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Make a difference in our community by taking action. Collect food to support children and youth this summer. Suggested items include the following: easy macaroni, oatmeal, peanut butter and jelly, canned soup, cereal and more. Drop off food donations during United Way Day of Action from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, June 15 at Lake George Municipal Complex. Food will be donated to Catholic Charities Emergency Services. For more information on this and other United Way volunteer opportunities, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on June 9 Criers.
Foster Grandparents seeks mentors
The Foster Grandparent Program needs more mentors for youth in our community. Currently there are openings at local elementary schools, Journey Home daycare (working with infants and toddlers), Kidstops and Head Start. Foster Grandparent volunteers might help students with a reading assignment, work with a small group on a craft or help kids cook an evening meal. Adults aged 55 and over can receive an hourly tax-free stipend for volunteering 15 hours per week helping children with activities, reinforcing learning, helping with art projects and more. For more information on this and other United Way volunteer opportunities, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on June 9 Criers.
Minnesota legislature, governor approve funding for regional airport study
The Greater St. Cloud Development Corp. led a successful effort to secure funding for a grant to study air-transport-optimization planning for the St. Cloud Regional Airport. The appropriation was included in the transportation bill approved by the Minnesota legislature and signed into law this week by Gov. Mark Dayton. This one-time appropriation of $250,000 will be used to conduct a study for the St. Cloud Regional Airport. The study must be comprehensive and market-based, using economic development and air-service expertise to research, analyze and develop models and strategies that maximize the return on investments made to enhance the use and economic impact of the St. Cloud Regional Airport. For the complete story, more visit thenewsleaders.com and click on June 9 Criers.
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Council hones in on user-policies for new community center by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
They say the devil’s in the details, and that’s why the planners of the Sartell Community Center have been working on those devilish details to bring a consensus into focus for policies on how the center will be operated. The $11-million facility, in south Sartell, is expected to open sometime this August. It will contain three gyms, a walking track, a multi-purpose room, a professional kitchen, a KidZone, a locker-library service, a senior-citizen center and more. At the May 22 council, a lively and detailed discussion centered around mainly restrictions about food at the center and whether or not the policies are consistent across the board.
Council member David Peterson took issue with those two topics and therefore declined to vote yes for approval of policy updates as presented by city staff. The other four members voted yes. The two guest speakers at the meeting were Lyle Mathiasen, the center’s operations consultant; and Brian Deyak, owner/operator of ProField, St. Cloud. Last year, the council hired both those men to help forge policies for use of the community center. Sartell City Administrator/ Financial Director Mary Degiovanni told the council the policies as suggested at this point could well be tweaked in the future, but the city will first need to know who and how the center is used, along with many other factors that go into Council • page 2
Big trucks bring big smiles
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Signe Koosmann, 4, of Sartell, smiles as St. Cloud SWAT team member Officer Todd Weeres of Sartell, helps her climb down from the SWAT vehicle during Big Truck Night, which was hosted by the Sartell-St. Stephen PTO on May 25. Families with children attending Little Sabres Preschool or ECFE were invited to explore vehicles including a garbage truck, school bus, tow truck, semi truck, fire truck, police car, classic cars and more.
Man convicted of Sam Traut murder by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
The man accused of murdering a young Sartell man two years ago in Fargo was convicted June 2 by a jury of that murder and another murder. Convicted was Ashley Hunter, a Fargo man, who was convicted of beating to death Sam Traut, 24, using a hammer June 23, 2015. He attacked Traut, who had opened his door to the
man who said he was thirsty. When Traut returned from the kitchen with a glass of water, Hunter began beating him with a hammer, killing him. He later said he was afraid when Traut left the room to get the glass of water that his drug-induced paranoia led him to think Traut was actually going to call the police because he, Hunter, knew the police were looking for him after the murder of June 22. On the TV news, Hunter had been
announced as the person of interest in a stabbing murder June 22, also in Fargo. According to news accounts of the trial in the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead newspaper, the day before killing Traut, Hunter had stabbed to death 45-yearold Clarence Flowers, allegedly because Flowers had been pursuing Hunter’s female friends. Flowers had been stabbed 77 times, according to testimony in court.
During the trial, it was revealed Hunter had never known or met Traut but that he, Hunter, was in a drug-in- Traut duced state of paranoia when he committed the spur-of-the-moment, motive-less murder. Traut was the son of Mary Traut • page 3
Stewart shows pride for his new ride by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
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Jackson Stewart received his Make-A-Wish Sabre blue “kitty-kat” golf cart April 28 at a ceremony at Oak Ridge Elementary School. Jackson, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, enjoys riding on the cart and dusting it to keep it clean.
Sartell resident Jackson Stewart’s golf cart is no ordinary cart; it’s a wish come true. That is why he shows a great deal of pride for his new Sabre blue “kitty-kat” golf cart. His mother, Kat Stewart, said he often uses a cloth to wipe off the dust on the cart because he wants it to look nice. She said he’s also proud of the fact he gets to choose where he sits in the cart. “He knows it’s his and knows he can boot others out of seats if they are in the one he wants to sit in,” Kat said.
