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Friday, Aug. 26, 2016 Volume 21, Issue 33 Est. 1995
Town Crier Sartell Baseball Association to hold 2017 team tryouts
Sartell Baseball Association will host tryouts for the 2017 Travel Teams on Saturday, Sept. 10 and 17 at Oak Ridge Elementary. If you have a child interested in playing travel baseball, visit www.sartellbaseball.com.
County website provides construction updates
The construction from Heritage Drive to CR 120 in Sartell consists of reconstructing to four lanes the section northwesterly of Hwy. 15 to just past Heritage Drive, including construction of a five-legged roundabout at Heritage Drive and an added lane along northwesterly bound CSAH 1 southeasterly of Highway 15. Evergreen Drive will be extended and will become the fifth leg of the roundabout. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Aug. 26 criers.
Quiet Oaks Hospice House seeks house, patient care
Quiet Oaks Hospice House, a private eight-bed residential facility in St. Augusta, is looking for house and patient-care volunteers. House volunteers provide hospitality and comfort to families and residents, prepare meals, clean, help with laundry and assist staff with miscellaneous hospitality projects/ tasks including yard and garden work and floral arranging. Volunteers are needed for at least two three- to four-hour shifts monthly. Weekend help greatly appreciated. Volunteers are also needed to assist nursing staff with caring for and visiting with residents. For more information, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on Aug. 26 criers.
Postmaster says farewell, ‘Thank you, Sartell!’
by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
After serving 30 years for the U.S. Postal Service – 18 of them in Sartell – Postmaster Terry Niehaus is sending a big retirement “thank you” to Sartell residents who were her loyal customers. Her last day is Sept. 30. “I’ve enjoyed my postal career and I’m glad I served in Sartell,” she said. “I met so many people and got to know them. We became very close through daily interactions.” For three years in a row, the Sartell Post Office sold the most “breast-cancer” stamps of all post offices in the region, which helped support the fight against that disease. “We promoted those stamps and the people of Sartell bought them,” Niehaus aid. “The people here really got behind that cause.”
She said she will never forgot how kind, caring and thoughtful Sartell customers were when her son, Christopher, served a year in Iraq and even always asked about him after he returned home. “The Sartell people were so supportive,” she recalled. Niehaus and her husband, Tom, have lived in Richmond for many years. They have three adult offspring – Brian, who lives in Ramsey; Christopher, who lives in Paynesville; and Amy Michaelis, who also lives in Paynesville. Amy has two children, ages 5 and 3; and she lost a baby, Natalie, who was just weeks old last April when she succumbed to a virus that attacked her heart. “That was so hard to bear; it still is,” Niehaus said. “Now we have two grandchildren on earth and one in heaven.” Postal work seems to have Niehsaus • page 3
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Now that she’s retiring, Terry Niehaus will have more time doing what she loves to do, which includes spending quality time with her granddaughters, Lila Michaelis (left) and her sister, Hailey. This photo was taken in St. Cloud’s Munsinger Gardens.
City subscribes to solar-garden energy by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
The City of Sartell just might save up to or more than $428,167 in energy costs during the next 25 years because of a subscription agreement with SolarStone, the developer of a “solar garden” in Sartell. The city council agreed to approve the subscription agreement at its last meeting. The Minneapolis-based SolarStone is a company that specializes in development of solar, wind and hydro energy-generating facilities. One such facility
is its solar gardens, which are plots of land containing rows of solar panels. Currently, SolarStone has 2,000 acres of solar gardens in Minnesota. Last year, Sartell agreed to lease land to SolarStone for a solar garden to be installed in an area near Heritage Road. The solar energy generated at solar gardens is delivered to a utility company (in this case Xcel Energy). Xcel Energy customers can then opt to have a portion of their energy delivered based on solar generation via a subscription with the operator of the solar gardens. In
return, those customers can get a credit on their bills from Xcel Energy. In the long run, such arrangements are expected to encourage a proliferation of solar and other kinds of renewable, clean-energy production. In its subscription agreement with SolarStone, the City of Sartell is part of that process. There are no up-front costs to the city, only the subscription for a 25year period. Much of Sartell’s electricity needs are delivered by Xcel Energy. The city is allowed to contract via subscription up to 465 killowatt hours of electric-
ity from the solar garden per year. However, the city staff and council decided to subscribe to a lower amount, 260 killowatt hours during the 25-year period. That would amount to about a 16-percent energy savings to the city because of the credits Xcel Energy will give the city for its solar-garden subscription. There will be other subscribers to the solar garden, as well, once it is up and running. For this particular solar garden, subscribers would have to be customers of Xcel Energy and live in Stearns County or in one of the adjacent counties.
