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Town Crier Farmers’ Markets provide variety of great food
Items currently available at both Sartell Farmers’ Market sites include: meat, eggs, cheese, tomatoes, beans, potatoes, berries, breads and much more. Come meet your local farmers and find the great food available to you in Central Minnesota. Open from 3-6:30 p.m. every Monday, Market Monday is located at Riverside Plaza, 101 Seventh St. N., in front of Hardware Hank, and from 3-6 p.m. every Thursday at Centracare Plaza, 1900 Centracare Circle, St Cloud.
Red Cross issues emergency call
The American Red Cross has issued an emergency call for blood and platelets, urging all eligible donors to replenish an extremely low summer blood supply. Blood donations have fallen short of hospital needs for the past few months, resulting in about 39,000 fewer donations than what is needed. For more information, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on July 15 criers.
Guided tours available for new Metro Bus routes
Metro Bus is hosting guided tours of new bus routes to help the public prepare for route changes scheduled to be implemented Aug. 21. Tours are scheduled for Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 19-Aug. 11 and Saturdays on July 16 and 23 and Aug. 13. Participants can choose to tour all the routes or just the ones that interest them. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on July 15 criers.
Inclement weather may result in delays
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Twenty troops about to serve in Afghanistan receive official deployment orders from their captain during a deployment ceremony July 7 in St. Cloud.
Hugs, tears abound at deployment ceremony by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
There were speeches, handshakes, hugs, little kids waving little flags and more than a few tears when families gathered to say goodbye to loved ones – soldiers on their way to a tour of duty in Afghanistan. The deployment ceremony took place the morning of July
Join with your neighbors and community in an effort to feed those who are hungry in the Central Minnesota area. Meals will be packaged and distributed to local charities and food shelves. Food packaging will take place on Thursday, July 28 at Apollo High School. There are a variety of shift times available to fit your schedule. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on July 15 criers.
of training at Camp Ripley near Little Falls. The 20 men are members of B Company, Second General Support Aviation Battalion. Their mission will be to provide support for combat and combat-service operations, air assaults and the aerial movement of troops, equipment and supplies. The average age of the 20
deployed troops is 29 – the youngest 20, the oldest 36. It is the unit’s third deployment to Afghanistan. The previous tours of duty were in 2006 and in 2001. Because of the heavy reliance on night-flying in CH-47 Chinook helicopters and the soldiers use of night-vision goggles, the soldiers dubbed their support serHugs • page 5
Tornado threat interrupts council meeting by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Monday evening’s storm with its threat of imminent tornadoes interrupted the Sartell City Council meeting, but the council members and city staff functioned well with grace under pressure during a dis-
cussion of the city’s proposed Comprehensive Plan. (For an in-depth story on the comprehensive plan and reactions to it, see the July 22 Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader.) During a discussion of the new Sartell Comprehensive Plan, Deputy Police Chief Dale Struffert, who sits in on the
Park Commission to host open house
Dangerous thunderstorm alert and severe thunderstorm warnings in the St. Cloud area may result in Metro Bus route delays. Customers may want to alter travel schedules until the storms pass. Metro Bus advises customers to be safe and find appropriate shelter as necessary.
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7 at the National Guard Facility next to the St. Cloud Regional Municipal Airport. After the ceremony, 20 men of the St. Cloud-based Guard left for Fort Hood, Texas, their last stop before heading for their nine-month deployment half a world away. At Fort Hood, they’ll undergo yet more training, about 40 days worth. They had already completed weeks
council meetings, informed the members his computer tablet he had been monitoring showed there were possibly funnel clouds over Cold Spring and Richmond. Mayor Sarah Jane Nicoll asked Struffert to keep monitoring the storm situation and to interrupt the meeting if necessary; meantime the
meeting continued. Later, when the meeting was at the 46-minute mark, at 7:46 p.m., Struffert interrupted the council to inform its members rotation clouds had just been sighted above the Five Points area near Sartell. He recommended the council and everyTornado • page 2
Family fun on the Fourth of July
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Watab Creek Park shelter by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
The Sartell Park Commission will host an open house at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 26, at the Watab Creek Park shelter, a chance for residents to give input about what they would like for amenities in the city’s parks. The open house will coincide with the park commission’s regular meeting. At the meeting,
results of the latest park survey will be revealed, input will be encouraged and a “walk-andtalk” tour will take place in Watab Creek Park. There will be free snacks and refreshments for all participants. Residents had a chance to participate in the online parks survey. The survey focused on the following Sartell parks: Rotary, Veterans, Watab Creek, Nature’s Edge, Sabre Oaks and Meadowlake.
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Lori Traut (left), Sartell, enjoys a boat ride on the Mississippi near Sauk Rapids with grandson Logan Edl, 9, and Brooklyn Edl, 3. For more photos, see page 11.
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Tornado from front page body else in the council chamber take shelter in an interior
room of the city hall. Nicoll tapped her mayor’s gavel to temporarily close the meeting. After about 15 minutes, the council returned to the chamber to finish its business, which concluded 20 minutes later.
Kramer to fill Durrwachter’s seat by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
A former school board member was appointed to fill out the term of Krista Durrwachter, who resigned recently from Kramer the Sartell-St. Stephen School Board. In resigning, Durrwachter noted she is about to begin a new job that could perhaps raise conflict-of-issue questions if she continued as a school board member. The appointee, Lesa Kramer, served on the Sartell-St. Stephen School Board from 20092012. She has long been active in the district, most recently as part of a successful effort to get the $105-million school bond issue approved by voters in the May 24 election.
