Month: August 2020

The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting 867 new cases of COVID-19 from 14,940 completed tests and seven deaths.  The positive test rate was six percent. Polk County had seven new confirmed cases for 145 total, including 21 new cases in the last seven days. All the numbers are below –

Updated August 6, 2020
Updated daily at 11 a.m., with data current as of 4 p.m. the previous day.

Data is for cases that were tested and returned positive. All data is preliminary and may change as cases are investigated. Many data points are collected during case interviews. Data presented below is for all cases, regardless of interview status. Data for cases pending interview may be listed as “unknown/missing.”

Not all suspected cases of COVID-19 are tested, so this data is not representative of the total number of people in Minnesota who have or had COVID-19. Cumulative numbers are since Jan. 20, 2020.

Other Statistics

• Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome In Children (MIS-C) Statistics
• Minnesota COVID-19 Public Dashboard
• Minnesota’s COVID-19 Response and Preparation Capacity
• CDC: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Cases in the U.S.
• Minnesota COVID-19 Modeling

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Jake Fee currently representing Ward 1 has filed to run for City Council again. He joins Clayton Briggs in Ward 3, and Joe Kresl in Ward 5 as the only people who have filed affidavits for candidacy for the November election.  Fee won the 2016 election in Ward 1 defeating Lynda Kenney and Marcia Meine.  

Filing is open for council seats in Wards 1, 3, 5, and an at-large seat. Eligible candidates have until 5 p.m. on August 11 to file at Crookston City Hall.  The filing fee is $2.

There will be six contestants competing for the title of Miss Crookston 2020 on Friday, August 21 at the Crookston High School gymnasium. 

The six contestants are Emma Boll, Savanah Meine, Emily Funk, Victoria Proulx, Shelby Aamot, and Linnea French. 

Emma Boll is the daughter of Melissa and Brian and will play the piano and sing.  Her sponsor is Boll Farms.

Savannah Meine is the daughter of Karen and Rick and her talent will be a demonstration.  Her sponsor is Northland Grain.

Emily Funk is the daughter of Curtis and Kristin and her talent is a drum solo.  Her sponsor is American Federal Bank.

Victoria Proulx is the daughter of Brian and Shea and will do a comedic skit.  Her sponsor is Wonderful Life Foods.

Shelby Aamot is the daughter of Curt and Kathy and will speed paint.  her sponsor is Choice Therapy and Greenberg Realty.

Linnea French is the daughter of Rae and George French and her talent will be an oboe solo.  Her sponsor is True Value.

The 2020 Miss Crookston pageant will be closed to the public due to COVID-19, but the family of the contestants will be able to attend.

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Crookston Native Cody Brekken’s last week was the commander of the North Dakota National Guard’s Charlie Battery out of Fargo, N.D. was last week.  On July 27th, Brekken and the members of Charlie Battery were presented with the 2019 Alexander Hamilton Award presented annually by the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery branch to the battery that demonstrated exceptional achievement and mission accomplishment throughout the year.

Brekken said the award is a big honor and his battery was excited to receive it. “The Alexander Hamilton Award gets handed out to who they deem was the best Air Defense Artillery Battery in the country in the National Guard,” said Brekken. “It was a pretty bigger honor to get that with Charlie Battery out of Fargo and I was the Commander. That award is deemed for exceptional achievement, superior mission accomplishment, and overall unit excellence. So, we don’t take that honor lightly and we were excited to receive it.”

The award was presented by Colonel David Shank, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School Acting Commandant at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. The battery’s 2019 accomplishments included high retention, skills qualification, and physical fitness test rates along with a successful training evaluation at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California.  Brekken said the battery performed well there and got noticed. “2019 for us included a big train up and then we went to the National Training Center (NTC) in Fort Irwin, CA,” said Brekken. “And performed very well down there and got noticed for sure.  And we got this recognition for it. I was Commander for two years and this last week that I was gone was my last time in command of Charlie Battery.”

Although his time as the commander of Charlie Battery has ended, Brekken will remain in the guard.  Brekken said he’ll be a part of the North Dakota National Guard’s year-long deployment to Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2021. “I’m still in the National Guard, still a Captain, but no longer in the Commander spot at the battery level,” said Brekken. “I’ll be in our deployment package for our mobilization package we do every four years in Washington, D.C., which I was gone for in 2016.  I’ll be an Air Defense Artillery Fire Control Officer. A DAFCO is what we call it in the Army for short and the Army loves its acronyms. That’s what I’ll be for the next two years now.”

Brekken said Charlie Battery has outstanding soldiers and he is very proud of them. “That Fargo unit is outstanding soldiers,” said Brekken. “They’re just nothing but professionals and worker bees, so they made my job easy for the most part. I’m really proud of those guys and gals in the unit and the hard work they’ve put in. We have a very high operational tempo in the unit and I really take my hat off to the soldiers that are expected to mobilize with us every four years and do these training centers in California. You wouldn’t tell by looking at them, but they take it all in stride and I’m proud of them.”

The award is named in honor of Alexander Hamilton who served as an artillery officer and aide de camp to General George Washington during the Revolutionary War.  And was appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury in the newly founded United States of America.

 Photos courtesy of the North Dakota National Guard’s Public Affairs Office/Sgt. 1st Class Charles Highland

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