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Jackson is shy and doesn’t say a lot to people he doesn’t know well. When asked how he likes his new ride, Kat said he will often respond with “Awesome.” Jackson has been riding around almost daily in his new cart. He’s even been riding in it on rainy days, unless it was heavily raining. Because Jackson has trouble walking and doing other physical activities, the cart helps him get around. His family lives on five acres of land outside the city limits, and they have a trail Jackson can ride around on to explore his surroundings. Stewart • page 3
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Council from front page deciding usage policies. Deyak and Mathiasen, who have both had wide experiences in running athletic centers, agreed that flexibility is key, based on usage data. The council debated among themselves two questions: Should groups who rent space at the center be allowed to bring their own potluck type foods? Should the senior citi-
zens who use the center pay rental fees or do in-kind volunteer work for their place within the facility? Mathiasen said laws regulate how food is prepared and distributed in such centers and only licensed caterers are allowed to provide food to visitors, along with vending machines. Several council members said many in the public will be disappointed when they apply to rent the multi-purpose room and then cannot bring their own potluck foods or use
the center’s kitchen to make snacks or a dinner. Why, council member Peterson asked, can the senior-citizen group (The Senior Connection) hold potluck meals but other groups won’t be allowed to do the same? The Senior Connection has had many potluck meals throughout the years at its other temporary locations, including in the School District Office Building. Potluck dinners would be possible, Mathiasen noted, but only for a group that would bring in the food only for its
members who would not give it or sell it to any non-group member while in the center. But only licensed caterers could prepare food in the center’s professional kitchen. Then why, Peterson asked, would seniors be allowed to bring in slow cookers and such and prepare foods in the senior-center kitchenette area? Making exceptions for the seniors would not be fair for other groups of people, Peterson maintained. Deyak said those who operate the center in this case the
Friday, June 9, 2017 City of Sartell, cannot knowingly allow food into the center even if sandwiches, cookies or snacks. The determining factor is consciously knowing how much food, and who is bringing it in and letting it happen. Both Peterson and council member Mike Chisum said such reasoning will lead to an “ice-covered slippery slope,” as Chisum put it. Many groups, he argued, would not be willing to rent spaces there if they have to pay more for catered, as opposed to potluck, meals. Council • page 5
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On May 28, the Sauk Rapids Sixth-Grade Girls Head Basketball Coach Jonathon Roesch invited Head Coach Sue Kloetzer and the Sartell Travel SAYBA Sixth-Grade Girls-Team Black to scrimmage each other at the Xcel Energy Stadium. The Sartell SAYBA sixth-grade girls Team Black and Sauk Rapids Storm sixth-grade girls team members are (front row, left to right) Jaden Tretter, Taylor Heid, Danica Sarff, Addie Buchanan, Avery Templin, Belle Haddy, Reese Geiger and Grace Roesch; (back row, left to right) Sauk Rapids head coach Jonathon Roesch, SAYBA head coach Sue Kloetzer, Mia Rogholt, Reese Kloetzer, Sadie Schoenherr, Ella Gainsforth, Kella Mrozek, Emily Crandall, Sakiya Fredrickson, Ella Schueller, Taleigha Powell and SAYBA assistant coach Corey Schueller. Not pictured: SAYBA player Chloe Turner and SAYBA assistant coach Aaron Crandall. Afterward, the teams watched the Minnesota Lynx decimate the San Antonio Stars. “It was an awesome night between two community girls basketball teams,” Kloetzer said. “Thank you to Sauk Rapids Head Coach Jonathon Roesch for setting it all up for us.”
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Brenny honored with Minnesota Business Ethics Award Brenny Transportation Inc., a St. Joseph business, was recently named one of three Minnesota Business Ethics Awards recipients on May 10, Business Ethics Awareness Day, at the Nicollet Island Pavilion in Minneapolis. Each MBEA recipient received a crystal award along with a congratulatory letter from Gov. Mark Dayton. Brenny won in the small-company category with under 100 employees. “The 2017 MBEA recipients have demonstrated their tireless commitment to achieving and maintaining high ethical standards within their companies,” said Brian Volkmann, MBEA co-chair. “They strive to do what is best for all stakeholders while practicing sound business ethics.”
Other award winners included Reell Precision Manufacturing of St. Paul (mid-sized category with 100-500 employees) and U.S. Bank of Minneapolis (large-company category with more than 500 employees). Other state finalists for the MBEA, which were also lauded for their commitment to ethics in business, included: APPRO Development Inc. & CERRON Commercial Properties LLC, Lakeville; Star Choice Credit Union, Bloomington; Marsh & McLennan Agency (Minnesota Operations), Minneapolis; RADIAS Health, St. Paul; Liberty Diversified International, Minneapolis; and Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis. All were recognized as outstanding ethical Minnesota businesses.
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Stewart from front page Jackson, 8, will be a fourthgrader at Oak Ridge Elementary School next year. At 2-and-a-half years old, he was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disease which causes progressive degeneration of muscles, as well as weakness. Life expectancy for the disease is usually about 25 years. With the disease, muscle weakness can first affect the muscles of the hips, pelvic area, thighs and shoulders and later the skeletal muscles in the arms, legs and trunk. By the early teens, the heart and respiratory muscles may also be affected. Kat said Jackson is currently pretty healthy. He takes a steroid drug in the form of a pill that helps build up his muscles to fight against the rate of break down caused by the disease. He has appointments at the Gillette Hospital and is also part of an experimental research study at the University of Minnesota. His Make-A-Wish golf cart was given to him at a ceremony
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Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader • www.thenewsleaders.com April 28 at Oak Ridge Elementary School. Kat said the ceremony was wonderful and included many elementary and high school students. Coborn’s stores and Kretschmar, who contribute to Make-A-Wish, catered sandwiches and snacks for the event. The Sartell High School Student Council originally came up with the idea to help with the Make-A-Wish project for Jackson. Advisor Karri Fredrickson, who coordinates the student council, checked with the Stewart family to see if the students could help. Kat said they had just applied in September for Make-A-Wish shortly before Fredrickson contacted them, so the timing of everything was perfect. After the student council adopted Jackson’s Make-AWish, many other people became involved with his cause. They raised funds by selling homecoming T-shirts, school buttons, pom-poms, a Fun Fest held in March and more. The council raised enough money for Jackson’s wish and for two other wishes. “We were so thankful a group of high-school students was so
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motivated to contact an organization like Make-A-Wish and was so selfless to raise funds,” Kat said. “They were so excited to be a part of it, and everyone in the community has been so positive and generous.” Kat said her family is so very thankful for the kindness of all the people who wanted to help be a part of this for their son. She said Coborn’s and Kretschmar contacted their family to ask if Jackson’s photo could be used at their locations to promote Make-A-Wish. He became well-known statewide because of their posters and more. Kat said friends have told them they have seen Jackson’s photo at various locations. Kat and her husband, Josh, both work for the Sartell-St. Stephen School District. Kat is a science teacher at the Sartell Middle School and Josh is a special-education teacher at Sartell High School. Jackson has a brother, Rowan, 6; and sister, Jocelyn, 10. Children with life-threatening medical conditions can be referred for Make-A-Wish, which strives to grant experiences or “wishes” to these children.
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were conducted. Traut’s senseless murder stunned and saddened everyone who knew him in Sartell and beyond for his constant kindness. Hunter was also charged with arson for setting a fire in the apartment where Traut was living. The jury also convicted him on the arson charge. After the two-week trial, it took the jury only two hours to bring in its guilty verdict. Hunter could face life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He is expected to be sentenced within the next three months.
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Clay-target team members to compete at state by Darren Diekmann news@thenewsleaders
A number of Sartell-St.Stephen students are competing in what is possibly the largest shooting competition of its kind in the world. Fifty-five members of the Sartell school’s clay-target team will join more than 7,000 other Minnesota students grades 7 through 12 in competition at the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League Trap Shooting Championship, June 12-20. The nine-day competition will attract more than 25,000 spectators coaches and athletes, from 304 Minnesota schools, who will converge on the Alexandria Shooting Park in Alexandria, said Jim Sable, executive director of the MNSHSCTL. “Just six years ago the championship took just one day for 200 athletes,” Sable said. It’s amazing to think in just a few years the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League Trap Shooting Championship has become the largest shooting event in the world.” For individual competition, students are divided into novice, junior varsity and varsity classes, according to ability, said Ben Hoffman, a science
teacher for the high school and one of the coaches for the Sartell-St. Stephen team. Regardless of age, if a student is averaging a score of 10 or so in a round of 25, that will put him in the novice class, Hoffman explained. Team competition has nine classes determined, not by the size of the school, but by the number of team members. With a total of 73 members, Sartell is in the largest class, 9A. As a team Sartell does not expect to place in the tournament, Hoffman said. Two individuals though, seniors Austin Pietrowski, with an average score of 23, and Kaleb Myhrwold, with a 22 average, have a chance to finish in the top 100 if they shoot well, Hoffman said. Out of a field of more than 10,000 competitors, both are near the top 100 for average scores for the season, and they must hit a good number of 25s to keep up their averages. This season, an average score of 23.5 would put a student in the top 100. A round is 25 clay targets, and the student’s average score for the season is taken from two rounds for every week of the season. In Alexandria, students will be shooting four rounds for
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Volunteer coach Brett Avery (second from left) demonstrates shooting technique to Jackson Brown (center in black jacket) and Ian Houle (right). started. a total of 100 targets. firearms safety certification “I would say students were course through the Department Sartell started its clay-target team three years ago with really the ones who started of Natural Resources. about 50 students and joined pushing for this,” Hoffman The Trap Shooting Chamthe MNSHSCTL for the 2015 said. “They are the ones who pionship in Alexandria is also season, Hoffman said. It was approached me and asked if the team-qualifying event for one of more than 40 teams they could get the support of the MSHSL’s Clay Target State statewide that joined the league our school, would I be willing Tournament. that year along with neighbor- to coach.” The 100 individual students The team practices at Tel- with the highest averages during Sauk Rapids-Rice and Cold Spring, among other Central Tone/Luth Gun Range in St. ing the regular spring season Cloud on Saturday mornings. compete with the MNSHSCTL Minnesota teams. Hoffman has been coaching Paul Moe, also with Sartell-St. and the teams that finish in the the team for all three years and Stephen schools, coaches with top 40 in Alexandria will qualhelped get it started. He credits Hoffman. They are helped by ify to compete in the MSHSL Joe Opatz, who has led the six to eight dedicated volunteer state championships on June push to get several high school coaches. 24 at the Minneapolis Gun Club “We just couldn’t do all in Prior Lake. Minnesota is the clay-target teams going in Central Minnesota, for his help. we do if it wasn’t for their only state in the United States whose official high school It was the students, however, help,”Hoffman said. All the students on the Sar- league offers a high school trap Hoffman says who initiated the effort to get a clay-target team tell team have completed the shooting state tournament.
