Jan 27, 2021
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Alice Gilpatrick, pictured with her son Bill Kloss, received a COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday at a Trinity Health clinic.
Some 924 patients were vaccinated for COVID-19 on Saturday, according to information provided by Trinity Health.
According to Trinity, more than 1,400 health care workers were vaccinated and more than 1,500 eligible patients were vaccinated since December. Vaccinations are being given based on the priority groups established by the North Dakota Department of Health.
The largest number of people were vaccinated on Saturday, according to Trinity. “We look forward to every shipment we receive, and we’ll take as much vaccine as we can get for our region. Our goal is to vaccinate as many people as possible, as soon as possible. When we get vaccine doses, we act swiftly and deliberately to give them to people,” said Randy Schwan, Vice President at Trinity Health. “It is a little frustrating for our team and patients: The only
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A proposed family homeless shelter is shown in this Broadway Circle rendering from EAPC.
A resilience project to build affordable housing and a family homeless shelter on South Broadway is moving forward despite the loss of its developer.
A request for planned unit development zoning will go to the Minot Planning Commission Tuesday for Broadway Circle at 1901 S. Broadway. Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota filed the application Dec. 23. LSSND announced this month that it is closing.
“They are out of business but the project is alive,” said John Zakian, Minot’s National Disaster Resilience Program manager. “There is no reason why we shouldn’t go ahead and approve it because we are still going to do the project. It’s just going to be with a different entity.”