Big crowds enjoy Chateau Waters opening
United Way to host Day of Caring Sept. 22
United Way of Central Minnesota will host Day of Caring on Thursday, Sept. 22. Day of Caring is designed to bring people together to volunteer on community projects. The day will begin with a kick-off breakfast at the Waite Park Community Pavilion from 7:30-8:30 a.m. Volunteers will be provided a continental breakfast during the kick-off and a free T-shirt. (T-shirts can be picked up on Thursday, Sept. 15 at the United Way office and worn on Day of Caring). This is a great opportunity to volunteer with co-workers, friends, family and service groups for your community. Projects include painting, packaging food, fall clean-up, crafts and children’s activities. For more information, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on Aug. 26 criers.
Postal Patron
by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
photo by Dennis Dalman
This is the front of Cheateau Waters, a photo taken just after the 5 p.m. closing of its open house, which attracted a steady stream of hundreds, if not thousands, of visitors Aug. 23.
All afternoon, people kept coming – long lines of them – followed by still more, even more vehicles and more lines of people to the Chateau Waters open house in Sartell. From 2-5 p.m. Aug. 23, the deluxe senior-living apartment complex was open to the public. Parked vehicles lined the road to the facility and were parked as far away as the PineCone Marketplace as people left
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their vehicles and walked – in some cases several blocks – to the complex in south Sartell right next to Lake Francis. All who attended showed a keen interest in the apartment complex, which offers a plethora of amenities, including a spa and wellness center, a large heated pool, a movie theater, a chapel, a media center, a performance center, an art studio, a gift shop, a restaurant, a putting green, a pickleball court, manicured garden areas, a patio area by the lake – in short, Chateau • page 5
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Citizens Police Academy accepting applications by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
The police departments of Sartell, Sauk Rapids, St. Joseph, St. Cloud and Waite Park are accepting applications for the 2016 Class of the Metro Citizens Police Academy. The Metro Citizens Police Academy is an eight-week course offered to citizens and members of local civic and governmental organizations. Participants of the academy are given the chance to experience first-hand many areas of police training. The classes offered closely parallel the training curriculum police officer candidate’s experience. It’s imperative participants understand the Citizen’s Police Academy is solely informative and in no way trains or promotes citizens to act in a law-enforcement capacity. In light of recent events involving law enforcement nationwide, local departments are seeking a diverse group of applicants who have questions specific to police procedures involving use
and application of force, law-enforcement training and arrest procedures. Applicants critical of law-enforcement response to incidents and skeptical of current law-enforcement practices are encouraged to apply. Classes begin the first Thursday after Labor Day, Sept. 8, and run Thursdays for eight weeks to Oct. 27. Classes will be held from 6-10 p.m. at various departments and locations throughout the academy. Participants who complete the training courses are presented a certification of completion from a chief of police at the last training session. An applicant must be 21 years of age, must not have a criminal record and a records-clearance check will be completed prior to acceptance into the program. The applicant must live within the city limits of the police departments through which they are applying. Applications can be found online of most departments or obtained from the departments themselves.
