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Lemonade, Laughter set May 10 at SFX
The eighth annual Lemonade and Laughter, sponsored by the Sartell Senior Connection along with Country Manor Senior Campus and Sartell-St. Stephen Community Education, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday May 10 in St. Francis Xavier Church, 219 Second St. N., Sartell. The event will feature the music and fun of Ted Manderfeld – half of Deuces Wild – who will entertain with standards from the Great American Songbook. Come early to shop the gift table with proceeds supporting SSC programs. There will be a quilt door prize and as always lemonade, coffee, treats and fun. $3/person at the door.
Referendum Committee to hold social May 11
The Choose Yes for Success committee will hold a social at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 11 at Partners Pub in the break room. This free event is open to the public and Jeff Schweibert has been invited to attend and answer questions.
Stamp out hunger
Help stamp out hunger by donating food to the Letter Carriers’ National Food Drive scheduled for Saturday, May 14. Put your food out by your mailbox by 9 a.m. and the food will be collected and delivered to your local food shelf. For more information, go to thenewsleaders. com and click on May 6 Criers.
Dog lovers, furry friends fight cancer
Bark for Life will celebrate the lifelong contributions of canine caregivers to cancer patients at 9 a.m., with a walk at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 7 at Pinecone Central Park in Sartell. For more information, go to thenewsleaders.com and click on May 6 Criers.
League of Women Voters to host speaker May 11
J. Drake Hamilton of the Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization Fresh Energy will address energy policy with a focus on hidden costs of current means of producing electricity at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 11 at Whitney Senior Center, 1527 Norway Drive, St. Cloud. Hamilton is Fresh Energy’s science policy director who represented Fresh Energy at the Paris climate summit. Gathering for snacks and conversation will begin at 5:30 p.m.; Hamilton will speak at 6:30 p.m.
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Minnesota is known as the”Land of 10,000 Lakes,” so it stands to reason the state has more than a little interest in the quality of that water. An open house was held concerning the Sartell Watershed District at the Rice Lions Club on April 27 with the focus of educating attendees about the watershed and water in general. Departments in attendance included the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Department of Health, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Stearns County Soil and Water Conservation District and agencies from other counties. Milly Walsh and Margie
Evans of Avon came looking for some information about lake health. Evans is the former mayor of Avon and currently heads the Linneman Lake Association. What can be done? Are there any answers? Any research? That’s why she and her friend Milly came all the way from Avon. Linneman Lake has a problem because it’s part of a group of lakes, and milfoil has been discovered in one of the lakes, the women explained. “If you have milfoil in one lake, you’ve got it in all of them,” Evans said. Aaron Janz of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture was there to explain a new idea in corn planting. He is part of a resource study dealing with planting corn in the traditional Water • page 7
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Two buddies try their luck fishing in the Watab River right across from Veterans Park in Sartell on a beautiful sunny day May 1. Avery Johnson (foreground) and Ryan Au, both of St. Cloud, were using night crawlers in hopes of catching a decent-sized fish. They said they’ve had luck before when fishing in the Watab and in the Mississippi just on the other side of the Riverside Avenue bridge.
Sauk Rapids interchange to close May 9 by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com
Motorists who use the Highway 15/CR 33/Benton Drive interchange in Sauk Rapids should plan alternate routes and additional time for travel after all ramps at the interchange close at 6 a.m. Monday, May 9. No signed detour will be posted. Motorists should consider using the Highway 15/CR 29 intersection, about one mile
north of the Highway 15/CR 33/Benton Drive interchange, or seek their own alternate route. The closures are needed while crews resurface the interchange’s ramps, upgrade signals and improve accessibility along CR 33/Benton Drive. Overnight lane closures on segments of Highway 15 between Highway 23 in St. Cloud and the Highway 15/Benton Drive interchange in Sauk Rapids will continue through
mid-August. The closures are part of a project that will resurface Highway 15 between Highway 23/ Division Street in St. Cloud and the Benton Drive interchange in Sauk Rapids, and improve the Highway 15/12th Street N and Highway 15/CR 1 intersections. When complete, the project will result in a smoother ride, improved traffic flow and accessibility, and improved pedestrian safety.
For more information on 2016 roadwork on Highway 15 in Sartell, Sauk Rapids and St. Cloud, visit www.mndot.gov/ d3/stc/. A separate Stearns County project to improve CR 1 at Highway 15 in Sartell will begin later this year. More information on that project can be found on the Stearns County website at www.co.stearns.mn.us/PropertyRoads/RoadConstruction/ CSAH1HeritageDr.
Sartell City Administrator Mary Degiovanni and the city staff for the hard work of preparing all materials for BerganKDV’s extensive audit process. Wischmann said there were no material weaknesses in the city’s handling of its finances and that it does a cost-efficient job of providing for the needs of residents, which is not easy to do in such a growing city. Wischmann did say, as a previous audit noted, that Sartell has limited segregation of its accounting duties, but he added internal controls of the accounting are very good, and he did not recommend changes other than to keep up with diligent oversight of the process daily and monthly.
Sartell, he said, has done an excellent job of following government-auditing standards. Revenue and expenditures have remained remarkably consistent and stable during the past five years, Wischmann noted. Revenues for the general fund increased by $700,000 in comparison to those of 2014 to $6,269,000, a 12.6 percent increase. That increase came mainly from such sources as permits, fees, fines and the like. The tax-capacity rate increased slightly, from 37.8 to 38.9, but it’s still well below the rates of other cities in the area, Wischmann added. Expenditures from the general fund increased only 1.7 percent in 2015, up $83,000. Property
taxes were up by $474,000. Thanks to a mild winter and savings on fuel and salt, there was a savings of about $100,000 by the Public Works Department, Wischmann noted. “You’ve done a very good job maintaining expenditures,” he told the council, adding the city’s fund balance is very healthy for a growing city. Revenues were over budget; expenditures were under budget. He also praised the city for not relying on local government aid, which was severely cut some years ago. Last year, Sartell received only $130,000 in LGA. “You are being very effective with your tax dollars for the services you provide to the residents,” Wischmann said.
Sartell gets rave review for handling of finances by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
An auditor presented a rave review of the city of Sartell’s financial management in 2015 at the last city council meeting Degiovanni and noted, once again, that the city has the lowest tax rate of the five area cities in the greater St. Cloud area. Steve Wischmann of the auditing firm of BerganKDV repeatedly used words like “excellent,” “very good” and “great” as he gave an overview of the audit and its results. He also praised
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Right: The Pick-It Fence shop contains many displays of old knick-knacks and quaint collectibles for just about every taste.
