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Market Monday open, harvest is plentiful
Market Monday is open Labor Day, Sept. 7 from 3-6:30 p.m. at Riverside Plaza, 101 7th St. N., Sartell. Meet local author Dennis Herschbach or just stop by, chat and see what’s new. Market Monday wants your input on which location you prefer the market at – Riverside Plaza or City Hall? Your input is as easy as adding a sticker to a piece of poster board. It might feel like summer is winding down but the fields are plentiful. Market Monday runs through Oct. 19; make it part of your back-to-school routine.
New Scout night held for Girl and Cub Scouts
From 7-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, Girl and Cub Scouts will jointly host a new Scout night at both Pleasantview and Mississippi Heights elementary schools. Pleasantview is located at 1009 Sixth Ave. N., while Mississippi Heights is located at 1003 Fourth St. S., both in Sauk Rapids. For more information on Cub Scouts go to bsacmc.org and on Girl Scouts go to gslakesandpines.org.
Teen Challenge Choir to sing at Abounding Joy
The choir of the Central Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge will present a concert at the 9:30 a.m. worship service on Sunday, Sept. 6 at Abounding Joy Lutheran Church at 6000 County Road 120 in St. Cloud (1.5 miles west of CentraCare Health Plaza). The choir delivers powerful music and incredible testimonies of Teen Challenge’s mission of offering professional, faith-based recovery programs for those struggling with the bondage of drug and alcohol addiction. All are welcome.
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For Nicole Wilke, it’s just like old times all over again: same city, same schools, same good friends and Wilke colleagues. Raised in Sauk Rapids, Wilke is back, having been hired as the school district’s community-education director just a few months ago. She started the job July 1. For 15 years, she and her husband were both employees of the Annandale-Maple Lake school system, commuting to work from Sauk Rapids – she as community-education director for the past eight years and as youth coordinator for enrichment programs
and recreational activities for the seven years before that. Her husband, Bo, still teaches eighthgrade science, as well as coaching football and track, in Annandale. “It’s fun to come back to Sauk Rapids,” Wilke told the Newsleader. “It’s the district I grew up in.” She not only grew up in Sauk Rapids and attended its schools, but education was a constant nurturing presence in her life. The daughter of Barbara and Ben Miller, her father taught fifth grade in Sauk Rapids for 40 years and also served as a basketball and softball coach. Sports was also a big part of Miller’s life. She played volleyball, basketball and softball at Sauk Rapids schools and has been the number-one fan for her children’s involvement in sports. She and Bo have three Wilke • page 3
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Football team gets new ‘Storm’ board
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The new Storm football scoreboard is up at the field next to the middle school. Daktronics, based in Brookings, S.D., is the firm supplying the new scoreboards. Daktronics has supplied the video displays for the Gopher’s TCF Bank Stadium, as well as the new Vikings stadium, among others. Yet to come are a soccer and softball scoreboard, also supplied by Daktronics, at the fields near the high school. Those scoreboards should be up in the next week or two, according to Luke Lutterman, activities director for Sauk Rapids-Rice High School.
Chinese culture, language expand in school district by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com
Qian Zhang has traveled a long way to be in Sauk Rapids-Rice, and she is sure she wants to stay. She taught kindergarten through fifth-grade classes last school year in Rice, Pleasantview and Mississippi Heights
elementary schools, and she is excited to be back again this year. Two additional teachers, Wei Liu, also known as Holly, and Huan Liu, also known as Eva, will be joining the schools. “The idea of global confidence is very exciting to us,” said Dr. Daniel Bittman, superintendent of Sauk Rapids-Rice schools, in a Newsleader inter-
view. “We recognize these learning opportunities are very important, to prepare for college and life,” Bittman said of having native Chinese speakers in the classroom. Independent School District 47 has developed a partnership with St. Cloud State University and the Confucius Institute that
has allowed them the opportunity to host native Chinese teachers and send a group of nine high school students to China to serve on youth delegations. “The staff and community are so excited to have Zhang back and to welcome Holly and Eva as well,” said Pleasantview Chinese • page 4
Overlay project Ruff Start Rescue impacts nears completion animals, residents by Jenna Trisko news@thenewsleaders.com
Concussion talk set Sept. 10
Learn how to prevent, recognize and respond to concussions and other brain injuries from 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 at CentraCare Health Plaza – Windfeldt Room. The free event will be presented by Concussion Specialist and Speech-Language Pathologist Karla Fleming, MS, SLP-CCC, St. Cloud Hospital Rehabilitation Center. For more information and to register, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on Sept. 4 Criers.
