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Brenny Transportation celebrates two decades

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No parking along July 4th parade route

There will be no parking allowed along Minnesota Street from CR 2 to Third Avenue/entrance to the College of St. Benedict starting at 7 a.m. Monday, July 4, until the parade concludes. In the past, spectators could park along this stretch of road, but this year will be an exception as the area is needed for parade staging.

The Newsleaders office will be closed July 4-8

The Newsleader office will be closed July 4-8. There will be no July 8 editions published. The office will reopen on Monday, July 11 and resume weekly publishing with the next edition on July 15. Thank you, and have a wonderful and safe Fourth of July!

MN Reading, Math Corps looking for tutors

The Minnesota Reading and Math Corps is looking for part and full-time literacy tutors for the upcoming 2016-17 school year. Tutor positions are open at Lincoln Elementary, Madison Elementary, North and South Junior High, Oak Hill Community School, Stride Academy, Talahi Community School, Westwood Elementary, Southside Boys and Girls Club, Kennedy Community School and Pine Meadow Elementary. For more information, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on July 1 Criers.

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The St. Cloud Fireworks Committee is looking for help with their Fourth of July fireworks display. Volunteers are needed to take tickets and serve food. Shifts are from 4-8 p.m. and 8 p.m.-midnight. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on July 1 Criers.

Catholic Charities seeks for foster grandparents

Catholic Charities is looking for local adults age 55 or older to become a part of their Foster Grandparents Program. Volunteers are needed to provide extra support and attention to children in schools in St. Joseph, District 742, Sartell and Cold Spring. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on July 1 Criers.

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Attendees line up in the rain for truck rides during the Brenny Transportation 20-year open-house celebration June 17.

Owners and employees of Brenny Transportation, along with other guests, celebrated 20 years in business with an open house on June 17. The celebration included truck rides, a truck show, truck tours where visitors could blow the truck horn, food, beverages, door prizes, music and more. Owners Joyce Sauer Brenny and Todd Brenny, wife and husband, were busy visiting with and serving family and friends. About 400 guests attended the open house. Joyce’s parents, Carole and Ralph Sauer, her grandmother, Loretta Dullinger, and Todd’s mother, Annette Brenny, and his grandmother, Clo Brenny, were some of the guests who

enjoyed a lunch of pulled pork sandwiches, baked beans, potato salad, desserts and more. “My grandparents, Claude and Loretta Dullinger, originally trusted in us and borrowed us the money to buy the land we are located on,” Joyce said. “My grandfather is deceased, but my grandmother is 91 and still lives in her home. At our five-year celebration, she helped serve food. Today I served her – it is her time to be served.” Brenny employee Annika Shafer attended the event with her husband, Tanner Schafer, and their two daughters – Audrey, 2, and Natallie, 3. Schafer and five other employees dispatch 52 trucks for the business. “It’s a fun and familyfriendly work place,” she said. Brenny • page 5

Council member Frank's passing brings sadness by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com

A wave of sadness followed the sudden death of former St. Joseph City Council member Dr. Stephen I. “Steve” Frank, who died as a result of surgical complications June 22 at the age of 73.

Besides being a council member for seven years, Frank was a long-time professor of political science at St. Cloud State Frank University, where he taught for

38 years before his recent retirement. Frank served on the St. Joseph City Council from January 2008 through December 2015. “I feel sad,” said current council member Renee Symanietz, who served on the council during Frank’s tenure. “He was on our council for quite a few years, and

I am sure there will be many professors and co-workers who are sad, too. Steve had some good ideas, and he came up with a lot of good solutions for St. Joseph – such as ways to save taxpayers money. He also did an important survey for the city to find out what kind of amenities people Frank • page 2

Arlington Place residents enjoy luau picnic by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com

