Annual 4th of July

2008 Sponsors, Donations, and Special Thanks

• 2008 Star Sponsors
  (as of June 18, 2008)

• City of Moorhead - $8,200 Event Co-Sponsor, plus Police and Fire Department Support
  American Legion Post 21, Moorhead - $5,000 Event Co-Sponsor
  Bremer - $3,000 Sponsor of Evening Stage Entertainment
  Honeywell, Fargo - $2,500 Sponsor of “Proud to be an American” Theme
  Agassiz Mechanical, Fargo - $1,000 Sponsor of Pony Rides
  KBW Associates, Inc., Fargo - $1,000 Sponsor of Climbing Wall
  MSUM President’s Office on behalf of MSUM Students - $1,000 Sponsor of Diversity Promotion
  Moorhead Public Service - $800 Sponsor for Bike Parade, and volunteers for the Table Top Golf
  Akiba Architects, Fargo - $500 Sponsor of Balloons
  CPMI (Cost Planning & Management Int’l), Bloomington - $500 Sponsor of Sack Races
  Cunningham Group, Minneapolis - $500 Sponsor of Bean Bag Throw
  Foss Architects & Interiors, Fargo - $500 Sponsor of Stagecoach and Covered Wagon Rides
  Gast Construction, Fargo - $500 Sponsor of Bingo
  Greenberg Roofing, Fargo - $500 Sponsor for Dragon Express Train
  Key Contracting, Fargo - $500 Sponsor of Ring Toss
  Obermiller Nelson Engineering, Fargo - $500 Sponsor of Dragon Express Train
  RH Rogers and Associates, Fargo - $500 Sponsor of Barrel Rides
  Stanley Consultants, Minneapolis - $500 Sponsor of Caricatures
  Ulteig Engineers, Fargo - $500 Sponsor of Stagecoach and Wagon Rides
  Beth Sundet/Design One, Fargo - $250 Sponsor of Face Painting
  Inspec, Inc., Minneapolis - $250 Sponsor of Straw Stack Surprise
  MSUM’s AFSCME Union Local #602 - $250 Sponsor of Buttons and Memorabilia
  MSUM’s MAPE Union Local #1502 - $250 Sponsor of Duck Races
  MSUM’s MSUAASF Union Employees - $250 Sponsor of Duck Pond
  Moorhead Rotary - $250 Sponsor of Straw Stack Surprise
  Northern Improvement Co., Fargo - $250 Sponsor of Slap Shot Hockey
  Sertoma Club of Fargo Moorhead - $250 Sponsor of Sucker Pull
  Thompson Greenery, Barnesville - $250 Sponsor of Slap Shot Hockey
  Moorhead Kiwanis - $200 Sponsor and assistance with Face Painting & Tattoos

• Other Monetary Donations:
  LHB, Inc., Minneapolis - $200
  Park Co. Realtors, Fargo - $100
  Sysco Foods, Fargo - In-Kind Donation of Food