Kramer was a member of the district’s Community Schools Planning Committee, which spent many months studying the needs of the district and which recommended the bond for a new high school and updates at the current schools. Kramer was appointed unanimously by the school board July 1 to become interim board member. Kramer’s interim term on the school board will begin July 20 and last until the rest of Durrwachter’s term at the end of 2016. In the Nov. 8 general election, there will be three at-large school board positions up for election, including Durrwachter’s-Kramer’s position. Besides Durrwachter’s seat, the other two positions up for election are now served by Jason Nies and Pam Raden. The other school board members are Patrick Marushin, Mary McCabe and Michelle Meyer.
Friday, July 15, 2016
Storms pummel area with wind, rain by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
A wave of thunderstorms, tornadoes and drenching rains that swept through Central Minnesota on Monday was nerve-wracking, to be sure, but the good news is there were no reported fatalities – or even serious injuries. The storms came from the southwest into central and north central Minnesota, then moved east into Wisconsin. According to the National Weather Service, at least four tornadoes were verified in Central Minnesota. North Central Minnesota was also struck, mainly with torrential rains that caused road shutdowns. In the greater St. Cloud area, there were flash-flooding oc-
currences in some areas of Waite Park, West St. Cloud and a stretch of Pinecone Road in Sartell. Area cities received up to four inches and even more in a drenching rain that lasted off and on for hours. Further north, rainfall totals were even higher, with 11 inches reported at Sturgeon Lake and 7.3 inches in Little Falls. Hail also fell in some places, including Rice, where the hail came in two waves, the first pea-sized hail, the second one-half-hour later of quarter-sized hail. Ominous signs of coming storms began to filter in the early afternoon at about 5 p.m. when tornado watches were announced. The first signs of actual tornadoes in the air were reported near Litchfield and Watkins where touchdowns
caused downed trees and property damage, including severe damage to Kramer Electric in Watkins. Debris from the two-story steel structure was tossed by the high winds into nearby St. Anthony Cemetery. Kramer Electric, an electrical contracting company, employs four people and has an annual revenue of from $500,000 to $1 million, according to its website. In Litchfield, some mobile homes were damaged, with a couple being total losses. In Watkins, 50 residents of an assisted-living center were evacuated because of weather fears. Funnel clouds were also spotted near Luxemburg, and rotational clouds were seen in the St. Joseph area.
variety of topics such as laws, ethics, investigations, firearms, emergency driving and more. The next course will begin in September. It will be held from 6-10 p.m. every Thursday until the end of the eight-week period. Anyone interested should call Sartell Deputy Chief Dale Struffert at 320-251-8186. People may also pick up an application in the police department lobby between
7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. Applications can also be printed out from the following website: www.sartellmn. com/metro-citizens-police-academy. Fill in the application and bring it to the police department or mail it to Sartell Police Department, Attn. MCPA, P.O. Box 334, Sartell, Minn. 56377. It can also be e-mailed to publicsafety@sartellmn.com.
Applications open for Police Academy by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Sartell residents still have time to apply to the Metro Citizens Police Academy. The Academy is an eightweek course designed to offer residents insight into modernday policing through the classroom and hands-on training conducted by area police officers. Training will involve a
Council approves bond sale on 3-1 vote Great Northern Theatre Company presents Shrek the Musical! Aug. 4-6 (evening) Aug. 7 (matinee) Aug. 10-12 (evening)
Held at Rocori High School, Cold Spring Show time 7:30 p.m.; Matinee 2 p.m. Adults $17; Seniors $13; Students $10 Tickets: 320-241-GNTC or GNTC1.com Kids, adults, it doesn’t matter your age, Shrek The Musical is some of the best fun you’re going to have at the theater this summer.
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The Sartell City Council at its July 11 meeting authorized the sale of bonds that will pay for the lion’s share of the Sartell Community Center in the south part of the city. Stacie Kvilvang of Ehlers & Associates outlined the bond sale at the council meeting. She
said she was happy to inform the council the City of Sartell has a topnotch double-A bond rating because of its strong management of finances, its good budget policies, its strong liquidity and its timely handling of debt issues. And that superb bond rating helped make possible the relatively low interest rate on the $9.95-million bond amount – an interest rate of 2.07 percent.
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Piper Jaffray of Minneapolis was the lowest of six bidders for the bond issue. The vote to authorize the bond sale was 3-1, with council member Amy Braig-Lindstrom voting against it. Member David Peterson was not present at the meeting. Voting for the bond were Mayor Sarah Jane Nicoll and council members Steve Hennes and Pat Lynch.
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Reminder issued for watering days The odd-even water sprinkling conservation plan is in effect in Sartell year-round to conserve water and have adequate water stored for fire protection. Please observe the fol-
lowing guidelines: • If your house number is an odd number, you can sprinkle your lawn on odd-numbered calendar days. • If your house number is
an even number, you can sprinkle on even-numbered calendar days. • If you have a new lawn, a water-exemption permit can be picked up at Sartell City Hall.
If you have a tip concerning a crime, call the Sartell Police Department at 320-251-8186 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at 320-255-1301 or access its tip site at www.tricountycrimestoppers.org. Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for crime.
and made contact with the female. Officers administered oxygen, gathered health history and monitored the woman’s condition until Gold Cross Ambulance arrived and transported the female to St. Cloud Hospital. 6:03 p.m. Theft. CR 120. Officers were dispatched to Walmart for an adult male shoplifter. Upon arrival, officers met with the cooperative shoplifter. The male party stated this was the first time he tried shoplifting. Walmart completed its paperwork, and officers issued the man a citation for misdemeanor shoplifting.
