Brainerd Dispatch Story

Youth mentor activist Gary Walters and son Jackson (15) will travel 1200 miles through 24 cities in 23 days this summer; on Rollerblades™! They left Baxter, Minnesota on Thursday, August 13th and planning to arrive in Washington D.C. on the Capitol steps on Tuesday, September 8th. The journey is intended to raise money and awareness for Kinship Partners and other youth mentoring programs.

Gary believes that “If we change a kid’s life, we change the future for all of us,” To do his part in the past six years Walters has biked from New Orleans to Brainerd, Minnesota, lived on Brainerd’s historic water tower for nine days, walked across Minnesota, swam across Mille Lacs Lake, lost a 100 pounds and unicycled for 24 hours. Gary’s wish is that you will “pledge mind boggling amounts of money in support of the Kinship Partners mentoring cause”.

Walked Across Minnesota	Brainerd Water Tower	Swimming Mille Lacs Lake

Letter from Kinships Partners Executive Director roll Gary roll

It is Gary’s desire that other mentoring programs take advantage of this events exposure of youth mentoring (mentor recruitment/fundraising) and he is willing to travel away from his planned route (a reasonable distance) to accommodate other mentoring programs. 

Kinship Partners is working closely with the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota to connect Minnesota mentoring programs and other states mentoring programs to this event. 

If your program would like to take advantage of this opportunity please contact:

David Downing

Executive Director, Kinship Partners

218-454-8013

mail@kinshippartners.org

800-626-5825

Dave and Rita for

David Johnson - Financial Services

517 NW 4th Street

Brainerd, MN 56401

218 824-9200

2101 Woida Road North

Baxter , MN 56425

218.828.9211

517 4th St. NW

Brainerd, MN 56401

218.824.4400