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Market Monday open, harvest is plentiful
Market Monday is open from 3-6:30 p.m. Labor Day, Sept. 5 at Riverside Plaza, 101 Seventh St. N., Sartell. Harvest is in full swing with a wide variety of summer vegetables available. Fall crops are starting to arrive with apples, grapes and squash arriving weekly. Market Monday runs through Oct. 17; make it part of your back-to-school routine. Also available every Thursday from 3-6 p.m. at CentraCare Plaza, 1900 CentraCare Circle, St. Cloud.
Classes offered to reduce stress, depression
Learn ways to manage the demands and stress you face in life and how to live life with increased contentment by participating in an eight-week Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction course from 6-8:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Sept. 27-Nov. 15, in the Meditation Prayer Room at CentraCare Health Plaza. This clinically-proven program is designed for and can be especially helpful to those who experience the following: anxiety and depression, attention deficit disorder, chronic pain and illness, cardiac disease, the demands of care-giving, grief, life transitions, spiritual emptiness and all who find it difficult to establish balance in their everyday lifestyles. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Sept. 2 criers.
Show your support for law enforcement
The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office was approached by local business SignMax, who offered to donate “We Support Law Enforcement” yard signs and sell them for a law-enforcement fundraiser. The Sheriff’s Office accepted the offer and has designated any raised funds will be applied to the purchase of bullet-proof vests for uniformed non-licensed staff. The Sheriff’s Office employs approximately 80 uniformed staff that have jail, court security and transport duties. These positions are not provided bullet-proof vests and the Sheriff’s Office would like to increase their level of safety. The vests individually cost $800$1,000 and all funds raised will be applied to these purchases. SignMax is donating all proceeds. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Sept. 2 criers.
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St. Joseph residents Kathy and Mike Lehn (left to right) participate in a Lake Wobegon Regional Trail Ride.
The 11th annual Lake Wobegon Regional Trail Ride will take place Saturday, Sept. 10, but the event is not a race and is instead a family fun event. This year, all riders will start at 9 a.m. in St. Joseph and ride round-trip to their preferred destinations and end in St. Joseph. Check-in for the event begins at 8:30 a.m. Also new this year, there will not be any bus rides or bike transportation back to St. Joseph, except in cases of an emergency. The donation to ride is $30 contributed before, or $35 on the day of, the event. Helmets are required. Route options include rid-
ing from St. Joseph to Avon (9 miles or 18 miles round trip), Albany (15.9 miles or 31.8 miles round trip), Freeport (21.2 miles or 42.4 miles round trip), Melrose (27.2 miles or 54.4 miles round trip) or Sauk Centre (36.7 miles or 73.4 miles round trip). The primary beneficiary of donations from the ride is the Catholic Charities’ St. Cloud Children’s Home. The residential-treatment home helps at-risk youth ages 9-18 by teaching them coping skills, and offering counseling and other services during their adolescence years. Many of the children are victims of alcohol, drug or physical abuse, and have experienced family, school and other issues in their lives. Ride • page 7
Wellness presentations set at Heritage Hall by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
The Church of St. Joseph Heritage Hall will host several health and wellness presentations at the Heritage Hall Parish Center. Focusing on the idea that maintaining balanced wellness
includes being in good physical, emotional and spiritual health, the first presentation – identifying parts of the Wellness Wheel and how to keep that wheel balanced – will take place at 9 a.m. Friday, Sept 9. On Friday, Sept. 23, nursing students from the College of
St. Benedict and St. John’s University will assess participants’ balance during Falls Prevention Awareness Week. On Friday, Oct. 14, Dr. Mark Roerick from Advantage Chiropractic will discuss posture and how improving it can improve stability. On Friday, Nov. 11, attend-
ees will learn about how Healing Touch energy therapy supports and facilitates physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. The presentations are being hosted in partnership with the Whitney Senior Center in St. Cloud and the Central Minnesota Council on Aging.
