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Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 Volume 27, Issue 1 Est. 1989

2015 sees city growth

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St. John’s Prep hosts Discovery Day Jan. 18

Families interested in learning about the innovative curriculum and other opportunities at St. John’s Prep are encouraged to attend the upcoming Discovery Day on Monday, Jan. 18. Students currently in grades 5-11 are welcome to attend classes, meet teachers and students and experience what it’s like to be a part of the St. John’s Prep community. Parents are also invited to attend a special session with faculty and staff. Information about sports, activities and scholarships will be provided. Guest students arrive before 8 a.m. and are matched with a “host” student for the day. Discovery Day guests are invited to spend the entire day to attend classes and take special tours. Registration for Discovery Day is required. Call us today at 320-3633339. Due to limited space, we encourage interested families to apply now for the 2016-17 academic year. Founded in 1857, St. John’s Prep is a Catholic/Benedictine, co-ed, private day and boarding school, providing students of all faiths in grades 6-12, with a college-preparatory curriculum. For more information, visit www.sjprep.net or call 320-363-3339.

Moonlight Ski scheduled Jan. 8

The annual Moonlight Ski event, along with a giant toasty bonfire, is set from 6-10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8 at Stearns County Quarry Park, located at 1802 CR 137, Waite Park. Everyone is welcome, and there are no fees. The ski run will become a hiking trek if snow is inadequate. Moonlight Ski is sponsored by Stearns County Parks and the Nordic Ski Club of Central Minnesota.

CentraCare offers stress-reduction course

An eight-week mindfulness-based stress-reduction course, to help participants learn ways to manage the demands and stresses in life and how to live life with increased contentment, will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Jan. 26-March 15 in the Meditation Prayer Room at CentraCare Health Plaza. There will also be an all-day retreat from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 5. This clinically proven program is designed for those who experience the following: anxiety and depression, attention deficits, chronic pain and illness, cardiac disease, the demands of care-giving, grief, life transitions, spiritual emptiness and all who find it difficult to establish balance in their everyday lifestyles. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Jan. 8 Criers.

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At the April 6 city council meeting, Fire Chief Jeff Taufen presented 4-year-old ShyAnn Jamison of St. Joseph, with a plaque thanking her for her life-saving actions. On Feb. 24, ShyAnn was staying at Hollow Park apartments on Cypress Street in St. Joseph with her great-grandmother. The great-grandmother, Gwynith Copner, pictured here with ShyAnn, had left the kitchen when ShyAnn noticed her dinner had started on fire. ShyAnn quickly ran to a neighboring apartment where a friend of the family lived, who used two fire extinguishers to help hold the flames down while the fire department was called. Taufen, as well as Police Chief Joel Klein, called ShyAnn a hero. Along with the plaque, ShyAnn received a backpack and a gift card to McDonald’s. ShyAnn is the daughter of Ashlee Jamison.

In 2015, St. Joseph experienced continued growth, city financial health, long-term plans for community buildings, academic and extracurricular achievements, and many other positive developments. The year, however, was marked also by car collisions ending in death and the revelation of possession of child pornography by a man who may or may not be connected to the Jacob Wetterling case. The following are capsule summaries of many of the news stories published in the St. Joseph Newsleader during 2015.

January

All Saints Academy fifth-grade students in Tess Koltes’ classroom learned how to interview

for, write and publish a newspaper. A new playground was installed at Colts Academy for the early-childhood programs of district 742. ECFE programs were moved to St. Joseph after a fire in 2014 destroyed the programs’ previous home at Roosevelt Education Center in St. Cloud. An inspection in the fall of 2014 revealed the equipment at the time was not up to code for district use. The equipment was designed to be movable for when the early-childhood programs move to a new building. In a 4-1 vote, the newly convened city council moved its meetings from the first and third Thursdays of the month to the first and third Mondays. Meetings continued to be held at 6 p.m. Matt Killam joined the counReview • page 3

City moves forward with Field Street process by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com

A public hearing was held on the possibility of a new street just south of Graceview Estates and the city decided to move forward with a parkway design for the street, against the preference of many who were at the meeting. Field Street, as it is referred to, would run from just south of the house of the president of the College of St. Benedict, curve south, connect at Elena Lane, continue straight, then curve south again to connect at Seventh Avenue. The road is laid out so Field Street can continue on to 12th and 16th avenues in the future. The street would be a collector street, meaning it would take on traffic from the neighborhoods to the north and funnel it out to College Avenue or other arteries. The public hearing, held during the city council meeting on Jan. 4, was a hearing on the merits of the project. A future date, possibly in August, will be set to discuss the special assessment. The city received the feasibility report on the road on Dec. 3. The proposed timeline for the project says the plans and specifications were ordered on

