ROSEAU SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT TOM JEROME TOLD THE SCHOOL BOARD THIS WEEK THAT THIRTEEN TEACHERS WERE OUT OF THE BUILDING MONDAY, SOME DUE TO CORONAVIRUS QUARANTINES AND ISOLATION. JEROME SAID “STAFFING IS A PROBLEM”. AS OF MONDAY, SIX ROSEAU STUDENTS HAD POSITIVE COVID TESTS; AND THAT’S IMPACTED ANOTHER 175 STUDENTS WHO ARE IN QUARANTINE AND THUS IN DISTANCE LEARNING FOR FOURTEEN DAYS.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR WARREN JOHNSON OF ROSEAU, FOLLOWING MINNESOTA COVID GUIDELINES, ARE THIS MORNING AT ELEVEN AT OUR REDEEMER’S LUTHERAN CHURCH IN BADGER. A PUBLIC GRAVESIDE SERVICE, WITH MILITARY HONORS, IS TODAY AT 12:30 AT THE SPRUCE CEMETER. WARREN JOHNSON WAS 70.
A FUNERAL SERVICE FOR BARBARA WELIN, FOLLOWING STATE COVID GUIDELINES, IS TOMORROW MORNING AT ELEVEN AT HELGESON FUNERAL HOME IN ROSEAU. VISITATION IS AN HOUR PRIOR. BARBARA WELIN WAS 82.
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SAYS NET FARM INCOME WILL BE NEARLY 103 BILLION DOLLARS THIS YEAR; THE FIRST TIME NET FARM INCOME HAS BEEN ABOVE ONE HUNDRED MILLION SINCE 2013. THE RED RIVER FARM NETWORK SAYS THIRTY TO FIFTY PERCENT OF THAT NET FARM INCOME WILL COME FROM GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS.
THE WOMENS WESTERN COLLEGIATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION STARTS IT’S COVID-DELAYED SEASON THIS WEEKEND. BEMIDJI STATE OPENS AT ST CLOUD STATE, AND WILL PLAY EIGHT GAMES AGAINST THE HUSKIES AND MINNESOTA STATE/MANKATO OVER THE NEXT MONTH.
BEAVERS COACH JIM SCANLAN SAYS THEY’RE NOT PLAYING MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN YET BECAUSE OF STRICTER COVID TESTING PROTOCOLS FOR BIG TEN SCHOOLS …. TWO FORMER ROSEAU RAMS, KAYLA SANTL AND ANIKA STOSKOPF, ARE FRESHMEN AT BEMIDJI STATE.
THE NORTHWEST REGIONAL LIBRARY SYSTEM IS SEEKING A TWO PERCENT FUNDING INCREASE FROM CITIES AND COUNTIES IN THE REGION FOR NEXT YEAR. NORTHWEST DIRECTOR JIM TROJANOWSKI SAYS, DURING THIS PANDEMIC YEAR, IN-PERSON USAGE OF THE LIBRARIES HAS DROPPED … TROJANOWSKI SAYS LIBRARY USAGE NATIONALLY IS TRENDING DOWNWARD; HE SAYS THAT’S “COMMON WHEN THE ECONOMY IS STRONG”.
APPLICATIONS FOR THE STATE’S GOOD FOOD ACCESS PROGRAM GRANTS WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH TOMORROW. AMONG PREVIOUS RECIPENTS OF THOSE GRANTS ARE KC’S COUNTRY MARKETS IN BADGER AND GREENBUSH.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP LOST HIS BID FOR RE-ELECTION EARLIER THIS MONTH TO JOE BIDEN; THE FIRST SITTING PRESIDENT TO FAIL TO WIN A SECOND TERM SINCE GEORGE BUSH, SENIOR IN 1992. BUT TRUMP HAS HAD MANY CONSERVATIVE FEDERAL JUDGES CONFIRMED DURING HIS TERM IN OFFICE …. DANIEL GOLDBERG FROM THE ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE SAYS 80% OF TRUMP’S CONFIRMED JUDGES ARE MALE, AND 90% ARE WHITE.
MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR FRED DeMOLEE OF WARROAD, FOLLOWING MINNESOTA STATE GUIDELINES, ARE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT TWO AT THE WARROAD BAPTIST CHURCH. MILITARY HONORS ARE BY THE WARROAD AMERICAN LEGION, AND VISITATION IS AN HOUR PRIOR. FRED DeMOLEE WAS 65.
FUNERAL SERVICES ARE PENDING FOR CODY HEPPNER OF WARROAD. CODY HEPPNER WAS 25.
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