Business Buzz: Downtown Fargo Scoop N Dough has reopened, Dakota Vines’ wine wins gold, and more

FARGO — Issues bought a bit of sweeter in downtown Fargo Friday, Might 5, when Scoop N Dough Sweet Co. opened its downtown location for the summer season. Scoop N Dough

first opened at 206 Roberts Alley N. in Might of 2018.

The store options cookie dough in flavors like Peanut Butter Cup, Funfetti and Espresso Toffee and ice cream in flavors comparable to Mint Chocolate Chip, Bubble Gum and Malted Mountain. It additionally serves milkshakes, floats, gourmand popcorn and extra.

Proprietor Josh Ulrich

opened a second Fargo Scoop N Dough location at 4600 thirty second Ave. S. within the Blu 32 retail middle

in July of 2021. Each shops will have fun the enterprise’s fifth anniversary with $1 ice cream cones Friday, Might 19.

For extra data,

search “Scoop N Dough”

on Fb.

In what they consider could also be a primary for a North Dakota vineyard, Dakota Vines took house gold on the

Jefferson Cup Invitational Wine Competitors.

The Groszes additionally obtained bronze medals for his or her Sundog rose and Lonetree pink, in addition to a silver medal for his or her Roughrider pink.

“We had been honored to be a part of a contest with so many different great wineries, and to have our wines tasted and judged by the specialists from the Jefferson Cup Invitational,” Deb Grosz mentioned. “It means an ideal deal to us that our arduous work has been acknowledged with this prestigious award. We sit up for sharing Prairie Sky and our different wines with our friends this season.“

For 23 years, the Jefferson Cup Invitational has been the one competitors that honors the perfect of the perfect amongst wineries from all of America’s wine areas.

Competitors organizers invited wines from 25 states, based mostly on tastings and competitions in America all through 2022. On the finish of the second day of this yr’s tasting, 41 Jefferson Cup trophies had been awarded to wines comprised of each vinifera vines (the European species chargeable for well-known grapes comparable to Chardonnay and Cabernet) and non-vinifera vines, which flourish within the extra excessive climates within the U.S.

Whereas different home wine competitions predominantly favor California wines, the Jefferson Cup makes it a precedence to signify each wine-producing area within the nation, in line with press supplies.

Dakota Vines opens for the season on Friday, Might 12.

The U.S. Small Enterprise Administration is now accepting functions for its T.H.R.I.V.E. (Thrive, Hope, Rise, Innovate, Enterprise, Elevate) Rising Leaders Reimagined program.

This free, six-month course is supposed to help small enterprise house owners in rising their enterprise, creating jobs, and strengthening their communities.

This system supplies members with the chance to work with a community of skilled material specialists in core enterprise subjects and different micro-sessions personalized for the small enterprise’s distinctive wants. The reimagined format removes the one-size-fits-all mannequin in alternate for engagement, problem-solving, and peer-to-peer interplay throughout the cohorts.

The initiative is open to small enterprise house owners and executives who:

• Have been in enterprise for at the least three years
• Have annual revenues of at the least $250,000
• Have at the least one worker aside from themself

For extra data or to register, go to

sbathrive.com.

The deadline to use is Might 10.

Angie Wieck is the enterprise editor for The Discussion board. E mail her at awieck@forumcomm.com