Reactions to a rural narrative by Dave DeMars news@thenewsleaders.com
Having listened to Ben Winchester’s presentation on Aug. 17 at Peace Lutheran Church in Cold Spring on “Rewriting the Rural Narrative,” (featured in the Aug. 26 edition of the St. Joseph Newsleader) Dave Leitzman and his wife, Jane, both of the Collegeville and St. Joseph area, shared their insights. One of the items that caught Jane’s attention was the lack of a library in St. Joseph. While the College of St. Benedict has a beautiful library, it does not belong to the city. “It is the college’s library,” Dave said, “and the college extends to the community the opportunity to use it. It runs on college time. That means in the
summer, it’s open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you are doing any kind of a project that goes beyond the work day, you haven’t got access to it.” “And it doesn’t have children’s programs and summer reading programs, and it doesn’t take grants to bring in speakers and music groups to the community,” Jane said. “It doesn’t act as a conduit to get library materials from Great River (Regional Library) in St. Cloud.” Jane went on to explain how she was working with people from Resurrection Lutheran Church and the Catholic Church in St. Joseph to welcome Somali immigrants to the community. How wonderful it would be to have an afterRural • page 2
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Dave and Jane Leitzman of rural St. Joseph shared their thoughts about the presentation on “Rewriting the Rural Narrative” presented by Benjamin Winchester of the Center for Community Vitality Aug. 17 at Peace Lutheran Church in Cold Spring.
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Woofstock walkers hope to raise $62,500 on Sept. 10 by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
The goal of the 28th annual Tri-County Humane Society’s Woofstock Companion Walk is to raise $62,500, an increase of 25 percent from last year’s goal. The event will take place from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10 at Wilson Park in St. Cloud. The actual 5K walk will start at 10 a.m. Organizers of the event are encouraging people to form walking teams and to start raising funds as soon as possible. For information on how best to do it, go to tricountyhumanesociety. org/events/companion-walk. Or call Marit Ortega, TCHS director of philanthropy, at 320-252-0896, ext. 14. Many people set up their
team’s fundraising page online. People can also donate, any time, via the TCHS website, where there are photos and descriptions of pets up for adoption. Woofstock is one of the local humane society’s most important fundraisers, vital to allowing the organization to continue helping animals and finding them good adoptee homes. The increased fundraising goal is necessary because as more animals are brought to the shelter in east St. Cloud, the more the expenses increase. The TCHS has a 93.5 percent animalplacement rate, which is considered outstanding statewide and nationwide. Despite the superior placement rate, the TCHS ranks 29th among similar-sized hu-
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mane society’s for its annual budget. Those shelters with adoption/placement rates in the 90s, like the TCHS, have average annual budgets of $2.5 million whereas the TCHS budget is a mere $930,000, almost one-third less than what it should be ideally. TCHS provides services for more than 3,000 animals (mostly cats and dogs) every year, and as stated above, almost 95 percent of them find new, happy homes. At the TCHS headquarters/ shelter, each animal that comes
in is evaluated, examined for problems (fleas, for instance), de-wormed if needed, spayed/ neutered, and treated for sicknesses or injuries. A lot of time and tender-loving care goes into the process. There is no time limit for an animal in the care of TCHS. On average, a pet is adopted out within 10 days of when the staff deems it ready for a new home. Without donations, the TCHS staff and volunteers could not do their work. Even small donations add up and contribute to making
the following possible: $10 is enough to vaccinate a shelter pet; $25 is enough to microchip a pet; $50 is enough to spay/ neuter a pet; and $100 is enough to X-ray an injured pet. At the Sept. 10 Woofstock Companion Walk, there will be prizes for the top 40 fundraisers, a special prize for the top fundraising team, games for pets and people, food, a silent auction, pet demonstrations, a hotdog-eating contest, exhibits, music and a costume contest for best dressed pet and best dressed human.