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Construction crews directed traffic through the intersection of 18th Street N. and 4th Avenue N. during the overlay project taking place on 18th Street. Some parts of 18th Street did need to close during the project. Edge milling took place on Tuesday, with paving starting on Wednesday. City Engineer Terry Wotzka said crews were expected to be done with paving by Friday.
Ruff Start Rescue, located in Princeton, is an animal welfare organization that rescues homeless pets through a volunteer foster program. The organization was founded in 2010 by its director, Azure Davis, who saw a need for an animal rescue based on the lack of shelters available in Princeton and the surrounding area. The organization has grown tremendously throughout the last five years and now provides services to 16 counties in central and southeastern Minnesota, including Stearns, Benton and Sherburne. It has captured the attention of many local residents through both adoption and volunteerism. Carrie Schueller of Sauk Rapids got involved with Ruff Start Rescue after a friend had adopted
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a pet from the organization and she wanted to learn more about the animal rescue world. She owned animals throughout her life and wanted to get involved and make a difference. Schueller has been volunteering with the rescue since 2013 and also adopted her dog, Milo, through Ruff Start. Milo was the 10th dog Schueller had fostered through the rescue during the span of a year. “He fit in like the missing piece,” she said. “There’s nothing better than to come home after a long day at work and be loved unconditionally. He is so excited to see us, he just makes us all happy.“ She also spoke about the importance of animal rescue and the value of volunteering by saying, “There was a lack of rescue presence in this area. We (Ruff Start Rescue) are now building a presence, but we Rescue • back page
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If you have a tip concerning a crime, call the Sauk Rapids Police Department at 320-251-9451 or TriCounty Crime Stoppers at 320-2551301 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. 16 9:30 a.m. Theft. Fourth Avenue S. Officers were dispatched to a local business after a reported theft had occurred. The male complainant stated he had left two car seats outside his business with a price tag and contact information. When he came back in the morning, he found his seats to have been stolen with no payment left. The complainant stated a few of his employees had a description of the vehicle that had driven away with the seats. Based on this description and other evidence collected, authorities found the owners of the vehicle, who then returned the seats to the business. 1:30 p.m. Arrest. 13th Street Circle. Police responded after receiving a report from a female complainant that the father of her child, who had a warrant for a DUI, was in the basement of a local apartment complex. Upon arrival, police found the female in her vehicle sitting with her 4-month-old child. Police entered the apartment building and subsequently arrested the man charged with the DUI. He was transported to the Stearns County Jail for further action.
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Above: The Rice Area Sportsmen’s Club held two dedications recently. The first was of a parking lot on club property on 63rd Street, about a half-mile west of 250th Avenue in Morrison County, northeast of Rice. The land is 300 acres of recreational and habitat land which the club has owned for several years. The organization decided to put in a parking area, which was dedicated to longtime member Glenn Petron. Petron was a past board member and was instrumental in the club attaining this piece of property. Petron died suddenly in April of 2003. He willed a generous donation to the RASC land account after his passing.. Pictured (from left to right) are Petron’s children: Debbie Rudnitski, Mark Petron, Peggy Reimer, Mary Kay Plombom, Karen Kotsmith and Amy Gorecki, all originally from the Rice area.
