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St. Joseph Farmers’ Market celebrates spring fever
St. Joseph Farmers’ Market will celebrate the first day of spring from 3-6 p.m. Friday, March 20 at Resurrection Lutheran Church fellowship hall, 610 CR 2. Start your spring off right by shopping locally and eating healthy. Many Easter goods are available, and even some plants to get you in the mood! Learn more online at stjosephfarmersmarket.com.
Parking restrictions lifted early in St. Joseph
The St. Joseph City Council members voted unanimously at their Monday meeting to lift winter-parking restrictions two weeks earlier than usual, effective immediately. Parking restrictions are typically in effect from 2-7 p.m. Nov. 1 to April 1 in a given year to allow plows to remove snow from city streets.
Fire department hosts CPR training class
The St. Joseph Fire Department will host a CPR training class free to residents of St. Joseph and St. Joseph and St. Wendel townships from 6-9 p.m. Monday, April 20 and Wednesday, April 22 at the fire hall. Only one day is required. Space is limited to 30. To register, call the city at 320-363-7201.
Dispatchers sought for American Red Cross
The Red Cross responds to small and large disasters. Locally, the Disaster Action Team responds about 100 times a year, mostly to home or apartment fires. Dispatchers ensure appropriate and timely response to disaster calls and provide off-site guidance to responding DAT members. This might be a great fit if you have day or evening hours available, as on-call shifts take place during both daytime and nighttime hours. A minimum commitment of eight on-call shifts (which vary in length) per month required. For more information on this and other United Way volunteer opportunities, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on March 20 criers.
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The city of St. Joseph will turn off the lights that light up the water tower for an entire night March 28 in response to a request to turn them off for one hour. Earth Hour is a campaign to switch off the lights for one designated hour – from 8:309:30 p.m. Saturday, March 28, local time, at homes, businesses and government buildings. The campaign began in 2007 in Australia and is now in more than 162 countries. At the city council meeting Monday night, council members voted on a request by Wayne Birkholz, St. Joseph, to turn out the lights for one hour.
Terry Thene, the publicworks director, had previously discussed with the city’s administrator, Judy Weyrens, the possibility of having a staff person at the water tower for two hours to turn the lights on and off. Thene said the watertower lights have to be turned off manually and can’t be controlled remotely. It was brought up by the council that perhaps the public-works department could have a staff person turn off the lights during the day of March 28 and turn them back on in the morning of March 29, thus saving the cost of having someone come in for those two hours. Thene thought that was a reasonable solution. Tower • page 5
Earlier this week, the St. Cloud school district released a statement informing the media Dr. Judy Nagel, principal Nagel of Kennedy Community School, would be resigning her post, ef-
fective June 30 of this year. Nagel was originally hired as an interim principal to replace Diane Moeller for the 2013-14 school year. Her contract was then renewed for the 2014-15 school year. The statement noted Nagel told Superintendent Willie Jett about her decision in February. Nagel wished to seek a new
leadership position closer to her home in the south metro area. Nagel noted the decision to leave Kennedy was a difficult one, but said the challenge of her commute and her desire to do what was best for the Kennedy community were important factors in her decision. Nagel stated it was a privilege to work with so many tal-
ented and dedicated students, staff and families at Kennedy Community School. Jett thanked Dr. Nagel for her dedication and service to the Kennedy school community, and wished her the very best. The school district is currently conducting a search process to fill the leadership role at Kennedy.
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the planning is entering its final stages. “ We ’ re looking over finances,” he stated. “Some of it could be pri- Killam vately financed.” Killam said the committee
is working on how much it will cost to build and maintain the water amenity, and what it might cost to use it. At a Feb. 23 meeting, U.S. Aquatics, the company the committee is working with to plan the amenity, presented the current plan to the council and other members of the public. Included in the concept was a
multi-use pool with a one- and three-meter diving board; grass lounge areas; a lazy river; three water slides; rental tents; water geysers and an aqua fort on a splash pad; a covered seating area; changing rooms; a concession stand; and shade structures. The facility would be projected to be used between Water • page 3
photo by Logan Gruber
The St. Joseph water tower holds 500,000 gallons of water, and is lit from the ground. On March 28, the city will turn the lights off until the following morning in observance of Earth Hour.