June 30 6:40 a.m. Accident. Heritage Drive/Roberts Road. Officers were dispatched in reference to a garbage truck versus car accident. Officers arrived on scene and spoke with the drivers, both of which stated they had no injuries. Officers discovered the truck had backed into the car causing heavy damage to the front. Officers took photos of the damage. 10:21 p.m. Suspicious activity. Wyoming Court. Officers were dispatched in reference to someone ringing the doorbell at a residence and then running off. Officers arrived on scene and located three juveniles. The juveniles admitted to the suspicious activity and said they wouldn’t do it again.
June 26 10:32 a.m. Verbal dispute. Amber Avenue S. Officers were dispatched in reference to a report of a female and male party arguing verbally. Officers arrived on scene and attempted to make contact. Officers knocked at the door several times and announced themselves. Dispatch was able to find a phone number for the female party. Officers made contact through the phone. The female stated the argument was not physical, it was only verbal and she was fine. 4:10 p.m. Medical. 520 First Street N.E. Officers were dispatched for a 74-year-old female who had fallen out of bed and couldn’t get up. Upon arrival with Gold Cross, officers made contact with the female. Officers assisted the woman to her bed. The female was not injured. June 27 4:42 a.m. Traffic stop. Connecticut Avenue S./CR 120. While on routine patrol, an officer observed a vehicle that had a broken tail-light lens and showed white to the rear. The officer conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle. The driver was verbally warned and released. 8:55 a.m. Medical. 10 Avenue N. Officers were dispatched for a 67-year-old female who had pain on her left side and had vision difficulties. Officers arrived on scene
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June 28 3:06 a.m. Suspicious activity. Perimeter Drive. Officers were dispatched for three juvenile males who were egging a truck. Upon arrival, officers located the truck and its registered owner. Officers checked the truck for damage, there appeared to be none. The juveniles were no longer on scene. 7:26 p.m. Medical. First Street N.E. While attending Police Activities League, an adult male party began to have chest pains. Officers provided the man oxygen. Gold Cross Ambulance arrived on scene and transported the man to St. Cloud Hospital. June 29 8:19 p.m. Welfare check. Amber Avenue S. Officers were dispatched in reference to a female party who was intoxicated and was threatening to jump off an apartment balcony. Officers arrived on scene and met with the female party. Officers observed she was intoxicated but could care for herself and didn’t seem to be suicidal. The female refused going to detox.
July 1 Noon. Medical. Pinecone Road N. Officers were dispatched for a 79-year-old male party who had fallen and had a head wound. Officers arrived on scene and located the man in the kitchen. Officers applied pressure to the wound and monitored the man’s condition until Gold Cross Ambulance arrived and transported the man to St. Cloud Hospital. 11:45 p.m. Traffic stop. Second Street S./CR 78. While on routine patrol, an officer observed a vehicle that had a cracked windshield and also had a suspended object hanging from the rear-view mirror. The officer conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle. When the officer identified the driver, the officer also discovered the driver had a warrant out for his arrest. The driver was placed under arrest for the warrant and warned for other violations. Reserve Officers transported the male party to Stearns County Jail.
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Flynn-Hiebl
Engagement
Jenna Lillian Flynn and Daniel Steven Hiebl announce their engagement. Parents are Steve and Margo Flynn, Sartell, and Patty Hiebl, Wausau, Wis. Flynn is a Sartell High School graduate; Hiebl is a Wausau East High School graduate. Both Flynn and Hiebl earned bachelor’s degrees in accounting from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. The wedding is planned for
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July 16 at St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel in St. Paul.
Correction
In a June 24 article entitled “Students explore medical careers at Scrubs Camp” by Tracy Lee Karner, the name of one of the Sauk Rapids-Rice students who participated in the Scrubs Camp should have appeared as Lillian
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Tanner Locke, Sartell, recently earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Eighteen Sartell students were recently named to the spring dean’s list at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. They are the following: Hosam Alkhatib, Samantha Carlson, Edward Chappell, Taylor Daniels, Madeline Glazos, Gabriella Haire, Thron Haley, Parker Kohlman, Jason Koopman, Joshua Lieberg, Matthew Markman, Madeline Meier, Malina Peterson, Kaitlin Reichel, Zachary Ryan, Ryan Scharf, Avalon Schlecht and Erik Skoe. Students must maintain a minimum 3.66 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. David Mugg, Sartell, recently earned an associate’s degree in
arts and liberal education from Normandale Community College, Bloomington. Seven Sartell students were recently named to the spring dean’s list at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. They are the following: Alexander Hornung, Christopher Hornung, Ginessa Ross, Sienna Schneider, Tyler Tillotson, Hannah Tilstra and Sophia VanSurksum. Students must maintain a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify for this honor. Two Sartell students were recently named to the spring dean’s list at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. They are Zachary Fisher and Jack Hellie. Students must maintain a minimum 3.5 grade-point average to qualify for this honor.
