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Lace up for healthy kids!
Children of all ages and athletic abilities are invited to run, walk or roll whatever distance they can (50 or 100 meters, 1K, 1 mile or 5K) during the fifth annual Sneakers and Wheels event Saturday, Sept. 27 at CentraCare Health Plaza, 1900 CentraCare Circle, St. Cloud. Registration begins at 9 a.m. with a 10 a.m. start time for the first race. The Sneakers and Wheels event is meant to increase opportunities for children to be physically active, regardless of their ability. Entrants may register by Friday, Sept. 12 to receive a discounted rate. For more information, visit www.thenewsleaders. com and click on Sept. 5 Criers.
The Red River Trails and the Story of ‘Ox Cart Angel’
Come hear author Joel Arnold share the history of Minnesota’s Red River Oxcart Trails as well as how it led to his Midwest Book Award-winning novel, Ox Cart Angel at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10 during the Breakfast Club at Stearns History Museum, 235 S. 33rd Ave., St. Cloud. You’ll learn about the versatile Red River carts and why it was called the “North West fiddle.” Find out about the Métis, and what life was like on the trails. Handle an authentic Métis sash and discover its many uses. There might even be a recipe for pemmican to take home. For more information, visit www.thenewsleaders. com and click on Sept. 5 Criers.
Basic Computer, Internet help set Sept. 9
Adults who need help with basic computer and Internet use can receive assistance from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Sept, 9 at the Al Ringsmuth Public Library, 253 5th Ave. N. in Waite Park. An experienced volunteer will be on hand to help with setting up an email account, doing a basic web search or using Word. To receive assistance, register in advance at the library or call 320-253-9359.
Adult Writers Group to be held Sept. 8
An adult writers group will meet from 6:30-8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8 at the Al Ringsmuth Public Library, 253 5th Ave. N. in Waite Park. Each meeting of the writer’s group features a writing prompt and a writing theme selected to inspire writing between meetings. September’s writing theme is: “If I was on America’s Got Talent, I would….” Newcomers are welcome to join.
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Tupa celebrates 50 years as priest by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
Pastor Jerome Tupa of the Church of St. Joseph recently celebrated his 50th anniversary as a priest. He has been pastor in St. Joseph for two years. “I certainly enjoy being here in St. Joseph,” Tupa said. “It’s a very, very fun community. Seeing the changes and seeing the many things people do for this community is really gratifying. I have excellent help. The staff here is just really good.” Tupa was born in Rolette, N.D. and was given the birth name Timothy. “My father worked for the railroad, so we moved quite a bit in those early years of the war,” Tupa said. “My mother was a school teacher.” His mother and her family were pioneers of the north central part of North Dakota. Her parents arrived when it was still
Indian territory and were some of the first residents to arrive in that area. Tupa’s father died of a heart attack when Timothy was 10 years old, and his mother went to Cavalier, N.D. to teach. His older brother, Paul, was three years older and was in high school at the time. He said it was hard on his mother who had to find another house to live in and to find other employment. The family had been living in a house owned by the railroad at the time of his father’s death. “For her it was really a difficult transition,” Tupa said. Tupa graduated from high school and attended college in North Dakota. He attended public schools as a child and had no relatives who entered religious orders. “When I was in high school, for some reason, I had this idea I Tupa • page 5
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Pastor Jerome Tupa is celebrating his 50th year as a priest.
Durenberger to give McCarthy Lecture by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
One of St. John’s U n i ve r sity’s most well known alumni, former U.S. Sen. David Durenberg- Durenberger er, will give the eighth annual Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8 at the Stephen B. Humphrey Theater on the SJU campus. The event is free, although tickets are required for admission. They may be acquired at the box office of the Benedicta Arts Center at the College of St. Benedict. Born in 1934 in St. Cloud, Durenberger, a 1951 graduate of St. John’s Prep School and a 1955 SJU graduate, is the only Republican senator in Minnesota to have been elected three times to the U.S. Senate. He served those three consecutive, six-year terms from 1978 to 1995. During his college years, he was involved with the Army Reserve Officers Training Program, becoming the first cadet battalion commander and the
top-honored cadet. Durenberger’s father was SJU Athletic Director George Durenberger, who was head of “Johnnie” athletics from 1931 until he retired in 1971. After graduating from SJU, David Durenberger earned a law degree from the University of Minnesota School of Law, 1959. He also served in the U.S. Army Reserve from 19561963. After becoming a lawyer, Durenberger practiced law with Harold LeVander in St. Paul, and when LeVander was elected governor in 1966, Durenberger became his chief of staff. Durenberger was first elected to the U.S. Senate in the wake of the death of Sen. Hubert Humphrey, who had died and whose wife, Muriel, was appointed to fill out Humphrey’s term. Durenberger served as chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Health Subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee. As a senator and in his post-senate years, Durenberger was a strong advocate of health-care reform and improving access to health care, while lowering its costs, Lecture • page 8
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Downtown St. Joseph has 80 flower baskets beautifying its streets. This is the third year the flower baskets have been displayed in St. Joseph.
Flower baskets beautify downtown St. Joseph by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
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David Flynn, a theology major from St. Joseph, has been named to the spring dean’s list at the University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, for earning a semester grade-point average of 3.5 or higher.
Amber Sunder, St. Joseph, was recently named to the summer dean’s list at Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn. She qualified with a grade-point average of 3.5.
