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Town Crier Homeschooling meeting scheduled
Parents who would like to learn more about how to home-school children should attend a free meeting called “So You’re Thinking About Homeschooling” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9 in the Bremer Room of the Great River Regional Library in St. Cloud. Grandparents, too, are welcome at the meeting. For more information, go to homeeducatedyouth.com.
Car-seat events offer free checks
Make sure your children and grandchildren travel safely in your vehicle. Have car seats checked for correct installation from 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays, Feb. 15, March 15 or April 19 within the Gold Cross Ambulance garage, 2800 Seventh St. N., St. Cloud. Call 320-656-7021 to make an appointment. All appointments are free. A car-seat check is encouraged for those with children ages 12 and younger, including those in booster seats. For more information, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on Feb. 3 Criers.
Free dental exams for ‘Give Kids a Smile’
“Give Kids a Smile,” a charitable outreach program providing free care to low-income children in need, will be held from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 in the St. Cloud Technical and Community College Health Sciences Building at 1245 15th St. N., St. Cloud. Each year, thousands of children receive much-needed dental care. The clinic will offer exams, X-rays, cleanings, fillings, sealants, extractions and oral hygiene instructions free of charge to children in need of dental attention. In addition to “Give Kids a Smile,” the clinic offers low-cost preventive dental services to the public as part of its dental-hygiene program. For more information and to make an appointment, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on Feb. 3 Criers.
Cardiologist to debunk heart-health myths
CentraCare Heart and Vascular Center cardiologist and Foley native Dr. Richard Backes will debunk myths and deliver facts for keeping your heart healthy and adding years to your life. This talk will take place from 6-7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9 in the Windfeldt Room at the CentraCare Health Plaza, 1900 CentraCare Circle, St. Cloud. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at the door, but seating is limited. For more information, visit newsleaders.com and click on Feb. 3 Criers.
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Buckvold attends Women’s March at Capitol by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
St. Joseph resident Anne Buckvold and her daughter, Harriet, were among the many who attended the Women’s March held Jan. 21 at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul. An estimated 90,000 to 100,000 men and women marched in St. Paul, as well as at least two million people around the world, to show support for women’s rights, education, health care and more the day after President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Buckvold organized a small group of people who took the Northstar train from Big Lake and then the Light Rail to the capital for the rally. She said she had first heard about the march in December. Buckvold said she prefers to
use public transportation as much as possible. She invited others to join her taking the Northstar train and Light Rail, thinking there might be people who would not otherwise travel to the capital because of the expense, driving and navigating traffic, and more. She said she had learned through her experiences of organizing the campaign to extend the Northstar that many people simply don’t know how to use public transportation such as the Northstar and they appreciate someone guiding them through the process. She said half of the group had never taken the Northstar train before. “I think the march meant different things for different people,” Buckvold said. “Overall, I think it was a demonstration of our solidarity as people. For me, it was about my strength as a woman, my resourcefulness and that this is something that isn’t always recognized in the public arena the way it should be.” March • page 4
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Above: Harriet Buckvold, 9, walks through the crowd at the Women’s March held Jan. 21 at the state Capitol in St. Paul. An estimated 90,000 to 100,000 women, men and children attended the event. Inset: Anne Buckvold and her daughter, Harriet, 9.
Bed-and-breakfast offers lodging alternative by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com
St. Joseph may soon be home to a new bed-and-breakfast should the owner of the rental home who proposed the project follow through with it. “There was one bed-andbreakfast in the residential area, but I’m not sure if it
ever took off, so I’m not aware of any operating at this moment,” said St. Joseph City Administrator Judy Weyrens. Cory Ehlert owns a rental home at 29 Minnesota St. E. in the B-1 Central Business District, which is St. Joseph’s downtown area; the district’s permitted uses include commercial, such as restaurants,
Students go ape for Jungle Boogie photo by Mindy Peterson
Kristen Bauer (center), a K e n n e d y Community School music teacher, dances with her children Timmy (left), 4, and Eva, 5, at the Jungle Boogie school dance Jan. 27 in St. Joseph.
