Schlaak to play at Saint Scolastica
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By ELI LUTGENS
Publisher/Editor
In front of a large audience of about 50 friends, family, and coaches, NRHEG High School senior Brady Schlaak signed his official Letter of Intent to play Division III football and continue his education at the College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth on Tuesday, Feb. 28.
“I’m excited and scared at the same time,” Schlaak said of the decision. “It’s gonna be a huge change. I’m not going up against high school seniors and freshmen. Now it’s college seniors, as a freshman… But, I feel like I can definitely make a huge impact.”
The recruitment process started after Schlaak, 6’ 10’’ 300 lbs, posted a highlight reel on the social media site Twitter.
Delacruz Pro-Start teacher of the year
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By DEB BENTLY
Staff Writer
Kelly Delacruz admits she didn’t see it coming.
During a statewide event on Feb. 28 in the Twin Cities, it was announced that she had been selected as the statewide winner of the program’s “teacher of the year” award. As the details of the winner’s career were being itemized and becoming more and more familiar, she suddenly realized it was her–and struck her neighbor, NRHEG principal David Bunn, in the knee.
“That’s when I realized why he had come,” she admits.
Live from Israel
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By MARK DOMEIER
Contributing writer
The 8th graders at NRHEG read the play version of The Diary of Anne Frank every year for instructors Nancy Rudau and Mark Domeier. After learning about the Holocaust and events that happened with the Frank family and the others who hid with them, many students search for other books to read about that tragic time. Many also take the Holocaust class offered to upperclassmen at NRHEG.
Lienke, Scottie, grateful for help
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By DEB BENTLY
Staff Writer
While dozens of people around them were lining up to depart the Waseca County Fairgrounds to take part in the seventy-third annual Sleigh and Cutter parade, Dave Lienke of rural Waldorf was caught up in a difficult situation. His Quarter Horse Scottie, who was to have carried Lienke as part of the Waseca County Sheriff’s posse, had decided to lay down in his trailer while waiting for preparations to be completed.. When it was time to stand up, the horse worked its way out onto the frozen ground outside, and then could not catch its footing on the packed snow and ice.
Heart-racing moments
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Driving a plow requires more than pushing snow
By DEB BENTLY
Staff writer
“I enjoy being out here when it’s crappy,” declares Adam Wacholz, snow plow driver with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), based out of Albert Lea. The 37-year-old Hollandale resident has had the job for the past 9 years, and has acquired an interesting collection of experiences and knowledge.
Not all of which he is willing to share.
But given the chance to tell the driving public anything, he knows exactly what he wants to say:
“Give us room!”