Anamoose, ND

Last night we had our annual Quad County Economic Development meeting at the Whistle Stop Cafe in Drake. 

We are loaning Darryl Keller money to open the Shani”s Bar in Drake. 

Maria Effertz Hanson, McHenry Co. JDA Director, spoke on the benefits of living in ND.  She referred to the article in the January issue of National Geographics, The Emptied Prairie, where they said ND is litered with dead towns.  Many ND people, including me, wrote in to let them know what we thought of the article.  We have a lower population in ND than a lot of states, but we have a lot of positives.  To view the article go to:  http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=north%20dakota&type  

We just got home from eating a buffet breakfast at the Anamoose Cafe.  What a huge crowd, as you can see in the pictures!  The breakfast was delicious  Over breakfast, we talked about how it is great to be able to eat Sunday breakfast in Anamoose before or after church. 

Next Sunday we can eat breakfast at the Anamoose Senior Center, when they serve their second Sunday breakfast from 9:30-1. 

This was one of our Strategic Planning goals-to have Sunday meals for seniors.  I am sure the rest of the people in Anamoose enjoy it too. 

Friday we had our second blogging training session at Carrington with Mike Miller, and I learned how to change the banner at the top of our Anamoose site.  It is our Anamoose Welcome sign cropped to fit.  I had to cut part of his antlers off to get it in the area allowed. This is the sign that will have Ana added to the left side.

On the Gackle blog site I saw a great idea to promote a blogging site-plus I see that they fed their new bloggers.

    “To generate awareness we are going to give out business cards with the Gackle “Blogging site added to everyone who attends the upcoming Gackle Horizons Pep Rally.”