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Hillary Clinton should explain contradictions – and soon Even though presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has not been recommended for indictment by the FBI, several comments by FBI Director James Comey have the potential to be almost as damaging to her campaign as a criminal indictment itself would have been. During her tenure as U.S. Secretary of State, Clinton used at least one private computersystem server in her New York home through which she communicated all of her emails, private as well as career-related. Among the 30,000 or more email communications were at least 100 that were or could have been “classified,” “confidential” or even “top secret.” Comey characterized the sending and receiving of such sensitive documents as “extremely careless” on behalf of Clinton and her State Department colleagues. For more than a year, Clinton has claimed she used only her at-home server because of convenience and she never sent or received sensitive State Department communiqués via the server. However, her statements seem to be contradicted by what the FBI learned in its year-long investigation. It’s no wonder some in the U.S. Congress pounced like cats upon a mouse just days after Comey made his announcement. Many who have always despised both Clintons and who would give the moon and the stars (if not a criminal indictment) to sink her presidential hopes were bitterly disappointed an indictment is not around the bend. Nevertheless, despite their murky motives, they have every right to ask Comey – and Clinton – more questions because, after the investigation, there are too many contradictions that don’t jibe with the results of the official findings. Even those who have long admired Clinton have serious questions about the email controversy. To put it bluntly, has Clinton been flat-out lying all that time? A serious charge, to be sure, but that question will hound her right up to the day of the Nov. 8 election unless she can clear the air and un-muddy the waters. Was Clinton less than forthcoming? Less than truthful? Was she hiding something, and what did she have to hide? These renewed questions seem to underline, in bold, many people’s impression of her as “untrustworthy.” Clinton is a brilliant woman, familiar for decades with how things are done and not done in the inner sanctums of government. How could she have done something for so long that is so foolhardy, so unnecessary, so just plain stupid? To her credit, she admitted last year that her use of her own computer server was a mistake. But it appears now it cannot be brushed off as a mere mistake. It more resembles a careless disregard for the protocol all State Department officials should adhere to. And, yes, it does call into question her judgment. Part of the problem of the controversy is how “classified” documents are defined and labeled, but according to the FBI investigation, there were definitely some documents sent which contained sensitive information, whether or not they were labeled as such. Perhaps Clinton can explain, convincingly, why there are differences between her explanations and the FBI report’s findings. If she can, she had better do it soon, because the longer she delays, the longer will grow the dark shadow now cast upon her presidential aspirations.
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Opinion Juno a tad late to Jupiter – 1 second! It’s been 10 days and I’m still in a state of astonishment, trying to wrap my little Earth-bound brain around the stupendous fact that Juno was only one second late for its rendezvous with Jupiter. One second! After a 1.7-billion-mile journey to Jupiter that took about five years, it was only late by a flickering blink of an eye. This is even more mind-bending when you consider there are 31,536,000 seconds in one year’s time, or 187,748,400 seconds in a five-year period (counting a leap year’s extra day). At one point, Juno was moving at a mind-boggling 165,000 miles per hour until National Aeronautic and Space Administration scientists on Earth “told” it to fire its reverse rockets to slow down so it could enter into an orbit around the gaseous giant, Jupiter. Juno is so far away it takes 48 minutes for signals from Earth to reach it, and vice versa. At the time Juno received and acted upon the time-for-orbit signal, that was the exact time and place where the spacecraft was one second late. Isn’t it stunning to think a team of brainy people, using phenomenal technology, can achieve a feat of such precision when most people can’t even get a microphone system to work in a local meeting hall? When I first heard the news about Juno’s triumph, I was elated. I desperately needed some good news, a reminder of humankind’s goodness right after hearing about the butchery in Baghdad where more than 200 people
Dennis Dalman Editor were ripped to pieces from bomb shrapnel after which many (including women and children) were incinerated beyond recognition in the flames that followed. That horror was compounded later by news of the killings of the two drivers (in Baton Rouge and St. Paul) and then the savage ambush of Dallas police officers. With such a barrage of atrocities, we all need daily reminders of goodness. This world seems to have become such a sad, mournful place when murderous barbarism can run so rampant on the same spinning planet on which so many noble and life-enhancing achievements have taken place throughout the centuries: the growth of some enlightened civilizations, democracy, justice, arts and culture, technological innovations, cures for diseases, decency, kindness, compassion and, yes, the kind of dazzling technical teamwork that can send a spacecraft 1.7 billion miles to a planet where it arrives only one second late. There was another bit of news that stuck in my craw for the past 10 days. It was also good news – well, mainly anyway. A cab driver in Boston picked up a customer and dropped him off at a designated place. A bit later, the driver no-
ticed the man had left in the back seat a backpack. He decided to check the bag for maybe an ID card with a phone number or address. After opening the bag, he found a huge packed wad of $50 and $100 bills – $187,000-worth, to be exact. The driver was flabbergasted, to say the least, especially as he remembered the man had told him, en route, that he had been living in a homeless shelter for the past six months. When the honest cab driver took the bag of money to the police, officers discovered a document with the money showing it was a disbursement amount from an inheritance. Later, the man, missing the backpack, called the police to see if the bundle had been found and turned over. After proving his identity, the man was able to retrieve his windfall. That story made me wonder: How could a longtime homeless man, suddenly coming into a vast inheritance, be so absentminded as to leave his cash treasure in the back of a cab? What I ponder even more, though, is how could that man be such a cheapskate as to “reward” the cab driver with a tip of $100? Yes, that is what the miser gave the Good Samaritan: 100 bucks, hardly enough to pay, say, a monthly electricity bill. That amounts to 1,870th percent of the tightwad’s inheritance. The good, kind taxi driver didn’t complain, but in my opinion, I would call it as close as you can get to no good deed going unpunished. As they say on this sad, crazy, spinning planet: “Takes all types.”