Arlington Place Assisted Living residents and staff, along with other guests, celebrated an annual summer “Hawaiian Luau” picnic on June 4. Karen Hennessy, housing manager at the facility, said the event was scheduled to be held rain or shine. “Eighty-five people were served a Hawaiian lunch,” Hennessy said. “I even welcomed people dressed in (my) Hawaiian costume – grass skirt and flowers in my hair.” Guests enjoyed a lunch that included chicken wings, barbecued cocktail smokies, meats and cheeses, potato salad, mandarin-orange coconut pudding, fresh fruits such as

grapes, strawberries, pineapple and watermelon, beverages and more. Luau guests were entertained by the Radiant Moon Belly Dancers from St. Cloud. The performers are belly-dance instructors. At the picnic, the dancers performed Hawaiian and Egyptian types of dances. During one dance, they balanced swords on their heads. Hennessy said the dance program was shortened a little because the picnic had to be held inside due to the weather. If they could have been outdoors, the dancers could have mingled through the crowd and asked a few volunteers to join them in learning some new moves. Picnic • page 3

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Residents, staff and guests of Arlington Place Assisted Living enjoyed the entertainment of the Radiant Moon Belly Dancers during the annual summer picnic on June 4.

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People Five St. Joseph students recently graduated from St. Cloud State University. They are the following: Kelli Halek, magna cum laude, bachelor’s degree; Lisa Hankes, master’s degree; Nicholas Lahr, graduate certificate; Jeremy Nathe, bachelor’s degree; and Adia Zeman, master’s degree. Kendra Johnson, St. Joseph, was recently named to the spring

dean’s list at the Moorehead State University. Students must maintain a minimum 3.25 gradepoint average to qualify for this honor. Katie Schleper, St. Joseph, was recently named to the spring high honor dean’s list at the Minnesota State University, Mankato. Students must maintain a minimum 4.0 grade-point average to qualify for this honor.

Frank from front page wanted.” Surveys were one of Frank’s subjects of expertise. In 1980, as an SCSU political-science professor, Frank originated the concept for an SCSU survey, undertaken by students under his tutelage. Since then, the Frank-led surveys including more than 150 telephone surveys have been accomplished for a wide range of clients: cities, school districts,

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government agencies, the Minnesota Lottery, statewide issues such as elections and current events, the State Attorney General’s Office, St. Cloud United Way and the Department of Children, Families and Learning. Frank earned his doctorate degree from Washington State University and did extensive postgraduate work, including intense survey research at the University of Michigan. For many years he was head of the SCSU Political Science Department. He served for a time as president of the SCSU Faculty

Association and was president at one time of the Minnesota Political Science Association, which bestowed him its first Distinguished Professor of Political Science honor. With teaching colleague Steven Wagner, Frank co-wrote a book entitled We Shocked the World! A Case Study of Jesse Ventura’s Election as Governor of Minnesota. He also authored many scholarly articles and helped write another book with Wagner. Funeral arrangements for Frank will be made at a later date.

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Residents, staff and guests of Arlington Place Assisted Living, both young and old, enjoyed participating in the entertainment of the Radiant Moon Belly Dancers at the annual “Hawaiian Luau” summer picnic on June 4.

Picnic from front page She said everyone of all ages seemed to enjoy the picnic.

“Our residents love this annual event,” Hennessy said. “It’s always a themed event where we invite all residents and their families, and all staff and their families. Plans are already underway for next year.”

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‘Gathering of Friends’ to be held at St. Ben’s by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com

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Above: Quaker Friends gather for an evening plenary. A Quakers “Gathering of Friends” will be held July 3-9 at the College of St. Benedict. Below: Quaker high school Friends participate in a workshop.

