YES sports fans lon Kruger took our runnin' rebels to the sweet 16 and the program has turned ,an headin' north...but more important he and his wife Barb  have extended their time,hearts and pocketbook to the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth. in a place called safe place.

Can you even imagine that there are thousands of homeless children roamin' sin city . the bright lights of the strip must seem like greenstreet to these unfortunates who spend scary days and nights on meanstreet .

Coach Kruger and wife barb are tryin' to turn this problem around and make it a reality... i coined the program ...

      STREET KIDS RESCUE

ya Las Vegas style....

Today marks the basketball tourney   "duel in the desert"  at the Thomas & Mack center.IN VEGAS  i'll be at the game between the Minnesota Gophers and UNLV on sunday with my cousin Jim Whitmas . he's from Minnesota's Iron Range... the AD at Minny is his high school class-mate  Joel Maturi from Chisholm. He did a great hire by bringin' in Tubby Smith...  i'm from Hibbing and this gumba will not be cheerin; for my homeboys,  but for my adopted town and team ...ceptin' i look at Kruger different now ... and i'll lay ya 10 to one he gots some kids in the buidin' who usta live on Meanstreet , Nevada .....

PostScript;  special thanks to Ed Graney for bringin' this issue to my attention...he can be reached at edgraney@reviewjournal.com

for info on the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth call 866/827/3723..

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