BHS alumna sees powerlifting success, credits teacher with inspiration
Whitney Weidenborner, a 2016 Bemidji High School alumna, has become a successful powerlifter and will soon compete in a national powerlifting competition after qualifying at a state championship in Wyoming on Jan. 16. She credits her start in lifting to BHS physical education teacher Robert Strand. 7:00 am, Feb. 3, 2021 ×
Whitney Weidenborner, a 2016 Bemidji High School alumna, has become a successful powerlifter and will soon compete in a national powerlifting competition after qualifying at a state championship in Wyoming on Jan. 16. Submitted photo.
BEMIDJI Whitney Weidenborner took advice she received as a junior at Bemidji High School “You can either be a nail, or a splitting maul” to heart.
Editorial: Ed Widseth Field lease worth exploring
Mike Christopherson
Crookston Times
One reader said “the devil’s in the details.” Another said he’d “like to see the fine print.”
Both comments, in response to news last week that University of Minnesota Crookston Chancellor Mary Holz-Clause had approached Crookston School District Superintendent Jeremy Olson with an offer of a 20-year lease for Pirate football and, yes, even track and field to use Ed Widseth Field on campus, are on the mark. There are many details to hash through, some of which could derail a deal, and fine print is typically tiny for reason.
2 area students completed their degree requirements Written By: PineandLakes Echo Journal | 11:00 am, Jan. 29, 2021 ×
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CROOKSTON - The Office of the Registrar at the University of Minnesota Crookston recently announced its list of fall 2020 graduates. Students completed their degree requirements during the fall session 2020.
Fall session graduates include:
2 area students completed their degree requirements Written By: PineandLakes Echo Journal | 11:00 am, Jan. 29, 2021 ×
University of Minnesota Crookston logo
CROOKSTON - The Office of the Registrar at the University of Minnesota Crookston recently announced its list of fall 2020 graduates. Students completed their degree requirements during the fall session 2020.
Fall session graduates include:
Event held in conjunction with significantly scaled-back march, due to COVID-19, in Washington, D.C. Written By: Pamela D. Knudson | 4:34 pm, Jan. 23, 2021 ×
Joseph Vandal, left, and Nathan Walski, holding the U.S. flag, prepare to begin the March for Life on Saturday, Jan. 23, in Crookston. Pamela Knudson / Grand Forks Herald
Marie Kraemer, 18, is glad to be alive and, for her, the annual March for Life, to commemorate lives lost to abortion, is personal.
“I was born in China during the time of the one-child policy,” said Kraemer, who helped organize the march on Saturday, Jan. 23, in Crookston. “I could have been someone who could’ve been aborted, so (the march) means a lot to me.”