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Gear Daddies set to
play in Crookston
EGF hopes to hold more
bit on social media. People
are very excited about it, so I
think it was a good choice.”
This will be the second
concert in the history of the
Crookston Sports Center,
which opened in 2010 and is
located on the University of
Minnesota-Crookston campus.
Hairball, a popular hard rock
cover band, played at the
venue last summer. Because
of that show’s success, the
arena is looking at booking
more concerts, with Gear
Daddies the only scheduled
show so far in 2016.
For a concert, the sports
center can hold around 2,000
people, and the Hairball show
drew about 1,300 fans. Stassen
said everything went well and
that’s why they are looking
to have more concerts in the
venue.
The date of the Gear
Daddies show was picked to
attract college students from
the UMC campus. Stassen
said they scheduled the concert the weekend between the
last day of classes and finals
week so students could blow
off some steam and attend the
event.
“They’re a Minnesota band
that a certain segment of the
population up here enjoys,
and we’re going to have a
great time,” he said.
Advance tickets cost $20
and are available at the
Crookston City Hall, Crookston Hugo’s and online at
geardaddiesincrookstonmn.
splashthat.com. Tickets will
be $30 the day of the show.
events at sports complex.
By Wade Rupard
Grand Forks Herald
CROOKSTON — The
Crookston Sports Center is
gearing up to host its second
of what city officials hope will
be many more concerts.
Gear Daddies, a popular
’80s and early ’90s Minnesota
rock band, will play at the
arena April 30 with The Billy’s
opening the show.
Gear Daddies have released three albums and one
extended play. The band is
best known for their song
“Zamboni,” which is commonly played during intermissions at hockey games and
was featured in the movies
“D2: The Mighty Ducks” and
“Mystery, Alaska,” as well as
the TV show “Malcolm in the
Middle.”
The band rose to prominence about 25 years ago and
performed on NBC’s Late
Night with David Letterman
in 1991 before breaking up.
Now, the band plays a few
select dates around the Upper
Midwest, where they still have
a following.
“We’ve talked to a lot of
different acts and bands, and
the Gear Daddies have tremendous support,” Crookston
City Administrator Shannon
Stassen said. “Even though
we haven’t been pushing the
show that much so far, we’ve
been getting a lot of response
by word of mouth and a little
“
“They’re a Minnesota band that a certain
segment of the population up here enjoys,
and we’re going to have a great time.”
Shannon Stassen
Crookston city administrator
High-risk sex
offender to seek
GF employment
By Kevin Bonham
court of having sexual
contact with
multiple
female victims under
age 14 and
videotaping
them on
numerous
Hamley
occasions.
The incidents occurred in
Rolette County.
As of January, there were
114 sex offenders registered
with the Grand Forks Police Department as living,
working or going to school
in Grand Forks, six of whom
are assigned a risk level of
“high,” according to the news
release. The remaining offenders have a risk level of
“moderate” or “low.”
In North Dakota, sex offenders are assigned a risk
level by a nine-member
committee appointed by the
attorney general.
Among the criteria are the
seriousness of the offense,
offender’s prior history, the
offender’s characteristics and
the availability of community
supports to the offender.
Grand Forks Herald
Grand Forks police alerted
residents Wednesday to a
high-risk sex offender in the
Grand Forks area.
David Jonathan Hamley,
59, who is incarcerated at
Grand Forks County Correctional Center in connection
with his federal probation,
is being permitted to leave
the jail to seek employment,
Grand Forks Police Department said in a news release.
While outside the jail, he
will wear an electronic monitoring device under the supervision of the North Dakota
Department of Corrections.
Hamley is listed as a Level
III, or high-risk, sex offender
who is subject to lifetime registration in North Dakota.
He had been living in
Devils Lake for the past few
weeks until being transferred
to the Grand Forks jail by
federal probation officers,
according to a report from
the Devils Lake Police Department.
In October 1999, Hamley
was convicted in federal
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Jennifer Johnson
Photo
Eric Hylden
Artists Terry Jelsing
(left) and Matt
Wallace of the North
Dakota Museum of
Art, survey the Spirit
Wall, a collaborative
art project between
Jelsing and
members of the
Spirit Lake Nation at
Fort Totten, N.D.
A wall that unites
Artwork aims to portray community on Spirit Lake Reservation
A
new exhibition
depicting Spirit
Lake Indian Reservation
called “Songs for Spirit
Lake — Part II” will open
Saturday at the North
Dakota Museum of Art in
Grand Forks.
A 10-foot-high wall of
about 2,000 papier-mache
bricks created by hundreds of Spirit Lake members is among the works
featured. Inside the bricks
are the “hopes, dreams,
memories, songs and drawings” of the people who
created them, said Terry
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Jelsing, a Rugby, N.D., artist behind the project.
