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Standing ovation for Mayor Anderson |
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
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It was a standing ovation for Wyoming Mayor Sheldon Anderson who was a special guest at the March 6 ISD 831 School Board meeting. Anderson was honored for his Extreme Fund-Raising effort and week-long stay on the roof of the Wyoming City Hall that raised $35,000 in public donations to keep the Community Education Forest Lake Teen Center open. Anderson was honored with a plaque presented by Julie Ohman, director of community education. “We needed a champion,” Ohman said. “We are so, so grateful.” Anderson said he became a backer last year of the program that serves junior high students in an after-school facility at the Central Learning Center after learning that it faced financial troubles. Anderson said he has a passion for such programs. As a kid, he said he was a youth who could have benefitted. “I was one of those kids who didn’t want to go home,” Anderson said. He teamed with Kathy Bystrom, youth development coordinator for Community Education, to pull off the successful fund-raiser.
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