From The Williston Wire -- April 16, 2016

New boat center.

Dakota Boat Center is now open in Williston under the capable ownership of Dutch Deick. Deick saw a definite need in the community for quality, moderately priced boats and pontoons, plus full service. At this time he carries Crestliner and Avalon, with more brands to come. The Dakota Boat Center is located in the Williston Equipment building at 4996 139th Avenue, NW, Williston, ND. 

This story is noteworthy for several reasons. When I was growing up in Williston:

• all streets and avenues were north, south, east, or west; NW, SE, ESE, NWE did not exist in Williston when I was growing up
• 18th Street was about as far north as I would ride my bicycle
• anything west of 9th Avenue was "Middle-Earth" to me; my first home in Williston was on 14th Avenue
• our 3-digit house number, 722, was about as high as numbers got in Williston; a "4996" number put you somewhere near Ray or Tioga, certainly past Blacktail Dam
• 139th Avenue -- we wish -- only in Minot did we think there were that many streets and avenues

Top 25 Women In Prairie Business.

Carla Schwartzenberger and Anita Quale of Watford City were named to Prairie Business Magazine's annual Top 25 Women in Business. Schwartzenberger is a former Microsoft employee who helped start Razor Consulting Solutions in Watford City while Quale is a veteran employee and the current chief financial officer for First International Bank & Trust.

"Quale" was the last name of my sixth grade and Wilkinson Elementary School principal, if I recall correctly. [My sister tells me I recall incorrectly: our Wilkinson Elementary School principal, she tells me, was Mrs Quie.]

Menu changed to "well-done" only this evening.

Flames shot through the roof of Mr. K's Steakhouse, Lounge and Bottleshop, even as a passerby reported the blaze around 5:30 a.m. Thursday, April 7. "When we arrived the roof was entirely in flames," said Crosby Fire Chief Travis Running. With hardly a family in the county without fond memories of a wedding dance or other special occasion held at Mr. K's over the past three decades, news of the devastation spread quickly on social media. "There was no chance we were going to save it," said Running. There were no injuries but the building was a total loss. 

Hopefully they weren't charbroiling with highly-volatile, but incredibly inexpensive, Bakken crude oil.

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