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<br />From the Coon Rapids Herald Newspaper of September 18, 2009
<br />As reported/photographed by Sue Austreng and ABC Newspapers
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<br />Coon Rapids firm has day of caring
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<br />Every working clay,
<br />MEDRAD Interventional!
<br />Possis employees pam their
<br />passions. their e.\perlise,
<br />their knowledlre and their
<br />skills into the ~Ievelopment
<br />and manufacture of life-
<br />saving medical devices.
<br />Sepl. II, some 200 Coon
<br />Rapids !\'IEDRAD employ-
<br />ees len work behind and
<br />poured their passions into
<br />volunteering some 1,200
<br />man hours dutin\! the
<br />company's Day of l~aring
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<br />Thev traded their cell
<br />phone$, laptops and two-
<br />\\'ay radios for paint brush-
<br />es, hammers and hedge clip-
<br />pers as they volunteered at
<br />non-profit organizations
<br />and community projects
<br />throughout the metro area.
<br />MEDRAD, Inc. devel-
<br />ops, markets and services
<br />mectical dC'lices used to
<br />diagnose and treat disease.
<br />Th; company's world head-
<br />quarters is near Pittsburgh,
<br />Pa., and its Minnesota office
<br />is located in Coon Rapids at
<br />9055 Evergreen Blvd.
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<br />Close to home, more
<br />than one dozen MEDRAD
<br />el1lployeesspent their time at
<br />Rise, Inc.'s communitv inte-
<br />gration program in -Coon
<br />Rapids, updating and reno-
<br />vating t\\'o therapy rooms, a
<br />conference room and wh.lI'S
<br />called the Genesis Room.
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<br />"We're just so happy
<br />they're here. They're mak-
<br />in g these rooms look fresh
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<br />Coon Rapids Mayor Tim Howe presents a procla-
<br />mation to Jim Gustafson and a few of the nearly
<br />200 MEDRAD Interventional/Possis employees who
<br />volunteered during the Sept. 11 Day of Caring, Also
<br />present at the post-volunteer gathering was Coon
<br />Rapids Community Development Director Marc
<br />Nevinski (far right), Photos by Sue Austreng
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<br />of our people," said Rise
<br />CIP specialist Becky Rother
<br />as MEDRAD volunteers
<br />taped, prepped and painted
<br />Ihe rooms - one a !.:entle sky
<br />blue, while others a calmin~
<br />taupe accented wilh a \\'arn1
<br />aud mello\\' red.
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<br />Elsewhere, Dav of
<br />Caring projects ranged from
<br />painting, landscaping and
<br />improving child care centers
<br />to cleaning and making a
<br />domestic abuse shelter feel
<br />more like home.
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<br />At one of their largest
<br />projects, 40 MEDRAD
<br />employees assembkd
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<br />non-perishable and per-
<br />ishable food packages at
<br />t he Emergency Foodshelf
<br />Net\\'ork, a local full-service
<br />food bank in New Hope, for
<br />distribution to food shelves
<br />in the T\\'in Cities metro
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<br />"We are not able to
<br />serve the 1...1 million plus
<br />individuals we serve every
<br />year without the support
<br />of volunteers from 10C,1\
<br />companies like MEDRAD
<br />InterventionallPossis," said
<br />Tim Barnes, executil'e direc-
<br />tor of Emergency Foodshelf
<br />Net\\'ork, Inc.
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<br />Jessy Jacobsen puts a second coat of paint on the
<br />conference room at Rise, Inc. community integra-
<br />tion program in Coon Rapids,
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