“The first year, it took six weeks and we had raised $50,000. So I think we knew there was something there because we wouldn’t have been able to do that without the companies and sponsors and they just stepped right up," Bakken BBQ Co-Founder Tiffany Steiner said.
The water festival is coordinated by SWA with the help from the North Dakota Department of Water Resources, North Dakota Project WET and local sponsors.
“It’s very special for those children to be standing on the stage and have all those people supporting them. To me, that’s the coolest part of the whole event is when they’re up there and they’re looking out, knowing that they have the support from an entire community," Dickinson Noon Lions President Kelly Braun said.
The Pit Strength & Fitness will host the United States Powerlifting Association's King of the North competitions on the weekend of March 26 and 27 at the West River Ice Center.