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Town Crier Rox offers baseball/ softball clinic July 14

A ROX Baseball/Softball Clinic for youth in grades 3-8, featuring Rox players and managers, will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 14 at the Whitney Fields, 1529 Northway Drive, St. Cloud. Participants will receive a T-shirt and ticket to the ROX game on July 14 if registered by July 5. The event is sponsored by Northland Capital and is coordinated in partnership with the St. Cloud YMCA and Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Cost is $5. To register www.minnesotafca.org/rox-baseball.

Hospital’s Serve, Learn seeks student help

Student Serve and Learn is a unique opportunity for a condensed and meaningful healthcare volunteer experience at St. Cloud Hospital and CentraCare Health Plaza. This is a patient-interaction intense volunteer role. Participants are trained to serve the entire hospital so volunteers get a diverse experience in several departments. During a summer session, individuals will volunteer four hours each weekday (MondayFriday) for a total of 80 hours. Session 3: July 27-Aug. 21 (application material deadline July 9) Shifts: 8 a.m-noon, noon-4 p.m., and limited 4-8 p.m. weekends and evenings in Urgency Center. Locations: St. Cloud Hospital and CentraCare Health Plaza. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on July 3 Criers.

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Loved ones mourn Traut, sing his praises by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com

Just two days before he was killed in Fargo, Sam Traut had been back home in Sartell, mowing lawn at his family place, working hard all day to help others. It was typical for Traut – always a giver – to work harder helping others than he would for himself. Traut’s uncle, Harry Prom of Sauk Rapids, shared his feelings about Sam with the Sartell Newsleader right after the 11 a.m. Monday funeral at St. Francis Xavier Church in Sartell, the church Traut attended throughout his childhood. Prom is the brother of Traut’s mother, MaryAnn. Traut, Prom said, had recently returned from a mission trip to Peru and then visited his family before going back to Fargo. Born July 21, 1990 in St.

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Clergy line up outside as the casket of Sam Traut is brought by pallbearers to a waiting hearse for burial in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery. Traut was eulogized in the burial Mass as a kind, helpful, hard-working Christian with a unique goofy sense of humor. Cloud, Traut grew up in Sartell and graduated from Sartell High School in 2009. In 2013, he earned a degree in civil en-

gineering at North Dakota State University. He then began work as a civil engineer and road designer for Stantec in Fargo.

Besides his day job, Traut was deeply committed as a member of St. Paul’s Newman Center Traut • page 4

Authorities urge common sense during celebrations by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com The Minnesota State Fire Marshal reports Minnesota hospitals treated 70 fireworks injuries between June 22 through July 15, 2014. Most years, no injuries happen during this time period in Sauk Rapids. But authorities still urge caution.

“Use common sense and good judgment,” Sauk Rapids Police Chief Perry Beise said in a Sauk Rapids-Rice Newsleader interview. “Only use fireworks which are legal in Minnesota.” Many injuries the local emergency services see are from people not lighting their fireworks properly, or not giving the fireworks enough space.

The Minnesota Optometric Association states in 2013, children under the age of 5 experienced a higher estimated injury rate than any other age group. The MOA suggests the following safety tips: • Discuss fireworks safety with children and teens and never allow children unsupervised near fireworks. • Wear protective eye-wear

when lighting or handling fireworks of any kind. Store fireworks, matches and lighters in secure places where children won’t find them. • Never point or throw fireworks at another person. • Don’t carry fireworks in a pocket or light them in a metal or glass container. • If you are an onlooker at a Celebrations • page 2

Food, perfect weather rule at Rapids Food Fest

Wobegon Trail president to speak at Stearns museum

Cliff Borgerding, president of the Lake Wobegon Regional Trail Association, will discuss the transformation of an abandoned Great Northern corridor into the popular recreational area it is today during Breakfast Club on Wednesday, July 8 at the Stearns History Museum. The program begins at 9 a.m. The transformation reflects the collaborative efforts of volunteer organizations and local government officials alike. The idea for a trail began in the 1990s when the railway corridor closed and Albany Jaycee members wanted to link their town with nearby Avon through a community project. Borgerding also will explain the association’s vision for tourism and outdoor recreational uses of Lake Wobegon Trail. The Breakfast Club program is free for Stearns History Museum members; non-members are also welcome to attend for a nominal fee. Refreshments are served. The museum is located at 235 33rd Ave. S in St. Cloud.

