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Friday, May 13, 2016 Volume 2, Issue 19 Est. 2015
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VA Health Care seeks youth volunteers
The St. Cloud VA Health Care System is seeking youth to participate in its Summer Student Volunteer Program. The experience is open to anyone 13 years and older who has parental/guardian consent, completes an application package and can commit to a minimum of four hours per week. A diverse array of volunteer assignments is available in areas including but not limited to escort service, pharmacy, recreation therapy, music therapy, and entertainment and companion services. For more information, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on May 13 Criers.
Center offers nicotine dependence program
The next session of the Outpatient Nicotine Dependence Program begins May 26 and runs for five consecutive Thursdays from 4:305:30 p.m. at the CentraCare Heart and Vascular Center at the St. Cloud Hospital. Deadline to register is Thursday, May 19. Find success through the program’s personalized treatment, support group, medication therapy, relapse prevention and self-help plan. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on May 13 Criers.
Bishop Kettler to celebrate Blue Mass
Bishop Donald Kettler will offer a special “Blue Mass” to honor first-responders and other emergency personnel at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 19 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 25 Eighth Ave. S., in St. Cloud. A light reception will follow. Members of the Melrose Fire Department will serve as gift bearers at the Mass. Members of the St. John’s Abbey Fire Department and the St. Cloud Fire and Police Pipe and Drum Corps will also participate.
City of Sauk Rapids switches water systems
As of May 10, the city of Sauk Rapids has switched from two different water systems – one free chlorine system and one chloramine system – to an entirely chloramine system due to maintenance and repairs. People with fish tanks and people using home kidney-dialysis units are advised to visit the city of Sauk Rapids website for further information and guidance. For more information, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on May 13 Criers.
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Numerous Sauk Rapids-Rice High School students took one trip around the school grounds all together during the start of the “Walk for Life.”
Schools of the Sauk Rapids-Rice district last Friday held their annual “Walk for Life,” the final event in a four-week effort to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Hundreds of students, parents and school faculty and staff raised thousands of dollars and walked to honor or memorialize those who are or have suffered from cancer. Participants from Pleasantview Elementary walked around a track that was set up on the baseball field and lined with luminaria and posters the students made for the fourweek-long fundraising event. A KCLD van was on hand pumping out music to add to an already festive atmosphere. Even in the unseasonable 90-degree heat, the kids had to be encouraged not to run. But the free
water and freezies handed out by staff and the student council helped to cool them down. The students walked in halfhour shifts with five to 10 minutes staggered start times for each class. There were students continuously walking throughout the day. This was Pleasantview’s 14th annual “Walk for Life,” according to Principal Aby Froiland. Ellen Fuller, the principal’s secretary, said she believes they were the first school in the district to do the walk when the American Cancer Society approached them to do it as a service project. “It was important to us as staff, as we had some close connections to staff and staff family members who were dealing with cancer,” Fuller said. Last year, Pleasantview raised its largest amount ever, more Walk • back page
Grant aims to prepare students for workforce by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com
The Sauk Rapids-Rice School District and the Initiative Foundation recently received a threeyear grant for more than half-amillion dollars to help students at risk of dropping out.
The grant totaling $618,000 (or $206,000 annually) will be used to develop and implement a “collaborative Bittman
model for secondary students who are disconnected from school and education.” “The purpose of the Youthprise grant is to provide alternative programming and to best prepare students for the workforce,” said Sauk Rapids-Rice School District Superintendent
Police chief opens up about security, safety The road to now
by Dave DeMars news@thenewsleaders.com
Police Chief Perry Beise’s desk is covered with neatly aligned sheafs of papers that are part of the day’s work, and by the end of the day, Beise will have sorted through, read, commented on and signed off on most of the material presented. It’s not his favorite part of the job, but it’s necessary. Beise has been in law enforcement for 30 years – 22 as a patrol officer and eight as chief of the Sauk Rapids Police Department. And as Beise would be quick to tell you, paperwork is not what drew him to a career in law enforcement but rather a kind of roll of the dice.
