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Volunteers sought Aug. 20 for ASTRIDE training
Project ASTRIDE, a therapeutic horseback riding program, will train new volunteers for its fall session starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20 at a barn near Sartell. We are looking for volunteers to walk alongside both horse and rider during a one-hour class, onenight a week for seven weeks. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Aug. 19 criers.
Supply lists available on TeacherLists.com
Parents from local schools have a new tool in their backto-school bag of tricks this year, as all of their schools supply lists are now posted on TeacherLists.com. With just one or two clicks, parents can find all of their 2016 lists and get a head start on this annual back-to-school chore. Parents can print their lists or look up their lists right on their smartphones in store aisles. The site already includes lists for Early Childhood Education and Kennedy Elementary. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Aug. 19 criers.
Red Cross urgently needs blood donors
The American Red Cross urges blood donors to give in the final weeks of summer to help overcome a critical summer blood shortage. The summer months are among the most challenging times of years to collect enough blood and platelet donations to meet patient needs. Donors of all blood types are urgently needed to give now to help ensure blood is available for patients in need. Those who donated blood earlier this summer may be eligible to donate again. In appreciation for helping to save lives, those who come to donate blood or platelets with the Red Cross now through Aug. 31 will receive a $5 Amazon.com gift card. To help reduce wait times, donors are encouraged to make appointments and complete the RapidPass online health history questionnaire at redcrossblood.org/rapidpass. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Aug. 19 criers.
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Nick Studer works on the stained glass windows during installation at the Church of St. Joseph parish center.
New stained-glass windows that were recently installed in the interior front doors of the Church of St. Joseph Parish Center offer both beauty and glimpses of the history of the church. According to the parish business manager, Sandra Scholz, the windows were originally removed from the church when major renovation of the church was done in the early 1970s. Scholz referenced Sister Owen Lindblad’s (from St. Benedict’s Monastery) book about the parish, Rooted in Christ the Living Stone, written in 2006, in which she says, “Leaded, stained-glass windows (with storm glass) were installed in the church in 1909 for $77.50 each, donated by individual
families.” Scholz said the stained-glass windows were previously situated on both sides of the main altar, but were taken out when that part of the church was remodeled with a more open floor plan. She said she believes some of the glass from those windows was removed and used to repair the windows in the church that were damaged in a major storm that occurred around 1988. The windows were stored in the church basement until about 2002. They were moved to the attic of the church rectory after parish custodian, Andy Loso, discovered the windows buried under other items in the church basement and felt they should be stored in a better place. Church • page 5
ing the free app. “So if you click on Kennedy, it will show you the menus specific for our school – breakfast and lunch,” Principal Laurie Putnam said about Nutrislice, which is new for the 2016-17 school year. “And then there’s also a language interpreter, like a translator button that people can press if they would like to read it in Spanish. We don’t
have it up in Somali yet.” Classes resume at Kennedy Community School Sept. 7. The St. Joseph-based school is part of the St. Cloud Area School District and serves students in preschool and grades K-8. “Breakfast is fairly standard,” Putnam said. “We’ll serve a fresh fruit and a drink and cereal, so parents, if they Menu • page 4
New online menu to provide nutrition info by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com
Parents of Kennedy Community School students can now learn more about the nutritional value of the meals offered with a new digital online menu that provides nutrition facts. The St. Cloud Area School District 742 has launched Nutrislice for its schools, which is
intended “to help boost you and your student’s nutrition IQ.” You can view your school’s digital menu on the dis- Putnam trict’s website by clicking on “Breakfast & Lunch Menus” or by download-
Appreciation picnic to support local heroes by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
An appreciation picnic to honor local police officers, first-responders, volunteer firefighters and the sheriff’s department will take place from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23 at Millstream Park in St. Joseph. Planning for the event began when St. Joseph Y2K Lions President Becky Staneart wanted to do something to show appreciation for the local police because of negative comments many police officers around the country were receiving. She was also seeking a way to work with other clubs
and businesses to plan an area event. Members of the St. Joseph Lions’ Club and the St. Joseph Jaycees said they would work with the Y2K Lions to sponsor the event. When Staneart brought the idea to other club members, a planning committee was formed that included Derek Villnow, Kathi Schmidt, Ginger Meyer, Joyce StengerOldeen and Staneart. The five planners decided the event should include the local police, first-responders, volunteer firefighters and sheriff’s department. Stearns County Sheriff John Sanner is a member-at-large of the St. Picnic • page 7
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An appreciation picnic to honor local police officers, first-responders, volunteer firefighters and the sheriff’s department will take place from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23 at Millstream Park. The St. Joseph Y2K Lions’ committee working on the event includes (left to right) Becky Staneart, Kathi Schmidt, Ginger Meier and Derek Villnow. Joyce Stenger-Oldeen is also on the committee but is not pictured in the photo.
