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Stroke: a silent killer at any age
Hugo resident pursues ‘sweet’ baking adventure BY SHANNON GRANHOLM EDITOR
HUGO — After Uptown Girl Cupcakes & Desserts closed shop in White Bear Lake, a local resident had to decide what was next in her baking adventure. Robin Udstuen worked at Uptown Girl for two and a half years under Melynda Harjes. “I learned a lot from her,” she said. Harjes closed the shop in May as the business was interfering with her other job. Udstuen thought about potentially becoming a baker at a store, but didn’t want to join a “cookie cutter” production. She also wanted to make sure that whatever direction she went, she would not interfere with her and her husband John’s other business, off-brand snack food distributing. After some encouragement from Harjes, her husband, and friends and family, she decided to open up a business in her home and named it Sugar Fairy. Although Udstuen has always considered herself a cook, her love of baking developed when
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Sugar Fairy has been up and running for a little over a month. The name Sugar Fairy was her youngest son’s idea. “We had a shared space (at Uptown
When well-loved White Bear Lake booster Deb Stender succumbed to stroke at age 46 last February, the shock around the community was palpable. Here was a strong, healthy woman who one day was planning events like Marketfest and Township Day, and the next undergoing emergency surgery to remove a blood clot in her brain. “No one can tell me why she suffered a stroke,” said Stender’s husband Jeff. “She didn’t have high blood pressure, she ate well and exercised. Doctors told me it can happen to anyone.” Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, next to heart disease and cancer. There are two types: ischemic and hemorrhagic. About 87 percent of strokes are ischemic, in which a blood clot blocks blood flow to the brain. These strokes are treated with a clot-buster medication called tissue
SEE SUGAR FAIRY, PAGE 10
SEE STROKE, PAGE 16
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For a little over a month now, Robin Udstuen has run her business Sugar Fairy out of her home in Hugo.
she was planning for her youngest son’s high school graduation party. “I started making different flavors each weekend and we would have a couple friends over to try them. I had them put them in ‘yes or no’ piles.
Well, everything ended up in the ‘yes’ pile,” she said. “It was really fun after you got through the stress of everything.” She made 17 different kinds of cupcakes and arranged them into a football display.
Former Lino Lakes ambassador interns with dolphins BY SHANNON GRANHOLM EDITOR
A former 2013-14 Miss Lino Lakes Ambassador was on cloud nine this spring when an idea became a reality. Wyoming resident Rachel Huset, a 2014 Forest Lake grad, interned with Island Dolphin Care (IDC) in Key Largo, Florida, for six weeks in March and April. “Ever since I was 11 or 12 I have wanted to work with dolphins. Throughout school I realized sciences really weren’t my thing,” she recalled. “I didn’t really think about animal behavior or anything else at that point, and I am not really an animal person: I am a dolphin person.” While in high school, Huset was a personal care attendant (PCA) for a young girl with disabilities and found another passion. “It sparked my interest. I developed this joy and love for being around people with disabilities. They bring a different outlook
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on life and a joy to the world that I don’t see in other people,” she said. That experience not only taught her how to be patient but motivated her to become an intern with the Special Olympics. After she graduated, she attended the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where she majored in business administration and psychology. She graduated in December 2017. During her freshman year of college, Huset got to thinking back to her PCA experiences and how that young girl did both water and horseback therapy. “I was brushing my hair getting ready for class, when I randomly thought, ‘I bet you could use dolphins for therapy,’” she said. Huset began searching online for dolphin therapy but didn’t fi nd much. Eventually, she stumbled across IDC and realized the organization offered internships, but there were some requirements. She had to be 21 and she had to have a certain major, one of which SEE DOLPHIN LOVE, PAGE 15
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Former Miss Lino Lakes Ambassador Rachel Huset interned with Island Dolphin Care this spring for six weeks. Here she performs a “handshake” with a dolphin.
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