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Cynda-Rhea Gorshe and her mother, Lisa Gorshe of Richfield, enjoy corn on the cob at Rapids River Food Fest in Sauk Rapids June 27. Cynda-Rhea was visiting her grandmother last weekend in Sauk Rapids at the time of the food festival.

Food, food and more food ruled the day at the Rapids River Food Fest June 27 in Sauk Rapids Municipal Park. Corn on the cob, shish-kebabs, cheese curds, corn dogs, burgers and brats, kettle corn, turkey legs, pizza . . . well, the list was nearly endless. Thousands of people gathered in perfect early-summer weather to enjoy the family food at the food fest. Besides the food, there was the music of three bands, inflatable toys for kids and the Strongman/Strongwoman competition. During the warm but breezy day, from 11 a.m.-8

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p.m., people sauntered the park grounds, sampling foods. Many sat in chairs or at picnic tables, enjoying their foods and refreshments like freshsqueezed lemonade. There was a relaxed ambiance at the event, and many people stood in groups or sat gathered in semicircles to chat and laugh. It’s the 27th year of the food-fest event, and, by all accounts, one of the most well attended and successful. The event was the culmination of several in Sauk Rapids last week. There was the Thursday Ambassador Pageant, the Tanner 5k/1k walk/run and the Rapids River Days Parade. (See related stories inside.)

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Rice residents involved in crash On the morning of June 30, the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office along with the St. Stephen Fire Department and Gold Cross responded to a twovehicle crash at the intersection of CR 131 and 115th Avenue in Brockway Township, about two miles northwest of St. Stephen. A 53-year-old male from Rice driving an SUV pulled up to a stop at a stop sign on 115th Avenue, then proceeded to enter the intersection. A car, driven by a 61-year-old male from

Holdingford, was traveling east on CR 131, and struck the SUV driven by the Rice man, and also carrying the man’s relatives, a 48-year-old female, a 15-year-old male, a 14-year-old male, a 9-year-old male and a 22-month-old female. The Holdingford man was treated on the scene with minor injuries. The people from Rice were transported to the St. Cloud Hospital by Gold Cross Ambulance. No further information was available as of press time.

Celebrations from front page fireworks display, keep a safe distance. • Never place your body directly over a fireworks device while lighting it. • Keep a bucket of water handy and a hose to douse fireworks when spent. • Don’t try to relight a device that hasn’t fully ignited; stay clear of the device for an extended period of time to prevent injury due to delayed activation. Soak the device in water before handling it. • Make sure the fireworks

People Four Sauk Rapids-Rice students were recently named to the spring dean’s list at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. They are the following: Danielle Duray, daughter of Debra and Joel Duray of Rice, a sophomore and a Sauk Rapids-Rice High School graduate; Samantha Pratt, daughter of Rhonda and Joel Pratt of Rice, a sophomore and a Sartell High School graduate; Katherine Miller, daughter of Patricia and Stephen Miller of Sartell, who graduated and is a Sauk Rapids-Rice High School graduate; and Ashley Raduns, daughter of Laura Raduns of Sauk Rapids and Jerrid Sandstrom of Cushing, Minn., a freshman and a Sauk Rapids-Rice High School graduate. Students must attain a minimum 3.7 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Five Sauk Rapids-Rice students recently graduated from North Dakota State University. They and their degrees are as follows: Emily Douvier, bachelor’s in human development and family science; Victoria Hammond, doctorate in pharmacy; Kevin Kruger, bachelor’s in civil engineering; Tanner Wolbersen,

bachelor’s in industrial engineering and management; and Rachel Wotzka, bachelor’s in human development and family science. Douvier, Hammond, Wolbersen and Wotzka are from Sauk Rapids; Kruger is from Rice. Samantha Kaeter of Rice, recently earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with a minor in communication, media and rhetoric from the University of Minnesota, Morris. Seven Sauk Rapids-Rice students recently graduated from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn. They, their honors and degrees are as follows: Nathan Carlson, master’s in business administration; Amber Grangroth, bachelor’s in nursing; Donnell Hoheisel, bachelor’s in nursing; Sarah Kemp, master’s in family nurse practitioner; Tyler Kohnen, summa cum laude, bachelor’s in exercise physiology; Laurie Peck, summa cum laude, bachelor’s in organizational behavior; and Amy Pederson, doctorate in physical therapy. Grangroth, Kemp, Kohnen, Peck and Pederson are from Sauk Rapids; Hoheisel is from Rice.

