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Minot Parks brings back Logger Fest

Minot Parks has announced the return of Logger Fest at Oak Park. Logger Fest is an outdoor festival combining family friendly lumberjack activities and German Oktoberfest. The event will be held Saturday, Sept. 27, from noon-6 p.m.. Logger Fest is a fun-filled day of music, retail and craft vendors, food trucks, dog races, axe throwing, yard games, face painting with Nature’s Nook and hula hoop fun with Hoopspiration. It includes a strength-based steinholding contest and hammerschlagen, a game that involves hammering a nail into a log. Scheduled fun include: – Rhythm and Rhyme ...

Peace Garden to host 9/11 Memorial event

The International Peace Garden will hold its annual 9/11 Memorial event on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 11 a.m. at the 9/11 Memorial site. The event is free to the public and regular gate admission rates resume at noon. Attendees are encouraged to arrive by 10:30 am. Light refreshments will be ...

Mural celebrates Minot Symphony’s 100th season

The Minot Symphony Orchestra has unveiled a new downtown mural in celebration of its 100th season. “Magic Symphony,” painted over Labor Day weekend by local artist Max Patzner, features colorful depictions of musical instruments and symbols meant to capture the joy and energy of ...

Drake Threshing Show set for this weekend

DRAKE – The 57th annual Drake Threshing Show will be held this weekend with parades, tractor and pickup pulls and other events at the Drake threshing grounds. The show opens at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6, with a breakfast. Lunch will be served from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., and a vendor show will run from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday’s schedule also includes tractor games at 10 a.m., parade at noon, kiddie pedal tractor pull at 1:30 p.m., adult games at 2:30 p.m., bingo at 3 p.m. and full-size tractor pull plus pickup pull at 4 p.m. Sunday’s schedule on Sept. 7, adds a church service at 10:30 ...

Artists make downtown alley pop

From whimsical to intriguing and always colorful, the artwork that’s helped transform a downtown Minot alley into a gathering space also serves to showcase local talent. Muralists Arvin Davis, Jr., Cera Pignet, Tessia Samuelson and Max Patzner were at Citizens Alley to talk about their ...

Retirement’s Comic Relief: Never too late to buy game

In a June 1960 episode, Fred Flintstone’s defeat of Ben Boulder in the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs Lodge golf tournament was followed by a yabba dabba dinner of brontosaurus ribs and Bedrock-candy dessert. The game of golf has evolved since the Stone Age but still includes rock-hard spheres shanked and hooked into the woods. I wrote my Grandfather a birthday poem in 1973 that began, “For 80 full years, from buckboards to jets, you’ve seen many things, and I’ll take all bets, there’s much more you’ll do and miracles you’ll see, with someone you love, my Grandma, Bea.” ...