Rachel Mrozinski with Downtown Dogs Fargo joins Adam with her dog, Quincy. Rachel started Downtown Dogs to help bring dogs and their owners together. They partner with local businesses to create spaces for dogs to gather during cold winter months. During the summer, Downtown Dogs hosts Tail Waggin’ Wednesdays at the Dike East Dog Park in Fargo from 6:30-7:30…
There’s an awful lot of unused art space out there to anyone with a stick of chalk and an imagination. At least, that’s the message from the Arts Partnership for next week’s Chalkfest, a celebration of one of the most ephemeral and beautiful art forms out there. You may not have given much thought to chalk art since you spent…
It’s a couple of months away still, but behind the scenes, the forces that make the Golden Drive for Homeless Kids are gathering steam. Sue Baron established the charity that brings help, funds, toys, educational materials, and other resources to the area’s homeless children a few years back with just a dream and a crayon. Now, her fundraising event has…
Amber Parsons with Midwest Mud joins Adam and Emily and shows them how to make homemade clay garden gnomes. She shows you how to add the face and hair, using a frosting piping bag. Parsons also shows the simple method to give your gnome a nice butt. Midwest Mud is hosting two “Let’s Make Gnomes” classes on August 13th-14th…
Heather Klefstad with Homeward Animal Shelter joins Adam to talk about the 28th annual Paws Walk. The walk is Tuesday, July 24th from 6-8 p.m. at Rheault Farm in Fargo. The 1/2 mile walk raises money to pay for food, shelter, and veterinary care for shelter animals. Heather brought along a friend to help promote the walk, Rocco, an 11-year-old…
Patrol officers work with the public every day to make our streets safer, and the people who oversee them see and hear a lot. Lt. Mark Empting started his career as a patrol officer himself, and now handles the patrol division for the Clay County Sheriff’s office. And now he’d like a step up, to Sheriff. Clay County is set…
Keeping track of people on their way out of the corrections system is a full-time job with significant consequences for our safety here in the Red River Valley. And that safety has been in the hands of Mark Hendrickson for several years. Now, he’s looking to take over the post of Clay County Sheriff as longtime law enforcement leader Bill…
He’s been a K9 officer, a member of the SWAT Team and a member of the Warrants and Transports Division in his quarter-century with the Clay County Sheriff’s office. And now, with the retirement of longtime Sheriff Bill Bergquist, Scott Steffes thinks the time is right to take on a new role — that of the county’s top law enforcement…
Raise a glass to the fine folks, feathered and otherwise, of the Red River Zoo with us. Zoo executive director Sally Jacobson and macaw Goober joined the Morning Show’s Emily Welker live in studio to talk about the upcoming Zoo Brew event that lets people 21 and over sample beers from local breweries, listen to live music and learn all…
Clay County is losing its longtime sheriff Bill Bergquist this fall. He’s retiring after decades with the department, and four people are vying for the chance to replace him. Among them is a longtime detective with Bergquist’s department. Jason Hicks has investigated many of the highest-profile crimes in the county over the past decade. Hicks says he’s looking for a…
