A visit from Suni Lee and more
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Expect cooler high temperatures on both Friday and Saturday with the increased cloud cover and frequent showers. Get the latest on Updraft. | |
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In Winnebago, a team of volunteers keep history alive
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Every Tuesday, a team of volunteers meets at the Winnebago Area Museum to catalog artifacts, do some genealogy, and drink coffee. For this committed group, it's a labor of love —and a way to keep Winnebago's history alive.
Like many rural agricultural communities, Winnebago's population has been shrinking. There are less than 1,300 people living here now — down about 16 percent in the last decade.
The impact of demographic and economic shifts can be seen in the shuttered storefronts that dot Winnebago’s main drag, said City Council Member and Board Treasurer Jean Anderson.
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Olympic champion Suni Lee surprises students at St. Paul elementary school
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Olympic gold medalist and international celebrity, gymnast Sunisa Lee paid a special visit Thursday to St. Paul’s Battle Creek Elementary, where she was once a student.
The school’s leaders invited students to the school’s gymnasium for a back-to-school donation event. Principal Kristen Longway told them there would be a special guest, but it wasn’t until all the kids were sitting on the floor, that the star gymnast was introduced.
The winner of the women’s gymnastics all-around title at the Tokyo Olympics surprised the young fans. | |
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Fond du Lac Band celebrates return of sacred sites
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More than 214,000 applications for Minnesota’s “hero pay” were denied. That’s 18 percent of all who applied. While some were issues of duplicates, identity verification or income limits, Matt Riley says the process still had barriers for some communities.
Riley, an organizer with CTUL Workers Center, worked to support Minnesotans during the application process.
Riley says the barriers he saw with the process included technology and language. Applicants needed an email address and some language came directly from the bill verbiage instead of being adapted. He says some immigrant communities weren’t sure if they qualified.
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