• 2008 BINGO PRIZE CONTRIBUTORS: Ace Hardware (Ostrum’s, Acme Electric, Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar, Arby’s/Moorhead, Best Buy, Bison Turf, Boerth’s Gallery, Cafe Alladin, Camelot Cleaners/Fargo, Canary’s Fashions, Cash Wise Foods/Moorhead, Cenex Petro Serve/Moorhead, Centre for Hair and Wellness, Charlie’s Tubing/Detroit Lakes, Cheri’s Photography, Chub’s Pub & Package Place, Chumley’s, Clay Your Way, Coca Cola Bottling Co., Inc., Cold Stone Creamery, Cost Cutters/Moorhead, Creative Kitchen, Culvers, Dairy Queen/Moorhead, Domino’s Pizza (Northern Empire), Don’s Car Wash/Fargo, Doolittle’s Woodfire Grill, Doublewood Inn, Eide’s Jewelry, Extreme Pizza Kitchen, Famous Dave's Barbeque, Fargo Tractor, Fargo’s Finest Autobody, FM Printing and Office Supply/Moorhead, FM Redhawk Baseball Club, FRS Industries, Fryin’ Pan Restaurant, Gate City Bank, Gio’s Pizzeria/Moorhead, Granite City Food & Brewery, Great Harvest Bread, Herberger’s/Moorhead, Hi-Ho Tavern/Dilworth, His Styling Salon, Holiday Gas Station Stores, Hollywood Video/Moorhead, Hornbachers/Moorhead, Hot Heads Hair and Tanning, In Style/Dilworth, Kelly Inn, Kinder Kloset, Kmart 7216/Moorhead, Kroll’s Diner, Marlowe Kulish, KVLY TV-11 / KXJB TV-4, Lee’s Floral, Lee’s Hallmark, Linda Kay Photography, Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon, McDonald’s Corp Office/Fargo, Melberg Christian Book & Gift, Mom’s Kitchen/Tailgators, Monte’s Downtown, Moorhead Ace Hardware, Mrs. Fields Cookies/Ron’s Aqua Massage, MSUM Bookstore, MSUM Council on Staff Affairs, MSUM Straw Hat, Nine Dragons, Nordic Needle, Office Max/Dilworth, Old Broadway, Old Chicago Pizza & Pasta, Old Dutch Foods, Olive Garden, Olivieri’s Salon/Moorhead, Papa Murphy’s Take “n Bake Pizza/Moorhead, Pepper’s American Café, Perkin’s Family Restaurants—Fargo and Moorhead, Pizza Hut, Pizza Patrol, Printer Solutions, Quality Bakery and Pastry Shop, Ramada Plaza/Basie’s Restaurant, Reardon Office Equipment, Red Lobster Restaurant/Fargo, Rigels Inc., Royal Fork Buffet, Ruby Tuesday, S & S Promotional Group, SJ Hair Studio, Sammy’s Pizza & Restaurant, Sandy’s Donuts, Santa Lucia Restaurante, Savers, Scheels Home and Hardware/Fargo, Scherling’s, Season’s at Rose Creek, Shooting Star Casino/Mahnomen, Skateland Family Fun Center, Slumberland Furniture, Space Aliens, Sports City, Stenerson Lumber/Moorhead, Straus Co., Subway/Fargo, Sunset Lanes, TJ Maxx Store, Taco John’s/WS Enterprises/Fargo, Target/Moorhead, Tastee Freeze/Moorhead, TGIFriday’s, The Forum, The Hub, Thompson Greenery Floral, Tires Plus/Moorhead, Tochi Products, Tubs of Fun, Virgo’s Pizza, Wal-Mart #01-1627/Dilworth, West Acres Bowl, and Zanbroz Variety.

