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Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Prairie Five recognized the need to find a way to make contact more available for older community members who were suffering from a loss of face-to-face contact.
Prairie Five Community Action Council’s Chippewa County Food Shelf is currently seeking donations for its 2021 holiday food drive.
ECFE Vehicle Fair sees over 200 attendees
KSTP Created: April 21, 2021 04:17 PM The Minnesota Department of Health and Metro Transit are working together with the Metropolitan Council and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota to convert a fleet of six Metro Transit buses into mobile vaccine clinics. According to MDH, the mobile vaccination clinics will be deployed to communities that might not have access to as many vaccine opportunities. MDH plans to use these mobile units throughout the entire state. “The mass vaccination efforts are great in that they provide thousands of vaccines at a time, but they’re pret...
UpdatedTue, Feb 9, 2021 at 10:33 am CT Reply February 8, 2021 MONTEVIDEO, Minn. -- Food shelves across Minnesota are seeing much more demand from older residents, according to newly released hunger data for the region. Subscribe But advocates say food insecurity in this age group was already trending higher before the pandemic. The group Hunger Solutions Minnesota said there were more than 3.8 million visits to food shelves around the state in 2020. That's a more than 6% increase over 2019. Subscribe Colleen Moriarty, executive director for Hunger Solutions, said that was especially the case ...