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Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 Volume 1, Issue 16 Est. 2015
Town Crier Free airplane rides for kids Aug. 22
On Saturday, Aug. 22, the St. Cloud Regional Airport will offer free flights for children ages 8-17 from 9 a.m.-noon. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Aug. 21 Criers.
Free family classes on mental illness set
The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Minnesota is offering a free educational course to help families gain a greater understanding of mental illness, discuss resources, build communication skills, reduce stress and find support. Family-to-Family starts Sept. 8, from 6:30-9 p.m. at the Little Falls Drop-In Center, 120 E. Broadway, in Little Falls. For more information visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Aug. 21 Criers.
Catholic Charities hosts back-to-school drive
Catholic Charities will accept back-to-school items from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 8 a.m.-7 p.m. on Wednesdays. For more information on donation times and locations, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Aug. 21 Criers.
Northstar rail, bus to provide rides to Vikings home games
The Northstar Link commuter rail and bus now offers rides to all pre-season and regular-season Vikings home games at TCF Bank Stadium. For more information on locations and times, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Aug. 21 Criers.
United Way hosts Day of Caring
United Way of Central Minnesota will host a Day of Caring on Sept. 24. Day of Caring is designed to bring people together to volunteer on community projects. The day will begin with a kick-off breakfast at United Way’s office from 7:308:30 a.m. Volunteers will be provided with a continental breakfast. Projects include painting, packaging food, fall clean-up, children’s activities and crafts. Project sign-up is available through Sept. 11 at unitedwayhelps.org. For more information, visit www.thenewsleaders.com and click on Aug. 21 Criers. For additional criers, visit www.thenewsleaders.com and click on Criers.
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Rice Fun Day draws thousands last Saturday Another record-high hot day did not deter people of all ages from attending Rice Family Fun Day Aug. 15 in downtown Rice. Thousands of people clearly enjoyed the annual festival, which began at noon with the opening of food and beer stands, kiddie games, including inflatables and a pellet-gun shooting range and a kiddie parade. There was also the main parade in the afternoon, a tractor-pulling contest by the Mid-Central Pullers and water fights by members of area fire departments. Throughout the day, an occasional breeze took off the edge of the hot, humid day, much to people’s relief. Festival-goers also stayed cool by drinking lots of liquids, consuming free Kemp’s ice cream, holding umbrellas over their heads or clustering in shady areas to socialize and enjoy their finger foods. Rice Family Fun Day was capped off in the evening with music provided by Flash Mob and later by BLIMP, with people dancing the street and enjoying beer at the beer stand. Proceeds from the 9 p.m. photo by Angie Heckman raffle drawing went to cover costs of the annual The kids on this float took their job seriously and the overheated crowd loved it. Fun Day. The American Family Insurance/Sarah Wilczek Agency, of Rice, sponsored the For more about the festival, see photos in today’s float, which cooled off the parade crowd during Rice Family Fun Day. For more paper and in the online version of the Sauk Rapphotos, see page 4. ids-Rice Newsleader at www.thenewsleaders.com.
ALS strikes down 10 relatives; walk set for Sept. 12 by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Julie Mrozek of Sauk Rapids knows all too well – through sadness and sorrow – the meaning of “one day at a time,” having had so many relatives suffer and then die of Lou Gehrig’s disease. “There’s no cure,” she said. “You can’t fight it. You just have to accept it – one day at a time.” Her mother, Pat Anderson of Rice, has been weakened by the dread disease, technically known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It’s a disease of the nervous system that weakens muscles and impairs physical functioning. ALS was dubbed “Lou Gehrig’s” disease when the famed baseball player died of it. (See related story). Mrozek is one of the organizers and participants in the annual Walk to Defeat ALS in St. Cloud, which raises money for research and personal-care services for the area chapter of the National ALS Association. The two-mile walk will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 12 at Lake George in St. Cloud, and everyone is welcome to attend, as walkers or supporters to cheer on walkers. Check-in time is 8:30-10 a.m. Mrozek and others will walk with a team called “Claudes Celebrating Life,” so named because so many members of the Claude family have died of the disease and others – among them Mrozek’s mother – are still battling it.
