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Provide advocacy at sexual assault center
Central Minnesota Sexual Assault Center is a 24-hour crisis intervention agency that provides direct services to those people affected by any form of sexual violence. The center’s purpose is to offer non-judgmental, confidential, free, direct services to victims of sexual assault, their partners, families, coworkers and friends. Volunteer sexual-assault advocates provide information and guidance to sexual-assault victims on the 24hour crisis phone line, at medical facilities and at law-enforcement centers. Shifts fall on evenings and weekends. Forty-hour training is required prior to volunteering as an advocate. The next fortyhour training will start on Monday, March 16 and will consist of Monday evenings and two Saturdays. For more information on this and other United Way volunteer opportunities, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Feb. 27 criers.
Good Shepherd seeks music donations
Good Shepherd seeks donations of gently used or new iPods, iTunes gift cards and original CDs to help expand and sustain their Music and Memory Program campus-wide. The program provides therapeutic use of iPods and personalized music playlists to help bring residents joy and awaken them by tapping deep emotional recall. A grant Good Shepherd recently received has allowed purchase of a few iPods, headsets and some iTunes music. To donate, please contact Perry Rollings at 320-259-3491 or drop donations off at the front reception desk.
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Sabres whop Willmar for CLC championship The Sartell Sabres’ girls’ basketball team whopped Willmar last week to win the Central Lakes Conference championship, beating Willmar 60-47. That same night, St. Cloud Tech whipped the Alexandria girls’ basketball team, which, along with their win against Willmar, put the Sabres in the top spot.
It is the first time the Sabres won a CLC championship. Their record is 14-2 in the CLC. The Sabres next game was slated to be a home game with Albany at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, the day after this paper went to press. The Sabres have made it to state competition twice – in 2005 and in 2010.
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victims of domestic abuse. A Sauk Rapids resident, Engelking works throughout the greater St. Cloud area, including with the police departments of Sartell and St. Joseph. She has high praise for the dedicated support shown by Sartell Police Chief Jim Hughes and St. Joseph Police Chief Joel Klein. “They’re so awesome and so supportive of this ministry,” she said. “We’ve worked on domestic cases together so we have the same understanding.” She is currently the care pastor for The Waters Church in Sartell. Despite the tragic stories she hears, Engelking doesn’t ring Engelking • page 5
Engelking’s faith helps her help victims of abuse The statistics are grim: Every 15 seconds somewhere a woman is beaten in a domestic dispute; Engelking each day, three women in the nation are murdered by boyfriends, spouses or ex-spouses; one in four women is abused in domestic situations. Pastor Brenda Engelking knows those statistics all too well. She is on call, all hours of the day or night, to help
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Make positive changes at Women’s Health 101
Women’s Health 101 will be held from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14 at CentraCare Health Plaza, 1900 CentraCare Circle, St. Cloud. From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., attendants can participate in more than 15 health screenings, a variety of presentations and visit more than 45 educational booths. For more information, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on Feb. 27 criers.
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Maddie O’Rourke enjoys a wide variety of activities, including annual visits to a pumpkin patch.
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Hailey Winter, senior guard for the Sartell Sabres girls’ basketball team, took her shot at a game earlier in the season against the Annandale Cardinals.
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Sartell girl plans parks clean-up project by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
On April 18, Maddie O’Rourke is going to roll up her sleeves to go to work, and she’s hoping about 100 other people are willing to join her in her task. The Sartell High School ninth-grader is planning a massive clean-up in the city’s many parks from 9 a.m.-noon on that day. O’Rourke’s community-service project was inspired by her religion class at Celebration Lutheran Church. She planned the trash pick-up day with her religion-class mentor, Cindy Fitzthum. “I wanted to do something that would help out our community and get other youth involved,” O’Rourke said. “We
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will invite all community members to participate and anticipate close to 100 volunteers.” The daughter of Jamie and Sean O’Roarke, Maddie excels at volleyball and lacrosse. Her favorite school subject is English. She has a sister, Alyana, 11, who plans to help her with her park clean-up project. Those who want to help out that day should contact Maddie to let her know as soon as possible. She can be reached by email at orourke.maddie@ yahoo.com or by calling her at 320-291-6172. Those who want to contribute to help defray expenses of the clean-up should write a check to “Celebration Lutheran Church” (with “April 18 trash pick-up” written on the memo line) and send it to 1500 Pinecone Road N., Sartell, MN 56377.