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business. “Even if they are re-occupied, it’s not what was in there when the store was built, and it’s not the same as when the original services were there,” Dave said. “We get the impression things are really bad, that the town is dying because all the buildings are empty and we don’t have this and we don’t have that. What he (Winchester) demonstrated is our concept of what the town was in 1950 is dead.” Dave went on to say the new concept of the town is much more lively and interesting than the old concept. It’s important to disabuse ourselves of that notion – of that narrative. To a degree, Dave said he sees St. Joseph as suffering from that kind of narrative. At the same time he points out there are three large apartment complexes being built on the edge of St. Joseph and that will help to drive some of the commercial development in the town. “The notion that a lot of money is in our pockets, what (Winchester) called transfer money, that’s going to be an economic strength for any
community that plans ahead to build it,” Dave said. He also expressed concern about the amount of debt young college grads have and how it limits them in moving to rural neighborhoods. Jobs in the St. Joseph area, good-paying jobs that would attract workers to the area, were also of concern. “If the focus is on bringing in jobs to a community, and then the issue is where will we find the workers, the answer is how much are we paying those workers,” Dave said. “If you pay a living wage, you will find workers, but if you pay less than a living wage, then you will not find the talented people you need.” Jane said according to one study she had read, it takes two people working 80 hours per week at minimum wage to pay the modest rent and make a life in the Twin Cities Metro area. She was sure the problem was present in St. Joseph and even more so in St. Cloud. “Most of our jobs are service jobs, and entry level service jobs have always paid minimum wage,” Dave said.
from front page school program to help them with their language problems, she mused. “The community library would be the ideal place,” she said. “We don’t have that so we will have to figure out some other alternative.” Dave explained now that the new government complex has been built, it may be possible to use the old Kennedy School for that purpose. At least there seems to be some interest in doing that, he said. “As Jane said, there are many more services that an active community library provides that an academic college library does not,” Dave said. “That’s evident if you look at what goes on in St. Cloud at Great River (Regional) Library.” Dave said he agreed with Winchester’s depiction of the dying small-town narrative where the town has lost some of its commercial businesses such as a grocery or some other
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Engdahl becomes new head tennis coach at St. Ben’s by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
Michael Engdahl was recently hired as the new head tennis coach at the College of St. Benedict. E n g d a h l Engdahl replaces CSB coach Scott Larsen, who left the program in May after 10 years. “I could not be more excited to be the new tennis coach at CSB,” Engdahl said. “Having the opportunity to coach a team in the community I grew up in is amazing. On top of that, everyone I’ve met on campus so far has been great to work with, and you can tell the future is bright at CSB. I can’t wait for the students to arrive this fall and get to work. It is going to be an incredible year for us, both on and off the court, and we are going to enjoy every second of it.” Engdahl said the team’s first practice was Aug. 31. He is coaching seven returning CSB athletes from last year’s team and six new freshman players. Last year’s team finished 6-11 and 3-7 in the conference. “We are going to focus on having fun, enjoying the process and setting high goals for
the tennis program – including finishing high enough in conference to make the playoffs,” Engdahl said. “The ultimate goal is to create a culture of excitement surrounding the tennis program, build a solid reputation of doing things the right way on and off the court and creating an elite tennis program that everyone wants to be a part of.” CSB Athletic Director Glen Werner said he is glad Engdahl is joining CSB athletics. “We are thrilled to welcome Mike to the College of St. Benedict,” Werner said. “As a local tennis player from Tech High School, it’s a welcome home of sorts for him. Mike’s background at the Division I level as a player and a coach brings great benefit to our program, and his addition to our already talented coaching staff means we have an amazing team to work with our student-athletes.” Engdahl is a 2004 graduate of St. Cloud Technical High School who made it to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II National Tennis Tournament at St. Cloud State University and then transferred to South Dakota State University in Brookings where he played singles and doubles for the tennis team. Engdahl said he transferred to SDSU because of its biology
program and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from there. After graduation from SDSU, Engdahl was the assistant coach, and then head coach for both the men’s and women’s teams. While there, he coached 14 all-conference players. His players were able to break school records for most wins in a season, most individual wins in a season and most career wins for both the men’s and women’s teams. Both the men’s and women’s teams made it to the conference finals for the first time in school history. The women’s team made it to the conference championship in 2015 and 2016. At SDSU, Engdahl was named Summit League Coach of the Year in 2013 and 2014. He also owned and operated the Michael Engdahl Tennis Academy from 2006-11 and was the head tennis instructor at the St. Cloud Country Club from 2005-11. Engdahl and his wife, Carrie, moved back to the area in May and live in St. Cloud. Carrie is a pharmacist at the St. Cloud Veteran’s Administration Hospital. He said Carrie’s career opportunity in St. Cloud and the fact they could be closer to family and friends helped them make the decision to move back home from South Dakota.
