{"id":21954,"date":"2013-07-12T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=21954"},"modified":"2013-07-12T14:20:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:20:42","slug":"st-historical-society-deciding-on-welk-home-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=21954","title":{"rendered":"St. Historical Society Tables Welk Home Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/welkhome2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21956\" alt=\"welkhome2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/welkhome2.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Jul 12, 2013) &#8211; The state Historical Society has tabled the purchase of Lawrence Welk&#8217;s boyhood home in the south central North Dakota town of Strasburg.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Historical Society Director Merl Paaverud (PAH&#8217;-vuhr-ood) says the agency&#8217;s board met Friday in Strasburg to decide whether to buy the bandleader&#8217;s birthplace.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paaverud says the board needs more information on the costs to upgrade and maintain the homestead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Legislature this year included $100,000 in the Historical Society&#8217;s budget for the purchase.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The idea comes two decades after Congress earmarked $500,000 in federal funds to develop a tourist industry in Strasburg. The money included a museum of German-Russian heritage that was intended to draw visitors to the bandleader&#8217;s birthplace.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lawmakers later withdrew the money when the idea was mocked as a symbol of wasteful spending.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reported previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Jun 27, 2013) -The state Historical Society is mulling the purchase of Lawrence Welk&#8217;s boyhood home in Strasburg, in south central North Dakota.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Legislature this year included $100,000 in the Historical Society&#8217;s budget for the purchase.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Historical Society Director Merl Paaverud (PAH&#8217;-vur-ood) says the agency&#8217;s board is meeting July 12 in Strasburg to decide whether to make the purchase. The site also would be used to tout the importance of agriculture and the region&#8217;s German-Russian heritage.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The idea comes two decades after Congress earmarked $500,000 in federal funds to develop a tourist industry in Strasburg. The money included a museum of German-Russian heritage that was intended to draw visitors to the bandleader&#8217;s birthplace. Lawmakers later withdrew the money when the idea was mocked as a symbol of wasteful spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Jul 12, 2013) &#8211; The state Historical Society has tabled the purchase of Lawrence Welk&#8217;s boyhood home in the south central North Dakota town of Strasburg. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Historical Society Director Merl Paaverud (PAH&#8217;-vuhr-ood) says the agency&#8217;s board met Friday in Strasburg to decide whether to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22843,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21954\/revisions\/22843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}