Jan. 4 as part of the meeting, right-of-way acquisition and design will take place between January and June, bids will be advertised for in July with bids opening in August, a special assessment hearing would take place in August, construction would start in the summer or fall of 2017 and be completed by fall of 2018. City Engineer

Randy Sabart said the timeline is set up to be as pessimistic as possible, so things may move along quicker than this. There were two options for the city to choose from for road design if they moved forward. 1. Parkway: The road would be made up of two lanes, divided by a center green island,

with an 8-foot parking lane beside each traffic lane. Then would come additional green space, followed by a biking trail on the north side of the road and a sidewalk on the south side of the road. 2. Non-parkway: The road would be made up of two lanes, not divided, with an Street • page 4

Stickwork burned

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Word came down on Jan. 5 that the Stickwork sculpture at St. John’s University, which captured imaginations of both young and old, would be burned down on the very next day at 1 p.m. The structure had lasted a lot longer than initially intended. Stickwork was built in September of 2012, and structures like this, designed by Patrick Dougherty, tend to last somewhere around two years. SJU estimates more than 50,000 people have visited the structure since it was built. More than 100 people turned out to watch the structure burn on Jan. 6. The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office, St. John’s University Life Safety and the St. John’s University Fire Department were on hand to maintain a safe environment. See additional photos on our website, as well as a link to footage from the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University’s drone.

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Marguerite E. Hewitt, 100 Cold Spring Nov. 1, 1915 - Dec. 23, 2015

Marguerite E. Hewitt, 100, of Cold Spring and formerly of St. Joseph, died Dec. 23, 2015 at her home. Her funeral was held on Dec. 30 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in St. Joseph. The Rev. Eberhard Schefers officiated. Burial took place in Assumption Cemetery. Hewitt was born Nov. 1, 1915 in Foley to Estelle (Willing) and John Edward Kasner. She married Manford “Duke” Hewitt on March 25, 1940 in St. Cloud. She was a member of the Church of St. Joseph for the last 37 years. Marguerite attended the College of St. Benedict and then transferred to the St. Cloud Teachers College where she earned her bachelor’s degree in education in 1939. She worked in the college library and later in the city library

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in St. Paul and St. Cloud. The Hewitt family previously lived in St. Paul. Marguerite served on the following: board member for the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women; lector for her parish church; and reader for the Minnesota Services for the Blind. She continued her services as lector at the Church of St. Joseph and reading for the blind for the St. Cloud Visitor, the St. Cloud Retired Senior Volunteer Program’s Radio for the Blind and the RSVP’s program for St. Benedict’s Monastery. Under the RSVP program she also read for many of the programs of the St. Cloud school district including the Minnesota Educational Cooperative Service Unit, Minnesota Academic Excellence Foundation and disability programs. She contributed to her parish school as a part of the Great Books Foundation. She was a participant with the Whitney Variety Troopers, the Women’s Pool Club and the Whitney Tappers. Home activities included her researching and recording family

Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 histories for both the Kasner and Hewitt families, knitting afghans and writing letters. Survivors include the following: children, G. Michael Hewitt, captain, U.S. Navy (Ret) and wife Lynda of Noank, Conn.; Dianne (Vincent) DeVargas of St. Joseph; James P. (MaryJo) Hewitt of Burnsville, Minn.; grandchildren, Heather (Rodney) Denman; James M. ( Maury) Hewitt; Paul D. DeVargas; John M. (Lara) DeVargas; Evan (Christopher) Cohoe; David V. DeVargas; Michael J. (Danielle) Hewitt; Daniel J. DeVargas; Amanda Hewitt and Allison (Daniel) Johnson; 15 great-grandchildren; sisters, Lucille Pettijohn of Grand Marais, Minn.; Dorothy Chamberlain, Faribault, Minn.; and Mary Ellen Dietman of St. Cloud; other nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her loving husband, “Duke” in 2011; her parents; and brother, Edward. Arrangements were with Daniel Funeral Home, St. Joseph.

