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Interested in summer youth baseball?
Registration for summer youth baseball will open Monday, Feb. 1. To register kindergarten through ninth-grade youth, visit sartellbaseball.com and click the “registration” button. General registration will be open until April 1 (first- and second-grade registration will stay open until May 1). For registration questions, call Mike Connolly at 320309-9747.
CSB hosts Girls, Women in Sports Day on Feb. 6
The College of St. Benedict will host a celebration for National Girls and Women in Sports Day at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6 at the Haehn Campus Center on campus. This year, CSB will honor 2016 Breaking Barriers Award honoree Shelly BoyumBreen. She is the author of Shelly Bean the Sports Queen series of books. Children in grades K-6 are invited to join Boyum-Breen for a book reading, mini basketball clinic and a college basketball game. This event is free, and children will also receive a free T-shirt and free admission to the game. For more information visit csbblazers.com.
Local K of C to sponsor youth free-throw championship
All boys and girls ages 9 to 14 are invited to participate in the local level of competition for the 2016 Knights of Columbus FreeThrow championship. The local competition will be held Sunday Jan. 31 at the All Saints Academy gym in St. Joseph. Registration and practice is at 12:30 p.m., and the contest begins at 1 p.m. Participants are required to furnish proof of age and written parental consent. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Jan. 29 Criers.
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Robotics class builds skills at Oak Ridge by Darren Diekmann news@thenewsleaders.com
Recently an after-school community-education class at Oak Ridge Elementary School has been running an introductory robotics class, using a toolless system, where students can snap plastic parts together to make a mobile robot. The class is the result of efforts by local parents and volunteers, intended to develop STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and cooperative skills. It’s also to prepare third- and fourth-graders for more advanced robotics systems at the middle- and highschool level, and have fun doing it. The increasingly popular platform is called VEX IQ. It includes the material and instructions for the robots and an accompanying curriculum offered free online. Sartell High School teaches two levels of classes, and the middle school has a robotics team that uses the more complex VEX Robotics system. “This course is what we call a build and drive,” said Paul Moe, one of the instructors and the instructional technology specialist at Oak Ridge. “When the students come in the very first day, they work on designing very Robotics • page 3
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Ashley Nelson, 9, and Atira Olson, 10, make final adjustments to their robot mobile.
Board votes to present $105 million bond to voters by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Voters in the Sartell-St. Stephen School District will decide Tuesday, May 24 whether to spend $105.8 million on a new high school, along with many refurbishments and space rearrangements at the district’s three other schools and what would be the former
high school. The school board voted unanimously to set the bond amount and the voting date at its Jan. 25 regular board meeting. The board also approved a tentative agreement to purchase 20 acres of land from a developer next to Oak Ridge Elementary School in north Sartell, where the high school would be built. That 20
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total of nearly 100 acres to the east and south of Oak Ridge Elementary, bordered on the east by Pinecone Road N. and on the south by 27th Street N., which is the road from Pinecone that leads now to Oak Ridge. The $105.8-million bond would be repaid over a 25year period. The Minnesota Bond • page 6
Night of remembrance set Jan. 29 for Klinefelter by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com
Free bus passes for job seekers
Free bus passes are available to low-income individuals who are actively job-seeking or who have started a new job. The passes are part of a new program offered by Metro Bus and funded by a Morgan Family Foundation grant. As applicable, a sevenday, 31-day or 10-ride Metro Bus pass or Northstar Link Commuter Bus or Northstar Line Commuter Rail pass will be provided to individuals who can demonstrate need. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Jan. 29 Criers.
acres, part of what is known as Eagle Ridge Estates, is owned by Wollak Construction whose owner, Ernie Wollak, has agreed in principal to sell for about $500,000. That land would be in addition to the 80 acres of land the school district already owns at that site. The school, its grounds, parking and athletic fields and facilities would be built on a
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Officer Brian Klinefelter snuggles his daughter Katelyn while in uniform. Katelyn was only 2 months old when her father was killed in the line of duty.
A night of remembrance will be held to honor a St. Joseph police officer who was killed in the line of duty 20 years Klinefelter ago today. Brian Klinefelter, 25, was killed Jan. 29, 1996 after stopping a suspected getaway vehicle from an armed robbery in Albany containing three individuals. Authorities say the driver of the pickup, Thomas Kantor, shot and killed Klinefelter at CR 133 and 75. Officers caught up to Kantor later that night in Sauk Rapids, where he was killed by a Benton County
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Sheriff’s Deputy. Kantor’s two accomplices led officers on a chase through part of St. Cloud before they were arrested. The night of remembrance will be held at 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29 at La Playette Bar, 19 College Ave. N., St. Joseph, and is hosted by the Brian Klinefelter Foundation. The event is also a fundraiser for the foundation, and there will be live music from DiamondBack. Wendy Klinefelter Tragiai, Klinefelter’s widow who has remarried, said many family members of Klinefelter’s will be in attendance, including: Wendy, her husband John Tragiai, Wendy and Brian’s daughter Katelyn Klinefelter Tragiai along with Wendy and John’s children Jack and Elise; parents, Dave and Lois Klinefelter; Klinefelter • page 6
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Man escapes fire at Hi-Vue by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
A man escaped injury on the early morning of Jan. 22 when his mobile home in Hi-Vue Estates Mobile Home Park in Sartell became engulfed in flames. Firefighters were called to the scene at Lot 338 Sunset Ave. in the park, and the interior of the home was filled with fire. The firefighters then broke a window, helping the man inside to escape. The man had
awakened after hearing his smoke alarm blaring. The man, after his narrow escape, was covered in soot. He was taken to the hospital just to get checked, though according to police, his condition seemed to be just fine. The fire call was at 8 a.m., and the flames were squelched by 9 a.m. The interior of the home and its contents were a total loss. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
Local DNR office moved The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ St. Cloud area office in Sauk Rapids moved to a new location in mid-January. The address for the new office is 1035 S. Benton Drive. It’s down the road about one block from where the DNR’s current office is located at 940 Industrial Drive S. The site includes offices for staff from DNR divisions of Fish and Wildlife, Parks and Trails,
Ecological and Water Resources, and Enforcement. Fisheries staff are relocating from an office in Montrose. Montrose fisheries staff will be getting new phone numbers; all other staff will keep their old numbers. The new site will consolidate staff, equipment and supplies in a secure, energy-efficient building which will provide more space and be more accessible to the public.
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Soren Glenn Moen, son of Dawn and Patrick Moen of Sartell, was born at 9:38 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19 at St. Cloud Hospital. He weighed 8 pounds 12 ounces and measured 19 inches. Soren was welcomed home by his sister, Mallory, 11 and brother, Anders, 3. Grandparents are Glenda and Rodney Pipkorn of Port Washington, Wis., and Carol and Mike Moen of Park Rapids, Minn.
Charles Schmitz, Sartell, recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from North Dakota State University, Fargo. Three Sartell students were recently named to the fall dean’s list at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn. They are the following: Tarin Anding, Elisabeth McCabe and Anna Neeser. Students must earn a minimum 3.7 grade-point average to achieve this honor. Five Sartell students were recently named to the fall dean’s list at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They are the following: Zachary Heim, Clay Mackenthun, Lindsey Martens and Rowan McDonnell, all from the college of letters and science; and Megan Murphy of the college of agricultural and life sciences. Jared Baxa, Sartell, was recently named to the fall dean’s high honor list at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a pharmacy major. Mikayla Dockendorf, St. Stephen, was recently named to the fall dean’s list in the education and human sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
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Aaron McNabb Evans, Sartell, was recently named to the fall dean’s list at Iowa State University in Ames. Students must earn a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to achieve this honor. McNabb Evans is a third-year student majoring in industrial design. 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 crimes. Jan. 9 7:55 p.m. Welfare check. 11th Avenue E. A report was made regarding a male sending suicidal text messages. Officers arrived and spoke with the male and found
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Megan Carter, Sartell, was recently named to the fall dean’s honor roll at Oklahoma City (Okla.) University. Students must maintain a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Three Sartell students recently graduated with bachelor’s degrees from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. They are the following: Kelsley Anderson, Logan Cameron and Adam Zenzen. Heartland Hospice serving Minnesota North recently achieved a Level Two status within the We Honor Veterans Program for their continued care and support of the veteran population. All wars are different and provide unique experiences and often difficulties for the veterans who served in them. WHV was launched by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs to help improve the care veterans receive from hospice and palliative care providers. “I know the importance of Heartland’s initiative to better serve these United States veterans,” commented Dr. John Hamerly, medical director. “I am a veteran myself, and I believe we not only care for the mind, body and spirit of our veterans, but Heartland is a hospice provider trained to care specifically for veterans.” The We Honor Veterans program provides four levels of recognition to organizations that demonstrate a commitment to improving care for veterans. In order to reach Level Two, Heartland was tasked with building organizational capacity and providing quality care for veterans and
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he was upset but did not intend to harm himself. A family member stated they would stay and care for him through the evening. No further assistance was needed. Jan. 10 4:47 p.m. Domestic. Riverside Avenue N. A report was made regarding a physical fight between an adult male and an adult female. Officers arrived and found evidence regarding a physical altercation. An adult male was placed under arrest without incident and the female was transported to her residence.