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. Aug. 2 9:12 a.m. Welfare check. River Vista Lane. An officer was dispatched in reference to threats being made over the Internet the day before. The officer completed the paperwork for a search warrant through Facebook. The threats are still under investigation. 2:25 p.m. Fraud. 22nd Street S. An officer was asked to call an individual about scam IRS calls she was receiving. The officer was able to confirm the calls were scams and informed the caller to ignore the calls and not to give any personal information over the phone. 5:15 p.m. Agency assist. Riverside Avenue N. Officers were asked by Cold Spring Police Department to assist in finding a male party for probable cause for domestic assault. Officers were able to locate the male, arrested the male for domestic assault and transported the male without incident to the Stearns County Jail. Aug. 3 2:29 a.m. Vehicle pursuit. Second Street S. An officer initiated a traffic stop with a vehicle that was reported
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stolen out of St. Cloud. The driver of the vehicle fled from the vehicle on foot. Sauk Rapids officer assisted in tracking with a K-9 unit. Officers were unable to locate the suspect from the stop. 12:36 p.m. Verbal. Hi-Vue Drive. Officers were dispatched to a report of two parties arguing on the property. Officers responded and spoke to both parties; the argument started about a mattress being placed on the other’s property. The caller stated the mattress was moved and officers were not needed. 10:56 p.m. Noise complaint. Seventh Street N. Officers were dispatched to a noise complaint at an apartment complex. The complainant stated there was a male working on his vehicle making a bunch of noise and parked in a fire lane. Upon arrival the officer was unable to locate the vehicle or the male. Aug. 4 12:51 p.m. Agency assist. Sunset Avenue. Officers were dispatched to assist Stearns County looking for a male party who has an active Sherburne County felony warrant. The male was not at the address. Officers were going to try another location. 9:31 p.m. Suspicious vehicle. Pinecone Road S. Officer responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle that was filled with smoke, but it was not a car fire. Officers checked the area but were unable to locate the vehicle. 10:40 p.m. Medical. Lowell Lane. Officers were called to this address
Friday, Aug. 26, 2016 for a male party who had fallen and his nose was bleeding badly. Officers arrived on scene and monitored the male’s condition until Gold Cross Ambulance arrived and took over. Aug. 5 10:49 p.m. Noise complaint. Bluebird Court. Officers were dispatched to a party with loud male voices. Officers arrived in the area and could hear music playing outside but no one was outside. Officers made contact with the homeowner, and she did realize there was music playing outside yet. The homeowner stated they had just finished playing badminton outside and would keep it down for the night. Aug. 6 9:44 a.m. Traffic stop. First Street N.E./Fourth Avenue E. An officer initiated a traffic stop due to the vehicle having expired registration, and the registered owner showed as revoked. The driver was not the registered owner and only borrowing the vehicle. The driver was given a verbal warning. 5:59 p.m. Verbal. Seventh Street S. Officers were dispatched to a verbal argument in process. The caller stated his ex-girlfriend was in the backyard trying to break a window. Officers made contact with both parties. The female stated she wanted her personal items out of the house. Officers stood by while the female collected belongings. Officers advised both parties to avoid each other the remainder of the evening.
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The 28th annual Tri-County Humane Society’s Woofstock Companion Walk hopes to raise $62,500 this time around to help the animals at its shelter. TCHS has achieved an outstanding 93.5-percent adoption rate.
Woofstock walkers hope to raise $62,500 by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
The goal of the 28th annual Tri-County Humane Society’s Woofstock Companion Walk is to raise $62,500, an increase of 25 percent from last year’s goal. The event will take place from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at Wilson Park in St. Cloud. The actual 5K walk will start at 10 a.m. Organizers of the event are encouraging people to form walking teams and to start raising funds as soon as possible. For information on how best to do it, go to tricountyhumanesociety.org/ events/companion-walk. Or call
Marit Ortega, TCHS director of philanthropy, at 320-252-0896, ext. 14. Many people set up their team’s fundraising page online. People can also donate, any time, via the TCHS website, where there are photos and descriptions of pets up for adoption. Woofstock is one of the local humane society’s most important fundraisers, vital to allowing the organization to continue helping animals and finding them good adoptee homes. The increased fundraising goal is necessary because as more animals are brought to the shelter in east St. Cloud, Woofstock • page 7
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a genetic factor in the Niehaus family. Tom worked for the Richmond post office as a rural carrier; and son Christopher also works as a rural carrier for the Cold Spring Post Office. Thirty-one years ago, Terri and Tom both took a series of civil-service tests in order to become postal employees. They had friends who were in the postal service and thought they, too, would like the work. They were hired, and they did like the work. Very much so. “The best thing about it is that I was never bored,” Niehaus said. “There was always a variety of things to do and always something new to learn.” Her first job was in the
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Litchfield Post Office, but she also served from time to time in other post offices: Hamel, Paynesville, Atwater and Long Prairie. The jobs required her to commute in all kinds of weather, with Hamel being the longest commute at 90 minutes, one way. It wasn’t always easy, but that’s what one had to do for a career in the postal service, Niehaus noted. The biggest challenge of her career was when she was appointed to a supervisory position in a large post office after only two years of experience. There was a lot to learn in a short time, which made the job highly stressful now and then, Niehaus recalled, but it was a way of “paying one’s dues” and all she learned in the high-stress moments proved to be valuable in her subsequent jobs.
