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Dr. Jeffrey Verhey with Trinity Health Foundation speaks to the Ward County Commission Tuesday regarding the construction of a new medical complex.
Proposing to make good on a $15 million pledge toward a new medical complex in southwest Minot, Trinity Health Foundation is developing a capital campaign that will be rolled out to the community soon.
Dr. Jeffrey Verhey, foundation board chairman, said the campaign has begun internally at Trinity. He spoke to the Ward County Commission Tuesday in delivering one of several community presentations being held to inform the public about the importance of the new hospital and clinic in advance of the external fundraising campaign.
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Officially, 11.3% of Ward County residents have received at least a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. But First District Health Unit Executive Director Lisa Clute told the Ward County Commission Tuesday that the state numbers are under-reported.
The 10,427 people who have been given at least first doses in Ward County don’t include vaccines given at Minot Air Force Base and by the Veterans Administration.
Clute said the military has been vaccinating not just military members but others who have access to the base, which is a significant amount of vaccine going into the Minot community. Those numbers are considered protected information so are not being released.
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Ward County Commissioner Howard “Bucky” Anderson, left, and Ward County Soils Committee Chairman Brian Keller take part in a soils committee meeting Jan. 12. They are among seven members of the committee.
The average value of agricultural land in Ward County for tax purposes is going up just under 1% in 2021.
The Ward County Commission last week accepted the recommendation of the county soils committee to set the average value of agricultural land for tax purposes at $567 an acre, which is about 94% of the $603 listed by the state as the average true value. The average true value is up $5.20 an acre from last year.
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Ward County Buildings Supervisor Leona Lochthowe changes the mask message on the door of the administrative building Tuesday to reflect the countyâs updated policy.
Wearing a mask on Ward County properties is recommended but no longer required.
The Ward County Commission, responding to Monday’s lifting of the state mask mandate, voted unanimously Tuesday to return to a mask recommendation for employees and county building visitors that existed prior to the state mandate.
“Our recommendation allows our employees to use masks as they see fit and others who visit as well,” said Commissioner Shelly Weppler, who made the motion to go back to the former policy.