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in the 21st Century

Where Learning Matters:

Educating Students

Saint Peter Public Schools Look At Us Grow:

Regional General Manager: Chad HjellmingEditor: Suzy Rook

Stories and Photos: Pat Beck, Alex Kerkman,Dana Melius,& Mikell Melius

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Healthy Living. Eating right, staying active, taking care of yourself.These are all things we’re told to do. By our parents, by our doctors and even by the

government, all which warn of the dangers of an unhealthy, sedentary lifestyle.But how does one go about living a healthy lifestyle?

That’s a question we asked several local residents who happily shared their secrets, some obvious, some less so.

We hope their stories inspire you to live a little more healthfully.And happily.

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4Bob Stenson

6Liz Power

Hawkinson

8Rev. Charles Degner

10George Elliot

12Nicole Crosby


By PAT [email protected]

Retired pastor Bob Stenson’s motivation for his healthy lifestyle is his motivation for life — to stay in good health so he can help oth-ers.

“If I stay in good shape, then I’m strong and healthy enough to help others,” Stenson said. “I consider myself a servant to oth-ers. If I’m strong and healthy, then I can help people including my children, my grandchildren, my neighbors, my brothers and sis-ters, anybody who is in need. I’m strong enough by staying mental-ly, physically and spiritually alive.

Stenson walks 2.5 miles every morning except Sunday with his wife, Rhoda, around St. Peter. In the summer, he runs 3.5 miles ev-ery Monday, Wednesday and Fri-day morning. �en he runs road races. Last year he ran three 5Ks.

He also rides a road bike from 20 to 40 miles twice a week. He plays tennis and/or basketball three times a week. And, he skis, canoes, sails and swims.

�at’s all done by a man who turns 75 April 2.

“I don’t belong to a health club, except Gustavus tennis courts, the community center and the roads around St. Peter, and in my canoe on the Minnesota River,” Stenson said.

He has a set of weights in his basement. And he stretches.

“Because my daughter is a doctor and my son is a strength and conditioning coach, they keep me on track,” said Stenson, who retired 11 years ago.

He spends a lot of time helping his two children, Matthew and Sarah, and four grandchildren. His daughter and three grand-children live in Brookings, S.D., and his son, who teaches sports psychology at the College of St. Benedict’s, and one grandchild live in St. Cloud, so Stenson and his wife do a lot of traveling.

A high school and college

football, basketball and track athlete, Stenson said, “I try to do something every day. I’ve been blessed with good knees. I keep my college weight, 175. I try to eat right. I get eight hours of sleep.”

It’s a way of life for Stenson who hasn’t stop exercising since he was a four-sport athlete (foot-ball, basketball, baseball and track) at Le Center High School where he graduated in 1959. He played American Legion and town team baseball in the sum-mer.

“I grew up with it,” Stenson said. “I’m the oldest of �ve kids, and we all were in athletes. My dad, Carroll, was a big encourag-er. My parents came to all of our games. My dad played football and baseball at the University of Minnesota, refereed football and basketball and umpired baseball. My mother, Hildegard, played so�ball and golfed. My dad hung hoops on the garage.”

An active lifeStenson slowed down his ath-

letic activity when his children were growing up and he was working full-time, but he’s always been a runner. In college, he was a high hurdler and an 800-meter runner.

He went to Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where he graduat-ed in 1963, and Luther Seminary in St. Paul where he �nished in 1967. He pastored in the Evan-gelical Lutheran Church for 38 years until retirement in 2004. He last served in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Stenson continues to serve First Lutheran Church as a lay-person as chairperson of the stew-ardship committee and member of the �nance committee, and he teaches Bible study classes and helps with worship occasion-ally. He helped with Habitat for

Retired Pastor Isn,t About To Slow Down

Former pastor Bob Stenson’s racket is to keeping exercising and eating right to stay healthy to help other people. (Pat Beck/St. Peter Herald)


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Bob Stenson of St. Peter has never stopped exercising regularly in his whole life of 75 years, including playing

tennis at Swanson Tennis Center in St. Peter. All of this extra e�ort is not just for his own good but for the

good of others. (Pat Beck/St. Peter Herald)

TAKE A LESSONShared traits of the world’s longest-lived people:1. Move Naturally The world’s longest-lived people don’t pump iron or run marathons.

