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Joy and gratitude is theme for event to honor New London pastor who has ended treatment for pancreatic cancer
As a school choir director for 17 years and working in Christian ministry for about 30 years, Bill Miller has touched the lives of many people. Many of those same people will be participating in a mass choir June 13 in New London as part of an event, dubbed It s Miller Time, to celebrate Miller, who recently ended his treatments for pancreatic cancer. 5:15 am, May 22, 2021 ×
Bill Miller poses for a portrait May 12, 2021, in New London.
Erica Dischino / West Central Tribune
With the tail end of the last chemo treatment leaving his system before the ravages of stage 4 pancreatic cancer take hold, Bill Miller said he’s in a “grace period” right now.
Virtual Learning Comes With Added Curve For Special Ed Students
by Mara Klecker, Star Tribune/TNS | January 12, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS Lisa Juliar was resolved when distance learning began last spring: She’d do whatever she could to offer her son the kind of one-on-one assistance he’d been getting at school.
But even with her help, Cooper, a senior at Mounds View High School, has struggled mightily with distance learning. He has a rare chromosomal condition called Cri-du-chat that affects his speech and language, and he’s had trouble expressing himself during Zoom classes. He sometimes grows so frustrated he starts screaming, grabbing at his mother’s hair and even slamming the laptop shut.
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Lisa Juliar was resolved when distance learning began last spring: She d do whatever she could to offer her son the kind of one-on-one assistance he d been getting at school.
But even with her help, Cooper, a senior at Mounds View High School, has struggled mightily with distance learning. He has a rare chromosomal condition called Cri-du-chat that affects his speech and language, and he s had trouble expressing himself during Zoom classes. He sometimes grows so frustrated he starts screaming, grabbing at his mother s hair and even slamming the laptop shut. These are not behaviors he had in school, Juliar said. It s not that the teachers aren t doing as much as they can, but distance learning just isn t working for my son.