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Franny Fest set for Aug. 19-21
Franny Fest, the St. Francis Xavier Parish Fall Festival, will be held Friday-Sunday, Aug. 19-21 on the parish grounds. Highlights include a Teen Night for grades 7-12 from 6-8:30 p.m. Friday; a 10K, 5K, 1K walk and run, food, refreshments, kids’ games, silent auction, a 4 p.m. Mass followed by live music by Walter’s Wheelhouse and Tres on Saturday; and 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Mass, bake and plant sales, Belgian waffle breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to noon and a raffle drawing on Sunday. For more information, visit stfrancissartell.org.
Markets provide variety of great food
Items currently available at both Sartell Farmers’ Market sites include: corn, meat, eggs, cheese, tomatoes, beans, potatoes, 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.
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The winning streaks of the Sartell Muskies and the St. Joseph Joes continued last weekend at Sartell’s Champion Field, guaranteeing both teams will enter the Class C State Amateur Baseball Tournament. Last weekend was the beginning of the Region 1C Tournament in Sartell, co-sponsored by the Muskies and the Sartell Stone Poneys. Tournament play will continue this weekend starting at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, when the Muskies face off against the St. Joseph Joes. If the Muskies or the Joes emerge unscathed from the tournament this weekend, they will get a bye in the state tournament, meaning they won’t have to play in the first weekend of the state tourney.
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You’d think, at first sight, Robin Hood and his band of merry men had done some onthe-go archery practice at Mississippi River Park, which is as green as the fabled Sherwood
Forest. At the edge of the park is a huge field dotted with archery targets. There are 13 targets in all, 10 of them set up every 10 yards up to 80 yards away. And there is a bank of three targets, all at a 20-yard distance. Each target measures 44 inches by 36
inches. The “Robin Hood” who set up the range is actually Brian Amundson, a 15-year-old Boy Scout in Sartell Troop 211. Amundson, a ninth-grader at Sartell High School, created the project to earn his Eagle Scout honor. The son of
32Ben and Charmin Amundson, Brian joined the Cub Scouts when he was in fifth grade. The impetus for Amundson’s archery range came from his and his dad’s love of archery, in particular bow-hunting. Last summer while ponderArchery • page 4
Fabulous Armadillos to wow Rock ‘n’ Block by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Duck, goose seasons approaching this fall
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Urban and Dorothy Frank of Sartell (foreground middle) are some of the first people who developed a blank piece of land in the 1970s into what is now Champion Field. The Franks were excited and happy to attend last weekend’s Regional 1C Amateur Baseball Tournament in the park, the first such tournament ever to take place at Champion Field.
Archery range to host Aug. 13 grand opening
Please note, the St. Stephen City Wide Garage Sales weekend is: Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 29-Oct. 1. Garage sales will be marked individually.
According to the Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota’s regular waterfowl season will open on Saturday, Sept. 24, with similar bag limits and season dates that were in place last year. Duck season will again be open for 60 days in the north, central and south zones. Canada goose hunters will see some changes compared to last year. There is no August Canada goose management action in Minnesota. In the Intensive Harvest Zone during the September goose hunt, the bag limit is now five per day, the same as the rest of the state. Previously, the bag limit was 10 per day. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Aug. 12 criers.
Three teams from Region 1C will compete in the Class C State Tournament. The other team to do so will be decided this coming weekend. The Region 1C tournament began last Saturday with eight teams. Rum River and Hinckley were eliminated in play. Now there are six: Muskies, Joes, Braham, Foley, Mora and the Sartell Stone Poneys. On Saturday, Aug. 13, again at Sartell’s Champion Field, there will be three games played: at 1, 4 and 7 p.m. The next day, Sunday, the championship game will start at 1:30 p.m. Last weekend was one of the most exciting times that ever took place in the long history of Champion Field. It was a locally historic event because it was the first time Muskies • page 5
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Above: Pamela McNeill, a vocalist for the Fabulous Armadillos, belts out a tune that brings the audience to its feet.
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Canadian-born Mandy McMillan has been singing and performing since the age of 3.
