KLJ hires survey technician
KLJ Engineering announced that Logan Pietsch recently joined the company as a survey technician. Pietsch will be based in KLJ’s Minot office.
Trinity Health Foundation promotes
Trinity Health Foundation recently promoted Cody McManigal from Donor Relations coordinator to Foundation coordinator. McManigal has been a Trinity Health Foundation team member for over eight years serving in several different roles with the organization. He will oversee the donor database, grant writing, special events, including the men’s and women’s golf tournaments, nursing scholarship program, special projects, and a number of other Foundation programs.
TrainND brings training to ND
WILLISTON – TrainND Northwest has announced a partnership with gener8tor and Microsoft Learn to bring a skills accelerator program to North Dakota at no cost to participants. Gener8tor Skills is focused on skilling unemployed and under-employed individuals with a goal to get them back into the workforce. This free program features a self-paced curriculum, taught by industry experts, focusing on several career tracks. The first two career tracks, Customer Service & Sales, will launch on June 27. The five-week virtual program has a application deadline of June 19. All applicants ...
Futures Files
Ukraine can’t export grain In addition to production problems related to both the war and dry weather, the storage and export of wheat from Ukraine was further blocked by Russia. Early last week, Russia bombed two major storage facilities in ports on the Black Sea and shut down shipping with naval blockades. With Russia and Ukraine normally exporting a third of the world’s grain through the Black Sea, restoring transportation by either ship or rail is becoming more urgent each week. A worsening drought in Europe, especially France, has exacerbated the wheat shortage just as ...
WTO holds big meeting to tackle vaccines, food shortages
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Trade Organization predicted a “bumpy and rocky” road as it opened its highest-level meeting in 4-1/2 years on Sunday, with issues like pandemic preparedness, food insecurity and overfishing of the world’s seas on the agenda. At a time when some question WTO’s relevance, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala hopes the meeting involving more than 120 ministers from the group’s 164 member countries yields progress toward reducing inequality and ensuring fair and free trade. Okonjo-Iweala acknowledged the Geneva-based trade body needs ...
State Farm’s 100th Birthday
Michigan pair charged in fentanyl case Charles Edward Bevier-Dukes, 31, Hamtramck, Michigan, and Tabethia Simone Hunt, 20, of Lansing, Michigan, are each charged in district court in Ward County with Class A felony possession with intent to deliver more than 40 grams of fentanyl on Tuesday. ...