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Council from page 2 Degiovanni said the seniorcenter portion of the Sartell center was planned and built with their needs in mind, and one of those needs is the capability of bringing their own foods in just for their members to share. Council members Ryan Fitzthum and Pat Lynch, as well as Mayor Sarah Jane Nicoll, did not have any objections to allowing an exception for senior potlucks.
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Degiovanni said The Senior Connection will not pay rental for its use of the senior space in the center since that was part of the center plans from early on, that the facility would include a space for seniors. Peterson said he thinks the seniors should pay a rental or at least do some in-kind volunteer work at the center so other groups don’t feel slighted when they have to pay rentals there. Again, Degiovanni said the space was planned and built just for the seniors without any rentals planned-for-use policies. In addition, the seniors do, in fact, plan to do some volunteering and staffing at the center. Degiovanni noted the seniors, along with Sartell Girl Scouts, managed to collect
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3,000 used books to be stocked in the senior center’s bookshelves, which will be open to use by anybody, not just seniors.
Other policies
Sartell city staff, Mathiasen and Deyak met with many individuals and groups so the input could be used in designing use-policies for the center. They also consulted the League of Minnesota Cities for policy models, as well as those of other cities with city centers. During the first year of its operation, the center might require many adjustments based on usage, but throughout the process all involved must strive to draw up policies that are fair and consistent. Several council members said they want to ensure the policies make the center userfriendly and affordable, with access for all, with ongoing flexibility. There will be four priorities for rental policies at the Sartell Center. Priority 1: For activities sponsored or co-sponsored by the community center. Priority 2: For activities sponsored by the Sartell-St. Stephen School District or Sartell youth organizations, with at least 75 percent of the participants being Sartell residents or school-district residents. Priority 3: Sartell adult organizations comprised of at least
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The Sartell Community Center is expected to have a grand opening sometime in August. The date will be announced in the Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader as soon as it becomes definite. 75 percent of Sartell residents or school-district residents. Priority 4: Commercial uses or individuals or groups not meeting the above criteria in the other priorities. It was noted the policies cannot exclude out-of-towners because any facility built with half-cent sales-tax funds must be “regional” in nature, not able to exclude people not living in Sartell. The Sartell Center is being built almost totally with sales-tax revenue.
Rental fees
The following fees are not set in stone yet, and even later they can be amended for various reasons depending on user-demand, volume-user discounts and reduced fees during low-demand or seasonal
factors. The following are some examples: Gym rental: $25 per hour for priorities (1-3 see above) and $40 for priority 4. Walking track: $3 per day or $55 per year-round usage. Pickleball. $3 per session or $50 for 20 uses. KidZone $20 per hour, twohour minimum. Multi-purpose space A: $15 per hour for priorities 1-3 and $20 for priority 4. Multi-purpose spaces A and B (if they are both rented together): $25 per hour for priorities 1-3 and $40 for priority 4.
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All at the council meeting agreed that flexibility is important in shaping policies but that
it must be done in a fair, consistent and transparent fashion. The only way to ensure that is to wait and see who uses the center, which uses are in heaviest demand and seasonal fluctuations, along with other factors and data. The city staff and the council will be updated on those factors throughout the coming year – and beyond. Peterson said he expects the council to receive highly detailed data on a monthly basis, such as usage by age groups and even data on heating, cooling and all other operational factors. Since Sartell will serve as the center’s “executive board,” it’s essential the council is privy to that data month to month, he noted.
