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12 ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA – Senior Airman Marcus Dufour, an air traffic control apprentice assigned to the 509th Bombardment Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, explains his role at the Community Vaccination Center (CVC) at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul, Minnesota.
“Being able to directly interact with people that we’re helping is really cool,” said Dufour. “Being a part of a big mission and seeing the direct results of what we’re doing is pretty cool.”
Dufour is a medical supply runner.
“What I do is ensure all the vaccinators have all the supplies they need to do their job,” he said. “Whether that s vaccines, band aids, gloves, wipes, things like that, I give them everything they need.”
By J. Dennis Robinson
It’s enough to make anyone believe in miracles. On Jan. 30, 1981, a $10.5 million FB-111A jet bomber plummeted directly toward the most densely populated section of Portsmouth. Roughly 2,500 people lived in the low-rent apartment complex then known as Sea Crest and Mariner’s Village. A spray of jet fuel set buildings on fire as the pilotless plane ripped into the earth. But 40 years later, what might have been the world’s worst aviation disaster is scarcely a footnote in local history. There was a cascading liquid fire burning across the tops of the buildings, police officer Albert Pace recalled years later. It looked like a great wave at the beach coming in only it was all flames of liquid fuel. It was pretty spectacular.
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Maria Katharina Kotte Yackiel, 85, entered into eternal life Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, after long and difficult chronic illnesses.
Born Jan. 3, 1935, in Haltern, Germany, she was the daughter of the late Franz and Agnes van Kell Kotte. She immigrated to the United States in 1952 at the age of 17, and joined her Aunt Gertrude Koenig in Ghent, N.Y.
After graduating from Chatham High School, Ria attended the Pittsfield Nursing Program and became a registered nurse. She was proud to become a U.S. citizen in 1957.
Ria joined the United States Air Force in 1958 as a lieutenant, and was stationed with the 93rd Bombardment Wing at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. While there, she met and married her husband, Capt. Thomas F. Yackiel, in 1960. Throughout her husbandâs 24-year military career, she was an outstanding wife and mother. During this time, she coached girls softball and took her boys to baseball. She went roller skating, skiing, fishing, bowling and swimming with her children. S