Employee of the Year 2020

Congratulations to Celeste Badke, Kalix Employee of the Year 2019-2020. Celeste is a Program Supervisor in the RH/IH program and has worked at Kalix for 13 years. Celeste serves on the Policy Committee and is always willing to lend her expertise in money management and staff training to new Supervisors and Coordinators throughout the agency. When a crisis occurs, Celeste immediately steps in and figures out how to provide assistance. A few months ago, Celeste responded to support a downtown apartment tenant when she lost her home in a fire in the middle of the night. When a tenant needed...
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COVID-19 Response

Recognizing that some of the folks enrolled in Kalix programs are vulnerable because of underlying health conditions, we are attempting to minimize exposure to COVID-19 by taking the following actions. Effective immediately, visitors to all Kalix locations will be restricted/limited as follows: No access to any Kalix location is permitted for anybody that has: -Fever, cough, shortness of breath -Traveled outside the country in the last 14 days -Exposure to known or suspected Coronavirus in the last 14 days In order to limit potential exposure, we request that all other visitors: -Consider other options to stay in touch or delay...
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Kalix Recycling Center Downsizes Recycling Operations

Minot, North Dakota –December 20, 2019 – Effective February 2020, the only products accepted and processed at the Kalix Recycling Center will be confidential documents and mixed office paper. Kalix will continue picking up confidential documents, public drop-off events will be scheduled occasionally, and drop-off may be arranged by calling 855-909-9729. January 31st will be the last day for regular hours. “The decision to downsize operations was based on a variety of factors, but the primary concern is the drop in commodity prices. It’s very painful to take this step, but we cannot afford to subsidize the program at this...
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