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Don’t place signage on the right-of-way by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com
Spring and summer cleaning inevitably leads to garage sale season, which can be fun for shoppers and the hosts of these
sales alike. However, when advertising your garage sale, be sure you aren’t putting the sign up on a state highway right-of-way. This is a misdemeanor and can lead to civil penalties; it will defi-
nitely lead to the removal and impounding of the sign. Areas that count as rights-ofway include driving lanes, inside and outside shoulders, ditches and sight corners at intersections. You will also want to avoid
putting up signage on public utility poles, trees or shrubs as well as painting or making other marks on rocks or other natural features. If you have any questions, MnDOT is ready to answer at
the Baxter office (218-828-5700) or the St. Cloud office (320-2236500). Keep these guidelines in mind when placing your advertising or other signage and your garage sale will be free of that legal
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Rhianna Sieben brought home the seventh-place medal in the 100 Free.
The Summer USA Club swim season has come to an end this weekend with the Senior State meet (for swimmers 15 and older) in Rochester, Minn. The previous weekend was the Age Group State meet (for swimmers ages 8-14) in Rochester, which allowed our swimmers to compete against the top swimmers in the state. St. Joseph and Sartell swimmers included Kaitlyn Lysen, Rhianna Sieben, Claire and Isabelle Westling, and Eduardo, Oscar and Melisa Zertuche who compete with the St. Cloud YMCA Gator Swim Team. The season ended with the Minnesota Regional Championships in Austin, Minn., with Sieben, and Eduardo and Oscar Zertuche representing the St. Cloud Gator Swim Team. Sieben brought home a medal for seventh place in the 100 Free.
St. John’s University School of Theology and Seminary received a $525,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to continue its support of the Lilly Youth Theology Network. The grant is under the direction of Jeffrey Kaster, director of the School of Theology and Seminary’s Youth in Theology and Ministry program and an adjunct faculty member in the College of St. Benedict/SJU Department of Theology and School of Theology and Seminary. LYTN is a network composed of 34 theology programs for high school youth that engage young people in study and other learning experiences to explore theological traditions and examine the ethical and moral dimensions of contemporary challenges. Tanya Gertz has been named executive director of Fine Arts Programming at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University. She will assume her new role beginning in September. She replaces Brian Jose, who served as executive director from 2008 to 2015.
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Video contest aims for inclusiveness, acceptance of disabled by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com
A Sauk Rapids-based center for independent living is holding a create-your-own-video contest to reduce the stigma surrounding those with disabilities. Independent Lifestyles Inc. challenges people to produce a two-minute video about treating the physically-challenged with respect and finding ways to be inclusive of those with disabilities. “We are kind of targeting youths and students because we want kids to change the mentality about people with disabilities while they’re young and to make their schools and
youth experience more inclusive,” said Cara Ruff, executive director of Independent Lifestyles Inc. Independent Lifestyles Inc. is the lead organization in the Disability Awareness Task Force, a community-wide collaborative comprised of more than a dozen local organizations. “We meet annually to bring about awareness and change in terms of the barriers and stereotypes that exist for people with disabilities,” Ruff said. The annual meeting includes a dinner and a disability-themed movie, which will be held Oct. 11, and all who submit a video by the noon Sept. 16 deadline will receive a free ticket to the event.
