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Millstream Arts Festival set Sunday in St. Joseph
Millstream Arts Festival will be held from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27 in downtown St. Joseph. Experience more than 60 juried artists and authors, live music, fantastic foods, children’s art, historical exhibits, trolley rides, street performances and much more. Even get holiday shopping done – art is the perfect gift for the person who has everything.
YMCA throws event, groundbreaking Sept. 26
Come celebrate the new St. Cloud and YMCA Community and Aquatic Center ground-breaking family event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 at Whitney Park, 1527 Northway Drive, St. Cloud. Fun for all ages includes inflatables, AirMaxx Launch Pad, face painting, Kids Zumba, clowns and more.
St. Scholastica Convent hosts walk-in interviews Sept. 30
St. Scholastica Convent is hosting walk-in interviews from 1-7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30 at St. Scholastica Convent, 1845 20th Ave. SE, St. Cloud. The convent is hiring for various part-time positions, with many shift times available. St. Scholastica Convent is an assisted-living community for Benedictine Sisters located on the southeast side of St. Cloud. Call to set up an interview time at 320-251-2225.
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Watab clean-up set for Sept. 26 Lain, Cazalvilla named royalty by Dennis Dalman news@thenewsleaders.com
The 12th annual Watab Township Fall Clean-up Day will take place from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 in the parking lot of Pine’s Edge Grocery parking lot, 1490 110th St. NW, just off of Hwy. 10. The clean-up service is provided for residents of Watab and Langola townships, including residents of Rice. It’s sponsored by those two townships with funds provided by Benton County. People may bring to the Pine’s Edge parking lot the following items: • Illegally dumped garbage and waste from road ditches.
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• Tires. Each household is allowed to bring in up to four tires. There will be a $2 charge for each tire in excess of that amount. • Scrap iron and demolition waste. That includes cementtype waste. • Household appliances, including dryers, washers, refrigerators, freezers and television sets. There is a limit of one appliance per household. Any appliances exceeding the onelimit amount will cost $15 each. • Absolutely no hazardous waste, camper or commercial refrigeration products will be accepted. For more information, contact Watab Township Supervisor Craig Gondeck at 320-492-6814.
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King McKinley Lain and Queen Patricia Cazalvilla Torres were crowned to reign over the 2015 Homecoming festivities. See related story on page 2.
Fishin’ in the Brook brings Besser a win at Canterbury by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com
Cindy Besser, Sauk Rapids, has been raising quarter horses for racing since 2001. And in September of this year, she had a big win. Fishin’ in the Brook, a 3-yearold, won the Minnesota Quarter Horse Derby at Canterbury Park Sept. 6. This is a 400-yard race reserved only for 3-year-olds, and it is only run once per year
so each horse only has one chance at winning it. The winnings? $44,400 and a 2-foot-tall crystal vase. This is the first time Cindy and Lorin Besser, or their trainer, Shane Miller, have won this particular race. “It is so exciting when you pick a stud and then they’re born and you wait for all these years to get here . . . he’s been just a gift,” Besser said of Fishin’ in the Brook. Jockey Dale Beaty rode the
3-year-old to victory, winning by half a length. Their final time was 20.366 seconds for the 400-yard race, just .404 seconds slower than the Minnesota Quarter Horse Derby record. Fishin’ in the Brook came in last in a race just a week earlier.
Fishin’ in the Brook
The American quarter horse is well known both as a race horse and for its performance in rodeos, horse shows and as
a working ranch horse. Fishin’ in the Brook’s mother is Bailey. Bailey’s great-grandsire is Nasrullah, who is also the grandsire of Secretariat. Secretariat was a thoroughbred racehorse who, in 1973, became the first U.S. Triple Crown winner in 25 years. Fishin’ in the Brook hasn’t been home to Sauk Rapids since October 2013. Racehorses typically stay with their trainer. Besser • back page
Arts festival features local artists, Zapf canoes
Living Waters Lutheran Church will hold a family fun day from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 at the church at 1911 Fourth Ave. N., Sauk Rapids. The event includes a 5k run/walk, huge rummage sale, silent auction and more. Details of the event as well as registration for the run/walk are available at www. lwlcmn.org or call 320-255-1135 for more information.