• 2008 Special Thanks

  Host, Opening Ceremonies: Former MSUM President Roland Barden
  Hostess: MSUM President Edna Szymanski
  10K Run and Firecracker Mile: Mark Rice, Mary Rice, Mike Almquist
  Balloon Helium Donation: PraxAir--Fargo
  Bingo Grand Prize: Hornbachers—Moorhead
  Caricatures: Talent Productions
  Cartoon Film Projection: Trina Spaeth and Instructional Media/TV Production Staff
  Climbing Wall: Go Climb a Rock--Perham, MN
  Decorated Bike Parade: MSUM President Edna Szymanski, and Clowndimonium
  Diversity Promotion: Joe & Cory Bennett, Bennett Block Club
  Emergency Vehicle Display: FM Ambulance, Moorhead Fire and Rescue, Moorhead Police Department and DARE program, Clay County Sheriff
  Entertainment MC: Laura Zeiher, MSUM Student Senate President
  Evening Entertainment: Lake Agassiz Concert Band, Avalanche
  Evening “Proud to be an American” Program: American Legion Post 21 Moorhead, Roland Barden, Bob Schieffer, and Doug Hamilton
  Event Advertising: Fargo-Moorhead Today, Forum of Fargo Moorhead , Moorhead Parks and Recreation, FM Extra, FM Village Family Magazine, KFGO AM Radio, KFNW Radio, KVLY TV 11, KXJB TV 4, WDAY TV 6 and Radio
  Fireworks Display: RES Specialty Pyrotechnics — Belle Plaine, MN
  Fireworks Program Broadcast: Froggy 99.9 FM
  Flag Raising/Evening Honor Guard: American Legion Post 21, Moorhead
  Food Booth Assistance: Dave Lilja, Sodexho-Marriot
  Food Vendors: American Legion Post 21/Moorhead; D & D Concessions/South Haven, MN; Dominos Pizza/Fargo; Josie’s Corner Café & Bake Shop/Fargo; Li’l Foodwagon/Moorhead; Rib Supreme/Moorhead
  Glow Necklace Sales Aprons: Stenerson Lumber, Moorhead
  Independence Day Parade: Larry Nicholson, Terry Richardson, United Patriotic Bodies
  Information Tables: DFL Party, Republican Party
  Large Equipment Display: Bert's Truck/Moorhead, Butler Machinery Company/Fargo, Fargo Tractor, Gast Construction/Fargo, Greenberg Roofing/Fargo, MTI Distributing Company/Fargo, Master Construction/Moorhead, Northern Improvement/Fargo, Peterbilt of Fargo, RDO Equipment/Moorhead, Swanston Equipment/Fargo
  Liberty Bell Crafted in 2006: Ordean Swenson, Ray Bjerke, Don Hersrud, Ralph Lemar, Dave Holland, Dave Holsen, Todd Stugelmayer, and Fargo Glass & Paint for enclosure
  Pony Rides: Lee and Germaine Gray, Moorhead
  Pop and Popcorn Stands: Marilyn Larson and friends
  Proud to be an American Display: Photos from MSUM Archives, Darrel Paulson, Glenn Tornell, Gwen Johanson
  Security and Police Services: Moorhead Police Department, MSUM Security
  Special Appearances--Mascots: Chuck E. Cheese from Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Parlor, “The Duck” from ABC Seamless, Froggy from 99.9 Radio, Hawkeye from FM Red Hawks Baseball, Scorch from MSUM Dragon Athletics (Jonathan Leither), and Zelmo from Space Aliens Grill & Bar
  Stagecoach and Covered Wagon Rides: Dakota Carriage Co., LLC, / Garfield Hoglund, Fargo
  Tables: Concordia College
  T-shirt Screen Printing: Applied Image
  Traffic Cones: United Rentals

   

• 2008 Special Assistance Given By

  MSUM Business Office—Financial Assistance
  MSUM Building Services—Event Set Up
  MSUM Facilities and Administration Office Staff and Students—Event Coordination and Support
  MSUM Facilities and Administration Division Directors—Fundraising
  MSUM Information Technology/Amanda Stegmaier—Website Updates
  MSUM Instructional Media/TV Production Staff/Bob Schieffer—Entertainment, Audio/Visual Coordination
  MSUM Instructional Media/Graphics Staff/Jody Bendel—Logo, Posters, Ads, T-Shirt Design, Banners and Signs
  MSUM Instructional Media/Photography Staff/Darel Paulson—Photography
  MSUM Women’s Basketball Team—Evening Concessions
  MSUM Physical Plant—Event Set Up, New Construction, Signs and Painting
  MSUM Printing Services/Jan Guida—Brochure and Program Printing
  MSUM Publications/Glenn Tornell, Kristi Monson and Dave Wallace—Ads, Promotions, Maps, Photography
  MSUM Security Services—traffic and crowd control, emergency preparedness
  MSUM faculty, staff, students, supporters and volunteers
  Sodexho Food Service—Food preparation support, and use of facility
  Activity Chairpersons (All MSUM unless noted):
  Kathy Abraham, Jan Atchison, Anita Bender, Al Breuer, Ellen Brisch, Ed Choate, Don Clark, David Crockett, George Davis, Steve Grineski, Doug Hamilton, Bruce Hanson, JoDee Haugrud, Gwen Johanson, Dean Mollerud, Moorhead Kiwanis Club, Moorhead Public Service, Larry Nicholson, Joe Provost, Mark Rice, Marla Smith, Glenn Tornell, Warren Wiese, and Brian Wisenden
  4th of July Event Committee Members:
  Daniel Kirk—Director; Gwen Johanson—Coordinator; Kathy Abraham—Assistant Coordinator; and Gordy Bergman, Al Breuer, Jeff Goebel, Doug Hamilton, Dave Holsen, Larry Nicholson, Michael Parks, Mark Rice, Bob Schieffer, and Tom Schmidt