Foster Grandparent Program School is starting and the Foster Grandparent Program needs mentors for youth in our community. Currently there are openings in the toddler room at Journey Home Day Care, Oak Hill Elementary, KIDSTOPs and the St. Cloud Children’s Home. Foster Grandparent volunteers might help students with a reading assignment, work with a small group on a craft, or
help kids learn spelling words. Adults age 55 and better will receive an hourly tax-free stipend for volunteering 15 hours per week or more if they wish helping children with activities, reinforcing learning and more. For more information on this and other United Way volunteer opportunities, visit www.thenewsleaders.com and click on Sept. 5 Criers.
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If any readers have tips concerning crimes, they should call the St. Joseph Police Department at 320-363-8250 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at 320-255-1301 or access its tip site at www.tricountycrimestoppers.org. Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for crimes.
Audi. Officer said to call again if anything else happened.
Aug. 1 3:25 p.m. Fraud. College Avenue S. A 21-year-old female reported fraudulent activity on her checking account. It was found there were three charges on her account in California totaling $1,545.31. She requested a police report for her bank.
Aug. 6 8:30 a.m. Unwanted person. CR 75 W. Officer woke up a homeless male who was in the campground and asked him to leave. Officer then transported the 22-year-old male to Cash Wise in Waite Park. Male was advised not to return to campground. 11:12 am. Medical. Chapel Lane. Officers responded to monastery. Assisted with bringing in Gold Cross ambulance. 4:54 p.m. Drive. Cedar Street E. Twenty-nine-year-old male complainant said he was almost sideswiped by a semi. The semi jackknifed and damaged his own vehicle. Complainant said no one was hit but thought semi driver was texting. Officer spoke with semi driver and sent him on his way. No accident reported by semi driver.
Aug. 2 12:39 a.m. Minor consumption. Minnesota Street W. An officer observed a 19-year-old male walking west, drinking out of a red solo cup. The man admitted the cup contained whiskey, and that he was only 19. He was issued a citation for minor consumption and released. 11:57 p.m. Traffic stop. Interstate 94. An officer clocked a vehicle going 85 mph in a 70-mph zone with radar. The 61-year-old male driver was issued a citation for speeding. Aug. 3 1:59 a.m. Minor consumption. College Avenue S. An officer was driving through a parking lot, and spotted a male on all fours with his head on the ground. He was unresponsive. The officer was able to wake the individual after a short time. The 19-yearold appeared highly intoxicated and admitted to drinking. He was issued a citation for minor consumption, and transported to detox. 5:52 p.m. Ordinance violations. City of St. Joseph. Several addresses in the city received warnings regarding garbage cans at the curbside. Officers attempted to contact the residents but were unable to do so at that time. Aug. 4 1:58 p.m. Vandalism. 3rd Avenue SE. Complainant stated someone hit her bird bath and cracked a piece off during the previous night. She informed police in case any other issues were reported. 3:14 p.m. Suspicious activity. Elm Street E. Complainant was unable to provide a plate number. She said it was a two-door sporty
Aug. 5 5:13 p.m. Animal. 1st Avenue NW. Cat dead upon arrival. Removed cat from roadway and disposed. 7:53 p.m. Traffic control. CR 3 and CR 75. Movie in the park at Millstream Park.
Aug. 7 11:09 a.m. Traffic stop. Minnesota Street W. While at a fourway stop on College Avenue facing north at Minnesota Street, officer observed a red car traveling westbound on Minnesota Street who didn’t stop at the stop sign. Officer stopped the 29-year-old male Watkins driver who admitted driving through the stop sign. He stated he had things on his mind. A citation was issued. 2:28 p.m. Welfare check. 4th Avenue SE. Female complainant called to state her boyfriend was acting strangely and that he was walking from the apartment toward downtown St. Joseph. Officer found male who was talking about several subjects in one sentence. Male was transported by ambulance to hospital for an evaluation. 7:12 p.m. Found property. College Avenue N. License plate was turned into police department. Police attempted to return to owner. Owner contacted and property receipt filled out at her house. Aug. 8 1:24 a.m. Verbal. 17th Avenue SE. Spoke with 24-year-old male
Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 suspect of verbal who stated he and his girlfriend were at Benton County Fair and got into an argument. They continued to argue as they got home and 24-year-old female threatened to take her prescription anxiety pills but said she would never actually do it. Victim went into her bedroom and locked the door. Both parties agreed no threats were made and nothing was physical. Parties are living together at residence and in a relationship. Victim is owner of house. Suspect is renting. Both were calm and talking to one another prior to officers leaving. Both agreed to stay in separate rooms for the night and talk in the morning. 3:49 p.m. Animal. 4th Avenue SE. A small poodle or shi tzutype white dog with pink collar was found near Graceview Estates. Officer attempted to find owner. No owner found. Officer transported dog to Sauk Rapids vet impound. Dog was fed and watered. 10:03 p.m. Medical. College Avenue S. Arrived on scene to find 9-year-old male very lethargic who had just finished seizing. Officer administered oxygen and obtained pertinent medical and personal information from parent and child. Rescue arrived on scene shortly after. Juvenile was transported to St. Cloud Hospital by ambulance. Aug. 9 8:31 a.m. Lost juvenile. Minnesota Street E/2nd Avenue SE. Complainant called in that a 2-year-old male was found walking in the street. By the time officer arrived, the guardian had reached the child and she said somehow he had opened the back door and escaped. Aug. 10 3:27 a.m. Medical assist. Juniper Road. Stearns County requested St. Joseph police to first respond to a medical because county squads were all busy on other calls. An 83-year-old female was complaining of a possible heart attack. When officer arrived, a member of St. Joseph Rescue was on the scene. Officer administered oxygen and helped monitor patient until ambulance arrived and transported her to the hospital. 5:29 p.m. Alarm. 1st Avenue NW. Officers arrived on scene and owner’s daughter/keyholder was on scene and had set off alarm. All appeared OK.