Aug. 18 9:04 a.m. Alarm. 13th Street N. Police responded to a report of a fire alarm. Upon arrival, authorities found the alarms were only being tested for
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Above: The RASC this past June purchased 76.75 acres of land at the junction of Hwy 25 and CR 2 in Benton County. The land was purchased from Melvin and Renee Strang of Sauk Rapids. A very generous donation from the Gerald and Virginia Paradeis family enabled the land purchase. On Aug. 30, the club dedicated the land as “Acres of Paradise” in memory of Gerald and Virginia Paradeis, who were longtime and active members of the club. It was also dedicated to the memory of their daughter, Jane Pardeis. Jane was killed in June, 1990 when the CH-46 helicopter she was piloting for the Navy crashed into the Atlantic Ocean six miles off the coast of Virginia. With Mayhew Creek running right through the center, the land will be used to provide wildlife habitat year round as well as hunting opportunities in the fall. Pictured are (from left to right) the Paradeis’ children: Marty Paradeis, Joan Paradeis, Peggy Wimmer, Pat Furst and Bill Paradeis, all originally from the Rice area.
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Urban Moose finds a new location Central Minnesota’s newest brewpub and restaurant, Urban Moose Brewing Co., took an important step last week, entering into a purchase agreement to buy the American Legion building in Sauk Rapids. The agreement, which was announced last Friday by owner Roy Dodds, will create a pathway for renovation and construction to the existing Legion building on Benton Drive. The brewery plans to integrate Dodds’ existing venture, Flying Pig Pizza, in the proposed location and offer an expanded menu, along with original craft beers. Urban Moose originally planned to construct its facility along River Avenue in Sauk Rapids, but with soft, unbuildable soil on the lot it would have carried a price tag of up to $200,000 for soil corrections. After opting out of the River Avenue location, Dodds is now convinced the Legion building is the perfect home for his new endeavor. “The building lays out very
nicely and is a good size for the concept we’re creating,” Dodds said. “There’s a lot of decorative block on the building that fits our color scheme and look.” The new location will be equipped to serve more than 100 people in the restaurant and up to 150 in the taproom, which will double as an event center and area for private meetings. The menu at Urban Moose will offer a wide variety of new meals, including healthy options. “People who generally prefer craft beer like to have more natural, healthier foods and we will drive the menu in that direction,” Dodds said. With Flying Pig Pizza joining forces with the brewhouse, customers will continue to see a trend of unique pizzas with a variety of toppings to keep their taste buds satisfied. “We will probably add another twist to our pizza menu too,” Dodds added. “We offer a gluten-free pizza and a healthy vegetarian pizza which is lowcarb, low-fat and has amazing flavor.” Urban Moose Brewing joins a popular surge of craft beer and breweries in central Minnesota
post-retirement: health and wellness, trips, finance and money, arts and crafts, foreign language, computers and technology, dance, a program called “Boomers and Zoomers” for people over 50, and more – much more. Wilke’s goal this year is to re-examine every offering, to expand some and add some, based on what Sauk Rapids-Rice residents want. She and her staff plan
to reach out to businesses and residents to do some brainstorming about community education – to find out what they want, what they don’t want, what can be improved and what should even be dropped, if anything. When she is not busy with school work, Wilke most enjoys just being with her family, often at sporting events and really special moments boating on lakes.
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Top: Roy Dodds, owner of Flying Pig Pizza in Sauk Rapids, puts the finishing touches on his Thai chicken pizza. Dodd’s pizza business will move to the new Benton Drive location when his brewery opens in summer 2016. Above: The America Legion on Benton Drive in Sauk Rapids will be the new home of Urban Moose Brewing Co., set to open May 2016.
Wilke from front page children – Lindsay, 20, who is studying business at St. Cloud Technical College; Anthony, 15, a sophomore in Sauk Rapids and Finley, 5, who is just starting kindergarten this month.
“I love it; I love my job,” Wilke said. “As a community member, I was always proud of Sauk Rapids, and now I’m really proud to be able to be back here and work with such a great staff in this (Sauk Rapids-Rice) school district.” The district’s community-education program offers a staggering variety of classes and activities for people ages birth to
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Construction enters Phase 3
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Diana (left), or Ms. Zhang as she’s known to some of her students, is returning to the Sauk Rapids-Rice School District this year as a third-, fourth- and fifth-grade teacher at Pleasantview and Rice elementary schools. The principal of Pleasantview, Aby Froiland, is excited to have Zhang back.
