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Scandia students embrace Martin Luther King Jr. Day

In an effort to promote a more peaceful and equitable world, Scandia Elementary students in Laura Frericks’s third grade class participated in activities surrounding Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 17. Students watched a video about Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and why he wanted to see change in the world, while also diving into how to make that change in a peaceful and nonviolent manner. Frericks’s class then participated in writing their own “I have a dream” statements for three separate areas: country, community and world.

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Katherine Upchurch

Katherine Upchurch, age 78, of Wyoming, died peacefully on February 20, 2017, surrounded by family. Preceded in death by her parents, John and Clara Premo; son, John Goodale; brother, Donald Premo; and sister, Lois Sparks. She is survived by her sons, Marty (Michele) Goodale, Jeffrey (Audrey) Goodale; grandchildren, John Richard, Crystal, Danielle, Erin, Jamen, Heather, Matthew; siblings, John Premo, Mary Roberts, Michael Premo, Susan Masters, and Debbie McEathron.
Private family services will be held. Online condolences may be made at www.mattsonfuneralhome.com. Cards and memorials may be directed to Mattson Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 343 N. Shore Drive, Forest Lake, MN 55025.

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‘The Little Woods Runner’

A local grandmother’s ambitious endeavor to facilitate her granddaughter’s love of nature has since turned into a Caldecott-nominated children’s book titled “The Little Woods Runner.”
Colleen Barksdale, whose first literary endeavor was an autobiography titled “Nakedness: Covered in Blood,” is a retired Minneapolis teacher and current Forest Lake resident. She and her husband often host their four grandchildren at their country home. One of those children in particular, Dajahnae, loved nothing more than to stomp through the woods during her many visits to the Barksdale home.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“At first, we were a little shocked because Dajahnae was a city girl with very little nature experience, but every time her grandpa asked what she wanted to do, she begged to run in the woods,” Barksdale said.
Eventually, spring time came around and Barksdale knew that the woods would be too overgrown and full of ticks come summer and Dajahnae’s running through the woods would have

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A life-saving honor

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Wyoming Police Sgt. Lance Beardsley (pictured with Wyoming Director of Public Safety Paul Hoppe, left, and Minnesota State Patrol Col. Matt Langer, right) was honored Feb. 9 at a state patrol ceremony in Vadnais Heights with a life-saving award for a June 22, 2016, incident in which he saved a suicidal man from jumping off the Viking Boulevard bridge into oncoming traffic on Interstate Highway 35. According to police, the man was preparing to jump as Beardsley spoke to him and tried to coax him away from the edge of the bridge. When the man made an attempt to leap off the bridge, Beardsley lunged toward him, grabbed him and prevented him from jumping.

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