retail shops, coffee shops and professional offices. “We had a request to convert a house in the central business district to allow for a bed-and-breakfast, but that zoning district did not allow for it,” Weyrens said of Ehlert’s amendment request. “So the council amended the ordinance to allow a B&B in the central business district.” The intent of the district is to “encourage the continuation of a viable downtown by promoting uses dependent
of high volumes of pedestrian traffic, to provide for regulation of the high-intensity commercial uses located within the original core of the city,” according to officials. St. Cloud does not allow B&Bs in its downtown business district. Owner-occupied B&Bs, however, are allowed in the residential districts as a conditional use, while in Cold Spring, owner-occupied B&Bs are allowed in the city’s downtown district as a special use. Lodging • page 3
Chamber seeks new administrator by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
The St. Joseph Area Chamber of Commerce is seeking a new administrator. Chamber President Bob Ringstrom said the current administrator, Jeny Meyer, has done a splendid job of fulfilling the role of administrator, and the board has been extremely pleased with her performance, but she has decided to leave because the position no longer fits with her plans. Ringstrom said they are reviewing candidates for the position and hope to fill it as soon
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as possible. They hope to have a name submitted to the board for approval by Tuesday, Feb. 7. Meyer, who has held the position for the past nine months, replaced previous administrator Pam Faust and is helping the chamber with the transition. Ringstrom said the position is responsible for coordination of chamber communication and functions. “The position is critical to membership recruitment and retention, as well as event planning and administrative services,” he said. Chamber • page 5
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If you have a tip concerning a crime, call the St. Joseph Police Department at 320-363-8250 or TriCounty Crime Stoppers at 320-2551301, 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 a crime. Dec. 4 1:25 a.m. Intoxicated person. 37 College Ave. S. An officer was called by College of St. Benedict Security for a female who needed to go to detox. The female was identified by her CSB ID card. There was a partial breath sample with a reading of .171. The female was unable to walk on her own. The officer told security, detox would not take her if she is unable to walk on her own. CSB Security called Gold Cross Ambulance to transport the female to the St. Cloud hospital. 3:20 a.m. Suspicious activity.
Ash Street W/Second Avenue NW. An officer was dispatched to approximately eight individuals throwing snow balls at the company car by Kwik Trip. The female in the vehicle said she got out to talk to them and they continued to throw snowballs. They ran east on Ash Street. The officer stopped three individuals by the 100 block of Ash Street W. They did not match description. 4:28 a.m. Burglary. 120 Second Ave. NW. An officer was at Kwik Trip when a man came in and reported a male suspect approximately 5-foot-10 with short hair, wearing black ball cap, black vest and gray pants entered his apartment at the Creamery Lofts. The man said he heard the suspect urinate on his couch and then come into his bedroom. The suspect seemed intoxicate and left the apartment. An officer saw a male matching the description running by Sal’s Bar. He followed Blotter • page 3
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Vernie Carl Dahl Jr., 83 St. Joseph Oct. 14, 1933 – Jan. 29, 2017
Vernie Carl Dahl Jr, 83, of St. Joseph died Jan. 29 at the St. Cloud VA Medical Center. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 3 at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, St. Cloud. The Rev. Dave Nelson will officiate. Friends and family may gather from 10-11 a.m. Friday morning at the church in St. Cloud. Arrangements entrusted to Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home, St. Cloud. Dahl was born Oct. 14, 1933 in Albert Lea to Vernie and Adah (Dyrdahl) Dahl Sr. He served his country in the U.S. Navy. He was a deep-sea diver and proudly proclaimed the Navy was his first love. Dahl married Bernita Stern on Jan. 18, 1957 at Grace Lutheran Church in Austin, Minn. The
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Obituary couple lived in Albert Lea and Coon Rapids prior to moving to the St. Cloud area in 1991. He was employed for 30 years as a plumber for Honeywell in the Twin Cities retiring in October 1991. Dahl was a member of Holy Cross church, a life member of the Coon Rapids VFW 9625, a member of the American Legion Post 328 of St. Joseph and a post-traumatic stress disorder group member. He enjoyed cooking (and made bouja at the Coon Rapids VFW annual event using his own kettle), camping and snowmobiling. There was nothing he could not “do;” building his own houseboat their family enjoyed on Rush Lake for many summers. He had an intelligent sense of humor and the advice he gave was priceless. Survivors include the following: his wife of 60 years; children, Cindy (Steve) Larson of Coon Rapids, Jayme (Arthur) Bohm of St. Cloud, Karen (Dave) Steinke of Blaine and Vernie (Heather) III of St. Cloud;
grandchildren, Rob and Reed Larson, Kari (Ben) Deggendorf, Ryan (Stevie) Hammond, Randy (Laura) Hammond, Leah (Jason) Ryan, David (fiancée, Roxanne Kroschel) Steinke, Mariah Steinke, Jarrid Dahl and Kayla Dahl; step- grandsons, Brett and Brady Jackels; great-grandchildren, Emily and Owen Hammond, Chase and Grace Hammond, Michael Nelson, Joe and Autumn Ryan and Jack Deggendorf; sisters and brothers, Carmen Henkelman of Texas, Duane (Phyllis) Dahl of Lake Havasu, Ariz., Sanford (Ileen) Dahl of Coon Rapids, Sandra Sorensen of Pompano Beach, Fla.; multiple nieces and nephews and his special buddy, his black lab “Rambo.” He was preceded in death by his parents; his brothers, Andres and Arden; and sisters, Virginia Blizzard, Cheryl Johnson and Eunice Russel. Dahl’s family would like to send a special thank you to the staff at the St. Cloud VA Medical Center Building 51-2.