Chinese from front page Principal Aby Froiland. Froiland said the PTAs and PTACs, as well as the “Green and Gold” group, really stepped up to help prepare for the teachers from China, from helping provide goods for the teachers’ apartment to offering to help throughout the year.
New teachers
In June, Bittman had the chance to travel to Beijing, China to interview additional candidates for teaching positions in ISD 47. Bittman spent about two weeks in China, and Zhang was able to join him to help interview for new teachers for Sauk
Rapids-Rice. Zhang not only was able to help prepare the teachers for what they will experience overseas, but she also helped the school pick better candidates and her roommates since the three Chinese teachers will share an apartment in Sauk Rapids. Last year, Zhang lived with a different family each trimester and taught in a different school every trimester as well. This year, the teachers will each have a specific school they work with. Holly will work in the Middle School, teaching eighth grade and in addition will co-teach a World Cultures class with a teacher from ISD 47. Eva will be at Mississippi Heights teaching third through fifth grade, and Zhang will be at Rice Elementary one day per week and Pleasantview the rest of
Workers from Houle Excavating of Little Falls remove pavement from Eighth Avenue S. recently, part of Phase 3 of the Eighth and Ninth Avenue improvements near the middle school. Phase 3 began with street removals and will be followed by sanitary-sewer, water-main and storm-sewer installations. Completion for the entire project is set for Nov. 6, but the last 1.5 inches of bituminous pavement will not be placed until June. the week, also teaching third through fifth grade. The three teachers will ride the school bus from their apartment to school every day. The apartment was furnished through donations from parentteacher groups as well as individuals through a Target gift registry. The salary, airline tickets and apartment for the teachers is provided through a grant that is funded by the Confucius Institute, SCSU and Hanban, an abbreviation for the Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Zhang said she has been using WeChat, a mobile text and voice messaging app from China, to keep in touch with Eva and Holly as they prepare to come to Sauk Rapids-Rice. She says they are very excited to arrive in a few days,
and she is excited to have Chinesespeaking friends nearby.
Zhang
Zhang, who is also known by her chosen English name, Diana, comes to the area all the way from Jilin province, China. Jilin shares a border with both North Korea and Russia, and is about as far north as Minnesota is. About a year ago, the Confucius Institute at SCSU helped Zhang find a position in the Sauk Rapids-Rice School District. Zhang had joined the Confucius Institute program in China after earning her master’s degree in teaching Chinese as a second language. “Dr. Kathy Johnson [director of the Confucius Institute at SCSU] said to me, ‘Oh, you want to be a teacher? I’ll find some interesting jobs for you.’ And I love it here!” Zhang said during a Newsleader interview. Last year, Zhang lived with multiple host families across the district. She spent each trimester in a different elementary school. “I feel like I have a home here,” Zhang said. “One family was a hockey family, and they played hockey every week; I went to a lot of hockey games! . . . Another was a farm family, and it was my first time touching a horse!” Zhang said the family she lived with over Halloween last year gave her quite a scare. “The son wore a scary costume and knocked on my window at night, and it really scared me!” she
said, laughing. When Zhang first came to the district, she stayed with Brad and Xiao Ling Olson. Brad is a teacher at Pleasantview, and his wife is a native of China. Zhang said Olson took many photos of her time in Sauk Rapids-Rice so she could share them with her family.
Teaching
“Sometimes I think teaching here is a dream,” Zhang said during her interview, “because when I was a little girl I was quiet. When I went to college, I gained more confidence. And now I have this great opportunity!” Zhang said sometimes she worries about her English pronunciation, but the students tell her not to worry since their Chinese pronunciation is not perfect either. “When Zhang first started teaching in Sauk Rapids-Rice, a little boy in one of her classes said, ‘One more step closer to getting to China!’ It was so exciting for him to know he was this much closer to achieving his dream because of her,” Froiland said. “The challenge with teaching anywhere is how best to communicate with students . . . but I didn’t have to worry about that, because the students here are very curious and friendly!” Zhang said. “Yes, I am a teacher, but sometimes I am also their friend.” “Sauk Rapids-Rice is my home, and I would like to stay here longer than just these two years,” Zhang said.
