Fleur de Lis Late Fall 2018

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Burkhartzmeyer family has been in the shoe business since early 1940s helping hands

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contents 6 If the shoe fits

The Burkhartzmeyers have been helping

southern Minnesota find just the right size for six decades.

16 After the storm

From the worst comes some of the best.

22 Song for a new season

Capturing the beauty of fall in Faribault.

32 Faribault friendships

How Chief Taopi, Bishop Henry Whipple

and Alexander Faribault helped the Dakota Indians find refuge.

38 Little gives a lot

Faribault resident pays it forward with bell ringing, community service.

40 Dare to Dream

At Shattuck’s weCreate, students build, design and program their way to innovation.

46 Connect, collaborate & create Clubs, meals, classes. Faribault Community School offers it all.

54 Experience Faribault

Upcoming events.

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If the shoe fits

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By Jacob Swanson

Bruce, left; Buck, center, and Brian Burkhartzmeyer pose for a photo.

Bruce and Brian have owned the store since 1985 and are the third generation to run the business. (Jacob Swanson/Faribault Daily News)

t Burkhartzmeyer Shoes, everyone is family — even those whose last name isn’t Burkhartzmeyer.

Joan VanDyke started working for the Faribault company in 2002, but left after a few years.

When she realized how much she missed it, she waited five years for a position to open up. “[I] came back because I realized rather quickly how much I loved this store. After leaving, I kind of felt like I left home,” she said. “It wasn’t like the good way of leaving home, going off into the world, it was CONTINUES ON PAGE 8

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‘Oh, I’m really homesick.’”

Burkhartzmeyer Shoes has been a family business since the 1940s, when Donald, Alvin and Walter Burkhartzmeyer returned from serving in World War II to start the company in Faribault

Factory in Faribault, which operated from 1903 to 1934. He would bring his three sons into the factory during their youth, and thus, a life around shoes began.

Better known as Buck, Al and Putts, the trio ran the store until November 1985, when the store was passed on to the third generation, Buck’s son Brian and Al’s son Bruce.

Al died in 2012 at 91, Putts at 93 in 2015.

The youngest of - Bruce Burkhartzmeyer the three, Buck, still helps out around the store in any way he can.

Just as he would when his dad worked at Shaft Pierce, Buck still

“They all had their niche of what they could do. They worked well together. Family businesses are tough, especially when you go three generations. There aren’t a lot of them where people get along well enough to do that for that many years, so it’s been good.” with their parents, Ferdinand and Martha.

Ferdinand worked as a cutting foreman at Shaft Pierce Shoe

This 1949 photo shows Burkhartzmeyer Shoes in its early days. Al, Buck and Putts Burkhertzmeyer started the store with their parents when they returned from World War II. (Photo courtesy of Burkhartzmeyer Shoes)

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FULL AND COMPLETE STOP

The corner outside of Burkhartzmeyer Shoes’ front door is home to the city’s first tangible tribute to the beloved carnival ride, the Tilt-A-Whirl. The ride was invented in 1926 by Faribault’s Herb Sellner. The

first 14 Tilt-A-Whirls were built in Sellner’s basement and backyard, but in 1927, he opened Sellner Manufacturing Co. That year, the ride debuted at the Minnesota State Fair. The factory then expanded and continued production in Faribault until the company was sold in 2011.

That Tilt-A-Whirl car and a second north on Central Avenue were refurbished

following fundraising efforts led by Tami Schluter and Peggy Keilen. The first car was installed in June 2015, the second in July 2017.

The Tilt-A-Whirl cars are placed on Central Avenue during the warmer months and stored at the Faribault Public Works facility during the winter.

comes into the store around lunch hour every day, with Brian and Bruce leaving a few tasks for him to do daily.

During World War II, the Navy put Buck to work under an orthopedic doctor, so he’s never been away from feet.

“I’ve never been away from shoes in my life and I enjoy the work,” he said. “You’ve got to like what you do.”

Buck and Brian are certified pedorthists, professionals who specializes in modifying footwear and using support to address foot conditions.

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Buck Burkhartzmeyer has worked with feet his whole life. At 94, he still comes in to the Central Avenue store nearly every day to do whatever he can to help out. (Jacob Swanson/Faribault Daily News)

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Dee Wirz, left, fits a customer for a pair of shoes. She has worked for the Burkhartzmeyers for 23 years. (Jacob Swanson/Faribault Daily News)

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while Bruce does more behind-the-scenes work like his dad, Al, did. Putts “could fix anything,” Bruce said.

“They all had their niche of what they could do. They worked well together,” Bruce said. “Family businesses are tough, especially when you go three generations. There aren’t a lot of them where people get along well enough to do that for that many years, so it’s been good.”

Burkhartzmeyer Shoes isn’t just your run-of-the-mill store, where you can walk in, pick out the latest pair of tennis shoes

“We don’t get easy feet. We get the tough feet and there’s always going to be a place for that,” Bruce said. “People work more, they exercise more, they walk more and they’re on their feet more, there’s a lot more foot issues than there ever has been in the past and that’s what we specialize in.”

At a time when shoe repair shops are closing down across the country, Buck and Burkartmeyer Shoes just keep on going, largely in part due to that slot the Burkhartzmeyers have carved out for themselves.

“We sell shoes, but we’re really concerned about foot health and foot comfort and that’s the niche we’ve gotten and that’s kind of how we’ve managed to survive through all this,” Bruce said. “Yeah, you can find a shoe any place today, so if you try to compete with that, it’s pretty tough, but we specialize in a niche and that kind of opens up a whole different market for you.”

The store has served generations of families in Minnesota, including Minnesota Twins great and Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, who was a Burkhartzmeyer Shoes customer during his time

“We don’t get easy feet. We get the tough feet and there’s always going to be a place for that. People work more, they exercise more, they walk more and they’re on their feet more, there’s a lot more foot issues than there ever has been in the past and that’s what we specialize in.”

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that’s hot on the market and that’s that.

The store, while it sells all different kinds of shoes, specializes in shoe repair and handling foot conditions. For people needing extra foot support, handicapped customers needing shoe modifications and even those who simply need a wider shoe, Burkhartzmeyer Shoes is the go-to spot in southern Minnesota.

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Larry Olson has worked for Burkhartzmeyer Shoes for 33 years.

He’s one of many employees who have spent much of their lives with the store. (Jacob Swanson/Faribault Daily News) Brian Burkhartzmeyer converts a lace-up shoe to Velcro for a handicapped customer. (Jacob Swanson/Faribault Daily News)

in Minnesota.

