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THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2023 | WWW.STAR-PUB.COM
NUMBER 42 • VOLUME 156
Life-welcoming emergency care Three EMTs to receive Stork Award BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
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hen there is a life-threatening incident, odds are an emergency medical technician will soon be on the way to help – but other times, the incident is not so much life-threatening as it is life-welcoming. Such was the case for Sauk Centre Ambulance Service EMTs Richard White, Quint Swedenburg and Brian Zales, who will soon be receiving their Stork Award pins for assisting with an unexpected home birth in town. “It’s the first time for the Sauk Centre Ambulance Service, in general, as far as Kathy (Struffert, SCAS director,) can remember,” Swedenburg said. The three EMTs will be presented with a Stork Award pin at an upcoming Sauk Centre City Council meeting. Various SCAS crew members have received pins before, but these are usually given for saves, people who eventually walk out of the hospital and go home after the emergency. “One of our other crew members told me
there’s EMS personnel who will go their entire career, however long they do it for, without ever delivering a child,” White said. “That’s an added thing for us, knowing we’re part of a very small group overall.” The call came in around 2 a.m., Feb. 25. The EMTs met at the ambulance garage and confirmed they were being dispatched to a Sauk Centre home where a pregnant mother was 35 weeks along, about to give birth and feeling like she had to push. They collected their equipment, including a monitor to check the mother’s heart rate and oxygen level and an obstetrics kit with a diaper, scalpel, clamps and other items. The obstetrics kit is required gear for ambulance departments, but it often expires before it can be used. White drove Zales and Swedenburg in the ambulance to the scene. They were met by the Sauk Centre Police Department who had provided early medical treatment and were able to introduce the EMTs to the family and the situation.
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Sauk Centre Ambulance Service emergency medical technicians – Richard White (from left), Brian Zales and Quint Swedenburg – bring out the training dummy infant while at the Sauk Centre Ambulance Service garage March 6 in Sauk Centre. White, Zales and Swedenburg all assisted in a delivery Feb. 25, becoming the first SCAS EMTs to earn a Stork Award.
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Margaret Samuelson celebrates her 105th birthday March 6 at Getty Street Assisted Living in Sauk Centre. She was born in Ontario, Canada, and moved to the Sauk Centre area in the early 1940s.
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Members of the Sauk Centre robotics team – seniors Steven Schreifels (from left) and Mitchell Christen and program mentor Brian Riley – show off their robot and the objects it needed to organize March 13 in the robotics lab at Sauk Centre High School. The robot placed fourth overall in the Great Northern Regional competition March 8-11 in Grand Forks, North Dakota; the team’s alliance with the Lac qui Parle Valley and the Cass Lake teams also placed third.
Robotics team places high at regional competition BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
Sauk Centre High School’s robotics team, the Semiconductors, is one of the school’s newer programs, but they have already made history with their highest regional ranking at the Great Northern Regional competition, held by First Robotics Competition in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Out of 53 registered teams, Sauk Centre had the No. 4 robot overall with an 8-2 win-loss ratio; their alliance with Lac qui Parle Valley and Cass Lake teams also finished in third place. “It was amazing,” said senior Mitchell Christen, the Semiconductors’ team captain and main driver. “This is the first time PHOTO BY MARK KLAPHAKE Sauk Centre robotics has made it to the playoffs, so that was a Five young ladies – Kalie Ritter (from left), of Avon; Lanna Walter, of Sauk Centre; Grace Woitalla, of Holdingford; Megan Ratka, feat in itself.” of Cold Spring; and Sophia Schiffler, of Albany – were crowned Stearns County Dairy Princesses at the banquet March 11 at the Freeport Community Center in Freeport. Ritter and Ratka were scholarship winners, and Ritter was named Miss Congeniality.
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