A HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION DATE IS SET FOR SATURDAY, APRIL 24TH IN WARROAD. MATERIALS CAN BE DROPPED OFF AT THE CITY SHOP BETWEEN 9:00-NOON. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IS ACCEPTED CAN BE DIRECTED TO 218-463-4248.
A FUNERAL SERVICE FOLLOWING MN STATE COVID GUIDELINES, FOR WAYNE KJALLBERG OF WANNASKA WILL BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON (2 PM) AT HELGESON FUNERAL HOME IN ROSEAU. INTERMENT WILL BE AT MICKINOCK CEMETERY.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOLLOWING STATE COVID GUIDELINES FOR MARLAN R. WARNE OF STRATHCONA WILL BE HELD THIS MORNING (10:30) AT HELGESON FUNERAL HOME OF ROSEAU. INTERMENT WILL BE AT ST. JOSEPH’S CEMETERY IN BENWOOD.
A MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL FOR DARRELL S. ALIPOYO OF WARROAD WILL BE HELD FRIDAY (4 PM) AT ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH IN WARROAD. VISITATION WILL BE HELD THURSDAY (5-7) AT HELGESON FUNERAL HOME IN WARROAD. INTERMENT WILL BE HELD AT FAIRVIEW CEMETERY IN ROSEAU.
MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR ROGER KOFSTAD OF WARROAD WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY (1 PM) AT ZION LUTTHERAN CHURCH IN WARROAD. VISITATION WILL BE THURSDAY (5-7) WITH A 7:00 PRAYER SERVICE AT THE CHURCH. MILITARY HONORS BY THE WARROAD AMERICAN LEGION. ROGER KOFSTAD WAS 80.
HOPES ARE BY LATE SUMMER THAT THE MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUNDS WILL BE BUSTLING WITH ACTIVITY, BUT STARTING APRIL 14TH THEY’LL BE BUSY FOR ANOTHER REASON. GOVERNOR WALZ ANNOUNCED THAT THE FAIRGROUNDS WILL BE USED FOR A COVID-19 VACCINATION SITE FOR THOSE LIVING IN ZIP CODES NEAR THE FAIRGROUNDS AND THE HIGHEST SCORES ON THE CDC’S VULNERABILITY INDEX. IN TOTAL THERE WILL BE 168,000 DOSES ADMINISTERED, THAT IN ADDITIONAL TO ALL OTHER STATEWIDE VACCINATION EFFORTS.
SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS WILL SEE HELP FROM TWO MILLION DOLLARS MADE AVAILABLE BY THE USDA AND FSA. IT’S AN EFFORT TO DISTRIBUTE RESOURCES MORE BROADLY AND EMPHAISIZE OUTREACH TO SMALL AND SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FARMERS IMPACTED BY THE PANDEMIC. YESTERDAY ALSO MARKED THE REOPENING OF FSA’S CORONAVIRUS FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 2. FARMERS AND RANCHERS HAVE 60 DAYS TO APPLY OR MODIFY EXISTING APPLICATIONS.
RECENTLY THE ROSEAU COUNTY BOARD HAS RE-APPOINTED JACK SWANSON TO THE NORTHWEST MINNESOTA MULTI-COUNTY HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY FOR ANOTHER FIVE YEAR TERM.
THE POLK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE LOCATED THE VEHICLE THAT WENT INTO THE RED LAKE RIVER WITH THE USE OF THEIR DRONE ON SATURDAY. THE FEMALE DRIVER, AND SOLE OCCUPANT, WHO SUFFERED A MEDICAL EPISODE WHILE DRIVING WAS RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL ON FRIDAY, APRIL 2.
A MINNESOTA MEDICAL EXAMINER SAYS LAST MONTH’S DEATH OF “MIRACLE ON ICE” OLYMPIC HOCKEY PLAYER MARK PAVELICH WAS RULED A SUICIDE. THE MIDWEST MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE IN ANOKA COUNTY SAYS THE 63-YEAR-OLD PAVELICH DIED OF ASPHYXIA. HIS BODY WAS FOUND MARCH 3 AT THE EAGLE’S HEALING NEST IN SAUK CENTRE WHERE HE WAS UNDERGOING TREATMENT THERE AS PART OF A CIVIL COMMITMENT FOR ASSAULTING HIS NEIGHBOR IN AUGUST 2019, WHEN HE WAS ALSO FOUND INCOMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL BECAUSE HE WAS MENTALLY ILL AND DANGEROUS. PAVELICH ASSISTED ON MIKE ERUZIONE’S WINNING GOAL AGAINST THE HEAVILY FAVORED SOVIET UNION IN THE 1980 OLYMPICS.
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