When the 11th annual BankVista Rock ‘n’ Block kicks into high gear on Saturday, Aug. 13, in Sartell, there will be a triple whammy of three high-power musical acts: the Fabulous Armadillos and country singer-songwriters Chris Hawkey and Mandy McMillan. The Rock ‘n’ Block party will start at 5:30 p.m. and stay open until midnight at the Sauk Prairie Medical Arts Campus, 2000 23rd St. S. Party-goers can take Connecticut Avenue to get into the medical campus. The other activities at the event will include a cornhole competition, similar to a beanbag toss; and a home-brewing contest. Tickets to the festival are $10
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Armadillos
The Fabulous Armadillos have been one of the most popular concert draws for years in the greater St. Cloud area ever since the band formed in 2006. The band is known for its spot-on imitations of genres of music that include country, Motown, heavy metal, ‘70s soft rock and just plain good old rock ‘n’ roll. The Armadillos often do “theme” concerts based on the music such as “One-Hit Wonders,” “Woodstock,” “Stadium Rock” and more. In 10 years, they have performed more than 40 theme shows at Pioneer Place on Fifth in St. Cloud, as well as hundreds of gigs throughout the Midwest and even in Mexico.
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Often the band brings in other performing guests – both local and national talents – to flesh out their theme shows. The band is also well regarded for its tribute shows, such as Doobie Brothers, Eagles and Pink Floyd. The eight-piece band also features a horn section.
Hawkey
Chris Hawkey did a sixyear stint with the Minneapolis-based band, Rocket Club. When he quit that band, he became a morning talk show host on KFAN-Radio in Minneapolis. His show, “Power Trip,” deals with gab about sports, news, movies and fun trivia. Born in Indiana, Hawkey grew up performing in the Indiana/Ohio area. He now lives Rock • back page
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2 If you have a tip concerning a crime, call the Sartell Police Department at 320-251-8186 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at 320255-1301 or access its tip site at www.tricountycrimestoppers.org. Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for crime. July 21 12:26 a.m. Alarm. 11th Avenue East. Officers responded to the apartment building and observed water leaking from the ceiling in front of two apartments. No smoke or fire detected. Fire department arrived and was able to silence the alarm and put the apartment on fire watch until the issue was resolved. 4:09 a.m. Theft. Le Sauk Drive. Officers were dispatched in reference to tools stolen from a parked truck. Officers arrived on scene and checked the area and didn’t notice anything suspicious. Officers attempted to make contact with the owner of the truck without success. 11:57 p.m. Medical. Sixth Avenue S. Officers were dispatched for a 6-month-old infant having a reaction to medication. Officers arrived on scene and assessed the child’s condition. The child was conscious and breathing and her pulse was good. Gold Cross Ambulance arrived on scene and transported the child to St. Cloud Hospital. July 22 1:41 a.m. Traffic stop. First Street N.E. While on routine patrol, an officer observed a vehicle traveling east on First Street NE near Country Manor. The vehicle had tail lights that were not visible. The officer stopped the vehicle in the employee lot of Country Manor. The driver stated the tail lights had been tinted black. The officer issued
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a fix-it ticket for the offense and advised the driver to drive the vehicle home with the hazards on and not to drive the vehicle until the lights are fixed. 4:42 p.m. Medical Victory Loop. Officers were dispatched for a 32-year-old male who was passed out. Officers arrived on scene and discovered the male had been mowing his lawn when he passed out. After some attempts the male did wake up and was conscious. He was weak and had a preliminary alcohol breath test of 0.24. The male was transported to St. Cloud Hospital. 8:56 p.m. Public assist. Second Street S./Benton Drive. While on routine patrol and west bound on Second Street South, an officer observed a stalled motorcycle on the roadway. The officer made contact by phone with the registered owner who stated a friend had borrowed the motorcycle and couldn’t figure out how to shift it, so he left it in the roadway. Officers advised a tow company which removed the vehicle from the roadway. July 23 1:31 a.m. Intoxicated person. Second Street S. Officers were dispatched in reference to an intoxicated male walking up and down the street in front of Winners Sports Bar. Officers arrived on scene and observed two males getting pushed out of the bar by a bouncer. The males appeared to be yelling at each other. The situation de-escalated quickly and nothing physical occurred. Two cabs were already on scene to give the two a ride home. 6:45 p.m. Traffic stop. Second Street S./CR 78. While on routine patrol, an officer observed a vehicle commit a stop-sign violation. The driver slammed on his brakes too late after seeing the stop
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sign, squealing his tires. He finally slowed down toward the middle of the intersection. The driver said he was talking to his passenger and didn’t see the stop sign in time. The officer issued the driver a citation for the violation. July 24 7:19 a.m. Medical. Troop Drive. Officers were dispatched for a 59-year-old male with diabetes that kept passing out. Upon officer arrival, she met with the male who was lying on the living room floor. The male was very jaundice and lethargic. He had consumed juice and sugar prior to officer’s arrival. The officer started oxygen but it didn’t help the patient. The man stated he had not eaten for a few days. The man couldn’t sit up without passing out. The man was transported to St. Cloud Hospital. 10:54 a.m. Vandalism. Hi-Vue Drive. Officers were dispatched to a residence in reference to vandalism to a window. Officers arrived on scene and located the complainant. He stated he had gone to bed at 1 a.m. Sometime during the night, someone had shot his window with a BB or pellet gun. Officers documented the damage to the window and attempted to locate any BBs or pellets but were unable. 6:03 p.m. Medical. First Street N.E. Officers were dispatched for an 81-year-old female who had fallen and hit her head. Officers were advised her pupils were now uneven. Officers arrived on scene and met with the female and staff members. The woman stated she had leaned forward causing her to fall and hit her head. Officers monitored the woman’s condition until Gold Cross Ambulance arrived at which point officers had to clear the call and head to another.
