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Make a difference in your community, state, country, and world at the Soaring Eagles 4-H Club’s One Stop Donation Drop. This event will support over 20 non-profit organizations on Nov. 19 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Scandia Community Center.
“We are having the One Stop Donation Drop on Family Volunteer Day, a national day of service that encourages everyone to work together to support their community,” Soaring Eagles 4-H Club President Sophia Nienaber said in a press release. “Our service fair has lots of ways to help those locally, in Minnesota, and throughout the world. It’s going to be a great way for the public and 4-Hers to start the holiday season. All of the activities, games, food, and collections support the non-profits.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
Volunteering is a great way for youth and adults to develop compassion for those in need; meet their neighbors; and perhaps learn a new skill. At

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An editorial from the ECM Editorial Board:
Our recent election will undoubtedly go down as one of the most bizarre presidential contests in our nation’s history.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Election Day was a surprising climax to a contest that wound a tortuous course over the past 20 months. It was the biggest upset in a presidential contest in seven decades.
While former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been virtually anointed by party leaders as the Democratic “Presidential nominee in waiting” long before her announcement in April of 2015, few considered Donald Trump to be a front runner among the 17 Republican presidential candidates when he became a candidate in June of 2015.
When Republicans and Democrats attended their respective precinct caucuses in Minnesota on March 1 of this year they voted for their presidential choice. Donald Trump finished a distant third behind Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz among Republicans. In what likely was a warning of

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Submitted photoJalen “JP” Ponto stands next to one of the adaptive wheelchairs he was able to purchase through his garage sale fundraiser. In total, his efforts produced three chairs that were donated to the Courage Kenny Camp Courage in Golden Valley.
It all started last fall during a WE Day event that Jalen Ponto attended with his mother Andrea.
WE Day is an event meant to empower and motivate youth to take action on local and global issues. WE Day events feature speeches and performances by global leaders, social activists and public figures.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“We walked away from the event, and Jalen was inspired to do something great,” Andrea Ponto said. “As his mom, I wanted him to find something he was passionate about and try and do a great thing that was important to him personally.”
After some family discussions, the Pontos decided that Jalen, a seventh-grader at Century Junior High in Forest Lake,

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Terry Traver
Scandia Reporterbroadstreet.zone(48036);
The Nov. 2 Scandia City Council work session consisted of discussion of operating budgets for 2017, a potential job offer to a Public Works director candidate, the city dog ordinance, its no-parking ordinance, a road right of way maintenance policy and the value to the city of the Fire Department’s scuba and dive team.
Budgets
Discussions surrounding 2017 budgets began with a presentation to the council from Fire Chief Mike Hinz concerning his department’s projected budget needs. Council Member Dan Lee questioned the expenditure of approximately $5,000 annually for a Fire Department dive team, saying, “Washington County handles the large majority of water rescue and recovery.” Hinz said that Scandia Fire has a mutual aid agreement with other jurisdictions, including Washington County. The council also started preliminary discussions on budgets for parks, public works, the equipment replacement fund, the local road improvement fund and both sewer funds.
Public works director
City Administrator

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