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Sauk Scouts
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Sauk Centre Cub Scouts – (from left) Jaxx VanHavermaet, Gus Judkins, Wesley Kepp, Garret Duchene, Hunter Groetsch and Jay Wilber – camp at the Father Hennepin State Park June 11. After seeing a membership decline over the years, the Sauk Centre Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts are looking for new members, hosting a Join in Scouts night from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, in the Sauk Centre Elementary School cafeteria.
Local troop looking for new membership BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
This year is the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Sauk Centre Boy Scouts, not to mention the 25th anniversary of the Sauk Centre Cub Scouts. As the group prepares to celebrate these milestones, though, new leadership within the organization is looking to revitalize the Scouts as their numbers have fallen to the single digits in recent years. The Sauk Centre Scouts will be holding a Join in Scouts night from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, in the Sauk Centre Elementary School cafeteria. “This program isn’t just for the Scouts; it is for the parents as well,” said Sauk Centre Scouts committee chair Nikki Duchene. “Each parent can be involved in some way or fashion, whether that is being a den leader or simply helping with the day’s lesson. It truly takes a village to make the program succeed.” Ben Judkins grew up as a Cub Scout in Maple Grove, a larger pack, and he has been the Sauk Centre Scoutmaster since March 2021. Around that time, he and other Scout parents came forward to reorient the group. The Cub Scout program had about 25 students in the early 2000s, but that number fell to five in 2021 and has since risen to eight; there is one Eagle Scout in the current troop, but he is about to leave in the fall. “A lot of us didn’t feel like the program was really living up to what it should be,” Judkins said. “We really wanted to see some changes in our programming to follow more what the Scout program is as far as boys learning about the outdoors, camping, aspects that are typically part of Scouts. I think, with COVID and everything else, that fell by the wayside, and so it was just time to pick the program up and revitalize it.”
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A large crowd of interested bidders gathers around the auctioneer truck on one side and the tractors for sale on the other during the Fall 2022 Mid-American Auction Sept. 10 in Sauk Centre. The auction sold a wide range of farm, lawn and garden vehicles and equipment.
Money and safety City makes cuts in preliminary No signature for community 2023 general fund expenses policing agreement
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BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
Facing rising prices, the City of Sauk Centre has had to make cutbacks in their planned general fund expenses in the preliminary 2023 budget. When the city held their Aug. 31 budget workshop, they found there had been a general fund revenue understatement; instead of a $300,000 gap of revenues over expenses, there was a $216,291 gap. To close the gap the rest of the way, more budget cut suggestions were proposed and put before the Sauk Centre City Council Sept. 7 during their regular meeting at Sauk Centre City Hall. “Everything in life is going up, and I think we as a city council should show the citizens that we’re being responsible,” Sauk Centre Mayor Warren Stone said.
While the council did not sign a community policing agreement, they did acknowledge how the process behind it has already strengthened how the Sauk Centre Police Department serves the local minority communities. A few months ago, the SCPD met with a committee, including Hispanic community members, regarding the department’s policies and practices. According to SCPD Chief Bryon Friedrichs, discrepancies were noted in how the department handled traffic stops, and so they began work on an agreement July 7; the agreement is essentially a memo of understanding, outlining the SCPD’s practices, none of which were changed.
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Reading with friends HFS students maintain book club BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
For six students of Holy Family School in Sauk Centre, their individual love of stories has become a group pursuit with their book club. The six girls – fourth graders Kali Yarke and Brynn Borgmann and fifth graders Lauren Sunderman, Elizabeth Friedrichs, Raya Nathe and Kadie Miller – are continuing this club into the school year, reading books and comparing them to their cinematic adaptations. The club started in August this year when Yarke and Nathe were visiting each
other. “We were at my house, just talking about books, and then my mom (Jill Yarke) said, ‘You guys should start a book club,’” Yarke said. The total group of six knew each other through HFS, and most of them also live in the same general neighborhood. The book club does not have an official name or leader – although Yarke often serves as the group’s spokesperson.
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Holy Family School students – (front, from left) Lauren Sunderman, Elizabeth Friedrichs and Kali Yarke; (back, from left) Brynn Borgmann, Raya Nathe and Kadie Miller – bring their books to school Sept. 12 at HFS in Sauk Centre. The six students started a book club in August and are continuing it through the school year.
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