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Rural Stearns Faith in Action is looking for volunteers in the St. Joseph and rural Stearns County areas. Volunteers perform tasks such as transportation, housekeeping, simple home repairs, friendly visiting, chores and respite care for older adults to help keep them in their homes as long as safely possible. Call Mary Rademacher at Assumption Community at 320-348-2316 or e-mail her at rademacher.mary@ assumptionhome.com for more information.
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March is Food Share Month in Minnesota where donations are matched during the month. During this time of economic distress, many area families are using local food shelves more than ever before. Consider leveraging the match by running a food drive within your work place, church or service club and donate to your local food shelf. For more information, head to thenewsleaders.com, and click on March 6 criers.
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Women’s Health 101 will be held from 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14 at CentraCare Health Plaza, 1900 CentraCare Circle, St. Cloud. Attendants can participate in more than 15 health screenings, a variety of presentations and visit more than 45 educational booths. For more information, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on March 6 criers.
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Kristi Spaniol and her 14-year-old daughter, Kelli Spaniol, a freshman at Cathedral High School, recently had a chance to hang out with more than 700 athletes from more than 70 nations while they volunteered at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships held in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colo. More than 2,000 people volunteered for the two-week event, organized by the International Ski Federation. Spaniol's brother, Dave Rawlings, has worked at Vail for 30 years and has worked the World Cups each year. Spaniol and her son, Ben, 27, worked the World Cup event in December. She worked the food tent and Ben worked a riskier job on the banner crew with Rawlings, working on steep, icy slopes putting up banners on the race
course. Spaniol's volunteer coordinator asked her to return to Colorado to work the two weeks for the world championship, but Spaniol said she wouldn't come without her daughter. The coordinator offered to make Kelli Spaniol her intern, and that convinced Spaniol to return. Spaniol and Kelli volunteered from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. in the food tent located halfway up the mountain, close to the spectator stadium and finish line of the Beaver Creek race course. Daily, they fed 200 volunteers hot coffee, cocoa and doughnuts in the morning and sub sandwiches, fruit, chips and a cookie each afternoon. Kelli's duties as an intern included working in the food tent, riding the chairlift with extra food for the volunteer food tent at the top of the race course and also giving demonSpaniols • page 4
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Kelli Spaniol (front) is shown with the championship theme of "Dream It, Live it, Share it" in the background. She said the theme was very evident throughout the event.
A historical perspective from 25 years ago – March 2, 1990
Berlin’s crumbling wall raises Jacob’s Hope by Stuart Goldschen news@thenewsleaders.com
As the wall dividing East and West Berlin falls piece by piece these days under the hammers of celebrating Germans, hope rises in its place. Hope for peace through the unity of all mankind. And hope for Jacob Wetterling through the universal heartbeat for children all the world around. The Berlin Wall and Jacob's Hope fused both those goals
recently when the two symbols came together briefly for the world to see. In whiteoutlined dark letters about 2 feet high, enclosed in a 4-by-6 foot black-bordered red rectangle, the words "Jacob's Hope" were emblazoned on the West Berlin side of the wall near the Brandenburg Gate in East Germany. The prominent display of Jacob's Hope was seen and photographed by Kelli Birk, Berlin • page 2
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Jacob’s Hope emblazoned on the western side of the Berlin Wall.
