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2016 Year in Review:

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 Volume 22, Issue 1 Est. 1995

Growth, fiscal health, exciting developments

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Tree drop-off set for Jan. 7

by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com

Christmas trees can be dropped off from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7 at the Sartell Compost Site. There is no charge for the drop-off service, but each motorist should bring at least one non-perishable food donation for the local food shelf, which badly needs restocking after the holidays. Residents who have a compost-site permit can also bring any yard debris left over from fall. Directions from Sartell City Hall: Take Pinecone Road south to the four-way stop at Heritage Drive and Pinecone Road. Take a right onto CR 133 for about two miles to CR 4. Take a right onto CR 4, and the next right on 30th Avenue N. The compost site is on your right.

Car seat events offer free checks

Make sure your children and grandchildren travel safely in your vehicle. Have car seats checked for correct installation from 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays, Jan. 18, Feb. 15, March 15 or April 19 within the Gold Cross Ambulance garage, 2800 Seventh St. N., St. Cloud. Call 320656-7021 to make a free appointment. A car seat check is encouraged for those with children ages 12 and younger, including those in booster seats. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Jan. 6 Criers.

New program to help girls cope with traumas

Project Hope, a therapy group for teen girls who have experienced traumas, is about to form in the greater St. Cloud area. Its first meeting is slated for Tuesday, Jan. 10 at the Village Family Service Center, 4140 Thielman Lane, Suite 303 in St. Cloud. The program for girls ages 12 to 18 will be led by two mental-health clinicians and a counselor. Participants will learn about trauma, how to increase self-esteem and self-empowerment, how to negotiate relationships and how to manage overwhelming feelings and behaviors. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Jan. 6 Criers.

Become a ‘Big’ to a ‘Little’

Big Brothers Big Sisters, based locally in St. Cloud, is known for making big differences a “little” at a time. The organization is now seeking volunteers. It pairs “Big Brothers” and “Big Sisters” with “Little Brothers” and “Little Sisters” so good bonds develop that promote kindness, guidance and support for the children. The “Bigs” meet with their “Littles” three to four times per month for community-based and school-based mentoring programs. There are also volunteer tasks for “Big Couples” and “Big Families.” For more information on this and other United Way volunteer opportunities, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Jan. 6 Criers.

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Morgan Crusoe of Sartell (left) is assisted in building her birdhouse by Bev Supan, a member of the St. Stephen Sportsmen’s Club. Behind Morgan is her mother, Sara Crusoe.

Continued growth, the beginnings of exciting developments and financial health characterized the City of Sartell in the year 2016. Residents approved a $105.8million school bond that will bring a new high school as well as renovations and updates at Sartell’s other schools. The construction of an $11-million community center began in the Town Square area of south Sartell. New businesses opened their doors. And long-awaited projects started, including the reconstruction of Pinecone Road, a traffic-route reconfiguration at First Avenue S. near Hwy. 15 and finalization of plans for redoing and extending Fourth Avenue S.

Permits issued for all types of housing also increased once again in the city. Last but not least, Sartell city staff and council kept a tight lid on expenses while managing to do so many projects and while funding numerous city services. The city portion of taxes for 2017 are expected to remain more or less “flat.” Sartell still has the lowest tax rate of the surrounding cities, a fact the city’s auditing firm pointed out when the city earned high marks for solid fiscal management in 2016. Throughout the year, many family-fun events brought huge crowds to the city. They included the Sartell SummerFest 2016, the Rock ‘n’ Block music party and the Sartell Apple Duathlon. Review • page 3

Safe house for victims of sex-trafficking to open by Mollie Rushmeyer news@thenewsleaders.com

With an estimated 8,000 to 12,000 people sexually exploited each day in Minnestoa, according to service organization Breaking Free, CeCe Terloux, a long-time advocate of forced-prostitution victims, felt the timing was right to open a shelter and transitional home called Terebinth Refuge, to benefit not only the greater St. Cloud area but much of the state. “I’ve always had a heart for women and girls – and this issue,” said Terloux, the executive director of Terebinth Refuge. Terebinth Refuge is a 501 c(3) non -profit. The safe house is tentatively scheduled to open in early spring 2017 with the motto, “Shelter. Healing. Rest. Growth.” These will be accomplished through short-term shelter beds where sexually exploited women over the age of 18 can stay anywhere from a few days to 90 days, long-term transitional housing, healing care (both physical and emotional), a restful environment, and growth in education, life skills and jobseeking skills. For 24 years, Terloux worked for the Heartland Girl’s Ranch in Benson. While there, she served young girls under the age of 18 who were escaping a life of sex trafficking. Through her work, she saw the issue as not only a “big-city problem” but its prevalence and devastation in every small town across Minnesota and in particular the rural areas surrounding St. Cloud.

