Thousands of people use Wahpeton attractions like, Chahinkapa Park, Chahinkapa Zoo and the Red Door Art Gallery. When the people get involved to improve those locations, like North Dakota State College of Science building construction technology students did when they built a newly-dedicated storage building, it has a big impact.

Six first year students – Connor Ray, Adam Wolff, Cameron Winstead, Ben Shook, Preston Peterson and Logan Prochnow – representing roughly a quarter of the student manpower for the project attended Wednesday’s Wahpeton’s Park Board meeting. They as well as educators like Bryan Wolfgram and Jeremy Hoesel, were thanked by park board commissioners.

Recipients like the Wahpeton Park Board pay for building materials. In return, the NDSCS students get the full value of their education and then some. Wolfgram, among those thanked by Harvey Link for successfully teaching your to professionally approach a job, reminded the students to look forward to the future.

In addition to the new storage building, the park board is, thankful for recent  generous donations. They include $42,000 from North Dakota Game and Fish for an aquatic nuisance species cleaning station, $1,000 from the Walmart Foundation and $2,400 from the North Dakota Council on the Arts to support Art4Life, $2,000 from Ken and Barbara Kolbe for Wahpeton Community Center benches and $9,800 from Thor Mitskog for the Nikki Mitskog Memorial Chahinkapa Park Pond Overlook.