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B a i l e y O’Hotto, granddaughter of Marge and Jim O’Hotto of Sartell, and daughter of Wendy and Todd O’Hotto of Nisswa, was named to the dean’s list at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph. She is a freshman with a 4.0 gradepoint average and is majoring in physical therapy. Her dad Todd is a 1986 graduate of Sartell. Tyler Walz of Sartell recently Joined the Principal Financial Group at the Minnesota Business Center, 131 6th Ave. S. Ste. 150, Waite Park. Walz will serve as a financial representative and Princorregistered representative. He will be working with individuals and businesses to help build plans and strategies to help achieve financial goals. Melissa Richter, daughter of Catherine and Michael Richter, Sartell, and a senior at Concordia College, Moorhead, recently participated in Behind the Lights of Broadway: Backstage New York, an exploration seminar during Spring Break Feb. 21-March 1. The seminar will spend a week exploring, observing and interacting with the individuals and shops that make Broadway, OffBroadway and Off-Off Broadway work. Along with rental shops, lighting manufacturers, stage managers, designers, prop houses and costume studios, the students will also tour several theaters in the New York area. This seminar will focus on the designers, technicians, artisans and craftspeople who make theater happen focusing on the backstage aspects of theater and seeing how the off-stage theater practitioners and their work enhances the work of the actors and directors. The seminars are designed to enhance understanding of an on-campus course through firsthand observation. The classroom professor leads the nine-day trip, an introduction to purposedriven travel. Twelve Sartell students were recently named to the fall president’s list at St. Cloud Technical and Community College. They are the following: Bridg-
et Bjorge, Myles Bous, Tyler Brinkman, Aaron Couch, Jessica Kelash, John Kitzmiller, Brent Orndorff, Rebecca Peterson, Hannah Rodness, Summer Rossow, Laurie Schuneman and Kendra Voigt. Students must attain a minimum 4.0 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Twelve Sartell students were recently named to the fall dean’s list at St. Cloud Technical and Community College. They are the following: Randin Haus, Melissa Jokela, Ethan Licht, Megan Lindbloom, Joseph Newinski, Cody Oachs, Cody Partch, Marissa Rapaway, Kathryn Reinke, Marissa Scherer, Tyler Stellmach and Megan Walz. Students must attain a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. The Sartell Squirt C White Hockey team won the championship in the 2015 Sartell Squirt C Hockey tournament Feb. 13-15 with a win against Sibley in the first game; a win against Detroit Lakes in the second ; a win against Woodbury in the third game; and a win over Forest Lake in the championship game. Team members include Carter Bollinger, Dylan Cummings, Dominic Ditlefson, Trevor Fleege, Connor Freeman, Elias Hill, Teddy McCabe, Camron Rohe, Holden Schwarzentraub, Nick Stone, Beau Supan and Aanden Vandenberg. Coaches are Michael Cummings, Tom Freeman and Jason Vandenberg. The Squirt C White team will compete in the District 5 Tournament Feb. 27-March 1 in Richmond. Five Sartell students were recently named to the fall dean’s list at Concordia College, Moorhead. They are the following: seniors Robert Satterness, son of Lori and Neil Satterness, and Grant Strom, son of Janelle and Terrence Strom; junior Carl Minnerath, son of Sylvia and Dale Minnerath; sophomore Alyssa Yapp, daughter of Tammie and Keith Yapp; and freshman Megan Franz, daughter of Jody and Mark Franz. Students must attain a minimum 3.7 grade-point average to qualify. Two Sartell students were recently named to the fall dean’s high honor list at Minnesota State University, Mankato. They are the following: senior Kathryn Haglin and junior Cas-
sidy Ross. Students must earn a minimum 4.0 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Six Sartell students were recently named to the fall dean’s honor list at Minnesota State University, Mankato. They are the following: seniors Spencer Ahrendt, Rachael Knutson and Alex Wiesz; junior Rebecca Sonbol; sophomore Taylor Kruse; and freshman Haley Johnson. Students must earn a minimum 3,5 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Seven Sartell students were recently named to the fall dean’s list at the College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph. They are the following: Jessica Alkire, daughter of Mary and Doug Alkire, a senior English major; Kelly Husmann, daughter of Barb and Randy Husmann, a sophomore global business leadership major; Mary Lindell, daughter of Mary Lindell, a firstyear nutrition major; Elizabeth Plaine, daughter of Cara and Kelly Plaine, a first-year psychology major; Brandi Bollig, daughter of John Bollig, a junior biology major; Alexis Phillips, daughter of Michelle and Richard Phillips, a junior psychology major; and Catherine Wohletz, daughter of Sandy and Frank Wohletz, a junior nursing major. Students must achieve a minimum 3.8 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Three Sartell students were recently named to the dean’s list at St. John’s University, Collegeville. They are the following: Timothy Immelman, son of Pamela and Aubrey Immelman, a sophomore psychology major; Isaac Lindstrom, son of Amy Braig Lindstrom and Matt Lindstrom, a sophomore political science major; and Austin Barkley, son of Julie and Jim Barkley, a senior Hispanic studies major. Students must achieve a minimum 3.8 grade-point average to qualify for this honor.
