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Lauren Huber (front) and Ryker Bosek race on skis Jan. 9 north of Alexandria.
Youth Olympian combines skiing, shooting BY DANNA SABOLIK | STAFF WRITER
ALEXANDRIA ALEX AL EXAN ANDR DRIA IA – Winters Win inte ters rs cold weather and snow, it is one drag on for some Minnesotans, of the best times of the year. but for those who embrace the Kaisa Bosek combined her passions of Nordic skiing and precision shooting with the help of her father,
Kaisa Bosek aims her rifle at her target 50 meters away while training for biathlon, Jan. 9 north of Alexandria. Bosek has competed in the Youth Olympics overseas and hopes to again.
Jeff, to become an internationally renowned name in the sport of biathlon. Biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided between shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not timed but, depending on the competition, missed shots result in extra distance or time being added to the contestant’s total. Kaisa became interested in biathlon after watching a race where Kaisa Makarainen of Finland won. Coincidentally having the same name, Bosek has admired Makarainen ever since. At 12, Kaisa joined the Alexandria Cardinals Nordic Ski Team and competed in a couple of novice biathlon races that winter. Since then, she has been in love with the sport. Jeff constructed a training shooting range on their proper-
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ty and worked with U.S. Biathlon to insure the range. Because of this, they host camps and training events in the summer for regional competitors, to visit and use his facilities whenever they can. The range consists of five targets 50 meters from shooting stations, complete with prone shooting mats and a pulley system to reset targets. There is a makeshift ski loop around the mounded sides of the range, where the athletes will race to get their heart rate up before shooting, to mimic competition. Kaisa is part of the Wolfpack team, comprised of her, her brother, Ryker, and Lauren Huber. The team is coached by Jeff and competes regionally in races. “I do love it,” Kaisa said. “It’s so fun. And, I love that it’s a combination of two sports. A lot of people maybe don’t know about it, but when they do they think it’s cool and interesting.” Kaisa is a senior at Alexandria Area High School and is competing in her last season as a youth biathlete this winter.
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“It’s something different than just doing a ski race,” Kaisa said. “You have to shoot, so placing can change really fast in a race because of that.” When shooting prone, or lying down, the target is about the size of a golf ball. The athlete has five shots to shoot down five targets lined up side by side. When shooting standing up, the athlete aims for a target the size of a softball and repeats the five shots again, continuously. “The shooter cannot leave the range until they’ve shot five times,” Jeff said. “It’s a safety thing.” Safety is naturally one of the most important parts of biathlon, because rifles are involved. “The rifle is equipped with however many rounds of ammo are needed, and the athletes will load them before they shoot,” Jeff said. “It makes things very safe. There is also a cap on each sight, so snow won’t get in the peep sights and block the view.”
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Ryker Bosek (from front), Kaisa Bosek and Lauren Huber shoot prone while training for biathlon races. The three make up the Wolfpack team in Alexandria.
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To keep in shape and stay sharp, Jeff keeps his athletes on a year-round training schedule. “Cross-training is super important,” Jeff said. “They have to be able to accurately shoot with their heart rate up.” The biathletes run and bike in the summer, and also roller-ski, a type of roller skate that mimics the motions and muscles of cross-country skiing. Everything possible is done to be prepared for competition. While in the U.S. many people are not familiar the sport, in other parts of the world, namely Russia, biathlon is the most-watched sport. “Paying for a commercial during the World Championships over there cost more than a Super Bowl ad here,” Jeff said. “This is really their number one sport.” Minnesota is one of the most competitive youth regions, giving the team a lot of exposure and competition throughout their season.
