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Caring for the elderly

By Marco Fernández Landoni , La Prensa de Minnesota

It was over a year ago when we first had the chance to learn about the Payne-Phalen Living at Home/Block Nurse Program and the wonderful work this small group of people is doing for our elder in East St. Paul. Unfortunately, a series of bizarre events –including a car accident- distracted our attention from the program and forced us to postpone this article several times. But everything comes in due time and thanks to those events we had the chance to learn more about not only the services at Payne-Phalen, but about the wonderful people that work there and the hundreds of stories that we all could learn if we spend only one day among its elders. MORE »

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Mississippi Watershed group retools grants program, hopes to reach diverse communities

By Paul Purman , TC Daily Planet

A Twin Cities watershed organization has a quarter million dollars of grant money to divvy up over the next few months, and they’re hoping groups that have traditionally not applied for funding will show up for an information meeting on Monday, September 8.

“Look at the demographics of our watershed,” explains Jenny Winkelman, Education & Outreach Coordinator for the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO), which covers portions of the cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Lauderdale, and St. Anthony. “We have a huge audience we’re trying to reach, many of them fairly recent immigrant communities, such as the Hmong and Somali communities. Most traditional watershed materials are produced for a literate, English-speaking audience and may miss important populations.” MORE »