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SPEAKER: Student of the Month

                      Brad Robb, Board Member - Girls on the Run Twin Cities

TOPIC:  "Girls on the Run"

Girls on the Run Twin Cities was established as a 501(c)3 in July of 2011 by Mary Uran and Kori Fitschen. What started as a small, volunteer-led start-up serving 24 girls in its first season in the Spring of 2012 has been ignited into a rapidly-growing grassroots movement spanning the Twin Cities with plans to serve more than 3,000 girls at over 100 sites during the 2016-2017 school year.

Girls on the Run International was established in 1996 in Charlotte, North Carolina by Molly Barker. What started with thirteen girls in one school has grown to over 200 councils in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. With the help of almost 100,000 volunteers, Girls on the Run served nearly 180,000 girls in 2015, including our millionth girl! Girls on the Run continues to grow and currently hosts more than 350 end-of-season 5K events across the United States, making the Girls on the Run 5K series the largest in the country. Girls on the Run has also expanded to include middle school girls through Heart & Sole, a program dedicated to the unique needs of adolescent girls

For the meeting of October 16, 2019 there are 46 cards and 2 Jokers. The pot stands at $173!  Ticket donations are: $1 for 1 ticket; $2 for 3 tickets; $5 for 10 tickets; and $10 for 25 tickets. Three lucky winners are chosen each week; the first two tickets drawn win $5, the third winner draws a card from the deck in hopes of pulling an Ace to win a share of the pot.  If a joker is pulled, it will cost the winner a $2 contribution to the pot.  If the Ace of Spades is pulled, the pot is awarded equally to all who have pulled an Ace from the current deck, and the drawing starts over again.