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The CMYSA U12 Girls “Thunder” Soccer team competed in the Schwan’s USA Cup Weekend tournament in Blaine July 15-17. The Schwan’s Cup is the largest soccer tournament in the western hemisphere involving 1,178 teams from 19 states and 19 countries. The Thunder competed in six games, defeating teams from three states to win the C-Flight championship. The team includes the following: (front row, left to right) Peyton Mathiasen (Sartell), Lily Weitzel, Maggie Fernholz, Hadleigh Baynes and Hailey Eibes (Sartell); (middle row) Libby Lommel, Meghan Corbett (Sartell), Olivia Hennager, Emily Koepp, Carly Koopmeiners and Lauren Schmitz (Sartell); and (back row) Coaches Tom Eibes and Chris Koepp. Kjell Mann, Sartell, has been accepted into the Jamestown Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, Class of 2019. The program is hosted in Fargo, N.D. The following participants won tickets to this year’s Bluegrass Festival: Donna Balaski (Waite Park); Dustin Betsinger (St. Joseph); Lisa Boe (Sartell); Doreen Bohm (Sartell); Lorri Carlson (St. Joseph); Sandra Cordie (Sartell); Rita Dingman (St. Joseph); Suzanne
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Four candidates face off for city council seats by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Sartell voters in the Aug. 9 primary election chose the four candidates who will compete in the Nov. 8 primary election for city-council seats. The winners are Mike Chisum, Ryan Fitzthum, Ryan Golembecki Sr. and Timothy Held. The fifth contender, Stephen Klemp, was eliminated from the field as he received the least number of votes. The four who won will compete for the two council seats now held by Amy Braig-Lindstrom and Steven Hennes. The primary election vote totals are the following: Fitzthum 327. Held 285. Chisum 198 Golombecki Sr. 148. Klemp 137.
Sixth District
Incumbent Rep. Tom Emmer handily won challenges by two other candidates for
his U.S. Sixth District seat. He won 13,548 votes. Challengers AJ Kern and Patrick Munro garnered 5,217 votes and 958 votes respectively. DFL contender David Snyder won the DFL primary against challengers Judy Evelyn Adams, 3,553 votes; and Bob Helland, 1,589 votes.
School District
There are some residents in Sartell who are part of the St. Cloud School District and who helped narrow that slate for the Nov. 8 general election. Of the nine candidates, Matt Doke was bumped from the race. He received 681 votes. That was the least amount received by any candidate, thus Doke won’t be on the Nov. 8 ballot. Those who will be are the following and the number of votes they received: Shannon Haws 2,106. Peter Hamerlinck 1,769. Monica Segura-Schwartz 1,607.
John W. Palmer 1,575. Al Dahlgren 1,470. Jeff Pollreis 1,432. Ric Studer 1,274. Scott Andreason 1,126. In the Nov. 8 school-board election four of the eight candidates will be chosen by voters to fill four seats – those now occupied by incumbent Al Dahlgren, who filed for election and is now in the top eight; and for three seats left vacant because the incumbents chose not to run again. Those three are Debra Erickson, Les Green and Dennis Whipple.
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Sartell voters also helped determine the primary race for Minnesota Supreme Court Justice District 6. Natalie Hudson garnered 173,255 votes, Michelle L. MacDonald 54,720 votes and Craig Foss 38,876. That means MacDonald and Hudson will face off in the Nov. 8 election.
