Local first responders spent Thursday evening helping elementary students decide how to spend $125 on gifts for themselves and their loved ones as part of the annual “Heroes and Helpers” program.
It’s not every day that uniformed police officers and firefighters team up with school children to search through the aisles of Walmart, picking out toy trucks, doll clothes and scented candles.
Bemidji State hosts Take Back the Night sexual violence awareness event
Thursday evening, Support Within Reach, Bemidji State University, the Northwest Indian Community Development Center, Community Resource Connections, Red Lake Nation, and the United Way of Bemidji Area partnered together to host “Take Back the Night” a healing, solidary and awareness event for community members and survivors of sexual violence. 2:44 pm, Apr. 23, 2021 ×
Community members listen to a drum circle made up of members of Red Lake Nation during a Take Back the Night sexual assault awareness event on Thursday, April 22, 2021, on the Bemidji State University campus. (Hannah Olson / Bemidji Pioneer)