(Article and photos courtesy of Laurie Swenson and the Fertile Journal) Although both have passed on, more than memories of two Foster Grandparents can be found at the Fertile-Beltrami School. In the pre-school classroom, five sets of Early Scholastic Readers were given in memory of Arlene Edlund. In the school library, a colorful painting serves
Tri-Valley Opportunity Council, Inc. will hold three community forums in the month of April. Two of the forums will be held on Wednesday, April 22. The first forum will be held in Crookston at the Crookston Family Service Center and it will run from 9-10 a.m. The second forum on April 22 will be held
Tri-Valley Opportunity Council, Inc.’s Rural Transportation Collaborative (RTC) Program is a curb to curb, mileage based public transportation volunteer driver program. People are transported for various approved purposes. Volunteer drivers are available seven days a week with extended hours with the core service area is Polk, Red Lake, Pennington, Norman, Marshall, Roseau and Kittson counties.
The National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association (NMSHSA) Parent Conference was held March 19-22, 2015 in McAllen, TX. The Opening Session Speaker was Sammy Benavides. In 2012 Sammy was selected for the NMSHSA Summer Internship Program which means he lived and work in DC for an intensive eight-week internship and professional mentoring program. The goal is to
Tri-Valley Opportunity Council, Inc. announced it will offer Four Cornerstones of Financial Literacy Workshops during the month of April. The workshops will be held on April 8, 15, 22, and 29 at the Polk County Human Service Building (1424 Central Ave. NE) in East Grand Forks, Minn. and will run from 6-8 p.m. The Four
By Marie Wood The Land Associate Editor | Every May, migrant farm workers come to Minnesota to work the fields. The jobs vary — picking rocks, hoeing weeds, seeding and sorting potatoes, picking apples, dairy farming or working in the vegetable packing plants. Packing plants in Minnesota pack peas in June until mid-July when they
By Mathew McKay, Special to the Herald on Nov 5, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. To Hazel Trogstad, no one is ever too old to volunteer. The Fosston, Minn., resident is performing her 10th year of service after turning 79 in August. Once a high school library assistant, Trogstad now works with children at Magelssen Elementary
By KIM HYATT khyatt@owatonna.com | Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 6:00 pm OWATONNA — Aracely Delgado read to her 2-year-old daughter Camila for more than 3,000 minutes in the month of October. They were just one of the many families at the Tri-Valley Opportunity Council in Owatonna to help meet this month’s reading challenge of
-By Melody Hedden (Family and Community Services Manager, Crookston)- When my parents signed me up for Head Start in 1979 I am sure they weren’t aware of the impact it would have on my life. Head start is the foundation from which my life skills were built. Born into a family stricken with poverty wasn’t
By MARIE WOOD | Posted: Sunday, October 26, 2014 12:10 pm (The Land Online) Education Season: Part 1 of a 2-part series on support for the children of migrant farmworkers The banner reads “Para Los Ninos” (for the children) and hangs outside the Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and Early Head Start center housed in
