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The eighth annual Lemonade and Laughter, sponsored by the Sartell Senior Connection along with Country Manor Senior Campus and Sartell-St. Stephen Community Education, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday May 10 in St. Francis Xavier Church, 219 Second St. N., Sartell. The event will feature the music and fun of Ted Manderfeld – half of Deuces Wild – who will entertain with standards from the Great American Songbook. Come early to shop the gift table with proceeds supporting SSC programs. There will be a quilt door prize and as always lemonade, coffee, treats and fun. $3/person at the door.
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Our Kids, Our Future: A Community Conversation community education and listening session concerning important issues facing central Minnesota youth and parents, invites area residents to come and learn from 6:308:30 p.m. Monday, May 2 at St. Cloud Technical High School, 233 12th Ave. S. Event attendees should enter through door #3. The event, a collaborative effort of various Stearns County justice-system and community organizations, will feature presentations on school truancy, teenage chemical abuse and the dangers of social media. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on April 29 Criers.
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Sauk Rapids could have two brand new schools by August 2020 if recommendations by the district’s Facilities Task Force are accepted by the school board and district residents. The task force will present its recommendations to the Sauk Rapids-Rice School Board on June 20. The task force, comprised of nearly 100 members, has worked for two years analyzing the needs of the district. Its last meeting was April 19. At this point, the task force’s recommendations are the following, although they will need to be fine tuned after meeting with school experts and architects before the June 20 presentation to the board: • Build a new elementary school (a fourth one) on district-owned property near Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. A new school would accommodate 622 students. There are currently about 1,000 students attending Mississippi Heights Elementary School. • Replace the current Pleasantview Elementary Schools • page 5
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Josh Kohanek tries to get the perfect photo of kindergarteners crossing. Pleasantview Elementary School just recently became part of a project by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that highlights several locations from across the country that have reduced obesity in their schools and increased overall health for kids. For additional photos and story, see page 4.
Women’s choir puts song in hearts of seniors by Tracy Lee Karner news@thenewsleaders.com
Residents of the Memory Cottages at the Good Shepherd Community in Sauk Rapids have been singing with the St. Cloud State University’s Women’s Choir every Friday for the past two months. Preparation for the choir’s yearly concert “Her Story, Her
Song” includes a component of student engagement with a local community program that serves women. “We heard about the Music and Memory Program at Good Shepherd, and that’s how it started,” Choir Director Mary Jo Bot said. “It’s gone beautifully.” Because they have significant memory loss from Alzheimer’s, related dementia or
brain trauma, residents of the Memory Cottages are in daily need of professional supervision. Most of them couldn’t remember the names of any of the songs they had been rehearsing for months. ““We read that Alzheimer’s affects more women than men, and more caregivers are women than men,” Bot said. Some residents held their
own songbooks, others looked on with a choir member. The pianist began playing and everyone sang “Amazing Grace” followed by other popular songs like “Bicycle Built for Two,” “She’ll be Coming ‘Round the Mountain,” and “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” Waiting for the singalong to begin, some of the residents Choir • back page
Myers named, praised Sauk Rapids Citizen of Year by Dave DeMars news@thenewsleaders.com
Home-delivered meals now available in Sauk Rapids
Home-delivered meals, a service of St. Cloud Hospital, has expanded to provide meals to Sauk Rapids and Sartell residents aged 60 and older living within city limits in addition to St. Cloud and Waite Park residents. Volunteers from area churches, businesses and service groups deliver the meals between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. weekdays except for holidays or in severe weather. Frozen meals, available for Saturday and Sunday, are delivered on Friday. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on April 29 Criers.
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April Myers gets a congratulatory hug from a wellwisher prior to receiving her award for Citizen of the Year April 25 at the Sauk Rapids Government Center.
Smiling faces and heliumfilled mylar balloons inhabit the room. On a somewhat overcast day on April 25, the Sauk Rapids Government Center Community Room and all of Sauk Rapids itself were brightened by the smile of their own April Myers, who was named Sauk Rapids Citizen of the Year 2016. Myers is housing director for Good Shepherd Community in Sauk Rapids. Myers would have made a politician cry with envy as she moved graciously through the crowd of well-wishers, shaking a hand here, accepting a hug there. Her memory
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for names and faces seemed never to fail her, and if by chance you were a stranger, it was not for long as she made all feel welcome and at ease. Asked what it means to be named Citizen of the Year, she quickly replies it’s an honor and an award that belongs to everyone in the Sauk Rapids community because it takes so many people to build a village – a great village like Sauk Rapids. “I feel very honored and very blessed because it’s certainly a privilege,” she said. Born in Crosby-Ironton, one of seven children, she came to volunteering early in her life. Her mom and dad set the example. She remembers her parents expected she and
her siblings would naturally volunteer, and that expectation became a lifelong habit. “You know,” she said, “there has never been a day when I’ve said ‘Aw, I have to volunteer’ or ‘I don’t want to do that,’ because you never have any idea what kind of an experience you are going to have.” She was at work when she got the news she’d been named Citizen of the Year. “I was at work at Good Shepherd,” Myers said. “Our CEO told me there was a lady to see me, and I kind of got a little nervous because I don’t like to miss appointments, you know. All of a sudden Lisa Braun was there Myers • page 3
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Central Minnesota Builders Association recently visited with area legislators during Builder Day at the Capitol. The members were part of a group of more than 250 individuals from the home-building-and-remodeling industry across Minnesota who talked with their legislators about the new building and energy codes, regulatory costs and more. Pictured here are (left to right) Matt Cecko, Home Check Plus; Steve Noble, Noble Custom Homes; Marty Reker, Reker Construction Inc.; Sue Lentner, Tri-County Abstract and Title Guaranty; Dale and Rachel Gruber, Dale Gruber Construction Inc.; Pete Cluever, Xcel Energy; and CMBA President Craig Schoenberg, Schoenberg Construction Inc. Benton County Agricultural Society was among 34 regional arts projects recently awarded funding through the Central Minnesota Arts Board. It received $7,000, to engage the Central Minnesota community in the study, appreciation and history of glass arts during a live glass demonstration by Foci Minnesota Center For Glass Arts during the Benton County Fair in Sauk Rapids, Aug. 1-6. The CMBA awarded $183,327. Three criteria are used in evalu-
ating applications: artistic quality and merit; ability of the organization to carry out the proposal; and the needs of the community. Funding for these grants is provided through an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the state’s general fund and its Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund created by the voters of Minnesota. For a complete list of all local projects which received awards, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on April 29 People.
