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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 ...