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ACT on Alzheimer’s hosts speaker Sept. 29
ACT on Alzheimer’s-Sauk Rapids will host a free community education event at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29 at the Sauk Rapids Government Center, 250 Summit Ave. N., Sauk Rapids. Mark Reese, a counselor for the Families and Long-Term-Care Research Projects at the University of Minnesota, will present at this event. He has spent the past seven years counseling, educating and researching family caregivers of people with memory loss and dementia. For more information, visit the newsleaders. com and click on Sept. 25 Criers.
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Steve Zapf navigates a duck boat he built around his pond.
Steve Zapf has been making canoes since he was 14 years old. “I started helping at the age of 5, though my first job was to get in the way,” Zapf said with a laugh. Zapf’s father, Al “Mike” Zapf, started the canoe-making hobby and fostered a love for it in his seven children. “I grew up not knowing you could renew a canoe license,” Zapf said. “We would just sell one canoe and build another.” Zapf really took a liking to it, and he and his wife now make both practical and decorative
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canoes as a hobby under the name Zapf Legacy Canoes. Two out of three of Zapf’s daughters have built canoes as well. One even had the opportunity to build a canoe with grandpa Mike. Zapf and his wife, Amy, will have a tent set up at the Millstream Arts Festival in St. Joseph Sunday, Sept. 27. This is their third year participating at Millstream, though they have been in art shows in central Minnesota for about five years. “It’s an art show, not a craft show,” Zapf said, emphasizing though many items at the art show might have utility, they are all things of beauty first. Millstream • page 4
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Rice Dollar General to host grand opening by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
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Shelly Busse (left) and her daughter, Cindy Busse (right), both of Rice, ponder items on shelves in an aisle of the “Dollar General” store, which opened in Rice Sept. 17. Shelly said her daughter razzed her, saying, “Mom, you’ll never leave Rice now that this dollar store is here.” The store, one of thousands in the United States, offers merchandise priced mostly from one dollar up to $20 and for a few specialty items, more. A grand opening, with door prizes and sales, will take place at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3. Dollar General, headquartered in Tennessee, began with a store that opened in Indiana in 1955.
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The “Dollar General” store, which opened unofficially last week in Rice, will have an official grand opening starting at 8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 3 with free prizes and special deals. The first 50 shoppers will receive a $10 gift card, and the first 200 shoppers will be given a Dollar General tote bag, as well as being eligible for other giveaways. The Rice Dollar General store hours are from 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday through Sunday. “Dollar General is committed to delivering a pleasant shopping experience that includes convenient location, a wide assortment of merchan-
dise and great prices on quality products,” said Dan Nieser, Dollar General’s vice president of real-estate and store development. “We hope our Rice customers will enjoy shopping at Dollar General’s new location.” Dollar General offers national name-brand products and private brands of food, housewares, seasonal items, cleaning supplies, basic apparel and health-and-beauty products. Nieser noted that Dollar General stores are very connective with the areas in which they operate. The chain of stores has been honored repeatedly for its efforts to increase literacy. For example, at every cash register in every store,
customers can pick up a brochure with a postage-paid reply card that can be mailed in for a referral to a local organization that offers free literacy services. Since the literacy program’s inception in 1993, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded more than $100 million in grants to non-profit organizations, which helped more than six million people start their journey toward becoming literate and going on to continued education or their general-education diplomas. Dollar General Corp., started 75 years ago, is considered to be the first “dollar store” in the nation. It now has more than 12,000 stores in 43 states, with corporate headquarters in Goodlettsville, Tenn.
Homecoming festivities continue by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com
Green and gold are on everyone’s minds this week in the school district, as homecoming week is well underway. On Monday night, at the high school, the Homecoming King and Queen were crowned. McKinley Lain and Patricia Cazalvilla Torres were chosen to reign over the 2015 Homecom-
ing festivities. McKinley is the son of Doug Lane and Christina and Dan Bemboom. Cazalvilla Torres is the daughter of Anna Torres and Jorge Cazalvilla. Events still to come today include the Homecoming Parade at 4:30 p.m. The route will run from Bob Cross Park, along First Street S. to the middle school. The Homecoming football game will be played at 7 p.m.
against the Sartell Sabres. An alumni and Hall of Fame gathering will take place immediately following the game at VFW Post 6992, at 901 Benton Drive. Also, an athletic Hall of Fame brunch and induction ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 at the high school. See related photo on front page.