Instead, their environments nudge them into moving without thinking about it.2. Purpose Why do you wake up in the morning? Knowing your sense of purpose is

worth up to seven years of extra life expectancy.3. Down Shift Stress leads to chronic in�ammation, associated with every major age-

related disease. The world’s longest-lived people have routines to shed that stress.4. 80 Percent Rule “Hara hachi bu” – the Okinawans say this mantra before meals as a

reminder to stop eating when their stomachs are 80 percent full.5. Plant Slant The cornerstone of most centenarian diets? Beans. They typically eat

meat—mostly pork—only �ve times per month.6. Wine @ 5 Moderate drinkers outlive non-drinkers, especially if they share those

drinks with friends.7. Belong Attending faith-based services four times per month – no matter the

denomination – adds up to 14 years of life expectancy.8 Loved Ones First Centenarians put their families �rst. They keep aging parents and

grandparents nearby, commit to a life partner and invest in their children.9. Right Tribe The world’s longest lived people chose or were born into social circles

that support healthy behaviors.Taken from bluezones.com/live-longer.

Humanity, raked lawns in the parks and helps people build houses. He volunteers as a court manager with college tennis tournaments.

His diet includes fruits, veg-etables and whole grains, eggs once in a while, small portions of meat, pasta, soup and nuts. He eats small portions to keep his weight down.

“My wife is in charge of that,” Stenson said. “She makes sure we eat healthy. At Christ-mas time, I always put on a couple of pounds with cookies and things.”

For his age, Stenson is un-usually active.

“I have some friends who are active, but as you get older some people have problems with their legs or knees and can’t do what they did,” Stenson said. “I keep moving. My heart is good. I like being active. I go to a lot of athletic events, high school and college at Gustavus. I try to get to know kids, par-ents and coaches as much as I can.”

He hasn’t su�ered any ma-jor injuries, but he said, “Some-times my le� knee is sore if I overdo it. And I get tired, so I have to rest to recover. I don’t push myself more than I can handle.”

He plays mostly doubles in tennis, which doesn’t take as much running.

“Running takes the most out of me,” Stenson said. “Run-ning road races takes more out of me than biking, basketball or tennis. My times have gone down signi�cantly (from less than 20 minutes to 31 minutes in the 5K), but I’ve won my age group. �ere’s not that many in my age group. My grandson, Ian, who is 12, can beat me by 8 minutes in a 5K. “

“Running is the base for ev-erything I do. I can still hike in the mountains or canoe. I played slow pitch so�ball until I was 62.”

Reach Sports Editor Pat Beck at 931-8566 or follow him on Twitter.com @SPHSportsPat.


By PAT [email protected]

Liz Power Hawkinson prac-tices what she preaches to live a healthy lifestyle.

A licensed, independent clinical social worker with Mayo Clinic Health Sys-tem’s Behav-ioral Health Department, Haw k ins on

has been teaching mindfulness-based stress reduction at Mayo

Clinic Health System-St. Peter Clinic for more than 10 years, and about 250 people have tak-en the course here. She also is teaching the class this spring at Minnesota New Country School in Henderson.

Hawkinson, 56, of St. Peter, did her training through the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, a center founded by Jon Kabat Zinn and led by Saki Santorelli.

Kabat Zinn defines mind-fulness as, “�e awareness that rises by paying attention on pur-pose, in the present moment and

non-judgmentally.”Hawkinson said mindfulness

is important for a clear mind/clarity of perception, a resilient body, more ease and less reactive stress, satisfying relationships and to experience the richness of every day life. All, she says, is supported by research.