People Two St. Joseph students were recently named to the fall dean’s list at Bemidji State University. They are the following: Margaret Donnay and Lauren Stock. Students must achieve a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Five St. Joseph students were recently named to the fall dean’s list at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. They and their majors are as follows: Logan Athmann, a senior, psychology; Tyler Mcelwee, a sophomore, communication and Hispanic studies; Emily Thiessen, a junior, biochemistry; Nathaniel Whitley, a junior, physics; Zachary Whitley, a senior, civil engineering. Students must achieve a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Seven St. Joseph students recently graduated from St. Cloud State University.
They, their degrees and their honors are as follows: Andrew Figallo, bachelor’s in art history, cum laude; Kelsey Osendorf, bachelor’s in nursing, cum laude; Nicholas Granowski, master’s in business administration; Alayna Jordan, bachelor’s in psychology, magna cum laude; Payton Kalla, bachelor’s in finance, summa cum laude; Jordan Lindboe, associate’s in liberal arts; and Joshua Wallin, associate’s in liberal arts, summa cum laude. Two St. Joseph students were recently named to the fall dean’s list at the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth. They are the following: Tyler Johnson and Benjamin Thell. Students must achieve a minimum 3.75 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Clare McCarty, St. Joseph, was recently named to the fall dean’s list at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She is majoring in arts and sciences. Students must achieve a min-
imum 3.7 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Three St. Joseph professors were recently appointed to the board of directors of the Greater St. Cloud Development Corporation. They are the following: Michael Hemesath, St. John’s University; Mary Hinton, College of St. Benedict; and Heather Pieper-Olson, CSB. The GSDC is a non-profit collaboration of nearly 250 regional public and private organizations in Central Minnesota. Its mission is to lead economic development for the benefit of the Greater St. Cloud region. Strategic initiatives include business retention, expansion and attraction, transportation, talent, innovation, workplace well-being and downtown St. Cloud. The GSDC is funded through investor contributions from private businesses, higher education, public entities and personal contributions.
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Lodging from front page “Now we can have the developer come back and submit an official request for a special-use permit to operate a B&B, so it isn’t in operation yet and that hearing should be in February – provided the developer follows through with it,” she said following the ordinance amendment. Ehlert and developer Joe Prostrollo have worked on the project for some time and plan to call the B&B business “The Estates of St. Joseph” because the rental home next to Mill Stream Shops & Lofts is known to College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University students as “The Estates.” Prostrollo proposes $125,000 in renovations to the
Minnesota Street West home owned by Ehlert, with each suite of the B&B having its own bathroom and all rooms handicap-accessible with the installation of a chairlift. Guests could stay a maximum of seven consecutive days. “One of the things St. Joseph has been missing is lodging,” she said. “I think people are looking for alternatives, so I think they would complement each other. Those who want to stay in a hotel can go to the Asteria Inn and to have something downtown like a B&B is very nice.” Prostrollo told the St. Joseph Planning Commission at its Nov. 14 meeting at City Hall that the estimated tax revenue for The Estates of St. Joseph bed-and-breakfast for 2017 would be $6,580 and $13,180 for 2018. The goal is to have the B&B opened by
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July. He said targeted guests of the B&B would include alumni of the College of St. Benedict/ St. John’s University, parents and students of the educational institutions in St. Joseph and Collegeville, employment recruits for those places of higher learning and sports fans.