I enjoy a good parade – unless ... For those of you who are too young to remember it, there is a movie about a gentleman named George M. Cohen. One of the songs from it is “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy, born on the Fourth of July.” I can relate to that song because my natal day was Memorial Day. Back then, Memorial Day was not an obligatory commission to the closest Monday. It was, by official command, May 30. Well, I will confess that my mother started the delivery process on May 30 but did not present me to the world until 3 a.m. May 31. But she was insistent I was a Memorial Day baby. And so, in my world, Memorial Day was especially superior. You see, back then, in my hometown in western New York, the biggest parade of the year was the Memorial Day parade. I would be seated (by my parents), just across from the reviewing stand. And then, what a day! Tanks, bands, soldiers and sailors, drum corps, jeeps and veterans of the big one – WWII – dressed in their very best. Oh yes, and they (my parents) were doing this all for me on my (almost) birthday. Hey, I was almost 8 years of age before I figured out the truth. I don’t know if I have yet forgiven mom and dad for that game. What the heck, after the parade, even though they really didn’t have to spend a lot of cash on presents, I always got a birthday cake. If the truth be told, I ended up marching in that parade a few years later after I joined a drum-and-bugle corps. But, that’s another story for a later date. The fact is parades have
Paul Ritzenthaler Guest Writer always been a special event for me. Since moving to this region, I have spent a lot of parade days watching them. My favorite parade activities are the bands and the floats. But, no matter what, I love a parade. Now, I must admit after watching parade venues in St. Cloud, Sartell, Sauk Rapids and St. Joseph, I find the St. Joseph July 4 parade is somewhat lacking in bands. But, on July 4, it’s the only ballgame in town, and I (along with 10,000 others) wouldn’t miss it for the world. It is, of course, a follow up to the wonderful July 3 party, complete with great fireworks. For years, as you may or may not know, it featured rock ‘n’ roller Bobby Vee. However, now he’s retired, the show goes on with his children and grandchildren making it every bit as special. This year the Vees are doing a salute to Neil Diamond – one of my favorite artists. Yes, I can hear it now. Somewhere out there some young pup is saying “Neil who?” But let us return to the parade. I love the St. Joseph Parade. It’s candystrewn floats with waving princesses from some near-by town. And, it’s an endless procession of trucks, tractors, towing vehicles. And I enjoy every minute of it.
Nevertheless, this is the year I hate the parade. Why? Because, it’s an election year. Every election year, the parade is vexed with people (whatever political party) who are so stupid they think their parade presence is what 10,000 viewers want to see. And they skip, march, wave and pass out their political propaganda. In the process, they extend the parade time by about 30 minutes. In many cases, the candidate they are supporting isn’t even in the parade. He or she is smart enough to be spending July 4 at their summer residence on Lake Mishmuschi. OK, for the sake of argument, l might be wrong. So, here’s what I propose. I recommend during an election year, every parade setting have a political section. We will call it Section 4. It would be the final section of the procession. Now, all of the parade watchers who want to support those political beliefs can stick around and wait for Section 4 to skip, march, wave and pass out their political propaganda. Hey, Section 4, you better have some real good candy because by the time you get a block past the reviewing stand, everyone will be folding up their chairs and getting in line for some hamburgers. Paul Ritzenthaler has spent most of his life working in broadcasting before retiring but still keeps himself busy by announcing baseball games at the Municipal Athletic Center in St. Cloud, golfing and trying to keep up with his two dogs Dani, a Sheltie, and Tucker, a Shi-Tzu, at his home in Sauk Rapids.
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At left: Private First Class Spencer Werness Jr. lines up for a group photo with his aunt and cousins from Sartell. From left to right are Katie Oistad, wife of Marcus Oistad, who is holding their son, Sam; Werness, his aunt Lorrie, her daughter Meredith and Marcus and Katie’s two other boys, Jack and Joe.
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At right: Cody Gallmeier of Oak Park (right) helps his sister, Kassie Koecher of North Branch hoist her sons up on the side of a Chinook helicopter July 7. At left is Logan; at right is Isaac. The family photo session occurred during a troop-deployment ceremony at the Minnesota Army National Guard hangar in St. Cloud. Gallmeier is one of 20 troops who will be serving nine months of duty in Afghanistan. relatives and well-wishers. Some of the Chinook helicopters in the giant National Guard hangar, where the ceremony took place, were opened from front page for the public to enter for a vice the “All Night Long” unit. look-see. Private First Class The 20-member unit is Spencer Werness of Burnsville highly trained and very expeis a door gunner/mechanic. His rienced. Of the 20 men, only loved ones and well-wishers four will be doing their first surrounded him, and a flurry of tour of duty overseas; seven of picture-taking began next to a them will be doing their second helicopter. Those who attended deployment; eight will be on the deployment ceremony intheir third deployment and one cluded his parents, Spencer Sr. man will be serving his fourth and Dixie of Burnsville, his deployment. sister, an aunt and an uncle, a Thirteen of the soldiers have grandmother, his girlfriend and at least one dependent family numerous others. member. They hail from many “He’s so admirable,” said Minnesota cities in the St. his cousin, Marcus Oistad of Cloud National Guard region, Sartell. “We are proud of him as far north as Bemidji, as far that he is serving our country.” south as the Twin Cities area. For weeks, during his training at Camp Ripley, Werness Werness stayed with his aunt Lorrie Right after the speeches by Oistad, who is his father’s sisvisiting dignitaries at the July ter. Lorrie and her husband, 7 deployment, each of the 20 Jeff, are Sartell residents, the troops was surrounded by cir- parents of Marcus, who is a cles of love and pride com- Sartell High School social studprised of spouses, children, ies teacher and head boys’ basgirlfriends, family members, ketball coach.
