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Created: May 10, 2021 05:41 PM
Summer events across Minnesota that had originally been canceled due to COVID-19 are now planning for a return.
Gov. Tim Walz announced last week that most of the state s restrictions will end before Memorial Day weekend.
Back to the 50s Weekend, a massive car show at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, had decided to call off its June event two weeks ago due to capacity restrictions.
Over the weekend, organizers decided to bring the event back, even though they now have only about a month to plan for it.
KSTP Everything that s happening the next couple weeks, it s a day-by-day-by-day change. I ll tell you, it s crazy, said Board Secretary Linda Lucas. But it s also wonderful. It truly is.
Created: May 10, 2021 05:41 PM
Summer events across Minnesota that had originally been canceled due to COVID-19 are now planning for a return.
Gov. Tim Walz announced last week that most of the state s restrictions will end before Memorial Day weekend.
Back to the 50s Weekend, a massive car show at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, had decided to call off its June event two weeks ago due to capacity restrictions.
Over the weekend, organizers decided to bring the event back, even though they now have only about a month to plan for it. Everything that s happening the next couple weeks, it s a day-by-day-by-day change. I ll tell you, it s crazy, said Board Secretary Linda Lucas. But it s also wonderful. It truly is.
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To help older individuals, as well as keep them mobile and engaged in the community, the province is providing a grant to Chatham’s Active Lifestyle Centre.
The Inclusive Community Grant is geared to municipal partners, Indigenous groups and community organizations.
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For the Active Lifestyle Centre, this will include $56,000 for a refresher driving course for older adults.
This project, supported by CAA, helps provide pilot driver education programming and services to 1,500 older adults and seniors from 11 rural and smaller urban communities within Chatham-Kent.
The queue outside a vaccination centre in Folkstone last week
Credit: gareth fuller/pa
SIR – Charles Moore rightly praises Kate Bingham’s brilliant achievement in securing vaccine supplies. We should not forget either the role of Professor Sarah Gilbert in designing the Oxford vaccine, along with her colleagues.
There is a comparison here with two vital roles in the Second World War: the genius of R J Mitchell in designing the Spitfire in the late Thirties, and of Lord Beaverbrook, brought in by Churchill from private business in the 1940 crisis to cut through bureaucracy and speed up aircraft production.
Vincent Phillips