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Coalition hosts gathering on substance use
A meeting, sponsored by the Benton County Prevention Coalition regarding substance use will be held from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 in Sauk Rapids City Hall. Details regarding registration and content presented at the meeting can be found by visiting thenewsleaders.com and clicking on Aug. 28 Criers.
Expert to speak on pornography’s impact
Patrick Trueman will deliver a talk to the general public on the effects of pornography on society from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31 at the River’s Edge Convention Center, St. Cloud. For more information and a detailed outline of the speech, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on Aug. 21 Criers.
Pollinators campaign offers guidance to farmers, others
If you are looking for information regarding insect pollinators, the Stearns County Soil and Water Conservation District along with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture is now offering guidance to farmers and rural landowners. Scientific studies show that a decline in these beneficial insects means a loss of important ecological services, such as pollination and pest control. Pollinators depend on flowering plants for their food and some need undisturbed ground and vegetation for shelter. For more information visit thenewsleaders. com and click on Aug. 28 Criers.
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Xcel Energy electrical customers in Stearns County will have the option to “go solar” sometime next year after a “solar garden” is built. Ground will be broken for the project this fall. The 3 megawatt solar facility, comprised of many fixed-in-place solar panels, will be built two Merkle miles north of Cold Spring by SunShare, a solar company based in Colorado. Three megawatts is enough to supply 600 households with electricity for day-today needs. One megawatt is equivalent to 1 million watts of electricity. A solar garden (or “farm,” as it’s sometimes called) is a way for homeowners and businesses to access solar energy without having to put solar panels on their rooftops. It’s not a new concept. In fact, solar gardens have been catching on rapidly Coast to Coast in the nation. St. Cloud is planning for some multiple solar Garden * page 3
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HealthPartners hosted a veggie giveaway Aug. 13 at its Sartell clinic. Sauk Rapids residents Kylah Schumacher, 6, and brother Caiden, 2, thought it would be fun to come get some veggies with their parents. Kylah will be entering the first grade at Pleasantview Elementary this year. Veggies given away included tomatoes, eggplant, green peppers and sweet corn, along with cookbooks. Pictured (from left to right) are Caiden, Kylah, Amber and Jason Schumacher.
Annual craft show in Rice set Sept. 12-13
by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
The annual Old Creamery Arts and Crafts Show in Rice will take place from 8 a.m-5 p.m. on both Saturday, Sept. 12, and Sunday, Sept. 13. It’s one of the biggest out-
door craft shows in the state and attracts thousands of people from a wide area. This year, there will be 140 exhibitors offering a wide range of home-crafted items: ceramics, jewelry, wood carvings, photography, sewn items, tapestries and much more.
CentraCare recruiting for patient/family program
CentraCare Health is announcing its new Patient and Family Partner Program, consisting of current or former patients or family members who represent the collective voice of CentraCare’s patients and families. Members give feedback on improving the patient experience. For more information visit thenewsleaders. com and click on Aug. 28 Criers.
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A new round of detours and newly opened routes was put into place last week in Sartell because of the ongoing roadconstruction projects in the city. The pink line represents a detour from CR 133 to Pinecone Road. Green and blue lines indicate two-way traffic through the construction zones. Red areas indicate construction zones.
served by the Old Creamery Café which is right next to the craft show north of Rice’s main street just off of Hwy. 10. There is plenty of free parking available for the event. The show is coordinated by Mark Larson, owner of Old Creamery, and his son, Nathan.
New construction, road updates announced by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Youth for Christ seeks adults to work with kids
Get in on the action! Central Minnesota Youth for Christ is always in need of caring, mature adults to meet with the many teens they serve. Volunteers must go through a screening process. They offer on-going training to help you be encouraged and effective in your role. For more information on this and other United Way volunteer opportunities, visit thenewsleaders.com and lcik on Aug. 28 Criers.
