June Newsletter Volume 23, Issue 6

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1 June Newsletter Volume 23, Issue 6 June 2016 Inside this issue: Coleman Museum 2 Mertz s 25th Anniversary 2 Dickey County Fair Advance ticket Sales DRN: Online Backup 3 Concert in the Park 5 All at Opera House 4-6 DPCU Fun 7 Ellendale Country Club Fun Welcome New Businesses June Lunch and Learn 9 Ellendale s City-Wide Rummage Sale Legion and Babe Ruth Baseball Schedule Starion Financial promotes Buttke, hires Utecht Starion Financial has promoted Tiffany Buttke and hired Michele Utecht. Tiffany Buttke has been promoted to retail supervisor for Starion s Oakes and Ellendale locations. In this position, she is responsible for managing and supervising the branch s personal bankers and teller staff. Buttke joined Starion in November 2011 as a personal banker and teller supervisor in Oakes. She attended Minot State University and had several years of bank sales and leadership experience prior to joining Starion. Buttke is involved with the Oakes Volunteer Ambulance Service and lives in Oakes with her husband and children. Michele Utecht is a universal banker II at the Ellendale branch. This is a new position to Starion and in this role Utecht works both as a teller and personal banker, providing customer service functions and higher-level consultation to consumers. She has several years of banking and insurance experience and was a member of Starion s Oakes retail and insurance departments from Ellendale Foundation awards day is Lunch and Learn June 14, at 12 noon at the Fireside Restaurant Starion Financial Donates to Local Charities In 2015, Starion Financial donated more than $875,000 to charities and local organizations in the North Dakota and Wisconsin communities it serves. During the year, major donations were given to local organizations including the American Cancer Society, Dickey County Fair, Heifer International, North Dakota Community Foundation, Taking Charge financial literacy program and Trinity Bible College. One of Starion s core values is giving back to the community, explained Craig Larson, president/ceo of Starion. We are proud to support so many organizations that share our mission to build a better community. In addition to financial contributions, the bank is proud of its employees volunteer efforts in It s rewarding to see team members living our organization s values. I am honored to work with such fine, caring individuals, added Larson.

2 P a g e 2 Coleman Memorial Museum The Coleman Memorial Museum is open for the summer season. Several new things are in store for the community. Ken Smith, President of the Ellendale Historical Society, has extended the hours the museum is open to four days a week, Tuesday, 12 noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday, 12 noon-5 p.m. They will also open by special appointment. lunch at noon and gather a bit of interesting history. Each month s topic will be announced prior to the second Wednesday. Ken and Jeanette have been busy completing projects that the NDSU Field School students worked on last summer. While the students did an excellent job J u n e N e w s l e t t e r needed to be completed. Volunteers are always welcome to assist. While the official opening day is Wednesday June 1, there have already been visitors at the museum. Several senior citizens stopped by on May 10 for a tour, three Aberdeen ladies visited on May 3, and the class of 1966 enjoyed reminiscing over Memorial Day weekend. A new event this year will be the Brown Bag Lunches at noon on the second Wednesday of each month, starting June 8 th. Local history will be the topic. The first one next Wednesday will take a look at Historic Ellendale. Bring your Coleman Museum of re-organizing the museum s contents, there are areas that For more information, please call Ken Smith at (701) or Jeanette Robb at (701) Or just stop by during the extended hours for a visit and exploration. 25 Year Anniversary Celebration at Mertz

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4 Page 4 June Newsletter Kammermusiker Coming to Ellendale Wednesday, June 29, 2016

5 V o l u m e 2 3, I s s u e 6 P a g e 5 Roddy MacInnes photographic exhibition at the Ellendale Opera House. New York Kammermusiker returns Wednesday, June 29th June 30th Concert in the Park (South Park) Sunday, June 26, at 2 pm, premier of a new documentary movie: "Home on the Plains:The Legacy of the Nokota Horse"

6 P a g e 6 Home on the Plains: The Legacy of the Nokota Horse "Home on the Plains: The Legacy of the Nokota Horse" a film Directed by Helen Obermeyer Simmons with Cinematography by John Glenn Simmons in collaboration with The Nokota Horse Conservancy. The special screening of this documentary film will be held at the Ellendale Opera House at 2:00 June 26th. Frank Kuntz along with Helen Obermeyer Simmons will speak and two of the Nokota horses will be on site. Frank, along with his brother Leo, has been responsible for creating the Horse Conservancy and saving these horses. Nokota horses are descended from the last surviving population of wild horses in North Dakota. For at least a century, the horses inhabited the rugged Little Missouri badlands, located in the southwestern corner of the state. When Theodore Roosevelt National Park was created in the 1950s, some of the wild bands were fenced in, an accident that proved to have farreaching consequences. While the raising of federal fences provided the horses with a measure of protection, the National Park Service (NPS) does not allow wild or feral equines, and is exempt from related protective legislation. Consequently, the park spent decades attempting to remove all of the horses. During the 1980s, Frank and Leo Kuntz began purchasing horses after N.P.S. round-ups, named them "Nokotas," and started to create a breed registry. Nokota horses share a set of physical and behavioral characteristics that reflect their known history since the late 1800 s. Their ancestors include early Native American and frontier ranch horses bred for use as war horses, buffalo runners, and all-purpose saddle horses. Many J u n e N e w s l e t t e r of those horses were descended from Spanish colonial stock. During most of the twentieth century, they lived wild in the rugged Little Missouri badlands, an area of rugged topography, erratic climatic conditions and long, sub-zero winters. During that time, their survival depended on avoiding capture by humans. These physical and social pressures combined to form durable, athletic, intelligent horses. Those conditions also seem to have selected for the retention of the original phenotype associated with late nineteenth and early twentieth century ranch and Indian horses on the Northern Plains. Historic photographs taken of Nokota ancestral stock-the Lakota (Sioux) horses and their offspring owned by the Marquis de Mores and the HT Ranch show that today's Nokotas look remarkably similar. Special thanks to Frank and Leo Kuntz of Linton, North Dakota, Helen Obermeyer Simmons, The Ellendale Historic Opera House and Ellendale Tourism.

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8 Ladies Golf Lessons June 13 & 27 Youth Golf Camp June 14 & 15 Night Golf June 18

9 E l l e n d a l e A r e a C h a m b e r o f C o m m e r c e 216 Main Street P.O. Box 91 Ellendale, ND Phone: ellendalecoc@drtel.net B u i l d i n g A S t r o n g e r C o m m u n i t y We re on the Web: Ellendalechamber.com Lunch and Learn is Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at 12 noon in the Woodland room at the Fireside Restaurant. Ellendale Foundation will have their awards day on that day. Come and enjoy a soup and sandwich lunch buffet featuring Peggy s homemade soups and then build your own sandwich; dessert and coffee. All for only $6.00!

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