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Carmel Roll/Lady Slipper rides set
On June 13, riders can hit the Wobegon Trail for the Carmel Roll, and on June 20, they can partake in the Lady Slipper Ride. The Carmel Roll Ride has stops along the way with refreshments, including carmel rolls. The Lady Slipper Ride takes cyclists along a path known for stands of the state flower, the lady slipper. Both rides benefit the future connection between the Lake Wobegon Trail into St. Cloud. For more information, head to carmelrollride.com or ladyslipperride. com.
Dam 2 Dam Ride set on Mississippi bikeway
A free scenic cycling ride along the Mississippi River will be held at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 20 starting at Le Bourget Park in Little Falls. Cyclists can choose a 20- or 40-mile scenic loop with two rest stops for refreshments and restroom facilities. The route follows the Great River Road to Blanchard Dam through Lindbergh State Park and returns to Little Falls on Hillton Road for a 20-mile ride. The 40-mile loop continues down the Great River Road and crosses the Mississippi River near Rice. Sign up for this free ride on the day of the event. It will be held rain or shine. For more information on this and other bike rides, visit the Little Falls Convention and Visitor Bureau website at littlefallsmn.com or the Central Minnesota Bicycle Club website at cmnbikeclub.com.
Free Trolley rides available for Summertime by George!
The Metro Bus trolley will run every Wednesday night from 5-9:25 p.m. for the Summertime by George! event June 10-Aug. 26. The trolley is free to ride. It will make a loop between downtown and Lake George every 10 minutes, starting at 5 p.m. from the Metro Bus Transit Center, located at 510 First St. S., St. Cloud. The last departure will leave at 9:25 p.m. from Lake George. In addition to the Transit Center and Lake George, trolley stops are located near most downtown parking lots, River’s Edge Convention Center and the Paramount Theater. Trolley stops are identified with a special “Summertime by George! Free Trolley” sign. The route map is available at ridemetrobus.com and summertimebygeorge.com.
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Abby Kuklok (left) and McKenzie Lunquist, both of Sartell, careen down an inflatable slide at the Libertyville event June 13, 2014 in Pinecone Regional Park. The event was part of Sartell SummerFest 2014.
Let the fun begin. The 24th annual Sartell SummerFest 2015 will kick off at 6 p.m. Friday, June 12 with a running event at Sartell Middle School, including the Mayor’s 5k Race and a Kiddie 1k fun run. The next day, Saturday, at 10 a.m. the SummerFest Grand Parade will begin at 10 a.m. and wend its way along Riverside Avenue to its finish at Sartell Middle School. From 11 a.m.-3 p.m., there will be the Libertyville Family Fun Fest, also at the middleschool grounds, with music, children’s activities, food sales and more. From 5 p.m. to midnight
Saturday, Great River Bowl’s Partner’s Pub will feature a street dance with music by Whiskey Tango starting at 5:30 p.m. and DiamondBack starting at 8:30 p.m. There will be a break in the music at 10 p.m. for the fireworks, which will be shot off into the skies just south of Great River Bowl. On Sunday, June 14, Blackberry Golf Club will offer 18 holes of golf, with cart, for only $19.07, a monetary amount reflecting the year Sartell was founded, 1907. To register for the golf event, call 320-257-4653. Organizers are hoping rain doesn’t wash out the SummerFest Parade the way it did Summerfest • page 8
‘Movies, Music in the Park’ returns by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
A Thursday-night movieand-music festival began Thursday at Pinecone Central Park in Sartell with the showing of Wall-E, a wildly popular computer-animated science-fiction adventure from 2008. It is the second year of “Movies and Music in the Park.“
The movie series, sponsored by BankVista, will continue with two more movies: Dirty Dancing Thursday, July 23 and A Bug’s Life Thursday, Aug. 13. Both will screen at 8:30 p.m. Pinecone Park is located at 1105 Central Park Blvd, just off Pinecone Road N. Movie-goers and music lovers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets, mosquito lotion and their
own snacks, although there is also a concession stand at the site for food purchases. Dirty Dancing, released in 1987, is an adult-themed romantic movie with lots of music and dancing, not to mention personal intrigues thrown in for suspense. The film, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, was a blockbuster hit. Its plot involves a young wom-
an who visits a resort in the Catskills in upstate New York, where she and a dance instructor fall in love. The movie features the smash hit song, I’ve Had the Time of My Life. Like Wall-E, A Bug’s Life is another computer-animated comedy-adventure released by Pixar-Walt Disney in 1998. It’s about an ant who seeks out Park • page 3
After beating cancer, Hagy bravely forges on by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
