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Mental health calls to police in Caithness have 'gone through the roof' in past year By Alan Hendry Published: 11:09, 05 March 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper The number of calls to the police in Caithness from people experiencing mental health problems has "gone through the roof" over the course of the pandemic, it has emerged. Sergeant Brian Hamilton of Police Scotland told Wick community councillors: "It would shock you, some of the stuff we are dealing with just now." He also revealed that drug issu...

ARNOLD GENE MADSON Arnold Gene Madson, 85, passed away on Monday, January 4, 2021, surrounded by loved ones. He was born January 17, 1934, in Fort Dodge to Arnold Gotfred Madson and Helen Elvira Nordin, younger brother to Blanche Rogers. Known as Gene, and sometimes Genial Gene, he had a habit of handing out Tootsie Rolls to both friends and strangers. Gene was baptized and confirmed at First Covenant Church in Fort Dodge on April 27, 1934, and February 29, 1948, respectively. In 1952, he graduated high school from Pillsbury Military Academy in Owatonna, Minnesota. He joined the military righ...

Cedar Rapids James Albert "Bert" McGrew, 92, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in the Woodlands at The Meth-Wick Community, of which he was apart since 2012. He died peacefully, surrounded by loving care, of complications of COVID-19. Bert was born Feb. 23, 1928, in Springville, Iowa, the son of Ernest and Irene (Hall) McGrew. He attended Olney Friends School in Barnesville, Ohio, graduated from Springville High School, and attended college classes at Iowa State in Ames and Cornell College in Mount Vernon, where he met Mary Louise Jacobi (Mary Lou). They married on Dec...