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Events available for Registration...

2025 Chamber Membership Drive Prize Donations
3/10/2025 - 4/7/2025
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2025 Half-Day Seminar: Team 2.0 - Effective Leadership for First Line Managers and Supervisors
4/9/2025
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2025 April Brown Bag: Team Building - Creating the Culture
4/16/2025
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Life Connected: A Civic Social (2025 EGF Mayor's Event)
4/24/2025
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2025 Leadership Tours & Talks
4/25/2025
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2025 City to Farm Invite
5/16/2025
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2025 Chamber Golf Classic
5/29/2025
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Events in the month of March 2025
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3/19/2025

March Brown Bag:
Enhancing Your Speaking Presence



 Wednesday, March 19, 2025
11:30 am – 1:00 pm 
$20/Member & $30/Non Member
(Includes Lunch)


MedPark and Powerhouse Toastmasters Clubs Present:
Enhancing Your Speaking Presence


Are you nervous when presenting?
With over twenty years of combined Toastmasters speaking experience, your presenters will provide a wide array of tips and discussion topics to improve your presence as you encounter public speaking.

Key Highlights:
This workshop will focus on providing ways to improve your public speaking skills. Whether you frequently speak in public or make a rare acceptance speech, this seminar will provide...

Advice for improving your presence in interviews or performance reviews.
Suggestions for how to quell fear and how to calm nerves.
Tips on how to structure your speech.
Review how to prepare your presentation.
Recommendations for presenting a more professional image of yourself while speaking.

Join us as we help you improve your public speaking poise and bearing.


Featured speakers:
Kaylee Cusack, Meredith Quinn, Carol Weshenfelder


Kaylee Cusack
Kaylee Cusack is a senior communications specialist for Minnkota Power Cooperative. She’s been an active member of Powerhouse Toastmasters since 2019 and has served in the roles of President and Vice President of Public Relations.

Meredith Quinn
Meredith Quinn is an environmental engineer for Jacobs. She's been an active member of MedPark Toastmasters for over a decade and uses the skills of her membership in speaking at conferences, in large client meetings, and in moderating or facilitating strategic workgroups.

Carol Weshenfelder
Carol Weshenfelder is a musical soloist and informative speaker. She has been associated with MedPark Toastmasters for five years and presenting for a decade. Her passion is encouraging others to believe in themselves and in their natural gifts. Carol is a North Dakota resident of twenty-nine years. She has been married to her husband for fifty-five years and has three children.
 

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3/5/2025

State of the Base

 
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Alerus Center - Ballroom 5
1200 42nd Street South
7:30 am

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Buffet breakfast begins at 7:30am
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Join featured speaker Col. Timothy Monroe, Commander, 319 Reconnaissance Wing, GFAFB for breakfast and his State of the Base presentation. Col. Monroe will brief the community on what is happening at Grand Forks Air Force Base.

Registration Deadline is 4pm Tuesday, February 18th
Any reservations accepted after this date will incur a $10/person increase in price. 


Reservations not canceled prior to February 18th will not be refunded.


 
 
 
 
 

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3/6/2025
 -3/7/2025

Be part of the Grand Forks Leadership Team as we meet with the Governor, and other state leaders to discuss some of the vital issues impacting us, this legislative session. 

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3/7/2025

Business Check-in ASK ME ANYTHING

Drop by for our weekly "Business Check-in" every Friday from 1-2 pm (Central Time) with the Center for Innovation team. This is your time to check in, bring up ideas, and get fresh insights to support your business’s growth. Whether you're exploring new solutions, navigating a challenge, or just want to bounce an idea off someone who gets it, we’re here to help you make your innovative ideas take flight!

What’s on Offer?

  • Ask Us Anything – Our team is ready to talk through any questions you have about your business goals, brainstorming ideas, or resources that could support your next steps. You’ll leave with practical, grounded tips you can apply right away.
  • Win a Free Brainstorming Session! Got a question? Submit it here before stopping by, and you might win a free Solution Sprint with our Innovation Training Specialist, Tamara Bertram, to dig deeper into your ideas!

Can’t Make It In-Person? We’ve got you covered with virtual office hours on demand! Just schedule a time that works for you here: Schedule with Tamara

No need to come with all the answers – just an open mind and your next big idea. We look forward to seeing you!


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3/11/2025
You know you should be using AI for your marketing...but how? MN SBDC Consultant, Lee Schwartz will show you how to create a Business Plan, a Market Plan Slide Deck Presentation, and a Logo from scratch--for your new startup company--using AI tools--all in less than 20 minutes...and for (almost) free! Additionally, Lee will share how colleges are already using AI tools for everyday marketing tasks--saving hours of time and making their collective work better. Finally, he'll give tips on using tools like ChatGPT more effectively.

Presented by: Lee Schwartz, MN SBDC Consultant

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3/16/2025

Described by the International Trumpet Guild as "an ensemble full of variety, panache and virtuosity," Stellar Brass is an original and innovative brass quintet performing a broad range of eclectic, musical styles. They are dedicated to providing unwavering support for the training of the Air Force Academy Cadets, and to the unique telling of the Air Force story nationwide. Stellar Brass has represented the United States Air Force as musical ambassadors through internationally distributed audio and video recordings and broadcasts, and are nationally recognized and respected as clinicians, presenting university, college, and high school master classes. They have provided musical support at numerous civic and military ceremonies, and have spotlighted the Air Force at prestigious symposia such as the International Trumpet Guild Convention, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the Colorado Music Educators Association Clinic and Conference and at highly-coveted public performances at major concert halls throughout America.

 

This event is free and open to the public.


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3/18/2025
Bring any unused or expired medications (including pills, creams, inhalers, patches, liquids and even pet meds) in their original container to the drop-off event to have them properly disposed of. Medications can be OTC or prescription. Labels can be left on the medications as they will simply be incinerated. For more information, call Safe Kids Grand Forks at 701.780.1489.

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3/22/2025
Discover a world of creativity and unique finds at the Grand Cities Mall Craft & Vendor Show! Join us for a day of shopping, exploring, and supporting local crafters and vendors. This exciting event brings together a diverse array of talented crafters and businesses under one roof, offering a delightful shopping experience for visitors of all ages.
📅 Date: 3/22/2025
🕒 Time: 9AM - 3PM
📍 Location: Grand Cities Mall
 

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3/29/2025
 -3/30/2025

The Forx Builders Home Show, Presented by Gate City Bank, is the ultimate resource when planning your next home project. Whether you are building a new home, considering a kitchen remodel, or installing your dream outdoor living space, the Home Show is the ideal venue for inspiration, with over 50 vendors featuring landscape design, lawn and garden equipment, interior design, windows, and window treatments, flooring, decking, outdoor living, home Lighting, bathroom ideas and much more.

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