It seems as if Summer Hagy of Sartell was born to fit her first name, what with her cheerful, sunny-bright and optimistic disposition. Hagy, a cancer survivor, is anything but a quitter. No autumn gloom for her, no wintry despair. Energetic and determined, she fought and she beat breast cancer. At the recent Relay for Life cancer fundraiser in Sartell, Hagy took time to share her personal story with the Sartell Newsleader. On June 26, 2014, just one day before she was set to go on an ocean cruise, a medical check-up found the cancer, which her husband had suspected. It was Stage 2A, a
lower stage, but – as with any cancer – any stage is serious and frightening. “I’d had a complete physical just six months before my diagnosis and nothing showed up at that time,” she said. “It’s a good thing my husband suspected it might be cancer.” Hagy underwent 33 radiation treatments at the CentraCare Coborn Cancer Center in St. Cloud. Although the breast cancer is gone, she is continuing occasional chemo treatments because she discovered she is genetically susceptible to cancer, the same kind of genetic predisposition faced by movie actress Angelina Jolie. Like many other cancer survivors, Hagy, her husband, Hagy • page 4
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Cancer survivor Summer Hagy of Sartell (fourth from left) is surrounded by family and supporters, all member of Team Hagy. The team was preparing to walk many miles around the track at Sartell Middle School as part of the Relay for Life rally June 5. From left to right are Chad Frimanslund of Minneapolis; Maddux Hagy of Sartell (Summer’s stepson); Connie Petersen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Summer’s mother); Summer Hagy; Jeff Hagy (Summer’s husband); Nancy Elgin of Cedar Point, Iowa (Summer’s stepmother); her husband Don Elgin (Summer’s father); and Andrew Yeager of Grand Rapids, Minn.
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SCFCU matches grant funding for Sartell High School financial education and micro-financing initiative St. Cloud Federal Credit is proud to announce that a $2,500 grant submission to the Minnesota Credit Union Foundation on behalf of Sartell High School was awarded. The credit union also committed to matching the grant if it was awarded; the high school now has $5,000 to fund a financial education program focused on helping people in developing countries. The social studies department of Sartell High School is now teaching Human Geography to create a lending curriculum to fund student-led micro-financing to people in developing countries around the world. Ninthgraders will create development plans for different parts of the world which will be presented to a panel. Finalized plans will result in research for micro-lending opportunities in those areas of the world selected. In turn the students will partner with Kiva, a global non-profit organization that helps people around the world alleviate poverty through small loans. Three social studies students, Alexis Winter, Lexy Oftedahl and
Ryan Christle, researched a project funded by SCFCU to give micro-loans to people in developing Oftedahl Winter c o u n t r i e s . Christle Their high school teacher Roy ent to in order to help determine Snyder researched and launched which countries will receive the the program. Since the project’s grant money. inception, he has seen the stu“We are really excited about dents gain an immediate increase this opportunity to help kids in in financial and world knowledge our community,” Meyer said. and issues surrounding poverty. “We care about improving finan“These are real life stories,” cial education and this program Snyder said. “The biggest thing accomplishes that for these ninthI see is empathy and increas- grade students. In addition to the ing understanding that helping is students, this program is improvnot about a handout but about a ing the lives of people around the partnership. They are acquiring world and is an awesome opporfinancial and world knowledge, tunity we are extremely proud to confidence and skills to develop be a part of.” passion by having to present their Most of the loans granted will findings that result in a real im- be between $50 and $100 and pact.” will help the students with lendJed Meyer, president and ing and collection knowledge in CEO of St. Cloud Federal Credit addition to global knowledge of Union, submitted the grant and developing countries. The paycommitted to the matching funds. back of the loans will create a The credit union created a panel self-perpetuating program to be of experts the students will pres- used by students in future years.
Nine Sartell students were recently named to the spring dean’s list at the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minn. They and their majors are as follows: Alicia Groth, nursing; Melodie Kabanuk Dohm, nursing; Tracy Karl, accounting; Mark Loscheider, exercise physiology; Margaret Minnerath, biochemistry; Mariah Moldaschel, health sciences; Jennifer Picken, health information management; Corinne Skoog, marketing; and Lindsey Tollefson, management. Students must maintain a minimum 3.75 grade-point to qualify for this honor.
and molecular biology, magna cum laude; and Amani Yassin, psychological science.
