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Mounds View students encourage change, propose climate education bill BY MADELINE DOLBY EDITOR
Mounds View High School seniors Julia Gronert, Margaret McGann and Jonin Morgan are at the forefront of expanding climate change education through Youth Environmental Activists (YEA), a network for Minnesota youths acting on the systems perpetuating the climate crisis. YEA is a part of Climate Generation, an
organization that was created in 2006 by polar explorer and educator Will Steger to help build climate literacy, amplify personal connections to climate change and develop community collaboration. The seniors joined the group within the last year. Gronert joined YEA in February of last year. “I was kind of having an existential crisis about the environment and I was like, ‘I need to find something that I
can do to get involved.’ I was looking for so long to find somewhere … and I found YEA, and I was like, ‘Oh, this sounds perfect,’” she said. Morgan joined YEA shortly after Gronert brought him to a meeting. “This is my second year,” Morgan explained. “I am really passionate about government environmentalism. So, I thought it was a really cool opportunity, and I was really excited to go to
the first meeting.” McGann started attending the meetings around four months ago after hearing Gronert and Morgan talk about the group. “I heard Jonin and Julia talking about it a lot, and I heard ‘environment’, and I was like, ‘I’m in!’” she said. “I went there, and it was totally different than I thought. I thought ‘Wow, this is really cool,’ and SEE CLIMATE CHANGE, PAGE 8
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The Youth Environmentalists Activists put on a Youth Climate Justice Summit to discuss environmental justice and climate change.
‘Mean Girls the Musical’ at Mounds View High School
Taste of Shoreview: Food fest and community fundraiser
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The 15th annual Taste of Shoreview will take place from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, May 1, at the Shoreview Community Center. Several restaurants, businesses and individuals will participate and provide food, beverages and donations. Proceeds from the event go toward the Slice of Shoreview, a community festival that takes place at Island Lake Park in July. The Shoreview Community Center is located at 4580 Victoria St. N. For more information about the Taste of Shoreview, go to sliceofshoreview.com/taste.
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Looking for a local musical production that’ll be fetch? Consider checking out “Mean Girls” at Mounds View High School (MVHS), running May 1-4. The musical, based on the 2004 movie, captures the comedy of the original film while it adjusts some of the content to be appropriate for audiences 12 and older. You won’t want to miss the fabulous singing and dancing that accompanies the story MVHS theater students are telling at 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday (May 1-3) and at a 2 p.m. matinee Sunday (May 4). For those unfamiliar with the plot: Cady Heron grew up on the African savanna observing lions and other predators, but nothing could prepare her for the cutthroat culture and wild ways of a U.S. high school. Cady must learn to navigate unwritten social dynamics and cliques, especially “The Plastics,” a trio of frenemies led by the ruthless Regina George. When Cady
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