ene, 44, of Sauk Centre, who died just last June; Mrozek’s aunt Carol Inderrieden of Rice (Mrozek’s mother’s sister), 58; Carol’s daughter Katie Inderrieden of Rice, 27; Mrozek’s uncle Carl Claude, in his 40s; her grandmother (Mrozek’s mother’s mother) Agnes Claude, 83; Agnes’s brothers Robert and Phil Barcklay and Agnes’s nephews Mike and Bill Barcklay. Recently, a cousin, Bret Colgrove of Pillager was diagnosed with the early stages of ALS. Mrozek’s mother, Pat, was diagnosed with the disease in 2011. She
is now in the later stages of the disease. In her interview with the Newsleader, Mrozek kept emphasizing, “This is not about me; it’s about them (the ones who are suffering or who have died).” She agreed, however, to discuss the disease because she wants others to learn about it and to donate in the hopes it might someday be eradicated. “Mom loves family time, grandkids and get-togethers so we do a lot of those at her house in Rice,” Mrozek said. “She always loved to travel. She loved ALS • page 3
SWAT training held Wednesday
Grim procession
Like a grim procession, ALS, which can be hereditary, seems to stalk Mrozek’s relatives – mainly the Claude and Barcklay families. The first relative who died of it was Mrozek’s great-grandfather, Horatio Barcklay. The others who lost their battles were her cousin Pat Duch-
photo by Hannah Marie & Myles B. Photography
With guns drawn, the Stearns-Benton SWAT team moves into an abandoned house in Sauk Rapids on Wednesday during training exercises. For more details and additional photos from the exercise, see page 3.
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Friday, Aug. 21, 2015
People Cady Sehnert of Sartell has joined the St. Joseph office staff of the Newsleader newspapers as an administrative assistant. The Newsleader newspapers (Von Meyer Publishing Inc.) produces three separate weekly papers for Sartell, St. Joseph and Sauk Rapids-Rice. Sehnert, 23, graduated in 2014 from the College of St. Benedict with a major in political science and a minor in communications. She is the daughter of Mary and Scott Sehnert of Sartell. Cady was raised and home-schooled in Sartell. Currently, Cady lives with her parents and her brother, Ben, 25, a St. John’s University graduate about to do post-graduate work in political theory at Harvard University. “I love it here,” Cady said. “I really enjoy how I get to do new things every day. It’s not a repetitive job, and I get to use my creativity.” In her spare time, Sehnert likes reading, spending time outdoors enjoying the wonders of nature, time with family and traveling. She has visited almost all of the 50 states and Canada several times. She also visited Germany, Switzerland and France during a high-school trip.
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Above left: Class A pitchers Janet Larson of Evansville (right) and Ray Volkers of Maplewood compete in their class. Above right: Al Blumer of Princeton (left) and Dennis Foss of Rice check for points scored during their game.
Ringers of Rice host 2015 Leprechaun Tournament at O’Brien’s Pub The Ringers of Rice Horseshoe Club held its 2015 Leprechaun Tournament on Aug. 8 and 9. The annual event took place at the club’s home courts located at O’Brien’s Pub in Rice. Thirty-six pitchers were entered in six classes determined by pitching averages. There were 20 cities and two states represented this year. Cash prizes were awarded to the top three pitchers in each class.
All other pitchers in each class received a consolation prize provided by club members and local businesses. Class A champion was Janet Larson of Evansville. She was undefeated and averaged 70 percent. Class B was won by Josh Olson of Bertha. Mel Larson of Upsala took the top spot in Class C and Kevin Stein of Little Falls was the Class D champion. Larson and Stein
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be out of the way so it wouldn’t get grass on it. He planned to move it within the next 10 minutes. Police observed there was plenty of room for other vehicles to get around the car.
Aug. 2 1:35 a.m. Fire. Fieldstone Drive. Police responded to a report of a couch fire at a local business. Upon arrival, they spoke with the manager who stated she had extinguished the fire. Police surveyed the damaged and noted the fire had indeed been put out. Parking complaint. 5th Street S. A complaint was received that a vehicle was parked in the middle of a cul-de-sac for no apparent reason. Upon arrival, police found the vehicle and questioned the driver who stated he was cutting grass and wanted his car to
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Aug. 3 1:10 a.m. Open door. Benton Drive N. Officers observed an unlocked door at a local gas station. The door was locked, and the building was secured. 10:20 p.m. Warrant. Industrial Blvd. Sauk Rapids Police assisted St. Cloud in entering a local business where a warranted criminal was believed to be employed. Police spoke with the shift supervisor who stated the suspect had not shown up for work the last few days. Aug. 4 6:19 a.m. Animal complaint. Ocarnia Drive. An anonymous complainant called authorities after believing the barking dogs in a nearby lot had been abandoned.
drawing was held Sunday afternoon. Tournament Director Ginger O’Brien and the members of the Ringers of Rice Horseshoe Club said “thanks” to all who participated in and supported the Leprechaun Tournament. Anyone interested in becoming a part of the horseshoe league is encouraged to contact O’Brien’s Pub for more information.