their families. WHV also provides resources to assist hospices to achieve the next status level. To learn more about the We Honor Veterans initiative, the steps agencies have taken to receive this acknowledgement or to see where other Heartland agencies are at in the process of achieving this honor, visit www.wehonorveterans.org. Two Sartell students were recently named to the fall president’s list at Central Lakes College, Brainerd and Staples. They are Garrett Counter and Nicholas Rengel. Students must maintain a minimum 3.75 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Tracy Karl, Sartell, recently graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minn. Jenna Specht, St. Stephen, was recently named to the fall dean’s list at North Dakota State University, Fargo. She is majoring in exercise science. Students must maintain a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to earn this honor. Travis Bellinger, St. Stephen, was recently named to the fall dean’s list at Central Lakes College, Brainerd and Staples. Students must maintain a minimum 3.25 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Ashton Gregory, Sartell, was recently named to the fall dean’s list at Central Lakes College, Brainerd and Staples. Students must maintain a minimum 3.25 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. 5:07 p.m. Drive-off. Twin Rivers Court. A report was made regarding an adult male failing to pay for gas before leaving. An officer located the male, who stated he didn’t realize he forgot to pay. The male returned to the store and paid for the gas. Jan. 11 5:11 p.m. Juvenile. Seventh Street N. A report was made regarding two underage intoxicated males. An officer located the boys and found they were intoxicated. They were both issued citations Blotter • page 5
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The Sartell High School winners of the schoolwide Geography Bee are (top photo, left to right) Janagan Ramathan, first place; Connor Hacker, third place; and Grant Winter, second place. At right is Sartell Middle School Principal Kurt Stumpf, who presented the awards to the winners. The Oak Ridge Elementary School winners (lower left photo) are Joseph Meyerhofer, first place; and Nathan Bamberg, second place; and the winners from Pine Meadow Elementary School (lower right photo) are Annabelle Tautges, second place; Emma Newman, third place; and Kaazim Sabir, first place.
Meyerhofer, Ramanathan, Sabir win Geography Bee by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Three Sartell students were the top winners in the schoolwide Geography Bee Jan. 11 at Sartell Middle School, and all three will have a chance to take a test that could propel them to further victories. The overall first-place winner at Sartell Middle School was Janagan Ramanathan. SMS students Grant Winter and Connor Hacker took second and third place, respectively. In the Oak Ridge Elementary School category, the first-place champ was Joseph Meyerhofer, with Nathan Bamberg taking second. Among Pine Meadow Elementary School contenders, Kaazim Sabir earned first place, Annabelle Tautges second place and Emma Newman third place. At the Geography Bee, SMS social-studies teacher Jennifer
Richason served as moderator; scorekeeper was SHS student Dawson Rogers; event coordinator was Lori Dornburg; and SMS Principal Kurt Stumpf presented the students with their awards. The three top winners will take a test April 1 which could qualify them for statewide competition. The top winners statewide will have a chance to compete in the National Geographic Bee in spring, a chance to win a $50,000 scholarship. Besides the top three SMS winners (Ramanathan, Winter, Hacker), other SMS participants included the following: Grade 5: Carleena Byrd, Grace Dauer, Noah Fleischhacker, Cullen Grahek and Brice Kadlec. Dauer was named an alternate to the state competition. Grade 6: Delaney Dinger and Aaron Meyerhofer. Grade 7: Will Yu. Grade 8: Luc Westling.
simple machines, some ramps, pendulums and other items. Then they break down everything, have all the pieces laid out and begin building the robot, following the directions similar to a Lego set.” The class meets after school on Fridays for six weeks. All the groups work on the same project. This winter session it’s a robot with wheels and a lifting arm. Last Friday was the fifth week, and most of the students had their robots assembled. It was a more lively class than earlier as the kids were learning how to maneuver and operate the arm with the remote control. The course was initiated by Oak Ridge parent, I-Jung Lee. A couple of years ago, Lee attended the robotics day at the Works Museum in Bloomington, an interactive museum for kids. Her own grade-school children so enjoyed the robotics that Lee sought a local robotics club for them but found none. A chance meeting with Andrew Zieglmeier from St. Cloud Technical College led her to Steve Brewer, a parent in charge of the new VEX IQ team from Prince of Peace Lutheran School. He has since been helpful with advice and support, Lee said. With support from other Oak Ridge parents and middle-school teachers familiar with VEX IQ, the PTA was willing to fund the program with $4,000. The program is all volunteer, mostly of local parents. Except for a small stipend, the two principle instructors (Andy Schlesinger, the director of Mathnasium of St. Cloud; and Moe, instructional technology specialist at Oak Ridge) are volunteers also. Lee said they are having difficulty getting enough instructors. Initially, more than 70 students signed up last March. They first reduced the number through a lottery to 48. But with 12 kits purchased, instructors found four students per kit still were too many for the amount of help they had. So they reduced it again to 24.
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Dominic Gergen (left) 10, and Elijah Ness, 10, engage in some friendly competition after completing their projects. “That is the thing we want people to understand is that we need more instructors,” Lee said. The increasing popularity of VEX IQ can be seen in nearby area clubs such as 4-H and the Boy Scouts and schools like Prince of Peace, which have started competitive teams. They work hard in hopes of being invited to competitions like the Minnesota VEX IQ Tournament at St. Cloud River’s Edge Convention Center this January. For the students and volunteers at the Oak Ridge program, this may be an exciting possibility for the future.
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Our View Minnesotans can easily forget dangers of the cold Once again, states out East have been hammered with severe blizzards – the kind more commonly experienced right here in Minnesota. We have been fortunate so far this winter, with very little snow and only five or six nights of below-zero temperatures. But let’s remind ourselves that winter is far from over and we could get hit with nasty weather, the kind that puts lives in jeopardy. As Minnesotans, it’s too easy to let our guard down when a less-than-severe winter causes a mild January. A tragic story that happened out East in New Jersey Jan. 3 should remind us never to let our guard down when it comes to winter. A 23-yearold New Jersey mother and her 1-year-old son died of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Passaic. A 3-year-old daughter is in critical condition. All three were sitting in their vehicle while the father was outside shoveling around the vehicle to get it unstuck from snow. While doing so, he covered the tailpipe, causing carbon monoxide to back up into the vehicle. Another man in Pennsylvania died in similar circumstances. Many people out East, unused to such snowstorms, are unaware of all the dangers that can lurk when snow creates treacherous conditions. We who know of such things can easily forget them when a mild winter comes our way. Besides keeping a winter-survival kit and plenty of heavy blankets in a vehicle, people should be sure to use precautions to guard against carbon-monoxide poisoning, which can happen so quickly inside a car because the poison can creep up so quickly, making one drowsy and then causing death as a person drifts into a sleepy unconsciousness. The following are tips to remember: • Always be sure the tailpipe of a vehicle is cleared of ice, snow or other debris and keep a window cracked at all times. • Do not put children or others inside a vehicle while clearing snow or ice outside the vehicle. • Never leave a child alone inside a vehicle, under any conditions. • At home, make sure carbon-monoxide detectors are in good working order. Check batteries once a year and test the detectors. • Never allow children to play in or near vehicles that are running, and be sure to hide all ignition keys from children. • Never warm up a vehicle for any length of time in an enclosed space, such as in a garage. Carbon-monoxide death can occur very quickly in those conditions. Never leave a vehicle idling in a garage, even if the garage door is open. • If you have keyless ignitions, be very careful that a car is turned off, especially if it’s a garage where children could get into it. On average, about 150 people, including about 40 children, die each year nationwide of carbonmonoxide poisoning, according to KidsandCars. org. Those deaths most often happen in winter – usually in vehicles or in homes. And that is why, in milder winters, we Minnesotans tend to forget the dangers. Let’s do our best to remember them and to remind one another of them.
