Minot Visitors Guide Summer 2014

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Coming to Minot? We’re really excited to hear it.

For all you need to plan your trip, go to visitminot.org.

Discover the Magical City of Minot!

Roosevelt Park Zoo Integrity Jazz Festival North Dakota State Fair Norsk Høstfest See inside for details!

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While visiting Minot, be sure to experience the many “magical” activities, events and places that the city has to offer. With its many historical and cultural attractions, Minot is sure to meet and exceed your expectations.

The Dakota Territory Air Museum, Railroad Museum, Soo Line Depot Transportation Museum and the Taube Art Museum are worth setting aside some time to visit. Visitors to Minot won’t want to miss the Scandinavian Heritage Park.

The Minot area is also abounding with unique shopping opportunities. The city of Minot offers something for everyone, from the large retail stores to the unique specialty shops.

After spending some time taking in the more than 100 stores at the Dakota Square Mall, you can take a quick trip to Main Street and visit Minot’s historic downtown shopping district. While you are there, you will find many unique and specialty shops including galleries, cooking shops, jewelry stores, specialty clothing shops, and much more!

After visiting several of the major shopping areas, you may be ready to kick up your heels at one of Minot’s great hot spots or take in one of the great events happening in and around town.

You may decide that you are ready to relax and enjoy a nice dinner. Minot boasts more than 70 restaurants, so visitors are sure to find an establishment to match their tastes and budget.

Be sure to book your trip in advance so that you’re guaranteed that a room is available at your favourite hotel. You can see our hotel availability right on our website at visitminot.org/hotel-availability and don’t forget to see our coupon page before booking your hotel room at visitminot.org/coupons.

To ensure there are no hassles at customs before leaving for Minot, here are a few tips: • Remember to bring proper identification. Make sure everyone travelling with you has proper documentation for leaving Canada. Birth certificates, passports and visas are the best insurance against problems at the border.

• Visit a Canada Customs office to identify any valuables you may want to take to Minot from home. Items like cameras, jewelry and palm pilots can be recorded so that there are no problems coming back across the border.

• Also, remember to check with Canada Customs if you plan to change or improve any part of your vehicle. If your vehicle breaks down while in Minot, the repairs must be declared at customs and you may not have to pay the duties. But if you improve your vehicle with special modifications (in other words, increase its value) Canada Customs law will no longer consider the vehicle Canadian.

For further information, or to request a free visitors packet including coupons, lists of restaurants, things to see and do and where to stay, contact Minot Convention and Visitors Bureau at 1-800-264-2626 or visit the website at www.visitminot.org.

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Upcoming Events June 26 Arts in the Park: Voices of Note Oak Park June 26 to 30 MSU Summer Theater: See how they run MSU Amphitheater So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish, audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race.

Galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage are an American actor and actress (he is now stationed with the air force in England), a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies, an old maid who “touches alcohol for the first time in her life,” four men in clergyman suits presenting the problem of which is which, for disguised as one is an escaped prisoner, and a sedate Bishop aghast at all these goings on and the trumped up stories

they tell him. See How They Run is produced through special Arrangement with Sameul French.

All performances begin at 8:30 pm.

Tickets: $8 Adults $7 Students & Seniors $5 12 and Under $3 MSU Faculty, Staff, Summer Students.

For reservations call 858-3228 after June 1, 2014

June 28 Integrity Jazz Festival The 7th Annual Integrity Jazz Festival will take place Saturday, June 28, 2014 in Minot’s beautiful Scandinavian Heritage Park. It’s a family-friendly atmosphere with Jazz band, Jazz vocalists, Artists, Artisians, Food, Fun and more!

Featuring, Cab Jivers and also Clearwater Hot Club and Danny Green Trio

June 27 Hot summer night wine walk Downtown Minot Stroll the streets of Downtown while enjoying wine tasting and scrumptious appetizers! Also, enjoy the talents of promising local artists in the big white tent outside the new Artspace! Tickets pre-sold at Cookies For You staring Tuesday, May 27th at 7:30am. Tickets are $50 (cash or check)

June 29 Arts in the Park: City Band Oak Park July 1 Walk Minot Bison Plant Trail Enjoy a walk back in time at the Bison Plant Trail! Wear shoes that are appropriate for walking gravel trails.

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themed t-shirt designed by a local student and is eligible for door prizes.

Every tot trot entrant will receive a prize when crossing the finish line. No award for the fitness walk.*

All walks are approximately 45 minutes. For more information, call 701-857-6444.