Beise grew up in Hastings, and like many young people in the 1980s, he went off to college with high hopes and a sense of adventure. Beise says he really can’t say what drew him to law enforcement, but reasoned if he ever got injured, he could go back to teaching. He had three choices when he graduated from college in 1984 with a major in history and political science. Then he decided to go back and either get a degree in teaching, law enforcement or a minor in business. It came down to either teaching history and social studies, or law enforcement. “Law enforcement won,” he said. “When I finally finished college, like a lot of police ofPolice • page 3
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Daniel Bittman. The grant was made possible through a three-year $3 million Social Innovation Fund grant to Youthprise for Opportunity Reboot. SIF is an initiative of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which Grant • page 2
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Grant from front page helps people in low-income communities across the nation. The project will implement the Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training Model to serve 166 youths, all of whom are economically disadvantaged and/or disconnected from school, 50 percent of who are
from communities of color and 25 percent who have disabilities. “We are very pleased to support the I-BEST model the Initiative Foundation and Sauk Rapids School District will be implementing with disconnected youth,” commented Marcus Pope, Youthprise director of partnerships and external relations. The SIF grants aim to connect Minnesota’s opportunity youth with services and supports that will lead to careers in high-de-
People Ellie Manderfeld received a $1,500 Student Arts Scholarship from the Central Minnesota Arts Board for fine arts Manderfeld and business at North Park University in Chicago. The program is designed to support students entering or enrolled in an accredited institution who are pursuing undergraduate degrees in the arts. Individuals are eligible to receive up to four of these scholarships in a lifetime. Four Sauk Rapids-Rice students were honored at the Students of Excellence Banquet and Recognition ceremony April 27 at
the River’s Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud. The evening was dedicated to honoring the top 140 high school seniors from 36 Region 7 high schools. The honorees were nominated by their school or district and received a plaque recognizing their accomplishment and a certificate from Gov. Mark Dayton. These students are Bailey Hennes, Brooke Lorentz, Lindsey Montag and Jared Timm. Alexis Rockenbach, 10, of Sauk Rapids, has been chosen as a state finalist in the National American Miss Minnesota Pageant to be held June 19 at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Bloomington-Minneapolis South. The pageant is held for girls ages 10 through 12.
Correction On page 4 of the May 6 SaukRapids-Rice Newsleader, we referred to Jack Saldana as being
from “Saldana Concrete.” The correct name of the business is “Saldana Excavating.”
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mand sectors like IT, health care, construction and manufacturing. “We currently have a program that provides support for students in the 11th and 12th grades,” Bittman said. “But what this opportunity will provide is programming for targeted students or identified students from grades eight through 10 with a focus on work and career readiness.” Opportunity Reboot targets youth who are either homeless, in foster care, involved in the juvenile justice system or disconnected from school and work. An additional focus is on building social-emotional skills to strengthen education and career
If you have a tip concerning a crime, call the Sauk Rapids Police Department at 320-251-9451 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at 320255-1301 or access its tip site at www.tricountycrimestoppers.org. Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for crimes. April 1 2:02 a.m. Suspicious activity. Fourth Avenue N. Staff of a local business observed a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot for 20 minutes and reported unusual activity. Upon arrival, officers determined the driver of a vehicle matching that description had his driver’s license revoked. The officer gave a verbal warning and instructed to call a valid driver. 6:16 p.m. Parking complaint. Division Street. Police responded to a parking complaint. The complainant later stated he had made a mistake and the vehicle he was reporting was actually his visitor. 7:38 p.m. Theft. Pearl View Drive. Two women reported multiple items they had planned to sell in a garage sale had been taken from their backyard. They stated they were making a list of everything that was stolen. Police advised them to contact the depart-
outcomes. “The combination of mentoring, internships and career guidance will open up new career pathways for youth in central Minnesota,” Pope said in a statement. Bittman said the school district will use the grant to come up with programming starting in the fall by working with partners such as the Chamber of Commerce, the NAACP, St. Cloud Technical and Community College, law enforcement, and cities and businesses. “In the face of a 40-percent reduction in federal funding for youth-workforce development, these Opportunity Reboot grants
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Friday, May 13, 2016 are greatly needed to help reduce economic disparities in our state,” Pope said. Partnering organization staff will work collaboratively with school staff to provide mentoring, authentic internship experiences and career guidance support. “It’s a different type of education, so rather than students sitting in traditional courses, the curriculum will be targeted more on an applied basis, so students will begin to explore career options and will be working toward, for example, credential programs that will allow them to be ready for certain fields,” Bittman said.
