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LAKE SAKAKAWERA

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They come by the hundreds. Perhaps thousands at times. They return again and again, from near and far. They are fishermen hooked on a lake with a reputation nearly as big as its immense size.

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By KIM FUNDINGSLAND

Staff Writer â&#x20AC;˘ kfundingsland@minotdailynews.com Visiting newcomers are amazed at the scenery, the fantastic fishing, the quality of boat ramps and convenient fish cleaning stations. Repeat visits, year after year, are common.

Welcome to the wonders of Lake Sakakawea.

Communities all along the sprawling reservoir reap the benefits created by excellent opportunities for visitors to catch walleye, smallmouth bass, northern pike and salmon.

They hook other species too, like white bass and catfish. Even occasional perch or crappie. Other denizens of the deep include prehistoric paddlefish and sturgeon.

Garrison, Pick City, Riverdale, Parshall and New Town are just a few of the locales that are a short cast from the water so coveted by so many. Visitors, eager fishermen, buy bait, groceries, snacks, gasoline, meals, motel rooms and anything else needed while on their fishing vacation. The influx of anglers is a boon for business owners, many of whom make a special effort to cater to visiting fishermen.

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MAIN: A fisherman enjoys a beautiful evening for fishing on Lake Sakakawea.

ABOVE: Thousands of people visit Lake Sakakawea every day during the summer. Many have permanent homes or other living facilities near the water.

Those who do not fill motel rooms often can be found at one of the State Parks. Lake Sakakawea State Park at Pick City and Fort Stevenson State Park near Garrison are immensely popular camping and fishing facilities. Both parks offer everything a camper needs for a comfortable stay.

The boat ramps are topnotch and wide with courtesy docks to be used as needed. Large marinas, complete with concession stores and on-the-water gasoline, are located within each park too.

Van Hook near New Town, Deepwater and Parshall Bay, both a short distance from the city of Parshall, are just a few of the areas of Lake Sakakawea that have become well-known among anglers throughout a wide region of the United States and Canada for yielding live wells full of fat and lengthy walleye. It is why Lake Sakakawea is on a short list of destination lakes for thousands of anglers every year.

“I would say today there’s five out-of-state boats for every North Dakota boat.

Most are from South Dakota or Nebraska,” said Evan Barker, Van Hook Guide Service, during a day on the water in early July. “We probably have the best fishery there is in this part of the country.”

Barker had three clients from Wyoming in his boat who had each caught a limit of walleye and had released dozens more. Their catch included a 27-inch trophy. The trio had similar success the previous year and were making a return trip to Lake Sakakawea.

Such stories are common

along the sprawling reservoir that is 178 miles long and boasts more than 1,300 miles of shoreline. State Parks’ managers witness first hand the impact of Lake Sakakawea on a daily basis.

“Visitors come from all over. All states are represented,” said Chad Trautman, Fort Stevenson State Park manager. “Predominantly, a lot of them are coming for the fishing.”

Greg Corcoran, manager of Lake Sakakawea State Park, calls Lake Sakakawea fishing a huge draw. He adds, “We get a lot of out-of-staters. They

come from Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana and other states as well. I’ve heard guys saying the fishing this year has probably been the best in 30 years. It’s just incredible.”

Charles DeMakis, Minot, who has a cabin at Van Hook on Lake Sakakawea, expressed his thoughts on the state’s largest body of water recently.

“I don’t know what North Dakota would do without it, quite frankly,” said DeMakis.

“We have a tremendous resource that is a major attraction and a benefit to the state.”

DeMakis added that the

fishing this year has been terrific and that “you don’t really have to be a great fisherman now at Van Hook.”

A five fish daily limit of 18 to 22 inch walleye is common throughout much of Lake Sakakawea.

“That lake is so full of that class of fish. It’s crazy,” said DeMakis.

Of course, there’s plenty of trophy fish too. All are worthy of bragging rights at the end of the day, making for ample reason why so many anglers make Lake Sakakawea their preferred fishing destination.

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NEW TOWN

“It is a free event. You can come and watch, come and see, come and ask.”

– Lawrence Baker Powwow announcer

POWWOW HOSPITALITY Powwow announcer Lawrence Baker of New Town listens, explains

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Dressed in boots, jeans and dress shirt and western hat, Lawrence Baker looks like a cowboy. But he’s a powwow announcer – the master of ceremonies for powwows.

Besides announcing and keeping the powwows moving along, he also spends time explaining to those attending what is happening and why it is done so people can better understand.

Baker, of New Town, has been the announcer for as many as 30 powwows in a year but normally he averages announcing from 16 to 20 powwows, “give or take,” he said.

On Fort Berthold Reservation and other reservations most of the powwows are held in the summer months when the weather is nice outdoors. He also announcers at other powwows across the country and in Canada.

Baker got his start as an announcer when he was a young boy. He said people who know him tell the story now and then about his start.

As young boy

“When I was a young boy I mimicked everything and I tried to do my best at sounding just like who I was mimicking,” said Baker. His grandfather, the late Bill Baker, was a Mandaree Singer.

“I would watch him and I would mimic his leads on his songs. I never would mimic the rest of the song, just his lead and then everybody else joined in on,” Baker said.

Baker mimicked others as well – the late Paige Baker Sr. and the late Pete Coffey Sr. As a young boy, Lawrence Baker would spend hours in his room late at night practicing his mimicking. He had listened to how the powwow announcers talked and their pauses.

“Pete had a very deep voice and my Grandpa

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Bears Casino & Lodge While in high school Baker started off working in August 2017 and the in front of crowds as a student council president Mandan, Hidatsa and and talking at pep rallies. “I’ve always talked in Arikara Nation held a front of people,” he said. ceremony to commemLater he lived on the East Coast when he orate the event. worked for the Office of the Assistant Secretary Lawrence Baker was for Health at Rockville, Md. “Across the Potomac River was the Bureau of Indian Affairs,” he said. the master of cere“So a lot of different tribes were in that area.” He monies and helped inand others would give presentations to various form the crowd about agencies, etc. the importance of the “I didn’t start out saying I’m going to be an anwall and veterans in nouncer some day. I never thought that – eventugeneral.

Shown in the ally that happened,” he added. photo are, from the left, Baker has danced at powwows but not proMark Fox, chairman of fessionally. He said he realized he was not very the Three Affiliated good at it. “I was never able to get on beat. I know Tribes, Gov. Doug what it is now but I just couldn’t do it. I see it now Burgum, Fred Fox from other dancers. Just like I realized early on that I was not going to be a rodeo cowboy. I’m (behind Burgum), Dr. more or less a ranchhand,” he said.

Monica Mayer and “I came from branding and fixing fence, hayMervin Packineau, ing – all of that stuff. People will see me in my tribal business council hats, my boots and my dress shirts and will won- representatives, Baker der if I’m a cowboy but I’m more of a ranchhand,” and Tanya McGrady. he added. “My dad (the late Milton Baker) was a Photo by Tony Lone professional cowboy and my grandpa Phillip Fight.

Baker was a rancher and also rode so I come from

that line,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Bringing in the people

Baker said the powwow announcers help bring in people to the powwows. He also works to understand the way of life and culture of various tribes so he can explain the different terms when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest part of my job as a speaker is listening, and listening not only to the words but the emotions, the body language,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how I do this. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just something I interpret and I do through the words that I use.â&#x20AC;?

