LIFECARE PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTERED 603 COVID VACCINATIONS LAST WEEK. MOST OF THOSE (585) WERE SECOND DOSES OF VACCINE.
LIFECARE PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR JULIE PAHLEN SAYS 6459 PFIZER AND MODERNA VACCINES HAVE BEEN GIVEN IN ROSEAU COUNTY SINCE LATE DECEMBER; 3610 WERE FIRST DOSES, AND 2849 COUNTY RESIDENTS HAVE RECEIVED BOTH SHOTS.
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF COUNTY RESIDENTS AGED 75-84 ARE FULLY VACCINATED … NINETY-SIX PERCENT OF THOSE 85 AND OLDER HAVE GOTTEN TWO SHOTS … AND EIGHTY-NINE PERCENT OF PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 65 AND 74 HAVE BEEN VACCINATED.
LIFECARE PUBLIC HEALTH EXPECTS SOME JOHNSON AND JOHNSON VACCINES IN THE NEXT WEEK.
CONGRESSWOMAN MICHELLE FISHBACH AND OTHER STATE REPUBLICANS ARE URGING HOUSE DEMOCRATS TO CENSURE REPRESENTATIVE MAXINE WATERS OF CALIFORNIA FOR HER REMARKS REGARDING PROTESTS IN MINNESOTA. WATERS ENCOURAGED PROTESTERS TO “STAY IN THE STREETS” AND TO “GET MORE CONFRONTATIONAL”. SOME ARE INTERPRETING THOSE COMMENTS TO INCITE VIOLENCE.
A TEAMS OF SCIENTISTS HAS DETERMINED THAT DECADES-OLD “LEGACY” MERCURY POLLUTION IS THE CULPRIT, AS TO WHY WALLEYE FROM THE ST. LOUIS RIVER CONTAIN SUCH A HIGH LEVEL OF MERCURY. THEY SAY A PARTICULAR WATER FLOW PATTERN IN THE RIVER COULD HAVE TRAPPED MUCH OF THAT POLLUTION IN WETLANDS AND BAYS. THE FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORIES FOR LARGE WALLEYE FROM THE RIVER ARE SOME OF HT HIGHEST IN BOTH MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN.
ROAD CONSTRUCTION, REQUIRING A SHORT DETOUR, WILL BEGIN ON HIGHWAY TWO, WEST OF BEMIDJI ON MAY 10TH. THAT WORK SHOULD LAST THROUGH EARLY JUNE.
A FUNERAL SERVICE FOR MARLYS BENSON OF WILSONVILLE, OREGON AND FORMERLY OF ROSEAU WILL BE HELD THIS FRIDAY (11 AM) AT RIVERSIDE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN WANNASKA. VISITATION IS AN HOUR PRIOR. MARLYS BENSON WAS 80.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR ELEEN BARRETT OF ROSEAU WILL BE HELD TOMORROW AFTERNOON (1 PM) AT BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN GREENBUSH. VISITATION WILL BE AN HOUR PRIOR, AND INTERMENT SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT BETHEL LUTHERAN CEMETERY FOLLOWING SERVICES. ELEEN BARRET WAS 67.
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT WALTER MONDALE, A LIBERAL ICON WHO LOST ONE OF THE MOST LOPSIDED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AFTER BLUNTLY TELLING VOTERS TO EXPECT A TAX INCREASE IF HE WON, HAS DIED. HE WAS 93. MONDALE’S FAMILY SAYS HE DIED MONDAY IN MINNEAPOLIS. MONDALE SERVED MINNESOTA AS ATTORNEY GENERAL AND U.S. SENATOR. HE FOLLOWED THE TRAIL BLAZED BY HIS POLITICAL MENTOR, HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, TO THE VICE PRESIDENCY, SERVING UNDER JIMMY CARTER FROM 1977 TO 1981.
Last modified: 04/20/2021