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Left: The sight of this table set-up in the Pick-It Fence has the power to transport older visitors, as if in a time machine, right back to a luncheon place from the 1940s or 1950s.
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A very old doll sits in a scruffed-up old pink metal chair.
‘Pick-It Fence’ opens in Riverside Plaza by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
A new shop in Sartell called the “Pick-It Fence” specializes in objects that are “rusted, reloved or recreated.” Owned by Mary Williamson of Sartell and Maria Legatt, originally of Sartell and now a St. Cloud resident, the Pick-It Fence’s grand opening took place Sunday, May 1. It is located in the Riverside Plaza, 101 Seventh St. N. Suite 2. Rusted? Re-loved? Recreated? They sound like incongruous words – that is, until Williamson explains them. Rusted means an old object, often dented, that seems to be quite useless until its uniqueness and, yes, even beauty is reawakened by someone who sees its value. Re-loved means an old object that reveals its value and beauty to the eye of the beholder, often because of a nostalgic feeling that recaptures a time long gone. Recreated means old objects that require work to put them back together so they can be used and enjoyed once again.
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In other words, Williamson, Legatt and the other eight vendors in the Pick-It Fence all cherish old objects, which many people would cast off as junk. All of the vendors delight in helping people see the beauty in so-called junk. Their shop is filled with such objects that virtually sing of the past: old vinyl record albums, an old ornate dresser repainted in striking gray with white details, a black-and-white checkerboard café table, a basket of fruit transformed into a lamp, an old wrought-iron bed, very old dolls, glassware and ceramics, farm equipment and tools, rustic items and “shabby chic,” a name for repurposed objects given new life. Inside the Pick-It Fence, there are separate spaces, each about a 5-foot-by-2-foot area, for each of the 10 vendors who bring and sell their items there in those rented spaces. “We love giving local people a chance to show off their creative sides,” Williamson said. “Vendors are either artists or sometimes they’re grandparents who want to bring their grandkids to garage sales to teach them about the past.
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Some vendors are getting close to retirement age and so they want to get into redecorating, which they had a knack for but never had the chance to do.” People who go looking for old objects, like Legatt and Williamson, are dubbed “pickers.” That is why their shop is a pun on “pick” and picket fence, a white picket fence being often a nostalgic image of long-ago neighborhoods. The two women and the other vendors do their “picking” at garage sales but also at auctions, flea markets, estate sales, thrift stores and online places. “We buy the things we love,” Williamson said, “and it’s so nice to see others enjoy them too. Many of the items we sell are far better made than objects made today. These objects are high quality – the genuine article.” Williamson’s mother, a “picker,” would bring her to many garage sales when she was a child. Later, Williamson, the daughter, began buying old jewelry boxes she would sand down and then decoupage. Pick-It Fence • back page
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Friday, May 6, 2016 Tron Swanson and his staff at Krillan Printing, a Sartell company, have been hosting Community Options 2 students for the past two years. Eight CO2 students have had the opportunity to learn the skills an individual thinking about a career in the screen-printing industry needs. Krillan does an excellent job of providing interns with a full experience that promotes growth, allows students an opportunity to learn the field’s culture and etiquette, and gives them a “real world” perspective of the occupation. Throughout the past two years, Krillan has become a highly desirable internship for CO2 students due to the rich experiences Tron and his staff have provided in learning the industry and teaching interns the skills necessary to successfully navigate working with co-workers, customers and supervisors. The CO2 program is a transition program for St. Cloud School District 742 students 1821 with mild disabilities. CO2 is a partnership between St. Cloud
If you have a tip concerning a crime, call the Sartell Police Department at 320-251-8186 or Tri-County 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 crime. April 19 12:21 a.m. Suspicious activity. Le Sauk Drive. A complaint was made regarding a suspicious vehicle and activity in the parking lot of a hotel. Upon arrival, the hotel employee said she smelled marijuana smoke coming from the room that a male and female had checked into earlier. The male was not cooperative and both were asked to leave. 1:24 a.m. Agency assist. Benton Drive S. An officer assisted the Sauk Rapids Police Department after an armed robbery. The officer helped set up a perimeter but was advised the suspects had already left in a vehicle. 3:18 p.m. Theft in progress. CR 120. Officers were dispatched to a theft in progress at a business. Dispatch advised the officers a female, who was on foot, had taken a smart watch from a display. Upon arrival, the officers checked the area and were unable to locate the female. A stolen property report
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Superintendent Willie Jett (left) of District 742 extends his thanks to Tron Swanson of Krillan Printing. Area School District 742 and St. Cloud State University’s college of education. CO2 students gain work-related skills as they participate in a variety of vocational experiences at sites around the SCSU campus and throughout the St. Cloud community. Brandi Bollig, daughter of John Bollig of Sartell, was inducted into the Theta of Minnesota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
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was filed. 4:27 p.m. Stall. Second Street S./CR 78. While on patrol, an officer observed a stalled vehicle. The officer spoke to the owner, who said it quit. The vehicle was leaking gas. The officer assisted with having the car towed to a garage. April 20 1:32 a.m. Unwanted. Evergreen Drive. A complaint was made regarding an uncooperative drunk male who would not leave after being asked to leave a business. He would not pay his tab and was arguing with staff. Upon arrival, an officer spoke to the owner, who identified the man. The man was told to leave and officers waited with the man until a taxi arrived. 9:07 a.m. Medical. Frontier Avenue. An officer was dispatched to the residence of a 59-year-old male who was very unresponsive and who shared he did not want to go to the hospital. Upon arrival, the officer spoke to the man’s sister, who stated he has a liver issue and his levels were off. The family wanted him to go to the hospital but he refused. Gold Cross Ambulance transported the man to the hospital. 10:07 a.m. Suspicious activity. 19th Street S. A complaint was made regarding a male driving around the parking lot of a business, getting out of his vehicle and
ACT Sartell was selected as a grant recipient from the Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging. Grant dollars will be used to provide education and community outreach for community members touched by memory loss or dementia. The grant dollar award is part of a twophase distribution in the amount of up to $14,000. Opportunity Matters Inc. is the fiscal host for ACT Sartell. The Sartell High School Boys Varsity Track and Field team finished 1st place at the Cambridge-Isanti True Team Invitational at Cambridge-Isanti High School. Ben Gault had a lifetime best throw in the shotput to lead the throwers. The boys’ triple jumpers had three boys over 40 feet: Jake Lieberg, Mitchell Dockendorf and Ethan Kiffmeyer.
