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MTI Announces Expansion
October 23, 2006

Midwest TeleMark International (MTI), headquartered in Mohall, North Dakota, is an inbound/ outbound teleservices company that also offers data entry services to their clients. MTI’s clients are primarily telecommunications companies.

MTI has nine sites located in North Dakota and two in Canada—Beulah, Bottineau, Fessenden, Grafton, Kenmare, Langdon, Rugby, Stanley; Boissevain and Brandon, Manitoba. MTI currently employees over 500 full and part time personnel.

“We are pleased to assist MTI with their expansion needs” states Denise Hendrickson, Executive Director of Forward Devils Lake, “MTI is a stable and growing company that takes care of its employees.  They will be a great asset to Devils Lake.”

“We are very happy with the assistance given by Forward Devils Lake” stated Kathy Hett, CEO of MTI.  “The friendly people have been very accommodating and we look forward to expanding into Devils Lake.”

The Lake Region Growth Fund participated in the expansion project with a total investment of $44,519 and anticipates over 50 full time positions.

MTI will be located in the Holiday Mall.  Apply by contacting Raquel Nachatilo, Human Resources Manager, at 1-800-356-7762, or apply in person at the ND Job Service office in Devils Lake.

Richard Volk, Chairman of Forward Devils Lake is shown presenting a check on May 26, 2006 to Michael Connor representing the Devils Lake Basin Joint Board in the amount of $1500 to assist with the temporary carp barrier at Billings Lake.

The Devils Lake Regional Partnership hosted a small alumni dinner on May 18, 2006 in Minneapolis.  Alumni guests from Devils Lake included Mark Oehlke, Brian Soper, and Pat Carney. These events bring economic and community development news from home.  If you would like to be included in the next alumni event, please contact us.

Lake Region State College's Center of Excellence: Dakota Center for Technology - Optimized Agriculture recently received a $45,000 award ($15,000 annually over three years) from Lake Region Growth Fund with support from Forward Devils Lake.

The Center – an initiative funded through a $450,000 state Centers of Excellence grant – is a partnership between Lake Region State College in Devils Lake, private-sector partners Agri ImaGIS of Maddock, TotalCrop Farming Systems of Langdon, and area answer farms.

The Center’s program fuses three arenas: engineering research, applied research, and education, says Dr. Paul Gunderson, director for Dakota Center for Technology-Optimized Agriculture.

The center will engage in product design, prototype development, testing, agronomic impact assessment, job creation, new knowledge, additional consulting and educational opportunities, and entrepreneurial development.

Housed at Lake Region State College, the center is managed by director Dr. Paul Gunderson and coordinator Joel Mathiason and guided by a Steering Committee composed of local, regional, and national leaders.

Pictured left to right are: Dr. Paul Gunderson, director of Dakota Center for Technology-Optimized Agriculture, Holly Mawby, Workforce Training Coordinator, Dr. Sharon Etemad, LRSC president,  Denise Hendrickson, executive director, Forward Devils Lake, and Tom Wade president of the Lake Region Growth Fund.

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