GRAVESIDE SERVICES FOR SHAWN HAMANN OF BADGER ARE THIS MORNING AT ELEVEN AT THE BADGER CITY CEMETERY. SHAWN HAMANN WAS SIXTEEN MONTHS OLD.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MARLORAE HEMP OF GREENBUSH (AND FORMERLY OF MIDDLE RIVER) ARE THIS EVENING AT SEVEN AT COLLINS FUNERAL CHAPEL IN MIDDLE RIVER. VISITATION IS TWO HOURS PRIOR. BURIAL IS TOMORROW MORNING AT TEN AT FIRST LUTHERAN CEMETERY IN MIDDLE RIVER. MARLORAE “TINY” HEMP WAS 65.
MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR DAVID FRISLIE OF BADGER ARE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT TWO AT HELGESON FUNERAL HOME IN ROSEAU. VISITATION IS THIS EVENING (5-7 PM) AT HELGESON’S. DAVID FRISLIE WAS 88.
GOVERNOR TIM WALZ SAID THIS WEEK THAT CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS, BOTH CASES AND DEATHS, ARE TRENDING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION IN MINNESOTA’S LONGTERM CARE FACILITIES. MARY JO GEORGE SAYS A.A.R.P. MINNESOTA WANTS THE STATE TO CONTINUE RAMPING UP TESTING AT THOSE FACILITIES, GIVEN THE THREAT OF COMMUNITY SPREAD …
THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAID ROSEAU COUNTY’S CONFIRMED COVID CASE COUNT ON TUESDAY WAS 40.
ROSEAU SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT TOM JEROME WAS ON WCCO RADIO SUNDAY AFTERNOON, TALKING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF FALL HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS …. TOM JEROME IS TREASURER FOR THE MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE, AND BECOMES THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THAT ORGANIZATION IN AUGUST.
THE NORTHERN SUNS BAND PLAYS AT ROSEAU’S RIVERVIEW PARK GAZEBO THIS EVENING, WHERE CONCERTS ARE HELD THURSDAY EVENINGS DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS. THE NORTHERN SUNS IS A LOCAL BAND FEATURING MORGAN BERG, BRADEN STROOT, TYLER BENTOW AND ALIX BARTEL.
THE ROSEAU SCHOOL BOARD, THIS WEEK, HEARD FROM STEVE TRUDEAU WITH KRAUS/ANDERSON (THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS FOR THE SCHOOL’S RENOVATION AND BUILDING PROJECT). TRUDEAU SAID THEY’VE RE-BID PORTIONS OF PHASE ONE CONSTRUCTION, AND THAT THE PHASE ONE BUDGET OF JUST OVER FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IS SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN EXPECTED.
THE 27 MILE WILDLIFE DRIVE AT THE ROSEAU RIVER WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC THIS SUMMER; IT WOULD NORMALLY HAVE BEEN OPEN IN CONJUNCTION WITH COUNTY FAIR WEEK. RANDY PRACHAR IS THE MANAGER FOR THE D.N.R.’S ROSEAU RIVER W.M.A.
ON A ROSEAU COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL MEETING THIS WEEK, RED LAKE GAMING SAID IT’S PLANNING MASS TESTING FOR IT’S CASINO EMPLOYEES (INCLUDING IN WARROAD) AFTER TESTING AT FOUR COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE RED LAKE NATION.
AIMEE BERGER, WITH THE INTER-COUNTY COMMUNITY COUNCIL IN ROSEAU, SAYS FREE MASKS ARE STILL AVAILABLE AT LEE’S STORE IN WANNASKA. VOLUNTEERS IN THE AREA HAVE BEEN SEWING MASKS AND DONATING SUPPLIES TO CREATE A STOCKPILE.
21 YEAR OLD NICHOLAS KEZAR OF ROSEAU WAS TAKEN TO A THIEF RIVER FALLS HOSPITAL WITH LIFE THREATENING INJURIES AFTER A TWO-VEHICLE CRASH TUESDAY AFTERNOON ON HIGHWAY 32 NEAR HOLT. KEZAR WAS STRUCK HEAD-ON BY A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY 51 YEAR OLD CHERYL ANN ENGEN OF NEWFOLDEN.A STATE PATROL REPORT SAYS ENGEN’S CAR CROSSED THE CENTER LINE. SHE WAS TAKEN TO A THIEF RIVER FALLS HOSPITAL WITH NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES.
ROSEAU COUNTY HAS SEVERAL HOT DAYS AHEAD, INCLUDING TOMORROW WHEN THE HIGH TEMPERATURE IS EXPECTED IN THE UPPER EIGHTIES, AND THE HEAT INDEX IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE UPPER NINETIES ….
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