St. Mary's students donate more than $2,000 to the Veterans Memorial Park in Alexandria

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St. Mary's students donate more than $2,000 to the Veterans Memorial Park in Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA Douglas County Veteran Russ Oorlog received a call recently from St. Mary's School Principal Troy Sladek. Oorlog, a Vietnam veteran, doesn't have any children at the school so he was curious as to why he was receiving a call from Sladek. It turned out, the students at the Catholic school in Alexandria participated in a penny collection competition that benefits a nonprofit organization and this year's nonprofit was the Alexandria Vet…