July 3 Arts in the Park: Manuel Delgado Oak Park July 4 Zoo Run Roosevelt Park Zoo Begin your Independence Day with the Zoo Run and Walk!

Register now for the Annual Zoo Run & Walk 2014 at the Roosevelt Park Zoo! - Registration begins at 6:45 am - 1/2 Mile Tot Trot starts at 8:00 am - 2 mile walk, 4 mile run, and relay to follow Pick up an entry form at Roosevelt Park Zoo, visit rpzoo.com or call 8574166 to register!

Register before June 20th and receive the early bird discount! *Each participant will receive a

July 6 Arts in the Park: Marsha Deslaurier Oak Park July 8 Walk Minot Oak Park Walk Oak Park to see its full summer glory.

Meet: Farmer’s Market parking lot All walks are approximately 45 minutes. For more information, call 701-857-6444.

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MINOT’S A REAL TRIP! Upcoming Events Continued from Page 13 Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people.

Did we mention the bevy of beautiful show girls? Monty Python’s Spamalot is produced through special arrangement with Theatrical Rights Worldwide.

All performances begin at 8:30 pm.

Tickets: $8 Adults $7 Students & Seniors $5 12 and Under $3 MSU Faculty, Staff, Summer Students.

July 10 Arts in the Park: City Band Oak Park

July 11 Great American Wing Ding Downtown Minot Friday night street dance featuring Frankly Scarlett. Food vendors, beverages, dancing and listening to a great local band. Highlight of the night is judging of the best wing sauce.

Gather your friends together for a funfilled summer night.

Event time: 8pm-12:30am

in their communities & to improve the leadership skills of local youth with disabilities.

July 12 Run and Roll for Independence 5k and 1 mile Challenge Optimist Soccer Complex Come on out for a fun morning run/ walk. Registration forms can be found on our website www.independencecil. org - Registration fee is $20. T-shirts for participants who register no later than June 27th. All ages and abilities are encouraged to participate. Please feel free to contact Jen at 839-4724 if you have any questions. Proceeds will help people with disabilities gain skills to help them live more independently

July 17 Arts in the Park: City Band Oak Park

July 13 Arts in the Park: The Swing Band of Minot Oak Park July 17 Members only picnic at the zoo

July 18 to 26 North Dakota State Fair The North Dakota State Fair continues to be our state’s largest annual event with more than 300,000 people in attendance over nine days!

We feature five nights of big name country artists, two nights of rock concerts and two nights of auto events.

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Rodeo. There’s also Fair favorites like the state’s largest carnival and tons of food, shopping and exhibits!

This year’s Grandstand line-up features: Lady Antebellum, July 18 John Mellencamp, July 19 The Charlie Daniels Band, July 20 Randy Houser, July 23 Florida-Georgia Line, July 24 Three Days Grace, July 25 Brad Paisley, July 26 Tickets go on sale April 8 at 8am!

July 18 to 23 MSU Summer Theater: Big River MSU Amphitheater The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is a musical about musicals! In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. June is an ingenue who can’t pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord. Will

the handsome leading man come to the rescue? The variations are: a Rodgers & Hammerstein version, set in Kansas in August, complete with a dream ballet; a Sondheim version, featuring the landlord as a tortured artistic genius who slashes the throats of his tenants in revenge for not appreciating his work; a Jerry Herman version, as a splashy star vehicle; an Andrew Lloyd Webber version, a rock musical with themes borrowed from Puccini; and a Kander & Ebb version, set in a speakeasy in Chicago. The Musical of Musicals: The Musical is produced through special arrangement with Samuel French.

All performances begin at 8:30 pm.

Tickets: $8 Adults $7 Students & Seniors $5 12 and Under $3 MSU Faculty, Staff, Summer Students.

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MINOT’S A REAL TRIP! Upcoming Events Continued from Page 14 July 20 Arts in the Park: JMB Band Oak Park July 24 Arts in the Park: The Dance Company Oak Park July 27 Arts in the Park: GreenMan Band Oak Park July 31 Arts in the Park: Marsha Mugaas Aug. 1 to 2 Hunting Expo Dakota Square Scheels Aug. 2 MAHC 4th Annual 5k Charity Fun Walk/Run Oak Park Come join the FUN. The MAHC 4th Annual 5k Charity Fun Walk-Run

event. Saturday, August 2, 2014 at Oak Park Shelter #9. Registration starts at 7:30am. This is an “All comer’s race (participants not put into divisions).

It’s a great way to test yourself against the whole field while supporting a worthy cause”. Contact the Minot Area Homeless Coalition, Inc. for registration information. Please note that this is a non-competitive charity event to aid the MAHC. There are no prizes either promised or implied to those who participate. Check us out on Facebook for event information!