With the recent decline in shoe repair shops in operation, the shop has done mailing to other states such as Indiana and Tennessee, Brian said.

Shoe dogs Burkhartzmeyers say there will always be a need for their work.

“It’s so, so important to buy a good shoe. There’s nothing between you and the earth outside of a good pair of shoes, because that foot of yours has to carry all of your body weight,” Buck said.

“If you weigh 150, 170 pounds, you can run three or four hundred tons of weight through your shoe a day, so they’ve got a right to wear out.”

Pedorthists don’t diagnose foot problems, but rather work like a pharmacist for your feet, according to Brian. A doctor diagnoses foot problems and points patients to Faribault from a seemingly ever-increasing range.

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In addition to the Burkhartzmeyer family and its dedication to foot care, the company has employees and customers who have spent much of their life with the company and become like family.

Larry Olson has worked for the company for 33 years. He was the last hire of the old regime before Brian and Bruce took over. In 1985, Al took him into a donut shop, they “had a handshake and that was it,” as Olson recalls.

“It’s been great,” Olson, who does shoe - Buck Burkhartzmeyer repair and sales, said. “It’s a great family to work for.”

He’s not the longest-tenured employee of the company, either. Lanny Schreck has worked for the Burand not enough shoe repair shops.

The store has picked up work from the Minneapolis Veterans Af- khartzmeyers for 46 years.

“It gets in your blood. There’s a term for people, they’re called fairs Health Care System as well, with over 3 million people in the shoe dogs. People that are in the shoe business are very loyal to Twin Cities metro area and just 25 shoe repair stores, according the shoe business,” Bruce said. “There’s a lot of satisfaction in to Buck’s estimate. He estimated the Twin Cities had between two helping a person that has problems with their feet, so it’s as much and three hundred shops at one point. of a service as it is a business.”

“Most of the people are going out of the business and that makes it tough on us because we’re getting more and more work,” Buck said.

Serving the customer At the end of the day, getting more and more work isn’t all bad.

It brings customers to Faribault and the 10-employee store on As is the case with any small business, repeat customers are key Central Avenue.

Buck says he’s been approached by orthopedic doctors from Mankato hoping the Burkhartzmeyers will move their store to Mankato, which has a metropolitan population of nearly 100,000

“I don’t have to be here, but I enjoy it, so I do come down every day usually,” he said. “As long as the good Lord gives me my health. That’s important.”

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to the success of Burkhartzmeyer Shoes. In order to create generations of customers, you need to provide world-class service and treat customers like family.

“The way we survive is because we give customer service.

They’re baffled most of the time when they come in and we sit them down, we measure their feet, we take an interest in their feet, not just trying to peddle some kind of product to them,” Brian said. “Most of our customers are longtime, repeat and they bring in their children and grandchildren, so we’ve got generations served throughout the years, but the biggest thing that separates us is the service. We go over and above. It’s not impersonal, you order something online and get a truck to drop it off at your door and hopefully it works or doesn’t work. You’re just guessing all the time.”

As Brian says, the landscape is changing. Amazon has a stranglehold on a lot of merchandise sales across the world and that’s not the only difference.

“I think the biggest change in the industry and this is true of all this, is your suppliers want to be your competitors. Nike wants to have their own stores as well as sell us shoes,” Bruce said.

Burkhartzmeyer Shoes doesn’t sell Nike products anymore, but Nike definitely has a role in the company’s longevity.

The Nike Cortez was invented in 1972. In the 70s, Brian and

Bruce were in college. They saw the athletic shoe boom and Burkhartzmeyer Shoes got out ahead of the curve.

“We were fortunate, we were in college and we saw what was going on with athletics and stuff. We really came back and told our dads, we really need to be in the tennis shoe business and that was really foreign to shoe stores,” Bruce said.

“When we started buying Nike in 1976 it wasn’t even called Nike, it was called Blue Ribbon Sports. That’s how far we go back with this. They had a shoe called the Cortez. These were $40 shoes and in the shoe industry, our dads looked at these and said ‘What in the world?’ To them, tennis shoes were Converse and Keds. $6.95, $12.99 and here we’re saying we need these $40 athletic shoes and they just thought we were crazy, but the stores that got into athletics survived through the 80s.”

So, what does the future hold for the store? In today’s market, “that’s a good question,” Brian says.

Buck’s goal is to work as long as he can. His mother lived to be 108 and he has no plans to slow down.

“I don’t have to be here, but I enjoy it, so I do come down every day usually,” he said. “As long as the good Lord gives me my health. That’s important.”

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By Grace Webb

Tornado’s devastation brings out t

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hen Tim Cross walked out of his house on the morning of Sept. 21, there was devastation as far as the eye could see.

Cross is the fourth generation owner of Roberds Lake Resort and Campground just west of of Faribault, a campground his family has run since 1937.

Only months after Cross took over running the campground, a record-breaking storm tore through the state, with 21 tornadoes touching down across Minnesota — including one, believed to be the strongest among them, at Roberds Resort.

All across Cross’s campground, trees had fallen over and power

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lines were down. An 80-foot tree had fallen onto the shower house, damaging the roof and side. Other buildings, including some cabins and his property’s store, were damaged as well.

“I didn’t know which way to turn,” Cross said. “We’ve never been hit like this before. It looked like a war zone.”

Helping hands While Cross wasn’t sure where to even begin his cleanup efforts, he was sure of one thing: he wouldn’t have to do it alone. By 8:30 Friday morning, some of his friends had showed up, grabbing chainsaws. They worked their way out from Cross’s house, cutting up downed trees and trying to clean roadways. Meanwhile, about 15 seasonal campers also found ways to work through the mess.

“That’s all you could do,” Cross said. “People were trying to

SURVIVING THE STORM

As the weather turned on the night of Sept. 20, Tim Cross hurried through the campground to warn guests about the storm and point them to shelter — both in the campground’s shower house and in his own home. Although an 80foot tree ended up falling against the shower house and damaging it significantly, everyone inside was safe.

“The damage was severe but nobody got hurt, and that’s all we could ask for,” Cross said.

t the best in neighbors, community get a hold of me, but I didn’t have time to respond back. We just started cutting.”

In the next few days, more and more people arrived to help clean up the resort. Flom Disposal dropped off portable toilets, since the campground’s water lines had been knocked out, as well as a skid loader. Meanwhile, members of The River Community Church in Faribault came through for the next week and a half, delivering food and coffee. Employees from LaCanne’s Marine arrived to help with pontoons that had flipped over, righting them and hauling them away.