The movie is Concussion, a dramatic thriller starring Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, a real-life forensic neuropathologist from Nigeria who discovered CTE, a football-related brain trauma. “We want them to do videos that demonstrate how to treat disabilities with respect, how to be inclusive, how to end bullying, how to use empowering language and things like that,” Ruff said about the #BetheONE Video Challenge. Last year’s winners of the challenge included the Sartell Dance Team in first place and the Eden Valley-Watkins firstgrade class in second place. “It can be any group, team or individual that can enter,”
Ruff said of the challenge. No professional photographers or videographers will be allowed to participate in the contest. The first-place winner will be awarded $500, second-place winner will be awarded $250 and third-place winner will be awarded $150 in the second annual challenge based in part on how popular their videos are on YouTube as judged by the number of “likes” or “views” by those online. “The whole point of this is we want people to see it, we want to change people’s perceptions and attitudes, and we want that by sharing these videos,” Ruff said. The winners will be announced by Oct. 3 and invited
to the task force’s Celebration of Abilities on Oct. 18 at the St. Cloud River’s Edge Convention Center where their videos will be shown. The winners will be selected based on the most number of views a video receives on YouTube after the Disability Awareness Task Force posts it and by vote of the task force for “creativity, positive impact, clear message” and following the #BetheONE Video Challenge guidelines. For more information about the #BetheONE Video Challenge, contact Ruff, Disability Awareness Task Force president, at 320-529-9000 or datfmn@gmail.com.
Newsleaders’ rules for political letters Tuesday, Nov. 8, is the day of the general election, and it’s rapidly approaching, and to many newspapers, including this one, it’s the season of political letters to editor. We at the Newsleaders welcome political letters to the editor, as long as they adhere to the following requirements: Each letter must be 250 words
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School driveway nears completion
Primerica races for school supplies photo by Carolyn Bertsch
Spencer Linn (right), of Sauk Rapids, returns to his teams cart with an armful of school supplies as Joyce Linn of St. Joseph and Jeff Linn of Alexandria check the list and tally up the cost. The Sauk Rapids office of Primerica Financial Services descended upon the aisles of Crossroads Target Store to shop for school supplies to donate to area schools on the evening of Aug. 9. Seventeen employees broke into two teams, each with $300 to spend. Their goal was to be the first team to collect all of the items on their shopping list while spending as close to their limit as possible but not exceeding it. The supplies purchased will be loaded into 50 backpacks donated by Primerica. Schools that will benefit include, but are not limited to the following: Sartell, Rice, Royalton and Foley. Said District Leader Spencer Linn, “Primerica’s mission is to help families and individuals and this is just another way we can give back.”
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from front page want to see what the fruit or the cereal is, they can.” Putnam said she likes how Nutrislice provides nutritional information about the lunch menu at District 742 schools. “You can click on ‘lunch,’ and you click on, say, ‘September’ when school has started,” Putnam said. “And then parents can see what each of our menus are for the day.” Nutrislice has the following disclaimer on its website: “Every effort is made to serve food items as listed. However, challenges in delivery or availability of specific food items may cause changes without notice.” “Each item on the menu has a hyperlink, so as soon as you
wave your cursor over it, it pops up a picture of the item and then the nutritional information,” Putnam said. “It will tell you the calories, fat, cholesterol, carbs, so for families who have something they are particularly avoiding can get some additional information . . . or show special diet info, like allergens.” Putnam said the other feature of Nutrislice she believes is “kind of cool” is families can also rate the menu items. “Say the Asian orange chicken we know is always popular because we have our own lunch count,” she said. “But then families can also go in and give it five stars or four stars.” Kennedy Community School has 840 students. Putnam said roughly about half of the student enrollment on any given
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day eats a hot lunch at the school. “On popular days, like hotdog days or the Asian orange chicken days, it could be as close as three-quarters,” she said. “All of our kindergarteners have access to a free breakfast. For breakfast, the number is a lot lower. It’s probably about a third of our students (who) will have breakfast.” Putnam said the school is committed to health and wellness, like the other schools in the St. Cloud Area School District. “We are looking to be a lot healthier about our fundraisers,” she said. “Our schools do walk-a-thons and in particular we just got rid of our fundraisers that were offering unhealthy items.” There is also a free Nutrislice app for Android and iPhone users, which, for example, stores the last three school menus an app user has viewed, so the person doesn’t have to search repeatedly. “Our families and our school staff are demanding more healthy options,” Putnam said. “And our district is also leading the way as well as being responsive to First Lady Michelle Obama’s advocacy for eating healthier as children. Certainly the rise of diabetes in youth is an issue.”
