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Evasive carp avoid the nets Fish and the weather don’t cooperate on Lake Okabena
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By Julie Buntjer The Globe WORTHINGTON — Southwest Minnesota’s commercial fisherman returned to Nobles County last Thursday, two weeks after his crew harvested 20,000 pounds of buffalo fish from Lake Bella, south of Worthington. The crew, led by Scott Deslauriers, planned to spend Thursday through Saturday on Lake Okabena, pulling their nets through the Worthington lake in hopes of harvesting additional buffalo fish, as well as sediment-stirring common
carp. Unfortunately, a small haul on Thursday, combined with a Friday morning sonar search that showed a lack of schooling fish — and a weather forecast for wind and colder temperatures over the weekend — led the fishermen to pack up their equipment and head for home. Deslauriers captured an estimated 8,000 pounds of buffalo fish and 800 pounds of common carp during Thursday’s seining effort.
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‘A PACKAGE DEAL’ Jackson family thankful for care, technology twins received in Boekelheide NICU By Julie Buntjer The Globe Jackson aura and Mike Bidne of Jackson need only look at their 12-year-old twins, Julia and Thomas, to appreciate all that was available to them when the kids were born — and all that is available today to premature babies cared for in the Sanford Children’s Boekelheide Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Bidne twins were born July 31, 2009. Arriving 13 weeks early,
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Julia weighed 2 pounds, 1 ounce, and Thomas was 1 pound, 8 ounces. “I did not see Thomas at all (when he was born),” shared Laura. “He needed resuscitating. His Apgar score was zero — he was not breathing and not able to do anything on his own.” Julia fared a bit better, but also required her own team of doctors and nurses. While you wouldn’t know it by looking at them today, the twins endured many challenges as they
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Sanford Health restarts Sweet Dreams campaign By Julie Buntjer The Globe SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — When Sanford Health Foundation launched a $2.2 million Sweet Dreams fundraising campaign to enhance technology in its Boekelh e i d e neonatal intensive care unit Sanderson in early 2020, the healthcare industry had no idea that a global pandemic would halt its efforts and shift so much
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energy into caring for people who contracted COVID-19. Now, nearly two years into the pandemic, Sanford Health Foundation has relaunched its campaign in hopes of reaching its fundraising goal for the Boekelheide NICU by the end of this year. An estimated 20% of all NICU patients at Sanford’s Boekelheide unit come in from other regional facilities — including infants born to residents of southwest Minnesota. Erin Sanderson, executive director of
the Sanford Health Foundation, said the Sweet Dreams campaign was relaunched in November, to coincide with Prematurity Awareness Month. Already, more than $1.5 million has been raised toward the $2.2 million goal, making it possible to raise the $700,000 before year’s end. “One hundred percent of the campaign will benefit our NICU with lifesaving equipment,” Sanderson said, noting that several
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By Emma McNamee The Globe WORTHINGTON — Bernard George Smith Jr., Windom, was charged with a felony count of fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle. O n Nov. 25, a Smith Jr. Worthington Police Department officer observed a white Audi sedan traveling at a speed he estimated to be approximately 45 to 50 mph in a 35 mph zone, while in a marked squad car at the intersection of Milton Avenue and Oxford Street. The officer turned westbound on Oxford Street to begin to catch up with the vehicle, the vehicle reportedly turned north onto North Grand Avenue and accelerated rapidly.
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The officer activated overhead emergency lights and attempted to catch up with the vehicle. The officer continued following the vehicle as it took the entrance ramp to Interstate 90, where it accelerated at a high rate of speed. The officer maintained visual contact with the vehicle, but as the officer was entering I-90, the vehicle was already exiting onto Minnesota 60, prompting the officer to accelerate to a speed of 120 mph in order to catch up with the vehicle. The officer continued to follow the vehicle on Oxford Street where it continued traveling at a high rate of speed. Another Worthington police officer was at the intersection of Clifton Avenue and Oxford Street when he observed the same vehicle, still traveling above the speed limit, and began to follow. The two officers were eventually able to get the vehicle to come to stop. They attempted
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