April 3 7:58 p.m. Medical/ambulance assist. An officer responded for a medical call of a woman who had just had a seizure. Gold Cross Ambulance arrived shortly after and the officer took the woman into their care.
ported the truck title was missing from her house. She did not know when it went missing. 10:08 p.m. Suspicious activity. Second Avenue S. Police received a report of possible drug activity. An anonymous caller reported evicted tenants smoking meth. The caller stated she had seen a lighter being lit and watched people running in and out of the residence. Upon arrival, an officer watched the property and observed no suspicious activity. The caller then informed the officer of the location of one of the tenants, who denied drug use. No evidence of drug use was found. 10:22 p.m. Alarm. 35th St. N.E. An officer was dispatched for a burglary alarm. Prior to arrival, the alarm company advised authorized personnel were on scene and canceled the alarm.
April 4 1:37 p.m. Medical/ambulance assist. Second Avenue S. Police were dispatched for a male having a seizure at a local business. Officers assisted Gold Cross Ambulance, who brought the man to the hospital. The business’ employees stated they did not know the man’s full name or date of birth. 3 p.m. Lost/missing property. Second Avenue S. A woman re-
April 27 3:03 p.m. Vehicle accident. Ninth Avenue N./Northway Drive, St. Cloud. A vehicle made a left turn and struck another vehicle. The driver was cited for failing to yield right-of-way. The driver of the other vehicle, from Sauk Rapids, was cited for driving after suspension. Both were transported to the emergency room by Gold Cross Ambulance.
ment when the list was complete. 7:41 p.m. Found property. N. River Avenue. A woman approached an officer and stated she had found a set of keys. The keys were collected and placed into evidence at the department. 9 p.m. Forgery. First Street S. An officer responded to a report of a woman trying to pass a fraudulent check. The reporter was able to give a vehicle description. The officer was unable to locate the vehicle and the business stated the check did not get cashed.
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Police from front page ficers, I started applying everywhere that appeared reasonable.” Reasonable meant places like Fergus Falls, Morris, Rochester and even Eau Claire, Wis. Anywhere and everywhere is a possibility when looking for a job. “My dad had the adage, ‘Take the first job that’s offered to you, and then go look for the job that you want,” Beise said. One of those early jobs took him to Morris and, after nine months, to St. Cloud. Beise spent many years with the St. Cloud police looking for that “job you want.” When the position in Sauk Rapids opened up, it seemed like a good fit. What drew him to apply for the chief’s position in Sauk Rapids was his familiarity with the town. He had lived in Sauk Rapids since 1988, and he liked the town. It seemed to be a good opportunity without a big change in scenery, and yet it had good officers and a solid reputation.
