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Advisory Board you all enjoy a healthy, Tammie Braun happy and prosperous Todd Schweitzer, Agent Cheri Ehlis Kaylee Garling year of 2020. Todd Schweitzer Agency Inc Megan Klassen 204 Sims St # 202 Laura Walters This issue begins our New Year's resolution Dickinson, ND 58601 Advertising Sales Kelley Jilek to continually strive Bus: (701) 483-6228 [email protected] to make Heart River [email protected] (701) 290-2063 Voice the best it can be for our community. Art Director Jessica Danhof American Family Life Insurance Company, We've met some 6000 American Parkway, Madison, WI 53783 ©2016 011785 – Rev. 8/19 – 11446942 Social Media pretty amazing, Jamie Tescher interesting and very Web Developer good people this Ben Hapip past year, and we are Videographers looking forward to VUK Multimedia meeting more and Photographers/Feature Writers sharing your stories Our Community and events with our Cartoonist community. John Garig We did it - we are Astrologer Hilda De Anza one year old, and we couldn't have done Crossword Czar Carlinka it without all of your support. Published Monthly by Heart River Voice, Inc. PO Box 2117 Thank you from Dickinson, ND 58602 the bottom, top and Email: [email protected] middle of our hearts! © Copyright 2019 Heart River Voice, Inc. All rights reserved. For usage Kelley Jilek and submission information, contact Publisher us at [email protected].

Collage on canvas by Janelle Stoneking entitled "Sunday Morning." For more information about the artist, see page 5. PAGE 4 | JANUARY 2020 HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM YOUR HEALTH LIVE RIGHT Heart disease and cold weather The New Year’s resolution Marlys Walter, RN, SWDHU Community Health Coordinator contradiction Southwestern District Health Unit you are having symptoms of either, dial By Gabrielle K. Hartze, RD, LRD has a Community Health program which 9-1-1 immediately. covers hypertension, Common symptoms to heart attack and stroke. watch for: It is important for HEART ATTACK: (may everyone to Know Your not be sudden and Numbers and adopt intense, but rather start healthy lifestyle habits slow, with mild pain or and goals to reduce risk discomfort) of heart disease in adults. • Chest discomfort or Some of these healthy discomfort in other habits and goals include areas of the upper stop smoking, vaping body (Remember: not or using smokeless all people with heart tobacco. Be physically active on a regular attacks have chest pain.) basis, eat a well-balanced diet and limit • Pain or discomfort in one or both sodium. Schedule regular appointments arms, back, neck, jaw or stomach and take medications as directed by your • Shortness of breath with or without healthcare provider. Also, adopt sun-safe chest discomfort behaviors, as sun safety is never out of • Breaking out in a cold sweat or feeling season. Blood pressure screenings are nauseated or lightheaded Can you believe January 1st is here? to you is hopeless. The lack of meaning offered at the health unit and throughout HYPOTHERMIA: You better believe it, it’s that time of year and relevance runs it right into the the community. • Exhaustion or drowsiness again – a brand new year, a brand new ground. It’s so important to have a valued As we venture out into the cold • Shivering you, right? But what’s really motivating resolution because that motivation will weather to shovel the driveway or • Confusion you to set a resolution this year? Is it last. Be consistent and don’t let yourself sidewalk, we must • Memory loss friends, family, media, society? If the real skip a day for an excuse. Get friends and keep in mind that cold temperatures • Fumbling hands reason behind setting a resolution is any family involved to hold you accountable. cause blood vessels to constrict. This may • Slurred speech of those listed, the incentive to achieve Achieve Your Resolution - Plan the reduce blood flow to the heart, which STROKE: Act FAST at the first sign of a that resolution is likely to fizzle out old-fashioned way. Get out a pen and leads to an increase in blood pressure. stroke rather quickly. Resolutions fail for three paper and write your resolution down Shoveling snow can increase your risk of • Face droops on one side reasons: with the reasons behind it. Ask who, having a heart attack, especially for high • rm weakness A Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Goals – what, when, where, why and how. What is risk individuals. When the temperature • Speech difficulty Intrinsic reflects true aspirations, that number one thing deep down inside outside drops, the heart also has to work • Time to call 9-1-1 something we set our minds to achieve. that is the reason for this resolution? harder to help maintain your body’s core If you already have a heart condition or Extrinsic are those driven by influence When and why do you want to achieve it? temperature. According to the American are not active, consult your physician of others (society, parents, spouses). Where do you see yourself and how do Heart Association, heart failure is the before you decide to shovel the driveway Too often resolutions are chosen based you envision your life after achieving the cause of most deaths from hypothermia or sidewalk. Even if you are not aware of on trends. Set yourself up for success resolution? Set yourself up for success by - a dangerous condition in which the any heart problems, shovel with caution. and avoid jumping on the bandwagon. dividing goals into short and long-term body’s temperature falls below normal. Dress in warm layers, stay hydrated and Ask yourself, am I setting this goal for stages. Make sure you have the skillset to Hypothermia and a heart attack are both me because I truly want this change or achieve the resolution or learn necessary medical emergencies, and if you suspect because of influence from others? skills to do so. Ensure your resolution is rest periodically during activity. █ Impracticality – At the start of the congruent. For example, let’s say your new year, enthusiasm is high for this resolution is to start your own business, “life changing” event which can make a but you’d also like to vacation and spend resolution overwhelming. Expectations time with family more often. Of the two, are heightened and timelines shortened only one resolution will succeed. Think (lose 20 lbs. in 1 month) making it nearly about the time commitment and effort impossible to achieve. As February comes required to accomplish the resolution around, so many have lost sight of their and measure your ability accordingly. resolution due to lack of preparation. Bottom Line: Besides January 1st, Take flying for example - you don’t arrive there are 364 days of the year to set a at the airport and hope a flight to Chicago resolution. Prior to initiation of your is available, do you? Of course not, a goal, plan a success outline, ask for help vacation takes planning, no different along the way and be consistent. Most than a resolution requiring dedication important of all, be patient. Behavior and effort. Take small steps and reward changes and lifestyle modifications take yourself along the way. time and a great deal of effort to achieve. 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COVER ARTIST Janelle (Carlson) Stoneking Janelle (Carlson) Stoneking is a symbolic of what we must all strive for. visual artist residing in Dickinson, In a world where we are surrounded by ND. She enjoys expressing herself headlines and information that is often through mixed media art because negative, black and white, we must it unifies people search within by conveying the ourselves to bring emotions that we the color. Just all share no matter as the words on our differences. his left shoulder She is supported proclaim, “find by her husband yourself in the Bobby Stoneking, funnies,” this art sons, Jackson (15) piece represents and Grayson (4). the importance of Her latest work is finding joy in the a 40”x30” collage little moments piece on canvas that connect us all titled “Sunday through the irony Morning” which and humor of how was awarded life transpires. The Best of Show for entire piece was the Professional created through Division at the piecing together recent Badlands Art Association show newspaper with his body made of along with 1st place in the Mixed comic strip and details added in Media category. When asked about the acrylic paint, pastel, colored pencil and painting, Janelle shared the following: charcoal. The most challenging part of “I literally saw this art piece in one the artwork was poring through over of my dreams. In the dream, I walked 6 months of local newspapers to find into an art gallery, and it was hanging enough positive words in headlines to on the wall, titled and created by me, create the messages woven into the featuring my father reading the Sunday newspaper he’s reading and the box comics. It felt so real and after I woke (foundation) that he’s sitting on. I’m up, I had to try to recreate it. Some of grateful that this piece has resonated my favorite memories as a child are of with so many people, and I hope that my dad as he would read the Sunday it continues to bring memories to all paper, pointing out his favorites and of comforting Sunday Mornings when sharing them with me. This art piece is family is together and laughter is more than a representation of him; it’s

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SHARE WITH US Heart River Voice is the VOICE of Dickinson and Stark County. Share your story with our community! Contact us for more information. Kelley Jilek at 701.290.2063 or email [email protected] PAGE 6 | JANUARY 2020 HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM KUDOS MUSIC CORNER CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson Highbrow/lowbrow Medical Center receives 2019 By Brent Rogers What kind of music do you think of as music? Would you ever consider listening ND Acute Stroke Ready Hospital being high class, refined, or snobbish? to, say, rap music? Country music? What kind of music would you think of Opera? As a school teacher it was very Quality Excellence Award as music for the average Joe? Would it interesting to me to see how rigidly the surprise you to know that, until about students clung to “their” music. Kids that 150 years ago, most people didn’t think listened to R&B did not listen to Country, that there was a difference between the and vice versa, almost as if by listening two? to something other than “their” music In his 1988 they risked losing book Highbrow/ their sense of self. Lowbrow: The It’s fascinating, and Emergence of some of us continue CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson Stroke initiative and reporting the data Cultural Hierarchy in the pattern well into Medical Center has received a 2019 ND to the North Dakota Department of America, Lawrence adulthood—myself Acute Stroke Ready Hospital Quality Health’s stroke program,” said DeeAnna W. Levine outlines included. I tend to Excellence Award from The North Opstedahl, Vice President for Patient how, in the late think that classical Dakota Stroke Taskforce. This award Care Services. “The tools and resources 1700s and early music is all I should recognizes the hospital’s commitment provided help us track and measure our 1800s, Americans listen to, but the to ensuring stroke patients receive the success in meeting evidenced-based of all classes and more I’m willing to most appropriate treatment according clinical guidelines developed to improve backgrounds seem to have had a taste for try out new kinds of music, the more to nationally recognized, research-based patient outcomes.” Shakespeare. He quotes John Bernard, I’m surprised to find that I like a wider guidelines based on the latest scientific “We are pleased to recognize CHI an English actor and comedian from this variety of music than I would have evidence. St. Alexius Health Dickinson for their period as saying, “If an actor [in America] expected. I’ve even found some rap music CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson commitment to up-to-date stroke care,” were unemployed…he had merely to that speaks to me! earned the award by reporting data said Christine Brondyk, BSN, RN State visit some town in the interior where no I recognize that this article risks through the GWTG registry to the ND Stroke and Cardiac System Coordinator. theatre existed… [and] his pockets in a coming across as preachy, but that’s the Stroke Program and demonstrating care “Their commitment to providing high night or two were amply replenished.” opposite of what I’m shooting for. I just excellence from January to December of quality care for stroke patients is (p. 17) Similarly, in the early- and mid- want to encourage you to try something 2018 in Time to IV Alteplase < 60 minutes essential to the mission of the stroke 1800s, Italian opera was so popular new. I’ll admit that my motivations are from arrival. The ND Stroke Taskforce system of care in North Dakota”. among Americans of all classes that, slightly selfish: I wonder often if people recognizes this hospital for success in According to the American Heart when a Rossini opera was performed in see advertisements for DSU concerts and utilizing the GWTG Stroke Program and Association/American Stroke a shortened version in New Orleans in don’t even think about going because demonstrating 100% adherence from Association, stroke is the No. 5 cause 1837, the audience rioted because they they don’t think of it as being “their” January-December 2018 in the highest of death and is a leading cause of adult knew they had not been given the entire music. But more than that, I hope that number of eligible ischemic stroke disability in the United States. On average, opera. However, over the course of the by encouraging you to try new kinds patients among ND ASRH who receive IV someone in the U.S. suffers a stroke every 19th century, art forms like Shakespeare of music you might find something alteplase within 60 minutes of hospital 40 seconds, and nearly 795,000 people and opera became more and more that enriches your life in new ways. arrival. suffer a new or recurrent stroke each associated with the wealthy upper Specifically, I dare you to come to a choir “CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson year. Each year, about 795,000 persons classes and came to be seen as something concert and find out why a lunatic like Medical Center is dedicated to improving experience stroke; about 690,000 are not for the “average Joe”—an attitude me would dedicate my career to it. Who the quality of care for our stroke patients new acute ischemic strokes (AIS) and that in many ways persists to this day. knows? You might find that it speaks to by implementing the American Heart about 140,000 deaths can be attributed Think about it: how flexible is your Association’s Get with the Guidelines- concept of what constitutes “your” you a lot more than you’d expect. █ to stroke per year. █

