August 2022

Clarkfield Community Closeup

Cherry Heisner Our prayers are with Jerry & Pat Nikolaisen after the fire in their home. Thankful theirdog was rescued!Welcome Bill Jahn to the 70 Club! Bill shares his July 5th birthday with his son Pat & daughter inlaw Jamie Ryan!Welcome to the 70th club to Pat Nelson whose birthday was July 30th! Caroline Streich & Mark Streich visited Caroline’s sister & Mark’s aunt Florence Haas at the Madison Lutheran Home Friday afternoonJuly 29th.Jeff & Sharon Lobdell went to Souix Falls to visit Sharon’s daughter Sammy & Rain & Jeff’s sister Barb & Jerry Mead.

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Memory Care Corner: The Global Deterioration Scale

Lori Petersen Montevideo Area Memory Loss Network (MAMLN) When I started as a Memory Care Coordinator seven years ago, I quickly became aware of a tool called the Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) which is also known as the Reisberg Alzheimer’s Scale. Even though Alzheimer’s disease is sometimes broken down into 3 stages, (early, middle and late) there is another staging system that was developed by Dr.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, August 6th and Sunday, August 7th:Pioneer Power Threshing Show featuring Case and Gas Engines at Minnesota’s Machinery Museum in HanleyFalls. Thursday, August 9th:Clarkfield American Red Cross Blood Drive from 1 p.m.

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City discusses ordinance establishing which counties criminal charges will be addressed in

Jessica Stölen-Jacobson Editor jstolen-jacobson@cherryroad.com At the regular monthly meeting of the Granite Falls City Council, the City’s Attorney Jeremy Blackwelder submitted a request for the council to consider a new ordinance to establish a location for criminal cases to be charged. State Statutes currently read that there must be an ordinance in cities that have two separate counties within city limits to clarify in which of the counties the criminal charges will be addressed.

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