Camp Ripley leadership to provide updates to local communities

Contributed / Metro Newspaper Service

By Dispatch staff report

April 08, 2022 at 3:07 PM

CAMP RIPLEY — Camp Ripley leadership begins annual community updates — Camp Ripley 101 — to surrounding communities starting next week.

“Providing the Camp Ripley 101 to our local communities is essential to us,” said Army Brig. Gen. Lowell Kruse, the Minnesota National Guard's Assistant Adjutant General and Camp Ripley's senior commander, in a news release. “We recognize how our neighbors support us, and we appreciate our partnerships with these communities.”

The Camp Ripley 101 is a presentation created each year highlighting Camp Ripley’s mission, construction updates, current leadership, accomplishments, and partners both on and off base. The brief covers the larger public and training events occurring for the remainder of 2022. Additionally, the 101 covers Camp Ripley’s economic impact on the area and the environmental program’s efforts to support conservation for the base and the surrounding area.

“One way to show our appreciation is to engage with the community,” said Kruse. “These engagements provide the yearly opportunity to meet our communities and to communicate with our partners about what is happening at Camp Ripley."

“We take pride in our community engagement, and this is a part of our efforts to reach out to the communities and let them see and understand our base more,” said Army Chief Warrant Officer Two Kristin Tritz, Camp Ripley’s director of the Joint Visitor Bureau, in a news release. “We enjoy interacting with the community, and being able to showcase what Camp Ripley has to offer to our military as well as our local community partners, is something we look forward to every year.”

Camp Ripley 101 times, dates and places are as follows:

7 p.m. April 11 at Green Prairie Township Hall.
7 p.m. April 12 at Scandia Valley Township Hall.
6 p.m. April 13 at Randall City Hall.
10 a.m. April 19 at Crow Wing County Historic Courthouse, Brainerd.
7:30 p.m. May 2 at Brainerd City Hall.
9 a.m. May 3 at Cass County Courthouse, Walker.
7 p.m. May 3 at Fort Ripley Township Hall.
7 p.m. May 3 at Baxter City Hall.
9 a.m. May 10 at Morrison County Government Center, Little Falls.
7 p.m. May 10 with Rosing Township at Pillager Fire Hall.
11 a.m. May 12 with Little Falls Chamber of Commerce at Cass Gilbert Depot.
7 p.m. May 19 at Sylvan Township Hall.

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