Kennedy principal leaving at end of June
Water amenity enters final stages of planning St. Joseph Council member and Water Amenity Committee member Matt Killam updated the rest of the council, sans Mayor Rick Schultz, on the status of the water-amenity planning process at Monday’s city council meeting. Killam said
CSB ranks high for Fulbright, Peace Corps Once again the College of St. Benedict has been cited for the international scope of its education for producing a high number of Fulbright scholars and of Peace Corps volunteers. For the second consecutive time, CSB earned a place on the Peace Corps’ list of the top 25 volunteer-producing small colleges and universities in the nation. It ranked number 20 for the number of students currently serving overseas as Peace Corps volunteers. There are nine CSB students currently serving. “Cur-
Beckius DeOrio rently” means those who were serving on Sept. 30, 2014 as selfreported by Corps volunteers. In just one year, CSB moved up one spot, from 21 to 20. Small colleges and universities are defined as those with
Mullin Reisdorf less than 5,000 undergraduate students. Since the Peace Corps was established by President John Kennedy in 1961, 145 CSB graduates have served in the Corps. Overall, nearly 220,000 Americans
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have served in 140 countries worldwide. For the third consecutive year, Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. ranked first among small colleges and universities, with 20 volunteers. Two other Minnesota schools made the list – No. 2 Carleton College (17 volunteers) and No. 5 Macalester College (15 volunteers). CSB was also cited by the Institute of International Education for ranking 29th among bachelor’s institutions for having Corps • page 5
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People Erin Nelson, sophomore, daughter of Leah and Kevin Nelson, is a member of the Mustang Maniacs Club at Southwest Minnesota State University for the 2014-15 academic year. The Mustang Maniacs is a student spirit group/booster club to lend support to Mustang Athletics at SMSU.
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Henry Ray Cummings, first grandchild of Newsleader delivery driver Glen Lauer of St. Stephen, was born Tuesday, March 10 at St. Cloud Hospital. Parents are Sally and Ray Cummings, St. Cloud. He weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces and measured 20 inches long.
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. 28 1:14 a.m. Traffic stop. CR 75/ CR 134. A vehicle was stopped for expired registration. The driver, a 22-year-old male, was able to verify on his phone he had bought the tabs that day but hadn’t placed them on the vehicle yet. The man was advised to put the tabs on. 12:26 p.m. ATV. 9th Avenue. A caller reported an ATV driving through yards. Police arrived and found fresh ATV tracks in yards and made contact with the owner, a 37-year-old male, who was warned to check city ordinances
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Daddy-Daughter Date Night was held March 14 at the College of St. Benedict. Dads brought their daughters to a nice supper and dance, and there were prizes for the daughters too. Daughters (from left to right) Loren and Taylor Thoma, Hannah Reiter and Aaliyah Mixteco; with dads (second row) Mark Thoma, Wayne Reiter and Francisco Mixteco. These dads had a fantastic time with their daughters. A big thank you to the sponsors, as these dads and daughters had a blast on the dance floor. They now have a new tradition to repeat annually with their special dads.
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March 2 3:50 p.m. Found property. Minnesota Street E. A set of keys was found at a gas station in Little Falls and turned into the St. Joseph Police. The owner of the gas station was called, and the keys were his. March 3 4:49 p.m. No pay. Birch Street W. A 60-year-old male and a female left a gas station without paying. Police were called and made contact with the couple. Both stated it was a mistake, and each thought the other had paid. Police checked with the station later, and the bill was paid for.
