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Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 Volume 26, Issue 3 Est. 1989
Town Crier Heart Center offers outpatient nicotine dependence program
Quit tobacco through the Outpatient Nicotine Dependence Program at St. Cloud Hospital. The next session begins Jan. 22 and runs for five consecutive Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the CentraCare Heart and Vascular Center. Deadline to register is Monday, Jan. 19. Cigarette smoking is the No. 1 cause of preventable disease and death worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim more than 393,000 American lives each year. People who use tobacco are at higher risk of stroke and heart attack. If you are interested in individual counseling or registering for the group sessions, call 320-2512700, ext. 57448.
Biodiesel essay contest fuels college dreams for Minnesota students
An essay contest is helping to raise awareness of biodiesel, a cleaner alternative to traditional petroleum fuels that is helping to reduce emissions statewide. Essays have a 1,000-word limit and are due on Friday, April 3. The Clean Air Choice Biodiesel Essay Contest is open to all high school seniors in Minnesota with plans to attend post-secondary education. The contest offers a $1,000 first-place scholarship and a $500 second-place scholarship for winning entries. Rules, entry forms and more details can be found at CleanAirChoice.org.
Step up for kids
We all win when young people succeed. That is why we invite you to LIVE UNITED. One-time, shortterm and ongoing volunteer opportunities are available with children and youth throughout Central Minnesota. Examples include playing board games, helping with simple homework, sharing your skill or hobby, and reading with children. The opportunities are endless. For more information on this and other United Way volunteer opportunities, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Jan. 16 Criers.
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Welcome sign not so welcome anymore by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com
A sign welcoming visitors to St. Joseph may soon be empty space. The sign, which sits beside Old Hwy 52 and Hwy 75, is on property belonging to Mike Deutz, and it’s been there since 1996. In an email Dec. 17, Deutz’s attorney gave the city 30 days to remove the sign and return the land to its original state. During the city council meeting on Jan. 5, council members felt 30 days was too little time, and plan to ask for an extension in order to give them more time to find out whether the St. Joseph Lions, the city or both are responsible for removing the sign. City council members originally worked with multiple groups, including the Lions, to
erect signs near the edges of town welcoming visitors. According to public documents, the Lions paid for the sign, while the city agreed to maintain the landscaping around it and provide electricity. In an email, St. Joseph City Attorney Thomas Jovanovich told the city he wasn’t sure whether the city truly owned the sign, as it had never been officially given to the city, or accepted. At the council meeting, Mayor Rick Schultz said he would meet with the Lions to determine how the sign might be removed, so the issue was tabled. Meanwhile, the city plans to contact Deutz and his attorney to ask for an extension on the 30-day limit, which runs out this week. “We know we’re going to lose the welcome sign,” Schultz Welcome • page 4
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This sign has welcomed locals and visitors alike coming to St. Joseph via CR 75 since 1996. The owner of the land recently gave the city 30 days to remove it.
‘Fur trader’ Petersen speaks to ASA students by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
Retired anthropologist and museum educator Douglas Petersen recently spoke to ASA sixth-grade students about furtrading voyageurs in Minnesota history. Sixth-grade teacher Susan Huls said the class was studying Minnesota history in social studies, as required by the state standards. They had studied the Ojibwe and Dakota Native Americans and were beginning to study the fur trade. Petersen was their first introduction to the subject.
Petersen, dressed in his voyageur costume, came as “Pierre DuBois” and spoke to the students about the European demand for animal pelts and how the fur trade developed in the Great Lakes area. Through a PowerPoint presentation, he also discussed the voyageurs and their lifestyle, the trading season and more. He passed around objects such as mink and beaver animal pelts, a beaver skull, a stone knife, trap, blanket and more for the students to gain hands-on knowledge. Petersen discussed striking sparks with Fur • page 8
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Left: Retired anthropologist and museum educator Doug Petersen speaks about fur trading in Minnesota history. Below: ASA sixth-grade students (left to right) Leighton Hackett, Jack Skahen and Eli Ebel examine mink pelts brought in by Doug Petersen for a discussion about fur trading in Minnesota history.
Former chief still paying for lost bet by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
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Due to space constraints, the Newsleader cannot always print all of the news in a given week. Additional stories can always be found on our website, thenewsleaders. com, by clicking on the header for St. Joseph and scrolling through the stories. This week, a story about Kennedy students performing holiday concerts, along with a story about Arlington Place Assisted Living’s holiday open house can be found online. We also post stories like these to our Facebook page, so be sure to like us for additional online content!
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A split second after the plunge, MaryBeth Munden and Rick Welch are instantly eager to get out of the frigid lake and into the warmth of a nearby tent.