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Arts Festival, which this year is Sept. 28. Organizer Carol Theisen said there are 80 baskets this year. Baskets can be purchased as a memorial and cost $150 for a basket or $75 for a half basket. The cost pays for the flowers, which come from Thomsens Greenhouse and Garden center in St. Joseph, the fertilizer and the daily watering of the plants. Names of memorial donors are published in the paper in September. Public works director Terry Thene organizes the daily watering of the plants. “They have come up with a great system and we can depend on the flowers being taken care of,” Theisen said. The City of St. Joseph and the Economic Development Authority purchased the brackets to hang the baskets. Theisen said they are also covering the maintenance costs to install the brackets and other things. The St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce is now the fiscal agent and all checks are made out to the chamber. Not all of the baskets are sold, so local businesses and
organizations help pay for the remaining costs. “We have such support from the organizations, businesses, St. Bens, city, chamber and the wonderful people of St. Joseph,” Theisen said. “It’s a project I think makes people smile.” Many people have helped with the project, but Theisen wants to especially recognize all the work Margy Hughes has done to make this project a success. “We could not have done this without her,” Theisen said. Theisen and other organizers brought the flower-basket project to St. Joseph three years ago after seeing similar flowers in Red Wing. She said they have been approached by organizers of the Lake George area who are also considering doing something similar in St. Cloud, as well as others. Theisen said she is excited when people tell her they have visited St. Joseph to see the flowers and then stay to patronize the local businesses. She said they are always looking for help with the project. If interested in donating toward the flower project this year or next year, contact Theisen at 320-363-8496 or 320-249-7676 or by email at cmtjat17@gmail.com or Joyce Faber at 320-363-7682.
The For Pets’ Sake thrift store is offering big bargains until it closes Oct. 15. The store opened a few years ago as a way to bring in money for the Tri-County Humane Society. However, it was recently determined the
store, which was rented, would have to close, partly because its location lacked visibility for most motorists. It’s located at 1313 2nd St. S. in Waite Park, next to the Minnesota School of Business. The humane society is cur-
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Wobegon trail ride slated for Sept.13 by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
The ninth annual Lake Wobegon Regional Trail Ride will take place Saturday, Sept. 13. The event kicks off at 9 a.m. in St. Joseph, 10 a.m. in Avon, 11 a.m. in Melrose and ends at the Sauk Centre Fairgrounds. This is a family-fun event that benefits the Catholic Charities St. Cloud Children’s Home, a residential treatment home for youth at-risk, ages 8-18. It is not a competitive race. The St. Cloud Children’s Home program helps at-risk children by offering individual and family counseling, teaching coping skills during critical adolescent years and offering other resources. Many children served have experienced family, school and other abuses and failures in their lives. Volunteer organizer Chuck Rieland has helped plan the trail ride the past nine years. He has a goal to raise $1 million and has helped raise almost $600,000 during the past eight years. This year’s goal is to raise $125,000, with $60,000 of that going toward a new residential cottage for children with special mental-health needs that require
intensive treatment. The current facility, built in 1924, no longer meets the needs of those children. Rieland, vice president and financial advisor of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in Wayzata, organized the ride after the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. At the time, Morgan Stanley had employees officed on 45 floors in the World Trade Center. When the first plane struck the building, their security people, of whom lost their lives, ordered everyone out of the south tower at the same time. They had 18 minutes to evacuate. By the time the second plane hit the south tower, their training center and employees had evacuated. “I have worked for Morgan Stanley for 29 years in Minnesota, and although this tragedy happened nearly 13 years ago, the trauma lingers,” Rieland said in an email. The attacks had such a profound effect on Rieland he sought a positive outcome after the Sept. 11 tragedy. After he and his wife, Lucy, visited the St. Cloud Children’s Home and said they felt the staff was doing an “amazing” job despite a
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shortage of funding, Rieland organized the first trail ride. He has made the ride an annual tradition for his family, as well as Morgan Stanley employees and its foundation. Rieland said support from sponsors is critical as funding for children’s mental-health services decreases and shifts to private insurance. As the number of youth in need grows, it becomes more of a challenge to find other ways to fund the necessary services for families who do not have adequate insurance. Other beneficiaries of the trail ride include local faith communities, which will determine how money they receive can best help needs in their immediate area. “We are very thankful for the volunteers who donate their time, skills and the materials needed, which will allow proceeds from the ride to be allocated to these beneficiaries,” Rieland said. For registration information, visit ccstcloud.org/wobegonride.
