Posted: 5/12/04

Sheriff honors youth for rescue effort

Meghan Grandahl, a 16-year-old from Wyoming, was called a hero last week by Chisago County Sheriff Todd Rivard. Grandahl earned that title April 23 after she located a 2-year-old Anoka girl who had wandered away from a pre-school field trip group in Wyoming. Grandahl works at Pinehaven Farm and cares for the children of the farm owners. She joined the search party shortly after it began looking. The youth found the child sleeping under a pine tree more than a mile from her original starting point. The search lasted more than two hours. Sgt. Karl Schrek, the Chisago County deputy on the scene at the time, thanked Grandahl and expressed the gratitude of the department during a brief ceremony in the Chisago County Sheriffís Office. ó Barbara Brown, ECM Post Review

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