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Gypsy Lea’s – a new, unique event every month by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
Jami Lea Lewison, owner of Gypsy Lea’s, said her store offers something new every month. Unique furnishings, decor and other treasured items displayed in the store are found, fixed, cleaned, recycled, refurbished and repainted for monthly events. The store is restaged before each monthly event. Currently, about 50 vendors’ pieces are displayed on consignment, along with Lewison’s pieces, in the store. All are interspersed and are not grouped by individual vendors. The four-day events are held the second Thursday through Sunday of each month. “It’s like a whole new store every month,” she said. Lewison, also known as “Gypsy,” has many people out “picking” or finding new furniture pieces and decor for the store. They locate tossed-out items, pieces sold at sales and more. She and vendors work hard to clean, fix and refurbish items before they are placed in the store. Furniture and decor are repurposed to last. Lewison hopes to inspire people when they walk through her store, which offers many custom or one-of-a-kind pieces. “It’s all about the fun,” Lewison said. “I hope when they stroll through here they will find ideas for their home or business.” Lewison wants customers to
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find special pieces and decor for their home or business that will personalize it to their decorating tastes. A carpenter employed by Lewison creates requested modifications and new pieces for her, when customers request them. “If we can envision it, he can build it,” she said. Lewison’s customers come from far and wide and many of them even plan their vacations to join friends and family at her monthly events. A couple thousand people usually come to the store during the four-day events. “Gypsy Lea’s is a destination,” Lewison said. “It’s so much more than a store. It’s all the energy and excitement that makes it such a fun place to come. It’s a positive, upbeat environment for kids to adults, women or men. Everyone enjoys the atmosphere. We create an environment where people have a good time and sales happen.” Lewison got her nickname “Gypsy” when she was younger, because of her free-spirit and unique personality. When she was trying to name her business, a friend introduced her as Gypsy Lea and it clicked that that should be the name of her business. She has always enjoyed saving, restoring and refurbishing things, but didn’t realize she had a talent for it until she moved to St. Cloud about 12 years ago. After moving, she would work on her furniture pieces in her driveway and arrange them and other decor in groupings
to go in her house. People stopped so often to ask if she was having a garage sale, that she started telling them they could make an offer if they saw something they liked. Many of them made offers and returned the next year to ask her if she had more pieces. Lewison gave an example of a yellow dresser which was purchased for someone’s cabin and was so well liked that more of her work was requested. With her newly realized talent, Lewison studied, considered and opened her business offering the monthly events. She searched for two years for the Sauk Rapids location, which she opened May 2008. The location offers room for vendors and customers to maneuver large pieces of furniture and other decor. “I have had continued growth each year,” she said. “I started with four vendors and now have about 50. It has never stopped growing.” Lewison has two adult sons and one grandson, 2. Gypsy Lea’s, located at 115 Division St., Sauk Rapids, is open on the second Thursday through Sunday of each month; 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays. Lewison is also glad to meet people by appointment, when her schedule allows. Upcoming events include Sept. 10-13, Oct. 8-11, Nov. 12-15 and Dec. 10-13. Contact Gypsy Lea by phone at 320-251-4019, email at gypsyleas@gmail.com, or check out the facebook page at facebook. com/GypsyLeas.
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Above: Owner Jami Lea Lewison, also known as “Gypsy,” and many other vendors, restage and sell recycled and refurbished pieces at monthly Gypsy Lea events. photo by Cori Hilsgen
Below: Gypsy Lea’s, located at 115 Division St., Sauk Rapids, offers a monthly four-day event for customers to browse the store for ideas and new decor, furnishings and more.