Demonstrations will include chainsaw sculpting, tapestrymaking and music. There will be lots of food, including the Rice Boy Scouts grilling and serving pork chops, the Rice Lions ice-cream stand, the ever-popular Kettle Corn stand, and burgers and nachos
A new round of detours and newly opened routes was put into place last week in Sartell because of the ongoing road-construction projects in the city. Here are what motorists driving through Sartell should watch for: Second Street Roundabout: As of Aug. 20, it has been open to traffic on all but its northerly side. Second Street N. at Pinecone Road: It was closed Aug. 25 to east-west traffic but will re-open Monday morning, Sept. 1. During that closure, Sartell City Hall will be accessible only from the west. Use 19th Avenue and then turn east on Second Street N. Pinecone Road Phase I: All work is scheduled to be completed and open to traffic starting at 7 a.m. Monday, Sept. 1, weather permitting. Pinecone Road Improvements Phase 2: Work on the roundabouts at Scout Drive and Heritage Drive
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began Aug. 24. The end of Phase 2 is expected to be on or about Oct. 16, weather depending. During that time, traffic will be limited to one lane in each direction on Pinecone Road. Westbound traffic on Sixth Street S. will be detoured south at the intersection with 19th Avenue to 15th Street S. and then east on 15th to Pinecone Road. Traffic on Scout Drive from the west will be required to use Troop Drive as an alternate route. Motorists wanting to travel south on Pinecone Road from westbound Heritage Drive are encouraged to use Roberts Road as an alternate route to avoid the congestion at Heritage and Pinecone. The intersection of Pinecone Road and Roberts Road will be signed as an all-way stop during construction to allow safe turning movements at that intersection. For updated traffic and road-construction, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on the Sartell city icon.
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Alley privatized, future of path uncertain by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com
An alley which runs from Sixth to Seventh Street N., between Second and Third Avenue N., was officially vacated by the city at the Aug. 24 Sauk Rapids City Council meeting with a unanimous vote, giving the land equally to the property owners around it. The city still maintains an easement on the property, allowing for maintenance of private utilities. City staff has looked at the issue, and they suggested to the council to return the alley to private ownership. A report prepared for the council stated the granite structures, known as the Molehill, at places stick out into the alley and there are many loose granite pieces that could hurt someone. During a previous meeting, Sauk Rapids Director of Community Development Todd Schultz said in order to return the property to private ownership, the city only needs to
prove the property serves no purpose for the city. “It is a very low standard the city needs to meet to vacate the property,” Schultz noted. There are a number of undeveloped alleyways in the city, Schultz said, and if the city hasn’t developed them already, it probably won’t. The alley in question was never developed. It consists of granite slabs running in a single file about one-foot wide. Some of the slabs are loose and at one point run around a large tree. The property owner who brought the issue to the council, Laure Rosty, also asked if she would be able to remove the granite slabs so people don’t assume it’s an alley or sidewalk. The whole reason Rosty originally asked the council to vacate the alley was due to people walking through the alley and into her and her neighbor’s backyards. “We’d like to remove the bricks so people don’t still
think it’s a walkway,” Rosty said, “but we don’t know if the bricks are on our property now.” “A surveyor would have to put a pin in [the property],” Sauk Rapids City Attorney Adam Ripple said, meaning the land would need to be measured to find the exact center of the alley before any work could be done. Rosty said she would be willing to pay to remove the granite bricks, but just needs to make sure they are hers to remove first. The public hearing and vote on this issue had previously been tabled from the July 27 meeting, so everyone had time to come and speak on the issue. The only property owners who weren’t completely on board with privatizing the alley were not present at Monday’s meeting. They previously did not have an issue with privatizing the alley as long as they still would have access to their backyard in some way.
People Shelby Hadley, was recently selected by a panel of peers to receive the Veterans’ Voices Award. Minnesotans from across the state nominated veterans who have honorably served and have shown exemplary community service to receive the 2015 Veterans’ Voices Award. From a host of nominees, nine “Legacy” veterans (age 41 and over) and 16 “On the Rise” veterans (age 40 and under) were selected to receive the Veterans’ Voices Award. Hadley, a Minnesota Army National Guard veteran from Rice, was deployed twice as an Air Traffic Controller – Bosnia in 2003 and “Operation Iraqi Freedom” in 2008. She is involved in the St. Cloud area veteran community and serves as a peer mentor with Wounded Warrior Project and on the advisory board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Minnesota. Shelby shared her military story by performing in The Telling Project’s play Telling: Minnesota 2015 at the Guthrie Theater. Described as a strong advocate for military youth and an amazing role model, Shelby continues to give back to her community through volunteer work with veterans service organizations and committees and projects advocat-
ing for veterans, military service members and their families. Hadley holds a bachelor’s degree from St. Cloud State University and is expected to complete an MBA program in September 2015. Awards will be presented at the Veterans’ Voices Award Ceremony on Sept. 11 at the University of St. Thomas Anderson Student Center in St. Paul. Public and private sector achievements of 25 Minnesota veterans will be recognized. Gulf War veteran and WCCO-TV reporter Reg Chapman will emcee. Past award presenters were Gov. Mark Dayton and Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, Retired Maj. Gen. Larry Shellito. Since 9/11/2001 more than 88,000 men and women from Minnesota have been deployed – many have returned home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These veterans are our neighbors who defended the freedom of all Americans. This event is part of the Humanities Center’s Veterans’ Voices program that draws on the power of the humanities to call attention to the stories – which have often been missing – and contributions of veterans. This program empowers all Minnesota veterans to speak in their
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own voices through plays, art and/or discussion groups, and to publicly acknowledge veterans who are making an exceptional difference in their communities and throughout the state. CentraCare Health was recently named one of the Best Places to Work for the seventh consecutive year by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. CentraCare ranked sixth among the top 10 in the large-company category. Gillette Children’s was the only other health care organization in the top 10 this year, capturing seventh place. Marco, based in St. Cloud, won first-place honors. The Business Journal revised categories this year, expanding the definition of “large company” to include companies with 250 or more employees. In past years, the large company category included those with 1,000 or more employees. The survey administered to employees of the 225 companies that entered the competition asked about company leadership, career growth and development, pay and benefits, recognition and other factors.
