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Class of 2019 speaks themes of friendship, important lessons The following three speeches were given at Centennial High School's graduation ceremony Saturday, June 8, at Roy Wilkins Auditorium. Every year students apply for a chance to speak at graduation. A committee of eight staff reviews the applications and looks at experience, uniqueness of the essay, speaking experience, student style/ presence and involvement/influence in school. This year, around 20 students applied and four students (three speeches) were selected.

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H: Hi, I’m Hannah. A: And I’m Ashley. H: And if you weren’t already aware, H, A: We’re best friends Hannah Olson Ashley Peterson A H: We’re here to talk to you about friendship, or as they say in the Princess BrideA: Hannah, stop, nobody is going to understand the reference and it isn’t funny H: My instagram poll was 89% positive, they totally get it! Everyone has seen The Princess Bride! Right?? Please, Ash?

Luke Friedman, 3, gets close to a kite as it swoops near the ground during the annual Kite Day event Saturday, June 1, in an athletic field near Rice Lake Elementary School in Lino Lakes. See more photos on page 9.

SEE CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOL, PAGE 19

Class of 2020 looks beyond themselves BY SHANNON GRANHOLM EDITOR

Five members of the 2020 Centennial High School class were looking for ways to improve the community and stumbled across a national nonprofit organization called Lion's Heart. The fall of their freshman year, the boys founded the first chapter in Minnesota and named it Lino's Lions. “Me and my group of buddies were just looking for ways to improve the community. We figured Lion's Heart was a wellknown organization, so we wanted to start our own chapter,” said Cole Jackson, who was a founding member. “We started out with five members and we have added some

and lost some.” Currently the group has nine members, many of whom have stuck around for three, going on four, years. Lion's Heart was founded in 2004, by Terry Corwin and her son Spencer, then 13. While on a road trip, the mother and son were talking about avenues for Spencer and his friends to give back to the community. Terry concluded that there was not an organization in the area that provided a broadbased platform to do so. The nonprofit organization mobilizes teen members to volunteer in their communities and thus develop leadership, empathy, humanity, passion and courage. In 2018, Lion's Heart had a total of 276 chapters operating in 32 states who volunteered 192,350

hours. Every member is required to put in a minimum of 30 hours of volunteer work a year. North Oaks resident Chantel Scherman, formerly of Lino Lakes, is the chapter's class coordinator. Chantel said her son Rawley Scherman, the other founding member, has put in close to 120 hours this year. Lino's Lions has helped out with landscaping projects, cleaned up parks and yards, decorated cookies with seniors, collected and mailed Halloween candy to military members and volunteered at various events including the Centennial Middle School PTO Glow Run and SHANNON GRANHOLM | PRESS PUBLICATIONS places such as Feed My Starving Lion’s Heart chapter Lino’s Lions is made up of nine members SEE LION’S HEART, PAGE 9

from the Centennial High School class of 2020. The group was the first Lion’s Heart chapter to be established in Minnesota. TM

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