Katina Tengesdal/MDN • Wallace Iverson displays some of his hobby work, a combine model made out of aluminum cans and a fish carved out of wood.

Since retiring from his job as a trainmaster for the railroad in 1985, Minot resident Wallace Iverson has kept busy with his social interests and hobbies. Iverson enjoys hunting and fishing but has since added whittling fish out of wood and making toy vehicles out of aluminum cans to his list of hobbies. “I haven’t fished for two years now. It’s hard to get in and out of boats. So, I started cutting cans and I started making fish,” Iverson said. It is intricate work. Iverson estimates it takes two or three days to complete one of his projects and once he’s finished, he likes to give his work as gifts. Besides his current hobbies, Iverson has picked up many interests over the years. He was born and raised in Flaxton, where he did a lot of skunk hunting and fox trapping. After graduation from high school, he joined the Navy. “I never learned to swim and I was in the Navy for three years. I would just sink to the bottom and stay there. I must have a rock someplace,” Iverson joked.