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Brian Amundson takes aim at a target 10 yards from him. For his Eagle Scout project, Amundson worked with the Stearns County Park Department and others to create the free archery range in part of Stearns County’s Mississippi River Park on the west side of the river between Rice and Sartell. The range will have a grand opening starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 13.
ing what project he could do to earn his Eagle Scout honor, he met with Brad Borders, who was then director of the Sartell Public Works Department before he retired recently. They tossed some ideas around, and then a bit later Amundson met Ben Anderson of the Stearns County Parks Department. Again, the two were tossing ideas back and forth, and Anderson gave Amundson a list of possible amenities that could be added to a county park or two. Keenly aware the nearest free public archery range is near St. Joseph, Amundson asked Anderson, “Well, what about an archery range?” Anderson promised he’d look into the possibility. He did, and he found the perfect place, an old abandoned parking lot (a field really) at the north end of Mississippi River Park within sight of CR 1, which lies on the west side of the park entrance. Amundson got to work, doing research, contacting people, raising funds. He was elated to know so many people were willing to help. The St. Stephen Sportsmen’s Club donated money and helped with the project. The St. Stephen Legion Club donated money, too, as did Scheels’ Hardware in St. Cloud and Mike’s Archery in St. Cloud. Cold Spring Granite donated the
Friday, Aug. 12, 2016 granite slabs on which the archers will stand when shooting. St. Rosa Lumber donated boards for target frames. When all was ready, it was Anderson and Amundson who set up the targets in their secured positions. And now it’s ready to open. At 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, there will be a grand opening of the archery range, and everyone is welcome to come to shoot a few arrows or just to watch others enjoy the sport. Most of the donors to the project are expected to be there. Amundson said the event will last as long as people want to stay at the range. Mississippi River Park is located on CR 1 about four miles south of the west side of the Rice bridge and about eight miles north of Sartell. The park is located at the east side of CR 1. Amundson is very happy with how the range turned out and happy he will get his Eagle Scout badge. Two of his brothers, Peter and Dean, also earned their Eagle Scout honors by doing volunteer work. Dean installed benches and trees at the golf course in Sartell, and Peter installed four benches and trash cans at various places in Sartell. He has another brother, Mark, who will be an eighthgrader this school year. Amundson’s hobbies are fishing and hunting, especially bow-hunting. He also enjoys football, basketball and trackand-field.
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At left: Sartell Muskie Brian Schellinger takes a whack at the ball during the Region 1C Tournament in Sartell. The tourney will continue this weekend. At right: A lively crowd of more than 500 people attended the Regional 1C Baseball Tournament in Sartell’s Champion Field last weekend. Co-sponsored by the Sartell Muskies and the Sartell Stone Poneys, the tourney will continue this weekend with the first game, between the Muskies and the St. Joseph Joes, starting at 7:30 p.m. tonight.
Muskies from front page a Region 1C tournament was hosted there. Many of the large crowd of about 500 people who attended expressed pride in the facility, which has been a labor of love for many years by so many people who worked to make many improvements at the field. Some of the devel-
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opers of the field and some of the first players on it from the 1970s attended the tournament last weekend. On Saturday, the Muskies defeated Rum River, 10-1, with Adam Wenker pitching; next day they defeated the Sartell Stone Poneys, 11-2, with David Deminsky pitching. All told, eight games were played last weekend. Four Muskies hit over-thefence homeruns in their two
winning games – players Tim Burns, Jace Otto, and brothers Jake and Luke Sweeter The Muskies’ season record now stands at 27 wins, two losses. The team won the Class C State Championship in 2013 and hopes for a chance to win it again. “Last weekend (at Champion Field) was very much a success,” said Muskies Manager Randy Beckstrom. “The crowds were great, volunteers
did a wonderful job, the baseball was good and the weather was awesome. It was unbelievable how many people were there. I’ve never seen that field that full before.” Catering at the concession stand was provided by Trobec’s Bar of St. Stephen, with huge turkey legs and pulled pork the specialties of the weekend. Kaye Wenker, mother of Muskies’ pitcher/player Adam Wenker, 25, said she was very
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Our View Don’t let children get on terrifying thrill rides
Courts start busting voting restrictions