Aug. 3 Arts in the Park: Dakota Rose Band Oak Park Aug. 5 National Night Out North Hill Soccer Complex The Minot Police Department will be teaming up with Target and many other community agencies to host the annual National Night Out. The community event will be held in order to promote

public safety and give recognition to those individuals and agencies who keep our community safe. There will be free games, food, music, face painting, many inflatables, a dunking booth, Dizzy the Clown, educational booths and law enforcement special equipment displays. Last year’s event proved to be an excellent community safety event as attendance reached 3,000 in the North Hill Soccer complex. (1200 block of 21 Ave NW) Aug. 7 Arts in the Park: At the Hop Oak Park Aug. 9 Give360 Color Dash 5k The Give360 Color Dash 5k is coming to Minot with proceeds going toward the preliminary planning of a local children’s museum. At this family-friendly non-competitive event, participants will run through a hurricane of color at each kilometer, creating memories and laughs too many to count.

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Aug. 13 Great Tomato Festival State Fair center 4H hall The Great Tomato Festival was established in 1989. It is an annual, indoor summer gourmet picnic with a classic fixed menu of Haider’s Salsa and Chips, Assorted Tomato Hors d’oeuvres, Smoked Pork Chops, Tomato & Cucumber Salad, Roasted Tomatoes stuffed with Rice, Beer Batter Bread, and Brownies. Evening activities include live jazz music, a silent auction, Menu Venue, and tomato displays courtesy of MarketPlace Foods. This is a community fund-raiser, which benefits non-profit organizations, including the Minot Public Library, Taube Museum of Art, and the Minot Symphony Orchestra.

• Sponsorships are sold to area businesses and institutions. Ten tickets are included in a sponsorship, priced at $250. Individual tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. All net proceeds from ticket sales and the silent auction are directly granted to the sponsoring organizations. There are no

salaried positions related to the festival.

• Items offered on the silent auction include activities such as event tickets (sports, theater, and music), restaurant meals, kid’s activities, lesson camps, and vacation stays. We have expanded to include art, furniture, book bags, memorabilia, and other selected higher ticket items. Auction proceeds have ranged from $14,000 to $22,300 in the past 5 years. Since 1989 over $436,000 has been raised. For more information please email: greattomatofestival@ srt.com or call: Jerry Kaup - Minot Public Library: 852-1045 Nancy F. Walter - Taube Museum of Art: 8384445 Paulette Daily – Minot Symphony Orchestra: 858-4228 Aug. 14 Senior Safari at the zoo Aug. 15 to 17 Rock the Leaves Festival Scandinavian Heritage Park

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Fun-filled North Dakota State Fair is just around the corner Minot’s claim to fame annual event is right around the corner. With rides, snacks and fun galore, guests return each year for nine consecutive days of non-stop entertainment.

“We really pride ourselves in having something for everyone, of all ages and all types of people,” said Jennifer Hubrig, North Dakota State Fair marketing director. “No matter who you are, if you come out to the North Dakota State Fairgrounds, you can find lots of things to enjoy.”

The week-long flurry of events and entertainment kicks off on July 18 and lasts through until July 26. Live entertainment will be featured almost every night, and includes some big-name performers like Lady Antebellum, Florida Georgia Line and Brad Paisley. These performers and more are included within the purchase of a Grandstand Showpass.

Separate from the Grandstand Showpass, will be performances from John Mellencamp and

Three Days Grace.

The week will be jam-packed with special events for people of all ages and all talents.

With events like an essay contest, team trivia, a cake decorating contest, clown contest, fruit and vegetable carving contest, 4-H film festival, hot dog eating contest, and arm wrestling championships, there won’t be a dull moment on the fairgrounds.

For those on a tight budget, several coupons and promotions can be found on the websites plan section. These promotions allow for half price gate admission, less pricy ride arm bands and deals on NPRA Bull Riding. Once inside the fair, many contests, displays and performances are free of charge.

Hubrig says this year’s fair will feature some innovative, original contests and competitions that will be interactive and link fair goers to social media and photo sharing. The fair uses both Twitter and Instagram to get those

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Grandstand Lineup July 18 - Lady Antebellum - 8 p.m.

July 19 - John Mellencamp - 7:30 p.m.

July 20 - The Charlie Daniels Band 7:30 p.m.

July 23 - Randy Houser - 7:30 p.m.

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attending interacting within social media to eventually receive prizes. Clues will be given out for the twitter contest throughout the week, so keep an eye on @ndstatefair.