Meditation and yoga helps clear Hawkinson’s mind and keep her calm.

“�e mind is busy and has a tendency to wander into the negative,” she said. “I have had a longstanding interest in yoga and meditation,” Hawkinson said. “I completed training as a

yoga teacher in 2000 and soon after, studied meditation with a Zen teacher in Minneapolis.”

“If I don’t do yoga regularly, my body feels achey,” Hawkin-son said. “Doing these things helps me enjoy life more.”

For 12 years, she has taught Basic Hatha Yoga Monday nights at St. Peter Yoga Studio.

“People love her class and come back week a�er week and year after year,” studio owner Tressa Bushaw said. “She had this presence about her. She’s very caring and nuturing.”

Hawkinson, whose husband is Bruce, provides a good exam-

ple of a person who lives healthy.Living healthy simply makes

Hawkinson feel better and more resilient in handling what comes her way.

Hawkinson said she wanders on and o� this path of healthful living as much as the next per-son, but here are the guides she tries to follow:

People approach health deci-sions from our their perspective. For Hawkinson, it’s in�uenced by having osteopenia (decreased bone density) and degenerative disc challenges.

“Overall, we all are a work in progress and I �nd it more use-

ful to ‘try easy,’ rather than to ‘try too hard.’ And there will be days when we slip up, so our job is to just do what we can do today.”

Thinking, moving, eating and attending to the world sum up what are important to Hawkinson in her health plan.

• Thinking: “Our thoughts have a clear influence on our health,” Hawkinson said. “We know that worries can actually make us sick. And because it seems to be a normal default to worry, I try to accept those events or changes in life that I can’t control and hopefully, take action with what I can control.

Yoga, meditation teacher offers mind, body tips for healthy living

Mayo Clinic Health System Therapist Liz Power Hawkinson rings a bell to start a meditation class in the St. Peter Clinic at Rivers Edge Hospital. From left area Will Freiert, Stan Schipreth, Hawkinson, Patricia Freiert, Jim Bonilla, Lisa Heldke and Cindy Johnson. (Pat Beck/St. Peter Herald)

Hawkinson


Mindfulness and meditation is a way for me to ‘pause’ in the busyness of life and be more calm and clear-headed.”

• Moving: “I seek to move ev-ery day — walking and yoga is what I do the most. I went for a long walk yesterday with a friend and even though it was really cold, being outside makes me feel settled and more alive. There are many different uses of yoga and with the osteopenia and disc issues, my daily practice is focused on weight-bearing, bal-ance and posture. I also like to mix it up with biking and cross-country skiing, and I have been

bitten by the pickleball bug.”• Eating: “My efforts with

eating center on getting enough calcium, eating minimal meat, eating more plants and not eat-ing food-like substances that are made in factories. Some of that advice comes from Michael Pol-lan who wrote ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma.’

“Attending to the world: First, it’s very important to stay connected with my family and friends. I have three sisters, and we have almost daily contact with a Facebook Messenger group even though we live in dif-ferent states and a di�erent con-

tinent. Our two boys (Jon, 28; Robb, 25;) seem to take turns being outside the country, as well, and it’s great to stay con-nected with them. Finally, if we want to keep ourselves and our kids healthy, it is essential that we talk about the health of the world in which we live. Doing something about the health of the world should be on every-one’s health plan. No one will be healthy if our world is sick.”

Reach Sports Editor Pat Beck at 931-8566 or follow him on Twitter.com @SPHSportsPat.

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Yoga, meditation teacher offers mind, body tips for healthy living

GUIDE FOR HEALTHY LIVING

1. Accepting ‘what is’ and take action with what you can control.

2. Move your body every day.

3. Get outside.4. Eat plants.5. Notice the good in life.6. Pause with meditation or

prayer.7.Connects with family and

friends8. Take care of the earth.

