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  • Blake girls hockey team going back to state tournament after 9-year absence

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    In overtime, in the section final against Holy Angels, Blake sophomore Ella Anderson delivered the game-winning goal.

    “It felt unreal,” Anderson said. “It was crazy. I didn’t even think it went in at first and then I saw the crowd go wild. I just remember getting dogpiled and it was all really exciting.”

    It was Blake’s first section championship in nine years.

    “Everyone’s ecstatic that we made it and I’m really happy I get to experience this,” said senior forward Makenzie Williams.

    The Bears program went to five straight state title games from 2013 to 2017, but had not been back to the tournament since. A lot happened in that time. A move up to AA, then the low point back in single-A two seasons ago, finishing with a 5-20 record.

    “Yeah, we had a little bit of a drought, but we had people that wanted to be here, that wanted to stay and believed in what we were doing,” said head coach Kristi King. “I’m super proud of them because they’ve proven it doesn’t matter if we won five games two years ago, we’re back at the state tournament.”

    The squad is taking aim at an eighth state title. It’s unfamiliar territory for team members.

    “Reminding them this is game 28,” said King. “The lights are a little brighter. But you’re putting on the skates the same way.”

    “Hundreds of girls teams here that want to make it to this place and we’re lucky to be one of them,” said Williams. “When we step on the rink, it’ll feel like a dream.”

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    Ren Clayton

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  • Hopkins High School student organizes event to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

    Hopkins High School student organizes event to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

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    HOPKINS, Minn. — The Allies defeated the Nazis, but Holocaust survivors and their descendants are the enduring victory.

    Elly Fine Sternberg’s grandparents, Esther and Berek Latarus, were both transported to Auschwitz yet made it out alive.

    “Hitler tried to destroy them but he didn’t. In fact, they had multiplied,” Sternberg said with a smile to WCCO. “There was no bigger gift to my grandparents than to come to America, raise a family, be members of their community and then see grandchildren and even great-grandchildren born.”

    Despite those triumphs, survivors like the Lataruses could not overcome time; Berek died more than two decades ago, while Esther passed away in 2006.

    Lucy Smith, of St. Paul, died in July 2022. Herbert Fantle, Victor Vital and Dora Zaidenweber, among other survivors who lived in the Twin Cities, also died within the last few years. 

    “For me, it is so important to carry on their legacy and their message of survival and hope and faith,” Fine Sternberg said. “If I can reach just one person, then I’ve done my job.”

    On Monday, more than 500 people heard Fine Sternberg speak at Hopkins High School for a special assembly commemorating Yom Hashoah, the Jewish day of remembrance for the Holocaust.

    The large attendance was thanks in large part to Rebecca Badzin, a junior who pitched the idea to administrators in light of the recent surge in antisemitism since the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel.

    “Really after Oct. 7, I think we all have seen there are so many people who are not educated, and who haven’t had the opportunity to learn what antisemitism is, what the Holocaust is, and why it’s so wrong,” Badzin lamented to WCCO. “I really wanted people to understand the history of the Holocaust, and also have a personal connection to relate with.”

    Judging by the reactions of some of Badzin’s friends, it was mission accomplished.

    “This speaker today just made me think of how we have to spread more kindness to everyone,” student Sophia Cotila said. 

    “She brought the whole school in here and learn about the Holocaust and what Jewish people went through.” student Javion Scott added. “Everybody walked out more educated than when they came in.”

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