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Above and right: Nick Studer cleans and reassembles the stained glass windows with new lead came (spoiled lead).
Church from front page Area resident Nick Studer took an interest in the windows when his parents, Darol and Ellie Studer, wanted to preserve them. When the new parish center was built, they felt the windows should be restored and put in the new parish center. Both parents were very active with the St. Joseph Historical Society. Studer believes the windows had been in storage since about 1971 and originally must have cost around $60-$70.
He said the top and bottom of one of the windows had been removed, and the other was in its original form. Studer, who works as a craftsman at Terhaar Stained Glass in Cold Spring, got authorization from one of his supervisors, Gary Terhaar, to work on the windows outside of work hours, so the project would not be a conflict of interest for him at work. Terhaar Stained Glass has done work for the church in the past. Studer did all of the restoration work at his home and donated all of his time. He said it took between six weeks and two months for him to complete the
restoration. His two brothers, Tony Studer and Chris Studer, and a neighbor, Art Brinker, helped him install the windows before the annual July 4 parish festival. It took about four hours to install the two windows – one of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the other the Immaculate Heart of Mary. “Mom is the main reason I did the windows,” Studer said. “I also did it for the church, but mostly for mom. Dad died two years ago and never got to see them, but I did this for mom.” The historic, restored windows can now be seen by all who enter through the parish center doors.
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America should ban circus-animal acts
There’s mounting evidence that public pressure is causing circuses and other entertainment venues to stop using wild-animal acts as part of their “entertainment,” and what a good outcome that is. In the United States, more than 50 jurisdictions in 24 states have taken action to restrict the use of animals in circuses using trained animals. Let us hope that trend continues until there is a total ban coast to coast. Most of us have been thrilled at one time or another by that elephant who can stand and “dance” on its hind legs or by the tiger who can leap through a burning hoop. However, we never see the constant cruelties of training that made those suffering creatures act so “delightfully.” There is nothing delightful whatsoever in the lives of animals in circuses. It’s as cruel and needless as the big-game hunting of lions and other endangered species. Thirty-two nations have banned animals from traveling circus shows. It’s time for the United States to join that list. And here is why: The continued use of wild animals in circuses is opposed by animal-welfare experts, animal-protection groups, politicians and more than two-thirds of Americans, according to a report entitled “The Welfare of Wild Animals in Traveling Circuses,” a report based on research by a team of 658 experts and organizations that included animal trainers in circuses, veterinarians, lawyers, biologists, staff members of zoos, and animal sanctuaries and animal-behavior experts. Not surprisingly, the animal trainers and circus owners in self-serving fashion thought there is nothing stressful about animals in circuses. The other experts strongly disagreed with them. The 178-page report came to the following conclusions, among many others: • Life for wild animals in traveling circuses and mobile zoos does not appear to constitute either a “good life” or a “life worth living.” • All of the requirements for an animal’s welfare and peace of mind are compromised by life in such environments. • Frequent transport of animals from place to place is highly stressful. • Traditional animal-training methods are coercive, and based on force and aggression techniques against the animals. • The “tricks” the animals perform have nothing to do with their natural behaviors. • Enclosures for animals in circuses and traveling zoos are about 25 percent less space than recommended in topquality zoos. • Some of the training methods include stun guns, electric prods, metal bars, whips, barbed hooks, intimidation, and deprivation of food and water. (Is it any wonder sometimes these abused creatures attack, and kill their trainers or people gawking at their “cute” tricks in a circus act?) Animal Defenders International has volunteered to relocate animals from circuses who agree not to use the animals anymore, or in cases where countries or other jurisdictions ban such “entertainment.” Recently, ADI rescued and relocated 100 circus animals from Peru, including 33 lions the organization placed in a sanctuary in South Africa. Now let’s just hope some rogue big-game hunter doesn’t shoot any of them. Jan Creamer, president of ADI, had this to say: “This new report supports decades of reports and evidence the welfare of wild animals is seriously compromised in circuses. Having time and again exposed the suffering and brutality of animals in circuses, Animal Defenders International calls for federal legislation to end wild animal acts.” To which we add, “Amen!” Next time the circus comes to town, check to see if it features trained animals. If it does, take the kids to a good movie instead.
