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St. Paul Home Sustains Damage in Wednesday Blaze

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A St. Paul home near the intersection of Sixth and Farnum streets caught fire just before 3:00 a.m. last Wednesday morning, with a stray neighborhood cat believed to be responsible for the blaze. According to St. Paul Volunteer Fire Department Training Officer Nathan Becker, a page went out from the Howard County Communications Center at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday morning, and local responders were quick to arrive on scene.
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Centura High’s Homecoming Festivities to be Held Next Week

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Centura High School is set to celebrate homecoming from September 26th through September 30th. The theme for this year’s homecoming is “Glow Into the Night–Homecoming 2022.” Students in Pre-K through the twelfth grade will participate in dress-up days during the week. A pep rally for the fall sports will be held at the high school on Friday, September 30th.
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Remember When

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A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held for Wolbach’s new community center on Sunday, September 23rd, at 4:00 p.m. The new center will be used next week during homecoming week. The community center board will be having a pancake feed on Thursday night, from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m., and the fire department will have their steak feed on Friday, from 4:00 until the supply runs out. The board will also be using the new center for their Junk Jaunt activities from September 27th until the 29th. The Cedar River Ringnecks have announced that the organization will host its tenth annual Youth Mentor Hunt on Sunday, October 21st. The annual event will be held at the O'Connor Parish Center, southeast of Greeley. The event will target kids from ages twelve to fifteen.

Elba News

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Julie Spilinek attended the Twilight Twelve Plus supper and card party on Saturday evening at Parkside Plaza in St. Paul that was hosted by Bill and Jan Smith of St. Edward. Others enjoying the evening were Rose Ross, Linda Petersen, and Ken McCray, all of St. Paul, and Ernie Carlson and Anna McIntosh of St. Edward. Wednesday evening supper guests of Mark and Marla Mason were Todd and Wendy Johnson, Pam Dankert, Adam Woitalewicz, Shelly Wolinski, and Kerry Kolar. Coleen Ingerle visited Aunt Kathryn Ingerle at Brookefield Park in St. Paul on Friday morning.
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First Responders Complete Stair Climb on September 11th

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What could potentially become a new tradition in St. Paul was inaugurated on Sunday, September 11th, when St. Paul Chief of Police Dan Howard, and St. Paul Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Mark Wilson and Training Officer Nathan Becker took to the grandstands at the St. Paul High School football field to walk 2,071 steps in simulation of the 110 stories countless firefighters ascended as they sought to rescue those trapped on the top stories of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Three hundred and forty-three firefighters and seventy-one law enforcement officers lost their lives during the rescue effort in the wake of the September 11th attacks, many of the former while attempting to climb the towers to rescue those trapped inside. In an interview on Monday, Howard said that Sunday’s enterprise had begun as a personal undertaking, part of a series of challenges that he and his best friend Adam Powell, who is currently serving in the armed services in Kuwait, exchange over social media. “He’s currently deployed in Kuwait, and, during his deployment, we have been giving each other different challenges. And one of my challenges to him was that we complete this 9/11 stair climb challenge,” said Howard. “What we do, is we video each other on Facebook Messenger, so we can confirm we’re both doing it.
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Council Deeds Property to HCMC

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Before plans for a new therapy and wellness center at Howard County Medical Center could move forward, the Howard County hospital first had to secure part of the site for the project. That land was, apparently, owned by the City of St. Paul. Last Tuesday evening, during the St. Paul City Council’s first meeting of the month of September, members of the council heard a brief presentation from Howard County Medical Center CEO Arlan Johnson regarding the hospital’s request that the city deed a sliver of land that they had acquired over thirty years ago to the medical center so that the wellness center project could become a reality.