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Linwood third graders experience Finland through cultural exchange

Third grade students from Linwood Elementary School are getting to know what life would be like if they lived in Finland. They are participating in a year-long cultural exchange with a third grade class at Aittakorpi Elementary School in Kotka, Finland.
During the school year, both third grade classes will learn about students in Finland through exchanging boxes of items, including art projects, representing their country and state. They will also send emails and possibly video chat.
Sue Mullen, one of the third grade teachers at Linwood, said her classes are already collecting items to send.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“One student immediately checked out books on Finland and began practicing some Finnish words,” she said in a press release. “They are very excited!”
To kick off the exchange, Finnish school principal Pekka Posti and three of his teachers, Ville Vahvanen, Anni Rantanen, and Maija Kuitunen, visited Linwood Elementary on Oct. 26 to see the school and classrooms.

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Diamond Find fights to stay open

Photo by Ryan Howard Brian Patterson hard at work in Diamond Find, his longtime jewelry business at The Plaza in Forest Lake.
In the early morning hours of Oct. 16, burglars forced their way into The Plaza building next to Lakeside Memorial Park. Scaling the stairs, they broke the lock on the door to longtime jeweler Diamond Find, pried open the display case, and grabbed as many pieces of jewelry as they could quickly get their hands on before dashing out of the building once again. In all, they grabbed about 300 to 400 pieces, costing the business, after insurance, about $54,000.
“They were in and out in less than a minute,” Diamond Find owner Brian Patterson said.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Now, the jeweler has launched a GoFundMe campaign in an attempt to stay open, as the burglary came around the same time as he learned that The Plaza owner Gaughan planned to use his current

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