[0:00] Well, greetings everybody. This is Jim [0:02] Hufflin, your adina mayor, and this is [0:04] the mayor's minute for Wednesday, July [0:06] 9th, 2025. We got a couple of topics to [0:09] cover today. First of all, I wanted to [0:10] just mention the Fourth of July parade. [0:12] The participation was just fantastic. [0:15] And then a wonderful what they called [0:17] the Adina Dash at the beginning. [0:21] And we had three winners. We had Charlie [0:24] was a male winner in his 30s, I think, [0:26] and Nah, she won the female adult race. [0:30] And then Daniel was a little 10-year-old [0:32] boy who cleaned up in the kids race. [0:34] That was just a great way to start the [0:36] parade, which was just a wonderful [0:37] event. So, next we're going to talk [0:39] about Scout Troop 123, which recently [0:42] held an Eagle Court of Honor celebration [0:45] for four of their new Eagle Scouts. [0:47] Please join us in congratulating [0:48] Preston, Noah, Landon, and Noah. [0:50] Bringing the Adina troops total to 208 [0:53] since its first inauguration of Eagle [0:56] Scouts in 1960. Becoming an Eagle Scout [0:58] is a seven-year journey that includes [1:00] leadership and a service project. Each [1:03] scout developed a proposal, project [1:05] plan, and fundraising plan that led [1:07] teams to execute the plans. The final [1:10] step was writing a report with each of [1:12] their learnings. [1:13] Each project took 100 to 150 hours to [1:16] complete and beneficiaries of the [1:18] projects were the cities of Edina, the [1:21] city of Hopkins, Edina High School [1:23] Theater Department and the Shepherd of [1:24] the Hills Lutheran Church. As we [1:27] mentioned, there were four kids [1:28] involved. Two of them are twins, Landon [1:30] Blakesley. Uh, one of the twins [1:32] constructed raised planter beds for [1:34] Valley Park in Hopkins. His twin [1:37] brother, Preston, constructed and filled [1:39] a free little library on the Shepherd of [1:41] the Hills church grounds. Noah Hecker [1:44] built storage boxes for props and [1:46] costumes for the award-winning Adina [1:48] Theater program. And Noah Denfeld built [1:50] wooden duckous that will soon be [1:52] installed at Rosland Park. These wooden [1:54] boxes are designed to mimic natural tree [1:57] cavities and can be crucial in areas [1:59] where natural nesting sites are scarce. [2:01] I was proud to attend the Eagle Court of [2:03] Honor ceremony a few weeks ago and thank [2:05] all scouts for their service to our [2:07] community. These scouts in particular, [2:09] these Eagle Scouts, think about it. [2:11] They've fulfilled that triad of [2:13] fulfillment that our old surgeon general [2:15] Vivc Murthy talked about. Service, [2:17] purpose, and building relationships. [2:19] These four guys did it in spades. There [2:22] were something really special about what [2:24] they've done, and we should be [2:26] celebrating all of them. These people [2:27] that go through that effort of becoming [2:29] an Eagle Scout are really special, [2:31] special young people. This is Jim [2:33] Hufflin and that's your mayor's minute [2:34] for Wednesday, July 9th, 2025. I hope [2:37] you have a great rest of the week and [2:39] look forward to this beautiful summer [2:40] month ahead of us. See you soon.