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Sartell Middle School students and staff including those pictured here (front row, left to right) Sierra Moore, Avery Atkinson, Taylor Boese and Noah Snider; and (back row) Eryn Kramer, Lauren Lindmeier, Sadie Folsom and David Plemel have collected more than 110 pair of jeans for a Teens for Jeans campaign for Youth Experiencing Homelessness. Teens for Jeans is a national campaign in partnership with Aéropostale and DoSomething.org, the largest not-for-profit organization for young people and social change. Teens for Jeans encourages young people across the country to run a jean drive in their school or community to help provide clothing for the more than a million young people experiencing homelessness in the United States every year. One of the most requested items young people in homeless shelters ask for is a pair of jeans. In the past seven years, young people across the country have collected more than 4.3 million pairs of jeans through Teens for Jeans.
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(From left to right) Drs. Marc Anderson, Brent Venables and Jon Anderson from 360 Chiropractic in Sartell present a check for $3,037 to (second from right) Charles Hempeck, executive director of Anna Marie’s Alliance, after their Patient Appreciation Week fundraiser held Jan. 12-16.
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If any readers have tips concerning crimes, they should call the Sartell Police Department at 320-251-8186 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at 320-255-1301 or access its tip site at www.tricountycrimestoppers.org. Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to $1,000 for information leading to Rachel Granzow of Sartell re- the arrest and conviction of those cently received the Chancellor’s responsible for crimes. Award at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menominie, Wis. Feb. 11 She is a majoring in hotel, restau1:09 a.m. Verbal. Walmart. rant and tourism. A report was made regarding an Students must attain a mini- adult male yelling and throwing mum 3.5 grade-point average to items at a vehicle. Officers arrived qualify for this honor. and were unable to locate anyone
matching the description outside or inside the store. 3:15 p.m. Stalled vehicle. Hwy. 15. While on patrol, an officer located a vehicle stalled on the side of the roadway. The driver stated he was unaware of why the vehicle stalled. The officer contacted a tow company and provided safety lights until the vehicle was removed. Feb. 12 1:27 a.m. Stalled vehicle. Hwy. 15. While on patrol, an officer located a vehicle stalled on the side of the roadway. The driver Blotter • page 4
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LEGAL NOTICE REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS JAN. 26, 2015 DISTRICT CENTER BOARD ROOM
The regular school board meeting of Independent School District 748 was called to order at 5 p.m. by Krista Durrwachter, chair. Members present: Durrwachter; Michelle Meyer, vice chair; Pam Raden, clerk; Mary McCabe, director; Jason Nies, director; Pat Marushin, director and Jeff Schwiebert, superintendent. A motion was made by Meyer and seconded by Nies to approve the agenda. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Raden and seconded by McCabe to approve consent items a-d as presented below: a. Minutes of the regular school board meeting held on Dec. 15, 2014 (with the following edits: page 5 Motion for New Employee Changes – seconded by Raden and page 6 motion to reopen meeting should say “seconded by McCabe”) and Jan. 5, 2015. b. Checks in the amount of $3,133,255.53 as presented: General Fund 2,628,890.44 Food Service Fund 174,299.75 Transportation Fund 147,519.43 Community Service Fund 54,229.63 Capital Expenditure Fund 90,507.91 Building Fund 26,816.72 Debt Service Fund 375.00 Summer Rec Agency Fund 10,616.65 Check numbers 158589 to 159018 Receipts in the amount of $3,016,198.27 as presented: General Fund 2,713,690.95 Food Service Fund 133,620.86 Transportation Fund 8,805.01 Community Service Fund 37,004.61 Building Fund .64 Debt Service Fund 100,880.00 Receipts 40532 to 40640 Wire transfers in the amount of $3,520,840.13 as presented: General Fund 4,492.65 Food Service Fund 3,094.06 Transportation Fund 415.91 Community Service Fund 101.26 Debt Service Fund 3,512,736.25 Wire transfers 201400031-201400040 c. Accept the following donations: Jason Ploof, Pine Meadow Elementary, $250, Epiphone PR-5e, electric guitar; Wee Trees, Pine Meadow Elementary, $125, opportunities for students; Sartell Youth Basketball Association, Sartell High School Athletics, $1,000, ticket donation; Oak Ridge Elementary PTC, Sartell-St. Stephen School District, $218.78, walk-a-thon subs d. Accept the resignation of Jodi Aizcorbe, Sartell High School, server, Jan. 9, 2015; Julie Counter, Sartell Middle School, server, Dec. 23, 2014; Jamie Wieneke, Sartell Middle School, nurse, Feb. 13, 2015; retirement of Daniel McLean, Oak Ridge Elementary, fourth-grade teacher, June 3, 2015. Student Representative Report: Mac Nies, senior at Sartell High School • SMART Boards were installed in all ORE and PME Kindergarten in first-grade