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moving & growing BY SUE WEBBER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Volunteers are an integral part of the senior citizen organizations in suburbs around the Twin Cities. In Eagan, the Eagan 55 plus/Senior volunteers contributed a total of 4,479 volunteer hours during 2013, according to Loudi Rivamonte, coordinator of that city’s 55 plus/Seniors program. “These hours helped support community-wide events, programs and activities for the 55 plus/Seniors,” Rivamonte said. In 2013, a total of 6,179 participants Burnsville resident Wanda Trousil has been an active volunteer at that city’s Senior Center since visited the Lone Oak Room at the Ea2000. She is a member of the center’s advisory council, fills in as the front-desk receptionist gan Senior Center, and 10,797 particiseveral times a week and also works in the library. (Photo by Tad Johnson) pants attended Eagan 55 plus/Senior programs. Now, there are 28 Lone Oak Room Host volunteers and many others who volunteer for special events and activities. “Without volunteers, these numbers would be difficult to attain,” Rivamonte observed. Joyce Swedean, chair of the Eagan 55 plus/Senior program’s 10-member board of directors, is one of the people who is busy helping to plan senior trips, picnics on the patio with entertainment and games, holiday parties, pizza parties and market fest. “We’re quite busy; we have more than 400 members,” Swedean said. “We’re doing some city things, too. It’s a good organization. Loudi [Rivamonte] helps a lot with planning and making sure things don’t overlap.” Swedean said she began looking for a new volunteer activity after she retired from a 30-year career with Lutheran Members of the Eagan 55 plus/Senior board of directors are, from left, Jerry Spinner, Margaret Brotherhood. Miller, Marianne Fletcher, Joyce Swedean, Jackie Buhta, Eileen Theroux and Marilyn Deviley. Not “I did volunteer church work, then pictured: Margo Danner. (Submitted photo by Al Kiecker) I worked full-time for a church school

in Richfield, retired again, and now I’m working part-time with Edina Realty,” she said. Swedean, a 22-year resident of Eagan, said she grew up in Richfield, where her parents both volunteered and were active at church. “I learned volunteering from them,” she said. “I like to volunteer. I’ve met a lot of people. When you’re getting paid for a job, you have to do it. When you volunteer, you don’t have to do it; you do it because you want to.” Swedean would like to get more seniors involved in volunteering, though she acknowledges that some in their early 60s are still working. “Once they get involved in volunteer work, they really enjoy it,” she said. “It helps to keep active. You’re thinking about things. And there’s a lot of fellowship.” Her volunteering isn’t an everyday thing, but Swedean said she spends a lot of time at the Eagan Senior Center. “I’m enjoying myself,” she said. “I’m enjoying the companionship of other seniors.” In Burnsville, Wanda Trousil, a resident of that city since 1992, has been an active volunteer at that city’s Senior Center since 2000. “I enjoy it,” she said. “It’s very satisfying. I feel like I’m helping people.” Trousil is a member of the center’s advisory council, fills in as the front-desk receptionist several times a week and also works in the library. She’s the second vice president for the Fun and Friendship group, which fixes meals twice a month and volunteers at the bake sales. “I love to help out at the Burnsville ice MOVING - TO PAGE 5

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Bloomington volunteers devote hours to homeless teens BY SUE WEBBER CONTRIBUTING WRITER It all started about seven years ago, after a series of newspaper stories appeared in the Sun Current about growing suburban poverty. A woman who volunteered with a local food shelf became concerned about the issue and convened a community meeting in Bloomington. Representatives from Heading Home Hennepin were invited. About 60 people attended the meeting, and at the end, they were asked to sign up if they were interested in pursuing solutions to the problem. Leslie Stiles of Bloomington was among those at that meeting, and she, along with eight others, began meeting monthly to study the issue and look at gaps in services. “We wanted to see what regular folks like us could do to make a difference,” Stiles said. “We decided youth homelessness was the place to dig in. It took us a long time to figure out how best to serve the population.” In 2008, the group undertook a oneyear study, networking with existing youth service providers and speaking with various other stakeholders including school administrators, teachers, social workers, personnel from Hennepin County and the State of Minnesota, and youth. A needs assessment study conducted in 2009 confirmed what the group had consistently heard: young people experiencing homelessness and housing instability were everywhere, including the suburbs of Hennepin County, and their numbers were growing. There were no programs targeting youth experiencing homelessness in south Hennepin County, and none of the existing providers in the metro area had the capacity to expand to the suburbs. As a result of their study and determination, the nonprofit Oasis for Youth Drop-In Resource Center opened its doors in 2010 at Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, 2200 West Old Shakopee Road in Bloomington. It serves youth ages 1422 in Bloomington, Edina and Richfield. Stiles, who serves as chair of the ninemember Oasis board and spends hours each day at its headquarters, said, “Great community members have stepped forward and a lot of volunteers have been with us since the very first month.”