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Opinion
Friday, Aug. 19, 2016
Trump’s a liar – and that’s no lie Donald Trump, “the Pinocchio of politicians,” just told his biggest lie. Last week in an interview, he let loose with this whopper: “All I do is tell the truth.” I heard that doozer during breakfast, choking on my toast while laughing. It was the day after Trump informed us President Barack Hussein (Trump’s cynical emphasis) Obama and Hillary Clinton are co-founders of ISIS. Trump’s trumplings keep insisting, “He tells it like it is.” No, he doesn’t. He tells it like it isn’t. For at least 13 months, Trump has been leaving a trail of lies and snake-oil promises behind him the way Hansel left a trail of breadcrumbs in the forest. Yes, Hillary has been known to lie, too. But on the Big-Fib Meter, Trump beats her hands down. A study by Politico, the fact-checking organization, found Trump has told lies about once every five minutes during 4.6 hoursworth of his speeches the fact-checkers analyzed. Politico listed a tiny amount – just 101 of Trump’s most blatant lies. They include his lying that Obama was not born in America; lying that the 2016 Federal Omnibus Funding Bill pays for undocumented immigrants; lying that he’d never heard of Ku Klux Klan politician David Duke; lying that he never championed one-payer health-care systems when, in fact, he said in that first debate, “As far as single payer, it works in Canada; it works incredibly well in Scotland.” One of his trademark tactics is he lies and then tells another lie, a softer lie, to cover up the previous lie, like a cat in a litter box covering its last stinky deposit. For example, on the Fox News Channel, Trump claimed he never accused President George W. Bush of lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. “I didn’t say lie,” he told
Dennis Dalman Editor the interviewer. “I said may have lied.” He pulled the same stunt when he claimed he knew for sure Hillary Clinton was sleeping soundly through the Benghazi crisis. Later, when called on it, he said, she might or could or might as well have been sleeping. Yet another trademark Trumpism is when he transforms his narcissistic distortions of reality into “truths” that prove to be lies. Case in point: He denied reporter Michelle Fields was rudely handled by Trump’s former campaign manager at a Trump rally. “This was, in my opinion, made up,” Trump said of the incident, “Everybody said nothing happened. Perhaps she made the story up. I think that’s what happened.” When The Donald is caught in his lies, he blames the press. It’s all the media’s fault, of course. They report his lies, and then he throws a tantrum. How dare they? And when he’s not outright lying, he spews big globs of misinformation, outlandish exaggerations or swaggering bluster – a big kid who hasn’t done his homework trying to bluff his way through an oral test. Like a naughty boy before a stern daddy, Trump not only lies, he repeats his lies rapid-fire as if repetition will make them true: “I love Mexicans. Incredible people. I really do, I really love them.” If the Grand Fabricator isn’t telling his own lies, he’s repeating somebody else’s, knowing they’re not true or not
caring if they’re true, like when he tried pathetically to give credence to a tabloid claim that Ted Cruz’s father was somehow involved in a plot to kill President Kennedy. Perhaps Trump’s biggest whopper is his claim that he is a conservative Republican. It’s causing earthquake tremors in the Republican Party as its members, in quickening panic, wait for the leopard to change its spots. Will a kinder, gentler Leopard Donald please step forward from his hard narcissistic shell? On the Ship of Trump, wise Republicans are grabbing for life rafts; the gullible will soon be sinking. The scary thing about Trump the Egotist is this: Lies or misinformation? He doesn’t seem to know the difference or to care. He doubles down, then triples down, no matter what it is. Imagine that reckless fool in the White House. And now, God help us, Trump has become a prophet. He’s claiming if he loses the election, it will be due to voter fraud. There was an old eccentric widow on my boyhood block who would tell us kids fanciful whoppers, and then she would always say, “May lightning strike me dead if I’m lying.” We kids would always do a mock-cringe and duck, ready for a streak of lightning to whip down and zap her, and (yikes!) maybe singe us too. I always think of that old woman when Trump tells his lies. It wouldn’t surprise me if lightning zipped out of the sky and shocked some sense into the fib-filled braggart or turned him into a crispy critter. This man is dangerous. To borrow one of The Donald’s favorite adjectives, he’s “horrible.” Horrible. Trump is a horrible liar – just horrible. Imagine that hothead as President Pinocchio. Horrible.
