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St. John’s Prep donates Town Crier food, cash to food shelf Friday, Nov. 25, 2016 Volume 28, Issue 46 Est. 1989
Chamber hosts annual ‘Winterwalk’
The St. Joseph Chamber invites all to celebrate the holiday season from 6-7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2. A tree lighting will kick off the evening at Bello Cucina followed by various activities at Heritage Hall including a photo-op with Santa, a visit from Mrs. Claus, treat bags, craft making and refreshments. Heritage Hall is located inside the Church of St. Joseph. Also, be sure to look for luminaries outside of businesses offering treats and deals. We’ll see you there.
Troop 84 holds Christmas wreath sale
The St. Joseph Boy Scout Troop 84 is holding its annual Christmas Wreath sale from 8:30 a.m. until sold out on Saturday, Nov. 26 at the St Joseph Fire Hall, 323 Fourth Ave. S.E. The Boy Scouts will sell both the Country Deluxe with special features as well as the Classic Wreath with a red bow. This year, the Boys Scouts will also have Balsam swags for sale. Proceeds from the sale support the local troop and camping programs.
Holiday Art Crawl set Saturday
The Holiday Art Crawl, featuring 20 local artists and musicians, will be held from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26. Locations include Bruno Press, 154 Fifth Ave. S.E.; Bad Habit Brewing Co., 15 E. Minnesota St.; Local Blend, 19 W. Minnesota St.; and Minnesota Street Market, 27 W. Minnesota St. Visit all four locations and be entered to win gift baskets. facebook.com/BrunoPress.
Catholic Charities in need of holiday donations
Catholic Charities Emergency Services is in need of donations for the holiday season. Their needs include the following: new toys, gift cards for teens, personal-care items, food-shelf donations, coats/boots for children, XL coats for men and women and new socks/underwear (all sizes). Volunteers are needed throughout the year helping with the clothing and food program. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Nov. 25 Criers.
by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com
Students, faculty and staff from St. John’s Prep School in Collegeville shared the spirit of Thanksgiving by donating food and money Nov. 15 to the St. Joseph Community Food Shelf. SJP delivered 20 boxes of meals and $1,030 in cash to the food shelf, according to Jill Pauly, director of communications and events at the school. “Students from grades 6 through 12 collected food and money and even ‘Turkey Stamps’ from Coborn’s to contribute to the St. Joseph Food Shelf to serve local families Thanksgiving meals,” Pauly said. Included in the tote-sized boxes were, for example, boxes of stuffing, butter, potatoes, a
pie, ingredients for a greenbean casserole, salad ingredients, fruit and sweet potatoes. “Basically it was everything you would need to put together a Thanksgiving meal and then we gave the food shelf the cash to help them buy the turkeys because they can usually get a better rate on buying something like that in bulk,” Pauly said. She said most of the students, who probably went shopping with their parents, brought the food items to donate from their own homes. “This will provide for between three-(dozen) and fourdozen family holiday meals in our local community,” Pauly said. SJP includes about 10 staff members who challenged themFood • page 5
Students, faculty and staff from St. John’s Prep School in Collegeville shared the spirit of Thanksgiving by donating food and money Nov. 15 to the St. Joseph Community Food Shelf. Included in the tote-sized boxes were, for example, boxes of stuffing, butter, potatoes, a pie, ingredients for a green-bean casserole, salad ingredients, fruit and sweet potatoes.
Jacob’s killer sentenced for child pornography by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com
Jacob Wetterling’s murderer was recently sentenced in a federal court to 20 years in prison but not for killing the St. Joseph boy who was abducted and fatally shot almost three decades ago. Danny Heinrich, 53, of Annandale was sentenced on the morning of Nov. 21 in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis by Judge John Tunheim on
one count of receiving child pornography. “Every child knows the story of Jacob Wetterling,” Tunheim said. “You stole the innocence of small children. (That is) one of the most truly horrible crimes I have ever seen.” A community memorial service was held Sept. 25 for Wetterling at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, and countless numbers of people attended the public service and joined the Wetterling family for
“an ecumenical prayer service of remembrance, hope and healing.” On Sept. 6, Heinrich confessed to kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing the 11-year-old boy while sparing the boy’s brother and their friend while they were bicycling on Oct. 22, 1989 at a time when Heinrich lived in Paynesville, where he led authorities to the boy’s remains this year. Parents Patty and Jerry Wetterling were at the U.S. District
Courthouse in Minneapolis during Heinrich’s chilling confession in September, and the St. Joseph couple were again in court for Heinrich’s sentencing on Nov. 21 for possessing child pornography. “You did not need to kill him,” Patty Wetterling reportedly said at Heinrich’s sentencing. “He did nothing wrong. He just wanted to go home. You planned to hurt him. You brought bullets. Why would Jacob • page 3
Scary clown stories bad for entertainment business by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
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Volunteers are needed to assist Sisters who need help to get to and from their physical and occupational therapy, foot-care and hair-care appointments in a timely manner. All appointments are inside our building. Volunteers need to be able to push wheelchairs, walk with Sisters using walkers and follow a schedule. Volunteers are also needed to help with pouring beverages at noon meals on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Nov. 25 Criers.
