Herald Sauk Centre
NUMBER 12 • VOLUME 157
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2023
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Volunteering a legacy for senior citizens
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Carol (front, left) and Jerry Musburger and (back) Dorothy and John Sells gather Aug. 9 at the Sauk Centre Senior Center in Sauk Centre. All four have each volunteered more than 50 years, totaling 200 years, in the communities where they have lived.
Sells, Musburgers dedicated to helping others BY CAROL MOORMAN | STAFF WRITER
John and Dorothy Sells hit the ground running when they moved to Sauk Centre November of 1999. They started volunteering at the Sauk Centre Food Shelf, bringing with them years of experience. Jerry and Carol Musburger did the same when they moved to Melrose in 2000 and to Sauk Centre in 2007. Each was active with the American Legion Post and Auxiliary, and Carol volunteered at the white school house in Melrose and currently at the Little Red School House in Sauk Centre. “It’s good to join organizations when you move to town. It’s how you find out what’s going on,” John said Aug. 9 sitting around a table at the Sauk Centre Senior Center with Dorothy and the Musburgers, while two tables of men played cards. Both couples are active members of the senior center, which has close to 100 members. “Vic Schwinghamer, Melvin Ehlert and Henry Banal,” John said crediting this trio with starting the organization.
Campers – Vashelle Brannon (front, from left), Ann Foster, Darcee Larsen and Lorie Costello; and (back, from left) Rosie Court, Jane Meehan, Lori Hammerstrom, Sally Vogt and Kathy Dirkson – gather after breakfast Aug. 8 at the Vogt dairy farm south of Sauk Centre. Vogt invited friends in Sisters on the Fly, an outdoor adventure group for women, so they could visit and learn more about farming and Minnesota rural life.
Campers visit, learn at Vogt dairy farm
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fleet of campers parked at the Vogt dairy farm south of Sauk Centre for most of last week, as Sally Vogt invited camping friends from across Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota to her home to show them the farming life. She was initially planning to host this sort of informal get-together once, but in listening to her fellow campers and seeing how much they have enjoyed their time, she is already interested in doing it again. “This is the first event I’ve hosted,” Vogt said. “Once you’ve done it, you know the ins and outs.” The campers – Lorie Costello, Rosie Court, Lori Hammerstrom, Darcee Larsen, Vashelle Brannon, Ann Foster, Jane Meehan and Kathy Dirkson – did not come just for the recreation, but they also value their trip’s educational aspects.
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Jane Meehan greets the cows at the Vogt dairy farm Aug. 10 south of Sauk Centre. The campers arrived Aug. 8 and stayed for most of the remaining week.
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Under the radar GRAPHIC SUBMITTED
A map from the Association of Minnesota Emergency Managers shows areas of most and least weather radar coverage in the state. With much of the area’s severe weather coming from the west, Stearns County is particularly threatened by the radar gap that is mainly in Grant and Douglas counties.
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Weather detection Stearns County is alerting its residents to the public safety risk coming from gaps threaten weather radar gaps, particularly in the area of the state. The gaps are areas that are far from weather radar central Minnesota central-western stations, making it difficult to detect tornaBY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
Areas of low coverage in the state’s weather radar coverage could be putting central Minnesotans in danger should unexpected severe weather strike. “(We wanted to) let people know (the gap) exists to begin with,” said Bob Brezinka, Stearns County emergency management specialist. “You can’t find the solution to the problem if you don’t know there is one. … If (residents) have a concern about it, they can certainly reach out to their local legislators.”
does or other severe weather incidents and leaving people with little to no warning when they occur. In winter, the gaps make it harder to detect snowfall that happens farther away from weather stations. The closest weather radar stations to west-central Minnesota are in Duluth and Chanhassen and eastern North Dakota and South Dakota. These are part of the National Weather Service’s Next Generation Weather Radar, but although they cover most of Minnesota, the state’s size means there remain areas where low-altitude radar coverage is lacking.
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