appearing to be writing down car license-plate numbers. An officer checked the lot and area business lots and was unable to locate the vehicle. 6:50 p.m. Vandalism to vehicle. Second Street N.E. A complaint was made regarding a man’s ex -girlfriend, who flung her car door open into his truck as she was moving out. Upon arrival, an officer spoke to both individuals and the woman admitted to hitting the truck because she was angry but was not trying to damage it. The woman told the officer she was planning to pay for the damage. April 21 5:29 a.m. 911 call. CR 120. Officers were dispatched to a health club for a member who was drinking a beer when he was working out. Upon arrival, the officers spoke with an employee who said Blotter • page 11
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Central Minnesota Builders Association recently visited with area legislators during Builder Day at the Capitol. The members were part of a group of more than 250 individuals from the home-building-and-remodeling industry across Minnesota who talked with their legislators about the new building and energy codes, regulatory costs and more. Pictured here are (left to right) Matt Cecko, Home Check Plus; Steve Noble, Noble Custom Homes; Marty Reker, Reker Construction Inc.; Sue Lentner, Tri-County Abstract and Title Guaranty; Dale and Rachel Gruber, Dale Gruber Construction Inc.; Pete Cluever, Xcel Energy; and CMBA President Craig Schoenberg, Schoenberg Construction Inc.
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A team of five eighth-graders from Sartell Middle School won second place at the 2016 Minnesota U.S. Academic Triathlon State Tournament, held Saturday, April 16 at Cottage Grove Middle School. The team, coached by Nicole Maslowski, consists of (left to right) members Sam Brandt, Jaden Nguyen, Ayleigh Hammond, Alex Erickson-Murphy and Sarah Ufearo. Maslowski is on the far right. During the Tournament, the team wrote, produced and performed a skit with just 40 minutes to write and rehearse. The topic was “Getting Into the Spirit” and students had to show what might happen if they had to live with a holiday/seasonal/team spirit for the rest of their lives. They participated in a “Face-Off!,” a round of questions from history and math to literature and consumer issues; and rotated among three challenging “Mind Sprint” problems, testing their verbal, critical and creative problem-solving skills. The team has been practicing since last fall.
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Our View Many ways to honor mothers, even those who are dearly departed As Mother’s Day approaches, Sunday, May 8, many people become sad and even depressed because their beloved mothers are no longer among the living. Father’s Day can be a sad day for the same reason. Dr. Gail Saltz, a New York-based psychiatrist, has all kinds of wise advice for such motherless and fatherless people. “There’s no need to pretend it (Mother’s Day) is not a melancholy time for you,” she said. “Nearly everyone whose mother is absent feels bereft.” And then she adds, so insightfully: “Grief is just love with nowhere to go.” Saltz recommends various ways to honor a dearly departed mother on Mother’s Day. • Do something your mother loved and would approve of. For example, if she loved animals, consider volunteering that day or that week at a local animal shelter. Mothers can also be honored by donating, in her memory and name, to any charity you knew she favored. • If you have a big-enough yard, plant your mother’s favorite tree or plant the kinds of flowers and vegetables she loved. Share photos and memories of your mom with other family members or friends or post them on social media. • Call family members and share with them a few favorite stories of your mother and how much she meant to you. Spend the day in nature, hiking or biking, to enjoy “the infinite cycle of nature,” as Saltz calls it. Being in nature, enjoying its beauty, can have a very calming, relaxing and reassuring effect. • Cook your favorite childhood meal, one your mother used to make. Share the meal with family and friends or just cook it for yourself if you like. Another good reason for making your mother’s comfort food at home is there is a risk in dining out that you might see men and women treating their mothers to a dinner, and that sight and the happiness of it could bring on sadness or depression. • Write a letter to your mother about what’s been going on in your life and how much you miss her. The letter can be kept and reread on future Mother’s Days. • Saltz says it’s OK to cry all day if you feel you need that. On the other hand, Mother’s Day is also a good time to pamper oneself and try to be happy because, as Saltz emphasizes: “Our dearly departed moms would want us to be happy and do whatever is best for us.” Whatever you decide to do on Mother’s Day, we hope all people – those with mothers and those without – have a good day in celebrating and honoring their mothers, no matter which form that celebration takes.
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Opinion ‘Blonde on Blonde’ is gift that keeps giving A special birthday is just around the bend – May 16. On that day, 50 years ago, Bob Dylan gave a great gift to the world, an album called Blonde on Blonde. And it was a great big gift – a double album. What songs! Fourteen masterworks. Blonde on Blonde has long been not only my favorite Dylan album but my favorite album, period. It’s impossible to express all the pleasure those songs have given me, time and time again, for half a century. Blonde on Blonde was released just three weeks before my graduation from St. Cloud Tech High School. I can remember the very day I put it on the cheap record player in my upstairs bedroom of the old house on Fifth Avenue South. It was yet another transcendent experience, as all of Dylan’s six previous albums had been. Why do I love that album so much? Well, it’s hard to describe why, but I’ll try. For one thing, it contains seven of my all-time favorite Dylan songs: Visions of Johanna, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, I Want You, Just Like a Woman, One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later), Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine and Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again. The latter is my favorite of
Dennis Dalman Editor all Dylan songs. I call that incredible album Dylan’s “Baroque Surrealism.” The sound on the previous great work, Highway 61 Revisited, was a bit more hard-edged and angular. On Blonde on Blonde, the master’s music and songwriting bloomed into a kind of wild, exhilarating tangle of sounds and words. I say “baroque” because that is a style in art that uses exaggerated motion and vivid details to evoke drama, tension, exuberance and mystery. I say “surrealism” because that is a style, first developed in painting, that releases contents from the subconscious mind, as in dreams, where images are juxtaposed in often jarring, irrational ways. Another reason I love Blonde on Blonde is because of its sly humorous touches. The album is drenched in deep, mysterious drama, but flashes of humor and piercing wit pop up all through it – that street-slang hipster wit through
which Dylan revealed his incomparable genius that rivals Shakespeare’s. From Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat “It (pillbox hat) balances on her head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine.” From Pledging My Time: “Well, they sent for the ambulance And one was sent. Somebody got lucky But it was accident.” Blonde on Blonde seems to have been inspired by paintings. It’s filled with scintillating imagery as vivid as paintings by Picasso. One of my favorite verses, in fact, takes place in an art museum within the melancholy mystery of Visions of Johanna. “Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after awhile But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues. You can tell by the way she smiles. See the primitive wallflower freeze When the jelly-faced women all sneeze Hear the one with the moustache say ‘Jeeze, I can’t find my knees.’”