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Michael Engdahl was recently hired as the new head tennis coach at the College of St. Benedict. Engdahl replaces CSB coach Scott Larsen, who left the program in May after 10 years. He is coaching seven CSB returning players from last year’s team.
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These are two bottles of “Minnesota 13” moonshine whiskey that were confiscated during the Prohibition Era.
Movie explores Stearns County – Moonshine Capital of world by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Stearns County moonshine, once known as the best in the world, is the subject of a new movie, which will premiere at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2 at the Paramount Center for the Arts in downtown St. Cloud.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the Paramount box office or online at www. paramountarts.org. The documentary, Minnesota 13: From Grain to Glass, was co-directed by Norah Shapiro and Kelly Nathe, with help from late author Elaine Davis
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and the staff of the Stearns History Museum. Shapiro hails from Minneapolis; Nathe is based in Los Angeles and has many family connections in Stearns County, including in places where moonshine was made. Davis, who died just last year at 59 of pancreatic cancer, was a St. Cloud State University management professor, a dancer, intrepid world traveler, mother of three and author. In 2007, she published Minnesota 13: Stearns County’s Wet Wild Prohibition Days. The book, in text and photos, explored Stearns County’s role in the production of the finest illegal whiskey created during the Prohibition years, 1920 to 1933, when all sales and consumption of alcohol was banned in the United States. Raised near Lake Park, Davis’s own relatives had been involved in moonshining, and that was one reason she decided to research the subject, and write her interesting and entertaining book. The Stearns County “moonshine” was so superior in quality to the usual rot gut, bathtub gin and white-lightning that it was widely sought by speakeasies throughout the world. A speakeasy was a place where illegal liquor was imbibed on the sly. One of the prime networks for distribution of “Minnesota 13,” as it came to be known, was none other than the network run by famed gangster and bootlegger Al Capone. He and his “boys” would make trips to Central Minnesota to check out the supply and to arrange for deliveries to his vast distribution network.
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Farmers, including those in Central Minnesota, sold millions of tons of corn and grains on world markets during the years of World War I, which ended in 1918. After the war, farm commodity prices fell through the bottom. Farmers and their families began to suffer severe financial deprivations. A farmer could fetch $5 to sell a calf and could get $5 for a gallon of moonshine. It didn’t take many farmers long to figure out which was more lucrative – farming or moonshine-mak-
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ing. As a result, hidden or buried stills were created on farms far and wide throughout Stearns County but mostly on its eastern side where there were plenty of woods, hills and even caves in which to hide the stills and the production. In 1920, the national Prohibition Act was passed by the U.S. Congress, forbidding the manufacture, sale or consumption of alcohol products. Despite the risks, the farmers, law enforcement and priests of Stearns County thumbed their noses at Prohibition. In fact, as the demand for moonshine increased because of its illegality, the more the surreptitious business boomed for the corn-growers/distillers in Stearns County. Priests were often complicit and encouraging in the production of corn liquor. For one thing, they had compassion and empathy for farm families hurting because of depressed farm-product prices and for another the German and Polish cultural heritages, including the Catholic Church, always involved beer-drinking and, in the church, sacramental wine at Mass. Local law enforcement also turned a blind eye to moonshining. It was only federal agents who would come down hard: smashing stills, destroying casks or bottles of distilled whisky, and running amok on farm property in search of the forbidden liquid. Most often, there were fines for first offenses. But after subsequent offenses, the farmer-makers could be jailed, usually in the 38-cell Stearns County Jail. Davis, in an interview, told of the time the sheriff was out of town. Prisoners at the jail would hoist up bottles of Minnesota 13 from a jail window, brought to them from moonshining emissaries still in the free world. When the sheriff returned to the jail, he heard the sounds of loud talk and raucous laughter, the sounds of roaringly drunken inmates. The sheriff had a sign made that said, “No passing things through the windows!” that was posted in the jail, as if that would solve the problem. (It didn’t.) In some cases, such as when the biggest moonshiners were
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Friday, Sept. 2, 2016 nabbed by the feds, they were placed in prisons, such as at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., or in one near Duluth. Thanks to the lax and permissive local law enforcement, the sympathetic priests and the wink-and-nod behavior of just about everybody in Stearns County, the moonshine business flourished, with a sly and expert network of marketing and distribution run by do-ityourself entrepreneurs. And farmers were proud of their superior whiskey product, which was often double-distilled and then aged in oak barrels. It was a micro-brewery phenomenon that would dwarf the current trend of micro-brewries, including the dozens now functioning in the St. Cloud area.
