Wreaths were laid at Rochester and area cemeteries. 7:00 am, Dec. 20, 2020 ×
Civil Air Patrol Cadet Chief Master Sgt. Joseph Meyer lays a wreath on a veterans grave as part of Wreaths Across America Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, at Oakwood Cemetery in Rochester. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com)
The cadet laid a wreath near the gravestone, took two steps back and saluted.
The ritual only lasted a dozen seconds or so. And then the cadet was off to the next gravesite. But in that brief moment, a long-dead service member, whose memory perhaps had long been extinguished and forgotten, was honored. It s a sense of respect and pride you have for these veterans and what they ve done for our country, said Richard Sylak III, a cadet in the Southeast Minnesota Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol and a student at Zumbrota-Mazeppa High School.
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Downward trends in the trajectory of new COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions and test positivity rates in Minnesota continued Sunday.
Those encouraging signs, however, came as state health officials reported another 70 COVID-19 deaths in the state, raising December’s record monthly death toll to 1,257.
Averaged over the past week, the number of deaths reported each day is also dropping that number was 58 on Sunday, down from as high as 67 last week. But that average is still far above figures seen less than two months ago. On Nov. 1, the average daily death toll was 18.
And any recent improvements in COVID-19 stats could be jeopardized by upcoming holiday gatherings.
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A Republican state senator has died from the coronavirus after being exposed to an outbreak at the State Capitol.
State Sen. Jerry Relph, of St. Cloud, died a month after testing positive for COVID-19 following a Republican caucus meeting Nov. 5 at the statehouse, reported WCCO-TV.
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The 76-year-old Relph narrowly lost re-election to Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party candidate Aric Putnam before testing positive for the deadly virus.
DFL members called for the resignation of Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka after the Nisswa Republican, Relph and state Sen. David Senjem (R-Rochester) all tested positive for the virus but did not notify Capitol staff or DFL members of the outbreak.
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