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March 25 11:05 a.m. Criminal damage to property. E. Highview Drive. Authorities received a complaint of damaged mailboxes. No evidence was found during investigation. March 26 2:16 a.m. Suspicious person. Peach Drive N.E. A caller reported a suspicious person in dark clothing triggering his outside motion lights. Officers checked the area but could not locate the suspect. They did not observe any motion lights while searching. 6:55 a.m. Theft. Second Street N. A customer at a local gas station stopped in to pay for a drink and was asked if there was any fuel to pay for. He responded someone else would be in to pay. After the customer returned to the vehicle, the vehicle took off at high speed. Officers obtained the vehicle description. 3:40 p.m. Civil problem. Sixth Avenue N. An officer was called for dispatch for a civil standby. Shortly after receiving this call, the officer was told to call an involved party. This party said all involved were able to resolve the situation and perform a child exchange on their own and calmly. 8 p.m. Verbal warning. Benton Drive N./Sixth Street N. 9:20 p.m. Alarm. Police responded to report of a burglary alarm. Upon arrival, officers checked the residence. There was no answer at the residence, which was dark and secured. Officers declared everything appeared OK. No keyholder responded.
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March 27 11:54 a.m. Criminal damage to property. 15th Court. A caller reported a damaged car and possible intent to steal it. Upon police arrival, the caller showed them damaged window molding on the car and a metal rod used to unlock the door. The ignition cylinder was missing and the battery was dead. The caller suspected the damager had attempted to hotwire the car. Suspects were identified. The vehicle was left on private property. Extra patrol was requested. 2:20 p.m. Found property. Fourth Avenue S. Two items with clear serial numbers were found next to a garage. The items were placed into found property. 5:02 p.m. Assist public. Summit Avenue N./Strawberry Court. A man recently released from jail requested police assistance in picking up his property. The current keeper of the property said it would be all right for him to pick it up. The man was able to retrieve all property. The property’s keeper told him not to return to that house. 9:18 p.m. Domestic dispute. Sixth Avenue N. Police responded to report of verbal domestic between father and daughter. Upon arrival, officers spoke to both parties. The daughter said she wished to move out of the residence and her father refused to allow her to leave. The father said the daughter, who lived at home, was not following the rules in the home. Officers mediated between the two and advised the father that since his daughter is an adult, he cannot force her to stay. Both parties agreed to talk at a later time when they are more calm. The daughter then left. 10:18 p.m. Verbal warning. Second Avenue N./13th Street N. 10:53 p.m. Welfare check. Police responded to a report of a female yelling for help. Gold Cross Ambulance paramedics were also requested to respond. An emergency key was used to enter a
Friday, April 29, 2016 locked apartment. The resident was found lying on the floor, unable to get up. She had fallen and was unable to reach her phone. Paramedics assisted her to her feet and evaluated her. The resident refused medical attention. Officers and paramedics cleared. March 28 3:00 p.m. Assist other agency. Authorities were dispatched to check an address for the holder of a misdemeanor warrant. No one was home. Neighbors reported no recent activity. Police watched to see if anyone showed up. 5:50 p.m. Dispute. Fieldstone Drive. Police responded to assist a staff member with an unruly client. The client was reported to have taken a cigarette from another client. By the time authorities arrived, staff had taken care of the issue. 8:05 p.m. Fires. Benton Drive N. A resident reported sighting a small fire. Officers arrived on the scene and identified it as a small grass fire that did not endanger any buildings. The fire department arrived to extinguish it. The cause is unknown. 9:07 p.m. Harassment. 13th Avenue S. Officers received a report of harassment and responded to a woman who is temporarily staying with friends. The woman reported an altercation over social media with another party. As no direct threats were made, the officer advised the woman that although there was no crime at the time, she could apply for a restraining order. The woman requested extra patrol and said she would call if the other party showed up uninvited. April 19 Robbery. S. Benton Drive. Police responded to an armed robbery that occurred at a local bar. Two masked men, one armed with a handgun, entered the bar and ordered a staff member to the floor. The robbers took an undisclosed amount of money.
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April Myers – a lesson in citizenship by Dave DeMars news@thenewsleaders.com
April 25, Sauk Rapids Government Center. 70 or so friends and neighbors gather to pay tribute to the newest Citizen of the Year, April Myers. The history of the Citizen of the Year stretches back some 30 years to 1986. Art Daniels, a recipient of the honor in 1994, was in attendance. And Myers herself will tell you this is something that honors not only the recipient of the award, but the whole city as well. The gathering of citizens to pay tribute to one of their own who best exemplifies some of the attributes of citizenship is a good and worthy thing, and there are more among us who contribute to making the world and the city we live in a better place to live. Other nominees for the honor of Citizen of the Year this year included Tim Carlson, Barbara Bloomer, Kathy Schleuter, Madelyn Adamski and Jeremy Walsh. Each, in his or her own way, has helped to make Sauk Rapids a better place to live; a place with a little more compassion for the underdog and a helping hand for those not so swift of foot or mind. The gathering makes a virtue of being “Minnesota Nice.” Lisa J. Braun played the role of master of ceremonies. She is herself a previous honoree of the Citizen of the Year, and she is still doing her part. The Sauk Rapids Citizen of the Year Pro-
Myers from front page with flowers and made the announcement. I was speechless.” If she was speechless, it was for a very short time. By her own admission, she is an extrovert and she loves to laugh and tell a good story. Her resume is a litany of good works. “I don’t want to miss an opportunity,” she said, “and I love giving back. Our community has so many opportunities to jump in and be a part of things, and I’ve met so many wonderful
After thanking all those who had anything to do with her being named as Sauk Rapids Citizen of the Year, April Myers shared some of her philosophy about helping others and also some of the humorous things that have happened “when I try to help someone sometimes.” gram also presented two scholarships to young citizens, seniors at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. This year’s scholarship winners were Patricia Cazalvilla Torres and McKinley Lain, each receiving a $500 award based on their volunteerism, leadership and involvement in Sauk Rapids events. In addition, 16 business sponsors played a role in the sponsoring the reception and award. More sponsorship would surely be welcome. Mayor Brad Gunderson took the microphone and began his remarks by saying if he ever needed something or to know what his daughter might be doing, he could always depend on Myers. He said she is a recognizable face throughout the city.