People Jacob Gunderson, of Sauk Rapids, was recently named to the spring dean's list at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. In recognition of academic excellence, the list is compiled each summer and is drawn from the top 10 percent of the previous year's first-year, sophomore and junior classes.
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Like magician, Viste turns old to new by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
She grew up in Milaca in a family that had a born knack for taking old things and giving them new purposes. “We were always repurposing, recycling, finding new ways to use something and never wasting anything,” Viste said. “In a way, we did that partly out of necessity, but also because we enjoyed doing it.” Her parents, Don and Cheryl Daily, who still live in Milaca, spend a lot of time scavenging old items for Lisa and her shop. They go to estate sales, garage sales, auctions and relatives’ homes, scrounging any unwanted items. Some of the old items typically include old windows, old doors, antique vanity dressers or tables, ammo boxes, wooden drawers, metal implements, old peach crates, framed photographs from the distant past and all kinds of intriguing knick-knacks and assorted bric-a-brac.
Give Lisa Viste an object – any old object, the older the better – and just like that (presto!) – she’ll turn it into something else, like a sleightof-hand magician. Viste is the owner-operator of Same As It Never Was, a worn-a-bit shop in downtown Rice. Sometimes customers have trouble wrapping their minds around her shop’s strange name, which sounds like a mystery, a riddle. Well, said Viste, it’s supposed to be mysterious, suggesting something is the same object as it first was and yet it now has a new purpose through a transformational process. She started the shop a year ago last March and already has a loyal following, including some customers who come from many miles away to check out the ever-changing contents of her shop. Many of her buyers are people passing through Rice on their way up north to vacation spots and family cabins. Viste is a firm believer in the phrase “new lease on life.”
Past-Present
A visit to Same As It Never Was is like visiting the past that has been rearranged and given new uses. Hanging from the ceiling, for example, are
two lamp shades which were made out of schoolroom world globes with their bottom third portions cut off. On one wall is a wine rack fashioned from an old ammo box. On another wall is a large zinc-metal chicken roost from an old farm hen-house, its multiple round roosting holes ideal for displaying objects, such as old tobacco tins. Along several walls of the shop stand some of Viste’s signature creations: old window frames with eight panes of glass or more that have been affixed to leg stands. They are ideal for hallways where they can be used to display items behind the glass panes: Christmas cards, children’s or pets’ photos, seasonal decorations or any other items picturesque or sentimental. Viste likes to put Halloween black-paper silhouette cut-outs on the ones she has in her own home. Not surprising since Viste is a self-confessed Halloween goblin who loves to decorate her yard every late October with fun spooky displays, like half-buried coffins with astonished skeletons in them that Viste • page 5
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Two old classroom world globes were repurposed into lamp shades by Lisa Viste.
Royalton woman killed in single-vehicle accident
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A 74-year-old Royalton woman was killed on Tuesday, Sept. 22 in a single-vehicle accident northwest of Rice. Patricia Palmer’s vehicle left the roadway in the 6000 block of Canary Road NW and struck a tree around 4:35 p.m. Benton County Sheriff’s
deputies found Palmer unresponsive and began life-saving measures, which were ultimately unsuccessful. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigation into the cause of the incident is ongoing. The sheriff’s office was assisted at the scene by the Rice Rescue Squad and Gold Cross Ambulance.
