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LOCAL NEWS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022

02/14/2022

THE BLOCKADE OF VEHICLES AT THE US-CANADA PORT AT PEMBINA AND EMERSON LASTED INTO SATURDAY AND THROUGH THE WEEKEND. AUTHORITIES SAY THAT BLOCKADE HAS CONSISTED ABOUT 50 VEHICLES BLOCKING TRAFFIC FLOW ON THE CANADIAN SIDE. THEY SAY NO TICKETS HAVE BEEN ISSUED, AND NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO THIS POINT, AS PROTESTS AT OTHER PORTS ALONG THE BORDER HAVE STARTED TO TURN UGLY.

A BODY FOUND IN A GRAND FORKS ALLEY IS THAT OF ANTHONY VALDEZ, THE 26 YEAR OLD MAN WHO HAD BEEN MISSING SINCE LAST SUNDAY MORNING. THE CAUSE OF DEATH IS YET TO BE DETERMINED, BUT THERE WERE NO OBVIOUS SIGNS OF TRAUMA. THE BODY WAS FOUND ONLY ABOUT 100 YARDS FROM THE BAR AT WHICH HE WAS LAST SEEN.

THE ROSEAU POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS RELEASED INFORMATION ON A LEVEL 3 SEX OFFENDER, RORIE ALYN COPELAND, THAT HAS MOVED INTO THE VACINITY OF THE WEST SIDE TRAILER COURT IN ROSEAU. A COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION MEETING WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH, AT 7 PM IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS IN THE CITY CENTER.

CENTRAL BOILER IS UNDERGOING A MAJOR EXPANSION TO IT’S FACILITY IN RED LAKE FALLS, EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED THIS FALL. IT WILL GIVE CENTRAL BOILER OVER 400,000 SQUARE FEET OF SPACE BETWEEN THEIR TWO FACILITIES IN RED LAKE FALLS AND GREENBUSH.

BOAT SALES CONTINUE TO SIZZLE IN MINNESOTA, WITH NEAR-RECORD SALES IN RECENT YEARS AND HIGHER SALES EXPECTED IN 2022. SALES WERE DOWN 5% IN 2021 FROM A RECORD LEVEL IN 2020, BUT EVEN THAT WAS 7% ABOVE THE FIVE-YEAR AVERAGE. INDUSTRY OFFICIALS SAY SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES ARE AFFECTING THE NUMBER OF AVAILABLE UNITS, BUT THAT MANUFACUTRING PRODUCTIVITY IS NEARING PRE-PANDEMIC LEVELS.

A FUNERAL SERVICE FOR RICHARD SPENST OF WARROAD WILL BE HELD TODAY (11 AM) AT WOODLAND BIBLE CHURCH IN WARROAD. INTERMENT WILL BE HELD AT A LATER DATE. RICHARD SPENST WAS 77.

MORE THAN HALF OF THE MINNESOTANS THAT TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 IN DECEMBER WERE VACCINATED, HOWEVER, ONLY ROUGHLY ONE THIRD OF HOSPITALIZATIONS AND DEATHS IN THE MONTH WERE VACCINATED. THE OMICRON VARIANT PROVED TO BE IMMUNE-EVASIVE, MUCH MORE SO THAN DELTA. HEALTH OFFICIALS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT EXPECTATIONS ABOUT THE PROTECTION VACCINES PROVIDE CONTINUE TO EVOLVE, BUT STRESS THE VACCINE IS STILL THE BEST DEFENSE AGAINST SEVERE ILLNESS.

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