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There’s hardly a town in Stearns County that wasn’t touched by moonshining or “cooking,”as it was commonly called. Davis’s own uncles “cooked” in Albany, as did her grandmother. The busiest “Minnesota 13” production occurred in Albany, Avon, St. Wendel, St. Rosa and Holdingford – especially Holdingford, where hidden stills pockmarked the hills and woods. At one time, the “cooking” went on right in the basement of a Polish Catholic church in Holdingford. Speakeasies also flourished in the towns of Stearns County. Anton’s in Waite Park, which used to be called Brickies, was a speakeasy back in the 1920s. The password phrase to get into the joint was “Joe sent me.” Once inside, patrons could have a good time drinking, socializing and raising up some fun. There were hotels in St. Cloud that also harbored speakeasies. Nowadays, nearly a century later, those speakeasies – the scores of them all throughout the county – are long gone and so are most people who would remember them. However, the legends and lore surrounding “Minnesota 13” are alive and well, at least in the history books and in the movie that will premiere Oct. 2 at the Paramount Center for the Arts.
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People network to save colony of 45 cats (Editor’s note: This story, written in the first person by St. Joseph resident Kari Cedergren, came to the attention of the Newsleader via the Tri-County Humane Society. The Newsleader decided to publish it because it points to a serious animal-welfare problem, and it’s a heartwarming example of how people, working together, can help save suffering animals.) In May 2016, my realtor and friend, Rebecca from Cartwright Realty, contacted me about a property her cli- Cedergren ents wanted to buy. But there was an issue. The clients would not close on the property unless the community of accumulated cats was removed. The selling realtor was supposed to “take care” of the animals but had not. With only weeks left until closing, Rebecca took matters into her own hands. She estimated there were 50 cats in this colony that needed homes – and fast. As an animal lover, volunteer and sustaining patron of the Tri-County Humane Society and Minnesota Horse Welfare Coalition, I wanted to help my friend, Rebecca, and save some feline lives. A saintly soul, Susan, the property’s owner, loved her outdoor cats. She built shelters for them in old sheds and filled them with mattresses, blankets and straw. She housed and fed her furry friends, and they were fruitful and multiplied. Susan never considered what might
happen when she was no longer able to care for them herself. When she had to be moved into a nursing home, her beloved colony of cats had to fend for themselves. Not surprisingly, the situation went from bad to worse for the poor cats. Rebecca caught most of them and placed them with various humane agencies. Of the 50 cats, 45 or so were saved; some who were dying had to be “put down.” Thankfully, there are local organizations to help concerned citizens do what is best for unwanted animals. Tri-County Humane Society does incredible work in the St. Cloud area. Its building is small, but the staff and many volunteers help the same number of animals as in institutions twice the size. Through a few phone calls and some coordination, TCHS helped with the majority of Susan’s cats. The kittens and a few more of the friendlier cats were adopted out as house cats, and a large number were placed through TCHS’ Barn Cat program. The Barn Cat program places cats that are unfit to live indoors for various reasons. These cats are spayed or neutered by the humane society. They go on to live fruitful lives but do not multiply. Obviously, there are costs to spay and neuter animals. I wanted to find a way to help cover some of TCHS’ costs for fixing Susan’s cats. Feline Rescue in St. Paul is a nonprofit that has three programs: Adoption, Foster and Outreach. The focus of the Outreach Program is to help concerned citizens cover some of the costs associated with trapping, neutering and returning outdoor cats back into
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the community. The Outreach Program of Feline Rescue is supported by donations, grants and volunteer hours. Grant money the Outreach Program received from Chuck & Don’s Pet Food & Supplies was used to help cover a portion of the cost of spaying/ neutering Susan’s cats. Twenty-five years ago, cats and kittens like Susan’s would have been destroyed. Thanks to the dedication of the Tri-County Humane Society and the willingness of the Outreach Program at Feline Rescue to share their grant money from Chuck & Don’s Pet Food & Supplies, Susan’s cats are now enjoying life in their new locations. Those 50 cats, however, point to a much bigger problem in the State of Minnesota. There are many, many more cat colonies that are being fed by concerned citizens like Susan, and the task of trapping, neutering and returning them – or better yet, finding them indoor homes – is a large one. If you’d like to take action by adopting, donating, volunteering or fostering an animal in transition to a new home, please contact the Tri-County Humane Society by visiting its website www.tricountyhumanesociety. org or by calling 320-252-0896. If you would like to donate to the Trap Neuter Return program for colony cats through Feline Rescue’s Outreach Program, please visit its website at www. felinerescue.org or call 651-6425900. Please designate your donation to “Outreach Program.” Through awareness, concerned citizens now have more humane options for handling outdoor cats. We help animals and so can you.