In addition to the biathlon competition, all three students also compete in Nordic skiing through school. Kaisa, 18, is in her last season of competing as a youth. She hopes to continue to compete in biathlon in college. There are not many colleges that have biathlon programs in the United States, but there is a fairly new program in New York’s Adirondack mountains at Paul Smith’s College. “They partnered with U.S. Biathlon to build a new nordic skiing center there and a range with eight targets,” Jeff said. Jeff Bosek prepares golf ball-sized targets for practice with his
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“They give out four scholarships for nordic skiers, and four for biathlon.” The program caters to students who aim for Olympic teams. “That’s definitely something I’m interested in,” Kasia said. She has already competed in the Youth Olympics, and the Youth World Championships. In 2020 Bosek competed in the IBU Youth/Junior World
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BROWERVILLE – Fourteen tractor buckets of dirt, more than three tons of debris, more than four bushels of rodent-chewed cobs of corn, thousands of laths, tons of plaster, seemingly millions of nails and one historically-significant leather boot. That’s what Audra Steffen and her father, Frank Tepley, have removed from their family’s old farmhouse in Browerville. The house sat vacant for 20 years and as it aged, water intruded, the living room sank eight inches and mice, racoons and bats moved in. The walls were infested with rodents and rodent urine, the ceilings were chewed through and held the remnants of food storage for the neighborhood animals. Each time they removed a floor, there were four more layers of floor beneath it: linoleum, more
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Home from page 8 to tear down the walls, quite literally and figuratively. “I’m overfed, I’m well-protected and supported and can be as lonely as I choose to be,” Steffen said. Her father, a man of fewer words, said he understands what Steffen is going through and works with her side-byside, seven days a week, from 8 a.m. until quitting time, promptly at 4 p.m. They talk, they joke, they sometimes work in silence, and they build things back up, by hand. “I know what she is trying to do,” Tepley said. “(It’s about) keeping busy.” They started in the basement, a full root cellar under the span of the house. They removed those 14 tractor buckets of dirt from the lower level, accessible only via the root cellar doors, carrying it out one five-gallon bucket at a time. They removed two feet of dirt from the entire lower level – dirt that accumulated from years of bringing in potato bags
and garden produce. As they worked through more than 100 years of built-up earth, they uncovered dozens of canning jars and bottles once used by Steffen’s grandmother and great-grandmother. The home has been in the family since the late 1930s or early ‘40s, purchased initially by Tepley’s parents. Nobody is quite sure what year the house was built; the records were destroyed in the Todd County Courthouse fire. But, Steffen and Tepley found a newspaper from 1903 in the walls. Tepley grew up in the house as a little boy when his parents, Benjamin and Blanche Tepley, purchased it. Later, when they retired from their own farm, Tepley’s grandparents (Steffen’s great-grandparents), moved in. Steffen’s grandmother (Tepley’s mother) lived in the house until she died at the age of 87. Just two years before she died in the early 1980s, she put plumbing
The house was brought down to the studs in order to renovate the space and make it habitable again. When complete, this home will look quite modern on the inside and outside while still retaining as much of the original structure as possible.
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(Above) A tractor is used to push down debris from the old farmhouse. Audra Steffen and her father, Frank Tepley, removed three tons of debris from the home during renovation.
in the house. Electricity was added in 1950 and she had a well for running water, but prior to installing plumbing, the sink water drained into a five-gallon bucket that had to be dumped outside. There was also an outhouse on the property. Steffen recalls her grandmother as quirky and fun-loving. She remembers carefully removing eggs from the chicken coop with her brother, taking care of each special egg; when the kids turned around, their grandmother was throwing eggs at them and chasing them around the yard. The farm housed cows, pigs, chickens, horses and dogs. Steffen once brought her grandma home a bucket filled with baby garter snakes and another time, a Mason jar full of honey
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This leather boot was found in the ceiling of the home and likely was put there by Audra Steffen’s great-grandparents. There is an old-world tradition in Czechoslovakia to put a shoe in the ceiling for good luck, and Steffen plans to clean up the boot, recondition it and return it to the ceiling.
bees that stung her as she collected them. “There are so many memories of the things we did out here, it was just wonderful,” Steffen said. “When you think back on your life when you were just the hap-
piest ever, you just want to go back. It’s so peaceful and beautiful, there’s great solace in the beauty of nature.” The history of the house and the land uncover themselves as Steffen and her dad work.
