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.
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
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