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A severely undernourished and exhausted kitten sprawls as her kittens try to get milk from her. These were just some of the 50 cats left abandoned at a “cat colony” when personal circumstances caused the residence’s owner to leave the premises.
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Our View A great Minnesotan leaves legacy of selfless public service A selfless public servant – a Minnesotan no less – has died, reminding us all once again how important true public servants are to the destiny of this nation. Gen. John William Vessey Jr. died Aug. 18 at his home in North Oaks at the age of 94. At the time of his retirement from active military service, in 1985, Vessey was at that time the longest-serving active-duty member of the U.S. Army. President Ronald Reagan appointed Vessey to be the 10th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a position he held from 1982-85. Born in Minneapolis, he graduated from Roosevelt High School and enlisted in the Minnesota National Guard. He served in Europe during World War II and took part in the beachfront bloody-but-decisive invasion of Anzio, Italy in January 1944. At that time, Italy was in the grip of the fascists, backed by Nazi Germany. Later, Vessey served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He was the last four-star combat veteran of World War II to remain in active service that long. Even after retirement, Vessey served selflessly. At the request of three presidents, right up through President Bill Clinton, Vessey gladly served as an emissary, trying to resolve issues surrounding prisoner-of-war, missing-in-action U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War. He made six trips to Vietnam, and his tireless work helped make possible the identification of the remains or the last-seen whereabouts of so many soldiers whose families could finally find a bit of solace and closure. Vessey was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992, just one of many medals and honors that virtually punctuated his long, distinguished years of service. Among the medals was a Purple Heart for being wounded in action. Last year, Avis, his wife of 69 years, died. They have three children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Vessey was buried Sept. 1 in the Minnesota State Veterans’ Cemetery in Stillwater. Vessey loved Minnesota and lived at various times at Whitefish Lake, Garrison and North Oaks. All who knew Vessey praised him for his being down-to-earth, unpretentious, level-headed, a man who rolled up his sleeves and got the job done. He was also admired widely for relating to well, like a brother, to all soldiers. This is what President Reagan said of Vessey during a tribute: “Jack Vessey always remembered the soldiers in the ranks; he understood those soldiers are the backbone of the army. He noticed them, spoke to them, looked out for them. Jack Vessey never forgot what it was like to be an enlisted man, to be just a G.I.” We often hear the young adults of the World War II years constituted the “Best Generation.” Vessey – a true patriot and a public servant in every sense of the word – was among the best of those best. It can truly be said of him, “They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.”
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Food discoveries last a lifetime Once upon a time, there were only salt and pepper and cinnamon to spice up your food – that was it. That was the extent of mom’s seasonings. Just the other day, while shopping in the ethnic foods section in a grocery store, it occurred to me, once again, how I’d had what you might call a “spice-deprived childhood.” Now, I have a huge spice rack on my kitchen wall containing every spice and dried herb imaginable – from achiote seeds to Zanzibar nutmeg. Cooking – with lots of herbs and spices – has long been a favorite hobby. Raised on a farm near Benson, mom was a very good cook who made endless variations of meat, potatoes and vegetables. Lots of cakes and cookies. Tasty casseroles. She was, however, an unadventurous cook. I think the only reason she had cinnamon was for the cinnamon-sugar toast we kids loved to eat with our morning cocoa and Cheerios. Our meals were good but not exactly exciting. Our idea of a culinary thrill was to be able to eat at the OK Café, a Chinese restaurant in downtown St. Cloud. Italian food, to us, meant spaghetti, the only “ethnic” entrée that ever showed up on our plates. We’d never heard of pizza. But that was fine; we didn’t miss what we didn’t know. Then, one day, my 10th-grade Spanish class took a field trip – to La Casa Coronado, a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis. The variety plate I was served (tacos, enchiladas, refried beans and rice) I can only describe as a palatethrilling revelation. I had never eaten anything so good, and I hadn’t known such food existed. Fantastico! The earthy flavors, the spices, the almostchewy texture of the tortillas that were a bit crisp on the edges, the peppery heat, the gooey melted cheese on the surface.