For example, he said if someone told him their life story in five minutes, then he could spend 30 minutes talking about them â&#x20AC;&#x201C; what the person has done and how they have done it and elaborate on things the person said that are important but that person didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say was important. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do that for a lot of people when they do their individual giveaways,â&#x20AC;? Baker said. Giveaways are special ceremonies.

When Baker announces the dancers or speaks about them at the powwows, he said he has to be clear enough so people understand what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saying. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always trying to give them the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;heads upâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; about whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on because nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s written down in a schedule, published and printed out where everybody can see it.

My deal is to try to keep them (the dancers) on track so theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready, so they know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming up. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I try to do for the dancers so they can hear. And of course, to entertain, to move it along,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Explaining the powwow

To keep the audience involved he will explain to them what is taking place and what it actually means. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the biggest question of all. Why?â&#x20AC;? he said.

Among the events Baker announces is the Denver March Powwow held in a 40,000-capacity coloseum in Denver with singers, dancers and people of all denomina-

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by Tony Lone Fight. tions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We invite them in and say thank you and we start talking about what it is weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing, why are we gathered,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Baker said he thinks people are more interested in powwows now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of the reason why is because it connects us to our ancestries. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve kept a facet of our culture and way of life going and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the contemporary powwow â&#x20AC;&#x201C; dances, singing, storytelling, reminiscing to other people and showing this to our kids,â&#x20AC;? he said.

He said people who have not been particularly powwow people now their kids want to get involved because they identify. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you identify with powwow, you identify with culture and where we come from, why do we do these things?â&#x20AC;? he said.

During the annual powwow held in Mandaree this summer, Baker said about 80 tribes from throughout Canada and America were there. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We explain what it is for us to be Indian, what are our protocols, what are our beliefs, why do we do what we do. We explain it to them,â&#x20AC;? Baker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten to this point in life as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got older to explain more of why we do the things that we do,â&#x20AC;? said Baker who has a very low voice and uses it to make a point. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people will stop and listen and they take it in,â&#x20AC;? he said.

He said people who have attended powwows over the years have told him they know so much more now about whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on here because he takes time to explain it and re-explain it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the things that was taught to me and I use this when I do my powwows is explain, explain, explain, explain, explain, explain and explain again,â&#x20AC;? Baker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I tell people my dad has been gone for 19 years but I still hear him explaining to me. So I try to explain that to people because if you know that, the explanation gets easier to understand and adapt and have that as part of your life,â&#x20AC;? he said.

He said explaining also has helped make inroads for getting people to attend the powwows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always said if I can make one person understand that we are still alive and that we are still here and flourishing and we are not gone like the history book says, then Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done something, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve shown somebody,â&#x20AC;? he said.

He said people from Australia also attended the powwow at Mandaree this summer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At Four Bears (powwow) we had some people from Africa â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from Rwanda â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to be with us,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were excited because in their journey to the United States they got to see us and they

were blown away because they said they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know we were here, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know we existed.

They were fascinated with the songs and the culture and the way of life,â&#x20AC;? he said.

At the Mandaree event this year quite a few nonNative Americans also attended, he said.

Baker said the powwows on Fort Berthold are advertised in the North Dakota Tourism publication. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a free event. You can come and watch, come and see, come and ask,â&#x20AC;? he said.

He said powwows are also events for family reunions.

Military veterans are also honored at powwows.

Honoring veterans

â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people have been hearing about our respects for our veterans and a lot of people come over for that,â&#x20AC;? Baker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad was in the United States Army and he served on the Berlin Wall but he was classified as a Korean veteran.

They wanted to send him to Vietnam but he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go. He

had the option because he was an older man. So I was very fortunate that he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go.

From that time on it always fascinated me that we as a country really looked down at them (Vietnam veterans) coming home. So whenever Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m on the mike or whatever I do I try to welcome Vietnam veterans home because all of our Indian men and women were always welcome whatever the policy.

Whatever the thought of the United States government, we always welcomed them home,â&#x20AC;? Baker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about you came back. We celebrate that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re alive and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here with us. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter what you did. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We welcome our people home every time. We have songs for them... we put boxes out and collect money saying it costs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; freedom costs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; these guys donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a lot of money so anything to help them out we try to do. A lot of veterans will come up just to be with us.

Myself, my mission is to get the veterans to stand up and we say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Welcome Home.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done

for all veterans,â&#x20AC;? Baker said.

The dancers are a part of the powwow hospitality and bringing people to Fort Berthold for the powwows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the things I tell in my beginning opening for people who have not been here and some that have come back, I tell them in a joking way, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If at any time throughout the week, you go hungry â&#x20AC;&#x201C; of all the feeds that are going on, then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your fault because thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a feed everyday, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a meal being provided. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re eating all the time and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hospitality,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel bad if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand something. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand what is going on, tap one of our Natives next to you and ask â&#x20AC;&#x201C; start up a conversation. They may know more than I do, they may be very proudful to tell you whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid to do that,â&#x20AC;? Baker advised. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest thing I always think is conversation. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met all kinds of people that will ask me or come and talk to me, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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New friendships and lasting relationships weren’t what Terry O’Clair was expecting when he decided more than 20 years ago to turn his family farmstead near Kenmare into a bed-and-breakfast inn.

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He and his wife, Terri, have had their hospitality returned many times over by the hunters who make the trip to Greene Acres Photos by Jill Schramm/MDN Lodge an annual event.

ABOVE: Terry and Terri O’Clair relax in a corner of the living room in their “For people that have been Greene Acres Lodge, decorated to appeal to their hunting clientele. coming back for years, it’s almost like a family reunion,” O’Clair said.

BELOW: Terry and Terri O’Clair welcome visitors to the farmstead home “Some of our clientele have been coming back for 15, 16, 17 years in that they operate as Greene Acres Lodge. a row. We get a lot of return clientele.”

The popular lodge stays busy during waterfowl season each fall.

“One thing that draws them is this area. I always say it’s my good cooking,” O’Clair said jokingly, “but technically, it’s the hunting opportunities.”

It’s not just the abundance of wildlife but the willingness of landowners to open their properties to hunters. Terri O’Clair noted they have neighbors who will call and have her husband pass on information to his guests about where the geese are. Getting to know the O’Clairs’ guests over the years, area residents specifically invite hunters onto their properties.

The O’Clairs live in Bismarck, where Terry works for the North Dakota Health Department in the environmental section and Terri is an investment adviser. Both grew up in the Kenmare area, though, and Terry bought the farmstead from his mother in the late 1980s. His grandfather homesteaded there in 1902 after moving from Wisconsin. The current house replaced the original tar paper shack in 1917.

Terry’s grandfather left in the 1930s for other land he owned in Canada. He sold the farm-

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stead to his son, Terry’s father. Terry, the youngest of six siblings, grew up on the farm.

His parents farmed until about 1970.

When some of his co-workers at the health department wanted to go goose hunting near Kenmare and couldn’t find an available motel room, they approached O’Clair, who agreed to host them at the farmstead.

“I decided I would come up here and cook for them just to keep on eye on them,” he chuckled. “Then we decided to open it up as a bed and breakfast and cater to waterfowl hunters.”

They started the bed and breakfast in 1996.

Terry O’Clair usually takes time off from his job in October, the peak of the hunting season, to cook for their guests. The couple cares for the property over the summer, getting the house ready in September for hunting season. It’s a commitment.

“But it’s a commitment that we have chosen – willfully,” Terri O’Clair said. “We just decided to park the camper here and this is where we go camping now. We do have a beautiful view up here.”

