News from Milan

Oh, what a beautiful morning, if you like the heat. I hope all of you took precautions to stay cool Sunday and Monday. Did you celebrate Father’s Day? I had many sad thoughts of my dad and several happy ones, too. Sad because I would like to be able to give him a big hug. I was always a Daddy’s girl and I still miss him.

Memory Care Corner: Primary Progressive Aphasia

In my last article, I wrote about a person who had been diagnosed with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). I promised that in this article, I would share more specifics on this type of dementia.

Ray Fagen Memorial Airshow held

Despite temperatures climbing into the nineties on Saturday, a large crowd gathered for the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum’s annual Ray Fagen Memorial Airshow. This year’s theme, Pride of the Pacific, was in homage to the military planes and vehicles of WWII, and featured the planes not only from the Fagen Fighters museum but from at least three other military plane museums in the United States.

SMSU Spring 2022 semester Dean’s List

Southwest Minnesota State University announces the students recognized for academic achievement during the spring 2022 semester. An undergraduate student who completes 12 or more A-F graded credits and achieves a grade point average of 3.5 or higher will be considered for the Honors Dean’s List.

Minnesota West announces spring 2022 Dean’s List

Minnesota West Community & Technical College, announces the Spring Semester 2022 Dean’s List and congratulates the following students for their outstanding academic achievement. Students must be enrolled in at least 12 graded credits and earn a minimum 3.5 grade point average to be eligible for Dean’s List Honors. Spring 2022 Dean’s List Honors were extended to the following students from Minnesota West Community & Technical College:

Local students make Dean’s List at Concordia College

Dr. Susan Larson, provost and dean of the college, has announced the names of students whose superior academic achievement during the second semester of the 2021-22 academic year placed them on the Dean’s Honor List at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. “We offer our congratulations to these students on their academic accomplishments and are grateful for the many ways they have enriched our campus community,” says Larson.

Augustana University announces spring 2022 Dean’s List

Augustana University announced the students named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester of the 2021-22 academic year. The Dean’s List recognizes full-time students who have a minimum of 12 credit hours with grade-point averages at 3.5 or above (on a 4.0 scale).

2022 Community Ambassadors announced

Carrying on the tradition of awarding two new Community Ambassadors as a part of the Fiesta Days celebration each year, a ceremony was held at the Community Center on Wednesday for the announcement of this year’s award recipients.

Wellbriety group informs council of plans to open a Recovery Resource Center in Montevideo

At Monday evenings City Council meeting, Montevideo resident Morgan IronHeart was in attendance for the public comment portion to provide an update to the City on the Montevideo Wellbriety group’s addiction and mental health awareness efforts within the community. IronHeart informed the council that the group had recently been approached by Project Turnabout to work collaboratively on building a Recovery Community Organization. “Basically, it’s an outreach program. We’re working with Project Turnabout’s lawyers and Van-Binsbergen and Associates lawyers to work out a lease for the lower level of the Klein Bank building to open that up as a Recovery Resource Center to do outreach. We’ll have meetings there. We’re doing jail meetings in Granite Falls and Montevideo now. We have our Peer Recovery Coach training going on at Project Turnabout right now with thirteen people from our group actively being trained to be Peer Recovery Coaches in our community. It is really exciting for us,” IronHeart said.