FREE .. HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM JANUARY 2020 | PAGE 7 WHERE BUSINESS GOES TO GROW FAMILY Meet our intern, Pit Mueller Parent Cafés By Stark Development Corporation 2020 will surely be another exciting new businesses and attract new people year for Stark Development Corporation. to build stronger communities. With a new year comes a new face to SDC. Why did you choose Dickinson, We would like to introduce and welcome North Dakota? Pit Mueller, an international exchange To be honest, I didn’t have a choice. student from Germany, to our office With the CBYX Program, we talk about and community. our favorite Pit will be working places, but this with many of our has no influence programs at SDC on our final while he works destination. to gain a better I feel very understanding of American culture, comfortable in the community, and I am business and community development. very thankful that I can live here. My As a participant of the Congress- host family provides a lot of support, Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young encouragement and the experiences Professionals (CBYX), Pit arrived in unique to life in America and their Great conversations, a delicious meal resilience, social connections, knowledge Dickinson at the beginning of August culture. I also appreciate the support and free childcare. Impossible, right? It’s of parenting and child development, 2019. The CBYX Program gives young from the International Club at Dickinson not! It’s what Parent Cafés are all about. social and emotional competence of professionals from Germany, and also State University and my new employer, In 2019, Healthy Families of North children, and concrete support in times from the United States, the chance Stark Development Corporation. Dakota (a program of Lutheran Social of need. to spend one year in each other’s What are your goals in your Services) recognized the need for more Through individual self-reflection countries. The CBYX Program is funded exchange year? opportunities for parents to connect and peer-to-peer learning, participants by the German Bundestag and the I have a lot of goals here in the U.S. and in ways that support family strengths. explore their strengths, learn about U.S. Department of State in honor of especially in North Dakota. Some of my Parent Cafés are safe spaces where protective factors, and create strategies the anniversary of the first German goals are already completed - studying parents and from their own immigrants, which settled in the U.S. at Dickinson State University and doing caregivers wisdom and more than 300 years ago. It exists for the community service in Dickinson. I share about experiences to help experience of studying, interning and just started my next goal, to work for the challenges strengthen their living with a host family in a different an American company, which is very and victories families. culture. Pit attended Dickinson State exciting, and I am very happy about this of raising a Participants leave University during the fall semester 2019 opportunity. Furthermore, I would like to family. The cafes Parent Cafés feeling to study international business. Also, learn as much as I can about American provide a relaxed inspired, energized, part of the program is spending several culture and the “American way of life”, environment that and excited to put hours doing community service. Pit is which also includes community and allows parents into practice what volunteering for the International Club at political systems and getting in touch and caregivers they have learned. Dickinson State University, Rotary Club to get together Starting January Dickinson, and as a Mentor to share stories, 14th, 2020, Parent at Best Friends Mentoring with politics in the U.S. █ build friendships, Café will be offered Program. We asked Pit a few learn how every second questions to give you further to improve Tuesday of the insight into our new intern. communication month in Dickinson What motivated with their at the West Dakota you to work for Stark children, learn Parent and Family Development? how to better Resource Center, Stark Development cope with stress, 402 4th St. West, provides a great opportunity and much more. Dickinson, with to expand my horizons in Parents often dinner at 5:30pm the area of entrepreneurship see it is an opportunity to take care of and the Café beginning at 6:00pm. and start-up businesses. I themselves while their children are also They are designed for any caregiver of am very interested in this having fun. children — parents, grandparents, foster area of business. This is just “It was nice to have a break and know parents, etc. and are open to parents and a small part of what I can my children were well taken care of,” one caregivers of children of all ages. learn at Stark Development. parent shares after attending her first They are free for everyone and always Another aspect I am looking Parent Café. include a meal and childcare. forward to is working with “I enjoyed learning how to take a Dinner 5:30pm, Parent Café 6-7pm the communities in Stark breath, regroup, tackle a problem, Dates: January 14, February 11, March County to attract new all while experiencing a fun social 10, April 14, May 12 workforce. Stark County has opportunity,” another says. For additional information on Parent great communities, and this The focus of the conversations is Cafés in Dickinson, contact Emily Gran at motivates me to help start referred to as protective factors: parental

701-390-3012 or [email protected]. █ PAGE 8 | JANUARY 2020 HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM #BOOKWORM Finding your family history By Paul Amberg, Outreach Librarian

The new big thing in genealogy or different types of DNA are and how it’s family history research is DNA. Well passed on to you. We will discuss which it’s not so new anymore, but how many test or sites might be best for you. We will people truly know how to interpret or talk about how to use your DNA results to use their results? I think the library can help build your tree and much more. help you with that. Every month, I host Also, the library will be holding its a genealogy program at the library. The Winter Reading Program once again next will be on January 4th at 2pm. in 2020, beginning on January 6th Each month has a different theme and and running through February 29th. January’s will be the use of DNA in Children, teens and adults are all invited genealogy. to participate. There will then be a wrap- When you see the commercials on TV, up party on March 6th from 3 to 5pm it seems to many like you spit in a tube or with cookies and hot cocoa for our guests swab your cheek and several weeks later to consume while eagerly waiting for the they send you your heritage and a family prize winners to be announced. Being tree. You find out that the heritage turns leap year, you will even have an extra day The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver; The and the perfect Pizza Party; I Got Next; out to be an estimate and there is no tree. to complete your reading! It’s going to be Girl Behind the Red Rope by Ted Dekker Everyone Counts; Ball & Balloon; Bruce’s You find out that if you really want to cold out, so you might as well grab a good and Rachelle Dekker Big Storm make use of your DNA results that you book and join in. It will still be cold out •Adult Nonfiction: The Last Stone; •Children’s and Teens’ Fiction: Ashes need to start building a tree yourself. Yet, but at least you will have that good book Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self- by Laurie Halse Anderson; Messenger the data doesn’t necessarily make sense to read. Delusion; Unfreedom of the Press by Carol Lynch Williams; Black Enough: to you. Your nationalities didn’t come The DAPL is always adding new •Adult DVDs: Homeland: The Stories of Being Young & Black in back exactly the way you were expecting materials and they are listed below. The Complete 7th Season; Criminal Minds: America; Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring them to. You wonder why if your parents list is a little lighter than usual because Season 14; True Detective: Season Three; Disabled Teens; The Real McCoys: Two’s were both 50% German and 50% we migrated to a new program for The Biggest Little Farm; John Wick: a Crowd by Matthew Swanson; Life French, how did your results come back cataloging and circulating. We should Chapter 3 – Parabellum; Booksmart; The According to Og the Frog by Betty Birney 65% German, 25% French and 10% be back up to our normal pace by next Dead Don’t Die; Ma; Rocketman •Children’s Nonfiction: Spark Story Ashkenazi Jewish? Shouldn’t you have month. •Children’s DVDs: The Backyardigans: Bible Psalm Book: Prayers and Poems for been 50/50 as well, and where did the New titles added to the collection: The Snow Fort; Avenger Dogs; Shimmer Kids; Dr. Seuss’s Horse Museum; The Key Ashkenazi Jewish come from? There •Adult Fiction: Ellie and the and Shine: Legend of the Dragon from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music; are explanations for these questions, Harpmaker by Hazel Prior; Gravity Is Treasure; LEGO Batman: Family Matters; Mythologica: An Encyclopedia of Gods, and that will be part of what I cover in the Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty; The Lager Blaze and the Monster Machines: Ninja Monsters and Mortals from Ancient January’s genealogy presentation. I will Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal; Blaze walk you through what DNA is, what the What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon; •Children’s Easy Books: Pete the Cat Greece █

WEST RIVER COMMUNITY CENTER Meet our dietitian, Kailah Haag Every day we see and hear countless healthcare setting, but can also benefit out run a bad diet”. Diet and nutrition is bits of diet “advise” from various sources healthy people, not just those who are not just about weight loss. Many clients such as social media, family, friends, ill. Anyone looking to stay healthy can just want to have someone look over news and radio. We are also faced with benefit from having their diet looked at their diet and see if there is anything countless choices on what to eat and or “tuned up.” I work with clients who are that should be changed, or where they when to eat. It quickly becomes difficult already exercising, but have questions can add in some more nutrition and to distinguish what is to be trusted. about their diet. It’s nice to sit down and variety. I’ve helped people with things This is where a Registered Dietitian go over what the client is currently doing, such as: Weight loss, digestive problems Nutritionist can be a big help. A RDN and from there I can give suggestions on and allergies, pregnancy/breastfeeding is a health professional who has at things to maximize the results they’re nutrition, family meal planning, looking least a Bachelor’s of Science degree, looking for. Did you know that diet through different diets (i.e. Keto, Paleo, personal goals. has completed internship hours, and makes up about 75% of the weight loss/ Whole 30, Vegan, etc.), training for As you look forward to the New Year passed the qualifying registration exam. maintenance equation? So even if you’re athletic events, and of course helping think about your overall health and Dietitians are also required to stay up working hard in the gym to lose weight, with managing medical conditions such wellbeing and make it a priority to look to date on current diet research and or working to keep from gaining weight, as diabetes, high blood pressure, high at your diet. There are multiple resources guidelines through continuing education. you will have a hard time doing so if your cholesterol, etc. A dietitian can help in our community that can help you get Dietitians are often seen in the diet isn’t in check. As they say, “you can’t build these meal plans to achieve your

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TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS Trinity’s commitment to life By Kelli R. Schneider, Marketing Coordinator The year 2010 was a first at Trinity significant sites – the National Basilica Amanda Brusseau, senior at Trinity rigorous: long days, short nights and lots High School. It marked the start of a now of the Immaculate Conception, the High School, is attending the National of walking. Because it is a pilgrimage, 10-year old Titan Tradition – taking high Holocaust Museum, Arlington National March for Life for the first time this however, students have daily Mass, school students to the Cemetery, and a few year. “I’m really looking forward to this multiple group prayer opportunities, National March for other places.” pilgrimage – to be a part of something and the opportunity for confession. Life in Washington, Part of the student and witness something bigger than What the National March for Life gives D.C. What started as experience of the myself. It’s an opportunity to show the students of Trinity is the fervent a group of about 10- National March for support and solidarity with expectant hope that our country can be a country 15 students in the Life is participating in mothers who don’t want an abortion of life. “Time and time again I have seen early years of this events surrounding the but don’t know what else to do,” said the Holy Spirit work in our students pilgrimage has grown March. The night before Brusseau. through this pilgrimage: conversions to a full bus of Titans the March for Life the The trip is a pilgrimage, not a happen and lives are changed,” said (30-40 students) students of Trinity, vacation, so the schedule is fairly making the 24-hour along with trip to our nation’s thousands Ellerkamp. █ capitol every January. of young people from This year, 2020, finds 39 students across the United States, in grades 10 through 12 committed to attend the Life Is Very Good the National March for Life Pilgrimage. Conference/Rally on the For the first time in the history of the campus of George Mason pilgrimage, 9th grade students are University, sponsored by not able to go because the bus (with the Diocese of Arlington. chaperones and students) is at capacity. “The Life Is Very Good Each year’s pilgrimage has a similar Rally is thousands of itinerary. “Generally the pilgrimage is young people having fun, a six-day/five-night timeline. We spend singing, laughing in that a night on the bus on the way out and arena. And then they bring on the way back, then three nights in out Jesus, exposed in the a hotel in the D.C. area,” said Amanda Holy Eucharist and the Ellerkamp, March for Life Pilgrimage whole arena falls on their Coordinator and religion teacher knees in silence,” said at Trinity High School. Ellerkamp Ellerkamp. She added, continued, “While we are in our nation’s “That whole experience capital, in the days leading up to the gives me goosebumps each National March for Life, we tour both and every year. The faith of National March for Life Pilgrims, representing Trinity High School, January 2019. religiously significant and historically the young: it’s amazing!”

