Sen. Tina Smith tours Detroit Lakes Boys and Girls Club and downtown businesses
Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., toured the Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes and downtown businesses on Washington Avenue on Saturday, May 8. The visit was part of her two-day listening tour through northwest Minnesota, which began Friday, May 7 with a stop in Moorhead and finished on Saturday after a visit to Bongards Creamery s store in Perham.
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Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., center-left, poses for photographs with community members during a tour of Detroit Lakes businesses on May 8, 2021. Her visit through northwest Minnesota was part of two-day tour where Smith highlighted the benefits of expanded broadband services, improving rural economic development and how enhance rural health care services. (Michael Achterling / Tribune)
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Actor Josh Duhamel takes the plunge in support of Boys & Girls Club of Detroit Lakes
February 13, 2021
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) To celebrate 25 years of the Polar Fest Plunge tradition, one celebrity with ties to North Dakota is bearing the cold to help raise funds for the Boys & Girls Club of Detroit Lakes.
Normally, the event is open to the public where people gather around a frozen lake to watch plungers jump into an icy hole to help raise funds.
However, due to pandemic restrictions this year’s event allowed for one celebrity jumper.
Actor Josh Duhamel was this year’s “Proxy Plunger.”
Boys and Girls Club toy drive comes up huge
The Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes received 21 carts of donated toys from Menards in their 2nd annual community toy drive. The toys will be available to enrolled families in the Boys and Girls Club program, but, depending on the response from their members, the nonprofit may open the toy haul to the community, if toys remain after the enrollees appointments are scheduled.
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Managers at Menards and officials from the Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes inspect 21 carts of toys that were donated as part of a community toy drive for the Boys and Girls Club. (Michael Achterling / Tribune)