Can ARCHERY save our YOUTH? One Minnesota youth archery program is based on a national plan, another is very local. Both aim to teach kids more than how to hit a target.(SPORTS)(Dennis Anderson)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: December 11, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Dennis Anderson; Staff Writer

Listen to Ryan Bronson, Barry Boevers and Travis Stewart long enough and you might be convinced archery can save America.

Or at least Minnesota.

Until a few years ago, Boevers, a teacher at Jackson Middle School in Champlin, Bronson, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources hunter recruitment supervisor, and Stewart, a teacher at John Glenn Middle School in Maplewood, didn't know one another.

Bo...

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