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Opinion Beware of foreign-born pretenders At least Sen. Ted Cruz admits he wasn’t born in America – unlike our president. President Barack Obama, as everyone knows, was born in Kenya, a savage child with a bone in his nose who grew up as a hard-core subversive Muslim socialistcommunist America-hater. And then he had the gall to move to America and get himself elected – heaven forbid – as our president. Not once, mind you, but twice. He’s an incendiary pretender, born on that Dark Continent, dangerously stupid, unfit to be president. Oh sure, he claims he was born in Hawaii, but we all know his American mother from Kansas cooked the books. She knew at his birth in the Kenya jungle that the babe was presidential material, and so she had a fake birth announcement planted in the Honolulu newspaper, which would become the “proof” needed when someday he would run for president. Mighty sneaky, if you ask me. We know this is true because Donald Trump told us so many years ago. Trump hired detectives to go to Hawaii and elsewhere to do some snooping around about Obama’s real roots, and Trump said we’d be shocked what they discovered. We’re still waiting to hear what the detectives had to say. But Trump is a busy man, running for president and talking all the time. He’s so busy maybe he just plumb forgot to tell us the detectives’ revelations. Now that Obama is soon to be a bad memory, it’s not as much fun to ridicule or hate him anymore or to remind folks he was born in Kenya (or maybe Malaysia). But, thankfully, Sarah Palin won’t let us forget his sins. That feisty squawking
Dennis Dalman Editor rabble-rouser flew down from her Alaskan perch the other day to endorse Trump for president, peppering her screechy singsong speech of one-liners with anti-Obama jibes. Next day, she lay part of the blame for her veteran son’s domestic-assault arrest at Obama’s doorstep, he who does not respect our troops. At least Mama Grizzly still has some spunk left, enough guts to tell Obama to get lost or go back where he came from. The “Thrilla from Wasilla” sounds like she’s ready to go to Syria and “kick ISIS a . . ” If only our president had her kind of guts. But, other than Palin, for the most part these days Republicans are spending so much time attacking one another they don’t have time to nip at the president’s heels. It’s become a merry-go-round of name-calling. Trump, the loudest of all, flings insults at the other contenders after assuring us they are all “nice guys, nice guys, really nice guys,” just too lowenergy or too sweaty or too all-around nasty. And Carly Fiorina, says Trump, is a nice gal, a really nice gal – too bad about that face. Trump now has a brand-new “birther” mission. He loves to remind everybody (including Cruz himself) that Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada. Thus, he’s as
bad, as unfit, as Obama to become president, besides being so nasty that everybody hates him. How dare flunky Cruz even think of competing for the highest office in the land, especially against such a New York City-born titan like Trump? Cruz is yet another foreign-born upstart. What’s this world coming to? And of course Trump is right; he’s always right; he’s never wrong. He is right to worry about shifty Cruz. After all, the father of Cruz was born in – of all countries – Cuba. Lest we forget, that’s the communist-socialist island Obama has been chumming up to lately, rubbing shoulders with his fellow commies. Just you watch! One of these days, he’ll be smoking a cigar with buddy-buddy Fidel, hatching plans to weaken America. What we should worry about is not so much that Cruz was born in Canada but that his father was born in Cuba. Oh sure, Cruz puts on a good act as a Tea Party conservative, but what if – just what if – that Cuban blood coursing through his veins causes him to change his spots if he’s elected president, and then what if he launches a communist crusade, Cubanstyle? In this world nothing’s for sure. For all we know, he and Obama, both foreign-born sneaks, might be in cahoots to destroy this nation with waves of illegal communist immigrants. And, come to think of it, what about The Donald?. Wasn’t he always one of those slick New York-style liberals? What if he turns out to be a turncoat? Horrors! Another liberal in the White House? That’s worse than a communist. God help us.
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Wisconsin couple says ‘We’re not making this stuff up’ (Editor’s note: The following letter is in response to a letter from the “Sartell Squirt C Hockey Team” that was published in the Jan. 15 Newsleader. The controversy began when a Sartell hockey team was accused of raucous behavior on a weekend in December at a Best Western hotel in River Falls, Wis. The authors of the following letter had written a letter published in the Jan. 8 Newsleader. Then, in the next issue, the letter from the Hopkinsons was totally refuted by the hockey team. The Newsleader is publishing this letter to give the Hopkinsons a chance to refute the contention they were inaccurate in their first letter. On Jan. 5, the Newsleader checked with the motel, and the night clerk there said that it was definitely the Sartell team that had caused the trouble.) Scott and Sue Hopkinson, Woodruff, Wis. The suggestion’s been made in the letter from hockey folks that we (hotel management, patrons, news media, my wife and I) are all confused or mistaken – that they were someone else other than
the kids wearing blue-and-white Sartell jerseys, whose photos, matched the kids in the hallway that were displayed on the hotel room doors in picture frames. There is no question who these kids were or where they were from. We asked them where they were from and they said, “ Sartell, Minnesota. We won the division.” Their jerseys said “Sartell Hockey” on them. Contrary to the Sartell hockey team’s letter to the editor, the kids were definitely playing hockey in the hotel hallway. When the nets were taken away from them, they used foldable luggage holders and pillows as nets. As patrons, we and others had to duck and dodge as they slap-shot balls in the hall. That was done in the Sartell hockey team’s hotel hallway in front of their rooms. The doors to these rooms were propped open and kids wearing Sartell jerseys were constantly going in and out of these doors. Apparently, the parents of team members have used harassment in an effort to contradict or drop the accusations that their kids behaved poorly. The hotel has been harassed to the point where they don’t want to take any
more of these calls. We have endured enough – not just from that day – but in an effort to inform the Sartell community how they behaved, we are further being harassed. Rather than teaching the kids discipline, pride and appropriate behaviors, the parents have chosen a different path – to negate, mislead, besmirch. What is this teaching these kids? The hotel should not have had to discount or refund other patrons of the hotel. The hotel should not have had to endure the extra expenses of having their elevators checked for safety or hire additional staff or endure the numerous phone calls. Simply put, the Sartell hockey team should have taken responsibility and apologized for their behavior and ensured the kids don’t behave this way again. Shame on you, Sartell hockey. It is not the hotel’s or hotel patrons’ responsibility to babysit. My wife and I are not friends or family of other hockey teams that were staying at the hotel, and we have nothing to gain by complaining about the Sartell team. To what benefit would we have to make this stuff up?
Organizers hope to see others get on board with train GRIP Leaders Molly Weyrens, St. Cloud Amy Leither, St. Cloud Because of some great organizing by people in the St. Cloud region, there is an increased possibility Northstar might get to St. Cloud, which would be an economic boom for all cities connected to St. Cloud. At a public meeting Nov. 12, there were close to 300 people at the River’s Edge Convention Center who showed up to learn and lend their support to getting Northstar to St. Cloud. There was a mix of racial and economic sectors present and the talk that night was a clear indication the momentum to stay on track and
move this project forward was clear and focused. GRIP/ISAIAH is an organization of faith leaders working together across race, faith and region in the St. Cloud area to empower equity and opportunity for all. It has involved all four of our elected representatives and has received the most attention from Rep. Jim Knoblach. With the research he has been doing, it seems the cost is actually not the $150 million the Minnesota Department of Transportation has shared or the $200-400 million the Governor’s office has forecasted, but that the cost will be minimal, if anything, given the structures already in place. While Reps. Howe and Knoblach have
responded, we have yet to hear from O’Driscoll and Theis. We hope as the session nears, we will see they too will want to be part of a team which leaves a legacy of economic gain and further promotes greater Minnesota at the state capitol. If we can do this with Northstar, imagine what other issues we can work on to create broader changes that benefit the common good? Join us for a meeting from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4 at St. Mary’s Cathedral’s lower church, 25 Eighth Ave. S. (note venue change). Hear updates and what you can do to help us get the train. For more information, contact abuckvold@ isaiahmn.org or 320-339-1941.
