Union of Youth

The Eight Annual Lighten-Up Carleton Garage Sale was a giant success this year. The fundraiser, hosted and co-organized by Carleton’s ACT Center and benefiting The Key, Project Friendship, and Northfield Special Olympics, raised over $15,000 this year. This is about a $3,000 increase from the previous year. The event ran especially smooth this year, especially the days of the sale. The benefiting organizations and ACT were involved in every aspect of the event, from gathering and setup to pricing to running the sale to tear down. A big thanks to Connie Neubel and Kathy Lansing for their wonderful help and to the ACT Center (thanks Laura, Amber, Toby, and others) for being such a wonderful help this year. And of course, this being the Key’s website, one must not forget to thank the absolutely tireless efforts of the current and past Youth Board and members of the Adult Board who put in so much time and effort to make this a success. You guys were wonderful this year. To see a large quantity of pictures from the sale, please click here.

A boy and his father roam the Southeast United States after an unnamed catastrophe renders most life useless and dead. The surviving humans live as scavengers and/or cannibals just to stay alive. This is the basic premise of the new Cormac McCarthy book that has been selected by Book Club. Although bleak in tone and coarse in writing, this book brings up many important issues and questions that human kind has been struggling with for hundreds of years. Is this the book of the year? Well, it did win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But most importantly, this seems to be the book that gets kids who don’t read, to (re)start reading. It is that powerful and highly recommended. Read to page 175 for Monday June 23rd.

Funding for the Minnesota After-School Community Learning program is provided by the Minnesota Department of Education and further funding by the Office of Justice Youth Intervention Program.

Carleton’s out, and you know what that means! They leave all of their crap behind.

What you will find at the Carleton Garage Sale is the finest of the fine, and most definitely cheap. But not only do you find good bargains, you also help some of your favorite organizations, which consist of Project Friendship, Special Olympics, and, yours truly, The NUY. We have worked diligently with ACT for weeks, organizing all of these glorious left-behinds, so come and visit, and be sure to stake your place in line if you come Thursday morning!

On June 4th, the NUY Youth Board voted on its new board, including President and VP. And here they are: (top row left to right) Nolan Byhre, Andi Sison, Allie Lane, Hattie Ryan, Mackenzie O’ Connell, Ruth Amerman, Gabrielle Sacha, Max Jennings, Monica Cooper, Jake Mulford, Adam Mousel, Erika Velasquez, Addy Payne, (bottom row left to right) Josh Wood, Kathleen Pender, Caitlin Ruppel, Molly DeMann. Ruth Amerman is the new President and Mackenzie O’ Connell is the new Vice.

Those interested in working with Northfield youth encouraged to apply!

Questions? Call HCI at 507-664-3524 or the contacts listed on the descriptions.
Northfield Middle School Northfield Union of Youth

Well established teen creative writing program seeks mentor/instructor comfortable with spontaneous, youth-generated, adult-guided format. Responsibilities include recruiting writers, teaching one class per week, planning end-of-year public reading. Must be willing to provide writing samples. The position is from September 2008 until June 2009, pays $25 an hour, and has a 2 to 4 hr. weekly commitment.

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If you have any questions please email the above address.

Once again, congratulations seniors. It must have been a hot muggy experience sitting, surrounded by all those people. A big high five to Sam Dunnewold (I wish I had a picture) of his amazingly biting and comical speech to the seniors. I’m sure the administration loved it!