Brigid Brew, daughter of Doug Brew of Sartell, was recently named to the spring dean’s list at Benedictine College, Atchinson, Kan. Students must maintain a minimum 3.5 grade-point average of 3.5 to qualify for this honor. Four Sartell students recently graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn. They and their majors are as follows: Matthew Husmann, public accounting, magna cum laude; Krystal Kreutzer, psychological science, cum laude; Rachel Scharf, biochem
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Callie Frank, Sartell, was recently named to the spring dean’s high honors list at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. Students must achieve a minimum 4.0 grade-point average to qualify. Two Sartell students were recently named to the spring dean’s honors list at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. They are the following: Michaela Fassler and Carly Spoden. Students must achieve a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify. Two Sartell students were recently inducted into the national honor societies at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn. They are the following: Katherine Nash, daughter of Vickie Nash and Don Dewitt, a Sartell Senior High School graduate, Beta Beta Beta (the national biological honor society); and Grant Wintheiser, son of Maria and Robb Wintheiser, a Cathedral High School graduate, Phi Beta Kappa (the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor so-
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ciety). Two Sartell students were recently named to the spring dean’s list at the University of WisconsinMadison. They are the following: Zachary Heim, College of Letters and Science, and Megan Murphy, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Students must achieve a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify. Jared Baxa, Sartell, was recently named to the honor roll at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacology.Students must achieve a 3.25-3.749 gradepoint average to qualify. Six Sartell students from Sauk Rapids-Rice High School were recognized along with 80 others and awarded certificates for perfect attendance during the 2014-15 school year. They are the following: juniors Marcus Moldaschel and Nathaniel Stidmon; sophomore Chase Thompson; and freshmen Jessica Denton, Rachel Taszarek and Jacqueline Yanez Nunez.
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If any readers have tips concerning crimes, they should call the Sartell Police Department at 320-2518186 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at 320-255-1301 or access its tip site at www.tricountycrimestoppers.org. Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for crimes.
May 27 1:01 a.m. Suspicious activity. Brookwood Lane. A report was made regarding an adult female breaking glass bottles and yelling outside a residence. Officers arrived and spoke to all parties, who stated the situation was now calm and they needed no assistance. 10:24 p.m. Suspicious activity. 3rd Avenue N. A report was made regarding loud noises coming from outside a residence. Officers checked the residence and found a service door slightly open but no one in the area. May 28 3:45 a.m. Gunshots. Heritage Drive. A complaint was made regarding gunshots going off in the area. Officers found some residents having a bonfire and fireworks. 2:17 p.m. Traffic stop. Roberts Road. A vehicle was witnessed traveling 50 mph in a posted 35mph zone. The driver was issued a citation and released. May 29 4:56 p.m. Juvenile problem. 2nd Street S. A report was made regarding two juveniles possibly fighting on the side of the roadway. An officer was driving through the area, to attend to another call, and saw the juveniles running through the rain. They could not be located afterward. 10:34 p.m. Suspicious vehicle. 3rd Street N. A complaint was made regarding an unknown vehicle continuously driving through a neighborhood. An officer checked the area and was unable to locate the described vehicle. May 30 12:32 a.m. Suspicious vehicle. Northside Park. While on patrol, an officer located a vehicle at the park. Two males stated they were playing disc golf. They were advised of the park hours and agreed to leave without incident. 6:39 p.m. Animal. 17th Street N. An officer located ducklings in a storm drain. The drain was
removed and residents assisted the officer in going down into the drain. The officer retrieved seven ducklings and returned them to their mother. May 31 12:24 a.m. Intoxicated female. Clubhouse Road. A report was made regarding an intoxicated female, who was no longer able to be controlled. Officers arrived and were not able to understand her speech and she needed to be restrained. She was transported to St. Cloud Hospital and left in their care. 4:03 a.m. Domestic. 5th Street NE. A report was made regarding an intoxicated male fighting with an adult female. Officers arrived and both parties stated the argument was only verbal and they needed no assistance. June 1 1:15 p.m. Stalled vehicle. 2nd Street S. While on patrol, an officer located a vehicle stalled in the roadway. The officer called for a tow truck and provided safety lights until it was removed. 5:59 p.m. Driving complaint. Pinecone Road. A complaint was made regarding the erratic driving of another vehicle. An officer located the vehicle and found no signs of impairment. The driver stated she was swerving due to not knowing directions to her destination. June 2 7:38 a.m. Traffic stop. 19th Avenue S. A vehicle was witnessed traveling 58 mph in a posted 40-mph zone. The driver stated he was unaware of his speed. He was issued a citation and released. June 6 10:19 a.m. Vehicle accident. CR 2/CR 4, St. Wendel Township. A 41-year-old male from Sartell was driving south on CR 2 with a related minor in the passenger seat, approaching the intersection with CR 4. The male attempted to turn east onto CR 4, but did not see a vehicle approaching on CR 4 from the west. The two vehicles collided. The other driver was a 54-year-old female from Avon. The female was transported to St. Cloud Hospital. The male received a citation for the collision. St. Stephen Fire and Rescue assisted the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office in responding to the incident.