More than 150 Quaker congregations from the United States and Canada, as well as Belize and Guatemala, and about 1,000 people will meet July 3-9 for a “Gathering of Friends” at the College of St. Benedict. The group of Quakers, who are also referred to as “Friends,” has been meeting annually since 1900. Each summer, about 1,000 Quakers gather to share a week of worship, activism, music and more. This year’s theme for the gathering is: “Be humble, be faithful, be bold.” The week includes programs and events, including smallgroup morning workshops, public evening meetings called “plenaries,” and programs for children, teens and adults. According to a press advisory, the Quakers practice a religion of experience: a contemporary, simple and radical faith with roots in the Protestant Reformation in England in the 1600s. Three speakers will share how to live the theme message in the world today at 7 p.m. dur-

ing evening meetings in the CSB Benedicta Arts Center Escher Auditorium. These meetings are open to the general public. Quaker author Rex Ambler will speak on Monday, July 4. He is best known for bringing the wisdom of early Friends to Friends today. His books share his experiences and influences that include Gandhi’s work with the poor and oppressed in India, the value of meditation and personal change in the face of crisis. On Thursday, July 7, award-winning University of St. Thomas School of Law professor and founding director of the Community Justice Project (a civil rights legal clinic) Nekima Levy-Pounds will speak about her message. She is an expert on issues of race, public policy, economic justice, public education, juvenile justice and the criminal justice system. And on Friday, July 8, freelance grace provocateur Peggy Senger Morrison will talk. She is a recorded Friends minister and founding pastor of Freedom Friends Church. Her recent book, Miracle Motors: a pert near true story, is a mo-

torcycle theology. As a licensed counselor for 20 years, she has worked with trauma healing, especially among Quakers in Central Africa. During the event, the group sets up a Gathering Bookstore and moves inventory from QuakerBook’s location on the Pendle Hill Campus in Pennsylvania to the gathering location. The bookstore is stocked with books, handcrafts and more. The QuakerBook’s bookstore will be located on the second floor of Gorecki Dining Hall and is open to the public. After the Gathering, the group hopes to leave energized and ready to share its faith and learnings with others. Friends conference organizer Ruth Reber said they hope the Friends will take away “a deeper relationship with God and a sense of a joyful, supportive and inclusive community that will sustain them as they seek to live their lives based in that living faith.” Online communications fellow Piper Lewis said she hopes the Gathering is a place for Quakers to nurture spirit through attending workshops and plena-

ries that inspire learning, self-reflection and also through fellowship with others throughout the week. “I hope to enjoy time reflecting deeply on our shared Quaker faith and connecting with Friends from around the United States and Canada,” Lewis said. “I hope gathering (attendees) leave feeling deeply nourished in spirit and inspired to take that joy and fellowship back to their own home meetings.” Reber said each year the Friends general conference site selection committee chooses a new area for the event. “The College of St. Benedict submitted a proposal for 2016 and was able to offer a wonderful setting for this year’s conference,” Reber said. “When that was combined with the beauty of Minnesota, we chose to come to St. Joseph.” Lewis said during the Gathering, the group will stay in campus housing on the CSB campus. “The majority of Quakers attending will be primarily eating on the college campus, but there will probably be some visitors around town for brunches or other outings,” she said.

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said. “A month ago, we were talking about an underwriter’s discount at 1.96 percent of the face value of the bond issue,” Eastvold said. “That is the fee that comes to the underwriter – in this case Northland Securities – and that would pay for our overhead, for our commission for the salespeople to sell the issue on behalf of the city.” That cost was lowered based on initial marketing to some interested investors, and “there was great interest,” Eastvold said. “It’s not going to be as hard of a sales job that we were first thinking,” Eastvold told the council. The 18,000-square-foot new government center will provide more space for the police department and city administration and may someday be connected to Colts Academy, which is slated to be converted into a community center.

