We attended the fund raiser for Meadow Creek Christian School last night. They have a silent auction of donated items, you could buy anything from Wild tickets to baskets for presents. There was easily 400 different items to bid on. The items made by specific classes were always bid very high as each parent wanted to bring home what their child had made. My favortie was the scrabble board with everyone's name on it. We didn't win any bids.
After that we had dinner and updates on the capital campaign for the new building. Sounds like they are almost ready to start building on the land they bought in Andover, MN. The city has already apprived the plan for the lot at 161st and Tulip.
Sweetwater Revival performed while we ate our meals. They are 4 lady singers that sing original gospel music. They did a great job.
After dinner they do a live auction on 12 items that range from rock climbing with a couple of teachers, to a condo in Florida for a week. Everyone enjoyed the evening and a lot of money was raised. Last year they were able to purchase Mac books and projectors for the class rooms.
Hopefully we can raise enough money to start building the new school soon!
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After watching New Life Academy almost knock off Southwest Christian in their sub section final, the Meadow Creek Christian School girls volleyball team took the court against Heritage Christian. We were expecting to win coming in as the #1 seed and having beat them earlier this year. The Heritage team had a different plan though. After MCCS took an early lead in game one, they quickly found themselves in big trouble, down 23-17. Rolly called a timeout and Kelly Strandland rotation to serve was up. MCCs then rattled off the next 8 points to win 25-23. Heritage was not to be denied yet though as they came back to win game 2 25-19. The MCCS girls decided to take it to Heritage in game 3 winning decisively 25-7.
Heritage never gave up and survived several match points in game 4 before winning 29-27. The crowd was going wild on both sides at this point. Game 5 here we we come! Meadow Creek took an early advantage and never looked back in this game winning 15-4. Senior captain Tija Rudzitis had many blocks and made it clear this wouldn't be her last varsity game. Captain Lauren Sutherland also had a great match.
Here is the link in the Star Tribune showing their record.
http://preps.startribune.com/teamschedule.php?yid=0809&tid=1714
On to the section finals now against Southwest Christian who won the battle for the paddle earlier this season against MCCS. Stop by Minnehaha Academy Saturday at 1 to see how this match turns out. Winner goes to State!
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Wow, the 3 legged milk stool award goes to the Hanson Blvd construction team. The project was originally slated to start last spring and be done not long after the bridge over 10 was done. That project was done by July 07 but the Hanson Blvd road widening project hadn't even started yet. After enduring 6 months of Hanson being closed last year we thought the end was near. No such luck however as the intersections with County 14 (242) and Bunker had yet to be started.
I have watched a lot of construction projects over the years and you can normally see the pace and get a rough idea of how long it will take. All summer long we drove on new lanes but traffic crawled while only half of the road could be used. Little progress was seen and hardly any work seemed to be happening. One day they work on a small section. Three weeks later they might work on another section.
The ribbon cutting ceremony was held on October 9th but the road was not fully opened to traffic until last weekend. Even now, they are working at a snails pace to paint the lines on the road. Any way we are thankful the road is now open to traffic as it certainly helps in speed and safety.
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The fall colors were spectacular this year in Coon Rapids. I added a few pictures below to show you some of what I saw on our walk today through Bunker Hills Regional Park and the Oaks of Shenandoah. We walked through the new tunnel under Hanson Blvd and over to the new tunnel under the railroad tracks and through the golf course. They still have it closed at the tracks but we walked on around anyway. The trail map is below the pictures.
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Who said the market is slow? Certainly not in Elk River right now. On one street with 20 new townhomes that all went back to the bank, there are currently 11 pending sales. That is unheard even in the best of times. Granted these homes are selling at about 60% of their value when built, but we are really seeing homes sell fast here. I know this is a very small micro market and this does not signify anything huge but, I think this may by a sign of a bottoming out. This also may be another reason to oppose the bailout as the free market seems to be working fine.
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