Sioux YMCA receives SDEA Friend of Education Award

  • L-R are Loren Paul, SDEA president; Andrew Corley, Sioux YMCA CEO; Mark Barron, YMCA Senior Youth Involvement Director; and Shawn Olsen, who nominated the Sioux YMCA for the Friend of Education Award.
    L-R are Loren Paul, SDEA president; Andrew Corley, Sioux YMCA CEO; Mark Barron, YMCA Senior Youth Involvement Director; and Shawn Olsen, who nominated the Sioux YMCA for the Friend of Education Award.

    The Dupree Sioux YMCA was recently awarded the Friend of Education Award by the South Dakota Education Association. Each year the SDEA presents this award to an individual, organization or business that shows that education is important and that they do what they can to enrich and improve the education of students.

    The nomination letters stated the Dupree YMCA has done a lot for the Dupree School, …