classrooms. These Boards were supported by each school’s PTO. • Second-graders at both elementary buildings are participating in MATHSmARTs, a program that integrates math and the arts. Students use concepts they learn during math and work with artists to apply skills in dance, music and visual arts. • Parent-Teacher conferences are on the horizon for several schools in the district. • ORE hosted a Family Science Night on Jan. 23 where students and families were invited to explore different stations and scientific concepts • Terrence Smith, an artist-in-residence, will be at Oak Ridge in early February to teach students about folk dancing. On Tuesday, Feb. 3 from 6:30-8 p.m. There will be an opportunity to dance with Smith as a family. All parents/guardians, grandparents and siblings are invited to join in this family night of dance. • Sartell Middle School’s Spelling Bee was held Jan 26. • Eighth-grade Registration Night will happen Thursday, Jan. 29. • SMS Student Council and WE day participants are coordinating a ‘Books for Africa’ project and have already collected more than 1,000 books • A Sartell Middle School team took first place in the Middle School Division and were recognized recently
• The SHS Student Council recently participated in a Leadership Retreat in Walker, Minn. • The Boys Swim and Dive team took third in the State True Team meet • Girls Gymnastics placed eighth in the Gymnastics State True Team meet • The week of Jan. 26-31 is Winter Wonderland Week which includes coronation, a volleyball game, dressup days, a dance and several other activities. Superintendent Report: Jeff Schwiebert, superintendent • The district’s partnership with St. Cloud State University’s Teacher Preparation Initiative is expanding beyond partnering with the district on mentorship and induction programs toward creating a faculty-approved center for partnerships. • Partners for Student Success, a Central Minnesota collaborative of school districts, businesses and nonprofit organizations, continues to move forward in developing stronger partnerships, and is discussing the aspects of an executive director for the organization. School Board Committees: School Board Members will report on committee meetings that have taken place since the last Board meeting. • Steering Committee • An initial meeting was held with representatives from Cunningham Group/IIW-MN, the architectural firm the district has agreed to work with for a facilities study. The discussions focused on the process of involving individuals from the community and district who will provide input and be a part of the planning process. There will be at least six four-hour meetings members will commit to, with an open invitation for community members to be involved. • Early Childhood PTO • The PTO discussed the course offerings for the 2015-16 school year. Some of the changes will include: • A wrap-around care model. • Night classes offered under ECFE will include classes for 3- to 4-year-olds and a Kindergarten Prep course for 4- to 5-year-olds. • The pricing structure has been updated to provide more equity and simplify the payment structure. • Minnesota School Board Association (MSBA) • Superintendent Schwiebert and board members had the opportunity to attend the Minnesota School Board Association convention during the week of Jan. 19. There were several informative sessions on topics including technology, construction projects, the SLEDS database which is a longitudinal database system to track graduates’ performance and success in post-secondary options, budget and financial session, and several others. • Benton-Stearns Education District Steering Committee Board elections were held for this group. The group also discussed how area sub pay is becoming more competitive, early childhood referrals, training opportunities for staff and paraprofessionals and Special Education delivery models. Report on High School Course Changes: Brenda Steve, principal of Sartell High School, reported on proposed course changes at Sartell High School for the 2015-16 school year. Student Activity Report: Steve Wruck, director of business services, reported on 2014-15 student activity account. Report on Jan. 19 Professional Development Day: Kay Nelson, director of learning services, along with building principals shared an overview of the Professional Development Day that took place Jan. 19, 2015. A motion was made by Meyer and seconded by Marushin to APPROVE: New Employees or Changes: Lucas Anderson, SMS, paraprofessional, $15.71/hr.; Chelsey Baldock, ORE, fourthgrade teacher, $191.45/day; Christine Becker, DO, paraprofessional, $15.71/hr.; Laura Dickhaus, PME, LTS teacher, $191.45/day; Laura Dickhaus, SMS, LTS teacher, $191.45/ day; Mary Kalusche, SHS, server, $13.90/hr.; Julie Counter, SMS, cleaner, $13.90/hr. 3hrs./day; Lora Jacobson, ORE, LTS – elementary, $191.45/day; Terri Johnson, ORE, stu-
