By Zorina Anderson (Ramona) The School year is coming to a close so I get my mommy back for a little while. My brother, Zachary, started this tradition of writing a Meandering so I had to rise to the challenge as well. My mommy, Ramona, says that school has been a very interesting and stretching … [Read more…]
By Doug Berg Mini-School is struggling through this wimpy El Nino winter the best we can. In early January Joe Juranitch and I and 8 of the top calendar salespeople took a nice trip to Two Harbors and Ely. It really wasn’t planned as a winter activities trip, but a nice snowfall, the first significant … [Read more…]
By Doug Berg Year 28 of Mini-School is underway! Randy and I started this program in 1970. Along the with other Mini-School founders Pete Hegrenes and Leo Razidlo, we set a clear, definite mission- to provide a meaningful education for high school kids who weren’t getting that education in mainstream high school. Fulfilling that mission … [Read more…]
By Ramona Anderson The 27th year of Mini School is coming to a close. The staff and students are looking forward to summer coming and seeing students complete their high school careers. Seniors that are close to graduating are feeling pushed, and pulled, to get work finished and credit earned in order to graduate on … [Read more…]
By Doug Berg and Randy Nelson Second Semester is well underway and Mini-School is busy with its Trips Program. It has been a good winter with abundant snow and Mini-Schoolers have taken advantage of it. Justin Streeter, Joe Molland, Austin Manship, Chris Wegler, Maya Diedrich and Joanne accompanied me (Doug) on a Winter Activities trip, … [Read more…]
By Randy Nelson Since this issue is following so closely on the heels of the fall issue of C-M-C, there is not too much to report in Meanderings. The staff is working furiously to work through the holiday mentality — with only three weeks between Thanksgiving and the holiday break, this mentality seems to have … [Read more…]
By Doug Berg Year 27 of the Mini-School Program has been characterized by the addition of 25 new kids to the program, 2 real successful trips during some of the finest autumn weather we’ve ever had, an air of enthusiasm and seriousness about Mini-School classes and projects, and a terrific kickoff to the calendar drive. … [Read more…]
By Joanne Johnston Go fly a kite! The kids just came in from the baseball field, where I was taking pictures of them flying their “final kites”—the kites they built as part of Ramona’s math class. The kites had to fly and the kids had to do the trigonometry to receive credit for the two-week … [Read more…]
By Randy Nelson Winter is moving along and soon the indoor soccer season, downhill skiing, and winter camping will give way to canoeing, bicycling, outdoor soccer. Doug Berg had his best time ever in the Mora Vasaloppet and is in the final preparations for the North American Birkebeiner…and following his annual foray into the Boundary … [Read more…]
Meandering through Mini-School By Doug Berg We are into year 26 of Mini – School! As most of you know, Randy and I have been involved with Mini-School since the beginning. Either because of our increasing ages or because of the fact that 25 years is a long time to be involved with anything, … [Read more…]