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Adult day services feeling left behind as state COVID-19 restrictions lift Adult day services in Minnesota are wondering when their COVID-19 restrictions will loosen.  (FOX 9) - As the rest of Minnesota starts to open up, adult day services say they have been forced to live in the past.  "I’m just so disheartened that people with disabilities are put on the back burner and are thought of last," said Colene Verdick. Adult day services feeling left behind as state coronavirus restrictions lift While the rest of the state opens back up quickly, adult day services across Minnesota are wonder...

SUBMITTED PHOTO SUBMITTED PHOTO FAIRMONT — Everything is science, even exercise. For the first time in a year, Learning Options Inc. was able to host an in-person class for its popular program “Science Saturday” where kids got to learn learned about different muscle groups and did some cardio work on a brisk early spring day. Instructor Melissa Sinisi, who is also on the board of Learning Options, said kids got to calculate their heart rates and Body Mass Index. “We had some healthy snacks and talked about eating healthy too,” said Sinisi. Next week, Sinisi said the s...

Feb 19, 2021 Clients of Learning Options perform an experiment involving electricity and circuitry at a previous Science Saturday.SUBMITTED PHOTO WHITE HALL — Supplemental education nonprofit Learning Options Inc. is bringing back one of its signature events, Science Saturdays. This time, the activities planned for Science Saturdays will be set up with COVID-19 precautions in mind. “We, of course, have struggled just like everyone else has with COVID,” said Dana Powell, executive director of Learning Options. “So we have started our very popular Science Saturdays again, bu...