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Staff Writer jhambek @minotdailynews.com With the growth in the Minot and surrounding communities over the past few years, the need for mental health services has also increased. The Northland Community Health Center recently added mental health services in hopes that their clinics can assist in filling the gap and need for mental health services both in Minot and their outlying rural clinics. The current trend has been for clients to have long waiting periods to get in for mental health appointments, according to Laura Larson, licensed professional clinical counselor. Northland Community Health Center hopes to ease this burden in the community and to allow for clients to receive mental health care in a timely manner, she added. Larson said there has been an increased need for counseling services for children, adolescents and adults. She will provide a full spectrum of individual and family therapy services for children, adolescents and adults. Larson’s therapeutic focus is mainly cognitivebehavioral in nature, with the use of play and art theraJill Hambek/MDN py, most specifically with Laura Larson, licensed professional clinical counselor at Northland Community Health Clinic in Minot, talks to one of the children and adolescents. See HEALTH — Page 15
nurses in her office. The center has recently added mental health services to help fill what has become a growing need in the area.
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This is a new section of Watford Cityʼs recently extended Main Street. It contains several retail and service businesses, complete with living quarters.
Watford City’s amazing boom By KIM FUNDINGSLAND
Staff Writer kfundingsland @minotdailynews.com WATFORD CITY – The furious pace of building and expansion in Watford City has to be seen to be believed. Even then it is difficult to comprehend. Located near the heart of
the Bakken oil play, Watford City has become a community bursting at its expanding seams. Almost overnight, the quaint western-themed town has grown from 1,500 people to an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 today, with projections for as many as 24,000 in the coming months. The effect is nothing short of staggering.
Water and sewer services have been greatly expanded. Housing and apartment developments are numerous and huge – Hunter’s Run, Fox Hills, Emerald Ridge, The Highlands, The Homestead and several more. Construction has begun on a new high school. Hotel rooms have expanded from 70 to 600 with two more hotels yet to be built.
Two new truckstops to help meet the demand brought by the Bakken are expected to be completed soon. Watford City’s airport, once targeted for upgrades and expansion, may now be moved altogether. A new waste water treatment facility is due to go online soon with an expansion to follow. An impressive new $4.7 million day-care facility, the largest in North Dakota, is already operating with more children than anticipated. Land has been cleared for a
new elementary school. A lengthy bypass was constructed to carry traffic far outside Watford City’s previous bypass which had become overwhelmed with traffic. The city’s golf course is to be expanded from nine holes to 18, complete with an accompanying housing project. The plans for the renovation and expansion of the city’s Main Street is nothing short of stunning too. Much of the work has already been completed, extending
Watford City’s Main Street nearly a mile to the north. A new courthouse opened recently, a new law enforcement center is scheduled to get under construction this summer, a new hospital has already been announced and a massive community event center will follow. This spring a new veterinarian facility opened, said to be the third largest in the United States. Available shopping, restaurant and See WATFORD — Page 4
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A four-story building is under construction on Main Street near the center of Watford City. 2015 is expected to be the busiest construction season in Watford City history.
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Capital RV expands its Minot facility By TENDAR TSERING Staff Writer ttsering @minotdailynews.com
Capital RV recently expanded its business by hiring new employees and moving into its new building located at 3000 14th Ave. SW. “Demand is very good,” said James Baker, sales manager of the dealership’s facility in Minot. The dealership was initially started in Harvey in 1988 and later it moved its center to Bismarck and then opened its branch office in the Magic City. “As far as demand, we have always done really good, especially at the time of the sports show in the spring and the oil boom keeps us busy throughout the whole year. Even now, the oil boom bit down, the agriculture down but we are still kind of busy,” said Baker in early April. “North Dakota has always been an outdoors type of state, lots of outdoors, hunting, fishing and stuff like that,” he added. The Minot Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors also attended the grand reopening ceremony and put on a ribbon cutting ceremony. As the dealership moved into its new building, it has hired around 10 more employees and is considering hiring some more depending on business in the near future. “We would call this as grand reopening ceremony because we have been here for the last 20-plus years,” the manager said. “And we started hiring new employees as soon as we moved in our new facility.” According to the manager, his company last year has ranked as one of the 20 best RV dealers in the country and he said it ranks one of the best dealers in the state. The Capital RV dealership offers a full line of fifthwheel trailers, class A motor homes, class C motor homes,
¨ Bruce Bentz, left, owner of Capital RV, and James Baker, sales manager of the Minot dealership. ¬ Bentz and Missy Feist Erickson, assistant vice president of Peoples State Bank, marked the dealershipʼs grand reopening by cutting a red ribbon, April 2. The two were joined by the Ambassadors of the Minot Area Chamber of Commerce and staff members at the Minot dealership.
