Williston Basin International Airport Web Page Goes Live -- May 14, 2016

Link here. The IATA / airfield code for the current Williston airport is ISN.

My hunch is that the airport will never be built unless it can get a really, really "good" IATA code.

Unfortunately all the "good" IATA codes have been taken, including:

• OIL: Oil City, Pennsylvania
• WBI (Williston Basin International): Broken Inn, Boulder, CO 
• DFP (Drill Frack Pump): Drumduff, Austrailia
• BAK: Baku, Azerbaijan
• HHI (Harold Hamm International): Wheeler Army Airfield Airport in Hawaii.
• MDW? Nope, Chicago's Midway.
• DKM (Danny Kalil Memorial)? Nope: the old Bangkok airport.
• COI (Carl Oksol International)? Nope: Merritt Island.
• BTN, BMT, BUS (Boomtown USA)? Nope, nope, and nope: Bennettsville, Beaumont, and Batum.
• BHO (Barack Hussein Obama International Airport and Presidential Library): Bhopal, India.
• LCI (Lewis and Clark International): Laconia, NH 
• LHI (Lynn Helms International): Lereh, Indonesia

And get this:

• DUC: Halliburton Field Airport, Duncan, Oklahoma 

I can't make this stuff up.

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Look At All Those Vegetables

 The only "thing" she did not eat was the salmon.

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Minor Notes From The Williston Wire

Minot International Airport has a new airport director, Rick Feltner. From Lakeville, MN, Feltner was the deputy executive director of Terminal One at JFK International Airport, Jamaica, NY, from 2014 - 2016.

Main Street reconstruction project has begun in Crosby, ND, north of Williston. 

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First International Bank -- Watford City -- Breaks Ground In Bismarck, ND

Link here.

First International Bank & Trust, a company that started 106 years ago and is headquartered in Watford City, broke ground Wednesday for a six-story building, its largest bank, in Bismarck.

Gov. Jack Dalrymple and Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem were among the dignitaries attending the ceremony.

The $40 million structure is set to open in fall 2017 and will be located across from the North Dakota Heritage Center near the intersection of State Street and Divide Avenue.

More:

First International Bank & Trust has 26 banks (sic) in Minnesota, Arizona and North Dakota, including five locations in Fargo.

The newest bank in Bismarck will be by far the largest facility, Peter Stenehjem said.

“We’re kind of across the whole state of North Dakota; it’s funny that we kept always skipping over Bismarck," Peter Stenehjem said.

"It'll be a landmark building for all of our locations, frankly," he said.

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Cornerstone Bank breaks ground in Watford City.

Link here.