PIECE BY PIECE Lessons to begin quilting By Suzy Rummel

The year 2020 is here. Time for a fresh 2. Don’t get in a hurry and for sure 5. Have FUN, start, resolutions, winter to continue and don’t let your sewing machine know you which is what quilting! I do sometimes love a good are. It will break a thread, get jammed up hobbies are blizzard when everyone is safe and we and become belligerent just because you supposed to be. can huddle down and work on projects. want to get done fast. Suzy’s Stash It seems like the craziness of the world 3. Make sure you buy enough fabric has classes and stops for a moment when the wind is to finish the quilt or project. It is so retreats – check howling, snow is flying and I’m huddled frustrating to run out of a certain fabric out our website in warm clothes and fuzzy socks drinking you need, and you can always use the www.SuzysStash. coffee and sewing. extra to make something else. com or our Here are five lessons for beginning a 4. Decide on how perfect it has to Facebook Page quilt, swiped in part from the good ol’ be and what you can live with. Don’t let facebook.com/ World Wide Web; with some of my own. anyone else decide for you. If it is a little 1. Nelson Mandela stated that “It crooked and that is ok with you, then always seems impossible until it is done”. don’t let anyone destroy that. Also if you stashsuzys/. █ How true when you are beginning to are a perfectionist, realize that and do quilt. the best you can and remember practice. PAGE 10 | JANUARY 2020 HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM HEART RIVER GEMS Brad and Brenda Fong By Kaylee Garling There are so many incredible people in So, I ran the dealership for 30 years.” Of our community, and this month is sure to course, he doesn’t credit the dealership please. We met Brad and Brenda Fong at as his greatest accomplishment; he says Fisher Park last spring as our kids played his kids are. together on the playground. They played Brenda grew up with three brothers just as hard as the kids and carried even on a farm 18 miles north of Dickinson, better conversation. Then, fate crossed where her older brother and she helped our paths again as we went to the CHI run the family farm. Milking cows, driving Charity Ball. There were a few people a tractor by herself at the age of 10, and ahead of us in line for the pictures, and being a hired hand without pay was the I remember whispering to my husband kind of life that was expected, but one that they looked like such a fun couple, I that is now treasured. She went to school would like to sit with them. The universe in a one-room schoolhouse where there must have heard because our assigned were only 13 students. She was the only seats were at the same table. Then, from one in her class. She jokes that she was they’re doing, and that person leads aspect. “When our son played baseball, the moment I stepped foot in their door always the top of her class. “We rode while the other person supports the he would always ask me if I saw the to do this interview, I felt like family, the school bus to school 1 1/2 hours project. Wonderful advice! double or home run he made, and I would coming home. Brad ushered my three- one way, then came home, milked cows, After marriage, Brad worked long tell him yes, and he would tease me that I year-old to a box of Paw Patrol toys, and did chores. We never were involved hours at the dealership, believing that didn’t, because he didn’t make them, tell while Brenda wrapped up a conversation in sports or anything after school. Just if he worked harder than anyone else, me I was too busy talking. And I was.” She with some contractors that are working good work ethic, good solid faith, which it would be successful, while Brenda laughs at herself. “The only thing athletic on their home to create a three-season was number one in our life. Faith and stayed at home with the kids, raising that I really like is exercising. I’ve been a dining room so they will be able to carry family. Grew up with those type of roots. them to be the wonderful people they runner since I was 18, so that’s going on on their tradition of Sunday dinners My family is really close. My grandma are, contributing to the community in 47 years now. I run 3 miles most days. I as a family comfortably. If you can’t tell had everyone over for Sunday dinner numerous ways. Brad sold the Parkway go to the community center 2 two days already, this is a couple who puts others after church, where we hung out with Ford dealership just two years ago and a week and take classes there. It’s such a before themselves, and very worthy as all our cousins. A pretty simple, humble has helped the transition of the company great place, because you have this group mentioning in this month’s article of life.” She started high school at Trinity, to the new owners with much hope of women you exercise with, and after Heart River Gems. where she had 120 students in her class, of success. Though life probably has class, you sit down and have coffee with Brad was born in Beach, ND, but his seven class periods, with seven separate slowed down for them, they keep active them.” There’s the social aspect again. family moved to Dickinson when he was classrooms, and seven different teachers. by participating in several community “I’m a jack of all trades, master of none. two years old. His father worked on a “I didn’t sleep for the first two weeks,” activities. Brad says, “I am one of the I like gardening, sewing, crocheting, few different used car lots, and then, she says. After graduation, Brenda went lucky guys, that when I go golfing, I get knitting, painting, singing, decorating, when Brad was about 11 years old, his into fashion merchandising. First, she to take my wife with me, because she finding ideas on Pinterest, then doing dad started his own used car dealership, worked at a few shops downtown, then also enjoys it. We do a lot of scramble them. Right now, I knit and crochet baby giving Brad the opportunity to grow up three stores at the mall, before she met tournaments in the summer. I follow hats for the hospital.” as a lot boy, learning the car business. He and married Brad. sports. I like the Twins, but I love the Brad and Brenda have four kids, and in went off to college after graduating high Brenda tells of how she and Brad first Yankees. If I get to watch a Yankees game, January, nine grandkids. They dream of school, but he wanted to work harder met. “There was a party across the street then I’m good. I still like to compete, so staying in Dickinson for the rest of their than just sitting in class. So, at 21, he from my apartment in a trailer. Both Brad golfing with a handicap is something I lives, in their home, as long as their good dropped out of college and joined his and I went to it. They ran out of ice for enjoy. A friend of mine asked me to join health sustains them. I am so glad to dad on the lot again, after his father had the drinks, so I gave Brad and one of his the bowling league. So now, on Monday have met them, and hope you’ve enjoyed the opportunity to buy the controlling friends the keys to my apartment and mornings, I go bowling. If you would’ve getting to know them a little better as interest of Parkway Ford. Brad and his told them they could run over and get ice. said to me 3-4 years ago I would be well. If you bump into them at the park dad worked side by side for 11 years Well, it took forever, and I started getting spending my Monday mornings bowling, with your kids, you’ll leave as friends, before his dad passed away at the young worried. When I got to my apartment, I I would’ve dropped over dead, but I do, which is why this community is such a age of 54. When asked what the greatest found out what had taken them so long. and I like it.” special place to live. Because of people challenge has been in Brad’s life, he says My sofas, chairs, everything was upside Brenda enjoys sports for the social it was having his dad pass away so young. down, with books and magazines spread Brad was only 32 at the time when he took across the floor. They saw how clean I Heart River Gems is proudlylike the Fong sponsored family. █ by over the duties of his father’s business, was, and decided it needed a little mixing which was a lot of responsibility, not to up. He called and apologized, took me mention a challenge, since most of the out to dinner the next week, and that’s people he worked with were older than how our love story began. We’ve been him, with lots of experience. Being who married for 39 years this next year.” Not he is, Brad didn’t give up. He took on the many people can say the same. It’s a challenge, continuing his father’s legacy good thing they both have a good sense through hard work. “I felt if I kept my of humor. One thing they credit to their nose clean and kept a good relationship successful marriage is that since they with everyone we knew from Western are both leaders in their own way, they ND, I could make the Ford dealership go. decide who is in charge of a project HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM JANUARY 2020 | PAGE 11 CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU YOUR HEALTH Downtown Plazas – Make 2020 the Year of Change By Steve Irsfeld Main Street Squares Roger Brooks has assessed and assisted to be programmed with at least 250 days many communities revitalizing their of activity each year. downtown districts across the nation. The bottom line: Where people spend A few years ago, he was contracted to time, consistently, retailers will follow. review and provide a comprehensive Think back a couple of generations: downtown development plan for Rapid When people moved to the suburbs, City, SD. the retail went with them in the form of What he learned was that visitors suburban malls. And downtowns began would typically spend the night in Rapid a generation of declining vibrancy and City, get up early, and head out to these increasing vacancies. attractions. When they returned in the Recently Main Street Square, in the evening, downtown was mostly closed, heart of downtown Rapid City, is now a so visitors headed back to their hotels or reality. Young families began returning to on to their next road trip destination. Rapid City. Downtown became THE place Roger gave three statistics that helped to spend time. In fact, Summer Nights, chart a new course to a “downtown plan.” every Thursday during the summer It’s hard to believe 2020 is here. There healthy low glycemic sugar and carbs, 1. The number one activity of months, sees nearly 13,000 people are so many things to be thankful for good fats, plenty of clean water visitors, in the world – not the reason downtown. Main Street Square’s ice rink from health and wellness to family and • Lifestyle – 6-8 hours of quality sleep, they come, but the top activity once operates 90 days a year, and the splash friends. Being grateful and expressing appropriate exercise, manage stress, they arrive – is shopping, dining and pad another 120 days. When you add the that feeling can be helpful to sustain don’t be sedentary entertainment in a pedestrian-friendly concerts and entertainment, vendors, our health. A positive attitude had • Hormone Balance – Is your thyroid setting. In fact, this is where eighty Movies on the Square every Monday been proven to increase your chance and other hormones working optimally – percent of non-lodging visitor spending night (average attendance of 3,500), all of surviving certain illnesses. Here are checking the following labs (free T3, Free takes place. this action and entertainment adds up to some ways to make that happen: T4, TSH, antibodies, TSH), sex hormones 2. Seventy-percent of all retail at least 250 days of “activity” downtown. • Journal – Buy a nice leather bound (progesterone, estrogen, testosterone), (bricks-and-mortar) spending takes Make your downtown the community’s journal and just write. If you don’t want Adrenal hormones (cortisol, DHEA), place after 6:00 pm. With tourism, people living room – the place your residents to deal with knowing where your journal Leptin, Insulin – hormones out of balance want to spend the night where there’s life want to spend their leisure time, is, there are many apps that are free or can make weight loss extremely difficult and activity after they return from a day gathering with friends and family, having have a small fee that you can utilize on • States of Health – looking recreating in the area. fun, eating, being active and entertained your computer. Write at the beginning for inflammation, food allergies/ 3. If locals aren’t hanging out in ¬– and you are bringing your downtown or the end of the day about the positive intolerances, toxins, yeast, insulin your downtown, neither will visitors. to life. Merchants will open new shops things that happened in your day. I don’t resistance, medications They go where you go. and restaurants because the people are do a good job of this, but often think of the The last thing would be to consider At the top of the recommendations there. This is “Place Making,” and it is the articles I write as part of my journaling. starting a supplement regimen to list was the conversion of a 65-space lifeblood that makes YOU the destination • Prayer/meditation – Spend some fill in the gaps of nutrients that you (one-acre) parking lot in the center of of choice, as a place to live, invest in, and time being still and quiet. This is a great do not get in your diet. Our Fab 5 downtown to a year-round public plaza way to start your day. foundational protocol consists of • Be Positive – One of the things that Vitamin D, Multivitamin, Omega 3 Fish visit. █ I like to say when people ask how I am Oil, Probiotic and Fruits and Greens. This doing is “never better”. A colleague of is the foundation of building a stronger, mine actually calls me Never Better healthier body. because of this. It usually stops people The question I like to ask patients is in their tracks and leads to great this, “If you change nothing in your life, conversations. where do you see yourself in 20 years?” • Celebrate Success – Being positive Often times the answer is not something about our achievements in 2019 is they want to hear. The things we do something we don’t want to forget. We today, set us up for the next 20 years and tend to beat ourselves up about the beyond. Strengthening your foundation things we haven’t done vs. celebrating is just one of the keys to helping you the successes we have accomplished. enjoy your next 20 years. Many people begin the New Year with Stop by or call the pharmacy to losing weight as a goal. The holidays can schedule a consultation, we would be a little rough in the area of weight love to help you work towards optimal gain, I know personally that I have added health in 2020. Please visit my website a few pounds, and I’m pretty sure it is at www.irsfeldpharmacy.com to find this not all muscle. Here are some areas to and other archived articles in the blog look into if you are struggling shedding section. Until next time, be vigilant about weight in 2020: • Diet – Adequate fiber, lean protein, your health! █ PAGE 12 | JANUARY 2020 HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM

you accidentally catch a handle on the rest 3-5 minutes, roasts 10-20 minutes, MISS BEA'S KITCHEN way by. Especially if you have kids, this and things like turkey can rest up to 45 tip is important! We don’t want anyone minutes and still be piping hot when you 10 tips every cook should know getting burned! carve into them. Long story short, if you By Laura Beth Walters 5. Purchase fresh, quality don’t like dry meat, LET IT REST! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Are you one to go a lot smoother. Before heating the ingredients. I’m all for saving a few 9. Salt your pasta water. Mario Batali make New Year’s resolutions? If so, I pan or melting the butter or anything dollars, but when it comes to meat and says you should salt your water “until it hope that spending even more time in the else even happens, you should dice produce you should look for better tastes like the sea.” I don’t generally put kitchen is numbered those onions, mince quality. I try to buy organic meats and in quite that much salt, but I do agree amongst them…I that garlic, do all the when the farmers market is in town (and with him. Most of the salt will go down know that’s a goal of things necessary so I remember that it’s in town), I like to the drain with the water, so no worries mine this year. I want that every ingredient go there for my peppers and such. Even there, but it does give the pasta a great to do more baking is lined up on your if you can’t afford the most expensive flavor. Also, don’t put oil in the water! Oil and experiment more counter and ready options, try to go somewhere in the will make the pasta slimy and your sauce with healthier recipes to go. This step is middle. You will notice a difference in the won’t stick to it. Nobody likes dry noodles! as well as stepping especially helpful flavor, I promise you! Unless you’re making mac and cheese, I up my game when it if you’re not so 6. Don’t leave the kitchen. Okay, this wouldn’t recommend rinsing your pasta comes to hostessing. great with time is one that I sometimes struggle with. either. Rinsing the pasta makes it get cold If your house is like management. Now, go Unless you’ve made a recipe before and faster and can also hinder the sauce from ours has been the easy on yourself. You know exactly how it’s going to cook, try sticking to the pasta. last few months, then may forget to prep not to go switch that load of laundry and 10. Cooking is not the time for maybe you’re feeling something or not get no commercial cooking. You know what I improv! If you’re a beginner, just follow this way too. We get something out of the mean. You watch your show and jump up the recipe. Nothing fancy. Nothing so busy during the fridge beforehand, to check on dinner when the commercials creative. Just don’t. Following recipes holidays going here etc. but it’s not the come on? Stop it. You’ll burn dinner nine will give you a better understanding of and there for parties, end of the world. I’m times out of ten! how ingredients work together and what concerts, and 17,000 one of those cooks 7. Don’t put food in a cold pan. I each of them brings to a dish. Once you’re different family Christmases that our who likes the kitchen to remain relatively know this is tempting, especially if you’re more familiar with your spices and own kitchen now seems like a stranger! clean during the entire process, so I tend doing all the prep before turning the various ingredients, then you can have This is a sad day! to leave dairy and sauces in the fridge stove on. But you can wait a minute or more freedom to substitute ingredients Whether you’ve not spent enough time until I need them. Also, if you’ve cooked two while the pan heats. You won’t die of or add new ingredients to your dish. in your kitchen to build a relationship a particular recipe several times you may starvation, I promise. When you put meat Note: DO NOT IMPROVISE ON BAKING! with anything other than your microwave, be able to relax a bit and do some of the directly into a cold pan it will continue Baking is an exact science and unless or if you’ve taken an extended leave of dicing and prepping during the cooking to release moisture as the pan heats up you’re an experienced baker you should absence from your kitchen the last two process if you know you’ll have a break. and will result in dry, tough meat. Why? not try to be creative. Trust me. months, I hope these tips will be a help 3. Don’t overcrowd your pan or Because it will take longer for the meat In all of this, just remember to roll to you. baking dish. Food releases moisture to sear and you will lose all the moisture with the punches. Nothing will ever 1. Read the recipe through at least as it cooks. If you overcrowd a pan, from the meat long before it gets to that go perfectly the first time around and twice before cooking. I know, I know. your food will end up steaming rather point. that’s okay. If you’re in the kitchen and This seems silly. But who hasn’t skimmed than browning. And we’ve all seen the 8. Rest meat after cooking. This is trying, you will learn… whether from the a recipe and just started cooking, only amateur baking shows where the pans an important step and I’ll tell you why. masters or from your own mistakes. to realize you don’t have the right pan overflow, right? Just don’t overfill the When you cook, the moisture in the meat Laura Walters is the Owner of Miss Bea’s or there’s an ingredient mentioned in pans and do space out your cookies. moves to the outer edges (remember Kitchen. She offers affordable, local menu the directions that wasn’t listed in the Okay. Moving along. talking about this?). If the pan is hot and planning and homemade freezer meals for ingredients. It happens! Read the thing at 4. Turn your pan handles to the side. you get a good sear on the meat, then you the busy family and non-chef alike. Follow least twice before you start. Pretty self-explanatory, but you want to need to let the meat rest so the juices her on Facebook: @MsBeasKitchen, on 2. Prep & organize before you start. be sure your handles aren’t sticking out can saturate the center as well as the Instagram: @msbeaskitchen, or email her I don’t always follow this step very well toward you while you cook. In a hurry, edges. I won’t bore you with the science, at: [email protected] but when I do, it sure does make cooking it's easy to knock a pan off the stove if but that’s the gist of it. Steaks should █ HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM JANUARY 2020 | PAGE 13

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c. Pioneer Machinery OUT AND ABOUT Building - During the summer months, volunteers are needed to man the Pioneer Machinery Our Town Building in order to keep it open By Laura Beth Walters to the public whenever the rest of the museum is open. If you We are just emerging from another have an interest in agriculture, Hallmark movie season. You know the this might be a good fit for you. ones I’m talking about. The movies d. Photo Project - The where the big city girl (or guy) leaves Dickinson Museum Center is everything they’ve ever known to move involved in an ongoing project to Smalltown, USA… and they absolutely to scan and preserve historical hate it. After a while however, they come photos of the region. This is an to see the charm of the place, meet some incredible undertaking and they amazing people who change the way are always looking for people they see the world, and they fall in love interested in local history who with the only other single person in town would be willing to help with under 40. We all know how the movie this. ends, yet we watch it anyway because we Other areas of volunteering: Ramada. They meet once a month at the all love a happy ending. moving here was how disconnected I Security desk, maintenance, tour DSU Heritage Foundation and work to Whether we realize it or not, each of us felt. I was newly married, worked from guides, special events, and educational support the DSU rodeo team through are currently playing a role in a Hallmark home, and more often than not was home services. For more information, visit fundraising. Most of the funds raised will movie of our own, and Dickinson is the without a car so it was a big challenge their website and click the “Volunteer” go toward scholarships but also help to setting. Perhaps you’re a newcomer figuring out how to meet people and tab: www.dickinsonmuseumcenter.com. provide the team shirts and other gear (like me) struggling to find your place create local friendships. Somewhere You can also contact the museum with requested by the rodeo team throughout here and missing the “big city” thrills along the way, I was added to a Facebook any questions regarding these and other the year. and attractions, or maybe you’re a local group specifically for women who had opportunities. For more information, find them on in this particular movie whose part it is moved to the Western Edge and were 2. House of Manna - I think many of Facebook: DSURodeoCouncil to welcome the newcomers and show us looking to make new friends. I decided to us are familiar with House of Manna but Other great options for groups to why you love Dickinson. Whatever part reach out through that page and posted did you know they are always looking for check out would be the public library you’re playing, I hope you realize how a brief paragraph about myself including volunteers to work with their donations and the Dickinson Museum Center. The important you are to this community. interests, faith, etc. I wasn’t expecting and with clients? House of Manna is also Museum Center has their 4th annual Dickinson may not be Smalltown, anything to come of it but received a currently searching for individuals who Mystery Dinner coming up January 18th USA but it is smallish, and many of our response almost immediately! This lady may be interested in being on their Board as well as the Community Art Show in locals are connected to each other either had moved to Dickinson from Oklahoma of Directors. The board meets just once February. Everyone is invited to submit by blood or shared history. You may a few years earlier, also worked from every six weeks for about an hour, so if photos for the show; the deadline have been born here but others have home, and was finding herself feeling you are looking for a way to get involved for entries is January 24th. Through moved here for work, to find love, for a isolated and alone just like me. We but don’t have much time this may be a the library, you can even check out fresh start, or for any variety of reasons. chatted a bit through Facebook before great fit for you! everything you’d need to start your own Regardless of how or why we have all setting up to meet for coffee (you gotta For more information, visit their book club (please invite me!). You can come to be here together though, it’s be smart - make sure the other person website: www.homnd.org find out more about library events here: easy for any of us to feel isolated and isn’t a creeper) and once we met face I can’t even begin to cover all the www.dickinsonlibrary.org, and more lonely at times. In this series of articles, to face we each knew we had found a volunteering opportunities in our about events at the Museum Center here: I would like to share ways that each of kindred spirit. That was over a year ago community in one short article, so www.dickinsonmuseumcenter.com or on us can be involved in our community to and still to this day we get together often please be patient with me. These are Facebook: dickinsonmuseumcenter. make it a better place, to make others for long coffee dates. At the time, I felt just two options. In the coming months, VOLUNTEER feel welcome, and to encourage a sense kind of silly writing that post. But I am so I plan to share many more opportunities Speaking of the Museum Center, this of belonging and pride in both the “born- glad I pushed myself outside my comfort for community involvement whether is a fantastic place to volunteer some n-breds” and the “new-in-towns”. zone and admitted that I wasn’t “fine”. it’s volunteering, organizing, joining, of your time. If you have any interest in As I started researching for this article, I’m no longer a part of that group but supporting, creating, or just plain paleontology or history at all, the staff I was surprised that many local leaders there are other groups here in town that enjoying what our town has to offer. I at the museum would love to talk to you and organizers aren’t aware of all that would be a great place to start! hope this series of articles will inspire about working together and sharing Dickinson has to offer, and those who 1. Dickinson Fit Moms - This is a group you to make a place for yourself here their passion and knowledge in these are more involved are people who have for women only and is a place for moms in Dickinson and perhaps even fan the areas with you. uprooted their lives to come here. When of all varieties (pregnant, postpartum, flame of love for our community buried 1. Dickinson Museum Center you grow up in a place, you tend to empty-nesters, grandmothers, etc) to deep inside every one of us. The biggest a. Paleo Lab - In the lab, community always do what you’ve always done and come together and encourage health hope I have in writing though is that I can members can be trained in preparing as generations before you have always and community. They host free workout somehow help bridge the gap between specimens and help with exhibit done. There isn’t necessarily anything opportunities, monthly challenges, the locals and newcomers. Community developments. Yes, that means working wrong with that, but if we want to see moms’ night out events, and more. shouldn’t be based on each person’s with ACTUAL DINOSAUR BONES! It’s our community grow then we have to be For more information, find them on place of origin. Each of our experiences pretty cool. In the summer there are even open to trying new things and meeting Facebook: DickinsonFitMoms make us who we are as individuals, and opportunities to volunteer for field work! new people. Outsiders are NOT the 2. Dickinson State University Rodeo who we are individually makes us who b. History - Volunteers will help with enemy - WE COME IN PEACE! Council - This fun group is responsible we are as a community. Let’s build each cataloging, organizing, and conserving JOIN A GROUP/CLUB for the annual “Cowboys & Candlelight” other up and create a stronger, more One thing I noticed right away after dinner coming up February 22nd at the pieces of North Dakota history for generations to come. unified community. █ PAGE 16 | JANUARY 2020 HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM FEATURE STORY Meet Kat Perkins By Kaylee Garling for the troops overseas, sold out venues Kat Perkins grew up in Scranton, across America with a variety of themed North Dakota surrounded by a family of performances and tours, and began going musicians and quickly knew at a young into schools to speak to students about age that performing is what she wanted following their dreams, living a Fearless to make her life career. After seeking life, and making a positive impact on as many opportunities as she could, the world. The praise Kat received from including spending several summers as these presentations even led her to begin a main act on the Medora Musical stage, a nonprofit foundation, The Rising Star Kat followed her undeniable drive and Foundation, providing scholarships and passion for performing and moved to opportunity for aspiring musicians while Minneapolis, Minnesota to pursue music also giving back to the local community. on a more professional scale. She quickly Kat Perkins is coming to town this gained the attention of the local Twin month, performing at Trinity High School Cities music scene by taking stages in the for Mardi Gras on January 24 (see ad on several projects and bands she formed back cover). We had a chance to sneak over the years. The most successful being onto her schedule when she performed her rock band, Scarlet Haze, which went her North Country Christmas concert in to open for Bon Jovi, amongst working Killdeer, getting to find out how neat a old, then was in it for 5 years after that. Being on The Voice was such a huge with some of the music industry's most person she is, both inside and out. Read Every single summer, I would wield deal and really catapulted me to another on for an inside look of my schedule, school, and life, around the level, but what I learned after coming off this famous artist who musical. Medora is one of my favorite the show was to still knock on the doors. comes from humble places in North Dakota. Obviously, it’s Still hustle and work hard to make things roots, right here in very beautiful and popular. The park, happen in my life. Once I had The Voice our very own North the surroundings, and the people were on my resume, it did make it easier for Dakota, as told in her so nice. In the summer when you’re a those doors to open, but I stay grounded own words. Burning Hills singer, you get to meet a by keeping myself around family, friends, Growing up in lot of people that come through the town fellow band members, people who I love Scranton was so very from different states and different towns and keep me humble through it all, and special, intimate, and in North Dakota. It was magical living people who give back to their community, fun. Since I’ve been there. which is really important to me. singing most of my One of my best memories after The I’ve release five albums since The life, I got to entertain Voice revolves around my Christmas Voice. Three of them are Christmas, at talent shows, and show. I love performing for the holidays because I love that time of year. I am because my dad was and hearing stories. It’s a time of year working on a new album as we speak, the music teacher, he where families come together, so I get to which should be released in March of this would bring me on unite families over music, which is one of coming year, so that’s something to look stage for the recitals. the most beautiful things as a singer and forward to. My favorite song is probably I have a very special performer, bringing people together and Fearless. I released it coming right off the family bond, as well as having a great time. I also perform for the show, The Voice. I wanted it to capture friends I grew up with, troops usually around three to four times what I felt growing up, going through the whom are lifelong a year, going over to the Middle East and show, and it just really does that. One of friends. Scranton is a visiting our soldiers, which is one of the the greatest lines in the song is, “What huge part of my life and best things I do all year long. would you do if you weren’t afraid?” It’s a my heart. I love big city life for the opportunity I get to have as a performer, but I prefer small town living, not well-known acts. having to navigate traffic and things like After a hiatus from performing due that. to vocal surgery, Kat made a musical I have a very small family. It’s just comeback in 2014 by auditioning and me, my sister, and my parents. But in appearing on season 6 of NBC's The Scranton, I had both sets of grandparents, Voice. Kat turned 3 chairs during her which made it very enjoyable as a kid. I blind audition, charted in the top 5 on have been performing since I was 5 years iTunes several times with her stand-out old, in kindergarten. I remember being performances on the show, and sailed to terrified, but also wanting to do it over the finals with help from her coach, Adam and over again. I had been to the Medora Levine. Being on The Voice brought new Musical since I was in the womb, and by platforms of success and opportunities the time I was a junior in high school, I Kat's way. She's since gone on an average figured out how to audition for the show. of two military tours per year to perform When I was a senior, I got cast at 18 years Continued next page HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM JANUARY 2020 | PAGE 17