Blotter from page 2 footprints to 109 Minnesota St. W. Officers knocked and a male came to the door and was identified. The man said he was the only one up. Another officer brought the man who reported the intruder over to identify the possible suspect, how-
3 ever the witness said the man was not the male intruder. Dec. 5 4:48 p.m. Inattentive driving. Fourth Avenue NE/CR 75. An officer was notified of a stalled vehicle. When they arrived they saw an accident. It appeared the lead vehicle was rear-ended. The vehicle who rear-ended the lead car was cited for inattentive driving.
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March from front page She said the march was peaceful even though there were people everywhere. “I grew up in the (Twin) Cities and saw a lot of friends, many with their kids (and) strollers,” Buckvold said. “It felt in many ways like we were at a big public park in the middle of winter. Everywhere you looked there were people. You could see people clear up John Ireland Boulevard to the Cathedral. It was incredible. I knew it was going to be big. I didn’t think it would be historic, but it was. Everyone seemed especially glad to see the kids. I brought my daughter and she received a lot of smiles.”
Buckvold wasn’t surprised at the number of people who attended the march. “Our president insulted so many different groups of people throughout his campaign, it was the easiest thing just to show up as people to say we deserve respect, we deserve our dignity,” she said. Buckvold said there was a wide diversity of opinion at the march, and one of the struggles after the march that people are starting to identify is how can they organize all of those who attended the event into a political movement that can actually get something meaningful done. It’s difficult to get everyone to agree on one thing, or a set of things. In Buckvold’s experiences, developing the political consensus needed to create sub-
stantive change takes time – a lot of time and an extreme amount of patience, no matter where people find themselves. She said people should celebrate the march as people demonstrating they are at the very least ready to start standing together publicly to acknowledge their right to have dignity. Buckvold, a 40-year-old mother of four young children, now questions what is next. She became involved in the pro-life movement in her early teens, but she said that issue caused so much division in her family that she began seriously questioning how that issue alone had become so important. “No issue should become so important it divides a family,” she said. Come help us make a
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Buckvold, a Democrat who grew up in Minneapolis, ran in the past election to represent District 13A but was defeated by incumbent Jeff Howe, a Republican from Cold Spring. She said she chose to run after having a revealing and disappointing conversation with a representative. After that conversation, she felt she could not hold herself back from running in the election. “I have a strong work ethic and to see the work up close, and how it wasn’t getting done, really got under my skin,” Buckvold said. “I lost the race but overall ran a strong campaign and had a set of experiences that changed me. The sacrifices I and my family made were significant, but far more important is what I gained.” She feels she gained a deeper understanding of what Minnesotans are struggling with and how those struggles show up in the public arena. From her experience, Buckvold said she feels the majority of people are deeply stirred up and anxious on either side of the political line that is often drawn. Very few people are clear and know who or what to trust. “Our ability to succeed as a larger community that is loving
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Participants sought for ‘International Festival’ by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Participants are being sought for an “International Community Festival” that will take place Sunday, April 23, at Celebration Lutheran Church in Sartell. There will be two sessions that day – from 9:30-10:30 a.m. and from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The public is invited to the free event. The purpose of the festival is to gather together people of diverse cultures so they can celebrate those di-
verse backgrounds and their common humanity. “We are inviting people from all over the world who now call (this area) their home to introduce us to new cultures and new food,” said Zurya Anjum, one of the organizers of the event. Each of the adult participants will make posters, with help from their children, that will tell visitors something about their country of origin. Each booth will also offer traditional snacks from their original countries for visitors to sample.
Those participating will be encouraged to wear traditional clothing from their cultures. There are already many families who have signed on for the event. However, more are being sought on the basis of the “more the merrier,” as Anjum put it. “Please help spread the information to family and friends,” she said. Those interested in taking part in the celebration should contact its organizers by Wednesday, March 15, at reachus@celebrationlutheranchurch.com.