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Review from front page cil in 2014, replacing outgoing city council member Steve Frank. Mayor Rick Schultz defended his seat in the November election against council member Bob Loso, while incumbent city council member Dale Wick retained his seat. The other two seats were not up for election. At his final council meeting, Frank said it was a privilege to work with the mayor and council, though they disagreed sometimes. A sign welcoming visitors to St. Joseph, sitting since 1996 between Old Hwy 52 and CR 75 on property belonging to Mike Deutz, was requested to be removed. In an email Dec. 17, Deutz’s attorney gave the city 30 days to remove the sign. City council members originally worked with multiple groups, including the Lions, to erect signs near the edge of town to welcome visitors. Retired anthropologist and museum educator Douglas Petersen spoke to All Saints Academy sixth-grade students about fur-trading voyageurs in Minnesota history. Peterson, dressed in his voyageur costume, came as “Pierre DuBois” and passed around objects such as mink and beaver pelts, a beaver skull, a stone knife and more. Students from St. Joseph and surrounding areas perform with the Central Minnesota Youth Orchestra, founded in 2013. The first concert of their year was held in April. The College of St. Benedict, St. John’s University and St. Cloud State University all

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This sign has welcomed locals and visitors entering St. Joseph via CR 75 since 1996. On Dec. 17, 2014, the owner of the land gave the city 30 days to remove it. play host for rehearsals. The College of St. Benedict began a $2.5-million renovation project for its nursing-education facilities. The redesign includes six simulation rooms, a simulation control center, two interactive classrooms, a large laboratory, a fully functional nurse’s station and a seminar space. Toni Pflueger and her daughters, Sara and Becky, traveled to Antigua, Guatemala to attend the high-school-graduation ceremony of Aura Camargo Perez, a child their family has sponsored for 15 years but had never met. A record number of 122 people participated in the 23rd annual St. Cloud Ice Bowl disc-golf tournament held at Millstream Park. The event raised $9,442.28 for local food shelves.

February

Brent Fandel, Nate Honkomp, Shane Johnson and Gary Lauer were all sworn in as St. Joseph Police Reserves by Mayor Rick Schultz at the regular city council meeting. These four join four other reserve officers bringing the total to eight volunteers. Police Chief Joel Klein was in

attendance along with Officer Matt Johnson, the reserve officer coordinator for the department. Construction began of additional facilities at Kennedy Community School, which opened in the fall of 2008. Ten additional classrooms along with student and staff restrooms, renovation of the cafeteria and a small parking lot at the back of the school were added. Cost was estimated at $4.7-million, with construction expected to be completed before the fall of 2015. Snow returned to the area on Feb. 3. Warmer temperatures had raised hopes of a milder stretch of weather to come. St. John’s Prep hosted more than 2,200 students, kindergarten through 12th grade, at the Abbey Church for a Mass celebrating Catholic education during national Catholic Schools Week. Provost Rita Knuesel announced she would retire in June after serving the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University for nearly 40 years in several capacities. Knuesel has been provost since 2007. The Jacob Wetterling Resource Review • page 5

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a Minnesota state-aid road at some point in the next year or so or they will stop accruing a balance. Only about 20 percent of St. Joseph roads, which includes Field Street, are eligible to be used for state-aid.

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Field Street, as it is referred to, would run from just south of the house of the president of the College of St. Benedict, curve south, connect at Elena Lane, continue straight, then curve south again to connect at 7th Avenue. The road is laid out so that Field Street can continue on to 12th and 16th Avenues in the future. approximately $1.3 million in assessments with the city paying nearly $1.2 million. Landowners are assessed nearly the from front page same amount for either proj8-foot parking lane beside ect. To help defray some of the each traffic lane. Then would come additional green space, city costs, the city has access followed by a biking trail on to Minnesota State-Aid Reimthe north side of the road. bursement funds. The current This option would not have a balance the city can access (the money is not kept on sidewalk. The parkway design is pro- city books) is $1.45 million. jected to cost nearly $3 million, The city is allocated about which would result in approx- $140,000-150,000 per year. However, if the balance imately a $1.3 million assessment on landowners with the reaches $1.5 million, the city city paying nearly $1.7 mil- will not receive any more allolion. The non-parkway design cations until they spend down is projected to cost nearly $2.5 the balance. This means the million, which would result in city will need to do work on