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Rob Chapman of the UK comes to Riff City Guitar by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
Famous guitar player/inventor Rob Chapman, who hails from the United Kingdom, was recently at Riff City Guitar. Riff City Guitar is the first store in America to stock Chapman guitars. Chapman plans to stock his guitars at only a few select stores in America. Riff City owner, Joe Leach’s son, Will, is a fan of Chapman. While Chapman was at the National Association of Music Merchants show in California displaying his guitars, Will kept texting Leach to check out Chapman’s guitars. Leach researched the guitars, met Chapman and agreed to be the first distributor in the United States. “We are very happy to be the first U.S. dealer of Chapman guitars,” Leach said. “Chapman guitars are not only fantastic guitars, but they are very affordable. They have a ‘direct-tostore’ distribution model, which keeps the prices much lower than other brands. They are great electric guitars for almost any type of music.” To say thank you to Leach for taking the risk of being the first store to carry his guitars, Chapman decided to fly over, meet people and promote his guitars. Chapman spent his 39th birthday at Riff City. One fan drove seven hours to come to meet him. “It really humbles me that people will travel that far to come and see me,” he said. Chapman also performed at the Pioneer Place June 14, the
evening of his birthday, along with three other bands, 4 Below Zero, Rhythm and Blue Cheese and Seazon of the Fly for a Rob Chapman Birthday Bash. The 4 Below Zero band featured Will Leach on lead guitar. Proceeds from the performance were donated to the School of Rock program. Joe Leach said he “sat in” for one song at the birthday bash. Chapman is well known in the music world and is internationally renowned for his YouTube channel. He worked for labels playing and doing some transcribing work and ended up in lots of different bands and making YouTube videos. The YouTube videos went really big. All of a sudden, if you were a guitar player, you knew who he was. “It just blew up,” Chapman said. His popularity has grown rapidly. He said he has even had people faint when they meet him and shake his hand. While playing demonstrations in clinics for a guitar company, fans would come up and get his autograph and take photographs with him. The owner of the guitar brand was very confused and asked how people knew who Chapman was because at that time he wasn’t famous yet. Chapman told him the fans found him through YouTube. The owner understood YouTube was the new media and decided to make Chapman a signature guitar he could design, and they would make a limited number of them. “I was just blown away, really
excited and it was all really sudden,” Chapman said. The owner asked Chapman to tell him what he wanted for the guitar. Chapman asked his YouTube subscribers what they wanted to see in his signature guitar. Because of that, he said he unwittingly invented a collaborative design by new media. “The response was phenomenal,” Chapman said. “Customers are not used to being asked what they would like. They are used to here’s a product, buy it.” The company was inundated with many more orders than expected. Instead of releasing it through their own brand they decided to create Chapman’s own brand – Chapman Guitars. All 500 of that model sold out. Chapman later formed a friendship with a gentleman who owns a guitar store in England and they partnered. YouTube is the platform to design, promote and market their guitars. The guitars are designed democratically or collaboratively with the people that follow Chapman on YouTube. They help choose the designs, features and specifications of the guitars. Chapman said his subscribers make great choices. He loves guitars and making them and said he is motivated by making loads of cool prototypes. “I never went out to make a guitar company, it just kind of happened,” Chapman said. “It’s one of these things I just really enjoy the whole process of. I am always thinking of the next kind of thing to design and try to keep them really affordable.” Chapman tours with his band Dorje in the United Kingdom.
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Renowned guitar player and inventor Rob Chapman recently visited with fans at Riff City Guitar. He flew in from the United Kingdom because Riff City is the first retailer in America to carry the Chapman guitar brand. Because touring is very expensive, when Chapman and his band decided to go on tour the first time, they asked YouTube followers to support them by buying a CD or DVD. Through purchases, fans gave them about $30,000. Chapman is a big fan of doing things himself. He shoots and edits the music videos. They are a self-managed, self-released band. They have their own studio, write their own music and release it through iTunes themselves. Chapman didn’t plan to be a musician. “Both of my parents are musicians, but because they were, that was the last thing I ever really wanted to do,” Chapman said.
