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Minot Symphony Orchestra seeks challenge grant match

The Minot Area Community Foundation (MACF) has awarded a $10,000 challenge grant to the Minot Symphony Orchestra to purchase a five-drum set of Adams Philharmonic Timpani. MACF will match dollar-for-dollar raised up to $10,000 by Aug. 31. The grant was made possible through the Chuck & Madge Westlie Fund. The Minot Symphony Orchestra has encountered a need for a new set of timpani due to the number of groups who use the instrument when performing or rehearsing at Ann Nicole Nelson Hall on the Minot State University campus. The new percussion equipment also will be accessible to MSU ...

Fort Stevenson welcomes kite flyers this weekend

GARRISON – Fort Stevenson State Park invites kite flyers of all ages to decorate the sky over the park Saturday through Monday, May 25-27, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. each day in celebration of Sky Fest. Fly your own kite at Sky Fest or witness professional kite flyers as they bring in some of the largest kites currently in production. Special activities will take place throughout the weekend, including build-your-own kite on Saturday. Park admission applies but admission to Sky Fest is free. The park charges a $7 vehicle entrance fee unless a ND State Park annual pass is displayed. ...

Dinner on the Prairie event recognized

Minot’s 2023 Dinner on the Prairie event was recognized as “Chamber Event of the Year” at the 2024 Mid-America Chamber Executives Conference held this month in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. More than 230 guests experienced the event on Aug. 1, 2023, which was made possible by the event co-chairs Fred Beuchler and Bonnie Scheresky, the Minot Area Chamber EDC Agribusiness Committee, volunteers and supporters. Mid-America Chamber Executives (MACE) is made up of chamber professionals who belong to their state chamber executive organization or state chamber of commerce in the six-state ...

Storied Collections in Ward Ccounty: Postal mail wagon is conversation piece

Another artifact that is now on the grounds of Pioneer Village is an early 1900s restored mail wagon. This was donated by retired businessman Keith Bloms, who owned Bloms Lockers in Minot. It definitely is a visual conversation piece. In 1896 the U.S. Post Office Department adopted the use of ...

Zoo News: Overcoming fears with faith

Combating fear is one of the greatest challenges for young zookeepers to overcome. It is not necessarily the fear of working around potentially dangerous animals, but the fear that something they do or do not do will negatively impact the animals they care for and about. From my experience, it ...

Retirement’s Comic Relief: Mother’s wisdom clings to heart

Our neighbors in the 1950s were the Grays. One of their children, Mike, was a year older than me. When I was 10, Mike swiped a couple of cigarettes from a pack belonging to his mother and invited me into their dark garage one fall evening. We lit up and puffed away as if cowboys on the open range. Before arriving at the butt end of the cowpoke contra ban, Mother called out my name from our back door. “Coming,” I hollered back. As I stepped inside, Mother repeated my name from the basement adding, “come downstairs, please.” I slipped down steep steps to find Mother ironing ...