corporation,<br />
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“If they were to look<br />
at our time and temps,<br />
they’d say, ‘That’s all<br />
wrong; that’s not what<br />
the textbook says!’”<br />
so I went to work for a small baking business in<br />
Montana.” There, he worked on the business side,<br />
screening franchises and doing legal work.<br />
His next move found him in the car rental<br />
business in Bismarck and Rapid <strong>City</strong>. Despite the<br />
corporate nature of the work, he has no regrets.<br />
“With Hertz, I had autonomy. It almost had an<br />
entrepreneurial feel,” Lee remembers.<br />
He says the two experiences provided an<br />
interesting juxtaposition of business philosophies,<br />
“One was almost a hippie culture; the other was<br />
much more corporate.”<br />
And what he learned from the two, he emulates<br />
to this day, “the first knew how to have fun; the<br />
other how to make money.”<br />
Newly inspired, he decided to act upon his<br />
life-long dream of owning a business. “I wanted<br />
it to be an artisan bread shop,” he recalled. All he<br />
needed now was a name.<br />
During his off days at Hertz, he toyed with a list<br />
of names. None felt right. Then he recalled a loyalty<br />
card he designed very early in the process.<br />
“I actually had it on my computer for more than<br />
a year.”
The name on it: Bread Poets Society.<br />
And so it began. “We started out baking<br />
150 loaves a day, now we’re up to 400,” Lee<br />
said. “It’s a scientific process. I chose the<br />
name and slogan ‘where bread is an art form’<br />
because we wanted to take the science behind<br />
it and truly create an art out of it.”<br />
Even the science itself is artwork. He says<br />
his process is completely different than any<br />
other baker in the world. “If they were to look<br />
at our time and temps they’d say, ‘that’s all<br />
wrong, that’s not what the textbook says!’”<br />
Like many entrepreneurs, Lee is always<br />
looking to improve systems and add more<br />
value to his product. After hiring bakery<br />
manager Damon Heupel four years ago, they<br />
both began talking about the next logical step.<br />
“Sandwich making was the most synergistic<br />
step.”<br />
During this time, they were approached by<br />
Troy Nelson to replace the Quiznos store he<br />
was closing. It was a natural fit, albeit a risky<br />
one.<br />
POETRY IN MOTION,<br />
ONE LOAF AT A TIME<br />
“When you’re going into the ocean of<br />
fast food or sandwich shops with all the big<br />
players in the water, you have got to have<br />
something to make people want to try your<br />
product.” Therefore, it became “Sonnet’s<br />
Sandwich Shop, by Bread Poets”, which Lee<br />
says carries his basic philosophy, “You don’t<br />
compromise on quality. It’s all about fresh and<br />
healthy ingredients.”<br />
With two Sonnet’s locations up and<br />
running and systems continually being<br />
refined, Lee says he’s working on the next<br />
phase, franchising. His current dream is<br />
to see a multiple of both shops working<br />
synergistically under one roof.<br />
But even if it didn’t happen, Lee would still<br />
be happy. “The gratification I derive from it<br />
is not only because it’s something I built from<br />
the ground up, but also because I did it in the<br />
place where I grew up, a place I love and a<br />
place where I always wanted to live.”<br />
A lifelong communicator and former reporter,<br />
Michael Lindblom is a student of dynamics<br />
of human interaction.<br />
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BUSINESS AND MONEY<br />
MILLIONAIRE MOMS<br />
LIFE AND CAREER MAKEOVER<br />
Kay Elvrum grew accustomed to a<br />
teacher’s salary. An educator at Christ<br />
the King and later Fargo Shanley, she<br />
made her earnings stretch to cover the<br />
costs of running a household, along with funding<br />
her hobby for showing horses. It wasn’t easy.<br />
Elvrum’s husband Chuck also was in education as<br />
an administrator and, in addition to the household<br />
and horses, they had daughter Kelly to provide for.<br />
“Oh, you don’t understand...I have a degree,”<br />
was Elvrum’s first response to the suggestion that<br />
she sell Mary Kay cosmetics. After competing at a<br />
horse show one weekend, Elvrum received a phone<br />
call from a woman whose husband had seen her<br />
there and thought she would be good at it.<br />
“She was so sweet and that she kept talking to<br />
me despite my rude remark amazes me,” Elvrum<br />
said. At the time, Elvrum had a teaching position,<br />
and she considered selling lipstick a far cry from a<br />
“career.”<br />
That was 1989 and after continued<br />
conversations, Elvrum decided to enlist as a Mary<br />
Kay independent beauty consultant to supplement<br />
her income and support their show horse hobby.<br />
Millionaire Moms<br />
Now a millionaire more than once<br />
over, Elvrum resides among the<br />
ranks of Mary Kay’s 214 independent<br />
national sales directors. She has<br />
traveled the world, educates and<br />
develops independent sales directors<br />
and has taken delivery of 13 pink<br />
Cadillacs. “I was the recipient of the<br />
first pink Escalade that rolled off the<br />
assembly line,” she shared.<br />
Elvrum traded in her<br />
teaching career just three years<br />
after joining Mary Kay, and her<br />
husband transitioned from school<br />
administration to managing Kay’s<br />