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All lives really do matter, including those of cops “Black lives matter.” Yes. “Cops’ lives matter, too.” That is what Harris County, Texas Sheriff Hickman said in a press conference after the vicious, cowardly murder of Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth, 47. Then Hickman added: “So why don’t we drop the qualifier(s) (black, white, cops, whatever) and say lives matter?” After widely publicized incidents of police officers shooting young blacks in various cities, it’s understandable blacks are raising the cry: “Black lives matter.” Those incidents must be examined, police policies in many cities must be changed, communications must be nurtured between police and residents everywhere. It will all take time. But meanwhile, all of us have to speak up loudly and clearly in support of police officers. They not only sometimes get a bad rap, they get killed all too often in the line of duty, like Goforth did while fueling his squad car at a gas station. A few days later, a Chicago cop was killed during a traffic stop. In the slaying of Goforth, a hideous excuse for a human being strode up to him from behind and shot him in the back, apparently just because he was a deputy. Once the poor guy was hit and down, the assailant kept shooting him. So far this year, 24 officers nationwide were shot to death by deranged fiends who just “felt” like killing them. Goforth, married, is the father of two children. Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said this: “It’s time for the silent majority in this country to support law enforcement. There are a few bad apples in every profession. That does not mean there should be open warfare declared on law enforcement.” Obviously not. But Anderson’s message is one we should all absorb. So often, people bad-mouth cops. That kind of bad-mouthing leads to disrespect, and enough disrespect can quickly lead to distrust, dislike and even outright hatred – the same kind of raging hatred that must have led the gunman to so coldbloodedly murder Goforth. Cops are surrounded by stupid stereotypes, many of them derived from TV shows and movies – cops as rampant, out-of-control trigger-happy blue meanies, or corrupt on-the-take types or blatant racists. Most of us know better. We overlook such distortions and stereotypes as the stuff of movie scripts. However, there are some people who seem to thrive on such distorted views, the kinds of people who dumbly lump all law enforcement officials together as a bad bunch. These nasty attitudes toward cops can be internalized by anti-social, anti-authority, mentally disturbed individuals who then use their warped attitudes to go out and kill a cop or some other authority figure. We know all too well police officers – public servants, lest we forget – are in danger daily even in small, sleepy towns. Several have been shot to death in cold blood right here in central Minnesota, most recently Thomas Decker in Cold Spring. This anticop rage can and does happen anywhere, and it’s incumbent upon all of use to counter it every chance we get. One way to do that is to disagree verbally in no uncertain terms next time you hear somebody badmouth cops. Tell them to stop their harmful stereotyping. Remind them of the countless things cops do day and night to make our cities and rural areas safer. Emphasize how dangerous police work is. Tell them bad-mouthing reinforces negative attitudes that can lead, in the case of disturbed individuals, to murder. Some of the recent demonstrations in New York City and in Ferguson, Mo. added fuel to the flames and may have led directly to recent killings of police officers. Peaceful demonstrations, fine. Incitement against law officers? It’s a criminal shame, and it’s got to stop.
Opinion Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ turns 40 Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run turned 40 years old Aug. 25. Great albums, like that one, are time machines. As soon as I hear the intro to Thunder Road – it never fails – I am instantly transported back to September 1975, back to my beat-up stuffed armchair in a shabby living room of a fleabag dump on Third Street in north St. Cloud. I can even smell that room – that dusty, musty odor with cigarette smoke and stale beer fumes hanging in the air as the late afternoon sun squints through the battered blinds. That’s where I lived, along with three buddies, from spring to spring for 12 months 40 years ago. It was a time of high unemployment, and so we buddies without work, all in our 20s, pooled what little we had and hunkered down in that crackerjack dive. There had once been a liquor store in that old two-story brick building right across from a corner Catholic church. The store owner, when he retired, slapped some rooms together with cheap paneling and decided to call it an apartment. We called it Party House. Being unemployed, it’s as if we were kids again on a carefree vacation, with friends and strangers popping over every hour of day and night to party, play hijinx, talk smart, with good music playing all the while. The albums we played over and over, the ones I remember best, were Willie Nelson’s Red-Headed Stranger, Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band’s Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks and Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man. One blue-sky September afternoon, I bought a just-released Springsteen album at a St. Cloud record shop. He