Feasibility study authorized Council shifts to city emails for Eighth Street N. project by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com
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The project has been a part of the capital-improvement plan for the past seven years. Funding for the project would come from Municipal State Aid, which would cover street improvements and about half of the utility improvements, as well as current city utility funds. The public-works department and public-works committee were concerned about the project possibly taking place around the same time as the CR 3 “Up the Hill” project but said they feel with the
At the Sept. 14 Sauk Rapids City Council meeting, $8,000-$10,000 was approved for SEH, the engineering firm contracted by the city, to conduct a preliminary feasibility study regarding reconstruction of Eighth Street N. in 2016. The project, which could cost around $1.8 million, would include the reconstruction of the street and utilities on Eighth Street N. from Benton Drive to Sixth Avenue N.
county possibly getting a late start on CR 3, it’s best to get the feasibility study in place so Eighth Street N. can be reconstructed if CR 3 is delayed. Members of both groups also said, even if CR 3 and Eighth Street N. were both under reconstruction in the same year, they could be completed without significant traffic issues. The feasibility study was authorized unanimously by the council, and a public hearing could be held as early as the beginning of November.
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Soon, residents will be able to email city council members at official city addresses. In light of recent state and national issues with email records, the council asked its staff at the Sept. 14 city council meeting whether the mayor and council could have city-issued email addresses instead of mixing work and personal emails in their personal accounts. City Administrator Ross Olson and Community Development Director Todd Schultz both said it could easily be done now. “We did have a city email for
the mayor years ago, but it could only be accessed from city hall,” Olson said. Now, with new technology, the email can be retrieved from anywhere, on multiple devices. Council members have city issued iPads where they can receive official emails, and the emails can also be tied to their personal mobile devices. A vote wasn’t needed, but staff was directed to move forward on creating the new email addresses soon. For now, the city has the usernames and passwords to the mayor and city council’s personal emails so they can be accessed if need be by city staff.
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Top: Steve and Amy Zapf hold a canoe they made with a diamond feature in the center. Above: Steve Zapf coats with resin a duck boat he built. Below: This canoe was custom-built for a customer in Michigan and is based off an old Native American tale of a mother bear and her two cubs.
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from front page Zapf said he and his wife like the Millstream Arts Festival because of the set-up. The booths are the perfect size, and spread out far enough that an artist can converse with passersby without disturbing other booths. During their first year at the festival they received thirdplace for Best in Show. “There’s something at the festival for everyone . . . from woodwork to pottery, metal work to photography, stained glass and more,” Zapf said. For more information, head to their website at www.zapflegacycanoes.com. Visitors are always welcome at the Zapf Legacy Canoe shop as well.
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Millstream Arts Festival in downtown St. Joseph is an outdoor art show held annually
from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on the last Sunday in September, rain or shine. The festival always has a large array of visual art, music, dance, hands-on art activities for children and great food. This year, 59 artists will be at the festival, including 17 new and 42 returning. Sauk Rapids has contributed three artists, including Sarah Drake, 2-D painting/drawing; David Barthel, photography; and the Zapfs in the wood category. Rice will have one artist at the festival, Cynthia Stupnik in the literature and poetry category. Musicians will be on stage during the festival and additional performers will be in the street, including cloggers and street artists. Other activities include horse-drawn trolley rides, a children’s art area, history tours of Art and Heritage Place at St. Benedict’s Monastery and of the St. Joseph Area Historical Society along with a vintage car-and-tractor show. For more information on the festival, head to www.millstreamartsfestival.org.
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Left: Lisa Viste, owner of the Same As It Never Was shop in Rice, enjoys making new purposes out of old objects. The “shelf” behind her is actually a metal chicken egg-laying roost from an old farm. Right: An old eightpane window frame is now a thin table, ideal for a hallway, as repurposed by Viste. Below: This ceramic shoe, reminiscent of Cinderella’s dilemma, is one of the many unusual objects in the Same As It Never Was shop in Rice.
Viste from page 3 she and her husband make. At first they made them out of cardboard, then of wood. They sold some and still make them. They also install them on the Rice Elementary School grounds on Haunted House Day. “We have a fake graveyard in our front yard every Halloween,” she said. Viste’s sense of fun, mystery and whimsy is apparent throughout her shop. For example, a pitch fork meant as a piece of garden art has a sign on it that says, “Grow, damn it!”
