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ISSUE NUMBER 37 • PARK RIVER, NORTH DAKOTA
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Left: Bucky Peterson owner of Signature
Painting, rural Grafton, paints some trim
around one of the beautiful stained glass
windows at St. John Nepomucene Catholic
Church in Pisek. Peterson and his crew
painted virtually the whole interior of the
church, which preparing for its 125th
Celebration this spring. Above: Elizabeth
Schwankl cleans one of the many statues at
SL John Nepomucene Catholic Church in
Pisek. Schwankl, a professional painter of 21
years and owner of Artrends Gallery in Fargo,-
is cleaning and repairing the many Catholic
Statues at the church. Schwankl has been
doing statue repair for five years. She has
repaired and replaced hands and wings etc.
rprepaflng for its upcoming -: :
125th Celebration. When asked if this wasa
big job, Schwankl said, "Its a very big job,
when I walked into this room with all the
statues, I thought I was in heaven."
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By Allison Olimb
of The Press
WALSH COUNTY, N.D.
-- The buzzword around Park
River for the past couple of
:years has been "wellness."
!Whether through educating
people through classes or
:health fairs, promoting healthy
living through workout
classes, or holding free health
screenings for people to be
able to leam more about their
own bodies, First Care Health
Center has created healthy
living awareness throughout
the community. Now, it is
spreading.
Meetings have popped up
all across the county to discuss
each community's wellness
needs.
Ruth Jelinek works at First
Care Health Center doing
marketing, fundraising and
working with what they call
the WOW2 or Wellness
Outreach Without Walls grant,
which she and FCHC Wellness
Grant Assistant Amy
Ballentine discussed at a Park
River wellness meeting held
March 17.
Jelinek said that the grant
proposal began with an
outreach planning meeting in
Park River where those who
spoke up said what the
community needed was some
type of fitness facility. She and
Jenna Markusen tried to gather
as much information as they
could to create a proposal.
When they found out that they
had secured the grant,' the
original plan was to build a
traditional fitness center with
treadmills or weights.
Between planning and
receiving the grant, Park River
Fitness opened and the plan
had to be tweaked. Because of
the grant wording, a fitness
center of some sort was
necessary. A different type of
center was create, one that
could accommodate fitness
classes. So now Park River has
a location for Zumba, yoga,
powercut, kickboxing, Tae
Kwan Do, and potentially
more.
The grant is to last three
years. It ends in April of 2012.
Jelinek said that through those
three years, the goals of the
WOW2 grant coordinators is
to decrease obesity, work
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By Allison Olimb
of The Press
CRYSTAL, N.D. -- "I
don't even have time to read a
newspaper anymore," one
driver said in the less than two
minutes it took to unload her
truck at the new elevator in
Crystal, N.D.
Last summer the horizon on
the edge of the county began
to change. Simplot and
Columbia Grain, which both
had facilities in Crystal came
up with a plan to expand. A
determining factor in having
Crystal as a location was the
rail line. In addition to the two
new facilities being built, a
120-car rail loop was
established to move product in
and out. According to Crystal
Elevator Manager Larry
McCollum, Crystal was as far
north as the rail could handle a
shuttle car. So, the town began
to build.
Simplot and Columbia
Grain each purchased a half of the new Simplot plant. (Photo: Submitted by Kelly O'Toole)
the land and they bought the
Above: New elevator in Crystal, N.D., is part of the new addition on the north end of the town. The
addition includes a 120-car rail loop, which services both the new Columbia Grain Elevator and
rail line together. March 7. On March 18,
Simplot has been unloading McCollum said, "Now, we
Gustafson watched the
progress of each truck from a
computer monitor with speed
sensors and a visual map of
every belt, leg, and bin. Two
rail cars of fertilizer in the past have about 700,000 bushels
few weeks and the elevator dumped."
opened its doors opened on Plant Manager John
trucks at a time dumped into
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