The majority of guests are from Minnesota and Wisconsin. Others have come from Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Canada.

Guests from Holland came to do heritage research and they still occasionally correspond with the O’Clairs. The O’Clairs also exchange Christmas cards with their hunting friends and have visited Minnesota hunters when in that state.

Visiting priests who come to hunt have performed Mass at Green Acres Lodge and also in the field.

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One visitor was 29 and hadn’t yet started a family when he began coming to hunt. Now he has 10 children and brings different family members with him when he comes. When clients began bringing children, the O’Clairs had to consider their space situation. They built what they call “The Event Center,” a garage-like building that houses a pop-up camper where kids can sleep.

Terry O’Clair has fed as

many as 17 people at one time.

Meals are largely meat-andpotatoes, with big breakfasts, although he once prepared a birthday cake for a guest.

“We cook a lot of ducks,” he added.

“He will provide three meals if they want it,” Terri O’Clair said. “He knows who likes what so that’s what he really tries to serve.”

Their son is a chef in Bismarck so guests get spoiled on the food should he happen to drop by. Terri can’t be there as frequently as her husband, but she also has cooked and puppy-sat for guests.

“What’s been very cool about this is all these hunters are like second family,” she said. “They ask about our sons.

They ask about me. Some of them have even come to Bismarck and gone to Mass with me before they head home early Sunday morning. It’s really a lot of fun.”

Others have stopped and taken her to lunch in coming through Bismarck for more hunting out west.

“That’s the relationship that we have,” Terri said.

The O’Clairs also continually make improvements on the four-bedroom lodge,

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known as Greene Acres for the former nearby town of Greene.

A major change occurred several years ago when they built on a large entry. One of their hunter guests even has used his handyman skills to help out with projects.

The home’s decor includes a number of items from Terry’s childhood, which lends itself to evening trivia for the guests.

For instance, asked about Terry’s high school mascot, guests would know it was the Tolley Tigers if they stayed in a certain bedroom.

Terry O’Clair said the lodge’s living area offers a

chance to relax and talk about the hunt in a setting that doesn’t exist with a hotel stay.

Guests comment on the quiet of the countryside, broken at times by the bugling of a neighbor’s elk, coyotes howling or geese honking. At other times, they might catch a display of Northern Lights. The “patio” is a rooftop with a panoramic view of the Souris River valley.

The lodge has opened in the summer for a school reunion and softball team gathering, but because the O’Clairs have busy lives that often keep them in Bismarck, the focus for now is the fall hunting.

Cooking and catering to hunters has been interesting for Terry O’Clair, who was never a hunter himself.

“But these guys have convinced me to come out hunting with them. So I do that now with them. It’s kind of nice.

They will get up at four in the morning and go out to set up decoys. I can’t do that – I have dishes to do,” O’Clair laughs.

“They play right along with that.”

He discovered he enjoys hunting.

“Not just hunting the game,” he said, “but the camaraderie.”

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Old West meets modern day in Berthold, North Dakota.

A special commodity of many small towns in the state is a special restaurant that is all their own and almost every town has a spot to eat that offers a unique charm to the town.

For the town of Berthold, that unique, Old Western looking restaurant is the Frontier Restaurant on Main Street.

Truly a building pulled from the frontier, the building brings forth the image of saloons and earlier times when horses would be tied to the building’s railing instead of cars parked in front of it. In a town that is surrounded by farm land, though, the Frontier Restaurant still caters to farmers, cowboys, citizens of the Submitted Photo town, and guests from all The Frontier Restaurant boasts a clean interior hidden by the frontier and Old West-styled outside. around like an old time place it is styled after would have.

Guests can dine in a charming atmosphere and eat homemade food for any meal they want.

Homemade food to fill the belly Frontier Restaurant brings good cooking

The doors of the Frontier open every day at 6 a.m. for those early risers. The menu is full of options. With the goal and achievement of being a place that provides homecooked American food, the place can be a popular stop.

The Frontier Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Breakfast goes from opening to 10:30 a.m. with lunch items and later dinner items taking the stage. Each section offers something good for guests to choose from.

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riety of different sandwiches from burgers to grilled chicken to fish to egg salad.

Two special lunch menu items that are named after the restaurant are two burgers with special additions.

The Frontiersmen is a deluxe cheeseburger with ham and

bacon and the Frontier Burger is a double cheeseburger deluxe with the restaurant’s special sauce.

They also offer five different salads and soups.

When dinner rolls around, the Frontier Restaurant offers some hearty meals from ribeye and sirloin steak, jumbo shrimp, and more.

Appetizers are listed on their menu with something for

everyone from mini tacos to chicken fingers to jalapeno poppers and many more.

For dessert, they offer pie, cookies, ice cream, and specialty desserts. Every item is handmade for guest satisfaction. Donuts are made daily for those quick breakfast stop ins.

When asked what the most popular item is, Julianna Kale, the daughter of

the owners of the restaurant, said “I would say it probably be the roast beef and mashed potatoes.”

Just having celebrated its third year of being open and run by the current owners, the Frontier Restaurant is owned by Renee Kalenze and her husband. Kale helps run the place alongside her parents.

“My mom loves to cook

and I think it’s always been a dream of hers to own a restaurant,” said Kale.

Making that dream a reality is what brought forth the Frontier Restaurant. The restaurant works to serve the community and is usually fairly busy, though it does depend on the farmers.

“We are a small farming community,” said Kale. “If the farmers are busy, we are

a little quieter.”

Placed at 213 Main St. in Berthold, the Frontier Restaurant is open Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. They welcome walk-ins, bigger groups, takeout, and they cater.

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ISLANDS HOSPITALITY ‘Spirit of Aloha’ & Caribbean cuisine bring customers to Hula Grill & Bone’z Island Kitchen also means “joyfully sharing life.” It is with this Spirit of Regional Editor eogden@minotdailynews.com Aloha that Sandy cooks her unique dishes – an eclectic “Sandy’s Best” – ribs, fried blend of Asian, American rice and wings – are favorite and Hawaiian spices, prefoods of customers coming to pared with an island flair the Hula Grill, now located and served with a heavy at 23 Main Street in down- dose of Hawaiian hospitality, the Wongs explain on the town Williston.

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Originally from Hawaii, said Jerry Wong of the Hula the Wongs came to Williston Grill.

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Hawaii, Jerry and Sandy Jerry Wong explained they Wong, founders of the Hula had a restaurant there and Grill, are sharing her kitchen learned about Williston betalents with residents of cause his brother-in-law had Williston and others who a restaurant in Williston – stop in for a meal at the Hawaii Fire Grill – during restaurant or pick up food for the recent oil boom. When his brother-in-law left take out.

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The Wongs and staff began business at their new location in early June.

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former location at 413 Main Street, according to a news release from the Williston Economic Development office.

The owners of the two restaurants are friends and worked out the arrangements. Williston Economic Development’s director Shawn Wenko said the STAR Fund programs will help enhance Main Street.

“What Hula Grill is planning is going to be a nice addition to the south part of Main Street,” said Wenko.

“We’ve seen more and more revitalization efforts in that area of Williston, which is a reflection of a healthy downtown.”

Wong said in June that they have been very busy at their new location but when it slows down somewhat they will start the renovation project. He has been working with Williston Planning and Zoning and Economic Development on his plans and says the project will brighten up the block, according to the news release.

Construction workers were rebuilding the floor in Bone’z Island Kitchen in June.