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“It’s been great spending so much time with Dad,” Steffen said. “The emotional support has been great and he’s helping me get through things; we do goof around and it’s light-hearted.” Her step-mom, Cheryl Tepley, stops by every day with lunch and has helped with demolition as has Steffen’s mom, Kitty. They call for other reinforcements when the jobs get too big. They, with help from family, pulled an old furnace and a fuel barrel from the basement. They found a trunk that came over with her great-grandparents from Czechoslovakia. In the ceiling, after removing a foot of sawdust insulation and bat guano, they found a single leather boot. Steffen did some research and found it’s an old-world tradition in Czechoslo-
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Home from page 9 vakia to put a shoe in the ceiling for good luck. She intends to clean it up, recondition the leather and put it back in the ceiling where it belongs – in honor of her great-grandparents – both sets of whom were from Bohemia. Though the rodent damage required them to take the house down to the stud walls, Steffen and Tepley are leaving as much of the original structure of the home as possible. The house is built of rough-sawn lumber and they only repaired and replaced
what was rotten. They repaired the sunken living room and the rotting beams that were causing the front porch to dip six inches. They uncovered 20inch boards in the wall, lumber that her grandfather put in, all made from old trees. “I wanted to preserve that heritage,” Steffen said. In the basement, the original construction will still be evident, with SUBMITTED the 2-foot-thick field- After months of work tearing out plaster, laths, fiberboard and insulation, the house Audra Steffen PHOTOS and Frank Tepley stone foundation walls have been working on is getting closer to the finishing stages. and rocks as big as 8 feet long and 3 feet tall, weighing more than a opening up the living in this spring or early “Growing up, all of ton. space, the house will summer. Once the house my best memories were The master bedroom have modern finishes is complete, she looks here,” she said. “I wantwill also pay homage to but, at its heart, a histo- forward to creating large ed to save the house, and Steffen’s great-grandpar- ry – just the way Steffen gardens on the property in the process, I’m savents and grandparents. wants it. and delving into the out- ing myself. We’re in it together.” Her grandfather built out She plans to move buildings. a cedar block wall in the master bedroom and the four-inch square blocks were added like one would build a log house, nailed through each row. The wall will be exposed in the bedroom and the original wood flooring, although unsalvageable in the rest of the house, was intact in the master bedroom. With a new spiral Frank Tepley agreed to help daughter Audra Steffen staircase replacing the rebuild his childhood home after Audra’s husband died. steep and narrow stairTogether, they work every day from morning until night case, French doors that on the project. Contractors told Steffen the job was too let the light in and some large and too costly, so she and her dad decided to do original walls gone the renovation themselves.
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Frank and Cheryl Tepley remove cedar sawdust insulation from inside the house. The insulation was filled with bat guano and rodent waste and had to be dropped through the ceiling into the kitchen and removed by hand.
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An area farmer loads corn into the gravity box hauled into the field by the Atwater-CosmosGrove City FFA. The farmer is donating to the FFA’s corn drive.
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The Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City chapter of the FFA is reinstating its annual corn drive and raised more money this year than in the school’s more than 60-year history of corn drives. Advisor Victoria Halverson is still tallying up donations, but said this year’s group raise almost $12,000, beating the school’s previous record of $11,002.18. “It was a really good experience for (the students) to see the community come together for something so simple,” Halverson said. Students launched out into the community with three gravity boxes, borrowed from their own families and community members. From 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. one day in October, 12 teens set out in four groups to collect corn and money for the effort. The school has a long-held tradition of donating funds from the corn drive to True Friends in Annandale, a camp for people with disabilities. The dollars raised by the FFA fundraiser help offset the cost of
The Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City FFA chapter raised almost $12,000 this year when they brought back their corn fundraiser. Participants include Liberty Jans (from left), Jaxon Behm, Taylor Fester, Cole Morse, Wilson Gratz, Colby Renne, Eric Melberg, Austin McClain, Terrell Renne, Fletcher Kremin, Connor Danielson and Marie Kragenbring.
attending camp for some participants, and also help with camp upkeep. “I really think that it was a good thing to bring this tradition back and bring it alive again,” Halverson said. The community responded well and Halverson
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still has people contacting her asking if they can donate. To date, the fundraiser has collected 2,454 bushels of corn and during the last 60 years has raised close to $120,000, Halverson said.
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This year’s FFA Club President, Wilson Gratz, is a senior and said farmers were really generous with their donations. “I liked going out with FFA members and going into the fields and talking with farmers and learning about when they were in FFA,” Gratz said. The return of the corn drive fits well with the club’s motto this year, which is, “On a mission to protect the tradition.” B e cause of the impact of COVID-19, the students haven’t been able to attend county fairs to talk about FFA and provide knowledge about agriculture as they have in years past. That effort is important to developing their speaking skills, but also to continuing to share knowledge about the agriPHOTOS SUBMITTED culture industry. Connor Danielson tests the moisture of corn collected “We’re trying to get by the FFA for the group’s corn drive, a tradition brought this year back into a norback this year to raise funds for the FFA which donates malization,” Halverson
Fletcher Kremin unloads corn from the gravity box used by the FFA to collect donations from area farmers. The dollars received from the bushels of corn go toward True Friends, a camp for people with disabilities.
