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Progress Milestones and Anniversaries 2023

FDFAA Phillips Luxury Apartments Auditorium

Theater has returned to the stage in the former Phillips Middle School Auditorium, thanks to the hard work of the Fort Dodge Fine Arts Association. The auditorium, now known as the FDFAA Phillips Luxury Apartments Auditorium, is part of a 10-year agreement between the FDFAA and the owners of the apartment building. The FDFAA leases the space for no rent in exchange for committing to make $150,000 in improvements in the auditorium, said Shelly Bottorff, executive director of the FDFAA. Over the last three years, the FDFAA has put a lot of work into the auditorium, including ...

Blanden Memorial Art Museum

Like so many other places that were affected by the COVID pandemic, the Blanden Memorial Art Museum is on the path to getting back to normal again. Museum Director Eric Anderson said that the last year has been one of positives at the Blanden, and that there are many bright highlights on ...

Oleson Park in Fort Dodge

After Donna Monkelien’s husband died in 2000, she had an open park shelter built near the Oleson Park Bandshell so she could look out her living room window from across the street and see that structure and remember her late husband, Richard. “She loved Oleson Park,” Lori ...

Rees Truck & Trailer

When Paul and Cindy Rees opened the doors of Rees Truck & Trailer in August 1992, they had two young sons and a baby girl. In fact, as the business celebrated its 30th birthday last summer, so did the couple’s daughter. In the summer of 1992, after 10 years of working as a diesel ...

St. Paul Lutheran Church

St. Paul Lutheran Church is celebrating 160 years in Fort Dodge. Located at 400 S. 13th St., the St. Paul church and school were formed on Dec. 20, 1863. The original church, called Old Stone Church, was located at 615 Third Ave. S., with the first resident pastor being the Rev. ...

Fort Dodge Housing

Additional housing will soon be coming to Fort Dodge thanks to two major construction projects under development. Second Avenue Rowhomes expected to open in early 2024 Much of the 900 block of Second Avenue South, just southeast of the Fort Dodge Municipal Building, is currently an old, ...