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Shari (left) and Wesley Newman are clown entertainers for Just 4 Laffs Entertainment. Wesley Newman, who owns the business, said his business decreased by one-third because of negative, scary clown publicity occurring throughout the country.
As a clown in the entertainment business, Wesley Newman’s profits have declined by about a third because of all the scary clown stories circulating lately. Newman, who lives in Watkins, is the owner of “Just 4 Laughs Entertainment,” located on Clearwater Road in St. Cloud. He said he started noticing something was changing when he had not been getting as many calls inquiring about his business’s clown services.
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Clients of Newman’s customers also started requesting they perform in “normal dress” and asking if they offered other “characters” that could entertain, instead of clowns. A fear of clowns spread across the nation after unsubstantiated reports of various clown sightings began. Many of the reports were not true, but some incidents of people dressed as clowns and intimidating people resulted in arrests. Wesley is a member of Clowns of American International and previously was a Clown • page 4
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People The College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University has been ranked among the top baccalaureate schools nationally for the total number of students who studied abroad for the 12th consecutive year. Before graduating, 56 percent of all CSB and SJU students will participate in a study abroad program. Annually, CSB and SJU offer students 19 semester-long programs, 15 of which are faculty-led. CSB and SJU also conduct more than 20 short-term programs. The study was conducted by Open Doors 2016, the annual report on international education published by the Institute of International Education. The
release of the Open Doors report comes during the celebration of International Education Week. Paul Palmersheim, St. Joseph, was recently awarded the 201617 Northern Co-op Scholarship, which are awarded to students from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North and South Dakota who are seniors in or a graduate of high school and who show potential for significant contributions to cooperative organizations. They must be enrolled at an institution of higher learning and will take a course in business or economics that studies the principles of cooperatives.
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Is a pedestrian standing curbside considered a ‘crossing pedestrian’ if they are giving all indications they are planning to cross? Q: We have a debate about the pedestrian law in our house. Is a pedestrian standing curbside considered a “crossing pedestrian” if they are giving all indications they are planning to cross? Are motorists required to stop for such a curbside pedestrian if they can do so safely? A: This is a good question as the days get shorter and the nights longer this time of year. Motorists and pedestrians should watch out for one another. The fall months are the deadliest months for pedestrians. So far this year, preliminary figures show 39 pedestrians were killed. In 2015, 41 pedestrians were killed and 904 were injured, compared to 17 deaths and 837 injuries in 2014.
If you have a tip concerning a crime, 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 crime. Sept. 8 9:51 a.m. Public assist. Morningside Loop. Police responded to a request by Kennedy School to check the aforementioned address for two students who were not in school. Upon arrival, both children were safe and had simply missed the bus. Officers
A pedestrian standing curbside and who is not in the crosswalk or intersection is not considered a “crossing pedestrian.” Pedestrians must not enter a crosswalk if a vehicle is approaching and it’s impossible for the driver to stop. There is no defined distance that a pedestrian must abide by before entering the crosswalk; use common sense. • Drivers must stop for crossing pedestrians at marked crosswalks and at all intersections without crosswalks or stoplights. • Pedestrians must obey traffic signs and signals at all intersections that have them. • Vehicles stopped for pedestrians can proceed once the pedestrian has completely crossed the lane in front of the stopped
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stood by until their mother arrived home and transported them to school. 3:15 p.m. Traffic stop. Minnesota Street/CR 2. While on routine patrol, an officer observed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. The vehicle was driving 44 mph in a 30-mph zone. The driver was pulled over and issued a citation for speeding. No further action was taken. Sept. 9 3:35 p.m. Domestic. Arbor Street. Police assisted Waite Park Police Department in mediating an argument between two neighbors. Upon arrival, both parties were somewhat calm. They both agreed to get along and respect
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Proposed dog park waiting to be unleashed by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com
The St. Joseph City Council discussed an on-going proposal to build a dog park at its recent meeting that included a financial breakdown of expected costs. Council member Matt Killam led the discussion at the Nov. 14 city council meeting to site the dog park in Millstream Park. He is also a member of the St. Joseph Park Board. “We have been working (for) the last three years trying to get a dog park in St. Joseph,” Killam said later of his efforts with Mary Munden, a St. Joseph Police Department employee. Munden has built a large
