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U of M fraternity trying to register hundreds of students to become bone marrow, stem cell donors
MINNEAPOLIS — University of Minnesota fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon is working to sign up hundreds of college students to become bone marrow and stem cell donors. The frat has been partnering with NMDP, a global nonprofit leader in cell therapy. For years it has helped register around 1,000 students.
Big game for Providence, Orono at 7 Friday
With only three weeks left in the regular season, high school football teams all over Minnesota are scrambling for playoff seeds. In Class 4A, two of the metro area’s best teams, Orono and Providence Academy have a 7 p.m. game Friday, Oct. 4, at Providence. Coach Colin Rooney’s Providence Lions are coming off their most impressive win of the season - a 31-0 shellacking of Delano - in a game...
Jana Sykora lives her dream as South Elementary Principal
Becoming an elementary school teacher was all Jana Sykora ever wanted to be. At a young age, she developed an admiration for her first-grade teacher Mrs. Christianson, and she imagined herself one day leading a class of youngsters well into her college years at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. But Sykora’s career path changed when she began studying child psychology and school-age disorders. Her newfound passion for child psychology and the belief that she could make a difference for troubled students led her to pursue...
Minneapolis Public Schools vaccination rates plunged prior to measles outbreak
An ongoing measles outbreak in and around Hennepin County has sickened at least 51 people, according to the latest Department of Health data. Most are unvaccinated children, and nearly one quarter of the people had to be hospitalized. Separate data released by the Department of Health earlier this year underscores one of the risk factors […]
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