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Long-time Crookston Nurse Cindy Meyer was recently recognized in Minneapolis at the Leading Age of Minnesota Institute and Expo as the “Caregiver of the Year,” an elite award given to one exceptional professional in elder care in Minnesota. Benedictine Living Community-Crookston, formally Villa St. Vincent, nominated Meyer for the award after decades of dedicated service […]
The Benedictine Living Community in Crookston will be partaking in the regionwide Giving Hearts Day on Thursday, February 9, to raise funds for services in the Community. All of the funds raised on Giving Hearts Day will be going towards one of their largest projects and greatest needs: the repairs and updates to our elevators.
The Polk County Developmental Achievement Center (DAC) has announced the retirement of Executive Director Jo Bittner to be on Friday, August 5, after almost 37 years of service to the DAC. Bittner began work in the DAC in 1985, where for her first year, she worked with the DAC’s children program that bussed children with
Every year at the Polk County Fair, seniors from throughout the county are invited to a program. The Senior Day program was on July 8 in the Christian Fellowship Tent on the fairgrounds. The program’s highlight is the introduction of Polk County’s Outstanding Senior Citizen, which went to Cecilia Baatz this year. “Every year, we
To the Editor: Benedictine is privileged to have Villa St. Vincent and The Summit as communities within our Ministry. During this historic and unknown time of the COVID-19 pandemic, we look to the legacy of our Sponsor, the Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica Monastery in Duluth, Minnesota for inspiration and hope. Over their 125 years
Crookston and area citizens donated 595 masks at the Crookston Fire Hall on Saturday as part of the Minnesota Statewide Mask Drive to provide masks to congregate facilities and those on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. The masks donated at the Crookston Fire Hall will be shared with the Villa St. Vincent, The