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Public invited to take sheriff’s Fare for All begins new year law-enforcement survey by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Residents of Stearns and Benton counties (and counties elsewhere) are encouraged to take an online survey about the quality of service provided Sanner by the Benton County Sheriff’s Heck if they choose to do so. Department. Other questions concern The survey is comprised of 15 questions, most of which ask crime in neighborhoods, crime respondents to rate services on in general in Minnesota, how a range of “Very Satisfied” to law enforcement treats and “Very Dissatisfied.” Two of the cooperates with the public, questions have sub-categories crime-prevention successes, respondents can rate. One lists strengths, weaknesses and areas qualities of law enforcement, for improvement. Respondents are also asked such as maintaining public order to teaching personal safety. The what changes they would like to other asks about public interac- see in law enforcement throughtions, ranging from courtesy to out the next decade and what desire to be of service. There are actions respondents are willalso blank boxes throughout the ing to support to make those survey which respondents can changes possible. Those who take the test are fill in with additional comments
Blotter from page 2 and released to their family’s care. 9:28 p.m. Medical. Oak Pond Drive. An adult male had fallen inside his residence and requested assistance getting back up. Officers arrived and assisted the male. He stated he needed no further help. Jan. 12 2:37 a.m. Suspicious activity. Seventh Avenue S. A report was made regarding loud sounds and flashes coming from an unknown area. Officers checked the area and were unable to hear the sounds or locate a source. 10:36 a.m. Public assist. CR 120. A report was made regarding a vehicle stalled in the roadway. An officer provided safety lights until the vehicle was towed and then transported the driver back to her residence.
Jan. 13 4:45 a.m. Motorist assist. Seventh Street N. While on patrol, an officer located a vehicle that was sounding the horn over and over. The driver stated the horn kept going off for unknown reasons. The car was parked for the evening and the officer transported the driver to her residence. 8:26 p.m. Suspicious vehicle. Corrine Creek. A report was made regarding an unknown vehicle driving through a neighborhood and continually stopping. An officer searched the area but was unable to locate the vehicle. Jan. 14 7:41 a.m. Medical. First Street NE. An elderly female had fallen inside her residence. Officers assisted in lifting the patient for transport to the hospital. 6:53 p.m. Juvenile. Connecticut Avenue S. A report was made regarding an out-of-control juvenile female. Officers arrived and spoke to the female, who stated she would remain calm for the
asked to include their name and address, but such personal information will not be divulged or shared with anyone, the survey states. To take the survey, go to www.surveymonkey.com/r/ MSA_MASTER_PUB. There are 87 counties in Minnesota, and each has its own sheriff’s department. All of them work in partnership with local and state law-enforcement agencies and other agencies with the goal of protecting the public’s safety. The goal of the survey is to help sheriff’s departments maintain and improve all services for the public, including all communications and interactions. The survey effort is led by the Minnesota Sheriff’s Association. In addition to the survey, public input is also being sought via meetings and discussions.
The St. Joseph Fare for All distribution continued to set records in December, selling 1,066 packs and serving 223 households in two hours, but the January distribution was slower, selling 292 packs and serving 162 households. Organizer Amanda Roles said the number of December households could have actually been larger since many people were buying holiday packs for others. Roles pointed out some impressive numbers for the months of July-December 2015, including serving 2,260 households and 7,910 individuals. She said 50,065 pounds of food were sold as 23,664 produce packs, 5,215 mini packs, 15,252 mega packs, 18,160 holiday packs and 3,528 a la carte packs. Roles said there will be a
evening. The homeowner stated she did not want her to stay in the residence. The juvenile was transported to a safe residence for the remainder of the night.
Jan. 16 10:44 p.m. Domestic. Third Street N. A report was made regarding a juvenile male and an adult male fighting. Officers arrived and found both parties separated and calm. Officers spoke with all parties and found no further assistance was needed.
Jan. 15 9:35 a.m. Suspicious person. First Avenue N. A complaint was made regarding an adult male knocking on doors in the neighborhood. An officer located the male and found he was attempting to give quotes to residents. He was informed of the city ordinance and agreed to leave the area. 9:58 a.m. Unlocked door. 10th Avenue N. While on patrol, an officer noticed a service door ajar. The officer attempted contact with the resident and secured the door. 9:50 p.m. Medical. Seventh Street N. An emergency call was placed stating an adult female was having difficulty breathing. An officer arrived and provided oxygen until the patient could be transported to the hospital.
Sartell Swarm
Now Taking Registrations for the 2016 Summer Season! Girls Ages 6-18 Sartell Fastpitch Softball Association will open online registration Feb. 1 - March 15, 2016. For more information and to register, go to www.sartellfastpitch.com. A parent meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 8 at Celebration Lutheran Church, 1500 Pinecone Road N., Sartell.
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DIRECTOR OF NURSING Saint John’s Abbey is seeking a Director of Nursing (RN) for the Abbey Retirement Center. This position is responsible for both direct and indirect care; rotates oncall every other week including the weekend; supervises nursing staff, assistant director and oversees decision-making; provides outpatient services to monastery members. Our atmosphere allows staff to provide exceptional care and spend time with the residents. Others positions available: LPN day shift, 2 days per week, LPN and CNA fill-in positions. Applications accepted on-line only at: http://employmentosb.csbsju.edu
Jan. 17 11:51 a.m. Welfare check. CR 1. A report was made regarding a bike that was located on ice, on the Sauk River. An officer located the bike and was unable to locate anyone around. The bike tracks seemed as though the bike was pushed onto the ice and not ridden. Due to officer safety, the bike was left until the ice is thicker. 7:01 p.m. Agency assist. 15th Street Court. Officers were requested to assist a neighboring agency during a domestic incident. An officer assisted in taking an adult male into custody. Jan. 18 10:51 a.m. Verbal. Riverside
new Fare for All site opening in February at the Salem Lutheran Church in St. Cloud. The Salem site will give customers the option of being able to use public transportation, something the St. Joseph site does not offer. Roles said although the Salem site might be competition for the St. Joseph site to remain the largest site, it will be good to have some friendly competition. Fare for All staff continues to complement St. Joseph volunteers on their efficiency and customer service for seamless distributions. Roles thanked all volunteers for their help at distributions. The St. Joseph Fare for All distribution dates for 2016 will continue from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Mondays, on Feb. 15, March 14, April 11, May 9, June 13, July 18, Aug. 15, Sept. 19, Oct. 17, Nov. 14 and Dec. 12. at the Resurrection Lutheran Church, 610 Co Rd 2, St Joseph. Avenue S. A report was made regarding two adult males arguing. Officers arrived and were able to diffuse the situation. Both parties stated they needed no further assistance. 6:19 p.m. Motorist assist. Second Street S. A vehicle was stalled in the roadway. The driver stated assistance was on the way. The officer provided safety lights and traffic control until the vehicle was removed. Jan. 19 7:39 a.m. Theft. An adult female was witnessed leaving a store with unpaid merchandise. The vehicle and stolen items were located. The female was placed under arrest without incident. 4:05 p.m. Medical. CR 1. A report was made regarding a small child swallowing and choking on a penny. The child had thrown the penny back up upon officer arrival. Officers monitored the child until she was transported to the hospital.
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Klinefelter from front page brother Greg Klinefelter, wife Jen, and children Noah, Luke, Sophie, Chloe and Josh; brother Jason Klinefelter, wife Angie and children Hannah, Andrew and Elizabeth; and sister Sarah Klinefelter and children Austin and Kiana Grundhoefer.
