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Article: PUSHING LAW, ORDER; State troopers, police officers and a sheriff's commander have united to lead metro youths on a path to success.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 7, 2009
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Byline: JOY POWELL; STAFF WRITER
At 16, Michael Quick of Maplewood headed back to classes this fall with new insights into his own abilities, new inner strength and a whole lot of new friends, thanks to the Minnesota Youth Leadership Academy.
In its third year, the program -- co-founded in Minnesota by a Dakota County sheriff's commander -- unites law enforcers with metro youths for a six-day stay at Camp Ripley, a training center operated by the National Guard, in Little Falls, Minn. It's also developing a cop-to-kid mentoring program intended to follow the young men through high school.
Quick said he'd go to the camp, which is free to the ...