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.
Herald reporters cover events on Friday, Jan. 22. Written By: Kim Wynn | ×
Al Boucher had been mulling over a possible theme for the pottery collection he had volunteered to show at Muddy Waters Clay Center, but it was at the funeral of his uncle, who died from COVID-19 last fall, when the idea to create urns really took hold. His uncle died “too early,” as he was in his 80s, according to Al Boucher.
Journalist Pamela Knudson reports that on the day his “Covid-19 Urns” exhibit opened, Jan. 6, at the Muddy Waters Clay Center, the national coronavirus death toll reached about 360,000. Each of the 60 urns in his collection represented 6,000 people who had died, as of that date, he noted.
Herald reporters cover events on Wednesday, Dec. 16. Written By: Kim Wynn | ×
Between now and mid-January, about 80,000 North Dakotans will be inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine, and Grand Forks Public Heath workers are preparing for their piece in the largest mass vaccination effort in U.S. history, according to a Herald story written by
reporter Hannah Shirley.
Local vaccination plans will continue to take shape over the coming days, said Haley Bruhn, who is coordinating vaccination efforts for Grand Forks Public Health. Still, she said, it s difficult to know what the coming months will bring. I know that it s challenging to be in a fluid situation like this, she said. But I would expect that, at least for the next six months, we ll be doing vaccination for COVID on a large scale.