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Amazing group, work

The Martin County Kids Against Hunger food pack is today at St. John Vianney School in Fairmont. This group has done some amazing work over the years, and that is apparent in the stats: it will surpass 1 million meals packaged and more than $250,000 raised.

About 400 volunteers will take turns on the “assembly line” today, putting together meal packs that can be prepared in boiling water. These packs feed the hungry, locally and in overseas locations like Haiti.

Kids Against Hunger is a great, benevolent community endeavor. All involved deserve thanks and praise.

Playground nearly ready

The indoor playground at Five Lakes Centre in Fairmont is nearly complete, as crews finish up the project this weekend. Kudos to the Kids Just Want to Have Fun subcommittee of Project 1590 that brought the playground to fruition.

Working in partnership with the mall, which is providing the space, a site upgrade, insurance and maintenance, the subcommittee solicited local donations to buy and install the playground. This community amenity has long been sought by many. We know children will delight in its use, and parents will be thankful for it.

School hires investigator

Blue Earth Area Schools has hired an outside consultant-investigator to review the district’s response following an off-campus assault in which four students are alleged to have attacked another student, severely injuring him. Blue Earth Area has faced much scrutiny, first for doing little, visibly anyway, and then for suspending and making ineligible the four students who face criminal charges in the matter.

The consultant will examine the district’s investigative and disciplinary process.

The district is doing the right thing. We hope the consultant’s work is thorough and illuminating.

Let them dump steel

President Trump apparently is worried about foreign nations “dumping” their steel and aluminum on the U.S. market. We say let them dump it.

Yes, American jobs in the steel and aluminum industries have been lost. But American manufacturers — and all the people they employ! — are buoyed by the cheap cost of steel and aluminum. And there are far more jobs in U.S. manufacturing than there are or would be in U.S. production of steel and aluminum.

Manufacturers should scoop up all the cheap metals they can, for as long as they can.

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