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His uncle was also a big guitar player and introduced Chapman to YouTube. On his 16th birthday he got his first guitar, hit one chord and decided that was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. He started out playing about seven or eight hours each day and attended the Guitar Institute of Technology to become a better musician. “I am famous to guitar players or people in that kind of rock, metal, blues genre,” Chapman said. “My music hasn’t broken mainstream into people’s homes that just like rock music a lot, but anywhere guitars would be, they’ll know who I am.” Besides his guitars, Chapman also has a signature amplifier. Chapman now has 170,000 subscribers. He gets 2.2 million views and 6,000 new subscribers on YouTube per month. Chapman believes he possibly has more subscribers than Gibson, Fender or any of the bigger brands or even most of the record labels. Chapman said he enjoyed visiting Minnesota. “It’s nice to come somewhere else where people are very friendly,” Chapman said. “I heard about something called ‘Minnesota Nice’ before I came here, but it seems to be that Chapman • page 7
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from front page would like to try being a priest,” Tupa said. “That was put on a shelf, of course, when there were so many other things going on and going to school, going away to college and I didn’t think about it again until I was probably a junior in college. I had no idea what I wanted to do with a degree. I was probably going to be a teacher, but I had no idea what I wanted to do outside of that. I heard about St. John’s and thought that would be a good vocation, wouldn’t it? I came to St. John’s and interviewed, met the community and found so much life and it was such a life-giving experience. I was very energized by that.” He finished his college degree at St. John’s University and entered the monastery in the fall of 1962. “It was a good fit,” Tupa said. “I thrived. The monastery was just huge. We had 360 monks living in the abbey and it was quite the height of learning and of activity. The monks pretty much were the whole faculty of St. John’s. I think there was only one woman employed at the time and she was the abbot’s secretary. Now it’s almost the opposite at the University where there are so many lay teachers and other workers there.” Tupa appreciates the discipline he learned at the monastery. “One thing I learned was discipline,” he said. “It was something I probably didn’t know existed as I was trying to figure out my life and all those things. That discipline really helped organize my days and allowed me to do so many other things.” Everything he did for many years centered around SJU until
he went to Paris. “I was interested in languages and fascinated by French,” Tupa said. “Since I seemed to have a knack for it, the department recommended to the abbot I go away to school and study it for the future to have a job there. Which I did.” He earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in French literature in Paris. He returned to SJU and taught French there for more than 30 years, retiring seven years ago. Tupa also speaks a little bit of Italian, but said he isn’t as fluent as he used to be. “When you don’t use these languages, it kind of goes,” Tupa said. In the 1970s, he began working on and directing studyabroad programs in France and other areas. This program has now evolved into a yearly program. “One of the frustrations of teaching was at some point I became aware I was picking up some of the bad grammar of the students,” Tupa said. “I would get to thinking are they right or am I right? That was the time to quit.” Tupa served as pastor at St. John the Baptist Church in Collegeville for two years before coming to St. Joseph. He is also a gifted artist, having learned to paint mostly in Paris. Tupa is somewhat selftaught but also studied at SJU with Bela Petheo, who is well known in the area for his landscapes. He has done exhibits around the United States and in Europe. Those exhibits were often related to pilgrimages and shrines – the idea of a holy place to go to. “One of the actual pilgrimages I did was in Italy where I did drawings in watercolors and came back and did a whole series of oil paintings to illustrate the Road to Rome, a Modern
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Inset: The cover of Father Jerome Tupa’s book, An Uncommon Mission. Pilgrimage,” Tupa said. “Before that there was the California missions, from San Diego up to Sonoma – the 21 California missions – and I did a book, An Uncommon Mission. That was shown in four different museums around California.” The California missions was sponsored by Mervyn’s of California, which at the time was a subsidiary of Target, but no longer exists. Second-grade students study the missions as part of the history of California. Mervyn’s had an exhibit bus that displayed pieces that illustrated the missions and traveled to the schools to help teach the students. Several of Tupa’s paintings were in the bus. His Rome exhibit was shown in Washington, Illinois and New York. Another book, Painting the Pilgrimage: From Paris to Compostela, is a huge collection of Tupa’s work that was shown at the Naples Museum of Art in
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Above: Pastor Jerome Tupa spends time with his dog, Buster, in the backyard behind the parish house. Florida. He traveled the road to Compostela, which is a pilgrimage route that thousands of people walk. “This was really a beautiful series of work and I was quite proud of that and of the exhibit they had at the museum,” Tupa said. His most recent work, which he is still working on, is a series of the Middle East. This large collection of oils series begins in Venice, then goes to Istanbul, Turkey, down into Aleppo and Damascus in Syria, through Lebanon, Israel into the Siani Desert and then to Egypt. “Some of the works are in places that no longer exist because of the war that has been raging in Syria,” Tupa said. Tupa has a dog, Buster, who is 6 years old. He found Buster, who is part chow chow and golden retriever, at the Tri-County Humane Society. Tupa said Buster was sitting there waiting
for him. “When I realized I was coming here, I felt it would be nice to have a companion,” Tupa said. “He is a wonderful dog.” Some of Tupa’s hobbies include walking Buster, sketching and painting, reading historical novels and cooking “anything good.” “I love pastas, unfortunately not the best thing for me, but pasta sauces are wonderful,” Tupa said. His brother, who made a career with the U.S. Navy, died four years ago. Tupa’s mother lived to be 102. When she was in her 90s she came to live near him at Mother of Mercy in Albany. “Great care – what a marvelous place,” Tupa said. “With hospice – those people were just fabulous. I have the highest respect for all of them.” He said his mother, who was very intelligent, was the last of all of her nine siblings to die.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2014
Opinion
Our View Why, oh why, would Americans join terrorist groups overseas?