travel trailers, diesel pushers, pop-up campers, toy haulers and truck campers. “The thing that separates us from lots of other dealers is the process that the customer goes through. Taking time listening to their needs and wants,” Baker said. “Giving complete information about all the necessities, and how the bathroom system works, how the kitchen works.” “When they leave here, they feel completely educated,” he added. During the 2011 flood, the company’s RV sales doubled and, Baker said, most of those clients bought them for temporary shelter. However, he added people in the state mostly buy and hunting. RV’s for recreational purpos“Its all about family, all es, such as camping, fishing about family time,” he said.
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service businesses have expanded rapidly in an effort to keep up with extraordinary times. Work is under way on Highway 23 leading into the city. It is being widened from two lanes to four. “We’ve been going at warp speed,” said Gene Veeder, McKenzie County Development Authority. “From my perspective you can’t continue to grow this fast. We have to be able to catch up. If we just finish what we’ve got going on now that’s still 20 years of growth.” It may be hard to make such comparisons in Watford City anymore. The community changes almost daily. Even the recent downturn in oil prices has had little effect on slowing down the building boom. “It depends on who you talk to,” said Veeder. “This oil thing doesn’t seem to have affected those with longrange plans. Some are aggressive and just moving forward with their business plans. Some are looking at five to seven-year paybacks, nice but not very realistic. I think there’s a reality check going on. Most of us think that if we could complete the projects that are under way now, we could service the area pretty well. The city feels this will be the biggest construction season Watford City has ever had.” Much of the construction is targeted at housing current and future Bakken employees, an effort to get them to move away from temporary man camps into more permanent housing. Some homes and apartment units are being sold or occupied. Many others remain vacant. Price may be an issue. At a Lutheran
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Teddyʼs Presidential Suites is one of the hotels built in Watford City to help meet a growing need for temporary and visitor housing. The Bakken oil field community has grown from 70 hotel units to over 600 during the recent boom. Social Services apartment complex containing 40 units labeled as “affordable housing,” there is a waiting list of 700 to rent units for $700 per month. Rent elsewhere can run upwards of $3,000. “There’s some pressure on rents and things like that. We have not seen rent come down. It has not come down,”
said Veeder. “We are still short of housing. When it stabilizes a little bit these new places will fill up.” The new housing projects are being constructed by builders who have done similar projects elsewhere in the U.S. Investors come from all points of the country and overseas. Their knowledge is
reflected in their building projects with much of it far more modern appearing than anything Watford City has experienced in the past. A prime example is Watford City’s hotels. New construction has greatly increased the number of rooms available in the city. While nightly rates have
been reflective of an oil boom, they may soon be adjusted as more and more housing options become available. “Hotels are kind of the first indication of what’s happening,” remarked Veeder. “You can’t have hotel prices that are in the top tier of the United States. We’re going to
see some stabilizing but I don’t think we’ve reached critical mass yet. The city feels like we’re still 1,000 units short of what people need.” Another key indicator of the impact of the oil boom in Watford City has been increased demand on the school system. The number
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of students enrolled in the city’s school system has doubled in less than 10 years. “It has really exploded. The numbers are just off the charts,” said Veeder. “It tells us our high school is going to be full and that we need another elementary school. The elephant in the room is the elementary numbers. That’s really growing.” While the need for more classrooms is evident in Watford City, it is difficult to predict precisely how many. That’s because of the transient nature of many who have come to the area due to the Bakken. The question is, how many will stay and bring their families with them and how many will work for a few months and then leave? Watford City has been concentrating on meeting the needs of residents in the hope of making the community as inviting as possible. A key component has been health care. The city’s existing hospital and emergency services are no long considered adequate. “Our biggest challenge is still health care,” observed Veeder. The health care challenge is being met. McKenzie County Healthcare, in conjunction with Sanford Health and St. Alexis Hospital in Bismarck, is constructing a new and modern hospital with an expanded emergency care facility. “That’s a go,” said Veeder. “The financing is together.” A new law enforcement center will help meet the needs of the county and the city’s expanding presence of law enforcement. The number of jail cells is to be increased from nine today to 120 in the new facility. “The land is purchased. The architects are working on
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A new high school is under construction on the east side of Watford City. Enrollment in the cityʼs school system has exploded during the Bakken oil boom.
the project,” explained Veeder. “The county has it budgeted. It’s got to be done.” The results of the boom go beyond just the countless building projects in Watford City. It has dramatically changed the average age of the residents here. It is a much younger population now, and shows a distinct
change in the makeup of residents. “It’s absolutely a complete reversal from a few years ago. Eighty percent of customers here are new. They don’t have an old standard to gauge things by,” said Veeder. “Most of the people here don’t know what it used to be like, but they want services.”
