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The Spartan Speaks

Seniors Graham McKee and Zach Ziegler help out to make the event a success.

OHS hosts annual Empty Bowls event

May 1, 2013

People from all across the district attended the Empty Bowls Event on April 12. With donations equating to $10 per person for dinner and sponsored from local businesses, the event raised over $5,000. Empty...

Patrons of the event peruse the hand-crafted bowls.  Photo/ Taylor Werdel

Orono’s Empty Bowls aids the hungry

April 25, 2012

Today’s world is plagued by a constant stream of problems. When the government isn’t focusing on our financial and economic crisis, the subject of global warming and rising oil prices are...

Somalian famine needs more attention from media

December 8, 2011

The press is keeping the public well informed on hot-button issues such as the economy and Libyan power struggles. However, the famine rampaging in Eastern Africa is severely lacking attention from the...

West-metro pack-a-thon and the Orono community feed the hungry

December 7, 2011

On Nov. 11 and 12, 2011 Kids Against Hunger-West Metro (KAH-WM) hosted the seventh annual pack-a-thon at the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Excelsior, Minnesota. The pack-a-thon aimed at packing 350,000...

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