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Jerome Salzer, who is in the agriculture industry, said he rents land near the area where the road would go. He wanted to know if the sidewalk portion might be able to be delayed since there are no houses on the south side of where the road would go. Sabart said that is a possibility. Jess and Andy Rennecke were there with their young child. They wanted to know why the road and trail are so close to four homes on Elena Lane. The Renneckes said they don’t have trees or a fence so their privacy and safety will suffer with the new road. The Renneckes also noted a daycare is in the area near the new road as well, and other houses also have small children. Sue Palmer, vice president of finance for the College of St. Benedict, said St. Ben’s is not explicitly supporting the road, and asked why other landowners will have to pay significant costs for something which mostly benefits the Graceview developments. Dan Rassier stepped forward and asked the council why the road is so important to them. Sabart explained the

state-aid issue, and how they will have to spend the money somewhere in order to continue to receive an allocation from the state. He also said Field Street is part of the planning process for the master transportation plan. Rassier asked why they wouldn’t do small improvements around the city to draw the balance down, like additional lighting or signage or patchwork. Sabart said not all streets are state-aid. Rassier asked the city to put something on the website showing residents which streets are state-aid for the future. Lisa Meyer said she doesn’t live near the new road but a friend of hers does and asked her to come ask questions. Meyer asked what the speed limit would be on the new road. Sabart said the limit will be 35 mph, but the road will be built with curvature which allows for safe travel up to 45 mph, though traveling that fast would be against the law. Tim Hymens said he and the Kluesner family have no plans to develop the land they own abutting the road during their lifetime, and so they aren’t sure why the road needs to be built now instead of later. Kevin Kluesner, also an owner of the Kluesner land, asked if the building of the road could be postponed. He said the money the city gets from state-aid annually isn’t worth rushing a project

Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 through. Margy Hughes stepped forward, saying if the Kluesners aren’t going to develop and CSB is only going to use their land for athletic fields, the city won’t have many people to assess for the road and will be paying the bond themselves. Ann Meyer, another landowner adjacent to the road, also said they aren’t interested in developing their farm.

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City Administrator Judy Weyrens said the city started the Field Street process back in 2014. She said they had been contacted by Graceview estates, but only after they had decided they were interested in creating Field Street. Council member Renee Symanietz said she has a home in the Graceview development she bought in 2005, before she was on the council. She said she thinks of Field Street as a safety issue, because if there is an accident on Elena Lane there wouldn’t be a way for residents to get out of the development. Council member Matt Killam said Field Street will give relief to other streets, such as Baker, so more traffic will move south and out instead of north and out. The council voted 5-0 to move forward with Field Street as a whole, and also order plans and specifications for the parkway design of the street.

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Review from page 3 Center turned 25 years old in January, and held a celebration to honor the hope and help the JWRC has provided to thousands of families of missing, exploited and abducted children. A delegation of students and faculty from the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University obtained observer status for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held annually in Paris since 1992. The convention is responsible for creating and guiding international climate change policy. Members of the city council, park board, economic development authority and planning commission, as well as representatives of the facilities task force and aquatics amenity committee and additional St. Joseph residents gathered together at the community fire hall to make sure everyone was on the same page in regards to city planning. Mayor Schultz said he likes to call a meeting like this about once a year.

March

Kristi Spaniol and her 14-yearold daughter, Kelli Spaniol, a freshman at Cathedral High School, volunteered at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships held in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colo. The water tower lights were extinguished the entire night of March 28 in response to a request to turn them off for Earth Hour, a campaign which began in 2007 to turn the lights off for one hour at homes, businesses and government buildings meant to draw awareness to electricity usage. Dr. Judy Nagel, principal of Kennedy Community School, announced she would be leaving her position June 30, after the school year ended. Nagel was originally hired as an interim principal to replace Diane Moeller for the 2013-14 school year. City Council member Matt Kil-