Parents everywhere might want to think twice before they let one or more of their children get on a “thrill” ride at amusement parks or other places. On Aug. 7, 10-year-old Caleb Schwab of Olathe, Kan., was killed while riding a water slide at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kan. It’s still not clear what happened, but Caleb’s neck was somehow broken. On the ride, a raft filled with three people plunges down a 169-foot-tall water slide – almost straight down. After that swift fall, with the raft moving at 65 mph, the water slide levels off, then shoots up to a tall height and then down again. The water slide is dubbed “Verruckt,” which is German for “Insane.” Aptly named. Caleb was the son of Kansas State Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife, Michele. The day after the terrible accident, they released this heart-wrenching statement: “Since the day he (Caleb) was born, he brought abundant joy to our family and all those he came in contact with. As we try to mend our home with him no longer with us, we are comforted knowing he believed in our savior Jesus, and they are forever together now. We will see him another day.” What was a 10-year-old boy doing on such a terrifying ride? The ride opened in 2014, and according to a report by USA Today, the water park’s co-owner took a ride on the slide and said this later: “I’m still recovering mentally. It’s like jumping off the Empire State Building. It’s the scariest thing I’ve done.” Those are words not only from an adult but from the park’s co-owner. Did it ever occur to park owners that such a frightening ride could traumatize children, even it did not put them in physical danger, which obviously it did? According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, an average of 4.5 Americans have died every year on amusement-park rides from 1987-2000. Between the years 1994-2004, 22 Americans died gruesome deaths on roller-coaster rides alone due to mechanical failure or operator errors. Those death statistics do not even include the more than 1,204 injuries that occurred just in 2011 at 400 worldwide parks. Even some “less scary” rides have maimed or killed children. A trade association for amusement parks claims the chance of an injury happening while riding rides is one in 9 million. Be that as it may, almost 4,500 children under 18 are injured in amusement park rides each year, most often because of improper restraints or padding. That’s too many children; one is too many. Many children are naturally adventurous, ready to try anything that looks scary or thrilling. Most do not have an inkling of just how terrifying some of those thrill rides are, until they’re on them, when it’s too late to stop. Mental traumas can result. Most parents can be reasonably assured their children will be safe on close-to-the-ground amusement rides such as merry-go-rounds or kiddie cars and for older children possibly a Ferris wheel. (Then again, maybe not. On Aug. 8, a Ferris wheel seat upended in Greenville, Tenn., sending three girls falling nearly 45 feet to the ground. Miraculously, thankfully, they survived, though injured.) When it comes to giant roller coasters, water slides and other thrill-a-second rides, parents should not let children under 18 get on them, and amusement park owners should bar children from them, too. It’s surprising to think how many adults too scared to get on such thrill rides think nothing of letting their children get on them. It’s an awful way to become traumatized, to sustain injuries or to die. And such tragic outcomes can leave grieving parents in agony for the rest of their days.
Opinion
A counter assault against restrictive voting rights is – thankfully – busting down barriers erected in sly attempts to make voting difficult if not impossible for many Americans. These victories are long overdue. Recently, a federal appeals court struck down a garden variety of voting restrictions in North Carolina, the court declaring the voting laws “disproportionately affected African Americans.” Earlier, another court ruling in Texas shot down that state’s voter I.D. law. It’s notable many of the judges on these courts were appointed by Republicans; thus, it cannot be claimed these appeals courts have been ruling simply because of biases by Democrats. Those courts are ruling against voting restrictions because it’s so blatantly obvious, to good Democrats and Republicans alike, that those laws were enacted to make the voting process – the foundation of our democracy – difficult to the point of discouragement for blacks, other minorities, students, elderly people and people in poverty. In the case of North Carolina, the three-judge panel for the Fourth Circuit concluded there is “an inextricable link between race and politics in North Carolina” and that lawmakers in that state intentionally imposed restrictions to make it more difficult for blacks to vote. The judges wrote: “The new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision. They (the new voting laws) constitute inapt remedies for the problems . . . and, in fact, impose cures for problems that did not exist.” That’s the crux of it right there: problems that did not exist. Since 2012, these onerous laws have been passed in 15 states, always with the same ridiculous,
Editor feeble excuse – that there is serious voting fraud. Studies here, there and everywhere have proven voting fraud is so rare as to be virtually unknown. It is, in fact, the problem that does not exist. The phantom problem. The big lie, the big excuse, to put the squeeze on somebody else’s voting rights. The scoundrels ought to be ashamed of themselves, but of course they’re not. The floodgates to this undemocratic behavior were opened by the U.S. Supreme Court in one of its two really dumb decisions (the other being “Citizens United”). In 2013, the High Court struck down part of the historic 1965 Voting Rights Act. The provision that was stricken required states to get federal permission before changing any voting procedures. Lest we forget, in the Jim Crow South, all kinds of voting laws were in effect for decades to keep black men and women from voting: a poll tax, a literacy test, restrictive voting hours – to name just three. Then, finally, along came the great 1965 Voting Rights Act. In 2013, immediately after the Court’s unfortunate ruling, efforts to restrict voting began at once. Even earlier than that, right after the last presidential election, law-making grinches at state levels went into a frenzy of cooking up ways to restrict voting rights. Many Americans thought then and now, “Well, so what? What’s so bad about making a voter have an ID?”
