Brainerd, MN News
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Last day at Urgent Care
Beginning Monday, driving to Urgent Care is going to mean a whole new route.
Urgent Care was born June 17, 1997, in Brainerd. Now, nearly 15 years later, the medical staff is moving from the clinic on South Sixth Street in Brainerd to the Baxter Medical Park and the new clinic, which is open for business Monday.
Even with the announced move, clinic staff expect patients will still make their way to south Brainerd before everyone realizes Urgent Care is one of the services making the move to Isle Drive near Walmart in Baxter to the newly constructed clinic.
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Facebooking, Tweeting and now ... Pinning. The latest term to be added to the ever-changing dictionary of online slang terminology is also the latest craze and admitted addiction for many.
“Seriously I joined (last) Sunday night and I can’t stop,“ said Pequot Lakes mom of three, Charlene Kronstedt. “I am completely hooked. I look for every opportunity in the day to get on there and find just a few more things to pin. Pinterest is definitely where it’s at this moment. It’s so easy to lose yourself in it.”
Police Blotter
Brainerd police
BURGLARY — A report at 4:42 p.m. Thursday of three teenagers attempting to gain entry of a residence on the 400 block of First Avenue Northeast.
ARRESTS — A 32-year-old woman was arrested at 8:50 p.m. Thursday on the 800 block of Oak Street for driving after cancellation and inimical public safety.
INFORMATION — A report at 3:28 p.m. Thursday of a person standing in a home that was burned down at an earlier time.
DISTURBANCE — Brainerd High School, 702 S. Fifth St., Thursday reported a disturbance.
Cravaack announces Feb. 10 mobile office
Cravaack announces Feb. 10 mobile office
U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack, R-Minn., announced the locations of mobile offices his staff will conduct throughout the Eighth Congressional District on Friday.
Members of the congressman’s staff will be available to meet with constituents in Wadena from noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday at Wadena City Hall, 222 2nd St. SE, Wadena.
Bridged Workplace Connection Career Exploration Day set for March 9
MEETINGS
Independence Party of Minnesota
announces caucus plans in Baxter
The Independence Party of Minnesota announced Thursday that it will offer Minnesotans multiple options to caucus at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the lower level of Blackridge Bank, 14084 Baxter Dr.
The party also announced a live, online option for political engagement on caucus night by visiting www.mnip.org.
Bridges Workplace Connection Career Exploration Day set for March 9
Agendas- Feb. 3
Brainerd City Council
Meets 7:30 p.m.
Brainerd City Hall
Council chambers
1. Call to order.
2. Roll Call.
3. Pledge of Allegiance.
4. Consent Calendar – All matters listed are considered routine by the Council and will all be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless good cause is shown prior to the time the Council votes on the motion to adopt by roll call.
Fire departments receive grant approval for new radio system
Fire departments in the Brainerd lakes area are getting closer to having the new 800-megahertz radio system in place that will allow them to serve and protect citizens in an even more efficient fashion.
The new radio system uses digital technology and allows police, fire and emergency personnel to communicate on any number of channels across the country, region and even the state. Cass County is already using the new system and Crow Wing County will start using the 800-megahertz system on May 1, which includes the Brainerd Fire Department.
Kinship Partners announces results of mentor drive
Clean area energy projects receive funding
Two area energy projects have received funding upwards of $5,000 as part of a renewable energy education.
Energy assistant applications being accepted through May 31
Lutheran Social Service Energy Assistance is accepting applications for energy assistance through May 31. The Energy Assistance Program ensures that households with the lowest incomes and the highest costs receive the greatest benefit. Homeowners and renters, except subsidized renters with heat and electric included, are eligible to apply. All fuel types qualify including LP, oil, natural gas, electric and wood (self-cut or purchased).
Services provided are:
• Financial aid to pay a portion of heating and/or electric costs.
Bremer reports fourth quarter 2011 earnings
Bremer Financial Corp. reported net income of $24.2 million for the three months ending Dec. 31, 2011, an increase of $7.1 million or 41.3 percent from the $17.1 million earned for the three months ending Dec. 31, 2010.
Foreign persons must report U.S. agricultural land holdings
BAXTER — Trisha McMonagle, Crow Wing-Cass and Aitkin-Itasca County USDA Farm Service Agency executive director, recently issued a news release reminding foreign persons with an interest in agricultural lands in the United States that they are required to report their holdings and any transactions to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
No snow in home state, Toro tests snowblowers in Michigan
IRONWOOD, Mich. (AP) — Minnesota-based Toro is following the snow and testing some of its equipment in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
The Daily Globe in Ironwood reports Friday that Toro has been testing snowblowers since Jan. 10 at Gogebic-Iron County Airport.
Plans were to test them in northern Minnesota, but not enough snow has fallen there this winter.
Airport manager Duane DuRay says Ironwood Township had about three inches of snow cover when Toro called about the testing. But even that was enough. This week there were snow piles of two to three feet deep at the airport.
Judges to discharge man from sex offender program
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A 64-year-old pedophile will become the first patient to be discharged from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.
The Star Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/yoRhvq) the decision to release Clarence Opheim was made Friday by a three-judge panel in Ramsey county, after there was no objection from prosecutors or the Department of Human Services.
Minnesota started its sex offender program in 1994. Opheim has been there since then. He had been convicted of criminal sexual assault of a teenage boy in the late 1980s.
Red Bulls: The Mark of an Infantryman
FORWARD OPERATING BASE GERBER, Kuwait—Those who chose to enter the ranks of the citizen-soldier infantry are a breed a part from the rest. Often times volunteering to serve in the most dangerous and demanding ways for the needs of the U.S. Army. It’s these soldiers’ military occupational specialty that has become increasingly important to the U.S. in a world where small-scale acts of terrorism and unconventional warfare are the order of today’s battlefield, but what sets an infantryman apart from his peers?
