First Children’s Finance has chosen the Northome community to receive its 2023 Community Child Care Grant. The $30,000 grant is part of the Rural Child Care Innovation Program, a community engagement process designed to develop right-sized solutions to address the needs of childcare and early education in rural communities.
Nurses at Rainy Lake Medical Center will soon be honored with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s mission to recognize the extraordinary, compassionate nursing care they provide patients and families every day.
Rainy Lake Medical Center received a $173,810 grant from the Leona M. and Harry B.
In supporting local businesses, a former International Falls resident hopes to come full circle and bring a new company and his family back to Borderland. Jeff Olson, Falls High School Class of 1988, is Jim and Jeannette’s boy and grew up in the same house on Ninth Avenue that was sold two years ago, when Jim moved into the Good Samaritan Society, where Jeannette had worked for years.
With last week’s announcement of the higher than normal risk of spring flooding, the Insurance Federation of Minnesota, IFM, reminds property owners that spring flood season is fast approaching. According to the data, even if Minnesota just gets an average amount of snowfall in March and April, it will mean the state will have one of the 10 snowiest on record.
Jenna DeBenedet’s LIFT is ready for the next chapter, after growth in its infancy at Backus Community Center. LIFT, which DeBenedet has owned for the last two years, has moved to a new location in downtown International Falls, which appears to be experiencing a renaissance.
It’s been said it’s a good problem when a newspaper can’t keep up with the news generated in its community. I second that emotion.
Birch Buyers MN started 2023 by adding a location in Big Falls, its third behind Deer River and Embarrass. Loren Mathison opened the Big Falls site at 112 South Highway 71.
Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death in the United States; more than 8,500 people in Minnesota died from heart disease in 2021, reports Essentia Health.
Lindsay Jones has spent a lifetime building relationships with people, she said. It feels like it was preparation for the work she does now as Island View Realty owner and Realtor.