Liz Hawkinson works at St. Peter Clinic-Mankato Health System in Rivers Edge Hospital in St. Peter. (Pat Beck/St. Peter Herald)


By DANA [email protected]

Pardon the Rev. Charles De-gner if his gardening passion for

now gives way to one of a bit deeper faith.

While the unseasonably w a r m l a t e winter weath-er leads into the beginning of spring, it’s

the following Sunday which is currently taking up much of the pastor’s time.

“With Easter coming up, I’m

going to be a little busy for a while,” Degner said.

It’s an understandable com-mitment for the St. Peter resi-dent, who arrived in this com-munity in 1986. It’s that sense of community which also spirits his gardening passion.

“Gardening is in my blood,” Degner said. Always has been, for it’s a passion he said which developed alongside his mother growing up in Wisconsin.

Besides his ministerial duties and his gardening passion, both responsibilities blend nicely into his role as secretary for the St. Peter Community Garden. �e organization’s motto �ts: Come Grow With Us!

As Degner slowly walks

through the garden plots lo-cated along West Broadway Av-enue (County Road 5), he’s sur-prised by the early green growths which have emerged due to the unseasonably warm late-winter weather. It’s only mid-March, but there’s already cleanup ac-tivity going on at the community garden.

It’s land provided to the St. Peter Community Garden orga-nization by Gustavus Adolphus College. �e St. Peter Commu-nity Education Department also assists, providing application forms for interested gardeners and contact information. Keith Carlson serves as chair of the group, while other Community Garden Board members include

Vern Olson, Michael Anderson, Edie Schmierbach, Nina and Roger Ignaszewski, and Charles Burgess.

Still, the Community Edu-cation Department sta� knows who is best to reach when one’s interest peaks regarding the St. Peter Community Garden — Pastor Degner.

But the community garden

concept, stressed Degner, pretty much runs itself.

“When you come to the gar-den, all you have to do is bring yourself,” Degner said.

�at’s because a $20 applica-tion fee provides you with a 20-foot by 20-foot garden plot. More ambitious gardeners may opt for a plot twice that size, while board members and volunteers have

the opportunity for even a bit more space, according to Degner.

Gardening tools, ranging from a tiller to wheelbarrows to hand tools, are provided as part of the application. And that’s in part why the community concept of gardening, Degner says, has continued to grow.

“We encourage people to use organic as much as possible,”

Gardening passion fits pastor’s faith in community

The Rev. Charles Degner of St. Peter Lutheran Church will soon be preparing for another passion of his — gardening — at the St. Peter Community Garden. (Dana Melius/Le Sueur News-Herald)

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The St. Peter Community Garden grows in product and members throughout the growing season, located along West Broadway Ave. (County Road 5). (Photo courtesy of Gustavus Adolphus College)

COME GROW WITH USFor those interested in applications to join the St.

Peter Community Garden, they can be picked up at the St. Peter Community Education Department o�ce at the Community Center.

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Degner said, although noting it’s not mandatory. “�e city is kind enough to haul in compost for us and wood chips.”

Members of St. Peter Com-munity Garden now are en-couraged to park on the south side of the acreage, near the Gustavus campus dome fa-cility. The busy north side of the community garden abuts Broadway, a county road, and parking has been banned there, Degner noted.

�e minister really o�ered no gardening tips or favorite produce items; he loves them all. But the gardening often

pales in comparison to the community aspect of it all.

Degner said it’s enjoyable working side-by-side with east African and Hispanic members of the St. Peter community, learning about more than gar-dening along the way. It’s a key part of the community garden mission, Degner said.

“It’s kind of a neat little community.”

Reach Associate General Manager Dana Melius at 507-931-8576 or follow him on Twitter @LNHdanajohn.


By MIKELL [email protected]

Small may be the �rst thing that comes to mind when meet-ing George Elliot, campus nu-tritionist at Gustavus Adolphus College and certi�ed dietician.