Bone’z is using the STAR Fund Mini Match program to defray the costs of starting his first brick and mortar location for his restaurant but has been building his presence in Williston for some time, the news release said.

He has had pop-ups at community events including Band Day and The Taste of Williston where Bone’z won the fan favorite prize.

Williams said his restaurant hopes to give the community a feel for the Island with their smoothies, Caribbean food and drinks.

Wong said Bone’z Island Kitchen also has “good food.”

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Travelers along U.S. Highway 2 near Rugby are often lured in by the promise of a cup of coffee and a friendly welcome at the Coffee Cottage in Rugby.

“We get a lot of travelers in the summer,” said Candace Hornstein, who owns the business and leases the building, which is located near the Prairie Village Museum in Rugby and not too far from the Geographical Center of North America Monument. Both of those attractions are also reasons to stop, and Hornstein and her staff are also happy to answer questions about the museum village that teaches about life on the Great Plains a century ago and the granite monument that marks Rugby’s reclaimed status as the center of the continent.

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baking herself, but it Coffee became Cottage t o o 106 2nd Street SE time in Rugby consumMonday - Saturday ing to 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. d o Sundays 8 a.m. that on - 4 p.m. top of the work of running the business. For a time, her daughter took over the baking.

Schaan, from Balta, has been working at the restaurant for a few years. Hornstein said it is hard to find young employees who like to bake the way Schaan does.

“My Grandma Schaan used to bake all the time,” said Schaan. “It’s kind of in sandra Schaan, who was in my DNA.” She makes bars, pies, and the back kitchen hard at work on another dessert master- cookies, including a popular piece on one day in August. cookie called “Better than “She’s whipping up a sour Sex.” Schaan said customers cream raisin pie,” Hornstein love coconut cream and sour said.

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The business, which has been in operation for about 18 years, is also full of North Dakota items.

Hornstein has stocked up

on Pride of North Dakota items that fill shelves in one room of the building. There are T-shirts and caps and food items.

Chokecherry jam is a particular favorite, along with flavored honey.

“Between here and Grand Forks, we have the largest selection of Pride of Dakota products,” said Mike Nichols, the store manager.

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By ANDREA JOHNSON

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But during the winter months, the camp stands empty and only the howling winds of a North Dakota winter echo through its halls.

Organizers view it as something as a minor miracle – helped along by a small army of devoted volunteers – that the buildings are ready and waiting for the campers each June.

“We’ve said many times that God must really love that place because so many things can happen in those 44 weeks we’re not there,” said Janice Christiansen of Portland.

Janice and her husband, John Christiansen, have been traveling to the camp each year to help open up the camp and make repairs on buildings that need them.

The Christiansens said there are a core group of about 15 to 20 volunteers who make the trip, some from the Minot area as well as from other places.

“What don’t we do as volunteers?” they said.

They compared it to opening up 34 lake cabins for the summer. Water is turned off every fall and must be turned back on each spring and buildings must be spruced up.

The work isn’t always routine – water heaters malfunction, water pipes leak and vehicles that have sat for a long time unused don’t always want to start. Cabin doors are often damaged by strong winds and must be repaired.

“We repair whatever winter wasn’t kind to,” said Janice Christiansen.

“We’ve shingled a few small buildings and moved a small building once,” said John Christiansen, who has worked as a cabinet maker.

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The Christiansens and other volunteers have been traveling to the camp since about 2009.

Both the Christiansons had attended the camp as children during the 1970s and also sent their own children to the camp. They remained musical and played in a community band in Aneta. When the community band was raising money for scholarships to send youth in the community to the music camp, they learned that the International Music Camp also offered a session for adult musicians and began attending the camp as adults.

At that point they noticed that the camp could use some attention.

“You’re now there as an adult so your eyes see things that you don’t as a child,” said Janice Christiansen. “As a child, you’re not concerned about paint falling off.”

The couple became friends with former camp directors Joe Alme and Tim Wollenzien. Wollenzien recruited them as volunteers to help fix up the music camp. He told them to “bring a basic tool kit.” The couple also had a friend from Dickinson who volunteered his skills. Over the years, others with specialized skills have signed on as volunteers and many have become fast friends.

During the first years as volunteers at the camp, they felt like they were putting Band-Aids on immediate problems. Now they are able to be more pro-active.

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“We’re catching up on a lot of deferred maintenance,” said John Christiansen.

In all there are about 68 buildings at the music camp.

Buildings that have been constructed there in recent years are owned by the International Peace Garden, while others belong to the music camp. Volunteers have worked primarily on the buildings belonging to the music camp, though the Christiansens said that could change.

Current camp directors Tim and Christine Baumann greatly appreciate the help from the volunteers.

“They are a collection of professionals in other fields,

the labor that they volunteer and the skill set that they volunteer is remarkable and valuable,” said Tim Baumann.

If he had to put a price tag on the volunteer labor that the group performs over a week, it would come to about $15,000, Baumann said. Their labor also counts as in-kind contributions.

The cost of bringing in a plumber or a carpenter to make those repairs would be prohibitive.

Tim Baumann also said that a North Dakota winter can take a heavy toll. During one year when there had been a heavy snowfall, the roof on one of the buildings collapsed under the weight of the snow.

“You never know what you’ll find when you open

up in the spring,” said Tim Baumann.

The volunteers help make sure that the buildings are up and running, safe, presentable, and in their best order when the campers arrive.

Tim Baumann said the camp drew students from up to 30 states, all of the Canadian provinces, and 15 countries during the past summer sessions.

“We just really appreciate the work that the volunteers do and the time and the energy and the skills they donate to IMC,” Tim Baumann said. “Access to the arts and involvement in the arts shouldn’t be only something that people with lots of money get to do ... the labor and skills and even materials that are donated help keep IMC affordable.”

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cream raisin pies too.

“They really like the rhubarb custard, when it’s in season,” she added.

Customers tell her sometimes that she should have her own restaurant some day.

They also ask for baking secrets, like how she gets the lemon meringue crust to stand so high.

“I use 10 egg whites,” she said.

Hornstein said she prides herself on the homemade items on the menu.

“You can tell when the crust is not homemade,” she said. Somehow, the homemade pies just taste better.

Hornstein still does a lot of the cooking.

“I cook evenings by myself because no one wants to work evenings anymore,” she said.

The soups as well as the baked goods are homemade and the restaurant offers soups that some of the people passing through have probably never encountered. Borscht and

knoephla soup are both commonplace in North Dakota, but customers tend to ask, “What’s that?” But when they try it, they usually like it.

Customers were in the store on a day in early August, some from the area and others visiting, but all there to enjoy the “good food and good service,” as one of the customers said. It is a popular gathering spot. There is enough room for large gatherings on occasion, including Christmas parties.

A couple once got married in the dining room at the restaurant.

Hornstein said she goes all out to decorate the restaurant for the holidays, whether it’s Halloween or Christmas.

“I forget how many trees I put out at Christmas, both inside and out,” she said.

A skeleton on display at the restaurant is a fine addition at Halloween but he wears a Santa hat and turns into Santa Claus at Christmas.

Hornstein has no plans to change her successful recipe for the restaurant.

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Their guestbook posts indiverted 1906 bank teller counter. cate their satisfaction.

“Everything was so awesome! Breakfast: To to die for. checking in late at night in showmen style. Thank you again for The historic brick building looks ordi- We have lots of people who come back.”

