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Kids Fighting hunger hosting ‘We are Thankful’ event

Kids Fighting Hunger is excited to announce its fourth annual “We Are Thankful” communitywide food-packaging event on Sunday, Nov. 20 at the River’s Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud. This event is designed to give 600-plus families, adults and children in our community a chance to help provide some much-needed food to families in Central Minnesota and in Sierra Leone. Three shifts are available to volunteer: 9-11 a.m., 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 1-3 p.m. Donations are needed to pay for ingredients. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Oct. 21 Criers.

Anna Marie’s seeks part-time volunteers

Anna Marie’s Alliance is seeking volunteers to help organize donations from noon to 4 p.m. weekdays. The mission of Anna Marie’s is to provide a safe place for victims of domestic abuse and to achieve systems change that reduces violence. Anna Marie’s Alliance continues non-profit advocacy work to decrease domestic violence and to provide advocacy, safe shelter, education, support and referral services for victims of abuse. It receives donations to help meet the needs of its clients. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Oct. 21 Criers.

by Frank Lee operations@thenewsleaders.com

Michael P. Maurer lives in Sartell, but for the veteran-turned-writer-and-poet who recently gave a presentation about his wartime experience, it’s almost as if he had never left Vietnam.

Perfume River Nights is a novel he struggled nine years to write because of the emotional toll the war took on his mind, body and soul, and because he wanted to do right by his comrades-in-arms, especially those who didn’t get to return home to the United States like he did.

“More than a war story, Perfume River Nights is the tale of tragic events and the heroic quest to know ourselves and find our way,” according to Maurer, a decorated Vietnam

combat veteran.

On Oct. 12, Maurer gave a talk about his life and his book to an audience at the Stearns History Museum in St. Cloud.

“Three hundred thousand of us were wounded,” he told the jam-packed audience. “That loss rippled through the communities and our families, created scars and grief that persist today.”

The compelling presentation he gave at the history museum’s Breakfast Club was his account of his Vietnam experience as both a soldier during the war and as an in-country resident some 30 years later.

To put the loss of life into context, Maurer quoted Robert Kennedy during his presentation to the museum’s club members, who sat mesmerized Novel • page 13

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Michael P. Maurer, a Sartell resident, gives a presentation Oct. 12 entitled “Vietnam and Its Aftermath” at the Stearns History Museum’s Breakfast Club. The presentation is an account of his Vietnam experience as both a soldier during the war and as an in-country resident some 30 years later.

Gap fund established for home-park infrastructure

by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com

A fund has been established to help residents of Sartell Mobile Home Park get enough money to fix the ailing infrastructure in the neighborhood they want to own.

For how to donate, see the

very end of this story.

That park, formerly known as Hi-Vue Estates, is for sale by its private owner. But since March, more than 65 percent of its residents have formed a non-profit corporation dubbed “Eagle’s View” with the intention of purchasing the park and operating it via their own cor-

poration. There are 163 home sites in the park. The residents keen on buying the park land have even agreed to raise their lot rents to make self-ownership possible.

However, there is an obstacle. The water and sewer lines, and roads within the park are badly in need of repair and/

or replacement. The residents are in need of $200,000 in gap funding to make the infrastructure improvements possible.

The total cost for the infrastructure projects is estimated at $1.6 million worth of capitalimprovement costs.

Current underwriting sugFund • page 7

Pumpkin patch primed for picking

Girl Scouts requests group facilitators

Help girls understand what it means to be a leader who makes a difference in the world.

Teach girls to set and reach goals.

Guide girls in grades K-5 in a six-week after-school program providing homework help, fun activities and a healthy snack (groups meet one day per week for two hours). Using our preplanned curriculum and supplies, a group of volunteers at each site will help girls participate in age-appropriate activities focused on helping girls explore their community and their world. Girls will also learn how to set and work toward goals as they run a Girl Scout Cookie business. Girl Scouts provides training for all adult volunteers for this program and each volunteer is paired with at least one other facilitator or group helper for each site. For more information, visit thenewsleaders.com and click on Oct. 21 Criers.

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Owen Gerads, 4, and his 7-year-old sister, Ava, pull wagons loaded with pumpkins as their mother, Kim Gerads of Sartell, leads the way to the cashier Oct. 16 at the children-friendly St. Joseph event at Collegeville Orchards, which features a pickyour-own pumpkin patch.

