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NUMBER 37 • VOLUME 156
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2023
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CentraCare looks into selling Care Center BY BEN SONNEK STAFF WRITER
The CentraCare-Sauk Centre Care Center will soon be opening to residents and visitors, but the facility itself may be under different management. During the Sauk Centre City Council’s regular meeting Feb. 1 at Sauk Centre City Hall, Care Center administrator Ann Major and Patty Roth, CentraCare-Sauk Centre senior director of acute care, gave a Care Center progress update. An open house for the public will be held from 12-2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12, and residents will be moved into the new expansion on Tuesday, Feb. 21. CentraCare has also determined it would be in their residents’ best interest to find a management company for the Care Center. “Throughout our history, CentraCare has been innovative,” Major said. “It continues to seek the highest quality of care for all of our resident services. We’ve determined the changes in long-term care over the last 10 years – and the anticipated changes to come – are very different than our in-care and our ambulatory rules and regulations.” Major also stated that Minnesota has many longterm care organizations who are dedicated to maintaining assisted living facilities. “It’s all they do, and they do it well,” Major said. CentraCare has submitted a request for a proposal out to a handful of organizations and hope to hear responses in about a month, whereupon they will report their findings back to the city. The sale process overall would take about six to 12 months.
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Kerfeld relishes memories of her mom BY MARK KLAPHAKE AND MARIA BICHLER STAFF WRITERS
When Torry Kerfeld dons her No. 11 Mainstreeter jersey and exits the locker room, there is a crowd of spectators anxiously awaiting to cheer on the home team. But, one person is noticeably absent from the bleachers. That person is Kerfeld’s mother, Mary. Kerfeld and her siblings, Madelyn and Jackson, and their father, Dean, said goodbye to their mother and wife Dec. 27, 2022, after a five-year fight with ovarian cancer. Now, more than a month after losing her mom, Kerfeld – whom her mom nicknamed “Hollywood” – is carrying on her education as a senior at Sauk Centre High School while finishing her college general courses through Alexandria Technical and Community College in Alexandria. Kerfeld balances coursework with her commitment to the girls’ basketball team all while grieving her mom, who she said never complained during the course of her illness. “It was never, ‘Why me? Why not someone else?’ Kerfeld said. “She just went through it, and she was always positive about it. The family motto has always been, ‘Worry about today, today and tomorrow, tomorrow.’ She put outings and things together as a family whenever PHOTO BY MARK KLAPHAKE Torry Kerfeld holds letters that her mom, Mary, had wrote to her when she was she could just to keep family life going as normal as possible for us kids battling cancer. Torry was given the nickname Hollywood by her mom. Mary and as long as we possibly could.” passed away from cancer Dec. 27.
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Light to the world Kettler retires as bishop of St. Cloud Diocese BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
It was fitting for the Sunday Gospel, taken from the Book of Matthew, to contain Jesus’ call for His disciples to be the light of the world, for throughout his life, Bishop Donald Kettler of the Diocese of St. Cloud has worked to let that light shine in his ministry, PHOTO BY BEN SONNEK even as he goes into retirement. During his Bishop Donald Kettler preaches at his farewell Mass Feb. 5 at farewell Mass held Feb. 5 in the Cathedral of the Cathedral of St. Mary in St. Cloud. Kettler is retiring after St. Mary in St. Cloud, Kettler gave thanks to 20 years as a bishop, nine of which were for the Diocese of St. God for being allowed to be His instrument of service. Cloud.
“The light of God has shone brightly on the diocese and the people of the Diocese of St. Cloud,” Kettler said in his homily. “I have been blessed by God to see and know that light. I’ve tried not to let me dim that light nor to get too much in the way of the Light of God shining out to others.” At the end of Mass, Jane Marrin, chancellor of the Diocese of St. Cloud, and the Rev. Scott Pogatchnik, rector of the Cathedral of St. Mary, thanked the bishop for his diocesan leadership.
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Sauk Centre High School’s Snow Week royalty - (front, from left) freshman Lindyn Anderson, junior Avery Rieland, senior Hailey Thompson, senior Jenna Gapinski-Vogt, Maisy Winters, senior Hailey Hokanson, senior Carter Schuster, Chase Christians, senior Sydney Zollman, senior Lindsay Bailey, senior Heidi Lieser and sophomore Ciera Kortan; (back, from left) freshman Jay McLellan, junior Andrew Drevlow, senior Owen Christians, senior Ben Anderson, senior Derrick Sorenson, senior Brandon Kampsen, senior Eli Fletcher and sophomore Adam Neubert - assemble on the Margaret Shelby Auditorium stage Feb. 6 in Sauk Centre Public Schools. Snow week page 2
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