If any readers have tips concerning crimes, they should call the Sauk Rapids Police Department at 320-251-9451 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at 320-255-1301 or access its tip site at www.tricountycrimestoppers.org. Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for crimes. June 14 12 a.m. Suspicious activity. N. River Avenue. An officer observed a vehicle parked on a walking path under the bridge. The officer found two occupants, a 22-year-old male from Pennock and an 18-year-old female from Sauk Rapids, partially clothed in the backseat. The officer advised them they could not drive on the walking path, and that the park was closed. The officer spoke to each individually, and both stated they were there of their own free will. 6:42 p.m. Parking complaint. Prairie View Lane NE. A person reported a vehicle parked in the grass of a public park. An officer arrived a located the vehicle parked on the sidewalk. The officer spoke with the driver, who said they were parked there while loading items into their vehicle. The driver moved the vehicle.

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are legal in the state where you are in during the holiday. For example, if you buy explosive fireworks in Wisconsin, you can’t use them in Minnesota. • Never experiment with fireworks, make your own fireworks or alter fireworks in any manner (a strong federal prohibition exists for such activity). Beise’s best advice is to have a responsible adult light fireworks and supervise, and to have a bucket of water nearby. Those fireworks which are legal include sparklers, cones and tubes which emit sparks, as well as novelty items like

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June 15 12:16 p.m. Theft. Industrial Boulevard. An employee contacted police, stating sometime over the weekend someone stole 112 wood pallets from the business. The pallets are valued at approximately $560. 4:51 p.m. Animal complaint. Water Avenue S. A resident complained of a dog barking next door. The officer arrived to a quiet dog. The officer waited for a while, then spoke to the owner and advised them of the complaint. The dog was still quiet when the officer left. June 16 4:12 p.m. Assist fire. Summit Avenue S. The smell of gas was reported. The fire department and police arrived, but neither could smell gas, and the fire department found nothing concerning. June 17 9:20 p.m. Warrant arrest. 2nd Avenue N. A 35-year-old female was wanted for arrest. Police arrived at the female’s residence, and the female answered the door giving a fake name. The officer knew her face and knew she was lying, and was able to place the female into custody peacefully. The female was transported to the Benton County Jail. June 18 9:24 a.m. Medical alert. 4th Avenue N. A medical alert alarm for a person was set off. The alarm company could not receive an answer and alerted police. Police arrived and found the person safe. The person was not aware they had set the alarm off. 5:49 p.m. Hit-and-run. 4th Avenue N. A landlord reported a UHaul truck backed up into the garage door, causing damage. The landlord stated no one was moving

Friday, July 3, 2015 snakes and party poppers. Even so, these items cannot be used on public property such as roads, parks, alleys, schools, government property and more. Anything which flies or explodes – such as firecrackers, bottle rockets, missiles, Roman candles, mortars, shells and more – is illegal in Minnesota for public sale, possession or use. Beise said to be sure to remain hydrated this weekend as well, and to use and reapply sunscreen if you plan to be outside at all. Most importantly, have fun this weekend, enjoy your family, and don’t drink and drive.

into or out of the building at this time, and so they were not sure why the U-Haul was in the area. 9:03 p.m. Medical. Summit Avenue N. A 90-year-old person fell out of their bed, and hit their head causing bleeding. An officer arrived on scene to help stop the bleeding until Gold Cross paramedic arrived to transport the patient. June 19 2:45 a.m. Trespassing. Benton Drive N./9th Street N. Railroad operators called reporting two children playing on the tracks. Sartell and Sauk Rapids police checked the area, but found no one. 2:36 p.m. Attempted burglary. 1st Avenue N. Neighbors reported seeing a torn screen on a secondfloor window. An officer arrived to investigate and from outside the building observed a knife near the window. The officer contacted the landlord and entered the locked apartment. Officers cleared the apartment; windows and doors were then secured. The residents were requested to call law enforcement if anything suspicious happens. June 20 12:50 p.m. Disturbance. Summit Avenue S. A resident reported their neighbor yells at the resident’s children, causing them to be scared. The resident asked police for advice on how to obtain a harassment restraining order, which they gave. 1 p.m. Criminal damage to property. 15th Court. A landlord reported observing an older silver Chevy Impala drive forward into two garages the landlord owns, causing severe damage. The driver then left the scene in the vehicle. Sartell and Sauk Rapids police both searched for the vehicle, but could not locate it. The damage is estimated to be at least $1,000.

