FARGO — small businesses across the metro want your help getting the holiday shopping season started. Sixty-plus small business vendors are inviting you to this weekend’s 5th Annual Small Business Expo. They’ll have samples, shopping, Santa photos, and more to get your attention about buying local. The holiday season is a critical moneymaking time for small businesses. And consumers can…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Bremer Bank and United Way of Cass Clay have joined forces to assemble Welcome Home Kits for families transitioning out of homelessness. This will be the fifth year Bremer Bank has worked alongside United Way to put together these kits. The kits are filled with household essentials such as bedding and kitchen utensils. The goal for…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Music, food, art displays and more. The Norwegian Heritage Festival brings Norwegian culture to the Fargo-Moorhead area. “We’re having demonstrations of the different cultural things that we have that I just referred to. And for lunch from 11 to 1:30 it’s called ‘Taste of Norway’. So it’s lots of good Norwegian foods,” said Marilyn Martinson, Sons…
Gowri Pillai at Great Plains Food BankFARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A West Fargo teen and her family exceed their goal of raising money to help feed hungry families. The Great Plains Food Bank says the 12th anniversary of Gowri’s Annual Food Drive raised more than $4,000. Gowri Pillai had a goal of $3,500. They also collected nearly 1,400 pounds of…
MOORHEAD — They can make our lives a lot more fun. But for some people, they’re a matter of survival. And there are a lot of myths about emotional support animals, so city leaders and accessibility advocates are trying to help. The city’s Leann Wallin and accessibility specialist Jennifer Erickson put together a “Lunch and Learn” event for landlords, renters,…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Governor Doug Burgum is aware that housing is becoming an issue within the state of North Dakota. At a news conference in Bismarck on November 12th, he unveiled a set of recommendations, gathered into 6 separate categories, that he believes will tackle the issue head-on. These recommendations were compiled by the North Dakota Housing Initiative Advisory…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — People went round and round a circle to raise funds for Furniture Mission of the Red River Valley. The Musical Chair for Charity event is the first one hosted by the Furniture Mission to keep their mission of giving back to the community. Since they started they have gifted 34,180 pieces of furniture to the community…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The conference entitled “The Pulse of Homelessness” was sponsored by the Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo Chamber of Commerce. Panelists discussed how the community has been addressing homelessness and the next steps that need to be taken. “No community in the nation has been able to decrease the number of people experiencing homelessness through criminalizing homelessness as their only…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — “It’s really wonderful to be able to play the same concert several times in a row within a very short period of time because the band gets so much better by the time we get to the end. And we were good when we started, but they’re even better by the time we are done with…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — For over half a century, a group of veterans have come together on Veterans day to remember what they have fought for and who they have lost. “A lot of we tell the same old stories that we’ve been telling for years and years and we embellish that a little bit sometimes. At least some people…