“It was unbelievable the amount of people who came out and helped,” Cross said. “We couldn’t have done it without them.

There’s no way to repay anyone who was out here doing what they did.”

A record storm According to Rice County Emergency Management Director Jennifer Hauer-Schmitz, figuring out the extent of September’s storm damage was difficult because it was so spread out — affecting the entire county in a way she had never seen before.

“Calls kept coming in,” she said “We were plotting those calls and saw there was a swath of damage all the way through [the county].”

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The strongest of the Sept. 20 tornadoes was an EF2 twister that began in Morristown, crossed the eastern edge of Roberds Lake, blew through the Faribault airport and headed on to Dennison. (Photo courtesy of Andy Lobe)

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Hauer-Schmitz said the first thing the county did was to send out deputies and highway workers to clear blocked roads so that search and rescue efforts could begin. County employees were called in to work to help until darkness made it unsafe to continue efforts.

“There were no reports of injuries or deaths, which is just miraculous,” she said. “It’s just wonderful for that feeling to know no one was injured.”

When the sun rose on Sept. 21, it became clear that the damage spread out much farther than originally thought, but Hauer-Schmitz said people were already coming together across the community to help those affected. Farmers used equipment to clear fallen trees, while volunteer organizations such as Salvation’s Army and the Red

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Cross collected supplies to meet people’s immediate needs, provide food and help with cleanup efforts.

“Those organizations were wonderful, and they’ve helped throughout this entire process,” Hauer-Schmitz said “It’s a huge relief for us and such a help for the whole entire community.”

She added that one of the biggest needs was simply hauling debris away, and the county didn’t have enough resources to help everywhere. Instead, people started just working on it themselves. People came from across the state to help, with churches sending volunteers down from the Twin Cities. New Richland sent a bus full of students.

Area high school sports teams also came in groups to volunteer.

“We were so blessed,” she said. “It just made us be able to increase our resources so that we could help other people. People were so grateful to get any help they could get.”

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TOP: The storms came up too quickly for most residents to get their boats or docks out of the water. (Photo courtesy of Andy Lobe) BOTTOM: Immediately after the storms, downed trees were everywhere. (Photo courtesy of Andy Lobe)

Hauer-Schmitz said there is still a lot of work to be done around the county, but it’s becoming difficult to organize volunteers now that some time has passed. In addition, some of the work is too dangerous for volunteers, such as cutting down high tree branches, which needs to be left to professionals.

“It’s so important that people are willing to go above and beyond to help those in need,” she said “I know there’s a lot of people who still want to help. I saw a lot of that during this, and it’s not over yet.”

Coming together The River Community Church member Nichole Miller was one volunteer who began finding ways to help almost as soon as the storm was over. Miller lives on Roberds Lake Boulevard and runs a daycare out of her home. She lost her daycare fence during the storm, as well as some of her house’s siding. When she checked her social media accounts after the storm, she started to see the extent of the damage around her community.

“I personally just really felt like I needed to help,” she said. “I was trying to figure out

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what I could do. God put it on my heart.”

At first, Miller offered to take children at her daycare after hours so that parents could assist with cleanup efforts. Then she decided to start providing meals as well to anyone who needed food.

“I didn’t even know how it happened … it just happened so fast,” she said, explaining that she started by just throwing some hotdogs on the grill and putting out a sign advertising free meals.

“It was pretty slow the first day. I think a lot of people were just skeptical. Then the next day, we had a ton of volunteers who showed up to deliver meals. My husband thought maybe I’d help serve 10 hotdogs, but it just ended up getting up bigger and bigger.

It’s really amazing how God provided everything for us.”

Working with other members of her church, Miller organized a system to deliver meals across Faribault, Morristown and Warsaw, delivering close to 3,000 meals in the six days after the storm.

Volunteers came from The River Community Church, River Valley Church and other groups, helping grill hamburgers, delivering pizzas and roasting marshmallows for s’mores. Miller said volunteers handed out meals at her home and also delivered them to other homes and clean-up crews at work.

According to Miller, she would often wake up and discover a huge spread of donuts, juice, muffins and cups at her door.

Besides food, people also dropped off donations of clothing, cash and gift cards. Local businesses such as Hy-Vee, Pizza Hut, El Tequila and Kwik Trip also donated food, water and other supplies, including leftovers from a

GET INVOLVED

The Rice County Non-Emergency Storm Line for non-emergency needs and inquiries related to this storm event is 507-333-3877 or toll free at 833-643-7423.

Call the number to request help for cleanup needs at your property or for home damage, food and water supply and other storm-related issues. You can also call to share your information for potential volunteer opportunities.

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wedding reception that had occurred the same weekend.

“The storm was a huge loss for a lot of people, but it brought us together, brought us closer,” Miller said. “It showed just how much our community can come together. There’s been a lot of disconnect and negativity, and I feel like this really helped people see how much we can come together.”

Miller said she is still checking in with some families to make sure they have the supplies they need, and she added that volunteers are still needed to help clean up. The same is true at Roberds Lake Resort. While Cross said most volunteers tapered off after the first week, there’s still work to be done around his campground.

He and his family are still working 12-hour days to move downed trees that they’ve managed to cut up, stacking them in the woods to remove them from the campground area. Tree branches continue to fall because of the wind, he added. The campground itself is closed for the season, since it still doesn’t have water or power.

Cross said he is planning to rebuild the shower house during the off-season, as well as work on the damaged cabins and store.

In addition, he’s removing more trees from the main campground area, in the hopes that no future storm will cause the same kind of damage.

“I’m trying to tackle one thing at a time,” he said. “One way or another, we’ll get through it and rebuild and be back in the spring.”

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The mid-morning sun catches the light coming through the trees on the Shattuck-St. Mary’s School campus. (Suzanne Rook/Fleur-de-lis)

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Faribault’s Ahmed Ali tries to score past the Red Wing goalkeeper on Sept. 11.

(Jacob Swanson)

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f I could fill my page with words to make up an ending to each season that has given us her all — glorious orange sunsets and wildflower purple and the deep, dark blue of the rain — I would give the wind a voice.

And his voice would be deep and coarse as he reminisced about the way the grass bent beneath him as he worked to push the storms through the buttes and over the prairies. He would tell us how he worried it might dry up, or maybe how he thought the big banks of snow might never disappear and he would cry about the flames he can’t keep from rising, and he would declare, “It has to be, it has to be, just like I must take the leaves from your trees.”

