By Aaron Sapp
At the end of every school year Mini-School has an evening where we celebrate the year, the program, and the achievements of the students. Many awards are given out, some serious and some just for fun. Some of them are: Pest, Best Trippers, Best Canoers, Now You See Them, Now You Don’t, Wish You Were Here Longer.
There is also a guest speaker at Recognition Night. Last year it was Dr. Donald Draayer, former superintendent of Minnesota Schools. He talked about how education is important and graduation and moving on.
Some of the winners for some of the awards were: Chatterbox-Geoff Boller, Heather Trowbridge; Pest-Aaron Hoerst, Carrie Tiggas; Trip Cook-Aaron Sapp; Nicest Kids- Trevor Scott, La’Kaysa Bollig.
Some very special kids even graduated. Tony “Hondo” Cruikshank, Tony Kohman, Maya Diedrich, Mike Ennis, Mike Phelps, Mike McGinn, Tanya Schierman, Lenny Weisner, Dan Voaklander, and many more.
To end the night we had a slide show from trips that went out over the years. Pictures of students, teachers, The Grand Canyon, Buffalo River, BWCA, Montana, Utah. We then ate cake, drank juice and said our farewells until next time.