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Brenny from front page Her daughters had told her they wanted to ride in one of the big trucks. Mike and LouAnn Simon came to the celebration with their grandchildren – Renay Simon, 8, and TJ, 12. Their son, Scott Simon, is an employee of the company. “It’s a lot of fun,” Mike said. “I see a lot of good people here.” The event also included a silent auction to help raise money for the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, which educates children about the Internet and personal safety. Items for the auction were donated by customers, vendors, employees and more. “We are glad to be here and thankful to be a part of the celebration,” said Resource Center manager Alison Feigh. “We are thankful they thought of us as they were doing this big event.” Brenny employees Ben Minke, Abbey Gooch, Erin Turcotte and Bryan Kosidowski helped organize the silent auction of around 60 items. “We received more items than we normally collect, so it was really cool to see how much was donated,” Minke said. In 1996, Joyce Sauer Brenny considered leaving the trucking industry and returning to college. However, after realizing how much she enjoyed working in the trucking-logistics industry and that her passion was with trucking, she decided to open her own trucking business and founded Brenny Transportation. Joyce said she is often asked if her father or husband started the business, but she explains she did. Joyce, who grew up in the area, said she has been involved in some form of trucking most of her life, beginning with driving trucks after graduating from high school and moving into other areas such as dispatching, customer service and more. Todd is co-owner and vice president of the company and came on board about a year after Joyce started it. Joyce said Brenny’s general manager, Bonnie Supan, has been an influential part of the company’s success. She was Joyce’s first employee. When she began the

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At left: Todd Brenny and Joyce Sauer Brenny hold a cake June 17, during the 20th anniversary open-house celebration of Brenny Transportation. At right: St. Cloud resident Estelle Carlson, 4, (front left) receives a tattoo at the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center table while Noelle Brown, 6, and Center manager Allison Feigh (back) watch. business, Joyce said she wanted a company that had a high level of honesty and respect for all team members, especially the professional truck drivers. She wanted to build the business with a foundation of values and ethics. And Joyce said she feels this is the kind of team she and Todd have created. They try to stress to their employees the importance of doing what is right not just at work, but in life. The two encourage following the golden rule of “doing unto others what you would want done to you” in life.

The business has grown from two employees to 90. Since purchasing their first truck and trailer in 1997, Brenny Transportation has now more than 60 trucks. About six percent of the driving team is women. Drivers travel in many directions, including the lower 48 states, Alaska and Canada. The Brennys pride themselves on not being the biggest but the best in the business. Their policy is to offer “Grand Champion Customer Service.” “We haven’t grown overnight,” Joyce said. “We grow when our customers need us to. Not only have we grown in

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the size of our employees and the number of trucks we have, we have grown to a stability where we can help our local communities by donating to many local charities.” The Brennys hold charity work close to their hearts. As they become more successful, they strive to help surrounding foundations and businesses also become more successful. Joyce said she believes in putting people before profits by giving both to their team of employees and also to local area needs. “The Brenny team is truly driven to serve,” she said. Senior safety manager Sarah

Wischnefski said Joyce Brenny is not only the CEO/president of Brenny Transportation. “She is a mentor, she teaches and counsels us in ways that could only come from someone who is also a true friend,” Wischnefski said. “Joyce uses her bachelor of arts degrees in psychology and organizational behavior to help us all. She listens to team members’ and drivers’ concerns and is on many boards of organizations to help make the trucking industry improve and make a difference.” Joyce said she is looking forward to serving the trucking industry for many more years.

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Do a good local deed; help with meal-packaging It’s often said charity begins at home. That’s easy to forget with all the pressing needs throughout this all-too-tragic world these days. A good reminder of that adage is the upcoming “Feeding Our Communities,” a facet of the “Better Together” program of the Central Minnesota Community Coalition. From noon-8 p.m. Thursday, July 28 at Apollo High School, hundreds of volunteers will get together to package more than 100,000 meals that will be distributed to area charities and food shelves. It costs 25 cents to package a meal of macaroni-and-cheese or beans-and-rice. The formula used in the food packages, a formula provided by Outreach Inc., is very nutritious. The “Better Together” program is based on the goal of all people, including people of all backgrounds and races, working together locally and globally to bring peace and kindness to the world. The mission statement puts it eloquently: “As leaders, we believe we have a responsibility to the well-being of our entire community. Where differences create tension among us, we will work to develop relationships, create peace, bridge gaps and bring people together. When the leaders work together, so then can the people of our community work together. All of us are ‘Better Together.’ “We see here walls of cultural tension that continue to stand through a lack of cross-cultural relationships. This community cannot thrive while there are walls of misconception, suspicion, indifference toward each other’s needs, and many more – each wall rooted in fear. Our coalition aims to break down these walls by bringing people together in the service of each other.” Organizations that are part of Better Together, as well as the food-packaging event, are Catholic Charities, Humanity Central Minnesota Community Services, Orange Oak Media, Thrivent Financial, GRIP/Isaiah, Habitat for Humanity, the Southwest Minnesota Synod – ELCAL Lutheran Social Services, United Way of Central Minnesota and www.UniteCloud. Packaging meals, as is often done for hungry people overseas, is such a good thing to do in the central Minnesota area. Packaging meals for local people is also important. It not only helps people in need, but it also brings people together in a spirit of solidarity, all working for a good cause and lowering the “walls” mentioned in the “Better Together” mission statement. Volunteers and donations are still needed. Registration for volunteers began June 20 and will be open right up until the event takes place. To sign up to volunteer, go to: Unitedwayhelps.org To make a donation, go to: classy.org/ feedingourcommunities. Or send a check to United Way of Central Minnesota, 101 Seventh Ave. S. #100, St. Cloud, Minn. 56301.

