By Suzanne Ward In March, at 11:00 a.m., a group of 7 students and 2 teachers left from Minnetonka to go to Ironwood, Michigan, for a week of skiing. The people that went on the trip were: Randy Nelson, Joe Komarek, Trish McGuire, Amber Nustad, Suzanne Ward, Derek Benson, Matt McCrady, Vince Moreno, and Rhett … [Read more…]
By Derek Benson and Matt McCrady On the 27th of February, eight brave, strong Mini-School men set forward on a winter camping trip to the Boundary Waters. This outstanding group was composed of: Aaron Vick, Matt McCrady, “Bonzai” Scott MacKinnan, Heather “Growler” Holste, Derek “Hopkins” Benson, Chris “Odie” O’Dell, Rob “Stundy” Stundahl, and Doug Berg. … [Read more…]
By Herman the Mouse: alias Tracey Wasson Hi there! I’m Herman the Mouse. I live in the Mini-School storeroom and from time to time I go out on a trip with Big D and some of the Mini-School kids. I just got back from a canoe trip down the Namekagon and St. Croix Rivers. I … [Read more…]
The Great Mini-School Isle Royale Trip By Maud Clawson and Jeff Jambeck Beauty and adventure – Isle Royale! Doug, J.J., Howdy Doty, Shelli Arnold, Jeff Jambeck, Dave Macfarlane, Eric Boettcher, Eric Cobb, Hillary Williams, and I, Meredith Clawsen (Maud) woke up Wednesday morning (Sept. 17th) at Judge C. R. Magney State Park, near Grand Portage, … [Read more…]
Michigan in Winter By Sandy Lambrecht This is a “late” trip article. The trip went out last quarter and didn’t get written about and seeing how it was such a good trip, we thought we’d get it in this issue. The trip was a downhill skiing trip in Upper Michigan with a cultural study … [Read more…]
The Omni Theater By Andy Lippler I went to the Omni Theater (at the Science Museum of Minnesota) with Mini-School on Tuesday, May 12. I got a ride with Brett Brooks. We got lost on the way out there. We went almost to the border of Wisconsin until we finally realized we were lost. … [Read more…]
The “New Zoo” By Roger Anderson On Tuesday, May 19, Mini-School went to the Minnesota Zoological Gardens for the entire school day. Once we got there, everyone got together and headed for the entrance. It was free day and so all we had to pay was $1.00 for parking. The third Tuesday of every … [Read more…]
The Women’s Rum River Express Canoe Trip Mini-School’s first all women’s canoe trip took place May 5-8. We paddled sixty miles on the Rum River from Princeton to St. Francis. Lester and Joanne were the fearless leaders. Student participants were: Nancy Wachs, Kelly Donahue, Mary Nehring, Lori Johnson, Sandy Borth, Cindy Anderson, Sue Vold, Andrea … [Read more…]
Appalachia – Big Smoky Mtns By Jeff Kinzer Persons involved: Doug Berg, Joanne Elliott-Storlie, and the students: Marty Cook, Dave Scott, Tim Scott, Lynn Parkhurst, Tami Gerhard, Lisa Hastings, Kirk LeBlanc and Jeff Kinzer. We left at 3:15 Wednesday, April 8. We had planned to drive 15 plus hours to Mammoth Cave in Southern … [Read more…]
By Julie Maynard Our trip to the north woods was great. It was probably the ultimate in anything I have ever done in my whole life! The people who went were Eric Child, Chris Child, Tom Zipf, Rebo (Gary Johnson), Scott McPherson, Kevin Schierman, Rick Geyen, Kelly Martin, Doug, Randy, Spot, and I. We left … [Read more…]