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Kelli Spaniol (front) is shown with the FIS Alpine World Ski Championship theme of “Dream It, Live it, Share It” in the background. She said the theme was very prominent throughout the contest. lam updated the rest of the council on the water amenity project. He said they are currently working out how to finance the project, which includes the following: a multi-use pool with a one- and three-meter diving board; a grass lounge area; a lazy river; three water slides and more. The design was created by USAquatics. For the second consecutive time, the College of St. Benedict earned a place on the Peace Corps’ list of the top 25 volunteer-producing small colleges and universities in the nation. There were nine CSB students serving abroad as of Sept. 30, 2014. Small colleges and universities are defined as those with less than 5,000 undergraduate students. CSB was also cited by the Institute of International Education for ranking 29th among bachelor’s institutions for having the most Fulbright Scholars. In 2013, the school was awarded four Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Awards, the most the school has ever received. The St. Joseph Rod and Gun Club held its 22nd annual Wood Duck-, Bluebird- and WrenHouse Building Night. This year, the club helped area residents

and kids build 25 wood-duck, 100 bluebird and 80 wren houses. Laurie Putnam, assistant principal at South Junior High School in St. Cloud since 2009, accepted the principal position at Kennedy Community School after Dr. Judy Nagel’s resignation effective June 30. Employees from Artistic Stone and Concrete dismantled the ‘Welcome to St. Joseph’ sign March 19 located between Old Hwy 52 and CR 75. The sign was placed into storage. Central Minnesota Credit Union was approved for $125,300 in tax-increment financing by the city for a 14,000 square-foot member-services call center at 1140 Elm St. E. The total cost of the building will be $4.2 million, and it will house 42 staff members within the first two years, with room to hold about 80 employees total. The building should be complete sometime in late 2015 or early 2016.

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Our View Long-overdue FAST Act will boost transportation It’s just the shot in the arm Minnesota and 49 other states needed. Long overdue, this welcome boost is known as the FAST Act, which stands for “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act.” Up until now, the U.S. Congress would approve funding for transportation infrastructure projects and improvements in a stop-and-start herky-jerky fashion, bits of bills here and there, a series of short extensions to what was a previous comprehensive long-term transportation bill. That iffy, piecemeal approach, because of its ongoing uncertainty, was during the past decade an impediment to long-term planning in every state in the nation. Thanks to the FAST Act, Minnesota will receive a whopping $4 billion in federal transportation funding during a five-year period, from 2016 to 2020. What that means is that, in addition to funds already earmarked, there will be an additional $36 million to Minnesota this year, and increasingly higher amounts each year, with an extra $107 million in 2020. The money will be used for a wide variety of projects, including bridge-and-road repairs and improvements to make roads safer, with higher capacity, and also in some cases public-transit lines. Most of the projects will be local ones with local needs tying into the larger transportation process. The money, in addition, will provide for many other things, including improving railroad safety at highway-rail crossings and safety programs for drivers such as enhancing teen-driving skills and helping to combat distracted driving. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar was instrumental in getting those safety provisions into the FAST bill, as well as being a force in getting FAST itself passed. FAST could not have been more timely. Anybody who travels roads in Minnesota and elsewhere these days has noticed cases of sad deterioration all along our transportation systems. Some of the deterioration is not visible to the eye. That is why, without any warning, the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed Aug. 1, 2007, killing 13 and injuring many more. That should have been an immediate nationwide wake-up call, and in some ways it was in that many long-neglected bridges were inspected. There are about 600,000 bridges in this nation, and 24 percent of those are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, according to the Federal Highway Administration. For so many decades, the United States led the world in superb state-of-the-art transportation systems. Sadly, we have fallen behind, and the slow but sure decay has affected our economy negatively. Thanks to FAST, transportation renewal will not only create hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs, it will also in the long run increase safety, efficiency and facilitate the flow of goods and services. The FAST Act is only a beginning. Some have called it a “down payment” on a 21st Century state-of-the-art transportation system. First step or not, FAST is a welcome boost in more ways than one. Those who worked so hard to pass the bill, Democrats and Republicans alike, deserve our thanks.

The ideas expressed in the letters to the editor and of the guest columnists do not necessarily reflect the views of the Newsleaders. Letters to the editor may be sent to news@thenewsleaders. com or P.O. Box 324, St. Joseph, MN 56374. Deadline is noon Monday. Please include your full name for publication (and address and phone number for verification only.) Letters must be 350 words or less. We reserve the right to edit for space.

