GiveMN to host Give to the Max Day
November 14, 2018
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According to GiveMN executive director Jake Blumberg, Give to the Max Day is a day to celebrate donating. “Give to the Max Day is Minnesota’s state giving holiday,” Blumberg said. “We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary this year and over the course of those 10 years, more than $200 millio...
School Board, City Council discuss safety measures
November 12, 2018
As sophomore Achieving Change Together president Gabriel Kaplan continues to promote gun violence prevention measures in the St. Louis Park community, he said it is a challenging task. “In St. Louis Park we’re still working on that, and the City Council is still deciding what to do but it’s...
Lack of maintenance staff causes issues
November 11, 2018
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Searching the halls for an open girls' bathroom, freshman Isra Mohamed said she feels the locked bathrooms take away from learning during the school day. “I think it’s stupid because sometimes needing to use the bathroom is an emergency and having to go to another bathroom because the other...
Fall musical advertisement vandalized
November 10, 2018
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Seeing the words “so gay” and “boo” spray painted over theater’s advertisement for “9 to 5 the Musical,” senior thespian president Nietzsche Deuel said she was disappointed at the immature vandalization. “It wasn’t just graffiti, it was directed at our show,” Deuel said. “It was i...
Supreme Court denies Echo’s petition for review
November 8, 2018
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The Echo’s petition to the Minnesota Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeal’s ruling was denied Oct. 24. The lawsuit was filed by the Echo against the St. Louis Park school district Jan. 18, 2016, alleging the school district failed to follow the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act in r...
Freshman classes play suffrage bingo
November 7, 2018
According to social studies teacher Jill Merkle, all freshman classes participated in suffrage bingo in C350 Nov. 6 to discuss the midterm elections that day. “It’s a bingo board where essentially they’re filling out voting rights activists from our history and trying to get a bingo with it,...
Pool conditions cause difficulties for swimmers
November 6, 2018
According to district facilities manager Tom Bravo, a pump at the high school broke the week of Sept. 29, decreasing the temperatures of the swimming pool. “At that time it went down to 76 degrees,” Bravo said. “I don’t know if 76 is freezing but that’s the temperature that was in the po...
Polling stations prepare for election day
November 5, 2018
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Student election judge, junior Yoni Potter, said the student election judge program is an opportunity for Park students over the age of 16 to work at the city’s polling stations. “The election judge program is where people in St. Louis Park get to participate in the elections by overseeing wh...
Echo receives Newspaper Pacemaker Award
November 5, 2018
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During the fall national high school journalism convention in Chicago, the Echo received various awards for its work the past school year. The Echo won the National Scholastic Press Association’s (NSPA) National Newspaper Pacemaker Award for 2018. According to NSPA, the award looks for excellence in c...
City encourages electric vehicle use
November 5, 2018
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St. Louis Park will be installing more electric vehicle chargers as part of the student influenced Climate Action Plan, according to senior Katie Christiansen, president of the Roots and Shoots environmental club. “Right now, St. Louis Park has the ones over in city hall, and one of the initiati...
Discriminatory statements written on political poster
November 4, 2018
When freshman Matthew Montanez heard about the discriminatory graffiti, he said he felt driven to voice his opinion on the matter. “We tried to show that everyone is welcome here, no matter your race, religion, or anything else like that,” Montanez said. “Who ever did that, they shouldn’t ha...
Marta Hill, Isabel Kjaer, and Noah Orloff
According to senior Cailey Hansen-Mahoney, the first Sexual Health Education Club meeting went well overall. “(The) turnout could have been a little better, but it’s a really busy time of the year...
Sophie Olmen and Rachel Salzer
After Hopkins Park’s first lost of the season, sophomore Erin Brousseau said game started strong then became more challenging. The team played against Anoka Nov. 15. “I think it started out pretty...
Samantha Klepfer and Isaac Wahl
According to senior Lara Garcia, ever since she decided to eat a vegan diet over a year ago, she has felt inspired to promote positive veganism within her own community. A club seemed like her way to do...
Sophie Olmen and Hayley Westwood
According to senior captain Claudia Stone, Park preformed well at Sections with certain individuals and relays qualifying for State. “Sections went very well overall. We were able to qualify two relays...