Beginnings
In the past, Viste worked at
other consignment and worna-bit shops and also sold some of her own creations now and then. Many years ago, she and husband Tony began building items such as farm tables using different kinds of wood. The first one they built for themselves, but somebody wanted to buy it so they sold it, built another one for themselves and kept building more to sell to others. Eventually, Viste started building tall narrow end tables just because she needed some and couldn’t find any on the market. “Necessity,” she said, “really was the mother of invention, in that case.” She and Tony have built wine racks and virtually every kind of furniture. In addition, they and their two sons enjoy “stressing” furniture to give
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Repurposing is a family affair for the Vistes. Their sons Ian, 23, and Alex, 21, who still live at home, often help out like helpful elves with sanding and painting. One recent project for the Vistes was the dismantling of a piano. “It weighed so much we didn’t know how to get rid of it,” Viste said, “so we just took it apart. I’ll save some of the pieces from it, like the keys and maybe make a wreathe out of them.
Viste likes to surround herself with creative people. “It’s fun to bounce ideas off of artists,” she said. “They understand what my dreams are.” She also enjoys bouncing ideas off of her customers. They comprise a kind of brotherhood-sisterhood of camaraderie. People who enjoy old objects and repurposed creations tend to be on the same wave-length, like-minded people, she explained. “My customers are a wide range of ages, both men and women,” she said. When Viste is not looking for
new purposes for old things, she loves to garden in the spring and summer months. The Viste family has lived in Rice for the past 12 years. Tony is assistant manager at the St. Cloud Municipal Athletic Complex; son Alex drives a Zamboni at that complex’s ice arena; son Ian works for the City of St. Cloud in its I.T. computer department. Same As It Never Was is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. WednesdayFriday and from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. It is closed Monday, Tuesday and Sunday. Its number is 320-309-9449.
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Tired of life as a rut? Check out ‘Extra Mile’ Most of us, at one time or another, feel as if we’re in a rut. Some turn to self-help books and/or motivational speakers. Trouble is, motivational speakers are a dime a dozen these days. Yes, some of them are excellent and truly inspiring, but most of them deliver the same old bromides, feel-good-warm-fuzzy clichés gussied up in new costumes, bromides such as “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” Shawn Anderson, a motivational speaker, seems to be one of the excellent ones, a real mover-and-shaker in effecting good changes in people’s lives and in society in general. Anderson is the founder of the “Extra Mile America” movement of which nearly 600 American cities are members. Only one Minnesota city, Blaine, is on the roster, so far anyway. Back in 2009, Anderson decided to bicycle across the United States, from San Francisco to Boston, even though he had never been much of a biker before. During that trip, he stopped at many places to talk to people and discovered many people with stories of personal tragedies and failures had overcome them by bucking up, changing their attitudes and “going the extra mile.” Anderson learned many insights on his bike trip and subsequent travels and founded the “Extra Mile America” movement. Its purpose is to recognize and create “the capacity we have for positive change in our families, our organization, our communities and ourselves when we go the extra mile.” Nov. 1 is “Extra Mile Day” in the nearly 6,000 cities. On that day, leaders in those cities honor those who have gone the “extra mile” to improve their lives, other people’s lives and the quality of life in their cities. Many thousands of people have been recognized in cities in previous years and even more will be honored this Nov. 1. All of the honorees have gone “the extra mile” in one way or another, refusing to sit still and complain or whine about life’s bad knocks or their personal disappointments and failures. Instead they decided to bounce back, to connect, to volunteer, to reach out, to do something. Their actions ricocheted positively all through the lives of those they touched. Anderson, the author of six inspirational books, has a knack of recycling old wisdoms into new words. Here are just three of his tips for rut-wallowers: • “If you’re unhappy with your life, look in the mirror. You created your life dissatisfaction, and you can un-create it too. Want out of the rut? Quit making excuses, pointing fingers and waiting for a hero to rescue you out of your funk. Be your own hero.” • “Don’t expect overnight miracles. It’s impossible to reinvent yourself overnight. Massive change just doesn’t happen that way. But transformation does happen when we take small steps toward change daily. Single-change steps daily add up to big changes eventually.” • “Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Waiting for the perfect scenario to unfold before we make changes only prolongs our existence in the rut. Don’t wait for the stars to fall into perfect alignment. Live and live now because tomorrow may never happen.” Yes, we’ve heard variations of those tips before, but – somewhat clichéd or not – they are truisms we should all take to heart. It would be nice if all cities in central Minnesota would join the “Extra Mile America” movement. Churches, schools and individuals can join, too. To find out how, visit the movement’s website at www. ExtraMileAmerica.org. Let’s all help one another get out of our ruts – individual or collective ones.
