Jill Schramm/MDN • Rod Romine, chairman of the Community Bowl Committee, speaks about support for the project at a news conference Thursday. Some supporters shown are, from left, Gary Leslie of the Minot Area Girls Fast Pitch Softball, Wendy Howe of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, John MacMartin of the Minot Area Chamber of Commerce, Maynard Sandberg of the measure petition drive, Jeremy Zarr of the Junior Golf Association and Dale Christensen of the Minot Soccer Association

Representatives of several Minot community organizations gathered at a news conference Thursday to show their support for a ballot measure that would fund a community bowl.


“The community bowl is a piece that we need in our tool chest as we try to recruit people to come back to Minot,” said John MacMartin, president of the Minot Area Chamber of Commerce.


“The community bowl will be a factor in the success of Minot for many years to come,” added Wendy Howe, director of the Minot Convention and Visitors Bureau.


The chamber and CVB are among those supporting the measure that will be on the June 10 ballot. The measure proposes to redirect half of the 1 percent sales tax going to the Northwest Area Water Supply project to construction of a community bowl on the campus of Minot State University. The diversion would begin July 1, 2008, and end June 30, 2011.