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Friday, July 1, 2016

Opinion Trump the Pot calls Kettle black Show me a politician who has never told a blatant lie and I’ll show you a miracle in full-blooming glory. Politicians, after all, are mere mortals, though some act like shining gods or strutting emperors – Donald Trump for one. Never in my long life have I witnessed such a fib-flinger as Trump, who not only gets away with his mendacious claims but who flourishes on his whoppers. And to his diehard fans, the bigger the lie the better they like it. A couple of weeks ago, The Donald delivered a speech (if you want to call it that) about Hillary Clinton. In fact, it more resembled a long, rambling verbal character-assassination attempt woven from a litany of lies. He claimed Hillary was sound asleep in her bed when Chris Stevens, U.S. ambassador to Libya, was killed in Benghazi. Later, when he was questioned in a TV interview about his claim, with perfectly buoyant confidence, he said, oh well, Hillary “probably” was asleep, and then he said she “might” have been asleep, and then he conjured up the notion that – awake or not, in bed or not – she was “asleep” on her job as Secretary of State. As is typical with Trump, he tells a lie, then immediately repeats it two or three times, as if repeating a fib will somehow, through some verbal alchemy, turn the falsehood into the truth, an error into a fact. And I must admit, he’s a master at it. It has become an endearing facet of his “entertainment” value, especially to Trumpites who seem not to give a rip about pesky things called facts. A team of reporters for USA Today recently did a revelatory exercise in detective work regarding Trump’s “Hillary Speech.” The reporters meticulously fact-checked every state-

Dennis Dalman Editor ment made by Trump, most of which were outlandishly incorrect, bloatedly exaggerated or – at best – slyly misleading. Here are just some of them: • He blamed Hillary for announcing the withdrawal from Iraq and thus “handing large parts of the country over to ISIS and the ISIS killers.” Wrong. It was George W. Bush who decided on the out-of-Iraq departure date, and Obama – not Hillary – adhered to that date. • Trump claimed Hillary’s private server was hacked by foreign governments. There is no evidence whatsoever it happened. • Trump blasted the North American Free Trade Agreement as “Bill Clinton’s disastrous and totally disastrous NAFTA.” Fact: Clinton signed the legislation, but the agreement was negotiated and signed by President George H.W. Bush. • Hillary, claimed The Donald, “spent hundreds of billions of dollars to settle Middle Eastern refugees in the United States, on top of the current record level of immigration that we have.” Wrong. Yes, Hillary supports allowing as many as 65,000 Syrian refugees into the United States, but she has never said she would spend hundreds of billions. The current budget for Refugee and Entrant Assistance is $1.67 billion for this year. • Trump claimed Hillary would “end virtually all immigration enforcement and thus create totally

