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Vol. 168, No. 51
masterpieces Sauk Rapids small business creates custom
CW & Son Metal Fabrication & Woodworking represents tag team effort
BY NATASHA BARBER STAFF WRITER
BY TIM HENNAGIR | STAFF WRITER
Sandy Logrono is the next principal at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. Logrono was named for the position, pending school board approval March 27. As the current interim, Logrono will assume Sandy Logrono full responsibility for the high school July 1. Following the resignation of Karl Nohner in spring 2022, the Sauk Rapids-Rice School District sought applications for the high school principal position from Jan. 6 through March 3.
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Spring flooding forecast bears watching
Carl Weisenbeck can quickly trace the genesis of his Sauk Rapids custom fabrication business. It all started with a friendly conversation involving the concept of reverse-engineering. A woodworking friend in Wisconsin knew Weisenbeck was an industrial welder. “He asked me to build an industrial table base,” he said. “He showed me pictures of his design. It was plate steel.” Weisenbeck transformed the raw material into what looked like a sand-cast base from the 1880s. “It turned out better than I imagined,” he said. “That’s kind of what got the business started.” Producing custom metal bases for other woodworkers and preparing custom furniture and outdoor products began an to take more and more of Weisenbeck’s time. Weisenbeck recalled his youth, when at age 12, he needed ded d a desk at home. He built it himself. “It was nothing fancy,” he said. “Honestly, I needed help. elp. My son, James, was about age 10 when he started out as a sanding apprentice. He’s moved up, knows how to thread rod, weld and do everything.” James, now 16, is a sophomore at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. Like his father, James designed a hanging desk for his room at home. “He’s also a really good chef,” Weisenbeck said. “One of his teachers thinks he also has a future in writing. So, who knows?”
PHOTOS SUBMITTED Weisenbeck James and Carl Weisenbeck, of works k full f ll time ti CW & Son Metal Fabrication & as a signalman Woodworking, share a unique on the Canadian father-son small business Paci c Railroad. bond. Carl developed skills for He is gone four woodworking at a young age and has passed these days and is home on skills to James. the weekends. That is when he lls orders for CW & Son Metal Fabrication & Woodworking. “It’s not a hobby but a side job,” he said. “It’s a father and son deal. Sometimes, my wife, Michelle, comes out and helps.” The only one who cannot help is daughter, Carley. She is busy with gymnastics. Weisenbeck’s product designs come to fruition in his head. He also produces sketches for customers based on their ideas. “Otherwise, people will just send me a A custom-made photo of something they have drawn out on table sits inside a napkin or a piece of paper,” he said. “I just a client’s home. get the dimensions I’m missing from that Carl and James and ll it in from there.” Weisenbeck tailor Weisenbeck’s preference is having a woodworking pieces customer share their ideas and send picto client’s spaces. tures of what they like. Brass and aluminum inlays are popular, along with industrial table bases and farmstyle tables.
National Weather Service briefs emergency directors BY TIM HENNAGIR STAFF WRITER The National Weather Service Twin Cities reports an increased risk of area-wide spring ooding. The NWS has raised the threat of spring ooding to “above normal” in the watersheds of the Upper Mississippi River in recently issued outlooks. According to the National Weather Service, the Mississippi River at St. Cloud currently has a 57% chance of reaching moderate ood stage.
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• Watab Township Notice of Ord. No. 5 - pg. 10 • Watab Township Notice of Ord. No. 6 - pg. 11 • Benton County Board of Commissioners Reg. Minutes, March 7 - pg. 10 • Benton County Board of Commissioners Reg. Minutes, Feb. 21 - pg. 11 • Mayhew Lake Township Property Assessment Notice - pg. 10
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