What started as a bet and a dare is now an annual ice-cold tradition for MaryBeth Munden of St. Joseph. Every year, she summons up the gumption (Brrrr!) to go plunging into a lake in the dead of winter, and it all began on a bet with a wisecracking police chief. It’s a shock to her system, but it’s for a good cause – the Polar Plunge for the Minnesota Special Olympics. Munden is the dispatcher for the St. Joseph Police Department. About seven years ago, some members of the department were in the office shooting the breeze about the Polar Plunge in the news. The police chief at that time, Pete Jansky, known for his wisecracks, made a remark that Mary would never take
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the Polar Plunge because she hates the cold weather so much. Munden bristled at Jansky’s teasing suggestion that she’s a cold-weather wimp. She threw him a challenging look, but he just laughed and said, “Mary, I’ll bet you $75 you won’t do it.” To which she replied, “OK, chief, it’s a bet. Now where’s the $75? Not too long after that, the chief had to cough up the money. He not only had to eat his words, but he had to pay for them, too. And every year since, Jansky, who is now retired, has been good-natured about losing that bet, contributing every winter to Munden’s plunge-fund. “Pete thought I was kidding,” she said. “He found out I wasn’t, but he’s been so good about it.” Besides her dispatching duties, MunBet • page 8
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Obituary
Lenora D. Hilsgen, 95 St. Joseph Jan. 28, 1919 - Jan. 11, 2015
Lenora D. Hilsgen, 95, of St. Joseph, formerly of St. Cloud, died Jan. 11 at Arlington Place, St. Joseph. Her funeral was held Jan. 15 at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in St. Cloud. The Rev. Thomas Knoblach officiated. Burial was in the St. Joseph Parish Cemetery in St. Joseph. Hilsgen was born on Jan. 28, 1919 in St. Joseph to Michael and Mary (Himsl) Zimmer. She married Christ “Chris” Hilsgen on June 29, 1946 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in St. Joseph. She worked as a dietary aide at the St. Cloud Hospital for many
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years. She was a member of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church and Christian Women. Hilsgen loved baking, gardening, puzzles and playing cards. She especially treasured all the time spent with her family. Survivors include her children, Audrey (Hiltner) Schroeder (Rick) of St. Joseph, Clifford (Cori) of Avon, and Mary Theisen (Dave) and Mark (Lisa), all of St. Joseph; daughter-in-law, Mary Jane Hilsgen of Woodbury; 14 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; sister-in-law Esther Zimmer of Prior Lake; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Chris; son, Michael; son-in-law, Rich Hiltner; one grandson, John Michael Hilsgen; and 10 brothers and sisters. A special thank-you to the staff at Arlington Place for all the care given to Lenora during her stay.
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Mark Theisen, driver for Brenny Transportation, was selected as one of the National Association of Small Trucking Cos.’ “Drivers of the Year.” Theisen was chosen from among 65,000 drivers who are part of the organization. He has driven for Brenny for more than 10 years, and has been a professional driver for more than 47 years, accumulating more than 5,000,000 accident-free miles. The award was presented in Nashville, Tenn. on Nov. 8. Pictured are (from left to right) Todd Brenny, president of Brenny Transportation; David Owen, president of NASTC; Joyce Brenny, vice president of Brenny Transportation; Mark Theisen, “Driver of the Year’” and, Alex Debogorski from Ice Road Truckers.
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Dick Loso is presented the Helen Keller award by Lions 5M8 District Governor Duane Finger and Lion Elmer Rakotz. Pictured, left to right, are: Finger, Loso and Rakotz.
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Left: Food shelf coordinator Ann Scherer receives the Lions Leaderdog Award presented by 5M8 District Governor Duane Finger and Donna Hoskins. Pictured, left to right, are: Hoskins, Finger and Scherer. Right: Lion Joe Bechtold presents a $5,000 check to food shelf coordinator Ann Scherer. Twelve St. Joseph students were recently named to the fall semester dean’s list at St. Cloud State University. They and their majors are as follows: Nicole Bunnell, communication arts and literature; Kylie Carlson, nursing; Chelsea Christman, English; Brett Eisenschenk, elementary/K-6 education; Amanda Ertl, finance; Jake
Hawkins, psychology; Seth Hennagir, chemistry professional ACSapproved; Christian Jonas, English; Michelle Lahr, community psychology; Daniel Pfannenstein, criminal justice studies; Adam Streit, community psychology; and Vanessa Ulrich, undecided. Students must have a grade-point average of 3.75 or higher on a 4.0 scale.