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Sartell school district would benefit from a ‘yes’ vote Emily Nahan, Sartell I’m writing in support of the upcoming referendum for the Sartell-St. Stephen School District. Five years ago, my husband and I moved to Sartell. One of the significant factors in that decision was the excellence in education and opportunities the school district has maintained throughout the years. Now, as parents of two boys (K
and pre-K), we are invested in the continuity of that excellence. Through involvement in the Community Schools Planning Committee, I toured each district facility, which was an eye-opener for me. The growth of the district (in number of students and expansion of program opportunities) coupled with the effects of legislated change (special education, early intervention services and full-day kindergarten) have led
to spatial constraints. The passing of the referendum would allow the district to grow with its community. It would support innovation at the teaching level by providing flexibility. Additionally, three of the five buildings would benefit from renovation of the main entrances to improve security. Please vote Yes on May 24 to ensure the best for our learners’ safety, opportunities and education.
Senior citizens urge residents to vote yes Ron Hurd, Sartell I was born and raised in Sartell and attended grade school in the building that is now used for the district offices. It’s hard to believe the growth of our community and the increasing school enrollment. My wife Sandy and I remember so well the struggles
and success of getting our own school district in the late 1960s. We certainly couldn’t envision then the growth and need for a new senior high school in 1993 and the additional grade school in 2004. Our sons graduated from Sartell High School, as did our grandchildren. As senior citizens, we are in support of the upcoming
school-bond referendum and urge you to vote yes. We know our real estate taxes will increase but consider that a small price to pay and a good investment to continue the quality of education Sartell-St. Stephen School District 748 has achieved and is known for.
Student says vote yes for excellence, to alleviate facilities pressure Gopi Ramanathan, Sartell Thirteen years in the Sartell-St. Stephen schools have revealed two things to me about our community. One: we place a high value on education and that has allowed our community to thrive and grow into what we know it as today. Two: there is a culture of excellence that is encouraged among not just students but teachers, parents and anyone with a relationship to the Sartell schools. This culture of excellence has created wellrounded citizens who are making impacts both as students and adults. Recently, the Sartell schools have been prevented from realizing and attaining their true potential. It’s not because of the stu-
dents, who are among the most successful in the state in academics, arts and athletics. It is not because of the teachers, who move Heaven and Hell to make sure students are able to explore and prepare for the future they want. The reason Sartell schools are not able to reach the excellence that would be normal of such high-caliber individuals is because facilities hold us back. Our staff has done more than what is asked of them to give Sartell students the 21st century learning we need and deserve but 21st century learning calls for flexible learning spaces to allow for personalized learning for every student and secure buildings so students are not interrupted by the surrounding environment. 21st Century learning
also calls for diversity of viewpoints among learners: something Sartell is not able to fully exploit because overcrowded facilities prevent us from having fully open enrollment. Overcrowding, which was caused in part by our school’s positive image drawing in new students, has also created a nuisance in the learning environment our staff works so hard to create and perfect. These are issues staff and students cannot fix alone. If you truly value the educational excellence of our schools and want to alleviate the pressures of facilities that simply cannot keep up, on May 24, vote yes to bring greater success to our students and our community in the years to come.
Couple urges support of the school-bond referendum Jed and Sara Meyer, Sartell We are writing in support of the May 24 Sartell-St. Stephen Bond Election. Two years ago, we relocated to the Sartell community from the Twin Cities. We researched and visited many communities around the St. Cloud area to determine where we wanted to live and raise our family. What we found was there are many amazing communities surrounding the St. Cloud area, all of which had something different to offer our family. In the end, the quality of the school system and the education our three children would receive in the Sartell-St. Stephen District was the reason we chose Sartell.
In March of 2015, a Community Schools Planning Committee was formed. To gain a better understanding of the needs of the school district, we decided one of us would join the committee. There were more than 80 community members on this committee made up of parents, city officials, senior citizens, district employees and, most importantly, students. Entering the first meeting, we were definitely not expecting to support a new high school. That said, after 32 hours during nine meetings with many discussions, group exercises and tours of the current school facilities, we learned a few things. First, we learned our schools are great and the residents of this community have a lot to be proud of. Second, we
learned there are some serious facility needs, capacity issues and safety needs in our schools that threaten the future quality of our schools and they must be addressed. We are in full support of the current proposed plan, which includes a new high school and remodeling of existing buildings and believe these improvements to be necessary in order to continue to drive the excellence we have come to expect from District 748. A quality school system impacts our kids and it impacts the overall growth and financial health of the Sartell-St. Stephen community. Please join us in our decision to invest in our kids and in our community by voting yes on May 24.
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especially in my favorite, Stuck Inside of Mobile . . . Its eight verses contain a dazzling collision of incongruous but captivating absurdist images and characters: “Grandpa died last week And now he’s buried in the rocks, But everybody still talks about How badly they were shocked. But me, I expected it to happen. I knew he’d lost control When he built a fire on Main Street And shot if full of holes. Oh, Mama, can this really be the end, To be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again.” Oh, how I wish I could live another 50 years so I could keep enjoying the treasures of that album, as fresh today as it was in the spring of 1966. If there is really such a thing as the gift that keeps on giving, it’s that towering masterpiece called Blonde on Blonde.
from page 4 That verse is a perfect example of how Dylan combines profound observations and insights with keen wit and cheeky humor, not to mention his wonderful rhymes from which a lot of his mordant humor derives. The paintings on the museum wall are “up on trial” to determine which ones will outlast time. The primitive wallflower and the jelly-faced women are images typical of surrealistic art works, reminiscent of Picasso’s disturbing, garish portrait called Weeping Woman. The man with the moustache is a painting of a man’s face, probably looking alarmed because he can’t “find” his knees, which the artist didn’t paint. Blonde on Blonde is brimming, overflowing with such evocative gems. There is also a wild, absurdist, almost cartoony vision in some of the songs,
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Letters to the editor
Reader says honor cows this Mother’s Day Serge Nesbitt, Sartell
This Mother’s Day, May 8, many of us will celebrate the powerful bond between mother and child. Tragically, the worldwide symbols of motherhood – dairy cows – never get to see or nurture their babies. Newborn calves are torn from their mothers at birth so we can seize and drink the milk mother cows produce for them.
