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‘Becoming comfortable with imperfect results’ BY SARA MARIE MOORE VADNAIS HEIGHTS EDITOR
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WHITE BEAR LAKE — It might not be a good idea to take every advanced placement class. High-achieving students are those youth that parents and teachers worry may burn out before they even get to college, said Northeast Youth and Family Services therapist Chris Vendel at a mental well-being event held by White Bear Lake Schools March 28. Vendel works with secondary students. Although adults often don’t want to try to hold these students back, they can help students learn self-management and self-care when they face stress. “Good coaching and proactive teaching may help kids make those tough decisions,” Vendel said. It is important to teach high-achieving students self-awareness, to learn how to listen to their body and their mind. High-achieving
Aria, 3, of Hugo, performs her first dance routine at Kidz ’n Biz Fest April 28 at Oneka Elementary School. See more photos from Kidz ’n Biz Fest on page 12.
students can learn to make choices by identifying their true interests and things they are both good at and love to do. Students can also learn to identify what they must do versus what they can do. “High performers need to actually assess what they know before a test to determine what to study and when to pack it up for the night,” Vendel said. Students need to learn how to become “comfortable with imperfect results,” he added. Perfectionism and procrastination are two hallmarks of high-achieving students, who tend to have blackand-white thinking. Students often don’t want to fi nish something unless it can be perfect. That type of mental fi lter can create unnecessary stress, Vendel noted, along with jumping to conclusions, mind reading, fortune telling and only paying attention to certain types of evidence. Students also create unnecessary stress when
SEE STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH, PAGE 3
Longtime Hugo mail carrier retires BY SHANNON GRANHOLM EDITOR
HUGO — April 28 marked the last day 500 residents along a 64-mile route saw a friendly, familiar face delivering their mail and packages. Hugo resident John Monaghan retired from the Hugo Post Office after 14 years. His co-workers threw him a party for his years of service, both to the post office and in the military, and presented him with an artist easel with an engraved plaque. At the age of 18, Monaghan joined the Army in 1971. He served on the “Kore-
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an Fence” between North and South Korea for 13 months before being sent back to the U.S to Fort Bliss in Texas. Monaghan, who grew up in White Bear Lake, started with the post office in 2004 as a part-time rural carrier assistant. After an 18-year career as a grocery warehouseman for Gateway Foods, he found himself in a bind at the age of 52 after the company folded. “We all had to leave and start over in life,” he recalled. “I had to sell the house I lived in in White Bear Lake, bought a mobile home in Hugo and started all over.”
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He saw a “we are hiring sign” at the post office and decided to apply. He then worked two part-time jobs, one at the post office and the other as a bartender at The Little Bar (now known as Cabin 61.) In 2013, Monaghan became employed full time at the post office. Since he started, he has had three routes. His current route is a long one. “It is 64 miles a day, 500 customers. It starts in Hugo on Goodview (Avenue) and I go all way up to Square Lake,” he SEE MONAGHAN, PAGE 16
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