But make no mistake, these sneaky restrictions go far beyond photo IDs. In the case of North Carolina, for example, same-day voting was eliminated, early voting was reduced and out-of-precinct voting was also hampered. In Texas, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which generally rules in favor of conservative causes, stated the Texas voting law was not intended to discriminate but had that effect on minority voters, leaving as many as 60,000 potential voters out of the loop in this fall’s presidential election. That was unintended? Say what? Could you repeat that? That’s like saying Donald Trump is not a sexist, that he only keeps spouting crude sexist remarks, but he doesn’t really mean them. The outcome, it certainly seems, is proof of the intention. But I suppose we shouldn’t quibble with the Texas court’s decision; at least it ruled for justice. There are still 20 states that have passed voting restrictions that will be in place for the first time as the Nov. 8 presidential election rolls around. For a full list, go to www. brennancenter.org. Wouldn’t it be a triumph for Democracy if courts in all of those 20 states struck down voting restrictions once and for all? In the meantime, we should express our outrage by demanding every prospective voter in this country is able to vote without having to encounter obstacles so shamefully placed in their way. Denying access to the voting process by making that process difficult is just about the most villainous un-American stunt anyone could pull. Let’s make the scoundrels feel some shame. Voting against them would be a good start.
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Roundabouts good for safety, fuel efficiency Brian Johnson, Sartell
I am very thankful Sartell is the roundabout capital of Minnesota for a number of reasons as there are all kinds of statistics detailing why roundabouts are far superior over traffic lights. The first is that it promotes better safety as roundabouts show an 89-percent decrease in fatal crashes, a 74-percent decrease in life-altering injury crashes and a 39-percent decrease in all crashes. With better traffic flow, roundabouts handle high levels of traffic with less delay than most stop signs
or signals. The entry curves slow traffic so entering and exiting are easier and more efficient. Additionally, there is better fuel efficiency and air quality where roundabouts replace signals. The need for idling decreases, which reduces vehicle emissions and fuel consumption by 30 percent or more. This information and statistics come from the Minnesota Department of Transportation where you can also find a tutorial on how to navigate a roundabout. I applaud city planners for adding numerous roundabouts in Sar-
tell. Thank you for looking out for the safety of city residents. Being a father of two boys who will be Sartell drivers in the coming years, I feel good about the safety roundabouts provide. I understand there is a learning curve to navigating roundabouts, and as with most new things, it may take some time to learn. Perhaps the city could offer a how-to class on a Saturday morning in one of the public parking lots on how to correctly navigate a roundabout. I think this could benefit not only seniors but anyone who finds navigating roundabouts difficult.
Reker family earns widespread support Georgia Deher, St. Cloud
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Dennis Dalman
Friday, Aug. 12, 2016
On Nov. 3, five years ago, I read a terrific article called “Reker recounts daughters’ murders.” It said, “Throughout the years, Reker has channeled her grief into helping others. She is on the board of Tri-County Crime Stoppers, and she’s been a leader for years for the local chapter of Parents of Murdered Children.”
In 2008, Rita Reker and family went to St. Paul to back state and local authorities in a new effort to crack 52 cold cases by turning to prison and jail inmates to help solve the mysteries and by using a deck of cards with victims’ faces on them to help generate the tips. Susan and Mary Reker, ages 12 and 15, are the “2 of hearts” on playing cards highlighting unsolved homicide,
missing person and unidentified-remains cases. Rita’s expertise on contacting vinelink, parole boards and parole procedures helped me personally. Many in the area know of her amazing lifelong accomplishments. Can other readers comment on a positive experience? I’m glad to see the support for Rita Reker and of her raising awareness once again.
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Chris Hawkey, country singer, divides his time between his morning radio talk-show job in Minneapolis and performing musical gigs. He headlines at the Aug. 13 Rock ‘n’ Block in Sartell.
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