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Senior Shelby Wilds won her fourth championship in Great Speeches and senior co-captain Gemma Shaffer was the champion Storyteller to lead the Cardinal Speech Team award -winners in the Osakis Speech Tournament Feb. 27. Jonathan Nypan in Extemporaneous Reading, Kaytlin Roth in Prose and Brianna Miles in Storytelling earned second place medals. More ... Students in each classroom at Sacred Heart Area School enjoyed special guests reading from Dr. Seuss books on Feb. 26. More ... Clarence and Enid Nelson will be celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary on Sunday, March 14, 2010 with an open house from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Leader Community Hall in Leader. No gifts. LC8-9p More ... There will be a birthday party open house held for Betty Drone in honor of her 85th birthday. The celebration will be Saturday, March 6, 2010, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Staples Assembly of God Church, located at 914 3rd St. NE. No gifts, More ... BIRTHS REPORTED AT LAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM HOSPITAL INCLUDED: Born to Dustin Hines and Anna Harmon of Brainerd, a baby boy, Waylon Jeffrey, weighing four pounds one ounce on Feb. 18, 2010. Born to Bradley and WanmdiWi Rose of Baxter, a baby boy, Lyndon Jay, weighing eight pounds nine ounces on Feb. 22, 2010. More ... Students at Staples Elementary School received their Read-A-Thon awards during a ceremony held Feb. 26. Their reading goal was 2,000 minutes and the promise that Principal Jason Luksik would wear the Cardinal costume - they did and he did. Students even exceeded their goal by 983 minutes. More ... LayShia (Sheets) Menk, formerly of Staples, recently won six Better Newspaper Contest graphic awards for the Yazoo Herald advertising staff where she is employed in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Menk won three first place honors in the Weekly Division B with “Best Grocery or Restaurant Advertisement”, “Best Single Magazine Advertisement” More ... No charge for obituaries, weddings, engagements to run one week edited and can include one photo. Announcements for basic information on social news items that include an open house anniversary or birthday is $7.50 one week; $7.50 second week. two photos add $5. More ... 25 Years Ago - 1985 Steve Hoffbeck was selected as Staples’ 1985 Teacher of the Year last week in balloting among the school district’s teachers. Hoffbeck is a social studies teacher. More ... The U.S. Census Bureau is hoping to recruit local residents as official census takers to work on the 2010 Census. “It’s important for the residents of Northwestern Minnesota to know that we are indeed testing people for jobs and that we are also hiring people,” said Dennis Johnson, Regional Director of the U.S. Census Bureau. More ... |
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Introducing the new Staples City Hall & Staples Public Library