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And then he would laugh a big laugh at the way our hair stands on end when he comes around and how we lean into him out here. If I wrote the book, I’d make the wind tell us.

If I could paint the most beautiful cool down, I would splash the canvas with gold and rich pinks and burgundy hues. I would use my soft brush to give the sky more clouds, thousands of clouds, for the sun to reflect her light and choreograph her show.

And I would paint her glow on horses’ backs and splash her down between the shadows of the trees where the deer go to water.

And next to the barn, the cats would bask in the light — the light I would make live forever if I could, or at least to live on that canvas in the space between day and night, sun and storm, warm and cold...

If I could paint the cool down, I would use all of my brushes.

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ABOVE: Montana Limon (80) and Jack Clark (2) bump shoulders before a fall football game against JanesvilleWaldorf-Pemberton. (Jacob Swanson) TOP RIGHT: The colors of summer and fall are visible in this pile of leaves.

(Suzanne Rook/Fleur-de-lis) LOWER RIGHT: Leaves cover the ground at Shattuck-St. Mary’s. (Jacob Swanson)

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ABOVE: The morning sunshine falls on an opening of leaves at River Bend Nature Center. (Jacob Swanson) FAR LEFT: Milkweed has historically been considered a weed, but some grow it in order to attract Monarch butterflies. (Jacob Swanson) LEFT: Robins are often considered one of the first signs of spring in the upper Midwest, but many robins actually spend the entire year in Minnesota. (Jacob Swanson) RIGHT: The sun makes trees already showing their fall colors appear as if they’re lit from within. (Suzanne Rook/Fleur-de-lis)

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the chorus on the wings of the geese so as they catch the wind and touch those clouds, it would ring familiar and in harmony with the croak of the frogs taking a breath in the creek bed to “ooh” and “aah” along.

And then, the wild elk bedded down in the tall yellow grass

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would throw their heads back and bugle a sad song of goodbye, the crickets would hush and the coyotes would take to the hilltops. The kittens would purr softly, the mice would hold still already and the cattle would stop their chewing to hear as the verses moved from the crocus to long days and onto cool rain and the smell of snow coming…

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ABOVE: Days and days of rain postponed this fall’s harvest, leaving corn stalks to blow in the fields even into November. (Suzanne Rook/Fleur-de-lis) TOP RIGHT: Piles of pumpkins, ready to be turned into jacko-lanterns, awaited Fareway Foods customers. (Suzanne Rook/Fleur-de-lis) MIDDLE RIGHT: Faribault running back Mitch Nelson (5) cuts through the Mankato East defense on the way to a long run on Oct. 17. (Jacob Swanson) BOTTOM RIGHT: Leaves of gold and orange pop against the sidewalk leading to the Rice County Courthouse.

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And then, the song would swell and blend with the howling dogs in the yard and the last screech of the red-tailed hawk as the bridge pushed through to the sound of the geese fading out, heading south.

And in their place would be only the sounds of winter.

And a palette of blues and grays, a familiar wind to remind us and a new quiet chorus repeating.

ABOVE: A touch of green was still visible near the creek that separates the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf from Shattuck-St. Mary’s School. (Suzanne Rook/Fleur-de-lis) LEFT: The golden leaves on this tree on First Avenue NW brighten a beautiful fall day. (Suzanne Rook/Fleur-de-lis)

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Faribault friendships How Chief Taopi, Bishop Whipple and Alexander Faribault helped the Dakota find refuge

By Nick Gerhardt

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uried in Faribault’s Maple Lawn Cemetery is one of the most interesting figures from the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862: Chief Taopi.

There is a sign near the entrance directing visitors to his grave and his headstone reveals some of Chief Taopi (Photo courtesy his story as a Dakota American Indian who worked of the Minnesota Historical to resolve the conflict. Taopi, who converted to Society) Christianity, became a close friend of two pillars of the Faribault community: Alexander Faribault and Bishop Henry Whipple.

Taopi spent his final days in Faribault on Alexander Faribault’s land and Whipple delivered Taopi’s funeral address in 1869.

LEFT: Chief Taopi, listed on the original photo as “a friendly Sioux Indian chiefly instrumental in bringing the white settlers in safety to camp during the Indian War of 1862.” (Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society)

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Chief Taopi, who died March 5, 1869 at 56, is buried along with his daughter, Cornelia Whipple Taopi, in the south west corner of Faribault’s Maple Lawn Cemetery. Cornelia was 18 years old. (Suzanne Rook/Fleur-de-lis)

Taopi grew up in Kaposia, near present day South St. Paul, part of Chief Little Crow’s Mdewakanton band of Dakota. But he’d later defy Little Crow and advocate for peace during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. In several instances, Taopi helped white settlers escape and shielded them from attack.

U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 lasted just five weeks, but it stands as a hideous stain in American history. The execution of 38 American Indians in Mankato following the war remains the largest mass execution carried out by the U.S. government.

The war began when tensions between Native Americans and the U.S. reached a boiling point in 1862 during a turbulent summer that saw the Dakota starving and begging the government to keep its promise to supply money and food. Through a series of treaties from 1837 to 1858, the U.S. government agreed to purchase land from the Dakota in exchange for money and food, but by 1862 those promises started to fade.

As the Civil War raged on, the U.S. struggled to provide the Dakota with food, giving them few options to gather food.

The incendiary event took place in August 1862 when a Dakota hunting party stole eggs from settlers in Meeker County’s Acton

Executions of Dakota Indians, Mankato, Minnesota (Artist J. Thullen, 1884/Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society)

Township. Five settlers died in the act and the Dakota continued raids.

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ABOVE: Public execution of 38 Dakota Indians at Mankato. They were found guilty for their actions during the Dakota Conflict.

(Artist W.H. Childs/Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society) LEFT: Battle of Birch Coulee, artist Paul Biersach, 1912. (Photo courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society)

trials lasted less than five minutes.

President Abraham Lincoln reviewed the convictions and commuted all but 39 of them. One of the prisoners later received a reprieve before 38 were executed by hanging.

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raid against the Lower Sioux Agency a day later near Morton in Renville County and the Dakota routed the Minnesota Militia, which tried to respond to the raid.

