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Members of the Stearns County 4-H team that competed internationally - Tyler Ratka (from left), Lanna Walter, Megan Ratka and Dan Frericks - stand in front of cattle June 26 at Brieryside Ayrshires & Arranview Holsteins farm near Maybole, Scotland. The farm is one of six dairy farms the team toured while abroad.
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Jeff Borchert, holding a purple martin birdhouse, also places new and old bluebird birdhouses next to each other July 6 at the Saukinac Campground north of Sauk Centre. Borchert has placed at least 100 bluebird houses, about nine purple martin houses and about 20 wood duck houses around the campground since becoming its owner in 2013.
Borchert places over 100 birdhouses at Saukinac Campground BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
Throughout the spring and summer, campers at the Saukinac Campground at the north end of Sauk Lake have their mornings and evenings filled with birdsong, thanks to the 100-plus birdhouses placed around the property by the campground’s owner, Jeff Borchert. For him, this is one of the many ways he sustains and gives back to the land that provides recreation to so many throughout the years. “I’ve been loving birds my whole life, maybe more than planting trees,” Borchert said. He has owned Saukinac Campground since the spring of 2013. “We’ve had one camper come here for over 30 years,” he said. “She told me, before we bought this place, there were no birds here.”
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24 in Scotland and the Clonmel Local youth compete internationally June Show July 2 in Ireland. At both comBY ALEX CHRISTEN STAFF WRITER
When Lanna Walter was talked into joining the Stearns County 4-H Dairy Judging Team in 2021, she was excited, she said, to spend time with the other members of the team. However, she never envisioned the time with them would include international travel. Walter is one of the four Stearns County 4-H members who had
the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in dairy judging across the Atlantic in Scotland and Ireland. The other members of the team include Megan and Tyler Ratka of Cold Spring and Dan Frericks of Melrose. The team was coached by Tara Meyer of Sauk Centre, Sadie Frericks of Melrose and Kevin Ratka of Cold Spring. While judging abroad, the team participated in two different judging contests, the Royal Highland Show
petitions, the team experienced differences in the judging process that were new to them. “The first contest, in Scotland, was different from how we’ve ever judged before,” Walter said. All of the team’s previous contests until this point had been pretty similar in structure. There are normally 12 minutes given for judging the non-reasons classes and 15 minutes for reasons classes.
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City approves Lakeview Drive, Sauk Lane projects The Sauk Centre City the streets’ bituminous layer Residents ask questions, Council temporarily re- and repairing curbs before their July 5 meeting reapplying a bituminous give feedback at public hearing cessed at Sauk Centre City Hall layer. for a public hearing involving the 2023 improvement and assessment for LakevWith trail projects put form street maintenance on iew Drive and Sauk Lane on hold for this year, the Lakeview Drive and Sauk in Sauk Centre. The project scope involves removing city of Sauk Centre will per- Lane. BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
“There are 17 individual property owners (in the project area), plus the city,” said Sauk Centre City Administrator Vicki Willer.
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Seniors look forward to July 13 Pie and Ice Cream Social BY BEN SONNEK STAFF WRITER
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Remnants of Sauk Centre Elementary School’s entrance mosaic are still visible as members of the Sauk Centre Public Schools Board and consulting firm SitelogIQ inspect the building construction progress July 10 in Sauk Centre. Structural steel installation is expected to be finished this week, with roofing scheduled to commence Monday, July 17.
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The Sauk Centre Seniors’ Pie and Ice Cream Social may be marking its 25th year, but there are plenty of local piemakers who have been practicing their skills for longer than that. For instance, Jo Rehkamp, 100, and Rose Betow, 90, have been making pies since they were children and have contributed to the annual social for years. Rehkamp and Betow – along with Senior Center Director Donna Broermann and Sauk Centre Seniors President Tony Jennissen – are looking forward to seeing all the people who come to the event from 2 to 4 p.m., Thursday, July 13 at the senior center, 321 Fourth St. N., Sauk Centre.
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Rose Betow displays one of her blueberry pies July 11 at her home in Sauk Centre. Betow will be bringing two blueberry pies and one sour cream and raisin pie to the July 13 Sauk Centre Seniors’ 25th annual Pie and Ice Cream Social.
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