It is telling that people come back be- At the breakfast spread that Wynecoop an awesome memnary on the outside, but on the inside, its owners have sought to create a classic, so- cause Bowbells is a small town with no prepared the next morning, the group was ory we can share for phisticated atmosphere befitting a grand major attraction. Most people looking for a much more subdued and natural, leaving our lifetime!!” hotel. hotel stay are travelers coming through, par- behind the obnoxious, loud characters “Got stuck at the “People from all over the world have ticularly crossing in and out of nearby they present in the ring. They thanked her border and was so, been here. They are just so excited and so Canada, or engaged in temporary work in for letting them be themselves because so fortunate to find happy and so surprised. It’s an aha! moment the area. There’s been a biker riding from that doesn’t typically happen in public set- this gem! Thank you Visitors so much for the help when they come in,” said owner/manager New Mexico to Alaska and a hiker from tings. walking into “They are giving hugs and saying, and hospitality.”

Theresa Wynecoop. “We try very hard to Texas headed to Canada and lots of recrethe Bowbells give quality in everything we do. It’s quality ational vehicle travelers. Former residents ‘Thank you so much because it felt like we “The only thing who come back for family events or re- came back home,’” Wynecoop said. “It was better than the hotel service. It’s quality facilities.

Hotel often “A lot of it has to do with the fact that we unions also make a point to stay at the hotel. interesting to see them completely change is the family running are pleasantly have Wynecoop recalled the time a group of their personalities. It was because they com- it. Hope to check in a strong pride,” she added. “A lot of it again some day!” surprised. has to do with making memories for people. professional wrestlers came through, pletely felt at home.”

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The hotel itself has historical character. The lobby desk configured from a 1906 bank teller counter, a 101-year-old floor rug, steel tub sinks, canning jar light figures and brick and stucco walls give the sense of being in another time and place.

“I wanted to get the feel of the new and the old,” Wynecoop said.

Remodeled into a more modern facility from the original 18 bedrooms with a single bath in each floor, the hotel now has seven rooms.

There’s a king bed suite, honeymoon suite, two-bedroom suite, handicapped-accessible room and a private wing with two bedrooms with baths.

The hotel includes an aquamassage service.

The complex includes a separate three-room motel called The Bunkhouse.

“The Bunkhouse is set up more for long-term stays or for people who have dogs,” Wynecoop said “They want to be able to pull right up to their front door. The hotel is more of a bed and breakfast. We don’t have TVs. We don’t have refrigerators and microwaves.”

Wynecoop said there’s more work remaining to fully renovate the building, but the changes so far have been extensive.

“This was a leap of faith for us,” Wynecoop said of the decision to acquire the old building in 2011.

Her husband, Shawn, had come to North Dakota in February 2011 for an oil field job.

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She followed two months later. She had owned and operated 14 different businesses in her life, but didn’t know what she would do in North Dakota. Her dream, though, was to someday operate a bed and breakfast. So the Wynecoops began looking for such an opportunity in western North Dakota.

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“When I saw it, I literally went into tears,” Wynecoop said of her instant, emotional connection. However, upon inspection, it was discovered the current lobby area was under water. Instead of fixing the roof, previous owners just kept putting in additional drop ceilings.

Plaster was falling off the walls.

“It needed some work,” Wynecoop said. “But it was solid.”

As the couple discussed what to do, Wynecoop recalled her husband told her, “If you can figure out a way to get it, we will make it happen.”

She later made an offer on a napkin at lunch with the owner, and he accepted.

The Wynecoops were able to get this Bunkhouse open in 21 days.

Renting a couple of rooms long-term to a pipeline company, they invested the proceeds into remodeling that part of the business.

The hotel was another matter.

Vacant for 15 years, it was in bad condition.

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The Bowbells Hotel, originally built in 1929, is a bed-andbreakfast style boutique hotel. ers, utilized volunteer and family labor and sunk anything extra from Shawn’s paycheck into it. By the end of the first year, they were able to get a construction loan from the local bank.

“We had to do a lot of it ourselves because we couldn’t afford help. It was hard labor,” Wynecoop said.

They gutted the building and added

new plumbing, an electrical system and roof. They hauled 72 truckloads of debris and filled eight 10-yard dumpsters during demolition.

Wynecoop said the history of the hotel goes back to a wood building constructed in 1888. After that building burned, the Bowbells Hotel Association formed and built the brick building in 1929. Hotel history

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recounts the building sprang up because the passenger train couldn’t make the border before it closed at 10 p.m. so the railroad needed a place to board passengers overnight.

Wynecoop said the building has had numerous owners, who would sell after discovering how much it cost to heat it. The current heating system burns waste oil, collected from truckers and area farmers who normally would have to pay to get rid of it.

By June 2016, the Wynecoops had opened the Bistro cafe and in July re-opened the hotel. In October 2016, the Wynecoops opened the North Dakota Wine Kitchen in the hotel basement.

“We needed to be able to create a destination so I really did a ton of researching. One thing people were willing to travel for has to do with wine,” said Theresa Wynecoop, who lived most of her life in wine country on the West Coast. “It’s a great concept. I have a lot of experience in making wine so I am able to teach people.”

The kitchen provides wine-making kits to customers, who can use the on-site facilities to create their

own wines under the guidance of Wynecoop.

In May 2017, the new hotel lobby opened, but the Bistro closed that August because of lack of help.

Theresa’s mother, Sharon Wesebaum, joined the operation to provide assistance with the hotel, and a couple of local residents provide part-time help when needed.

Diversification has been important for success in a small town.

There’s a coffee shop in the hotel lobby, and Wynecoop offers catering and holds classes in a form of stenciling called Chalk Couture.

The hotel lobby also has hosted reunions, receptions, vendor displays and other special events in the community.

Slowly, the Wynecoops are seeing their vision become a reality.

“We just told each other we are going to take our time,” Theresa Wynecoop said. “We weren’t in any big hurry and we were going to build this like it’s our home. We are not going to think about building it like a business. We want to build it like it’s our home. And it will be an amazing home,” Theresa Wynecoop said.

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The small-town lifestyle has been a good fit for newcomers who’ve come to call Stanley home.

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Friendly people and their efforts to provide she informed her parents they could go wherthe amenities that interest families often have ever they wanted but she was staying.

Craig Bell had hunted in the area and albeen reasons to choose Stanley, but the positive business environment hasn’t hurt, either. ways loved North Dakota. So moving from the “Some people who move here absolutely Rochester, Minn., area to Stanley after starting love it and wouldn’t want to leave,” Stanley a Subway there five years ago wasn’t a hard Commercial Club President Becky Goettle said. choice.

“They talk about how friendly people are.

The Bells own eight Subways in MinYou hear that a lot. It’s a habit to nesota as well as those in Stanley wave at everybody.” and Watford City and are look“It’s ing at further expansion in the Stanley has what Goettle dejust a region. They started Boom scribes as that “hometown welcoming Fitness about a year ago. feel.” It took a conscious community. This is Krista Bell also started effort to hang onto that the kind of community peewee soccer and dance feel when the oil boom we wanted our kids to programs. Stanley allows came several years ago. grow up in.” her the chance to be acAbout eight years ago tive with their four chilwhen Bakken field com– Krista Bell, munities were approving dren and offers plenty of Stanley resident worker camps, Stanley kept recreational options with a them out of city limits, and volunteer-run theater, indoor Mountrail County also was reand outdoor pools and a bowlstrictive, Goettle said. Not everying alley. one liked that stance at the time, but even “For our family, it’s perfect,” she said. naysayers have to admit it was wise in retro- “It’s just a welcoming community. This is the spect because it allowed Stanley to develop kind of community we wanted our kids to grow up in.” into a very livable community, she said.

