Jill Schramm/MDN Nadia Smetana, holding her plaque, was honored Friday, Feb. 6, at a retirement party at Dakota Hope Clinic, where she has served as executive director. She was instrumental in the founding of the clinic that started in Minot in 2013 and now has satellite offices in Tioga and Bottineau. Clinic staff members, from left, are: front, Janis Neumann, Smetana, Karmen Hanson, Deborah Leier, Emily Rann, and back, Kira Eull, Caitlin Arnold, Mandy Crocker, Stacey Scott, Tanya Humphreys, Kristi Fannik and Tim Knutson. Crocker has been named the clinic’s new executive director. Not pictured is Bonnie Engel of the Bottineau satellite clinic.

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