A retail center that has sprung up on Watford City’s south side is a hub of activity. It includes a grocery store, Cstores, restaurants and farm and ranch businesses. “Ag is still a part of all of this. We have a new vet clinic too,” claimed Veeder. “That retail center is just bonkers. It’s as busy as any place in the
country.” Veeder acknowledged that the number of drilling rigs in McKenzie County, where Watford City is located, is down from what it was before oil prices began to fall. However, he is quick to add, there’s still a lot of wells yet to be brought on line. “If the market doesn’t total-
ly tank they will continue to drill here,” concluded Veeder. “We think it will normalize a little bit.” There is no normal in Watford City these days, but any slowdown in the Bakken will perhaps give the community a chance to catch up with its breakneck pace of expansion.
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With Bertholdʼs towering Farmerʼs Elevator as a backdrop, tanks filled with sour crude oil are shown. The storage tanks are evidence of the impact of oil development on the community of Berthold.
Berthold building, not booming By KIM FUNDINGSLAND
staying the course probably best describes ongoing development in this comStaff Writer munity located at the edge of kfundingsland the Bakken oil field. @minotdailynews.com Berthold’s 2010 census was BERTHOLD – Steady and officially 454 people, but
that number is no longer considered valid, according to longtime Mayor Alan Lee. “That’s an impossibility due to the number of sewer hook-ups,” said Lee. “I’m guessing we’re at 600 or
more and that’s conservative.” One of the first places to find evidence of growth in Berthold is in the school system. Enrollment has increased to the point where
more expansion is necessary. “Very necessary. It’s very crowded there,” said Lee. “Some of the staff is working out of very small areas. An additional gymnasium is
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Brenda Houim, one of the owners of Wild Billʼs Motorsports, left, and Missy Feist Erickson, assistant vice president of Peoples State Bank, cut the ribbon to mark the grand opening of Wild Billʼs Motorsports last week. Tendar Tsering/MDN
Minot gets a new motorsports dealership By TENDAR TSERING Staff Writer ttsering @minotdailynews.com
Some might think there is nothing to do in North Dakota, but many believe there is a lot more to do in North Dakota than in many other states. And they believe North Dakota is a state full of outdoor activities, hunting, fishing, camping and a lot of sports activities. Bill Houim of Minot is one of those people drawn to the outdoors, who along with his wife, Brenda, this month opened a new motorsports dealership in Minot. The dealership has a wide range of motorsports vehicles, that were specifically built for mud, dirt and dusty, rocky areas, snow. It also sells a variety of the latest fancy sports boats. “Bill has a passion for off road, and also water. He has that kind of passion for such type of vehicles,” said Todd Galloway, general manager of the new dealership, Wild Bill’s Motorsports. Speaking at the grand opening ceremony of the dealership on April 10, Galloway said they have all
kinds of sports vehicles that meet the interests of residents in the whole state. “We have got pretty Tendar Tsering/MDN much everything, Artic Cat Todd Galloway, general manager of Wild Billʼs Motorsports, poses for a photograph along with mud pro which goes some of the fancy sports vehicles that the dealership sells. through mud and water and all that. We’ve got Maverick MAX with tracks that goes through pretty much anything, ... and we have got snowmobiles as well,” Galloway said. “We have got different kinds of customers, farmers, families, young people, old people and a mix of customers.” When asked which one is the favorite motorsports vehicle in North Dakota, the manager said Can-Am sideby-side ATVs are famous in the state. Speaking about the price range, he said it’s all about affordability and what kind of vehicle one is looking for. The dealership provides full service to all the vehicles that they sell and also, buys old and used motorsports vehicles. “We have trade-ins, for people coming in looking for old ones and we also buy old and used ones,” the manager said. The dealership is located at 2305 Elk Drive and is open Monday through Saturday.