“St. Cloud is a training ground for the women,” Terloux shared. “There aren’t many resources here for them (the victims), so pimps feel safer than in a bigger city like Minneapolis. The crowd here is less rough, and they use that to break in the women and girls before shipping them to other areas.” Waite Park Chief of Police Dave Bentrud, a 25-year law-enforcement veteran, and also a Terebinth Refuge board member, added, “For a long time, the traffickers flew under the radar in this area.” It wasn’t until five years ago, when the BCA found a missing female juvenile involved in forced prostitution at a Waite Park motel that Bentrud said eyes were opened to just what a significant problem trafficking had become in this area. “I took it personal,” Bentrud said, adding his first thought was, “Not in my city.” Since then, task forces in the area have made stings on potential “johns” (people attempting to hire a prostitute) as seen in a recent four-man arrest on Nov. 3 last year. Typically the men come from a 50- to 60-mile radius around St. Cloud. Both Terloux and Bentrud have seen a true need for the over-18 age group. Places like the Heartland Girl’s Ranch and Safe Harbor shelters are unable to house anyone over the age of 18. And while there are a couple of programs in the Twin Cities, they are not always available in an emergency and because they are in the metro area, tend to fill fast. “Often the regular shelters don’t want them (the sex-trafficking victims),” Terloux said, saying the shelters aren’t

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CeCe Terloux, executive director for Terebinth Refuge, a sex-trafficking safe house set to open in St. Cloud area in the spring, participates in a panel discussion at the award-winning trafficking film, Road to Hope, along with other organizations working to end modern-day slavery. equipped to handle the high level of trauma the women have been through, and they don’t want them recruiting other women to bring back to the pimps. Many times, this leaves the women with nowhere to go but back to the traffickers who have abused them. “This is a significant problem,” Bentrud said. “We’re looking at getting more investigator time to work on this full time. We need more education for the public Safe • back page

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The Sartell Pee Wee B Hockey team took the championship Dec. 16-17 at the Alexandria Area Hockey tournament. They came home with the Big Ole Helmet Trophy that each player is wearing. They won all five games. The scores of the games were: Sartell vs Alexandria 6-0; Sartell vs Centennial 8-0; Sartell vs Rochester Black 6-0; Sartell vs Shakopee 5-2; and Sartell vs Rochester Red 10-2. Coaches are: Jeremy Henkemeyer, Brian Bonach and Eric Grahek. Team members include the following: Brandan Bonach, Cullen Grahek, Gavin Henkemeyer, Aiden Hilger, Mason Horgan, Brandon Janu, Parker McCabe, Zach Pekula, Jack Schmitz, Lucas Smith and Billy Vogt. Not pictured is Teddy McCabe who was there, but is out with a broken leg. Kaleb Myhrwold of Sartell has been accepted for admission for the 2017-18 academic year and has been awarded the President’s Scholarship from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. Lucy Reitz of Sartell has been accepted for admission for the 2017-18 academic year and has been awarded the Martin Luther Award at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. Three Sartell students were recently awarded scholarships at the University of Minnesota, Morris. They are the following: Hana Krebs, the Patrick McGinnis Family Scholarship, which gives

preference to female students who intend to major in one of the sciences; Kyle Och, the Richard A. Hargrave Promise of Tomorrow Scholarship, which is given for new students with academic promise with preference for students intending on pursuing a double major one of which is math or philosophy. It may be renewable for three additional years pending satisfactory progress toward an undergraduate degree; and Tiana Wood, the Donald H. and Carol Conner Vogt Scholarship, which supports new students, including transfer students, who show academic promise. It may be renewed for three additional years pending satisfactory academic progress.”

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Friday, Jan. 6 Moonlight Ski, 6-10 p.m., Quarry Park and Nature Preserve, 1802 CR 137, Waite Park. 320-255-6172 or parkinfo@co.stearns.mn.us. Saturday, Jan. 7 Sartell Winter Farmers’ Market, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Sartell City Hall, 125 Pinecone Road N, Sartell. www.marketmonday.org.