dent supervisor, $16.23/hr. 2 hrs./day; Jeannie Klehr, SMS, cafeteria worker, $13.90/hr.; Joy Kowalke, SMS, server, $15.36/hr.; Rachel Michalek, SMS, temporary health assistant, $20.10/hr.; Vicki Sabart, SMS, LTS PE teacher, $191.45/day; Jenny Supan, DO, paraprofessional, $15.71/ hr; Sarri Truscinski, DO, paraprofessional, $15.71/hr; Rebecca Winburn, PME, student supervisor, $13.26/hr.; Tracy Zimmermann, ORE, student supervisor, $13.26/hr. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Meyer and seconded by Nies to HAVE SECOND READING AND APPROVE REVISIONS TO POLICY 535. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Nies and seconded by Meyer to APPROVE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT CALENDAR FOR 2015-16. Durrwachter, Meyer, Nies, Marushin, in favor. McCabe not in favor. Motion carried. An amended motion was made by Nies and seconded by Marushin CONTINGENT UPON COMPLETION OF REVIEW OF THE APPROPRIATE VENDOR PAPERWORK, APPROVE VENDOR FUNDRAISING REQUESTS. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by McCabe and seconded by Nies to APPROVE FACILITIES NEEDS ASSESSMENT PRICE PROPOSAL FROM THE CUNNINGHAM GROUP. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by McCabe and seconded by Nies to APPROVE PROPOSAL FOR A 10-YEAR ENROLLMENT PROJECTION PLAN FROM HAZEL REINHART CONSULTING SERVICES. All in favor. Motion carried. A motion was made by Meyer and seconded by Nies to APPROVE PROPOSAL FOR A MINNESOTA CLAY TARGET LEAGUE. All in favor. Motion carried. Schedule Work Session and Committee Meetings Facilities Committee – Feb. 2 at 4:15 p.m. at the District Service Center. Finance and Operations Committee – Feb. 2 at 5:15 p.m. at the District Service Center. Discuss March and May 2015 Board meeting times These Board Meetings will be held at 5 p.m. at the District Service Center. A motion to adjourn the meeting at 6:25 p.m. was made by Meyer and seconded by McCabe. All in favor. Motion carried. /s/ Pam Raden, clerk/treasurer Publish: Feb. 27, 2015
LEGAL NOTICE CITY OF SARTELL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS REZONING AND THE PRELIMINARY PLAT OF ARBOR TRAILS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That the Sartell City Council will hold public hearings in the council chambers of the Sartell City Hall at 7 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, Monday, March 9, 2015, to consider the rezoning and preliminary plat of Arbor Trails. The request is to rezone property from R-3 Multiple-Family Residential District to R-1 Single-Family Residence District. Both public hearings have been requested by RST Land LLC, as owner and applicant. The site area is 53 acres and is located just north and east of County Road 4. Mary Degiovanni Administrator Publish: Feb. 27, 2015
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Blotter from page 2 stated she was unaware of why the vehicle stalled but was able to move it to a safe location. The officer transported the female to her residence. 8:16 p.m. Domestic. Hi Vue Drive. A report was made regarding an adult male and adult female arguing and possibly physical. Officers arrived and located only the female. She stated the argument was only verbal and not physical. No further assistance was needed. Feb. 13 5:43 a.m. Suspicious activity. Dukes Court. A report was made regarding a garage door left open and the attic access open. Officers
Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 arrived and cleared the attic. The owner stated nothing seemed to be out of place in the garage. 12:51 p.m. Suspicious smell. 6th Avenue S. A report was made regarding a smoke smell coming from the basement of a residence. It was found the sump pump was smoking and unplugged. Feb. 14 1:29 p.m. Juvenile problem. 1st Street NE. A report was made regarding four juveniles refusing to leave a business. An officer arrived and the males stated they were waiting for a ride. The officer transported them to their residence. 9:50 p.m. Suspicious vehicle. 21st Avenue N. Several complaints were made regarding an unknown occupied vehicle parked on the roadway. An officer spoke with both parties, who stated they were talking. They agreed to leave the area without incident. Feb. 15 12:52 a.m. Welfare check. 5th Avenue E. A report was made regarding an intoxicated adult male asking another adult male to harm him. Officers arrived and located one of the males, who stated the intoxicated male left. Officers checked the area and the building and were unable to locate the intoxicated male. 10:46 p.m. Suspicious vehicle. 11th Street N. A report was made regarding an unknown vehicle driving around the area. Officers located the vehicle, parked legally and unoccupied. They patrolled the area and did not find anything suspicious. Feb. 16 12:18 a.m. Verbal. Hi Vue Drive. A report was made regarding a verbal argument between males. Officers arrived and located three brothers in the residence. They all stated they were just wrestling and not actually fighting each other. They stated they would be done for the evening and needed no assistance. 5:28 p.m. Motor assist. Riverside Avenue. A request was made to assist with a locked vehicle with a child inside. An officer arrived and was able to gain entry into the vehicle. The child needed no medical assistance. Feb. 17 8:25 am. Traffic stop. 18th Street N. After checking a registration, it was found a driver had a suspended license. The driver stated he thought his license had been reinstated. He was issued a citation and released to a valid driver.
