For the last two months Robin and I have been asking you to vote to build a weight room for the Kicking Mules of Bedford High School in the Pepsi Refresh competition. Well you did and guess what? Our Michigan Community won the $250,000 grant! Here’s the background. Mule Muscle’s refreshing idea is a grant recipient and the students will get something new in a time of economic crisis. This money will provide the opportunity to expand physical education, provide a training facility for the district’s athletes, and create the first ever wrestling room. And you helped make it happen.. please read the column below and know this - we are also thanking YOU!

We tell our kids that if they work hard, don’t quit and stay positive, great things can happen. But as adults it’s easy to get cynical. The realities of the world can get you down, even goofball humor columnists. Witnessing the way people worked together, volunteered, spread the word, and never quit demonstrated to me — loud and clear — at age 41 no less — that hard work, persistence, positivity and a good idea can come out on top. That great things can happen right here and that you can actually make them happen…..READ MORE..