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MSU students fundraise for Miles for Smiles

Each year the Communication Science and Disorders program at Minot State University hosts a walk to raise funds for cleft lip and palate surgeries in underdeveloped countries. “All proceeds raised go to (the national) Operation Smile, where the funds are then processed and dispersed to ...

Plunge can fundraiser fuels summer fun

MAX – A large culvert wrapped with the names of local sponsors is sitting on a slough off U.S. Highway 83, waiting for the ice below to melt to plunge it into the icy water below. The Max Civic Club is holding its annual plunge can fundraiser, in which community members buy tickets to take ...

Minot business pitches in for Prairie Grit

The owners of Minot’s Papa John’s, Harold Rose, Admir Mujakovic and Steven Marshall, have been donating food from their restaurants to Prairie Grit Adaptive Sports events. About five or six years ago, Drew Hansen was the executive director of Prairie Grit, and Mujakovic was doing marketing ...

Benefits planned for teen injured in crash

Planet Pizza and Bishop Ryan Catholic School with the Knights of Columbus Council will be hosting benefits for Tyanna Weeks and family. Weeks, 18, a senior at Bishop Ryan, was in a serious head-on collision in late January. A GoFundMe account was set up by the family and has been receiving ...

Local bank donates $7,500 to support Project BEE winter shelter

First International Bank & Trust (FIBT) donated $7,500 to Project BEE from the Minot Employee Fund, which is a fund that employees contribute to each month through voluntary payroll deductions. The donation will be directed toward Project BEE’s goal of keeping its Winter Warming Center ...

MHA Ice Warrior Plunge benefits cancer programs

NEW TOWN — Eighty-two jumpers took the plunge into the icy water of Lake Sakakawea, west of New Town, on Thursday, also Leap Day, during the 8th Annual MHA Nation Ice Warrior Plunge. The plunge is an annual event to raise funds to benefit the American Indian Cancer Foundation and Mandan, ...