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thought so too. They voted to approve expansion of both Berthold and Plaza schools. Berthold’s expansion comes on the heels of a recent addition to the elementary school. This time expansion will improve room at the high school level. Bryan Nelson, Berthold, is superintendent of the Lewis and Clark School District. The district is closing an aging Makoti school in favor of new and larger facilities at Plaza and Berthold. Both schools are kindergarten through 12th grade. “We’ll be adding a whole new high school wing in Plaza,” said Nelson. “In Berthold, we’ll be building a new kitchen and commons area, which is really critical. We’ve been serving 280 students in a really small place. We’ll be adding a new vocational agriculture and home economics room, some classrooms and remodeling the science room.” The existing Vo-Ag room in Berthold will be remodeled and become the school’s music room. Gymnasiums will be added at both Plaza and Berthold, something Nelson says is much needed and long overdue. “A gym is really another classroom. It is used for so much,” said Nelson. “We’re going to serve our kids better. Really, we’ve needed space for 19 years.” The new gymnasium in Berthold will have more than twice the seating than the current gym with room for 850 spectators. The facility, says Nelson, should also eliminate the need for sports teams to practice during early morning hours or late evenings. And the gym will be used extensively by teachers and students throughout each school day. “All of our schools were going into decline,” added Lee. “Having a second building addition instead of transporting kids elsewhere is a real positive. I just hope that the growth is sustainable.” School enrollment at
¨ This row of heavy equipment belongs to Minnesota Unlimited in Berthold. The company is one of the cityʼs main employers. ¬ Enbridgeʼs Berthold facility is a key player in the townʼs economy. The company employs a number of full-time workers who rely on the area for goods and services.
Berthold has been steadily increasing, from 216 students in 1996 to 280 today. Further proof of more residents in the Berthold area is a day-care center that is operating at capacity. It was built two years ago at the north end of Berthold’s Main Street. Additionally, Berthold hired a police officer about two years ago, their first since sometime in the 1960s. At one time during the Bakken boom developers were looking at adding up to 3,000 housing units to the city. Those plans have since been scaled back but not completely shelved. Lee says he has assurances that one developer who has been pursuing a housing project in Berthold since 2012 will construct some homes in
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Berthold in 2015. “All farmsteads are occupied. Our trailer court is full. We really need additional lots for housing. There’s none available in Berthold,” said Lee. “A new housing development would expand that. They were talking thousands before. It was just too much. We weren’t ready for that.” An Arizona developer seeking to build a housing complex in Berthold has scaled back original plans calling for initial building of 264 houses. Lee said he is now hopeful that 20 to 30 new homes would be built this year on farmland immediately southeast of the city on the north side of Highway 2. “I think they’ll sell,” said Lee. “There’s a lot of people from out of state that would move their families up here if they could find housing.” The city of Berthold has extended a sewer line to the proposed development area. North Prairie Rural Water has installed an 8-inch line to supply fresh water to the hoped for development. The recent slowdown in the Bakken, due to a drop in oil prices, has been noticed in Berthold, but not to a major extent. Traffic on Highway 2 in the Berthold region is somewhat less than it has been, but the artery still carries a significant number of people and vehicles every day. “I drive west every morning. The traffic isn’t as heavy as it was but it is picking up as the weather warms up,” said Lee. “A slowdown for a while gives us a chance to regroup a little bit.” The impact of oil development has been felt in
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Berthold in several ways. An oil terminal train loading facility just outside of town remains as busy as ever. A hydraulic fracturing sand operation remains steady. “A lot of people drive to Berthold every day,” remarked Lee. “We’ve added about 40 full-time jobs. That’s really positive. Cenex and the elevator have 20 to 25 employees, the oil terminal around 40. Gratech construction has over 200.”
Even if oil prices remain low and a slowdown in the Bakken continues, Lee feels his community is well positioned. The reason? Berthold has key service industries that will be needed no matter what happens in the oil market. “I look for us to have longtime support,” explained Lee. “We have Enbridge and Minnesota Limited. Minnesota Limited is a pipeline repair company that
has 100 employees during the peak season. They do a lot of work for Enbridge.” More people and more area traffic has placed added emphasis on emergency services. The Berthold volunteer ambulance service has become extremely busy, according to Lee. A new ambulance building has already been approved. Construction is expected to begin this summer. In the planning stages, said Lee, is
the refurbishing of an aging city hall or the building of a new one. An important gathering place for any small community is the local cafe, and that is the case in Berthold. However, the current owner of the city’s only cafe is looking to sell. Lee hopes a suitable buyer will be found to keep the cafe operating. Nearby Carpio, 9 miles distant, is considered by many to be a part of Berthold.
Lee says such recognition is about the only way some small communities can survive. “We work very closely together,” said Lee. “Our churches and schools are together. Cenex is building a new facility in Carpio with an excellent hardware store. We’re one community. Oil has been real good to us. We’ve never been a boom but we’ve never been at a standstill.”
