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Council recognizes area life savers BY SHANNON GRANHOLM LEAD EDITOR
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The Centennial Fire Department made their rounds throughout neighborhood parties on Night to Unite. Pictured left to right are firemen Jake Bond, Jake Pfeffer and Rob Wyse. Night to Unite is a statewide event that builds and fosters community bonds between communities and public safety organizations such as local fire departments and law enforcement. This annual celebration occurs on the first Tuesday in August and gathers neighborhoods and public safety personnel together for an evening to promote safe communities.
LINO LAKES — Two lives are forever changed thanks to the quick response of residents and first responders. The City Council recognized the actions of two Lino Lakes residents and members of the Lino Lakes Public Safety Department, Centennial Lakes Police Department (CLPD) and Allina EMS at its last meeting. Kevin and Diane Kuznia received a Life Saving Award July 26 for their actions back in April. At 7:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 3, Diane called 911 to report a cold-waterrelated medical situation involving an adult male who was unconscious and clinging to a branch in the water of Peltier Lake. Kevin jumped into the very cold water to help the male, who was mostly submerged and partially trapped under a tree leaning into the water. In the time it took fi rst responders to respond and locate them, Kevin and the victim’s wife were able to free the male’s trapped arm and leg from under the tree, then held him above water to keep him from drowning. When members of the police and fire division arrived, they found the male patient unresponsive and hypothermic. Officers and fi refighters helped Kevin pull the patient up the bank and onto dry land, where care was provided in an effort to dry and warm the patient before carrying him
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Project Who Am I helping teens choose ideal careers When Oie Dobier’s daughter Nya was looking at colleges in her sophomore year of high school, she realized it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Oie said, “I asked myself, ‘Where do you start?’ Looking at the career fi rst is the wrong approach. We should start looking at who she is as a person and what she values fi rst before she chooses a career,” Nya’s mother said. “And that’s pretty much when Project Who Am I began.” Oie, her husband Darren, and Nya, of Stillwater, launched the
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online program, Project Who Am I, in February. “It’s an online self-discovery, self-paced program for struggling teenagers to help them fi nd their ideal career and help them discover who they are as a person,” Oie said. “Each week they have selfreflection exercises to do. We have it set up where they form a small support group and usually a parent facilitates the group session and the group is a sounding board to say what they learned about themselves.” Darren does most of the technical part of the program, and the mother-daughter team, Oie and Nya, are the voice of the business.
“Understanding the teen perspective is very important for this program, and it’s really empowering because they think different than us,” Oie said. “Parents and students are getting both perspectives in the program.” Students have a a weekly check-in with Nya, the accountability coach for the program. “I hold the students accountable and make sure they did everything they were suppose to do that week. I ask them how their group session went, how their self-reflection is going and what they discovered about themselves,” Nya said. SEE PROJECT WHO AM I, PAGE 11
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