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Park from front page help from the world of bugs to help fight off a grasshopper invasion of his ant colony. The bug warriors he recruits happen to be members of a circus troupe. The film, which earned rave reviews and many awards, was a box-office blockbuster.
Music line-up
There are five musical shows scheduled for “Music in the Park.” All shows will begin at 7 p.m. In case of inclement weather, the shows will take place in the nearby Waters Church, 1227 Pinecone Road N. The line-up is as follows: July 23: John McCutcheon. A master of many instruments, including the ham-
mered dulcimer, McCutcheon is a widely acclaimed folk singer-songwriter who has performed for decades throughout the world. A Wisconsin native, McCutcheon is a graduate of St. John’s University, Collegeville. July 30: Imagine Haggis. This band performs ballads of a Scottish folk flavor with plenty of up-tempo songs thrown in for good measure.
Edmonton Trailer honored with investment award by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Edmonton Trailer, a new company in Sartell, has been chosen for the first-ever Minnesota Governor’s Foreign Direct Investment Award. Three other companies were also given the award. The award recognizes significant investment in Minnesota by foreign-based companies. Edmonton Trailer opened in Sartell in November 2014. Based in Edmonton, Canada, the company manufactures specialty massive trailers, some weighing as much as 100 tons. The trailers are built in Edmonton, and much of the finishing-touch work is done in Sartell. The facility is located on former Verso paper mill property in a repurposed large storage building just south of the Sartell bridge. The company employs about 20 people but plans to hire 40 or more in the next two years, said Sartell
Planning and Development Director Anita Rasmussen. “It’s a great company,” Rasmussen said after hearing of the prestigious award. “We’re thrilled they chose Sartell as the place to expand their business. We are very excited for them.” Other recipients of the Foreign Direct Investment Award are Heraeus Medical Components, White Bear Lake; Peerless Chain, Winona; and Smiths Medical, St. Paul. “We are pleased to recognize these companies that share our belief that Minnesota is the premier North American business destination for innovative industries and manufacturing,” said Laurence Reszetar, director of foreign direct investment at the Minnesota Trade Office. “We thank them for their partnership with the State of Minnesota and its workers and look forward to continued success in the years to come.” The awards were bestowed
during an International Trade Awards ceremony at the James J. Hill Reference Library in St. Paul. Five Minnesota companies were also honored for developing business in foreign markets, for increasing jobs in Minnesota to support international sales and for developing novel approaches on how to compete globally. The companies honored are Barrett Ag Services, Brainerd; Dombrovski Craft Meats, Foley; Industrial and Environmental Concepts, Lakeville; Tonka Water, Plymouth; and Winona State University, Winona. “I congratulate these exceptional companies for their successes in international trade,” said Gov. Dayton. “Minnesota’s stature in the global marketplace is a testament to the impeccable quality of our products and services, the hard work and innovation of our business leaders, and the talent of our state’s world-class workforce.”
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Aug. 6. The Becky Schlegel Trio. A South Dakota native, Schlegel and her coperformers sing a blend of bluegrass, folk and country songs, many of which were penned by Schlegel. Aug. 13: Greg Herriges’ New Whirled Band. Herriges creates his band sound (“whirled music”) with multiple instruments, including guitar, bouzouki, tabla and
vocals. He was heavily influenced by musical styles and cultures from throughout the world. The music series at Central Park is sponsored by Chris and Deb Stalboerger, the Biersheid Family, AmericInn Sartell, Mahowald Insurance Agency, Grand View Estates, St Cloud Orthopedics and the Central Minnesota Arts Board.