Thousands attend annual Farm Show by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
Local residents and businesses once again crowded into the River's Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud to attend the 48th Annual Central Minnesota Farm Show Feb. 24-26. Large machinery displayed outside the center offered visitors a glimpse of new models available. Inside, exhibits, booths, prize registrations, seminars and more beckoned photo by Cori Hilsgen to those interested in learning Cy Pfannenstein (left) and his mother Ginny worked the Cy more about trending practices Pfannenstein Music Service booth at the Farm Show. and latest products and services
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related to agriculture. About 3,000 people attend the show annually. Local businesses hosting booths at the show included Cy Pfannenstein Music Service, Powerhouse Outdoor Equipment, Finken Companies, Lumber One Avon and more. Cy Pfannenstein once again had a 10- by 10-foot booth to offer a variety of compact discs with music choices that included polka, country, gospel, and more. Pfannenstein owns Cy Pfannenstein Music Service and as a former band member who played the trumpet, drums and concerFarm • page 5
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Berlin from front page a 20-year-old junior at the College of St. Benedict. She was traveling through Europe as part of a semester abroad in the college's International Studies program in Salzburg,
Austria. Birk saw the hand-pained message of Jacob's Hope on Dec. 29 (1989) as she toured the Berlin Wall on a stop in her seven-nation excursion from Salzburg. She said a friend stopped at the same spot in mid-November but saw nothing about Jacob, and another friend saw only the "J" remains of the same painting in
January (1990). Birk said neither she nor people she talked to at the wall knew who had painted the message. She said it was a big surprise for her to see Jacob's name among the motley array of world-wide graffiti. "Oh, my God, I can't believe it!" she said she exclaimed at her first sight of the lettering. Birk said she had read of
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Jacob's abduction while in Salzburg and had received news clippings and phone calls about the incident from her parents in Winona, Minn. She arrived in Europe in September, a month before Jacob was kidnapped, and returned to St. Joseph at the end of January. Birk thinks the Jacob's Hope message no longer exists on the wall because the wall itself is fast disappearing. She said the whole bottom half had been chipped away by souvenir hunters, and large sections had been knocked down. "People were selling pieces of the wall right there for about six to 10 marks (about $3.50-$5.50)," Birk said. She said she brought home some eight or nine small pieces that she picked up off the ground. While none of the pieces
photo by Stuart Goldschen
Kelli Birk, a 20-year-old junior at the College of St. Benedict, discovered Jacob’s Hope on the Berlin Wall in West Germany. Birk collected had parts of the Jacob's Hope message on them, all were glowing with hope. Hope for Germany, Europe, the world – and Jacob.
People Elizabeth Tiffany, daughter of Craig and Lori Tiffany, along with Jessica Warzecka, daughter of Keith and Sandy Warzecka, both of St. Joseph, took part in a Habitat for Humanity home-build over spring break. Tiffany participated in the Palm Bay, Fla. area, while Warzecka was in the George-
town, S.C. area. The students did typical construction work, such as framing, roofing, siding and drywall from Feb. 20-28. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit Christian housing ministry which uses volunteer labor to build or renovate houses around the world for people in need.
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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.
Feb. 18 3:10 a.m. Noise. Minnesota Street W. Police received a call of a car alarm going off for about 15 minutes. An officer made contact with the owner of the car, a 22-year-old male from LeSueur. The male stated the car doesn’t have an alarm, and he didn’t know why the horn was going off. Upon investigation, the doors were unlocked and the key was in the ignition. Once the keys were removed, the horn stopped. 8:58 p.m. Traffic stop. Minnesota Street W./3rd Avenue N.W. An officer observed a vehicle go through an intersection without stopping for a stop sign. The driver, a 22-year-old male from White Bear Lake, was stopped, and is-
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Feb. 19 9:37 p.m. Property damage. Birch Street W. Police received a call of a vehicle that crashed through a fence, then continued driving. The driver was later found and contacted. The driver, a 48-year-old male from Sartell, said he didn’t remember the accident, but remembered waking up about 10 feet from a building. The driver identified damage on his vehicle that was consistent with the fencing. March 1 4:56 p.m. Vehicle crash. CR 3/ Norway Road in St. Wendel Township. The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office, St. Joseph Fire and Rescue, and the St. Joseph Police Department responded to a crash with injuries. A pickup truck, driven by a 66-year-old male from St. Joseph, failed to stop at a stop sign on Norway Road while westbound, striking another pickup truck, driven by a 49-year-old male from Cold Spring. A 47-year-old female, in the second truck, was transported to the St. Cloud Hospital.