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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. Aug. 9 2:33 a.m. Disturbance. 1st Street S. Police were dispatched after receiving a complaint of two men standing outside a garage with guns. Upon arrival, authorities spoke with complainant who stated two males were being confrontational with each other in a nearby alleyway. Both subjects had left before police assistance had arrived. No further action was taken. 10:55 a.m. Accident. 4th Avenue N. A male complainant called police after discovering his vehicle had been struck during the night on the rear side corner. There was very little damage to the car. No suspects have been identified at this time. Aug. 10 2 p.m. Dispute. 10th Avenue N.E. Police responded to a complaint from an apartment resident who stated the management staff were making efforts to remove his wife from the building. Police spoke with management who stated the occupant’s wife had severe dementia. They were only trying to get her to a place that could give her the attention she needed. Upon speaking with the complainant, police learned he and his wife had never been separated for the duration of their marriage and wished to stay together. Police returned to management stating oth parties should continue to work together on this conflict. No further action was taken at this time. 5:50 p.m. Theft. Benton Drive N. Police responded to a report of theft at a local gas station. Employees stated baby wipes, diapers, pads and batteries had been stolen. The female suspect was tracked down via license plate. She admitted to stealing the items, stating she had a new baby and could not afford necessary products. Police charged her for the theft and set a court date. Aug. 11 3:19 a.m. Medical. 13th Avenue S. A woman called the police after waking up with difficulty breathing. She had attempted several medications but there was no relief. Upon arrival, police provided oxygen. She was transported to the
hospital by Gold Cross for further treatment. 1:45 p.m. Assist. 13th Street. A woman contacted authorities after she had locked her keys inside her car. Her 4-month-old child was inside. Upon arrival, the police spoke with the woman and called a towing company for further assistance. 6:30 p.m. Arrest. 1st Avenue. Officers were dispatched after receiving a call that a warranted criminal had been spotted. Police found the male in his apartment bedroom disabling his phone. He was searched, handcuffed and transported to the Stearns County Jail for further action. Aug. 12 7:35 a.m. Burglary. 11th Street N. A complainant called police after realizing the bicycle he had left in his garage had been stolen. Police obtained the serial number of the bicycle from the manufacturer. It was found and returned. 9:30 a.m. Damaged property. Prairie View Lane N.E. Police were dispatched after receiving a report of damaged property. The female complainant stated someone had egged her driveway. She did not want authorities to speak with the culprits; instead, she wanted the incident simply documented. No damage was observed, and no further action was taken. Aug. 13 2:16 p.m. Fireworks. Benton Drive N. Police responded to a report of fireworks in a local parking lot. Upon arrival, authorities found the area to be quiet. No further action was taken. 3:30 p.m. Found property. 3rd Avenue N. Police were summoned after a property owner asked if they could look at a turkey fryer in his backyard. Upon arrival, the male asked if it was safe to throw away. Police checked the fryer and stated he could dispose of it if he wished. Aug. 14 2:24 a.m. Assist. 2nd Street S. Sauk Rapids Police were asked to check an address with a vehicle bearing a specific license-plate number. The driver of the vehicle in question had reportedly driven off without paying for gasoline in the city of Rice. Upon arrival at the address, the vehicle was unable to be located. Aug. 15 8:48 p.m. Unlocked door. Searle Street. While on patrol, police observed an open door at a vacant property. The house was secured, and the area was cleared.