Upon arrival, police checked the area but found nothing. After observing the neighborhood for some time, the area was cleared. 8:53 p.m. Disturbance. 3rd Avenue S. Officers were dispatched after a report of a large group of people. Upon arrival, the group had already dispersed.
N. Police were dispatched after a report of a male who had experienced a possible stroke. Upon arrival, the male stated he had no feeling in his left leg and felt similar symptoms that were exhibited by his last stroke. He was transported to the hospital for further evaluation.
Aug. 5 2:46 a.m. Traffic complaint. 3rd Street S. Gold Cross Ambulance reported a driver who was possibly intoxicated weaving in and out of traffic. They gave police the driver’s license plate number. After the police had located the vehicle, it was unoccupied. No further action was taken. 7:09 p.m. Medical. 10th Avenue N.E. Police assisted Gold Cross in locating a male with a rapid heartbeat. He was transported to the hospital for further medical assistance.
Aug. 8 4:18 a.m. Assist. 2nd Street N. Police were asked to assist the St. Cloud Police Department in attempting to locate a female who had written a note stating she was going to jump off a bridge. The area was checked, and the female was unable to be located. 1:28 p.m. Civil disturbance. 4th Avenue N. A female complainant called police after a dispute with a cell phone bill that involved her son and his girlfriend. Police advised the complainant to file a small-claims court petition for further action to be taken on this issue.
Aug. 6 5:28 a.m. Medical. 13th Street
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won all of their games. Sherm Anderson of Princeton was the top pitcher in Class E and Class F was won by Devin Stone of Rothsay. Grilled burgers, sweet treats and refreshments were available each day for the pitchers and spectators. Raffle tickets for special prizes could be purchased during the tournament or won by playing Bag Toss and the Red, White and Blue Ringer Game. The raffle
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SWAT training held at Sauk Rapids house photo by Hannah Marie & Myles B. Photography
The Stearns-Benton SWAT team held training exercises at 200 8th Ave. N. in Sauk Rapids on the afternoon of Aug. 19. The SWAT team requested this particular house for training because it will soon be demolished. About 20 officers were involved in the training, which involved exercises in entry and room searching, which are typical actions taken during the execution of search warrant searches. Officers involved are deputies from Stearns and Benton counties. Gold Cross Tactical Medics are also attached to the SWAT team.
ALS from front page to bowl and she loved softball. And she enjoyed volunteering. She worked at the surgical center at St. Cloud Hospital, and she used to go on (medicalsurgical) humanitarian trips to Guatemala to help the people there.” Although Pat has been extremely weakened by the disease, her husband Einar, children and friends rally for her, trying to make her quality of life the best it can be, day to day. “With ALS,” Mrozek said, “the mind remains intact, but the body gives out. Some have
described it as like being a prisoner in solitary confinement, and that’s why enhancing quality of life is so important.”
Philosophical approach
Because of the prevalence of ALS in their close family and relatives, Mrozek and others have developed a philosophical attitude to living, to dying. She explained some people’s reactions vary. Some discuss it; some do not. Some, understandably, have a very hard time dealing with it when it strikes a loved one. All kinds of unsettling emotions surface: anger, denial, depression and more. There are, however, many brave and even positive reactions about dealing with the hard facts and making the most of a day.