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If any readers have tips concerning crimes, they should call the St. Joseph Police Department at 320-363-8250 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at 320-255-1301 or access its tip site at www.tricountycrimestoppers.org. Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for crimes. Dec. 25 10:12 a.m. Vehicle in ditch. CR 75/I-94. A 33-year-old female’s vehicle ended up in the ditch. Police responded and supplied lights as the vehicle was pulled out. Dec. 26 8:06 p.m. Domestic. I-94/CR 159. The Minnesota State Patrol came upon a fight at the St. John’s exit. Police also arrived, and stood by until everyone was under control. Dec. 27 11:35 a.m. Found property. Elm Street E. A 48-year-old man brought a cell phone into the police station that he found in a local parking lot. As he turned it into police, the phone rang. An officer spoke with the owner, and after meeting the owner, a 35-year-old woman from Willow River, and verifying her identity with her driver’s license, the phone was returned. 8:26 p.m. Suspicious vehicle. Ridgewood Court. Police responded to the call about a suspicious vehicle. The driver was a local tenant. Dec. 28 4:43 p.m. Medical. 5th Avenue NW. Police received a call of a 75-year-old male who was weak and having difficulty breathing. Gold Cross arrived and took control of the man. 6:02 p.m. Driving complaint. 2nd Avenue NW. A driver called in a complaint of a tractor with no lights heading east on CR 75. Police pulled the tractor over on CR 133. All lights appeared to be on and working. Dec. 29 7:52 a.m. Tampered vehicle. Ridgewood Court. Overnight, a trailer was gone through at a local business. It was undetermined if anything was stolen at the time. 7:59 a.m. Car fire. CR 134/CR 75. A driver called because while driving all of his lights came on, and when he exited the vehicle Blotter • page 4
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Grant given for extension of Wobegon Trail by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
southern side of its 100-footwide rail corridor between St. Joseph and St. Cloud. The Wobegon Trail would be constructed along that 10-footwide swath from St. Joseph to Waite Park. If that would occur, BNSF could still operate a daily train (one per day, moving at 10 mph) on that length of track. BNSF serves to transport products mainly from lumber or concrete companies along that route, such as Tamarack Builders, Borgert and Amcon. • The Wobegon Trail is intended to be developed from St. Joseph all the way to Hester Park in St. Cloud, just south of that city’s hospital. Already, Waite Park and St. Cloud have been developing segments of such an extended trail. This coming summer, in 2015, for example, Waite Park plans to build a small trail segment on the east side of the Sauk River. Waite Park also built trails on the north side of 3rd Street all the way to Apollo High School in St. Cloud. St. Cloud, in turn, plans to extend the trail from Apollo to Hester Park. • Eventually, the Wobegon Trail will connect with other trails in the greater St. Cloud area, as its western portion already does, including a northern link to Holdingford and places even further west. The trail is 62 miles long with 54 of those miles in Stearns County. It joins the Central Lakes Trail to the west beyond Sauk Centre, and that trail goes 103 miles to Fergus Falls. Theismann said his most “optimistic guess” is a trail Wobegon • page 5
Wobegon Trail enthusiasts received some good news recently when the Department of Natural Resources announced a $250,000 Legacy Grant for extension of the trail to Waite Park. However, there are still some uncertainties, said Stearns County Parks Director Peter Theismann. Those uncertainties at this point, he noted, include the result of negotiations to buy a portion of the rail corridor from Burlington Northern/Santa Fe Railroad. Those negotiations continue. Plans are for the trail to be extended from the Wobegon trailhead in St. Joseph to the existing Harold P. Nelson Healthy Living Trail in Waite Park. It would be a multipurpose year-round trail open for walkers, bicyclists, inline skaters and snowmobilers (studless machines). Another uncertainty, Theismann said, is the county will need another $70,000 to complete the project. One St. Cloud woman, who prefers to remain anonymous, contributed $5,000 to start a Wobegon Trail Extension Fund via the Central Minnesota Community Foundation. That fund has grown to about $8,000, Theismann said. At this point, here are the plans as outlined by Theismann in an interview with the Newsleader: • Park planners would like to purchase from Burlington Northern/Santa Fee Railroad a 20-foot-wide pathway on the
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Welcome Fare for All sets records from front page said at a recent St. Joseph Chamber meeting. However, the city may choose to revamp and relocate all of the welcome signs in the city, Schultz continued. The city council may or may not meet again this month, depending on the amount of business on the agenda.
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November and December Fare for All distributions in St. Joseph broke previous records. Because of unsafe weather conditions, there were two distributions in November. These distributions served about 431 households and sold 884 packages. Organizer Amanda Roles said this is the greatest number of packages sold at one site in one month. The December distribution sold 707 packages and served about 348 households. Roles said that is the largest one-day distribution in the history of Fare for All. She thanked all the volunteers who helped at the distributions and hopes everyone involved can keep the momentum going.
