Rossman Elementary School fifth grade teacher Mindy Nielsen has been chosen as 2022 Teacher of the Year for Detroit Lakes Public Schools. A ceremony to honor the six finalists and select this year's winner was held at the Holiday Inn Lakefront on Tuesday, March 22.
Black Women Are Being Diagnosed With HIV At Higher Rates Than Other Groups
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(Courtesy of the Indiana Minority Health Coalition) Sheila Muhammad tested HIV positive in 1990, when she was just 26 years old and pregnant with her third child. She was shocked, angry and scared. HIV wasn’t something she thought she was at risk for. “It wasn’t something I was doing,” Muhammad said. But her husband had tested positive while in treatment for intravenous drug use. “It took me a long time to know that he was on the drugs,” Muhammad said. “And then I didn t know enough about it. I didn t educate myself to even know that the two went together.”
Sails Up, Lakers! Detroit Lakes students design multiple sailboats for public art project
When the 150 Sails Up in DL public art project was unveiled for the first time this past Friday, April 30, more than a half-dozen of them were revealed to have been created by past and present students of Detroit Lakes Public Schools. Six of the sailboat sculptures will be installed at the school district s four academic buildings, administration building and Lincoln Education Center, while another is going to the DLHS football field, Mollberg Field.
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Detroit Lakes High School art students Piper Thorson, left, and Alecia Akers work on painting the final strokes on a customized, 4-foot sailboat sculpture that will be displayed next to Mollberg Field on the school s campus. The sailboat is being sponsored by the Mollberg family in memory of Del and Muriel Mollberg, both teachers in Detroit Lakes for many years. (Vicki Gerdes / Tribune)