He relayed how he often saw Myers at Coborn’s and he would find out things his daughter had done of which he was unaware. Then he would call his daughter to ask about the incident and occasionally she would play the role of the innocent. “‘What do you mean you didn’t’ I would say, April just told me you did this,” Gunderson recounted. The story drew a big laugh from the audience before the mayor intoned the multitude of whereas, whyfores and therefores of the official proclamation. Myers took the lectern and after thanking everyone, regaled the audience with several stories delineating what she gained from volunteering. “Everyone has a story, and every story starts at the beginning and usually has an ending. But I hope those of you who know me know how much I love to tell stories,” Myers began. Her story – and all those who she shared in the next 20 minutes – described the amount of pleasure she got from her volunteer work and what pleasure others could expect if they too volunteer. Her story started in Crosby-Ironton, Minn. where she learned the value of volunteering from her parents. “One day it might be cleaning dishes or selling pop at the concession stand,” Myers said. “My favorite was serving lutefisk at the church supper,
people throughout every experience I’ve had whether it be volunteering to help the drama department at the high school, serving on an advisory board for community education or the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, or volunteering in my church, Living Waters.” She talked of how all her volunteering has a kind of regenerative transformation for her, and then she expressed concerns for her husband, Scott, and daughter Megan, a junior at the College of St. Benedict. They are a little more introverted than she is, and she smiled as she said that for a time, she may
have been exhausting them with her busy schedule and being involved in so many activities. In the end, she said, the involvement was great because they could experience it all together as a family. “You deserve it,” said a garrulous Rodney Schultz. “It couldn’t have gone to a nicer person!” He stopped. April’s arms opened and offered a warm embrace and warm words to an old friend. Schultz, a retired mail carrier, saw Myers often on his rounds. She was never without her warm smile and easy way of making you feel at ease, he said.
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Past honorees who were named as Sauk Rapids Citizen of the Year welcome the newest member to the distinguished group April 25 at the government center. They are (left to right) Bill Bard, 2006; Terry Sylvester, 2003; Lisa J. Braun, 2002; April Myers, 2016; Art Daniel, 1994; and Kirsten Stiegel, 2013. mowing yards for the elderly and helping to put up American flags on light posts for special holidays – the list goes on and on, but my parents taught me that ‘giving back’ was the very best gift you could give to others.” The process of helping, she said, not only improved the city, but it garnered the lifelong memories and friends to treasure. Moving to Sauk Rapids, Myers and her husband, Scott, quickly determined such memories were gifts to their daughter Megan, and so the habit of volunteerism continued. Her work as housing director at Good Shepherd Community makes finding opportunities to serve others an easy task. “It’s an awesome place to be and we are always in need of volunteers,” she said, drawing a big laugh. Myers said she learned much from her work, and one elderly
woman who was approaching 100 and seemed to have a good deal of energy gave her advice on how to accomplish much in life. “Just keep moving,” Myers quoted her as saying. Another laugh from the audience. Myers stories were many, but always with a purpose of inspiring others to do good and share talents to make the community around her a better place to live. She told the story of serving turkey drumsticks at the Benton County Fair, and how she was once approached by a very dour man who demanded a turkey drumstick. She determined she would make him smile before he left with his drumstick. And so she tried extra hard to be solicitous, offering drink with the drumstick, or perhaps a cob of corn. “Noo! Just the turkey leg,” Lesson • page 7
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Photo shoot addresses obesity by Darren Diekmann news@thenewsleaders.com
Pleasantview Elementary School just recently became part of a project by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that highlights several locations from across the country that have reduced obesity in their schools and increased overall health for kids. Two photographers were at Pleasantview two weeks ago working on the local part of the project documenting three ways the school provides ways to make the healthy choice the
easy choice for kids. These photos will help tell part of a story that shows how the school has been an important part of a 28-percent reduction of childhood obesity in the St. Cloud area, according to a six-year study, said John Inkster, the coordinator for Better Living: Exercise and Nutrition Daily. BLEND has partnered with RWJF and Pleasantview to bring the elementary school into the larger project. Josh Kohanek, a freelance photographer from Minneapolis, was in charge of the photography. He was contracted by a
firm called Burness that is managing the project for RWJF. The first part of the photo shoot for Kohanek and his assistant was to capture Pleasantview’s fourth-graders during gym. On this day the students played a game of Mosquito, a form of tag that requires students to divide into teams differentiated by vibrant colored jerseys of yellow, red, blue and green. Kohanek shot photos of the game in action but also placed the players in still positions for better effect and later arranged students in spontaneous play, such as four boys
At left: Kindergartners cross the street during a photo shoot for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Above: Fourth-graders Jordan Lee (clockwise from bottom left), Campbell Arndt, Sienna Petermeier and Kennedy Mages take a break from the game to pose for a photo. hanging from a large tree limb and a couple sets of girls on piggyback. The Pleasantview gym class was highlighted because of the extra effort the school puts into it. “We integrate a lot of the curriculum from other classes into this class such as vocab words or different math skills. When we do bowling, we teach them scoring and use the iPads to integrate technology into the bowling unit and other units as well,” said gym teacher Sarah Dalton. They also emphasize winter
activities and sports, such as sledding and cross-country skiing, not often available to most elementary students. “We have the equipment here, which is pretty rare,” Dalton said. Much of the funding for the equipment is raised by the school itself, she added. This adds up to a gym program that gives students a way to keep them more active and engaged throughout the year. Later the photographers highlighted the school’s student-safety-patrol program. The entire Pleasantview kindergarten class was employed to help