Ty Mitchell, owner of Revelator Services, “Our city council has done an excellent job of keeping Stanley clean and a place where came to Stanley six years ago. His wife joined him a couple of years later. people want to live,” she said.

Mitchell said the main reason for choosing Craig and Krista Bell, owners of Subway and Boom Fitness, chose Stanley after check- Stanley as his company’s Bakken headquarters ing out the community. Or possibly it was their was that he knew people in the town, but it daughter who chose it for them. Krista Bell said also was close to his client base, with a proxwhen their daughter visited the Stanley school, imity to Minot.

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BOTTOM: Umpire Lambert Yazzie signals from behind the batter’s box during a women’s softball game in Minot July 25. Yazzie, who has called Stanley home for about the past five years, has gotten involved in umpiring softball and baseball in the region.

TOP: Becky Goettle, president of the Stanley Commercial Club, stands outside Flicktertail Village, an historical museum that is one of the community’s volunteer-run attractions.

“The community is perfect for a business. Geographically, it’s in a great location. The city is friendly to business,” Mitchell said.

Since moving to town, he joined the local airport board and started Stanley Aviation.

“The city has been really behind us on that. As far as backing by the banks, the community in general – they are for everybody in the Stanley area,” Mitchell said.

From a personal standpoint, he finds Stanley to be a friendly, close-knit commu-

nity. He and his wife grew up in Glendive, Mont., but lived many years in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

“There’s definitely pluses to being in a smaller community,” Mitchell said. “Everyone knows each other and they watch out for each other. We have gotten involved in a lot of the things going on in the town.”

Lambert Yazzie, from New Mexico, has lived almost five years in Stanley. When his oilfield housing employer offered to move him elsewhere, he declined.

“I chose to stay here. I kind of got to know some of the individuals and their family members up here. I have become accustomed to the ways,” said Yazzie, who is a member of the Navajo tribe.

Although he hasn’t yet persuaded his wife to make the move, he feels as if he has a North Dakota family because of the relationships he’s developed. In fact, he jokes, his wife says he’s become a Dakotajo.

He’s an outdoorsman who enjoys the area’s hunting and is a baseball and softball umpire.

He’s been umpiring for 41 years – since he was 16. This year, he’s been busy working games from Watford City to Minot.

“I am breaking the mold. I was one of the first Native Indians to umpire,” he said, noting he’s still a rarity as a Native umpire in North Dakota.

Goettle said Stanley offers a number of activities for newcomers to get involved, including through the Commercial Club and an active Lions Club.

Churches are a big part of welcoming new people and meet-

ing the needs of people who find themselves struggling, and the school has readily adopted its new students, she said.

There’s opportunities for anyone to get involved, with volunteer positions from working with 4-H kids to the historical society’s Flickertail Village.

Goettle’s community cause is the Stanley Scholarship Fund.

Through fundraisers and generous donations, the fund provides up to $100,000 in scholarships each year, she said.

What makes Stanley spe-

cial as an oil-field community is that it never lost that rural nature, Goettle said.

“A lot of it stems from Stanley being part of a farming community. That’s what has built Stanley into the friendly, small town feel. There’s still a lot of that ag community around here, even though we do have a lot of oil,” she said.

Instead of Stanley losing its small-town friendliness, Goettle said, neighborliness just rubs off on newcomers, who find themselves contributing to that “hometown feel.”

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Clint and Patsy Hudkins are enthusiastic about food, car racing, kids and Velva. It’s a combination that works out well for the community.

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Senior Staff Writer • jschramm@minotdailynews.com The Hudkins own Finish Line Burgers & Brew, which opened in April 2016, and Happy Cones & Treats, which opened last June, in Velva.

Their businesses have a good following from Minot and also draw travelers and friends from as far away as Williston, where the Hudkins once lived. But the Velva community provides a solid base of support.

“That’s why we just try to give back,” Clint Hudkins said.

“We try to do things not to only help us but to show appreciation,” Patsy added.

Each April, Finish Line holds an anniversary party with dunk tank, children’s inflatables, race car displays, fire department and sheriff’s department booths and music.

The Hudkins’ have sought to bring concerts to Velva too, including a national act each year. Finish Line has teamed up with the Lariat, the steak house in Velva, and has partnered with groups from the local wildlife club to FFA to assist them in fundraising through concessions at the events.

Finish Line originally opened on Main Street in Velva, but when the neighboring Welo building was condemned due to age and deterioration, the city determined the easiest way to remove it was to also take the building the restaurant was in.

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be facing more changes, given Clint Hudkins’ vision to build a custom bar with small television screens and cell phone chargers. Currently, Finish Line has many sports fans who enjoy watching football, car racing or wrestling on the restaurant’s large screens.

Finish Line specializes in build-your-own burgers with fresh ingredients and homemade fries. It includes menu items humorously named for area racers, such as Fastest Cop in the West Burger for Minot police officer Erik Laudenschlager and Slowest Burger Around Burger for friend Bob Fuegmann. A former racer himself, Hudkins also occasionally highlights different local racers by posting their photos and accomplishments and naming a daily menu special in their honor.

“We always have fun, good service and we always make kids feel welcome,” Hudkins said. “I just try to do a lot revolving around kids. Kids are our future.”

Once a month, Finish Line hosts Kiddie Karoake, filling the restaurant with kids and their parents for the singing contests. Children eating at the restaurant receive tickets for a free ice cream cone at Happy Cones & Treats. They receive miniature checkered flags and are encouraged to get autographs from any race car drivers who are dining.

“There’s hardly a day that goes by that we don’t have at least one race car driver in here,” Hudkins said.

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more than just help seniors stay in their homes.

They also work to give seniors a place to do activities geared towards them. They hold bingo, body builders, chair yoga, line yoga, often times When it comes to a community, offering work with the library to hold classes such as help to all ages is very important. For Minot and computer training to help seniors with their surrounding areas, the Minot Commission on computers, phones, and tablets, and many other activities.

Aging has a focus on senior citizens, “We also try to do other events like their needs, and their living Senior Safari at the Roosevelt Park goals.

“We Zoo and BBQs,” explained Reich.

Starting in 1973, the are here to Each month offers a variety Minot Commission on help seniors of activities and a calendar is Aging has been assisting and to keep posted on the Minot Commisthe seniors of not only but seniors sion on Aging’s site. They also Submitted Photos those in the seven surindependent.” provide a monthly view of the rounding counties as well The Minot Commission on Aging hosts a variety of events for senior citizens menu for the many meals that with a variety of services.

— Roger to attend and enjoy alongside their usual help to keeping seniors in their They work to be the go-to for will be served on certain days.

Reich homes and communities longer.

While the menu can change, it can senior services information. provide seniors with an idea of what “We are here to help seniors they can eat if attending the meals. and to keep seniors independent,” said Some of the services that the Minot ComRoger Reich To accomplish this, they offer a variety of mission on Aging works to provide is run services such as congregate meals for any sen- through volunteers. The Meals on Wheels proior to attend, Meals on Wheels, footcare serv- gram provides a hot meal to seniors who are ices, in home services, a senior careline, and homebound. These meals are prepared and deSHIC Counselors which help people with their livered by volunteers Monday through Friday.