Fare for All is available to anyone who wants to stretch their food budget. The program buys food in bulk and passes the savings on to customers. Distributions, which include produce and meat items, are at the Resurrection Lutheran Church located at 610 CR 2 in St. Joseph. The time for distributions for this year has changed to 3:30-5:30 p.m. to try to better accommodate customers. Volunteers are requested to arrive around 2:30-2:45 p.m. Planned distribution dates for 2015 are Feb. 2, March 2, April 13, May 11, June 8, July 20, Aug. 17, Sept. 21, Oct. 19, Nov. 16 and Dec. 14. To sign up to volunteer online, visit signupgenius. com/go/8050e48a4ae2aa46volunteer or contact Roles at rolesamanda@gmail or 320339-6268.
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from page 2 it was on fire. Police were able to extinguish the flames before the St. Joseph Fire Department arrived. A tow truck was called. Dec. 30 12:07 a.m. Verbal. Northland Drive. Police received a call saying a neighbor was having a verbal argument for more than an hour. Police did not hear anything upon arrival, and the resident said they were alone and playing video games. 1:48 a.m. Felony drug offense. I-94. A Sheriff’s deputy conducted a traffic stop on a speeding pickup. The deputy found approximately 50 grams of a substance which was field-tested to be methamphetamine, along with $8,500. The persons in the vehicle, Colin Nicholson and Matthew Emerson, both 24-yearsolds from Maplewood, Minn., were arrested and taken to the Stearns County Jail. Dec. 31 9:05 a.m. Theft. Ridgewood Court. Sometime in the previous week, someone took about 80 gallons of diesel fuel out of the tank of a semi, valued at $240. The issue on Dec. 29 may be related. 8:48 p.m. Fireworks. 3rd Avenue NE. Police observed two large, aerial fireworks in the area. After searching the area, police did not find anyone. Jan. 1 12:43 a.m. Medical. Minnesota Street W. A 22-year-old male was unresponsive but breathing at a local bar after becoming very intoxicated. Gold Cross was dispatched and the male was brought to the St. Cloud Hospital.
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Local gas stations receive more than just a facelift by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com
Your local Speedstop won’t be a BP for much longer; it won’t even be a Speedstop. JM Cos. is converting its BP stations into SuperAmerica locations, including the one in St. Joseph. The St. Joseph location will be closed Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 19-20 and re-open Wednesday, Jan. 21. “Customers will see the difference the moment they walk in,” said Brian Laudenbach, vice president of JM Cos. JM Cos., based in St. Cloud, originally operated as JM Oil and was franchised as Amoco in 1975. BP absorbed Amoco a decade or so ago, and JM Cos.’ locations switched fuel providers by default at the time. Now
Wobegon from page 3 extension from St. Joseph to Waite Park will be completed in 2017. But, again, such optimism is predicated upon a deal with BNSF and enough funding to meet the $70,000 mark. Theismann said planners have long researched alternative St. Joseph-Waite Park
they want to make a change. BP provided only its name and fuel to locations, leaving JM Cos. to figure out how to make the conveniencestore end of its business work. Laudenbach said he is looking forward to working with SA because SA is very experienced in working with franchises and providing guidance. One of the things Laudenbach is most excited about is the local aspect of SA. Super America is based in Woodbury. It also maintains a bakery and an oil refinery in St. Paul Park. Due to the parent company’s proximity, SA stations are able to receive fresh goods every night. It also means SA is able to use mainly oil from North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields in its refining and offer it to
consumers. Laudenbach said some customers he spoke with were concerned SA wouldn’t be able to offer non-oxygenated premium fuel for smallengine use, but he assures those customers it will. And unfortunately, some customers who are used to the Super Ticket system (a stamprewards program for Speedstop locations) will be disappointed these tickets will no longer be honored. But Laudenbach says the My SA Rewards card will have similar, arguably better benefits. JM Cos. employs about 180 local people throughout the St. Cloud area, and is currently accepting applications in stores. “We’re always looking for good people,” Laudenbach said.
route options. “It has been a thoughtful, methodical process,” he said. “And the route we have planned (on the railroad corridor) is the safest, straightest, cheapest route.” The Wobegon Trail from St. Joseph to Sauk Centre opened about 12 years ago on an abandoned portion of the BNSF. Two years ago, fund-raising began for the extension to Waite Park and beyond. To date, the following funds
are available for the project: Cumulative total from DNR Legacy Grant funding: $1.25 million. DNR Federal Recreation and Trail Grant: $150,000. Federal Transportation Alternative Program Grant: $922,678. Other local contributions include $10,000 from St. Joseph Township and $8,000 from contributors to the Lake Wobegon Trail Community Foundation Fund.