The powerless, distraught mothers bellow for days, hoping in vain for their babies’ return. The babies are kept alive elsewhere, to soon become veal cutlets. Dairy cows spend their lives on a concrete floor, chained with no outdoor access. To maintain their milk flow, they are artificially impregnated each year. Around four years of age, their milk production drops and they are turned into
hamburgers. This Sunday, let’s honor motherhood and our natural compassion by refusing to subsidize cruelties of the dairy industry. Let’s replace cow’s milk and its products, laden with fat and cholesterol, with delicious, healthful, crueltyfree nut or soy-based milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream offered in every grocery store. Mother cows and our own bodies will thank us.
Sartell Senior Connection Board says yes Senior Connection Board endorses bond (Editor’s note: This letter to editor was written collectively by members of the Sartell Senior Connection Board, an activist group of senior citizens.) The Sartell Senior Connection Board brainstormed a list of reasons why we support a yes vote for our schools: • The Sartell School District is one of the best in the state; we want to keep it that way. • Several members of the SSC
Board served on the task force to study the schools. We saw firsthand the crowded conditions in every building and equipment in the halls because there are classes in small spaces and in equipment-storage areas. • We understand people move into Sartell because of the school district. This demand for housing enhances the value of each of our homes. • Construction costs and interest rates are low now. They will get higher. A yes vote will allow the district to take advantage of the lower rates.
• Costs to homeowners could be reduced as the cities grow and costs are shared by more people. • Safe and secure entrances are needed in all schools. This was not an issue years ago when they were built. Now it is. Our children need a save environment. Even though we may not have children in the schools, many of us have grandchildren. We wish for them and for their children to have a high-quality education. We care about the future. Supporting this bond referendum is part of our legacy.
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Manderfeld to perform at ‘Lemonade and Laughter’ by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
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Ted Manderfeld camps it up as the flamboyant Elton John during one of Manderfeld’s performances as one half of the duo “Deuces Wild Dueling Pianos.” He will perform solo at the annual “Lemonade and Laughter” concert Saturday, May 14 in Sartell.
Ted Manderfeld will entertain an audience with songs and comedy at the eighth annual Lemonade and Laughter concert, sponsored by the Sartell Senior Connection, the senior citizens’ group based in Sartell. The show will take place at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 10 at the St. Francis Church Gathering Place in Sartell. The cost at the door is $3. Everybody is welcome; one need not be a senior citizen to attend the show. Manderfeld is well known as one of the “wild and crazy” guys in the musi-
cal-comedy duo “Deuces Wild Dueling Pianos.” He and fellow performer David Eicholz both play grand pianos, as well as many other instruments, in a show that combines music, comedy, dancing and lots of audience involvement. They have performed for audiences far and wide for 14 years with songs and parodies of songs and performers that run the gamut: rock, pop, country, rap, show tunes and more. Manderfeld is also a solo performer, as in the Lemonade and Laughter concert, during which he will sing standards from the Great American Songbook, classics that virtually everybody knows.
Fitzthum to file for council seat by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
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Soon-to-be Sartell City Council candidate Ryan Fitzthum and his wife, Cindy, were high-school sweethearts who both graduated from Sartell High School in 2003. Their children are Rory, an infant, and Carly, 3. Fitzthum currently serves the City of Sartell as a safety officer for the Sartell-LeSauk Fire Department and as a member of the Sartell Planning Commission.
Ryan Fitzthum announced today, May 6, that he will seek a seat of the Sartell City Council in the Nov. 8 general election. Fitzthum currently serves the city of Sartell through his positions on the Sartell Planning Commission and the Sartell Fire Department. There are two seats that will be open next year on the council, the ones now served by Amy Braig-Lindstrom and by Steve Hennes. The filing period opens May 17. “My wife and I were both born and raised in this great city,” he said. “After college we returned back to Sartell, built our first home, and we are committed to giving back to this great city through both time and generosity,” Fitzthum wrote in his candidacy press
release. Fitzthum said he’s dedicated to the success and future sustainability of Sartell as a Sartell graduate, resident, parent and employer. “With my history of community service and my unique qualifications, I believe I am well positioned to represent Sartell interests,” he wrote. “The future council will be faced with making significant decisions, which will affect current and future residents for decades to come. I believe we need to actively engage our residents in this process, and I am committed to doing so.” Fitzthum is a manager at CH Robinson, Sartell, which is a Fortune 250 company that provides third-party logistics services worldwide. The Sartell CH Robinson office employs 80 people. Fitzthum is now serving
his fourth year on the Sartell Planning Commission, his third year on the Sartell/LeSauk Joint Planning Commission and his eighth year on the Sartell Fire Department, where he serves as its safety officer. Previously, Fitzthum served on the committees of the United Way Campaign and the Sartell Schools Facilities Committee. Fitzthum’s wife, Cindy (nee Herold), is a 2003 graduate of Sartell High School, as is Ryan, where they were high-school sweethearts. Cindy is director of economics education at St. Cloud State University and taught economics for a time at Princeton High School and is the author of a young-adult novel, How Do You Choose the One?, that was published in 2013. The Fitzthums have two children, Carly, 3; and infant Rory.
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apolis discharging raw sewage into the Mississippi. “Over 1.5 million gallons of sewage and runoff and other waste per day going into the Mississippi River to ‘go away,’” the caption read. “At one time, the only thing that could survive in the river was intestinal worms,” Votruba said. “It was that polluted.” Since 1972 and the passage of the Clean Water Act, steady progress has been made in cleaning up the Mississippi River and the entire watershed. But the river and the watershed are valuable natural resources, and the effort has to be continued, and even increased as more and more people use the natural resource. The goal in 1972 was to make the watershed “fishable and swimable by 1983.” While that goal has been achieved in parts of the watershed, pollution continues to make other parts unusable. “We’ve got some work to do,” Votruba said. He briefly explained future plans call for increased monitoring of the watershed, and treatment of specific areas to attack specific issues and problems. Votruba called for citizen participation, not only here, but throughout the country. “We want to apply best management practices strategically throughout the watershed, and do our part in restoring water resources,” Votruba said before turning the program over to Dingmann. Dingmann explained the immediate goals for the upper area of the Sartell watershed and outlined the specific steps they would be taking in the coming year to monitor the lakes, rivers and streams in the watershed. Monitoring will be done once a month from May through September for the next two years to assess phosphorus levels, clarity of water and depth profiling. Some of the monitoring will rely on local volunteers to aid the MNPCA.
