DASSEL-COKATO, MN - Samuel Robert Kampa, a recent graduate from Dassel-Cokato High School is one of 10 national first-place winners of Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation’s 2009 Holocaust Remembrance Project Essay Contest, reported KLFD Radio.
Kampa and the other finalists have joined six Holocaust survivors and several educators this week to learn about the Holocaust for a 4-day all-expenses paid trip to Chicago.
This year marks the 15th year that Holland & Knight has sponsored the Holocaust Remembrance Project Essay, which this year had over 7,000 essay submissions. The Holocaust Remembrance Project is an educational program that serves to encourage and promote the study of the Holocaust as a living memorial to the millions of victims of the Holocaust.
Kampa and the other nine first-place winners are visiting the new Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, and other related memorials, as well as participating in intense seminars and testimony with historians and survivors.
The trip to Chicago also includes a reception with a survivor of the Rwanda genocide and private testimonials from six Holocaust survivors. Additionally, each student will receive scholarships up to $10,000 for college at the annual awards luncheon held at today at The Standard Club of Chicago.
Kampa’s interest in the Holocaust was sparked after meeting a survivor. In the fall, he will be attending Bethel University and plans to double major in Vocal Performance and English Literature & Writing. While in high school, he was very involved in community service, volunteering in several civic organizations including Meals on Wheels, Red Cross Bloodmobile, Compassion International and Operation Christmas Child. Kampa was also an active member of the National Honor Society where he participated in many other local charity efforts.
LITCHFIELD, MN - The new 75,000 square foot Meeker County Memorial Hospital expansion will be ready for patient use starting Monday.
“It’s a really exciting time for us,” said Lori Rice, hospital education and marketing coordinator.
Patients and visitors can begin using the south entrance of the new expansion today (Monday) with admitting being moved that day.
Doors to the old entrance will be closed starting Tuesday, June 30.
By Wednesday, July 1 all areas will be moved over to the new expansion, Rice said.
Beginning July 6, the hospital will begin remodeling the business office, gift shop, and chapel to be completed in the early fall, according to Rice.
The old building will still be used for expanding out-patient services, Rice said.
Dassel and Cokato post offices will close early Friday, July 3; although regular mail delivery for that day will be unaffected by the change.
However, the Darwin and Litchfield post offices both feature regular office hours:
• Darwin will be open from 7:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., except over the lunch hour, when it will be closed for one hour.
• Litchfield will be open all day from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Continue reading ‘DC post offices to close at noon Friday, July 3′
DASSEL, MN - The Dassel Area Historical Society is sponsoring musical entertainment by the Meeker McLeod String Quartet at the Mushroom Building tonight beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Refreshments will be served by Wells Fargo Bank of Dassel.
DASSEL, MN – Dassel Evangelical Covenant Church will host an ice cream social Friday,
June 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. serving Bridgeman’s ice cream. Recipes from the
new cookbook will be offered.
Proceeds will benefit Missions 2010.
Local businesses may wish to take advantage of a loan program being offered by the Small Business Administration (SBA) as part of the federal government’s Recovery Act Programs. Continue reading ‘Businesses may take advantage of SBA loan’
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