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Abbey prior steps aside due to allegation
Garden from front page gardens. In June, Cologne on the western edge of the Twin Cities was the first local government in the state to offset entirely its municipal electricity with solar-generated electricity. “We’re very excited about getting started on this program in Cold Spring,” said Dan Merkle, originally from Collegeville and now a business-development associate in the Twin Cities for SunShare. Merkle spent a few hours at the Monday Marketplace farmers’ market Aug. 17 in Sartell to explain the solar project to market visitors. Several other informational meetings were held in August in the greater St. Cloud area. This is how it will work, according to Merkle: SunShare has contracted with Xcel Energy to build the solar garden. The solar panels will convert energy from the sun into electricity in the many solar panels, and that electricity then flows to Xcel substations. Xcel customers can sign an agreement with Xcel to get some of their energy from the solar source and then get a bill credit for doing so, a savings of about 5 percent on their monthly bills, Merkle noted. SunShare just began projects in Minnesota. Other solar gardens are planned for one mile north of Starbuck and a couple for the Twin Cities area. SunShare recently gave a presentation to the St. Joseph City Council, and the council agreed to move forward with a non -binding letter of intent to reserve some space at the Cold Springarea solar garden for the City of St. Joseph. “We definitely think it’s worth investigating,” said Judy Weyrens, city administrator. The City of St. Joseph uses about 525 kilowatt hours per year. Contracting to receive some electricity from solar power could save the city an estimated $782,000 to $829,000 over the course of a 25-year contract, according to the SunShare spokesman. Cold Spring Bakery has signed up for 44 kilowatts of energy, the spokesman also noted.
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Children visit a solar garden in Colorado in this picture provided by SunShare. A similar “garden” is planned for an area just north of Cold Spring that will be able to bring solar-produced electricity, via Xcel Energy, to homes and businesses throughout the area. Any Xcel customer will be able to sign up for solar power, including people in Sauk Rapids, Rice, Sartell, St. Stephen, St. Joseph and elsewhere, just as long as Xcel Energy provides their electricity. St. John’s University has long had a solar garden that generates a portion of the campus’s electric power. A similar solar-garden project, by another company called SolarStone, Twin Cities, is in the works for Sartell. That company and the city signed a lease agreement last April for a solar garden to be installed on 40 acres, a former lagoon, in the Heritage Drive area of the city. SolarStone, too, will channel its solar-generated electricity to Xcel Energy. Sartell City Planner/Developer Anita Rasmussen said last week the SolarStone solar garden is definitely a go-ahead project for the near future. Merkle said many people are surprised to hear Minnesota and other northern states are ideal for solar power. Most think that, because the states are so cold in the winter, they would be poor choices for solar energy. But, in fact, just the reverse is true. Heat can cause the solar-generated electricity to dissipate; cold does not, so on bright-sunshiny winter days, the collection of solar energy within the solar panels is optimal, Merkle noted. The solar garden’s panels are made of very hard glass made to withstand hail storms and other nasty weather. They will be installed in long rows in a fencedin, secure area, Merkle said. Sil-
icone reactors inside the panels collect the energy from the sun, turning it into electricity (flow of electrons) and then a wire system sends the electricity to power substations. To learn more about SunShare, visit its website at www.mysunshare.com.
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Yet another cloud has darkened St. John’s Abbey when it was announced last week the abbey’s prior had stepped Andert down, pending results of an allegation of sexual misconduct with a student three decades ago. The Rev. Thomas Andert was replaced by interim prior Fr. Bradley Jenniges, OSB. In a statement from the abbey, it was revealed a man wrote a letter to the abbey accusing Andert of sexual misconduct with him when he was a student at St. John’s Prep School 30 years ago. Andert has been a member of the abbey’s monastic community
for 40 years. No other charges have been leveled against him during his long service at the abbey, according to abbey spokesman the Rev. Aelred Senna. According to Senna, the letter from the man did not describe any specifics other than “sexual misconduct.” No further information was released about the accuser. The accusation was referred to a review board for investigation. In the meantime, the abbey notified the alleged victim with contact numbers for the Stearns County Sheriff’s Department so he could make a complaint to law enforcement should he so choose. There have been 18 monks at St. John’s Abbey who have had “credible” claims of sexual misconduct brought against them in the past 40 years, according to lists released in recent years under threat of legal action.