Eighteen years ago, she was appointed to the Sartell Post Office. “The biggest changes during my (career) was automation,” she said. “Most mail is now read by an electronic eye so there’s less manual sorting.” That, she said, freed her and the staff to concentrate on other daily duties. Throughout the years, there has been a dramatic increase in parcels and a big decrease in first-class mail, such as personal letters – not surprising in the age of emails. In her retirement, one of the first things Niehaus will do is to help her husband restore a 1965 Plymouth Belvedere. She, Tom and one of their sons are all classic-car hobbyists. Niehaus also enjoys sewing, gardening and spending quality time with her precious granddaughters.
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Friday, Aug. 26, 2016
Wiese promoted to Newsleaders’ operations director by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
When she was 15, Tara Wiese just knew she wanted to work on a newspaper, and 20 years later she’s not only working on a newspaper, but she was recently named operations director for the Newsleaders. Wiese, a Sauk Rapids resident and mother of two girls, joined the Newsleaders staff as a graphics designer in 2010. Since that time, she has steadily and painstakingly learned all of the operations at the St. Joseph-based Von Meyer Publishing Inc., which was founded in 1989 and publishes the St. Joseph Newsleader, the Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader and the Sauk Rapids-Rice Newsleader. In six years, Wiese has designed countless ads, helped do the layout preparation work for printing the newspapers,
did some proofreading, some photography, helped with delivery of the papers, and wrote some stories and a few columns, among many other daily tasks. “I absolutely love my job,” Wiese said. “I’m a behind-thescenes employee, and it’s been fun learning so many aspects of the newspaper industry.” Her promotion to operations director puts her in supervision over the Newsleaders’ entire production area as second-in-command to company’s founder/owner/publisher Janelle Von Pinnon. The daughter of Michael and Jayne Wiese of Sauk Rapids, Wiese attended schools in Sauk Rapids and graduated from its high school in 1999. She credits her father with inspiring and encouraging her lifelong love of art and design. Until his retirement in 2000, Michael Wiese was a long-time teacher at Sauk Rap-
ids-Rice High School, and his daughter, in her independent studies pursuit, took many courses from him: graphics, advanced graphics, architecture, photography and multimedia. Michael has spent the past 16 years working full-time for Ron’s Cabinets. Wiese is convinced her skills were transferred genetically from her father. Growing up, she was never happier than when she had pencils, crayons or paintbrushes in her hand, and a piece of paper or canvas in front of her. She was so talented in art, in eighth grade she won a drawing contest sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Space Science Student Involvement Program. Her winning entry was of a view of a space walker and planet as seen through the window of the space station. As a young girl, she also won numerous free meals at Happy
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Tara Wiese, recently promoted as operations director of the Newsleader newspapers, holds daughter Kayla. At left is Wiese’s older daughter, Krystene. Chef restaurants because she was also an exchange stuexcelled at their coloring con- dent in Germany for a time tests. where one day, on a sudden For 10 years, off and on, whim, she did something that Wiese helped her father with stunned her friends and famhis summer construction job ily. Attached to a giant bungee when he wasn’t teaching. She Wiese • page 7
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St. Stephen artist displays Chateau from front page his creations at Art Crawl
photo by Mindy Peterson
Randy Asseln of St. Stephen talks about his photographs and canvas prints at Falcon National Bank in downtown St. Cloud, which hosted him and other artists, during the annual Sizzling Summer Art Crawl Aug. 12. More than 30 venues and businesses along St. Germain Street hosted more than 50 local artists.
