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Articles from the May 18, 2012 edition


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  • Red Lake Department of Public Safety and Fire Department hold Awards and Appreciation Banquet

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 18, 2012

    A lot of people have a lot of different feelings towards the Red Lake Public Safety Department and the Red Lake Fire Department, but one thing is for certain, if you need help, you will count on them to help you. And being a police officer or a fireman is one of the few jobs where they risk their own lives every day to protect and serve the people of the Red Lake Indian Reservation. In appreciation of these sometimes thankless jobs, on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 an awards and appreciation banquet...

  • Red Lake Department of Public Safety and Fire Department hold Awards and Appreciation Banquet

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 18, 2012

    A lot of people have a lot of different feelings towards the Red Lake Public Safety Department and the Red Lake Fire Department, but one thing is for certain, if you need help, you will count on them to help you. And being a police officer or a fireman is one of the few jobs where they risk their own lives every day to protect and serve the people of the Red Lake Indian Reservation. In appreciation of these sometimes thankless jobs, on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 an awards and appreciation banquet...

  • Red Lake Department of Public Safety and Fire Department hold Awards and Appreciation Banquet

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 18, 2012

    A lot of people have a lot of different feelings towards the Red Lake Public Safety Department and the Red Lake Fire Department, but one thing is for certain, if you need help, you will count on them to help you. And being a police officer or a fireman is one of the few jobs where they risk their own lives every day to protect and serve the people of the Red Lake Indian Reservation. In appreciation of these sometimes thankless jobs, on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 an awards and appreciation banquet...

  • Red Lake High School 2012 Warrior's Honors Banquet - P5

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 18, 2012

    The Red Lake High School held its annual Warrior's Honors Banquet 2012 on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at the Seven Clans Casino Event Center in Red Lake. MCed by National Honor Society members Faleisha Desjarlait-Pemberton and Shanice Roy, the welcome address was presented by Red Lake Superintendent Steve Wymore, followed by the blessing by Larry Stillday and an honor song by the Red Lake High School drum group. Throughout the evening National Honor Society inducted new members, students received...

  • Red Lake High School 2012 Warrior's Honors Banquet - P6

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 18, 2012

    The Red Lake High School held its annual Warrior's Honors Banquet 2012 on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at the Seven Clans Casino Event Center in Red Lake. MCed by National Honor Society members Faleisha Desjarlait-Pemberton and Shanice Roy, the welcome address was presented by Red Lake Superintendent Steve Wymore, followed by the blessing by Larry Stillday and an honor song by the Red Lake High School drum group. Throughout the evening National Honor Society inducted new members, students received...

  • Red Lake High School 2012 Warrior's Honors Banquet - P7

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 18, 2012

    The Red Lake High School held its annual Warrior's Honors Banquet 2012 on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at the Seven Clans Casino Event Center in Red Lake. MCed by National Honor Society members Faleisha Desjarlait-Pemberton and Shanice Roy, the welcome address was presented by Red Lake Superintendent Steve Wymore, followed by the blessing by Larry Stillday and an honor song by the Red Lake High School drum group. Throughout the evening National Honor Society inducted new members, students received...

  • Ponemah Elementary School Pow Wow 2012

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 18, 2012

    Ponemah Elementary School Pow Wow 2012 held on Thursday, May 17, 2012....

  • Ponemah Elementary School Pow Wow 2012 - P2

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 18, 2012

    Ponemah Elementary School Pow Wow 2012 held on Thursday, May 17, 2012....

  • Ponemah Elementary School Pow Wow 2012 - P3

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 18, 2012

    Ponemah Elementary School Pow Wow 2012 held on Thursday, May 17, 2012....

  • 8th Annual 7 Clans Casino Pow Wow - May 25-27, 2012

    Grand Entries: Friday: 7 pm • Saturday: 1 pm & 7 pm • Sunday: 1 pm Host Drum: Young Spirit, Frog Lake, Alberta Co-Host Drum: Eyabay, Red Lake, MN MC’s: Wallace Coffey, Lawton, OK Keveon Kingbird, Red Lake, MN Arena Directors: Mack Kingbird, Red Lake, MN Wayne Silas, Oneida, WI Head Singing Judges: Darren Cook, Red Lake, MN Jason Kingbird, Wahpeton, ND Singing Contest 1st $8000 • 2nd $6000 • 3rd $4000 • 4th $2000 • 5th $1000 Hos t Drums will no t judge sin gin g Con tes t!!! Drum split for non co...

  • Red Lake election board certifies 4 candidates

    May 18, 2012

    RED LAKE – Results from this week’s general election for four positions on the Red Lake Tribal Council have been certified. The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians Election Board certified the results Thursday. The candidates receiving the most votes for their respective representative districts were Allen Pemberton, Donald “Dudie” May, Richard Barrett Sr. and Randy “Jiggs” Kingbird. Here are candidates’ totals for each representative position (percentages rounded to nearest whole number: Redby – Allen D. Pemberton, 373, 55 percent; Crysta...

  • Kingbird, Barrett, Pemberton win in Ponemah, Little Rock and Redby respectively

    Michael Barrett, RLNN|May 18, 2012

    It was Election Day on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, and unofficial results reported by Lakeland News revealed Randy "Jiggs" Kingbird defeated incumbent Glenda Martin in the Ponemah Representative race by 29 votes. There were just two candidates running in Ponemah. Incumbent Richard Barrett was re-elected in Little Rock out of a field of three, and incumbent Allen Pemberton was re-elected in Redby out of a field of six. In Red Lake, the two top candidates were incumbent Donald "Dude" May and...