It is a most disturbing news development to hear two young former Minnesotans have died in combat while fighting with extremist rebel groups abroad. The two – Douglas McCain and Troy Kastigar – were high-school buddies at Robbinsdale Cooper High School in New Hope. McCain was at that school from 1997-99 and Kastigar in 1999 before he dropped out of school, according to an Associated Press news story. McCain also did not graduate. Former classmates just cannot figure out how such fun-loving, likable, outgoing guys could end up with terrorist groups overseas. McCain, 33, died in Syria while fighting with the Islamic State rebels, also known as ISIS. At age 28, Kastigar was killed five years ago in Somalia while fighting with the al-Shabab terrorist group. What’s puzzling and most disturbing is neither of those men had any familial connections to Syria or Somalia. Apparently, they had learned of Islam through the Internet and became adherents of that religion. Then, from that belief system, they took a lurch into radicalism by learning about Islamic terrorist groups, also on the Internet. Last year, al-Shabab released a videotape showing Kastigar addressing the camera. According to the AP story, this is what he said: “If you guys only knew how much fun we have over here. This is the real Disneyland. You need to come here and join us and take pleasure in this fun.” Then, the video showed a scene of Kastigar’s corpse. Some Disneyland! How in the world could any young man find “fun” in terrorist tactics, which obviously amounted to doing serious injury to others, including most likely murders of all sorts? The AP story quoted Kastigar’s mother as saying the two men were “sort of searching” for something. “I think both of them had a really strong desire to be needed and of value,” she told the New York Daily News. What is frightening is estimates by the U.S. Government count as many as 100 Americans now fighting for ISIS and as many as 1,000 or maybe even more British nationals. It was a British national, in fact, who beheaded reporter James Foley a few weeks ago in that appalling video released by ISIS. The successful recruiting of “ordinary” people, including Americans, to these violent, sadistic groups is absolutely unthinkable, but it’s happening, and it would behoove us all to try to determine why. Do these young people view the world as some kind of exciting, if dangerous, video game? Have they become so desensitized to violence it becomes some kind of twisted “kick” to them? How can someone who converts to any kind of religion become so keen to hurt others and to maim and murder? Those are dark, disturbing questions. We must keep looking for the answers.
Save Tech as neighborhood ‘anchor’ Neighbors in the St. Cloud Tech High School area are hoping the school board decides to refurbish that venerable old building and keep it as a school. Tech, they argue, gives a vibrancy to that entire area it just wouldn’t have without it. And I couldn’t agree more. Tech High School is the heart of an area that includes Clark Field, Lake George and nearby downtown, most especially the Paramount Theater and St. Mary’s Cathedral. That area has long been one of my favorite places in the world. To yank the heart out of it, Tech High School, would be a shame. Closing the old municipal pool near Lake George was bad enough; closing Tech would be even worse. As “Southsiders” of the college area, my three brothers and two sisters all attended Tech, grades 10-12. I went to school there from 1963-66. It was a wonderful old school, its classrooms, hallways and gymnasium exuding the friendly ghosts of the past. It always felt good, knowing that generations had learned there before us. In memory, I can still smell the old wood-and-wax aromas of Tech; I can still see the rows of lockers lined up along the shiny granite-floor hallways; I can still hear the energetic scurry of students as the clanging bell announced the end of class times; and I can still feel spring breezes blowing through the windows of Mr. Laumb’s history classroom on the southeast corner of the second floor. Those were such good days. Tech stood like a tall friendly sentinel overlooking what was a virtual playground for us kids. Summers, we’d spend just about every afternoon at the municipal swimming pool, swimming like frisky minnows in that aqua-blue chlo-
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Editor rine-scented paradise. Between bouts of swimming, we’d rest, sprawling on the cement perimeter to dry in the hot sun as the lifeguards, like suntanned gods on high chairs, blew their whistles and shouted: “No running on the deck!” Part of our pool ritual every time was to stop at the concession stand where, draped with damp towels and clutching slippery nickels and dimes in our wrinkled hands, we’d step up slightly shivering to the counter to order frozen Snickers and Orange Crush pop. Winters, no matter how cold the nights, we neighborhood buddies would trek like fearless Eskimos, carrying our skates over our shoulders, to frozen Lake George. There, our faces and hands pinched from the cold, we’d skate happily for hours as the rinky-tinky organ music blared from the decrepit warming house. It was always such a relief to take a break from the aching cold by going back into the warming house, with its blazing wood stove and battered, skatenicked wooden resting benches. On weekends, in every weather, my brothers and our pals loved to “go to the show” at the Paramount Theater. We’d spend entire Sundays in that glorious old theater, watching the same movie over and over – usually rip-roaring shoot-‘emup westerns or CinemaScope Biblical
It seems we have another smoking gun
Oops. It seems the missing e-mails from former IRS Commissioner Lois Lerner aren’t missing after all. All the lying and misleading statements from IRS commissioners past and present are proving to be just ruses designed to put investigators off track. As required by law, the Justice Department has copies of the emails and will be soon turning them over to investigators. All of this reminds me of scandals past and how they all fell apart and how the cover-up turned out to be worse than the original crime. Do you remember Richard Nixon? In the Nixon case there were months and months of allegations and accusations leading up to his “smoking gun.” Nixon and his henchmen lied, misled and tried to change the subject. Their arrogance got them. That gun turned out to be tape recordings actually recorded in the Oval Office by Nixon himself which he thought he could hide from investigators. He even had his secretary delete portions of the tapes to hide his guilt. It didn’t work. The truth came out. Nixon was told by members of his own party, Republicans, to resign or he would in fact be impeached. Resign he did and the nation was better for it. How about Bill Clinton? We were treated to months of lies, denials and all Newsleader staff members have the respon- manner of obfuscation. Accusers were
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spectacles full of Technicolor pageantry and battles brimming with blood-andguts. Going to the movies was our weekly treat from our parents for being good boys, for going to Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral and afterward attending catechism next door, where we had to squirm through classes conducted by poker-faced nuns in their spooky habits. Fairly often, however, we’d skip church and catechism and go have ice-cream treats at the TeePee restaurant until it was time for the movie to start. Our parents, sometimes, got wise to our delinquent behavior. Hiding their smiles, they’d scold us – mildly – but they’d fork over movie-money week after week, probably just to get us little savages out of the house so they could have some peace and quiet. Right after the Paramount shows, in the warmer months, we’d play “Cowboys and Indians” or “Swordfighters” around the Tech-Lake George area, action images from the movie still galloping vividly in our heads. On some chilly autumn nights, with the air smelling like pencil shavings and wood smoke, we’d put on our sweaters and walk on sidewalks covered with skittering dead leaves to Clark Field where we’d hang around with school chums during the football games under the very bright lights. Perched commandingly on its hill, Tech was always the secure anchor to all of those good times. There must be tens of thousands of Tech alumni who feel as I do – that, yes, those were the days, those “Tech” days, those happy days.