Historical changes
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Personal style
Beise said he feels one’s leadership style is formed before even leaving high school; we pick and choose and add elements along the way. Personality, people-interaction styles,
how we follow and how we lead is at least half developed by the time we graduate from high school. “I’ve taken something from all of my police chiefs and sergeants and supervisors,” he said. “Sometimes it is ‘I will never do that, that way.’” Beise said he has observed supervisors who are more laissez-faire and others who are very authoritarian. Both styles can work, and a good supervisor needs to have more than one style to call on. Situations demand we adapt, and some need more direction, some need less. Right now, it’s very difficult to find a large number of quality police officers, Beise said. “Every chief will agree with that,” he said. “We used to get 150 applicants,” he said. “We just had to put the ad out and the applications would pour in. Now we get 30 – maybe. And that has held for the last couple of years.” The decline in numbers could be due to a couple of things, he said. Between 2008 and 2010, hiring basically froze. The other thing is right now police officers are getting beat up by the media, and by state and federal leaders. Potential police candidates are simply choosing not to get beat up like that. They choose other careers, take other paths, like
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teaching and business. “A lot of college students, I’m told, are changing their majors,” Beise said, “so we have less of a pool to draw from.”
Makeup of a good cop
Beise said the kind of qualities he believes a good cop possesses include honesty, the ability to work independently and a track record of dependability. “We’re looking for the same kind of employees everyone else is,” Beise said, “honest, ethical, hardworking, trustworthy, can communicate with people . . . and independent problem-solvers.” It’s not an easy job, he said, and it takes a special kind of person to do it well. There’s lots of stress, and sometimes the stress goes home with the officer. There is a slightly higher rate of divorce and suicide among police officers, he said. It’s a job where a person can develop post-traumatic-stress syndrome. There is a high level of anxiety and frustration officers experience. “They just don’t solve every problem with a hammer,” he said. “They have a whole tool
kit to use in any situation.” Beise described his own style of leadership as one of coaching. He said he likes to hear input from his coworkers because he doesn’t have a corner on the best way to do the job. Everyone has something they can add to the understanding of the problem and then they can solve it together, he added. His style of leadership and perhaps his understanding of how government works aids him in dealing with the city council. He said he sees and understands the difficulties they face and the need to get all departments in the city working together and sharing limited resources. “They have to take my recommendations,” he said, “along with the recommendations from public works, from all the departments and leaders in the city and then make the best decision in the best interests of the city.”
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NATIONAL POLICE WEEK MAY 15-21 Let’s hear it for all our police officers
They help our kids when they’re lost. They’re on call at all hours of the night to mediate the worst domestic disturbances. They do all the legwork that drives a successful conviction when the law has been broken. During National Police Week (NPW) this May 15-21, let’s shout a big Woot! Woot! to our local police officers who carry the badge and swear to keep us safe.
for families and kids, such as National addicted. They console the parents of Night Out and many other gatherings missing children and investigate crimithroughout the year. nal acts. They see the tough side of life that wears people down and that many The goal is always to raise awareness lucky people in our cities and towns about the important role these men and never really have to deal with. But worst women play in keeping our streets as of all, they battle negative public persafe as possible every day of the year. ception in the very streets they patrol.
It’s not easy to be a crime-fighter and police officer. On a daily basis, officers NPW is celebrated across the coun- witness the heart-wrenching destitution try in many different ways. Our local and violence experienced by the homepolice departments hold special events less, the mentally ill and the substance-
During National Police Week, wave and give a friendly smile to a police officer. And remember they are our front-line buffers between safety and chaos.