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Above: Jen Werness of Burnsville gives a farewell hug to her brother, Spencer Werness, who will soon be serving a nine-month tour of duty in Afghanistan. A deployment ceremony was held for Werness and 19 other troops in his unit at the Minnesota Army National Guard hangar near the St. Cloud Airport July 7. Werness will be named “Soldier of the Year” by the fourthgraders at St. Cloud Christian School. The students will pray for him through the next school year, write him letters and stay in touch through social media. Aunt Lorrie Oistad and her daughter, Meredith Oistad, are both teachers at the Christian School – Lorrie a math teacher and Meredith the teacher of the fourth-grade class that will honor and pray for Werness during his tour of duty in Afghanistan.
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A group of military personnel and political leaders delivered speeches praising the 20 deployed troops and their families who attended the ceremony and listened from the audience. A couple of the speakers choked back tears while talking. Among the military speakers were the company’s commander, Capt. Nolan Kohlrusch; and brigade commander, Col. Shawn Manke. Political
speakers were State Rep. Tim O’Driscoll, Sartell; State Rep. Jim Knoblach, St. Cloud; and State Sen. Mary Kiffmeyer, Big Lake. O’Driscoll told the 20 troops they are fortunate because 16 of its members have served previously overseas and thus have a wealth of experience and know-how in dangerous territory. “Gentlemen, I wish you well and know that, among others, our central Minnesota Warrior to Citizen Group, which I am proud to be a founding member of, will be supporting your family,” O’Driscoll said. “Thank you for the opportunity to be with you today. I’m always honored when I’m asked to speak at deployment ceremonies like this one. For the record, I really like speaking at returning ceremonies even better. So, until we meet again, may God bless you, may God bless your families and may God bless the United States of America.” Kohlrusch said he is constantly amazed by the troops’
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Bearson Foundation to host second golf event by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
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Tom Bearson, who died tragically, was known as a talented, intelligent charmer with a great sense of humor by all who knew him. Bearson was fond of pets, as this photo shows.
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The second annual Tom Bearson Foundation’s Golf Outing and Bean-Bag Tournament will take place Saturday, July 23, at Blackberry Ridge Golf Course in Sartell. The band Slip Twister, dubbed “Minnesota’s Favorite Party Band,” will provide entertainment that evening, starting at 7:30 p.m. The event is a fundraiser for projects initiated by the Foundation done in the memory of the late Tom Bearson, an 18-year-old Sartell resident
and topnotch high school basketball player who was murdered in the Fargo-Moorhead area in 2014. The killing of the North Dakota State University student has not yet been solved. Registration for the golf event will begin at 11 a.m. with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. The entry fee of $100 per person includes range pass, green fees, cart, dinner and live band entertainment. There are options for single players up to four-member teams. The bean-bag tournament fee is $50 per person, and
registrations must be for a two-person team. The fee includes dinner and live band entertainment. For more information about the event, visit www.tombearson.org and click on “Events.” The Tom Bearson Foundation has funded a gymnasium renovation at St. Francis Xavier School in Sartell (Tom Bearson’s elementary school), boys’ and girls’ basketball scholarships, the Tom Bearson Spirit Award to a deserving athlete in Central Minnesota and is working on establishing campus safety programs.
‘Ride for Cody’ set for July 23 by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
The second annual “Ride for Cody” fundraiser will take place starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 23 at Stoney’s Bar in Rockville. Registration will begin at 10 a.m. with kickstands down by 11:30 a.m. The cost is $10 per rider. All proceeds will go to the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Cody James Nuckolls was the
5-year-old St. Joseph boy who died after being struck by a hitand-run vehicle April 13, 2015 near his St. Joseph home while waiting for another child to get off of a school bus. He was the son of William “Ryan” Nuckolls and Lorraine Hipp, both of St. Joseph. The first “Ride for Cody” took place last year. Family and friends decided to make it an annual event in memory of Cody and to help other children in
need, such as those suffering from diseases. Bikes and cars are both welcome to participate in the “Ride for Cody.” The first stop on the ride will be Trappers in Farming; the second is Shady’s in New Munich, the third at Trobec’s in St. Stephen and then a return to Stoney’s Bar. Many on the “Ride for Cody” will wear red, as they did last year, because Cody was such a big fan of Spiderman.
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Unity Center to host pet-blessing by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
A reverence for all forms of life inspired the Unity Spiritual Center of Central Minnesota to host its annual “Pet-Blessing Celebration,” with the third one set to take place at 10 a.m. Sunday, July 24, on the center’s grounds in Sartell. The Center is located at 931 Fifth Ave. N., the former site of Celebration Lutheran Church. All people are welcome, and they are invited to bring their pets to be blessed. The event will be followed by an outdoor picnic for a nominal fee. In past pet-blessing celebra-
tions, participating pets have included dogs, cats, reptiles and even a horse. The Rev. Barbara Winter Martin will lead the celebration in the center’s Unity Garden, which was landscaped in 2012 to host community weddings and other events. “Our pet-blessing service is a wonderful way to celebrate our respect for – and unity with – all forms of life,” Winter Martin said. “We envision it being a fun and meaningful event.” Among those sponsoring and supporting the animalblessing celebration are the St. Cloud-based Tri-County
Humane Society, the Central Minnesota Therapy Animal Association, and Sam and Dannie’s Pet Resort and Spa. Unity Spiritual Center’s mission statement is “an inclusive community of positive-minded people, learning and supporting each other in living healthy, prosperous and meaningful lives. The Center strives to approach situations calmly and peacefully by focusing thinking on the power, love and goodness of God.” For more information, contact the Center at 320-2559253 or visit online www. UnitySpiritualCenterCM.org.
