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Dad's pop-can route funds scholarships in memory of daughter.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| January 01, 2002 | Welbes, John | COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Jim Beedle threw on a pair of gloves as he prepared to lift a plastic bag full of empty pop cans into the back of his pickup. The cans he collects from Simley High School and the adjacent middle school aren't always empty, and this bag doesn't disappoint. Soda dribbles on his feet, something he's gotten used to after years of gathering cans.

After he rinses out the cans in a sink in his garage and cashes them in at a recycling center, he figures he'll probably have another $4 to put toward the Laurie Beedle Memorial Scholarship.

He started awarding that to female graduates of Simley in 1985, a year after Laurie, his daughter, was killed ...

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