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Bob Ringstrom, current president of the St. Joseph Area Chamber of Commerce, presents $1,000 to Sister Dorothy Manuel of the St. Joseph Food Shelf at the chamber’s Jan. 11 meeting at the St. Joseph Fire Hall. A collection hat was passed around at the chamber’s Dec. 14 holiday gathering and $500 in donations was collected, which the chamber then matched, bringing the total to $1,000 in donations for the food shelf.
Wetterling’s killer serves sentence Chamber in Massachusetts prison from front page
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The man who confessed last year to killing Jacob Wetterling is serving his sentence at a federal prison near Boston. Danny Heinrich, 53, of Annandale, was sentenced on Nov. 21 in a federal court to 20 years in prison for receiving child pornography but not for killing the 11-year-old boy from St. Joseph, a cold case that garnered national attention. Wetterling was abducted in 1989 but his remains were recovered last year at a Paynesville farm after Heinrich finally admitted to kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing the boy.
Heinrich is listed as an inmate at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, Mass., with a release date of March 28, 2033. Heinrich had been charged with 25 counts of child pornography. In return for leading authorities to Wetterling’s remains and admitting to his involvement in the boy’s kidnapping and death, he was not charged with Wetterling’s murder. Heinrich’s foreclosed house in Annandale was demolished Dec. 23 last year due to the efforts of Tim Thone, president of Thone Development, a real-estate company in Woodbury, and others who raised the money to buy the house for
about $60,000 just so it could be demolished. Gov. Mark Dayton, who attended the Jacob Wetterling Memorial Service in St. Joseph last year after the boy’s remains were recovered, stated in an official proclamation that Oct. 22, 2016, was to be “Jacob Wetterling Day” – 27 years to the date after Wetterling was abducted in 1989. Dayton mentioned in his proclamation how the boy’s abduction profoundly affected the lives of Minnesotans and that Wetterling’s parents dedicated their lives to children’s safety by helping to create the Jacob Wetterling Act of 1994, the start of a state registry to help keep children safe.
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2-5 p.m. Residents are welcome to come to the Government Center to walk through the facility. 5 p.m. Dedication and flag raising The program will include: • Welcome by Mayor Rick Schultz • Members of the American Legion of St. Joseph will raise the flag • An invocation by area pastors • Placing of the time capsule • Cutting of the ribbon for the council chambers
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Our View Will Land of Liberty become grim fortress?
Once upon a time, there was a sweet Land of Liberty. It was envied everywhere as a beacon of hope for the rest of the world. The country was comprised of immigrants who came from old countries across the ocean. Many had been persecuted. So they crossed the ocean to the new land where native people had lived for thousands of years. The immigrants weren’t good to the natives; they drove them off their lands or killed many. Some of the immigrants also bought and sold slaves. The women residents could not vote until 134 years after the nation was founded. But despite those bad things, it kept improving because of a document written by its Founders that set up a way for the nation to govern itself and which held up as hallowed the rights and freedoms for all people. Many years later, fears took root when some people born in the great country turned bad and started to do horrible things. They used guns or bombs to kill people – in schools, in businesses, in movie theaters and in federal buildings. Then, years later, on a horrifying day, bad people from other countries used airplanes as weapons to attack buildings in the Land of Liberty. Many died. Still later, there were more shooting attacks by people born in other countries or who sympathized with bad people in other countries. There was much fear, worry and hand-wringing going on. “Oh, dear, what can we do?” everyone wondered. Along came a man with all the answers. “I know,” he said. “We’ll build a big wall to keep out the bad people.” Crowds cheered. “And next,” he said, “we won’t let the bad people come here from across the ocean. We will ban the ones who live in countries that have different beliefs from ours. They hate us; they are dangerous. They could attack us if we let them in our country. Some of them might be good, but we can’t be sure. They’re probably mostly bad, really bad, so we will keep them out. All of them. At least for now.” Then the leader signed a document banning people from seven countries. “But doesn’t that go against our Liberty principles?” some asked. “No,” said the leader. “This is an emergency. It’ll only be temporary.” “But what about the other countries?” they asked. “The seven ones I’ve named are the baddest countries where the dangerous people live, the ones who don’t believe like we do,” he explained. “If we keep them out, they can’t hurt us. The people from the nice countries can still come here.” Many cheered: “What a good easy solution!” But sadly, even after the bad people were banned, many bloody attacks continued in the Land of Liberty, and most were done by bad people who were born in it. Attacks also kept happening in the nice countries. In desperation, the leader kept banning more and more people, kept building walls until by and by the Land of Liberty began to resemble a big fortress against all of the rest of the world. The bad people were kept out and so were the good people. It wasn’t long before the Land of Liberty started to decay. It was no longer the beacon of hope; it had become a shameful nation – a country of walls and exclusions – to the point where even those who lived within the crumbling fortress felt like prisoners sleeping through a fading dream.