March 5 12:17 a.m. Traffic stop. College Avenue N./Elm Street W. A 26-year-old male was observed by police dancing in the intersection of CR 75 and College Avenue N. and then entering a vehicle. The vehicle also had an expired registration. The driver was stopped, warned for the tabs and given a citation for no proof of insurance. March 7 9:49 a.m. Funeral escort. College Avenue N. Police provided an escort from the funeral home to CR 3.
March 4 9:47 p.m. Suspicious activity. Iverson Street W. A female stated her garage door opened by itself, and no one else has a key. Police checked the area and found nothing suspicious.
March 13 10:33 p.m. Crash. Mullen Road in St. Joseph Township. A car driven by a 16-year-old female from St. Cloud entered the ditch and rolled. Two passengers, a 15-year-old girl and a 12-yearold girl, both from Waite Park, were not injured. The driver was injured and taken to the St. Cloud Hospital.
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Jennie (Lahr) Friedrich, a St. Joseph native and 2000 Apollo High School graduate, is among five who will be inducted into the Northern Michigan University Sports Hall of Fame for cross country and track and field on Saturday, April 18 at NMU in Marquette, Mich. Her parents, Peggy and Norman Lahr, reside in St. Joseph. Friedrich competed for the Wildcats from 2001-05 for both the cross country and track and field programs earning eight letters. She was an All-American af-
ter finishing third in the mile at the 2005 NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championship. While qualifying for the same event, she clocked the fastest time in the mile that year at 4:47.05 and still holds the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference record for the indoor mile. She also earned All-American status in cross country in 2003. She competed in seven NCAA Championships as a Wildcat in cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field. She served as captain for the cross-country program for three years and for the track-and-field program for two. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education in 2005. The event is open to the public but tickets must be purchased in advance through the Superior Dome Ticket office or online at www.nmu.edu/tickets.
LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF ST. JOSEPH INTERIM-USE PERMIT The St. Joseph Planning Commission shall conduct a public hearing at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 2, 2015 at the St. Joseph City Hall, 25 College Ave. N. The purpose of the hearing is to consider an InterimUse Permit to allow a non-owner occupied rental at 26 Birch St W. The property is legally described as Lot 2, Block 12 of Townsite of St. Joseph, Lot 3 and E 20’ of Lot 2 Block 12. St. Joseph Code of Ordinances 52.31 subd. 13 (a) allows for an Interim-Use Permit as follows: Residential units in areas that have been rezoned to commercial from
residential shall be allowed an interim-use permit as a rental unit for a specific period of time. The maximum density for rental units under the interim-use permit shall be limited to the density which is allowed in the R-1, Single-Family Residential District. Michael and Florence Loso, 26 Birch St. W., St. Joseph, MN 56374, have submitted the request for Interim Use. Judy Weyrens Administrator Publish: March 20, 2015
PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF ST. JOSEPH INTERIM-USE PERMIT The St. Joseph Planning Commission shall conduct a public hearing at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, April 2, 2015 at St. Joseph City Hall, 25 College Ave. N. The purpose of the hearing is to consider an Interim-Use Permit to allow an owneroccupied rental at 216 – 17th Ave. SE. The property is legally described as Lot 3, Block 2, Liberty Pointe, Stearns County, Minn. St. Joseph Code of Ordinances 52.27 subd. 5 (a) allows for an Interim-Use Permit as follows: Residential Rental provided the unit is owner-occupied and provided the room(s) rented does not contain separate kitchen facilities and is not intended for use as an independent residence. For purposes
of establishing if the property is owner-occupied, the owner must be a natural person, and all owners must occupy the property as their principal residence. The owners may not exceed two in number. For purposes of determining ownership, the owner/owners must provide a copy of a recorded deed or recorded contract for deed. A purchase agreement will not be accepted as evidence of ownership. Molly Walz, 216 – 17th Ave. SE, St. Joseph, MN 56374, has submitted the request for Interim Use. Judy Weyrens Administrator Publish: March 20, 2015
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This is the possible design for the aquatics amenity, drawn up by U.S. Aquatics and presented at the Feb. 23 joint meeting.