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Long-awaited dollar store to open this fall by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
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The Dollar General store in Rice is still under construction. It’s expected to open sometime this fall.
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A crowd of shoppers lined up on June 1, 1955 when the first Dollar General store opened in Springfield, Ken.
One of the most common buzz-line questions in Rice these days is, “When is the dollar store going to open?” Here is the answer, as provided by a company spokesperson: The “Dollar General” store, as it’s officially known, will open in Rice sometime in mid- to late fall, depending on the weather and building schedule. Under construction for the past few months, the shell of the rectangular 7,300-squarefoot store has been built, and its large parking lot has been paved with concrete. It is located on 125th Street N. just across from the Benton County Phone Co-Op on the east side of Hwy. 10. In a long-distance telephone interview with the Sauk Rapids-Rice Newsleader, Katie Kile of Goodlettsville Tenn. said the store will have a “soft opening” during which customers can shop, and then about a week later it will host a “grand opening” complete with special offers, prizes and coupons. Kile is media spokesman for Dollar General, whose corporate headquarters is in Goodlettsville. The Rice store, she noted, will be one of more than 12,000 Dollar General stores, mostly in small towns in 43 states. Other Dollar General stores in the central Minnesota area are currently operating in Annandale, Maple Lake, Melrose, Milaca and Richmond. Dollar General has long prided itself in catering to small-town customers who often live quite
a distance from big-box stores like Walmart. “We are thrilled to be in Rice,” Kile said. “We look forward to becoming a part of your community.” The large size of the store also pleases her. Many of the older Dollar General stores in the nation had to be expanded and updated throughout the years to meet shoppers’ expectations. The one in Rice will have plenty of room for expanded spaces for coolers, better signage for each aisle and sections of seasonal items, such as at Christmas, Halloween and back-to-school times. Each Dollar General store offers at least 10,000 items that include name-brand products and generic items. The categories of products include health, beauty, home-cleaning supplies, housewares, basic clothing, office supplies, paper and school supplies, greeting cards, toys, pet food and toys for pets, seasonal items, packaged foods, (boxes, cans, bags) and some refrigerated and frozen foods. Most items are priced $10 or less, and 25 percent of all products cost $1 or less. Dollar General stores are typically open from 8 a.m.-10 p.m. seven days a week. Some stores, however, stay open only until 9 p.m., Kile noted, adding the company hasn’t yet determined open hours for the Rice store. Dollar General stores are mostly staffed by six to eight employees, Kile noted. Anyone interested in working for the store in Rice can apply any time by visiting: www.dollargeneral.com/careers.
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The forerunner of the Dollar General chain of stores was J.L. (James Luther) Turner and Son, a wholesale store founded in 1939 in Scottsville, Ken. While growing up in Tennessee, the father of J.L. Turner died in an accident in 1902 when J.L. was only 11, forcing him to quit school and work on the farm to help support his mother and siblings. J.L.’s lack of education was the impetus, many years later, of the General Dollar Corp.’s support of literacy programs. Later, J.L. tried his hand at operating retail stores. He failed twice. Still later, he became a traveling dry-goods salesman for a Nashville wholesale grocer with help from son Cal. Virtually illiterate, J.L. had to rely on his keen observations and wits in his salesman job. It’s a skill his son, working with him, absorbed along the way, throughout the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1939, the father-son team had moved to Kentucky from Tennessee, and there they opened J.L. Turner and Son in Scottsville after each chipped in $5,000 for the venture. They would buy the contents of liquidated department stores and sell the goods at cut-rate prices. Within two years, the wholesale store became a retail business. So rapid was their success, they began to branch out during the next 16 years. On June 1, 1955, their first “dollar store” (which they dubbed Dollar General) opened in Springfield, Ken., dedicated to the notion that nothing in it should cost more than a buck. The store was such a runaway success the Turners opened more Dollar General stores in Kentucky and elsewhere. The father, J.L., died in 1964, leaving Cal at the helm. In 1977, Cal’s son, Cal Turner Jr. made the company a third-generation enterprise when he took the helm. Turner Sr., who had retired, died in 2000. Turner Jr. retired in 2002.
