Wrong on gay marriage, right on state quarters
Quarter Commission Selects Bison Design For ND Quarter
BISMARCK, N.D. - The North Dakota Quarter Design Selection Commission today selected the bison design for the North Dakota state quarter. Commission members met at the Capitol in Bismarck to review the thousands of comments received from all across the state before voting on the final design. After the commission meeting Gov. Hoeven approved the recommended design, which will be forwarded to the U.S. Mint by May 31, 2005.
“This has been a great process with tremendous input from the public all along the way,” Lt. Gov. and Chairman of the Quarter Design Selection Commission Jack Dalrymple said. “The bison design will represent our state well for many years to come.”
The 50 State Quarters Program Act, passed by Congress in 1997, provides for the redesign of the reverse side of the quarter dollar with images emblematic of each of the 50 states. Under the Act, a series of five quarter dollars with new reverses will be issued each year through 2008 celebrating each of the 50 states of the Union. The coins will be issued in the sequence that they became part of the United States of America. North Dakota joined the Union in 1889 as the 39th state.
Thanks for picking an animal that says "North Dakota." Not literally, of course, Then Mr. Ed should be on the quarter. South Dakota picked the pheasant, which isn't even a native species. Finally, one up on South Dakota! The Canadian in me was secretly rooting for the geese. The Canada Goose isn't our national animal, though. That honour belongs to the noble and industrious beaver.
How d'ye like them apples?
Whatever possessed me to buy such enormous apples? I tried to find a universal standard of measurement, but the Weetabix and Raisin Bran boxes were the best I could do. I could make the largest apple pie in the history of the apartment complex. I wonder if my all-in-one slicer/corer doohickey will be able to handle their massive appley girth?