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  • LIFEGUARD - Seven Clans Casino-TRF

    Oct 6, 2011

    ** POSITION OPENING ** LIFEGUARD RATE OF PAY: Depending upon experience LOCATION: Seven Clans Casinos –Thief River Falls, MN REQUIRED TRAINING AVAILABLE OPENS: October 04, 2011 CLOSES: October 18, 2011 POSITION OBJECTIVES: Under the direct supervision of the prevailing Life Guard Supervisor is responsible to oversee safety of the Water Park area for Seven Clans Casinos. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Oversees all activities within Water Park to monitor safety issues. • Maintains positive publi...

  • Making progress on school meals

    Janey Thornton, USDA|Oct 6, 2011

    During our celebration of National School Lunch Week, millions of children will line up in cafeterias across the country to eat school meals. This year, parents should be encouraged that many more schools will be providing healthier options that their kids want to eat. School meals have come a very long way over the years. So believe me when I say that the proposed nutrition standards for school meals put forward by the U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this year as a result of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act are a vast improvement over...

  • USDA Announces Winners in Summer Food Service Program Story and Photo Contest

    Oct 6, 2011

    WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2011 – Today, USDA's Food and Nutrition Service announced the winners of the first ever Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) "Food, Fun and Sun!"Story and Photo contest to highlight how the program provides free, healthy meals to children in low-income areas during the summer. Launched earlier in the summer, USDA received over 100 submissions representing sponsors and sites in over forty states. "We must do all we can to ensure that children get nutritious food during the s...

  • Deputy Assistant Secretary Gillette and BIA Director Black to Attend Sixth Cobell Regional Tribal Consultation in Oklahoma City

    Oct 6, 2011

    Washington, D.C.— On Thursday, October 6, 2011, Department of the Interior (DOI) Deputy Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs for Policy and Economic Development Jodi Gillette and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Director Michael Black will attend the sixth regional government-to-government tribal consultation regarding the Trust Land Consolidation component of the Cobell Settlement. Tribal leaders from the BIA Eastern Oklahoma and Southern Plains Regions and Other Regions are scheduled to participate in the consultation session. BACKGROUND ON C...

  • PDAC President: Aboriginal Communities Natural Partners with Mineral Industry

    Oct 6, 2011

    New York, N.Y. - The mineral exploration and mining industry offers tremendous opportunities to Aboriginal peoples in Canada and indigenous communities around the world, the president of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) told delegates yesterday at the World Indigenous Business Forum in New York. “Aboriginal people and the mineral industry are natural partners,” said Dr. Scott Jobin-Bevans, PDAC president. “And mining represents one of the few economic oppor...

  • USDA Awards Specialty Crop Grants to Strengthen Agricultural Economy

    Oct 6, 2011

    WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2011 – Today, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced that USDA will be investing in 55 specialty crop block grants that will fund 740 initiatives across the United States and its territories. The grants will help strengthen the market for specialty crops such as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture. "Agriculture plays a vital role in the health and strength of our economy, and by investing in specialty crop growers and producers across the c...

  • USDA ANNOUNCES FUNDING TO BOOST BUSINESSES AND JOB CREATION IN RURAL MINNESOTA

    Oct 6, 2011

    ST. PAUL, Minn., Sep 14, 2011 -- USDA Rural Development State Director Colleen Landkamer today announced that three development organizations in rural Minnesota have been selected to receive over $1.3 million to promote job creation and business development. The Northeast Entrepreneur Fund in Duluth and the Waseca Development Authority each received loans through Rural Development’s Intermediary Relending Program (IRP). The Plainview Economic Development Authority was selected to receive a Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG). “These fun...

  • Are you are interested in signing up for a trip to the Diabetes Expo?

    Twin Cities Diabetes Expo October 15 Are you are interested in signing up for a trip to the Diabetes Expo? The Diabetes Expo is in the Twin Cities on October 15 and the trip will be cosponsored by the Leech Lake Diabetes Clinic and Lions International District 5M9. Trip is open to anyone in the area. For more information, please contact Kara Randall at 335-4511....

  • Maleena Mary Drouillard

    Oct 6, 2011

    Maleena Mary Drouillard, "WA-BEE-SGA ONAQ-BANA-GI" which means White Star Girl, 6 weeks old, passed away suddenly on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at her home in Sauk Rapids, MN. She was born on August 14, 2011 in St. Cloud, MN to Burnham Drouillard and Stephanie Birt. She was preceded in death by her grandpa Lowell Dean Birt and one auntie Barb Drouillard. Maleena is survived by her parents; Burnham and Stephanie, brothers; Daniel, Blaise Jr., and Marcus, sisters; Enyssa, Raina, Aiyana, Rihana,...

  • Oct 6, 2011

    FARMINGTON — The FBI is investigating a St. Patrick's Day incident involving a fired San Juan County Sheriff's deputy who beat an American Indian in the head with a flashlight....

  • Oct 6, 2011

    YAKIMA, Wash. -- A Yakima County jury on Tuesday acquitted former Yakama tribal police officer Anthony Hernandez of kidnapping a man he found in bed with his estranged wife....

  • Pine Ridge community school set for $40 million renovation

    Oct 6, 2011

    A dilapidated school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation will be renovated and expanded in a nearly $40 million project, according to a news release from Citi Community Capital. Read more: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/pine-ridge-community-school-set-for-million-renovation/article_4fbb61be-ef0d-11e0-8559-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1a0LusJv6...

  • Triple murder suspect 'who shot his grandmother and cousin' on Little Bighorn reservation is tracked down two states away

    Oct 6, 2011

    A mentally disturbed man on the run since apparently killing his elderly grandmother two days ago has been caught, the FBI has said. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045538/Triple-murder-suspect-Sheldon-Chase-caught-killing-grandmother-bloody-rampage.html#ixzz1a0MOZTuQ...

  • Oct 6, 2011

    FARMINGTON — The FBI is investigating a St. Patrick's Day incident involving a fired San Juan County Sheriff's deputy who beat an American Indian in the head with a flashlight....

  • FBI names Lodge Grass shooting victims; search continues for suspect

    Oct 6, 2011

    Schools were closed and residents were told to remain indoors Wednesday as authorities fanned across the southeast Montana countryside looking for an armed man suspected in a triple shooting on the Crow Reservation. Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_f6b1246e-eed0-11e0-987a-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1a0NlsXpm...