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October 2012 Chamberline
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“The Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce
will provide leadership to promote a progressive
business environment”
Inside this issue:
Chamber Director 3
“Take Your Best Shot” 4
New Chamber
Members
5
Member News 6-7
Dickinson Leadership 8
Ribbon Cuttings &
Education Connection
9
Chamber News 10
Business After Hours 11
Chamber Snapshot
September 2012
Phone Calls: 417
Walk-in: 236
Email Inquires: 40
Relocation Packets: 37
Facebook Likes 143
Page 2
Board of Directors
Dennis Cannon ..................................... President
Craig Kubas .......................................... Pres-Elect
Rachelle Schroeder ............................ Treasurer
Chris Johnson . ..................................... Director
Mike Renner .......................................... Director
Harmony Kolling ................................. Director
Lisa Roers ............................................... Director
Christian Kostelecky ......................... Director
Nathan Bouray ..................................... Director
Carter Fong ............................................ Director
Laura Hann ............................................ Director
Chris Urban ........................................... Director
Committee Chairperson
Agriculture ............................................. Jarod Steffan
Ambassador .......................................... Tasha Gartner
Education ............................................... Ron Dockter
Governmental Affairs ....................... Nate Bouray/Chris Johnson
Promotions and Retail ..................... Betty Jo Noe
Officials .................................................... Rachelle Schroeder
STAFF
Cooper Whitman ................................. Executive Director
Kristi Tessier ........................................ Events & Marketing Coordinator
Cindy Brock ........................................... Administrative Assistant
Publication First Day of the Month
Published By C. Brock
Deadline Third Thursday of the month - For both copy and advertising
Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce
314 3rd Avenue West •P.O. Box C
Dickinson, ND 58602
Phone: 701-225-5115 Fax: 701-225-5116
E-mail: [email protected]
Board of Directors monthly meeting minutes
and annual financial statements are
available to Chamber Members.
.
Water/Wastewater Engineering—Surveying/Mapping/GIS
Electrical/Structural Engineering—Land Development
Municipal Engineering—Instrumentation And Controls
Development, Construction, Property Management and Commercial & Residential Real Estate.
Page 3 Word from Our Director
As the temperatures are beginning to drop and the leaves are beginning to change, a lot is changing around this commu-nity—and the chamber is no different. Three members of the Board of Directors, Klint Sickler (Dakota Community Insurance), Terry Kovacevich (Marathon Oil), and Elaine Myran (Ramada Grand Dakota Lodge) are finishing their terms of service, and Chris Urban (La Quinta Inn and Suites), Carter Fong (Trinity High School) and Laura Hann (Best Friends Mentoring) are taking their places. We’d like to thank the outgoing board members for their wonderful service to the community, and officially welcome the new members! Our Board of Directors is a great group to be a part of, and with these three coming on we’re certain it will continue to be.
Other changes at the chamber are reflective of the great many new members becoming part of our business community. Because of all of these new friends, I thought it would be a good time to review your local chamber’s mission and share with you some of the ways in which we strive to accomplish that mission.
The mission of the Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce is to provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment. We work to accomplish that goal through various means. Some of these are developing relationships with community and statewide organizations, organizing events for local businesspeople to mingle with each other and potential customers, promoting local business through available media channels, providing community information and promoting chamber businesses to the general public, and participating in in-house and community-wide efforts that are beneficial to the local business community.
To accomplish these activities, in addition to staff time, the chamber houses volunteer committees in the area of membership develop-ment, agriculture, government affairs, education, promotion, and recreational events. The wonderful volunteers in each of these committees work hard to reali
ze committee goals and keep Dickinson an amazing community in which business can thrive.
What it all comes down to is this: if you need something, be it community information, business consultation, inexpensive advertis-ing, quick assistance, a place for your employees to volunteer—please let us help! Supporting you is what we’re here to do, and we love to do it!
We look forward to hearing from you and working together to accomplish our shared goals!
Call for tickets
225-5115 or email
Page 4 “Take Your Best Shot”
Page 5
St. Luke’s Home Dennis Goebel
242—10th St. West
Dickinson, ND 58601
701-483-5000
www.stlukeshome.com
St. Luke’s offers a wide range of services including a full range of Therapy services, Hospice, IV Therapy, and Tube Feeding as well as Respite Care. While we continue to serve those in need, plans are in place to transition from the “nursing home” model to per-son centered care in a new atmosphere which will reinvigorate and emphasize retention of dignity and quality of life for those we serve.
EPS Group Inc. Mark Dunbar
PO Box 1604
Dickinson, ND 58601
701-226-9942
www.epsgroupinc.com
EPS ... a collaborative "group" of qualified, experienced, innova-tive Engineers, Planners, and Surveyors intent on exceeding our clients' expectations - delivering high quality solutions and developing long-term relationships. Full service firm: Land De-velopment, Planning and Landscape Architecture, Survey and Construction Survey, Public Work.