“Sometimes it’s a case of mind over matter,” Mrozek said. “Gaining perspective is important, being brave and positive.” ALS is so relentless, so inevitable once it starts that victims and loved ones can become overwhelmed by feelings of utter futility. That is why taking things a day at a time is so important, Mrozek said. “We have to appreciate life and live in the moment,” she said. “And then we have to develop an acceptance, and that takes time. It’s so much easier said than done.” Living with ALS is in many respects like a speeded-up life in which stages of life come quicker since many people die of it so relatively young. ALS • back page
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Family Fun Day draws crowds
Clockwise from center left: photo by Dennis Dalman
Glen Gertken of Rice cooks pork chops at Rice Family Fun Day. The pork-chop booth was staffed by members of Rice Boy Scout Troop 473 as one of its many fundraisers throughout the year. photo by Tara Wiese
Kayla Wiese, 5, daughter of Tara Wiese and John Bloch, both of Sauk Rapids, raced down the inflatable slide before the parade. photo by Angie Heckman
Rice Boy Scouts Troop 473 marched the flags through the parade and threw
candy. They also worked a food stand that is one of their main fundraisers for the year. photo by Dennis Dalman
Corn dogs and mini donuts are a hit with festival-goers. Hot, humid weather did not deter thousands of people from enjoying the annual city festival. photo by Dennis Dalman
Hot weather doesn’t faze Kendra Snow of Sauk Rapids, who knows how to keep cool with her snow cone and bottled water. photo by Angie Heckman
enjoyed the inflatable obstacle course with his brother. photo by Angie Heckman
The Sauk Rapids-Rice High School Marching Band wowed the parade crowd with its fancy formations Aug. 15. photo by Dennis Dalman
Spectators watch the parade as children scurry for candy. Despite hot, humid weather, the festival attracted big crowds of people of every age. For additional photos, visit thenewsleaders.com.
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At left: The Kemp’s Ice Cream stand was a popular stop for visitors. Throughout the hot, humid day, volunteers gave out thousands of free cups of ice cream. In the photo at left, Katie Poirier, Rice, hands Zach Weber, Rice, a heaping helping of vanilla ice cream. At right: Children gather for a variety of kiddie games. photo by Tara Wiese
Below: The kiddie parade was a nice treat before the main event.
Residents share how they beat the heat photos by Dennis Dalman
This photo poll was taken by Newsleader reporter Dennis Dalman on Aug. 15 at Rice Family Fun Day in downtown Rice.
Alex Blommer, Rice “My dad tells me just to suck it up. Well, no, I’m just kidding, kind of. My better answer would be ice cream.”
Ethan Lage, Sauk Rapids “Water. Or I go to the beach. Or air conditioning.”
Ross Hamann Rice Chief of Police “I stay in the shade or inside in air conditioning. I drink a lot of water.”
Brittaney Schlicting, Rice “Air conditioning. Snow cones, ice cubes, anything cold!”
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Let’s all put a stop to distracted driving An appalling statistic shows deaths due to distracted driving in Minnesota are rapidly gaining on the number of deaths to drunken driving. The recent charges brought against a 25-year-old Prior Lake woman should give us all pause. She is accused of distracted driving when her vehicle struck and killed a 40-year-old bicyclist in Glencoe last April. According to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, in 2013 there were 387 fatalities on Minnesota roadways. Of those, 81 were considered to be drunk-driving related, while 68 of them were related to distracted driving. Annual fatalities in Minnesota have shown decreases compared to years ago. Stricter enforcement of drinking-while-driving laws and the increasing use of seat belts have done wonders in that regard. It took years and years of public education to make those strides in safety. Let us hope it doesn’t take years and years for people finally to get the message that distracted driving kills just as surely as drunken driving kills. Distracted or inattentive driving is a factor in one of four crashes, notes the Minnesota DPS. What is most tragic is almost all of the those roadway fatalities could easily have been prevented simply by not driving drunk, by not driving distracted and by not speeding. Seventy-six of the fatalities in 2013 were speed-related. Will we never learn? It should also be noted in 2013, there were 30,653 people injured in roadway accidents, and 1,216 of those were severe and life-altering. Imagine that kind of long-term suffering just because of drunken, distracted or speeding drivers? It’s an absolute disgrace. Those accidents, by the way, were mostly car and truck accidents, but they also included motorcyclists, pedestrians, bicyclists, ATVs, farm vehicles and snowmobiles. The DPS offers tips to avoid distracted or inattentive driving: • Place cell phones and other electronic communication devices out of reach in the vehicle or ask a passenger, if possible, to handle calls and text messages. • Adjust all dials before driving, including pre-programming radio stations. • Always pull over to send or get messages. • Avoid eating while driving, especially messy foods that can spill and distract. • Teach children the importance of minding and sitting still while a vehicle is in motion since unruly or excitable children can often cause dangerous distractions. • If making or receiving a call, ask the person if he or she is driving. If so, kindly ask the driver to call back at a safer time. The DPS reminds people it’s illegal to drive while reading, sending text messages or emails or accessing wireless devices when a vehicle is in motion or when a vehicle is stopped at traffic lights; it’s illegal for school-bus drivers to use cell phones on the job; and it’s illegal for drivers to use cell phones during their permit and provisional-license stages. Unfortunately, laws are only as good as long as they are heeded. Speeding and drunken driving are illegal, too, and yet some people just never learn. In the long run, the main preventive tactic is for all people now to let one another know such dangerous driving behavior is not acceptable. The shame factor has to be invoked and people have to tell loved ones, friends and strangers in no uncertain terms to concentrate completely on the road and on driving when that vehicle is in motion. If someone in a car in which you are a passenger starts texting or doing other distractive behaviors, kindly but firmly ask that person to stop it immediately, that they are jeopardizing your life as well as theirs, not to mention other people (motorists and pedestrians) on roadways. Friends don’t let friends drive drunk, and friends should not let friends drive distracted either. Let’s all put a stop to it, once and for all.