open borders for the United States.” That’s a blatant lie. Hillary has spoken in favor of a path to earning citizenship, but that would depend – she has insisted – on bolstering border security. Further, Hillary was a strong supporter of an immigration bill that would have funded enhanced border security, additional border fencing and the implementation of an E-Verity system, as well as an exit-visa system to put a stop to overstays on visas. • Hillary, according to Trump, accepted $58,000 worth of jewelry from the Brunei government when she was Secretary of State. He conveniently forgot to mention the jewelry was accepted on behalf of the United States and was then immediately transferred to the General Services Administration, as diplomatic gifts have been throughout American history. There are more whoppers in that speech, enough to fill many pages, as the USA Today story proved. Trump calls Hillary a liar. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Oh, and not to forget, he also claims Hillary is the most corrupt presidential candidate in American history. It’s yet another indication Donald must have been day-dreaming about towers or casinos in history class. Trumpites justify his blustering falsehoods by claiming he might have gotten some facts wrong, yes, but the essence of his remarks is truthful, nonetheless. The trouble is, who wants a president who gets so many facts wrong so consistently, so constantly? Trump’s fantasy-land fabulism should be a warning sign to all voters a candidate without facts, and – worse, with so little regard for facts – should not be elected to lead this nation.

The Fourth of July – uniquely American As we approach the Fourth of July once again, I think we should take a look back at how the American tradition got started. This year will be the 240th occurrence of the date of the founding of our republic, and 2026 will be an even more momentous occasion with the 250th. On the date of July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed in Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The country was already in the midst of war as American troops under George Washington battled against the British Army. The Founding Fathers needed a document to explain the previous year’s revolution and to rally the cause of those in favor of independence. Under the leadership of famous men and future presidents such as John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, the Declaration of Independence as we know it was crafted. Fifty-six delegates from the 13 colonies signed the completed document. This to me shows the essential spirit that makes the United States such a unique country. We, as a people, are unlike other nations not bound by such things as common origin or history or traditions. America is a nation bound by people of similar ideals and the belief that hard work and determination in a land that offers plenty of opportunity can provide a better life for ourselves and

Connor Kockler Guest Writer our children. The best-known sentence of the Declaration of Independence illustrates that so well: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The Founding Fathers and all those brave revolutionaries who fought with them wanted the freedom to choose their own destiny, to have a government that represented their wishes and to be free of the rule of a tyrannical king. To do that, they would have to fight the most powerful empire in the world, Great Britain. But the Founding Fathers knew the risk they were taking. It was not some empty show or bluff like our politics today. Those brave 56 who signed the Declaration knew they were signing their death warrants. They wanted to show that despite the danger, despite the fact they all came from 13 colonies with their own customs and interests, that they were united

in one goal together. That goal was independence for themselves and the future generations after them. “If we do not hang together,” Ben Franklin famously declared, “we shall surely hang separately.” I hope we can put aside some of our bitter partisan politics for this weekend and take a moment to reflect on what we have in common. We all have a vision or an idea about how to make this country better. Why don’t we take this time to think about our proposals and to compare them with others in a civil discourse. It’s this America we are losing, the cooperative politics and compromises that got us to where we are today. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were not pushed merely by one side or another. Rather, they were worked out and agreed upon by different groups with different interests, for the common good of all. If we cannot come together to compromise on solutions to our common problems, we risk those problems getting worse. May this Fourth of July be the start of a change in our politics, even if it’s just here on a local level. Because if we don’t hang together, we shall surely hang separately. Connor Kockler is a current student at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. He enjoys writing, politics, and the news, among other interests.

Friday, July 1, 2016

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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, July 1 Brat and Burger Sale, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 First Ave. N.W. St. Joseph Area Historical Society open, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Old City Hall, 25 First Ave. NW. stjosephhistoricalmn.org. St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, 3-6:30 p.m., near the Wobegon Trail Center, C.R. 2. Saturday, July 2 Sauk Rapids Farmers’ Market, 8 a.m.-noon, First Street and Second Avenue next to Manea’s Meats, downtown Sauk Rapids. Brat and Burger Sale, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 First Ave. N.W. Sunday, July 3 Joe Town Rocks including fireworks, 5-10:30 p.m., Church of St. Joseph, 12 W. Minnesota St. 363-4483 or 493-8331. joetownrocks.org. Register for the parade at e-clubhouse.org/ sites/stjosephmn. Monday, July 4 Parish Festival, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Church of St. Joseph, 12 W. Minnesota Street. 363-4483 or 493-8331. joetownrocks.org. Register for the parade at e-clubhouse.org/sites/stjosephmn.. Tuesday, July 5 Summer Lunch/Learn, free lunch and activities for kids under 18, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. today and every Monday and Tuesday through July 29, Centennial Park, 205 Birch St. W., St. Joseph. 320-363-7505 ext. 350. Wednesday, July 6 Summer Lunch/Learn, free lunch and activities for kids under 18,