Jacob from front page you use bullets if you didn’t plan to use them?’ About the time of the Wetterling’s disappearance, a man in the Paynesville area had molested many boys during several years, but Heinrich finally confessed to sexually assaulting and killing Wetterling when he pleaded guilty to unrelated child pornography charges on Sept. 6. Investigators into Jacob Wetterling’s abduction by a masked gunman found 19 three-ring binders containing
group of volunteers and a Facebook page – “Fetch a dog park to Saint Joseph” – for the project that was initially proposed at a location near the Lake Wobegon Trail. “That’s initially where we wanted to do it, but it did get turned down by the city council last year,” Killam said. “The park board did an analysis where a dog park would go well, and we went through all our parks and graded them . . . and Millstream scored the second-highest.” Killam said an area was plotted out by the soccer fields at Millstream Park because of the openness of the area and ample parking in the gravel lot. “The biggest expense with building a dog park is the fenc-
ing,” Killam said. “And you can add things you want over time as time progresses, so the biggest kind of hurdle is the fencing.” The St. Joseph Park Board decided to donate $10,000 to build a fence for the proposed dog park, which is about an acre in size, Killam said. “It would have a door to get in, similar to other dog parks, a door inside of a door where you can kind of have your dog in between the area where you are hooking the leash on them,” he said. “So we were looking at different prices and Mary was able to get some prices for us.” The St. Joseph Park Board has a budget that could include planting trees at a pro-
posed dog park. Killam said the board hasn’t used any of its tree budget for the year. “You can get galvanized steel, about a five-footer, to go around the whole thing for about $16,000, but you can also wrap that all with black vinyl for about $18,000, and it would stand up longer, so we decided Phase 1 would be to get the fence completed,” he said. The Facebook page for the proposed dog park includes a plea for donations with a GoFundMe page at www. g o f u n d m e. c o m / s t - j o s e p h dog-park-2w6eh7uc or you can stop by St. Joseph City Hall and make your donation via cash, check or money order. “We (the park board) agreed
upon that we would offer the $10,000 if there was kind of a matching deal with Mary and the group to come (up with) the other $10,000 for the park, and that would be going toward the fencing,” Killam said of the St. Joseph Dog Park Committee. “Ultimately, it got voted on by the council that she has until Dec. 1, 2018, to raise the money without it actually getting sent back to whoever donated,” he said. “I foresee this being raised in a matter of months. The St. Joseph Lions Club has already donated $1,000 for this to happen.” Killam said if enough money is raised for the fencing, it could be installed in April or
100 images of child pornography last year while searching Heinrich’s home, which was about a half-hour south of St. Joseph, but Wetterling’s image was not among the items. Heinrich served as a specialist in the Minnesota National Guard out of Willmar from 1982-1991, and was discharged under honorable conditions. Heinrich was arrested, however, last year and was eventually charged with 25 federal counts of possessing and receiving child pornography. Patty and Jerry Wetterling, and their three surviving children were in the federal courtroom in Minneapolis on Nov. 21, and each gave a victim-im-
pact statement that was read at Heinrich’s sentencing, during which the parents and their adult children spoke in court. Attorney Doug Kelley said on behalf of the Wetterlings: “Today is almost like starting all over again for the family … and they would like to just have some time now to heal, and as Patty said they are going to have the most joyous Thanksgiving they’ve had in a long time.” Gov. Mark Dayton, who attended the Jacob Wetterling Memorial Service on Sept. 25,
stated in an official state proclamation that Oct. 22, 2016 was to be “Jacob Wetterling Day” – 27 years to the date after Wetterling was abducted in 1989. Dayton mentioned in his proclamation how the boy’s abduction profoundly affected the lives of Minnesotans and that Wetterling’s parents dedicated their lives to children’s safety by helping to create the Jacob Wetterling Act of 1994, the start of a state registry to help keep children safe. “I am truly sorry for my
evil acts — for the victims and their families — and the shame I brought on myself and my family,” Heinrich told the Wetterling family in a short statement at his sentencing. Heinrich had been charged with 25 counts of child pornography. In return for leading authorities to Jacob Wetterling’s remains on a Paynesville farm earlier this year and admitting to his involvement in the boy’s kidnapping and death, he was not charged with Wetterling’s murder.
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Shari Newman, known as Mz. Tootsie, enjoys dressing up and bringing smiles to people’s faces as she entertains for Just 4 Laffs Entertainment.
member of The World Clown Association and the International Shrine Clown Association. He first heard about the negative clown stories through his professional contacts. “I knew when the clown story broke in Wisconsin about the scary clown, and everything just escalated from there,” he said. The Wisconsin clown story started in August when residents began calling police, inquiring about a clown walking through Green Bay with four black balloons. The clown began to be known as “Gags – The Green Bay Clown.” The creator of the clown had used it as a marketing plan to campaign for his new horror film called Gags. “Mostly, after a longer conversation and some education, I’ve been able to assure the client we are good clowns and contrary to popular belief, more adults are scared of clowns than children are,” Wesley said. “The scary clown thing is actually a rubber mask – not a professional entertainer.”