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Oilfield fuels Stanley growth By KIM FUNDINGSLAND
Staff Writer kfundingsland @minotdailynews.com STANLEY – This community has been bulging at the seams since companies ramped up their drilling for oil in the Bakken formation. Changes and expansion, new businesses and housing, have been the result as city leaders do their utmost to both attract and accommodate newcomers to the region. There are benefits to local residents, too, such as more shopping and service opportunities and new housing areas. Even though Stanley has experienced rapid growth, it has been manageable by comparison to communities elsewhere in the Bakken. Nevertheless, Stanley’s population has jumped from about 1,500 to 3,500 in the last few years due to an influx of oil companies and their workers. “Nobody knows what we’ve got for sure,” said Mayor Gary Weisenberger. “We pretty much go by water usage. It definitely went up. They are talking 5,000 in the next five years. That’s maybe conservative.” Stanley has annexed about 1,300 acres into the city during its growth spurt. New housing has been built and new businesses opened. The building continues, but at a somewhat lesser pace than previously. “We’ve been keeping up with it. Not quite as fast as last year,” said Weisenberger. “A couple of
¨ These pumps located near Stanley emphasize the reason why the community has become vital to continued growth in the region. ® Rapid growth in Stanley has meant increased enrollment in the cityʼs school system, which has initiated building projects to keep up with demand.
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different developments are still building.” Weisenberger attributes the relief from a furious pace of permitting and building to the drop in oil prices that has caused some companies to scale back their plans in the Bakken for the time being. However, a slowdown doesn’t mean a stoppage. Not by a long shot. “We’re maybe seeing it in the traffic a little bit. It’s still busy, just not as much as it once was,” explained Weisenberger. “It just went down a notch but there’s still a lot of stuff going on. It’s not slow yet, far from that.” Evidence can be found in the help wanted section of the local paper where numerous jobs in Stanley are being advertised. Some of those jobs were created by businesses that recently moved to Stanley or expanded their operations. Among the most noticeable developments is the Westview Addition on the south side of Highway 2. It is there that farmland has become home to a variety of new businesses – O’Reilly’s Auto Parts, Tractor Supply, CashWise Grocery, Holiday Gasoline which includes Papa Primo’s Italian Kitchen and a MainStay Suites under construction. With increased population comes a corresponding demand for classroom space in Stanley. The city’s grade school and high school are both at maximum capacity. Both built recent additions but still haven’t got enough room to keep up with the See GROW — Page 12
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The need for day care in Watford City has grown along with the community. Watford Cityʼs response was to build Wolf Pup Daycare. The facility was filled to capacity almost as soon as it opened last August. For more on this story, see Page 13.
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Making a difference Success for Stroke System of Care presented at International Stroke Conference BISMARCK — The Stroke System of Care is effectively improving treatment for stroke in North Dakota, including patient care in rural areas. The study “Multidisciplinary Public-Private Collaboration Improve Rural Stroke Care” expanded on those improvements by looking at the results of stroke treatment comparisons from 2010 and 2013. It was presented at the International Stroke Conference held recently in Nashville. On behalf of the North Dakota Stroke System of Care Task Force, Shila Thorson of the North Dakota Department of Health Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Division, and June Herman of the American Heart Association presented the study on rural stroke care in North Dakota. The Stroke System of Care Task Force was created by the North Dakota legislature in 2009 to improve outcomes for stroke patients. The Task Force has been
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actively working with hospitals, physicians, emergency medical services and other groups to improve time to treatment and standardize stroke treatment protocols. “The pieces are now in place for the Stroke System of Care,” said Ziad Darkhabani, MD, an intervention neurologist who chairs the Task Force. “We have proven results that a coordinated network makes a difference. Our next step is to make sure the public knows to access the Stroke System of Care by calling 9-1-1,” he said. In a comparison of data collected by the State Stroke Registry in 2010 and in 2013, dramatic improvements were shown in key measures that impact a patient’s outcome after an acute ischemic stroke. The State Stroke Registry utilizes the data collected by the American Heart Association’s inhospital quality improvement program called Get with the Guidelines® for Stroke. About 87
percent of all strokes are ischemic; they are caused by a clot that blocks blood flow to an area of the brain. The data comparison found that the percent of acute ischemic stroke patients who arrived at the hospital within two hours of the time symptoms started and for whom intravenous treatment with the clot-busting drug tPA was initiated within three hours increased from 30.9 percent in 2010 to 80.9 percent in 2013. The study also showed stroke cases receiving a brain scan within 25 minutes of arrival at the hospital increased from 16 percent of patients in 2010 to 25 percent of patients in 2013. The study concluded that a collaborative statewide effort led by a multidisciplinary team can improve timely intervention and quality of care in stroke. Further, the report found that the statewide task force with implementation authority can be successfully
applied to areas with a rural demographic. The Stroke System of Care for North Dakota is now introducing a campaign to create public awareness of the signs of stroke and the importance of calling 9-1-1 for fast access to stroke treatment. “We hope to see continued improvements in early intervention for acute stroke, especially when the public learns the key to the best treatment is an immediate 9-1-1 call,” said Darkhabani. In further testimony to the notable effort to improve stroke outcomes, North Dakota was also represented in two other abstracts presented at the International Stroke Conference. The American Heart Association’s Midwest Affiliate presented a report in which North Dakota’s efforts around stroke care were mentioned, titled “Is the Collection of Stroke Data to Improve Patient Care Important for Small Volume Hospitals?”