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Werner Roseboom selected for her dream job by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
Glennis Werner Roseboom said the position of College of St. Benedict athletic director, which she will be- Werner Roseboom gin July 1, is one she has dreamed about for many years and thought if it ever became available, she would pursue it. "When Carol (Howe-Veenstra) announced her retirement in the fall, it was almost an automatic thought I would apply and hope to land an interview," Werner Roseboom said. "As the process moved forward, I became more and more excited at the opportunity. Now I've been selected, I'm even more ready for this opportunity." She said the night CSB Vice President of Student Development Mary Geller telephoned her to offer her the position, she was driving to a friend's house to meet up with her teammates for a game of pond hockey. Upon receiving the news, Werner Roseboom turned around, headed home, told her daughter and invited her parents over for an impromptu celebration. At the time, she couldn't yet share she had been offered the
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position, so it was fun to have a private moment with her family. Werner Roseboom, a 1993 CSB alumna who graduated with a social-work degree, will replace Carol Howe-Veenstra who is retiring after 30 years in the Blazer Athletic Department. She will bring a lot of experience to her new position. Werner Roseboom, a Cannon Falls native, was a four-year member of the Blazer basketball team and was part of four straight trips to the NCAA Division III National Tournament. She helped the team to the Sweet 16 in 1992 and was part of the CSB squad that won its first 28 games in a row and made it to the NCAA Division III Final Four in 1993. Werner Roseboom and that team are in the CSB Hall of Fame. For the past two years, she has been the assistant general manager at the VillaSport Athletic Club and Spa in Colorado Springs, Colo. In her position at that 12,000-member facility, she oversaw the management team, handled building repairs and developed strategic plans while overseeing a $10 million annual budget. Before that, Werner Roseboom worked at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center. She began as a residence-life coordinator, moving up in positions to scheduling coordinator, operations manager, associate director
and director. As the director, Werner Roseboom oversaw the operations at this facility, attended six Olympic and Paralympic games to help execute training and competition plans and helped raise $16 million for facility construction and renovation. Werner Roseboom was one of two finalists, from a 70-applicant pool, selected by a search committee which included members from all areas of CSB, including athletics, admissions, administration and institutional advancement. "I am thrilled the selection committee unanimously recommended Glen as their top candidate for athletic director at CSB," Geller said. "Glen brings a depth and breadth of experience that compliments the portfolio of skills necessary for leading a winning DIII women's athletic
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bright, engaging and confident, all skills I look for in an AD," Geller said. "Glen follows quite a legacy in the leadership of Carol Howe-Veenstra. Carol and I both agree handing over the program to Glen leaves it in good hands and we look forward to how she will take Blazer athletics to the next level." As the new athletic director, Werner Roseboom hopes to continue the connection Howe-Veenstra achieved in her 30 years. "I hope to find new and interesting ways to bring the campus community together and for Blazer student-athletes to connect into larger circles of campus and community life," she said. "It will take quite a few weeks of conversation with the critical constituent groups to find the themes of what is needed in athletics. (CSB PresiRoseboom • page 7
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Left: Many flags from many nations lined the spectator stadium at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships recently held in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado. Right: Kristi Spaniol, Kelli Spaniol and Adam Giambruno (left to right) volunteered at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships recently held in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado. They are shown here at the volunteer reception after opening ceremonies.