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Wesley began entertaining as a clown in 1993 when a family friend convinced him to accompany him to an organizational meeting of a new club starting up in Monticello. Wesley said after he realized the enjoyment he could bring to children at the local hospital, he was hooked and just had to perform again. Wesley and five other contractors perform shows. Wesley said he started his Just 4 Laffs Entertainment business so he could have a more professional business. Performers for the business are based in St. Cloud, but travel all over Central Minnesota. He currently entertains under his clown personality as “Baloo Baphoon.” His performances include twisting balloons into various shapes and performing magic tricks. Newman has performed at many events, including twisting-balloon demonstrations at wedding receptions and at a funeral. Shari Newman, a St. Joseph resident, is one of the independent entertainers who works for Just 4 Laffs. She and Wesley were once married, but no longer are. Wesley said they are still good friends. Shari’s clown name is “Mz. Tootsie” and she has been clowning for more than eight years. Shari became interested in entertaining after watching Newman perform and seeing the children’s smiles because of him being there. “So when he had his next show, I asked if I could go as a clown,” she said. “He did my makeup and I went.” After watching the children smile, Shari said she was hooked. “It made me feel good clowning and making both children and (adults) happy,” she said. As Mz. Tootsie, she performs in a light-hearted and caring way. She also creates balloon animals and has helped with magic shows. Some of Shari’s performances have included New Year’s events
Friday, Nov. 25, 2016 at St. Cloud State University, the St. Joseph Fourth of July celebration, church festivals, county fairs, corporate events, birthday parties, at day cares and more. She said the scary clown stories have required her to answer more questions about what a scary clown is. Shari has also had to explain about “coulrophobia” – the irrational fear of clowns. “It has also made me notice more how people are looking at me as I am driving to a show in full clown (dress),” she said. “I have always gotten (questioning) looks. It is just more so now.” Often, people will take a picture of her dressed as a clown while she is driving her car. Shari said going into a store, dressed as a clown, made her anxious at first. However, once in the store, she got many curious stares but was also asked by people if they could take a picture with her. People have told her she looked awesome and some have asked her if she is scary. Shari said she then explains about who she performs for and what she does as a clown. Recently, she has had some inquiries asking if she could dress as a scarecrow, gypsy, pirate, princess or other character instead of a clown. She said even with the scary clown things going on, she still loves getting out and making people smile while she performs as a clown. “I will continue to perform because of the joy and happiness it brings me and the ones I am performing for,” Shari said. “The joy I see in the faces of everyone I perform for outweighs the (negative) glances I get. I enjoy being a clown and by being Mz. Tootsie, it helps me as much as it makes the children smile.” Just 4 Laffs offers live entertainers for events, as well as classes for all ages on balloon-twisting, magic and the art of clowning. For more information, visit www.Just4LaffsMN.com or email Wesley Newman at just-
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Food from front page selves to do the same thing the students were doing to make Thanksgiving better for lessfortunate families. “Some of the students asked their parents and grandparents for money to donate or asked for contributions from other folks in their community, like a neighbor or a friend,” Pauly said. Non-perishable food items can be placed on the food-shelf cart under the balcony in the Church of St. Joseph at 12 W. Minnesota St. SJP sixth-graders sorted and organized the meal boxes that were donated to the food shelf Nov. 15 as part of the hands-on service project. “This was a way for our students to come together and picture themselves as part of a family that was in need and be able to reach out and make Thanksgiving happy and carefree, perhaps, for families who might not otherwise be able to have a full meal on the special holiday,” Pauly said. Cash contributions can also be mailed to the parish office. Checks should be payable to “Church of St. Joseph” with “food shelf” on the memo line. All donations are needed and welcomed. “We had some kids or students bringing in handfuls of change, especially the younger ones, from their own little savings they had at their homes, so they certainly took the initiative to give what they could,”
Pauly said of the SJP students who donated to the food shelf. The Catholic/Benedictine co-educational day-and-boarding college prep school in Collegeville is for students in grades 6-12, with boarding options beginning in the ninth grade. “At St. John’s Prep, we certainly believe in educating the whole student,” Pauly said. “While we have excellent academics, we also want our students to be aware of their communities and teach them to be lifelong volunteers and contribute to their communities.” The school’s mission is as follows: “As a Catholic school in the Benedictine tradition, we prepare students for success in higher education and for a lifetime of learning, service and leadership in a global society.” “Our students are always doing different fundraisers, and they certainly volunteer at local schools and at the YMCA and at the hospital,” Pauly said. “But this was a way for them to come together and really focus on one project and help one particular organization provide a happy holiday for members of our community, right there in St. (Joseph),” she said. Clients of the food shelf must live in the St. Joseph area, according to the Church of St. Joseph. To receive assistance, clients must have a picture ID and verification of address. The St. Joseph Community Food Shelf is open from 1-3 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays. For more information about the St. Joseph Community Food Shelf, contact the parish office at 320-363-7505, ext. 100.
