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Detroit Lakes fifth-graders raise $2,127 in Walk for Wadena
(November 24, 2010 -- Detroit Lakes, MN)  Every day last week, most of the fifth graders at Roosevelt Elementary School in Detroit Lakes (Jerry Hanson, principal) walked or ran a mile over their lunch hour to raise money for Wadena-Deer Creek High School.
 
After Pam Kruger’s class read the book, “Walk for a Cause,” some started to ask if they could walk for their own cause.
 
“I said I’d help, but you will have to do the work,” Kruger said, who is a Title 1 teacher at Roosevelt Elementary. And so they did.
 
Spearheading the “Walk for Wadena” fund-raiser were Katrina Okeson and Alexis Carlson, two quiet-spoken fifth-graders with hearts as big as Texas .  For almost two weeks, Okeson and Carlson came to school early, and used their lunchtime to organize the event.
 

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