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Recent Cold Temperatures Serve As Good Reminder To Check On Older Adults Just be mindful. If you have a neighbor that you know is elderly, it doesn t hurt to go check on them to make sure they have everything that they need, said Mary Bovee, the executive director for Age Well Arrowhead.
February 8, 2021
Elderly adults are among the most vulnerable to extreme temperatures and cold conditions.
Recently Duluth Police dispatched a community service officer to help a 79-year-old woman, who called 911 to get assistance shoveling herself out of her home
“She was kind of out stuck and out of options. I was dispatched to the call and arrived to the house. I went in talked with her a little bit and said I am here to shovel you out. She explained to me she felt bad because she didn’t know who else to call,” said Nick Detlefsen, a community service officer for the City of Duluth.
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Organizations Help Disabled, Elderly During COVID
Both Lighthouse Center for Vital Living and Age Well Arrowhead are supporting those with disabilities and the elderly during the pandemic.
January 27, 2021
DULUTH, Minn. – Lighthouse Center for Vital Living in Duluth has started a hotline that helps those with disabilities and the elderly understand more about the vaccine and testing process. Organizers say the hotline is vital especially with so much information out there.
“The hotline is really important because people have questions and there’s so much information coming from so many different directions that it can be hard to kind of get it all in one place,” said Samantha Smingler, the COVID community coordinator at Lighthouse Center for Vital Living.
Four funds throughout Northeastern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin have already distributed most of their donations. 2:07 pm, Dec. 22, 2020 ×
After already giving out $1 million to emergency funds during the pandemic, a regional nonprofit said it desperately needs more donations.
“Those funds are now nearly depleted, David Montgomery, interim president and CEO of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation, said in a virtual news conference Tuesday morning. We are asking our donors, our business community the entire community to come together to help replenish those funds.“
Donations will be distributed to four regional emergency funds: the COVID-19 Northeast Minnesota Response Fund, the COVID-19 Northwest Wisconsin Response Fund, the Chequama-Care COVID-19 Response Fund and the COVID-19 Two Harbors Response Fund. Those funds will then be used to support residents suffering from the health, economic and social impacts of COVID-19, according to the