Dozens of fresh-baked pies have been showing up daily at the North Dakota State Fair since its inception, and this year is no exception. Pies emerge hot from the ovens every morning at First Lutheran Church in Minot, where volunteers don their aprons at 6 a.m. to knead the perfect dough, roll ...
The fairy tale “Rumpelstiltskin” is about whether a miller’s daughter can spin straw into gold and riches. For Ossian Kidholm, a wool spinner from Norway who is giving free wool spinning demonstrations and education at the North Dakota State Fair this year, life’s riches come from ...
A picture is worth a thousand words and sometimes those words come from a thousand different people during fair week. Celebrated watercolor painter and mural artist, Nancy Balyeat, is working hard this week on a custom mural for the newly named Roughrider Arena building in the West Park of ...
It may be National Zookeeper Week, but there is so much happening at the zoo these days you need a scorecard just to keep up. We want to make sure we give the zookeepers their due. We are finalizing the touches on our largest event/fundraiser of the year, Bacon & Brew, that will be here in two short weeks. Also, within the next week or two, the zoo should learn the results of recent projects out for bid that can impact the zoo in so many ways. And then there are the projects that have already started or are currently under construction. Change is in the air and over the next couple of ...
