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Herald Sauk Centre
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2023
NUMBER 49 • VOLUME 156
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PHOTO BY BEN SONNEK
Bob Wensman rests for a moment in his apartment at Fairway Pines Assisted Living April 27 in Sauk Centre. Wensman has lived in Sauk Centre since 1955, and his involvement in the Sauk Centre community has included roles in the city, fire department, county board, church and the National Guard.
Wensman stays busy after retirement BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
Editor’s note: May is Older Americans Month, and the Herald is putting the spotlight on older residents in the Sauk Centre community. Bob Wensman has lived in Sauk Centre for nearly 70 years, and whether working full-time or retired, he has always had something to do and has given back to his community. “I was a person who never sat around,” Wensman said. “My wife always said, ‘Bob, you always find something to do.’ … I like to stay busy.”
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Third grade teachers – Lindsey Kuefler (from left), Abby Primus, Andelee Leukam and Allison Beach – visit the mural that is part of the third grade class display April 28 at Sauk Centre Elementary School in Sauk Centre. The third graders have been doing environmentally-focused projects throughout the 2022-23 school year, culminating in a plant sale May 8 and 9.
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isplays line the walls at Sauk Centre Elementary School, and the third graders’ piece, a scene of sea turtles, is made out of recycled materials – painted newspapers, cardboard and egg cartons. This diorama is only one of the environmentally-focused initiatives the third grade class has been undertaking throughout the year, and it will soon culminate in a plant sale from 3 to 3:30 p.m., Monday, May 8, and from 7:45 to 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 9. “Our goal is to earn enough money
to buy some supplies we need for the garden,” said Andelee Leukam, third grade teacher. “If we make enough, we’re hoping to buy an apple tree.” The teachers also hope students will take their love of gardening home with them when school is out. “Some of the kids need that different outlet, something they can do as a family or transferring the skills they’ve learned to home,” said Lindsey Kuefler, third grade teacher. “At the beginning of the school year, they made an expert garden book, and it was cool to see the different topics
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Parishes on the Prairie welcomes Kenya delegation BY BEN SONNEK STAFF WRITER
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Perfect partnership Circumstances may have delayed the event by a few years, but Sauk Centre’s Catholic churches of St. Paul’s and Our Lady of the Angels have finally had a visit by a delegation from St. Joseph’s Parish, their partner Catholic parish in Migori, Kenya. The delegation – consisting of the Rev. Aloys Okumu Mwai and Salome Ayugi Okuku – have been touring Sauk Centre and the surrounding area, learning about the local culture and giving their thanks for the ongoing partnership. “It feels good,” Aloys said. “It feels like we are at home, in spite of the cold and the snow.” He will be a priest for 20 years this August, and St. Joseph’s Parish is the fourth parish he has served. Salome has been a teacher since 1982, teaching in
they were able to come up with. Not all of them were the same, so we tied that into their nonfiction writing.” The environmental program has been spearheaded by the third grade teachers this year, including Leukam, Kuefler, Allison Beach and Abby Primus. It kicked off at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year with a harvest of the garden the 2021-22 third graders planted before their school year ended. This year’s third grade class decided to take the produce and make it into salsa.
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The Rev. Aloys Okumu Mwai (from left), Kathy Knoblach and Salome Ayugi Okuku take a break from their schedule April 19 at the Centre for Christ in Sauk Centre. The delegation from St. Joseph’s Parish in Migori, Kenya, visited the Sauk Centre area April 14 to May 5.
Kenyan elementary schools. Now retired, she continues to teach at Holy Family School in St. Joseph’s Parish. Sauk Centre’s parishes and St. Joseph’s Parish alter-
nate in sending a delegation every year and a half. The program dates back to the earliest days of the parishes’ partnership in the early 2000s. Salome, for instance, met Kathy Knoblach, the
current Centre for Christ director of faith formation, when the latter was part of a delegation to Kenya in 2007.
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Sydney Zollman (from left), Annie Sorenson, Christopher Polipnick, Luke Middendorf and Shalon Wilber celebrate after Zollman, Polipnick and Middendorf placed in the state competition April 29 at Eastview High School in Apple Valley. The competing trio got seventh in their respective categories – Zollman in dramatic interpretation and Middendorf and Polipnick in duo interpretation. See next week’s Herald for more detailed coverage of their achievement.
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• Mortgage Foreclosures (5) - pgs. 7, 8 and 9 • Assumed Names (6) - Motor Works Auto - pg. 7 • Sauk Centre Public Utilities Commission Report - pg. 7 • Notice to Sauk River Watershed District Residents - pg. 7 • Stearns County General Notice to Control or Eradicate Noxious Weeds - pg. 9 • City of West Union Notice of Public Hearing - pg. 7 • Probate Notice - Stern - pg. 8
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