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BENTON AG Section B
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11 2nd Ave. N., Unit 103, Sauk Rapids, Benton County, MN 56379
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Vol. 165, No. 19
Same Local Coverage Since 1854.
Rice council seeks applicants Candidate to be appointed to 1.5 year term RICE – Following the resignation of Rice City Council member Kyle Walter, the city of Rice is accepting letters of interest from those people willing to serve the remaining 1.5 year term. Applicants must be 21 years of age or older, eligible to vote in Minnesota and have maintained residence in the city of Rice for at least 30 days. Letters may be submitted to Rice City Hall between the hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. Applications will be accepted until 4 p.m. Aug. 27. Walter, who was appointed to serve a two year term in March, is relocating from the city of Rice and will no longer be eligible to serve. A replacement will be appointed in September. The Rice City Council meets the first and third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Council members are required to attend some special and committee meetings throughout each year.
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Happenstance heals a heartache Kantos reunited with long lost T-Bird BY NATASHA BARBER STAFF WRITER
SAUK RAPIDS – “It was just a car, but I was a little heartbroken I had to sell it,” said Tim Kantos, of Sauk PHOTOS BY NATASHA BARBER Rapids. Tim Kantos sits in his 1961 Ford Thunderbird Aug. 13 Kantos sold his 1961 Ford Thunoutside his home in Sauk Rapids. Kantos, who owned derbird in 1975 when he was short on the vehicle in the 1970s, coincidentally spotted the vehicle in a sales lot and repurchased his car.
cash and needed money to pay for college. Since that time, memories of the vehicle and the open road have never left his mind or heart. Many people share similar sentiments with the vehicles of their early driving years. Whether that vehicle was a classic sold away or a common
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One vital decision Johnsen recalls importance of wearing life preserver BY ANNA HINKEMEYER | STAFF WRITER
SAUK RAPIDS – One decision, minutes away from a life-changing accident, saved Leo Johnsen’s life. “I don’t think I would have made it if it weren’t for the life jacket,” Johnsen said. “I told my girlfriend we should put them on as we entered the Mississippi River from the Sauk River. We did, thankfully, because it saved my life.” Leo Johnsen and his girlfriend, Anna Rosburg, were kayaking on the Mississippi River in the area of Sauk Rapids May 5 when they headed into the rapids and overturned. Rosburg escaped the rapids and swam to shore, but Johnsen struggled amidst the river’s current. He was pulled into a hydraulic whirlpool which sucked him and his kayak to the bottom of the river, where he fell out of his kayak, and surfaced. Johnsen was pulled under the water three more times. By the time he surfaced and evaded the whirlpool, he had symptoms of hypothermia and was out of energy.
PHOTO BY ANNA HINKEMEYER
Leo Johnsen stands in front of the Mississippi River July 21 in Sauk Rapids. Behind him is the location where water swept him under after his kayak overturned May 5.
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PUBLIC NOTICES
• Mortgage Foreclosure - Elkins - pg. 9 • City of Rice Notice - pg. 9 • City of Sauk Rapids Reg. Meeting Minutes, July 22, 2019 - pg. 9
OBITUARIES • Jerome Post