The third abstract was a description of the collaborative development of a stroke patient management toolkit, including education modules for hospital and EMS personnel. The stroke care toolkit authors were Jody Ward, RN, APHN, Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Ahren Dosch, RN, Essentia Health; Jerilyn Alexander, RN, Trinity Health; and Pam Moe, American Heart Association. Additional authors who participated in the evaluation study on implementation of the Stroke System of Care included: Dr. Shiraz Hyder, MD, CHI St. Alexius Health; Dr. Robert Beattie, MD, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Shelly Arnold, RN, Sanford Health Bismarck; Curt Halmrast, NREMTP, North Dakota EMS Association; and Jolene Engelhart, FNP-C, Bismarck.
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growth in the number of students. “They’ve doubled in population in the last seven years since things started in the Bakken,” said Weisenberger. More students and more classrooms means more teachers too, but you can’t attract additional personnel if you have no place to house them. The city of Stanley has undertaken several unique projects to solve the problem, not only for teaching staff but other necessary employees as well. “We built a four-plex for police, a four-plex for other city employees,” said Weisenberger. “The school has built two and bought an apartment house. The county has built housing. Some of the local businesses have built housing for employees.” Several man-camps had sprung up in the Stanley area during the initial push to develop the Bakken. Some of those camps have shrunk in size or, in some cases, have been closed completely. A big mancamp immediately east of Stanley is gone now. Residents there recently moved into the Target Logistics hotel facility in Stanley. Like other Bakken communities, Stanley has issues with the cost of housing. Sometimes new homes or apartments remain vacant because the price is too high. When, if, or how much housing prices will come down remains to be seen, but a downward adjustment in prices appears likely before new housing units will be filled. “What’s affordable to one guy isn’t affordable to the next guy,” commented Weisenberger. With oil prices lower
than they have been for several months and oil development’s history of “boom or bust”, speculation abounds as to what the future has in store for the Bakken and communities like Stanley that have undergone dramatic changes during a flurry of activity. Weisenberger thinks it is just a waiting game, especially given the number of active wells in the Bakken. “I think they are just going to cut back a little until they see what the price does,” said Weisenberger. “I don’t think the major players are going to leave. They’ll be ready to crank it back up once the price goes up. It’s never half speed. It’s either full speed or a slow down.”
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¨ An automotive parts store is one of several businesses that has opened in a new addition adjacent to the Highway 2 on the west side of Stanley. Under construction in the background is a MainStay Suites hotel.
¬ Target Logistics recognized the need for additional housing in Stanley several months ago and opened this facility to meet a need generated by the Bakken boom.
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Watford’s Wolf Pups: Provider helps to meet need By KIM FUNDINGSLAND
Staff Writer kfundingsland @minotdailynews.com WATFORD CITY – Realizing that with changing demographics comes changing needs, Watford City responded by providing the community with a much needed service — day care. Watford City’s new Wolf Pup Daycare opened in August 2014 and was an instant hit. The modern facility was filled almost as soon as it opened. Wolf Pup Daycare had hoped to meet the needs of working parents by accommodating 200 children, from infants to 12year-olds. However, the demand for day care has grown so much in Watford City due to an influx of younger workers and their families, that the most recent number of children being cared for at Wolf Pup Daycare has surged past 200. “I love it. It all starts here,” said Gene Veeder, executive director, McKenzie County Development Authority. “We’ve used every program we possibly could to do this. Parents also raised some funds to keep it going.” According to Veeder, six different funding sources were used to purchase land for the day care, remove existing properties and build a modern, two-story facility fully capable of serving the community’s growing need for day care. “It’s been a combination of private donations, the one percent sales tax that the city put together for projects like this and a housing incentive fund,” said Veeder. “The business model works good for us. You want high-quality employees and good food, clean facilities. The biggest challenge is that we pay our day-care providers well.”