People Jack Toftey, Sartell, received an honorable mention in the annual “National Exhibition of Folk Art in the Norwegian Tradition” at Vesterheim, the national Norwegian-American museum and heritage center. Toftey received the award in the Woodworking
and Figure Carving Category for his carved figure called “Nose Picker.” Brandon Mehrwerth, St. Stephen, recently earned a degree in engine machinery from Northwest Technical College in Bemidji.
such a variety of amenities that residents, if they so choose, would never have to leave the premises. Visitors were encouraged to tour the entire four-story building, including several of the one- and two-bedroom apartments and the many areas of the complex with their wide-ranging amenities. There are 72 apartments in the building. Chateau Waters is a $29-million project of the St. Benedict Senior Community. The lead architect for the complex is RSP Architects, an international firm based in Minneapolis; and the construction was under the direction of Welsh and Colliers International, a commercial re-
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Visitors check out the kitchen area of one of the apartments in Chateau Waters senior-living complex in south Sartell, which held an extremely well-attended open house Aug. 23. All apartments come with fireplaces and balconies. al-estate group. Many of the hundreds of people who toured Chateau Waters expressed admiration for Cha-
teau Waters’ layout and amenities as they enjoyed free hors d’oeuvres and live piano music in a dining lounge.
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Our View
Olympic medalist Post makes us all proud Let’s hear it for Alise Post, the St. Cloud woman who won a silver medal in the Summer Olympics last Friday. Post finished second in the women’s BMX (bicycle motocross) race in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 25-year-old Tech High School graduate competed among the best of the best in the world, with gold medal Olympic defender Mariana Pajon of Columbia beating Post by only 0.342 of a second in the final race. Third, winning a bronze medal, was Stefany Hernandez of Venezuela. Pajon and Post hugged each other after the grueling race in a hilly extreme-sports park in Rio. Post is a perfect example of a superb athlete who has combined skills, dedication, determination, rigorous discipline, stamina and grueling training to reach the heights of accomplishment. It’s stunning to think an older brother suggested she try bike racing when she was only 6, and that’s how it all started. Before her first race, a steep downhill one, she backed out at the last minute. But not one to be a quitter, she put all of her effort into her second race and took second place. By the age of 15, Post was a true pro, winning race after race. She was the youngest woman, at age 15, to win the No. 1 Pro Women’s BMX title. She was selected to compete in women’s BMX racing in the Summer Olympics in London in 2012, but a serious bicycle crash caused her to take 12th place. It was a bitter disappointment, but not nearly as terrible as what was to come – the death of her mother, Cheryl, to melanoma in 2014. Post sports her mother’s name on her racing bike as a tribute to her memory and inspiration. As Post triumphed with a silver medal at the Olympics, her father Mark, family members, relatives, friends and fans watched with great excitement. They were, of course, extremely elated she’d nearly taken the gold by less than a split second. They were naturally proud of her world-class achievement. And the rest of us, those who have never met her, are proud of her, too. Post has made the United States proud, Minnesota proud, Central Minnesota proud, and proudest of all are those of us who live in the greater St. Cloud area. Congratulations, Alise Post, from all of us. Way to go!
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Opinion
Friday, Aug. 26, 2016
PolitiFact similar to lie-detector test PolitiFact.com is just about the niftiest thing since cupcakes, especially if you happen to be a political junkie. And even if you’re not, it’s still a nifty resource in this era of the Political Liars and Truth-Tellers, too. What’s alarming – but at times almost comical – is the sheer extent some leaders go to when inventing lies, or playing utterly loose with information and facts. And that includes politicians of every party, every stripe. PolitiFact is a fact-checking network headquartered at the independent Tampa Bay Times in Florida, with statewide news organizations all through the states and thousands of trained fact-checkers. What PolitiFact does is to check the accuracy of statements spoken by elected officials and politicians competing for office. It also checks the truthfulness (or lack thereof) of claims made by political parties, organizations, specialinterest groups and websites ranging from far left to far right. PolitiFact’s researchers and writers delve into all levels of claims made – local, state and national. Obviously, every statement everywhere can’t be checked. Thus, the compilers welcome requests and scrutinize sources far and wide to decide what to check into based on criteria such as: Is the statement misleading? Is the statement significant? Is it likely to be passed on and repeated by others? PolitiFact rates each claim or statement using a Truth-O-Meter, like a cartoon parking meter with a needle pointing to one of six levels of truthfulness: True, Mostly True, Half True, Mostly False, False, (Liar, Liar) Pants on Fire. The latter category is sometimes unwittingly hilarious because the statements can be such outlandish, ludicrous whoppers. Here’s a statement that was a popular blog: “Arizona, Missouri and Texas residents have a two-pet limit, so the public must ‘surrender their third pet to the Humane Society.’” The flaming Truth-O-Meter, reading
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Dennis Dalman Editor Pants on Fire, says, Not a hare of truth (to it). The biggest whoppers (some hilarious, some bigoted, others disgusting) are from blog sites on which bloggers can, like snipers shooting from bushes, tell lies to their hearts’ content with not so much as a scintilla of accountability. But, go figure, those are the very blog lies so many computer users pass on as holy truth. If you click on any of the Truth-O-Meters, a page will open with the names and email addresses of the fact-checkers and writers for that particular meter rating. It will also show the background and context of when, who and how the statement was made. If ratings mistakes are discovered, upon further investigation, they are meticulously corrected so the site’s visitors cannot miss them. Not surprisingly, in the white-hot nasty heat of this presidential election season, the statements made by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are constant fodder for factchecking by PolitiFact. Both have long been scrutinized, and both have plenty of Pants on Fire ratings. Here’s one of Clinton’s Pants on Fire whoppers: (She) says, regarding the presence of classified information in her emails, FBI Director James “Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people.” Pants on Fire: Cherry picking to the extreme.