said. “Our traditions still matter and we make sure we stick to those traditions and don’t brush them aside.” In much the same way FFA groups have done for years, the FFA members drove gravity boxes into the field, visited with farmers and loaded up any corn they were willing to donate, taking it to the elevator in Cosmos to unload. The corn was tallied up and the FFA group received a check for the total donated. The teens made a
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list of farmers they knew and started there, but went to additional farmers as well. The fourth team went to local businesses to ask for monetary donations. One group actually flagged the teens down, honking to get their attention so they could donate to the effort. For Gratz, the level of support was important and, he said, the funds go toward a group that could be often overlooked. FFA has taught him the importance of getting
involved. “It’s taught me to become a better leader and be more supportive to the community, and I got to make new friends along the way,” he said. For the past few years, the club has opted to do a community meal to raise dollars instead of the corn drive. The corn drive, they said, has been much more fruitful in terms of donations and dollars raised. The idea came from the students and was fully supported by Halverson, who is serving as a firstyear FFA advisor. The FFA group includes students in grades seven through 12. “The community responded well,” Halverson said. Halverson herself participated in corn drives when she was an FFA member growing up in Foley, so she was familiar with the concept. “It’s a good opportunity for the kids,” she said. She’s working with leaders at camp True Friends to create an officer retreat for the FFA members this summer. The retreat would not only give the officers a chance to see where their dollars are going, it is an opportunity for them to volunteer at the camp and engage with the campers. “It gives them another way of making connections with the community,” Halverson said.
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who earned his American Degree, Conner Holthaus, joined the EVW FFA his freshman year of high school. His decision was a step outside of his comfort zone. Holthaus chose to join FFA because he saw lots of close friendships being built and wanted to spend more time with his friends and cousins who were involved in the organization. Holthaus’s favorite memory of his time with the FFA was the Minnesota State Convention in his junior year of high school, exploring the University of Minnesota campus, bowling in the student center and playing cards with his friends and advisor. Shelby Kuechle, another American Degree recipient, became a member of the FFA in seventh grade because of her passion for agriculture.
She participated in parliamentary procedure and dairy cattle judging, and worked on her family’s dairy farm for her SAE. Her biggest accomplishment was being selected as one of four finalists in the Dairy Production Placement SAE at the national level. “Not many of my high school friends were into agriculture,” said Kuechle. “Our FFA program was a place where I could talk about my interests and actually be understood. I am grateful for our FFA program and for having all of the opportunities I did at Eden Valley-Watkins.” Warren said, “A few of our recipients, I remember them as junior high schoolers who were unsure of what they wanted to do with a career or do with FFA, and they
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One of the cornerstones of the chapter’s work is philanthropy. “We try to give back,” Ramstad said. “We are active in our community and use that as an opportunity to share and promote agriculture.” No matter the task, the students tackle the
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The chapter’s philanthropic work includes hosting a corn feed where students secure the corn each year from Central Lakes College; they process the corn and cook it to provide a corn feed at the football game. Community members can take part in the feed for a free will donation and the proceeds benefit the local food shelf. Additionally, the chapter hosts events like a drive-in movie night at the football field where they ask for canned food donations. They’re also tapped to volunteer at events throughout the community. Local organizations will contact Ramstad when they’re looking for additional help to run their events.