Highlands North Dakota, LLC Mitch Rubin
500 Skokie Blvd #600
Northbrook, IL 60062
614-783-5349
www.thehighlandsdickinson.com
Highlands North Dakota, LLC is a developer who is developing a single family home community in Dickinson. We are a group of experienced development and construction professionals who look forward to providing our future residents with not only their dream home but a wonderful community for all to enjoy.
New Members
Tanya Skager, MD, family medicine physician at Sanford Health Dickinson Clinic, was honored with the Dickinson State University Young Hawk Award. The award is pre-sented annually by DSU Alumni and the Foundation. It
recognizes graduates of DSU who have distin-guished themselves in their personal and pro-fessional lives. “To be recognized for the years of hard work and the dedication it took to get where I am is truly an honor,” Dr. Skager said.
Dr. Skager graduated from DSU in 1997. She completed her medical degree at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks. As a family medicine physician at Sanford Health Dickin-son Clinic, Dr. Skager provides health care for all members of the family—infants, children, adolescents, adults and seniors. She has been employed with Sanford since 2010.
About Sanford Health
Sanford Health is an integrated health system headquar-tered in the Dakotas and is now the largest, rural, not-for-profit health care system in the nation with locations in 126 communities in seven states. In addition, Sanford Health is in the process of developing international clinics in Ireland, Ghana, Israel and Mexico.
Sanford Health includes 35 hospitals, 140 clinic locations and nearly 1,200 physicians in 70 specialty areas of medi-cine. With more than 25,000 employees, Sanford Health is the largest employer in North and South Dakota. The sys-tem is experiencing dynamic growth and development in conjunction with Denny Sanford's nearly $700 million in gifts, the largest ever to a health care organization in America. These gifts are making possible the implementa-tion of the several initiatives including global children's clinics, multiple research centers and finding a cure for type 1 diabetes and breast cancer. For more information, please visit bismarck.sanfordhealth.org.
Tanya Skager, MD, receives Young Hawk Award
Dickinson Catholic Schools
12th Annual Fall Gala Casino Night
Sunday, October 14
4:30pm Social Hour
5:30pm Dinner
Auction to follow
Dickinson Elks Lodge
Reserve Your Tickets Today
Please join us for an evening of great food & entertainment while providing financial support for our schools.
For additional information call Valerie at 701-483-6085 or
www.dickinsoncatholicschools.com
Page 6 Member News
Stevensons win tailgate trophy
American Bank Center
Announcements
The winners of the first traveling trophy for the Dickinson State University Foundation’s September 1st pre game football tailgate cook off are Jon and his son Nic Stevenson of Dick-inson. Nearly 40 competitors rented a 25’ by 10’ spot for the pregame festivities, setting up tents, trailers and barbeques and cook-ing foods that fit the pre-arranged “outdoors/camping” theme. Inde-pendent judges then tasted all of the entrees and de-termined a winner.
Gate City Bank has hired Katy Miller as a Mortgage
Loan Officer at its Dickinson Office, located at 204 Sims Street. She resides in Dickinson and
has five years of experience in the mortgage lending industry.
A $1.4 billion mutual com-munity bank, Gate City Bank has been providing complete banking services to its customers since 1923. Gate City Bank has 32 convenient banking offices across North Da-kota and Minnesota, and employs more than 400 people.
American Bancor, Ltd. is pleased to announce Steve Glasser as Marketing Man-
ager. Steve joined American in Feb-ruary of 2012 as a Credit Admini-stration Special-ist. Steve is a graduate of Dick-
inson State University and has previous marketing ex-perience.
American Bank Center is pleased to announce Jared Bullinger as Senior Credit
Officer in the Dickinson office. Jared joined American in 2005 as an Ag Banking Officer. Jared holds a Bachelor
of Science degree in Agri-business from North Da-kota State University and a Master of Science in Agri-cultural Economics. He is also a graduate of the Graduate School of Banking in Colorado.
AE2S (Advanced Engi-neering and Environ-mental Services, Inc.) has hired Ryan Welling as an Engineer in the firm’s Dickinson, ND, office.
Welling is working on sev-eral regional municipal, pri-vate, and in-dustrial pro-jects, including:
Killdeer area development and construction, Roers development designs in Dickinson, FEMA emer-gency projects in western North Dakota, and projects with the Williams County Road Department. He has also completed AE2S’ resi-dent project representative training to assist Owners and Contractors with their construction needs.
“Ryan is quite talented at advancing a project through the design proc-ess, and we have plenty of projects for him to tackle,” said Deon M. Stockert, PE, Drinking Water Group Manager at AE2S.
