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Sadder’s Automotive to close after 30 years BY MERRINA O’MALLEY PRESS INTERN
Sadder’s Automotive, a well-known car repair shop located in Lino Lakes, will be closing down after more than 30 years in business. Their last month in business will be July. The shop’s owner, Humberto Sadder, began working for Intercontinental Hotels in his native country of Columbia while also working with cars on the side. In 1982, at the age of 34 he moved from Columbia to the U.S. After moving to the states, he met and married his wife Patty and eventually settled in Minnesota. One day, after being laid off from his filler job as a clothing cleaner, he came across a little piece of land on the corner of Hodgson Road and County Road J while driving home. Prior to opening, Sadder spent 25 years working at dealerships as an automotive technician. He spent an additional two years working at Subaru dealerships in Chicago and Ohio in order to get
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Night to Unite Night to Unite is one week away. This year it falls on Tuesday, Aug. 1. The annual tradition helps neighbors get to know each other and build partnerships with area law enforcement and fire personnel.
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There are no limits for Circle Pines rower Perseverance is Skylar Dahl’s favorite word. They could put her picture next to it in the dictionary. Born with two club feet, Dahl refused to accept limitations placed on her. She played soccer and basketball in grade school until the pain in her feet forced her out. Then she discovered rowing. This spring, the 2021 Centennial graduate helped the University of Virginia rowing team capture the Atlantic Coach Conference championship and place 10th in the NCAA meet as a sophomore. Also eligible for Paralympic rowing, she’s in a group that won a meet in Paris in July and will compete in the World Rowing Championships in Serbia, Sept. 3-10, trying to qualify for the 2024 Paralympic Games. “I was built to compete,” Dahl declared, in a film she put out last November called “The Power of Perseverance and Why it Matters” to share her story and perhaps inspire others. The film can be viewed at YouTube.com/watch?v=OVve86pKC58.
To make the film she teamed with Uncut, an organization that spotlights student/athletes’ lives outside their sport, especially those with a unique personal story. “I received an incredible amount of support and positive feedback,” she said. Dahl was born with bilateral club feet (both in her case; in some babies it’s just one) meaning that the bones are out of the standard position. Typically, the front half of the affected foot turns inward and the heel points down. Her early childhood was marked by surgeries, casts, braces, specialized footwear, physical therapy and trips to the Children’s Hospital. Her situation improved. “By the age of three I was walking without casts or braces,” she said. “At that point I was wearing braces only at night.” Dahl expressed great appreciation for all the help and encouragement she received from doctors, nurses, and therapists, but one thing rankled her a bit. SEE ROWER, PAGE 10
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