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Memorial Day and Labor Day, and the design includes heated water. Possible locations have been discussed but have not been made public yet.
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The next step for the committee is to bring the plan to the city council for a vote, which is scheduled for the April 6 meeting.
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Birdhouses bring happiness to many photos by Logan Gruber
Left: Ray Bechtold holds on tight as Ethan Duncan uses a cordless drill to drive in a screw while assembling his wren house. Ethan’s mother, Karin, looks on. Right: Ben Sjaaheim and his mother, Cheryl Wilhelmi, open the side of their wood-duck house after completing it Monday night during the St. Joseph Rod and Gun Club’s annual birdhouse building night.
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“I’ve been here for all 22 years,” said Al Kalla at the 22nd annual Wood Duck, Bluebird and Wren House Kalla Building Night, held Monday night at the American Legion. Kalla was one of the original organizers of the birdhouse event. He said it all started with just wood-duck houses and progressed from there. This year, the St. Joseph Rod and Gun Club, of which Kalla is a member, helped area residents and kids build 25 wood-duck, 100 bluebird and 80 wren houses. The rod and gun club bought all the wood for the event, while Manion’s Wholesale Building Supplies in St. Cloud donated the screws and Lee’s Ace Hard-
ware donated the screens for the wood-duck houses. All of the material is precut and made up into kits. All the builders have to do is put it together and hang it up. “All we want is to make sure they put them together and put them up so the birds come,” Kalla said, chuckling. “Every year we invite the Boys and Girls Club and Kidstop to come,” Kalla said. “And this is just one of our projects. We run an ice-fishing tournament, gun-safety training and a kids’ fishing clinic in the summer.”
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Ethan Duncan of St. Joseph was on deck Monday evening, building a wren house with his mother, Karin Duncan. “It’s our second year,” Karin said. “We enjoy building birdhouses.” “I built the bluebird house last year,” Ethan added. Ethan had a little help from
Ray Bechtold. Bechtold has been part of the birdhouse event for 22 years as well. “I always get my picture in the paper,” Bechtold joked. He poked fun at a few other members of the rod and gun club who were there helping out, who in turn poked fun at him for being a celebrity. Ben Sjaaheim of St. Joseph and his mother, Cheryl Wilhelmi, were building a woodduck house across the room. Ben and Cheryl have been building birdhouses at this event for three years now, and they have built a different birdhouse every time. “I like having birds in my houses,” Ben said. He also said they have a swampy pond by their house, and he hopes to see wood ducks soon with their new house. To learn more about the St. Joseph Rod and Gun Club, head to their website, stjoerodandgunclub.org.
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Corps from front page the most Fulbright scholars. Last year, the college was awarded four Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Awards, the most the school has ever received. Those who received those awards are Heather Beckius, currently an English teaching assistant in Brazil; Melissa DeOrio, an ETA in Turkey; and Rachel Mullin, an ETA in Malaysia. Those three are all 2014 graduates of CSB. The fourth is Sarah Reisdorf, an ETA in Brazil, who was a 2013 graduate of CSB. The Fulbright ETAs place U.S. students as English teaching assistants in schools and universities overseas. They improve foreign students’ English
Tower from front page Council member Bob Loso wondered whether other cities were participating in a similar way.
abilities and knowledge of the United States while enhancing their own language skills and knowledge of the host country. ETAs may also pursue individual study/research plans in addition to their teaching responsibilities. Beckius, an English major from Avon, hopes to obtain a graduate degree in speech pathology as a bilingual provider. DeOrio, a political science major from Verona, Wis., plans to use her Fulbright scholarship to gain more international experience. She previously worked for the SETA Foundation, a Turkish think tank, during an internship in 2013 in Washington, D.C. Mullin, a history and political science double-major from Humboldt, S.D., took a studyabroad trip to China, where her
research project on the Chinese education system fueled her passion for the topic. Mullin also received a Truman Scholarship while attending CSB. Reisdorf, who received a degree in Hispanic studies from CSB, took an English as a second language class her final semester, sparking her interest in pursuing work with English-language learners. The Fulbright Program, established in 1946, is the flagship international educational program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between people of the U.S. and people of other countries. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.