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Pink corduroys
Like all successful business people, J.L. Turner knew the keys to success: a passionate love for what he was doing, hard work, a commitment to innovation and a shrewd savvy when it came to marketing gimmicks. In 1956, a year after the Dollar General store in Springfield opened, many people in town began a gossipy hotline. Why in the world, they asked themselves and others, were so many grown men beginning to walk around town wearing pink corduroy pants? The mystery was soon solved. J.L. Turner had gotten wind some Tennessee textile company was having a hard time selling pink corduroy. He shrewdly bought a huge bunch of the material, had it made into men’s pants and started selling them – cheap. The men got razzed, but – what the heck – who could resist buying pants at such a bargain, pink or not? J.L. also came up with another ingenious marketing strategy. He knew tobacco growers always picked up their paychecks in a cold barn. He told son Cal to go to the barn and give each farmer a lefthanded warm jersey glove. If they came to the J.L. Turner and Son store, they could get the right-hand matching glove – free – as long as they cashed their tobacco checks there and, naturally, bought something on the way out.
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Literacy foundation
Since its founding, Dollar General has always emphasized making meaningful connections with the people and organizations in the small towns where it sets up shop. For decades, Dollar General had contributed money for literacy programs. Then, in 1993, the company started the Dollar General Literacy Program in memory of founder J.L. Turner who had to drop out of school because of family tragedy and who could barely read. The foundation has given nearly $120 million in grants to schools and programs to promote literacy and to help people work toward highschool equivalency degrees. Since 1993, the program has helped nearly five million people learn to read, complete their G.E.D.s or learn the English language. President Ronald Reagan presented Dollar General with an award at the White House for its long-time literacy work. Dollar General has also given millions of dollars to other causes, such as the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots, the Salvation Army Angel Tree program during the holidays and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Dollar General, which spawned other versions of dollar stores, is now known as “America’s largest small-box retail discount store based on volume of sales.” In 2013, it took in a revenue of $16.02 billion. Its assets total $10.37 billion.
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Parish bazaar held at Sacred Heart
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The Church of the Sacred Heart hosted its annual parish festival Aug. 23. The festival had lots of kids’ games, as well as a country store where people could buy jewelry and other goods. It also featured music and games of chance like turkey-and-ham bingo along with raffle items. Above left: With books in hand, Sauk Rapids residents, Katelyn (in black) and Julie Waldoch, 6 and 7 respectively, look at books from the book sale. Above right: Lea Jackson, Sauk Rapids, holds her 3-year-old son Kyler, up so he can peek into a 2002 Chrysler Prowler.
Music, food set tone for Harvest Fellowship Block Party
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Harvest Fellowship hosted a block party for the community on Sunday, Aug. 23. All were welcome to join the church for the annual, free, family event. Entertainment included games, live music, a pig roast and a car show. Above left: One of many musicians sets the mood and tone Aug. 23 at the Harvest Fellowship Block Party. Above right: Children play Gaga Ball at the block party.
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Heroes, forces for good, save the day once again In this sometimes dark and frightening world, it’s important to remind ourselves every now and then of the forces for good that keep popping up here, there and everywhere. This past week, such good reminders abounded. First off, locally, there was the fundraising golf event for the Tom Bearson Foundation. Despite threatening weather, more than 300 participants golfed or showed their support in other ways Aug. 22 at Blackberry Ridge Golf Course. Bearson was the young Sartell man who was murdered last September while he was a student at North Dakota State University, a murder not yet solved. As utterly devastating as that tragedy was, family and friends got together after grieving for so many months and decided to share Tom’s memory and his spirit with others via the Tom Bearson Foundation. They started the non-profit organization to promote gym space for activities (Tom was a superb basketball player, passionately committed to the sport); to fund new or expanded activities programs; to promote campus-safety programs; and to give four scholarships for scholastic and athletic achievements – two for boys, two for girls. What a great way to honor the memory of Tom Bearson while keeping his irrepressible spirit alive in so many other young people. To donate to the foundation, go to www.tombearson. org and click on the “Donate” button. Another “upper” happened north of Paris last Friday when three Americans on a speeding train subdued an extremist madman before he could start a shooting-killing spree. The 26-year-old, with apparent ties to Islamist extremists, was armed with an automatic rifle, nine clips of ammunition, a knife and box-cutter. He had enough bullets to kill more than 200 people. Fortunately, there were three American heroes on that train. One of them, Air Force member Spencer Stone, barreled down the aisle and tackled the gunman, Stone’s friend Alek Skariatos wrestled the rifle away from the extremist, and their friend Anthony Sadler also helped subdue the man, who had used his box cutter to slash Stone three times. Thankfully, Stone has been treated for those injuries and is doing just fine. Stone is from Carmichael; Sadler is a senior at California State University in Sacramento; Skariatos is an Oregon National Guard member. A fourth man, a Briton, also helped subdue and hog-tie the would-be killer. The fearless, exemplary actions of those men are like the actions of the courageous men on the doomed flight over Pennsylvania Sept. 11, 2001. Yelling “Let’s roll!,” they charged the hijackers of that flight, forcing it to crash before the lunatic fiends in the cockpit could turn it toward Washington, D.C., where they planned to crash it into the U.S. Capitol or the White House. There is a third case of exemplary behavior this past week: former President Jimmy Carter, who announced at a press briefing that cancer had spread to his brain. Carter made the announcement coolly, calmly, with gentle humor, grace under pressure and head-on courage. Four days later, he was back at his church in Plains, Ga., teaching Sunday School classes just as he has done for years. It’s generally acknowledged Carter was not a great president, but he has been a great down-to-earth human being – a man of kindness, compassion and courage, all informed by a deep and abiding faith. As the purveyors’ violent extremism continues with their evil actions throughout the world, we should remind ourselves they are not going to win anything ultimately. They are infinite losers. Good people will prevail.