Mary Kay business in 1996. Although<br />
Mary Kay has provided financial<br />
security for Elvrum, she measures her riches in<br />
relationships.<br />
“Mary Kay has a structure of encouragement<br />
and caring that is genuine and sincere,” she shared.<br />
Her relationship with peers around the globe was<br />
tested when her husband Chuck died unexpectedly<br />
in 2011. “The president of Mary Kay flew out to<br />
Columbus, Ohio, for my first speaking engagement<br />
after Chuck’s death, just to be there for me,” she<br />
said.<br />
Elvrum’s concern for the women she mentors<br />
must match the support she receives from the<br />
company. Her ability to rise to Mary Kay’s highest<br />
ranks is the result of her ability to not only sell the<br />
products, but also to develop future leaders.<br />
“A woman’s success in direct sales depends on<br />
what she puts into it. I find that there is a reason,<br />
season, or lifetime commitment. Some women<br />
may work to pay for that new washing machine,<br />
seek employment in their off-season (like many<br />
teachers do), or commit making a full-time career<br />
out of it.”<br />
Dot Frank is a busy mom and community member. Although<br />
she buzzes around town at breakneck speeds, she invites you<br />
to slow her down to talk.<br />
Offers to “make money from home” and “set your own schedule” are alluring to many local moms.<br />
Whether it’s selling cosmetics, jewelry or cooking utensils, direct sales opportunities abound.<br />
The promise of personally set hours and enormous profits are touted, but are they attainable?<br />
“Millionaire Moms” will reveal the riches that Bismarck-Mandan moms have attained through direct sales<br />
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We scheduled surgery and got a very<br />
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We have cleared up his other skin issues,<br />
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Bruster is no couch potato, he walked the<br />
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and was ready for more! He has a lot of life in<br />
him and even though his prior caretakers did<br />
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colleagues.<br />
In fact, just two weeks after opening for<br />
business, a fire nearly destroyed their building.<br />
“It needed extensive repair and that’s where<br />
Bismarck-Mandan truly shines,” said Paula<br />
Haider, co-owner. “I bet we had 100 calls the<br />
next day from friends, family and business<br />
contacts over the years offering to take time off<br />
from their jobs to help.”<br />
It was a sub-zero day in Jan. – even a<br />
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The newsworthy start of their business<br />
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They’ve even constructed the glass structures<br />
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Haider Glass prides itself on going the extra<br />
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“The sale isn’t as important as the relationship,”<br />
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Many of you may ask if it is even<br />
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“yes!”<br />
There are many different ways to buy homes<br />
in this market. As our real-estate climate changes<br />
and things become tighter and tighter, there are<br />
still ways to pick a home for you and your family.<br />
However, you may notice it might not be the<br />
same as it was two years ago.<br />
There are fewer and fewer open houses and<br />
fewer and fewer homes on the market each week.<br />
As those homes get replenished, they are sold<br />
just as fast. With this being said, you can still find<br />
good buys without all the hassles. “How?” you<br />
may ask.<br />
The best thing to do is to call your realtor and,<br />
no, this isn’t one of those cheesy infomercials on<br />
why to use a realtor, but it is a true and bold fact<br />
of how this process works.<br />
Many of us full-time realtors have what’s<br />
called pocket listings that we have in our arsenal<br />
of private listings (or in-house listings) that you<br />
won’t normally see, or to-be-listed properties that<br />
are coming up on the market that the general<br />
public doesn’t have knowledge of yet.<br />
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people who want to list and just are out of town<br />
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and can’t get the house ready in a timely manner.<br />
So as the weeks build up to this listing, people<br />
will call and ask what I have coming up, and I<br />
will share with them the news of any new listings.<br />
This gets people in the door faster than those who<br />
wait for the actual sign to go up.<br />
A good realtor will have many connections<br />
and many leads on people who want to sell and<br />
people who want to buy. After all, that is our job;<br />
to put homes in the hands of buyers.<br />
It can be done with some hard work and<br />
creativity. Your realtor can find a home for you;<br />
you just need to have a bit more patience than<br />
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REFLECTING<br />
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Our state’s unique backstory<br />
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as we approach our<br />
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is perhaps diversifying more than<br />
