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Recovery committee names executive director

Jill Schramm/MDN Sarah Bachmeier looks back from the podium to other members of the Minot Area Recovery Community Organization at Monday’s Minot City Council meeting. At right is the new executive director, Andrew Schultz.

The Minot Area Recovery Community Organization has hired an executive director who says the group will be getting things done in the region.

Minot attorney Andrew Schultz, the new executive director, said the organization’s work will be a community effort.

“This organization is one of the few of its kind in the country and it’s the first in North Dakota,” he said. “We are an organization out to get things done. Our mandate is 100 miles in every direction to coordinate existing recovery resources and to actually do our own objective, empirical studies and find out where the holes are and then help people develop entities to fix those holes.”

The organization will hold a luncheon for local industry professionals.

“One of the things we want to do right off the bat is find out where we stand and what we need to do, so it is vital to have that kind of conversation,” Schultz said. “After that, we will do public awareness events.”

The organization also wants to attract high profile speakers in recovery to the events.

The board also has been working with the Bush Foundation, which has provided a $208,000 grant to the city. The grant will assist the community in moving forward with an action plan based on the work of the Mayor’s Committee on Addiction.

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