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Opinion Has your shower door exploded lately? Some people, including me, still think of showers as spooky places after having seen Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho 55 years ago. To this day, when I grab and close the shower curtain, I flash back to that shocking murder scene with its shriek-shriek-shriek soundtrack. I don’t get scared, but I think of it. Well, there’s a new reason to think of showers as dangerous places – not a movie-scene reason, but a real-life scary reason: exploding shower doors. Don’t laugh; it’s true. The other day my sister, Mary, emailed me that her shower door had just exploded. I laughed, until I read on and realized she wasn’t kidding. She’d been in the kitchen when she heard a very loud explosion, like a bomb. She ran toward the sound, the bathroom on the first floor. She opened the door and there stood her husband, naked as a jay bird, his mouth and eyes wide open with utter shock and surprise. He was standing in the tub. The rest of the bathroom looked like there had been a major car crash in it: blasted beads of glass everywhere, on and in the toilet, on the vanity counter, in the toothbrush cups and even under the door on the hallway carpet. Thankfully, Mary’s husband wasn’t injured. The glass exploded away from him. But Mary has been thinking with fear ever since: “What if my little granddaughter had been standing in the bathroom when that happened?” Mary called the Kohler Co., which manufactured the very expensive door, and told a customer rep. about it. “Yes, that’s exactly how it should have functioned,” he cheerfully, stu-
Dennis Dalman Editor pidly reassured her. “What?!” she asked, disgusted. “You mean to tell me the shower door is supposed to explode?!” He told her no, but that when an explosion does happen, the glass disintegrates into small beads, as in car accidents, rather than jagged shards that could cut a person to shreds. Small comfort, that. Such blasting beads could blind a person and pock-mark a body pretty quickly, I would think. I did some research on the Internet. Shower doors can shatter even if nobody is in the shower or anywhere near it. One report claims between 1978 and 2012, 22 people died because of exploding shower doors. Many others have been cut and injured, including 12-year-old Camden Roy of Dallas, whose mother heard a loud explosion followed by screams one day. She ran up to the bathroom and saw her son, bleeding and in utter terror, trying to climb the shower wall to get away from the horror as blood ran down the drain, just like in Psycho. Thank goodness the child survived. In the past three years, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has received nearly 200 reports of shattering shower doors. Many incidents, of course, go unreported. Here’s what causes the explosions,
according to a glass expert named Mark Meshulam: The glass in shower doors is tempered glass, manufactured by alternately heating it and cooling it to make it extremely durable, almost impossible to break with even hammer blows. The tempering also prevents the glass from shattering into pointy, truly dangerous shards. Trouble is, the shower door’s glass sheet can also develop extreme escalation of tension, much like earthquake plates, between its inner and outer layers, to the point it can become a ticking time bomb. What can trigger the shattering and/or explosion are small cracks or chips, the door sliding on the metal runner rather than on its proper track or even a microscopic stone that got trapped in it during manufacturing. Here’s what safety “experts” (I use the term loosely) recommend: Check shower doors for cracks or chips, especially around the edges; make sure the top and bottom of the door is sliding smoothly against the bumpers, not against the metal tracks; double-check that any devices attached to the door (such as towel racks) are installed properly, or better yet, put such devices elsewhere. I’m no safety expert, but as a person with a sudden fear of exploding shower doors, I would hasten to add these tips: When doing safety checks or while showering, wear rubber boots, protective goggles, a football helmet and maybe even a steel-reinforced athletic supporter. Or better yet, do as I do. No shower door for me, thank you. I’m sticking to my cheap, cheesy, vinyl-plastic, spooky old Psycho shower curtain.
