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WILLMAR — The Cushman A. Rice trust fund gave nearly $70,000 in grants last year to help 254 qualified needy patients pay their bill at Rice Memorial Hospital. The need far exceeds the amount of grant dollars available each year, advisers with Bremer Investment Management and Trust,...

Remember Midwest Investors of Renville? That became Golden Oval Eggs, which morphed into The New Midwest Company. I've tried to forget, but a trustee service company keeps sending me letters, with ever more depressing news. A very brief history. In 1994 farmers invested in a new...

WILLMAR -- Changes are being proposed for the Cushman A. Rice Trust grant application process, making it easier for people to seek help paying their bills at Rice Memorial Hospital. The trustees at Bremer Bank, which manages the fund, filed a court petition last month requesting...

WILLMAR -- The need for Rice trust fund grants to help eligible patients pay their hospital bills continues to outstrip the amount of money available. Last year the 78-year-old fund issued $88,000 worth of grants on behalf of 106 individual applicants. So far during 2010, the Rice...

WILLMAR -- A judge has agreed to reclassify the Cushman A.

WILLMAR -- Trustees for the Cushman Rice fund will petition the court to revise the fund's legal status, a move that will eliminate restrictions on how the money is distributed. This course of action was approved Wednesday by the finance committee of the Rice Memorial Hospital board....