If you have a tip concerning a crime, call the Sartell Police Department at 320-251-8186, or TriCounty 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 a crime. Dec. 10 12:10 a.m. Welfare Check. 10 St. S. Officers were dispatched to check on a woman that was supposed to be home but was not answering her phone. The complainant was a relative. Officers arrived on scene and made contact with the woman at her residence. She advised she was having phone issues, but was fine. 3:18 a.m. Parking violation. 2 St. NE. A male officer located a parked vehicle in violation of seasonal winter parking. The Officer issued the parked vehicle a citation for the violation. 11:15 p.m. Fire. 251 CR 120. Officers and Sartell Fire were dispatched for a fire. Upon a Patrol Officer’s arrival to the area he issued a lock box key to the firemen; so they could gain entry into the building. A Reserve Officer assisted the Patrol Officer by phoning key holders of the building to explain the issue. All agencies cleared once the issue was resolved. Dec. 11 8:21 a.m. Driving Complaint. Hwy, 15/12 St. N. Officers were dispatched for an elderly male that was possibly a wrong way driver in the area of 12 St. N. and Sam’s Club. Officers arrived in the area to locate the driver to ensure other driver’s safety. Officers didn’t locate a vehicle matching the description in the area. 6:42 p.m. Burglary. 9 Ave. N.

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Sunday, Jan 8 Breakfast, sponsored by St. Joseph Knights of Columbus, 8:30 a.m.-noon, Heritage Hall, St. Joseph Catholic Church, 12 W Minnesota St., St. Joseph. Sno-flyers Vintage Run, noon-5 p.m., SnoFlyers Clubhouse, south of Holdingford on C.R. 9.

tellchamber.com. Holistic Moms Network, 7-8:30 p.m., Good Earth Co-op, 2010 Veterans Drive, St. Cloud. 320-252-2489. National Alliance on Mental Health, 7-8:30 p.m., Calvary Community Church, 1200 Roosevelt Road, St. Cloud. 320-259-7101.

Monday, Jan 9 Sartell City Council, 6 p.m., Sartell City Hall, 125 Pinecone Road N. 320253-2171.

Wednesday, Jan 11 St. Joseph Area Chamber of Commerce, 11:30 a.m., St. Joseph Community Fire Hall, 323 Fourth Ave. NE. stjosephchamber.com.

Tuesday, Jan 10 Sartell Chamber of Commerce, 11:30 a.m., Waters Church, 1227 Pinecone Road. 320-258.6061. info@sar-

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Officers were dispatched to a residence to speak with the home owners about a burglary that took place the night prior. Upon arrival officers met with the complainant and were provided with evidence to conduct an investigation into the issue. Dec. 12 2:54 p.m. Property Damage. 2251 Connecticut Ave. S. An officer was dispatched for a door ding that occurred in the parking lot of a Sartell Business. The officer was advised that the party responsible for the damage refused to pay to fix it. The officer arrived on scene within a few minutes and acted as a mediator to resolve the issue peacefully. 8:26 p.m. Medical. 520 1 St. NE. Officers were dispatched to Country Manor for an 80 year old female with left side pain. Officers arrived as first responders soon after the call was issued. Officers provided immediate medical attention and monitored the patient’s condition until Gold Cross arrived on scene. Upon Gold Cross’s arrival officers assisted the paramedics as necessary. Dec. 13 3:52 a.m. Suspicious Vehicle. 1000 1 St. NE. While on routine patrol officers were dispatched to speak with a woman regarding a suspicious vehicle sitting in the parking lot of her apartment complex. She believed the male party sitting inside the vehicle was her ex-boyfriend and she believed he was stalking her. Upon arrival on scene officers observed that the vehicle in question was unoccupied and sitting in the parking lot. Officers located the male party inside the complex. Officers were able to deescalate the issue peacefully. 11:03 p.m. 911 Open Line. Hi

