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Vol. 169, No. 34
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Career, technical programs thriving at SRRHS
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BY TOM FENTON | STAFF WRITER
he importance of schools working with business leaders, especially in elds such as manufacturing and other trades, is nearly impossible to overstate. Perhaps that is the reason about 75 educators, school administrators and business owners gathered for a meeting of the Central Minnesota Manufacturers Association Nov. 16 at St. Cloud Technical & Community College in St. Cloud. The purpose of the Career and Technical Education Jamboree was to help all interested parties work together on closing what remains a large gap of workers. “It’s great to see that local businesses take time out of their busy days to talk with people in the schools,” said Jake Masters, a technology education instructor at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. “These people have so much on their plates, but they’re willing to come to a meeting in large numbers to hear what’s happening in the high schools, which is great.” A large portion of the meeting was devoted to SRRHS, which was recognized for its CTE program that had business owners nodding their heads in approval and wanting to know more.
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PHOTO BY TOM FENTON
Junior Isabelle Goebel works on a bench she designed and has built this semester in an industrial technology class Nov. 17 at Sauk Rapids-Rice School in Sauk Rapids. Goebel has taken several classes school’s Career and Technical Education program.
Benton County contingent makes $18.5 million bonding pitch Mayhew Lake Road project presented to Senate Capital Investment Committee BY TIM HENNAGIR | STAFF WRITER
Sen. Sandra Pappas, DFL-St. Paul, the committee’s chair, and Sens. John Benton County of cials presented a Jasinski, R-Faribault, and Jordan Ras$18.5 million bonding request when the musson, R-Fergus Falls, made brief Minnesota Senate’s Capital Investment comments during the bus tour stop, Committee rolled into town Nov. 9. which also included presentations by Committee members met at Sauk Rap- the city of Sauk Rapids. ids-Rice High School as part of the central “We’d like to ask you to keep your section of its 2023 bonding tour. presentation to 10 minutes,” Pappas The area visit included over 20 comsaid. “We are running behind schedule munities and nearly 40 proposed projects. with our bus tour.” County engineer Chris Byrd and Byrd said Benton County was recommissioners Steve Heinen and Jared questing $15 million for construction Gapinski presented the County State Aid and $3.5 million for the project. Highway 1 (Mayhew Lake Road NorthPHOTO BY TIM HENNAGIR Sen. Sandra Pappas, DFL-St. Paul, Capital Investment Committee chair, confers with east) capital bonding request in a swiftly Investment committee Sen. John Jasinski, R-Faribault, during a Nov. 9 capital bonding bus tour visit to Sauk moving presentation. page 3 Rapids-Rice High School in Sauk Rapids. Members of the Minnesota Senate committee visited over 20 Central Minnesota communities to learn about projects.
PUBLIC NOTICES
The newspaper of today is the history of tomorrow.
• Mortgage Foreclosures - pg. 14 • Probate Notice - Tollefson - pg. 18 • Sauk Rapids-Rice School District Annual Budget Notice - pg. 14 • Sauk Rapids-Rice School Ad for Bids (2) - pg. 14 and 15 • City of Sauk Rapids Public Hearing - pg. 14 • Benton County Board of Commissioners Reg. Minutes, Nov. 7 - pg. 15 • City of Sauk Rapids Notice of Hearing on Improvement - pg. 15
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