Banking on a new stadium for the Vikings Like many others around me, I was anxious to catch a glimpse of the new U.S. Bank Stadium. Aug. 3 had come, and as a soccer fan, I was anticipating the world-class match-up that was Chelsea FC vs. AC Milan. After walking from our parking down several city blocks to the site, my father and I took in the massive scale of this new building. Towering 30 stories above us, it was an effort to look up and see up to the top of the structure. Once past the security lines and inside, the interior itself was truly a sight to behold. On the point of size and sheer awe factor, U.S. Bank Stadium beats out the Metrodome for sure. Of course, this isn’t the only consideration we need to take into account. Every new thing will have that “awe factor” in the beginning. This stadium will be the home of the Minnesota Vikings and many other events for years to come. Millions of taxpayer money also went into this building. We even lost a piece of Minnesota history, the Metrodome, just to build it. I will now attempt to answer a few questions. Does this stadium fill the need it was intended for? Is it better than the Metrodome? And was it really worth it? On the point of filling the need, U.S. Bank Stadium is on the mark. The Minnesota Vikings and the State of Minnesota were looking for a modern, marketable venue, which is exactly what the new stadium is. The new look and contemporary features should put this building and the state in the market for many different events while the new stadium buzz still exists. The 2018 Super Bowl and
Connor Kockler Guest Writer the 2019 Final Four are already slated to be held at The Bank, so this time frame should exist for at least a few years. Is the new stadium better than the Metrodome? That’s also an interesting question. I was lucky enough to grow up going to events at the Metrodome, and now the venue of mine and many other childhoods yields to another. Just think, in a few years’ time, even kids who are football fans will have no idea about the Metrodome. What a shame. The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome was a classic piece of Minnesota. The Dome bore witness to many milestones in this state’s sports history, and it’s sad to see it go even to a person as young as myself. But for all its perks and sentimentality, the Metrodome did have its flaws. The concourses were much too narrow. I remember numerous times navigating the crushing crowds leaving the stadium. Many a baseball player had the unfortunate trouble of having to catch a fly ball in there. The roof could and did collapse, requiring costly and time-intensive clean-up. U.S. Bank Stadium has much better concourses – still a little crowded, but roomy enough so you are not shoulder to shoulder with the crowd when entering and exiting. The Bank’s roof
and some wall panels are glass, which allows natural light in and makes for a nicer contrast between the field and the upper levels of the stadium. The glass did cause some problems however. Sitting on the east end of the stadium, the sunset shone through the glass, disrupting the view. Hopefully the issue can be fixed in the future. The much-touted opening panels at the front of the stadium were also disappointingly not utilized. So in short, the Bank is an improvement over the Metrodome; it just needs a few modifications. In the end, though, the final question remains: Was it worth it? The total cost of the stadium is estimated at $1.06 billion; $348 million of the total came directly from the State of Minnesota. I am personally not a fan of taxpayer money going toward private projects, but it can be conceded the construction of this stadium did produce thousands of construction jobs for Minnesotans. The media attention and tourism which will be brought to this state from future events held at the U.S. Bank Stadium must also be taken into account. The test now will be how long the Vikings will be content with this new structure. The Metrodome did its job for more than 31 years. Here’s hoping this new stadium will last that long as well. It had better if we want to get our money’s worth out of it. For photos, see the back page. Connor Kockler is a Sauk RapidsRice High School student. He enjoys writing, politics and news, among other interests.