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Opinion Compassion must be tempered by realism Compassion, the ability to feel sympathy with someone else, is perhaps the most crucial human quality of all, but sometimes, sad to say, it can bring unintended consequences. And that is what is happening right now in Europe. Wave upon wave of immigrants is surging into Europe, too many – far too many – for those countries to handle. There is no doubt the problem will become even worse in the next decade or two, if not sooner – to the point of social, economic and political catastrophes. Images like the one of the little boy, drowned, washed up on shore, can melt even the stoniest heart. It’s horrifying to see and to read about the anguish, pain and long-suffering desperation of those immigrants from chaos. Most, apparently, are Syrians fleeing the vicious situations in that blood-drenched country, ripped apart by civil war and a barbaric ISIS rampage against civilians who happen to be so-called infidels, such as Christians. To stay in Syria is to risk one’s life hour by hour as barrel bombs fall on neighborhoods or marketplaces, ripping human beings to shreds. Innocent people in that killing field are trapped between tyrant Bashir al Assad’s army, anti-Assad insurgents and ISIS’s acts of kidnapping, rape, torture, mass killings and terror of every description. According to news reports, many of the refugees clamoring for safety in Europe have already long been refugees languishing miserably in camps in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. Some had been living as long as four years in hellish, crowded refugee camps, hanging on day to day merely to survive. Meanwhile, the insane violence in their homeland, Syria, kept getting worse. The estimated number of refugees in those camps was as high as four million. You have to be a rock not to feel compassion for such hurting human beings. Some European countries have al-
Dennis Dalman Editor ready begun to accommodate the refugees, with France willing to accept as many as 32,000 for now. In the past four years, after the horrific Syrian violence began, the United States has accepted about 1,500 Syrian refugees. President Obama suggested last week we should allow 10,000 more of them into this country this year, 70,000 next year and 100,000 in 2017. These awful exoduses have happened all too often throughout history. Jewish people, for example, were constantly on the move because of vicious persecutions, tormented and slaughtered village to village, and we all know – or should know – what happened to them during WWII. They were butchered throughout eastern Europe, along with other ethnic minorities, and not just in Nazi death camps. The world, mostly, turned a blind eye to such monstrous crimes and massive suffering. That is why it’s heartening to know so many countries are trying to help these refugees, these homeless people stranded miserably between the thin border line of hope and despair. Yes, this compassion is a good thing, but it also presents problems. It poses many more questions than solutions, and they are questions we should all ponder: • How many millions of refugees can any country absorb before social, economic and political break-downs start to happen? • How many of the people scrambling to Europe are, in fact, bona-fide refugees? Countries claim they will screen them to determine which are refugees and which are opportunists or even possible
terrorists? How will that be accomplished when most of them probably don’t even have any documents and arrive with little more than the clothes on their backs? How many of them are not escaping persecution and death but fleeing poverty and other problems in their countries – countries that include Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Egypt, among others. As people in those countries hear about Europe’s compassionate acceptance, will they too join the rush for a chance at a better life? When will it ever stop? • Will these people return home if and when conditions stabilize in their countries of origin? • Will refugees be capable of assimilating into the societies they move into? Will there be jobs for them? Or will an inability to adapt or lack of employment lead to festering resentments that are vented in social disorder and violence? Such resentments and some resultant violence have long been happening in England, France and Germany. The ultimate answer, obviously, would be a restoration of some kind of stability and safety in those cruel countries. That’s not likely to happen, especially with terrorist groups on the prowl, on the rampage. It’s no accident Donald Trump’s comments about illegal immigration have touched a chord in many Americans. Even though Trump was wildly offbase and insulting, many Americans are fearful of what might result from unrestrained illegal immigration. Many are pondering questions similar to the ones listed above. Many are asking what are the limits to compassion? Does there come a point when compassion translates into a “free ticket” for anyone who decides they want to leave their own country for whatever reason? These are unpleasant questions, but we must ask them and then try to come up with reasonable and – yes – compassionate but realistic compromises, policies and solutions.