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Bueckers named ‘Honorary Commodores’ at pageant by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com

Neil and Sandy Bueckers were stunned to learn they have become “Honorary Commodores.” The couple, known for giving time and effort to good causes, took the stage June 25 during a break in the Sauk Rapids Ambassador Pageant (see related story). “I was totally honored but very surprised,” Sandy told the Sauk Rapids-Rice Newsleader during a telephone interview. “There are so many people who deserve that award. We were very surprised to get it.” The Bueckers were nominated by the Ambassador Pageant Board, of which Sandy used to be a member. In 2007 their daughter, Ashley, was one of the crowned princesses in the Miss Sauk Rapids pageant, which was a forerunner to the current Ambassador Pageant event. Now married,

Ashley Severson and husband Gordy live in Madison, Wis. This year Sandy had to drop her work for the Ambassador Pageant Board because her son, Matthew, is getting married in August and planning the wedding is taking a lot of work. Matthew is marrying Brittany Hemann of White Bear Lake. The couple lives in Sauk Rapids. The Bueckers are originally from the Melrose area but have lived in Sauk Rapids for many years. Neil is a production coordinator for Huiskens Meats and a 21-year member of the Sauk Rapids Fire Department. Sandy owns and operates her own at-home beauty salon in Sauk Rapids. Aside from being active in their church, the Bueckers have volunteered for Kids Against Hunger, Toys for Tots, local food shelves and the Ambassador Pageant. They also, along with their daughter, helped initiate Sauk Rapids’ Parade of Lights.

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A Sauk Rapids couple, Neil and Sandy Bueckers (center), were stunned when they learned the Minneapolis Aquatennial Committee honored them as “Honorary Commodores.” Praised for their volunteer work, the Bueckers were presented plaques from Aquatennial Commodore David Recker and Miss Aquatennial Morgan Scheiller.

Three Sauk Rapids ambassadors crowned by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com

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Above: The 2015 Sauk Rapids Ambassadors, chosen at the third annual pageant June 25, are (left to right) Tana Hendrickson, Kelsey Christensen and Nikki Bukowski. Below: The ambassador candidates line up on-stage as the Ambassador Pageant gets underway June 25 at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. From left to right are Marissa Leeb, Bukowski, Hendrickson, Sydney Miller, Patricia Cazalvilla Torres and Christensen.

firm of Kern and Rueter, P.A. She is involved in speech, Future Farmers of America, Project for Teens, Link Leader, Students Against Drunk Driving and 4-H. She is a national competitor in Culinary Management. Christensen, daughter of Amy Christensen, was sponsored by Fairview Gardens. She is a member of Big Brothers Big Sisters, High School Student Council and DECA. In her first year in that organization, she and her colleagues made it to national competition. She is an avid gymnast and was captain of the school’s gymnastics team. Hendrickson, daughter of Trish and Tom Hendrickson, was sponsored by McKay’s Dodge. She is involved as a Link Leader, swimming, choir and Project 4 Teens, as well as being a member of the National Honor Society and DECA, for which she competed nationally this past year. Hendrickson is also active in her church and enjoys volun-

Sauk Rapids has three new young female ambassadors – Nikki Bukowski, Kelsey Christensen and Tana Hendrickson. Each was honored with $1,000 from the Sauk Rapids Lions Club. Christensen was also awarded honors for “Congeniality” and for “Poise and Personality” after her appearance in the evening-gown competition. The three were crowned in a colorful ceremony June 25 during the third annual Sauk Rapids Ambassador Pageant in the Performing Arts Center at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. They were crowned by the exiting ambassadors – Chelsey Haffner, Kaitlin Janson and Kayla Keller, who represented the city the latter half of last year and the first half of this one. Bukowski, the daughter of Julie and Michael Bukowski, was sponsored in the ambassador competition by the law

teering. All are seniors this fall at Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. The three ambassadors were chosen by the judges among six contestants, the others being Patricia Cazalvilla Torres, Marissa Leeb and Sydney Miller. Emceed by Johnny Taco and Jamie Quinn of Wild Country 99 Radio, the ambassador pageant featured many guest speakers, including Sauk Rapids City Council member Kurt Hunstiger; Dave Recker, Minneapolis Aquatennial Commodore; Morgan Scheiller, Aquatennial princess; and Judge Robert Raupp of the Sauk Rapids Lions. The show opened with a crowd-pleasing dance by all six ambassador candidates to a medley of tunes from the musical Grease. The six ambassador candidates had a long preparation for their final competition at the pageant. Previously, they took part in educational sessions every week on leaderAmbassadors • page 8

