02/14/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined in the KFGO studio by representatives from Fargo Parks to talk about their plan to raise golf and pool fees. Aaron Hill is the Fargo Parks Board President, Susan Faus is the Executive Director, and Dave Bietz is the Deputy Director of Operations. 

Board members were planning to raise the cost of a 2025 family season pool pass to all five pools from $193 last year to $500 this year. Plans were also in the works to sharply raise golf course fees. This came shortly after the opening of the Fargo Parks Sports Complex. 

Read the full KFGO article here. 

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02/14/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined for another conversation with Governor Kelly Armstrong, who won the election in November 2024. Joel asks him for a status update on the property tax relief issue, what he thinks about public funds going to private schools, and who could replace Superintendent Kirsten Baesler. 

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02/13/25: Joel Heitkamp is broadcasting live from the Dakota Medical Foundation and is joined by Matt and Travis from Fix It Forward Ministry on Giving Hearts Day. 

"Fix It Forward Ministry is our 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charity. Our goal is to remove the transportation barrier for needy members of our community thus helping enable them to be independent and self-sufficient. This is accomplished in two ways. First by providing free car repairs to needy individuals, to help keep their vehicles on the road and safe. Second by repairing donated vehicles and giving them to needy members in our community who do not have a vehicle or whose vehicle is beyond repair. We utilize volunteer labor, discounted parts, and charitable donations to cover the costs of repairs."

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02/13/25: Joel Heitkamp is broadcasting live from Dakota Medical Foundation for Giving Hearts Day 2025, and is joined by their Executive Director, Pat Traynor. Until 2000, Pat was the Executive Director and CEO of the North Dakota Workers Compensation Bureau. He has also worked as an attorney in Fargo, ND.

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02/12/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined by Missy Heilman in the KFGO Studio ahead of Giving Hearts Day. Missy has served as the BIO Girls CEO since founding the organization in 2013. With a background in business management and marketing, Missy worked primarily in the marketing technology industry for 15 years, as a consultant and Chief Marketing Officer, before BIO Girls became her full-time job in 2018.

BIO Girls is on a mission to improve the self-esteem in adolescent girls through empowerment of self and service to others. 

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02/13/25: Today is Giving Hearts Day, and Joel is broadcasting from the Dakota Medical Foundation to promote it. He's joined by Rachael, the Advancement Director for the F5 Project. "Since 2016, the activity surrounding incarceration and addiction has changed, the field of re-entry services has broadened, and public safety has become more enlightened in ways that would not have been possible without the advocacy of F5 Project." Learn more on their website. 

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02/13/25: Joel is broadcasting live from the Dakota Medical Foundation for Giving Hearts Day, and is joined by Jordan McCormick from Furniture Mission. Furniture Mission of the Red River Valley demonstrates love and compassion by connecting furniture/household items with individuals and families in their time of crisis and challenge. 

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02/13/25: While broadcasting live from the Dakota Medical Foundation on Giving Hearts Day, Joel Heitkamp is joined by Shellie Simonson-Ulven from Oak Grove Lutheran School. Oak Grove Lutheran School provides a faith-based, Christian education for students from age 3 through grade 12 on two campuses in Fargo, North Dakota. The school, continuously accredited since 1926, emphasizes a mission focused on academics, faith and service. Learn more about Oak Grove on their website. 

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02/12/25: Joel Heitkamp is joined in the KFGO studio by Maggie Ness, the Executive Director for the Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley. Maggie joins Joel ahead of Giving Hearts Day to tell the listeners about Memory Cafe and what they do for the area, and why your support is so encouraged. 

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02/12/25:Joel Heitkamp is joined in the KFGO studio by Jeana Peinovich, the Lend A Hand Up Director. She joins Joel ahead of Giving Hearts Day to talk about what Lend A Hand Up does for the community and how you can donate.

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