Dennis Dalman Editor It was an ecstatic experience never to be forgotten. And I didn’t forget that meal. Oh, no! I have been in pursuit of that meal, or one as good, all of my life. After La Casa Coronado, I made up my mind to seek out foods of other cultures. I explored nooks and crannies of the supermarkets, always in search of “foreign” ingredients, new flavors, new textures, new spices. I checked out cookbooks from the library and tried various ethnic dishes, without much success, partly because I had to try to approximate the ingredients not available in St. Cloud. I remember so well bringing “foreign” ingredients home, and mom casting a look of leery suspicion as I unloaded the grocery bag. You’d think I’d brought home a bag full of crazy little animals with contagious diseases. “What in the world are those oddlooking things?” she asked. “Corn tortillas,” I said. “I’m going to make tacos.” I started making them, frying and folding the tortillas. She watched with a kind of dreadful fascination. “Way too many spices!” she practically yelled. “We’re going to get sick.” Rousing her courage, she nervously bit into a taco. “Spicy!” she gasped, pausing. “But good! They’re so good! Make some more. But go easy on the spices.” The tacos were also a hit with the rest of my family. Much later, I was happy when Mexi-
can and Vietnamese immigrants moved to Central Minnesota because that meant a cornucopia of foreign food ingredients in local markets: lemongrass, egg-roll wrappers, Oriental dipping sauces, cilantro, a wonderful array of chili peppers, mole sauce, chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, tomatillos, pickled cactus and dozens of spices I’d never heard of. Oh, what fun it was to “play with” those foods, like a kid with new toys. Aiming for perfection, for years I kept trying to make the best enchiladas, trying to recapture the magic of that phenomenal meal so long ago at La Casa Coronado. I didn’t even come close, although my enchiladas were tasty enough, delicious in their own way. In the mid-1990s, I drove through Texas on a vacation: Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio. I often joke I ate my way through Texas because that TexMex food was so good I was constantly stopping at restaurants and truck stops to enjoy meal after meal. At some truck stop near Waco, I had a huge plate of huevos rancheros that was a revelation comparable to the supreme variety plate at La Casa Coronado 40 years earlier. Four years ago, I came across a cookbook called The Tex-Mex Cookbook by Robb Walsh. It was then I had another revelation. That book’s recipe for spicy chili gravy as the basis for enchiladas was exactly what my homemade enchiladas had been missing for so many years. That same gravy is also out of this world with huevos rancheros. I’ve come a long way from the spice-less days of my youth. Thanks to Walsh’s cookbook, to this day my favorite meal is a heaping platter of enchiladas with refried beans and Spanish rice. If anyone wants that chili gravy recipe, just email me at editor@ thenewsleaders.com and I’ll be glad to send it, mi amigo.