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Friday, Feb. 3, 2017
Opinion
Tyler Moore’s legacy: sidesplitting laughter There were three TV comediennes of indisputable genius in the 20th century: Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Mary Tyler Moore. Thankfully, Burnett, at 83, is still with us. Ball died in 1989. Sadly, Tyler Moore is now gone, too. One of the weekly pleasures of the early to mid-1960s was gathering with friends and neighbors to watch The Dick Van Dyke Show, starring Van Dyke and Tyler Moore as Rob and Laura Petrie. Their dual chemistry was comic magic. Week after week, we would stop what we were doing to tune in. Starting in 1970, another must-watch show appeared – The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-77). What a cast of quirky, eccentric characters: Gruff chauvinistic boss Lou Grant, self-important pompous news anchor Ted Knight, the scheming landlady Phyllis Lindstrom, the hustling hussy TV host Sue Ann Nivens – to name just some. Hard-working, single, underpaid news-show producer Mary Richards (Tyler Moore) struggled to keep her composure. She was stuck in the middle of that zoo of eccentrics – putting up with them, humoring them, soothing their touchy vanities – all the while sharing some of their same human foibles herself. It was sublime comedy, week after week, for seven years. The day after Tyler Moore’s death, I watched a video of Chuckles the Clown’s funeral on YouTube. Tears of laughter were streaming down my face. I first saw that episode (“Chuckles Bites the Dust”) some time in the mid-1970s. It’s as classic as Lucille Ball’s chocolate assembly-line scene and as side-splittingly funny as Carol Burnett’s spoof of Gone With The Wind when, as Scarlett O’Hara, she donned an impromptu window-drapes dress complete with curtain rod and wobbly descended that antebellum staircase.
Dennis Dalman Editor If you haven’t seen it, the “Chuckles” episode involves the death of a TV clown, killed by an elephant. Mary scolds her coworkers for making wisecracks about the clown’s demise. Later, the news crew is at the funeral, waiting for it to begin. News writer Murray Slaughter cracks another one-liner about how clowns might jump out of a little hearse during the funeral. Mary leans forward to scold Murray – that he should show respect, that death is not funny. Then the minister steps to the podium. In his somber oratorical voice, he begins an overblown eulogy, using far-flung flights of pseudo-poetic fancy to describe the “deeper meanings” and life lessons in Chuckles’ clowning pratfalls. He describes one of Chuckles’ characters, Fee-Fie-Fo, who got knocked down, struck by a giant cucumber wielded by his arch-enemy, Senor Kaboom. But Fee-FieFo, the minister intones, “would always pick himself up, dust himself off and then say (pause) I hurt my footsie.” At which point, strangled laughter sputters up from Mary in the audience. The minister proceeds to launch into a kind of parable about how “life is like that,” and that we all from time to time fall down like Fee-Fie-Fo. Mary squirms, coughs, gags and sputters to keep from laughing. And now it’s her colleagues’ turns to scold her like she scolded them. They turn in their seats, casting disapproving looks her way. Then they turn back to the minister, soaking up
every word of his pompously overblown eulogy. The minister points to Mary and asks her to stand. “You feel like laughing, don’t you,” he says, as she gulps with embarrassment. Then he tells her in his oh-so serious voice to go ahead and laugh because Chuckles didn’t want people to cry; he lived his life to make people laugh. At which point, Mary, suddenly overcome by sadness for saintly dead Chuckles (not to mention more than a little humiliation), bursts into spasms of tears. And we who watch that scene are also crying – rollicking from helpless laughter. The reasons that scene is so funny are several: We have all endured the torture of trying to squelch laughter in a quiet church. We, who loved that show, know well the quirks of the characters and so we can just see the gears of each of their minds turning while the minister eulogizes and Mary the sudden hypocrite almost strangles from laughter. What brings the genius comedic strands of that scene all together are the facial expressions, the body language and the timing of a supreme comedienne. Like many comics, Tyler Moore had so much tragedy in her life: the daughter of two alcoholics, an alcoholic herself, the mother of a son killed by his own gun that misfired, the victim of Stage I diabetes from age 30 onward, divorce, some TV shows that bombed, surgery for a benign brain tumor. Carol Burnett once said “comedy is tragedy – plus time.” That may have been a factor in Tyler Moore’s comic genius: the sand particle producing the pearl in the oyster. I can’t help thinking Tyler Moore, like Chuckles the Clown, wanted us all to keep laughing – sometimes to keep from crying.
