VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – You’re Invited to the 31st Annual Meeting of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame February 20th & 21st in the Valley City Eagles Club.
Everyone is invited to attend the Annual Meeting, it’s a weekend filled with business, entertainment, great food and celebration of our western heritage brought to you by the Trustees of District 11 & 12.
On Friday Night enjoy an evening of outstanding music with “The Norsky Brothers” following Friday’s social and dinner.
Then laugh along Saturday Night with Comedian John DeBoer during the Annual Meeting Banquet just before the live auction.
Schedule Highlights
Friday, February 20
- Registration (3:00–5:00 pm)
- Silent Auction Opens (5:00 pm)
- Social & Welcome (5:00–6:00 pm)
- Build Your Own Burger Dinner (6:15 pm)
- Ice Cream Social (7:00 pm)
- The Norsky Brothers (8:00–10:00 pm)
- Silent Auction Closes (10:00 pm)
Saturday, February 21
Morning & Afternoon
- Breakfast Buffet (6:00–9:00 am)
- Registration & Silent Auction Open (8:00 am)
- Trustee & Membership Meeting (9:00 am)
- Taco Bar Lunch (11:00 am–12:30 pm)
- Vendor Show, Nominee Testimonials & Wool Felting Lesson (afternoon)
Saturday Night
- Social (4:30 pm)
- Annual Meeting Banquet (5:00 pm)
- Comedian John DeBoer (7:00–7:40 pm)
- Live Auction (8:00 pm)
- Silent Auction Closes (8:00 pm)
Meals are included with paid admission.
- Weekend Pass: $100/person
- (Includes Friday night meal, Saturday lunch, and banquet)
- Friday Only: $35
- Saturday Only: $75
- Table of 8 (Friday & Saturday): $1,000
You can get tickets by calling 701.623.2000 ext.4 or by visiting https://northdakotacowboy.org/events/
Hotel & Shuttle Service
Room blocks are available—ask for the NDCHF block:
- Econo Lodge | (701) 845-5333 $96.55 until 2/17
Other hotels, no special rate:
- Grand Stay | (701) 490-3500
- AmericInn | (701) 845-5551
- Shuttle Service will run between all three hotels and the Eagles Club all weekend.
- Thank you to our shuttle sponsor, Stoudt/Miller Inc.
- Register today: northdakotacowboy.org/events
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Saturday Activities in the Lower Level President’s Room of the Valley City Eagles Club are open to the public so please join us for this small, vetted show and sale of North Dakota produced treasures. We think you’ll enjoy perusing the unique variety while supporting small and local businesses.
12:00 – 4:00 p.m. Vendor Show & Sale
1:00 p.m. Wool Felting Demo/Make-N-Take
Chris Armburst, Owner of the Nome Schoolhouse, will demonstrate and offer a make ‘n take mini class, needle
felted landscape coasters for $5.00. The coaster is felted onsite at the Nome Schoolhouse fiber processing mill. Chris will then teach the craft of needle felting with a barbed needle. You will add strips of drafted wool roving of dyed earth tones to the white coaster making it resemble a landscape. Wool coasters are the best for protecting furniture as they hold the condensation and moisture from the glass, mug etc. not allowing it to penetrate or spill over the edge.
Vendors
Willow 1 (Bruce & Virginia Salzsieder, Edgeley, ND) With items handcrafted by Bruce, you will find tooled leather boot jacks, pens turned from deer antler and wood, and pepper grinders. The pepper grinders are unique in that they are salvaged from aromatic cedar that grew across the vast plains. The cedar was harvested for fence posts. The fence posts were salvages from the West River region near Medora, ND where their working days had come to an end. – until now.
Most have been rescued from a burn pile. Virginia specializes in hand beaded jewelry and ornaments. Her offerings mostly include fringe and modern earrings featuring an interesting collection native to modern colors schemes and styles.
Varnish Bay Silver & Leather (Cali Bredlow, Washburn, ND) Varnished Bay Silver & Leather will offer handmade sterling silver and turquoise jewelry and leather good such as chaps, purses, belts, and more.
Nome School (Chris Armbrust, Nome, ND) Chris will have wool felted products made at the mill at the schoolhouse for sale. Including yarn, roving, kits, insoles etc.
Simple Dovely Recreations (Rhonda Fairfield, Valley City, ND) Reclaimed, repurposed, reimagined is the base for most of what you’ll find. Small furniture and home décor pieces with a western flair will be available. As well as a few stitched items.
Reporter Steve Urness had a chance to interview Rick Thompson, the Executive Director of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame. Thompson talked about the excitement of the Annual Meeting coming to Valley City.