Ron Scarbro Guest Writer defamed and libled. How dare anybody accuse the president of sexual misconduct? Move on became the mantra. It even sparked a new liberal PAC, moveon. org. Hillary said it was all a part of a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” Well, sorry Hillary, but again there was a smoking gun. The blue dress. When Clinton heard about the blue dress, he knew the gig was up. He was impeached but the Senate didn’t have the courage to kick him out of office. Perhaps it was because Al Gore was waiting in the wings. Just my guess. Fast forward to today. It seems we have another smoking gun in the IRS “lost e-mails” case. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge knows you can’t just delete e-mails and have them disappear. Somebody somewhere has a copy of those messages. In this case it just happens to be the Justice Department. Of course there are probably many more copies. We all knew this would have to come out. So now what? Does Lerner continue
to try and claim the Fifth Amendment to keep from admitting to crimes which could well send her to federal prison? Does she get support for her position from other high officials in the IRS who themselves could be in trouble for lying to Congress? Any way you look at this mess, it’s going to be interesting. Government employees are civil servants. Regardless of their position, they have to obey the same laws as everybody else. As previously discussed, the IRS belongs to the people. It’s not a tool for any politician or any political party. Their work is vitally important to the security of the nation. Their integrity must at all times be above reproach. I don’t know where this will lead. I don’t know how high up it will go. I just know the truth needs to be told. We the people demand this be cleaned up and we demand governing bodies be put into place to insure we never again have to deal with this type of dishonesty from our government. Scarbro is retired and spends most of his free time with his grandchildren having moved from Sartell to St. Simons Island, Ga.. Writing and commenting on the news of the day is a pastime. Visit his weekly blog at ronscarbro.blogspot.com for more commentary.
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Park Board approves splash-pad concept by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
The St. Joseph Park Board at its Aug. 27 meeting approved the basic concept of a splash pad for the city. Splash-pad Coalition members at the meeting were happy about the council’s approval but said there is much more work to be done. Coalition members Matt Killam and Jen Warnert said the board approved the concept. “This however does not mean it is approved in its entirety,” Killam said. The board asked the coalition to gather more information about costs, locations, long-term maintenance and more, and then schedule several meetings with the board and the St. Joseph City Council.
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“We expect the public to play a huge role in feedback throughout the process,” Killam said. “This is a great first step, but we still have an uphill battle.” The coalition does not plan to begin fundraising for the splash pad until the council has approved the splash-pad plan in its detailed entirety. Projected estimates total nearly $600,000 to complete the splash pad. The coalition plans to raise $200,000 and ask the city to approve the use of the half-cent sales-tax dollars for the remaining $400,000. The city would then be able to start the project after the coalition had raised $200,000. The coalition is considering installing a splash pad similar to those in St. Cloud or Waite Park. One site being considered is Northland Park. Chapman said. “That is the best place I have eaten in America, and she was so nice. It’s that kind of business I like to support.” Chapman has one brother. He is engaged to Natassja Saliba, who is a vocalist/pianist from Malta. They are working together on a project called Red Tower. Chapman tours across the United Kingdom and plans to tour in America next year. Riff City Guitar and Music Co. is a national online and local, music instrument retailer. For more information, visit its website at riffcityguitar.com.
Community Calendar
Friday, Sept. 5 Blood drive, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., American Red Cross, 1301 W. St. German, St. Cloud. 1-800-7332767. Barnes & Noble book fair, with a percentage of funds to benefit Roosevelt Education Center. Book fair 9 a.m.-10 p.m., story time 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Barnes & Noble, St. Cloud. St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, 3-6:30 p.m., near the Wobegon Trail Center, C.R. 2. Monday, Sept. 8 Blood drive, noon-6 p.m., American Red Cross, 1301 W. St. German, St. Cloud. 1-800-7332767. Market Monday, 3-6 p.m., Sartell City Hall, 125 Pine Cone Road N., Sartell. www.marketmonday.org Tuesday, Sept. 9 Blood drive, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., American Red Cross, 1301 W. St. German, St. Cloud. 1-800-733-
2767. 55+ Driver Improvement program, (four-hour refresher course), 5-9 p.m., Apollo High School, 1000 44th Ave N, St. Cloud. 1-888234-1294. Holistic Moms Network, 7-8:30 p.m., Good Earth Co-op, St. Cloud. 320-252-2489.
1:30 p.m., Community Fire Hall, 401 7th St. S., St. Joseph.
Wednesday, Sept. 10 St. Joseph Area Chamber of Commerce, 11:30 a.m., St. Joseph Community Fire Hall. www.stjosephchamber.com.