Letter to editor
Reader believes media is crucifying Trump Debbie Birkland, Sauk Rapids. It is my belief the media is crucifying Donald Trump. Most of what he says is misconstrued or taken completely out of context. When he is talking about deporting illegal aliens, he does not mean we have to kick all Hispanics out of the country. He simply means the ones who are here illegally; the ones who are
breaking the law. During the recent townhall meeting in New Hampshire, it was reported Trump agreed with a member of the audience who stated that Obama was a Muslim. The media declared Trump nodded his head in approval whereas I believe he simply nodded to acknowledge the spectator and let him know he had been heard and understood. Trump will protect us from our streets.
There is a lot of violence, not only in terms of terrorism, but also in relation to the rise of crime in our country. There is so much interracial conflict occurring. Any man who is willing to give up his social security, pay down the deficit himself and not accept a salary if elected is a person who deserves to be president. He is a very caring person who cares about this country.
When is a law a law? Each branch plays its part
Kim Davis is the duly elected clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky. When she was elected and still in effect today, the Kentucky Constitution forbids issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Since her election the Supreme Court has decided, in a 5-4 decision, that same-sex couples can, in fact, be married. This decision flies in the face of Kentucky law. Incidentally, the Supreme Court cannot make laws. If Kentucky decides to change its law and its Constitution to allow for the implementation of this new decision, then Kim Davis could and should be held accountable for violating the law. Until then, she has a problem. If she adheres to Kentucky law, she violates the Supreme Court decision. If she issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples, she violates Kentucky law. Meanwhile a federal judge has decided
Ron Scarbro Guest Writer she must violate Kentucky law or go to jail. This is what happens when various branches of government go outside their normal spheres and try to do another branch’s job. If there is to be a new law regarding homosexual marriage, then those new laws must be passed by legislatures and the U.S. Congress. Not by any court, period. In this country we have what is known as “settled law.” For example, our immigration laws are “settled law.” When someone enters this country without our permission,
or overstays their visa, they are, in fact, breaking settled law. When cities or counties or any officials of those entities look the other way, they are also breaking settled law. When employers employ undocumented individuals or when welfare organizations offer benefits or assistance to undocumented immigrants, they are breaking settled law. The ruling by the Supreme Court is not law. It’s a determination by five lawyers wearing black robes. If their ruling is to become law, it must be dealt with by legislatures or the Congress. Laws must be enacted and signed by the executive. Unless or until that happens, it’s nothing more than a Supreme Court ruling. Now, in the face of that, who should be arrested and jailed? Should it be Kim Davis who was following settled law in Kentucky,
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Law from page 6 or should it be the sheriff and board of supervisors in San Francisco who clearly were violating settled law by giving sanctuary to undocumented immigrants? How about all the other municipalities who also give sanctuary to persons who are here illegally? How about the President who regularly ignores settled law and operates as if he is above the law? Or Hillary Clinton who has for decades skirted settled law and lived by her own rules? I guess it’s a lot easier to pick on a little county clerk in rural Kentucky. I rather imagine the judge who ordered her to jail didn’t figure on the outpouring of support for Davis. I rather imagine if he had it to do over, he would have perhaps chosen a different remedy. It gets down to this. When is a law a law? At what point is a law valid? And, in our form of government, who makes those laws? Our Constitution clearly lays this out. We have three equal branches of government. Each has its own duties and responsibilities. The Executive branch is the President. The President cannot make law. Next we have the Judicial branch. The Judicial branch cannot make law. Judges are referees. They look at laws to see if each is valid and constitutional. If they determine a law is unconstitutional, it’s referred back to the Legislature to be redone. At that point legislation is enacted, a law is written, and referred to the executive for signature in order to become law. Then and only then is a law a law. The matter in Kentucky is less about religious freedom and much more about the law. Oh, and some serious political grandstanding. AU T O M O B I L E S / M O T O R C YC L E S WANTED MOTORCYCLES: TOP CASH PAID! For Old Motorcycles! 