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‘Relay’ raises $106,077 for cancer society by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
ones, supporters and care-givers. Money was also raised via concession-stand sales and raffle sales sponsored by the teams and set up around the walking track at the middle school. Emceed by cancer survivor and local radio personality Pete Hanson, the event began at 5 p.m. and lasted until 6 a.m. Sunday morning. Some participants brought RV campers, others pitched tents and some had to leave early as they could not spend the entire night. All of the participants were welcomed by Sartell acting mayor David Peterson. The all-night Relay for Life, emcee Hanson explained, symbolizes the fear of cancer as the sun sets and day becomes dark. But, as the sun rises, that bright dawning symbolizes hope, the defeat of cancer and the restoration of health and life. Throughout the night, team
members walked, shared stories, laughed and joked, and some took snoozes. At 10 p.m., all the luminaries around the walking track were lit, casting a golden glow along the ground. There were other activities throughout the night that involved team spirit, such as a Spirit Ceremony, a community campfire, a raffle drawing, a fitness challenge, a Super Hero lap and a Birthday lap. Funds raised via Relay for Life rallies are used by the American Cancer Society for the following programs, free to all cancer patients: research into cancer and a wide variety of assistance programs for patients, such as a 24-hour helpline (via phone and online); free wigs and makeup techniques to counter the effects of chemo and radiation; and Road to Recovery, which offers free rides to and from treatment.
relatives and supporters did a lot of walking on the Sartell Middle School track during the all-night Relay for Life June 5-6. Their walking team
is dubbed “Team Hagy.” Hagy works at the American Heart Association as a youth-marketing coordinator. Her husband, Jeff Hagy, is a sales manager for Rasmussen College in St. Cloud. Hagy’s advice for anyone diagnosed with cancer is this:
“Share your story with someone. Find someone good to share it with. Then get connected with a solid support network. In my case, I did a lot of blogging about my cancer and learning about it through blogs. I still do a lot of blogging and sharing my story helps a lot of others.”
The name of the child from Rice who died in a Sartell residential swimming pool has not been released as of press time Wednesday. At about 2:45 p.m. on the afternoon of Monday, June 8, a 2-year-old boy fell into a
swimming pool located at a residence in the 700 block of 2-1/2 Street in Sartell, according to a police report. The police and other emergency responders rushed to the scene after hearing of the tragedy via a 911 call. Someone at the
scene administered CPR to the boy before help arrived, but the child died at the St. Cloud Hospital after being rushed there in an ambulance. An autopsy will be performed by the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Twenty-seven walking teams comprised of 302 participants raised a grand total of $106,077 for the American Cancer Society at the annual Relay for Life rally, which took place all night at Sartell Middle School June 5-6. The weather was very pleasant for the long event with a warm slightly breezy evening followed by a cool but comfortable night. It’s one of many Relay for Life rallies held throughout the United States. (For more about the Sartell event and some of its participants, see related stories in this paper.) photo by Dennis Dalman The top fundraising teams Some of the fundraising walkers began early at the Relay for Life rally held in Sartell June 5-6. Walkers did relays all night were the Marrow Maniacs ($10,819), the Majestic Wings long to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. ($7,503) and the Fightin’ Chicks ($4,004). Teams consisted of cancer survivors, their families, loved
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Ride program for cancer patients seeks volunteers by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
“I need a ride to cancer treatment. How am I going to get there?” That question is heard quite often by people who deal in the treatments for cancer – most often treatments with radiation or chemotherapy. In some cases, the patients are too weak to drive, or they don’t have a car, or they don’t have friends or relatives in the immediate area. That’s where Road to Recovery comes in. It’s a free program of the American Cancer Society that offers rides to and from treatments for cancer patients. The program is dependent on volunteer drivers. Claudia Germann, the Stearns County coordinator for Road to Recovery, is desperately looking to find more drivers willing to volunteer. At the June 5-6 Relay for Life rally in Sartell, Germann spent a good amount of time telling people about the program, hoping it would pique someone’s interest. Currently there are only five volunteer Road to Recovery drivers in the county
– four in St. Cloud, one in Cold Spring. Typically, cancer patients have to go daily for radiation treatments. In many cases, those people live many miles from the nearest cancer clinic, such as the CentraCare Coborn Cancer Center in St. Cloud. Germann said recently someone in Melrose needed rides to and from cancer treatments, a total travel time of about four hours. Too many volunteer drivers, she said, do not have the time commitment for so many long trips. That is why more volunteers are needed, she said, so they can take turns and get some breaks from so much driving. Germann has deep sympathy for cancer patients, having been one herself not once but twice, first with breast cancer, later with lymphoma. She is happy to report her breast cancer has been in remission for 16 years, her lymphoma in remission for one year. To find out more about Road to Recovery and how it works, call the American Cancer Society at 1-800-2272345 or call Germann on her cell phone at 320-293-2920.