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Friday, Jan. 8, 2016

Opinion A new year – time to shed the lard For most of my life, I was a skinflint string-bean who could never gain weight, hard as I tried, much as I ate. I used to complain about it, and some of the pudgling diet-conscious women at work decades ago would give me killer looks that said, “Oh, you poor thing, you!” Well, that was then, when I weighed 145 pounds, max. This, sad to say, is now. My big fat wish to gain weight has come true, bloatedly true, at 213 pounds, 33 pounds above my ideal weight. Just last week, my doctor suggested exercise, but I don’t think he meant the 50 steps from my home office to the refrigerator and back again. That’s one of the hazards of working mainly from home – a nearby refrigerator, food pantry just around the corner. What makes it worse is one of my hobbies is cooking. Thus, I am surrounded, under siege constantly by highcaloric little devils. My weight gain started eight years ago, after I quit smoking cold turkey. Suddenly, I had fierce cravings for sweets, especially jelly beans and Dots. From there, it spiraled downward to homemade breads, my own homebaked pizzas, chocolate-chip cookies, caramel rolls, apple pie, lemon pie, lemon cake, lemon bars (I can’t say no to anything lemon). I won’t even list all the gourmet meals I’ve enjoyed. I have vowed time and again to cut down on all of those sweets and heaping helpings, but – alas – the road to the Land of Lard is filled with big intentions. They claim as people age, they tend to put on weight, but I don’t think it’s age as

Dennis Dalman Editor much as it is the mouth-watering foods that beckon at every turn. Every time I vow to diet, brother-in-law Kurt laughs uproariously. Others do too. Someone suggested the Duck-Tape Diet. “What in the heck is that?” I asked. “You slap a piece of duck tape across your mouth and keep it there.” Good neighbor Richard Dubbin relishes a constant parade of sweet snacks and candies all day long. For Christmas I bought him many pounds of various candies, mostly jelly beans and gum drops. And guess who ate darned near half of them before the package was even wrapped a week later? You got it – yours truly, El Lardo. Old SweetTooth Richard is so lucky; I envy him. He’s my age, but he’s so hyperactive, just like the Energizer Bunny, that he can eat like a hog in a trough and never gain weight. I keep remembering how many times I vowed to quit smoking before I finally had sense enough and willpower to do it, at long last. The past two weeks, after all that Christmas food, determination and willpower (I think) are finally kicking in as they did when I quit the evil weed. What spurred me on is I’ve been having trouble putting on socks and tying my shoes, to the

point where I feel virtually crippled, all but helpless, like one of those bugs stuck on its back, its legs wobbling frantically to get right side up again. A week ago, I started my sad-sack diet. The first day it was buttered toast and orange juice in the morning, an apple at noon, an orange at 2 p.m., two ham sandwiches for supper. The following days were pretty much the same, though one afternoon I splurged on bacon and eggs (but only two strips of bacon instead of five and two eggs instead of three). I have banished candies, sweets, desserts from my life. I just won’t make them anymore. That in itself should be a big help. I lost one pound since getting weighed at the doctor’s office 10 days ago. That’s one down, 32 to go. I read an article the other day that advised people struggling with weight to weigh themselves every day without fail – the very thing I had been avoiding, just as I avoided mirrors. But from now on I’m going to step onto that scale every morning. It really was an encouragement to see the scale read 213 yesterday rather than the 214 of the week before. Yes, a snail’s progress, but at least it’s heading in the right direction – south. I hope by early summer I am down to 180 pounds, my old self, once again vigorous and good-looking. Well . . . somewhat vigorous, anyway. If anybody has any diet plans or diet tips, please let me know, and I will share them with readers. It’s a new year. C’mon everybody, let’s all get nice ‘n’ thin.

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Reader thinks residents should attend meetings, hold council accountable Lisa Meyer, St. Joseph I am relatively new to our town but have been following local issues in the Newsleader as well as reading the online city council minutes for some time. I attended my first public hearing in St. Joseph this week and, regardless of my opinions on the topic at hand, I feel compelled to say that this and previous public hearings appear to be: (a) happening far too late in the decision-making process, when things are already a ‘done deal’; (b) more of a formality than an actual listening session for the public to communicate with their representatives; and (c) a clear indication that significant public opinion

in opposition to what is being voted on exists. It makes me uncomfortable, to say the least, when elected officials appear to give little weight to what is being said by those they represent at public hearings and vote to go ahead with what is being discussed following clear and reasonable opposition. I would suggest these hearings happen earlier in the process, on more than one occasion, and with the same legal notice being given so the sentiment that our elected officials don’t listen to the majority of the public speaking out on an issue can be avoided. I also suggest more citizens start attending regular meetings, even when a special issue is not up for vote so the frustration that people only

show up to complain at the end, after significant hard work by our representatives and others has already occurred, can be prevented as well. I also might suggest when a large turnout in opposition to something occurs, the vote be tabled pending further discussion and public opportunity to further communicate their concerns especially where there is no urgency for a vote. Lastly, it should be remembered by all those who feel they are not being fairly represented by elected officials that they have the ultimate opportunity to have their voices heard in the voting booth and may do just that if they feel their concerns are ignored too often in public hearings and meetings.

