Elina Curran is a mother and a founder. She is the founder of the Eden Prairie based Chris Wivholm Foundation, which funds neuroscience research on addiction and attempts to eliminate the stigma attached to addiction. Her son, Chris, died of a fentanyl overdose on March 30, 2018. He was 21. From 1999 to 2019 in the US, nearly 450,000 people died from overdoses involving either prescription or illicit opioids, according to Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Health Statistics. The Department of Health and Human Services reported that in 2018 two million people had an opioid use disorder.…
Author: Frank Malley
Frank Malley
Frank graduated from Stanford University and did graduate study at Princeton and the University of Wisconsin toward a Ph.D. in English. He also took graduate business courses at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Illinois’s North Central College. He taught college English and British literature at a two-year University of Wisconsin Center System campus in Marathon County, Wis. For 26 years he worked in purchasing, product development, and general management at light manufacturing companies in the Chicago area. He later owned a company that imported custom-made products from China. In 2016, Frank and Pamela, his wife of 50 years, moved to Minnesota to be near their son, who lives in northeast Minneapolis.
Are you missing travel and nature during the pandemic? Tired of the monochromatic beige ground and grey skies of early December? Good news! While the pandemic interferes with normal travel, the resourceful Minnesota Zoo has found a way to entertain and educate in bright shades of blue, green and purple. A 20-ish minute drive from Eden Prairie, the Minnesota Zoo’s Nature Illuminated event is lighting up its winter offering. For $50 a car, nighttime visitors can drive past a multitude of brightly, colorfully lit art installations of the animals on our globe that are coping in their threatened habitats—the…
(Note: EPLN is a non-partisan, non-profit, and volunteer news organization. As part of EPLN’s coverage of these historic 2020 elections we’re collecting stories and moments from across the political spectrum that are, in some cases, little known or understood aspects of the political process. Below is one such story. If you would like to submit a story idea, please send it to editor@eplocalnews.org.) The formal title is precinct chair. A precinct is essentially a neighborhood. A precinct chair is the Get Out the Vote (GOTV) person for the neighborhood. So how did I spend Election Day November 3, 2020? As…