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Call Kim: 320-230-7275 qcsinc@qualitycareservices.org
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Sixth-graders from St. John’s Prep in Collegeville delivered 20 boxes of meals and $1,030 in cash to the St. Joseph Community Food Shelf Nov. 15. Students include (front row, from left to right) Jaden Perry, Bella Lee and Priya Nacey, all of St. Cloud, Kane Bauman of Avon and George Vedder of Sartell; (middle row) Nora Miller of Cold Spring and Connor Montoya of Waite Park; and (back row) Cambel Shepherd and Ava Nellans, both of St. Cloud, Lily Kuhl of Sartell and Ashlee DelRe of St. Cloud.
Visit Saint John’s Prep for
Discovery Day Monday, Dec. 5 Students in grades 5-11 are invited to visit Prep! Call 320-363-3315 to RSVP and reserve your space.
www.sjprep.net
Riverbluff Christmas Tree Farm Take I-94 to St. Augusta Exit 171, turn right on Hwy. 75, take immediate right on 255th Street. Go one mile west.
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! • Bring the family for free cider and cookies! Handmade • Free horse-drawn hay rides Balsam wreaths Saturdays and Sundays! and swags made fresh • Free to every event! daily! • Buffalo meat products for sale FREE hay rides • Choose and cut any tree!
Open every Friday-Sunday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 25 - Dec. 18
to see the buffalo!
Joe Styles, DDS • 320-253-3146 (Home) • 320-363-7729 (Work)
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Our View
Triple Aim could be a win-win-win for all
Hats off to CentraCare Health’s initiative dubbed Triple Aim, an effort to help people in central Minnesota become healthier by choosing wiser day-today lifestyles. The cost of health care, no matter which system of insurance evolves, is going to become astronomically expensive, even more than it is now. As the huge number of baby boomers age, those costs will rapidly accelerate. It’s a frightening prospect. The good news is if we start improving our health now, the medical care needed will be less, saving costs, saving lives. The Triple Aim has three components: improving the health of people in the area, improving experiences of patients and lowering the costs of health care. In a recent “Report to the Community,” CentraCare President and CEO Dr. Ken Holmen outlined Triple Aim. CentraCare will join with other area health-care organizations to promote well-being for one and all. One such program, a CentraCare program, is “Better Living, Exercise and Nutrition Daily,” dubbed BLEND. The original goal of BLEND was to reduce child-obesity rates by 10 percent within 10 years. It achieved that goal, among other goals, in only eight years. BLEND encourages healthy nutrition, exercise, tobacco cessation and other good habits that bring about overall good outcomes. Triple Aim will involve all people in cities and rural areas of central Minnesota, including schools, churches, teachers, political leaders, businesses and organizations. All of those entities and people have enormous power to influence others for the better, and that includes health choices on a day-to-day basis. CentraCare, a non-profit, invests lots of money in programs to promote health. It also works hard to initiate cost-saving methods in health care, as well as programs to enhance the doctor-patient relationship, which is another way to enhance and reinforce healthy lifestyles. Bad nutrition, lack of exercise, too much indulgence in alcohol or tobacco are virtual recipes for health problems. Naturally, as people develop health problems because of those bad choices, that translates into earlier and more severe onsets of diseases and other health crises. Those, in turn, cause higher and higher costs for health care, and ultimately all of us share in paying those costs, many of which are passed on in one way or another. That is why Triple Aim is such good “medicine,” so to speak. Hopefully, the initiative will raise awareness (the all-important first step), and then people can begin a step at a time to act upon that awareness by eating less and more nutritiously, by starting an exercise regimen even if it’s only brisk walks in the neighborhood, by getting enough sleep and by getting regular medical check-ups to nip problems in the bud before they morph into major (and expensive-to-treat) problems. The beauty of it is this: improved lifestyles lead to healthier and happier people, and together (healthier, happier) we can achieve a better, more functional society while saving enormous expenditures on health care. Triple Aim could be a winwin-win for all of us. Three cheers for Triple Aim.
