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2006
October
Children's Law Center Awards Banquet: Children's Law Center of Minnesota (CLC) held their 11th anniversary celebration and benefit on October 5, 2006, at the Millennium Hotel Minneapolis (Full story)
Drive for Kids PDF of 2006 program flyer.
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March
Shining Some Light on STAR: For 35 years the old vaudeville and silent movie house on St. Paul's East Side sat boarded up and defaced...(Full story)
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December
A Place to Grow: The daughters of St. Paul's Hmong community often face hard realities (Full story)
2002
September
Portage Pals: Ethnic dolls haven't been commercially successful, a national toy expert said earlier this year when he heard about a Hmong doll being manufactured in St. Paul (Full story)
May
2000 Healtheast Caring Neighbor Award Winner: Healtheast Foundation selected Raeann Ruth as recipient of their annual "Caring Neighbor" Award (Full story PDF)
April
Coming Attraction?:Thanks to the generosity of a longtime St. Paulite, a long-shuttered movie house on St. Paul's East Side may find new life as a community center and place for the performing arts (Full story)
Restoring Pride: KMSP Channel 9 featured a short segment on the Mounds Theatre renovation on their 9 p.m. newscast on Saturday April 8th See video (694KB; .avi file) or the main story (4.24MB; .avi file)
Dayton's Bluff Dusting Off Old Theatre: The Mounds Theatre sign that rose above the ornamental brick facade, the movie marquee and poster boards are long gone, leaving a flat-faced stucco building alongside Interstate Hwy. 94 (Full story)
March
After-School Program Helps Young Hmong Women Expand Their Horizons:What program is this you ask ... the Portage for Youth? It is an after-school girls program held in a lovingly restored . . . (Full story)
January
East SiderRaeann Ruth Finds Her True Calling, with her Portage for Youth: She may be 50 years old with feet that always hurt, but inside, in her heart, Raeann Ruth is a kid (Full story)
top1999
March
Getting the Best Kind of Homework: Portage for Youth's after-school photography program is planted firmly over the line separating education and self-awareness from outright fun (Full story)
January
Overcoming Language Barriers: Partnership forms to help Hmong mothers learn English (Full story)
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January
Give That Girl a Camera!: When Julia Porras had to choose a location to shoot photographs, there was no question about where she wanted to go: the cemetery. The 10- year-old wanted to take photos of her Uncle Fred's grave (Full story)
After-School Program Helps Disadvantaged Girls Expand Horizon: Acomfortable, lovingly restored house in the Dayton''s Bluff neighborhood on St. Paul's East Side has become a home to some youngsters who might otherwise (Full story)
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September
Helping Girls Navigate Their Way to Adulthood: I first heard about Portage for Youth in June from fellow District 1 Communications Committee Member Tienne Otteson, who mentioned that she is a mentor for the girls (Full story)
April
A Safe Passage:Eight grade-school girls clutch sewing needles as they huddle around a dining table in a quaint, century-old house on the east side of St. Paul (Full story)
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