🌱 What New Richland’s nursing home flood means for your family’s planning
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In today's newsletter:
- What New Richland’s nursing home flood means for your family’s planning
- How All Saints’ stained glass is being reborn for another century
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📰 News we're reading
• Minnesota Nursing Home Flood Forced 36 Residents Out, and Families Choosing a Facility Can Ask About Evacuation Plans (medicaldaily.com) — Flooding at New Richland Care Center on September 19 forced 36 residents to evacuate first to a school gym and then to several area nursing homes, highlighting the town’s vulnerability. Using this incident, experts outline how families can evaluate any nursing home’s flood risk, emergency plans, and communication practices to better protect loved ones in future disasters. 
• Century-old artwork shines with like-new radiance (wasecacountypioneer.com) — Stained-glass specialists from Cathedral Crafts have been carefully restoring century-old church windows across Waseca County, including at All Saints in New Richland. The team disassembles, cleans, and reinforces each panel so these colorful windows, long dimmed by soot and time, can keep inspiring local congregations for another hundred years or more.
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