The ideas expressed in the letters to the editor and of the guest columnists do not necessarily reflect the views of the Newsleaders. Letters to the editor may be sent to news@thenewsleaders. com or P.O. Box 324, St. Joseph, MN 56374. Deadline is noon Monday. Please include your full name for publication (and address and phone number for verification only.) Letters must be 350 words or less. We reserve the right to edit for space.
Opinion
Friday, Nov. 25, 2016
Are tweets the new gospel truths? Fake news stories multiplied like rabbits during the presidential campaign. We are inundated with big doses of false information and fake news on the Internet and Facebook. And I do not mean opinion pieces; I mean fabricated news stories – the kinds of “news” based not on facts but on the wild vagaries of the writers’ mischievous or malicious imaginations. Fake news is nothing new. Supermarket tabloids have long been the granddaddies of fake news. We can all recall seeing their loud lunatic headlines while waiting in check-out lines: Aliens Land on White House Lawn, Enjoy Pancake Breakfast with President! Just the other day, while writing a news story about Trump’s victory, I Googled this question: “How many electoral votes did Trump win?” The first “news” story that popped up was one claiming Trump had won the electoral votes and the popular votes. It didn’t seem on the level, so I checked news sources online and several newspapers. That “news” story, as I suspected, was fake, even though it “looked” real. Here are just some recent headlines of fake “news” stories: • President Obama signs executive order banning the sale of assault weapons. • Coca-Cola recalls Dasani waters after clear parasite worm was found in bottles across U.S. • Trump wins the presidency and Ford shifts truck production from Mexico to Ohio! Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just announced he and others are developing ways to keep fake stories off of Facebook. Good luck. The sheer extent of junk and hoaxes on the Internet these days will make the task virtually impossible. Why do people put such hoaxes online? Some, I
Dennis Dalman Editor suppose, like to play tricks on the gullible. Many make money by pumping out fake stories with ads to cyber surfers. Others invent bogus news to smear their opponents, and still others create false stories just because they can. Years ago, we all had three or four TV stations, a hometown newspaper and maybe access to a metro paper. We tuned in every evening to watch our trusty news anchors, like Walter Cronkite, tell us what happened in the world that day. We were more or less on the same page. When cable TV, news and information options proliferated, with ‘round the clock access to a variety of “takes” on a news event and multiple reactions, it was, mostly, a good broadening of news sources and informational access. Along came the Internet, which was supposed to open up a Brand New World of information and news at our fingertips. And that it did, in aces and spades. But along with the good came the bad: a barrage of junk, dumb trivia, misinformation, hoaxes, fake news stories and just plain crap. Facebook arrived. It personalized everything, to the point that like-minded people share not just minutiae from their lives but also information and news copied-and-pasted from other sites. Some do not care if the “news” is true or not, as long as it agrees with their political-emotional mindsets or as long
as it’s “entertaining,” such as “Hillary is an android disguised as a human in pants suits” or “Trump has brain damage due to early fall from crib.” Facebook feeds information to its customers based on user patterns – what each person likes to see and read. That can create a cocoon-like insularity in some users, especially those who do not read books or newspapers, or who do not view other sources of information on a regular basis. And it’s no wonder, considering the attacks against “establishment” media by – for example – power brokers like Donald Trump who claimed like an angry child in a tantrum that the media were “rigging” the election against him, the election he later won, thanks to months of free media coverage. Go figure. Media-bashing has led to a deep distrust of news organizations, to the point where many will believe anything, just as long as it’s not in the “elite” media. So they seek out or stumble upon alternative information sources, and in some cases, the more outlandish the “news” claims, the more they believe them, to the point where, “If it’s on my iPad but not in the lamestream media, then it must be true.” It’s all too much like Narcissus in love with his own image reflected in a pond – a fatal insularity. You will often hear some people say, “I never believe anything I read in a newspaper,” but those same people will believe just about anything and everything they see or read online. Tweets are the new gospel truths. Don’t try to change the tweeters’ minds. What’s long overdue is a renewed dedication to social-media literacy, not to mention social-media courtesy. For starters, people might want to check out “How to Spot Fake News” on www.factcheck.org.
