Monday, July 18, 2011

Community Education an Important Southwest Tradition

southwest Community Education Super Summer Program have had an average of 1,150 Minneapolis children involved in our weekly Southwest Super Summer Program (about 7,100 total for the summer).
We have employed about 180 high school and college students to work for us (about 125 of them are either SWHS students or graduates of SWHS)
Noteworthy classes that area extremely popular & well-received include our middle-school "Trek" environmental program, our horse-back riding class,
Geo-caching, Red Cross Baby-sitting class, Lego Robotics and many of our sport classes.

The SW Community Education Advisory Council sponsored its 33rd annual Midnight-to-Dawn Metro Bike Tour Saturday, July 16. We had 175 riders that enjoyed an evening ride through portions of Mpls, Edina, Richfield and St. Paul. Members of the Council as well as Super Summer Program staff volunteered to cook a fresh gourmet breakfast for everyone at dawn at Beard's Plaisance (the picnic area near 46th & Upton on the west side of Lake Harriet). Highlights of the evening included rest stops/snacks at "Mel-o-Glaze" donuts on 28th Ave. S. & Minnehaha Parkway and "Grand Ol' Creamery" ice cream shop on Grand Ave. in St. Paul. The ride went off without a hitch, and we're looking forward to next year's ride on July 10, 2012!

Tom Neiman
SW Community Education Director

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