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Where, how, when can I vote for school-bond referendum? by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Many questions abound about the process of voting for the upcoming $105.8-million school-bond referendum Tuesday, May 24 in the Sartell-St. Stephen School District. How do I register to vote? Can I vote early? What precinct do I live in? Where is the polling place where I go to vote May 24? What do I bring with when registering to vote? Earlier this week, the Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader visited with the school district’s communications coordinator, Amy Trombley, to find the answers to those questions. All of the information has long been on the school district’s website, but some people were – or still are – unaware of that fact. The following are the basics, but the Newsleader suggests readers go to the district website to learn in more detail about the bond issue and what it would pay for.
Early voting
Yes, people can come to the School District Services Office building to fill in a request for an absentee ballot and then vote right there, on the spot. That can be done right up until May 23, the day before the
election date. The District Services Office building is located at 212 Third Ave. N. in Sartell. Its business hours are 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. Those who want to vote should enter Door 10 on the north side of the building. People no longer need an excuse to vote by absentee ballot. If people want to vote early, they can; it’s as simple as that.
What to bring
Those who register to vote will be eligible to vote not only in the school-bond election but also the upcoming general/ presidential election Nov. 8 as well as any other local, state or national elections. To register at one’s polling place on election day (May 24 in this case) or to register at the school-district office, bring along one proof of your residence as among the many options below: • Valid Minnesota drivers’ license, learner’s permit or state ID, or a receipt for any of those. • Photo ID and a document with current name and address. The ID can be expired. • Driver’s license, state ID or learner’s permit issued by any state. • U.S. passport.
• U.S. military or veteran ID. • Tribal ID with name, signature and photo. • Minnesota university, college or technical college ID. • Minnesota high school ID Documents one could bring include: • Bill, account or start-ofservice statement due or dated within 30 days of the election date (May 24). They could include documents for phone, TV or Internet; bills for solid waste, sewer, electric, gas or water; banking or credit-card bills or receipts; rent or mortgage papers. • Other documents one could bring are a residential lease or rent agreement valid through election day or a current student-fee statement. Vouching means a registered voter from your precinct can go with you to the polling place to sign an oath confirming your address. If someone vouched for you, you cannot vouch for others. Colleges and universities send election officials a student-housing list. If you are on the list, show your college photo ID to complete your registration. If you were previously registered in the same precinct but changed names or moved within that same precinct,
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you need only tell the election judge your previous name or address. If you registered within 20 days of the election, you may receive a Notice of Late Registration in the mail. Bring it with you and use it as proof of residence to register. People who live in residential facilities can have a staff person go to the polling place with them to confirm the resident lives there. There is no limit as to how many residents one staff employee can vouch for.
ing places: • For residents of Sartell Precincts 1, 2, 3, 4 and people living in LeSauk Township, the polling place is LeSauk Township Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S. in Sartell. • For residents of Sartell Precincts 5, 6, 7, the polling place is Celebration Lutheran Church, 1500 Pinecone Road. • For residents in St. Stephen and the townships of St. Wendel and Brockway, the polling place is St. Stephen City Hall, 2 Sixth Ave. S.E. in St. Stephen.
What’s my precinct?
Eligibility
Voting day
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There is an easy way to find out. Just go online to the school district website at: www.sartell.k12.mn.us/bond2016 Then go to the grid boxes just below the photo and click on the box that says “Voting Information.” The precincts and polling locations are listed. Beneath that grid of boxes it says “Click here to find out where you live.” Click on that. A “Polling Place Finder” will appear. Enter either your zip code or your county. Then hit “Go.” Enter your house number and your street. Click “Go” and your precinct will come up.
The three polling places (two in Sartell, one in St. Stephen) will be open from 7 a.m-8 p.m. on election day Tuesday, May 24. The following are the poll-
To be eligible to vote, a resident must: • Be a U.S. citizen. • Be at least 18 on Election Day. • Be a Minnesota resident for at least 20 days before Election Day. • Must have any felony conviction record discharged, expired or complied with. • Must not be under court-ordered guardianship where a court has revoked your voting rights. • Must not have been ruled legally incompetent by a court of law. • Must be properly registered.
People with questions can call Amy Trombley, school district communications coordinator, at 320-656-3701, ext. 1112.
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Friday, May 6, 2016 LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 748 (SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN) STATE OF MINNESOTA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special election has been called and will be held in and for Independent School District No. 748 (Sartell-St. Stephen), State of Minnesota, on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, for the purpose of voting on the following question: SCHOOL DISTRICT QUESTION 1 APPROVAL OF SCHOOL DISTRICT BOND ISSUE Yes No
Shall the school board of Independent School District No. 748 (Sartell-St. Stephen) be authorized to issue its general obligation school building bonds in an amount not to exceed $105,800,000 to provide funds for the acquisition and betterment of school sites and facilities, including the acquisition of land for and the construction and equipping of a new high school site and facility; and the completion of various light and heavy remodeling projects, the construction of secure entries to various facilities and other safety and security improvements, the completion of electrical panel repairs, the completion of HVAC and dehumidification-system upgrades and condensing-unit replacements, the completion of metal-roof replacements at various facilities, the construction of bus traffic-flow improvements, the acquisition and installation of gym blinds and the completion of skylight repairs and replacements? BY VOTING “YES” ON THIS BALLOT QUESTION, YOU ARE VOTING FOR A PROPERTY-TAX INCREASE. The combined polling places for this election
and the precincts served by those polling places will be as follows: COMBINED POLLING PLACE:
Le Sauk Township Hall 220 Fourth Ave. S. Sartell, Minn. 56377
This combined polling place serves all territory in Independent School District No. 748, located in the City of Sartell, Precincts 1, 3 and 4, and Le Sauk Township in Stearns County, Minn.; and the City of Sartell, Precinct 2; Benton County, Minn. COMBINED POLLING PLACE: Celebration Lutheran Church 1500 Pinecone Road N. Sartell, Minn. 56377 This combined polling place serves all territory in Independent School District No. 748, located in the City of Sartell, Precincts 5, 6 and 7; Stearns County, Minn. COMBINED POLLING PLACE
St. Stephen City Hall 2 Sixth Ave. S.E. St. Stephen, Minn. 56375
This combined polling place serves all territory in Independent School District No. 748 located in the City of St. Stephen; and St. Wendel, East Brockway and West Brockway Townships; Stearns County, Minn. Any eligible voter residing in the school district may vote at said election at the combined polling place designated above for the precinct in which he or she resides. The polls for said election will be opened at 7 a.m. and will close at 8 p.m. on the date of said election. A voter must be registered to vote to be eligible to vote in this election. An unregistered individual may register to vote at the polling place on election day. Dated: March 7, 2016 BY ORDER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD /s/Michelle Meyer School District Clerk Independent School District No. 748 (Sartell-St. Stephen) State of Minnesota Publish: May 6, 12 and 20, 2016
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Sophomore Karki chosen for USA team by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Keegan Karki, a St. Cloud Cathedral sophomore h o c k e y goalie who lives in Sartell, has be- Karki come the first goaltender to sign up with next year’s USA National Team Development
Program’s Under-17 Team. Karki was recently featured in a Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader story after his team competed at the state tournament. Next season, Karki will play goalie for the U.S. Under-17 team based in Ann Arbor, Mich. He will be the first goalie recruit. He has committed to playing with the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, for his college years. He will begin
his UND studies and hockey in 2018. The USA Team Karki was chosen for earlier had asked him to play in the Youth Olympics in Norway last winter, but Karki declined because he wanted to play another year of hockey at Cathedral with his friends and perhaps go on to state competition, which he and the team did. Karki has a full scholarship to UND.