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Engelking from front page her hands or wallow in despair. She tries to remain upbeat, which isn’t too hard to do because she knows there is always hope. She helps others to move forward, to move beyond being stuck in a victim’s mentality. “It’s important to move women out of their victimhood,” she said. “We have to work on what’s wrong with them, otherwise they keep going back into bad relationships.” That is not to say abuse is the woman’s fault. Abuse is never justified. But too many women, because of the ongoing abuse, she explained, begin to develop a victim mentality, making it seemingly impossible to break the relationship and move on. When she is called to help on an abuse case, she will network, often with local police aware of the case. There are three aspects of Engelking’s work. First, she trains churches and pastors how to deal with domestic violence. Second, she works with victims of any kind of trauma (sexual, physical, emotional and psychological). She also oversees three mentoring programs – one for women, one for teenagers and one for children. She works with the women; she and Becky Pomeroy run the children’s program, and Kelly Newell runs the teen program. Safety is the number-one
priority, and a tight security program is maintained at The Waters church. Engelking earned a degree in criminal-justice studies from St. Cloud State University in 1995. She then began training law-enforcement personnel about domestic-violence issues for Stearns County and did a lot of consultant work. For two years she ran the women’s program at the Anna Marie Women’s Shelter in St. Cloud. About a year ago, Engelking decided to start her own non-profit ministry, dubbed BKE Ministries (BKE being her initials). Her vision statement is a simple but powerful one: “Speaking truth and empowering change.” She has been a credentialed pastor through the Assemblies of God for a year. “I love my work because God created me to do it,” she said. “God has called me to do this. It’s not fun work. It’s stressful work where you can make a lot of enemies and people disagreeing.” But Engelking is totally dedicated and committed to her work because she herself had undergone many tragedies. Her father was killed in an accident before her birth. Her family struggled with addiction, violence and mental illness that left Brenda at one time questioning God’s character and love. When she was in college, memories of those childhood traumas were reawakened when she discovered radical feminism. She began to champion many causes through activism in feminist issues, do-
mestic violence, sexual assault and pornography. Her work on those issues brought her praise, honors and many awards. However, by the age of 25, she realized she could not solve all of life’s problems on her own. She began to feel empty inside, in need of a savior. It was then she was opened to the power of Jesus Christ and God. She then plunged into her work on behalf of abused women and children, chemically dependent people, homeless veterans and help in providing housing services to low-income and mentally-ill people. Engelking gives many inspirational presentations at various churches and groups such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Engelking • page 8
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Friday, Feb. 27, 2015
Opinion Our View Coalition is only Blame president; do nothing; keep losing way to stop evil
Every day, there springs up another dreadful reminder of how terrorist groups are international threats that must be crippled or destroyed. The latest hits close to home – a videotaped message to “freelance” terrorists to strike mid-America and mid-Canada by perpetrating acts of violence at the Mall of America in Bloomington and the big mall in Edmonton. That message was produced by al-Shabaab, a terrorist group in northeast Africa. It’s tempting to want to believe terrorists are localized thugs “over there” who will eventually be defeated by those they oppress, in their own regions. But we should have learned such a viewpoint is wishful thinking. The attack perpetrated against this country on 9/11 was a wake-up call. Since then, terrorists or their freelance minions have struck with sickening violence in London, Madrid, Ottawa, Sydney, Paris, Copenhagen and many other places far and wide. What is so disturbing about these groups, ISIS especially, is they use the Internet as a recruiting tool. What is even more disturbing is so many young people not only buy into their messages but actually travel toward Syria to join their cause – a “cause” that amounts to nothing more than butchery in the name of a medieval notion of conquering the world and killing or converting anybody who isn’t just like them. Can’t these recruits understand instantly what a vicious group it is? Don’t they see they are rushing headlong into misery, abuse, murder or suicide? The latest video recruitment “ad” released by ISIS is the most disturbing, in some ways even worse than the beheadings and the torching of a pilot. The video shows a school of boy soldiers doing military exercises in front of a school building, supposedly the next “generation” of ISIS fighters. After being indoctrinated in their “schools,” these poor kids will be used as cannon fodder in the ruthless assaults waged by ISIS in its “religious” war against civilization. Some religion! President Barack Obama is correct in denouncing ISIS as having no legitimate claims to Islam, other than trying to revive the butchery of “holy wars” of so many centuries ago. Such throwbacks to violence should not dare to call themselves religious in the world of here and now; they are power-mad killers with delusions of grandeur. The only thing that is going to “degrade and/ or destroy” ISIS is if this much-heralded coalition comes to