Education in Minnesota: a report card Minnesota is often considered to be one of the best places to live in the United States. We have the secondhighest life expectancy in the nation (81.1 years) after Hawaii (81.3 years), and our health care is considered to be some of the best in the country, including such names as the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota. Our schools are also frequently cited in good terms. According to a recent study by WalletHub, Minnesota has the 10thbest school system in the nation. The study took into account many factors, which I have highlighted below. WalletHub’s statistics are based on 17 key metrics that were combined to make a weighted average resulting in our 10th-place score out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Minnesota scored high on many of these metrics. Our math test scores (second) and average SAT score (fourth) are among the highest in the nation. Strong showings are also reflected in Minnesota’s average ACT score (12th) and reading test scores (14th). For our money, Minnesota schools are efficient. Minnesota takes 17th place in education spending for a 10th place overall school rating. Compare that to Alaska, which ranks fourth in spending, but gets 49th overall. There are also some downsides, however; Minnesota is average on the percentage of licensed public K-12 teachers (23rd) and on disciplinary incidents (24th). As a student, these numbers seem very promising to me. Of course, I would most certainly rank Minnesota
Connor Kockler Guest Writer higher. Education on the local level in and around the St. Cloud area has always impressed me. Some of my favorite high-school and middle-school memories have come from participating in Knowledge Bowl tournaments. Minnesota has one of the most developed programs in the nation, and it’s easy to see why. I have met so many intelligent and hard-working students throughout three years of competition, and some of the top teams include local names such as Sauk Rapids-Rice, Sartell-St. Stephen and St. John’s Prep. New technology such as laptops and iPads have also been introduced in area schools. Though I was at first skeptical of the program, knowing my generation’s obsession with all things digital, seeing them in action at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School has changed my view. Classroom engagement and accountability have increased dramatically in a number of ways. Gone are the days where missing a day of school required calling up a friend about the assignment or losing out on an important lecture. Homework assignments are now available for printing straight off the computer, and daily lesson plans and due dates are listed on an online
calendar. There is no longer much of an excuse for not turning in an assignment. Laptops also increase participation and promote equal opportunity as every student now has access to tools such as word processing and presentation software, as well as Internet access for those who may not have it at home. Textbooks can also be logged into and read on the laptops, reducing the weight and space requirement in a backpack to a fraction of what they would usually take up. Though there are still some problems with the system, the vast majority of teachers and students I’ve met and worked with are amazing people. It always disheartens me when we hear talk about the dismal state of education and children these days. Those who take pride in their schoolwork and the education profession often go unnoticed in their efforts. Studies like the one I summarized go to show good performance is not always publicized. Education is sometimes a forgotten priority, but we cannot forget how important it is. Without strong and vibrant schools, we would not have as many of the outstanding people we see in the area today. Education is an investment in the future of our state and our nation. Without it, we would slip even further down the wrong path. Connor Kockler is a Sauk Rapids-Rice High School student. He enjoys writing, politics and news, among other interests.
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Ride from front page Skills learned at the Children’s Home give them a chance to turn their lives around. Chuck and Lucy Rieland, founders and directors of the ride, have helped organize the event since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Chuck said he hopes the event will raise a minimum of $100,000 this year. “The St. Cloud Children’s Home is a home for some of the highest at-risk kids in the state,” Chuck said. “Ninety-seven percent of them are not there through their own fault.” Funds raised from the event support scholarships for children whose insurance often runs out before they are prepared to leave the Children’s Home. Catholic Charities Executive Director Steven Bresnahan said each year an average of seven youths and their families benefit from the “Lake Wobegon Scholarship Fund.” Chuck is a first vice president and financial adviser for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, a brokerage firm that occupied 45 floors of the Trade Center. He has worked for the company for 32 years and works at the Wayzata branch office. At the time of the attacks, because they had 18 minutes, many employees were able to evacuate the south tower of the center before the second plane hit, but many security personnel lost their lives after helping evacuate others. AU TO M O B I L E S / M OTO RC Y C L E S WANTED MOTORCYCLES: TOP CASH PAID! For Old Motorcycles! 1900-1979. DEAD OR ALIVE! 920-371-0494 (MCN)
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Planners and participants gather for a photo in St. Joseph at the 2015 Lake Wobegon Regional Trail Ride. through the annual golf fundraiser held in Albany. This year, 100 people participated in the Aug. 22 event, which included a silent auction. Residents of the Children’s Home decorate bags for the
event that are given to golfing participants. The bags are filled with golf balls, snacks, golfing tips and more. Last year’s golf event raised more than $11,000. Last year, Catholic Charities
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Kwik Trip holds open house, ribbon-cutting photo by Frank Lee
Prioress Michaela Hedican (center) of the Sisters of St. Benedict in St. Joseph stops to chat with Karen Sieben Backes, (at left) dean of admissions at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University, as Teri Durbin, director of admission services at CSB/SJU laughs during the two-hour open house on Aug. 30 at the St. Joseph Kwik Trip, which opened for business on Aug. 25.
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