“This has been requested before...it’s a one-person movement,” Loso said. After some discussion, the council voted 3-1 to approve the request to turn the lights on the water tower off, with Loso voting against. Mayor Rick Schultz was not in attendance, and council member
Dale Wick served as acting mayor. Last summer, painting and maintenance took place on the 500,000-gallon water tower.
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Legislators should butt out of transgender policies in schools
Some state legislators are balking at the decision by the Minnesota State High School League to allow transgender students to play on the teams they choose. Minnesota is now the 33rd state to adopt policies favorable to transgender students. State law already allows girls to compete on male teams. This new policy will allow students born as boys but who self-identify as females to play on girls’ teams. To its credit, the MSHSL Board overwhelmingly approved the new policy late last year, which will begin this school year. About 500 Minnesota high schools are to implement the new policy. Religiously-affiliated private schools are exempt from the policy. It is not known how many students in Minnesota identify as transgender. Estimates by the Transgender Law Center are that 0.3 percent of the population worldwide is transgender. The MSHSL courageously defied loud opponents of the policy, rejecting alarmist accusations the policy would have boys and girls showering together and some boys would pretend to be transgender so they could ogle girls at close quarters. Ridiculous. They’re using variations of the same fear tactics used in the same-sex-marriage debate – that allowing it would spell the end of marriage as a cherished institution. Opponents of the policy also claimed the ruling would take away freedom of choice from schools. What about the freedom of choice of transgender students? Then, of course, the old argument was trotted out again – whether people choose their sexuality or whether it’s a genetic factor. Virtually all psychologists have determined sexuality is not the result of a decision, but even if it were, so what? Americans, we are constantly reminded, can choose who they want to be in this great, free country. The 20 or so Republican legislators and their supporters who oppose the MSHSL policy are resorting to the same alarmist tactics mentioned above. They are even daring to claim the new policy is harmful to transgender students because it will cause them to be bullied. As if they aren’t now, including by some ignorant state legislators. Sen. David Brown (R-Becker) is author of one version of the bill. He said this (don’t laugh; he was serious): “If you identify as a male and you’re in a locker room and you’re undressing and you’re the only female body in there, you think you’re not going to have some fallback from that?” Where do these lurid locker-room nightmares come from? The policy encourages schools to make reasonable and separately private accommodations in locker rooms and showers. These legislative busy-bodies are desperately trying to invent problems where none exist. They are backed by the same “family-rights” groups who would, if they could, instantly end same-sex marriage and all other hard-won rights by GLBT people and their families. It’s mean-spirited, to say the least, to so narrowly define “family” by excluding the rights of other people, other families just because they don’t happen to fit into their narrowly defined norm. Fortunately for one and all, the forces of progress and enlightenment are moving forward. These legislators and their supporters are going to have a mighty hard time turning the clocks back to the good old days, which weren’t so good if you happen to have been a human being who was denied the most basic dignity and rights.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Opinion Dylan’s bittersweet CD is life-affirming Novelist Joyce Carol Oates once said Bob Dylan’s voice was the sound of sandpaper singing. Wish I’d thought of that. It’s funny; it’s true. Oates did not mean it disparagingly. It was part of her tribute to the scruffy troubadour from the North Country. Here is the direct quote from Oates’ 2004 essay: “When we first heard this raw, very young and seemingly untrained voice, frankly nasal, as if sandpaper could sing, the effect was dramatic and electrifying . . . Bob Dylan seemed to erupt out of nowhere. The power, originality and heartrending pathos of Blowin’ in the Wind, A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall, Masters of War, Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right were like nothing we’d encountered before.” Yes, so true. Those timeless marvels were recorded in the early 1960s. They were just the beginning of the most extraordinary one-man songwriting era in American history. The apex of Dylan’s genius exploded like astonishing fireworks in the mid-1960s when he created a trilogy of albums of mind-bending, culture-changing, never-ending wonder: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde. They were so unprecedented, so original, so brilliant that fans waited patiently with bated breath ever since then for another album to match the magisterial powers of that dazzling trio. It’s been a long wait – nearly half a century – filled with serious disappointments like Self Portrait, toss-off surprises like Nashville Skyline, forays into mysterious musical trails like John Wesley Harding, a masterly postmarital lament called Blood on the Tracks, a trio of greatly under-rated albums from his Christian phase (Saved, Shot of Love, Slow Train Coming), a few occasional triumphs like Desire and, much later, his “old-age” CDs – those gloomy reminders of tick-tock mortality like Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft.
