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Herald Sauk Centre
NUMBER 23 • VOLUME 157
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2023
That old-time
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Merle Felling brings out the record he cut in 1981 across multiple formats Oct. 27 in Sauk Centre. Felling has played the concertina since 1968, learning it from George Servatius in Melrose.
music
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Stella Schirmers gets ready for the upcoming Section 6A meet Oct. 24 at Sauk Centre High School in Sauk Centre. Schirmers, a senior with many accomplishments under her belt, is looking to make important final memories as a Streeter.
Schirmers readies for final swims Sauk Centre girls swimmer has built outstanding career BY EVAN MICHEALSON | STAFF WRITER
Felling continues concertina performances BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
Oktoberfest season has all but passed by, but for Merle J. Felling of Sauk Centre, old-time music is for the whole year. While ballrooms and bands are not around as much as they used to be, he keeps the spirit alive through his concertina playing, and he is preparing for the next Sauk Centre old-time music concert Nov. 19.
“That Saturday, the first Monday of August, I stopped over there Felling has played the conon the way to New Munich, and he certina since 1968, shortly after got me going with lessons,” Felling he graduated from high school in said. “I practiced every day, one to 1967. None of his parents, uncles or two hours … when I got done with aunts played old-time music, but his farm chores.” grandparents played the fiddle and Felling played his first job piano, and he had a cousin, Donna January 1968 in Alexandria, and by Nathe, who was part of the Nathe that summer — a year after he had family who had an old-time band. started taking lessons — he was Felling was interested in taking playing full time, about two or three concertina lessons, so Nathe direct- jobs per weekend. ed him toward George Servatius in Felling page 4 Melrose.
Fixing tissue i ues
Winters Family Chiropractic acquires radial pressure wave machine
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BY BEN SONNEK | STAFF WRITER
inters Family Chiropractic, of Sauk Centre, has a new tool for patient relief: a radial pressure wave machine, which uses targeted, rapid shockwaves to break up problematic tissues. Dr. Mark Winters has been using it for a few months, and the speed with which the device can improve a patient’s condition has been encouraging. “It’s been cool, seeing people lift their shoulder (not far) and then, when they get done with the treatment, lift it all the way up,” Winters said. “It’s been eye-opening as far as helping muscle work, incorporating massage and chiropractic. It gets so much deeper than hands.” Winters considered adding the radial pressure wave machine about a year ago, after he moved his business from Sinclair Lewis Avenue to 1008 Main Street South in Sauk Centre and remodeled the space. He had been reading about its efficacy with soft-tissue injuries like scar tissue and fibrous adhesions. The technology has been around for some time. “Muscles are supposed to move freely between each other, and they’ll get fibrous adhePHOTO BY BEN SONNEK sions that restrict the muscles moving, which Dr. Mark Winters brings out the radial pressure wave machine Oct. causes pain,” Winters said. 27 at Winters Family Chiropractic in Sauk Centre. Winters has had the device since mid-July, and it has treated between 30 and 50 patients so far.
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The Schirmers family of Sauk Centre found the best “Buy two, get one free” deal. After the family’s first two daughters, Paige and Miah, joined the Alexandria Swim Club, parents Dave and Missy Schirmers received the opportunity to let a third child join the program for free. So, then-7-year-old Stella Schirmers began hopping into the pool as well and quickly found it to be an enjoyable setting. A decade later, senior Stella is putting the finishing touches on a dominant swimming and diving career, with the Section 6A meet to be held Nov. 9-11 at Tech High School in St. Cloud. “It’s the most stressful but also the most exciting part of your season,” she said. “In a way, it’s more stressful, but again, more exciting, knowing that it’s your last swim. You have to give it all and you want it to be your fastest.” Growing up, Stella wanted to do whatever her older sisters did, eventually taking her to the Sauk Centre swimming pool, home of the Sauk Centre Streeters. She kickstarted her varsity career as a seventh grader in 2018, soaking in all she could from the program’s veteran swimmers, which included her sisters, Kali and Kayla Sayovitz, Kali Uphus and Riley Engle, among others.
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Costumed
characters come out for
candy
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Rhyan Anderson (from left), Raya Nathe, Evelyn Mackedanz and Quinncy Jennissen get their Taylor Swift on for Trick-orTreat on Main Street Oct. 27 in Sauk Centre. A variety of local businesses participated in the event.
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