‘I thought with oil prices going down our numbers would drop, but we haven’t seen that here. Our numbers have been increasing and people are still coming. We’re getting calls every day from people who are still locating here. — Tessa Moberg, Wolf Pup Daycare Heading up Wolf Pup Daycare is Tessa Moberg. Moberg graduated from Watford City High School, whose sports teams are known as the Wolves, in 2003 and Minot State University in 2007. She has a degree in elementary education and began her daycare experience at St. Leo’s day-care in Minot. Serving her hometown came natural to Moberg, who also helped in planning the layout of the impressive new facility. “I had my own day-care but helped as much as I could,” said Moberg. “It’s been going really fast. We have over 200 kids and 70 employees. It’s busy.” With two levels, three playgrounds, a multi-purpose room and location adjacent to the elementary school, Wolf Pup Daycare is meeting the needs of North Dakota’s fastest growing community. The availability of quality day care is one of the most important factors that newcomers to the region, mostly brought in by the Bakken oil boom, consider before deciding to move a family to the area. “I thought with oil prices going down our numbers would drop, but we haven’t seen that here. Our numbers have been increasing and people are still coming,” said Moberg. “We’re getting calls every day from people who are still locating here.” Parents can drop grade school age children off at the elementary school and pre-
Watford Cityʼs Wolf Pup Daycare accommodates infants through 12-yearolds. Emphasis is on individual care, cleanliness and safety. Kim Fundingsland/MDN
schoolers off at day-care just a few yards away. Each Wolf Pup Daycare providers go to the elementary school at dismissal time to escort some children to the day-care for the final few hours of the day. It is very convenient for parents who still must finish their work day before picking up their children. “It’s a great location,” said Moberg. “We have the school, parks and pool all close by.” When the Bakken oil boom started in 2006 Watford City’s population was about 1,500 people. Today the city’s fluctuating population is estimated to range from 12,000 to 15,000 with forecasts for as many as 24,000 residents within the next few years. The new residents have substantially lowered the average age in Watford City and created corresponding changes in the community. Wolf Pup Daycare is one of the major reasons families can make the transition to Watford City today.
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El Azteca promises to serve authentic Mexican style dishes. The restaurant was expected to open sometime in April, according to the owners.
Viva El Azteca! Couple to open burrito bistro in the Magic City By TENDAR TSERING Staff Writer ttsering @minotdailynews.com
El Azteca, a burrito bistro, is one of the newest eateries in the Magic City. Griserda and Joel Gomez said they were prompted to open the restaurant because of a
shortage of quality and authentic Mexican eateries in the city. “We saw several restaurants here in the area and lot of options but whenever we go, they take too much time and the quality of the food is also not so good, not so authentic,” said Joel Gomez. The couple plans to
serve authentic, homemade Mexican dishes that they say will make customers feel like they are in Mexico. “Be prepared for spicy, because we will be cooking Mexican-style food,” laughed Griserda, adding there would be less spicy and non-spicy dishes as well.
“Some of our ingredients will be coming from New Mexico, like our chili,” she said. “My wife is the main cook and she has been cooking for her whole life,” Joel said. Griserda, nodding her head in agreement, said it was her life-long dream to run a restaurant. “Here it
is,” she laughed. The restaurant is located at 2035 N. Broadway and will be open from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. initially, and perhaps later in the day as things progress. “Labor is kind of a problem here, but we will try to extend our service till 10 p.m.,” Joel Gomez said.
They had yet to set a date for a grand opening ceremony when interviewed in early April. “We started the renovation and decoration last January and everything is almost done. We are planning to open the door to the public within two weeks,” Joel said when interviewed in early April.
