While the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa medical providers this week announced only six active COVID-19 cases on the reservation, they also reported an uptick in the number of youth who tested positive for the coronavirus.
Tribal Chairwoman Cathy Chavers said in a recent government update that the regional health officials already have the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses and are now readying themselves for a federal greenlighting for the use of Pfizer vaccine for people ages 12 to 15. She noted that tribal clinic officials have been seeking out a freezer in order to store the vaccines in Nett Lake and Vermilion, in addition to coordinating with local agencies to soon administer vaccines at the North Woods School in Cook, on the reservation.
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(Left) Sue Kyllonen , Hermantown Elementary school secretary, receives the dictionaries from Cindy Lawrence, Leading Knight, Duluth Elks Lodge.
Duluth Elks Lodge #133 delivered dictionaries to all third graders at the
Hermantown Elementary School, and to
Stella Maris Academy. This has been an annual event for the Duluth Elks Lodge for several years. The dictionaries belong to the students for their own personal use. Also, the Elks in December were awarded a combined Beacon/Spotlight Grant from the Elks Community Investments Program. They received $5,500 and distributed the money to 5 local area elementary schools. $1,100 was awarded to each of the following schools:
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(Left) Sue Kyllonen , Hermantown Elementary school secretary, receives the dictionaries from Cindy Lawrence, Leading Knight, Duluth Elks Lodge.
Duluth Elks Lodge #133 delivered dictionaries to all third graders at the
Hermantown Elementary School, and to
Stella Maris Academy. This has been an annual event for the Duluth Elks Lodge for several years. The dictionaries belong to the students for their own personal use. Also, the Elks in December were awarded a combined Beacon/Spotlight Grant from the Elks Community Investments Program. They received $5,500 and distributed the money to 5 local area elementary schools. $1,100 was awarded to each of the following schools:
David Colburn
FIELD TWP – The assignment North Woods School visual arts teacher Rachel Betterley gave her students was fairly straightforward: Create a drawing using the techniques of famous artist Edward Hopper by using light to tell a story or compel a viewer to feel or think a certain way.
“Light is so important,” Betterley said. “It helps create dramatic effects. Whether they’re emphasizing a person’s face, or their body, or creating a certain ambience, mood or tone, light is what helps do that in their drawings.”
One of her students, senior Megan Cote, took the assignment in a much different direction from her peers, using the opportunity to shine her own light on the unsettling but real state of despair felt by elders in long-term care settings who have been trapped and cut off from their families and loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic.
Lake Country Power selected the Cook Area Health Care Auxiliary Thrift Shop of Cook, Minn., as the winner of its annual Touchstone Energy® Community Award. The co-op chose this organization