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study leader, a religious education teacher, a member of the Knights of Columbus and member of a prayer team. from front page Prom said he will never forget the time Traut and his sister, Sally, rushed over to his in Fargo, right near the house house to put up a Christmas he was staying when he was tree for him. It was almost murdered. Traut was a Bible- Christmas Day, but Prom had

worked all day and came home hungry and exhausted. He had absolutely no energy left for putting up and decorating a tree. The Trauts got wind of Prom’s dilemma and just like that Sam, Sally and their mom burst through the door – all of them with beaming smiles – put the tree up and decorated it. Prom was so stunned, so happy, he gave them a huge box of chocolates to share. And that is the portrait of Sam Traut that was evoked at his funeral: a young man who worked incredibly hard, who would go out of his way to help someone else and who always made people laugh and feel better when they were down. An aunt of Traut’s, Mary Barron-Traut of Sartell, read a memorial essay that had been written by MaryAnn, Sam’s mother. At times choking back tears, Barron-Traut told about what a hard worker Sam was, photo by Dennis Dalman The Mass for Sam Traut at St. Francis Xavier Church in Sartell always shoveling snow or picking blackberries or splitting celebrated his life with song, prayers and happy memories.

wood with his father, Lloyd, and always with a good nature and a smile on his face. He also loved to go fishing, hunting and gopher trapping. As a young child in the kitchen with his mother, he was always an adventurer, toddling around, sometimes falling, bouncing back up and always doing antics that made everyone laugh. He was constantly giving, helping others in the most joyful ways, whether in landscaping work or kitchen chores. His sister, Sally, was Sam’s “partner in crime,” as their mother humorously put it, always playing games and goofing around by dancing, having bonfires and other fun hijinks they did in their college years. The Rev. Tim Baltes presided over Traut’s funeral, which was filled with music, singing and prayers. Another guest speaker was the Rev. James Cheney of the St. Paul’s Catholic Newman Center in Fargo. Cheney knew Traut extremely

Friday, July 3, 2015 well on a day-to-day basis. With anger and grief clogging his voice, Cheney asked, “Why this heinous crime? Why this great insult? Why this absurd random act that took Sam away from us? I’m angry!” However, then Cheney said how many in grief and anger begin a “dialogue of the heart and go through a transfiguration via the reality of God and an awareness of divine life. They find God is living in them; He is living in everyone.” Cheney gave examples of how innocent children often teach us the meaning of love in the most day-to-day ways, like the little boy who went to a neighbor boy’s house who was crying and decided to go there to “help him cry.” Cheney called Traut a man of courage and faith, infused with deep kindness and regard for others. It is fitting and yet ironic, Cheney suggested, that his last act was an act of Christian charity – getting water for someone who was thirsty.

Sartell, area residents stunned by yet another murder by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com

Sartell remains stunned by the shock of yet another one of its promising young men being murdered in the FargoMoorhead area. On the morning of June 23, Sam Traut, 24, was found murdered in the home where he was staying. It has been only 10 months since Tom Bearson, 18, also of Sartell, was killed – possibly in Fargo – and his body left on a lot in Moorhead. That murder remains unsolved. Traut, the son of Lloyd and MaryAnn Traut of Sartell, was a 2013 graduate of North Dakota State University, the same college Bearson was attending when he went missing early one September morning. Traut’s killing was appar-

ently random and particularly vicious. He opened his door to a stranger at a late-night hour; this stranger beat him to death with a hammer. Fargo Police Detective, Lt. Joel Vettel said it this way: “A good man unknowingly opened his door to Hunter Traut a monster.” The suspect, who was arrested the day after the murder, Hunter, 35. According to a police press allegedly killed Traut just 12 hours after he murdered an- conference led by Fargo Police other man, stabbing him 50 Chief Dave Todd, the following times because, as the suspect is a time line of what happened told police, he’d been charging in Fargo June 22-23: Hunter allegedly murdered him too much for drugs, stealing all his girlfriends and disre- Flowers in the victim’s apartspecting him. That murder vic- ment. About 12 hours later, tim was Clarence Flowers, 45. during the night, he went to Flowers was a limousine driver a nearby house, where Traut in Fargo, described by many as resided, and knocked on the a kind person who was about door, asking for a glass of water. Traut went to get it for him. to become a grandfather. The man charged in both In the meantime, according to killings is Ashley Kenneth what Hunter later told police, it dawned on him that his picture might be on the media for the previous murder he committed. He thought Traut might have called the police while he was getting the glass of water. He decided to kill Traut when he came back with the water, which he did. Hunter