Oasis for Youth worked with 189 different young people last year, though they were not all homeless, Stiles said. “There are a wide range of situations,” she said. Young people who come to Oasis for Youth may be referred to a housing program, or they may receive help in figuring out a safe place to stay. Some need help with their resumes. Oasis for Youth has established relationships with local high schools, from which they get referrals via social workers, counselors or word of mouth. The agency is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Drop-in hours are 2-5 p.m.; the rest of the day is by appointment. A meal is served on Tuesday nights to all who show up. Stiles has found that interaction with other volunteers and staff is a key reason why she continues her all-absorbing commitment to youth homelessness. She says she came from a family whose values made sure they were involved in the community and doing whatever they could to make things better. “I came with the knowledge of resources in the Twin Cities and knowing this gap,” Stiles said. “But I think the reason I came to this, and I suspect this is true for most of the founders, is through my faith. Oasis is not a faith-based organization, even though we are housed in a church. All youth are welcome with no barriers. I believe we’re here to love and care for one another in whatever way we can – and in that, we find life’s joy. Many people have worked hard to bring Oasis to where it is today and there is great joy in that. It’s very much a team effort. That’s what keeps me going.” Also, Stiles said, “Some of the stories stick with you. The resiliency of the kids sticks with you. They’re working against tough odds, and we feel blessed to be able to walk with them.” Oasis seeks to keep clients in the community, and encourages them to complete their education. The agency’s first choice is to reunite clients with their families. If that’s not possible, Oasis provides the young people with a close connection to a caring adult. All services are free to youth. Oasis offers a free clothes closet for teens, supplies (for hygiene, school and household), laundry and showers, computers and Internet availability, food and snacks, rides to a food shelf, counseling and legal aid,

job search assistance, tutoring, referrals to housing and county services, case management, and help with goal and transition plans. On-site mental health counseling is provided by Headway, legal aid by Youth Law Project, and health, wellness and parenting support from Bloomington Public Health. Stiles’ sister, Karen McElrath of Edina, also has been part of the initial group that was formed after the community meeting on homelessness. Her expertise has been in the area of fundraising, marketing and event planning. Beginning last fall, McElrath has volunteered once a week at the drop-in center.

“I spend about 8-10 hours a week on Oasis, unless there is an event,” McElrath said. She finds the age group a good fit, since she has two children of her own, ages 19 and 21. “It basically feels fabulous to be part of a community that offers caring support to struggling youth,” McElrath said. “Oasis is much, much more than a faceless agency for the youth. The kids see the same staff and volunteers each week, slowly building relationships and trust. Their lives are not easy and many endure a lot of hardships. These kids are teaching me a thing or two about life.” VOLUNTEERS - TO PAGE 5

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Volunteer work becomes post-retirement career for couple

Shirley, above, and Bob Schon of Plymouth have been longtime volunteers at Northport Elementary School in Brooklyn Center. (Submitted photos) BY SUE WEBBER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Bob Schon began working as a volunteer soon after he retired from a 32-year career with Northwest Airlines in 1990. “I traveled all over the world with the airlines,” he said. “We’ve seen almost every country and all 50 states. Now we’re doing local things. My wife Shirley and I are both 83, and we do most everything together.” The couple, married for 63 years, have volunteered together in Robbinsdale Area Schools and also at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale. “We do some kind of volunteering every day,” Bob said. In the Robbinsdale elementary schools, they started at Meadow Lake, spent a year at New Hope Elementary, went back to Meadow Lake and then to Northport, Schon said. “Since 1993, Bob has been a dedicated volunteer with Robbinsdale Area Schools, touching the hearts and enriching the lives of countless children,” said Jill Kaufman, coordinator of District 281’s Volunteers In Partnership program. “As a reading tutor with young learners who need extra encouragement and support, Bob prepares them for success.” His impact “goes beyond building academic skills,” according to Kaufman. “Bob’s ability to nurture, develop rapport and convey a sense of genuine car-

ing for each student he tutors has a profound impact on young lives,” she said. “It is a joy to see students flock to him when he enters the school.” Shirley Schon is “just as impactful as he is,” Kaufman said. Added Bob, “The kids always call her ‘Mrs. S.’” Though the Schons’ tutoring work has been cut back some for the last two years because of Shirley’s health concerns, they still work with kids in the schools. “This year we did ‘pumpkin math’ at Northport,” Schon said, explaining that fifth-graders at the school start with real pumpkins and are asked to guess 20 things about them, such as weight, size and number of seeds inside. Then they weigh the pumpkins, cut into them and count out the seeds. “We help with Special Persons Day, and also at carnivals,” Schon added. Because the Schons have no children or grandchildren of their own, the schoolchildren they work with have a special impact on the couple, Bob Schon said. “A lot of them have many siblings and may not have grandparents,” he said. “I was kind of like the school grandpa. I’d ask them what they did last week. They’re not used to anyone sitting and listening to their answers. The kids are the greatest. They’ve got a lot of love to give, and we give a lot of love back.” Twice a month, the Schons volunteer at North Ridge Care Center in New