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Love President Trump? Send us letters of praise President Donald Trump continues to dig himself deeper into his own hole. His latest stupid decision is to exit the global-warming Paris Agreement. Sciencedeniers worldwide – those cave-age hold-outs – are probably toasting that ridiculous move. Trump’s diehard believers are probably thinking “He keeps his promises. Way to go! Yep, he’ll make America great again.” Trump made promises alright, and after he delivers on them most of his supporters are going to be sorry sooner or later: millions of people losing health insurance, the withering away of jobs in hard-hit areas, international instability by bad-mouthing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, skewed tax policies to make the extravagantly rich even richer and the poor poorer, helter-skelter domestic and foreign policies that are as quickly fickle and changeable as the steely in a pin-ball machine. What’s sadly ironic is Trump’s erratic behavior and decisions will mostly hurt the very people who voted for him in economically depressed areas. They are like those who believed the wizard in the Wizard of Oz, the fake manipulator behind the illusion. Many say they voted Trump because they were disgusted by establishment politics, legislative deadlock, same-o same-o. Fair enough. And some reasoned, dumbly, that anybody is better than “crooked” Hillary Clinton. Well, sorry, but the chickens are coming home to roost. It’s time for a serious national reckoning. A terrible mistake was made. Day by day, Trump is showing himself to be a reckless, feckless egomaniac out of control. This newspaper has received (and published) letters to editor extremely critical of its opinion pieces against candidate and – later – President Trump. That’s well and fine. We welcome criticism. We relish lively debate. However, we’ve been wondering why there is a lack of letters or guest columns praising Trump and his presidency. Just about the pro-Trump defenses heard these days are that it was time for change or at least he’s better than Hillary. Well, be careful who you vote for. Those voters got change, that’s for sure, but probably not the change they bargained for. Sad to say, so did the rest of us who didn’t vote for him. Some Trump voters we know are thinking, “Oops. Big mistake.” Buyers’ remorse? That was this editor’s opinion from the getgo, from the day he announced his candidacy, that Trump would prove to be a Big Mistake. And despite the excoriating criticism we’ve received from many readers, we stand by our conclusion that Trump was and is utterly unqualified to serve as president. Day after day, he is proving it. Never mind the “Russia Connection.” His emotional instability, his lack of know-how, his conflicts of interest, his nepotism, his pathological lying, his – let’s face it – self-centered stupidity are enough to make us all very, very worried about the future of our country, our world. Disasters loom . . . But, hey, what do we know? If this editorial makes you angry, please by all means submit letters supporting Trump and his decisions. We will publish them, and that’s a promise.
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Opinion Sgt. Pepper taught the band 50 years ago It was 50 years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. Well, not quite, but close. It was June 2, 1967. And what a momentous day it was – the day a pop-rock album changed the cultural landscape of the world, the springtime day just before the Summer of Love, the day the Beatles released their psychedelic masterwork, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. How well I remember first hearing that album. My astonished ears kept hearing it over and over, nonstop, night and day, wherever I went that summer. I was 18, living in my boyhood St. Cloud home at 904 Fifth Ave. S., a block south of Barden Park near the college. Walking up Fifth Avenue to downtown just about every day or night with friends, I would hear Sgt. Pepper songs cascading out of the open windows of so many houses – many of them college rooming houses. It’s as if everybody in the world fell madly in love, all at once, with that landmark album. And what a landmark it was! To use the lingo of those carefree hippy days, the album was far out, groovy, mind-blowing. Wow! First of all, there was the strange cover, a riot of colors showing the Beatles in their early mop-head days and to the right the Beatles gussied up in blindingly bright shiny-satin, old-time military-band members’ outfits. The rest of the cover showed cardboard cut-out images of famous people – everyone from Mae West to Edgar Allan Poe, from Dylan Thomas to Bob Dylan. They were all crowded together like captives in a Technicolor sardine tin. The back of the double-fold album was blazing red, with all the songs’ lyrics printed on it.
Dennis Dalman Editor Opening the double-fold album, we beheld inside more strange things: a huge spread of the Pepper/Beatles’ faces, as well as a goofy cardboard insert from which one could cut out objects like a Sgt. Pepper badge and a mustache. The album’s packaging could be described as cartoony. Cheeky-whimsical. We were puzzled, amused, intrigued. They must have been really stoned when they did this one, we all agreed. As Paul McCartney sang in “Penny Lane:” “Strange. Very strange!” After we (brother, friends, me) marveled at the album, one of us placed the vinyl record on the phonograph’s turntable. Stunned, we sat there speechless. We’d never heard anything like it. The music was as different as the cover. “It was 20 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play . . . And let me introduce to you the one and only Billy Shears and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band . . .” That rousing opener segued into a forlorn-sounding Ringo singing something about getting by with a little help from his friends. There was a song about a meter maid named Lovely Rita and one about a young girl who runs away from home to elope with a man she met in the “motor trade.” There was a vaudeville-style geriatric ditty about some guy wondering if, when he turns 64, his wife will still need him, feed him. Another odd
tune had the sound of a whirling circus calliope organ with images from under the Big Top: Mr. Kite, Henry the Horse and the Henderson performers leaping through a “hogshead of real fire!” A lot of the album had that kind of circusrinky-tinky feel to it. But the strangest song of all was the last one – John Lennon’s masterpiece, “A Day in the Life.” His voice drenched with melancholy world-weariness, he sang about how he “read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade . . . “ It was a kind of surrealistic cityscape comprised of floating dreamy images, most having to do with various types of alienation, dislocations, the sundry anxieties of urban life. It was most definitely not a rocker, not a thigh-slapper. The song ended with a delirious orchestral crescendo, making listeners feel as if we were accelerating dizzily past the sound barrier, and then the dizzy acceleration ended abruptly with a crashing chord whose sonic wake was sustained for nearly 30 seconds. That song, as we used to say, “blew us away,” left us groping for words. We played it and that whole album constantly through that very strange and very wonderful Summer of Love, 1967. Everybody else played it, too. We were all on the same page. Sgt. Pepper is not my favorite Beatles album. That’s a three-way tight tie among Rubber Soul, Revolver and Abbey Road. But of all the music I’ve ever loved, nothing brings back lost time to me with such vivid immediacy as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It’s a veritable time machine that can take me for a trip right back to my bursting, blooming youth.