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Republican Party now stuck between a rock, a hard place It’s almost sad – almost – that the Republican Party is finding itself in a tug-of-war. But it’s not surprising. The Party brought this war upon itself for a number of interlocking reasons, starting long ago. In 1964, the Party nominated Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater to run against incumbent Lyndon Johnson. Goldwater was (at least perceived to be by mainstream voters) a dangerous right-wing extremist. He lost abysmally. That Goldwaterite purist conservatism would come back to haunt the Party. The right-wingers kept making promises they could not deliver while trashing popular programs like Social Security and Medicare. They also dragged their feet hopelessly on issues of social and civil progressivism. Not to forget, left-wing promisers have from time to time been just as guilty. Those dashed promises, right and left, led directly, with a vengeance, to the Tea Party insurgence of eight years ago, as well as to the more recent free-for-all populism of Bernie Sanders. The Tea Party began with people disgusted by the government bailing out big banks. With good reason. But that passion quickly morphed into an anti-Obama hate group, led by rabid cheerleaders such as the likes of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz. Rah, rah, rah! Shish, boom, bah! Hate the government. Shut it down. Impeach Obama. Shred ObamaCare. That motley crew of misguided fabulists held sway with so many voters who were, rightfully so, disgusted by the inaction of government to help solve problems such as joblessness, low wages and growing inequalities. Many Tea Partiers, then and now, blame all of their problems on Obama, immigrants and conspiracy theories. Trouble is, the Tea Party windbags never once attributed their or anybody else’s problems to the powers that be, largely billionaires’ corporate control as administered by their minions in Congress, mostly Republican yes-men but by no means limited to Republicans. Unfettered free-market forces, as defined under the Reagan Era, weren’t the answer. In many cases, they were the problem. Greed was a cocaine high, but what about the rest of us? Reagan, in many respects, was the Santa Claus who never was. Many have yet to learn that. Well, anyway, flash forward. To win elections (local, state, federal), the Republican Party thought it had to court the right-wing Tea Party types. It turned out to be a game of Russian roulette in which “I’ll primary you!” became a big threat, as Eric Cantor of Virginia, among many others, soon learned the hard way. The Tea Party faction gradually hijacked the Party through bullying tactics (i.e. Cruz, the Temper Tantrum King, reading the great Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham for hours in his pathetic filibuster. Seuss is still rolling over in his grave!) And, sad to say, most of the good, rational, reasonable Republicans let it happen. Now they are paying the price. Like a hawk, Donald Trump swooped down. He understood so slyly that Tea Party hotheads had made fools of good, sane, rational Republicans, rendering them all but politically impotent. And the good Republicans were dumb enough to let it happen. It’s almost slapstick comical that after a series of debates among 17 Republican candidates, only a few were left standing: Trump, Cruz, Kasich. And what’s even crazier is Cruz is widely despised by Establishment Republicans, Trump is a nightmare wild card (possibly even a secret Democrat, God forbid), and Kasich, the only one who had a chance of winning the White House, is kaput, at least for now. Who knows? Trump just might be our next president (God forbid), and if he is, the Republican Party might just as well say goodbye, adieu, lights out. If there was ever a tight fix between a rock and a hard place, this is it: the Republican Party stuck hopelessly in a fix of its own making.
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Opinion ‘But, mom, I LIKE elephants!’ ‘But, mom, I like elephants!’ One of my long-time hobbies has been collecting favorite sayings. I have a big fat file filled with quotes and sayings, many of them clipped from newspapers and magazines, some of them said by famous people. Most of them, though, are wonderful remarks made by friends, relatives and even overheard comments from total strangers. I’d like to share some of the items from my “Sayings Collection.” • The first (I love it!) is from a story in the St. Cloud Times from about two years ago. It’s disturbing but at the same time bleakly funny. This total loser was obviously having a very bad Bad Hair Day: “He is being held at Stearns County Jail for investigation of first-degree burglary, fleeing in a motor vehicle, DWI, refusing to submit to testing, driving after revocation, fleeing police on foot and driving the wrong way on a oneway street.” • This was said years ago by the precocious 13-year-old daughter of a friend. That bright girl is now a young woman who graduated just last Saturday with honors from St. Cloud State University: “Hey, mom, why do Republicans use the elephant as a symbol?” After hearing the explanation, the girl said, with disappointment in her voice as if she were a genetic Democrat, “But, mom, that makes me mad. I like elephants!” • During his 1965 tour of England, Bob Dylan’s hair was a wild static mess. The skinny singer wore tight striped pants, pointed shoes and polkadot shirts. A London paper described him this way: “He looks like an undernourished cockatoo.” • A friend emailed me this: “I wrote Tina, but I’m still waiting for a reply. Sometimes it takes awhile. She’s busy. She has three children – two girls and a husband.”
