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A happy ending
Number 18 • Volume 134
The heart of a hospice volunteer
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Inderrieden used what she learned when caring for her husband BY CAROL MOORMAN | STAFF WRITER
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Mikayla Curry (left), Melrose Area High School speech head coach, gathers with Ellie Heller, Class A state speech storytelling champion, April 29 at the Minnesota State High School League State Class A Speech State Tournament at Eastview High School in Apple Valley. It was the second year Heller earned the title and the third year she competed at state.
birthday card sits on a table in Rose Ann Inderrieden’s Melrose home. The card celebrates her husband, Ralph’s, 80th birthday April 18. But the card is for Rose Ann, from the CentraCare hospice team. Ralph passed away Sept. 20, 2022, two months after he went on hospice care. As Ralph’s wife of 50 years, Rose Ann, or Rosie as he called her, appreciates the thoughtfulness. As a CentraCare Health Hospice volunteer, she knows the importance of caring for people on hospice and their family before and after their death. “Being a volunteer and being there for people makes you stronger. It makes you feel like you’re doing a little something to help people,” she said April 27. “I’ve met wonderful people who have been on hospice and have had wonderful conversations with families. They need somebody that can put a smile on their face.” It was because of Rose Ann and her siblings’ experience when their mother, Elsie Hellermann, was on hospice that she became a hospice
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Heller two-time Melrose speech storytelling champion; team second at state
volu n teer 11 years ago, for St. Mic h a e l ’s PHOTO BY Hospice in CAROL MOORMAN Sauk Centre. Rose Ann Inderrieden looks at a pillow with Before that, COMMUNITY COVERAGE 127 YEARS her husband Ralph’s Ralph’s mother photo and a special Susan also was saying April 27 in her on hospice. Melrose home. In front “Hospice provides comof her are pamphlets she fort care. You don’t want to see someone sufdistributes as a hospice fer,” Rose Ann said. “Aides would come in and what not to volunteer to clients and and spend time with Mom, and then you had talk about. their families. Rose Ann the hospice nurses that visited her.” Hospice care focuses on quality of life laughs with them, for people who are experiencing a life-limiting plays cards with them, sits quietly with them if they do not want to illness and their caregivers. Volunteers are assigned clients by the hos- talk or if they are sleeping, and prays with pice volunteer coordinator and the best days them. and times to visit them, along with information Inderrieden page 4 so they know what to talk with them about –
MOORMAN AsBY theCAROL sun was starting to rise Monday, Commercial STAFF WRITER Contractors Company workers from Melrose were inside the Lisa’s On Main building working on securing Elliewall. Heller has herPHOTO own BY CAROL MOORMAN the west story to tell. This Melrose Area High School senior is a two-time state speech champion, earning top honors in storytelling April 29 during the Minnesota State High School League State Class A Speech Tournament at Eastview High School in Apple Valley. Standing with the other seven storytelling finalists, in front of a gym filled with speech participants and fans, she heard the name of the second place winner in storytelling and realized she had won. “The first thing I did was look at my parents in the crowd, and it was a great moment seeing them jump on their feet with everybody,” said Heller, the daughter of Dr. Pat and Juliann Heller. She was part of a Melrose team earning second place, PHOTO BY CAROL MOORMAN with 47 points, at the state Volunteers Marina Doubek (from left), Lois Reber and Betty Fischer gather tournament. Mounds Park around a book shelving cart April 18 at the Albany Great River Regional Academy, with 65 points, took Library in Albany. They enjoy the duties they are tasked with completing first place. during their volunteering days and the people they meet. Melrose sent 17 speakers to the state meet, a school record. During the day-long competition, 10 Melrose speakers advanced to finals and earned medals, including Heller, who has competed at BY CAROL MOORMAN | STAFF WRITER state three times. Drew Pundsack, third time at state, earned Don’t be surprised if you have their day or days to volunteer second in creative expression. see volunteer Lois Reber paging at the Albany library. Kathy DaMakalya Zirbes, third time through a children’s book as she vidson, another volunteer and a reat state, earned third in great shelves books at the Albany Great tired teacher from Avon, recently speeches. Anessa RedepenRiver Regional Library. finished 15 years of implementing ning, second time at state, “There are authors that have many storytimes at the library. earned fourth in extemporanean imagination like you would not “She loved spending time with ous reading. Amelia Brower, believe,” she said April 18. numerous children from the comsecond time at state, earned Reber was sitting around a li- munity and is still available for fourth in informative speakbrary table with fellow volunteers on-call volunteering,” said Irene ing. Vanessa Santana, second Marina Doubek and Betty Fischer Gruber, Albany library assistant. time at state, earned fourth in during National Volunteer Week poetry. April 16-22. Along with Cheryl Speech page 3 Library page 4 Schaefer, these four women each
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Landon Pingry (left) and Megan Lieser pass under a balloon arch during the April 29 Holdingford High School prom grand march in the gym in Holdingford. Sixty-eight couples walked through the grand march in a gym decorated with small string lights, reflecting the Starry Night theme. (Right) Dierks Opatz (left) and Jada Mosey, winners of the Mixing Spoon Award, are the first couple to walk through the April 29 Holdingford High School prom grand march in the gym in Holdingford. The award is given to the juniors who best mix with the senior class.
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