Bark for Life seeks participants to fight cancer by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
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ask friends, family, co-workers and others to donate funds for the fight against cancer. “Bark for Life is a (chance) for people to celebrate canine companionship and fight back against cancer with their dogs,” said Jessica Ostendorf, the local Bark for Life chair. There are many ways to raise funds for Bark for Life. Donating via social media, selling pet luminaria for the walk in remembrance of beloved departed pets or selling “paper paws” in honor of people affected by cancer. Last year, more than 20,000 registered dogs and caregivers took part at nearly 300 Bark for Life Events in the United States. Together, they raised $1.2 mil-
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the fifth-grade safety patrols demonstrate safe street crossing. Most motorists waited patiently as Kohanek took dozens of photos from different angles and distances of different combinations of groups passing between crossing lines and the safety flags of the patrols. The older students conducted themselves with precision while the younger students performed their roles with surprising order and seriousness considering their age. Kohanek frequently reminded them to smile and joked with them to lighten the scene. Having students rather than adults as safety patrols is what makes this program noteworthy, said behavior interventionist Abby Lyon. “So it’s older students being some of those first faces the younger students see in the morning,” she said. “And it shows our school is community focused.” RWJF is also strongly interested in the training of the students. For a time, safety training was done only at the school. But during the last two years, with grant money secured by BLEND from the MnDOT program Safe Routes to Schools, the students get extensive training at Legionville Safety Camp near Brainerd.
It was this safety-patrol training and earlier partnerships of Pleasantview with BLEND in Safe-Routes projects like the safe sidewalk from Pleasantview to the middle school completed a few years ago that made this area even more attractive to RWJF. The final part of the shoot was a highlight of the lunch program. A reason for the interest is Pleasantview’s program makes an effort to go beyond the nutritional standards, said Julie Dombrovski, food service manager and head cook. “We put a lot into it,” she said, “and try to go above and beyond, provide a wide variety. And we work hard so it does taste good and they do like it.” This day they had French toast sticks. “They love the breakfast for lunch choice,” she said. This local project includes the entire St. Cloud area. So the following day Kohanek went to the BLEND Kids Health and Fitness Expo at St. Cloud State University where they met up with other local kids for more documentation of the area. The larger national RWJF project, “Signs of Progress,” tells the stories of places where childhood obesity is declining, and elevates them as examples
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rity needs study and then add those security innovations and upgrades to every school in the district according to the strictest standards. • Add athletic facilities to the high school, such as a football stadium. Such amenities were supposed to have been added in 2003 when the school was built, but lack of state funding made that plan unfeasible. Currently, there are also plans for the City of Sauk Rapids to pay for a fieldhouse with half-cent sales-tax revenue. The fieldhouse would be at the high school and would be managed
from front page School with a new elementary school at the same location. • Expand the preschool and early-childhood programs and facilities at Hillside and at Rice Elementary School. Also at the Rice school, add some multi -purpose space, mechanical upgrades and either replace and/ or upgrade some of the playground equipment. • Expand Hillside School for growth and to eliminate its current waiting list. • Increase accessibility for all students with disabilities, as well as their families, at all schools, especially all bathrooms. • Do a comprehensive secu-
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Fifth-graders Connor Johnson (left) and Creed Bonosky instruct a patient group of kindergartners on safety. For additional photo, see front page. for the rest of the country, wrote Sara Binder, project manager for Burness. So far the project features 10 locations, mostly on the East coast, but contains information on several others. Burness learned of BLEND’s work and the declining obesity rates in the St. Cloud area in late 2014 from an article in the St.
Cloud Times. “Since then we have stayed in contact with the folks at BLEND about the work they’re doing,” Binder wrote. You will soon be able to read the Pleasantview-St. Cloud area project and two other new locations, Southern California and Cherokee County, S.C., on the RWJF website: http://www.
rwjf.org/en/library/collections/ signs-of-progress.html. The publishing dates for the local story and the others are not certain, but are expected to be in the next two months. Burness is also putting together a promotional plan to spread the news of the progress of overall childhood health in St. Cloud and the other regions.
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ident student populations are expected to grow. Open enrollment generates about $5 million for the district annually, which helps maintain smaller class sizes, access to technology and improved programming, but even without open-enrollment figures, there is still a serious need for more elementary classroom space, the task force noted. • While a growing enrollment can be accommodated at the middle school and high school, the need for more elementary school space has reached a critical stage.
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The task force based its recommendations largely on the following data and facts. • Enrollment has increased dramatically. In the next five years, it’s expected to grow by 17.3 percent. In just the past six years, enrollment increased by almost 800 students. Birth rates on average in Minnesota grew 5 percent between 1999 and 2013, but in Sauk Rapids the rate grew by 35 percent during that same time period. • Both resident and non-res-
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The cost of building one new elementary school is estimated at about $34 million at this point. That would translate into about a $39 annual icrease in taxes for a homeowner with a house valued at a market value of $125,000. The other new school projects and other amenities would obviously add to that cost. If the school board approves, public input would be required before the board would consider bringing a school-bond referendum to district voters either in May 2017 or November 2017.