Friday, Sept. 12 Blood drive, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., American Red Cross, 1301 W. St. German, St. Cloud. 1-800-7332767. St. Joseph Lions Brat Sale, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 1st Ave. NW, St. Joseph. St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, 3-6:30 p.m., near the Wobegon Trail Center, C.R. 2.
Thursday, Sept. 11 Coffee and Conversation, a senior discussion group, 9 a.m., Country Manor, Sartell. Blood drive, noon-6 p.m., American Red Cross, 1301 W. St. German, St. Cloud. 1-800-7332767. Blood drive, 1-7 p.m., Schlenner, Wenner and Co., 630 Roosevelt Road, St. Cloud. 1-800733-2767. St. Joseph Senior Citizens,
Saturday, Sept. 13 Food shelf drive, 8 a.m.-12 p.m., St. Joseph Food Shelf, 25 1st Ave. NW. 26th Annual ‘Woofstock’ to raise funds for Tri-County Humane Society. 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Wilson Park, St. Cloud. www.tricountyhumanesociety.org St. Joseph Lions Brat Sale, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 1st Ave. NW, St. Joseph.
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A historical prospective from 25 years ago - Aug. 18, 1989
Friends help make BAC refurbishing a reality by Janelle Von Pinnon news@thenewsleaders.com
The Benedicta Arts Center on the College of St. Benedict campus has undergone several repair and rejuvenation projects during the last three years. Through the Friends Campaign, begun in 1969, financial support is provided to maintain the quality of the college’s academic and cultural programs. It is operated entirely by volunteers from the regional communities of St. Joseph, St. Cloud, Avon and Cold Spring. “This year (1989), one of the projects is to replace all the paving stones on the west side of the building in the Forum courtyard,” said Karen Mrja, dean of fine arts. “Pavers will also be replaced on the north entrance, primarily used by students. “The 10-foot-tall glass doors at the north entrance will be changed to standard doors which are less heavy to open and more energy efficient.” Unlevel doorways due to natural shifting of the building structure have also caused problems in opening and closing those same doors, Mrja said. Moving into the gallery on the southwest side of the BAC, Mrja pointed out other refurbishing plans. Expansion clips will be added to the joints of the dry-wall panels in the gallery for humidity expansion and arid contraction so as to prevent wall cracking. During the last year, a security-camera system was installed
in the gallery. Another camera will be added, bringing the total to four while two more will be installed in the gallery lounge. “We hope to complete our camera surveillance system this year,” Mrja said. “A timelapse VCR unit will also be installed. This will provide protection for borrowed artwork we exhibit here. The BAC has not expe- photo by Janelle Von Pinnon rienced any thefts One of the projects this summer is to reas yet, but wants place all the paving stones in the Forum to ensure this rep- Courtyard on the west side of the BAC. utation is mainin those same seat cushions was tained.” replaced in the forum and oneA tour of the stage area reveals third in the auditorium. The worn stage curtains. carpet and furniture upholstery “These are simply worn out were also replaced in the galbecause of age,” Mrja said. “New lery lounge, and curtains were ones will be bought because it replaced in 13 of the classrooms. costs more to repair torn parts Some directional signage was and have them fire-proofed than put up last year and will be comto buy new ones.” pleted this year. You Are Here Asbestos cords for the stagemaps are planned for the auditolighting instruments will have to rium lobby, the forum lobby and be changed to meet with governthe north (student) entrance. Othmental regulations. er minor but necessary changes, Last year the main drapes such as replacing faulty window were replaced in the forum and screens and installing more emerauditorium – burgundy velour gency lights throughout the buildin the forum, bluish-grey velour ing, will also be accomplished in the auditorium. Both complethis year. ment the seat cushions respec“A lot of people can’t believe tively. The auditorium corridors the BAC is 25 years old,” Mrja were also carpeted as a safety feasaid. “But, it’s well maintained ture to prevent slippery flooring. and the housekeeping staff is inTwo years ago, all of the foam credible.”
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Lecture from front page through what he termed a managed-competition system. Durenberger also served on many other committees and sponsored or co-sponsored many forms of historic legislation such as voting rights for the handicapped, Americans With Disabilities Act, the Consumer Choice Education Act (for charter schools), President Bush’s 1,000 Points of Light, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Women’s Economic Equity Act and President Clinton’s National and Community Service Act. After his senate career, he became a senior health policy fellow at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty appointed Durenberger to head the Minnesota Citizens Forum on Health-Care Costs, an effort for health-care reform in the state. A dark side to Durenberger’s senatorial career occurred in 1990 when the senate voted to denounce him for unethical conduct regarding questionable income regarding a book deal and getting government reimbursements for nights he stayed in his own Minnesota condominium. In an interview in 2005, Durenberger said he supports neither the Republican nor Democratic parties and he tends to be an Independent. In 2012, Durenberger endorsed Independent candidate Tom Horner, his former chief of staff, for
Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 governor of Minnesota. The Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture was founded in 2006 and was named after U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who was another well known SJU alumnus. The lecture series is intended to promulgate McCarthy’s long-time commitment to the principals of democratic government and to inspire young people to pursue fresh ideas, to challenge the status quo and to make good changes in the world. Some of the lecturers in the series have been civilrights leader Julian Bond, current U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, TV journalist and anchor Tom Brokaw and political commentator Cokie Roberts, who spoke at the event last year.