Dennis Dalman Editor • Singer/songwriter Tom Waits said in his raspy deadpan voice: “The world is a hellish place, and bad writers are destroying the quality of our suffering.” • American revolutionary patriot Tom Paine gave us this pearl of wisdom: “To argue with someone who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” • I don’t know who said this cynical gem; I wish I’d thought of it. “Some people just need a hug. Around the neck. With a rope.” • At my age, I so relate to this nugget from Bill Clinton: “Having lost it, I can tell you: youth matters.” • From comedian John Oliver: “One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all take off our shoes at the airport. Thirty-one school shootings and no change in our regulation of guns.” • A friend from Utah emailed me this about her constant upsets while moving to a new city: “So now all my choices are buried in a storage unit.” • Famed artist Norman Rockwell was commissioned to paint a portrait of Richard Nixon for a magazine cover in 1960. Rockwell’s son, Peter, later said this: “My father said the problem with doing Nixon is that if you make him look nice, he doesn’t look like Nixon anymore.” • It’s no wonder Albert Einstein is considered such a visionary genius. Many years ago, long before the Internet, he said this: “I fear the day that technology will
suppress our human interactions. The world will have a generation of idiots.” • I don’t know who said this, but it’s funny: “If Mitt Romney were Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves.” • OK, folks, in the name of political balance, this one’s funny too. Can you guess who said it, finger wagging? “I did not have sex with that woman.” • Actress/naughty boundary-breaker Mae West said this: “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” • From Cicero, the ancient Roman orator: “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” • Two favorites, among so many, from Mark Twain: “Better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.” “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.” • And, finally, one of my all-time faves. It was spoken by 6-year-old Hunter Dubbin of Holdingford, a grandson of neighbors Richard and Marty. When they and Hunter would drive across the bridge on the way to the Dollar Store in Sartell, the Verso paper mill’s condensation tower would be spewing huge white cloud-like plumes into the sky. Hunter would look up and say, “Grandpa, Grandma, look! That machine is making clouds!” Shortly after that great old mill was shut down following an explosive tragedy four years ago, the Dubbins one day were going again to the Dollar Store. Hunter, peering up out of the car window, said in a sad, astonished voice: “Look! The cloud machine! It’s broke!” Dear readers, do you have any favorite sayings? Please send them my way. I’d like to publish some of them.
White privilege? Another liberal myth I’ve heard a lot about this lately. It is in the news, on television, and on the Iternet. I’m talking about “white privilege.” When I first heard the term I was puzzled. What on earth could this mean? I decided to do some research. It turns out the term “white privilege” is another liberal invention designed to salve liberal guilt by indicting all Caucasian people and accusing them of racism. According to the liberals, if you are successful at any endeavor and you are white, your success is because of your whiteness and has nothing to do with your effort, your intelligence, your talent or your hard work. Wouldn’t the other side of that theory be that if you are not white regardless of your effort, your intelligence, your talent, or your hard work, you can never be successful? That might come as a shock to many of the very successful people of color. People like Dr. Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell or Condoleezza Rice. Further, according to “white privilege” theorists, white people don’t even realize they are privileged. They just expect favor and success because of their whiteness. This is especially true when it comes to law and order. They expect never to be put into jail because they are white. The liberals would have you believe the reason our prison populations are predominately minority is because they lack this privilege. The deck is stacked against them. It never seems to occur to liberals the reason prisons are full of minorities is because they commit