Dennis Dalman Editor None of those albums could match his 1960s achievements. He had set such a high standard they could not be topped by him or anybody else. Not even the Beatles. Everything afterward was bound to be disappointing to some degree. We might as well have asked Picasso to paint another Guernica. But we diehard Dylan enthusiasts have learned not to wallow in disappointment, knowing any Dylan is better than none and delectable gems can be found even on his lackluster CDs (Brownsville Girl on Knocked Down Loaded). We’ve also learned some albums we once dismissed as duds we now hear (our old hearing restored like sight to the blind) as amazing (Street Legal). Everything Dylan has done is at least worth hearing. And hearing again. Thus, we come to his latest CD, Shadows in the Night, a collection of 10 classic ballads, all written long before Dylan burst upon the scene, all sung by Frank Sinatra, who is highly revered by Dylan. These are crooning hymns to lost love and the possibilities of love renewed. The songs are like poignant hopes and prayers – exactly the kind of laments Dylan has been singing since the breakup of his marriage to first wife Sara so many years ago, the trauma that sparked the blistering-but-bracing Blood on the Tracks. Those who always hated Dylan’s voice will hate Shadows in the Night. Bully for them; they never did get it, never will. His voice, however, is not “sandpaper” this time around. It’s smoother, almost like – well – polished sandpaper. Tarnished silver. Rusted steel. As I’ve often said, Dylan would never make the
Sunday choir, and I’m glad he didn’t audition. He has a pitch-perfect voice for the kinds of songs he sings, which aren’t “pretty” songs. He sings like Picasso painted – expressing messy realities transformed through art into beauty – and truth. So far, I’ve heard Shadows three times. It didn’t knock my head off like so many Dylan works did, but it moves me very much. Dylan weaves his way through these songs like a world-weary man, alone in the wee hours, haunted by memories, aching nostalgia invading his heart, reliving memories of long-gone loves while sitting stranded, glass of bourbon in hand, at an ocean-side cocktail lounge in Honolulu. I say Honolulu because the CD is awash with pedalsteel guitar that summons up Hawaiian breezes. Shadows is filled with the touch-andgo joys and pains, the astonishments, the somersaulting surprises of love, but they are underlined by a sweet brooding melancholy because this is an older man remembering them, not living them here and now, knowing they are gone, though a fading hope remains. My personal favorites, so far, are Stay With Me, Why Try to Change Me Now? and Some Enchanted Evening, a Rodgers and Hammerstein tune I have long considered the most beautiful romantic love song ever written. These songs – at least the way Dylan performs them – sound like an old man’s lullabies sung to himself as the end draws near. This incomparable singersongwriter has always been fearless in confronting his own demons, his vulnerabilities, his losses, his own mortality. Some listeners may find Shadows depressing. I find it to be life-affirming. It is yet another example of a peerless artist, sadder and wiser, giving us an evocation of life, bittersweet now because once so precious, still precious, summoned up as if almost from beyond the grave.