To become a volunteer and help seniors receive Medicare Part D. With a focus on such a wide area, they work their hot meal, call 852-0561.

The Minot Commission on Aging can be to maintain 32 different meal sites and 30 health and foot clinics. In Home services are contacted a variety of ways including by phone done by Prairie Rose Home Service and are at 852-0564, by email at mcoapsc@srt.com, and in person at their office in the Parker Cenonly available in Minot.

According to Reich, they also work to be ter. The commission also has a webpage and a “one stop shop” for senior issues. If they aren’t Facebook page.

“We work to keep seniors in their homes beable to help or provide a service, they work hard to have the knowledge to know where to cause it is cheaper. Food for one year is easier to afford than a stay in the hospital or living in a direct people to ensure their needs are met.

The Minot Commission on Aging does care center,” said Reich.

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This past summer, Hudkins was organizing a fall Kiddie Enduro and demolition derby featuring Power Wheels toy vehicles. He hoped to partner with the rodeo association to conduct the event at the rodeo grounds and allow the association to raise money through concessions sales.

Finish Line supports the local youth sports teams and allows youth organizations to bring their fundraising activities into the business. The

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Velva school’s sports teams get a free meal once during their seasons.

A back room is being turned into a Velva Aggies room, decorated with school sports memorabilia for use as a meeting space.

Clint also is a firefighter and ambulance crew member in Velva. Patsy volunteers her expertise in concessions to different groups doing fundraising.

“I started working with food when I was 16, and I have basically been in the industry since,” Patsy Hudkins said.

Over the years, she has worked

for various dining establishments and was a manager for a pizza place and director of operations for Taco John’s.

Clint and Patsy moved in 2004 from Minot to Williston, where Clint ran an oil field business and they operated a concessions stand at the speedway. Patsy also did catering.

When they decided to move, they looked for a small town. Clint had family in the Velva area, and his mother had a house there she was moving out of, making it a logical place to consider for their new home.

“It’s an awesome little community. Being from Minot and

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a bigger town, you get to know people but it’s a little different out here, where if you wake up at 7:30, everybody knows you are late already,” Clint Hudkins joked.

Patsy Hudkins said neighbors look out for each other in Velva and that has been great for raising their three daughters.

“I love it because the kids can come and go,” she said.

“There’s always something for the kids. Velva is very active with a lot of things to do.”

It was Clint’s idea to open an eating place in Velva, and Patsy said her husband re-

mains the idea generator in their partnership.

“He comes up with ideas and we work together to make it happen,” she said.

“It’s nice to have her here to lean on,” Clint said. Patsy has a hand in all aspects of the business, from helping with cooking to posting on Finish Line Burgers & Brew LLC’s Facebook site.

When Clint and Patsy Hudkins opened Happy Cones & Treats, they saw an opportunity to encourage future entrepreneurs. They hired Shelby Hazel, who is studying entrepreneurship and business

management at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, to manage the seasonal ice cream shop for the summer.

Clint Hudkins said Finish Line seems to have injected new energy into the community because several other businesses have launched in the last two years, often started by young people. Hudkins noted the Job Development Authority created 27 jobs in recent years.

“That’s big to me because money that’s made here is money that’s spent here,” he said.

A stunning State Park

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ABOVE: A hiker pauses to take lasting look at some of the eye-pleasing scenery found in Little Missouri State Park.

RIGHT: Stark, stunning and wonderful all are words that are fitting when describing the views of the landscape offered at Little Missouri State Park.

BOTTOM: Little Missouri State Park has become a “must” for horseback riders searching for a remote ride through historic terrain.

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Sometimes you have to get off the trail to get on the trail. When you are a visitor to Little Missouri State Park the reward for doing so is stunning.

Located approximately 17 miles north of Killdeer, in a very remote area of the Badlands, Little Missouri State Park has become a destination preference for a growing number of appreciative visitors every year. The park boasts 51 miles of trails that traverse through a remarkably gorgeous and scenic setting.

“Little Missouri is one of the most breathtaking parks in the state,” said Kristin Byram, State Parks public information officer. “It is a horseback riding hot spot and we get quite a few hikers there as well.”

“Visitors call it a mini-Grand Canyon,” added Zach Bredlow, seasonal park manager. “It is some of the last untouched Badlands in the area.”

Trails in the park wind through some of the most beautiful scenery found anywhere and, from horseback, the views become even more enrapturing. The trails pass by colorful clay buttes and curl through juniper trees and sage brush, all encased in Little a variety of pleasing hues, warm Missouri sunlight and dancing shadows.

State Park “I would say the unique view that you get along the trails are unLittle Missouri like anything typical for North State Park has 51 Dakota,” stated Byram. “The views miles of trails for are really stunning out there.” horseback riding Even the drive on Highway 22 and hiking. Horse that passes by the park entrance is corrals are availan eye opener. The roadway transi- able for individuals tions instantly from rolling plains and groups bringoften identified with North Dakota ing in their own to massive canyons carved deep by horses, and several the evolution of nature. Much of artesian wells are the park’s trail system threads located within the through those scenic canyons and park for horse watowering overlooks. Wildlife, such tering purposes. as the majestic mule deer, are com- Trails are marked mon. at major intersec“Every trail is different, from easy to moderate to hard,” explained tions.

Bredlow. “The scenery is very different for every trail out here.”

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Roosevelt Park Zoo’s educational opportunities brings in visitors

By ELOISE OGDEN

Regional Editor eogden@minotdailynews.com When a longtime North Dakota rancher visited Roosevelt Park Zoo with his family this summer, it was the first time he had ever been to a zoo in his 90-some years.

The day of his visit turned out to be a very special time for him when the zoo’s Scottish Highland cow gave birth to her calf. The rancher and his family observed the calf’s birth.

Roosevelt Park Zoo is a place for educational events as well as providing longtime memories for many of its visitors. Some people visit the zoo every day, others not as often but all keep coming back along with those who have never visited there before.

“The zoo is an old zoo in North Dakota so we have a long history of working within the community of Minot and we really try to provide the best customer service we can obviously for people that come to our zoo,” said Becky Dewitz, zoo director.

Providing customer service to zoo visitors is done in a number of ways.

“That can be through visitor-engagement opportunities with our educational program; it can be through keeper chats,” Dewitz said.

She said they continue to build on their volunteer program, a program that also provides some educational engagement for them as well.

“It even goes down to some of the smaller details that maybe sometimes are overlooked,” Dewitz said.

“I really try to promote a clean zoo,” Dewitz said. She said that’s in every animal area to the bathrooms to making sure the pathways are litter free. “I feel that’s an important aspect of customer service,” she said.

Another special day held at the zoo is Military Appreciation Day through the Minot Area Chamber of Commerce. “They host it at the zoo as well as other Park District entities just to help honor and thank our military.

They feel very welcomed and appreciated into our community,” Dewitz said.

Dewitz said sometimes behind-thescenes tours of the zoo are planned so corporate memberships can include it as an aspect to their membership program. It might be incentive-based, used by a company to provide something special for a staff member. “They can also use it to engage their customers so you’ll see sometimes they’ll bring in their best customers,” Dewitz said.

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She said zoo staff is doing much more with animal enrichment activities too so people can come to the zoo and see the animals display different behaviors, oftentimes trying to have them do natural-type behaviors. “It may look like there’s trash in their exhibit but it’s actually enrichments,” she said.

“Enrichment can be so many different aspects of trying to engage the animals just to keep their environment very complex and dynamic and obviously, if we keep a very complex and dynamic environment for the animal it lends to a more valuable visitor experience as well,” Dewitz said.