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Citizens Police Academy accepting applications by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
The police departments of St. Joseph, Sartell, Sauk Rapids, St. Cloud and Waite Park are accepting applications for the 2016 Class of the Metro Citizens Police Academy. The Metro Citizens Police Academy is an eight-week course offered to citizens and members of local civic and gov-
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ernmental organizations. Participants of the Citizen’s Police Academy are given the chance to experience first-hand many areas of police training. The classes offered closely parallel the training curriculum police officer candidate’s experience. It’s imperative participants understand the Citizen’s Police Academy is solely informative and in no way trains or promotes citizens to act in a
law-enforcement capacity. In light of recent events involving law enforcement nationwide, local departments are seeking a diverse group of applicants who have questions specific to police procedures involving use and application of force, law-enforcement training and arrest procedures. Applicants critical of law-enforcement response to incidents and skeptical of current law-en-
forcement practices are encouraged to apply. Classes begin the first Thursday after Labor Day, Sept. 8, and run Thursdays for eight weeks to Oct. 27. Classes will be held from 6-10 p.m. at various departments and locations throughout the academy. Participants who complete the training courses are presented a certification of completion from a chief of police at the last
training session. An applicant must be 21 years of age, must not have a criminal record and a records-clearance check will be completed prior to acceptance into the program. The applicant must live within the city limits of the police departments through which they are applying. Applications can be found online of most departments or obtained from the departments themselves.
Staneart said volunteers received donations from at least 24 local businesses that included $1,510 in cash donations, food donations and discounted prices on food items.
“I’m just in awe of how wonderful our community is at supporting local events,” Staneart said. “We had 24 local businesses give us money or supplies, and three service
clubs will work the event. St. Joseph is a very giving community and a great place to live.” The event will include a free meal of brats, chips,
cookies and bottled water. Staneart said the event is mainly about showing appreciation for people who risk their lives to protect and serve others.
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Friday, Aug. 19, 2016
Banking on a new stadium for the Vikings
U.S Bank Stadium will host high school and college sporting events, including baseball and soccer. The new stadium can also accommodate large trade shows and concerts.
photos by Connor Kockler
Above: The U.S. Bank Stadium is the new home of the Minnesota Vikings but will host other events. U.S Bank Stadium is owned and operated by the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, a local governmental unit of the State of Minnesota. Below: Connor Kockler is a Sauk Rapids-Rice High School student who writes opinion columns for the Newsleaders and recently visited U.S. Bank Stadium to watch soccer. To read related story, see page 6.
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St. Joseph Jaycees Fall Fest Run 5K begins at 9 a.m. • Kids’ 1K begins at 10 a.m.
* Healthy activity * Enjoy a Minnesota Fall morning!
Both races will begin & end at: St. Joseph Goverment Center (aka) Colts Academy 124 1st Ave. St. Joseph
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