1900-1980. DEAD OR ALIVE! 920-371-0494 (MCN) EMPLOYMENT/HELP WANTED TEAM DRIVER WANTED: Dedicated run from St.Paul, Minnesota to Frankfurt, Indiana. Tuesdays through Saturdays, Competitive Wage. CDL required. Call 563-580-6648 (MCN) VACATION/TRAVEL Join us in Texas! Would you like to get away from the cold snowy winters? Why not hook up your RV and come on down to J-5 in Mission, TX. We are a small park with a country setting yet we have lots of shopping nearby. Lots of activities in the park. We have specials for 1st time residents. Call us at 956-682-7495 or 515-229-1540 or email us at tdtuttle@hotmail.com (MCN) FOR SALE Trailer Sale! 6’x12’ V-nose ramp door $2,750.00; 7’x16’ V-nose ramp door $4,063.00; 7x14 14k Dump w/tarp; 500 & 990 gallon Fuel Trailers: GPS trailer tracking $12.99/month. 515-972-4554 www.FortDodgeTrailerWorld. com (MCN) ADOPTION *ADOPTION: *Adoring Financially Secure Family, Outdoor Adventures, Travel, Music awaits 1st baby. *Expenses paid *1-800-3525741* (MCN) ADOPTION. California couple promises baby secure future. Grandparents, cousins, education, travel, outdoor sports, arts and crafts. Expenses paid. Call Angela/Nicholas 1(619) 357-5862 or attorney 1(800) 242-8770 (MCN) A UNIQUE ADOPTIONS, LET US HELP! Personalized Adoption Plans. Financial Assistance, Housing, Relocation and More. Giving the Gift of Life? You Deserve the Best.
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Above: Cindy Besser, owner of Fishin’ in the Brook, was interviewed following her win at Canterbury Park. With Cindy is her husband, Lorin. At right: Dale Beaty rode the 3-year-old Fishin’ in the Brook to victory Sunday, Sept. 6.
Besser from front page Fishin’ in the Brook, for instance, stays with his trainer in Oklahoma during the winter,
spends the spring and summer in Minnesota racing, and then goes to Iowa until the middle of October.
Bessers
The Bessers own Bessers Bike Barn as well as Roasted
to Perfection, also in Sauk Rapids. But Cindy says raising horses is her full-time job. They have a number of race horses in their barn currently: four 2-year-olds, one 3-yearold, two pregnant mares and Bailey (the 25-year-old mother
of Fishin’ in the Brook.). “From the day these babies are born, they are trained to be race horses,” Besser said in a Newsleader interview. “When my 2-year-olds were babies, it was amazing to watch them race in the
pasture.” Race horses spend about 22 hours per day in a stall and two hours exercising or being cleaned. Besser said the horses have three meals a day, are brushed, showered and have their own fans.
Phony ‘IRS’ phone calls target residents by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com
Phone-scamming crooks posing as law-enforcement agents for the Internal Revenue Service are at it again, scaring and threatening innocent people, this time in the Benton County area, although such calls are likely to pop up anywhere at any time. The Benton County Sheriff’s Department is warning
all residents to be on guard against such crooked calls. The caller, who claims to be with the Benton County Sheriff’s Department, claims there is an arrest warrant for the phone-call recipient. If he or she doesn’t send a certain sum of money immediately to a certain place, deputies will come and arrest the person. In fact, it’s a crock of crooked. The sheriff’s depart-
ment does not call people about IRS-related arrest warrants and never asks people for money via telephone. If any residents receive the bogus calls, they should hang up the phone and report the calls to the sheriff’s department or local police. A similar scam has been reported in many other counties and cities, including some in Sauk Rapids a few years ago.
Gold’n Plump plans hatchery by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com
Gold’n Plump, which purchased the Crystal Cabinets building at 4 Industrial Blvd., has just had its plan to convert the building into a hatchery approved by the Sauk Rapids City Council. The building will see a
number of additions made to it throughout the coming years, according to the site plan. contributed image The current building is 73,369 square feet, and the first addition will be
an additional 5,000 square feet. Along with the hatchery, shipping and receiving as well as office space will be added. Gold’n Plump plans to be in operation by February. The company plans to employ 3040 people for the time being. The site plan was approved unanimously by the council.
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