then set fire to several objects in the home, hoping to cover up his crime. A neighbor, hearing a fire alarm, called the fire department, and that is how Traut’s body was discovered in the early-morning hours. Hunter told police he’d been under the influence of methamphetamines and was feeling paranoid during the time the killings were committed. He has a record of previous arrests, one of them being a warrant for shoplifting. According to the police report, Hunter was driving a stolen Dodge pickup before and after the murders. Traut, who had recently returned from a stay in North Dakota, was living as a guest in the house at 1122 12th St. N., Fargo. The house is owned by St. Paul’s Catholic Newman Center, which is next door and a place Traut spent most of his time. Traut, who holds an engineering degree, was also a seminary student and a Bible-study leader at Newman Center. A candlelight prayer vigil was held for Traut across the street from the house on 12th Street N. At the police press confer-

ence, Father James Cheney said there are about 4,000 college students who are Catholics in the Fargo-Moorhead area, and Traut was a “standout” among them. He was, Cheney said, a man “of tremendous courage and virtue.” Cheney also said this: “We are just trying to make sense out of how all this happened in our community. How could just a random, senseless, tremendously horrific act of violence and murder be committed against such a virtuous, just and kind man?” Many people in Sartell and elsewhere are pondering that very question. Traut was described on Facebook sites as an intelligent, dedicated, energetic man who loved to laugh, to make others laugh and to help others. They are the very qualities friends and loved ones of Tom Bearson cherished in him. (Information for this story came from various sources, including the Fargo police news conference, the Forum of FargoMoorhead, the Minneapolis Tribune and Valley News.)

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Rapids River Days brings community together

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Clockwise from bottom left: Cheryl and Keith Redmond take a relaxing swing as they watch the river flow by June 27 during Rapids River Food Fest in Municipal Park, Sauk Rapids. At left: Nate Rueter serves up Manea’s Meats’ shish-kebabs at Rapids River Food Fest. Rueter is a member of the Manea’s Meats baseball team that plays Monday nights in Sauk Rapids’ Bob Cross Park. Above left: Two friends get ready to lob a water balloon at opponents at the other side of the water-bomb booth at Rapids River Food Fest in Sauk Rapids. Above: Five-month-old Marty (left) and his twin, Miles, enjoy the cool breeze at the food fest. At left is their mother, Kaylee Stang and at right is her father, the boys’ grandfather, Doug Stang. The Stang family lives in Sartell. Above right: Brea Timlin (left) and Brittany Bodell worked as traffic directors at the food fest. As members of the Sauk Rapids Dance Team, they worked to raise money for their team. Below right: Nora Ferber of Lakeville has fun with her newfound friend, Christopher, at the Sauk Rapids River Food Fest. Nora was visiting her St. Cloud grandparents, Ken and Joan Ferber, and they all decided to go to River Days to cool off and have a good time. Below: Sauk Rapids Police Officer Tim Sigler and Sauk Rapids resident Jeffrey Vogel share a few laughs at the food fest.