Woman charged in Seiler’s death The death of Sartell bicyclist John Seiler last September was allegedly caused by a vehicle driven by a Pasadena, Calif. woman, Judy Post, 74, who has been charged with driving without “due care.” Seiler, 51 at the time, was bicycling on CR 2 north of St.
Joseph when Post’s Ford car veered nearly 6 feet into the road’s shoulder. The vehicle struck Seiler, flinging him from his bike and causing his death at the scene. The accident happened on the early evening of Sept. 8, 2015. Post told authorities she was traveling at the time to
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Originally from Wisconsin, Seiler was a well-known bicyclist in the greater St. Cloud area and beyond. At his funeral in Sartell, he was eulogized as a diehard bicyclist who gave his all to the sport and to all of the people in his life.
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF TESTING OF OPTICAL SCAN VOTING SYSTEM INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 748 (SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN) STATE OF MINNESOTA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Independent School District No. 748 (Sartell-St. Stephen) shall perform a public accuracy test of the optical scan voting system to be used in the District’s May 24, 2016 special election. The test shall be conducted at: Sartell-St. Stephen School District Service Center located at 212 Third Ave. N., Sartell, Minn. 56377 at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Interested individuals are authorized to attend and observe. If you have any questions, please contact Stacy Karolus at 320-656-3715. Dated: March 7, 2016 BY ORDER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD By: /s/ Michelle Meyer School District Clerk Independent School District No. 748 (Sartell-St. Stephen) State of Minnesota Publish: May 6 and 13, 2016
GENERAL NOTICE TO CONTROL OR ERADICATE NOXIOUS WEEDS Notice is hereby given this 15th day of May, 2016, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 18.83, subd. 7, (1992), that all persons in Stearns County, Minn., shall control or eradicate all noxious weeds on land they own, occupy or are required to maintain. Control or eradication may be accomplished by any lawful method but the methods may need to be repeated in order to prevent the spread of viable noxious weed seeds and other propagating parts to other lands. Failure to comply with the general notice may mean an individual notice will be issued. An individual notice may be appealed within two working days of receipt to the appeal committee in the county where the land is located. Failure to comply with the individual notice will mean the inspector having jurisdiction may either hire the work done or seek a misdemeanor charge against the person(s) who failed to comply. If the work is hired done by the inspector, the cost can be placed as a tax upon the land and collected as other real-estate taxes are collected. You may obtain a list of the plants that are designated noxious and of the members of the appeal committee from your county agricultural inspector or local weed inspector. The local weed inspectors are township supervisors, city mayors or their appointed assistants. Bob Dunning Stearns County Agricultural Inspector P.O. Box 246, St. Cloud, MN Phone: 320-255-6180
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Friday, May 6 Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org. Post-Polio Support Group, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Independent Lifestyles, 215 N. Benton Drive, Sauk Rapids. 320-281-2013. St. Cloud State University Commencement, 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., St. Cloud State University (Herb Brooks National Hockey Center), 720 Fourth Ave. S. http://today. stcloudstate.edu/commencement-ceremonies-may-6/. St. Joseph Area Historical Society open, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Old City Hall, 25 First Ave. N.W. stjosephhistoricalmn.org. St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, 3-6:30 p.m., near the Wobegon Trail Center, C.R. 2. Veranda Variety Hour, featuring sketch comedy, live music, dance, improv and more. 10:30-11:30 p.m., Pioneer Place, 22 Fifth Ave. S., St. Cloud. Monday, May 9 Registration for Wednesday and Thursday night volleyball leagues, Trobec’s Bar, 1 Central Ave. S., St. Stephen. 320-251-0946. Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.,
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218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org. Market Monday, 3-6:30 p.m., parking lot of Hardware Hank, Seventh St. N., Sartell. marketmonday. org. St. Joseph Fare for All, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Resurrection Lutheran Church, 610 CR 2. 800-582-4291. fareforall. org. Sartell City Council, 6 p.m., Sartell City Hall, 125 Pinecone Road N. 320-253-2171. Tuesday, May 10 Trobec’s Volleyball, Wednesday and Thursday nights, Trobec’s Bar, 1 Central Ave. S., St. Stephen. 320251-0946. Giving Voice Chorus Simulcast, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site, 1620 Lindbergh Drive S., Little Falls. 320-616-5421. lindbergh@mnhs.org. Sartell Chamber of Commerce, 11:30 a.m., Waters Church, 1227 Pinecone Road. 320-258.6061. info@ sartellchamber.com. Holistic Moms Network, 7-8:30 p.m., Good Earth Co-op, 2010 Veterans Drive, St. Cloud. 320-252-2489.
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Friday, May 6, 2016
Blotter from page 3 he spoke to the man, saying it was unacceptable. The employee was advised to call if it happened again. 11:39 a.m. Vehicle accident. Pinecone Road S. An officer was dispatched to a three-vehicle accident in a parking lot. There were no injuries, but there was damage to the vehicles. 6:21 p.m. Theft from a vehicle. Second Street S. A complaint was made by a male regarding a part taken off his vehicle while he was inside a business. Upon arrival, an officer spoke to the man and a stolen property report was completed. The officer spoke to employees and advised them to call if there was any talk within the business about the theft. 9:32 p.m. Medical alarm. 12th Avenue S. Officers were dispatched for a report of a woman who had fallen and could not get up. Upon arrival, the officers spoke to the woman, who said she was not injured but needed help getting up. An officer helped her up and officers cleared the scene.