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Some grandstanding legislators should get a job, a real job Some Minnesota legislators should get a life. And a job. A real job. They are the ones who love to waste their time and our money on dumb legislative proposals. Their latest stunt is a bill that would require transgender people to use bathrooms that match the sex on their birth certificates. It’s the same fear-mongering stunt recently passed into law in North Carolina, causing that state to lose billions of potential revenue from corporations and others who raised a storm of protest. It makes you wonder what kind of naughty boy comic-book dreck lurks in the minds of these legislators. They are pretending so hard to be “protecting privacy” and “insuring bathroom safety.” What they are doing, in fact, is transgender bashing while – irony of ironies – posing as moral guardians. Most of these knee-jerk reactionaries are those who just cannot stand the fact Minnesota legalized same-sex marriages, which the U.S. Supreme Court has also defined as the law of the land. Thus, in their bitter disappointment over progressive laws defending the civil and legal rights of LGBT people, these legislators – like those in North Carolina and elsewhere – are spoilsport termites determined to nibble away at progressive legislation. If they cannot overturn such laws, they will try to gnaw them to death. Well, the joke’s on them because most of society approves of laws that protect the civil and legal rights of LGBT people. In flaunting their backlash attitudes, all these so-called legislators are doing is exposing the moral bankruptcy and baseless bigotry of their “moral” stances. If these paragons of virtue, so-called, have their way, they’d require everybody who has to use a bathroom to present a birth certificate to a Potty Cop at the entrance. Sound ridiculous? Of course it does because the proposed bill is ridiculous. To hear these bathroom guardians tell it, you’d think there are swarms of sex-crazed transgender people barging into bathrooms to leer at others – or worse, molest or rape them. There is already a law against such behavior, as well there should be. Quite a few people, including at least one legislator, have been arrested for such illegal behavior. Such acts, isolated as they are, will unfortunately continue with or without a lunatic bathroom bill. Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen (R-Glencoe) wrote the House version of the proposed bill. There is little chance such a silly bill will pass, and the supporters know it. They just want to do some “moral” grandstanding, being the “Holy Knights” defending “family values.” All show and pretense. Utter nonsense. Gov. Mark Dayton said he would veto such an “appalling” bill. “They just keep bashing people for their own political advantage,” Dayton said. He should have said “ . . . for what they think is their own political advantage.” What they are doing will more than likely become a political disadvantage. They threw out a boomerang, and it’s going to come right back and zonk them a good one. The ludicrous bathroom legislation has support from many legislators in the central Minnesota area. When re-election time rolls around, let’s help these politicizing busybodies get new jobs – real ones.
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Friday, April 29, 2016
Opinion Fearless Tubman bumps Jackson off bill It’s ironic – yet appropriate – abolitionist Harriet Tubman bumped anti-abolitionist and slave-owner Andrew Jackson off the front of the $20 bill. In fairness, Jackson was a significant president, a frontier populist, but his legacy is marred by his despicable treatment of Native Americans of the Southeast. Tubman’s legacy, on the other hand, remains virtually untarnished – one of moral courage, a true inspiration across so many decades. The following are some interesting facts about fearless Tubman: • In 1822 or thereabouts, Araminta Ross (later Tubman) was born a slave to slave parents in Dorchester County, Md. She was one of nine children. Her mother and father were “owned” by different slave owners in the same county. • Like all slaves, she was treated terribly by “owners” who considered her nothing but property to be worked. She recalled being lashed as punishment, even once before she was allowed to eat breakfast. • A life-altering tragedy occurred when she went to a dry-goods store for supplies. There, she met a male slave who had left the fields without permission. The man’s overseer demanded Tubman help restrain the runaway. When she refused, the man threw a 2-pound metal weight at the man but missed, hitting Tubman on the head. The rest of her life she suffered seizures, fits of narcolepsy, painful headaches and would sometimes see visions and hear voices, which she often interpreted as God speaking to her. • In 1840, in her mid-20s, Ross and two of her brothers escaped and made their way to Philadelphia – Pennsylvania being a slave-free state at the time. She knew her time was running out, that she was about to be sold away from her family
Dennis Dalman Editor because she was considered a “sickly slave of low economic value.” Reward posters were printed for the runaways. The brothers decided to return “home.” Ross saw them back safely, then escaped a second time. This is what she later said about her freedom in Pennsylvania: ““When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.” • In 1850, the vile Fugitive Slave Law was passed. It required law enforcement to send back any escaped slaves, even those living in free states. Slave catchers appeared everywhere, hoping for the rewards given for captured and returned slaves. That cruel law profoundly complicated Ross’s life because by then she had decided to dedicate herself to helping slaves escape. The new “promised land” became slavefree Canada. • Ross married John Tubman, which is how she got her new last name. In 11 years, Tubman, working in extreme danger, guided about 300 slaves to freedom as a “conductor” on what was dubbed the “Underground Railroad,” a long series of hideaway houses where the runaways could stop to rest on their dangerous journey North. Tubman rescued family members, relatives but also total strangers. She became known as “Moses” because she led so many in bondage to the “Promised Land.”
• To partly understand the terror of runaway slaves, all one has to do is read some of the many reward posters posted far and wide. They chillingly show in matter-of-fact words the utterly heartless attitudes of the “owners” wanting their “property” back. Runaways caught and returned would often receive hideous punishments, such as up to 150 lashes with whips, brandings on the face, the cutting off of an ear and even, in some cases until the late 1780s, amputation of limbs. • In a decision some consider morally questionable on her part, Tubman helped recruit participants for abolitionist John Brown’s infamous armed raid at Harper’s Ferry. • During the Civil War, Tubman worked as an armed scout, a spy, a cook and a nurse. She even led an armed expedition in what’s known as the Combahee River Raid, liberating 700 slaves being kept captive in South Carolina. Later, she married a Civil War veteran named Nelson Davis, and they adopted a baby girl they named Gertie. • In her later years, Tubman lived, frequently impoverished, in Auburn, N.Y., although her many friends often helped her get through the toughest times. She underwent a grueling surgery, without anesthetic, in an effort to stop the debilitating pains stemming from the head injury she suffered as an adolescent. It did help alleviate some of the pain. She died of pneumonia in 1913 and was buried with full military honors in Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn. • The following is a famed quote from Tubman: “I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say: I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
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Litter shows disrespect toward gift of nature Carol Schumann, Rice While out walking, I notice there is so much garbage and litter in our country’s ditches. This seems to me a disrespectful
attitude toward what God has entrusted us to take care of. God created this beautiful world for us to enjoy. It’s a gift given to us. Let us all do our part in keeping not only our ditches and roadways clean but
also our parks, lakes and rivers, too. We must protect and care for our environment not only for us to enjoy but for future generations. Let us nurture and cherish it.
