Flyers And QR Code

We've made flyers and even manged to get a QR code on them!  So far we've hung them at school, and handed them out to neighbors at a community dinner and at a St. Anthony Park School Association meeting.           

Sam's Note and Article

Dear Mr. Palazzolo:


My name is Sam Skinner, one of the members of the Hoppity Hats, the group you visited recently. Thank you for the interview. I am sending you an article about the Adopt A Hydrant program, and it has been thoroughly edited. We were wondering if you could ask about including the article in MinnPost. We would love it if you could. If there are any parts that need tweaking, that is fine by us. We also included some pictures if those would be useful (names for group photo: Gunnar Jacobson, Sam Skinner, Alexander Kamenov, Soren Sackreiter, Milo Fleming, Jude Breen, and Ian Culver).

                            From, The Hoppity Hats


The Hoppity Hats, a Destination Imagination (DI) team at St. Anthony Park Elementary School, wants YOU to help the community by maintaining access to fire hydrants. The 3rd grade DI team focuses on encouraging people to adopt a fire hydrant by going to http://adoptahydrant.opentwincities.org/. Where the weather is wacky, like Minnesota, hydrants get covered in snow and become difficult to access. According the St. Paul Fire Department, it takes 5-6 minutes to dig out a snow-covered hydrant. Fires can double every 30 seconds. That means a fire can double 10-12 times in the amount of time it takes to dig out a hydrant.

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If you are interested in adopting a hydrant, go to http://adoptahydrant.opentwincities.org/. Once you log on, find a hydrant or two near your home and adopt it! Then, you can name your hydrant. The website will e-mail you after snowfalls to remind you to clear your hydrant. There are about 18,360 fire hydrants in the Twin Cities. Fewer than 100 of them are adopted. Now let`s go help the community!

                                                                                                                

Talk With Alan

We got to interview Alan Palazzolo, the creator of the Adopt a Hydrant web site for the Twin Cities.  He's a cool guy and is glad that we are sharing his website and asking people to Adopt a Hydrant.  Here he is:

 

Check This Out!

The St. Paul Fire Department put together this video about why it's important to Adopt a Hydrant!

                                    

PUBLISHED!

This is a article we've put in the local newspaper, The Bugle.

 

Unclaimed Hydrants

At the beginning there were very few hydrants adopted.

                               The green ones are adopted but the red ones still need some love.

                                Here's a link to the website: http://adoptahydrant.opentwincities.org/

Following Through

After you adopt a hydrant, you'll get an email reminding you to go out to shovel after each snow fall.  

Fire Station Visit

We (the Hoppity hats DI team) have chosen to do a Adopt a Hydrant campaign.  We first decided to visit the St. Paul Fire Station 23.   We asked the fire fighters some questions such as "How long does it take to shovel out a fire hydrant?"  and "How quickly does a fire spread in the time it takes to shovel out a hydrant?"  Here's what they said:

How We Learned About Community Needs

First, we started out by interviewing Ann Johnson, the principal of St. Anthony Park Elementary.  We learned that some school needs are things like caring for recess equipment and anti bullying campaigns.  Then we learned from Community Council Executive Director Amy Sparks some more community needs like adopt-a hydrant and different generations connecting.  Finally we interviewed Pastor Mark Ostlie-Olson and found that hunger is a need, too.  Then after long hard debating we decided on doing (drum roll) Adopt-A-Hydrant!!

Marc Ostlie-Olson

Amy Sparks

Ann Johnson