She is a petite woman with cropped brown hair who claims a shoebox office as home base while at Gustavus. However, it doesn’t take long to witness her

�ery personality unfold as she speaks about nutrition, her work as a dietician and her passion for helping people.

It pushes any ideas of small right out the window.

Elliot knew she wanted to be a dietician since high school. With her love of food and help-ing people, she thought this would be the best combination of the two. She got an undergradu-ate degree in home economics

with an emphasis in food and nutrition from Western Illinois University and went on to com-plete her fellowship in dietetics at St. Francis Medical in Peoria, Illinois.

Elliot also �nished an intern-ship focused on helping those who struggle with eating disor-ders. �is internship opened her eyes to another area of interest.

“�at’s why I got my master’s in counseling,” Elliot said. “It’s

just as much a science as it is an art.”

Elliot said that struggling with food is not always black and white information. It’s a lot of gray, which may be the most important aspect. At least that is the information that Elliot is most interested in.

“Humans are such creatures of habit. It’s all about what they are willing to do di�erently in their daily lives,” Elliot said.

2016 kicks off Elliot’s 16th year as campus nutritionist at Gustavus, working with dining services and the health services department. Her list of tasks is not a short one. From analyzing food menus and posting them on Gustavus’s website, to meeting one-on-one with students seek-ing nutritional help, to speaking engagements focused around nutrition and wellness, she pro-vides her services in a multitude

of ways.Elliot has given speeches on

the myth of the freshman 15, nutrition issues related to ath-letics, and every March — which is national nutrition month — she delivers a presentation to the Gustavus community on di�er-ent wellness topics.

Mondays and Wednesdays are when Elliot spends her time at Gustavus, but on Tuesdays and �ursdays she is at Park Nicol-

Passionate dietician says common sense is key to healthy life

George Elliot, campus nutritionist at Gustavus Adolphus College and certi�ed dietician. (Mikell Melius/St.Peter Herald)


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let’s Melrose Center in St. Louis Park; a specialty center that of-fers support, encouragement and healing for people struggling with all types of eating disorders. Elliot � lls the dietician role on a team of people who sit down with clients at Melrose and pro-vide individualized care.

She has taken clients on meal outings, where she helps them order from the menu as a type of exposure therapy. She helps cli-ents monitor their eating, assists them in acknowledging when they are full and helps them plan out their days better.

“I basically help them have a better relationship with food,” Elliot said of her role at Melrose.

With two days at Gustavus and two days at Melrose Cen-ter, one would think that Elliot couldn’t possibly take on any more. � is is simply not true.

Elliot also serves as a consul-

tant for the St. Peter School Dis-trict, where she collaborates with food service employees to plan menus and helps ensure they’re meeting certain nutritional regulations. She looks into the nutritional values of each meal and posts that information on the school’s website.

Dietician, campus nutrition-ist, counselor, mother, supporter, public speaker, wife; how does a woman who plays so many roles, and helps so many others live nutritional, healthy lives, ensure that she stays healthy?

“Start with some amazing col-leagues,” Elliot confessed. “I work with some of the best people.”

Elliot correlated great re-lationships, both personal and work related, to a healthy life. She claims that surrounding yourself with great friends can make the world of di� erence, and a� er wit-nessing her vibrant attitude, it’s

hard to see how anyone would doubt her.

Elliot did eventually share her tips and insight on how she keeps herself sane, healthy and aware during her hectic schedule: fruits and vegetables, exercise, feeding well in times of stress and above all else, common sense. No trips. No gimmicks.

“� ere is no quick � x,” Elliot said. “We vilify food and it’s not the bad guy. It is meant to give us fuel and energy. So ask yourself, am I using this food to fuel me or comfort me?”

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Being a good dancer normally requires having solid footing on the ground. �at’s not the case for Nicole Crosby.

Crosby began teaching aerial �tness classes at �e Pulse Fitness Center in St. Peter last fall, and moved the class into “full force” this winter. Yes pole dancing is involved, but Crosby said the class involves so much more.

