August 26, Take It To the Streets

Austin News


Community Against Bullying gets the word out



Posted: Aug 19, 2011, 8:11 am


By Heather Rule


The Post-Bulletin, Austin MN

Take It To the Streets When: Noon to 7 p.m. Aug. 26. Where: Locations near Riverland Community College at Eighth Avenue Northwest and 14th Street Northwest; and Austin High School at Fourth Street Northwest and First Avenue Northwest. What: Collecting donations for Community Against Bullying. The money will be donated to C.A.B. and will be used to purchase office equipment, supplies and anti-bullying signs. Donations: Make checks out to PRC (Parenting Resource Center) with C.A.B. in the memo portion of the check. Contact: Danielle Borgerson-Nesvold at (507) 440-8857 or nesvold781@msn.com.

In the middle of her busy day Tuesday, Danielle Borgerson-Nesvold received a phone call that she thought was from a telemarketer, when she saw Turner Broadcasting pop up on her caller ID.



The call was from a representative from the Anderson Cooper 360 news program, calling because the show had heard about the efforts of Austin's group Community Against Bullying (C.A.B.).



"I thought it was kind of a joke at first," Borgerson-Nesvold said.



No jokes here. AC360 was inquiring about the fundraising efforts of the group, because they're interested in trying to send a correspondent or a film crew out to the Take It To the Streets fundraising event Aug. 26.



Borgerson-Nesvold and the AC360 representative talked for about an hour, and Borgerson-Nesvold said she even broke down crying during the conversation because the call "just gives me a lot of hope that we're doing a good thing."



"This is really huge for our group," Borgerson-Nesvold said.