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The BP station on CR 75 will soon have customers seeing red – by changing into a SuperAmerica. Matching Grant
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Our View President should veto Keystone Pipeline approval Nobody wants an oil spill, and yet they happen all too often. They happen from wars, train derailments, offshore oil-rig accidents, tanker crashes and pipeline ruptures. In the past few decades, oil-spill disasters sound like units in a bleak parade: Bay of Campeche, Mexico; Arctic Empress near Tobago; Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan; Nowruz Oil Field, Persian Gulf; The Summer tanker near Angola; Tanker Amoco Cadiz near Brittany; the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster near Alaska; and the worst spill in U.S. history, the Deepwater Horizon rupture in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Those are among the worst of history. Collectively, they released hundreds of millions of gallons of crude oil onto land and into oceans. Crude-oil pipeline accidents have also produced disasters. According to the Wall Street Journal, there were 1,400 serious pipeline spills and accidents in the United States, four of five of them discovered by local residents, not by the companies who owned the pipelines. In 2010, a rupture near Marshall, Mich. spilled 840,000 gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River; in 2013, an ExxonMobil pipeline carrying heavy crude ruptured near Mayflower, Ark., spilling up to 7,000 barrels of crude oil, causing home evacuations and ongoing health concerns. Such accidents make it clear there is no foolproof way to transport crude oil, refined oil products or natural gas – gas that can be even more explosively catastrophic when pipeline leaks or ruptures happen. Nothing’s foolproof. Remember the unsinkable Titanic that sank? We keep hearing, like a recurrent lullaby, that pipelines are so new-and-improved, so safe, so environmentally friendly. Those lulling reassurances come constantly from companies and advocates pushing for construction of pipelines now being proposed, including the controversial extension of the Keystone pipeline from the tar-sand fields of Alberta, Canada down through the American Midwest, across a vast water aquifer, all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. There are, by the way, already portions of a Canadian-U.S. pipeline completed, including an operational line to Illinois. The oil from Canadian tar sands, the very dirtiest oilextraction method, would be processed at refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas, then shipped to other countries via tankers. For the following five reasons, the Keystone project should not take place: Extraction from tar sands takes an enormous amount of energy to do, causing huge carbon-caused pollution into the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change. Putting that pipeline across the United States would, ironically, not benefit this country in any appreciable way. This chorus of “jobs, jobs, jobs” is disingenuous at best. According to the U.S. State Department, it would create about 4,000 jobs over a two-year period, after which there would be 35 permanent American jobs, according to TransCanada, a pipeline builder. Despite soothing reassurances of safety, there is an all-too-real possibility of leaks and ruptures minor and major which could harm water supplies, flora and fauna and the environment in general. By allowing for the pipeline, we are directly and indirectly encouraging the dirty process of tar-sands extraction, which is an environment and climate killer. We should, instead, be pushing for development of safer forms of energy. Big Oil is notorious for its soothing promises. Remember British Petroleum’s denials and minimization of the Gulf oil disaster? Remember its broken promises? Remember its assurances all would be well? It’s certain the current U.S. Congress will approve the Keystone Pipeline. President Obama should veto it. The project, after all is said and done, would be environmentally unwise, and it would truly benefit almost nobody in this country except some Big-Oil interests.
