North Dakota State College Extension in Morton County will provide Lead Native, a one-day management workshop, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the North Dakota Affiliation of Rural Electrical Cooperatives constructing, 3201 Nygren Drive NW in Mandan. The workshop is geared towards aspiring and elected or appointed leaders serving on a board, council or committee.
Efficient management could be realized via skilled and private growth and self-reflection. Lead Native helps leaders study to higher plan and prioritize aims, positively affect and preserve relationships, and develop expertise to answer uncertainty in a consistently evolving panorama.
Lead Native prepares leaders to:
Really feel higher ready to function an efficient board, council or committee member.
Acknowledge the parts of an efficient assembly.
Study fundamental parliamentary process and the way to use it.
Perceive totally different persona types and the way individuals they’ll successfully work collectively.
Use efficient instruments when coping with battle.
Persons are additionally studying…
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Registration price for the course is $75 and consists of lunch and all supplies. The deadline to register is Jan. 11.
For extra info or to register, go to www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/extension/occasions/lead-local-4. Direct any further inquiries to Courtney at 701-667-3340 or courtney.hoikkala@ndsu.edu.
Upcoming NDSU Extension occasions
Name 701-667-3342 for assist having access to digital occasions or go to www.ag.ndsu.edu/mortoncountyextension for extra info.
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Jan. 8: 15, 22, 29: Annie’s Mission, Flasher
Jan. 9: Ladies in Ag, Underwood
Jan. 17: BSC Ag Advertising and marketing Membership-Martinson Ag, Zoom
Jan. 18: Lead Native 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Mandan
Jan. 24: Morton County Producer Day, Mandan
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Courtney Hoikkala is the Morton County Extension agent for household and group wellness agent. She could be reached at courtney.hoikkala@ndsu.edu.
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Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season instead brought mass death and carnage from Earth’s catastrophic impact with a massive space rock. Scientists recently pinpointed the season of the disaster and linked it to springtime in the Northern Hemisphere, after analyzing fossilized animals that died minutes after the impact at a site called Tanis, where a river once flowed through what is now North Dakota.
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – A fairly new group, the North Dakota Polynesian Cultural Club, hosted its first Pacific Island, Asian, Arts and Culture Festival, or PAC Fest for short.
The North Dakota Polynesian Club invited the public to come eat cultural food, watch performances of cultural dances and listen to special speakers at Lord of Life Lutheran Church.
Event organizer, DJ Lamyuen, says he hopes to bring attention to his community.
“The goal and the mission is to bring awareness to our Pacific Islander and Asian heritage,” said Lamyuen.
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The performances featured included the Bismarck YMCA belly dancers and traditional Indian dances, celebrating the different ways of life that make the Pacific Islands and Asia diverse. But, the group welcomed everyone from any background to join the celebration.
“That’s all that matters, that we can enjoy each other and different cultures by food, by music, by dance, and that’s all that matters in today’s society,” said Moses Timaly, member of the North Dakota Polynesian Club.
The hope is that this event, and the club, can create a sentiment of unity between the people of Bismarck-Mandan, regardless of where they’re from.
“Not a lot of people out here have resources or friend groups, so this is like an opportunity to kind of get together and know your neighbors and know the community,” said Lamyuen.
A “Best Dressed” Award was also given to whoever wore their cultural regalia or traditional clothing the best.
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The group also enjoys working with a variety of nonprofit organizations, such as Bismarck Global Neighbors.
A national banking official said he looks to North Dakota’s oil industry for clues about the health of the region’s economy.
“The Bakken, and North Dakota, is very interesting in giving me insight into what’s happening here and what it means for the broader economy,” Neel Kashkari said Thursday, May 16, while speaking at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck.
Kashkari is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, which serves North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, as well as part of Wisconsin and Michigan. The Federal Reserve Banks are independent financial institutions that manage the U.S. economy.
In ordinary circumstances, when the economy is healthy, unemployment is low and the average rate of inflation is about 2%. However, if one of those factors is thrown out of whack, the Federal Reserve may decide to intervene.
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“If the economy is growing too slowly, we will traditionally cut interest rates to try to give it a boost,” Kashkari said. “If the economy is overheating and inflation is too high, like recent experience, we will raise interest rates to try to tap the brakes in the economy to bring inflation back down.”
The Federal Reserve conducts extensive research to help inform those decisions, he said — including looking at employment trends in the Bakken.
“There have been times when the labor market here is incredibly tight, and it’s not been so tight around the U.S. economy, and you’re drawing in workers from all over America to come here — creating opportunity, high wages, and also challenges here in the local economy,” Kashkari said of North Dakota.
Recently, that hasn’t been the case, though. The whole country has had more jobs available than workers to fill them.
“If you have a particularly hot sector, you can’t simply draw workers from the rest of the country, because everyone around the rest of the country also has tight labor markets,” he said.
According to Kashkari, tribal economies are another important part of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve’s research. That’s because even when the U.S. economy is strong, tribes often face barriers that prevent them from accessing that wealth.
Their hope is to identify policies that governments can use to break down those barriers.
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“Tribal economies have a unique set of challenges,” Kashkari said. “The economy may do well, different businesses may do well, and we still have people who are not participating in our economy.”
So where is the U.S. economy right now?
A mix of factors — including COVID-19, supply chain issues, an increased demand for consumer goods and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — caused global inflation to surge in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
These days, however, the economy is doing pretty well, Kashkari said.
Nationwide unemployment is relatively low — it was under 4% as of the end of April, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And while inflation is still rising more quickly than ideal at around 3.5%, it’s a far cry from its peak of 9% in late 2022.
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Consumer spending is also strong.
“As much gloom as there appears to be when people are surveyed about how they feel about the economy, most people are spending like they feel pretty good about the economy,” he said. “If you go on airplanes, they’re usually full. If you go to restaurants, they’re usually full. If you go to a hotel, they’re usually busy.”
The housing market has been unexpectedly resilient, too, he said. It’s remained competitive even after a series of mortgage hikes by the Federal Reserve in 2022 and 2023.
The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage hovered around 3% before 2022, but is about 7.5% today.
“We think that there’s a pent-up demand for housing,” Kashkari said. “There’s been a pent-up shortage of housing across our economy for the last decade.”
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The conference, which has more than 2,200 attendees, continues through Thursday.
This story was originally published on NorthDakotaMonitor.com
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