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Our View Guard against horror of kids dying in hot cars The statistic is enough to break one’s heart: On average, 38 children die in hot cars every year from heat-related deaths after being trapped inside motor vehicles. As the weather heats up this summer, it’s important to remember the following safety tips so, hopefully, no child ever has to die a horrible, painful, agonizing death after being left alone in a car. These tips are provided by a website called Kids and Cars. • Never leave a child alone in or around cars, not even for a minute. That is good advice in any weather or under any conditions. • Put something you will need, such as your cell phone, handbag, employee I.D. badge or briefcase, on the floor board of the back seat. That way, you will remember to look in the back when exiting your car, seeing a belted-in child that might otherwise be forgotten in a hurried rush. • Get in the habit of always opening the back door of your vehicle every time you reach your destination to be sure no child is left behind. Do that until it becomes an ingrained habit, one dubbed “Look Before Lock.” • Keep a large stuffed animal in the child’s car seat when it’s not occupied. When the child is secured in the seat, transfer the stuffed animal to the front so it will be a front-seat reminder there’s the child in the back. • Make an agreement with the babysitter or daycare operator that you will always call if the child won’t be coming on a given day. Also, have the child-care person call you if the child does not show up. This is very important because so many children have died when their parents left them in the car, forgetting to drop them off at daycare. • If a child is missing, the first thing to check is inside a car and in trunks. Always lock car doors to prevent children from getting into the car and then not being able to get out. • Never leave children in cars to go into a store. Cars can heat up extremely fast, quickly enough to cause heat stroke to a young child, toddler or baby. Many of those safety tips can also be applied to pets. Pets should never, ever be left in vehicles for any length of time, even if the windows are rolled partially down. On summer days, it’s best to leave pets at home, period. For more tips about children and vehicles, visit the Kids and Cars website at www.KidsAndCars.org, then share all you’ve learned with family, friends and neighbors. If we all pay close attention to the safety tips, we can greatly diminish the horrific possibility of any child having to die in misery in a closed vehicle.
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Friday, June 12, 2015
Opinion Candidates amp up war-hawk talk During the Vietnam War, it was common to hear some Americans make statements of rage and frustration like the following: “Just nuke ‘em!” “Turn that #%%!@ country into a parking lot!” “A couple H bombs would end that war in a heckuva hurry.” That vicious war, like a nightmare that just wouldn’t end, resulted in the deaths of 55,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, many of them women and children. Sadly, we all know how it ended: futility and waste. It’s no wonder such a divisive war caused such rage and frustration. The world’s biggest superpower could not defeat poor but determined fighters, despite constant bombing, dropping napalm, the use of Agent Orange and other acts of destruction using high-tech means. It was like the fable of the elephant being driven mad and helpless, defeated by a million biting ants. That same rage and frustration has been resurfacing again and again from presidential candidates, most recently by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who declared his candidacy last week. In his announcement speech, Graham vowed to put American troops back into Iraq and to Syria to eradicate ISIS, with help from regional forces. “I’m trying to tell the American people, the Republican primary voter: The only way I know to defend this country is to send some of us back to Iraq and eventually to Syria to dig these guys out of the ground, destroy the caliphate, kill as many of them as you can, hold territory and help people over there help themselves.” Graham’s rage and frustration are understandable. Who wouldn’t want to see ISIS destroyed utterly once and for all?