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Friday, Aug. 21, 2015
Opinion ‘Vertigo’ reigns supreme on my movie list There’s been another “100 Best American Movies” list just released, this one solicited by the British Broadcast Corp. from 63 international film critics. As a long-time movie buff and occasional movie critic since my high-school newspaper days, these best-movies lists always interest me. The new list is interesting because the critics were asked to name their favorites based on their emotional reactions to movies, the ones they enjoyed, whether or not the films are cinematic masterpieces. What pleases me about the list is most of the movies are indeed masterpieces, which proves once again brilliantly made movies can be crowd-pleasers as well as “art” films, entertaining as well as thought-provoking. The top 10 on the list are Citizen Kane, The Godfather Part II, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Searchers, Sunrise, Singing in the Rain, Psycho, Casablanca and The Godfather Part I. Nine of the films on that top-100 list I haven’t seen, not yet anyway. Thirty-eight of the movies on the list are also long-time favorites of mine. I decided to make my own top-100 list of American movies, using the same criteria. If I could add foreign movies, they would bump about one-fourth of my American choices. The following movies I liked so much I saw many of them multiple times. All of them I would be happy to see again. If I could convince somebody to see any of these movies, there would be five uppermost: Detour (the most riveting low-budget film noir ever made), Smile (a whimsical satire of a beauty pageant), W.C. Field’s It’s a Gift (the funniest movie ever made), Picnic (a vivid drama of small-town life in Kansas) and Boyhood, which I just saw last week and which astonished me. It left me feeling exhilarated by its transformation of “ordinary” daily life into the realm of “extraordinary.” It’s a very great movie. Please consider seeing it. My choices are not in order of favorite status, although the first 10 listed are, at least currently, my top 10. I placed my faves into genre categories and added the date of each movie’s release. I also added each director’s name, as I’m a firm believer a great director (visionary) generally equals a great movie. Top 10: Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock); Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles);
Dennis Dalman Editor The Searchers (1956, John Ford); Bonnie and Clyde (1968, Arthur Penn); Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz); Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder); Picnic (1955, Joshua Logan); Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau); A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Elia Kazan); and Fargo (1986, Joel and Ethan Coen). Dramas: Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim); The Grapes of Wrath (1940, John Ford); Splendor in the Grass (1961, Kazan); The Apartment (1960, Wilder); Hud (1963, Martin Ritt); The Hustler (1961, Robert Rossen); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962, Sidney Lumet); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, Richard Brooks); There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson); The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich); Baby Doll (1956, Kazan); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Welles); Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray); East of Eden (1955, Kazan); Giant (1956, George Stevens); On the Waterfront (1954, Kazan); The Member of the Wedding (1954, Fred Zinnemann); A Star is Born (1954, George Cukor); Clash by Night (1952, Fritz Lang); The Misfits (1961, John Huston); To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan); Three Women (1977, Robert Altman); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick); It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra); Days of Heaven (1978, Terence Malik); Badlands (1973, Malick); Spartacus (1960, Kubrick); Lolita (1962, Kubrick); Madame Bovary (1949, Vincente Minnelli); They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969, Sydney Pollack); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Milos Forman); Mildred Pierce (1949, Michael Curtiz); Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming); Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962, Robert Aldrich); All About Eve (1950, Joseph Mankiewicz); Beyond the Forest (1949, King Vidor); Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese); Hugo (2011, Scorsese); and Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater).
