Lakeland

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Terry Dullum

I told members of the Lakeland Association yesterday that reporters are wonderful, wonderful people who are extremely overworked and entirely underpaid. I’m not sure if they bought it.

I was speaking to and with association members at their annual tourism conference at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Thief River Falls. The topic du jour was Dealing with the Media. It was part of my work release program from WDAZ.

Thanks to Laura for the invitation and to the group for not throwing anything at me. Quite the opposite, we had a lot of fun. I hope we can do it again sometime.

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Chris, Lucy and Cuba

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Terry Dullum

We had another great round of guests on WDAZ News @5 this week, to say the least.  Beginning with trumpeter Chris Botti whose latest album Impressions was released this week. Mark Knopfler, Vince Gill and many others perform on it will him.  I’m a frustrated trumpet player himself (and I do mean frustrated) and he is one of the very best.

Yesterday actress and activist Lucy Liu told us about her recent trip to Haiti and a “hidden hunger” nutrition campaign for developing countries she’s involved in.

Today we talked with Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. He stars in “Hallmark Hall of Fame’s Firelight” which you can see on WDAY-TV and WDAZ-TV Sunday night at 8 o’clock.  It sounds like a nice story.

Cuba kept calling me “buddy.”  I think he wants to hang out.

Next week on News @5, we talk with country music star Trace Adkins. Be with us.

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State Farm Insurance Building

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Terry Dullum

Call me corn-fed, but I’ve always thought of the North Dakota Capitol building in Bismarck as cool, especially when you consider it was built in the 1930′s during the Great Depression.

Working in Bismarck for a little over two years, I never got tired of going there for work and just for the heck of it.

So, I was mildly offended, and yet oddly amused when I found out Minnesota Republican House majority leader Matt Dean compared it to an insurance office during debate yesterday in the Minnesota Legislature about repairs to that state’s capitol building.  Dean called the North Dakota Capitol “embarrassing” and said it resembles a State Farm insurance building.  “It’s like State Farm Insurance called, they want their office building back,” he joked.

I don’t see that the State Farm building is so bad for that matter.

North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple was really not amused.  Dalrymple says the Capitol is “one of the most pleasing in the United States.” He says it’s a classic example of Chicago skyscraper design and that people who don’t appreciate it haven’t studied much architecture.

Yeah!  What he said!

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My Generation

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Terry Dullum


My Generation at Burtness Theatre on the UND campus April 17 – 21 at 7:30 pm.

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Impressions

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Terry Dullum

Tomorrow on WDAZ News @5, we’ll chat with trumpter Chris Botti about his new album Impressions.

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Chris Botti

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Terry Dullum


We’re going to be talking soon on WDAZ News @5 with the wonderful Chris Botti.

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Friends

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Terry Dullum

As usual, we had a great time at the Raise Your Paws for Pets benefit dinner and auction last night at the Alerus Center.  Just guessing, but it seems to me that quite a lot of money was raised for the Circle of Friends Humane Society in Grand Forks.  The Pigcasso went for two hundred bucks.  The Pigcasso is a painting done by “Squeeky” the pig, a resident of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanabe, Utah.

Auctioneer extraordinaire Harley Camperud did his usual superb job.  I was asked to emcee.  (So, I did.)

Got to gossip with print people Milo Smith (now of UND fame) and the Herald’s other foodie Jeff Tiedeman.  Also, one of the KJ108 Big Dawgz.  As Bob Zany would say, the one with the big head.

There’s just something about the crowd the gathers for Raise Your Paws.  They seem to come to have a good time and, of course, to support a cause that is very dear to many of us, the Circle of Friends.

Looking forward to Raise Your Paws XII next spring.

Julie Standy, Lori Legacie Hodek and moi at last night’s Raise Your Paws.

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Rat Pack Giveaway

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Terry Dullum

The first three people to send us an e-mail at tdullum@wdaz.com will win a pair of tickets to Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack show at the Chester Fritz Auditorium tomorrow night.  Your e-mail needs to include your full name and a daytime telephone number.  COMMENTS ON THIS BLOG SITE WILL NOT BE ENTERED. Winners will be announced on WDAZ News @5 tomorrow (Friday).  Good luck.

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The Pack

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Terry Dullum

Friday on WDAZ News @5

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Pig-Caso

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Terry Dullum

“Pig-Caso”
Last Minute Auction Item – Don’t Miss It
11th Annual “Raise Your Paws For Pets” Dinner & Auction

The Circle of Friends Humane Society will be hosting the 11th Annual Raise Your Paws For Pets on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at Alerus Center – Junior Ballroom.. Raise Your Paws will begin with a social hour at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m., followed by a live auction. A silent auction will run throughout the evening.

We are pleased to include a surprise auction item by “Squeeky”, the pig, a resident of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanabe, Utah. The “Pig-Caso” was painted by “Squeeky.” Since the program has been discontinued, this will be the last opportunity to own an original “Pig-Caso!”

“We are indeed grateful to the community for their continuing support and recognition of our services over the years,” said Arlette Moen, executive director of the Circle of Friends Humane Society. “This event offers great food, incredible auction items and, best of all, the funds raised go directly to the care and well-being of the animals!”

Tickets for the event are $50 per person. Call 701-775-3732 for more information.

A private, nonprofit animal care organization, the Circle of Friends Humane Society shelters and cares for homeless and unwanted animals, places them into humane environments, and implements programs designed to increase everyone’s awareness of their responsibility to all animals. The Humane Society accepts all stray animals and receives 2000 or more pets of all kinds each year at an average of 20-30 per week. Located at 4375 N. Washington St., the facility is open to the public from noon to 6 p.m. Monday Saturday.

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