BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — A choir from a Minnesota high school is turning to the public to help get its students back to the state after Sunday’s winter blizzard canceled their original flight plans.
The Bloomington Kennedy Choirs won grand champion at a national competition in Los Angeles, but severe weather forced the choir’s 106 students to change their travel plans quickly.
Bloomington School Board member and choir leader Matt Dymoke told KARE 11 the earliest direct return flight for the choir would have been on Friday, so officials decided to instead fly the students to Salt Lake City and then Denver, where two charter buses would take the students the rest of the way home to Minnesota to get the kids home Tuesday afternoon…