Welling recently graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering. He is origi-nally from Evanston, WY.
Welling JOINS AE2S Gate City Bank Hires Miller
Rohde joins Record Keepers
Jesse Rohde has joined Record Keepers as a Route Service Representative at
their Bis-marck based Records Stor-age and Docu-ment Destruc-tion opera-
tions. Rohde will provide service to clients in Dickin-son, Williston and the sur-rounding areas. Rohde has sixteen years of experi-ence in the security indus-try.
Page 7 More Member News
Kadrmas, Lee and Jack-son, an engineering sur-veying and planning firm hired Justin Hyndman and Dustin Ziegs to the company’s Dickinson office.
Justin is an engineer I with the transportation group. He earned a mas-ter’s degree in business administration from Idaho State University and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Idaho. Justin is an engineer in training in Idaho and has two years of project management and field engineering experience.
Dustin is an engineer technician I with the oil field services group. He earned a bachelor’s de-gree from Mesa State College. Dustin has 12 years of experience.
2 New hires for
KLJ
The North Dakota Hous-ing Finance Agency hon-ored four real estate agents with Champion of Affordable Housing Awards at the Realtor convention of the Dakotas in Dickinson. The awards recognize and celebrate outstanding contributions to North Dakota’s afford-able housing industry.
The agents recognized by NDHFA are Richard Theurer Jr., of The Real Estate Company in Dick-inson, Patricia Karley of Coldwell Bank First Re-alty in Fargo, Sandra Ret-terath of Retterath Real Estate in Hazen and Shirley Thomas of Bianco Realty in Bismarck.
Richard Theurer, a North Dakota native, has been a real estate agent since 1992. In his first year as realtor earned the Rookie of the Year award. He has been married for 30 years and has 3 children.
Agent honored at
Realtor convention
Page 8 Leadership Dickinson
Gold Silver Bronze
Armstrong Corporation Able Americinn Motel & Suites
Dickinson Guaranty & Title Co. American Bank Center Dickinson Charities
Stark Development B.J. Kadrmas, Inc. Dickinson Ready Mix
Steffes Corporation Foutz & McMinn Construction Eagles Club
Rich Wardner Ladbury Funeral Services Hawks Point
Ramada, Grand Dakota Lodge Immanuel Baptist Church
Roers Development Kuntz Builders
Roughrider Electric Mark’s Tire Service
Queen City Abstract, Inc
Taco Johns– Lunch Sponsor
Kari Shae – Rotary Lunch Sponsor
By Andi Lefor and
Alex Binstock
September 12
marked the first
day of this year's Leader-
ship Dickinson program.
After brief introductions at
the Chamber of Com-
merce, we loaded the bus
to Medora to spend the
day at the Badlands Min-
istries high ropes course.
Upon returning, we com-
pleted a personality quiz
and discussed what we
had learned.
The high ropes course was
an exhilarating and enjoy-
able experience, but it also
showed us the value of
communication. The group
also learned the impor-
tance of teamwork and
leadership in high-
pressure situations. Every-
one is optimistic about the
next
session.
SPONSORS
Page 9 Ribbon Cuttings - September 13th & 19th
Allstate Peterbuilt St. Joseph’s Clinic
Richelle Bautista-Azores MD, Wanda Abreu, MD, Kristen Prescott, MD
CHAMBER COMMITTEES
Page 10 Chamber News
Agriculture Committee: WRLS The committee is planning the 2012 WRLS. There will be a small commercial Ag Show held at the BAC in conjunction with the WRLS.
Ambassadors /Membership Committee: Retention Drive The committee will be visiting members from 1973 to 2000. They attended a ground breaking for Allstate Peterbilt on Septem-ber 13, 2012. They also performed a Ribbon Cutting for the 3 new pediatricians at St. Joseph’s Walk-in Clinic on September 19th, 2012.
Education Committee: The New Educator Breakfast was September 13th at Lady J’s Club and Catering. Leadership Dickinson Committee: The first session was held at the Badlands Ministries in Medora. The committee is finalizing the October session and working on the November session.
Promotions Committee: Holiday Craft Show There is still booth space available. Business After Hours The next BAH is October 2nd at Aarons.
Display of Lights The theme for this year’s Display of Lights is Boomtown Magic. Government Affairs Committee: November Legislative Forum They are planning the legislative forum for November. SW Night at the Legislature This will be held on Jan. 28, 2013. Coffee with the Legislatures There will be 3 Coffee with the Legislators in 2013. Dates to be determined.
Business After Hours-Aarons October 2
Take Your Best Shot October 15-19
WRLS & Commercial Show October 19-20
Chamber Banquet October 23
Business After Hours-Elks November 6
Display of Lights November 30
Holiday Craft Show December 1
Holiday Open House December 7
Page 11 Business After Hours
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