Nolan Frank of Sartell finished first for University of Jamestown and seventh overall in the men’s North Star Athletic Association golf championship April 26 at Wilderness Ridge in Lincoln, Neb., earning first-team All-NSAA recognition. He was also awarded the individual student-athlete Champion of Character.
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Aaron Evans of Sartell received a $1,500 student arts scholarship from the Central Minnesota Arts Board for industrial design at Iowa State University. The program is designed to support students entering or enrolled in an accredited institution who are pursuing undergraduate degrees in the arts. Individuals are eligible to receive up to four of these scholarships in a lifetime.
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Tera Melgard of Sartell recently earned her certified public accountant designation from the Minnesota State Board of Accountancy. She joined Conway, Deuth & Schmiesing PLLP in 2013 as an administrative assistant. In 2015, Melgard graduated from the College of St. Scholastica with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a minor in business management, after which she transitioned into a staff accountant role. Her focus areas are bookkeeping, financial statement preparation, payroll and tax preparation.
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Five Sartell students were honored at the Students of Excellence Banquet and Recognition ceremony April 27 at River’s Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud. The evening was dedicated to honoring the top 140 high school seniors from 36 Region 7 high schools. The honorees were nominated by their school or district and received a plaque recognizing their accomplishment and a certificate from Gov. Mark Dayton. These students are Matthew Michaud, Clare Minnerath, Gopi Ramanathan, Dawson Rogers and Austin Sura.
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Four Sartell students recently graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato. They are Tate Corcoran, bachelor’s degree in biology, cum laude; Cassidy Ross, bachelor’s degree in communication disorders, summa cum laude; Erin Skoog, bachelor’s degree in mass communications; and Rebecca Sonbol, bachelor’s degree in psychology, cum laude.
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Alyssa Yapp, daughter of Tammie and Keith Yapp, is among more than 80 students from Concordia College, Moorhead, studying in summer school abroad programs and summer field study programs offered through global learning at Concordia. She will participate in Italian Summer School Abroad in Florence, Pordenone, Rome, Trieste and Venice.
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St. Cloud Orthopedics has moved its High Energy Advanced Training Program into the Fitness Evolution facility in Sartell. This transition creates a new local partnership that enhances the popular program’s capabilities while providing a fitness-forward environment with ample space for training. HEAT was designed to enhance and restore flexibility, strength, power, speed and cardiovascular conditioning using sound scientific and medical principles. Until now, it has been offered in-clinic at St. Cloud Orthopedics. With its growing popularity among the area’s high school athletes and adults looking to better their overall fitness, staff recognized the need for a larger facility. With its 35,000 square-foot facility, 10,000 additional square feet for sports-specific training and 17 on-staff certified trainers, Fitness Evolution provided the solution.
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Catholic Charities Emergency Services Food Shelf collected more than $160,000 and 210,000 pounds of food during the annual Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign to help battle hunger in Sartell, Sauk Rapids, St. Cloud, St. Augusta and Waite Park. That landed it in the number two spot statewide.