Dennis Dalman Editor “Nuke ‘em!” is a way of waving a wand, wishing ISIS would just vanish. The trouble is, it’s easier said than done. All of these politicians, including Graham, have been second-guessing or poo-poohing anything and everything President Obama has done in regard to the ISIS threat. They are armchair warriors entertaining daydreams of tidy victories, and they sound so much like the actual generals, wannabe generals and politicians during the Vietnam War. “We have to destroy a village to save it.” “There is a light at the end of the tunnel.” “Just a few more thousand troops ought to turn the tide of war in our favor.” “We’ll teach the South Vietnamese how to defend themselves, and we’ll call it Vietnamization.” “We’ll bomb the jungle trails, we’ll strip off the enemy’s jungle cover, we’ll invade Cambodia, we’ll bomb Hanoi back into the Stone Age.” “Just nuke ‘em! Nuke ‘em all!” The wars are different, but the rage and frustration are the same. Like the Viet Cong (South Vietnamese communist fighters), ISIS is an elusive enemy that blends in with civilian populations, then strikes, then hides in a constant deadly game of now you see me, now you don’t. That inability to pin down enemies and destroy them is what gave rise to the rage and frustration in that country and among the war hawks on the home front. Don’t think for a minute ISIS has not
adapted guerilla-war tactics they learned from ragtag warriors who fought Americans in Vietnam and Soviets in Afghanistan, and – not to forget – Osama bin Laden was one of those guerilla warriors. What makes ISIS doubly dangerous is they learned those tactics, then added to their deadly stew use of social media, sophisticated funding sources, bloodcurdling acts of torture and murder, suicide bombings and recruitment of malcontents throughout the world to try to achieve their medieval-minded scheme of a new caliphate. Such an enemy will be difficult, if not impossible, to eradicate totally, no matter what kind of vows and promises are made by Lindsey Graham and other political candidates. The only way ISIS will be weakened and ultimately defeated is when the countries in that region finally wake up to the fact ISIS is an imminent threat to their own survival. So far, those countries have been infuriatingly non-committal on that score, either through fear or because of sympathy – even collusion – in the dream for the caliphate. Until those countries feel rage and frustration and then do something about it, ISIS will unfortunately continue its murderous rampage. The days of the United States policing the world and trying to solve problems with boots-on-the-ground are over, and these know-it-all presidential candidates better understand that or they’re likely to lose votes in droves. It would be dangerous for the United States to turn isolationist. Yes, the United States can and should help facilitate the demise of Isis and other regional and world terrorists, but expecting more Americans to die in wars that foreigners should be fighting for themselves should not be tolerated. That should be the lesson we should have learned way back when in a quagmire called Vietnam.
A bad haircut is a two-week problem Have you ever gone to the barber shop or the beauty salon and gotten a bad haircut? It just doesn’t look right and no way of brushing, combing or fixing it up corrects the problem. To some this is a tragic event. To me, it is a two-week problem because that is about how long it takes to grow back. So, how is this relevant to today’s discussion? All through our lives we face good times and bad. We build bridges that, in most cases, we never have to cross. We face challenges that can be real tragedies. By the same token we accept good fortune and good news gladly. It has been my experience, however, that most of the problems I have had to face in my lifetime were not nearly as bad as I had thought they would be, and some of the good fortune I experienced wasn’t as good as I had hoped either. Another little tidbit I have heard is what doesn’t kill you makes you better. It would seem during our lifetimes we deal with challenges that somehow are designed to teach us. I know I have always learned more from a defeat than from a victory. It wasn’t always pleasant, but it was a learning experience. I know of people, as do you, who have had a clear life plan laid out. They have prepared themselves for a certain destiny when all of a sudden some-
Ron Scarbro Guest Writer thing changes and their plans go up in smoke. Maybe they suffered a medical setback, or lost a job or had financial reversals. Whatever, something happened and their lives were upended. Some have allowed these reversals to destroy their lives. Some, though, have landed on their feet and gone on to succeed in other ways or other fields, and many beyond their wildest imaginations. This I know: Everything you have ever done in your lifetime has brought you to this point in your life. Somewhere along the way you turned right when you meant to turn left and you wound up here. If you are a senior citizen like me, you have dodged many arrows in your journey that has brought you to today. If you are a young person, perhaps your journey is just beginning. Remember Forrest Gump who famously said, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” You may well have some changes in your master plan. Let those changes be like a
bad haircut. They usually fix themselves in a short time. Many years ago I read a book by Dale Carnegie called How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. I recommend the book. One of his lessons was when something is worrying you, figure that it has already happened, deal with it and go on about your life. Simple but effective. I don’t mean to make light of or belittle events we face. I have friends who have had to deal with serious medical diagnoses. I have had friends who died much too young. The fact is there are no guarantees. Life, while a beautiful thing, is fragile. Life can be fleeting. I know there are some people who envy someone else’s life or their wealth. What they don’t know is that the very person they envy might well be willing to trade places with them. None of us knows what someone else’s journey is. So have a blessed day and enjoy your life. Don’t let a bad haircut get you down. Scarbro is retired and spends most of his free time with his grandchildren having moved from Sartell to St. Simons Island, Ga.. Writing and commenting on the news of the day is a pastime. Visit his weekly blog at ronscarbro.blogspot.com for more commentary.
