[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5041]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                               ALLAN LAW

 Mr. WELLSTONE. Madam President, I rise to talk about a truly 
extraordinary Minnesotan.
  Allan Law has been doing extraordinary work in Minnesota for a very 
long time. For more than 30 years he was a public school teacher--which 
merits mention in its own right.
  But his work did not stop at the end of the school day. He also is 
the founder of Minneapolis Recreation Development, Inc., a non-profit 
organization, which has been providing constructive recreational 
activities for our urban youth. This after-school and weekend program 
was developed more than 30 years ago and has been reaching yearly, on 
average, 400 of our hardest to reach young people.
  During that period, Allan has spent untold hours meeting the needs of 
our inner-city youth. Day-in, day-out Allan Law wakes up and works to 
make the Twin Cities a better place and the young people living there 
stronger and healthier. He provides us with a model of what an 
individual, committed to improving a community, can do.
  Allan is an inspiration who has been inspiring people for more than a 
generation. It is my hope and prayer that he will continue his good 
work for another 30 years.
  I rise, as schools begin adjourning for the year, to pay tribute to 
Allan and his incredible work in making Minneapolis a better place--one 
young person at a time.

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