Speak up, speak out or go home For 15 years and then some I have been going to meetings – city council meetings, school board meetings, county commissioner meetings, town board meetings and other assorted board meetings. On the whole I find them interesting – some more than others. Some say all these meetings are boring, but I believe boredom says more about the person claiming to be bored than it does about the so called “boring subject.” Of course there is a time when meetings can get boring. What you say? How can I make such a statement after saying what I did in the previous paragraph? Fair question – let me explain. I get a bit bored and more than a bit irritated when members of the board, the commission, the council mumble or when they speak to one another in tones so hushed, or in a volume so low, only a hearing-aid dog could pick up the sound. And guess what. It makes no difference if they have a $5,000 publicaddress system or not. A public-address system only works when you speak into the mic. Most are uni-directional meaning they don’t pick up sound if not spoken into fairly directly. Since most city halls and board rooms now rival small college theaters and are set up so the audience is a minimum of 15 feet from the speaker, anyone not speaking to the audience as well as to someone on the dais can’t be heard. My first city council meeting was in Becker. Perhaps that spoiled me. Everyone on the council and in chambers spoke into the microphone, and even
Dave DeMars Reporter when not using a microphone made sure they were loud enough to be heard in the back of the room. On the other hand, a three-person township board where I sat no more than 5 feet from the chair was not so accommodating. Only the chair spoke most of the time. The other two members mostly communicated in nods, grunts, growls, belches and burps punctuated by the arched eyebrow, the eye roll or the hundred-yard stare. Whenever there was a need for board action, the chair would say, “Do we have a motion to approve the minutes?” Grunt! Nod! And then the chair would say, “Motion by Joe, seconded by Mark. All in favor?” There would be a low growl. “Opposed – same sign. Motion carried.” Then there was another group who held their meetings in a room just outside a furnace-blower area. They could hear one another usually, but when pushed they would simply shout a number out. Everyone had the newly revised agenda, so they could vote and the audience would never know what was voted on. This group really carried on the
public’s business in a very private way. In another commission, they would meet an hour before the actual scheduled meeting. They would talk about the upcoming meeting, decide on who would make which motion and then proceed to hold a meeting. There was never a decision that wasn’t hashed out in the privacy of the back office prior to coming to the public. Call it a premeeting workshop. “It saves a lot of time and embarrassment and there is little argument when we are all on the same page,” one commission member said. Of course there were no actual votes taken at the pre-meeting workshop, but the results were pretty well cut and dried. Seldom did a concern come up for a vote that hadn’t already been decided. This in a state that prides itself on its open-meeting laws and transparency. City councils, school boards, county commissioners and all the park boards, planning commissions and humanrights councils are all politics being practiced at a very basic level. In fact according to Merriam Webster, the word politics derives from the Greek word meaning “city” and the related word polîtés, meaning “citizen.” It gives us the term meaning cities or communities or the citizens who live in them. So Mr. Mayor, Councilor, Boardmember, Commissioner – when you are debating policy, setting agendas, passing budgets or other resolutions, speak up and speak out so we can all hear you and know what you want to do. Don’t bore us to tears.
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Community Calendar Is your event listed? Send your information to: Newsleader Calendar, P.O. Box 324, St. Joseph, MN 56374; fax it to 320-363-4195; or, e-mail it to news@thenewsleaders.com. Friday, June 9 Brat sale, sponsored by the St. Joseph Lions, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 First Ave. N. Benton County Museum, 10 a.m.4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320-253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org. Lindbergh’s Complex Legacy presentation and discussion, 2:30-3 p.m., Charles A. Lindbergh Historic Site, 1620 Lindbergh Drive S., Little Falls. St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, 3-6:30 p.m., near the Wobegon Trail Center, C.R. 2. Art Crawl, 5-9 p.m., downtown St. Cloud. SummerFest, 5 p.m. Libertyville, 6 p.m. 1K Kid’s Fun Run, Pine Meadow Elementary School, 1029 Fifth St. N., Sartell. Saturday, June 10 Brat sale, sponsored by the St. Joseph Lions, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 First Ave. N. Split Rock Lighthouse Open House, presented by the Minnesota Historical Society, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 3713 Split Rock Lighthouse Road, Two Harbors. SummerFest, 10 a.m. parade (Sartell Street to Seventh Street N.) 1-3 p.m. bike safety rodeo, Sartell City Hall, 125 Pinecone Road N., 5 p.m.12:30 a.m. street dance, 208 Second St. S., 10 p.m. fireworks. Central Minnesota Chapter of the Federation of the Blind of Minnesota, 12:30 p.m., American Legion, 17 Second Ave. N., Waite Park. Sunday, June 11 Parish Bazaar, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. AUTOMOBILES/MOTORCYCLES WANTED MOTORCYCLES: TOP CASH PAID! For Old Motorcycles! 