{"id":9801,"date":"2023-01-01T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=9801"},"modified":"2022-12-31T00:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T00:59:53","slug":"january-2023-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=9801","title":{"rendered":"January 2023 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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The latest in our series,<\/h2>\n

THE PEOPLE OF THE PARK…<\/h2>\n

A Visit with Joy & Kevin Reski<\/h1>\n

by Dale Dauten<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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It was the nearing the end of 2017, Christmas time, and Joy Reski was missing her home. She and her husband, Kevin, had come to visit Silveridge from Fargo and, as she explained, \u201cAfter ten days, I was ready to go home. I felt like I should be there putting up the tree and doing Christmas decorations.\u201d Instead, they were in a rental, with none of their usual holiday ornamentations. What to do? Joy decided to go to the office and volunteer to help decorate at the park. And that saved her Christmas spirit\u2026 and she\u2019s been passing along high spirits ever since: indeed, two years later, when Yvonne Rowley was ready to pass the torch, Joy took over the leadership of the team of volunteer decorators.<\/p>\n

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As Activities Director Lu Way put it, \u201cJoy is our lead decorator for all functions. She has a great team of elves that sweep in and decorate the ballroom and just as quickly, clear it off and put it away.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Photos: That\u2019s Joy in the storage area, surrounded by decorations, and below that, the latest team photo.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Back Row L to R: Dorothy Radi, Judy Schnaible, Barb Kor<\/p>\n

Middle row: Beth Lockhart, Amy Foy, Penny Dates, Linda Elliot<\/p>\n

Seated: JoAnn Kloos, Barbie Jurgens, Ingrid Zacharias, Joy Reski, Glenda Littlefield<\/p>\n

Missing: Sue Bidinger, Leona Hauge, Paula Voight, Linda Huss<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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THE RESKIS<\/p>\n

One of the places you\u2019ll see the work of the decorating elves is at the Silveridge dances. And that\u2019s also where you\u2019re likely to find the Reskis, out on the dance floor. It\u2019s where they first met — on a dance floor at the West Fargo VFW, both attending a mutual friend\u2019s birthday party. Kevin recalls being impressed by Joy and thinking, \u201cI\u2019d like to spin with her more often.\u201d They dated. They married. They created a blended family, each bringing a son and daughter to the marriage. And they kept on dancing.<\/p>\n

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The couple became regulars at dance events around town and started entering competitions, eventually becoming regular winners. That ended one evening when they went to register at an Elks Club competition. Kevin explained: \u201cWe went to register and the man running the event pulled us aside and said, \u2018Would you mind going outside and sitting in your car till the other couples have registered? If they see you two are entering, some of the others will drop out.\u201d That day, as Kevin put it, \u201cWe realized we were ruining the competition for others. That was the end of our trophy seeking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Photo: Joy and Kevin at a recent Silveridge dance)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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When they weren\u2019t dancing or raising four kids, the Reskis had full careers.<\/p>\n

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Joy graduated from North Dakota State University where she studied languages, focusing on Latin, and found she had a gift. She already spoke German, having picked it up from her grandparents, and eventually added Spanish and French. And so she was a natural to teach languages, spending most of her career teaching junior high.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Kevin grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota and eventually studied engineering at Moorhead State. He also grew up in the family business, saying, \u201cThere were nine of us kids \u2013 free labor to Dad.\u201d That business was making and installing communication towers. Of the nine kids, only one decided to stay in the business \u2013 that was Kevin, who became CEO and helped move the company to West Fargo and its new name, Great Plains Towers, Inc. Their towers are all over the world, even Antarctica.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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And while Kevin\u2019s siblings had left the company, Joy got involved: she\u2019d head out on the road with him over her summer breaks from teaching.\u00a0One of their corporate experiences included lie detector tests to be given Federal Top Secret security clearance. That\u2019s because Kevin had designed special tilting towers to be used by U.S. embassies. \u201cIt started after the Benghazi attack,\u201d Kevin said. (That was in Libya in 2012.) \u201cThe government wanted to mount cameras that could reach out and look down outside the embassy walls, but could be retracted. I designed a hinged tower and got a patent for it.\u201d Those towers are now being used in embassies around the world.<\/p>\n

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COMING TO SILVERIDGE<\/p>\n

The Silveridge connection is also a family affair: Kevin\u2019s parents had a place in the park and that\u2019s how the couple came to first rent a place back in 2017, when Joy made that decision to become a volunteer decorator. They soon became regulars, splitting their time between Mesa and Fargo.<\/p>\n

When at Silveridge they keep busy. Joy not only leads the decorators, but teaches one of the water aerobics classes, and she does tai chi. And Kevin, when not running the tower company, does water volleyball, desert ATV riding, and karaoke. And, of course, you\u2019ll find them at the park\u2019s dances.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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