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Thank you, St. Joseph, for your giving spirit Molly Weyrens, St. Joseph During this time of offering “thanks,” the Central Minnesota Catholic Worker would like to express gratitude for all of the ways the community of St. Joseph has supported our efforts at ensuring food is shared by those who might struggle to provide it. In conjunction with the YES! Network of St. Cloud, we helped to provide more than 65 kids from 20+ different families with lunch and an activity for six weeks during the summer. An adult meal was generously provided by Bo Diddley’s, Kay’s Kitchen, Bello
Cucina, St. Benedict’s Monastery and the Church of St. Joseph. Generous financial support was offered by the American Legion, American Legion Women’s Auxiliary, Church of St. Joseph Knights of Columbus and the St. Joseph Quilters. Joe Town Table has also become a great event and opportunity for building friendships in the community. Each month 75-125 people gather at the American Legion in St. Joseph to enjoy great food and good conversation. This event has been financially supported by the following: CentraCare, St. Benedict’s Monastery, Stearns Electric, Scenic Spe-
cialties, Thrivent Financial, Extending the Link (CSB/ SJU), College of St. Benedict’s Community Kitchen, Pam’s Auto, American Door Co., Church of St. Joseph and Resurrection Lutheran Church. We intentionally buy a lot of the food for the meal locally to support and ensure economic sustainability in our area. If your company or business, or just you personally, would like to support any of these efforts, please contact the Central Minnesota Catholic Worker at centralmncw@gmail.com. Again, thank you for helping to live out the axiom, “We all do better, when we all do better.” Blessed Thanksgiving to all.
Reading to others – the antidote to loneliness
They don’t ask for much – just a good story now and then. Sometimes, a lot of the time, they may not be able to ask, but you can see it in their eyes. Tired eyes that are saying “I can’t make out the words anymore.” Proud eyes that hate to say, “I’ve had a stroke. I can’t hold a book in my hands.” Quiet eyes that are asking, “Could you take a minute and read me a story?” Usually a love story that might take them back to a time when they were young and in love as only the young can love. Helen closes her eyes when I read, perhaps to keep me from reading something in them that is for her eyes only. But she cannot hide the smile that dances across her face. She can not hide the way her hands, folded over her chest, sway back and forth to a melody of memories only she can hear. Rebecca asks me to change the names in every story to Rebecca and Franklin. She does not close her eyes when I read. She stares, beyond the room, beyond the walls, beyond the building – beyond time itself, into a world where a man named Franklin and a woman named Rebecca lived and loved and promised a forever to each other. John likes me to read to him. Most men don’t but John does. I think it’s because every woman in every story is, in John’s mind, a woman whose heart he once won. He doesn’t say it but …. I used to wonder if the seniors I read to considered me a time thief, stealing a little of what little they might have left. But no. I have learned that reading to someone is the antidote to loneliness. It’s like giving and getting a hug when we need it most. A good story is a good escape. A good safe place to hide.
From a step that isn’t quite as strong as it once was, from eyes a little dimmer than just the other day, from a mind not quite as sharp. A good story can turn today into yesterday, when loneliness was absent, love and respect ever present. A good story is, indeed, a good escape from, as Shakespeare wrote, “second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” My grandmother was considered forever lost to Alzheimer’s. The last time I saw her, her eyes were closed. No, they were crushed shut. Her fists were clenched so tightly around her Bible I could almost see the blood draining from her veins and she was tap, tap, tapping her feet, faster and faster until the tapping became an angry stomping. She was digging into her mind, trying to remember someone, something, anyone, anything, but the deeper she dug the further down she fell into the abyss that was once a well of golden memories. Every memory that had been tucked away for safekeeping, every moment of love and hope, every dream, every victory, every loss, every moment worth saving – no longer accessible. I removed the Bible from her grip then sat on the floor and started reading. Before long her hands relaxed, she stopped stomping her feet and the only sound in the room was the sound of my
voice. I read to her for about an hour. Finally, sadly, I kissed her goodbye. My hand was on the doorknob when she called to me. “Billy? Is that you?” I turned. Saw the recognition in her eyes. “We had some times, didn’t we, Billy?” That was all. As quickly as it had come, the light went from her eyes and she was gone again. Don’t be afraid to read to someone considered forever lost to Alzheimer’s. You might just find yourself in the middle of a miracle. Gwenna is 93 in our world. In hers, she is somewhere between seven and eight and what somewhere between sevenand eight-year-old doesn’t like a bedtime story? Gwenna prefers stories about angels. One night, long after the bedtime story had lulled her to sleep, Gwenna woke, saw me sitting at her bedside, book of stories still on my lap and asked, “Are you my guardian angel?” “Yes, darlin’, I am.” “And you have a book.” “And I have a book.” “I like that.” Carry a book of stories with you. Read to someone who can no longer read for himself or herself. A good story will lift your old friends from a life as empty as a weed-ridden patch of dirt into the Garden of Eden. William McDonald is an Emmy Award-winning writer and published author who, for more than 30 years, specialized in emotional communication in the broadcast industry. For several more years, he was a caregiver in assisted-living homes, memorycare homes and private homes. He writes full time from his home in Colorado.