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Community Calendar
Friday, June 12 Sartell SummerFest 5K, 6 p.m., Sartell Middle School, 212 3rd Ave. N, Sartell. sartellsummerfest.com. Sartell SummerFest Kids 1K walk/run, 7 p.m., Sartell Middle School, 212 3rd Ave. N, Sartell. sartellsummerfest.com. Brat and hot dog sale, sponsored by St. Joseph Lions, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 1st Ave. NW, St. Joseph. Brat and hot dog sale, sponsored by Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Centennial Plaza Coborn’s, 2118 Veterans Drive, St. Cloud. 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.
Brat and hot dog sale, sponsored by St. Joseph Lions, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 1st Ave. NW, St. Joseph. Sartell SummerFest parade, 10 a.m., Riverside Avenue, Sartell. sartellsummerfest.com. Craft-Vendor Sale, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Winner’s Sports Bar and Grill, 311 2nd St. S., Sartell. St. John’s Bible pages on display, now through mid-December, noon-4 p.m. Saturdays, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, Hill Museum and Monastic Library, St. John’s University, 2850 Abbey Plaza, Collegeville. 320-363-3351. 320-3633514. Central Minnesota Chapter of the Federation of the Blind of Minnesota, 12:30 p.m., American Legion, 17 2nd Ave. N., Waite Park. Sartell SummerFest street dance, 5 p.m., Great River Bowl, 208 2nd St. S, Sartell. sartellsummerfest.com. Sartell SummerFest fireworks, 10 p.m., Great River Bowl, 208 2nd St. S, Sartell. sartellsummerfest.com.
Saturday, June 13 Central Minnesota Market, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 1480 10th Ave. NE, Sauk Rapids. 320-251-2498.
Monday, June 15 Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 1st St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320-
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Tuesday, June 16 Central Minnesota Market, 3-5:30 p.m., VA Hospital, 4801 Veterans Drive, St. Cloud. 320-2512498. St. Cloud Area Genealogists meeting, 7 p.m., Stearns History Museum, 235 33rd Ave. S., St. Cloud. stearns-museum.org. Wednesday, June 17 Summertime by George! featuring Arch Allies, 5-9 p.m., Lake George, 1101 7th St. S., St. Cloud. summertimebygeorge.com. Thursday, June 18 Coffee and Conversation, a senior discussion group, 9 a.m., Country Manor, 520 1st St. NE, Sartell. JoeTown Summer Lunch and Learn, for ages 17 and younger, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Klinefelter Park, 405 10th Ave. SE, St. Joseph. 320-363-7505 ext. 350. 55+ Driver Improvement pro-
gram (four-hour refresher course), noon-4 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, 90 Riverside Drive SE, St. Cloud. 1-888-234-1294. Optional online courses: mnsafetycenter.org. Friday, June 19 Burger and brat sale, sponsored by St. Joseph Knights of Columbus, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 1st Ave. NW, St. Joseph. Brat and hot dog sale, sponsored by Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Coborn’s, 1725 Pinecone Road S., Sartell. Brat and hot dog sale, sponsored by Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Cash Wise, 113 Waite Ave. N., Waite Park. St. Joseph Farmers’ Market, 3-6:30 p.m., near the Wobegon Trail Center, C.R. 2. St. Joseph Area Historical Society open, 4-7 p.m., Old City Hall, 25 1st Ave NW. stjosephhistoricalmn. org. St. Cloud Singles Club Dance, 8 p.m.-midnight, American Legion, 17 2nd Ave. S., Waite Park. 320-3394533. stcloudsingles.net. Saturday, June 20 Central Minnesota Market, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 1480 10th Ave. NE,
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Council to discuss community center
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There will be a Sartell City Council meeting starting at 6 p.m. Monday, June 22 at Sartell City Hall, mainly to discuss plans and developments for the proposed Sartell Community Center. A lot of information will be presented, and the public is
invited to hear the input. Even though in the summer months, the Sartell council holds only one meeting per month, the June 22 meeting, which will be the second meeting in June, was called because of the large amount of information to be presented.
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from front page last year. Only twice in the 24-year history of SummerFest has the parade had to be cancelled because of wet, miserable weather – last year and in
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