  • Stolen shotgun gets man prison time

    May 18, 2012

    MINNEAPOLIS – A 19-year-old Redby man was sentenced Wednesday in federal court here for possessing a stolen 12-gauge shotgun. Damien Charles Jones was ordered to serve 30 months in prison on one count of possession of a stolen firearm. He pleaded guilty last Dec. 7. According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: Jones admitted that on Jan, 11, 2011, he possessed the shotgun, knowing it was stolen. In addition, the shotgun had a barrel less than 18 inches long, which is also against the law. Police recovered the gun after res...

  • Northern Minnesota driver gets probation in sister's death

    Paul Walsh, Star Tribune|May 18, 2012

    A northern Minnesota man has been sentenced to probation after admitting he left an underage drinking party and crashed a pickup truck while racing, killing his teenage sister who was riding in the open bed. He was 18 at the time. Kyle Mitchell Lee Hardy, now 21, of Redby was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Duluth to three years of probation, despite the prosecution urging an 18-month prison term. In arguing against a prison term, defense attorney Katherian D. Doe said in court filings that "the accident was the result of two young...

  • Bemidji man dies when machinery he was operating came in contact with power line

    BPD|May 18, 2012

    On today’s date, May 17th at 11:00 AM, Bemidji Police Officers, along with Bemidji Fire and Bemidji Ambulance personnel, responded to a medical emergency at Acme Tools, located in the 2000 block of 30th St NW in Bemidji. A 49 year old Bemidji man was operating a boom lift when he came in contact with a power line. He was transported to Sanford Medical Center in Bemidji where he was pronounced dead. The name of the victim is being held until notification of family members. An investigation of the accident is being conducted by the Bemidji P...

  • Most Children Younger Than Age 1 are Minorities, Census Bureau Reports

    May 18, 2012

    The U.S. Census Bureau today released a set of estimates showing that 50.4 percent of our nation’s population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011. This is up from 49.5 percent from the 2010 Census taken April 1, 2010. A minority is anyone who is not single-race white and not Hispanic. The population younger than age 5 was 49.7 percent minority in 2011, up from 49.0 percent in 2010. A population greater than 50 percent minority is considered “majority-minority.” These are the first set of population estimates by race, Hispa...

  • Minnesota Chippewa trust fund bill not fair at all

    Arthur LaRose|May 18, 2012

    The most honest part of Norm Deschampe’s open letter on H.R. 1272, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Trust Fund bill, is when he admitted that “It took another 10 years for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to confirm that the MCT was best suited to decide how to distribute the funds.” The reason it took the BIA a decade is because immediately following the 1999 settlement, President Deschampe of the Grand Portage Band -- along with the other three smallest bands, which collectively comprise about 20 percent of the damages and population of the MCT -...

  • Pastoral Letter on the Doctrine of Discovery and Indigenous Peoples

    May 18, 2012

    Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”[1] The first biblical creation story tells of the creation of earth, sky, waters, creatures, and gives human beings dominion over the rest. God pronounces what has been created good. At the end of the original week of creation, with the advent of human beings, Go...

  • May 18, 2012

    There were over 6.3 million American Indian/Alaska Natives in the United States in 2011 according to a U.S. Census report released on Thursday, May 17. That number is up 2.1 percent from the last numbers released in 2010....

  • TERI-North America organizes the 3rd US-India Energy Partnership Summit 2012

    May 18, 2012

    The high-level Summit deliberates on strategies and activities for Indo-U.S. collaboration on energy security as they move towards low carbon economic pathways Washington DC, 25 April 2012: Carrying the momentum of unprecedented cooperation and providing the perfect setting for deliberation on strategies and activities for Indo-U.S. collaboration towards energy, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) North America organized the third annual U.S.-India Energy Partnership Summit. The Summit themed 'Fostering Innovations for a Sustainable...

  • THE 24 SEVEN – May 18, 2012

    Washington Post|May 18, 2012

    THE 24 SEVEN – May 18, 2012 Real question about Obama might be 'Who's the father?' Theories that Barack Obama was not born in the United States an... http://takeaction.wta001.com/wta/link.php?M=17702784&N=33081&L=15930&F=T ----------------------------------------------------------------- Beck offers Wright $150k for secret box on bribe Glenn Beck has made the Rev. Jeremiah Wright a $150,000 offer f... http://takeaction.wta001.com/wta/link.php?M=17702784&N=33081&L=15931&F=T ----------------------------------------------------------------- L...

  • May 18, 2012

    BEMIDJI- Following the theme “In memory of many, in honor of all,” The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office, the Bemidji Police Department and the State Highway Patrol honored the death of law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty in 2011....

  • PCs for People refurbishes computers for low income people

    Brian Matthews, Bemidji Pioneer|May 18, 2012

    BEMIDJI - With today’s digital age, having a computer is becoming as essential as a kitchen sink, but the cost for the technology is high and some people are unable to afford their own. To help with this problem, the United Way of Bemidji Area partnered with PCs for People, a nonprofit organization that collects and refurbishes used computers for seniors and low income individuals. Bemidji was one of 10 Minnesota communities to participate in the mobile refurbishing project, which is funded b...

  • May 18, 2012

    Target needs 200 cashiers and stock workers for its new Inver Grove Heights store and is hosting a job fair this week at the town's Veterans Memorial Community Center....

  • May 18, 2012

    The police sergeant who helped put away the "Beat Down Posse" was named the Minneapolis investigator of the year Thursday at a Minneapolis police awards ceremony that honored dozens of officers for heroics in 2011....

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