Local author is awarded funding to continue a project meant to bring hope during the pandemic.
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Lina Belar manages the Wadena County Historical Society and bookstore. She uses the bookstore as a means to feature Minnesota authors.
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Poet, Lina Belar, has been awarded a Creative Support for Individuals grant by the Minnesota State Arts board to expand Poems of Hope and Reassurance, a project featuring the work of regional poets who are creating poems to uplift the spirits of those affected by the pandemic. The project was begun last March with a grant from the Community Emergency Relief Fund, a partnership between Emergency Arts and Springboard for the Arts as part of a support program for artists. The first public showing included 12 poems of her own at the Green Island Poetry Walk in Wadena. It was quickly followed by three more displays at
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