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Vue Dr. Officers were dispatched for a female party stating her call to 911 was an accident. Stearns County Dispatch observed the caller to be shaky. They requested officers check the issue out to ensure it was indeed an accident. Officers arrived on scene and met with the woman who had called. She stated she was fine. Dec. 14 3:37 a.m. Assist Agency. City of Sartell. An officer was dispatched to assist St. Cloud Police with locating a male party that was possibly residing in Sartell. The officer attempted to locate the individual by following up leads presented by the St. Cloud Police Department but was unsuccessful. 5:17 p.m. Behavioral Health. Pinecone Rd. N. Officers were dispatched to deal with a male party. The male party was a special needs patient and was out of control attempting to fight staff with scissors. Officers arrived on scene soon after being issued it. Officers were able to talk the man down and ended the issue peacefully. 6:19 p.m. Suspicious Vehicle. 17 Ave. N. Officers were dispatched for a vehicle parked in the area and seemed out of place. Officers arrived on scene and located the registered owner of the vehicle. The vehicle was illegally parked, but the officer educated the registered owner of this fact. The male party thanked the officer for his kindness, resolving the issue peacefully. Dec. 15 9:00 pm. Door Check. City of Sartell. Two Reserve Officers assisted Patrol Officers by providing business checks. The officers checked business doors to ensure they were secure. This continued until the conclusion of their shift.

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The Sartell Marching Sabres Band will perform Sunday, June 26 in the Vikingland Band Festival in Alexandria.

Review from front page The school district continued to rack up achievements, including scores exceeding those of statewide peers. The following are just some of the notable happenings in Sauk Rapids and Rice during the past year as reported in the Sartell Newsleader.

January

Celebration Lutheran Church in Sartell invites some people of the Muslim faith to speak as part of its adult-education series. The get-together is an attempt to reduce hate, fear, ignorance and stereotyping that can rear up after hate crimes happen anywhere in the world. Two Sartell High School students are honored as “2 Under 20” recipients during an annual recognition banquet hosted by the St. Cloud Times. The honorees are Gopi Ramanathan and Hannah Yackley, both honored for their achievements that have the potential to shape the future for the better in central Minnesota. A third Sartell high-school senior, Nicole Yang, was also honored as a runner-up. The St. Cloud Optimist Club awards three Sartell High School students for their outstanding commitments to good causes. The honorees are Ben Fern, Bailey Mumm and Nicole Yang. “Hoopin’ for Tommy B.” is a

big successful basketball game and fundraiser at Sartell High School. The benefit raises money for the Tom Bearson Foundation, which honors the memory of Tom Bearson of Sartell, who was murdered when he was a college freshman in Fargo. The Sartell High School Sabre Dance Team wins three consecutive conference meets, which means two performances rated as “perfect” in all of the meets. That winning streak has never been achieved previously in the team’s 30-year history. The Sartell-St. Stephen School Board agrees to present a $105.8-million bond referendum to district voters in spring to build a new high school and make updates at the current schools. Kristen Durrwachter is appointed as chair of the school board. Three Sartell Middle School students are tops in the school’s annual spelling bee. First is Gopi Ramanathan, second is Grant Winter and third is Connor Hacker.

February

The planned Sartell Community Center now has preliminary designs ready, but it will have to undergo some tweaking and other changes to fit within its $11-million price tag. The changes can be accomplished by creative use of spaces and foregoing some of the architectural niceties of the building, according to the building’s planners. Pine Meadow Elementary School is honored with a Food

Safety Award for 2015 from Stearns County’s Environmental Services Department. Three students are the top winners in the school district’s spelling bee for grades 5-8. They are Evan Windahl, first place; Anthony Berndt, second place; and Luke Zacher, third place. The high school Sabre Dance Team earns two third-place awards, in jazz and high-kicks categories, at state competition in Target Center. The Storm ‘n’ Sabres girls’ hockey team heads to the state tournament. The Canadian-based company, Edmonton Trailer Mfg., announces it will close its business in Sartell. The company specializes in heavy transportation equipment and moved some of its functions to a huge building that had been part of the Verso Paper Mill before that plant’s closure. The company had only occupied that building for about a year. The reason given for the shut-down was “worldwide economic conditions.”

March

The Sartell-St. Stephen School District celebrates its 50th birthday. In 1966, voters approved the creation of an independent school district that would include the city’s own high school. Before that decision, students in Sartell had to attend high schools in St. Cloud or Sauk Rapids. Stephen Reetz, a Christian, and Haji Yusuf, a Muslim, team up to host a meal at the St. Cloud-based Salvation Army. The event, with help from Celebration Lutheran Church in Sartell, was an effort to not only feed the hungry but to foster unity among faiths in the greater St. Cloud area and beyond. Reetz is a member of Celebration Lutheran, and Yusuf is a St. Cloud business owner and co-founder of a group known as UNITECLOUD that promotes peace and understanding among cultures in central Minnesota. Four Sartell Middle School students qualify for MATHCOUNTS competition at the state level. The winners are Janagan Ramanathan, Luc Westling, Jacob Wieland and David Zhang. Hannah Noel, 17, of Sartell, writes a futuristic novel entitled Profugorum (Latin for “Refugees.) She began writing the novel four years ago and recently had it published. The novel, with its young heroine going through many scary events, takes place in the year 2060. The city council votes 3-2 to Review • page 4

