Brian Lindell, of Jordan, was born into eternal life on December 12, 2020.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held at a later date when it is safe to gather. In lieu of flowers and other gifts, memorials for Brian can be shared c/o Ballard-Sunder Funeral & Cremation; 104 First Street West; Jordan, MN 55352. All donations made in Brians honor will go to fund a cause that was so important to him and his family. Work is currently being done to set up a scholarship bearing his name at Minneapolis College that will help others within the school and the same program that meant so much to him.
Stocking Targetâs shelves in early 2020 was mostly routine for Lori Blackketter. Sheâd replenish the grocery section, helping out customers by reading their lips or using a phone to write notes back and forth.
When the pandemic arrived, so did a massive influx of face masks â posing communication problems for deaf people like Blackketter.
âAs soon as the pandemic became a huge concern, life dramatically changed,â the Watertown mother said.
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Though she said itâs a hard time for nearly everyone, hearing or not, those who speak American Sign Language (ASL) are learning to converse with others in a new way because of COVID-19.
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If members of academic bowl teams around the country found themselves watching The Greatest of All-Time tournament on the game show Jeopardy last January, they would have been pulling hard for the underdog.
Brad Rutter got his start in the quiz world on an academic knowledge bowl high school team in Pennsylvania. He was a previous host of InQuizitive, a local broadcast quiz show for high school students. He has also been a reader and judge for the high school National Academic Championship.
The eventual champion of champions, Ken Jennings, also a former quiz bowler in college, defeated James Holzhauer and Rutter for the title.