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Friday, Sept. 13, 2013
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the other is some push-up, pullup exercise bars. Each has been installed at two of the planned five exercise stations along the hiking-biking trail.
“Twist” climber. The girls’ vision that day was partly inspired by a visit they’d just made to the Stearns History Museum in St. Cloud. Wendi Haas had driven them there to see an exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the national Girl Scouts organization. On the way home, they drove by Huntington Park and decided to stop and have a look. The girls, incidentally, do not live by that particular park. That’s when the ideas – and lots of excitement – started flowing. The girls call their project the “Healthy Park, Healthy People Project.”
Hard work
Determination
“Dark Night of the Soul: Tragedy and Suffering in the Life of Faith,” will be presented at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16 in Quadrangle 264 at St. John’s University. Two speakers, Jenell Paris, a Collegeville Institute resident scholar and professor of anthropology at Messiah College, Pennsylvania, and Janel
Once the girls had an image of a new-and-improved park, they began to brainstorm around the topic, “How to do it?” Fundraising was obviously a priority. Ally made brochures about their proposed project and the need for funds and other help. The girls, with help from their mothers, posted the brochures in the park, throughout their neighborhood and at St. Francis Xavier Church. To the girls’ surprise and delight, funds began to trickle into Girl Scouts headquarters. Soon, they had enough to purchase some trees, with discounts offered by Thomsens Greenhouse. After consulting with the University of Minnesota Extension Service, the girls were told the best trees to plant would be birr oaks and elm trees. The girls planted six trees so far and will plant four more, since their goal is a total of 10. The biggest donation so far has been a couple pieces of equipment donated by the Sartell-St. Stephen Community Education department. One is a leg-platform exercise machine;
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So far, the girls have put in at least 50 hours each working at the park, which is the minimum to earn a Silver Community Service Award. Ally alone has spent about 80 hours on the project. They are still working. They want to raise about $10,000 more to add two pieces of playground equipment, plus the exercise equipment for three more stations along the trail. Hard-headed realism caused the girls to drop a couple of their ideas: planting a garden there, replacing landscaping fabric under the playground equipment (the fabric must be there for
safety purposes). The girls have started to brainstorm to do a series of fundraisers for the project. One of those fundraisers will take place Tuesday, Sept. 17 at the Sartell House of Pizza. If people dine there or take out food from 5:308:30 p.m., a portion of every sale will be donated to the scouts’ Healthy Park, Healthy People Project. Anyone who would like to contribute to the Huntington Park project can send a check to “Girl Scout Office,” 400 2nd Ave. S., Waite Park, MN 56387. Be sure to write “Sartell Park Project” on the memo line of the check. For ongoing information about the park’s progress and upcoming fundraisers, see the four girls’ blog at: healthyparkhealthypeople.blogspot.com.
Sept. 16 talk focuses on faith, bereavement Kragt Bakker, an associate director of the Collegeville Institute, will consider the religious dimensions of loss following stillbirth and neonatal death. Parents’ narratives about the interplay between faith and bereavement segue into a broader discussion about the role of tragedy in the life of faith.
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Tickets on sale for Hall of Fame Banquet by Dennis Dalman news@thenewsleaders.com
Anyone who wants to attend the Sartell High School Hall of Fame Induction Banquet can purchase advance tickets at the Sartell High School Activities Office at 320-656-3717. The tickets must be purchased in advance, not at the door the day of the banquet. The event will take place starting at 4:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20 at Mulligan’s with the full-course meal starting at 6 p.m. Each of the Hall of Fame inductees will have a chance to give a speech of up to three minutes at the banquet. The entire day and evening of Sept. 20 will be filled with various events to honor the inductees. At 2 p.m., the inductees will meet school administrators and take a tour of the high school. At 2:45 p.m. there will be an all-school pep fest during which inductees
will be recognized for their accomplishments. At 3:30 p.m. there will be a social gathering for inductees and their families. After the banquet, inductees and others will attend the varsity football game at Sabre Field, the Sartell Sabres vs. the Bemidji Lumberjacks. The inductees will be introduced to the crowd at half-time. After the game, there will be the Fall Social of the Sartell Booster Club at Mulligan’s. That meeting will start at 9 p.m. There are 13 inductees this year into the Sartell Hall of Fame. The inductees are Stacie Oistad Aamlid, coach Dave Angell, Sarah Bohlsen, Brad Determan, Steve Kimble, Chris Pikus, Teresa (Smoley) Pilarski, Ted Plombon, Ted Ruzanic, Sarah Schellinger, Brian Stucke and Mike Trewick. The Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Tom Jensen.