Hope, where they help with bingo. Sometimes they go on daytime bus trips with senior organizations. The two have done pew maintenance at Valley Community Presbyterian Church in Golden Valley for the last 20 years. At North Memorial Medical Center, the Schons have spent the last 18 years working for four hours each Tuesday in the Patient Care Center, where they help the nurses. For Shirley, her favorite volunteer activity is “whatever I’m doing at the time.” Bob also is a volunteer and past local chapter president for AARP and for the Minneapolis North Memorial Medical Center’s Mended Hearts, affiliated with the American Heart Association. After suffering a heart attack and undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery 32 years ago at the age of 51, Schon quit smoking, started exercising and eating healthy foods. Now, as part of the Heart Center Volunteer Program that he created with 11 other people, he visits with hospital patients who have had a heart attack or open-heart surgery. “I’m one of the longest-living patients with a five-way bypass,” Schon said. “I have a positive attitude when I talk to heart patients. I just start talking to them about how important it is to have a positive attitude. They tell me their stories and my calling is to support them.” He spends 90 minutes at Lifetime Fitness in New Hope each morning, Schon

said. The commitment to volunteering wasn’t a value he learned at home, Schon said. His parents were poor and both worked. “There was no time to volunteer,” he said. “They worked through the Depression. They raised chickens and had a big garden and sold what they raised.” He was born at home in Robbinsdale, and his parents paid the doctor with twodozen eggs and two chickens, he said. Bob Schon, who has a degree in business administration from the University of Minnesota, is treasurer of the Heart Club at North Memorial Medical Center. He formerly was on the board for Northwest Hennepin Human Services for six years, and now he serves on the finance committee at the Plymouth cooperative where he and Shirley have lived for the past 12 years. Shirley and Bob met at Robbinsdale High School. “She asked me out at Homecoming in our senior year, and proposed to me three years later,” Bob said. Shirley had a 42-year career at IDS prior to retiring. The Schons have their lives well organized. “We plan our menus by the week,” said Bob, who does much of the cooking. “We have a list every day for where we’re going to go and what time we’ll be leaving.”

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Moving FROM PAGE 1 cream social and Fire Muster,� she said. Trousil said her volunteer career started when she lived in Bloomington and a friend advised her to get involved with the senior center there. “I volunteered to help in the kitchen,� Trousil said. A native of Osakis, Minn., Trousil is the mother of three sons and has two granddaughters, with another expected soon. Growing up, she recalls selling poppies for the American Legion. Later, she helped out at the VFW. “My mother was a great one for telling us we had to give something back,� Trousil said. Now, in addition to giving back, she finds time to exercise three times a week, and also do some reading. Michele Starkey, program coordinator for the Burnsville Senior Center, said Trousil is one of about 230 volunteers at the center, which had 20,000 visits from area senior citizens last year. “Wanda’s got her fingers in a lot of

different things,� Starkey said. “She pops popcorn; she wraps gifts for the Santa to Senior project. She’s one of the people we just couldn’t do without.� Seniors who “hang around and have opinions� are among those chosen to serve on the center’s 15-member advisory council, which meets monthly, according to Starkey. “I put their opinions to work,� Starkey said. “These are people who want to be a little more involved.� Similarly, senior citizens who are interested in getting more involved are those who help out at the reception desk, as Trousil does. Seniors work half a day at a time, once or twice a month, Starkey said, adding that being at the reception desk is a great way for seniors to get an introduction to other activities and “springboard into other things.� “All of these seniors multi-task, and they love it,� Starkey said. “Keeping them busy is part of my job.� For more information, or to become a volunteer: In Eagan, contact Loudi Rivamonte at 651-675-5515, or lrivamonte@cityofeagan.com. In Burnsville, contact Michele Starkey at 952707-4120, or mstarkey@burnsville.k12. mn.us

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Volunteers FROM PAGE 3 Establishing connections with the young people is fulfilling, she said. “It is what keeps me volunteering at Oasis,� McElrath said. Individual donors and churches have