Crime-Mystery: Detour (1945, Edgar G. Ulmer); Touch of Evil (1958, Welles); Double Indemnity (1944, Wilder); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, Tay Garnett); Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch); In Cold Blood (1967, Richard Brooks); Klute (1971, Alan J. Pakula); Shock Corridor (1963, Samuel Fuller); Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Hitchcock); Notorious (1946, Hitchcock); Strangers on a Train (1951, Hitchcock); Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock); The Trouble with Harry (1955, Hitchcock); The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Hitchcock); North by Northwest (1959, Hitchcock); Psycho (1960, Hitchcock); The Birds (1963, Hitchcock); Marnie (1964, Hitchcock); The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston); Rosemary’s Baby (1968, Roman Polanski); Chinatown (1974, Polanski); The Tenant (1976, Polanski); The Godfather Parts I and II (1972, 1974, Francis Ford Coppola); Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese); and Goodfellas (1990, Scorsese). Westerns: McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman); Red River (1948, Howard Hawks); Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray); and The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah). War: The Big Red One (1980, Fuller); Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick); Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg); and Schindler’s List (1993, Spielberg). Comedies: A Christmas Story (1983, Bob Clark); Smile (1975, Michael Ritchie); The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming); Modern Times (1936, Charlie Chaplin); Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder); National Lampoon’s American Vacation (1983, Harold Ramis); National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985, Amy Heckerling); W.C. Fields’ It’s a Gift (1034, Norman Z. McLeod); The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols); Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen); Love and Death (1975, Allen); Dr. Strangelove (1964, Kubrick); It Happened One Night (1939, Capra); Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks); and The Seven-Year Itch (1955, Wilder). Cartoons: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, Walt Disney); and Pinocchio (1940, Disney). Musicals: Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse); and Singing in the Rain (1952, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen). (I would enjoy seeing top-movie lists from readers. Send them to me, and I’ll put them in a future column.)
America needs Planned Parenthood On Aug. 6, the Grand Old Party (otherwise known as the Republican Party) held its first debate in Cleveland, Ohio. As a woman, I found the debate regarding abortion to be appalling. It comes as no surprise, however, that the field of GOP contenders are strictly anti-abortion. These candidates for the Republican Party have terrifying, absolutely outrageous stances on abortion. I realize this is a very controversial topic all over the world, primarily to us in the United States. One of the front-runners, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, stated “women should not have access to abortion even if their life is in danger.” Mike Huckabee went on, saying “fertilized eggs should have the same legal rights as a U.S citizen.” Those two quotes are equally appalling to me and to many other people around the world. First, let me state these GOP candidates are men. 1) They know nothing about carrying a baby. 2) They like to use women’s bodies – my body as well – as a political playground for themselves to govern. As Obama once said, ask them about climate change, and they’ll say they’re not a scientist; ask them about reproductive
Abby Ring Guest Writer rights, and suddenly they’re all doctors. The debate about abortion was absolute nonsense. All these people were saying was “women’s lives don’t matter when there is a fetus in her,” and the quote about eggs having legal rights as a U.S. citizen is ridiculous coming from them, when they so strongly oppose not only basic rights of feminism and race issues, but also marriage equality. There is a chance the egg could turn out to be male, white and straight. That is why they believe they should have all the same “rights” as citizens. And then, of course, there is the issue of Planned Parenthood. Many of the GOP candidates have said PP should be de-funded because there is no reason we should be pouring half a billion dollars into safety and health for women, as
stated by Jeb Bush. Well, why not? We spend countless billions of dollars on all sorts of things every day, but as soon as women get something, the GOP wants to take it away. What people don’t realize is PP abortions are not performed in most buildings and only account for 3 percent of “sales,” while the rest of the money is put into not only STD testing for men and women, but also contraceptives to prevent abortions. The people of Planned Parenthood who are responsible for selling the fetal parts for research (whether it’s for research or not, who knows) should be held accountable. America needs Planned Parenthood. And that’s my final word, as a woman and on behalf of all other women needing it. We should be the only ones to govern our bodies. Not anyone else. That is why I am pro-choice. Pro-life is practically the equivalent of anti-women.
Ring has lived in Sartell for nine years. She plans to study journalism in college, and wanted to bring a new voice to the opinion page of her local paper.
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ALS from page 3 “We have had to plan a lot of funerals,” Mrozek said of her family and her relatives. “We always feel as if we’re two steps behind. ALS speeds everything up.” Disturbing, unpleasant questions arise: What stage is she/he at? When will it be time for a wheelchair? When will he/she be unable to breathe and need a ventilator? “There’s no way to tell how fast the disease will progress,” Mrozek said. “It varies and is different in every person.”