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The staff of the City of Sartell and its city council gets kudos for its handling of finances in the previous year. An auditing firm rated the city’s financial management as excellent, great and very good in various categories. Sartell City Administrator/Financial Director Mary Degiovanni, especially, was singled out for praise. Pick-It-Fence, a shop specializing in the creative repurposing of old objects, opens in Sartell’s Riverside Plaza. Sartell’s city council proposes a moratorium on the site of the former Verso paper mill. In the meantime, a task force will explore potential uses for the site, including any environmental impacts those uses could cause. A final plat for the Sartell Community Center is approved by the city council on a 3-2 vote. By a very narrow margin, the Sartell school bond referendum is approved by voters 2,281 to 2,034. The $105.8-million bond will pay for a new high school and updates and improvements at the city’s other schools. Voters in the City of Sartell were decisive in the bond’s passage. Voters in St. Stephen and the townships of Brockway and St. Wendel nixed the proposal by a 2 to 1 margin, 584 to 216. The bond will be paid back over a period of 25 years. The Sartell Boys’ Sabres Trackand-Field Team takes second place in the True Team state tournament May 21 at Stillwater High School. Headlines Salon and Spa in Sartell gives free haircuts all day to homeless people.

June

In déjà vu performances, Matthew Payne of Golden Valley and Diane Hankee of Lino Lakes are the two top male and female finishers in the 34th annual Sartell Apple Duathlon race. Both duathletes have won the Apple before, Payne last year and Hankee several

years ago. Homeschooled students from the greater St. Cloud area perform the musical fantasy Brigadoon at the Sartell High School Theater. The Sartell City Council approves bids for an $11-million community center at a site in south Sartell. Bob Becker, a Vietnam veteran who lives in Sartell, is honored with an “Honor Cane” at a ceremony in the city. Becker was wounded twice while serving in Vietnam.

Despite withering, sweltering heat, Sartell SummerFest 2016 draws large crowds to the city for its big parade, street dance, fireworks and other events. Clare Minnerath, Sartell hockey goalie, is named Female Athlete of the Year at the annual Central Minnesota Sports Awards Banquet. (The second half of the Year in Review will be featured in the Jan. 13 edition of the Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader. To read any of the above stories in their entirety, visit thenewsleaders.com then click on the Archives button mid-way down the home page.)

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Our View Let’s put our wishes to work for good changes The Newsleaders’ staff members wish all of our readers may enjoy a Happy New Year. After all the depressing news developments in 2016, everyone is due for big bundles of good news, glad tidings. This is what we, the staff, wish for our readers and – for that matter – everyone else in the world: • We wish good health for all. For those who may be ailing, we wish for you to improve and that full health can be restored soon. • We wish for safe, happy and well-loved children (and pets, too). • We wish for continued and/or renewed prosperity by which we mean enough income to live contentedly and stress-free, without the anxietyriddled burdens of bills, especially unforeseen ones like catastrophic medical bills. • We wish for success to those struggling to lose weight, to improve health through regular exercise regimens, a more nutritious diet and lifestyle changes that include such good choices as cessation of smoking. • We wish for frequent respites from electronic dependence, whether it be TVs, cell phones, iPads, computers or other devices that prevent us from communicating head to head, heart to heart, in person. (Sadly, there are some people who actually “communicate” with family members in the same household via digital means.) • We wish more people will begin to celebrate what we all have in common and work toward common goals rather than succumb to forces that divide us. With that spirit in mind, we wish the U.S. Congress finally passes a comprehensive immigration-reform bill, that if Obamacare is repealed, there is a plan to replace it so 20 million Americans who finally gained access to insurance, thanks to Obamacare, will be able to remain insured. We also wish an independent committee unravels how Russia meddled in our democratic process and comes up with ways to prevent it from ever happening again. • Last but not least, we wish the forces of evil, such as ISIS, collapse of their own exhausting atrocities or are eliminated. It’s time the people in such slaughterhouse places in the world can have a measure of peace, safety and security. The neverending suffering and death of innocent people, like those trapped in Aleppo, must end. But, of course, wishes are not enough. Wishes must be put into actions. That’s un-doable some may think as they sink into apathy or despair. The best way to promote kindness and peace is to choose a good cause and learn all you can about it, then contribute what money you can afford and do volunteer work to advance that cause. It could be as local as working with the humane society or tutoring students, or it can be broader efforts such as pressuring legislators to be true public servants or donating to organizations that help relieve suffering and save lives. (Doctors Without Borders is an excellent choice.) The only way to make wishes come true is to engage actively with the world around us, to commit money and/or time and then to take positive actions. So many good people do that already; let them be our daily inspirations. Making the world better is not only do-able; it’s infinitely rewarding.