The Dakota led raids against New Ulm and Fort Ridgely in western Nicollet County before federal forces intervened Sept. 23 at the Battle of Wood Lake in Yellow Medicine County. Just three days later, the Dakota released 300 captives and the government held hundreds of Dakota believed to be involved in the raids at Camp Release near Montevideo to await trial.

Trials for 498 Dakota began in November and more than 300 men were sentenced to death for crimes ranging from rape to murder. The Dakota were not given legal representation and many

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Dakota Peace Party The war divided those within the Dakota, and several Dakota, including Chief Taopi, formed the Dakota Peace Party as an attempt to secure the release of prisoners captured by the Dakota and to end the war.

Chief Taopi along with Simon Anawangmani, Paul Mazakutemani, Tiwakan and Wabasha met on the Upper Sioux Reservation near Yellow Medicine to form the Peace Party.

After the Treaty of Mendota in 1851 moved the Mdewakanton to a reservation in the Lower Sioux Agency, Taopi began farming and became a leader of Dakota farmers. In 1860, he started a CONTINUES ON PAGE 36 u u u

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school and a mission on a reservation called the Hazelwood Republic with Good Thunder and Wabasha.

When the uprising started, some Dakota reached Taopi to tell his band to take off their citizen clothing and put on traditional Dakota clothing. Taopi told the men of his band to stay out of the disturbance and not go near the Dakota who were part of the uprising.

The Peace Party opened negotiations with Henry Sibley Sept.

2 and eventually surrendered the more than 250 hostages at Camp Release, near Montevideo.

Taopi testified against the Dakota who Apistoka at the Dakota concentration killed settlers.

camp at Fort Snelling, 1862 or 1863. (Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society)

BISHOP WHIPPLE Bishop Henry Whipple was the first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota when he arrived in 1859. He’d been a champion of poor immigrants in Chicago prior to coming to Minnesota and became an advocate of Native Americans while in Minnesota where they called him “Straight Tongue” for his honest approach with them.

Bishop Henry Whipple met Chief Taopi in 1860 at the Lower Sioux Agency when Taopi, Good Thunder and Wabasha asked Whipple to start a school and mission there.

As the war came to a close, Whipple advocated for the Dakota and argued that only those guilty of crimes against settlers be punished. Whipple penned an open letter and visited Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1862 to urge Lincoln to be lenient in sentencing the Dakota.

There were those in Minnesota who disagreed with Lincoln’s decision to commute the vast majority of the sentences, like Alexander Ramsey, who insisted that more hangings would’ve resulted in more votes for the Republican party in the 1864 election.

“I could not afford to hang men for votes,” Lincoln reportedly said.

Meanwhile nearly 1,600 Dakota women, children and elderly were held on Pike Island. Hundreds died in the camp after disease spread. Eventually, Minnesota voided treaties with the Dakota and sent them to camps in Nebraska and South Dakota. Congress also made it illegal for the Dakota to live in Minnesota. Later a bounty was created that awarded money for every Dakota scalp turned in.

Some Mdewakanton stayed in Minnesota because it was deemed they had remained neutral or assisted white settlers. Chief Taopi was among those allowed to remain.

A REFUGE OF SORTS Since Alexander Faribault’s arrival in the region that later took his name, it had been known as an area where Native Americans received support.

Faribault’s grandmother was a Dakota and he married a Dakota woman. Faribault, when he arrived in the area, began to become friendly with the local Wahpekute band that numbered around 600, and convinced the Wahpekute to move their villages from along the Cannon River to the junction where the Cannon meets the Straight River, where he had set up a trading post.

People escaping the U.S.-Dakota War in 1862. (Adrian J. Ebell/ Minnesota Historical Society)

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All the Indians here with me are your Faribault and his family members served as government translators to help negotifriends. I cannot say anymore, so I shake ate treaties. Faribault remained an advocate hands with you. Your true friend,” Taopi for American Indians throughout his life wrote. and was often referred to as a kinsman to Not only did Whipple deliver Taopi’s the Dakota. funeral address After the U.S.on March 7, Dakota War of 1869, Taopi chose 1862 ended and Whipple’s first Whipple helped wife’s name for strike a deal to allow Chief Taopi his daughter: and his famCornelia Whipple ily to remain in Taopi. the state, it was Whipple comFaribault’s land missioned a that Taopi and his marble works family lived on. firm to create a Taopi stayed in headstone for Faribault with his Chief Taopi and family, around 80 his daughter, who or so members, for around seven died just 10 years years. Alexander later at age 18.

Faribault and That headstone Whipple helped remains in Maple ease any concerns Little Crow’s wife and two children at Fort Snelling prison compound. (Benjamin Franklin Upton, 1864/ Lawn Cemetery. settlers in FaribCourtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society) ault had about Dakota moving to In Minnesota the area. Faribault even employed Dakota at his flour mill while Whipple asked the and beyond government to give the Dakota their own Though Faribault never named a lake farms, but his request was denied. after Taopi, a village in Mower County Taopi and his family instead tried to bears his name. Along Hwy. 56 in Mower subsist on whatever they could raise and County sits Taopi, named for the chief find from the land.

In 1867, 38 of the Dakota in Faribault left voluntarily for a reservation in Nebraska where they believed they’d find better farming and education. Taopi and around 40 others remained in Faribault.

Jeff Sauve, retired St. Olaf College associate archivist, in an article for the Rice County Historical Society, wrote that the community considered naming a nearby lake in Taopi’s honor but it never happened.

Taopi died in 1869 and in a letter to Whipple shortly before Taopi’s death, it’s clear how close the two had become. “... I am not afraid to die, but I tell you it. Every man on Earth has got to die. You are a bishop and you love every poor man.

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Faribault resident pays it forward with bell ringing, community service

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By Nick Gerhardt t’s become one of the telltale signs of the holiday season but the Red Kettle Drive by the Salvation Army plays a bigger role than many might consider.

Just ask Ed Little about it. The Faribault resident has been involved with the Salvation Army for the past eight years along with his wife, Gina, to

help raise money to benefit the community. Nearly all of the money raised during the drive, which started Nov. 16 and runs until 2 p.m. Christmas Eve, stays in Rice County to help residents in need of emergency services. The money can be used for utilities, food, housing, transportation, store vouchers, school supplies and other emergency needs like when tornadoes touched down throughout Rice County in September.

It’s a selfless job standing outside often in cold weather to ring a bell and ask

TOP: Ed Little, a volunteer with the Salvation Army, will be out this season ringing the bell for the Red Kettle Drive. Little has spent the past eight years helping to raise money for families in Rice County through the Salvation Army. (Nick Gerhardt/Fleur-de-lis) SMALL PHOTO: The Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettle Drive raises money to help area residents in need throughout the year. (File photo)

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for donations but Little will be one of the many bell ringers outside Faribault stores once again this holiday season.

