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Herald Sauk Centre
NUMBER 15 • VOLUME 157
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
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First Day at Holy Family School
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Shannon (left) and Ace Twedt take a walk in Sinclair Lewis Park in Sauk Centre. Their family and friends have been personally affected by mental health issues, prompting them to raise awareness about the growing national problem.
Healing for emotional scars Twedt family holding Sept. 16 walk for mental health BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
As mental health problems become more serious nationwide, the Twedt family, of Sauk Centre, is holding a walk Saturday, Sept. 16, on the Lake Wobegon Trail, sponsored by The Scars Foundation, to bring attention to these issues. With this walk, Shannon Twedt wants people to realize it is OK to not be OK. “It’s OK to talk if you have issues,” Shannon said. “If you feel like life’s not worth it, it’s OK to reach out and talk to somebody about it. It doesn’t need to be a stigma anymore.” Shannon’s oldest child, Ace, 14, agrees. “The goal is to get people to know they’re not alone,” Ace said. “They can find the help they need to thrive.” Walk participants are encouraged to meet at the Stearns County Fairgrounds, 1105 Ash St. S., in Sauk Centre – the area near the Lake Wobegon Trail – between 8-8:45 a.m. From there, Shannon hopes to secure a bus or volunteers to transport walkers to Coborn’s in Melrose, so the walk can start there and proceed down the Lake Wobegon Trail. That way, people will end the walk where their vehicles are parked.
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Thiesen wins second state championship
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Holy Family School Principal Lisa Otte welcomes students back Sept. 5 in Sauk Centre. The school has 254 students registered this year and will be piloting the Believe and Read Curriculum to promote student literacy.
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Climate in California Boschee completes San Diego meteorology internship BY BEN SONNEK STAFF WRITER
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Macoy Thiesen receives the Minnesota State Fair 4-H Supreme Grand Champion Breeding Sheep award for the second year in a row Aug. 25 at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in Falcon Heights. Thiesen also won the fair’s 4-H Reserve Grand Champion Senior Showman award.
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While Minnesota certainly has a wide range of weather, it does not have it all, so it was a learning experience for Azara Boschee when she interned at the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego. She narrowly missed studying Hurricane Hilary up close, but her time taught her much about weather models and predicting flood damage. “I’ve wanted to be a meteorologist since I was a kid,” Boschee said. “I used to have a fear of storms. I got over that eventually because I looked into things immensely, and in high school, I started getting into research and teaching and had that idea of something I’d want to go into.” Raised in Sauk Centre, Boschee is currently studying meteorology as a senior at St. Cloud State University. To further her
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Azara Boschee presents the poster with her internship project Aug. 17 at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego, California. Boschee’s project was a method of predicting flood damages with machine learning, which she is continuing to refine today.
experience, she was interested in a summer internship somewhere with heavy precipitation and weather extremes, so she was eager to apply at SIO. “When I saw they were doing an internship, I was like, this place is exactly what I want to do in the future – dealing with weather, water and flooding,” Boschee said. “Their main thing is dealing with atmospheric rivers, which bring a lot of weather to the West Coast and California, and it can lead to flooding and other events, but it’s a big driver of how they get
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their water.” After she was accepted, Boschee traveled to San Diego and started her internship June 24, although she talked with her mentors before the project and was able to get preparation work out of the way beforehand. Boschee’s internship involved research and coding, and attending small seminars on topics such as conducting research and making presentations. She worked with other interns from California, but there was one from Florida and another from the United Arab Emirates.
“I got to know them very well,” Boschee said. “We had great conversations about weather. We’d be talking about something we have in our climate that’s different from other areas, and the other interns would be like, ‘What? No way.’ It was always fun to learn like that, on the personal level.” One of the stranger facts Boschee could share was how Minnesota gets warmer than San Diego during the summer.
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