Grand Forks, North Dakota Exploration [HD]
Along the Red River beside the Minnesota border sits the City of Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Ahnix- Nova [NCS Release]
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Old To New: Remodel, Restore, Revitalize
For decades, downtown was the hub of the economic and social lives of rural residents across North Dakota. Since their heyday in the 50s, small town business districts have been shrinking. Many small communities in North Dakota are on the cusp of extinction. As the rural population declines and the state's agriculture-based economy struggles, boarded buildings and empty storefronts now dominate once prosperous streets.
Seeking to reverse years of decline, some local organizations are taking steps to revitalize their communities. Across the state community groups and entrepreneurs with vision are rehabilitating old buildings and putting them to new uses -- renewing their sense of identity in the process.
An empty hardware store becomes a high tech incubator
A church is converted into a library
A former jail becomes a restaurant
An abandoned school house turns into a family
Transformations are occurring across the State of North Dakota with a former school building becoming a bed and breakfast, and a long dormant opera house filled with performers and audiences once more. Each effort is helping small towns preserve their identity and quality of life, while strengthening the local economy.
Merlan Paaverud; Historical Society of North Dakota
Lisbon, North Dakota
Lisbon Opera House
Dick Larson; Lisbon Opera House Foundation
Darline Levang; No Name Players
Bowman, North Dakota
Kayla Abrahamson-Hansey; Bowman County Development Corporation
Colleen Kelly; Pioneer Regional Museum
Dorothy Pearson; Pioneer Regional Museum
Badlands, North Dakota
Watford City
Incentive Tax Programs
Renaissance Zones
Gene Veeder; McKenzie Co. Job Development Authority
McKenzie County Heritage Park
Gretchen Stenehjem; First International Bank
6 Shooters Showhall & Cafe; Watford City
Outlaws Bar & Grill; Watford City
Theodore Roosevelt National Park; North Unit
Arnegard, North Dakota
Milt Hanson; Old School Bed & Breakfast
Vicky Wentworth
Anne M. McCrory
Crosby, North Dakota
Esther M. Oehlke; SCO Precision Inc.
Shawn Oehlke; SCO Precision Inc.
Senator Kent Conrad
Senator Byron Dorgan
San Haven Dunseith, North Dakota
Bill Patrie; Former Director ND EDC/Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Peg O'Leary; Grand Forks Historic Preservation Commision
Lonnie Laffen; JLG Architects
National Register of Historical Places
Department of the Interior
Hillsboro, North Dakota
Don Foss; Dakota Heritage Bank of North Dakota
Bruce Person; Hillsboro Community Partnership
Union Block; Hillsboro, North Dakota
Jamestown, North Dakota
Barbra Lang; Jamestown Historian/CSi Cable Services
Charlie Kourajian; Jamestown Main Street Downtown Association
Michael Marcil; The Marcil Group, Inc.
Brass Rail; Jamestown, North Dakota
CSi Technology Center
Franklin School Building
Roy Sheppard; CSi Cable Services
Chris Sheppard; CSi Cable Services
Louis L'Amour
Credits
Producer; Hope Deutscher
Editors; Travis Jensen, Heidi Erickson
Videographers; Dave Geck, Travis Jensen, Kak Lee, Lee Westad
Graphics; Heidi Erickson, Alayne Berg-Iwen
Promotions; Marie Lucero, Les Skoropat
Captions; Armour Closed Captioning
Narrator; Richard E. Collin
Production Manager; Barbra Gravel
Executive Producers; Bob Dambach, Kim Stenehjem
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)