January 5, 2022
Embarking on a new frontier
BY RALPH MANCINI
A prolonged drought impacting large swaths of North Dakota throughout 2020 and beyond led local
herdsman Warren Bergquis to explore a backup plan of employment — although it took him some months to figure out what that was.
Suggestions offered by neighbors in the areas of Washburn, Underwood and Turtle Lake had the married father of two weighing his options on his next course of act ion, according to Bergquist.
It wasn’t until a routine encounter with his friend and Western Frontier Insurance Agent/Customer Service Representat ive Tammy Stein-Dockter that he saw a potential opening he could take advantage of.