Ron Scarbro Guest Writer the majority of the crimes. That appears to be a tough pill for them to swallow. I’m not buying the liberal’s explanation. I’m not buying their accusations of me and of all the white people in this country. Let’s examine another possible definition of the phrase “white privilege.” What if it actually is an excuse for laziness? What if it really is nothing more than a lame alibi to allow non-white people the freedom to never try or to never be responsible for their lives? Because they are in the minority they should be granted special privilege. They should be allowed to hang out on the corner dressed like thugs, acting like thugs and never questioned about being thugs. What if they further believe they are entitled to be disrespectful of law and law enforcement all because the “white establishment” is out to get them? What if they believe they are entitled to produce babies out of wedlock to be supported by the taxpayers and not the parents themselves? But Ron, you’ve never been followed in a department store by security because they thought you would steal something all because of your skin color. Maybe it’s
not because of your skin color. Maybe it’s because of your actions. Maybe it’s because of their experience with your brothers and sisters. All people, if they want to improve their lives, need to stop looking for excuses and start living as good citizens. Stay away from illegal drugs. Stay away from gangs. Quit impregnating young girls and then abandoning them. Stay in school and get an education. Speak English. If you dress like a thug, talk like a thug, and act like a thug, expect to be treated like a thug. Some will read this and say, “He’s a racist.” Nothing could be further from the truth. I am a realist. And realism is what we need. The plantation is closed. Slavery ended years ago. We are all responsible for our own choices and our lots in life today. I refuse to take responsibility for the actions of people more than two centuries ago. I wasn’t there. Nowhere on earth do minorities have a better opportunity than in America. Take advantage of your opportunities and quit making excuses. You have “American privilege.” 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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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, May 13 Brat sale, sponsored by the St. Joseph Lions, 9:30 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. St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, 3-6:30 p.m., near the Wobegon Trail Center, C.R. 2
Saturday, May 14 Stamp Out Hunger food drive, sponsored by National Association of Letter Carriers. Leave a non-perishable donation in a bag by your mailbox. 320-248-0851. Central Minnesota Market, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 1480 10th Ave. N.E., Sauk Rapids. 320-251-2498. Brat sale, sponsored by the St. Joseph Lions, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 First Ave. N.W. Monday, May 16 Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org. Parkinson’s Disease Support Group, 1-2:30 p.m., St. Cloud Library, 1300 W. St. Germain St. 320529-9000. Market Monday, 3-6:30 p.m., parking lot of Hardware Hank,, Seventh St. N., Sartell. marketmonday. org. Tinville Lions Club, 7 p.m., Rollie’s Rednecks and Longnecks Bar, 940 35th Ave. NE, Sauk Rapids. St. Joseph Rod and Gun Club, 7 p.m., American Legion, 101 W. Minnesota St. Tuesday, May 17 Preschool storytime, 10:30-11 a.m., Waite Park Public Library, 253 Fifth Ave. N., Waite Park. 320-2539359.
Wednesday, May 18 Rice Chamber of Commerce, noon, Rice City Hall, 205 Main St. E. Family-to-family, 6:30-9 p.m., Unity Spiritual Center, 931 Fifth Ave. N., Sartell. 320-290-7713. 320-2492560. Thursday, May 19 Blood Drive 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Microbiologics Inc., 200 Cooper Ave. N., St. Cloud. Isn’t It Time We Talk?, education on hospice benefit and advance-care planning, 3 p.m. today and Thursday, Heartland Hospice, 1257 Second St. N., Sauk Rapids. Financial aid and College Savings seminar, sponsored by St. Cloud State University, 6:30-7:30 p.m., St. Cloud Federal Credit Union, 3030 First St. S., St. Cloud. RSVP Ann Frost at 320-258-2179 or email afrost@scfcu-invest.com. The Evening Book Club, discussing “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Al Ringsmuth Public Library, 253 Fifth Ave. N., Waite Park. 320-253-9359. Blue Mass, honoring first responders and other emergency personnel, 7 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, 25 Eighth Ave. S., St. Cloud. Rice Lions Club, 8 p.m., Lions Building, Westside Park, 101 Fourth St. NW. Friday, May 20 Burger and brat sale, sponsored by Knights of Columbus, 9:30 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. Appraising Your Valuables. Mark Moran appraises antiques. 3-6 p.m., Waite Park Public Library, 253 Fifth Ave. N., Waite Park. 320-253-9359. St. Cloud Singles Club Dance, 8 p.m.-midnight, American Legion, 17 Second Ave. S., Waite Park. 320-3394533. stcloudsingles.net.