“You hear a lot of stories about how the Salvation Army helped fathers or grandfathers back in the war,” said the 58-yearold Little. “They want to keep paying it forward.”

Little helps out where the Salvation Army needs it. Some weeks he’ll work five days a week while the Salvation Army operates Monday through Saturday. Sometimes he’ll even do two or three shifts out there.

“It just feels good to be able to help someone in their time of need and encourage them,” Little said.

The Salvation Army also partners with local law enforcement every year to put on Shop With a Cop, an outreach program that pairs officers with children to shop for school supplies and winter clothing. The program helps build positive relationships between officers and youth.

Little, born and raised in Northfield and has lived in Faribault for the past 23

years, moving to the area when he worked at Matejcek Implement. These days he mostly volunteers after surviving a bout of cancer 11 years ago. He’s cancer free now and using his time to help others. In addition to his time with the Salvation Army, he serves on the Heritage Committee as its vice president to help put together Heritage Days.

“You appreciate life a little more,” Little said about life after beating cancer. “I’ve been able to spend time with my grandkids.”

Little has two grandsons in Kenyon and enjoys getting to see them and their events often.

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DaretoDrea Stephanie Vagle poses in the upper level of Shattuck’s weCreate center, located in Shumway Hall. Vagle is the center’s director. (Anne Kopas/Fleur-de-lis)

At Shattuck’s weCreate, students build, design and program their way to innovation

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Thinking outside of the traditional academic box is the philosophy behind weCreate, a center for students to learn via hands-on projects. Or hang out and do homework. Or take classes. It’s difficult to define the two-story space, located in the campus’ Shumway Hall, as a singular thing, but that’s precisely the goal.

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“The idea is really that students become inspired, and this becomes a place that they’re drawn to and they get to do all kinds of creative things,” said weCreate Director Stephanie Vagle.

A chance to play and create The weCreate center was opened about six years ago in a part of the building that has housed dormitories and a gym throughout its history. Students have open access, morning to evening on weekdays and sometimes on weekends, to an ever-growing

The upper level of weCreate is home to audio and video recording studios, classroom space, a graphic design computer lab and more. (Anne Kopas/Fleur-de-lis)

list of gadgets.

For the mechanically minded, there’s a 3D printer, several scroll saws and a Glowforge laser cutter/engraver. For the budding musician, there’s a recording studio complete with microphones, keyboards and other equipment. For the Academy Award hopeful, a video editing room with a green screen and cameras. For the graphic designer, a computer lab with access to the full suite of Adobe Creative Cloud software. For the fashionista, a sewing room with fabric and multiple types of machines.

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On the lower level of weCreate, students work on homework. The center has become a popular gathering spot, even for students who aren’t working on a weCreate-specific project. (Anne Kopas/ Fleur-de-lis) LEFT: A 3D printer works on turning a student’s digitally designed cell phone stand into reality. The printer is among the many tools and gadgets available to students in weCreate. (Anne Kopas/Fleur-de-lis)

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For the craft lovers, a lab with scissors, cardboard, hot glue and similar tools. There’s also an open engineering classroom, a small performance auditorium and space to just hang out and get homework done.

“The tools and gadgets are important for the creative process, but I think even more than that, it’s the people,” said Vagle.

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“And it’s the school’s commitment to providing time and space to have this be a priority… This is open space, and that’s huge to dedicate that kind of resource to students just being able to come in and mess around and play and create.”

Along the way, students get help from teachers and staff trained in weCreate’s various tools. Vagle’s philosophy is to let students figure most things out on their own. Rather than giving a lecture on how to do a certain task, she points them towards tutorial and other resources for self-help in the name of encouraging problem-solving and resourcefulness.

“They’re not going to be penalized for trying something and it not working out, or for trying something and it looking goofy, or for having a weird idea,” said Vagle.

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tuck’s academic programs are designed to get students involved.

Sophomores are required to complete one self-paced, individualized weCreate project per term, working with a mentor, that takes about six to eight hours outside of regular classes. Juniors work on self-chosen learning modules, at least one of which must be completed through weCreate (an alum recently taught a stop-motion animation module). Seniors work on a more ambitious yearlong project that often involves the we These programs are frequently tied to offsite trips designed to show students how skills learned in weCreate can lead to careers. Recent visits have included an architecture studio and creative advertising agencies.

“We want to make sure everybody has a chance to get some 21st century skills,” said Vagle.

Some students, however, take to weCreate on their own, building and creating just for the thrill of it.

Shaunak (Neo) Patel, now a junior at Shattuck-St. Mary’s, is a prime example. By the end of his sophomore year, Patel had built an augmented reality sandbox through weCreate and the help of mentors in the engineering and computer science fields.

The sandbox features an overlay, projected from above, that displays a topographical map of the sand. When the sand moves, the map overlay shifts to reflect new elevations in different colors.

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Neo Patel shifts sand in his sandbox to demonstrate how the overlay adapts to changing elevation. Patel said he’s seen students moving the sand around as a way to relieve stress before exams.

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school’s shuttle. Others designed personal logos in wood and leather, or 3D printed a representation of another school, or short films movies to be sent with film school applications.

Students rarely pay for materials. If a student has an idea, weCreate staff work to make it happen — “Yes! Let’s try it!” is the mantra.

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basically allowed me to do it. Most schools don’t have that.”

The sandbox is now a fixture of weCreate, and Patel said he often sees students congregating around it to play in the sand. It has become a hangout spot where students congregate — Patel has seen them introducing themselves around it, making new friends. Teachers use it for geology lessons. And pushing the soft sand and watching the glowing patterns shift is quickly becoming a popular pre-exam stress relief tool.

Patel’s interest is what Vagle called “catching the bug.” He’s now working on building a bass guitar, a go-kart and a smart mirror that displays the time, temperature, etc. through various school departments. Unsurprisingly, he’s planning on a career in engineering.

“In my old school, we didn’t have anything like this, and I’m a person who takes advantage of what I have,” said Patel.

Patel isn’t alone. Another student first learned basic animation in weCreate and is now an animator for the FC Barcelona soccer team. A former Shattuck-St. Mary’s hockey player used his weCreate skills to start his own fashion company. A budding programmer developed an app to track the location of the

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In many ways, weCreate prepares students for the post-high school world where employers value resourcefulness, innovation and creativity. Jobs are moving in increasingly technical directions, but it’s the interdisciplinary aspect that weCreate staff value.