Continued from page 16 Got Talent, American you will reap the benefit of it. And start school kids, and now I’m working with Idol, and Broadway. It giving. See what happens when you start the corporate world. I dabbled in it this helps cover expenses giving, because I promise you, it will year, but now it’s really coming about. I of plane tickets, come back to you tenfold. am also publishing my first book. I got hotels, basically Harold Schaffer is such a huge my first deal a few weeks ago and will any expenses they inspiration in my life. I got to meet him be working on it super hard in the new might have while when I was a senior in high school. year. Hopefully we will see it within a few auditioning. Medora is founded around him and his months of the new year. It’s a big deal. The family. One of my favorite quotes is his: I never thought it would happen to me, motivation “Do the best you can, with what you have, and it just kind of came out of nowhere, behind Rising Star where you are.” It literally has changed but I was really open to it. The entire foundation was, my life living by that motto. No two days publishing company is out of Minnesota, growing up in a blue- are the same. You literally have to roll women-owned, and it’s a one-stop shop, collar family, where with what you have. where they edit and publish. It’s going to my dad was a teacher Writing a song is my greatest be a mix between a memoir and a guide and my mom a house achievement. It is very difficult, but to living fearlessly, based on my song, cleaner, there wasn’t a it’s been my outlet since I was about and the motivational speaking I’ve been lot of money available 15 years old. Anytime you can connect doing for the last two years. for performing or words, create lyrics, it’s an achievement. For more information, look online for education. We didn’t Along with still singing and song writing, Kat Perkins Music. Check out our websites: have the means for I am amping up my public speaking. I’ve katperkins.com and risingstarfoundation. me to go to every been working with elementary kids, high org. camp or study under musicians. Once I █ had a new platform from The Voice, I had Dear friends: a chance to make that possible for kids. Many scholarships It is an honor to welcome you to are based on grade the 56th Annual Trinity Mardi point average. We Gras being held January 24-26 don’t look at that. at Trinity Junior High and High We look at what School. When I think of the Mardi you’ve done in your Gras many things come to my huge question everyone should be asking community, musical mind, and at the top of the list, themselves every single day, to make merit, all the things you’ve performed in, is a real spirit of community and themselves happy, and find success. we have you sing for us, and if you have thanksgiving. Life in general keeps me humble. the financial need, we aren’t worried Being in the music industry is not easy. about what grades you get. It’s based Hundreds of people from the community and the region It doesn’t matter if you’ve won The Voice on what my experience was, and what come out to support this great family event. Without so or if you get a record deal, there are still benefits the kids in the industry. Last many people giving of their time and talent this weekend things that are very difficult. Every day year, we set out to do 15 scholarships, would not be possible. Please know of my gratitude and is pretty humbling when the van breaks and we gave away 27. We almost doubled appreciation to all of the volunteers as well as everyone down, or we have to spend the night our goal. We have given away around 50 who comes up to Trinity to enjoy a great meal, take in sleeping in the van or a car, or we have scholarships, just in the last two years some national entertainment, play bingo or enjoy the many these long drives and people get really of having the foundation. We did our midway games. tired, so that keeps it real. Whenever first fundraiser last year, had 150 people I need a kick in the pants, I surround show up, all donate, so there are a lot of We extend a warm welcome to all who enter our doors and myself with kids. Kids in my family, kids I people interested in what my premise is we hope that you truly enjoy the weekend. The Mardi Gras used to nanny, and remind myself of what and how I can foster this talent I find all is a great testament to what the Trinity Catholic Schools really matters in life. It’s about these kids, across the United States. are all about. The spirit of hospitality, camaraderie and family, friends, and having a good time. The most important person in my life teamwork are never more present than at the Mardi Gras. I had no idea what I was doing when is my dad. I give him a ton of credit for we started to set up the Rising Star my success. He taught music for 40 years The continued success of the Mardi Gras allows the Trinity Foundation. I just thought the most in Scranton, he introduced me to music, Catholic Schools to offer a quality Christ-centered education important thing I could do was offer played records for me and my sister. It’s at an affordable cost. Please know how much your support scholarships to kids. We have three why I know bands like Fleetwood Mac, is appreciated. I look forward to seeing you at the 56th different scholarships: one is for kids Journey, Van Halen, and Peter Paul and Annual Mardi Gras! who want to go to college (2 or 4 year) Mary. He was a huge part of my success conventional or non-conventional; and drive. He was in a band, so I got another for kids who want to go to music to see what it was like, working hard, In Christ, camp (doesn’t matter what camp, even wanting to perform well, being nice and though I have my own camp in Medora kind, making connections, and just being every summer); and the third one, called a huge mentor. He’s definitely my hero. Steve Glasser the Kat Perkins Scholarship, is really The best advice I can give any young near and dear to my heart because it is singer is to just keep going. Tomorrow President, Trinity Catholic Schools for kids or adults who want to audition is a new day. If you keep working hard, for programs like The Voice, America’s PAGE 18 | JANUARY 2020 HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM

Then... and Now: The Dickinson syndicate – early movers and shakers By Bob Furhman

As frontiers opened for settlement National Bank (and other banks) – and business. He is a man of considerable underway. “The cry all of the past winter in the late 19th Century individuals of many other ventures, all while being means, a firm believer in Dakota and one has been for more houses, however, vision and daring made their way to active in real estate speculation, a field of her best workers.” We know from the this was better than to have half the the new territories seeking to make in which Whitley excelled. Press and the Bismarck Weekly Tribune buildings in town vacant and indicates a or grow their fortunes. The romantic Hobart Whitley was born in Toronto, that Whitley was back and forth to the degree of prosperity which many other idea of such folks conjures visions of Canada in 1847 (sources vary), and Missouri Slope several times in 1886 towns would be pleased to boast of.” In rugged frontiersmen, hardy pioneers immigrated with his family to Flint, but no mention of the original location May plans for more cottages, possibly on or rough and tumble work gangs laying Michigan at a young age. He attended of the Stark County Bank is carried, even Barnes or Clough streets (1st Avenues rails and driving spikes as the railroads Toronto Business College and, after his when a large advertisement appears in East and West) were announced along drove relentlessly (well, except during parents were killed in a train/buggy April 1887. However, that same issue with additional Syndicate investors: financial panics) westward – all ready accident in 1865 he used his inheritance of the Press announced the formation John J. Freeman (Northern Pacific and willing to make their mark by the to travel to Chicago to get started in of the Dickinson Syndicate, a building Railway Station Agent and later a sweat of their own labor. business, owning a hardware and candy association. druggist); Frank Green (Superintendent But along with those people store and eventually investing in the The Syndicate consisted of Whitley of the Missouri Division of the NPR) were folks of some means (and an Chicago Rock Island Railroad. He also and Hilliard (respectively President and; William Ray (Roadmaster for the entrepreneurial spirit) who seemed worked for the railroad as a town site and Cashier of the Stark County Bank), Missouri Division). Syndicate capital to thrive on the idea of making money agent working out of Kansas City and Horace L. Dickinson (cousin to town was reported as $50,000 ($1,345,000 work and grow by their willingness to Minneapolis. A biography of Whitley site developer Wells Dickinson) and today). Shortly thereafter Whitley’s risk a fortune to make a fortune – what reports that he helped develop over Nelson C. Lawrence (Stark County’s arrival with his wife was announced, we might call movers and shakers. One 100 towns during his time working for first Register of Deeds). They initially including mention of plans to occupy of the earliest such efforts in the new the railroads, experience which would planned to erect two “neat and one of the cottages; by June Hilliard was town of Dickinson was a small group serve him well throughout his career. attractive cottages on Sims Street…to reportedly building his own cottage and of fellows, commonly referred to as Alphonso Hilliard was a Vermont be of the modern style, two stories high, thinking of marriage. the ‘Dickinson Syndicate,’ who helped native who attended Troy Conference with five rooms in the first and three No details on the Barnes and Clough grow the town as they grew their own Academy (forerunner of Green in the second story, a bay window and Street plans emerged but two more Sims fortunes. Mountain College) before heading west veranda in front.” This announcement Street cottages were announced and the The roots of the Dickinson Syndicate to make his fortune in the early 1880s. was welcomed by townspeople as original two completed – the second were firmly set in Dickinson’s first Details of his pre-Dickinson days are housing in the new community was in being occupied by Syndicate member financial institution, the Stark County somewhat scarce but he is mentioned in short supply and Whitley’s previous Lawrence. A Press item in October 1887 Bank (just the second bank west of the the Bismarck Weekly Tribune as being involvement with the development of reported the purchase of 25 town lots Missouri River) which was founded in involved, along with Whitley, in land the Prospect Heights neighborhood the previous summer, however, deed 1886 by Hobart Whitley and Alphonso development in McIntosh County. in Bismarck gave expectation of well- books do not list transactions by the Hilliard. Whitley and Hilliard probably Hilliard’s arrival in Dickinson isn’t made homes. The announcement also ‘Dickinson Syndicate,’ the purchases met in Bismarck about 1884 where reported in the local paper, however, noted that the Syndicate intended to possibly being made by individual the former was partner in several in February 1886 the Dickinson Press erect other buildings in the coming members. In November plans were businesses - a wholesale grocery, reported, “Mr. H.J. Whitley, president summer. announced for a brick business block a building syndicate, a mutual life of the bank of Ellendale, is here for A week later lumber and foundation at the NW corner of Villard and Barnes insurance company, the Bismarck the purpose of engaging in the same stone were delivered and excavation Continued, next page HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM JANUARY 2020 | PAGE 19