“The bricks are individual, but when you put
them together, it’s the community, they’re the world,”
he said. “They’re diverse,
and yet when they come together, they form a whole.”
The exhibition is the
second part of a years-long
collaboration between
NDMOA and six regional
artists, including Jelsing,
to capture the sights and
sounds of Spirit Lake culture.
Funded by the Robert
due Feb. 19.
“Project 88” is the second
notable PAC-involved project to take place this year.
In January, “Ghosts” was
installed along South 42nd
GF Public arts ask Street, bringing three pieces
of white-painted farm equipfor applications
ment to farm fields on the
Public art groups in Grand city’s west side.
Forks are issuing a call for
Wednesday’s statement
applications for a new projgives a brief look at how
ect.
those pianos could be
“Project 88” seeks to place placed, hinting at a public inthree playable, artist-painted stallation process that’s just
pianos at three locations in
as artistically involved as the
the Grand Forks area: the
project itself.
Grand Cities Mall, River
“Artists’ visual concepts
Cinema Mall and an Altru
should engage and enliven
Health System rehabilitation the public space,” the statebuilding. Jointly organized
ment reads. “Artists can
by the Grand Forks Public
paint their designs on-site,
Arts Commission, the North
encouraging public engageValley Arts Council and a
ment through art, perforUND student group named
mance and music.”
“Project 88,” coordinators
— Sam Easter
are looking to give $300 to capable artists to cover painting expenses, plus 40 percent Man sentenced to
5 months for theft
for the cost of the pianos.
In a statement released
A Grand Forks man was
Wednesday by both the Arts
sentenced to just under five
Commission and NoVAC, the months in prison for a Degroups called on artists to
cember car theft in Grand
submit applications for the
Forks.
project. Guidelines for those
Patrick Michael Peltier,
applications can be found
26, was charged with theft of
property, a Class C felony, in
online at novac.org and are
A re a
Rauschenberg Foundation’s Artistic Innovation
and Collaboration grant,
the first “Songs for Spirit
Lake” exhibition was unveiled in 2013 at the foundation’s gallery in New
York.
Artists Bill Harbort of
Minot and Tim Schouten
of Winnipeg will speak
along with Jelsing about
their work during the 5-7
p.m. opening. Their exhibition is the first of three to
be shown throughout 2016.
Director Laurel Reuter
said she would call the
Grand Forks District Court
after he was found and
arrested Dec. 28 by North
Dakota Highway Patrol with
a reported stolen vehicle on
Interstate 29 north of an exit
near Reynolds, N.D.
The vehicle, a silver Pontiac Grand Prix, belonged
to Joshua Bina, 30, Grand
Forks, who reported the car
stolen Dec. 27.
Bina said in December
the car’s motor was “blown”
when it was returned to him.
On Wednesday, Peltier
pleaded guilty to the charge,
and a judge sentenced him
to 18 months in prison with
12 months suspended and
credit for 38 days served.
Peltier will serve his sentence at the same time as a
sentence he was given in a
separate case.
Peltier was sentenced
Dec. 1 to no jail time for unauthorized use of a vehicle,
a Class A misdemeanor. The
judge ordered him to serve
365 days at the Grand Forks
Correctional Center, with 330
days suspended and credit
for 35 days served, but he
was ordered to two years of
probation and $45 in restitution in the case.
In the car theft case, Pelt-
new exhibition “Horses,
Skins and Basketball/
Wishes, Lies and Dreams.”
“It’s very much about
the landscape at Spirit
Lake,” she said. “When
I look at this exhibition
compared to the last one,
this is much stronger and
it’s more closely aligned
with the people of Spirit
Lake.”
The new exhibition will
be on display until Feb. 29.
Call Johnson at (701)
787-6736, (800) 477-6572 ext.
1736 or send email to jjohnson@gfherald.com.
ier also was ordered to two
years of probation and $836
in restitution.
— Becky Jacobs
Stolen GF semi
found in Fargo
Police found a semitrailer
that was stolen Saturday from
a Grand Forks gas station.
A white 1994 Peterbilt 379,
stolen from Simonson Travel
Center on Gateway Drive, was
found Tuesday afternoon in
Fargo, said Grand Forks Police Lt. Brett Johnson.
The vehicle was left running Saturday at the Simonson Travel Center in Grand
Forks and was stolen while
the driver was away from it,
Johnson said.
The Grand Forks Police
Department had asked
for the public’s help in the
search by posting information
and a photo of the semitrailer
to its Facebook page Tuesday
morning. The Police Department posted several hours
later the vehicle had been
found.
No arrests regarding the
theft had been made as of
Tuesday afternoon, Johnson
said.
— Herald staff report