American history/Civics 101 revisited
Here’s something you may find interesting. The following is a verbatim quote from the U.S. Constitution. It’s from Article II, Section 2 and it deals with the Executive Branch of government. In other words, the president. “He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur...” Now let us consider what is happening in Iran. This Administration is currently negotiating a treaty with Iran which is right and proper, but right and proper only with the advice and consent of two-thirds of the Senate. Without that advice and consent, it becomes an illegal act. This could be fixed by simply involving the Senate. Forty-seven senators sent a letter to Iran informing them any treaty signed but not approved by two-thirds of the Senate will be invalid when Obama leaves office. The liberal news media are calling these 47 senators traitors. I suggest the news media take a moment to read the Constitution before they make such accusations. Isn’t this president supposed to have been a professor of constitutional law? How could he have missed that part about the Constitution The ideas expressed in the letters to requiring two-thirds of the Senate before any treaty could be legal? the editor and of the guest columnists Here’s another little tidbit from the Condo not necessarily reflect the views of stitution, Article II, Section one, the Presidential Oath of Office. “I do solemnly swear the Newsleaders.
Ron Scarbro Guest Writer (or affirm) I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” That seems pretty clear to me. No nuance, how about you? And I am not even a professor of constitutional law. Some will say the President can do anything he wants by “executive order.” The problem with that argument when it comes to treaties with foreign governments is they don’t always understand once the president is out of office, his proclamations are invalid. His “executive orders” are then worthless. The 47 senators who signed and sent the letter to Iran did them and the world a favor. As I have said on so many occasions, we don’t elect emperors. We elect presidents and they, like all the rest of us, have to obey the law. Failure to do so can and will result in prosecution. We have three co-equal branches of government. They are the executive, the legislative and the judicial. They have equal power
with each other. The Congress, the legislative branch, has the responsibility and the duty to rein in this president. The failure of the Congress to do its job could create a catastrophic situation in the Middle East that will doubtless be exported to our shores. If you think Obama is going to rein himself in, history tells us he has no intention of doing that. So, how far will we let him go? He has two years left of his term so does he think he is above impeachment? Do you have any idea how much damage he could do in a two-year period? What needs to happen is for the Democrats to make a little visit to Obama and let him understand clearly he will not be allowed to continue on the path he has chosen. After all, the Democrats will be the ones to suffer if Obama isn’t brought back to reality. We have a rule book. We have a set of laws. We have a president who has sworn to “faithfully” uphold those laws. We also have a Congress who must make certain he does. 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.
Friday, March 20, 2015
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Friday, March 20 Pack the Porches, benefitting Catholic Charities Emergency Services Food Shelf, 7 a.m.-1 p.m., two locations: Pioneer Place on Fifth, 22 5th Ave. S., St. Cloud; or, St. Cloud Hyundai, 900 2nd St. S., Waite Park. ccstcloud.org. St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, 3-6 p.m., Resurrection Lutheran Church fellowship hall, 610 CR 2. St. Joseph Area Historical Society open, 4-7 p.m., Old City Hall, 25 1st Ave NW. stjosephhistoricalmn.org. St. Cloud Singles Club Dance, 8 p.m.-midnight, American Legion, 17 2nd Ave. S., Waite Park. 320-3394533. stcloudsingles.net. Saturday, March 21 Craft-Vendor Sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., El Paso Bar & Grill, 200 2nd Ave. N.W., St. Joseph. Sunday, March 22 Joe Town Table, free community
meal, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., American Legion, 101 Minnesota St. W., St. Joseph. Ladies only conceal and carry class, 9 a.m., St. Cloud. 320-2472877. Monday, March 23 St. Joseph Park Board, 6 p.m., City Hall, 25 College Ave. N., St. Joseph. 363-7201. cityofstjoseph.com. Tuesday, March 24 Two Women’s Stories: The long journey from drugs and prostitution to healing and new life, 6:30-8:30 p.m., St. Benedict’s Monastery dining room, 104 Chapel Lane, St. Joseph. sbm.osb.org. 320-363-7100. Thursday, March 26 History of the Minnesota State Fair, history, stories and trivia, 3-4 p.m., Bremer Community Room, St. Cloud Public Library, 1300 W. St. Germain St., St. Cloud. 320-650-2500. griver.org.