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Dennis Dalman Editor was virtually unknown, but I was familiar with two of his earlier albums, which I loved, so I was eager to see if this new one, called Born to Run, would measure up. Back home, nobody was around, probably partying somewhere else. I cracked a beer, then put the needle on the revolving vinyl and what a rush! My hair – my long hair – tingled as if standing on end. I got goosebumps, a surge of joy. It was the same visceral awe I felt when I first heard Like a Rolling Stone on a car radio in the summer of ’65 while on the way home from swimming at Dodd Quarry by the St. Cloud prison. The afternoon I bought it, I played Born to Run for a few hours with no one home but me. Then I went to visit my parents. Late that night, I walked back home, so eager to put the Springsteen record on again. Until nearly dawn, I listened to it in a state of ecstasy, enraptured by its big bold sound, as if all the instruments in creation were playing over-time, evoking a desperado’s bid to embrace life and all of its promises at any cost. It was a kind of histrionic angst romanticism like nothing else I’d ever heard. It was almost punk operatic, crescendos within crescendos, like a storm at sea. What manic energy! Springsteen seemed like a desperate snake trying to shed its skin, trying to burst his bonds into a
higher realm of being, of feeling, of living. A rebel’s heroic transcendence. As I played those songs, loudly, into the wee hours, I kept wondering when Gus would burst out of his room, next to the living room, shouting “Turn that damned thing down! I can’t sleep!” Next day, Gus – bleary-eyed – said, “Denny, do you realize that music you were playing kept me awake half the night?” “Yeah, sorry about that,” I said. “I couldn’t help it.” Then he said, “Where is it?” “Where’s what?” “That album you were playing? And what’s the band? Play it now.” “It’s Bruce Springsteen. Called Born to Run. But I thought you hated it.” “Well, yeah, it kept me awake,” he said. “I was kind of pissed about you playing it so loud. But I love those songs! This guy’s great!” So I put the album back on. Gus and I and everybody else listened to it happily all day long and all the rest of that fall and winter and all the decades since. Later that month, Springsteen was on the cover of TIME magazine and Newsweek magazine, the same week. That musical wizard had weaseled his way into our lives. The old brick building is still standing. It’s been through oddball reincarnations, as a fire-extinguisher sales shop, later as a karate studio. Every time I drive by it, I get a rush of haunting happy memories as I hear in my head a tinkling piano, a sad harmonica and then a defiant voice choking back a sob: “The screen door slams, Mary’s dress waves. Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays . . . ”
Letter to editor
Reader agitated about game-hunting views Ronald Schmidt, Rice
Freedom of the press and freedom of speech are two of the most precious rights we enjoy in this country. It saddens me when a person can use his title as “Editor” to crucify and pre-convict another person even before legal proceedings have commenced. I am referring to the “opinion” from your Friday, Aug. 7 article in the Sauk Rapids-Rice Newsleader. If Dr. Palmer is found guilty of a crime, he deserves to be punished severely. Safari Club International, possibly the most influential wildlife conservation organization in the world, has already suspended his membership. His life and the lives of his family members have been threatened and his property damaged or destroyed; again, before any legal proceedings have taken place. Are we in Russia? Ten days ago the government in Zimbabwe suspended all big-game hunting. Sauk Rapids-Rice • Sartell • St. Joseph You make light of the fact that revenue generated by hunting is used to protect wild game. It’s a fact without revenue generated by trophy fees (which pays game wardens and game scouts), poaching would increase dramatically. I have The ideas expressed in the letters to taken five safaris to Zimbabwe and have the editor and of the guest columnists seen firsthand what happens when there do not necessarily reflect the views of is no one to enforce the laws put in place to manage big-game population. The the Newsleaders.
