{"id":69,"date":"2010-05-21T20:48:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T01:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/?p=69"},"modified":"2010-06-13T09:49:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T14:49:53","slug":"press-release-for-20th-anniversary-logo-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/press-release-for-20th-anniversary-logo-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release for 20th Anniversary Logo Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sauk Rapids, MN\u2014On May 18, 2010, the Minnesota D.A.R.E. 20<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Logo Contest Winner was announced at Sauk Rapids Rice Middle School.\u00a0 In a surprise assembly of the 7<sup>th<\/sup> graders;\u00a0 Kathi Ackerman\u2014Executive Director of Minnesota D.A.R.E., Inc., announced that the winning logo for the statewide contest was submitted by Maddie Waseka a 7<sup>th<\/sup> grader at the Middle School.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Nick Baden, Benton County Sheriff\u2019s Office, is the D.A.R.E. officer for Sauk Rapids. He helped arrange an assembly to surprise the school.\u00a0 Sheriff Brad Bennett and Maddie\u2019s family made surprise appearances to join in the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The Water Park of America donated the grand prize for the contest; a party for 10 at the Water Park of America and a Family Suite for One Night.\u00a0 Principal Larry Stracek presented Maddie with some special gifts from the school along with some treats for the entire 7<sup>th<\/sup> grade.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota D.A.R.E., Inc. is celebrating 20 years in the state of Minnesota. In honor of this celebration, the Board of Directors wanted the students to tell us why D.A.R.E. is important.\u00a0 Maddie\u2019s logo and tag statement \u201cOne NO Could Make the Difference\u201d does a great job of summing up the importance of good decision making.\u00a0 This logo will go on display at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/\">www.mndare.org<\/a> and many other statewide celebration pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Ackerman stated, \u201cIt is very appropriate that this 20<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary winner be announced today in Benton County.\u00a0 Benton County trained their first and only D.A.R.E. officer, Nick Baden, in the early 90\u2019s.\u00a0 The announcement at Sauk Rapids Middle School is being followed by a D.A.R.E. culmination at Sacred Heart in Sauk Rapids\u2014Benton County\u2019s 100<sup>th<\/sup> culumination!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/logowinner_fullsize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-83\" title=\"Logo Winner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/logowinner_fullsize-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/logowinner_fullsize-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/logowinner_fullsize-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/logowinner_fullsize.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauk Rapids, MN\u2014On May 18, 2010, the Minnesota D.A.R.E. 20th Anniversary Logo Contest Winner was announced at Sauk Rapids Rice Middle School.\u00a0 In a surprise assembly of the 7th graders;\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}