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Opinion ‘Je suis Charlie! I am Spartacus!’ “Je suis Charlie!” That shout of worldwide solidarity (French for “I am Charlie!”) began last week after the execution-style murders of cartoonists for the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo. The threeword declaration was inspired by a powerful scene in the 1960 Stanley Kubrick classic, Spartacus, a brilliant movie based on a gladiator who became one of the leaders of a slave revolt in 73 B.C. that lasted three years and nearly brought Imperial Rome to its knees. In the movie, after the rebels’ defeat, the Romans gather together the huge crowd of captives and demand to know, “Which one of you is Spartacus?” There is a vast silence. Then, one man after another shouts “I am Spartacus!” Soon, the entire crowd is shouting as one spirit, with defiance and pride, “I am Spartacus!” The rebels know it is an expression of solidarity unto death. True to form, the Romans crucify 6,000 of them, making them die slowly in agony, strung up mile after mile all along the Appian Way, a road leading to Rome. The “I am Spartacus!” scene is fictional, but the horrific crucifixions did, in fact, occur. The name “Spartacus” has become synonymous down through history with struggles for freedom against oppression. What is interesting is that Howard Fast, the author of the 1951 novel on which the Kubrick film is based, was himself the target of freespeech suppression in the United States. He was under fire by the forces of censorship and self-censorship rampant in America during the 1950s’ era of anti-communist paranoia. Fast had to self-publish Spartacus because publishers, cowed by intimidation, didn’t have the guts to publish it, even though Fast’s previous historical novels had sold well. What’s more, Fast began writing Spartacus during a three-month term in prison. Like many other authors, screenwriters, directors, playwrights and intellectuals in the mid-
Dennis Dalman Editor 1950s, he was accused of being a communist sympathizer. It’s unfortunate many younger people do not know about that era. Fast and others were summoned to appear before the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee, which began a paranoid frenzy to uncover communist influences in the United States. At the hearings, those subpoenaed were intimidated and threatened to try to make them squeal on acquaintances. Some did; some didn’t. The witch hunt was whipped up by the limelight-seeking demagogue Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who used innuendos, fears and outright lies to whip up suspicion, pitting honorable people against one another. In his appearance before the committee (more like a medieval inquisition), Fast was asked to disclose names of people who gave money to found a home for orphans of American veterans who’d volunteered in the Spanish Civil War. One of the contributors was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, pegged by witch-hunters as a secret communist just because of her tireless work for social justice. Fast refused to give names and – like many others – was cited for contempt of Congress and imprisoned. What do Howard Fast and McCarthy witch hunts have to do with the murders in Paris? The parallels should be obvious. Fast, like the French cartoonists, was threatened just because he was exercising his right to free speech and press and because he was a fierce
defender of his and others’ rights to express their thoughts. Fast actually did join the American Communist Party in the mid-1940s; he later denounced the cruel excesses of Soviet-style communism. McCarthy was discredited after being censured by the U.S. Senate. He died in 1957, age 48, of an illness exacerbated by acute alcoholism. McCarthyism was a shameful chapter in American history, a blatant attack on freedom of speech and the right to associate freely. Its tactics were similar to those used now by extremists who use threats, fears and terror to try to achieve their ends. And what are those ends? Apparently, nothing less than a total conversion of everyone in the world to their sadistic ideologies. Their enemy is freedom. That’s because freedom of any kind undermines their baseless rules for living, which are hatched in darkness and cannot bear the scrutiny of decency and light. These murderers, who dare to use a great religion, Islam, to justify their atrocities, will win absolutely nothing. Losers to the core, they will lose everything, ultimately, in their self-righteous and self-defeating rage against enlightenment. Such killers are yet another reminder that the fight to maintain freedom is never-ending. The great journalist Edward R. Murrow, on his March 9, 1954 TV show, said this concerning McCarthy’s witch hunts: “We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.” With those wise words in mind, let’s express our solidarity with all defenders of freedom by shouting at the top of our voices a resounding chorus of “Je suis Charlie!”
Letters to editor
Reader raps Scarbro’s take on Republican ‘fix’ Sharon Fitzgerald, Sartell I again read with amusement Scarbro’s column regarding the mess he expects a Republican Congress to fix now they have control of Congress. Unemployment went from 10 percent to 5.8 percent since 2008. That mess? The federal deficit is the smallest since 2008. Must be that mess. Or the fact oil prices are the lowest again since 2008. Well, that mess is a real hardship on Joe Public. We are able to spend money in places other than at the gas pump, forcing
retailers to order more goods and manufacturers to make more products. Hard on everyone. Then there’s the ACA – 10 million people have signed up for health insurance and many of them did not have health insurance before. That’s a real mess for hospitals and doctors who now have to treat more people who have insurance. Then there’s the Keystone Pipeline project, which Scarbro brags about. This project will provide 20,000 jobs, but he does not say how long these jobs will last. A month? A year? A lifetime? 320,000 jobs
were created in one month, November 2014. 320,000 vs 20,000. Who has bragging rights on that one? The Bush Administration left this country in the worst shape in 50 years, yet Scarbro wants a Republican Congress and a Republican President. Wonder how long it will take them to take us back to the glory days of the Bush Administration. P.S. I have used some of the information in this email from the column of Dennis Dalman also published on Jan. 2. Thank you, Dalman, for the facts.
