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Herald Sauk Centre
NUMBER 39 • VOLUME 156
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2023 | WWW.STAR-PUB.COM
Appeal backfires
Ryan Timothy Kellen
Celebrating
FFA Week
Kellen re-sentenced, faces 20 years in prison BY NATASHA BARBER STAFF WRITER
ST. CLOUD – A Sauk Centre man will have an extended stay in prison after appealing a sentence in an initially settled case. Ryan Timothy Kellen, 30, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Feb. 15 after a jury convicted Kellen of all seven felony counts stemming from a domestic assault and standoff with law enforcement Jan. 12, 2020. The sentence nearly doubles Kellen’s prison time. According to the criminal complaint, during a nearly eight-hour standoff with law enforcement in the city of Sauk Centre Jan. 12, 2020, Kellen fired a handgun from his home at a SWAT vehicle that contained five police officers; the bullet hit the vehicle frame on the driver’s side. In an initial statement, Kellen told law enforcement he did not intentionally shoot the weapon and that the gun went off when we was attempting to display it for law enforcement in a window. Following that incident, Kellen was charged with seven felony counts – two for domestic
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PHOTO TIFFANY KLAPHAKE
(Front) Emily Peters; (middle, from left) Eric Isenbart, Noah Christen, Rylan Pallow, Mitchell Christen, Lanna Walter, Haddie Walter and Katie Gregory; (back, from left) Alex Goerdt, Simon Marthaler, Tyler Meyer and Austin Marthaler gather around the calf on Feb. 21 at Sauk Centre High School. The Sauk Centre FFA has contests and dress up days each day this week to celebrate National FFA week.
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Soup is served Volunteering in the Holy Family kitchen BY JAN LEFEBVRE STAFF WRITER
Since the launch of Holy Family’s Springfest 27 years ago, a highlight has been the homemade wild rice soup served in fresh bread bowls. Since 2017, Mary Klimek, Janelle Borgmann and Melanie Peters have played important roles in the soup bowl process. Klimek heads the soup-making team, Borgmann leads the bread bowl-baking group and Peters oversees the kitchen shifts on the day of Springfest when soup is served. All three teams have perfected a smooth operation. First up is Klimek and her group of about 10 fellow volunteers, who gather in the Holy Family kitchen on the Thursday before Springfest. The volunteers on this team vary from year to year. “I’ll call a bunch of people each year and ask if they can come make soup that day,” Klimek said. “We gather at noon and are usually wrapping up by 6 p.m.” The amount of soup made has increased in recent years because of popularity but also because of adding presale/pickup orders during the
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Officer Eric Grabmeier
Grabmeier leads resident out of burning home PHOTO MARK KLAPHAKE
Volunteers Melanie Peters (from left), Mary Klimek and Janelle Borgmann, lead the teams that make and serve soup bowls for Holy Family’s Springfest. Klimek heads the soup-making team, Borgmann leads the bread bowlbaking group and Peters oversees the kitchen shifts for Holy Family’s Springfest.
Snow
PHOTO TIFFANY KLAPHAKE
Students of Holy Family School rush to get on the school bus on Feb. 21 in Sauk Centre. A strong snow storm is set to hit Sauk Centre and the surrounding areas with reduced visibility and heavy snowfall Wednesday night through Thursday. School was cancelled both days.
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Safe, sound
Sauk Centre Police Department footage taken from officer Eric Grabmeier’s body camera shortly after 1 a.m. Feb. 19 shows how speed and clear thinking are needed during a house fire. In the footage, Grabmeier enters the home of Dave and Catherine Dahle on the 700 block of Fifth Street South in Sauk Centre. Thick smoke can be seen in the glow of Grabmeier’s flashlight, and his coughing can be heard. The footage also shows Grabmeier passing by flames, and he asks his partner, Branton Stowell, to grab him a fire extinguisher. As he makes his way closer to a stairway, Catherine can be heard saying she cannot see. It was the Dahles’ 14-year-old grandson, James, who alerted his grandparents and the authorities to the fire. He was staying with the cou-
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PUBLIC NOTICES
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OBITUARY Jane Martin
• Raymond Township Notice of Reorganization Meeting - pg. 7 • Probate Notice - Hagfors - pg. 6 • Kandota Township Notice of Public Accuracy Testing - pg. 7 • Sauk Centre Township Notice of Annual Meeting and • Birchdale Township Notice of Public Accuracy Testing - pg. 7 Election - pg. 7 • Melrose Township Notice of Annual Meeting and Election • Getty Township Notice of Annual Meeting and Election - pg. 7 • Ashley Township Notice of Annual Meeting and Election - pg. 6 - pg. 7 • Assumed Name - Payroll Services of Minnesota - pg. 7 • Sauk Centre Township Notice to Residents - pg. 7 • Raymond Township Board of Audit Meeting - pg. 7 • Raymond Township Notice of Annual Meeting and Election • MN Limited Liability Company - Red Ravin Nail Co. LLC - pg. 6 • City of Sauk Centre Notice of Public Hearing Code - pg. 7 Amendments - pg. 7
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