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BISMARCK – The North Dakota Department of Human Services’ Lake Region Human Service Center in Devils Lake has contracted with Progress Inc., to provide a new transitional living program for people with serious mental illness who receive services from the human service center. The program, which will be staffed around the clock and able to serve up to eight adults at a time, will be located in the former Movie Gallery business on Sixth Avenue
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She also has training in trauma work and women’s issues. Mental health services will be provided at the Minot clinic location to start with and then expanded via telemed to additional Northland Community Health Center clinics. Services through telemed would mean the therapist would be in Minot and the client could be at the clinic in his or her community and the therapy would occur via webcam. “Using the telemed is a great way to get services to clients in the rural areas where traveling long distance can be a hardship financially and more time away from work,” Larson said. Also, with North Dakota’s climate during the winter months, travel times is often times not safe, she added. Using the telemed service is a way Northland Community Health Center can provide the mental health services in a more convenient manner for the client, Larson continued. “We have a physician’s assistant who can provide medical care all under one roof,” she said. “It’s a benefit to add mental health services to the clinic.” Mental health services have been available at the Minot clinic since the beginning of January. The goal is to provide mental health services to underserved areas where people find it hard to receive those kind of services due to the lack of providers in the area or hardships with respect to travel, Larson said. Since the addition of mental health services to the Minot center, Larson said they have been adding clients every week and are becoming busy. “There has been a good response from the community. We have also been in the process of hiring more staff, knowing the needs of growth,” she added. Larson said there was a definite need for additional mental health services in the Minot community and in rural areas. “There is a significant need for mental health services,” she added. Before the addition of mental health to the center’s services, Larson said people went to other clinics, but there was a long wait time. “I know the severity of the problem has increased,” she added. Nadine Boe, director of business development for Northland Community Health Center, said, “It’s important to take care of the overall health of the entire person.” With medical, dental and now mental health services, the center is able to do that now, she added. Northland Community Health Center is a federally qualified health center that provides healthcare services in rural North Dakota. It is based in the communities of Minot, Bowbells, McClusky, Rolette, Rolla and Turtle Lake. The center also includes two dental clinics in Minot and Turtle Lake. The Minot clinic has been open for a little over a year. They are a non-profit healthcare organization, striving to be the premier healthcare provider in the communities they serve by increasing access to healthcare and providing quality healthcare to all regardless of their ability to pay. They encourage all patients, no matter their financial status, to apply for discounted healthcare services. The application process is simple and takes no more than a few minutes to complete.
‘This program fills a gap in local services. It will provide people with a place to live while they strengthen social skills and learn other skills they need to live successfully on their own such as cooking, cleaning, managing money, finding transportation, finding paid or volunteer work and staying safe. — Lake Region Human Service Center Director Kate Kenna NE. Authorities have notified neighboring property owners. “This program fills a gap in local services,” Lake Region Human Service Center Director Kate Kenna said. “It will provide people with a place to live while
Currently, there are approximately 1,200 federally qualified health centers in the United States. Although community health centers receive some grant opportunities and benefits from the federal government, they are charged with maintaining their own sustainability while continuing to meet all federal requirements for community health centers. The mission of Northland Community Health Center is to provide access to affordable and quality health services. Staff at Minot’s branch of Northland Community Health Center includes two physician’s assistants, two registered nurses, front desk assistant, x-ray technician and a mental health professional, Larson said. “We’ll be adding more mental health professionals,” she added. “We’ll also add more medical staff over time as needed.” There are a wide variety of services available at Northland Community Health Center. Services provided include: care of acute and chronic health problems, preventive and wellness care for all ages, dental care, sick visits for adults and children, referrals for specialty care, health education, mental health, immunizations for all ages, women’s health, men’s health, physical exams for jobs and sports, laboratory
they strengthen social skills and learn other skills they need to live successfully on their own such as cooking, cleaning, managing money, finding transportation, finding paid or volunteer work and staying safe.”
services, x-ray services, access to a sliding fee scale, enrollment assistance for Marketplace Insurance or Medicaid, well child care, EKGs, workman’s compensation, minor surgical services and discounted pharmacy services. People can either make an appointment at the center or be seen as walk-ins. If seeking mental health serv-
Kenna said the new program is expected to open later this year. The adults who qualify for the transitional living program may be at the facility from nine to 18 months as they learn and practice new skills and obtain housing in
ices, an appointment would be necessary. “You’d be surprised at the number of walk-ins,” said Larson. The walk-in aspect is helpful, added Boe, because people are so scheduled that they have to be able to see a provider at that moment. “When patients come here, they can see the physician’s assistant and the lab and x-ray work can all be
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done here during the visit or the next day,” said Larson. Northland Community Health Center in Minot is open Monday 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Tuesday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. They hope to eventually expand their hours to more evenings and Saturdays. The center is accepting most insurance and mental health services and can also offer a sliding
fee scale when applicable. They are located at Arrowhead Mall, 1600 2nd Ave. SW. Their number is 852-4600. The Northland Community Health Center’s dental clinic in Minot is located at 315 S. Main St. They are open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Their number is 838-3097.
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