I will not seek nor will I accept... After much conversation with my family and due consideration of the work involved, I have decided not to announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. I understand this may come as a shock and even a disappointment to many of you. My decision is, however, final. I will use this forum to explain my decision and beg for your understanding. First, there already is a loudmouthed, opinionated, know-it-all individual in the race so my candidacy would be redundant. I doubt we need another one. Secondly, we have what is tantamount to half the population of the country already announced, and I don’t like to be in crowds. Third, the effort it will take to fix the mess our country is in will take two lifetimes, and I don’t think I have that much time left. There are of course other reasons, but I think you understand my feelings. I therefore thought I would take this opportunity to offer considerations of the candidates who have announced and give you some of my opinions. The Democrats: I don’t trust Hillary Clinton, period. To me she is a political opportunist with empathy for Hillary and no one else. She would be dangerous to this country. Sanders and Warren are joke punch lines. Both are far-left liberal socialists who would be better
Ron Scarbro Guest Writer off in Europe where they could live in the Socialist paradise of, say, Greece. If I had to pick a Democrat it would be Jim Webb, former senator from Virginia. Webb is a former military man who comes much closer to what this country needs than any other Democrat currently running. Now the Republicans: My favorite is Gov. Mike Huckabee. He’s a good man with executive experience. I recognize he is far behind at this time, but you never know what might happen. Number two is Gov. Scott Walker, another with executive experience and a proven record of problem-solving. He also has shown tremendous courage in the face of difficulty. Gov. Rick Perry is next on my list. A daring and effective former governor who is exactly what we need as we face adversaries who need to see our true nature. How about Chris Christie? He would make Putin look like the little puppy dog he is. He would also put Iran in their place and that is not in possession of nuclear weapons. Finally on this list is Sen. Marco Rubio. Rubio
is a young, attractive individual who has a real future in our government, but he is very young. I would prefer him as the vice president. I understand there are many others I have not commented on. They are at the bottom of my list as they are with most others. The exception might be Jeb Bush. I like him but circumstance, I believe, will be his doom. The coming election will be one of the most important in our history. Of primary importance is the danger the world faces and the reality we are the only nation with the resources and courage to fix it. We absolutely cannot entrust this country to political hacks or loud-mouthed self-promoters. It’s for that reason, among others, that I say, as did Lyndon Johnson facing almost certain defeat, I will not seek, nor will I accept, the nomination for President of the United States. I hope all of my supporters will understand and get serious about picking a candidate who can and will beat Hillary and return this country to its greatness. 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, Aug. 28 Blood drive, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Cloud Hospital, 1406 Sixth Ave. N. Parkinson’s Tae Guk Kwan Do, 3-4 p.m., Independent Lifestyles, Inc., 215 N. Benton Drive, Sauk Rapids. 320-267-7717. St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, 3-6:30 p.m., near the Wobegon Trail Center, C.R. 2. Conversation Circles, for all non -native English speakers, 10-11 a.m., St. Cloud Public Library, 1300 W. St. Germain. 320-650-2500. Lola Cherry and the Big Daddies CD release party, 7:30 p.m., Pioneer Place Theatre, 22 Fifth Ave. S., St. Cloud. Movie Under the Stars: Despicable Me, 7:30 p.m., Whitney Memorial Park, St. Cloud. 320-258-6000. Saturday, Aug. 29 Central Minnesota Market, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 1480 10th Ave. NE, Sauk Rapids. 320-251-2498. St. John’s Bible pages on display, now through mid-December, noon-4 p.m. Saturdays, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, Hill Museum and Monastic Library, St. John’s University, 2850 Abbey Plaza, Collegeville. 320-363-3351. 320-363-3514. Alcina’s Island: A Picnic Operetta, 4 p.m., Bakers’ Acres Farm, 36861 CR 9, Avon. mixedprecipitation.org. Sunday, Aug. 30 Charlie Roth Concert/Meal, 4-7 p.m., Living Waters Lutheran Church,
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