Northwest Minnesota Foundation
“I wanted to take a moment to thank Northwest Minnesota Foundation for their generosity in helping to fund the Life Story Project here at Fosston High School. I thought I’d give you an overview of the project and give you a more personal ‘flavor’ of what we do.
Warroad is one of two communities currently going through NMF’s Communities Thrive program. Through this process they have identified priority areas (such as community education, wellness, arts and culture).
The city of Halstad is a community that is used to coming together when it means finding creative solutions to problems at hand. That’s why they were one of two communities selected to participate in NMF’s Communities Thrive program.
Everyone knows that today’s youth are the future, and based on the compassion and talent that Mahnomen area youth have displayed, Northwest Minnesota’s future is in good hands.
As this blog post is being written, the temperature in Bemidji is -51 with windchill in January. Each winter in northern Minnesota, we can anticipate extreme cold weather to a certain extent, but it hasn’t dipped this low since 1996.
Each woman experiences pregnancy differently. It’s a time of physiological changes and months of anticipation, planning, and preparation. However, for women who are serving time behind bars, it can be a very isolating experience.
