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Stan Adelstein donated $165,000 to pay for program, but cuts next year still possible. |
Stan Adelstein donated $165,000 to pay for program, but cuts next year still possible.
By Kayla Gahagan, Journal staff Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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Twelve-year-old Zachary Kirschenmann is old enough to understand budget problems.
Holding a trumpet in his hands, the seventh-grader knows just how lucky he is to be at band class at South Middle School.
Other students and teachers also said they were excited to be returning this year, especially since just four months ago the district’s elementary school band and orchestra program showed up on a multimillion-dollar list of possible cuts to aid a faltering Rapid City School District budget.
In a heated auditorium, and an even hotter debate about possible cuts last year, community member Stan Adelstein stepped to the microphone and promised to donate the $165,000 it would take to save the program for another year, which includes paying staff salaries and benefits. It had nothing, he said, to do with his running for the state Legislature.
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Adelstein donates $25,000 to family left homeless by fire |
By Kevin Woster, Rapid City Journal staff Friday, August 08, 2008
Rapid City businessman and philanthropist Stan Adelstein is donating $25,000 to members of a family from Red Shirt Table who lost their home in a fire July 29.
He is also encouraging businesses individuals in the area to donate as well.
Adelstein said Friday that reading about the family’s loss in the Rapid City Journal moved him to make the donation. He also was inspired by “A Blessing To One Another,” an exhibit on the contributions of Pope John Paul II in improving relationships between the Catholic and Jewish faiths. Adelstein sponsored the widely acclaimed exhibit, which will conclude its stay Wednesday in downtown Rapid City.
Adelstein said he was “reminded of the message of the Pope John Paul II exhibit: that we must be a blessing to one another, even if be come from very different backgrounds and lifestyles.”
The 15 members of the Varden and Mary Fast Wolf family have been living in a small house in the Red Shirt community since the fire. Adelstein, a former state senator from District 32 in Rapid City, said his past experience as chairman of state legislative committee on tribal-state relations clarified for him the importance of foster-adoptive families, such as the Fast Wolfs, to Native Americans who are struggling with profound problems.
“Finding this kind of family is both difficult and imperative,” Adelstein said.
Adelstein said people should “give what they can” to the Fast Wolf Family Fire Fund at the Great Western Bank in Rapid City in order to “alleviate the terrible burden confronting this family and to further convey that we are all, indeed, a blessing to one another.”
People also can offer assistance to the family through the Black Hills Chapter of the American Red Cross at 342-4010 or the Salvation Army at 342-0982.
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