| Scoring goals for charity
There's more to this event, however, than meets the eye. CSV put on the tournament to raise money and awareness for the Campus School, often heralded as the best-kept secret on campus. The Campus School serves roughly 40 students ages 6 to 21 in grades kindergarten through 12 with a variety of special physical needs.
With over a 100 general volunteers and committee chair members, CSV is one of the largest volunteer groups on campus.
The Broom Hockey Tournament is the first of three major tournaments that CSV holds in the spring. While the other two, the golf tournament and collections from sponsors for runners of the Boston Marathon, tend to bring in more money, the Broom Hockey Tournament is considered to be the most fun.
Jake Pacific, A&S 07 and co-captain of The Defenders of Faith broom hockey team, participated in the tournament for his first time last year along with me and other members of our Perspectives III class.
North St. Paul / Cards of every kind
Fantasies. Diseases. Wars. Holidays. They're memorialized on postcards, and Jerry Peterson's passion is selling these garage-sale pieces of history. BY MATT PEIKEN Pioneer Press If you were to rummage through your basement, clean, organize and price everything and cast the room with the bright white of fluorescent light, you might wind up with a replica of Jerry Peterson's store. The eye candy at the Seventh Avenue Antique Mall in North St. Paul begins in the front display window, where a fuzzy gorilla reclines on a brocade chaise lounge, and extends inside to shelves of boxed-up Barbies, faded board games connected to "The Brady Bunch" and "All in the Family" and framed images of Jesus bearing prominent labels in felt pen identifying each as a "religious picture." It's easy to overlook the dozens of blue binders and long white cardboard boxes that house the store's most distinctive contents.
Old is new at antique show in the Bone
As jazz and blues from the 1920s swelled through the air, people from all over Illinois, as well as surrounding states, took a look at furniture, toys, jewelry and other items from time periods long, or sometimes short, passed.
"It's a two day antique show that is organized as a benefit for the School of Communication and WGLT, which is the public radio station affiliated with ISU," Bruce Bergethon, general manager of WGLT radio, said.
In its third year at the Bone Student Center, the antique is still spreading popularity over the state but is avidly attended by many.
"There are people selling all kinds of things," Bergethon said. "Items range from very small pieces of jewelry to very large pieces of furniture."
The money becomes an asset to the School of Communication, as well as the radio station.
Late Bloomer: Sam McMillan worked a lot of different jobs before ...
When Sam McMillan turned 65, the age when many Americans retire, he was in the early stages of a promising new career. Until the late 1980s he had been employed as a farmer, machinist, tobacco-warehouse worker, bartender, chauffeur, security guard, groundskeeper and furniture craftsman. Then, in response to a suggestion from an employer, he tried his hand at painting. Although he had never taken an art course, McMillan began to paint fanciful scenes of animals, people and landscapes on tables, chairs, desks, lampshades, clothing and other secondhand objects. The style was loose and rudimentary, almost childlike, and the colors were usually bright. Within a few years, McMillan's decorated furniture and other hand-painted objects were eagerly bought by folk-art collectors from all over the country.
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