Mayor shivers for a good cause

WYOMING, Minn., Feb. 11 (UPI) -- The Wyoming, Minn., mayor was back home Monday having braved a weekend of sub-zero temperatures and howling winds to collect funds to save a town teen center.

It wasn't looking too good Saturday night when it was minus 16 degrees, wind gusts up to 40 mph were caving in his tent atop the Wyoming City Hall, his heaters kept blowing out and he was thousands of dollars from his $35,000 fundraising goal, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Monday.

But he made it through the night and Sunday morning, a family from Woodbury showed up and asked him to lower his donation bucket. He did and when he pulled it back up there was a check for $6,000.

"It's nice to know there is that kind of kindness out there," Anderson said not only of that family, which didn't want to be identified, but all those who gave to the cause.

He celebrated taking a bath, eating a bowl of chili and laying down for awhile -- his first rest inside since Feb. 2 when he climbed to the city hall rooftop, vowing not to come down until the Forest Lake Teen Center had enough money for another year.