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Asked whether the demonstrations of Black Lives Matter and perceived negative events in other parts of the state and country have a significant effect on local policing, Beise said he thought they did. Whenever a cop does something wrong, Beise said, whether it’s corrupt or simply by mistake, everybody looks at their hometown police department and wonders “Are they the same?” Beise said, however, Minnesota has exceptionally welltrained police officers. A twoyear associate’s degree or five years of military police training is necessary in most cases. An officer undergoes background checks, psychological evaluations and police training before wearing the uniform. “Other states require a highschool education, and then they train you afterward,” he said.
7 “In some cases, you might even work (on the job) before you get training.” And generally, Beise said, police in Minnesota are well paid. They don’t have to take second jobs to make ends meet. In some southern states, they are barely above the poverty level and they make up the difference either in overtime or by moonlighting doing some other kind of work. Beise is complimentary toward the Sauk Rapids City Council. They are quite supportive of the department, he said, and they are supportive of all city operations. As for the public, the one thing he would like people to do is to call when they think something is not right. “Call us when you see something,” he said. “We can’t be everywhere, but when a citizen sees something on the street that looks suspicious, or hears something at night that sounds suspicious, pick up the phone, dial 911 and say. ‘Hey I see this, can you come look at this?’” His son is following in his footsteps even though he started in engineering, with sidetracks into linguistics and other areas. “This is a good career,” Beise said. “We help a lot of people and we do a job that is necessary.”
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Sauk Rapids-Rice Newsleader • www.thenewsleaders.com luminarias – small white paper bags with the name of someone close to them who has either died of, or is fighting, cancer. Students of Mississippi Heights Elementary walked with teachers and staff to the Sauk Rapids-Rice Middle School and joined parents and the middleschool students walking around the track. At anytime there was well over a hundred students walking. Here too the middle-school students had their form of luminarias, decorated pieces of paper with the name of a special person, taped to the fence surrounding the track. “Our motto is to create a world with more birthdays,” said Carol Mead, a kindergarten teacher and chair of the organizing committee of the elementary school. “There are more than 4 million survivors and we are working on increasing that total.” To achieve that, these students also had four weeks of fundraising incentives similar to the ones at Pleasantview. One difference was every classroom had a jar for coin donations only. “There were weekly competitions between the grade levels, to see who raised the most that week,” Mead said. This year had a new wrinkle in the rules. One grade could sabotage another by putting either a dollar bill or check in another grade’s jar. At the end of
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At left: Student council members (from left to right) Ellie Kirt, Olivia Bauer, Ashley Chareunrath, Kella Mrozek, and Leah Wheeles of Pleasantview Elementary prepare to hand out freezies to overheated walkers. Above: Jed Foster and Kaden Weaver head once more around the “Walk for Life” track at Pleasantview Elementary.
the week the sabotage (paper) money would be deducted from the total of the coins. The middle school’s fundraising theme was “Paint Your World Purple.” “Each class had a paint bucket to put donations in,” explained Cindy Hiedeman, the event coordinator at the middle school. “The winning class gets to paint human canvases.” Faculty members were painted wearing white T-shirts out on the football field that afternoon. Rice Elementary School, for the first year, added an additional few hours for walking from 3:45 to 7 p.m. “We wanted to do that for parents who couldn’t take time out from work earlier in the day,” said Charyl Walberg, Walberg also said they raised an estimated $10,000 this year, easily breaking their record from last year.
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