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Community Calendar Is your event listed? Send your information to: Newsleader Calendar, P.O. Box 324, St. Joseph, MN 56374; fax it to 320-363-4195; or, e-mail it to news@thenewsleaders.com. Friday, Nov. 25 Hike at Quarry Park, 1-2 p.m., Quarry Park and Nature Preserve, 1802 Stearns CR 137, Waite Park. 320-255-6172. parkinfo@co.stearns.mn.us. Christmas on the Home Front, 1-8 p.m., Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site, 1620 Lindbergh Drive, Little Falls. 320-616-5421. Saturday, Nov. 26 Holiday Art Crawl, 10 a.m.6 p.m., Bruno Press, Bad Habit Brewing Co., Local Blend, Minnesota Street Market, St. Joseph. Christmas on the Home Front, 1-8 p.m., Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site, 1620 Lindbergh Drive, Little Falls. 320-616-5421. Sunday, Nov. 27 Christmas on the Home Front, 1-8 p.m., Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site, 1620 Lindbergh Drive, Little Falls. 320-616-5421. Monday, Nov. 28 Christmas on the Home Front, 5-8 p.m., Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site, 1620 Lindbergh Drive, Little Falls. 320-616-5421. St. Joseph Park Board, WANTED TO BUY WANTED TO BUY: Basswood and Birchwood by truckload delivered to Dodgeville,WI. Bark intact, harvested in dormancy, delivered FRESH cut. Pre-arranged purchases only. Call Al Ladd at 608-935-2341 ext.333 (MCN) 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) VACATION/TRAVEL Tired of the snow? Become a Winter Texan where the sun meets the gulf. Over 100 RV resorts and retirement communities for you to choose from. RV sites, fully furnished rentals and more. For more information visit www.rgvparks. org. (MCN) Are you getting TIRED of the COLD WINTERS where you are? Why don’t you get in your RV Camper and come to J-5 in Mission TX. We are located in the Rio Grande Valley. Average winter temps are 70 degrees daytime and 50 nighttime. We are a small park in a country setting but have stores and restaurants near by. We have specials for first time visitors. Call us at 956-682-7495 or email info@ j5rvparktexas.com, www.j5rvparktexas.com Tom and Donna Tuttle Managers (MCN) Tired of cold weather? Escape to Llano Grande Resort in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley! RV sites, cottages, fully furnished rentals available. Enjoy our golf course, heated swimming pools, full schedule of activities, top-notch entertainment, breathtaking sunsets, and endless fun. Ask about our complimentary 30-day stay. 800-656-2638 www.lanogranderesort.com (MCN) FOR SALE Trailer Close-Out Sale! 2017 H&H 7’X16’
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ASA principal gets a mouthful as fundraiser reward
Dog from page 3 May, with an opening of the dog park to soon follow. “We would be moving our donation box from the campground over to there,” Killam said. “We would probably set it up with a suggested donation of a dollar if you live in town or a suggested donation of $2 if you live out of town.” Killam, who is a dog owner, said the city council and the park board will not invest
Friday, Nov. 25, 2016 any more into a proposed dog park, but he believes given the months allotted for Munden to raise the remaining funds, the proposed dog park may soon be a reality. “We had meetings on this particular item with the park board,” he said. “And we never had that many people come to one meeting in support of something. We had like 40 people come, which is extremely rare for a small town. It showed me right there that there was a need for it and a want for it in town.”
VETERANS FOUGHT FOR OUR WAY OF LIFE. IT’S OUR DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THEIRS. contributed photo
All Saints Academy students raised more than $25,000 for their annual Saints in Service workathon fundraising goal. Principal Karl Terhaar had volunteered to let students be his arms to sample various foods, similar to what is done on the comedy show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” He honored his promise on Nov. 11 when students were randomly chosen to feed him food that each class selected. The foods included onions, jalapeño peppers, chicken, baby food and applesauce. Blindfolded ASA kindergarten student Jack Molus feeds Terhaar Cool Whip.
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Come Celebrate our City and the Holiday Season!
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St. Joseph F6r-iday, Dec. 2 7:30 p. m. Winterwalk Minnesota Street & College Avenue N. Downtown St. Joseph
6 p.m.- Tree Lighting on Bello Cucina’s patio
Honorary Tree Illuminator CSB President Dr. Mary Dana Hinton and family.
6:30-7:30 p.m.- Meet Santa & Mrs. Claus, Craft making, Refreshments/Treat bags at the Heritage Hall, Church of St. Joseph Look for luminaries outside of businesses offering treats and deals.
Sponsored by: Central Minnesota Credit Union, Coborn’s Inc., CSB Office of Sustainability, Kay’s Kitchen, Minnesota Street Market, River Bluff Tree Farm/Joe Styles, D.D.S., St. Joseph Action Group, St. Joseph Chamber, St. Joseph Jaycees, St. Joseph Newsleader, Sentry Bank, Sisters and Company, Sliced
Photo-op with Santa & Mrs. Claus
For more information, contact Margy Hughes at 320-249-6779.