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Learning about healthy eating Aeroponic towers grow food indoors for area schools, May family BY SARAH COLBURN STAFF WRITER
BROWERVILLE – A 5-foot tower filled with live and growing lettuce, herbs and greens resides in Erin May’s kitchen. A second tower sits just inside her front entry sprouting cucumbers, peppers, jalapenos and Brussels sprouts. The onslaught of fresh produce keeps the May family eating healthfully all year round. Her son Riley, 12, daughter Chloe, 10 and son Sawyer, 3, all help plant the herbs and vegetables. They also care for them, harvest them and pick them straight off the tower to eat. “They’re packed full of nutrition,” May said. A decade ago, May said her family was eating fast food, chips, unhealthy meals and struggling with ongoing allergies. The kids had constant ear infections, strep and bronchitis and were on antibiotics once a month. May began searching for better, more nutritious ways to feed herself, her kids
and her husband, Justin, and boost their immune systems. She was heading into her third pregnancy and was doing everything she could to avoid gestational diabetes, which she had with her second pregnancy. “We needed to clean up our diet,” she said. Now, she’s teaching others to do the same. For the last few years, she’s been working in local schools that have raised funds for their own tower gardens. She goes into the schools and works directly with young kids, helping them to learn about the tower, which doesn’t require soil but instead grows food from a rockwool cube and water. The aeroponic towers, she said, grow food much more quickly than traditional in-the-ground planting, so she teaches kids about the differences between the two types. Some of the local schools have tower gardens that were supplied by the Tech Mobile department of the company now known as Sourcewell. Towers went to schools in Browerville, Staples-Motley, Pillag-
er, Verndale, le, Bertha, Wadena, Menahga, Sebeeka, Upsala, Pierz and Baxter/ Brainerd area schools and May provided the support to the classrooms, teachers and students. “A lot ot of kids really don’tt know where our food comes from,” May said. “Kids are baffled to see you can grow indoors all year round.” May does oes provide a curriculum for educators to use with th their classrooms as they hey teach about the tower and nd eating fresh foods. The curriculum is supplied by y Tower Garden by Juice ce Plus Company, for which May is a direct sales partner. M Many school leaders choose to place their tower gardens in the lunchroom or somewhere central so multiple grades can see the food growing. Some
schools, she said, have incorporated the fresh vegetables and herbs into their school lunch program or salad bar. As a mom who homeschools her kids herself, May uses the worksheets in a variety of different ways in the kids’ homeschool curriculum. She uses them for science, math and literacy. The information, she said, is also beneficial for new gardeners and can provide insight into some typical planting and gardening problems.
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A deer mingles with the cattle Jan. 13 at the Arvin and Judy Wolbeck farm northeast of Sauk Centre. The Wolbecks’ grandchildren have nicknamed the deer er “Prancer. “Pran ”
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SAUK CENTRE hunting season ended, – Right after the 2020 deer Arvin Wolbeck was going to feed his cattles hay when he noticed one animal out of place. “I open up the gate, I look up, and I say, ‘Judy, look over there,’ because there’s this deer standing right next to the horses,” Wolbeck said Jan. 20. “I drive in there, and the deer hopped over the fence and went down the road and down the hill. I thought, ‘Maybe it’ll just go into the neighbors’ woods.’ It went down into the swamp; next thing I knew, it went in with the cattles.” Wolbeck and his wife, Judy, raise cattles
and horses at their farm near Sauk Centre. When the deer arrived, Wolbeck thought it would be around for a day or two, but it has remained. Considering how the deer is not much older than a fawn, Wolbeck supposes its mother was shot during hunting season and the deer does not have anywhere else to go. It follows the other animals around, getting in line when they are fed or when they go to the swamp for water. When the weather is cold and windy, the deer will shelter in a building’s shadow. Another reason Wolbeck believes the deer is sticking around is be-
cause there are coyotes in the area, and the deer may sense the coyotes will not come into the farm. After the first several days, the other animals have gotten used to the deer’s presence among them. “I’ve got a 2-monthold calf out there, and the first day after I’d seen (the deer) with the horses, they started chasing each other around,” Wolbeck said. “Then, a cattle chased the deer a little bit, and then it jumped the fence, stood right in front of the house, lay down in the grass and started eating. It’s not
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scared. It gets up, jumps the fence, goes back in with the cattles.” While it will not get close to people, the deer does not mind them much; Wolbeck can get within several yards of the deer with his skidloader. “It’ll stand there and watch me go,” Wolbeck said. “I drop the hay bale off, get out of the Bobcat and cut the strings off, and it just stands there looking.” The deer has already drawn some local attention; neighbors and other drivers slow down as they go by, sometimes turning around for a second look. The Wolbecks’ grandchildren are also fans of the deer; when they give corn to the cattles, the deer is there just behind the herd. It was during the grandchildren’s Christmas visit, though, that the deer
“A cow chased the deer a little bit, and then it jumped the fence, stood right in front of the house, lay down in the grass and started eating. It’s not scared. It gets up, jumps the fence, goes back in with the cows.” - Arvin Wolbeck left for a day due to the low temperatures and high winds. “The grandkids (said), ‘Grandma, where’d the deer go?’ It was Christmas Eve; Judy said, ‘It had to help Santa Claus spread presents,’” Wolbeck said. “The weather changed over Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, and for Christmas Day and afternoon, the deer came back out. It must’ve gone down to the swamp because it was so cold and windy.” Whether the deer was in the swamp or with Santa, the grandchildren
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