Here’s one of Trump’s: “As usual, Hillary and the Dems are trying to rig the debates so two are up against major NFL games.” Pants on Fire: No one in Clinton’s campaign or the DNC had a say (as to when debates will occur). PolitiFact scorecards have Trump a clear winner over Clinton in the Pants on Fire Truth-O-Meter ratings, with 19 of his statements having received that flaming rating while only nine (4 percent) of his statements were determined to be True, 25 (11 percent) to be Mostly True, 33 (15 percent) Half True, 34 (15 percent) Mostly False and 81 (36 percent) False. Clinton’s scorecard is the following: 6 statements (2 percent) Pants on Fire, 53 (22 percent) True, 67 (28 percent) Mostly True, 53 (22 percent) Half True, 35 (15 percent) Mostly False and 27 (11 percent) False. Does that mean Trump is a bigger liar than Clinton? Well, not necessarily. It might simply mean Trump shoots his brash, reckless mouth off more often and louder than Clinton does. There is also a PolitiFacts ObamaMeter that tracks more than 500 promises the president made in his two political campaigns: Kept Promises, 240; Promises Compromised On, 132; Promises Broken, 117; Stalled Promises, 8; Promises in the Works, 34. More people should start checking out PolitiFact.com. It’s a good voters’ resource for examining the truths and/or falsehoods spouted by candidates. It’s not comprehensive because there are many other factors to be considered in voting for this or that candidate. But PolitiFact is a fine way to cut through the bluster, distortions, exaggerations and – yes – lies spewed left and right. It’s also a good reminder some of these candidates do indeed tell the truth or mostly the truth quite often. Imagine that; there is some hope, after all.
Mr. Trump, our country is already great Lewis Neuman Jr., Sartell On Friday, Aug. 19, I opened a copy of the Newsleader and turned to the article written by editor Dennis Dalman. While reading the article, my eyes began to tear up profusely not because of sadness but because of joy. I was so thrilled to read the article depicting the horrible antics of a lunatic who wants to be our president, one who has been endorsed by the Republican Party as their nominee for the 2016 presidential election. The Republican Party has done everything possible to defeat President Obama with obstruction in his attempts to make
America greater than it is during his term of office. Those of you who proclaim yourself a Republican should maybe look in the mirror at yourselves and ask, “Is this what we want in America?” The Republican Party deserves this nut job who claims to have all the answers and says he, alone, can and will make this country great again. Well, Mr. Trump, this country is great and never has stopped being the greatest country on the face of the earth. Where have you been, Mr. Trump? Perhaps, you’ve been so tied up with screwing people all over the world that you have forgotten how great this country is. God help us should this nut job who pro-
claims himself as some kind of god should win the presidency, for we will no doubt go decades backwards. I suggest if Mr. Trump doesn’t think this country is great, perhaps he should take his money and divisive, negative thoughts elsewhere and become a citizen of some other country, and try and make that country great. Maybe he should try and run as a dictator wherever he settles down. He will not be president of these great United States for I have faith in our great country. I thank you, Dennis Dalman, for a great piece of journalism. I have enjoyed and look forward each week to read your precise journalistic approach to issues.
