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Same Local Coverage Since 1854. | 2 Second Ave. S., Suite 135, Sauk Rapids, MN 56379 Vol. 169, No. 24
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King Logan Bauer and Queen Sienna Petermeier represent Sauk Rapids-Rice High School during its 2023 homecoming week Sept. 11-16 in Sauk Rapids. The two were selected by the ninth through 12th grade student body via votes.
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Claire Schultz, a Sauk Rapids-Rice Middle School student, sits with five containers of pop tabs in August. She decided to begin collecting the aluminum flip tops for the Ronald McDonald House charity in spring 2022.
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Bauer, Petermeier crowned homecoming royalty
‘Help Claire help others’ garners 185-pound donation
BY NATASHA BARBER STAFF WRITER
BY NATASHA BARBER | STAFF WRITER
With homecoming week arriving early in the 2023-24 school year, Sauk Rapids-Rice
About 19 months ago in spring 2022, Claire Schultz set out to do something special. Following a conversation at the dinner table of her parents Greg and Christine, Claire twisted a pop tab from an aluminum can and placed it in a mason jar. It was the start of a collection meant to change lives. Now, 185 pounds of pop tabs later and with the help of friends, family and quite possibly complete strangers, 11-year-old Claire has reached the benchmark of helping families at Ronald McDonald houses in Minnesota. She donated her accumulation Aug. 25 at the Ronald McDonald House in Rochester. The proceeds will bene t the Ronald McDonald House Charities Midwest MN, WI, IA.
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High School wasted no time in selecting it next royal king and queen. King Logan Bauer and Queen Sienna Petermeier were crowned Sept. 11 on just the
fourth day of the school year for the entire student body.
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Split decision Sauk Rapids council opts to continue school resource officer contract BY NATASHA BARBER & TOM FENTON | STAFF WRITER
Sauk Rapids City Council members were faced with a tough decision Monday evening: Terminate a school resource of cer position with Independent School District 47 or continue the con-
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tract despite new legislation. Over 30 police departments and sheriff’s of ces have pulled school resource of cers from Minnesota school buildings after legislation passed in May re-
• City of Sauk Rapids Reg. Meeting Minutes, Aug. 28 - pg. 13 • Sauk Rapids-Rice School Board Meeting Minutes, Aug. 21 - pg. 12 • Benton County Planning Commission Public Hearings - pg. 9 • Benton County Sherrif’s Office Notice - pg. 9 • Mortgage Foreclosure - pg. 13
placed the word “or” with “to” in the Minnesota’s reasonable force standard statute 121A.852, subdivision 1. Under the revised law, school employees and agents of the school — which includes school resource of cers — may only use reasonable force “to prevent bodily harm or death to the student or to another.”
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OBITUARY Candace R. Nagel
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