Freedom of speech, our most important right I watched on TV as a young black girl, probably a student, exploded in a profanity-laced tirade against a professor at Yale University. Her mother must be very proud. The issue was a letter which the professor’s wife apparently had written stating people should be a bit more tolerant of others’ choices of Halloween costumes and not be so offended. Seems innocent enough to me, but no. According to this young lady, along with others in the perpetually offended community, it was not innocent. This young lady apparently believes she should not have to face any expression that displeases her. The new thinking seems to be no one should ever have to experience offense, period, and that no one is allowed freedom of speech or expression that is offensive to her. Well I’ve got some bad news for this young girl. In this free country we do have that freedom and if she is offended by anything someone says, tough. She, nor anyone, is guaranteed a life free of offense. There is a serious movement on some campuses today to repeal the First Amendment. In other words, some want the right of free speech to be curtailed so as not to be offensive to anyone. Certain words cannot be used. Historical flags must be destroyed. History must be rewritten to keep anyone from being offended. As a test of this new thinking, independent filmmaker Ami Horowitz recently visited Yale

Ron Scarbro Guest Writer University attempting to get signatures on a petition to repeal the First Amendment. In less than an hour he had 50 signatures. These obviously spoiled youngsters have no knowledge of what this country is all about. Today I offer you this lesson. Some say certain lives matter. Really? Do you want your life to matter? Then do something that matters. Create, build, discover, do anything that makes your life and others better. Get an education, get a job, respect law, be a good citizen. That’s how you make your life matter. One matters because of who they are and ultimately what they do, not what they are. No group in this country should be separated out for any special reward or punishment simply because of their race. We are rapidly approaching a point in this country when the majority will no longer tolerate the whining and complaining of any minority group. If you are a citizen of America, you already are ahead of most of the world. How many people

throughout this world do you think would trade places with the poorest American living in the worst ghetto? I would guess millions. So then part two of the lesson today is to look around you. See what you are blessed to have. To the young lady screaming profanities at the Yale professor, how many people do you suppose would love to be a student at one of the most prestigious universities in the world? You are fortunate beyond your wildest dreams. If you don’t mess it up by your terrible attitude and your foul mouth, you will probably graduate with the prospect of a great career and fantastic earning potential. All of us have the choice of being a force for good or being a part of the problem. As Americans we are all guaranteed opportunity but there is no guarantee for success. That is determined by our talent, our intelligence and our hard work. This world is going to continue to need intelligent movers and shakers. The society of the perpetually offended will rightfully fall by the wayside. Scarbro is retired and spends most of his free time with his grandchildren having moved from Sartell to St. Simons Island, Ga. Writing and commenting on the news of the day is a pastime. Visit his weekly blog at ronscarbro.blogspot.com for more commentary.

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Tuesday, Jan. 12 Sartell Chamber of Commerce, 11:30 a.m., Waters Church, 1227 Pinecone Road. 320-258.6061. info@sartellchamber.com. ICAN Prevent Diabetes, 3:154:15 p.m., Sacred Heart Church, 2875 10th Ave. N.E., Sauk Rapids. 320650-3082. St. Joseph Joint Planning Board, 7 p.m., City Hall, 25 College Ave. N. 320-363-7201. cityofstjoseph.com. Minnesota: A History of the Land: The Northern Forest, 7-8 p.m., Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site, 1620 Lindbergh Drive S., Little Falls. 320-

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Review from page 5 Instructors Mike Hengel and Bob Kempenich offered a bystander CPR class at Heritage Hall in St. Joseph Catholic Church. They are part of Take Heart Minnesota, which seeks to increase the survival rate for people experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. SCA, which is different than a heart attack, can cause someone to be clinically dead within minutes if not treated with a defibrillator or with bystander CPR followed by defibrillation. Area quilters from St. Joseph Catholic Church volunteered hundreds of hours to finish many beautiful quilts for the annual church bazaar held July 3-4. The city council voted to move forward on documents presented by Tom Schaffer of USAquatics, an aquatic consulting and design firm based out of Delano. The next step includes 3D-modeling of the amenity as well as site researching and soil testing. The

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