“It’s like 21st century home economics,” said Vagle. “It’s this idea that we can all be creative, and that we can all benefit also from accessing tools and materials and physical things, to make that creative process go.”

While students are accustomed to spending hours a day in front of screens, Vagle has observed a pervasive desire to build things by hand. She’s seen students’ eyes light up when they realize that they, personally, can learn to use a scroll saw.

Even when students design something with pixels, they jump at the chance to turn it into a physical object. Many weCreate projects end up inhabiting the space where the physical and digital worlds meet.

“There’s something about that physical piece,” said Vagle. “It gets your brain activated in a different way.”

Craig Peck, assistant director of weCreate, argues that these separations, between the physical and the digital, between one school subject and another, are largely artificial — an educational philosophy that pervades the school’s programming. Subjects like English and the sciences, for example, are deeply interconnected, according to Peck.

“Those are fake buckets for what is really just one thing,” he said.

Peck also runs Shattuck’s Major program, in which students choose a topic of interest and conduct a significant research project. For Peck, both weCreate and the Major teach students the skill of diving deeply into a subject, either through research or technical instruction, or both.

It’s also a low-stakes setting for students to learn what interests them and what doesn’t. If they get bored with a subject

or project, they can move on to something new. But if something catches their interest, they can pursue it further.

“I would have loved to have gone here when I was a kid,” said Peck.

Even if a student doesn’t go on to a career in engineering or graphic design inspired by weCreate, the center still aims to teach universal skills. They learn to think and to collaborate. They learn that big projects can take a lot of work, but that doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy the process. And they learn that their ideas have value, even if they don’t work out.

“There’s no ‘F’ here,” said Vagle.

“You get to just come and try and have fun.”

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Students work on an electrical circuit project in an engineering class. The open classroom design is a new addition to the weCreate center’s upper level. (Anne Kopas/Fleur-de-lis)

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t Faribault Middle and Jefferson Elementary, learning and youth enrichment doesn’t have to end when the final bell rings.

Students gather in the schools’ cafeterias every Monday through Thursday for homework help, some stick around for a free meal early in the evening. Others enrolled in afterschool clubs complete art projects, knit, code, play

TOP: A one-time feature of Faribault Middle School’s Community School involved sipping tea and hot cocoa. Pictured, from left, are Aliana Hoff, Maida Hashi, Community School Coordinator Maki Love, Salma Dayib and Samira Ali. (Misty Schwab/Faribault Daily News) LEFT: Dory Morarrasa, right, watched Belinda Cirne open a can of pumpkin pie filling during an after-school baking club offered during the Faribault Community School. (Misty Schwab/Faribault Daily News)

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ABOVE: Night of Nostalgia was a Community School event that took youths back a couple decades to play board games like Sorry. Pictured from left: Ihuon Sum, Danika Ben and Bailey Madow. (Misty Schwab/Faribault Daily RIGHT: Kanko Akakpovi, a SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) educator, leads a cooking class through Faribault Community School. Pictured from left, Belen Velazquez and Kaylee Ruhling ponder a Jeopardy question Akakpovi reads during their Halloween session. (Misty Schwab/Faribault Daily News)

“My favorite part about Community School is meeting new people and the snacks.” - Alaina Hoff sports and cook. Sometimes adults even show up to do Zumba and take parenting classes.

All these opportunities and more happen at Faribault Community School, a program which began in late fall 2016 that extends learning beyond the student population to families and community members.

The Institute for Educational Leadership calls community schools both a place and set of partnerships, likening them to a smart phone.

“Schools and communities connect, collaborate and create,” it said on its website. “Children and families have an array of supports from community partners right at their school. Communities and schools leverage their shared physical and human assets to help kids succeed.”

“My favorite part about Community School is meeting new people and the snacks,” said sixth-grader Alaina Hoff.

Added seventh-grader Maida Hashi: “I love Community School because you get to meet new people and do fun stuff.”

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Advanced Dental Therapist Jenny Berg provided dental examinations to students at Jefferson Elementary last spring thanks to a partnership between HealthFinders and the Faribault Community School. Over 40 children brought in consent forms to receive free oral check-ups during the school day. (Misty Schwab/Faribault Daily News)

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According to Community Education Director Anne Marie Leland, Faribault Public Schools applied for a full-service Community School grant through the Minnesota Department of Education in fall 2016. Jefferson was selected as Faribault’s Community School site because of its central location. The following fall, the district used leftover funding and combined it with a 21st Century grant to expand the effort to Faribault Middle School.

“We wouldn’t have pursued the 21st Century grant if the first year wasn’t such a success,” said Leland. “The partnerships formed to support the programs and services were fantastic.”

Leland works as a program champion supporting the coordinators, developing new partnership and program ideas, and acting as a liaison between Faribault Public Schools and the Department of Education. She says organizations like Rice County Public Health, the Buckham Memorial Library and Allina Health as contributors to Community School.

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“I like Community School because you get help with your homework” - Salma Dayib

“There’s a long list of us that sat down and said ‘this is going to be a great opportunity,’” said Leland.

The average day Every Monday through Thursday, the Community School offers after-school clubs at its two locations. These clubs, run by community members and school staff, appeal to grade-school children, middle school students and sometimes both.

Some Community School clubs target specific age groups while others include as many age levels as possible. The knitting club is meant for grades three through five as well as middle

Faribault artist Jeff Jarvis offers an art class through Faribault Community School at both Jefferson Elementary and Faribault Middle Schoool.

Pictured from left, second-grader Kylie Munoz watches Jarvis draw first-grader Zahara Abdulahi. (Misty Schwab/Faribault Daily News)

schoolers, and a makerspace program is geared toward children in kindergarten through third-grade, but a club that offers sports might involve everyone.

“I like Community School because you get help with your homework,” said sixth-grader Salma Dayib.

Released from school at 2:50 p.m., students involved in the Community School first congregate in the cafeteria to play games and listen to instructions.

They then choose if they want to attend a club or stay in the cafeteria for homework help. Students who signed up for clubs attend

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students committed and involved.

At 4:30 p.m., parents pick up students who don’t stick around for the free meal. Anyone over 18 is welcome to join the students, but must pay $3.50. At the middle school, the meal lasts an hour longer than the dinner offered at Jefferson.