There is no free stuff for anyone Should college and university education be tuition-free? According to Bernie Sanders, it should be. Just recently, I heard of a youngster entering the workforce having just graduated from college sporting a student debt of $100,000. That, to me, is patently obscene. He’ll never be able to retire that debt. He would have been far better off bypassing college and going to work for a plumber and learning that trade. He would start off making a good income with no student debt and the college grad will still be paying for his school for years to come. How about medical costs? Should your visit to the hospital for an appendectomy be free or should someone else have to pay the $25,000 cost? Wouldn’t it be great if all of this were just free for the taking? It reminds me of a Merle Haggard song about “drinking free Bubble Up and eating rainbow stew,” but free stuff is a fantasy. It costs a bundle to run a college. College professors and administrators make huge incomes. Hospitals are money mills. (If you don’t think so, just see what a 5-cent aspirin costs in the hospital.) The medical profession has continued to increase their prices to the point of obscenity. Several years ago, some enterprising doctors got together and came up with what has become health-care insurance, a plan to help pre-pay for medical care. Today,
Ron Scarbro Guest Writer even the government has decided to require employers to provide this insurance for employees, and it has continued to flood the medical profession with ridiculous amounts of money. But what if there was no health-care insurance? Who would pay for medical service and what would it cost then? Would it fall to the government? And exactly who is the “government?” Isn’t the government, “we the people?” If there was no insurance, would medicine cost what it does now? Today, most medical costs are being covered by various companies, but this week a problem arose. UnitedHealth, one of the country’s largest health-care insurance providers, is terminating their association with ObamaCare because of huge financial losses. They reportedly lost more than $600 million under the program. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel here, but we have problems. There is no free stuff. Somebody has to pay. Bernie thinks the rich will just have to pay more. I have some news for Bernie and the other politicians who are looking for ways to extract more money
from the so-called “rich.” They are probably a lot smarter than the politicians who are trying to bilk them. They didn’t get rich by being stupid. In the final analysis, education and medicine are commodities. They are for sale. The purveyors of education and medicine are in the business of making a profit. Unless the government wishes to re-name those commodities as “public utilities,” thereby regulating them as such, another solution will have to be found. To the purveyors of higher education and medical care, I would offer this bit of advice. Remember the goose that laid the golden egg? Be careful you don’t kill your goose. I would think they are pretty rare. Some serious discussion concerning restraint might be in order. Both education and medical costs are rising far faster than the economy itself. So fast the economy cannot sustain them. Something is going to have to give and it isn’t going to be a Sander’s presidency, incidentally another fantasy, with free stuff for all. There is no free. 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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Friday, April 29, 2016
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, April 29 Registration deadline for free skin-cancer screenings May 2 and 3, CentraCare Clinic, Health Plaza, 1900 CentraCare Circle, St. Cloud. 320-229-4924. Rummage Sale, 7-11 a.m., St. John the Baptist Church, 14241 Fruit Farm Road, St. Joseph. 320-3632569. www.stjohnthebaptistparish. org. Brat sale, sponsored by St. Joseph Y2K Lions, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 First Ave. N.W. Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org. Sacred Heart Men’s Club Steak Fry, 5-8 p.m., VFW, 901 N. Benton Drive, Sauk Rapids. 320-249-4413. Friends, Fun and Food, sponsored by the Minnesota Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, 6:30-8:30 p.m., St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1111 Cooper Ave. S., St. Cloud. 320-251-7272. Reynold Philipsek plays live jazz, 9-11:30 p.m., Pioneer Place, 22 Fifth Ave., St. Cloud. Saturday, April 30 5K Individual and Team Run/ Walk, Bend in the River Park, N.E. River Road, Rice. 320-333-3326. annamaries5k.com. ricewomenoftoday. com. Rose Education Day, 8-11:30 a.m., Whitney Senior Center, 1527 Northway Drive, St. Cloud. 320-2557245. z.umn.edu/RoseEd2016. Sartell Lions Spring Cleanup, 8 a.m.-noon, Sartell Middle School parking lot, 212 Third Ave. N. www.e-clubhouse.org/sites/sartell. Stearns County Auction, 9:30 a.m., Stearns County Highway Department, 455 28th Ave., Waite Park. stearnscountymn.gov. Sauk Rapids Green River Parks AU T O M O B I L E S / M O T O R C Y C L E S WANTED MOTORCYCLES: TOP CASH PAID! For Old Motorcycles! 1900-1980. DEAD OR ALIVE! 920-371-0494 (MCN) FOR SALE TRAILER SALE: 2017 H&H 7’x16’ V-nose ramp door, side door $4,156.00; 6’x12’ v-nose ramp door side door $2,799.00; NEW 7’x18’ enclosed $4,550.00; NEW Skidloader trailers with 4 ft. dovetail & flip over ramps $4,077.00; 82”x20’+2’ 14,000# skidloader trailers Now $3,699.00. 150 trailers in-stock 515-972-4554 www.FortDodgeTrailerWorld. com (MCN) ADOPTION PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Call us first. Living expenses, housing, medical, and continued support afterwards. Choose adoptive family of your choice. Call 24/7. 855-390-6047 (MCN) A UNIQUE ADOPTIONS, LET US HELP! Personalized Adoption Plans. Financial Assistance, Housing, Relocation and More. Giving the Gift of Life? You Deserve the Best. 1-888-637-8200. 24HR Hotline. (VOID IN IL) (MCN) AUTOMOBILES DONATE YOUR CAR, TRUCK OR BOAT TO HERITAGE FOR THE BLIND. Free 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care Of. 1-800-2830205 (MCN) DONATE YOUR CAR TO CHARITY. Receive maximum value of write off for your taxes. Running or not! All conditions accepted. Free pickup. Call for details. 855-752-
