Terry Wallace is running for Park Board.
He’s got over 35 years experience at the Devils Lake Park Board and although he retired a while ago, he really hasn’t completely retired. The first of October of 2022 he retired, but came back eight months later to fill in when the person who had replaced him left the position. Since then he has still been involved especially with preparing the budget each year and writing grants.
He knows a lot and is willing to help wherever he is needed.
So he is throwing his hat into the ring to be a commissioner on the Park Board.
Wallace is from the Lake Region, originally a native of Webster, ND. He is married to Patty, in fact recently they just celebrated 29 years of marriage. They have three children, all grown up and one grandchild, 15 months old, and one on the way.
He has always been interested in sports and that has served him well through the years. He had some experience to share with the current board regarding the community pool that was part of the discussion at the most recent Park Board meeting.
He said it was 1991 when they were starting to promote a new pool for the community. The pool that had been in roosevelt Park needed replacing. The community voted on it and approved of it, the cost in 1992 would be $550,000 but it took three years, so Devils Lake was without a community swimming pool all that time.
Judy Estenson is running for U.S. Senate as a Republican representing District 15.The district is highly contested, and Estenson faces the incumbent Senator Kent Weston and Kristin Kenner in the Republican primary. Because a previous court-ordered redistricting placed her current residence in District 9, Estenson is running in District 15 with plans to move into the district should she win the election.
The Lake Region native, Judy Estenson, grew up in the Warwick area, she says her family lived “the American Dream” in agriculture and later in the insurance business. She quoted President Ronald Reagan when he said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it…” — Inaugural Address, 1967
Estenson says that she fights for that, too. The mother of five says like everyone else, she does the best that she can.
“I married a farmer and became a nurse, both jobs are similar, and I’m adding legislator, too,” She adds.
Thanks to redistricting she served only two years of a four year term in congress when that redistricting was challenged in court, a judge ruled in favor of the opposition. So she’s going for it again, she wants to represent her home district, where she lives and works. As a nurse she sees parallels to what she does now, legislators care for their constiuents, much like a nurse, who looks at a problem, assesses what may be needed and does what she can to address the problem or illness. She sees herself as an Independent Legislator, not afraid to go against the grain, to work across the aisle, and to question “why?”
“I am committed to doing what I think is right for North Dakota and to be the leader they elected me to be,” she stated. “I want to finish what I started.”
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