Spaniol from front page strations of snowshoes for the Atlas Snow-Shoe company. The Spaniols experienced riding on the press bus with television news stations from around the world. "We rode up the mountain in the dark each morning with the news crews from all over the world," Spaniol said. "Team NBC, Australian News, Germany News, Austria News and more. There were so many different languages going, it was so fascinating. It was truly a new experi-
ence every single day, meeting people from all over the world and experiencing a different language being spoken everywhere you turn." Vail was the location of ceremonies and nightly festival events Feb. 2-15, including concerts, art and food features, a big-screen stadium and more. Beaver Creek hosted most of the competitions, but that city also hosted racing events that included the Nation's Team Event Feb. 10 and Men's Giant Slalom and Slalom qualifying competitions Feb. 12 and 14. Opening ceremonies included a theme: "Dream It, Live It and Share It," which emphasized ski-racing values. Event
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organizers hope the event will live on through dreams that have been fulfilled, lives that have been touched and inspiration which has been given. Kelli said the theme was evident everywhere they looked. The more than 700 athletes from more than 70 nations who participated in the championships event represented the world's largest group of competing ski-racing challengers. Medal ceremonies for women and men included Super G, Downhill, Alpine Combined, Giant Slalom and more. The closing ceremony included Beaver Creek's and Vail's passing of the torch to Vail's sister city, St. Mortiz, Switzerland, which will host the 2017 World Championships. "One cool thing was the free concerts with amazing bands Michael Franti, American Authors, O.A.R., Phillip
Phillips, to name some, that were every single night after the awards ceremony," Kelli Spaniol said. Kelli was able to meet and get her picture taken with Tina Maze from Slovenia, a two-time gold and one-time silver medal winner. Spaniol's nephew, Adam Giambruno, 24, St. Cloud, also worked on the construction crew at Vail. His tasks included setting up the finish line for races, the concert stages and more from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. "The world is bigger than Minnesota," Giambruno said. "We knew we couldn't miss this amazing opportunity. There are opportunities like these all over the world. You just have to seek them out." For volunteering, the three received some extra perks, including a red-white-blue sixpiece ski outfit that included three jackets, a hat, goggles
and ski pants, as well as two weeks of free skiing, if and when they could find some free time. Kelli worked on her school assignments at Cathedral High School before leaving on her trip. She spent lunch hours being tutored ahead in German and also brought her school laptop along to work on assignments during the trip. Cathedral has a graduation standard that requires students fulfill 70 volunteer service hours before they graduate. Before Kelli left on the trip, she was approved to use the hours as volunteer service. Spaniol is married to Peter Spaniol of St. Joseph. Kelli is their youngest and Ben is their oldest child. They also have three other sons, Tom, 25, married to Alissa; Wil, 22; Jake, 18; and a Shih Tzu dog named Ringo.
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Farm from front page tina in various bands for more than 35 years, Pfannenstein understands some things about music choices. Before setting up his music booth, he was previously involved with the Beef Council and KASM booths at the show. Pfannenstein decided to sell his music at the show when he realized that many of the new-and-improved tractors and combines came with newand-improved music systems that allowed drivers to have more listening options. "The show is better this year than last," Pfannenstein said. "Many returning customers are stopping to look at new selections." His mother, Ginny Pfannenstein, 82, also returned to the show to help at the booth. "I am happy to be back," Ginny Pfannenstein said. "I enjoy the show. It is a very nice show." Many people who know both of them locally from the St. Joseph Meat Market stopped to visit with them and discuss music options. Ginny and her husband, Al, previously operated the St. Joseph Meat Market. Her son, Harvey, now owns it. Cy is currently in charge of the sausage department there. Pfannenstein also hosts a Sunday morning radio show on KASM radio station in Albany. The KASM booth offered children a chance to play KASM blackout bingo and register for prizes. Freeport resident Mandy Welle and her four children (Hannah, 9, Jack, 7, Alex, 4, and Lucy, 5 months) stopped at the music booth to have Pfannenstein sign their bingo sheets. They were hoping to win tickets to the Great Theatre Company's performance of Disney's Mary Poppins. Vic Boeckmann and his son, Michael Boeckmann, hosted the Powerhouse Outdoor Equipment booth. Boeckmann and his wife, Ruth, own the business with Craig and Kristin Wolf. Their booth gave visitors a chance to see new selections in lawn mowers, chain saws, leaf blowers and more. Michael Boeckmann is the store manager for the St. Joseph location. He was happy to point out the new technology of the Exmark Lazer Z zero turn lawn mowers, including fuel injection and a steering wheel
