January 9, 2023, School Board Meeting: John Erickson discusses the Dstrict's 150th anniversary
1/16/23 WJJY Radio Community Focus: Brainerd Public Schools Archivist/Curator, joins us to celebrate 150 years of delivering educational public services to the people of Brainerd and beyond by Brainerd Public Schools. BPS 150: THE EXHIBITION, Phase I.
1/19/23 KLKS Radio Wake the Lakes: John Erickson, Brainerd Public Schools Archivist/Curator, joins us to celebrate 150 years of delivering educational public services to the people of Brainerd and beyond by Brainerd Public Schools. BPS 150: THE EXHIBITION, Phase I.
1/20/23 KAXE Radio Stay Human: "Living in the Archives," with John Erickson
2/16/23 KLKS Radio Wake the Lakes: Committee members of the Legendary Women of Brainerd Public Schools, Sherri Delahunt and Joey Halvorson, give us a history of the Legendary Women of Brainerd and talk about the Legendary Women Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony coming up on March 2, 2023.
2/16/23 WJJY Radio Community Focus : Committee members of the Legendary Women of Brainerd Public Schools, Sherri Delahunt and Joey Halvorson, give us a history of the Legendary Women of Brainerd and talk about the Legendary Women Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony coming up on March 2, 2023.
3/16/23 KLKS Radio Wake the Lakes: John Erickson, Brainerd Public Schools Archivist/Curator, joins the Wake the Lakes Morning Show to preview the upcoming Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honoring LTC Hortense McKay. The public is invited to this free program March 25, 2023
3/20/23 WJJY Radio Community Focus: John Erickson, Brainerd Public Schools Archivist/Curator, discusses the upcoming Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honoring LTC Hortense McKay being held on March 25, 2023. Superintendent Heidi Hahn discusses Kindergatren Round-Up happening on March 29, 2023.
3/25/23 Conressional Gold MEdal Ceremony for LTC Hortense McKay
The Congressional Gold Medal, for heroism and distinguished service during particularly adverse battle and environmental conditions in the Philippine Islands during WWII, administering to the wounded, the dying, the sick and the starving, was awarded to LTC Hortense McKay, United States Army Nurse Corps (1910 - 1988), Brainerd High School graduate (1927) and member, Brainerd Public Schools Distinguished Achievement Hall of Fame, on March 25, 2023, in a ceremony at the Brainerd Public Schools Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts.