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Mora man invents new garden tool Jerry Nelson, who coowns Jerco Company with his wife Connie, was over 70-years old and faced with planting a home flower bed that was over 100-feet long. “I started on one end of my yard with a small shovel and a spade and realized pretty quickly that there had to be a better way, especially at my age,” said Nelson. He started looking for a way to make this back-breaking work a little less back-breaking “I figured out a way to make a sort of post-hole digger where each spade would slide up and down the handle. Instead of pounding it into the ground, you would be able to push down each side with your feet. It would not only speed up the digging, but maintain the
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Twelve-year-old Megan Teich required three rounds of treatment in the hyperbaric chamber at Hennepin County Medical Center to repair the damage from carbon monoxide poisoning.
‘Mommy, my legs won’t work’ Family describes fight for survival after carbon monoxide poisoning BY MIKE GAINOR EDITOR@PINECITYMN.COM
“Mommy, my legs won’t work.” Julie Teich woke up to those words in the early morning of Thursday, Jan. 11. A Pine City native, Julie, her husband Greg, and her
children – twins Megan and Spencer, both 12, and Marisa, 9 – now live in Cambridge, in a two-story home with a basement and the master bedroom on the top floor. On the morning of Jan. 11, Marisa had climbed the stairs to the second floor and was calling out to her mother inside the master bedroom. “I can’t hear and I don’t feel good,” she told Julie. Julie sat up in bed, and it hit her. “Instant headache,” Julie
said. “Worst headache I’ve ever had in my life.” She was trying to wake up, trying to process what was happening. She was alone – Greg was still in the Twin Cities working the tail end of an overnight shift. Julie got out of bed and told her daughter they had to go downstairs. Marisa said she couldn’t. Julie told her she had to try. “And then we get close to the stairs and she passes out on SEE POISON, PAGE 6
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Jerry and Connie Nelson co-own Jerco Company which recently announced the launch of their new gardening tool: The Planter Spade.
same diameter and depth for each hole and save my back.” On Feb. 14, the Jerco SEE PLANTER SPADE, PAGE 6
Post Office pleads patrons to clear snow around mailboxes The U.S. Postal Service is asking customers to keep snow and ice cleared from their sidewalks, stairs and mailboxes to help postal carriers deliver the mail. Postal customers who receive door mail delivery should ensure their sidewalks, steps and access ways are kept safely clear of snow and ice. Customers receiving rural, curbside or centralized mailbox delivery should also pay special attention to having a safe and clear pathway to their mailbox. Postal carriers will continue to do their best to deliver the mail, but when mailboxes and approaches to mailboxes are buried in snow and ice it can make it difficult for carriers to make deliveries safely. If mailboxes are blocked off and conditions are too difficult, postal carriers must consider safety and accessibility first. They are instructed to refrain from delivering to locations they deem too hazardous.
Ogilvie Lions Club saw the need BY KATHY BELSHEIM SUPERINTENDENT OF OGILVIE SCHOOLS
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The new vision screener donation will assist in finding potential visual impairments for children as young as 6-months or who have difficulty verbally communicating. Pictured above (l-r): Jim Hanna, Ogilvie district technician, Carmel Stafford, Ogilvie School CMA, along with current Lion member’s Gary Baker and Ken Taylor.
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The Ogilvie Lions Club has purchased a spot vision screener ($6,950) from the MD5M Lion KidSight Foundation, Inc. programming for the Ogilvie Public Schools. This valuable machine is for use with very young students – as young as 6-months old and students who have difficulty verbally communicating. It automatically
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reads an individual’s sight very quickly and identifies any vision issues that need to be addressed. A color printer, to accompany the screener, was also presented to the school, allowing individual printouts to provide communication with parents. On Jan. 24, 2018, Princeton Lion Club member, Carol Breitkreutz trained Ogilvie staff on the usage of the machine. Ogilvie Lion Club members Ken Taylor SUBSCRIPTIONS 320-679-2661 subscriptions@moraminn.com
and Gary Baker were also in attendance to learn and celebrate with Ogilvie staff members, Carmel Stafford, Alyssa Jackson, Trisha Kotsmith and Jim Hanna. Together, Ogilvie Lions Club and Ogilvie Public Schools, would like to share the vision services this screener provides with area child care providers. For more information, please contact Carmel Stafford at 320-272-5050.
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