fruition. ISIS must be countered at every turn by others from Middle Eastern countries, by Muslims and others who have been and will be the victims of their violence on their own turfs. That is going to be problematic, at best, considering the age-old hatreds between Sunni and Shia Muslims. And, lest we forget, Shia militias have committed many atrocities of their own against Sunnis in that region, giving rise to ISIS extremism. It’s interesting it was the burning alive of the Jordanian pilot – not so much the previous beheadings of Americans, British, Japanese – that so enraged Jordan and other Mid-East factions against ISIS. The mass-beheadings of Coptic Christians was another grisly reminder people in that region had better unite against such barbarians at their gates. Both videos (and the new one featuring boy soldiers) could mean their heinous video “ads” are backfiring against them. In the meantime, the U.S. Congress best drop stupid partisan disputes, fund the Homeland Security program and start working together, with the president, to build an international coalition against this encroaching evil.
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President Obama doesn’t love us. What’s worse, he doesn’t love America either. That’s because former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani tells us so. This is what Giuliani said at a dinner in honor of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a presidential contender and cocky unionbuster. “I do not believe the president loves America,” Giuliani told his audience. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up or I was brought up – through love of this country.” Let us be grateful how we, the true Americans, were not brought up. Thank you, God, that we were born in New York or Minnesota and not in Hawaii or – heaven forbid – in Kenya, that dark and evil African country. Amen. By the way, how does Giuliani know our president doesn’t love you? Or me? Does Giuliani love us? Should he? Do you care? Do I care? No, I assure you I don’t. Next day, under fire after his speech, he tried to walk back his cheap-shot lunacy, saying his comments weren’t racist, that Obama was the son of a white woman, raised in white schools and so therefore his anti-American attitudes must be attributed to socialist or anti-colonialist tendencies. That’s what Giuliani said in a verbal back-flip, landing him in deeper doo-doo. Our president, he explained, is patriotic, but he doesn’t love his country. What?! Wanna try another back-flip, Giuliani. Republicans, lusting to win the next presidential election, have become tonedeaf to the very mistakes that will keep them from winning the prize. Foremost among those mistakes is
Dennis Dalman Editor to keep harping on the America-hating socialist-communist Barack Obama. Even the most rabid right-wing Republicans don’t, in their hearts, believe that dead trump card, yet they keep using it. And voters don’t buy it either, except for a few ingrown-toenail types who thrive on conspiracy theories and hatred of anything at all – especially hatred of this president. Giuliani has always been a savvy politician, an inspirational mayor after that horrible day when the Twin Towers fell. What a shame such an American icon stooped to vilifying our president. It’s the oldest dirty trick in the book – impugning someone’s patriotism. As the great English critic and all-around genius Samuel Johnson said in 1775, “(False) patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” You would think the baseless slurs against Obama would have stopped now that he is in his second and last term. When he was first elected, a wave of adulation swept the nation. Our first black president! Then the mindless attacks began. There were (are) nasty racist undertones and overtones against our president, as we saw in some Tea Party groups, some of whose members held up disgusting posters portraying Obama as a monkey or as Adolf Hitler. This chorus of insane accusations gathered like poisonous clouds: he’s not American, he was born in Kenya, his mother faked his birth certificate, he’s an Arab, he’s a Muslim, he’s a communist, he’s a socialist, he’s the anti-Christ, he
doesn’t love this country. Make no mistake: Not all of these haters were (are) fringe-idiots. Many were (are) opportunist Republicans, who knew better but who courted – at what they thought was a “safe” distance – the flakes, nuts and bigots who were (are) spewing such hatred. They did so (do so) to appeal to an anti-government party base. And now, once again, these opportunists, whether they like it or not, “are dancing with them that brung them.” There are so many intelligent Republicans and Independents to appeal to. Why do leaders like Giuliani keep pandering to the nuts? When will the GOP get the point – that trying so foolishly to de-legitimize Obama is a futile tactic, especially as the economy improves (surprise, surprise!) and other Obama successes get chalked up. Republicans won the U.S. Congress handily in the last election. Now, as they so-long promised, it’s their turn to man up and to do something for this country (for a change) and then to run in the presidential election by pointing to their legislative achievements (if any) that help the middle class and the working poor (a tall order). If they think they’re going to win the presidency next time around by blaming Obama for everything, they are wrong once again. You can’t win by being against everything; you have to win by being for something. Now they’ve won Congress, their excuses for their inaction are already sounding hollow, as boring as last season’s dumb food trend. This year’s entrée is not going to appeal to next year’s diners. As of now, here’s the ol’ three-step recipe for defeat. It’s called Bully Beef au Giuliani: keep hating the president; keep doing nothing; keep losing.
