{"id":98920,"date":"2016-04-15T12:55:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98920"},"modified":"2016-04-15T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T18:18:12","slug":"tourism-approves-grants-for-courthouse-rods-hogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98920","title":{"rendered":"Tourism approves grants for courthouse, Rods, & Hogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1883CourthouseOpenFront\"Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant\/Executive Advisory Board, Friday approved two grant requests.<\/p>\n

Meeting at The CSi Technology Center, at Historic Franklin School, the board approved the Jamestown Downtown Association\u2019s request for $1,000 for the June 11, 2016, \u00a02nd<\/sup> Annual Rods and Hogs event, to be held on First Avenue, South, downtown.<\/p>\n

Representative, Lynn Lambrecht said the event will be expanded this year to include a tractor display, along with food vendors, classic cars and trucks, and motorcycles. There will also be a tire changing contest, a car balance beam, and a trike race.<\/p>\n

The board also approved a request for $1,600 for the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse Open House, planned for May14,2016, from 1-4-p.m.<\/p>\n

Also representing the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse Committee, Lynn Lambrecht said the Open House will allow the public to tour the structure, for the first time since a 2014 Open House.<\/p>\n

She said since that time improvements have included the areas of plumbing, lighting, and restorations of rooms.<\/p>\n

At the Open House Jerome Zimmerman will be serving fry bread, with free will donations going toward the restoration project.\u00a0\u00a0 Other refreshment will be served.\u00a0 Entertainment will be provided by the local band, “Old Friends.”<\/p>\n

A dedication of the Mary Young Room, will be on that Friday, May 13, 2016.<\/p>\n

She pointed out that the State Legislature appropriated $350,000 toward the project, with local matching dollars coming from on-going fundraising events.<\/p>\n

In other business, Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund said the 4th<\/sup> of July fireworks display contract has been signed with RES Pyrotechnics, for $10,000.\u00a0 The fireworks will be at the Stutsman County Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n

Nellie Degen represented the Frontier Village board, and showed a T-shirt the staff will wear during White Cloud Days, and throughout the summer at the Village.<\/p>\n

She said that plans are moving forward for the activities, at McElroy Park this year.<\/p>\n

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Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant\/Executive Advisory Board, Friday approved two grant requests. Meeting at The CSi Technology Center, at Historic Franklin School, the board approved the Jamestown Downtown Association\u2019s request for $1,000 for the June 11, 2016, \u00a02nd Annual Rods and Hogs event, to be held on First Avenue, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98928,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98920\/revisions\/98928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}