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Monday, July 11 Summer Lunch/Learn, free lunch and activities for kids under 18, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. today and every Monday and Tuesday through July 29, Centennial Park, 205 Birch St. W., St. Joseph. 320-363-7505 ext. 350. Market Monday, 3-6:30 p.m., parking lot of Hardware Hank, Seventh St. N., Sartell. marketmonday.org.

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Friday, July 1, 2016

photo by Frank Lee

Antique tractors and lawn tractors from the Greater Minnesota Two-Cylinder Club sit in the shade for visitors to view at the Artisan Showcase and Antique Tractor Show June 5 at Riverwood Mall, part of the 52nd annual Waite Park Family Fun Fest.

St. Joseph artists crash Fun Fest by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com

Judy Filzen of St. Joseph designs one-of-a-kind jewelry, handmade for her customers, but she was not alone June 5 at the Artisan Showcase and Antique Tractor Show at Riverwood Mall. The five-hour showcase and show next to Slumberland featured several artisans displaying and selling their artwork and handmade crafts and goods outside, under the shade of the nearby trees. “I’m a jeweler by trade,” said Filzen, who learned her trade at Minneapolis Community College. Women of all ages lined up to browse the selection of necklaces and other fashion

Calendar from page 7 St. Joseph Township Board, 8 p.m., St. Joseph Township Hall, 935 College Ave. S. Tuesday, July 12 St. Joseph Joint Planning Board, 7 p.m., St. Joseph City Hall,

accessories she had for sale at the showcase, part of the 52nd annual Waite Park Family Fun Fest. “God gives it to me, it just comes,” Filzen said of the inspiration for her jewelry. “I just kind of go by my own instincts and colors that appeal to me and use my own intuition, I guess.” Filzen said she paid $35 to participate in the Artisan Showcase, which was her first time participating in the Waite Park-based venue that also included about a dozen other vendors. “Jewels by Jude” wasn’t the only business representing St. Joseph. Members of the Church of St. Joseph were on hand in the woods near Anton’s Restaurant to sell their

textile and fabric art creations as well. Also on display were antique tractors and lawn tractors from the Greater Minnesota Two-Cylinder Club and classic cars by the Studebaker Drivers Club. “It’s a nice venue,” said Filzen, who switched from interior design to furniture design to jewelry design. “I just would have appreciated less wind . . . and maybe would have liked more traffic.” The Waite Park Family Fun Fest concluded with a free Kids Fishing Contest at Rock Island Park Pond next to Bernick’s Pepsi on June 12, for children ages 2 to 12. For more information about the Waite Park Family Fun Fest, visit www.ci.waitepark.

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Community Fire Hall, 323 Fourth Ave. NE. stjosephchamber.com.

Wednesday, July 13 Summer Lunch/Learn, free lunch and activities for kids under 18, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. today and every Wednesday and Thursday through July 29, Klinefelter Park, Dale St. E./12th Ave., St Joseph. 320-363-7505 ext. 350. St. Joseph Area Chamber of Commerce, 11:30 a.m., St. Joseph

Thursday, July 14 St. Joseph Senior Citizens, 1:30 p.m., St. Joseph Community Fire Hall, 323 Fourth Ave. NE. Family Farmers’ Market, 2-6 p.m., River East parking lot, CentraCare Health Plaza, 1900 CentraCare Circle, St. Cloud. 320-2522422.

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