1900-1979. DEAD OR ALIVE! 920-371-0494 (MCN) ADOPTION PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Call us first. Living expenses, housing, medical, and continued support afterwards. Choose adoptive family of your choice. Call 24/7. 855-390-6047 (Void in IL & IN) (MCN) A childless married couple seeks to adopt. Will be hands-on mom & devoted dad. Financial security. Expenses paid. Call Holly & Tiger. 1-800-790-5260 (ask for Adam). (MCN) ANNOUNCEMENTS Benton County “Countryfest”!Headliner Tracy Lawrence plus Hailey Whitters and Beau Timmerman, Sat., June 24, gates open 5 p.m. at the Benton County Fairgrounds, Vinton, Iowa. For complete information www.bentoncountycountryfest.com. (MCN) AUTOMOBILES DONATE YOUR CAR TO CHARITY. Receive maximum value of write off for your taxes. Running or not! All conditions accepted. Free pickup. Call for details. 855752-6680 (MCN) DONATE YOUR CAR, TRUCK OR BOAT TO HERITAGE FOR THE BLIND. Free 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care Of. 1-800-283-0205 (MCN) CABLE/INTERNET Spectrum Triple Play: TV, Internet & Voice for $29.99 ea. 60 MB per second speed. No contract or commitment. We buy your existing contract up to $500! 1-800-919-3588 (MCN) Exede satellite internet. Affordable, high speed broadband satellite internet anywhere
breakfast, 9 a.m. outdoor Mass, St. James Parish, Jacobs Prairie (between St. Joseph and Cold Spring on CR 2). Monday, June 12 Benton County Museum, 10 a.m.4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320-253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org. Lunch and cards, sponsored by Helping Hands Outreach and The Rusty Nail, noon-2 p.m., The Rusty Nail, 4 CR 2 S., St. Stephen. Market Monday, 3-6:30 p.m., parking lot of Hardware Hank, Seventh St. N., Sartell. marketmonday. org. Fare For All, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Resurrection Lutheran Church, 610 CR 2, St. Joseph. 1-800-582-4291.fareforall. org. Sartell City Council, 6 p.m., Sartell City Hall, 125 Pinecone Road N. 320-253-2171. Central Minnesota Habitat for Humanity speaker Bruce Johnson, executive director, sponsored by Father Werner Knights of Columbus Council, 7:30 p.m., All Saints Academy, 32 W. Minnesota St., St. Joseph. Tuesday, June 13 55+ Driver Improvement Program (four-hour refresher course), 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Life Assembly of God, 2409 Clearwater Road, St. Cloud. 1-888-234-1294. mnsafetycenter.org. Sartell Chamber of Commerce, 11:30 a.m., Waters Church, 1227 Pinecone Road. 320-258.6061. info@sartellchamber.com. Central Minnesota Market, 3-5:30 p.m., VA Hospital, 4801 Veterans Drive, St. Cloud. 320-251-2498. Holistic Moms Network, 7-8:30 p.m., Good Earth Co-op, 2010 Veterans Drive, St. Cloud. 320-252-2489. National Alliance on Mental Health, 7-8:30 p.m., Calvary Commuin the U.S. Order now and save $100. Plans start at $39.99/month. Call 1-800-712-9365 (MCN) DISH TV – BEST DEAL EVER! Only $39.99/mo. Plus $14.99/mo Internet (where avail.) FREE Streaming. FREE Install (up to 6 rooms.) FREE HD-DVR. Call 1-800-3903140 (MCN) Cut the Cable! CALL DIRECTV. Bundle & Save! Over 145 Channels PLUS Genie HD-DVR. $50/month for 2 Years (with AT&T Wireless.) Call for Other Great Offers! Call 1-800-203-4378 (MCN) SWITCH TO DIRECTV. From $50/ Month, includes FREE Genie HD/DVR # 3 months HBO, SHOWTIME, CINEMAX, STARZ. Get a $50 Gift Card. Call 877-8945275 (MCN) Change the way you watch TV- Get rid of cable and get DIRECTV! You may also qualify to receive $100 VISA gift card when you sign up today - Limited time Only. CALL NOW! 844-359-1203 (MCN) Stop paying too much for cable, and get DISH today. Call 855-589-1962 to learn more about our special offers! (MCN) DISH NETWORK. TV for Less, Not Less TV! FREE DVR. FREE Install (up to 6 rooms.) $49.99/mo. PLUS Hi-Speed Internet - $14.95/mo (where vailable.) Call 1-855434-0020 (MCN) EMPLOYMENT/HELP WANTED MAKE $1,000 WEEKLY! Paid in advance! Mailing Brochures at Home! Easy pleasant work. Begin Immediately! Age unimportant! WWW.HomeBucks.US HELP WANTED!! Make $1000 A Week Mailing Brochures From Home! No Experience Required. Helping home workers since 2001! Genuine Opportunity. Start Immediately! www.WorkingOpp.com (MCN)
nity Church, 1200 Roosevelt Road, St. Cloud. 320-259-7101. Wednesday, June 14 St. Joseph Area Chamber of Commerce, 11:30 a.m., St. Joseph Community Fire Hall, 323 Fourth Ave. NE. stjosephchamber.com. Free Trolley Night, 5-9:25 p.m., Metro Bus Transit Center, 510 First St. S., St. Cloud, and Lake George, St. Cloud. ridemetrobus.com and summertimebygeorge.com. Thursday, June 15 Rummage Sale, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. today and Friday, 7 a.m.-noon Saturday, Celebration Lutheran Church, 1500 Pinecone Road N., Sartell. Coffee and Conversation, a senior discussion group, 9 a.m., Country Manor, 520 First St. NE, Sartell. 55+ Driver Improvement Program (four-hour refresher course), noon-4 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, 90 Riverside Drive SE, St. Cloud. 1-888-234-1294. mnsafetycenter.org, Family Farmers’ Market, 2-6 p.m., River East parking lot, CentraCare Health Plaza, 1900 CentraCare Circle, St. Cloud. 320-252-2422. Market Thursday, 3-6:30 p.m., parking lot of Hardware Hank, Seventh St. N., Sartell. marketmonday. org. Sauk Rapids Farmers’ Market, 4-6:30 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, 2163 Mayhew Lake Road NE, Sauk Rapids. Three Parks, Two Counties naturalist-led hikes, 6:30 p.m., Warner Lake County Park, 485 Stearns CR 143. parkinfo@co.stearns.mn.us. 320-255-6172. Friday, June 16 Avon Spunktacular Days, today and Saturday, Wobegon Park. avonFINANCIAL Are you in BIG trouble with the IRS? Stop wage & bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues, & resolve tax debt FAST. Call 888-606-6673 (MCN)