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Our View Winds of change bring landmark court rulings The winds of change are slow, but every once in awhile in human history those winds blow strong enough to topple obstacles and open a path to the future. That is exactly what happened at the U.S. Supreme Court on two consecutive landmark days – June 25 and June 26. The slowly gathering winds of change reached sudden gale-force speeds, bringing historical shifts literally overnight. And there’s no turning back. First, the Court decided on a 6-3 vote that federal subsidies for all states under the Affordable Care Act are constitutional, thus indirectly validating the legal legitimacy of the ACA (ObamaCare). It’s the second time in three years the Court gave a go-ahead nod to that law. The next day, the Court, on a vote of 5-4, ruled that same-sex marriages must be allowed in all 50 states in this nation. These are landmark decisions and – depending upon one’s point of view – rulings to be celebrated or lamented. Already, some politicians, such as Republican presidential candidates, are blasting the ACA decision, still thundering that it’s a train wreck, a disaster, a death-panel in action. Other people are disappointed about the marriage ruling, insisting a legitimate marriage should be forevermore and until the end of time as it has been in the past – exclusively between a man and a woman. Most of those people will never change their minds about either of the Court’s decisions, in the same way many have never agreed with – and likely never will – the Court’s 1973 decision legalizing abortion. However, like it or not, the Supreme Court has spoken. Who can argue it has not expanded the definition of “equal rights under the law?” And who can maintain seriously that expanding freedom for all human beings is not a good thing? Just 10 years ago, efforts to reform our health-care system, to make it affordable and accessible to more people, seemed doomed. First Lady Hillary Clinton learned the hard way when her attempt to come up with health-care reform was met by vicious scorn and rejection at every turn by the big-buck boys. Five years ago, President Obama and the Congress managed to approve the ACA, and seldom has any program been met with such hatred, misinformative campaigns and outright lies. After five years of tugof-war, in one fell swoop the ACA is now, without a doubt, the law of the land. Ten or 20 years ago, most polls showed Americans did not favor the legalization of same-sex marriage. Passing laws in favor of it were virtually unthinkable. Gradually, there was a sea change in public opinion so now polls consistently show people – especially younger people – support equal rights, including marriage, for gays and lesbians. Recent polls also show an increase in people who favor ObamaCare. It always takes time for people to get used to major changes. Once the noisy attacks subside, the facts manage to get through, and then it’s easier for people to see and to understand the benefits brought about by the changes. Some politicians who have used fear-mongering around those two issues (ObamaCare, same-sex marriage) to garner votes might want to change their scripts in upcoming election campaigns. They might well find their attacks will be rendered by the winds of change either ineffective or dead as dinosaurs. ACA and same-sex marriage have suddenly become legally validated American institutions. They are here to stay. Debates will rage, but – if polls are any indication – most Americans will eventually get used to these new realities and perhaps even champion them.

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Friday, July 3, 2015

Opinion Finally, ObamaCare is here to stay Break out that champagne, folks, and lift your glasses of bubbly to Chief Justice John Roberts and the U.S. Supreme Court. For the second time in three years, the court last week on a vote of 6-3 upheld a crucial provision of the Affordable Care Act, dubbed ObamaCare, and making it finally, indisputably, the law of the land. President Obama’s signature healthcare plan has been vindicated legally. It’s here to stay. Now, perhaps the Republicans in the U.S. Congress can quit wasting their time – and our tax money – by trying to repeal the law or trying to kill it through death by a thousand cuts. ObamaCare, the so-called Monster from the Deep, is nothing of the sort. It’s been vilified as a job-killer. It’s not; jobs have been rebounding dramatically. It’s been said it’s a budget-buster. It’s not; the deficit is still declining. Just recently, the Congressional Budget Office released an in-depth study that said repealing ObamaCare would increase – not decrease – the federal deficit by $109 billion through the year 2022. Critics said the ACA would increase medical costs astronomically. It didn’t; those costs have shown the least increase in the last half century. We’ve heard repeatedly the law is a government take-over. It’s not; private insurance companies are the insurers, not the government. Predictably, right-wingers decried the Supreme Court’s decision, calling Chief Justice Roberts a turncoat because ObamaCare haters thought they had him “in their pocket.” They also chided the conservative-leaning Justice Anthony Kennedy for siding with the court’s majority decision.

Dennis Dalman Editor The gnat chasers will continue their frantic pursuit to find any and every little thing wrong with the law so the baby can be thrown out with the bath water. House Majority Leader John Boehner vowed repeal efforts will continue so Americans can be “put back in charge of their own health care.” Somewhere along the line, Old Boehner missed the point. The reason there was a need for the ACA or something like it was precisely because Americans were not in charge of their own health care. Escalating costs were pricing millions and more millions of hard-working Americans right out of the market. You certainly are not in charge of your own health care when you can’t afford to get any. All five-years-worth of their carping and train-wreck predictions might have credence if they had any healthcare proposals of their own. But they don’t. Their only proposal (besides their usual lame health-care tax credits and health-care savings accounts) is to trash ObamaCare and go back to the way things were before, to the good old days when millions of hard-working (but poor) Americans were without any kind of health insurance and couldn’t afford to get any. Someday, these ACA critics, their kids or grandkids might be in a tightincome dilemma or flat-out broke, at which time, they will be mighty glad and grateful there is a system in place