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Chinese are responsible for organizing most of the poaching rings. Indeed, an esteemed professor at St. Cloud State University was recently apprehended by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for his role in transferring illegally killed game hides, organs and elephant ivory out of Africa to various parts of the world where it was sold for large profits. This person had been involved in this illegal activity for years. I don’t seem to recall any outrage expressed by you regarding these highly illegal poaching activities. I’m beginning to wonder what your background and knowledge in the area of game management is. If you haven’t been to Africa on a hunting or photo safari, you haven’t earned the right to try to influence anyone as to whether or not hunting should be stopped. If you have been to Africa, you must have been blindfolded and had your ears plugged. You stated in your article that 100 years ago, there were 300,000 lions in Africa while today there are 30,000. I don’t know what the human population was back then, but I do know according to the most recent population estimates, there are 1.1 billion people in Africa. Do you think the human beings who lived and died in Africa the last 100 years might have had an effect on the wildlife population? The next time you go to Zimbabwe, please make sure you go to a
local market in Harare or Bulawayo and shop around for a little “bush meat.” You can find anything from monkey to elephant, and this illegal killing and sale of meat has been going on a lot longer than 100 years. The percentage of game animals killed legally by licensed, feepaying hunters as compared to animals killed illegally by poachers and bush meat is miniscule. Let’s talk about Cecil for a moment. According to another article I read, Cecil was 13.5 years old which is quite old for a male lion. Soon he would have been challenged by or at least been driven away from the pride. Since the lioness does most of the killing for the pride members, Cecil would have either starved to death or more likely been killed by a pack of hyenas when on his own. The new dominant male in the pride would kill the cubs of Cecil to eliminate competition from them in the future. So it goes in Africa. Fortunately, I read in the St. Cloud Times that Zimbabwe has reinstated all safari hunts effective immediately. Wiser heads have prevailed. If the game laws of Zimbabwe are allowed to be enforced and funded by safari hunting, the future seems brighter. One other thing is certain – the people of Zimbabwe don’t need to be told by you how to manage their game populations.
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Rescue from front page need more volunteers; we need to save more (animals).” Rachel Babcock of Sartell has been fostering with the rescue for the last year and adopted her dog, Casper, through Ruff Start. “I love working with this rescue because everyone has so much passion for animals,” Babcock said. “It’s the best organization ever. They take such good care of animals, it’s insane.” Since its inception, Ruff Start Rescue has taken in more than 3,300 animals. The rescue generally has about 150 animals available for adoption at any time, thanks to the tireless efforts of volunteer foster homes. Each available animal is given routine vaccinations, dewormed, spayed or neutered, and microchipped prior to adoption. Additionally, the rescue does provide more extensive veterinary care to those animals requiring more ad-
vanced medical care. If you are interested in finding a new furry friend, check out www.ruffstartrescue.org to view available animals. You can also see Ruff Start Rescue in action at Petsmart in Waite Park on the fourth Saturday of every month from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. for the organization’s monthly adoption event. Volunteer and adopter Laura Becker of Rice has fostered more than 35 dogs with the rescue and has taken on dogs with behavioral and medical issues due to abuse and neglect. Becker emphasized this experience has taught her 18-year-old son about how cruel people can be to animals and what it takes to rehabilitate these animals and develop trust. Becker spoke passionately about the organization. “Ruff Start,” she said, “is a great organization that has a lot of wonderful volunteers with the same common goal – to find forever homes. And the people (volunteers) understand a dog is not just a dog, it’s a family member.” There are more than 1,000 vol-
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Kiko the dog attended the Waite Park Petsmart Adoption event held July 25. Kiko is a 6-yearold male chihuahua available for adoption through Ruff Start Rescue. unteers with Ruff Start who assist with a multitude of different duties that include foster care, animal and supplies transport, special-event fundraising, community education, social-media marketing, accounting, veterinary care, adoption-event participation and more. If you are interested in learning more about volunteer options available at Ruff Start Rescue, please visit www.ruffstartrescue.org and click on the Get Involved link.
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Grammie, auntie and niece cool off at a picnic table under a tree at a recent Sartell Farmers’ Market. Pictured (left to right) are Lillian Chirhart, 6, of Rice; Betty Giewedik of Sartell and Stephanie Budgett of Rice. Giewedik said she enjoys shopping for vegetables at farmers’ markets while Chirhart gave the snow cone flavors found at the market her highest approval.
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