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State Legislature: Help needed for seniors in our community To the Editor: Our senior living site has a long history of serving the Fairmont community and Martin County by providing care for older adults. We have a dedicated team of caregivers and professionals, and strive to fulfill our mission to provide compassionate care in a joy-filled environment. But like other long-term care providers across the state, we are struggling to attract staff. And this is impacting how many seniors we can serve. We serve many individuals who rely on a program called Elderly Waiver to receive care ...

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Seeking to fill open seat To the Editor: Due to the unfortunate passing of Congressman Jim Hagedorn, a special primary election will be held to fill his seat on Tuesday, May 24. Early voting at your county elections official is open right now. For 25 years, I have been working hard to represent southern Minnesota families, farmers, and businesses. I am now ready to translate those legal/advocacy skills into fighting for our rural way of life in Washington D.C. My campaign has already brought me to homes and businesses in all 21 counties in our district. I have personally knocked on ...

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Community Center Support To the Editor: I am looking forward to the new community center with year round indoor swimming and other activities. I am happy to see the support for this in the Fairmont community. As a student in Fairmont, I am pleased that new options for activities are being developed. I hope that the community center is built soon and I am confident it will benefit us all. I appreciate the city leaders who support its development and our working to make it happen. Levi Loughmiller Fairmont

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What is 420 Day? To the Editor: The number 420 has become synonymous with marijuana. But how and why? More than 50 years ago, a group of high school students in California decided to meet at 4:20 p.m. near their school campus to smoke marijuana and get high. Why that time? School was out, but parents weren’t yet home. The story passed around and nearly 20 years later, a group of Grateful Dead deadheads began encouraging people to smoke marijuana, now nicknamed 420, at 4:20 p.m. on 4/20. April 20 has become known as a “stoner holiday.” Unfortunately, the event is getting more ...

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We all take tax breaks To the Editor: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you Mr. Editor. Might I remind you, the owner of the Ogden press is among the ultra rich. Last century the titans of industry, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Ford and McCormick, modernized things we utilize everyday. Today’s titans, Bezos, Musk, Gates and a long line of others, make our lives easier. These people gave us our internet, our ability to shop from home and our long needed Space program. True, they don’t use their own money, they borrow from banks just as the rest of us do. Home loans, car ...

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Union given the boot by Mayo employees in Fairmont To the Editor: Two months ago, on Jan. 3, 2022, in the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Case Number 18-RD-288362, a petition to push the Teamsters Local 120 union out of Mayo hospital in Fairmont was officially received. This petition was circulated by Mayo employees. Results of that petition were certified two months later on March 7. After forty years of union protection Mayo employees no longer had union help and power. The workers are now alone. A worker alone is a worker without any power. Interestingly, on ...