Family
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Wendy, Brian and Katelyn took this family photo together between November 1995, when Katelyn was born, and January 1996, when Brian was killed in the line of duty.
Wendy remarried in July of 2000 to John Tragiai. John adopted Katelyn in the same year and they now live in Sartell. “Katelyn grew up knowing all bout Brian. We are very close to Brian’s family, taking yearly vacations with them and getting together at least once per month,” Wendy said in a Newsleader interview. “She feels blessed to have two dads . . . one here, and one in heaven!” Wendy feels like Klinefelter is still a part of their lives, and that his memory has not faded. “Brian is present in so many ways . . . I love that Klinefelter Park is such a vibrant part of the St. Joseph community. I love that even 20 years later, we continue to support area youth and law enforcement through the foundation. I love walking through the front door of our
Bond from front page Department of Education must approve the bond proposal before it’s placed on the ballot, although approval is expected. If voters approve, the new high school could be ready for students starting in the 201920 school year.
store in St. Cloud (KEEPRS), seeing his face, and knowing others see it too. Wendy said Katelyn has considered pursuing law enforcement, she is currently planning a career working with children. She is a sophomore at Minnesota State University-Mankato, where she is majoring in childhood development and family studies.
Book
A new book delving into the details of the night Klinefelter was killed, as well as what his family has been doing during the past 20 years is now out. It is written by Andy Marso and is titled The Klinefelter Legacy. “Andy approached us about a year ago looking to do this project,” Wendy said. “He was going to use public records for most of it, but asked if we would like to be involved. Our involvement has been personal interviews, as well as reviewing the book before publication.” Wendy said Marso was a stranger to them before he reached out in 2015.
Foundation
The Brian Klinefelter Foundation was formed about a decade after Klinefelter’s death. “The original seed money came from community donations, as well as from Ted
In addition to the new high school, the bond money would also allow for reconfigurations at other schools. The current high school would be repurposed to accommodate grades 6-8. The middle school would house grades 3-5, and each of the two elementary schools (Oak Ridge and Pine Meadow) would be for pre-K (4 years old) through grade 2. The school board’s bond-
Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 Deikel of Fingerhut,” Wendy said. “Since then, we have done various fundraisers. We currently have one fundraiser per year in the form of a golf tournament.” This year will be the 13th annual golf tournament, which is held in July in Sartell. Money raised from the golf tournament and other fundraisers goes toward scholarships and grants. The Brian Klinefelter Memorial Scholarship is a $1,000 scholarship awarded to a student pursuing law enforcement at Alexandria Technical and Community College, where Klinefelter graduated from. The Brian Klinefelter Family Scholarship is a $1,000 scholarship which goes to a child of a local public safety official who will go on to college. Three grants per year are also handed out. Last year, the grants totaled more than $5,000 all together. “The grants are geared toward groups who fit our mission of connecting youth with adults. We have sponsored police departments, church groups, educational programming and most recently a grant for the new YMCA being built in St. Cloud,” Wendy said. Information on the foundation and how to apply for scholarships or grants can be found online at growgreat. s424.sureserver.com. ing decision is the result of a recommendation made by the Community Schools Planning Committee, which was presented to the board recently after many months of study of enrollment trends and the space needs of the school system. More about the bond issue, including its tax impact on residents, will be published in upcoming issues of the Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader.
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KEEPRS
In 1999, Wendy, along with Klinefelter’s two brothers Jason and Greg opened a law enforcement supply store in St. Cloud which they named after him: KEEPRS Inc. (Klinfelter’s Enforcement and Emergency Product, Resource and Supply Inc.) “One of the greatest blessings in the past 20 years has been the ways Brian’s family ‘adopted’ me into their fold. I am so grateful to be a part of this incredible family,” Wendy said. “Being in business together has brought its own challenges, no doubt. But I wouldn’t want to share this journey with anybody else!” They wanted to serve all law-enforcement officers and stay connected to those officers who provided needed support to the family after Klinefelter’s death. His duty belt and badge are kept in a display in the store. Wendy graduated with a degree in criminal justice, has numerous years of experience in retail sales, and now is the president of KEEPRS. Both Jason and Greg were reserve officers with the St. Cloud Police Department. Jason has become the director of sales and marketing for KEEPRS. The store, as well as one in St. Paul and another in Athens, Georgia, sells police uniforms, body armor, firearms, ammunition and other equipment.
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Sartell family builds backyard ice rink
photo by Carolyn Bertsch
On the evening of Jan. 25, members of the Sartell/Sauk Rapids Stormin’ Sabres U12A girls hockey team rally together to play hockey in the backyard of the home of Jay and Bekki Downward of Sartell. The Downwards converted a portion of their yard, located on the corner of Sixth Avenue S and Second Street S, into an ice rink this winter in hopes of acclimating their 4-yearold son Kale to the ice. The ice rink is equipped with boards, a net, bright lighting and even a nearby fire pit that serves as a warming area. It has become a popular destination for both kids and adults this winter. The Downwards’ 12-year-old daughter, Kelly Jo, plays hockey on the Stormin’ Sabres team.
Some kind of library might be possible by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Answers about a possible library in Sartell will eventually surface, but only after a longrange assessment is completed by the Great River Regional Library system this June or July. Late last year, the Sartell City Council voted to discontinue any library-related discussions until that GRRL assessment is finished. Critics of the council’s action maintain mid-summer
will be too late, that by then work will have begun on the south-site community center in Sartell, leaving no half-cent sales tax revenue for a branch library. However, there may be an option for some kind of library service for Sartell without having to build a full-fledged library, according to Julie Henne, associate director of public relations for GRRL. Henne was interviewed by the Sartell-St. Stephen News-
leader last week. Completion of the long-range assessment plan, she said, would be a guide for GRRL as to where it’s going and how to move forward. The plan, she added, is likely to come up with some answers as to where area cities want to go – their current needs and future wants and how those needs or wants may have changed. There will likely be options for alternative services other than a 12,500-square-foot
branch library, as GRRL has said would be required for Sartell if it wants a full-fledged branch service. The GRRL Board has already approved a branch library for Sartell, but it cannot move forward because the city and GRRL, up to the present, have not been on the same page, so to speak. The council agreed to build a community center in south Sartell, which the GRRL said is too close to the St. Library • page 9
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LEGAL NOTICE
REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEC. 21, 2015 SARTELL HIGH SCHOOL, MEDIA CENTER Truth in Taxation Hearing started at 6:02 p.m. sion of how this can best impact Report on Enrollment: Schwiebert, our community. The regular school board meeting of Independent School District 748 • The City of Sartell will be shar- superintendent, reviewed the enwas called to order at 6:30 pm by Krista Durrwachter, chair. Members ing the city’s comprehensive rollment report. present: Durrwachter; Michelle Meyer, vice chair; Pam Raden, clerk; plan with us at our Jan. 4 Work Patrick Marushin, director; Mary McCabe, director; Jason Nies, director; Visit of Special Education Room: Session. and Jeff Schwiebert, superintendent. • The Facilities Steering Com- Sartell High School Special Edumittee will continue to work on cation staff members led the board A motion was made by Raden and seconded by Meyer to approve the developing the District Facilities on a tour of an updated Special Edagenda. All in favor. Motion carried. plan with greater detail as we ucation Room. move forward with our district’s A motion was made by McCabe and seconded by Marushin to approve English Learner Plan of Service 10- to 15-year district facilities consent items a-f as presented below: Report: Brian Baloun, SHS asplan. sistant principal, and Zach Dinga. Minutes of the regular school board meeting held on Nov. 16, 2015. mann, SMS assistant principal, School Board Committees: School presented on revisions made to the Board Members will report on b. Checks in the amount of $2,538,633.59 as presented: District English Language Learner committee meetings that have General Fund 1,976,009.66 Plan of Service. taken place since the last board Food Service Fund 358,122.09 meeting. Transportation Fund 115,625.40 A motion was made by Meyer • Middle School Theatre Program and seconded by McCabe to APCommunity Service Fund 51,475.09 – Rick Cicharz, Middle School PROVE #1-16: Capital Expenditure Fund 37,026.35 theater teacher, presented on the Debt Service Fund 375.00 Middle School Theater Arts pro- New employees or changes: Check numbers 162159 to 162550 gram. This program is offered Diane Amundson, SHS, server, in grades 5-8 and is a require- $16.33/hour, R1, S4, 2 hours/ Receipts in the amount of $1,976,192.49 as presented: ment of the Minnesota academic day, replacing Mary Kalusche, General Fund 777,582.02 state standards in the arts. This 11/23/15; Andrea Hahn, SMS, Food Service Fund 161,205.41 program presents students with cashier, $15.07/hour, R1, S2, 2.5 Transportation Fund 1,346.82 Community Service Fund 81,242.42 valuable learning and expression hours/day, increase .25 hour/day, Debt Service Fund 954,521.36 11/19/15; Angie Heckman, SHS, skills. Summer Rec Agency Fund 294.46 • Three Districts, One Book – Future Educator’s Club, $1,649 Receipts 41618 to 41718 Sartell-St. Stephen, Sauk Rap- (4.5 percent), BS2, $36,653, new ids-Rice and the St. Cloud Area position, 10/1/15; Jodi HenneWire transfers in the amount of $9,076.12 as presented: School Districts have collabo- mann, SMS, server, $17.04 /hour, General Fund 4,478.34 rated to promote this program. R1, S5, 2.75 hours/day, increase Food Service Fund 3,762.89 Each K-4 family will receive a .25 hour/day, 11/19/15; Karen Community Service Fund 834.89 copy of a book which will be Klein, SMS, server, $17.04hr, R1, Wire transfers 201500033-201500040 encouraged to be read aloud at S5, 4.5 hours/day, increase .25 home during February. Class- hour/day, 11/19/15; c. Accept the following donations: Gordy and Michelle Meyer Flexiroom discussions will also take ble Fund, Sartell-St. Stephen School District #748, $250, gift for Staff Jessie Kovall, SMS, server, place during the school day. The Breakfast; Liberty Bank, Sartell-St. Stephen School District #748, $17.04/hour, R1, S5, 3.5 hours/ districts will also be encourag- day, increase .25 hour/day, $1,000, Three Districts, One Book Initiative; LeSauk Lions, Sartell-St. ing community partnership with 11/19/15; Carly Law, SMS, buildStephen School District #748, $1,000, Three Districts, One Book Initiathe surrounding communities ing attendant, $13.53/hour, R1, tive; Hanadee Alameldin and Emadeldin Abdalla, Sartell Middle School, and appreciate the donations S1, 4 hours/day, decrease in hours $300, Special Education program (DCO); Gayle Smoley, Sartell-St. Stefrom the LeSauk Lions and Lib- from 6 to 4 hours/day, 1/4/16; phen Early Childhood Program, mini-fridge($100 value), Early Childerty Savings. hood classroom Carly Law, SMS, SPED para, • New classes for the 16-17 Sar- $16.02/hour, RIV, S1, 3 hours/ tell High School offerings day, operational change/new add, d. Accept the resignation of Kirsten Anderson, Sartell Middle School, were shared with the commit- 1/4/16; MacKenzie Lecy, SMS, language arts teacher, effective 12/14/15; Mary Kalusche, Sartell High School, server, 11/19/15; Lynn Thene, Sartell Middle School, server, tee. Updates include the addi- Fifth/sixth-grade Academic Tri12/23/15; Beverly Wiebe, Sartell High School, dishwasher, 12/23/15. tion of computer-programming athlon, $804 (2.25 percent), BS1, $35,737, replacing Justin Kirkcourses. e. Approve State of Minnesota Colleges and Universities-St. Cloud State • Senior Connection ham, 12/9/15; Kadie Mathews, University Amendment of Joint Powers Agreement • This group is doing amazing DSC, child care attendant, $13.53/ things throughout the com- hour, R1, S1, 31.25 hours/week, f. Approve of Memorandum of Agreement for Student Training Expemunity and is staying actively operational change, 1/4/16; rience/Internship for Non-Allied Health Programs with the Minnesota involved in a variety of ways. State Colleges and Universities. • The seniors had great ques- Kim Mitchell, SHS, cook, $16.92/ tions about the district’s facil- hour, RIV, S1, 7.5 hours/day, reStudent Representative Report: Hannah Yackley, senior at Sartell High ities planning process and the placing Laura Solt, 1/4/16; Cheryl School Nies, PME, cashier, $17.04/hour, process moving forward. RI, S5, 3 hours/day, increase .50 • Jingle Bell Olympics and Winter Wonderland were held during Phy. • Benton Stearns hour/day, 11/19/15; Jacalyn Opatz, Ed. Classes at ORE and PME respectively. PME also opened Winter • BSED is currently searching SHS, dishwasher, $14.18/hour, Wonderland one night to families with additional activities happenfor a full-time director. Dur- R1, S1, 2 hours/day, new position, ing in the building to raise funds for Owen’s Night Out. ing the next few months, in- 12/14/15; Greta Ringstad, SMS, • Both PME and ORE held drives – PME focused on a food drive terviews will take place with cashier, $15.07/hour, R1, S2, 2.5 and ORE held a compassion drive to collect various supplies. Both representation from each in- hrs/day, increase .25 hour/day, schools also had bins for Toys for Tots and the Salvation Army. volved district on the hiring 11/19/15; Sandra Robatcek, SHS, • Sartell Middle School staff adopted 10 families in need to provide committee. The goal is to have cafeteria worker, $14.18/hour, R1, gifts and items for their families. someone hired by mid-March. S1, 2 hours/day, replacing Dianne • NuVal is being relaunched at SMS and SHS as new items have been • Special Education Advisory Amundson, 12/4/15; Sandy Rosenscored within the al a carte lines. Council berger, ORE, server, $17.04/hour, • More than 300 seventh-graders participated in Kids Connecting to • There has been continued staff R1, S5, 2.5 hours/day, increase .25 Community and provided volunteer service at a variety of locations participation with updates hour/day, 11/19/15; throughout the community including Country Manor, YMCA and from each building and proWhitney Senior Center. Doreen Schmidt, SMS, LTS langramming information. • Several successful concerts were held at SMS and SHS during the • There will be an IEP training guage arts teacher, $15,231.84, past month. offered to families on Jan. 11. BA, S1, 78 days, replacing Larissa • A variety of service projects have been done including SHS Student The group is also working to Pettit (LOA), 1/4/16 to 4/29/16; Council creating 36 Thanksgiving baskets to donate to local families schedule a family bowling Daniel Schmitz, SHS, head cusin need, National Honor Society collecting funds for families in need todian, $18.70/hour, RVIII, S1, event. and TARGET collecting more than 300 winter-weather-wear items. 8 hours/day, replacing Claude • The committee had the op• There will be a Hoopin’ in Heaven event on Jan. 8 to support the Dingmann, 11/11/15; Beverly portunity to learn more about Wiebe, SMS, cleaner, $14.18/hour, Tom Bearson Foundation during the Boys Basketball game. the new Sabre Connections R1, S1, 8 hours/day, replacing program that was developed Ben Rudnick, 12/28/15; Tiffany Superintendent Report: Schwiebert, superintendent at Sartell High School. The Sharpe, DSC/ECSE, SPED para, • Our District will continue to move forward with the Drug Free Comboard had an abbreviated pre- $16.02/hour, RIV, S1, 6 hours/ munity Grant. In February, we plan to meet with a wide cross-section sentation during the meeting. week, replacing Jennifer Supan, of people within the community to determine partnerships and the vi-