Letters to the editor:
Safe from crime, but not necessarily safe William Straub, St. Joseph
Kudos to St. Joseph Police Chief Joel Klein and all city officers, employees and citizens for keeping crime down, but I must disagree with part of Mr. Lee’s title of “Safest City in the State” from the front page, below the fold, from the Jan. 27 St. Joseph Newsleader. There is much more to safety than lack of reported crime in our lovely burg. Last Thursday, while walking across
an intersection in St. (Joseph), I was almost struck and hit by an inattentive driver. This is not the first time in the last several years, despite my best efforts to remain alert. Add to that the often unshoveled icy sidewalks, and I would rank our city as surprisingly unsafe whenever I venture out on foot outside my residence. Dear neighbors, please ask yourselves whether you are helping keep our city truly safe by not exceeding the speed limit, always using turn signals appropriately
and slowing down when road conditions are not optimal, besides being vigilant for pedestrians at intersections. Does our city have enough painted pedestrian crosswalks? And property owners, ask yourselves whether you are truly helping the common good by how you maintain your public sidewalks. Let’s all work together to keep our city safe, not only from crime but from preventable and unnecessary accidents and injuries.
Readers says Democrats’ ideas don’t work Bob Grise, St. Joseph Let me congratulate Newsleader editor Dennis Dalman on his relentless mission to inform our community about Democrat talking points. He reminds me of Sen. Barrack Obama in 2008 for his bright-eyed innocence, repeating talking points with confidence and swagger, like those ideas might actually work. They don’t. Obama, with a wink and a smile in 2008, told us how everything we had been doing was WRONG. Eight years later, we have had the worst recovery from a recession, Obamacare is not affordable, (said Minnesota Gov. Dayton), Middle East foreign policy is in shambles and what about Russia? Didn’t Obama laugh Romney off the
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. Laurie Putnam, principal com or P.O. Box 324, St. Joseph, MN 56374. Deadline is noon Monday. Please include your full name for publication (and of Kennedy Community School in St. Joseph address and phone number for verification only.) Letters must I write to express gratitude on behalf be 350 words or less. We reserve the right to edit for space. of staff and students for (the St. Joseph
stage on that one four years ago? Now all we hear from the Democrats is Russia, Russia and Trump’s a liar. But through all that failure, including the loss of more than 1,000 Democrat seats nationwide, Dalman never lost faith in those talking points. His latest is on climate change. Dalman says he has learned a slight increase in temperature causes all kinds of extreme weather, (excluding Atlantic hurricanes, I presume). Bob Weisman’s Ultimate Climate Page at St. Cloud State University lists the top 10 warmest summers in St. Cloud history – in the year 1936 there were 36 days with highs of 90 or above; 1900 – 34; 1988 – 33; 1931 – 31; 1910 – 29; 1933 – 28.; 1934 – 28; 1937 – 26; 1901 – 25; 1930 – 23. Looks like our
climate has become less extreme. As for NOAA and NASA, they have been caught adjusting past temps – read about that at realclimatescience.com. Under Democrat ideas for eight years, everything got worse. We blew billions of taxpayer dollars on green-energy boondoggles, raised taxes, national debt soared, appeased tyrants, stopped pipelines, almost nobody can afford health insurance, the JV Islamo nut team moved up to varsity, Iran is rolling in dough and we created mostly parttime jobs. (No wonder Hillary Clinton lost). People suffered while Obama played 333 rounds of golf. Maybe we should have seen Obama’s Columbia College records? Maybe all Barry had to hide was “incomplete, incomplete, incomplete.”
