Bank Giving Away More Bags
Eide Bailly LLP has added Murrell, Hall, McIntosh & Co., PLLP, an Oklahoma-based CPA firm, to its regional public accounting and business advisory practice.
Eide Bailly has 14 offices across the country, including Bismarck, which has 40 staff and four partners.
The combined firm will serve 35,000 clients.
“By combining our firms, we will bring greater depth of service to the North Dakota marketplace,” Barb Aasen, partner-in-charge of the Bismarck office, said.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the Wal-Mart Foundation have launched a State Giving Program.
Nonprofit organizations in North Dakota that have 501 (c) (3) status under the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Code are eligible to apply for funding.
The focus is on education, job skills training, environmental sustainability and health.
Applications will be accepted at www.walmartfoundation.org. Grants are awarded quarterly. The allication deadline for the fall 2008 cycle is Sept. 25.
Stecy Sturm of Bismarck has been elected to a two-year term as president of the board of the North Dakota State Federation of Business and Professional Women.
Other board officers are Karen Borr, Bismarck-Mandan BPW, first vice president; Dr. Elizabeth Jones, Bismarck-Mandan BPW, second vice president; Suzy Fiesel, Devils Lake BPW, secretary; and Karissa Olson, Devils Lake BPW, treasurer.
The Bismarck-Mandan Business and Professional Women elected new officers to the local board for 2008-09 as follows:
Gayle Miller, president; Rhonda Jacobs, first vice president; Pat Durick, second vice president; Renee Daffinrud, secretary; and Karen Borr, treasurer. This year’s mentor and outgoing president is Holly Jundt.
The Mandan events center committee is seeking business and citizen representation to help explore possibilities for a multipurpose events center.
Interested people may send a letter summarizing their background and reasons for their interest by Aug. 22 to City Administrator Jim Neubauer, 205 Second Ave. N.W., Mandan, N.D. 58554.
The committee consists of two representatives each from the City Commission, Park Board, School Board and County Commission.
S.J. Schumacher, president of Schumacher’s Inc. in Linton, presented a $1,500 grant to Linton High School on behalf of the Ambassadors Program of the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation.
Schumacher is a former member of the board of directors of the National Automobile Dealers Association.
The Information Technology Council of North Dakota is seeking nominations for its 2008 awards.
Nominations are sought in six categories: Outstanding Achievement in Business, Innovative Business User of Technology, Entrepreneur Award, Outstanding Achievement in Education, Outstanding Achievement in Digital Government and Legislative Award.
Nomination forms are available at www.itcnd.org. The nomination deadline is Sept. 5.
For more information, contact Annika Nelson, ITCND assistant executive director, at 701-355-4458 or office@itcnd.org.
A land steward with The Nature Conservancy, Rob Self, recently received the Prairie Partner Award from the National Grasslands Council for his conservation work with the U.S. Forest Service in the Sheyenne National Grasslands of eastern North Dakota.
The Forest Service’s Sheyenne Ranger District nominated Self for the award, saying he supplied equipment and materials in the restoration of Iron Springs, provided personnel and fire engines for prescribed burns in the fall and spring and helps monitor the endangered western prairie fringed orchid.
A Texas native, Self has worked for the Conservancy for nearly eight years in the Sheyenne Delta. He manages the Conservancy’s Brown Ranch and Pigeon Point preserves in Ransom County.
Karla Hoelscher of Oakes has received the North Dakota Chamber of Commerce Community Leadership Award.
Hoelscher is a member of the Oakes Volunteer Ambulance Squad, Grace Lutheran Church, Oakes Enhancement Inc. board of directors and Oakes Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors.
Hoelscher started and continues to lead the Oakes Lunch ‘N Learn program, and leads planning of activities for Oakes’ annual Irrigation Days
She also is a workforce training coordinator, farmer and foster parent.
Midway Lanes in Mandan has gone green and realized energy savings by installing power protection equipment, power factor optimization equipment and a complete lighting retrofit.
Midway Lanes is now a Total Energy Concerts Inc.-certified “GREEN Facility.”
“We are very pleased with the results so far, as we are saving about 15 percent on our energy consumption after the first year,” said Jim Mellon of Midway Lanes. “We are proactively looking at the improvements in bottom line expenses and extending the life of all electrical equipment.”
Gate City Bank is offering another 100,000 free reusable shopping bags to the public at its 28 locations.
These bags are in addition to the 100,000 bags the bank has given away over the past eight months.
“The initial 100,000 bags that we have given away have been very well received,” said Steve Swiontek, bank president, chairman and CEO. “We still have requests for the bags, and we see many people using them in all 17 Gate City Bank communities.”
The reusable, 100 percent recyclable bags pack and carry the same amount as three or four plastic bags.
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