By Tony Bernatz The northern bike trip bikers were Antonio, Tony, Jill, Bill, Katie, Glowman, Gumby, Sam, and Randy. Our campsite was in the middle of mosquitoville. We rode our bikes toward Indian History Monument, which we found out was closed down. Tony was tempted to play a little at Grand Casino. On the way … [Read more…]
By Tom McKinney On the night of December 16, 1992 most of Mini-School met at Perkins for a night of laughs. We were off to Dudley Riggs Brave New Workshop. The group consisted of Brandon “Vito” Marcacinni, Brian “Youngun” Nelson, Tiffany Penbera, Terry Vincent, Jesse Walker, Stacey Vetvick, Joshua Stinson, Josh Rockstad, Chris “Glowman” Glowaski, … [Read more…]
By Elliot Tan and Keith “Puglsey” Bartram As in any trip, there are always a couple of lonely and brave souls who volunteer to take the “sweep” position, that is, the rear, (notice the stale stench of sarcasm?) On this wilderness venture, we were the sweepers for most part. When we arrived at the trail … [Read more…]
By David Zytkoskee On December 18th, the last day of school before holiday vacation, we loaded up the cars for the farthest reaches of the galaxy, farther than the Enterprise, farther than Star Wars, we went to Aqua Bowl! OK, so we only went a couple of miles but at any rate we got there. … [Read more…]
By Melissa Stahl Lately not many trips have been going out, but starting in February that will all turn around. This is one of the busiest times of the season for Mini-School to send out trips based on winter type activities. Coming up first—February 2-5 Doug will be taking a group of Mini-Schoolers on the … [Read more…]
By Chris Bagdons Everything is decided by the spear. That was true on the second part of the Mark Warren experience. When we (the second group,) got up to Doug’s cabin, our first task was to start a fire that the first group let die for some strange reason. Terry Vincent, (the fire chief), did … [Read more…]
By Karen Kenefick Picture this: It’s 5:45 on a very cold morning. Ten students carrying huge bags are standing around freezing in the Perkins parking lot and they paid fifty dollars to be there. What is wrong with these people, you might ask? Well, I’ll tell you. These people are about to embark on a … [Read more…]
By Jenny Case Even though only four students showed up, this years Rake-a-thon was still a success. We raked the lawn of 88 year old Alida Goldschmidt at 662 Pleasant Street in Excelsior. She has resided there for the past 60 years and is planning to sell before next fall. This is the second year … [Read more…]
By Keith Bartram On October 23, Pat Cretan, Rich Benavides, Chris Bagdons, Keith Bartram, Josh Hendrickson, Alfred E. Wright, Matt McCrady, Matt Richards, Josh Kilen, Jesse Walker, Jesse Carlson, Dave Zytkoskee, Brian Nelson, and Douglas Berg took leave from MHS at 7 a.m., set for a day of unexpected surprises. Now with most of us … [Read more…]
By Karen Kenefick 6:50 A.M. the Women’s Issues group met at the High School the day of the Crow River Canoe trip. After Lester, Joanne, Jenny Case, Sharon Korzendorfer, Ronilyn Rasmussen, Valerie Raihl and Karen Kenefick (me) were all accounted for we jumped in Joanne’s and Lester’s cars and headed for Dawn’s house. After about … [Read more…]