Continued from page 18 (1st Ave. W) to house the Stark County Bank with retail space and second floor offices. In May 1888 Whitley and H. L. Dickinson traveled to the Twin Cities to consult architect James Price and sign contracts with Barnett & Record for the construction of the bank and four cottages. Details on the structures were carried in the May 26th Press; the cottages would be on Sims, of two stories and six rooms with excavation work already underway. The cottages were finished before August with three NPR employees closing deals by the end of July. The Bank finished in fall, with Fowler’s Hardware occupying a retail space on Villard and a second storefront located on Barnes. Mention of the Syndicate then disappeared from the Press although its members appeared in social notices - Hilliard and Dickinson both married (the latter to N.C. Lawrence’s sister) in late fall. After a leisurely honeymoon Mr. & Mrs. Hilliard arrived in Dickinson at the end of 1888, staying at the Whitley cottage as that couple traveled to Minneapolis to visit before Chamber of Commerce) closing its and Clough Street cottages are not serve as Dickinson’s postmaster and in Hobart headed off to the West Coast business with the Syndicate, probably confirmed, and the location of the Sims the North Dakota Senate. Frank Green with William Ray “to look up a location” the end of the Club’s lease of a room Street homes can only be speculated, eventually left the NPR and moved to the – it seems Whitley was desirous of new in the bank. The building went up for although it seems fairly certain that west coast. Horace L. Dickinson (1839- challenges. sale, eventually coming into the hands Hilliard’s cottage was located on lots 5, 1923) who had served as one of the Concurrent to Whitley’s trip it was of Mr. Hilliard who organized the First 6 & 7 on Block 17, just north of what original Stark County Commissioners announced that Alphonso Hilliard National Bank of Dickinson in 1890 and is now The Brew coffeehouse (old St. also ran the original Dickinson Farm, had bought out his bank partner and opened there on Villard and Barnes. John’s Episcopal Church). Hilliard sold ranched sheep, speculated in real estate assumed the presidency. By May it was Over 21 months of activity the the house to H. L. Dickinson in April and started the Dickinson Mercantile clear that Whitley had moved on, living Dickinson Syndicate built at least 1891, taking possession in June of that store. Alphonso Hilliard (1863-1947) for a time in Minneapolis and then 8 cottages and the first brick block year and enlarging the structure in continued as president of the First heavily involved in the development of in town (H.L. & L.G. Dickinson are 1909. Without further evidence, this is National Bank; ranched sheep and Guthrie, Oklahoma where he stayed for erroneously credited with building the only Dickinson Syndicate building moved to Florida when he retired. a time building the first brick block (for the first brick building - Dickinson believed to still exist. And Hobart J. Whitley? After his new bank), leading the Chamber of Mercantile - in 1891, although H.L. And what of these movers and Oklahoma he eventually found his way Commerce and successfully lobbying was certainly involved with the bank shakers? William Ray (1852-1900) left to California where he opened a jewelry Washington to make Guthrie the project, it was two years earlier). With the NPR in 1888 and served a term as store and continued as a town developer territorial capital. no Syndicate business records available Dickinson postmaster, speculated in and real estate promoter. By the time Back in Dickinson the last Press we are left to depend on newspaper property and acquired the St. Charles Whitley retired from banking and active mention of the Syndicate had the accounts - the proposed Barnes Hotel on Villard two years before his development he was credited with Dickinson Club (fore-runner of the death. J.J. Freeman (1853-1905) went helping found over 140 towns and cities, into the hotel business and died in a including many significant California tragic elevator accident after moving to communities, the most famous of which Grand Forks to take over a new property. earned him the un-official title, “Father N.C. Lawrence (1845-1925) went on to Call for ofArtists Hollywood.” █ Are you a North Dakota artist who would like to be featured in our paper? Do you know of someone who deserves a "spotlight?" Send a short biography (300 words or less) and some high resolution images of your artwork for consideration. We'd love to show off your talents!

Email to: [email protected] PAGE 20 | JANUARY 2020 HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM DICKINSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Creating community at Dickinson Middle School By Dr. Marcus Lewton, DMS principal

Building a community takes time and particularly depression and anxiety, compassion, something I am proud to say among more serious psychological all our staff, retired and current, work distresses. hard to accomplish at Dickinson Middle The middle school years have always School (DMS). been challenging. Students are figuring For twenty-plus years, Scott Hoffman out who they are and where they belong. was the technology education teacher They need a safe space to express at Hagen Junior High. When I arrived themselves while building empathy in 2012 near the end of Scott’s career, for others who may be different from he did not strike me as someone who them. The DMS motto, “Growing Minds created community. Scott was a little Building Community,” is at the heart of gruff but had high expectations for all everything we attempt to accomplish for kids. His classroom was a safe place and our students. students thrived there. Each student at DMS belongs to a Students today are more connected specific team community, sharing the to peers and the world than any youth same students and teachers. It allows of the past. Students can connect with teachers to address specific student a friend halfway around the world in needs as a team. Below are a handful of seconds. Why then do kids feel lonelier community building practices at DMS. than previous generations? Recent • Students begin and end the day in research by Dr. Jean Twenge identifies a advisory time with an assigned teacher strong correlation among youth between whom they will see a minimum of three an increase in electronic communication times per day. Mondays are set aside students either discuss important topics designed and made t-shirts with and digital media and an increase for Circles and Community Building such as friendship, responsibility, or nicknames on the back. He painted rocks in multiple mental health concerns, Activities. During the 35-minute Circle, careers, or they participate in games with their nicknames and presented the or activities that build teamwork and rocks to them at assemblies. Scott even community. printed annuals with stats and pictures • DMS utilizes Restorative Justice of each student. Practices to allow students to learn from One day I was warned about Mr. their mistakes by building empathy. Hoffman taking too long to highlight Students dialogue with classmates or our Cross-Country team during activity staff when an individual has wronged assemblies. Like any good principal, I another, developing interpersonal skills addressed the concern by visiting with rather than using traditional means of Scott. He politely explained he would removal from school. try to speed it up, but I should consider • DMS offers over two dozen activities. making assemblies longer because the From Football and Science Club to Soccer community of kids deserve recognition. and Ubunti (Community) Marimba, Building community is nothing new any of our students can feel a sense of to DMS, and I am proud of the DMS team belonging at DMS. for working every day to make our kids Scott Hoffman was a master at building feel like they have a safe place where they community not only in the classroom, but on his Cross-Country Team. Students belong. █

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Ponies are hosting a Bucking tion contact Eudell Larsen receive 2 complimentary YOU FINISH IT! IT’S FREE! I Series this fall and winter MURDER AT THE MUSEUM at 605-515-0765 or eudell. Tom & Jerry's. Non-mem- Don’t Know Bar, 207 4th St for aspiring young rodeo The Dickinson Museum Cen- [email protected]. bers $2 each while they last. NW, South Heart. athletes. $5 for adults, $2 for ter presents the 4th Annual DSU Indoor Arena, 400 State 5 games of bingo starting at kids under 12. Chip Poland Mystery Party on January Ave. 3PM with a $1000 guar- THURSDAY JANUARY 9 at 701-483-2185 or chip. 18th. The fun begins at 7:00 anteed blackout to start BOOKS & BREW – SCYTHE [email protected] with a social hour, (one free THURSDAY JANUARY 30 around 4:30PM. First 4 7-8:30PM A book-club for or Dale Diede at 701-590- drink and hors d’oeuvres BRYAN DRAKE SHOW - games are 3 on 1 cards for adults set in a relaxing at- 5881. DSU Ag Indoor Arena are included) cash bar is CHRISTIAN ILLUSIONIST 7–8:30PM Bryan Drake is $2 ea. Blackout is 3 on 1 mosphere. This event is for 400 State Ave. provided by Ponderosa a Christian illusionist who cards for $5 ea. Eagle’s Club, 21 and older. Each month Liquor. The game starts at tours throughout the world 31 1st Ave East. we will discuss a book while TUESDAY JANUARY 14 8:00 sharp. Tickets must be 5:30PM entertaining audiences and enjoying a beverage or two. PARENT CAFE purchased in advance for Dinner, 6-7PM Parent Cafe. sharing a Christ-centered FRIDAY JANUARY 3 DePorres House of Barber- $35.00 per person. Must be They are designed for any message. Using illusions and SIP SIP HOORAY WINE RE- ing & Lounge, 17 2nd Ave 21 to attend. Visit the Muse- caregiver of children — par- mentalism, Bryan Drake gets LEASE PARTY AND COM- um or call 701-456-6225, to ents, grandparents, foster inside of your head. Bryan EDY HOUR 6-9PM Help us downtown. reserve your character. 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Comedy Hour starting sions. $12 in advance. $15 at 4th St. West Valentine's Day items! at 7:30. Fluffy welcomes the door. 2891 5th Ave West. SATURDAY JANUARY 18 This event is free to attend Dickinson native Brock An- for the public. For vendor SATURDAY JANUARY 11 WINTERFEST 2020 11AM- 4PM Featuring winter car- registrations and questions, the evening. Must be 21 to MALANKA 4PM Social hour 5PM Evening meal spon- nival games, vendors, art/ contact: Kelsey Doohen at dersonattend. $20/person.for a perfect finishTickets to [email protected] HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM JANUARY 2020 | PAGE 23

to the public. Ages 2-4. ONGOING EVENTS DICKINSON AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY 9:30AM Mondays Tiny Tots Story Time (ages DINING, NIGHTLIFE, BARS 0-2). 10:30AM Tuesdays & THE ROCK Thursdays 1st- Wednesdays Pre-School Sto- Open Mic Night-Brady Paul- ry Time (ages 3-5). 4-5PM son, 3rd-Live Music, 9PM- Tuesdays Teen Fun (11-17). close, no cover. Friday Night See dickinsonlibrary.org for Trivia. Starts at 6:00pm FREE up-to-date information and to play. Regular Trivia fol- more fun activities that may lowed by Music Trivia. Come require sign-ups.