The zoo is a place for many people.

“We’re not just here for children and families. That is our core demographic. However, we really want to encourage senior citizens and other people within the public to use their local zoo. It’s a safe place to go for a walk and enjoy the afternoon outside,” Dewitz said.

With the docent program and the volunteer program, retired people are also involved.

“That’s helped us grow some of our adult education classes because a lot of the same people that are interested in volunteering at the zoo are the same ones that are interested in learning more about the zoo,” Dewitz said.

Some local businesses and organizations hold an annual day or appreciation event at the zoo.

Dewitz said Midco Day is a day when Midco sponsors everyone to come to the zoo for a free day.

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with new cat exhibits under construction.

“It’s the modernization of our zoo to make it new and modern and inviting. I really think that visitor experience is going to be amplified where people will get to come in and see our animals in a much more natural setting with a lot more room,” Dewitz said. “We’re definitely designing aspects to those exhibits specifically for visitors whether it be the vehicle we’re going to have in the lion exhibits so kids can act like they’re driving on safaris.

Those are just features to keep it exciting, keep it different because we do have a number of people that come weekly. We want them to have a valuable experience if they come two times a year or a hundred times a year.”

“With the educational programming, that’s one area where Nicole has worked very hard with expanding our educational offerings,” Dewitz continued.

Nicole Barnhart, zoo educational coordinator, said their top programs have been very very well received by the community.

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A program for 2-5-year-olds has themes ranging from how animals move to animal sounds to even cooking where they learned about an animal and then use food to make an animal that looks like the real one, then have it for a tasty treat afterwards. She said children have also used zoo letters such as “z is for zebra” to help them learn the alphabet letters.

She said summer camps are a great way to get kids involved in the zoo at a young age.

“During them we don’t just talk about the animals, we talk about us as a zoo too and how we care for the animals,” Barnhart said.

Programs for adults

The zoo has started adult programming which has been quite well received, Barnhart said. She said she hopes to continue offering the adult programming after summertime.

Teacher workshops were offered this past summer. “Teachers can get credit through MSU for their continued education courses,” Barnhart said.

The zoo offered two classes this past summer: “Teaching for Tigers” and “HELP (Habitat

Ecology Learning Program): Grasslands. HELP focuses on various habitats with this past summer’s class devoted to grasslands. Barnhart said that tied in the zoo’s African animals all the way to their bison.

Barnhart said she would like to add more activities so teachers can utilize the zoo.

“Teachers already utilize our zoo for our outreach but I would like to see them use us more as a teaching tool for more advanced lessons,” Barnhart said.

Some programs will be starting around the time when the zoo moves to its winter opening.

Winter hours generally begin in October, depending on the weather. Dewitz said they like to maintain their daily schedule through Norsk Hostfest.

“We’ll still be offering our Canvas, Corks & Conservation” too, which the adults are loving, They come in, bring a bottle of wine or beer with them, whatever their preferences, and they paint a canvas,” Barnhart said. Proceeds of the event go to the zoo’s Change for a Change Conservation Fund which directly helps the zoo’s support of the Giraffe Foundation, okapi, blackfooted ferret and other animal conservation organizations.

Jennifer Kleen, Minot Zoo Crew executive director, said enrichments, keeper chats, training programs and others are listed on the Wild Happenings Calendar available on the zoo’s website so people can plan their entire trip to the zoo around learning something specific such as a wolf chat or watching tiger training.

“All of them are really cool to see,” she said.

“Jennifer has really taken our Facebook to a whole new level and I feel like the things you can see on Facebook aren’t always the same thing you are always going to see at the zoo in terms of if we have something that happens behind the scenes, we might share it on Facebook.

That’s one area people can really become engaged in regard to the zoo operations,” Dewitz said.

“We captured our tarantula molting. It was like five to eight hours of him going through that process and Jen timelapsed it down to a minute,” Barnhart said. “It’s really cool and a great educational opportunity for people. Most people don’t realize they molt and they’re going to come out of and then have a fresh, beautiful coat afterwards again.”

They said social media, mainly Facebook, is a good tool to bring people into the zoo. The zoo’s website is rpz.com.

If people are planning a trip or have any

questions about the zoo, Kleen said they answer the animals chit-chat and they’ll wake up to as quickly as possible. maybe a lion roaring,” Barnhart said.

For people who have difficulties getting ‘Wonderful volunteers’ around, the zoo has wheelchairs available at no Volunteers are very important to the zoo. charge for people in need of them.

“We would not be able to be as quality of a Expanding programming zoo without all the wonderful volunteers that The future is important at Roosevelt Park we receive. That’s everyone from Minot Air Zoo, a facility making plans for its centennial Force Base, our No. 1 source of volunteers, esobservance in 2021. pecially skilled volunteers, to people that want “We are always looking at expanding our ed- to be here on a routine, regular basis to do volucational programming and it’s been a benefit unteer programs as well as organizations,” Deto have Nicole in that full-time role,” Dewitz witz said. said. “I do see Nicole expanding our educaFor example, she said two people from First tional offerings quite a bit. She’s doing a lot Western Bank come to the zoo every week to more even with the Zoo Teen program which is help zoo staff chop food for the animals diet. a program we’ve had for a while but she’s tak- “We do offer that if people are interested in voling it to the next level,” Dewitz said. “From the unteer programs. They just simply need to call Zoo Teen program we’re looking at developing and talk to Renee Escherich, zoo’s public programs manager.” our Junior Zookeeper program.

Zoo Teens spend time with Barnhart during The zoo works with Kalix and the summer, including working with her for REM summer camp.

“Providing work experience for special “Then they’ll have a chance when needs individuals has been just as rewarding they can submit a letter on why for them as it is for us. We’ve had they want to stay yearsome individuals that have round at the zoo,” MEMORIES, been here for years now and said.

Barnhart PHOTOS OF ZOO they’re part of our zoo fam“They’ll eventually ily,” Dewitz said. “It’s just learn how to Roosevelt Park Zoo in really trying to satisfy help the Minot will celebrate its that need in a broad keepers in centennial in 2021. audience and realize their areas,” there are needs for “We have a tradition of hospitality Barnhart everybody, whether here so if anybody has memories of said. it be a mother with an the zoo I’d love to hear them, I’d “As they infant or an adult love to see photos,” said Jennifer gain that exwith special needs.

Kleen, Minot Zoo Crew executive perience We try to make it a director. and we gain zoo that they all that trust Memories and/or photos can want.” with them too be sent to her at “We are that living reand get to know jenniferrpz@srt.com. source for wildlife education them, they start to and promoting conservation. chop diets for our anIt’s something that we take seimals, they start to pull riously to make sure that we have meat for them, work on the engood creditable information and that we derichment items for them as well and liver it in a way that is fun but we also want to then the plan is to get them out with the public more too, talking with the public and helping make sure that they get out of it what they want, that it’s something they will have an “ah-ha” with keeper chats,” Barnhart said.

Sleepovers are hosted at the zoo for kids and moment, if you will,” Dewitz said. “Even if you also for families. When a sleepover is held for come multiple times of the year, you might kids, they sleep in the Visitor Center audito- learn something different. And even sometimes rium. “The adults though will actually pitch a simple things like just learning that the animal tent – bring their own tent – and we sleep out on has a name can provide that valuable aspect to zoo grounds. They get to go to sleep listening to an individual.”

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