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Red River Zoo Brings Community Together Through Holiday Nights

This event offers activities like free carousel rides, campfires, and strolling through twinkling lit paths

December 5, 2018

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FARGO, N.D. – The Red River Zoo is getting festive this holiday season with its second year of Holiday Nights. Holiday Nights brings people in the community together to enjoy wildlife and celebrate the holiday season accordingly. Some of the activities include free carousel rides, campfires on the patio, and strolling through the twinkling lit paths of the zoo. Holiday…

Family Fare Helps People Facing Hunger With Donation to Great Plains Food Bank

Local Family Fares and the SpartanNash Foundation are donating $6,600 to the Great Plains Food Bank

December 5, 2018

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WEST FARGO, N.D. — Family Fare is changing the lives of people facing hunger this holiday season with a check made out to the Great Plains Food Bank. Local Family Fares and the SpartanNash Foundation are donating $6,600 to the Great Plains Food Bank. The money donated came from Family Fare’s scan campaign. The check will help provide nearly 20,000…

Red River Valley SWAT Team Collecting Data on Breaching Techniques at Old Fargo City Hall

They will be doing it from Dec. 5-6

December 5, 2018

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FARGO, N.D. — If you hear some loud noises coming from the old Fargo City Hall building over the next two days, there’s no need to worry. That’s the Red River Valley SWAT Team using the building to train its officers. The team is using the space for explosive breaching techniques since the city hall is set for demolition Monday….

Fargo Force Players Share Their Love for Reading with Elementary Students

Players read to students at five local elementary schools involved in the Fargo Force Reading Program

December 4, 2018

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FARGO, N.D. – Defensemen Connor Mayer and Xan Gurney of the Fargo Force read to students at Kennedy Elementary school. Their visit was all part of the Fargo Force Reading Program, a program where players teach students to appreciate and love reading by reading books. “It’s a big part of growth in the community and children,” Fargo Force defenseman Connor…

Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity “Dakota Blitz 3:10” Project Will Build Three Homes in Ten Days

The project will start in 2019

December 4, 2018

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FARGO, N.D. — Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity plans to build four homes in 2019, but three of them will go up within 10 days. It’s part of the organization’s Dakota Blitz 3:10 project. Those three homes are going up in West Fargo. A separate and fourth house will be built in Moorhead. People with Habitat for Humanity say it’s an…

Mental Health Counselors Now On-Site at Six Rural School Districts Across ND

It's thanks to the United Way of Cass-Clay, the Burgum Foundation and the school districts

December 4, 2018

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HUNTER, N.D. — Six rural school districts in North Dakota now have mental health experts available on their campuses to assist students. KVRR’s Danielle Church tells us how the partnership between United Way of Cass-Clay, the Burgum Foundation and the school districts will make a difference. The expansion of mental health services is meant to accomplish two goals: increase access to…

Memory Café of the Red River Valley Makes Blankets for Kids in Need

December 4, 2018

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FARGO, N.D. – Memory Café of the Red River Valley makes sure children aren’t going to bed cold. Members are helping children staying at the YWCA by making them blankets. The group’s co–founder says it’s important not only to give back to those less fortunate. It also allows people with memory loss to get to know people going through the same…

Fargo City Leaders Give Landlord 30 Days For Demolition Plan

The house at at 703 10th Avenue North has not been inhabited for at least 10 years and has been placed on the "dangerous building' list.

December 4, 2018

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FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – Fargo city commissioners have given the owner of a dilapidated house 30 days to come up with a plan to bring it up to code or the 121-year old structure will be demolished. The house at at 703 10th Avenue North has not been inhabited for at least 10 years and has been placed on the…

64 Children Have a Place To Sleep Thanks to Slumberland’s Home For The Holidays Campaign

64 kids in need in the community received a mattress, box spring, and a bed frame

December 3, 2018

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WEST FARGO, N.D. -“Joy,” Slumberland Furniture Homes for the Holidays recipient Nicole said. That’s the reaction of one mother who received a bed for her daughter to sleep in. The two have been sleeping in the same bed ever since they moved to Fargo in February to start a new life. “It’s amazing, because my daughter, she doesn’t ask for…

Great North Pole Provides $1.5 Million in Goods to Families in Need

This is the second year the non-profit is giving the personal items away

December 3, 2018

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FARGO, N.D. — During the season of giving, community members are spending an entire week packing boxes to go to F-M families in need. KVRR’s Danielle Church tells us how the boxes could provide a special holiday for some families. Toiletries, winter coats, canned goods and even a few games may not seem like extravagant gifts for the holidays. But to…