Football is back – and not a moment too soon It’s fall, ya’ll, and that rhymes with, well you know. It’s the obligatory season of laced leather (thank you, porker) in an oblong shape and wearing a brown-pimpled jacket. Darn, never has the pig made such a momentous sacrifice as it did when it surrendered itself for football. Now, do understand, I love pork roasts and other swine sides. But, I am one of those fanatics who would become an eternal chickenlicker if it meant giving up my barbequed ribs love for the beloved “pigskin.” We here in Minnesota are condemned to winters that are unbearable, even for polar bears. Our spring brings us rodents and road detours. Summer somewhat satisfies our unquenched desires for warm days, gentle winds and the obligatory (occasional) overnight summer rain. It would seem this year the only overnight summer rain came with some issues like torrential downpours, hurricane winds and lots of lightning strikes. Well, say I, enough is enough. It’s fall, ya’ll, and time for – let’s sing it all together – football! I have never been one to say autumn is the be all and end all of life with football. But, I know that on any given Sunday, while some followers of the arts will be at a Shakespearean presentation; some political zealots will be attending a campaign speech by someone who represents nothing important; and
Paul Ritzenthaler Guest Writer some whale activists will be at a “Save the Blowfish” seminar, I likewise know their numbers will be dramatically smaller when compared to the overall gatherings of purple and gold-clad groupies (or, even green-and-gold in some watering spots). These football diehards will – male and female alike – offer some comments about the officiating that is not suitable for print. At half time, they will walk into the kitchen of wherever they are watching the game and scarf down some nachos or chips, along with a hotdog and – for sure – no caviar. If they are in a local bistro, they might treat themselves to some potluck members of the local crowd have brought in. Guess what? I forgot to bring up the fact in between the cursing and swearing and cheering and highfiving, a lot of these establishments provide a free meal come halftime. Heck, no, I’m not going to tell you where! I don’t want you beating me to the halftime lunchtime meal that saves me having to cook supper that night.
Yet, believe it or not, the food (whether served at home or at a lounge) is secondary to the game and the results. The banter will continue on well into the evening, about who did what that was great and who really messed up that play. If the purple-and-gold (or greenand-gold) win, there will be your Monday morning quarterbacks who will explain what the team did right. If the team loses, there will be a wealth of nonsensical information delivered by a man who should obviously have been named coach of the team, explaining why they lost (having not listened to his advice). Usually it’s the same person who, prior to the start of the game, predicted a 20-point victory. I think what it all comes down to is the fact for four hours, politics, social struggles, personal issues and life’s problems disappear. For four hours, we sit in our purple-and-gold outfits shouting “Skoal,” and enjoying the camaraderie that gives us some warm feelings before the dreaded Minnesota winter returns. 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 ShiTzu, at his home in Sauk Rapids.
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Woofstock from page 3 the more the expenses increase. The TCHS has a 93.5 percent animal-placement rate, which is considered outstanding statewide and nationwide. Despite the superior placement rate, the TCHS ranks 29th among similar-sized humane society’s for its annual budget. Those shelters with adoption/placement rates in the 90s, like the TCHS, have average annual budgets of $2.5 million whereas the TCHS budget is a mere $930,000, almost one-third less than what it should be ideally.
TCHS provides services for more than 3,000 animals (mostly cats and dogs) every year, and as stated above, almost 95 percent of them find new, happy homes. At the TCHS headquarters/ shelter, each animal that comes in is evaluated, examined for problems (fleas, for instance), de-wormed if needed, spayed/ neutered, and treated for sicknesses or injuries. A lot of time and tender-loving care goes into the process. There is no time limit for an animal in the care of TCHS. On average, a pet is adopted out within 10 days of when the staff deems it ready for a new home. Without donations, the TCHS
staff and volunteers could not do their work. Even small donations add up and contribute to making the following possible: $10 is enough to vaccinate a shelter pet; $25 is enough to microchip a pet; $50 is enough to spay/neuter a pet; and $100 is enough to X-ray an injured pet. At the Sept. 10 Woofstock Companion Walk, there will be prizes for the top 40 fundraisers, a special prize for the top fundraising team, games for pets and people, food, a silent auction, pet demonstrations, a hotdog-eating contest, exhibits, music and a costume contest for best dressed pet and best dressed human.
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