Saturday, March 28 Hope for Recovery Workshop, free workshop providing information on mental illness, coping strategies,
registration required, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Francis Xavier Parish Hall, 219 2nd St. N., Sartell. namihelps.org. 651-645-2948. Garage Sale & Craft-Vendor Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Bernick’s Pepsi Arena, 1109 1st St. S., Sartell. Maple Syrup Tours, 1-4 p.m., Kramer Lake/Wildwood Park, 29709 Kipper Rd., St. Joseph. 320-363-7784. Maple Syrup Festival, 1-4 p.m., Sugar Shack near St. John’s Preparatory School, St. John’s University, Collegeville. 320-363-3163. csbsju. edu/outdooru. Earth Hour, turn lights off for 1 hour to raise awareness about climate change, 8:30 p.m., earthhour.org.
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Friday, March 20, 2015
A historical perspective from 25 years ago – March 16, 1990
Canadian prime minister phones Patty Wetterling {a WHOLE new by Stuart Goldschen news@thenewsleaders.com
If Jacob Wetterling is in Canada, there’s a good chance he’s safe and sound. The Canadians wouldn’t allow it otherwise. That’s what Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney suggested to Patty Wetterling recently in a personal telephone conversation connecting them in Ottowa and St. Joseph. The prime minister phoned Patty on Feb. 24 after hearing of Jacob on Canadian television. He called the Friends of Jacob office in St. Joseph and left a message for Patty to call him back. “I called and a person said the prime minister was unavailable at the time,” Patty said. “When I said I was Patty Wetterling, the person said, ‘Oh, yes, I’ll get him right away.’ Obviously he must have left a clearance.” Patty said Mulroney was warm and genuine, and had nothing to gain politically from the call. She said he told her although he didn’t watch television very much, even he had seen Jacob’s story several times on the screen. “I just thought it might be comforting for you to know,” Patty paraphrased Mulroney, “that if Jacob is in Canada and has any access to television or radio, there’s no way he couldn’t have seen or heard it. We’ve had such widespread coverage, and everybody up
able to flee his abductor, she said. Patty said Jacob’s story recently received attention in Canada largely because of the efforts of Monte Blaustein, a Minnetonka engineer and a volunteer in the Friends of Jacob office. Blaustein, 32, a native of Montreal, went to Canada on Feb. 5 and 6 to follow a lead on Jacob at the request of Jerry Wetterling. Blaustein said he talked to Marcele LaMarche, president of the Missing Children’s Network in Montreal, who was instrumental in getting Canadian media to publicize Jacob’s story. While the lead on Jacob did
here is aware of Jacob’s story. We’re all looking really hard.” Patty said Mulroney told her he hoped it would be reassuring for her to hear that. He wanted to let her know, she said, that everyone there cared about Jacob and was doing everything possible to find him. “Brian said they have a very excellent child find program in Canada and would do anything they could to help,” Patty said. “He was really nice.” She said radio stations in Canada break into their regular programming sporadically throughout the day to remind listeners of Jacob’s disappearance. Some stations are offering cab fare should Jacob be
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not prove helpful, Blaustein said, the publicity generated by LaMarche’s assistance helped spread Jacob’s story throughout Canada. The Canadian people are now looking for Jacob. And their prime minister has demonstrated his support. contributed photo
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is pictured here, bidding farewell to dignitaries after an official visit to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland in 1984.
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