Hard time with Scarbro’s ‘behind tree’ column David George Johnson, Sartell I very much appreciate receiving the Sartell Newsleader each week. Thank you for the publication. I also enjoy the editorial section and appreciate the liberal/ conservative balance exhibited. I have a very hard time, however, with the column written by Ron Scarbro in the Jan. 9 edition entitled: “It must be that person behind the tree.” Scarbro seems to begin with the proposition that we are all responsible for our own actions. I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically agree with that proposition. From that righteous assertion Scarbro veers into never-never land. I’ll take the last of it first. Some might consider the remarks about slavery and plantations in his last paragraph as racist. All aspects of racism aside, his statement: “We are all born into this great country with the same opportunities and the same choices . . .” rings sadly hollow. Does Scarbro really think the child who has to stay home from school to care for siblings while mother works has the same opportunity as the child whose parents send him/her to private schools? Nonsense. Just before that, Scarbro dismisses people who are forced to make legal claims as bringing “silly lawsuits” brought by “silly lawyers.” More nonsense.
Full disclosure here. Before retirement I spent more than 30 years of my legal career representing injured people and their claims against corporations and insurance companies. Those of us in that specialty are compensated, almost universally, by the contingent fee system. That means if the legal claim is not successful the lawyer doesn’t get paid. There is no financial incentive to bring a “silly” lawsuit. Put another way: If insurance companies and large corporations treated injured people fairly and honestly, folks like me would be out of work. And there are a lot of folks like me out there. This brings me to the third issue with Scarbro, his initial references to personal responsibility. He talks about the clamor over police actions involving black perpetrators saying: “The responsibility lays at the feet of the perpetrator, not the lawenforcement officers.” Fair enough. But what about the police officer who put a chokehold on Eric Garner, killing him. Chokeholds are prohibited by the New York Police Department. What about that police officer’s personal responsibility? He implies smokers who get lung cancer have it coming because they should know it causes cancer. That may be true now but, for decades, the tobacco industry not only denied any relationship between smoking and cancer, they actively assured the public smoking was beneficial to their
health. Where is the personal responsibility for that? Scarbro also reaches to one of the biggest whoppers in modern mythology to make his point about personal responsibility: The McDonald’s hot-coffee case. He implies it was the injured party who was really responsible for her own burns, saying she was driving away with hot coffee in her lap. Stella Liebeck, age 79 at the time, was the injured party. She was a passenger in the car, not the driver. The car was parked in the McDonald’s lot when she attempted to open the coffee container to mix in some sugar and cream. The coffee spilled on her lap causing thirdand fourth-degree burns. Burns were that severe because McDonald’s instructed its franchisees to maintain the temperature of its coffee between 180- and 190-degrees F. At these temperatures second-degree to full-thickness burns can be expected within seconds. Prior to this incident McDonald’s had admittedly received more than 700 complaints of burns from coffee. All of these facts were disclosed in an HBO documentary entitled “Hot Coffee.” Where is McDonald’s personal responsibility? Personal responsibility is not a one-way street. That fine principle should not be used to blame victims. Get real Scarbro, the conservative movement deserves better.
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Saturday, Jan. 17 55+ Driver Improvement program (four-hour refresher course), 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Miller Auto Plaza Community Room, 2930 2nd St. S, St. Cloud. 1-888-234-1294. Optional online courses: mnsafetycenter.org. Sunday, Jan. 18 Build-your-own omelette breakfast, proceeds support programs for veterans, 8 a.m.-noon, American Legion, 17 2nd Ave. S., Waite Park. 320-251-5498. Monday, Jan. 19 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day MLK Breakfast Event & Day of Service, keynote address featuring Vernon Jordon and Yolanda Adams, 7-10 a.m., Atwood Ballroom, St. Cloud State University, 651 1st Ave. S., St. Cloud. 320-308-2214. scsu. mn.1GzBcDp. St. Joseph Rod and Gun Club, 7 p.m., American Legion, 101 W Minnesota St., St. Joseph. Tuesday, Jan. 20 Toddler Time, for ages 18 months-3 years, registration required, 10:15-10:35 a.m. & 11-11:20 a.m., St. Cloud Public Library, 1300 W. St. Germain St., St. Cloud. 320-6502500. griver.org. Teen Tech Tuesdays, volunteers
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Thursday, Jan. 22 55+ Driver Improvement program (four-hour refresher course), 5-9 p.m., Gilleland Chevrolet, 3019 Division St., St. Cloud. 1-888-2341294. Optional online courses: mnsafetycenter.org. Frozen, the party!, for ages 4-8, registration required, 6-7 p.m., St. Cloud Public Library, 1300 W. St.