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Opinion

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017

Time to kill ObamaCare? Whoa! Like hungry wolves, those who have loathed Obamacare from Day One are circling, howling, eager to attack and kill that law once the new president takes office. If it is repealed, will its die-hard enemies replace it with anything? Anything at all? We’d better pay attention because health-care access will again be one of the hottest topics in this new year. Ugly fights about it could well cause the nation to become even more divided. To be sure, the Affordable Care Act – even its proponents have long acknowledged – needs some major tweaking to make it more “affordable” in some cases. Detractors like to pounce on premium increases as a sign of doom. They are happily oblivious of all the good outcomes the ACA has brought to millions of people, including the 20 million Americans who were finally able to get health-care insurance for the first time. Those who maintain stubbornly and even gleefully that Obamacare is a total disaster are not telling the truth – far from it. The following are facts pertaining to the ACA’s effects in Minnesota as reported in a major study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: • The uninsured rate in Minnesota declined by 51 percent since the ACA started in 2010. That means 250,000 Minnesotans were able to get health coverage who could not in the pre-ACA years. • Most Minnesotans (3,319,000) have coverage through employers. They, along with people covered under Medicaid or Medicare, have benefited directly and indirectly thanks to the ACA. Those changes include no denial of coverage because of pre-existing conditions. More than 2,318,000 Minnesotans have some kind of pre-existing condition, according to the Department

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Dennis Dalman Editor of Health and Human Services. Other good changes that affect all Minnesotans with insurance are the following: • No imposition of annual or lifetime caps on coverage. Before the ACA, 2,043,000 Minnesotans were susceptible to those limits, cutting out coverage in dire crises when it would be most needed. • Children can stay on parents’ health plans until age 26. • Certain types of free preventive care are required, including cancer screenings, that can nip medical problems in the bud. Such screenings not only save lives but help prevent huge costs that can happen when treatable problems grow into exacerbated, complicated (and very costly) medical conditions. • We constantly hear from the chorus of naysayers that Obamacare has caused premiums to skyrocket. That is true in some cases, but in most cases premiums are actually lower than the double-digit increases in the years predating the ACA. The average premiums for Minnesotans with employer-sponsored coverage increased an average of 4.0 percent annually from the ACA years of 2010-15. Before that time, those rates averaged a 7.2 percent increase per year in the previous decade. • The 80/20 rule requires insurance companies to spend at least 80 cents of each premium dollar received on health care or related improvements (instead of administrative costs like salaries or marketing). Those who don’t comply

must give refunds to customers. • Thanks to the ACA, thousands of Minnesotans suffering from mentalhealth problems are now getting care. With improved access to treatment, there are an estimated 3,000 fewer Minnesotans suffering from depression. There is much more to be done, but the ACA has helped start such improvements. • Medicare recipients are benefiting in two major ways due to the ACA. One is lower costs for prescription drugs because the ACA is closing the so-called “drug donut hole,” a period in which drug costs can balloon for a Medicare recipient. According to the HHS report, 73,484 Minnesota seniors saved $72 million on drug-spending in 2015. That’s an average of $981 per beneficiary. Another way Medicare seniors benefit is the free preventive services and elimination of cost-sharing for such things as cancer screenings. Many serious health problems were discovered thanks to such screenings, preventing some catastrophic costs and outcomes later on. • Tax credits now help 47,266 Minnesotans with moderate and middle incomes receive tax credits averaging $203 per month to help them afford premiums for plans accessed via HealthCare.gov. There are many more beneficial outcomes of the ACA too numerous to mention here. To learn more, Google U.S. Department of Human Services and then type in “Affordable Care Act” on its website. Those who learn the facts about Obamacare (not just its problems) will be far less inclined to howl for its demise. They will instead insist on keeping it, with changes; or they will insist those who want to kill it will have something at least as good to put in its place.

