Month: November 2024

This Thursday, November 7, Crookston High School will host an EMS Community Event. KROX radio sat down with Brandon Adams, Crookston High School English Teacher and event organizer, and Nick Neibauer, manager of Crookston Area Ambulance, to find out more about the event.

“On November 7, Crookston Ambulance and Crookston Fire will be cooperating in hosting an event at the high school, which will be based upon helicopter training for air ambulance systems,” says Neibauer. “There will be two events going on; one will be a formal event for first responders, including law enforcement, fire, and EMS, talking about landing zone safety, traffic control, and prepping a patient for an air ambulance ride,”  Neibauer says the event will also cover definitions of when first responders do and do not use an air ambulance straight from the field.

After the formal event for law enforcement, Crookston Community Education will host a general public session, says Neibauer. “We will be informing everybody on ambulance operations and the difference between an air ambulance with helicopters and a ground ambulance.”

Neibauer explained that weather permitting, an air ambulance would land in the CHS parking lot around 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening once the first responder class completes itself. The general public will be able to view the landing and then have a Q&A session with the helicopter staff.

Brandon Adams was at the center of the planning for what was initially a first responder training event to include the community.  We asked Adams why this was important. “From the school perspective, taking this event, that was helpful for first responders and firefighters, and broadening it out to the community in general, to have the community come to visit, to see what Crookston Area Ambulance offers, and to have a chance to speak to Crookston Area Ambulance and understand what resources are available to the community.”

Adams says the event is free and open to the public. “This is open to anyone who wants to come, youth, adults, both.  At 5:30 p.m., anyone who wishes to come can meet outside in the parking lot at Crookston High School to meet with Crookston Area Ambulance and see the ambulances and see the inside of ambulances,” says Adams. “Between 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., there will be two sessions, one for first responders and fire, and one for the general public,” Adams explains that for the general public, this will be a Q&A session in which questions about air medical transport and local EMS can be asked. After the sessions, the helicopter will land in the CHS parking lot.

Neibauer hopes for a great event turnout. “I really encourage the general public to come out and visit between 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.,” says Neibauer. “I would love to answer questions about how our ambulance system works, how we fund ourselves, how we make decisions on who gets transported where and how we basically operate and what we do for the community.”

This event is a collaboration between Crookston Area Ambulance, the Crookston Fire Department, Crookston Public Schools/Community Education, and Life Link.   The weather looks cooperative, so head out to the Crookston High School Thursday night, November 7, at 5:30 for the EMS Community Event.

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Embark on a ghostly journey to some of the most haunted places in Minnesota with a presentation by author and paranormal researcher Chad Lewis. Lewis will venture across the state, sharing about wandering ghosts in the North Woods, to a haunted Bed & Breakfast in Wabasha, to phantom creatures prowling the woods, to graveyard apparitions spotted in your own backyard. Lewis’s stories are compiled from first-hand accounts of Minnesotans and include the possible origins of the apparitions he discusses.

The tour is sponsored by Lake Agassiz Regional Library and will include visits to the following locations:

Friday, November 15 at 11 a.m. at the Breckenridge Public Library, 205 7th St. N.
Friday, November 15 at 2:30 p.m. at the Barnesville Public Library, 104 Front St. N.
Friday, November 15 at 6 p.m. at the Detroit Lakes Public Library, 1000 Washington Ave. 
Saturday, November 16 at 10 a.m. at the Moorhead Public Library, 118 5th St. S.
Saturday, November 16, at 2:30 p.m. at the Mahnomen Public Library, 203 Main St. S.
Saturday, November 16, at 6:30 p.m. at the Agassiz Environmental Learning Center, 400 Summit Ave. SW, Fertile (hosted by the Fertile Public Library)

Admission is free, thanks in part to funding from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Legacy Fund. More information is available at larl.org/legacy. 

The post Lake Agassiz Regional Library Schedules Tour Featuring Paranormal Expert and Author Chad Lewis first appeared on KROX.

As of Monday, November 4, 2024, local election officials have accepted 1,174,224 ballots for the November 5 Election. Local election officials have distributed 1,367,266 absentee and mail ballots in Minnesota since voting began on September 20. The Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State will update absentee voting statistics on November 5.    

Nearly 151,000 ballots have not yet been returned. Minnesotans are encouraged to return their ballots in-person to their local election office as soon as possible to ensure their vote is counted. It is no longer recommended to return a mail or absentee ballot by mail. All ballots must be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day to be counted. Minnesotans can track their ballot at mnvotes.gov/track. 

Election Day Voting  

Minnesotans can vote in-person at their local polling place on Tuesday, November 5. Find a polling place at mnvotes.gov/pollfinder. All polling places are open until 8 p.m. As long as voters are in line to vote by 8 p.m. they can vote. In Minnesota, people can register to vote on election day.     

To be eligible to vote, a person must be 18 or older by Election Day, a U.S. Citizen, a resident of Minnesota for at least 20 days, not currently incarcerated for a felony conviction, and not under a court order that revokes your right to vote.   

Text or Call with Election Questions  

Minnesotans can contact the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State by phone call or text message. They can call 1-877-600-VOTE (8683) or text 651-217-3862 to get information from an election worker.   

The service is available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, November 4, and from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, November 5.  

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