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instead of operating levers. "The Farm Show is one of the best shows," Vic said. "It gets a very good turnout with good traffic and a lot of interest." "Spring is on its way. Come in and look at the new equipment," Michael said. Aaron Rieland hosted the Finken Companies booth. He said this is the seventh year that Finken has had a booth at the show. "It is a great day," Rieland said. "We have had a good turnout so far and I have talked to a lot of good people. It is nice to see familiar faces from past years and to talk to old customers and meet new ones." Brian Abraham and Dave Ritzer hosted the Lumber One Avon booth. Ritzer said they have been at the show for several years now. "It's usually a good turnout and we get three or four leads at the show," Ritzer said. The Central Minnesota Farm Show is organized and coordinated by the St. Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce. Special events coordi- photo by Cori Hilsgen nator Ginny Kroll said the show Vic Boeckmann (left) and Michael Boeckmann demonstrate some of the new equipment offered grows every year. She said this at Powerhouse Outdoor Equipment. year's event included 200 exhibitors and 370 booths. Organizers added more semiwith nars and rebranded the show with Albie is a 3-year-old neutered Bloodhound. He weighs in at a new logo and updated website. Ladies Only 109 pounds and the top of those long ears is about 40 inches Speakers discussed topics such as Conceal & Carry Class from the floor. He’s a big boy! Albie came to the shelter because crop-cover options, decision agrihis owner’s health made it difficult to care for a big dog. Albie Sunday, March 22 • 9 a.m can be dog selective – meaning he gets along well with some culture, adapting your marketing St. Cloud dogs but not so well with others. If you have any other dogs, approach to weather and demand, take advantage of our meet and greet procedure. Albie has Beginners Welcome! dairy-markets outlook, passing the been around all ages of kids, and while he is a giant lover, he Cost $85/person* family farm through generations sometimes doesn’t realize how big he is and can knock smaller *Includes range fee plus hand gun and commercial-vehicle regulachildren down. True to his Bloodhound nature, Albie loves to to use for qualification. follow his nose. A home with a fenced-in yard would be a plus. tions. Tri-County “Helping one animal won’t change According to Farm Show inforthe world … but it will change the Humane Society mation provided by the St. Cloud To register, call world for that one animal!” 735 8th St. NE • PO Box 701 Area Chamber of Commerce, 1.32 320-247-2877. St. Cloud, MN 56302 Dogs - 20 Cats - 34 Rabbit - 1 Puppy - 1 Kittens - 2 Rats - 3 252-0896 million acres of Minnesota's 26 Mouse - 1 www.tricountyhumanesociety.org million farm acres are dedicated to Hours: Monday-Thursday Noon-6 p.m., Friday Noon-8 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sunday Noon-5 p.m. conservation and wetland-reserve programs. Of 12 types of soil found in the world, Minnesota has seven of them. The state ranks third in the nation in corn production, third in hog production and fourth in soybean production. The average farm size is 349 acres and less than 1 percent of the state's population is employed in farming. Revenue from the show helps support central Minnesota agriculture. Kroll said they will give out eight $400 scholarships to seniors from area high schools. Students who are interested in pursuing careers in the industry should apply through their school counselors. For more information, visit the website, centralmnfarmshow.com.
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Working together does wonders for city’s future All residents of St. Joseph have every reason to be proud of the remarkable progress that has been made in recent month on the publicfacilities planning process. About a year ago, the city was embroiled in a contentious – sometimes even angry – controversy between some unhappy residents and city staff about city plans for a government center. Most of the controversy was because of miscommunications between the city council and many residents, with residents accusing the council of not heeding their wish-list priorities when, in fact, the council believed it was acting upon the choices residents had expressed at public meetings. All kinds of disagreements were aired once the city had unveiled its government center plan. Finally, the council agreed it was time to start over, to go back to the drawing board once again. Last year, the council wisely hired a facilitator to help with the visioning and planning process, to ensure that all factions would be on the same page all through the many steps of the process. With the help of the facilitator, Phil Barnes of WSB Associates, Minneapolis, a task force was formed consisting mainly of residents. Barnes conducted the initial public meeting masterfully, drawing people into the process and creating real excitement about what can happen when people drop their suspicions and work together for a community goal. Barnes showed all involved how to bring their brains and talents together; how to do it in a respectful, orderly and transparent fashion; and how to communicate clearly how they arrived at their decisions. Impeccable note-taking at meetings was vital to that outcome. The excellent results were evident at a public meeting Feb. 23 when those involved in the process gathered, again with Barnes as facilitator. Stakeholders included the facilities task-force members, the council, the park board, the economic-development commission and others. The meeting was expertly emceed by St. Joseph Mayor Rick Schultz. The various members of this refreshing coalition are recommending the construction of a community center that will include an all-purpose gymnasium, a large community-meeting room and room for some semblance of a library. The center would be possibly Phase I of an ongoing facilities plan, the others being – first – expanded police facilities and then more room for city staff. At the Feb. 23 meeting, a special guest was Tom Schaffer of U.S. Aquatics, an expert on aquatics facilities for cities. He outlined possibilities for an aquatics facility in St. Joseph that could include a pool, splash pad and other amenities. Obviously, some of these projects might have to wait, although the extension of the regional sales-tax will surely help bring them more quickly to reality. What is most important and gratifying at this point is how well all of these factions are working together and, yes, on the same page. It won’t be long before we begin seeing, in reality, the excellent results of their hard work. They deserve our thanks and our congratulations for a job well done.