To the petty thief who stole our StarBright Christmas light Kraig Lalim, Sartell

To the petty thief who stole our StarBright

Christmas light on Riverside Avenue N.: I have you on camera. Due to the spirit of Christmas and forgiveness, I’m not going to press charges.

Please stop stealing. The next person may not be so forgiving. God bless and I wish you the best for the new year.

windchill, there were still kids walking to school. Plus, I was enjoying my smiles and waves. One Monday morning, 51 people waved to me. To give me a gift was so random and thoughtful. Then, a couple days later, two highschool students stopped and walked up to me with a large gift bag stuffed full with things to keep me warm. I wish I could name them here, but if any of you know them, you are lucky, indeed. One of them said to me, “My friend and I see you out here every day in the cold, making sure our students are safe, and we just wanted to say thank you.” I couldn’t help but be a bit overwhelmed and a bit emotional. I quickly put the Santa hat on that was in the bag, and you couldn’t wipe the big grin off my face that morning. Well, it doesn’t end there. I arrived at work at the elementary to find a sweetly written Christmas card from a family I don’t even know thanking me for starting their day out with a smile. They had taken the time to hunt me down in order to thank

me. Absolutely amazing. Yesterday a woman stopped, handed me another gift card and with tears in her eyes told me she has had a rough couple of months and has really looked forward to seeing me every morning and that I helped start her day with a smile. This time, I couldn’t help it. After I gave her a hug and she drove away, I let a few tears slip down my cheeks. That right there made me glad I wore two sets of wool socks and toe warmers inside my boots and bundled up so all you could see were my eyeballs – so I could keep waving – and hoping you all could see my smiling eyes behind my husband’s ski mask. This morning, I’m dressing up like Santa Claus. I’m hoping to bring joy to those driving by this holiday season, maybe remind you to slow down a little and enjoy the people around you because, you know, people are funny. They are also kind, generous, grieving, sweet and loving. Sometimes all it takes is a smile, maybe a little wave. Thank you all for the smiles, the waves and your stories. I don’t really need gifts, but I want you to know they were appreciated. Even if you wave just to embarrass your kid in the car – I love it! Maybe I applied for this job for selfish reasons, but this community has really shown me what I love about humankind, and this “job” has been a true (albeit cold!) blessing. Thank you, Sartell.

Crossing guard shares heart-warming stories Kristen Will, Sartell When I first applied to be a crossing guard for the Sartell-St. Stephen School District, it was for purely selfish reasons. That extra money each week would help pay for the kids’ activities and more. I knew it was OK for me to sit in my car and wait for any kids that might need to cross, but I like the fresh air, and so I got my lawn chair out, brought my coffee with and sat on my corner. What a great gig. I was able to enjoy God’s creation, wave to a couple of friends who drove by and watch people’s reactions when I gave them a smile. At first, I just got a kick out of people because, you know, people are funny. Then, as I sat there the first day it was cold with sleet pelting me in the face, I got a kick out of myself, thinking, “This is what good living gets you,” which made me smile all the more, and the more I smiled, the more people smiled back. Soon enough, I was waving at half the people driving by, which made me smile and giggle to myself even more. This “job” really put me in the Christmas spirit. I’ve made friends, and I’ve seen so much generosity. I first had a random dad and his child pull over to give me a Christmas gift card and say thank you for doing what I do. I was floored. This was a “job,” after all, and even though I didn’t have to sit out there when it was -40

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Sartell City Hall, 125 Pinecone Road N. marketmonday.org. 55+ Driving Improvement Program (four-hour refresher course), 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Miller Auto Plaza, 2930 Second St. S., St. Cloud. 1-888-234-1294. mnsafetycenter. org. Central Minnesota Chapter of the Federation of the Blind of Minnesota, 12:30 p.m., American Legion, 17 Second Ave. N., Waite Park. Youth Free-Throw Championship, for boys and girls ages 9-14, sponsored by Knights of Columbus, 1:30 p.m., gymnasium, All Saints Academy, 32 W. Minnesota St., St. Joseph. Sunday, Jan 15 B u i l d - y o u r- o w n - o m e l e t t e Breakfast, American Legion Auxiliary, 8 a.m.-noon, American Legion, 17 Second Ave. N., Waite Park. 320251-5498.