Night Out barricades can be free by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Any Sartell residents planning to host a National Night Out get-together for the night of Tuesday, Aug. 2, can have their street blocked off without charge. The city will waive the $20 application fee and the $40 street barricade fee as long as residents are willing to pick up the street barricade barriers at
the Sartell Public Works Department. Not all streets can be blocked off, depending on traffic flow, but interested residents should apply for street closures through an application available at the police department or online at www. sartellmn.com/block-party. Applications must be submitted by July 22. For more information, contact Amber Molitor at amber.molitor@sar-
tellmn.com. National Night Out is an annual nationwide event that encourages residents to get out in the community, hold block parties and get to know their neighbors as a way to foster crime prevention. It’s a great way to promote community-police partnerships and enjoy a Minnesota summer evening surrounded by friends and family, supporters say.
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The Rev. Barbara Martin Winter (left) pets a horse who has just been blessed at the Unity Spiritual Center in Sartell. More animals will be blessed at a ceremony at the Center July 24.
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At left: Volunteers, letter carriers and retired postal workers help unload donated food at Catholic Charities Emergency Services Food Shelf in St. Cloud after collecting nonperishable food items from mailboxes in Sartell, Sauk Rapids, Rice and St. Joseph as part of the annual nationwide food drive “Stamp Out Hunger” this past May. At right: Volunteers, letter carriers and retired postal workers pose for a photo at Catholic Charities Emergency Services Food Shelf in St. Cloud after collecting food drive donations.
Stamp Out Hunger ends with food and monetary donations by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com
Helping to feed those in need can sometimes be as easy as a walk to the mailbox. The 24th annual Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive took place this past May and is the nation’s largest oneday food drive. It provides letter carriers, other postal employees and thousands of volunteers the chance to collect nonperishable food in their local communities. “I know this is a nationwide food drive,” said Trina Dietz, communications coordinator for the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Cloud. “But if you give to this food drive in the immediate St. Cloud area, the food is split between Catholic Charities and the Sal-
vation Army.” This year, a total of $440 in donations and 23,089 pounds of food were collected from Sartell, Sauk Rapids, Waite Park and St. Cloud by letter carriers, compared to the 27,841 pounds of food that was collected last year from those regions. From St. Joseph, 1,144 pounds of food and $50 in donations were collected this year. And from Rice, 834 pounds of food was collected during the May 14 food drive. The drive is held the second Saturday in May and comes just before many schools end their school years, which often means a suspension in subsidized meals for many students in need. People were asked to leave food by their mailboxes for letter carriers to collect.
“I think it’s a really good way to get the community involved,” Dietz said. “I don’t think there is ever a bad time to do a food drive.” Catholic Charities Emergency Services Food Shelf collected more than $160,000 and 210,000 pounds of food during the annual Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign to help battle hunger in Sartell, Sauk Rapids, St. Cloud, St. Augusta and Waite Park. “The need still exists,” Dietz said. The availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, or the ability to acquire such food, is limited or uncertain for one in six Americans, many of whom are in households with at least one person working, according to the National Association of Letter Carriers.
“As a mom, it’s always a good time to teach your children about helping others,” Dietz said. “Churches in Sartell, for example, do a monthly food drive that is shared among local food shelves, and I think that’s really important.” Last year’s drive collected an estimated 71 million pounds of non-perishable food that was left in bags next to postal customers’ mailboxes, according to the National Association of Letter Carriers. “You literally just put food by your mailbox,” Dietz said of the annual Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. “I literally made my donation last year in my pajamas. How much easier can you make it for someone to help others?” Dietz said Catholic Charities Emergency Services Food Shelf is “consistently serving” 2,200 families a month. “During the recession, we saw a big jump in the number of families using the food shelf,” Dietz said. “We haven’t seen the numbers reduce. The
numbers have pretty much stayed the same in terms of need.” Last year was the 12th consecutive year letter carriers have collected more than 70 million pounds of food, and it brought the drive’s grand total to more than 1.4 billion pounds of food collected, according to their national association. “Kid-friendly food is always needed (when) schools (are) out: macaroni and cheese, SpaghettiOs, soups,” said Joyce Bell, a letter carrier and coordinator of the food drives in Central Minnesota, such as Rice, Becker, Big Lake, Foley, Little Falls and Monticello to name a few. Bell wanted to thank Coborn’s for donating the bags to collect the food as well as wanting to thank area residents for donating during the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. “It’s just amazing what the need is out there for food, but it’s very heartening to see people helping out,” Bell said.