After dinner, students and/or parents can attend an evening program. Jefferson offers Zumba every Wednesday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., and attracts a good-size crowd. Jefferson also offers a Spanish-language parenting class through Growing Up Healthy called Conversations with Clarita from 6 to 7 p.m. every other Monday evening.

Not just after school, not just in school Aaron Krenske Gonzalez says her son, Taylor, an active 5-yearold, gets so worn out from the fun he has at Community School that he once told her that he needed a break.

“I like going to sports club,” said Taylor. “We do sports like basketball, baseball, and football.”

Added Gonzalez: “A lot of the kids he’s in class with also go [to Community School] and kids from other schools as well.”

Rany Ben never attended after-school events growing up, but wants to give that opportunity to his own children. He learned about Faribault Community School via Facebook and attends events at Faribault Middle.

“I figured it would be good for my kids, and I enjoy watching them having fun,” said Ben, who came to Community School with his 5-year-old daughter, Danika.

While some after-school programming is meant to be fun, other events are educational. There have been sessions for adults about health issues, parenting principles, new languages and more. Rice County Public Health volunteered, for example, to give flu shots to parents and students and led a presentation on vaping and e-cigarettes to make parents aware of new tobacco products popular with teens.

Community School isn’t just an afternoon and evening event.

There’s a morning walking club for third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at Jefferson. The middle school offers additional homework

ABOVE: Homework help takes up the first hour of Faribault Community School for those who need extra tutoring. Pictured, Kayla Tromborg offers math help to seventh-grader Abraham Macias. (Misty Schwab/Faribault Daily News)

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“We’re defintely open to anything. We don’t want to use up all our resources right away. We’re constantly soliciting people for help.” - Vicky Coon

“I would love to see us get to the point where kids feel they’re in control of their future.” - Becky Ford help Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

On rare occasions, the Community School also offers services during school hours. In the spring and fall, a dental clinic came to Jefferson for students without insurance or those who are under-insured. Fenbrook Family Services also visits students during school hours to bring mental health services to those needing them.

One a month, the Community School offers a themed evening that involves both children and their parents.

In October, Faribault Middle School hosted Night of Nostalgia — an event that exposed children to games, music and technology of decades past. Maki Love, Community School coordinator for the middle school, recently took six students in fifth and seventh grades to a play in Minneapolis called “I Come

From Arizona,” about a Latino girl trying to figure out her family history.

“My hope is to have a play at least once a month,” said Love.

The future of Faribault Community School constantly evolves and changes as the coordinators, the community and students suggest and introduce new ideas for clubs. Love wants to see a college readiness program; students have suggested topics like Legos, anime, dancing and karaoke.

“We’re definitely open to anything,” said Vicky Coon, Community School coordinator for Jefferson Elementary. “We don’t want to use up all our resources right away. We’re constantly soliciting people for help.”

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ABOVE: Children like Jorge and Jonathan played coding games during Night of Nostalgia, a Faribault Community School event that exposed youths to technology and games from their parents’ childhoods. (Misty Schwab/Faribault Daily News)

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Volunteer help Coon and Love are constantly for volunteers to help with the clubs, teach classes or lead evening projects. Some clubs run for six-week periods while others are one-time offerings. Still others run throughout the academic year.

Faribault artist Jeff Jarvis teaches a K-5 art club at Jefferson Elementary School as part of the Community School and offers a class for older students at Faribault Middle School’s Community School.

“While we’re busy trying to teach [children] something, they’re teaching us,” said Jarvis, drawing a Jefferson student as children peer over his shoulder.

In recent weeks, students in Jarvis’ K-5 club made Halloween cards for grandparents and colored Halloween pictures Jarvis drew and printed off himself. An ongoing project is a 20-foot mural covered with traced outlines of participating children. In a few weeks, Jarvis plans to show the students how to make bird feeders out of pine cones using bird seed and peanut butter.

“You get to paint and you get to color,” said first-grader Zahara Abdulahi while shading in a jack-o-lantern on her printed coloring sheet.

Before starting his art club for Community School, Jarvis needed to share a class description with the Community School coordinators. Since then, he’s learned to have two to three projects prepared for each session in case students finish one project early.

“We want kids to come often and be connected because of the caring adults [involved in the program].

They don’t necessarily know they’re working on skills.” - Becky Ford with the Community School in spring 2017. She works directly with Coon and Love to build after-school programming and offer resources for youth.

The FYI and Healthy Community Initiative both offer background support for the Community School, meeting with the leadership team and using data they’ve collected to develop the programs.

The leadership teams, consisting of those who run the Community Schools at Jefferson and the middle school, operate under their own advisory councils. Those boards make sure those in leadership positions meet projected outcomes. Ford said running just one Community School in a district is “a huge undertaking,” so operating two requires twice the effort.

Because the Faribault Community School operates with the help of a state grant, leaders are required to set program goals.

One goal Ford mentioned is to have 70 percent of the youth signed up for Community School 30 times a year or more. Another goal is to survey all the participating students at the end of the academic year.

To measure the Community School’s success, educators look at students’ attendance, behavior and academics, and note any improvements.

Three times a year, an external observer through the Youth Program Quality Assessment comes to the Community School to make sure staff interact well with the students, the clubs hit the necessary criteria and students have time to reflect before going home. The coordinators then receive scores.

Data indicates students like coming to Faribault Community School, the program has consistent attendance, students are included rather than hanging out alone and the programs lets students create their own experiences.

“We want kids to come often and be connected because of the caring adults [involved in the program],” said Ford. “They don’t necessarily know they’re working on skills.”

Ford said it’s her personal goal to help students experience society and the greater world in ways they never have before.

“I would love to see us get to the point where kids feel they’re in control of their future,” said Ford.

“My hope is they learn drawing and painting can be a leisure time activity that helps them calm down and stay peaceful.” - Jeff Jarvis “My hope is they learn drawing and painting can be a leisure time activity that helps them calm down and stay peaceful,” said Jarvis, who remembers coloring at the kitchen table with his siblings growing up.

In a classroom at Faribault Middle School, Community School staff member Jason McDowell offers a coding hour that allows students time to play games and work on elated assignments.

“You can have fun after school if you want, with your friends, and I like the [Community School] teachers,” said eighth-graders Masbal Noor at one of the computers. “They’re really nice.”

Added seventh-grader Asia Ali: “I like the teacher, too. Miss Love is really nice.”

Successful outcomes Ford, director of Faribault Youth Investment became involved

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