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2017 SARTELL SUMMARY BUDGET STATEMENT

2017 Sartell Summary Budget Statement

THEpurpose PURPOSE OFreport THIS is REPORT IS summary TO PROVIDE 2017 BUDGET INFORMATION The of this to provide 2017SUMMARY budget information concerning the City of Sartell to CONCERNING THE OF is SARTELL TOinINTERESTED CITIZENS. BUDGET IS PUBLISHED interested citizens. TheCITY budget published accordance with MinnesotaTHE Statute 471.6965. This budget is IN ACCORDANCE WITH MINN. STAT. 471.6965. THIS BUDGET IS A SUMMARY DOCUMENT ONLY; a summary document only; the complete budget may be examined at Sartell City Hall; 125 Pinecone Road THE COMPLETE BUDGET MAY BE EXAMINED AT SARTELL CITY HALL, 125 PINECONE ROAD N. The city council approved this budget on Dec. 12, 2016. N. THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THIS BUDGET ON DEC. 12, 2016.

Table 1 Governmental Funds 2017 Budget

Revenues: Property Taxes Tax Increments All Other Taxes Special Assessments Licenses and Permits Federal Grants State General Purpose Aid (LGA, etc.) State Categorical Aid (state aid for police, fire, streets) Charges for Services Fines and Forfeits Interest on Investments Miscellaneous Revenue Total Revenues Proceeds from Bond Sales Other Financing Sources Transfers from Other Funds (inc. enterprise funds) Total Revenues & Other Financing Sources

2016 Budget $5,588,914 $147,500 $1,154,812 $391,000 $1,062,500 $0 $141,427 $324,650 $1,440,156 $72,250 $10,000 $164,500 $10,497,709 $0 $0 $5,196,495 $15,694,204

2017 Budget $5,895,999 $151,500 $1,220,906 $527,000 $1,177,700 $0 $146,895 $331,088 $2,510,913 $67,750 $12,000 $46,250 $12,088,001 $0 $0 $8,235,812 $20,323,813

Expenditures: General Government Public Safety Streets & Highways (Public Works) Culture and Recreation Urban & Economic Development Miscellaneous Current Expenditures Total Current Expenditures Debt Service - Principal Interest & Fiscal Charges Capital Outlay Transfers to Other Funds (inc. enterprise funds) Total Expenses & Other Financing Uses

$814,287 $3,017,900 $1,960,375 $368,400 $77,707 $75,750 $6,314,419 $4,795,000 $1,143,601 $1,673,100 $5,048,842 $18,974,962

$834,343 $3,181,600 $1,128,185 $603,400 $78,007 $34,500 $5,860,035 $5,205,000 $1,239,397 $6,411,500 $5,012,811 $23,728,743

Increase/Decrease in Fund Balance Property Tax Levy Requirement to fund this budget

-$3,280,758 $5,588,914

-$3,404,930 $5,895,999

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Safe from front page and for law enforcement on how to deal with this. We also need to build up victim support, like the Terebinth Refuge. This area really needs safe places for the victims to go.” With all of that in mind, Terloux says she prayerfully went forward with plans to create a safe house for exploited women over 18, with short- and longterm housing and the inclusive approach she always envisioned.

“It’s so important,” Terloux said, “that we know all aspects as to how to work with this population. We want to be holistic, address all the issues that go with this.” She said her past foster daughter, who is a survivor of human trafficking, will be on staff to assist when the police call with a woman who has been taken out of a trafficking situation, and she will also be at the house, available to talk with the residents while they stay at Terebinth Refuge. “It’s crucial to have survivors on staff,” she said. “They can see it through a victim’s eyes the

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long-term transitional housing. It would not take place right away, but when they’re ready. Grants will pay the business and then also pay the women for their work. Terloux hopes to see businesses pull together to give the women a chance and help them learn skills to better themselves. While for safety and privacy reasons, the exact location cannot be disclosed, a property has been found that would suit the needs for Terebinth Refuge, though the plans have not been finalized. As for the name, Terloux says it’s from the Old Testament Terebinth trees, and means strong

roots. The trees were places of significance and resting places of shelter, of which the new property has many. To make the much-needed safe house a reality, the Terebinth Refuge board and Terloux are asking the area churches, individuals and businesses to consider charitable donations. To donate, call CeCe Terloux at 320-204-4881 or send a check made payable to “Terebinth Refuge” to P.O. Box 5035, St. Cloud, Minn. 56302. For more information, visit www.terebinthrefuge.org or email CeCe Terloux at cece@terebinthrefuge.org.

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