The ideas expressed in the letters to the editor and of the guest columnists do not necessarily reflect the views of the Newsleaders.
Friday, March 6, 2015
Opinion Senseless rampage extends to artifacts Every thug, every invader, every dictator knows smashing culture goes hand in hand with butchering people. And this is exactly what ISIS is now doing. Along with their mass killings, their abductions and rapes, their beheadings, their torching people alive, their unspeakably cruel rampage now extends to history and culture. Their latest stomach-churning video depicts a wrecking crew of ISIS maniacs in an antiquities museum in Mosul, Iraq. Wielding sledgehammers, the video shows these culture-killers toppling ancient statues from museum pedestals, then smashing them with repeated blows of their sledgehammers. The statues they could not pound to rubble and dust with their hammers they destroyed by using power drills. At an archaeological site near the museum, the destroyers worked as energetically as demons to drill and smash into chunks a massive, magnificent Assyrian winged-bull deity that is 3,000 years old. Their ferocity against the stone artifacts is sickening to watch not just because it is such a senseless attack against a cultural heritage but because it is all too easy to imagine the same ferocity used against flesh-and-blood human beings. An ISIS narrator on the video explains that the artifacts are false idols that must be smashed. Orders from God. Before their assault at the museum, the militants attacked the Mosul Public Library, where they removed books to be burned, then set off bombs, destroying thousands of books and rare manuscripts. They have also let loose their violent attacks against other libraries, mosques of the “heretics” and other “ungodly” works of ancient art. Ironically, these vicious plunderers, these haters of all things civilized, are
Dennis Dalman Editor doing their dirty work in the “Cradle of Civilization,” the ancient area near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Throughout history, there has always been a thin line between civilization and barbarity, between lightness and dark, between enlightened tolerance and blind intolerance. It’s astonishing how many worldwide artifacts have lasted, considering how many waves of barbarians have smashed their way through their plundering invasions. Hitler’s regime hosted book-burnings and confiscated or destroyed what was considered decadent, degenerate works of modern art. In Cambodia, Pol Pot’s sadistic Khmer Rouge members smashed every trace they could find of “corrupt” Western culture and even tortured and murdered anybody who wore eyeglasses (a sign to them of Western weakness). During their self-proclaimed Cultural Revolution, Maoist communists indulged in scavenger hunts, rooting out and destroying cultural artifacts they deemed politically unacceptable. The Taliban gleefully used ancient carved cliff Buddhas as target practice for their mortar rounds. Those are just a few recent examples of tyrants trying to erase history and culture. Like all fools, they thought – they think – that by destroying artifacts they can simultaneously kill the ideas or beliefs that go along with the artifacts. Invaders have long known that to undermine their victims, it’s necessary to
damage or destroy their culture, which is the foundation of identity. Once identify is undermined, the cultural-social bonds come undone. Thus, to the victor the spoils. But not for long. Not forever. Those who think they can kill ideas they don’t like might as well try to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. All this hideous killing and culture-wrecking indicates just how insecure these destroyers are about their own belief systems. The more their doubts surface, the more insecure they become and the more they plunder, smash and kill. Their murderous selfrighteousness stems from inner fears and quaking uncertainties. Do they really believe they will be welcomed with open arms into heaven for their heinous rampages in the here and now? It’s more likely dancing devils and flickering flames will greet them. People who are confident in themselves and their belief systems do not indulge in destructive rampages or violence against people or artifacts. It’s only baseless egotistical monsters who actually think they can remake the entire world in their own image. To do so, they would have to kill everybody and destroy everything that is not “them,” which means, of course, they will end up with nothing at all except for the flimsy shadows of their own baseless egos, the empty outcome of their own ruthless behavior. You’d think after thousands of years of history, fools would learn those lessons. But terrorists, daring to invoke “religion,” keep trying to conquer the world when they haven’t even mastered themselves. Thus, they try to underline their “causes” by plundering, smashing and killing, and that is why they always end up – fortunately – causing their own destruction.