April 22 2:10 a.m. Citizen contact. CR 78/Second Street S. While on patrol, an officer observed a male who was clearly intoxicated walking down the road. The officer gave the man a ride home. 5:20 p.m. Shoplifting. CR 120. A complaint was made regarding a female who entered the store and was ripping packages open and concealing them. She then purchased other items and did not
pay for the concealed items. Upon arrival, the officer issued a citation for theft and advised the woman she needed to appear in court. 9:25 p.m. Extra patrol. Third Avenue N. A complaint was made regarding frequent house parties with loud music at a house in the neighborhood. An extra patrol request was documented. 11:15 p.m. Noise. Third Avenue N. While on patrol, an officer checked a residence for a possible noise violation. The officer could hear music and talking three houses down from the residence. The officer made contact with a group of 12 people and advised them of the noise ordinance. The people agreed to keep the noise down for the evening. April 23 12:54 a.m. Intoxicated person. Fifth Avenue E. A complaint was made by a cab driver regarding a male trying to get a female out of a taxi to go inside with him. Both were intoxicated and the cab driver stated the male didn’t appear to know the female’s name. Upon arrival, an officer spoke to both parties and observed they were both intoxicated. The female could not tell the officer where she lived and the male kept telling her to come inside with him. Officers were able to contact one of the woman’s brothers and she was transported to his house. 2:34 a.m. Agency assist. Eighth Street N./27th Avenue N. An officer was dispatched to assist Stearns County Sheriff’s deputies with a vehicle pursuit westbound on CR 4. The officer found the car on the shoulder of the road, facing in the wrong direction. The vehicle appeared to have lost con-
trol and crashed. The driver’s side door was open, the vehicle was running and there was damage to the passenger side. Additional units arrived and a perimeter was established. A K9 was used in the search but after a few hours, the search was called off and officers cleared the call. 10:55 a.m. Vehicle accident. Edinburgh Street. An officer was dispatched to a two-vehicle accident with no injuries in front of a residence. Upon arrival, the officer learned a driver had misjudged the distance and backed into another vehicle. The officer photographed the damage and cleared the call. 7:58 p.m. Driving complaint. Second 1/2 Street and Fifth Avenue N. A complaint was made regarding two males on motorcycles racing down the street doing wheelies. Upon arrival, the officer located the motorcycles parked on the street in front of a residence. The officer spoke to one of the drivers about their unsafe driving conduct and the other driver was not located. April 24 3:14 a.m. Dog complaint. Fifth Avenue E. A complaint was made regarding a barking dog in a neighboring apartment. Upon arrival, the officer could hear a dog barking and spoke to the caller, who said this was an ongoing problem. A citation was prepared and sent to the owners. 9:58 a.m. Theft from a vehicle. Sartell Lane. A complaint was made regarding property being taken from a vehicle. Upon arrival, the officer met with the caller, who stated property was taken out of two vehicles parked in their driveway the night before.
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A stolen property report was filed. 4:11 p.m. Theft from a vehicle. Sixth Avenue E. A complaint was made regarding property being taken from a vehicle the previous night. The caller stated he believed the vehicle was left unlocked by accident. A stolen property report was filed. 8:53 p.m. Fire call. Seventh Street N. A complaint was made regarding a motorcycle that was on fire. Upon arrival, the officers found a moped that had caught fire but was extinguished. The fire eepartment arrived on scene to investigate the cause. April 25 8 a.m. Suspicious person. Seventh Street N. A complaint was made regarding an elderly male with a backpack standing outside the front doors of the high school. An officer called the school resource officer and informed him of the suspicious person. Upon arrival, the officers determined the man was a substitute teacher. 1:20 p.m. Domestic. Riverside Avenue S./Heritage Drive. A 911 call was placed by a female on a cell phone stating she needed help and her boyfriend was trying to run her over. Officers arrived on scene and did not see any suspicious activity or anyone flagging them down. The female was located and she stated she got into an argument with her boyfriend and he threatened to run her over. The female said she was not touched and declined to pursue charges. The female was transported home by an officer. 3:39 p.m. Assist person. CR 120. While on patrol, an officer was approached by a male in the parking lot of a local business. He
said he needed police assistance inside, where he and his wife were trying to return a TV and employees were refusing to give him his money back. The officer found both were upset and raising their voices because the business employee wanted to check the serial number on the TV and the box. Eventually, an employee checked the serial number per store policy and the refund was provided. April 26 7:15 a.m. Medical alarm. Greenwood Lane. Officers were dispatched to a medical alarm triggered by an elderly female. Upon arrival, an officer entered the house, which was unlocked, and announced “police” multiple times but was unable to locate anyone. The officer noticed one vehicle was gone and attempted to make phone contact. No contact was made and the officer cleared the call. 2:34 p.m. Vehicle accident. 12th Street N./Riverside Avenue N. An officer was dispatched to a motor-vehicle accident. Upon arrival, the officer determined there were no injuries and one car had run into the back of another while stopped for a school bus. One of the cars did sustain heavy damage and was towed. Both drivers were given a copy of the accident exchange form and the officer cleared the call. 4:50 p.m. Suspicious activity. 15th Avenue N. A complaint was made by a homeowner about finding two dead black birds on a previous day and a dead rabbit in the same spot. The cause of death for the birds and rabbit was unknown and the caller wanted it documented.
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Eventually, Williamson became a vendor in the Salvage Sisters shop in Waite Park, and that is where she met Maria Legatt and Maria’s mother, Mary Justin, a vendor at Salvage Sisters. “I thought right away Maria has a free spirit and a good eye for picking,” Williamson said. “I thought it would be good to open a business with her.” Eventually, Williamson told
Legatt she’d found the “perfect” location, a store in Sartell’s Riverside Plaza, close to the schools, the site of a farmers’ market and highly visible to pedestrians and motorists. Plans for the store rapidly progressed, culminating in its grand opening May 1. “Our store is constantly new and changing, day to day,” Williamson said. “Many people come in with an item on their wish list, something they’ve always wanted and are looking for. We will help them find it if we don’t have it. We keep an eye out for the
Friday, May 6, 2016 things people want. We also buy some items people bring in, though we don’t accept objects for consignment sales, at least not yet.” There is currently a waiting list for vendors at Pick-It Fence. There are similar shops in just about every city in the greater St. Cloud area, which is a testament to so many people reclaiming and valuing their pasts. “Seeing the beauty in something that has been lost or thrown away,” Williamson said. “That is what we love to do.”