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Paul Ritzenthaler returns to the Newsleaders by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Readers of the Newsleaders’ weekly Opinion Page may well have noticed a new guest columnist, Paul Ritz- Ritzenthaler enthaler of Sauk Rapids. But long-time readers of the Newsleader will know Ritzenthaler isn’t exactly “new.” He wrote frequent guest columns many years ago for the St. Joseph and Sartell Newsleaders. Ritzenthaler enjoys writing columns about the everyday world – the little foibles that pop up from time to time, pet peeves that annoy him, rumina-
tions and reminiscences about the mysteries of life and sometimes penning pointed shafts aimed at political pomposities. Ritzenthaler’s writing style is often enlivened by his somewhat manic, impish sense of humor. When asked if he would reveal his age, Ritzenthaler said quickly, “Sure, you can ask, and I’ll tell you. I’m somewhat over the age of 55, and I’m still lying about that.” Born in Rochester, N.Y., Ritzenthaler studied liberal-arts at John Carroll University in Cleveland for a time but didn’t complete his studies. He joined the U.S. Air Force and served four years, more than three of them in England, 70 miles north of London. He still fondly recalls how he and a friend became instant Shakespearian actors when
they landed roles in an outdoor production of Julius Caesar. “I played one of Julius Caesar’s body guards and – oh! – what lines I spoke: ‘My Lord, My Lord, My Lord, My Lord,” he recalled, laughing. “I had three or four scenes, and I said, ‘My Lord’ in each one of them. That was it.” It wasn’t exactly the height of Shakespearian acting, but Ritzenthaler didn’t care. It was fun, so much fun, in fact, he developed a love for amateur theater and went on to direct and/or act in 55 more plays in his life, including directing Neil Simon’s stage comedy, The Odd Couple, and playing Felix in one production and Oscar in another production. After his military service, Ritzenthaler returned home, to Rochester, where he found
Sartell High School Marching Band participates in Granite City parade photo by Mindy Peterson
Left: The Sartell High School Marching Sabres band members walk in unison pass Hester Park in St. Cloud as one of many marching bands in the 2016 Granite City Days Parade on June 25.
work in radio and TV, as an announcer and in production. A friend convinced him to move to the Upper Midwest in 1979 and there Ritzenthler landed a job in TV and radio in Fargo, including a plum job as a host for an all-night movies show. He also did a few stints as a stand-up comic. Currently, Ritzenthaler works part time for a radio station in Litchfield where he does sales training. A diehard lifelong baseball fan, he also announces baseball games at the Municipal Athletic Center in St. Cloud where he gets to indulge in another passion, golfing. “Isn’t it an awful job?” he exclaimed with mock horror. “Just think, I get paid to have to watch sports, and I get to golf for free.” VETERANS FOUGHT FOR OUR WAY OF LIFE. IT’S OUR DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THEIRS.
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Right: The Sartell High School Marching Sabres band took to the streets of downtown St. Cloud as part of the Granite City Days Parade on June 25.
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Some years ago, Ritzenthaler lost the ability to speak because of a cancerous tumor. “I learned the hard way that’s what years of smoking can do to you,” he said. After 30 radiation treatments at the Coborn Cancer Center in St. Cloud (“God bless the Coborn Cancer Center,” he said), he can speak again, and he has his health back. “They always say if you get old, and sit around and wait to die, death will come sooner than you think,” he said. “So I say, ‘Have fun!’ Don’t wait for death.” Ritzenthaler has four grown children: Kari in Farming; Krista in St. Cloud; and Paul and Tom in Rochester, N.Y. The two other current loves of his life are his pets: Dani, a Sheltie; and Tucker, a Shih-Tzu.
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CITY OF ST. STEPHEN LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF FILING The City of St. Stephen will have two (2) Council Member positions to fill in the 2016 General Election. The City of St. Stephen will have the Mayoral position to fill in the 2016 General Election. Each position is for a four (4) year term. City residents are encouraged to consider participation in City government.
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NOTICE OF FILING DATES FOR THE ELECTION TO THE SCHOOL BOARD SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 748 SARTELL, MINN. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the period for filing affidavits of candidacy for the office of School Board member of Independent School District No. 748 shall begin on Tuesday, Aug 2, 2016 and shall close at 5 p.m.** Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. The general election shall be held on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. At that election, three (3) members will be elected to the School Board for terms of four (4) years each. Affidavits of Candidacy are available at the District Office located at the Sartell-St. Stephen District Service Center, 212 Third Ave. N., Sartell, Minn. The filing fee for this office is $2. A candidate for this office must be an eligible voter, must be 21 years of age or more on assuming office, must have been a resident of the school district from which the candidate seeks election for thirty (30) days before the general election, and must have no
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Family fun on the Fourth of July
Logan Edl, 9, enjoys a peaceful ride in a paddle boat on the Mississippi River near Sauk Rapids.
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The sun sets and ends a fun-filled Fourth of July weekend for many in this photo taken from the banks of the Mississippi River in Sauk Rapids.
Above: Logan Edl, 9, and his sister Brooklyn, 3, both of Sartell, enjoy ice pops bought from the ice cream truck. The ice cream truck happened to stop near their great-grandmother’s house after a long, hot day on the Mississippi in Sauk Rapids.
Braig-Lindstrom can still occupy seat by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Sartell City Council member Amy Braig-Lindstrom remains on the city council despite the fact she is no longer a full-time resident of the city. Braig-Lindstrom and her husband, Matt, are in the process of selling their Sartell home as they make a move to their new home in St. Joseph. According to Sartell City Attorney Stan Weinberger, Minnesota Statute 351.02 provides the office of a city council member becomes vacant when the person in that position is no longer
an inhabitant from the city at which time someone else must be selected to fill the rest of the term. At this point, Weinberger said, Braig-Lindstrom has not informed the city she has moved entirely to St. Joseph. When that move becomes complete, when the Sartell house is sold and vacated, she will no longer be able to represent the city on the council, and someone new must be chosen or elected. Braig-Lindstrom’s term will be up at the end of 2016. The Nov. 8 election will determine who will occupy that seat.
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Shooting the breeze at farmers’ market photo by Dennis Dalman
Philip Maus of Albany chats with two ladies at his tomato stand at the Sartell Farmers’ Market June 20. The ladies are Margo Wagner and Trudy Nessler, both of St. Cloud.
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