(ObamaCare or a variant of it) that makes it possible for them to buy affordable insurance coverage. As has been pointed out by political commentators, many grandstanding opponents of the ACA are crying crocodile tears about the court’s decision. They are secretly glad the law was upheld because if it hadn’t been, if six million or more people suddenly lost their insurance overnight, ACA-haters would have to come up with their own plan or some way to help those people. That would have been a political liability for them, especially since they have no fix-it plan and never have had one. Is ObamaCare perfect? Of course not. What is these days? But what is most important is the law is a framework for improvements when there was no such framework before. For decades, the numbers of uninsured kept growing, and people kept dying needlessly. So far, 16 million people have signed up for private insurance via ObamaCare. Success stories abound about how people’s lives have been saved because check-ups they’d had caught early cancers and other medical problems that could be dealt with in time. Thanks to the ACA, people are living, not dying. Why do detractors insist on calling that outcome a “train wreck?” In a speech after the court’s decision, President Obama said it best, calling it a victory for hard-working Americans. “As the dust has settled, there can be no doubt this law is working. It has changed and, in some cases, saved American lives . . . This is not an abstract thing anymore. This is not a set of political talking points. This is reality.” Three cheers for President Obama. Three cheers for ObamaCare.

We hold these truths to be self-evident Most of us have a pretty good understanding of the Declaration of Independence. I decided to get my copy out and really study it to see if I could get an even better grip on its meaning and its language. The Declaration came about because quite simply the colonists were tired of being pushed around by a government thousands of miles across the sea whose interest seemed to only be about the tax that government could collect. The British Crown refused to accept our laws or our choices for leadership or just about anything the King didn’t think of or approve beforehand. As has been reported, some hard drinkers sat around the pubs of the time complaining about all of the problems levied on them by the British. They didn’t like the so-called Royal Guards. They didn’t like having to pay taxes to a King who did nothing for them. One particular individual famously known as a rum smuggler and bootlegger was upset because the British had seized some of the ships he was using to bring untaxed rum to the colonies. That individual was none other than John Hancock. He was not a man to be toyed with. So they decided the answer was to create their own country with their own government in defiance of British rule. They asked Thomas Jefferson to

Ron Scarbro Guest Writer draft a declaration to send to the King telling him in no uncertain terms that they were tired of the nonsense, and they were henceforth independent of the Crown. All of the signers, all 56 of them, knew to sign that document was an act of treason and it was punishable by death. They signed it anyway. Stating we hold these truths to be self-evident means simply the situation should be obvious to anybody with a brain. They went on to say all men are created equal and are endowed by their God, not some king, to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And that no man, regardless of his station in life, was above the law. This was the beginning of the Declaration. Next came the long list of grievances and complaints against the King. The list is indeed long so I’ll just say they were unhappy and were willing to put their lives and fortunes on the line to make it clear to the King they had had enough. They also told the King that on

many occasions they had complained to no avail. They said this should not come as a shock to the British government having come before the Crown humbly begging for redress. But they were ignored. Buoyed – some say by the rum that was readily available – and concerned that supply may well be in jeopardy, they signed and sent the letter. Obviously the King could not allow this insurgency. How dare these colonists! He had to put this revolt down. And he tried. Oh how he tried. It took two wars for the British government to learn the colonies were not going to give in; that these freedom-loving people had too much to lose to give up. And they never would. It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t quick. But it was worth it. America was born and prospers yet today. The truths that were so evident to the early colonists are still evident today. We celebrate Independence Day. We celebrate freedom. We celebrate America. Long may she live. Happy Independence Day! 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, July 3, 2015

Rapids River Days parade offers music, refreshment photos by Angie Heckman

Clockwise from bottom left: The SRR Middle School marching band played various tunes for the crowd June 26 during the Rapids River Days parade. Below: The SRR High School marching band impressed the crowd with their precision and skill. At right: Seventh-grader Hannah Krippner of Sauk Rapids delivers a glass of lemonade from her stand along the parade route. Far right: Evan (4) and Alex (10) Ostendorf of Sauk Rapids enjoy a glass of lemonade while they wait for the parade to start.

Ambassadors from page 3 ship, involvement and life skills. They also were required to write an essay and take part in community-service projects. On pageant night, each had to answer a question randomly chosen from a fish bowl, followed by the evening-gown event. Those were two of the criteria by which they were judged. The other three categories had been judged earlier. The Sauk Rapids Ambassadors represent their city throughout the year in parades, county fairs, events far and wide and many events that benefit the City of Sauk Rapids or other good causes.

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