Central Minnesota Builders Association recently visited with area legislators during Builder Day at the Capitol. The members were part of a group of more than 250 individuals from the home-building-and-remodeling industry across Minnesota who talked with their legislators about the new building and energy codes, regulatory costs and more. Pictured here are (left to right) Matt Cecko, Home Check Plus; Steve Noble, Noble Custom Homes; Marty Reker, Reker Construction Inc.; Sue Lentner, Tri-County Abstract and Title Guaranty; Dale and Rachel Gruber, Dale Gruber Construction Inc.; Pete Cluever, Xcel Energy; and CMBA President Craig Schoenberg, Schoenberg Construction Inc.
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A team of five eighth-graders from Sartell Middle School won second place at the 2016 Minnesota U.S. Academic Triathlon State Tournament, held recently at Cottage Grove Middle School. The team, coached by Nicole Maslowski, consists of (left to right) members Sam Brandt, Jaden Nguyen, Ayleigh Hammond, Alex Erickson-Murphy and Sarah Ufearo. Maslowski is on the far right. During the Tournament, the team wrote, produced and performed a skit with just 40 minutes to write and rehearse. The topic was “Getting Into the Spirit” and students had to show what might happen if they had to live with a holiday/seasonal/team spirit for the rest of their lives. They participated in a “Face-Off!,” a round of questions from history and math to literature and consumer issues; and rotated among three challenging “Mind Sprint” problems, testing their verbal, critical and creative problem-solving skills. The team has been practicing since last fall.
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Superintendent Willie Jett (left) of District 742 extends his thanks to Tron Swanson of Krillan Printing.
Tron Swanson and his staff at Krillan Printing, a Sartell company, have been hosting Community Options 2 students for the past two years. Eight CO2 students have had the opportunity to learn the skills an individual thinking about a career in the screen-printing industry needs. Krillan does an excellent job of providing interns with a full experience that promotes growth, allows students an opportunity to learn the field’s culture and etiquette, and gives them a “real world” perspective of the occupation. Throughout the past two years, Krillan has become a highly desirable internship for CO2 students due to the rich experiences Tron and his staff have provided in learning the industry and teaching interns the skills necessary to successfully navigate working with co-workers, customers and supervisors.
The CO2 program is a transition program for St. Cloud School District 742 students 18-21 with mild disabilities. CO2 is a partnership between St. Cloud Area School District 742 and St. Cloud State University’s college of education. CO2 students gain work-related skills as they participate in a variety of vocational experiences at sites around the SCSU campus and throughout the St. Cloud community.
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Brandi Bollig, daughter of John Bollig of Sartell, was inducted into the Theta of Minnesota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University. Bollig is a senior biology major at CSB and one of 65 students from CSB and SJU to receive an invitation.
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ACT Sartell was selected as a grant recipient from the Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging. Grant dollars will be used to provide education and community outreach for community members touched by memory loss or dementia. The grant dollar award is part of a two-phase distribution in the amount of up to $14,000. Opportunity Matters Inc. is the fiscal host for ACT Sartell.
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The Sartell High School Boys Varsity Track and Field team finished 1st place at the Cambridge-Isanti True Team Invitational at Cambridge-Isanti High School. Ben Gault had a lifetime best throw in the shotput to lead the throwers. The boys’ triple jumpers had three boys over 40 feet: Jake Lieberg, Mitchell Dockendorf and Ethan Kiffmeyer.
