April 2024

Parent Child Health at Sawtooth Mountain Clinic

What if you knew that a nurse could come alongside you in your pregnancy and first years of parenting, to build a partnership enhancing your confidence and satisfaction, to honor your family’s growth and transformations? Suppose you learned that there was a way to afford nutritious foods and find how to leverage them to nourish your child’s early years? What if you had a resource to share with a friend who is thinking about growing a family, but unsure of the care landscape? Another friend, working through challenges with feeding their baby, experiencing a loss, or navigating mental health challenges in a transitional time? Consider yourself informed! Parent Child Health programs at Sawtooth Mountain Clinic, whether you know them by name as Family Home Visiting, WIC Supplemental Nutrition Program, Lactation Support, WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counseling, Follow Along, or Children and Youth with Specific Health Needs, these services are here for you and your neighbors. Additionally, these services are supported by the public, in the form of state and federal grants and local tax-levy, making them free to access.

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Matters of Record

The Cook County News-Herald publishes Matters of Record to inform the public of arraignments and dispositions of criminal cases in which the punishment exceeds $150 and/or ten days in jail and/or includes one year of supervised adult probation. It is the Cook County News-Herald’s policy that this information contains a complete record. Requests for items to be withheld will not be granted.

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Conservation Officer Tales

Although the Cook County News-Herald knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are law-abiding folks, there are a few that run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO) have encountered. The News-Herald shares these stories as a reminder to all to be safe and to follow the rules!

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Wellness

What do you value? Values – so much is encapsulated within this single word. This week, I invite you to take a moment to step back and think about your values.

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Outdoors

with Fly fishing for Steelhead The steelhead fishing fly which has come to be called the Intruder is a recent development from the past ten to fifteen years, developed on the great rivers of the steelhead's native lower US range – California, Oregon, and Washington - and the Great Lakes tributaries where steelhead have been introduced and now spawn and reproduce. With the Intruder, two important developments have come together: an oversized profile is created without creating a heavy, waterlogged fly; and a single stinger hook is strung behind a bare shank, at a distance that ensures the fly's long, undulating profile materials do not get fouled in the hook.

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