12/9/15; Laura Solt, SHS, head cook, $22.14/hour, RV, S5, 7.5 hours/day, replacing Cheryl Freihammer, 11/19/15; Tammy Stangl, SMS, cook’s helper, $18.39/hour, RII, S5, 6.5 hours/day, increase .25 hour/ day, 11/19/15; Lauren Stanislawski, SHS, asst. high school speech, $1,608 (4.5 percent), BS1, $35,737, replacing Robin Dockery, 12/15/15; Shelly Starz, SMS, cook’s helper, $18.39/hour, RII,S5, 6.5 hours/day, increase .25 hour/day, 11/19/15; Sherry Steffes, SMS, dishwasher, $17.04/ hour, R1, S5, 3 hours/day, increase .25 hour/day, 11/19/15; Janice Sweeter, SMS, head cook, $24.26/ hour, RV, S7, 8 hours/day, increase .50 hour/day, 11/19/15; Mary Ann Terwey, ORE, server, $17.04/hour, R1, S5, 2.5 hours/day, increase .25 hour/day, 11/19/15; Daniella Trauba, DSC, paraprofessional, $16.02/hour, RIV, S1, 3 hours/day, replacing Jennifer Supan, 11/30/15; Daniella Trauba, DSC, child care attendant, $13.53/hour, R1, S1, 4.5 hours/ day, operational change, 11/30/15; Lori Traut, DSC, paraprofessional, $21.33/hour RIV, S6, 27 hours/week, operational change, 11/16/15; Kelly Travis, district homebound teacher, $23.93/hour, BA, S1, replacing Stacy Kubesh, 11/6/15; Lana Varoga, DSC, child care attendant, $13.53/hour, R1, S1, 13.5 hours/week, operational change, 11/30/15; Robin Zormeier, SMS, cook, $20.13/hour, RIV, S4, 8 hours/day, increase .50 hour/day, 11/19/15; Robin Zormeier, SMS, head cook (temporary assignment), $22.14/hour, RV, S5, 8 hours/day, replacing Janice Sweeter (LOA), 12/17/15 to 2/11/16. Leaves of Absence: Angela Burnett, PME, student supervisor, LOA, 11/11/16 to 5/5/16; Cassie Gertken, SMS, seventh/eighth-grade teacher, LOA, 4/21/16 to end of school year; Stephen Schwanke, SHS, student supervisor; LOA, 1/11/16 to 3/4/16; Janice Sweeter, SMS, head cook, LOA, 12/17/15 to 2/11/16. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Raden and seconded by Marushin to APPROVE THE PROPOSED 201617 ACADEMIC CALENDAR FOR SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN SCHOOL DISTRICT 748. Durrwachter, Meyer, Marushin, Nies and Raden in favor. Nay vote by McCabe. Motion carried. A motion was made by Meyer and seconded by Marushin to APPROVE ANNUAL UPDATES OF THE SENIORITY LISTS. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Raden and seconded by McCabe to APPROVE THE PROPOSED SARTELL HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND TRIP TO CHICAGO FROM JULY 6-10, 2016. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Marushin and seconded by Meyer to APPROVE THE FUNDRAISER FOR THE SARTELL HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL TEAM.
Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Raden and seconded by Marushin to APPROVE TO NEGOTIATE WITH ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS, CUNINGHAM GROUP ARCHITECTS AND IIW AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGER, WINKELMAN BUILDING CORP. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by McCabe and seconded by Marushin to APPROVE THE CERTIFICATION OF THE FINAL LEVY AS PRESENTED. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Meyer and seconded by Marushin to APPROVE THE WELLNESS INCENTIVE AGREEMENT WITH RESOURCE TRAINING AND SOLUTIONS. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Marushin and seconded by Nies to APPROVE THE LETTER OF REQUEST TO THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE USE OF IPAD MINI FOR THE MINNESOTA COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENTS. All in favor. Motion carried. Schedule Work Session and Committee Meetings Organizational Meeting – Jan. 4, 2016 at 6 p.m. at the District Service Center. Discussion of the 2017-18 calendar • The district has a draft calendar for the 2017-18 school
Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader • www.thenewsleaders.com year that will be put on hold which will be dependent on possible future construction in the upcoming years. Schedule Work Session and Committee Meetings • Jan. 4 at 6 p.m. – Board Organizational Meeting, District Service Center, Board Room • Jan. 4 at 6:30 p.m. – Board Work Session, District Service Center, Board Room
being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Meyer, Raden, Durrwachter, McCabe, Nies and Marushin and the following voted against the same: None Whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.
A motion to close the meeting pursuant to Minnesota Statue Section 13D.05 Subd. 2(b) to consider concerns related to an employee was made by Meyer and seconded by Official Ballot for Election to the Marushin at 7:52 p.m. All in favor. Resource Training and Solutions Motion carried. Board of Directors A motion to reopen the meeting Discuss Minnesota School Board was made by Meyer and Nies at Association M.S. 123B. 14. Subd. 7:53 p.m. All in favor. Motion car1 January Organizational Meeting, ried. Selection of Chair, Clerk and Treasurer Durrwachter announced a fiveminute recess. A motion to close the meeting pursuant to Minnesota Statue Section 13D.05 Subd. 2(b) to consider concerns related to an employee was made by Meyer and seconded by Raden at 7:49 p.m. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion to reopen the meeting was made by Meyer and Marushin at 7:51 p.m. All in favor. Motion carried. Board Member Nies introduced the resolution and moved its adoption to release Benjamin Rudnick, an employee of Independent School District No. 748. The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by board member McCabe, and upon vote
Board Member Nies introduced the resolution and moved its adoption to release Brady Brouwer, an employee of Independent School District No. 748. The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by board member Marushin, and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: Meyer, Raden, Durrwachter, McCabe, Nies and Marushin and the following voted against the same: None Whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted. A motion to adjourn the meeting at 7:54 p.m. was made by Meyer and seconded by Nies. All in favor. Motion carried. /s/ Patrick Marushin, treasurer Publish: Jan. 29, 2016
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Library from page 7 Cloud and Waite Park libraries. In addition, GRRL expects a full-branch library to be 12,500 square feet, with the city pitching in up to $500,000 for a start-up collection of materials. Those requirements are just too expensive for what the council considers viable as part of a community center or even as a separate entity. The assessment plan, Henne said, will make it possible for Sartell and other cities to know exactly what can and cannot be offered by GRRL. “Then everybody can be on the same page,” she said, with full two-way communication,
transparency and a “clear direction for everyone.” Henne said the GRRL remains eager and willing to work with Sartell for some kind of library. “Our sleeves are rolled up,” she said. The assessment process involves a committee comprised of two GRRL Board members, the system’s executive director and three associate directors. One of the board members on the committee is Mark Bromenschenkel, a Stearns County commissioner who is a Sartell resident and who has long supported a branch library in Sartell. The GRRL operates 32 branch libraries in a five-county region. It offers between 2,000 and 2,500 programs annually through its system.
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ORGANIZATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD MEETING SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 748 JAN. 4, 2016 DISTRICT CENTER BOARD ROOM The organizational school board meeting of Independent School District 748 was called to order at 6 p.m. by Chair Krista Durrwachter. Members present: Durrwachter; Michelle Meyer, vice chair; Pam Raden, clerk; Mary McCabe, director; Pat Marushin, director; Jason Nies, director; and Jeff Schwiebert, superintendent. Members absent: None. A motion was made by Meyer and seconded by Marushin to approve the agenda. All in favor. Motion carried. Acting Chair Durrwachter opened nominations for the position of chair. Meyer nominated Durrwachter for chair. Raden seconded the nomination. No other nominations were received. Durrwachter was elected as chair. McCabe nominated Meyer for vice chair. Nies seconded the nomination. No other nominations were received. Meyer was elected as vice chair. Nies nominated Marushin for treasurer. McCabe seconded the nomination. No other nominations were received. Marushin was elected as treasurer. The School Board appointed Stacy Karolus as clerk for the school board as this is part of the regular duties she performs for the school board.