This mess is not going to fix itself Lois Lerner and John Koskinen of the IRS could be in serious trouble. Investigators have found some 32,000 missing e-mails which were reported to a congressional committee as irretrievably lost. “Hard drive crash, erased, gone forever,” those kinds of reasons and excuses. Well, as anyone with a modicum of knowledge of computers knows, emails are never gone forever. They are always somewhere. You just have to find them; and they did. Time will tell what is contained in those emails, but it will probably not be good news for Lerner and Koskinen or their unnamed co-conspirators. Criminal charges and penalties are a very real possibility regardless of how high up it goes. The University of Minnesota has decided, in its politically correct wisdom, that persons suspected of crimes at the school cannot be identified by their race. They claim it would further stereotype young black men. I wonder if they can be identified by gender. Isn’t that also stereotyping? Be on the lookout for someone somewhere who may or may not have committed a crime/misdemeanor/ indiscretion. The individual could be dangerous. That should make it easy to find them. A federal judge in Texas has stayed the Obama amnesty order. Twenty-six states have sued to stop the amnesty order and a federal judge in Texas has given them temporary relief. Of course the administra-
Ron Scarbro Guest Writer tion has fought back and filed an appeal. The best estimate is that it will take some two years to get to court to decide on the legality of the order, because no doubt the Supreme Court will ultimately have to rule. By then Obama will be gone and his order will be basically invalid. Presidents need to understand that they have to obey the law just like everyone else. Presidents don’t make laws; their job is to see that the laws are faithfully enforced. Congress makes the laws. It’s written in the Constitution. Perhaps the president should read the document sometime. Do you think the Department of Homeland Security won’t be funded? Do you think federal workers will work and not receive paychecks? Me neither. The silly little games our elected representatives play is really getting tiresome. How about that Keystone Pipeline? The president has vetoed the bill which was overwhelmingly approved by both Houses of Congress in a bipartisan vote. The bill will now be reheard as Congress tries to override the veto. Every single individual who fails to vote with the ma-
jority and override this veto will have to find a new job after the next election. The American people are not going to look too kindly on elected representatives who defy the will of the people. Warren Buffett and his railroad will find something else besides oil to carry. Buffett, as always, will land on his feet. So, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin doesn’t have a college degree. I have personally known hundreds of people with advanced degrees from prestigious universities who could not shine Walker’s shoes. For the most part, college degrees are highly overrated and definitely overpriced. Many colleges and universities have become nothing more than liberal laboratories. I’d prefer real-world experience. We have serious problems in the world today. Contrary to what Secretary of State John Kerry recently said, we are not safer than we have been in years. We need serious people who have their heads in the game, not in the sand. We need to be ready to face headlong those whose only reason for living is to eliminate us. This mess is not going to fix itself. 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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Expert angler to share tips at talk by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Anglers become green with envy when they hear about the magnificent lunkers Stephan Scepaniak landed in his years of fishing, mainly on Lake Mille Lacs but also elsewhere. In the past couple decades, he’s caught more than 129 northern pike, all exceeding 20 pounds, and he’s reeled in at least 1,000 muskies, all more than 45-inches long. As a guest of the Sartell Senior Connection, this master fisherman will give a free talk at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 16 at the District Service Center in Sartell (the old school building). Its address is 212 3rd Ave. N., near the DeZurik valve plant. If Scepaniak includes catches made by his clients, the number of muskies and pike increases to many thousands. What sounds like a fisherman’s fantasy is a fact, and Scepaniak has photos and documentation to prove it. Scepaniak is the owner of Predator Guide Service of Mille Lacs. He's been a passionate angler and fishing guide for 30 years on that vast lake, where he lives for six months out of every year. He and his wife, Christine, spend the other six months in Waite Park, where he grew up. Scepaniak was the first muskie guide on Lake Mille Lacs, and he is respected widely as being one of the best guides in the business. He has been featured twice in Field and Stream and once in Outdoor Life. His clients come
