Month: October 2021

The Minnesota fall turkey hunting season offers hunters a challenge and another way to experience the outdoors in October. Fall turkey season opens tomorrow through Sunday, Oct. 31.

Hunters are allowed to take one turkey of either sex during the fall season. Fall turkey hunters may use a crossbow, firearm, or archery equipment afield; however, hunters who are hunting both turkey and deer with archery equipment must observe the deer archery season restrictions on their equipment. Only hunters aged 60 or older, or hunters who have a valid crossbow permit, may use crossbows during the deer archery season with an archery license. Youth may use a crossbow on a firearms license during the youth deer season

Fall turkey licenses are available for purchase online, or by telephone by calling 888-665-4236 or in person anywhere DNR licenses are sold.

More details: DNR turkey hunting page

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Minnesota and North Dakota Agri-Women’s “Harvest of Knowledge” Conference Committee has finalized the program for their 38th conference to be held October 29, 2021, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Ramada Inn Grand Forks, North Dakota.

The Keynote speaker at this year’s conference is Amanda Radke. Amanda Radke is a fifth-generation rancher from Mitchell, S.D., who has dedicated her career to serving as a voice for the nation’s farmers and ranchers. Since 2008, Radke has tackled hot industry issues on the BEEF Daily blog for BEEF Magazine. She provides tools and strategies for producers to effectively engage with consumers and counter negative media articles on social media. She will be presenting “Revealing the Fake Meat Agenda.”

Emmery Mehlhoff, NDFB, will be presenting “Getting to Know your Representatives.” The importance of contacting them and their offices and the protocols/etiquette of doing so.

We are also having a segment on “Powerful Tools for Caregivers.” Whether it is a spouse, child, sibling, parent, there is a chance we will be someone’s caregiver. This can be quite overwhelming, but there is help in the community for caregivers. Molly Soeby, Community Wellness Agent – Grand Forks Extension, will be explaining the tools of this program.

Ending our conference, we have Theresa Helgeson, UMC Campus Greenhouse Manager/Lab Coordinator showing us how to make a holiday arrangement. Not too early to be thinking of the holiday decor. Early registration is encouraged. The $40.00 fee includes all speaker presentations, lunch, silent auction, ag fair, and prizes. The door fee is $50.00.

For further information or to request a registration form, contact Donna Ulseth at 218-2801335 or Karen Landman at 701-326-4523. Harvest of Knowledge is made possible by a grant from Small Grains Institute and donations from Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association and many area businesses.

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After careful consideration and conversations with Polk County Public Health and local healthcare providers, the United Way of Crookston has decided that an in-person event for its Soup and Chili Cook-Off is not in the community’s best interest. With cases rising and vaccination rates low, they said they can’t, in good conscience, put anyone in the community at risk. The United Way of Crookston’s mission is to promote education, stability, and healthy communities, so they will make sure to do everything they can to keep everyone in the community safe. They will be having a modified, drive-through event on the planned date of October 19th at the Crookston Inn. They will have soup, chili with all the fixings, cornbread and a chocolate dessert served car side. You can continue to check United Way of Crookston’s Facebook page and their website: www.unitedwayofcrookston.org for details and further updates. Now, more than ever, we live united.

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The Minnesota Department of Health released the COVID-19 numbers for today and the state reported 3,714 cases with 17 deaths. 1 death was reported in northwest Minnesota (Mahnomen County). Polk County reported 23 new cases with seventeen probable, Roseau County had 17, Norman County had 14 with one probable, Mahnomen County had 12, Marshall County had 11 with nine probable, Pennington County had 4 with four probable, and Red Lake County had 1 with one probable.

All the information is below –

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.”

Positive PCR test results are considered confirmed cases. Positive antigen test results are considered probable cases.

All probable cases get the same public health follow up and recommendations as cases confirmed by PCR tests.

Testing

Total approximate completed tests (cumulative)	12,562,842
Total approximate number of completed PCR tests (cumulative)	11,247,197
Total approximate number of completed antigen tests (cumulative)	1,315,645

Total approximate number of people tested (cumulative)	5,671,312

Minnesota Case Overview

Total positive cases (cumulative)	714,790
Total confirmed cases (PCR positive) (cumulative)	654,515
Total probable cases (Antigen positive) (cumulative)	60,275

Total number of health care workers (cumulative)	47,089

Patients no longer needing isolation

Patients no longer needing isolation (cumulative)	685,073

Deaths

Total deaths (cumulative)	8,170
Deaths from confirmed cases (cumulative)	7,702
Deaths from probable cases (cumulative)	468
Deaths among cases that resided in long-term care or assisted living facilities (cumulative)	4,639

Total non-laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 deaths (death certificate) (cumulative)	103

Hospitalizations

Total cases hospitalized (cumulative)	38,128
Total cases hospitalized in ICU (cumulative)	7,725

Case Demographics

Age

Gender

Race & Ethnicity

Likely Exposure

Not all cases among health care workers have a likely exposure as health care staff.

Residence

Cases by County of Residence

County of residence is confirmed during the case interview. At the time of this posting not all interviews have been completed.

Residence Type

• MN DOC: COVID-19 Testing of People Incarcerated in MN Prisons

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The Grand Forks Police Department, in accordance with North Dakota State Law, is notifying the City of Grand Forks and the surrounding area of the presence of a Level III (High Risk) Sex Offender living in Grand Forks.

Jason lee Cortez currently resides at 1204 North 39th Street Apartment #5 in the city of Grand Fork, ND. Cortez has been convicted of 1st Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct.

The North Dakota Sex Offender Risk Assessment Committee assigned Cortez a risk level of HIGH and as a result has a lifetime registration requirement in North Dakota.

The Grand Forks Police Department provides for the tracking and verification of those individuals that have been convicted of sex offenses, offenses against children and those that have been adjudicated as sexually dangerous individuals.  This is accomplished through the Offender Tracking and Verification Program (OTVP).  There are 113 offenders registered with the Grand Forks Police Department that either live, work or attend school within the City of Grand Forks. Of these 113, there are 10 currently assigned a risk level of HIGH.  The rest are classified as MODERATE or LOW risk, or have not been assigned a risk level.

Level III (High Risk) offenders are contacted at least every 30 days to verify their status and, upon initial registration or the assignment of a risk level, a public notification is held as appropriate.  Information about these and other registered offenders is available through specific request to the Grand Forks Police Department, although certain information regarding juvenile offenders is subject to restriction.

Conviction information about Level III offenders may be found at the North Dakota Attorney General’s website: www.sexoffender.nd.gov which contains lists of all registered offenders in North Dakota.

If members of the public have questions regarding this program, or have information pertaining to any unregistered offenders, they are encouraged to contact Corporal Hank Becker at the Grand Forks Police Department Specialized Resource Bureau at 701-787-8083, or via e-mail at hbecker@grandforksgov.com

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