chamber.weebly.com, 320-217-4792. Rummage Sale, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. today and 7 a.m.-noon Saturday, Celebration Lutheran Church, 1500 Pinecone Road N., Sartell. Benton County Museum, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320-253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org. Burger and brat sale, sponsored by Knights of Columbus, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 First Ave. NW. St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, 3-6:30 p.m., near the Wobegon Trail Center, C.R. 2. Tae Guk Kwon Do, 3-4 p.m., Independent Lifestyles, 215 N Benton Drive, Sauk Rapids. 320-267-7717. St. Cloud Singles Club Dance, 8 p.m.-midnight, American Legion, 17 Second Ave. S., Waite Park. 320-
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LEGAL NOTICE SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN SCHOOL DISTRICT 748 SECTION 00 11 13 - CALL FOR BIDS The Administration recommends the Board of Education authorize a Call for Bids for Sartell-St. Stephen New High School Bid Package 2. Sartell-St. Stephen School District will receive sealed bids at the District Offices at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Plans will be available on or after Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Contact the offices of Winkelman Building Co., LLC for access, 320-253-2411. A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held for the Sartell-St. Stephen New High School BP-2 at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at Sartell-St. Stephen School District Offices, located at 212 Third Ave. N., Sartell, Minn. 56377. Attendees WILL BE REQUIRED
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to park on the east side of the building and check in at Door 10. Please respond to Matt at Winkelman Building Co., LLC by email to mattk@winkbuild.com if you have plans to attend the pre-bid meeting. Types of bidding may include but are not limited to: Cast-in-Place Footings and Foundations with related Excavations, Structural Steel-Material, Structural Steel-Installation, Precast Concrete Walls and Plank, Masonry, Passenger Elevators, Doors/Frames and Hardware, Athletic Equipment, Aglime Surfacing, Tennis Courts, Landscaping, Irrigation and Fencing. Publish: June 2 & 9, 2017
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Plant a row, harvest a row to feed hungry
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Matthew Bengtson
Parents: Tiffany & Ben Anderson & Christopher Bengtson Future plans: Taking time off school and working
Kali Enstad
Parents: Jennifer Johnson & James Enstad
Allison Fournier
Parents: Julie & Ken Future plans: To attend SCTCC
Consider planting an extra row in your garden and donating the produce to your local food shelf. Favorites include carrots, beans, beets, kohlrabi, corn, potatoes, cabbage, peppers, onions and asparagus. Any produce that has a longer
Lindsey Fournier
Parents: Julie & Ken
Nicole Fournier
Parents: Julie & Ken Future plans: To attend SCTCC
People Callie Grosz, daughter of Danelle and Dennis Grosz, Sartell, recently received the Provost’s Scholarship in the amount of $6,000 from North Dakota State University-Fargo. The scholarship recognizes high academic achievement. Grosz will enter NDSU in the fall and plans to major in pharmacy. Cole Moritz of Sartell was recently named to the spring president’s honor list at North Dakota State College of Science-Wahpeton. Students must achieve a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Moritz is majoring in welding technology and also earned silver in the NDSCS state leadership and skills conference held this past
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spring in Bismarck, N.D. Cassie Schroer, daughter of Elizabeth and Paul Schroer of Sartell, was recently named to the spring dean’s list at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minn. Schroer is a 2013 graduate of Sartell High School. Students must maintain a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Six Sartell students were recently named to the spring dean’s list at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. They and their majors are as follows: Adam Schroer, a sophomore, pre-business; Blake Tchida, a senior, mechanical engineering; Bret Burggraff, a sophomore, theatre; Nate Miller, a sopho-
more, computer science; Wyatt Hill, a sophomore, mathematics; and Zachary Silbernick, a senior, civil engineering. Students must achieve a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Scott Umland of Sartell recently graduated from Minnesota State Community and Technical College-Detroit Lakes, Fergus Falls, Moorhead and Wadena. He’s majoring in gas utility construction and service. Joyce Platz of Sartell, was recently named to the spring dean’s list at Rochester Community and Technical College. Students must achieve a minimum 3.0 grade-point average to qualify for this honor.
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