“We do have a lot of new contests that guest haven’t seen before. Most are targeted at children, but again there is something for everyone,” Hubrig confirmed. “Some of our new contests include kids joke telling, an amateur adult cupcake decorating contest, a hippity hop barrel race and even mutton bustin’.”

The traditional agriculture fair events will be back again this year with countless competitive exhibits like livestock shows, a horse pull, a pony pull, 4-H exhibits, barrel racing, team roping and more.

Since it started in 1965, the North Dakota State Fair has grown in scope and popularity. A staff of about 10 works on year-round planning and organization, and during the week of July 1826, the fair will employ more than 180 people. A

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Roosevelt Park Zoo prepares to open for 2014 season

By Jessica Mees L-P Specialty Products The staff and crew at the Roosevelt Park Zoo are preparing to stun visitors with changes and additions to the beloved favourite attraction. The zoo, which opened in 1920, has been a token family outing hotspot each summer.

“We’re going to have another summer with construction on site due to the flood of 2011, but as opposed to where we were last year, it is a significant change. At this point last year, we had about ten animals back and now this year we have almost all of them here,” said David Merritt.

Also expected by the end of the zoo season are some new editions. One of these new animals expected by the end of the season is a Japanese Mountain goat called a Serow.

Unique from other goats, the Serow looks more like a wolf when seen head on. They are also just as feisty as other goats, with quite the

personalities.

Another addition this summer is the return of the Bongo. Although they are behind in receiving the Bongo, it is for good reason. One of the Bongos travelling in the same shipment got pregnant and was unable to travel. The Roosevelt Park Zoo Bongos will be back before the season end for all to see.

The word of new animals is always exciting, but for Merritt the most exciting thing in the zoo’s future is a brand new exhibit.

“We have a new exhibit under construction at the moment. It is all very exciting. The original zoo building is a marvellous building that was built when the zoo opened. It has significant historic value to people who have been in Minot all their lives. It was the entire zoo for several decades,” said Merritt. “It was very beat up from the flood so we decided it needed a reuse and to be seen again. We decided we are going to open up an aviary inside. It is the perfect building

for that. There will be many new colours, movements and sounds when it is completed.”

Of course, another exciting addition is the return of the summer reading program.

Unable to hold the program for the last few years, the team has had even more time to prepare and get excite for the summer of 2014. Children are invited in to the Zoo to hear a story and have an opportunity for a “hands on” interaction with some of the chosen animal ambassadors. Admission to this event is $2 for members and $3 for non-members.

The schedule can be found online.

Purchasing a Zoo membership has great benefits. In addition to getting in free to the ever-changing zoo all season, members also get discounts on events, zoo camp, and a 10% discount in our gift shop. What many don’t know is that the pass can also get the member into many other zoos in the United States for free or half off.

For more information on the Roosevelt Park Zoo and this season’s events and adventures, visit www.rpzoo.com. New and exciting things are happening each day.

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THINKSUMMER! The summer sunshine is here and the Minot Park District is excited for the season ahead. The Roosevelt Park Zoo is open and ready for you. We are thrilled for visitors to see all the improvements that will be coming to the Zoo in 2014.

Construction has started on the Penguin & Otter Exhibits as well as the New Aviary.

The Souris Valley Golf Course has 18 holes open for golfers of all ages and levels to enjoy. To

reserve a tee time contact us at 701-857-4189. The kids can also enjoy a round at Jack Hoeven Wee Links, a real nine hole golf course designed specifically for kids.

The Roosevelt Park Pool along with the Oak Park Splash Pad are a perfect way to cool off in the hot summer sun.

For more information on our parks and trails please visit our website at www.minotparks.com or contact our office at 701-857-4136. Make sure to tag your park photos at #MinotParks.

July 3 Manuel Delgado*/Amanda Francis Location: Ward County Historical Soc. (Adjacent to ND State Fair grounds) 6 Marsha Deslauriers/Shelia Ellington, painting 10 City Band “Patriotic Concert”/artist - tba 13 The Swing Band of Minot/Karisa Riley, crosses 17 City Band “Sousa”/Mandi Zavalney, cakes/Diana Hamm, Izzy B’s Originals 20 JMB Band/Tina Hjelmstad 24 The Dance Company/Nancy Hankins 27 GreenMan Band/Society for Creative Anachronism 31 Marsha Mugaas/Kathleen Cunningham, handmade envelopes

August 3 Dakota Rose Band/Amy Allender Smith 7 “At the Hop” Featuring the Treblemakers/ Dakota Cruisers classic cars/root beer floats by Sons of Norway/Gyros, baklava and more by St Peters

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