Religion has nothing to do with it I’ve heard a lot recently about moral equivalency. Loosely translated, it means if you do something to someone and then someone does something similar to you, that is equal, or equivalent. Continuing in that theme, if a thousand years ago individuals traveled from their homeland in Europe to the Middle East killing and maiming along the way, calling it a crusade, does that mean that here in the 21st Century, individuals from the Middle East can travel anywhere in the world they choose – killing, beheading, burning and slaughtering and call it equal? In other words, is there a moral equivalency to their actions? Regardless of what the president says, there is not. To me that is about as silly as the U.S. State Department suggestion what we need to do is provide jobs for Islamic terrorists and improve their economies and they will stop their murderous activity. I’m of the opinion once these disaffected thugs become baby killers and rapists, they would have a difficult time going back to any normal, moral human behavior. I’m of the opinion the rise of ISIS is because they are recruiting young, disillusioned social rejects who get a thrill from baby killing and raping. Many come from well-to-do homes. Some are even well educated. Granted, many are goat herders, but for the most part, jobs and economies mean nothing to them.
Ron Scarbro Guest Writer These are bloodthirsty thugs who think they are going to Disneyland. And so now, they have threatened Americans on our homeland, more specifically the Mall of America. These worthless punks have decided they will attack innocent shoppers in the Mall of America. What will be our response? Will we just stop shopping at the Mall of America? Will we let the terrorists win? Or will we continue to shop there, being vigilant and careful, thereby showing the cowards they cannot frighten us? And what should our government do? Will they just wait until an attack happens before they respond? This Obama Administration has recently sent out a tweet asking everyday Americans what would they do to combat this terrorism. They want you to tweet your suggestions. Seems to me a strange way to conduct foreign policy, but whatever. Here’s mine: First of all, face this fact: Radical Islamic terrorists are a cancer on the world. Were you to have a cancer in your
body, your surgeon would cut it out. Then he would poison the area around it so the cancer could not reoccur. That is how we must treat this cancer. We cut it out. We kill any possibility of it ever recurring. As is the case when chemotherapy is prescribed to humans, collateral damage can occur. Collateral damage also is the nature of war. Remember, we didn’t start this mess. It will just be left to us to end it. There is a lot of conversation in the media about what we call these thugs. The president apparently doesn’t want to call them Islamic terrorists. I personally don’t care what the media calls them, or what the president calls them. They are baby-killing, bloodthirsty, social rejects who will all soon die horrible deaths. They are not religious zealots. In fact religion has nothing to do with it. They are just thugs and killers. Finally, this is not just going to go away. We can’t just bury our heads in the sand and have it all disappear. For it to end, we must end it. And the sooner the better. Scarbro is retired and spends most of his free time with his grandchildren having moved from Sartell to St. Simons Island, Ga.. Writing and commenting on the news of the day is a pastime. Visit his weekly blog at ronscarbro.blogspot. com for more commentary.
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Engelking from page 5 One of her goals, she said, is to convince all churches to take a strong stand against domestic violence and to be shelters from the storm for women and children harmed by domestic abuse. “The church needs to stand up and take a stand against domestic violence,” she said. “Churches need to be safe places for women and children.” She also asks people to support her ministry in any way they can. Her website is www.bkeministries.com. Those who want to offer her support or anyone in need of her services should call 320-267-8285. Engelking and her husband, Matthew Engelking, have two adopted pit bulls named Moses and Esther.
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