ever. This may be best celebrated<br />
with the expansion and renovation<br />
of the North Dakota Heritage<br />
Center.<br />
The Heritage Center is the state’s<br />
largest accredited museum and hosts<br />
roughly 100,000 visitors annually. Soon it will become even more<br />
impressive with 97,000 new square feet of gallery and storage<br />
space, outdoor gardens and renovated existing spaces.<br />
By May 1, 2013 – just under a year from now - the new<br />
entrance, along with hallway exhibits, the expanded museum<br />
store, café, and Great Plains Theater will open. In July, the<br />
geologic time gallery will open, followed by two more permanent<br />
galleries. Everything culminates in November 2014 with the<br />
fourth gallery opening, which coincides with celebration of<br />
North Dakota’s 125th birthday.<br />
“One of our goals with this expansion is to then invite people<br />
to get out across the state to see where history happened,”<br />
said Expansion Coordinator Claudia Berg. “They’ll get the<br />
orientation here and then be able to visit local venues, county<br />
museums, festivals, and main streets. They will act as an<br />
economic driver for North Dakota. We want to expand our<br />
relationships with other venues, too, to coordinate our efforts<br />
that will get visitors to stay longer in the state.“<br />
The new building will meet LEAD Silver standards and will<br />
do wonders for the staff ’s ability to clean, prepare, and store<br />
various pieces. On a tour of the construction, it was amazing to<br />
see the labyrinth of rooms being prepped for movable storage<br />
walls, special ventilation, and new technologies. The Heritage<br />
Center houses the exhibits we see on display, but also countless<br />
pieces of art, artifacts, books, and more behind the scenes for<br />
preservation or research.<br />
The new center will be a true reflection of North Dakota,<br />
traditional with a modern flavor. Whether you stop in to do<br />
research, to view a specific exhibit, to watch a performance, or<br />
simply to wander around, the new Heritage Center will captivate<br />
you. Put on your walking shoes and get ready to check it out.<br />
Amanda Godfread is a freelance writer and communications director for<br />
Governor Jack Dalrymple’s campaign.<br />
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CITY MAGAZINE SELECT<br />
NORTH DAKOTA STATE FAIR 2012
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Flooding in Minot led to the<br />
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Activities begin July 20th and continue<br />
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The State Fair Grandstand concert<br />
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The amount of people expected at this<br />
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46 | THECITYMAG.COM | JULY 2012<br />
If<br />
you and your<br />
sisters had 10<br />
kids among<br />
you and found<br />
yourself ordering child<br />
products online all of the<br />
time, what would you do?<br />
You might do what Jayme<br />
Heick did and open your<br />
own children’s store.<br />
The store is Moe Moe’s<br />
Garden at 32 First Avenue<br />
West in Dickinson and<br />
she has enough products<br />
on her shelves to make<br />
any mother and her child<br />
happy. You see, the store<br />
is set up so that, while<br />
Mommy is shopping, the<br />
children can play.<br />
“I can feel completely<br />
comfortable bringing my<br />
kids there and letting them<br />
play while I shop or visit,”<br />
says customer Dr. Kylie<br />
Simnioniw. “This is huge<br />
for a mother. It is also a<br />
great meeting place for<br />
moms.”<br />
(Below) Heick’s store is a<br />
one-of-a-kind store that<br />
allows mothers to shop and<br />
children to play.
Jayme and her husband<br />
Dustin attended all of their<br />
school years in Dickinson.<br />
Before opening the store, Jayme<br />
had the luxury of being at home<br />
with their two girls. Now their<br />
lives are a little bit different.<br />
“Today, I bring the girls with<br />
me to the store, and I have the<br />
best of both worlds,” Jayme<br />
says. “I get to be with my girls<br />
all day and still feel like I am<br />
contributing to the community.”<br />
Of course, this is no<br />
ordinary children’s store.<br />
Instead, you might think of it as<br />
a sorority for young moms.<br />
“I get to be with<br />
my girls all day and<br />
still feel like I am<br />
contributing to the<br />
community.”<br />
“Moms love to talk to other<br />
moms about things that work<br />
and things that don’t work,” says<br />
customer Adrienne Belland.<br />
“They can do that here, and<br />
that is an awesome asset.<br />
The other different thing<br />
about the store is that the<br />
product is original, different,<br />
and unique.” Plus, it is located<br />
in downtown Dickinson which,<br />
according to Jayme, is great.<br />
“We LOVE being<br />
downtown,” Jayme says. “There<br />
are a lot of moms who push<br />
strollers and walk downtown.<br />
There is a great sense of<br />
community here and it is busy.<br />
I like being able to have one-onone<br />
contact with the customers<br />
and provide support services<br />
for families, because what better<br />
reward is there than a happy<br />
child?”<br />
Kevin Holten is the communications<br />
and events coordinator for the<br />
Dickinson State University Foundation.<br />
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