Video: Citizenship Ceremony in Willmar
June 6, 2012 in West Central Tribune
Eight students from the Willmar Adult Basic Education were awarded their citizenship certificates Wednesday along with seven GED graduates who received their diplomas during an evening ceremony. Continue Reading
WORTHINGTON Worthington School District 518 Community Education is one of the three entities state-wide that started receiving part of a federal grant administered by the Minnesota Literacy Council (MLC) for long-term citizenship capacity building last year.
The new citizens come from Brazil, Burma, Bangladesh and Bosnia-Herzegovina, from Canada, China and Colombia, and from India, Germany, Malaya, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Hungary, Sierra Leon, Sudan, Mexico, Philippines, Uganda and the United Kingdom. Most were the only ones from their former countries, but seven were from Somalia and six from Mexico.
Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie says he wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama’s birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere. 
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