A motion was made by Meyer and seconded by Marushin to designate Sentry Bank, US Bank, Minnesota School Districts Liquid Assets Fund and PMA Financial Network as depositories for 2016. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Nies and seconded by Raden to authorize a signature facsimile for payment of board-authorized expenditures bearing the signature of the chair and treasurer. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by McCabe and seconded by Meyer to authorize use of current facsimile for payment of board-authorized expenditures until new one is received. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Nies and seconded by Raden to set 12 regular board meetings for 2016 to be held at 7 p.m. on the third Monday of each month (unless a national holiday). Proposed time to continue at 7 p.m. – except during the summer months of June, July and August which would begin at 4 p.m.) • Jan. 25 (Martin Luther King Day Jan. 18), 7 p.m., Board Room, DSC. • Feb. 22 (President’s Day Feb. 15), 7 p.m., Board Room, DSC. • March 21, 6 p.m., Media Room, SHS. • April 18, 7 p.m. St. Stephen City Hall. • May 16, 6 p.m., Media Room, SHS, • June 20, 4 p.m., Board Room, DSC,
• July 18, 4 p.m., Board Room, 4 p.m., DSC, • Aug. 15, 4 p.m., Board Room, 4 p.m., DSC, • Sept. 19, 7 p.m., Board Room, DSC. • Oct. 17, 7 p.m., Board Room, DSC. • Nov. 21, 7 p.m., Board Room, DSC. • Dec. 19, 6:30 p.m., Media Room, SHS. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Nies and seconded by Marushin to set the salary of board members for chair and treasurer at $3,400 annually, and directors at $3,000 annually. Stipend for special and other designated meetings will be $50 for meetings from one to two hours, $100 for meetings from two to four hours, $150 for meetings from four to six hours, $400 for meetings longer than six. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Meyer and seconded by Marushin to adopt the following resolution allowing the payment of claims prior to board approval in certain circumstances presently in effect: Steve Wruck, director of Business Services, be authorized to make payment prior to board approval of claims that cannot be deferred until the next board meeting without loss to the district of discount privileges and Wruck is authorized to initiate and transact electronic fund transfers for the purpose of investment of excess monies and for payment of bond principal and
interest. Said authority is delegated pursuant to M.S.1996, Section 123B.02, Subd. 18. All in favor. Motion carried. Board Chair Durrwachter appointed the following to Board Committees: School Board Committees Policy: Krista Durrwachter, Patrick Marushin and Mary McCabe Finance and Operations: Michelle Meyer, Mary McCabe and Jason Nies Facilities: Mary McCabe, Michelle Meyer and Jason Nies Communications: Patrick Marushin, Michelle Meyer and Pam Raden Committee Appointments Negotiations: Krista Durrwachter Benton-Stearns Education District: Patrick Marushin and Michelle Meyer Legislative Network and SEE: Pam Raden Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Committee: Patrick Marushin and Pam Raden Technology: Patrick Marushin, Jason Nies and Pam Raden Community Outreach: Michelle
Meyer and Pam Raden Stearns County Collaborative: Michelle Meyer Community Education Advisory: Michelle Meyer Special Education Advisory Committee: Patrick Marushin Sartell Senior Connection: Michelle Meyer (Pam Raden appointed for the Feb. 3 meeting) Partner for Student Success: No one appointed. It was determined they would hold on this committee until the director had been appointed. A motion was made by McCabe and seconded by Nies to identify the official newspaper for publication as Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Meyer and seconded by McCabe to identify Kennedy and Graven as the District’s legal representatives. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Nies and seconded by Marushin to adjourn the meeting at 6:25 p.m. Motion carried. /s/ Stacy Karolus, clerk Publish: Jan. 29, 2016
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Kowalkowski returns from prestigious football camp by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
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A football goes flying skyward after a pass from Kristoff Kowalkowski during a game at Daytona Beach, Fla.
A solid week of intensive training and playing football in Daytona Beach was grueling work for 12-year-old Kristoff Kowalkowski, but it’s a week the Sartell quarterback said he will never forget because it was so much fun. “It was a lot of fun even though the weather the first part of the week was so hot and humid,” he said. “The best part was getting to play with some of the youngest, best football players in the country and getting to meet all those people.” The son of Dr. Thomas and Stacy Kowalkowski, Kristoff was chosen to take part in the All-American Bowl Game by the Offense-Defense Football Camp association. The “Game” was actually a week-long workout of training and two games, both of which were won by Kowalkowski’s team. The participants from all across the nation had more than two hours of training and workouts for the first two days, followed by a game, then two more days of training and one
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Is your event listed? Send your information to: Newsleader Calendar, P.O. Box 324, St. Joseph, MN 56374; fax it to 320-363-4195; or, e-mail it to news@thenewsleaders.com. Friday, Jan. 29 Blood drive, 8 a.m.-2 p.m, St. Cloud Veterans Hospital, 4801 Veterans Drive, St. Cloud. Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320-2539614. mnbentonhistory.org. A Night of Rememberance, fundraiser for Brian Klinefelter Foundation, 9 p.m., La Playette, 19 College Ave. N., St. Joseph. Saturday, Jan. 30 Living in the Avon Hills, 8 a.m.4:15 p.m., St. John’s University, 2850 Abbey Plaza, Collegeville. 320-3633163. Open House, 6-7 p.m., after 5 p.m. Mass, Sacred Heart Church, 2875 10th Ave. N.E., Sauk Rapids. 320-251-8115. Sunday, Jan. 31 Open House, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., after 8 and 10 a.m. Mass, Sacred Heart Church, 2875 10th Ave. N.E., Sauk Rapids. 320-251-8115. Free-Throw Championship, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, 12:30 p.m., All Saints Academy, 32 W. Minnesota St., St. Joseph. 320-3631077. Monday, Feb. 1 Summer Youth Baseball Registration, online at sartellbaseball.com. 320-309-9747. Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320-2539614. mnbentonhistory.org. Sartell Lions Club, 7 p.m., upstairs of Blue Line Sports Bar andGrill, 1101 Second St. S., Sartell. 320-248-3240.
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Dunn Brothers opens at Epic Center by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
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Customers Gina Dullinger and her children Henry and Eleanor order coffee and snacks at the newly opened Dunn Brothers Coffee Shop in Epic Center in Sartell. The barista serving them is Joe Mauer of St. Cloud.
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Friday, Jan. 29, 2016
Durrwachter appointed as school board chair Jan. 4 by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Krista Durrwachter is the new Sartell-St. Stephen School Board President Chair for 2016. She was Durrwachter appointed to that position at the Jan. 4 meeting. Michelle Meyer was elected vice chair. Patrick Marushin was named treasurer, and Stacy Karolus was named as clerk. The school board also made many other designations, decisions and appointments at the Jan. 4 meeting, including: Committees The following new members were appointed to the follow-
ing committees: Negotiations Committee: Durrwachter. Benton-Stearns County Education District: Meyer. Legislative Network: Pam Raden. Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Committee: Marushin. Policy Committee: Mary McCabe, Durrwachter, Marushin. Finance and Operations Committee: Jason Nies, Meyer, McCabe. Technology Committee: Nies, Marushin, Raden. Community Outreach Committee: Raden, Meyer. Facilities Committee: McCabe, Nies, Meyer. Stearns County Collaborative: Meyer. Communications Committee: Marushin, Meyer, Raden.
Special Education Advisory Committee: Marushin. Sartell Senior Connection Liaison: Meyer. Official newspaper The board designated the Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader as the district’s official paper for the publication of legal notices and announcements.
stipend for special work study and other designated meetings, which will be $50 for meetings lasting from one to two hours, $100 for meetings lasting from
two to four hours, $150 for meetings lasting from four to six hours and $400 for meetings lasting longer than six hours.
Legal representation The Kennedy and Graven law firm was appointed the district’s legal council with exceptions to be reviewed and approved by the board chair. Salaries A motion was made and approved to set salaries for the school board’s chair and treasurer at $3,400 annually, other board members (directors) at $3,000 annually, with a
Local student to perform with Concordia band by Logan Gruber operations@thenewsleaders.com
The nationally recognized Concordia Band from Concordia College in Moorhead will perform a joint con- Kremer cert with the Sauk Rapids-Rice
High School Concert Band, conducted by Scott Campbell, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6 in the Performing Arts Center at the high school, 1835 Osauka Road N.E. Sarah Kremer, daughter of Laurie and Michael Kremer of Sartell, is a senior at Concordia and is an alto saxophone player with the band which is touring Feb. 1-7. Admission is open to the
public; freewill donations will be accepted. The concert is sponsored by the Sauk Rapids-Rice High School Instrumental Music Department. Each winter the Concordia Band tours regionally in the United States and internationally every four years. The 2016 Band Tour also includes performances in Rochester, Shakopee and Worthington, Minn., and Sioux Falls, S.D.
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