Roseboom from page 7 a 100-mile radius of St. Joe. I have my work cut out for me to move and get settled, but I'm so looking forward to all this new adventure and (what it) brings in this wonderfully familiar place." She and her daughter are
from as far away as France and China, Russia and Poland, as well as every state in the nation. Successful fishing, as Scepaniak well knows, is a mixture of luck and skill – but mainly a lifetime of knowledge and acquired skills. And he is more than willing to share a knowledge of those skills with others – thus, his guide work. “I’d rather be lucky than good (at fishing skills),” Scepaniak said in an interview with the Newsleader. “You can know all the stuff you want, but that still doesn’t make the fish bite. Really, only the good Lord can make those fish bite.” Still, knowledge and knowhow are big helps, he added. It helps to know, on any given day, the barometric pressure, weather patterns and weather fronts moving in. All affect fishes’ inclination to feed. Even the phases of the moon will affect fish, he added. Familiarity with the lake is, of course, a prerequisite. What about bait? “It’s like a cheap date,” he said, grinning. “I use whatever works. Bait depends on the season, mainly.” Seasonal factors are also very important as fish live in different places in the lake in different seasons. “Just last spring, on fishing opener, we caught big muskies in two to three feet of water on Mille Lacs,” he said. “That was spring. Later, the fish move to other parts of the lake.” Scepaniak, unlike some anglers, has not developed any good-luck charm superstitions,
happy her parents, Gordy and Gail Werner, who retired to Colorado 11 years ago, have decided they will also relocate to the St. Joseph area to be closer to their daughter and granddaughter. "So this decision was a big one for them as well," Werner Roseboom said. "It wasn't in their plans to move again, but they said 'their girls' weren't going back to Minnesota without them."
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such as wearing one particular item of clothing or a certain color of socks when fishing. He does, however, always avoid wearing bright colors, donning neutral or earth-tone colors of clothing. Fish, he said, can definitely see up through the water at people sitting or standing in a boat. “Muskies will stare right at you,” he said. Scepaniak vividly remembers how a giant muskie’s stare caused one of his fishing clients to faint dead away, literally, flat down to the bottom of a boat. It happened during a fall day on Mille Lacs. The client was instantly stunned, as if he’d just come face-to-face with Jaws or a slightly smaller version of Moby Dick. “That guy took one look at that fish and then keeled over,” Scepaniak recalled. “We thought he had a heart attack. The muskie was at least 63 inches long. That fish followed the lure right to the boat. The guy had never seen a fish that big, and he fainted just like that. Fishing to Scepaniak is practically a genetic inheritance – a happy one. He still clearly remembers the first fish he caught when he was a tyke, fishing on Pelican Lake near Avon with his father, Leo. “I caught a sunfish, and I remember how fun it was,” he said. Scepaniak was hooked. That sense of fun he later passed on to his own family. His wife loves to fish; so do their three children, now grown and
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Expert angler and fishing guide Stephan Scepaniak holds a 54-inch muskie he caught last October on Lake Mille Lacs. He nabbed it during a full-moon phase while using a Salmo crank-bait lure just 200 feet from Hwy. 169. successful. “All of them grew up fishing since they were 2 years old,” he said. “They were walking in the woods with me since they were 3.” For years, Scepaniak’s cli-
ents, their children and grandchildren have also caught the fishing bug, and they become excited every season, still, dreaming about that prized elusive lunker they just might catch.