“It’s also known as circus arts,”

Crosby said. “�ere’s the pole, but you will see ... hooping and tra-peze (as well). Aerial �tness keeps your legs in the air.”

Originally from River Falls, Wisconsin, Crosby �rst became familiar with St. Peter after at-tending Gustavus Adolphus Col-lege, where she graduated in 1995. She lived in Mapleton for 14 years before moving back to town a year and a half ago.

Fitness and maintaining a healthy well-being has always been a part of Crosby’s life. In

high school she was a middle-dis-tance track runner, and in college she worked as an exercise instruc-tor. She is also a certi�ed Reiki therapist, which is the Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation, where the thera-pist can channel energy into the patient by touch.

Crosby �rst got into aerial �t-ness a�er joining another seduc-tive workout class; belly dancing. For the past three years she has taken belly dancing classes in Mankato before deciding to ex-

pand her workouts.“I wanted to learn more and

challenge my body in a differ-ent way, so I searched out aerial �tness classes,” Crosby said. “It’s been more popular as more men and women come in. They de-bunk the theology that it’s strip-ping.”

Also known as aerial yoga, aerial �tness combines traditional yoga poses, Pilates and dance with the use of props. �e Pulse’s stu-dio consists of multiple removable poles, lyras, silks and yoga ham-

mocks hanging from the ceiling.Betty Harsma, community

coordinator at The Pulse, said besides all of the physical bene-�ts, aerial �tness is a great way to forget about your problems a�er a long day.

“We crank up the music and go,” Harsma said. “After a hard day of work, you go to class and turn up the music. It’s a very fun way (to) exercise and helps with stress relief.”

Crosby leads the �rst 10 min-utes of open gym with a light

stretch before the hard work be-gins.

“The workout is amazing,” Crosby said. “It’s learning to use your body in space instead of (staying still). It builds your up-per body strength as you go.”

“If you want strong abs, try aerial �tness.”

You don’t need any prior ex-perience to take part in aerial �t-ness. When Crosby �rst started she wanted to overcome a goal that had bugged her since her school days.

St. Peter aerial fitness enthusiast says workouts are athletic, sexy and empowering

Poles are just one of the props used by Nicole Crosby in aerial �tness classes. Aerial �tness also involves athletically spinning from hanging silks, hammocks and lyras, or hoops. (Alex Kerk-man/St. Peter Herald)


Nicole Crosby, left, helps Olivia Benson get situated on a lyra during aerial �tness open gym at The Pulse Fitness Center in St. Peter. (Alex Kerkman/St. Peter Herald)

THE BENEFITSAccording to health�tnessrevolution.

com there are many health bene�ts, both physically and mentally, to aerial �tness workouts including:

• Total body workout• Psychologically beneficial• Improves flexibility• Heals back problems• Increases strength• Puts you in a great mood• Improves balance• Aids digestion• Lowers risk of heart disease• Improves memoryFor more information on aerial fitness

classes at The Pulse Fitness Center, contact [email protected] or call 507-934-1157.

“My �rst challenge was getting to the top of the pole,” Crosby said. “I was the kid in gym class would couldn’t climb up the rope. Learn-ing to climb the pole (builds your) self-esteem.”

On average around 10 students attend open gym, varying in age, gender, size and prior experience. Tayler Miller makes the trip from Mankato each Monday to attend.

“(Nicole) is really accepting, and willing to help no matter what level you’re in,” Miller said. “Don’t be afraid if you have no one to come with, the only time you’re alone is on the drive here.”

Whether you run 10 miles a day or are working out for the �rst time in a long while, the payo� can be felt almost immediately.

“(Aerial �tness) makes you feel athletic, expressive and sexy. Some just want other dance experience, and some are cross training to add to their repertoire,” Crosby said. “I tell people ‘I can do this and so can you.’”

Reach reporter Alex Kerkman at [email protected] or on Twitter @LCLalex2.


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