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Community Calendar
Is your event listed? Send your information to: Newsleader Calendar, P.O. Box 324, St. Joseph, MN 56374; fax it to 320-363-4195; or, e-mail it to news@thenewsleaders.com. Friday, Feb. 3 St. Joseph Area Historical Society open, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Old City Hall, 25 First Ave. NW. stjosephhistoricalmn. org. Tae Guk Kwon Do, 3-4 p.m., Independent Lifestyles, 215 N Benton Drive, Sauk Rapids. 320-267-7717.
Saturday, Feb. 4 Free Dental Exams for “Give Kids a Smile,” 8:30-11:30 a.m., St. Cloud Technical and Community College Health Services Building, 1245 15th St. N., St. Cloud. to make an appointment, call 320-308-5919 or visit sctcc.edu/ dental-clinic. Sartell Winter Farmers’ Market, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Sartell City Hall, 125 Pinecone Road N, Sartell. www.marketmonday.org. Big Sing Honor Choir Festival, 5 p.m., Ritsche Auditorium, St. Cloud State University. Sunday, Feb. 5 Breakfast, sponsored by St. Joseph Knights of Columbus, 8;30 a.m.-noon, Heritage Hall, St. Joseph Catholic Church, 12 W. Minnesota St., St. Joseph. Latino Health Fair, 2-4:30 p.m., St. Boniface C, 501 Main St., Cold Spring. 320-308-0955 Monday, Feb. 6 St. Joseph Food Shelf open, 1-3 p.m., Old City Hall, Btw. Minnesota and Cedar Street on First Avenue NW, St. Joseph. St. Joseph Government Center Open House, 2-5 p.m., 75 Callaway St. E., St. Joseph. 55+ Driving Improvement Program (four-hour refresher course), 5:30-9:30 p.m., Whitney Senior Center, 1527 Northway Drive, St. Cloud. AU TO M O B I L E S / M OTO RC Y C L E S WANTED MOTORCYCLES: TOP CASH PAID! For Old Motorcycles! 1900-1979. DEAD OR ALIVE! 920-371-0494 (MCN)
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Notice is hereby given that the City Council of St. Joseph will meet at 6:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, 2017 to in the Government Center Council Chambers, 75 Callaway St. E, consider the making of an improvement on the east/west and north/south alleys between First Ave. NW and College Avenue N by constructing bituminous surfacing, storm sewer, sanitary sewer and decorative amenities pursuant to MN Statute § 429.011 to 429.111.
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CITY OF ST. JOSEPH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CONDITIONAL-USE PERMIT The St. Joseph Planning Commission shall conduct a public hearing at 6:10 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may heard, on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017 at the St. Joseph City Hall, 75 Callaway St. E. The purpose of the hearing is to consider a Conditional-Use Permit to allow a Bed and Breakfast at 29 E Min-
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CITY OF ST. JOSEPH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLANNED-UNIT DEVELOPMENT AMENDMENT The St. Joseph Planning Commission shall conduct a public hearing at 6:05 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017 at the St. Joseph City Hall, 75 Callaway St. E. The purpose of the hearing is to consider a proposed amendment to a Planned-Unit Development (PUD) to allow the St. Joseph Farmers’ Market to locate and operate at the property located east
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A 2016 GMC Sierra truck owned and driven by Duane Scepaniak of St. Joseph fell through the ice on Big Swan Lake near Grey Eagle Jan. 27, forcing Scepaniak and his passenger, David Walz also of St. Joseph, to escape the sinking vehicle.
Two men escape from sinking truck by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com
Two men from St. Joseph are lucky to be alive after their pickup truck fell through the ice near Grey Eagle in Todd County. Duane Scepaniak was driving southbound on Big Swan Lake near the narrows at about 1:40
p.m. Jan. 27 when his 2016 GMC Sierra truck fell through the ice. Scepaniak and passenger David Walz were able to climb out of the truck as the vehicle came to rest on its wheels in about four feet of water, according to the Todd County Sheriff’s Office. They walked to shore
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