To combat feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, Mrozek and many others put their energy into fighting back at the disease through fundraisers throughout each year. It’s a comfort because so much money raised goes directly to help ALS victims and their families with medicalcare items they so badly need. There is also the hope that money raised for research might squelch the disease once and for all. “We are one family, one cause – that’s our motto,” she said.
Donate
To donate to the Claudes Celebrating Life team, click
on webmn.alsa.org, then scroll down to the photo of the girl with a balloon on her head and click on the red button that says “Find A Walk Near You,” then click on that. Scroll down and on the right choose “Find a Team.” In the box, type “CCL,” then click “Go.” Scroll down to “CCL – Claudes Celebrating Life. Click on that. Scroll down. You will see the names of members of the CCL team with a “Donate Now” after each name. Julie Mrozek’s name is number 20 on the list, but contributors can donate to any name they wish. Another quicker way to donate (without designating a walking team) is to go
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to webmn.alsa.org and click the red “Donate” button to the right. Yet another way is to write a check to “ALS” and send it to the ALS Association MN, ND, SD Chapter, 333 N. Washington Ave., Suite 105, Minneapolis, MN 55401. That chapter includes the central Minnesota area.
Mrozek family
Julie Mrozek works in customer service at Continental Printing in east St. Cloud. She and her husband, Marc, have three children: Elena, 20; Ella, 8; and Marcus, 5. Mrozek said there is no danger of her immediate family members coming down with ALS.
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Pat Anderson of Rice (left, who is suffering from A.L.S.) receives plenty of tender loving care from her family members, including daughter Julie Mrozek of Sauk Rapids.
Baseball hall of famer Gehrig gave name to disease by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
(Editor’s note: Information in the following story was derived from the ALS Association and from several Internet Gehrig entries about Lou Gehrig.) Only about 5 to 10 percent of all cases of Lou Gehrig’s disease have a genetic (familial) component, and there is a 50 percent chance an offspring can inherit the disease (See related story). The rest of the cases are known as “sporadic ALS,” which stands for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It’s a neurologic disease that affects nerve cells in
the brain and spinal cord, and the victims lose ability to control muscle movement, leading eventually to total paralysis and death, often in just two to five years from its onset. About 5,600 people are diagnosed with ALS every year. That’s 15 new cases every day. As many as 33,000 Americans suffer from the disease at any given movement. Although anybody can be afflicted with ALS, it tends to be a bit more common in war veterans and athletes, perhaps because of certain kinds of injuries. Sixty percent of those who get ALS are men, and 95 percent are Caucasian. Most develop the disease between the ages of 40 and 70, and the average age of diagnosis is 55. Symptoms
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can include muscle weakness, twitching and cramping of muscles (especially in the hands and feet), thick speech and difficult in projecting the voice. Other symptoms can include tripping over things, dropping objects and abnormal fatigue in the arms and legs.
Gehrig
ALS was first noted in 1869 by a French neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot. It wasn’t until the late 1930s that it became more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and that is because Gehrig, one of the greatest baseball players in history, was diagnosed with the disease in 1939, at the height of his career, and died in 1941 at the age of 37. Nicknamed the “Iron Horse,” Gehrig played 17 seasons with
the New York Yankees, hit 493 home runs and had 1,995 runs batted in. He was the first player in U.S. history to hit four home runs in one game, which happened during a game vs. Philadelphia June 3, 1932. Gehrig began suffering mysterious muscle weakness, and his baseball performance began to waver and suffer noticeably. After six days of testing at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic, the shattering diagnosis was delivered: ALS. In a packed stadium, July 4, 1939, Gehrig gave what quickly became known as the “Luckiest Man” speech. “Fans,” he said via the loudspeaker, “for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest
man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.” Stunned silence was followed by thunderous applause from thousands of fans, most of them wiping tears from their eyes. New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia gave Gehrig a job as N.Y.C. parole commissioner, but as he became weaker and weaker, he had to give up that job. The living legend died at his home in The Bronx, N.Y.C., and the entire nation mourned his loss. His wife, Eleanor, utterly devastated, never remarried and dedicated the rest of her life to raising funds for ALS research. The couple was childless. Eleanor died in 1984, at age 84.