1st St West. More informa- CLUBS/GROUPS early...Seatstion rockdickinson.com. fill up FAST! 113 AARP WALKING GROUP 8-9AM M, W, F through the THE EAGLES CLUB 5:45PM end of March. A walking Wednesdays and Fridays group for senior adults. Stop in and play Bingo. Attendees walk around the Games played in succession. outside of the basketball 5-9PM Thursdays Beer and court at their own pace.Free Wings. Monday-Fridays and open to the public. For 11AM-1:30PM Lunch spe- more information, contact cials. 31 1st Ave. East. Betsy Murphy at betsy.mur- [email protected]. I DON’T KNOW BAR 11AM- Scott Gymnasium, 1100 2nd 3PM Lunch specials Mon- St West. day-Friday. Mondays Pizza and a pitcher $11. Tues- 6PM-8PM Tuesdays St. John STARK COUNTY COMMIS- HEART RIVER HOME- Lutheran Church. Come 8:00AM days $2 Long Island Teas. 7PM 4th Thurs- SION MEETING BREWERS sing your heart out with the 1st Tuesday of each month. Wednesdays 2-4-1’s wells day of each month. Calling Dickinson chapter of Sweet Stark County Courthouse SAVE THE DATE and domestics 6-10PM. all home brewers! Meet at Adelines International. Ages Commission Room at 51 3rd Thursdays $2 pints. Friday Phat Fish Brewery, 1031 12+ welcome! For more St East. prime rib 5-9PM and $6 West Villard. information, contact Robyn FEBRUARY 1-27 pitchers. Saturdays $15 beer ART SHOW The Community 2PM Sew Nadvornik 690.8958 or PLANNING AND ZONING buckets. Ladies night free SEW SISTERS 8:00AM Last Art Show at the Dickinson Sisters, 2nd Tuesday of MaryAnn Brauhn 290.4013. MEETING wells and domestics 8-9PM Thursday of each month. Museum Center will be each month. Other classes then 9PM-close only $1. Stark County Courthouse February 1-27. This year we available and info, see www. BADLANDS ART ASSOCI- Sundays $5 Bloody Mary bar 7PM 1st Tuesday of Commission Room at 51 3rd are featuring photography. SuzysStash.com. 118 N Ave, ATION 11AM-3PM and $3 pounders each month. All community St East. Local artists are welcome to Richardton. 974.7899. 5PM-close. artists welcome! Meet in contribute their pieces for 5:30PM Aux- ABLE, Inc. building 1951 1st EAGLES CLUB display. Deadline to submit FOOD KITCHENS WEIGHT WATCHERS iliary Meeting 1st Tuesday 12:15PM OR 5:30PM St. West. More info, contact art is January 24th. WELCOME TABLE 6PM of the month. 7:30PM Aerie (Weigh-ins start 15 min [email protected]. Tuesdays Free to the public. Meeting 2nd Tuesday of each prior) EVERY Monday. 46 1st Garvin Hall St. Patrick’s DICKINSON CITY BAND month. nd Ave E (Sunset Center). Catholic Church 310 2 St. Mondays 7-8:30PM in DSU West. WOMEN OF TODAY 7PM TOASTMASTERS 6-7PM. band room (basement of May Hall). 291 Campus Dr. 2nd Thursdays of each 6-7PM 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the ANGEL 37 KITCHEN More info, contact Robyn month. Dickinson Eagles Tuesdays Free food to every- month. Welcome all com- Nadvornik 690.8958. Club. one. Nourish your body and munity members looking to develop public speaking and soul. Queen of Peace Catholic DICKINSON STRINGS Mon- COMMUNITY OFFERINGS th leadership skills! Check us Church 725 12 St. West. days 5:30-7PM DSU band START UP YOUR DAY/ out at 1967.toastmaster- room (basement of May START UP YOUR NIGHT . Held at SWDHU, SUPPORT GROUPS sclubs.org Hall) 291 Campus Dr. More 8-9AM 2nd Thurs- 227 16th St W. More info, DICKINSON AL-ANON FAM- info, contact Priscilla Keogh days/5-7PM 4th Wednes- contact Teresa Buck 701- ILY GROUP 8PM Wednes- 290.9145. days. Welcome new and old days St. John’s Episcopal 880-0374. entrepreneurs wanting to th Church basement 822 5 MEETINGS network and discuss ideas Ave West. SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL 6:30PM 2nd DICKINSON CITY COMMIS- and lessons learned through and 4th Wednesday of the SION MEETING 4:30PM business. Location TBD. For FAMILY FUN Commission Room at 99 2nd more info, visit startupyour- DICKINSON MUSEUM CEN- month. St. Patrick’s Church Parish Center, 229 3rd Ave St East 2nd & 4th Tuesday day.com or startupyournight. TER 9-10AM Toddler Tues- of the month. dickinsongov. com. days Join us at the Museum W. Center to enjoy songs, crafts city-commission/ and stories. FREE and open PRAIRIE ROSE CHORUS com/boards-and-officials/ PAGE 24 | JANUARY 2020 HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM BEST FRIENDS COMMUNITY MLK Jr Day of Service A winter wish Winterfest is the second event for Moe Event LLC. This family event will be held expands with activities, Saturday, January 18th from 11am to 4 pm at Henry Biesiot Activities Center at 398 State Ave in Dickinson. Event activities recognition will include kids’ carnival booths, art classes, a snowman making contest, a By Mark Billings professional art/photography contest, and shopping. Tickets for the event can Basketball games, poster we can use to be pre-purchased for a discounted rate a “lap challenge”, continue inspiring at Dickinson Convention and Visitors visits by local athletes our mentors while Bureau located at 72 Museum Drive. and craft-making are attracting more A special part of the event is the scheduled during volunteers to our art class that will be offered by artisan the Best Friends organization.” Cassie Fink of Fink Customs beginning Mentoring Program’s For nearly 25 at 2 pm. Kiddos and parents/caregivers 4th Annual Day of years, Best Friends get to take part in an art class and create Service from 1-4 p.m. has worked to a beautiful winter inspired mixed media on Monday, Jan. 20. inspire an estimated painting called "A Winter Wish." Pre- The activity day, 3,000 youth in the registration for the class is required, and the fee is $35. You can find info about this held on the Dr. Martin local schools by on the Winterfest Facebook event page. Luther King holiday pairing them with a The artist, Cassie Fink, started painting at the West River mentor. The trained when she was sixteen years old and Community Center (WRCC), is a way for volunteers commit to meeting with their put her love for art into action in 2016 mentors and mentees to interact with youth in a school or community setting when she started her Finks Customs LLC one another while honoring Dr. King’s once per week for at least nine months. business. legacy of service. In an attempt to expand Some matches continue for consecutive Save the date and attend this great the event this year, mentors will also years until the youth ages out of the receive a #ThankYourMentor card from program at the age of 18. Among the their mentee; youth will also contribute longest matches was 10 years; the mentor family fun event! █ to a mentor recognition poster. Best drove from Dunn County to Dickinson weekly and travelled an estimated and social media sites. 30,000 miles during his pairing. If your New Year’s resolution was to eat more Friends will post the artwork in its office Best Friends is continuing to seek in supporting and guiding their mentees, mentors to serve during 2020. For fruits and veggies yet you are struggling and“Mentors we want playto honor a very their significant commitment role more information, contact Billings at to get that done, we have the product for you: and positive role-modeling,” said Mark (701) 483-8615 or by email at mark@ Billings, the Best Friends program bestfriendsnd.org. 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Everlasting Hope Alumni Spotlight: Chantel By Tara Brandner (Hubert) Keller ’13 1 in 8 couples – more than 14,000 treatments is $10,000, and that is on the North Dakota residents – have trouble low end. Additionally, infertility patients getting pregnant or sustaining a will encounter highly inflated managed pregnancy. care pharmacy 61% of women prices for going through medications, infertility don't where patients tell their family with coverage or friends about can pay as much this struggle. as 100% more Everlasting for medications Hope is a compared to newly founded prices charged North Dakota to self-pay nonprofit and patients. the only one in A national the state raising awareness on infertility, infertility organization, Resolve, connecting with infertility patients completed a community survey that across the entire state, and awarding found 39% of participants used credit financial assistance to patients. It is our cards to pay for their fertility procedures, wish to support families experiencing while 12.6% took out loans and 4% Tell us a little about your life are willing to assist you in any way infertility through resources, education, used their home as equity. They also before you came to Dickinson State possible. events, and support. found that women (25-34 years old) University (DSU). How do you stay involved in your Infertility is recognized as a disease accrued $30,000 of debt on average after Before I came to DSU, I’d consider community? yet once this diagnosis is made there is undergoing infertility treatment. myself a typical high school student. I I stay involved in my community by no insurance coverage for care. This also Everlasting Hope has held community worked part time at a grocery store, hung volunteering for Special Olympics. Ever includes patients seeking to preserve kickoffs in Fargo and Bismarck which out with friends on the weekends, and it since my junior year in high school, their fertility prior to starting cancer raised over $3000 for the patient seemed that I spent every other waking I have been helping train and coach treatments. Currently, only 16 states assistance program. Event planning for moment at the bowling alley. Bowling athletes in a variety of sports. I also help have infertility insurance coverage laws, 2020 is under way for fundraisers and was my passion then, and I can’t say that with fundraising, organizing events and and six states have fertility preservation events for patients. We are looking to has changed much! am part of our Area Management Team. laws for iatrogenic (medically-induced) expand into more communities and hold Why did you choose to attend DSU? You were recently named the 2019 infertility. During the 2019 North Dakota events, including wellness retreats and a I chose to attend DSU because I grew North Dakota Coach of the Year in legislative session, an infertility care and state wide conference. If you or someone up in Dickinson and I liked the idea of Special Olympics. Congratulations! cancer preservation bill moved through you know is struggling to grow their staying close to home while getting a What does it mean to you get that committee. Senate Bill 2233 did not pass; family, we would love to be a support college education. award? Everlasting Hope will seek to bring back system through your journey. To schedule In what year did you graduate and Being recognized by Special Olympics its efforts during the 2021 session. a kickoff event in your community, what degree did you earn? as the coach of the year is an honor. I Cost is the number one barrier to email us at beatndinfertiltiy@gmail. I graduated in the spring of 2013 with never thought I would be recognized infertility medical treatment, as North com. You can follow us on Facebook, a Bachelor of Arts in communication and for my service, but it shows that all the Dakota’s insurance law does not cover Instagram, Twitter, and our website a minor in journalism. time and dedication volunteering for the infertility treatment. The average cost of What are you most proud of program has made an impact. Little by when you look back at your time at little we make a difference; sometimes raisingeverlastinghope.org. █ Dickinson State? it takes an award such as this to realize I am proud that I made the decision to that. I would volunteer my time over go to college, earn a degree and was able and over again just to be able to see the to push myself to graduate with honors. smiles of everyone I have coached over In high school, I didn’t apply myself as the years. It is a great feeling to be a part much as I should have, so when I went of their success. to college, I committed to studying so I What are you doing now? could succeed. I currently reside in Dickinson with What would you tell someone who my husband and am an administrative is considering attending Dickinson assistant for Braun Distributing, a State? beverage and wholesale distribution If I would talk to someone that is company...I have learned over the last considering attending Dickinson State, few years that I love the office setting as I would remind them of the student to a career. In my spare time, I continue to teacher ratio...Dickinson State still has volunteer for Special Olympics as a coach the small-town feel. All of your professors and am an active bowler and play softball are approachable, knowledgeable, and The author and her son, Hayden in the summers. █ PAGE 26 | JANUARY 2020 HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM BEEN THERE, DONE THAT Good times at events you read about in Heart River Voice

Stark Development Corporation, Chamber of Commerce, and Convention and Visitor’s Bureau hosted a Holiday Open House for community members. from Santa & Mrs. Claus. The team was on hand to help greet little guests and furryInfinity friends Real Estate for pictures, Group cookiescelebrated and the hot holiday cocoa. season with a special visit

Kat Perkins shares her story with Members of VUK Multi Media, Trinity Mardi Gras, and Heart Heart River Voice at her North River Voice enjoyed the Kat Perkins (5th from left) North A gathering of moms and their children at a Mommy and Me Country Christmas concert in Country Christmas concert in Killdeer. class, part of Dakota Fit Moms. Killdeer.

More than 75 kids and adults painted with Santa and Christina Jorgensen, AustinBoepple, and Joel Walters, Tanya Keller, Kenley, Tim Jokerst, and Laura Jessica Dukart-Bell at Phat Fish Brewing Company. Megan Klassen of the Chamber of Commerce Walters get into the holiday spirit at the Dickinson Downtown celebrated in style at DSU's Yuletyme event. Association's Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM JANUARY 2020 | PAGE 27 COMMUNITY Murder at the Museum The Dickinson Museum Center character; their last name is a color. You presents the 4th Annual Mystery Party will be given costume suggestions, your on January 18th. The fun begins at 7:00 costume can match your character name. with a social hour (one free drink and For example Joe Brown is a gardener, he hors d’oeuvres are included). Cash bar is wearing a brown suit with packets of is provided by Ponderosa Liquor. The seeds in his pocket. You do not have to game starts at 8:00 sharp. Tickets must dress up, but that is part of the fun. This is be purchased in advance for $35.00 per not a play but a game. You will have clues person. Must be 21 to attend. Visit the to reveal, and secrets to hide. Someone is Museum or call 701-456-6225, to reserve murdered and you try to figure out who your character. did the dastardly deed. (Was it Professor A little about the game. You are Plum in the study?) invited to attend a masquerade party at a local castle. Each ticketholder has a Best Friends Mentoring Program welcomed three new mentors to the team Please RSVP by January 10th. █ in November: Brady Yoder, a junior at Dickinson High School; Heidi Jazwa, a sophomore at Dickinson State University; and Sue Mosser, possibly one of our FINANCES

first mentors from Billings County. Don’t be a victim HAPPY 2020! …and if you will turn 65 are actively working to protect seniors or greater in 2020, please be aware of and combat elder financial exploitation. unscrupulous people who would like to Banks view safeguarding older customers help spend your money. as not only an ethical imperative, but Often referred to as the “age wave,” integral to good business. If you are the United States is in the midst of a asked more questions by your banker demographic transition as 10,000 Baby when making a cash withdrawal, it is Boomers turn 65 every day until 2030 likely because we are trying to ensure

Carter Fong, president of the board for Best Friends Mentoring Program, Santa and his little friend catch a few ZZZs at Breakfast with Santa — at which point 20% of the nation you will not be a victim of fraud. Talk to stocking with bottled water, soda and event held at Roosevelt School. will be “retirement age.” “This shift has your banker, we are more than willing granolahelped fill bars Best for Friends’ mentor Christmastraining and (Picture courtesy of 4N3 Photos) affected industries across the nation, to help you make important decisions postage stamps. and the financial services industry is no exception,” says Vaune Johnson, Market President of Cornerstone Bank. about your money. █ Americans, primarily born before 1964, hold 70% of deposit balances in the US. This fact has enticed scam artists seeking to exploit individuals to target seniors, their identities and their Now accepting new patients financial assets. Seniors lose billions of dollars to exploitation each year. Losses from such abuse are significant and take an emotional toll on top of the financial impact. Victims often become depressed and experience intense feelings of shame as well as fear. Many lose their savings while others may also lose their homes. From the financial perspective, Baby Boomers are considered one of America’s most at-risk populations. www.highplainsdentalpc.com Over 60 Trinity Junior High and High School students performed Recognizing the challenges facing 701-483-RIN 4746 Fiddler on the Roof. America’s elderly population, banks PAGE 28 | JANUARY 2020 HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM

Grand Forks area after the 1996 Red LOCAL TALENT River of the North flood. Today she works as a bereavement worker for her Norma Knapp county’s hospice program. Her children’s book Missing My Best In a community creative writing a synopsis of Dickinson’s history, and Friend is loosely based on a personal class, a retired university professor told letters to her sister, describing the oil experience. That book, published in 2011, Norma Thorstad Knapp that she writes industry, its impact, and its history. went into second printing. It’s listed on like Eudora Welty. When Knapp, then 56, Examples of the house stories include the National Bereavement Resource threw her a puzzled look, the professor the discovery of a rat in one house, the List and is now a collectible. Knapp questioned her, “You don’t even know fear that one brother had polio, the time donated many boxes of these books to who that is, do a landlord asked the community in Connecticut where you?” for ten months the Sandy Hook shootings occurred, That class and back rent, and to communities where children were that question were when the welfare victims of tornadoes and to children life-changing for board inspected at various grief camps throughout our Knapp. Thereafter, their home. country who’ve suffered great loss. she went on to Knapp Scoria Roads was nominated for a write several believed she was 2016 Minnesota Book Award in the short stories, writing these Memoir and Creative Nonfiction category. poems, essays, stories for her It also won the U of MN Beverley Paulson and a sermon--all sister’s family. But Family History Award in 2016 in the award-winning. writing this book Memoirs Category. Then a few years was healing for her. “For me,” Knapp said, “Scoria is a like the smoothed down scoria.” ago, she wrote two It helped her heal metaphor for my life. Scoria will tear up a Today Knapp’s days are full with books: Missing after losing her pickup tire until the road smooths down. reading, traveling, hospice work, time My Best Friend, a sister. I was a feisty, troubled young girl, but with grandchildren, and writing her children's book Born in through the years, I became fine-tuned about loss and grief what is now the third book. █ and Scoria Roads: ghost town of Twenty Houses in Werner in Dunn Twenty-One Years about growing up in County, Knapp is one of seven children. COMMUNITY western North Dakota. This collection of After living in parts of Dunn County, the 36 stories takes readers on a journey of Red River Valley, Idaho, and Oregon, her Parental alienation her life from 1942 to 1963. family moved to Dickinson when she was The inspiration for Scoria Roads nine years old. She gives credit to her HALOS Foundation, Inc is a non- population of adults and reported that was the family of her sister Evie. Knapp teachers, especially to Agnes Oxton, a profit organization located in Dickinson “approximately 22,211,287 adults are said, “It began after my sister died; her former English teacher at Dickinson High dedicated to promoting awareness currently targets of parental alienation. children and grandchildren kept asking School, for her love of words. and providing educational materials Our results highlight the pervasive nature for more and more stories about her. I Knapp lived in Dickinson, most years in regard to parental of this epidemic and later realized I needed to include the oil without a father, until after graduation alienation, a severe form demonstrates the need story in this book and how my sweet, safe, from DHS. She received a scholarship of child abuse. for greater investigation western North Dakota was changing.” to attend Bismarck Hospital School of What is parental of the serious problem. Scoria Roads is multilayered; there Nursing. After working in North Dakota alienation? It is a course The sheer magnitude are stories of Knapp’s Scandinavian and Texas as a registered nurse, she and of conduct in which one of parental alienation ancestors, her early history and houses, her family moved to Minnesota where parent uses deprecation, uncovered in the study she worked in special denigration, and various indicates that much education and went degrees of criticism to greater attention back to college at age alienate a child from the needs to be paid to this 49 and majored in other parent. Consider problem.” elementary education the old expression HALOS Foundation, and psychology. “to poison the well”. When one parent Inc holds monthly support group “I’ve always engages in disgraceful behavior against meetings for those that are suffering been interested in the other parent, and it seriously the unbearable grief of unjustified human behavior-- undermines the child, it’s called parental rejection from their own children due to what makes people alienation. Parental alienation, however, one parent’s incapability to co-parent. tick,” Knapp said. goes far beyond simple brainwashing We provide educational materials and When offered a job in or indoctrination. If left unchecked, an discussion time at these meetings, and disaster bereavement alienators often obsessive, never-ending they are free of charge. HALOS Vision work, she trained message of hate can wreak psychological “For every child, the love and support of as a bereavement havoc on a child, creating problems that both parents always.” facilitator and will last well into adulthood and possibly For more information, please contact accepted work alienating the child from the targeted Brandy Johnson, President, at 701-260- as an educator, parent forever. 1769 or [email protected]. crisis counselor A recent study from Dr. Jennifer You may also visit our website www. and bereavement Harmon, University of Colorado and halosfoundation.com or follow us on facilitator in the colleagues surveyed a representative Facebook and Instagram. █ HEARTRIVERVOICE.COM JANUARY 2020 | PAGE 29 HOPE FOR YOUTH Home on the Range offers Trinity Catholic Schools Titan Tots Preschool through Grade 12 registration for many paths to hope the 2020-2021 school year opens on February 3!

Home on the Range was founded part of something great.” - 17-year-old in 1949 by Father Elwood Cassedy. girl at HOTR J O I N T H E T I T A N F A M I L Y ! He knew that spiritual guidance A majority of the children relate to was something the “wayward boys” music. HOTR scheduled its first live needed and that this would help them Christian concert on June 16, 2019. With overcome life’s struggles, challenges and a cross and Cassedy Hill as a backdrop, disappointments. Spiritual development it proved to be an amazing concert, continues to be a strong asset within its experience and ministry to everyone in programming. The difference now is the attendance. The connection the band many different choices children can make members made with the boys and girls to participate and grow in their faith. was hard for the children to put into Home on the Range offers traditional words. They said things like “amazing,” spiritual tract programming such as “they understand me,” “awesome,” attending the Catholic, Lutheran or “unbelievable,” “it was emotional,” “it Evangelical Churches, or a service in the moved me,” and “mysterious.” Holy Family Chapel. The children can also Another group to help the children sign up for prayer groups, Bible study, on the path towards a strong faith and attend presentations of guest ministers a relationship with God is the physical and inspirational speakers, watch family work-out group. The children lift Educating the whole student - mind, body and soul. or Christian-based movies, or sing on weights, run, hike, bike, etc. The hope is praise night. the children will find they are physically- www.trinitycatholicschools.com OR 701.483.6092 If children don’t have a religious fit, which can lead to a strong spirit and affiliation, they can attend Moral healthy mindset. Development, which teaches basic There is also a cultural diversity core values, such as fairness, caring, group. Several staff show the children trustworthiness, respect, integrity, how to bead or teach them about other Thank you to our advertisers! honesty, etc. The children can also sign Native American crafts and traditions. up for “Freedom Church.” It’s a different type of spirituality and “When we get together on Tuesdays, everyone is welcome. The time and effort Tammie Braun - The Real Estate Co. Dickinson Area Public Library we are all here with no judgement and the children put into beading produces Consolidated ConocoPhillips it’s a free place where we are allowed beautiful designs and gives them a sense Todd Schweitzer - American Family VUK Multimedia to feel like we can ask any questions we of calmness, accomplishment and pride. Insurance want without feeling judged. Anyone Home On The Range is a QRTP (Qualified Scull Construction is welcome on the Ranch to attend this Residential Treatment Program) near Irsfeld Pharmacy Medora Uncork'd church. You’re allowed to wear what you Sentinel Butte. It is licensed to care for Cornerstone Bank want, you’re allowed to get up and dance North Dakota teenage boys and girls Trinity Catholic Schools in worship even if you’re not that great who have experienced trauma, abuse or Benchmark Mortgage Trinity Mardi Gras at dancing. The point of this church is to neglect. To learn more about Home On Dan Porter Motors make it our own so that everyone has a Becky Sadowsky - West Plains Therapy Solutions Realty The Range, visit www.hotrnd.com. █ High Plains Dental Kovash & Dasovick, CPAs CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson Eyewear Concepts Stark Development Corporation

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HOROSCOPE by Hilda De Anza Welcome ARIES LEO SAGITTARIUS March 21- July 23- November 22- April 20 August 22 December 21 Dr. icrd You have a 2020 is a During the whole need to widen year when of 2020, it will feel your horizons through study pressures at work build up as if you have to laboriously oson and travel and to develop and culminate in an important climb a high mountain to attain spiritually. 2020 is going to be change. January is intense, and the financial security you are General Surgeon a year when career ambitions the lunar eclipse on the 10th striving for. And your efforts will culminate into something big. highlights the atmosphere at be awarded by year end, which The lunar eclipse on January work and emotional interactions will see a whole new economic to CHI St. Alexius 10th and subsequent days are with people who are rather foundation being created. a key period for a reshuffle demanding and perhaps also At the start of January, there Health Dickinson! of leadership, and when inflexible. If you find yourself are perfect conditions for an major plans are formed and getting involved in intense economic partnership. The end carried out. You can expect discussions with colleagues at of the month is a good time for to encounter ultimatums and this time, it is best to back off. communication. expressions of raw power. VIRGO CAPRICORN As CHI's full time general surgeon, Dr. TAURUS August 23- December 22- Thompson sees patients in clinic and is also April 21- September 22 January 20 2020 gets off a vital part of our hospital's surgical on-call May 21 It’s going to be a to a happy You battle to big year, a year of team. A board-certi ed surgeon, he recently and constructive start and it’s establish your credentials under struggle and attainment, which an excellent time for teaming completed a fellowship in Advanced challenging conditions. 2020 by the end of the year leads to up with a partner. This year is a year when you work hard solid and uplifting developments Gastrointestinal/Minimally Invasive Surgery is a time with an enormous in preparation for major career and new social horizons. at the University of North Carolina. emphasis on creativity and developments. Mid-January The lunar eclipse on the 10th C . leis self-expression. The lunar awakens the idealistic side of emphasizes the importance of For more information or scheduling, el eclipse on the 10th finds you your nature; you may want to relationships in your life. On firm on your convictions. The get involved in groups that are January 13th, if you feel that call 701-456-4200. last part of the month is a key working towards some ideal. there are structures in your life period for relationships with Romantically, end of January is that need to go to make room family, partners and colleagues. a time of confusion regarding for something more meaningful, 2500 Fairway Street, Dickinson, ND | CHIStAlexiusHealth.org Deception may be in the air desires and motivations of then you are on the right track. perhaps in connection with a others. family drama. AQUARIUS GEMINI LIBRA January 21- May 22- September 23- February 19 In early to June 21 October 22 The year gets You are still mid-January the off to a powerful in the mood focus on work is intense, and start. There is an emphasis for fun and games and good it’s likely that you will be having RINGO on encounters with people company of friends. After the exhausting inner discussion who have strong opinions and 13th the focus is on work, with yourself whether to drop know a thing or two about and the satisfaction you feel something and start something the world and its politics. The performing your daily duties. else. 2020 is a transitional year, lunar eclipse on January 10th This is an epoch when you and it is at the end of the year brings an intense emotional need to be strongly motivated that all the pieces of the puzzle phase connected with intimacy, by creativity or social ideals fall into place and you can finance and sharing. It’s a at work. The whole of 2020 is define your future trajectory. time when you obsess about characterized by momentous The end of the month is a time something. You have had events affecting your roots and when you want to do something enough, and you say so. It’s a family. By the end of the year, new and your personal freedom good time to talk to someone a great new creative period is important. to ease the psychological begins for you. pressure. PISCES February 20- SCORPIO March 20 CANCER October 23- June 22- 2020 is a year November 21 when your July 22 January is a 2020 is going to social life and group affiliations month when are of utmost importance. be an intense you can be easily deuced year for you with continued The lunar eclipse on the 10th by short cuts, so forget any brings important developments focus on both business and get-rich-quick schemes and personal relationships. January that can affect loved ones. stay firmly grounded in what is Mid-January could herald gets off to a constructive start, practically achievable. The end and it’s an excellent time for a starry-eyed period which of January can also be a very evokes strong ideals about discussing business deals. romantic time, when the single The January 10th lunar eclipse love and kindness in you. Scorpio is attracted to romantic The end of January can bring brings an important matter to a dates which can feel like an head and crucial decisions must disappointment when other answer to a dream. Things get people don’t live up to your be taken. Things get less heavy intense around the lunar eclipse and more exciting towards the ideals. Stay grounded and keep At the young age of 9, John Garig was in his first art show which sprouted him into the artist currently living in on the 10th, when you can expectations realistic. Dickinson, ND. He finds inspiration in his dog, Astrid and Cat, Nytro. When he’s not working on commissioned end of the month, when there expect others to be extremely may be connections with friends demanding. projects, he is teaching and encouraging the residents of Dickinson to paint their own masterpieces at a weekly or organizations with a social Brushes and Booze class. With a varied history in all things art and a love for cartoons and animation, John agenda. continues to surprise the community with colorful artwork for all onlookers.