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Fur from front page flint and steel for fires, how the voyageurs carried or portaged their belongings, how Fort William (in Canada at the edge of Lake Superior) was opened and more. He discussed the mink furs the wealthy European people wore as collars; how top hats were made of the fine, soft hair of the beaver; and how this changed when silk was brought
Bet from front page den is also a waitress at Kay’s Kitchen and El Paso Bar and Grill, both in St. Joseph. As if she didn’t have enough work to do, she is about to finish up an associate’s degree in English from the St. Cloud Vocational School. “Yes, it’s that time of year again,” she said. “The time of year when I suck up my hatred for the cold and raise money so I can jump in a frozen lake.” On Feb. 7 in Sauk Centre, Munden and others will jump into a frozen lake. Meantime, she is seeking donations for the Special Olympics online, via mail or in person. Her boyfriend, Rick Welch of Sartell, might take the plunge again, too, as he has in the past few years. The plunge date, Feb. 7, will be the day of Welch’s 39th birthday. This will be Munden’s sixth
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to the country on ships. Petersen displayed a beaver skull and showed why beavers are constantly sharpening their teeth because their teeth continue to grow. Without sharpening them, he said the beaver’s teeth would continue to grow and it wouldn’t be able to eat. Petersen discussed how the Native Americans loved wool blankets and how both the Europeans and the Native Americans felt they were getting a better deal than the other because they were getting items they needed in exchange for some things of
which they had so much. Several students commented on Petersen’s presentation. “My favorite part was learning how the voyageurs traveled on rivers and lakes in their big birch-bark canoes,” Jack Skahen said. “I would like to learn about the Anishinabe people’s point of view when the voyageurs came.” “My favorite part was looking at all of the tools and furs that he brought, and I’m looking forward to learning about the different fur trade companies,” Eli Ebel said. “I am glad I learned about
how the traders brought their trading materials around and I liked how the voyageurs did their canoeing and singing,” Ellie Schleper said. “It was a great way to be introduced to the fur trade and the role the voyageurs played,” Huls said. “He was very knowledgeable. Having the items to touch and examine will make it easier for my students to visualize during our later study.” Petersen worked for 25 years as the education director at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History in northern California,
Polar Plunge. The first took place near the 400 Club in St. Cloud. Several others happened at events in the Twin Cities area. People often ask her what it’s like to do something as crazy as plunging into frozen lakes. “After jumping in,” she said, “the brain function says only one thing: ‘Get out! Get out! Get out! You don’t even look around. It hits you suddenly. It’s freezing and your body and brain scream ‘Get out!’” But the hardest part about taking part in the Polar Plunge, she added, is raising money year after year. “Many people are strapped financially,” she said. “And some decide to take turns giving to so many other good causes instead of the same one each year. Of course I understand that.” Munden added, however, that people are always generous, kind and contribute what they can. To contribute to Munden’s
Polar Plunge, go to: https://reg.plungemn.org/ participant/marybethmunden People can also contribute in person by dropping off a check written to “Special Olympics Minnesota” and delivered to Munden at the St. Joseph Police Department. Its open hours for the public are 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Checks can also be mailed to MaryBeth Munden, P.O. Box 546, St. Joseph, MN 56374.
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Children under 10 are $5 at the door
Meat Raffle • Silent Auction • Winter Raffle!!!
Various Opportunities! Part-time day/evening/weekend direct-care openings
Several openings-available every other Saturday/Sunday from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. or 2-10 p.m. Great variety-caring for individuals with various independence levels. Ability to cross-train for additional hours. Residential homes located in St. Cloud/St. Joseph. Valid driver’s license with clean driving record needed.
Full-time Sleep Overnight
Work Monday through Thursday from 10 p.m.-8 a.m. Direct care begins at 5 a.m. for two individuals with cerebral palsy.
Make a difference today! Call Kim: 320-230-7275 qcsinc@qualitycareservices.org
LEAD CUSTODIAN Saint John’s Preparatory School is accepting applications for a Lead Custodian. This position is responsible for all aspects of cleaning assigned areas, snow removal and light maintenance. Custodial experience required. A favorable background check is required as a condition of employment. Applications accepted on-line only at: http://employmentosb.csbsju.edu
where he created education programs. After retirement, he and his wife moved back to his home state of Minnesota. Because he missed teaching, he volunteered at the Heritage Center, the Stearns County Museum, the Camp Quest summer program, and at several schools and organizations in the area. Besides the fur-trade PowerPoint presentation, he also teaches classes on skull identification, scat identification, “Native American Tales of Coyote” and “Tall Tales of Paul Bunyan” storytelling.
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30% OFF
Lenses and Upgrades! Including Plastic, Polycarbonate, High Index, Anti-Reflective, Polarized, Transitions and more! (Cannot be combined with insurance. Excludes Oakley Sun Lenses.)
Russell Eyecare & Associates
15 E Minnesota St, Suite 107, St. Joseph (320) 433-4326 www.russelleyecare.com
Christie Russell-Villnow, O.D.