Cleanup, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Lions/ Southside Parks promenade on River Avenue, Sauk Rapids. saukrapidsgreen@gmail.com. Sunday, May 1 Bike blessing and barbecue, benefiting Catholic Charities’ St. Cloud Children’s Home and the VA Hospital, following the 10:45 a.m. service, Joy Christian Center, 770 21st Ave. NE, St. Cloud. 320-253-7819. Monday, May 2 Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org. NAMI Community Conversation on Mental Health, 6-8 p.m., Whitney Senior Center, 1527 Northway Drive, St. Cloud. 320-654-1259. namistcloud.com. Our Kids, Our Future community conversation on important issues concerning Minnesota youth and parents, 6:30-8:30 p.m., St. Cloud Technical High School, 122 12th Ave. S. Rice City Council, 7 p.m., council chambers, Rice City Hall, 205 Main St. E. 320-393-2280. Sauk Rapids Planning Commission, 7 p.m., council chambers, Sauk Rapids Government Center, 250 Summit Ave. N. 320-258-5300. ci. sauk-rapids.mn.us. Sauk Rapids Riverside Lions Club, 7 p.m., Jimmy’s Pour House, 22 Second Ave. N., Sauk Rapids. eclubhouse.org/sites/srriverside. Tuesday, May 3 Professional Advisor Day, 8:3011:30 a.m., The Courtyard, 404 W. St. Germain St., St. Cloud. Register at communitygiving.org/events. Sauk Rapids HRA Board, 6 p.m., council chambers, Sauk Rapids Government Center, 250 Summit Ave. N. 320-258-5300. ci.sauk-rapids.mn.us. Watab Township Board, 7 p.m., 660 75th St. NW, Sauk Rapids. watabtownship.com. Benton Telecommunications channel 3. 6680 (MCN) EMPLOYMENT/HELP WANTED CLASS A CDL Driver. Good home time. Stay in the Midwest. Great pay and benefits. Matching 401k. Bonuses and tax free money. Experience needed. Call Scott 507437-9905. Apply on-line http://www.mcfgtl. com (MCN) MAKE $1,000 WEEKLY! Paid in advance! Mailing Brochures at Home! Easy pleasant work. Begin Immediately! Age unimportant! www.MyHomeIncomeNow55.com (MCN) MAKE $1000 Weekly!! Mailing Brochures From Home. Helping home workers since 2001. No Experience Required. Start Immediately! www.centralmailing.net (VOID IN SD, WI) (MCN) HELP WANTED: OTR DRIVERS. Ewy Trucking seeking Owner/Operators & Company Drivers. Valid Class A CDL. Home on weekends if desired. Pulling hopper bottoms. Based in Racine, MN. Call 507-421-3680. (MCN) HEALTH & MEDICAL VIAGRA 100mg, CIALIS 20mg. 60 tabs, $99 includes FREE SHIPPING. 1-888-8360780 or Metro-Meds.online (MCN) Stop OVERPAYING for your prescriptions! Save up to 93%! Call our licensed Canadian and International pharmacy service to compare prices and get $15.00 off your first prescription and FREE Shipping. 1-800-2634059. (MCN) Got Knee Pain? Back Pain? Shoulder Pain? Get a pain-relieving brace at little or NO cost
Wednesday, May 4 Family-to-family, 6:30-9 p.m., Unity Spiritual Center, 931 Fifth Ave. N., Sartell. 320-290-7713. 320-2492560. Thursday, May 5 Coffee and Conversation, a senior discussion group, 9 a.m., Country Manor, 520 First St. NE, Sartell. National Day of Prayer, featuring bluegrass band Gold Rush, 5:306:30 p.m., Shepherd of the Pines Lutheran Church, 1950 125th St. N.W., Rice. Great River Regional Coin Club, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Miller Auto Marine Sports Plaza, 2930 Second St. S., St. Cloud. 320-252-8452. Sauk Rapids Jaycees, 7 p.m., VFW, 901 N. Benton Drive, Sauk Rapids. srjaycees.weebly.com. Rice Lions Club, 8 p.m., Lions Building, Westside Park, 101 Fourth St. NW. Friday, May 6 Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org. Post-Polio Support Group, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Independent Lifestyles, 215 N. Benton Drive, Sauk Rapids. 320-281-2013. St. Cloud State University Commencement, 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., St. Cloud State University (Herb Brooks National Hockey Center), 720 Fourth Ave. S. http://today. stcloudstate.edu/commencement-ceremonies-may-6/ St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, 3-6:30 p.m., near the Wobegon Trail Center, C.R. 2.
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laughter at the story. Myers said the man grinned from ear to ear, and it’s a memory she’ll never forget. Mission accomplished. It is this kind of reaction that inspires Myers to keep volunteering and trying to make a difference. It’s what keeps her involved and puts a smile on her face. “When you help others out, when you give back to others in the community – you make the difference,” she said. “And you will never know who has seen you and when you have made that difference.”
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Friday, April 29, 2016
Development corp. attracts businesses, job seekers
by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Patti Gartland, the former city administrator of Sartell, recently visited the Sartell Economic Development Commission to Gartland give an overview of the accomplishments of the Greater St. Cloud Development Corp. during 2015. Gartland has been president of the GSDC for several years. She was offered the job before resigning as Sartell city administrator, replaced by Mary Degiovanni, the current administrator.