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Columbia Heights Sister Cities Committee maintains Polish ties BY SUE WEBBER CONTRIBUTING WRITER The seeds of Columbia Heights’ Sister City relationship with Lomianki, Poland, were planted 47 years before the partnership was established in 1991. In 1944, a plane of Allied fliers was shot down during the Warsaw uprising, near Lomianki. The brother of a longtime Columbia Heights resident was on that mission. In 1987, the people of Lomianki erected a monument in memory of the American flyers that lost their lives. In 1989, families of the crewmembers were invited to attend the yearly memorial service at the monument. Among the attendees was Bernard Szymczak of Columbia Heights, the brother of the gunner who died when the plane went down. The same year, Columbia Heights resident Dolores Strand initiated an effort to establish a sister city partnership for Columbia Heights. A citywide survey of residents revealed support for a sister city in Poland. “Polish people responded and said they would work for it; they wanted to be involved,” Strand said. “It has been so significant to have a core of volunteers from square one. The majority are of Polish descent, but we welcome non-Poles and non-Columbia Heights residents, too.” After conferring with Szymczak about his trip to Lomianki, it was determined that the two cities would be compatible, and the partnership was formally established in May 1991. Lomianki has 16,374 people; Columbia Heights has a population of 19,496. The Sister Cities committee in Columbia Heights is a group of volunteers dedicated to encouraging and promoting the exchange of cultural, social, economic and political traditions, and enabling understanding, appreciation and friendship between residents of the two cities. Strand, a Realtor and the group’s founding member, has been co-chair of the organization since it began. Gloria Bergstrom, a retired teacher from New Brighton, currently serves as the other co-chair. The city of Lomianki renamed one of its streets “Columbia Heights Boulevard,” and in 1994, Columbia Heights

Gloria Bergstrom, left, and Dolores Strand are co-chairs of the Sister Cities Committee in Columbia Heights (Submitted photo) renamed one of its parks Lomianki Park. A flower garden at the park is planted with red and white impatiens, the colors of the Polish flag. A group from Columbia Heights traveled to Lomianki in 1998, and a delegation from Poland visited Columbia Heights in 2003. In September 2005, 17 Sister City members from Columbia Heights spent five days visiting Lomianki as part of a 10-day tour of Poland. “It was kind of a neat deal; it was a fruitful trip,” said Columbia Heights Mayor Gary Peterson, who was a member of the group. “I can’t speak Polish or read it, but I still get cards from the mayor there.” The committee also has organized student exchanges between Columbia Heights and Lomianki. Nine students and two chaperones from Columbia Heights traveled to Lomianki in 2008 for a two-week visit. In 2009, nine Polish students and two chaperones visited Columbia Heights for 12 days. Strand, who said her interest in and involvement with the project has “taken over her life,” has visited Poland nine times. “I’m not even Polish,” she said. “My

father was Spanish, and my mother was Italian. I just admire the Polish people. They have such a spirit of independence and pride. We have learned so much about the history of their country.” Two of Strand’s grandchildren have traveled to Poland and one is a volunteer in Poland this summer, teaching English. “We just love having the young people involved,” Strand said. A number of other residents have also made the trip, always paying their own expenses. One, a retired teacher, just returned from six weeks in Poland at his own expense, where he taught English in a K-12 school. Another member, a nurse, volunteered in children’s homes at her own expense. “We get no reimbursement from the city,” Strand said. “We raise all our own funds.” Interest has been maintained so that the committee now has a membership of 101 people, Strand said. “We’ve had wonderful, wonderful volunteers,” she said. “We’ve had wonderful community spirit. It puts Columbia Heights on the map a little bit.” Since the relationship began, the

Sister Cities Committee in Columbia Heights has focused on helping a children’s hospital a few miles from Lomianki. “Our group has been very generous with them,” Strand said. The Columbia Heights Sister Cities Committee raised $10,700 to help the hospital purchase a van for transporting the children. Two major projects now include translation of a World War II Polish document into English, plus a police exchange of Columbia Heights Police officers going to Poland in 2015, and Polish officers coming to Columbia Heights in 2016. “Our police department is so enthusiastic about this,” Strand said. “We’ve had excellent cooperation from the chief and officers.” Mayor Peterson, all of the city’s council members and city manager belong to the Sister Cities committee. “We’ve had excellent cooperation,” Strand said. Peterson acknowledged that a sister city relationship “takes some people who have an interest in it.” “You reach out on your own, and you can get involved as little or as much as you want,” Peterson said. “We’ve got a Polish contingent in Columbia Heights, and this has brought that community together, though you don’t have to be Polish to be involved in it.” Strand’s involvement has led to her being co-coordinator of the state’s Sister City program. She also is a member of the Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota (PACIM), which honored her in 2012 with an award given to persons who have made outstanding contributions to Polish culture. “It was the first time they recognized a non-Pole,” Strand said. The city of Minneapolis will host the national Sister Cities conference next year, and Strand has been asked to be on the planning committee. The Sister Cities Committee is open to all, and you don’t have to be Polish or live in Columbia Heights to join. Meetings are at 1 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month (except July and December) at City Hall. Information: Dolores Strand, 763571-1709, or Gloria Bergstrom, 651633-0506.

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