10 stories you might have missed over the weekend
From COVID relief to a look back at the polio scare of the 1940s, here are some stories from last week worth look in the Grand Forks Herald: 8:58 am, Mar. 15, 2021 ×
Alena Goergen, right, became emotional as she received her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Bismarck on Dec. 16. Goergen, the nursing director at Miller Pointe nursing home in Mandan, struggled with the virus earlier in the pandemic. Jeremy Turley / Forum News Service
The relative youth of nursing home workers means they re likely more reflective of North Dakota s general population than any other group that received priority during the state s vaccine rollout, state vaccination director Molly Howell said. Forum News Service reporter Jeremy Turley reports that the hesitancy of many workers to get their shots could foreshadow the difficulties in getting some younger North Dakotans on board with vaccines as they become more
10 stories you might have missed over the weekend
A look at stories in the Grand Forks Herald and on grandforksherald.com that you might have missed from over the weekend. 9:28 am, Mar. 1, 2021 ×
UND s Otis Weah returned to action for the first time since 2018 on Saturday and gained 91 yards in a victory over Southern Illinois. Forum News Service file photoForum News Service
Herald Sports Editor Wayne Nelson writes that UND is beginning to forge its own identity in its new home the powerful Missouri Valley Football Conference. Saturday, the Fighting Hawks upended No. 3 South Dakota State 28-17 in one of the program s biggest wins in the Alerus Center.
Here are 10 stories you might have missed this weekend. 8:38 am, Feb. 1, 2021 ×
Dr. Donald Warne is the director of the Indians Into Medicine program at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences. (Eric Hylden / Grand Forks Herald)
Don Warne, director of the Indians Into Medicine and master of public health programs at UND’s medical school, has been named an inaugural member of the Explorers 50 class of the Explorers Club in New York City, the Herald s Sydney Mook reports. Warne was nominated by North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to the international multidisciplinary professional society, which has included members such as Theodore Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Jane Goodall for more than a century.
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The Alerus Center is where Grand Forks Public Health and Altru Health System plan to administer the vast majority of COVID-19 vaccines in Grand Forks. Herald file photo.
The North Dakota Department of Health agreed this week to send all COVID-19 vaccines allocated for Grand Forks vaccination sites to Grand Forks Public Health and Altru Health System. The decision means that the city-owned Alerus Center will be virtually the only location in Grand Forks proper to receive the vaccine. The Herald s Joe Bowen reports that experts see pros and cons to the decision as well as its alternatives, but Grand Forks Mayor Brandon Bochenski, who requested the change, says it will make the vaccine rollout simpler and more streamlined.