The GSDC is a private collaboration of about 100 regional business and city leaders in the counties of Stearns, Benton and Sherburne. Its goal is to tap into the resources of central Minnesota and foster collaboration to improve the business climate and economic base of the region. The corporation is completely self-funded via investor fees. Its new location is in the first floor of the First National Bank Building at 501 W. St. Germain St.. St. Cloud. The following are some of the statistics Gartland shared with the Sartell EDC: • 748 jobs were created or retained last year in the area. • 128 visits were made to area
businesses. • 67 potential or near-term expansions were in the businessdevelopment pipeline. • 499 employers have used GSDC, and more than 1,800 job seekers are registered in GSDC’s Talent Portal and JobSpot, with 21 percent of the job seekers currently living outside Minnesota. • 18 companies/organizations joined the GSDC investor group, growing the group to 168, with an investor retention rate of 96 percent. • 498 attended the annual GSDC Innovation Summit. • 282 people and 125 organizations attended the annual GSDC Well-Being Summit.
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with keynote speaker Lester Bagley of the Minnesota Vikings. 7-10 a.m. Thursday, April 28. River’s Edge Convention Center, St. Cloud. Downtown Summit in the summer of this year. GSDC Board of Advisors/Stakeholders meeting. 7-9:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4. Kelly Inn Grand Ballroom. Innovation Summit. Thursday, Oct. 13. River’s Edge Convention Center. GSDC Board of Advisors/Stakeholders meeting. 7-9:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 17. Courtyard at Marriott Ballroom. Transportation Summit in January 2017.
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Choir from front page of the Memory Cottages were withdrawn, sitting silently in a chair and looking at the floor but that changes once rehearsals start at the Sauk Rapids institution. “Look at her! She’s smiling!” Sue Dronetle said. She was there to watch the singalong because her daughter, Katy James, is a resident of the Memory Cottage. Katy was slated to perform one song with the choir at their April 26 concert at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in St. Cloud. According to her mother, Katy has trouble talking and rarely smiles, but the music changes her. She becomes calmer and happier when she is singing. As the group sang “Edelweiss” from Rogers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, Katy’s smile grew even larger. “We used to sing that melody as a dinner prayer when company came over,” Dronetle said. This year is the third time SCSU junior Ashley Heymer has participated in the “Her Story, Her Song” concert and community engagement. “This is really special to me, as I have people in my family who have been impacted by memory loss,” she said. “Seeing the results of
• 143 people attended the Board of Advisors’ annual meeting. • 181 job seekers made one-onone personal connections with 25 companies at 10 Coffee and Careers Talk events. • 177 employers and more than 3,000 individuals engaged in the GSDC Workplace Well-Being Initiative activities, which were launched in February 2015. This year, the GSDC will host six major events to work on its six strategic initiatives. Two events have already been held – the Talent Summit and the Workplace Well-Being Summit. The upcoming events are as follows: • The GSDC annual meeting,
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St. Cloud State University Students and residents of the Memory Cottages at Good Shepherd Community in Sauk Rapids meet in the chapel to enjoy a weekly singalong. From left to right are Chayapimon Aunrua; resident Katy; student Ashley Heymer; and residents Valeria and Mary Lou. what we’re doing makes the community involvement more exciting.” The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America explains on its website that people’s responses to rhythm and wellknown songs require little to no mental processing. For this reason, music can spark compelling outcomes even in very late stages of dementia. “One of the residents can’t finish a sentence when she’s speaking,” said Diane Haffner, a staff member. “But when the music starts, she can read and sing every word of every song. It’s so amazing to watch them all sing. It brings tears to my eyes.” Good Shepherd Commu-
nity is looking for one or two volunteers to use iTunes and iPods to help residents build personal playlists. This will expand their Music and Memory program by bringing the therapeutic and enlivening benefits of music to more residents. Training will be provided. And musicians of all types are welcome to come and share their musical talents. Interested people are encouraged to call the volunteer coordinator at 320-258-8661.
Q: With all this attention to distracted driving recently, I know a person can “talk” on a cell phone while driving if they are 18 years old or older. I understand it’s illegal for anyone under that age to be “on a cell phone.” Does that apply to a “hands-free” device such as a “bluetooth”? A: Anyone under 18 years of age may NOT operate a vehicle while using a cell phone, whether handheld or hands free, when the vehicle is in motion. A driver with a provisional license may use a cell phone to call 911 in case of an emergency. A “hands-free” device while a vehicle is in motion is also illegal for someone under 18. Vehicles in motion also apply to someone stopped at a stop sign, a stop light or stopped in traffic in general. The exception of “obtaining emergency assistance” is quite limited in my professional opinion. Calling “911” would be a good example. Calling Mom and Dad to let them know you are late should be done before you put the vehicle in motion.
Minnesota is involved in a serious effort to reduce the fatalities and serious injury crashes on our roadways. It involves a partnership with a mission of “Toward Zero Deaths.” I believe distracted driving is the next dangerous epidemic plaguing our roadways and the statistics show that. Distracted driving contributes to one in four crashes in Minnesota. Ask yourself what the most important text message you ever sent or received was. Now ask yourself if that text is worth your life or another life on the road. Help us put an end to distracted driving. Before you get in the car, put away the phone, adjust your radio and enter your location into your GPS. If you’re a passenger, speak up if someone drives distractedly. A portion of state statutes was used with permission from the Office of the Revisor of Statutes. If you have any questions concerning traffic-related laws or issues in Minnesota, send your questions to Trp. Jesse Grabow – Minnesota State Patrol at 1000 Highway 10 W., Detroit Lakes, Minn. 56501-2205. (You can follow him on Twitter @MSPPIO_NW or reach him at, jesse.grabow@state.mn.us).