One could not have picked a better fall day to go pumpkin-picking, which is why many made the trip to Collegeville Orchards in St. Joseph with about a week left before Halloween.

Kim Gerads of Sartell heard about the child-friendly event through word of mouth and brought her two children – Owen, 4, and Ava, 7 – to the orchards Oct. 16.

“They insist on pulling the wagons themselves. That’s a big fun part of it,” she said of her son and daughter, who hauled pumpkins they picked from the orchards’ pumpkin patch on wagons.

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apples, Collegeville Orchards in St. Joseph sells pumpkins, squash, gourds, grapes and a wide variety of garden produce.

But it was also the petting zoo, wagon rides and more that also attracted people to the event, which takes place every weekend in October from noon4 p.m. at 15517 Fruit Farm Road.

“They liked it a lot, especially with stuff to climb on over there,” said Gerads, as she pointed to the popular hay bales that many used as props in their photography or to take “selfies.”

“We were just out pumpkinpatch-searching,” said Brittany Stang, a St. Augusta resident who was at Collegeville OrPumpkin • page 9

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Friday, Oct. 21, 2016

‘Oh Baby on 8th’ to open Oct. 25

by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com

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Top: Steph Theis puts finishing touches on one of her gift baskets. Below: Three matching diaper cakes are just some of the many baby items made by Steph Theis of Sartell.

Little did she know it at the time, but her creation of a one-layer diaper cake led eventually to a new business for Steph Theis of Sartell.

A diaper cake is a decorative centerpiece usually made for a baby’s shower party or other occasion.

New diapers are wrapped, rolled or otherwise fashioned into what looks like a white-frosted cake with lots of ribbons, decorations and knick-knacks.

One day a friend sent Theis a photo on Facebook of a diaper cake. Theis decided to make one herself.

She did, then she made a few more because they were in high demand. She sold all of them like hot cakes.

She was so successful and it was so much fun making them she decided to branch off to other baby-related items. She started making diaper babies that look like real babies; then she made diaper wreaths; later, gift baskets.

Theis became a virtual whirlwind of creativity, so much so that her creations began to fill her large fourstory home.

Eventually, the idea occurred to her: open her own

People Brandon Zylka, Sartell, recently earned a bachelor’s degree

from Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall.

Correction

A correction is needed for a political-candidate questionnaire submitted by Sartell City Council candidate Mike Chisum that was published in the Oct. 7 Newsleader.

Chisum’s response to the family-information question included

the fact that his oldest daughter goes to Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. That is correct. The newspaper had published it, incorrectly, as St. Cloud State University. The Newsleader regrets the error.

Jack McCann is 80 !!!

Please join our family for a surprise open house celebration at the VFW in St. Cloud on Saturday, Oct. 22 from 1-5 p.m.

No gifts please.

VFW Post 428 9 18th Ave. N., St. Cloud

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.

Sept. 30 6:20 a.m. Medical. Third Street S. Officers were dispatched for an 84-year-old male who had fallen. Officers arrived on scene and located the male in the kitchen. He was uninjured. Officers monitored him until Gold Cross Ambulance arrived on scene.

Officers assisted paramedics in lifting the man to his feet.

store. She began doing research and scouting around.

On Oct. 25, her new store will officially open. It’s called “Oh Baby on 8th,” located in the Centennial Plaza on Eighth Street N. in St. Cloud.

Theis is the sole owner and operator of the store, which features virtually any gift idea for babies – plus plenty of items for adults, too.

There are, of course, the diaper babies, the diaper cakes and diaper wreaths and all kinds of other baby-creations for showers and other parties or nursery rooms. But there are also lots of gift baskets – Christmas baskets, aromatherapy baskets, Avon items baskets (Theis also sells Avon products), Vikings football baskets, golf baskets, baskets full of candles and even bundt-cake baskets with cake-mix ingredients in them.

One of Theis’s favorite recent creations is a trio of snowmen made from Mason jars stuffed with marshmallows that come in a basket filled with cocoa mix and candles – just the thing for a nippy winter night.

“I’ve always loved decorating at Christmas,” said Theis, who grew up in the

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9:30 a.m. Theft. Victory Avenue. Officers were dispatched for two security cameras stolen from a garage. Officers arrived on scene and spoke with the complainant who stated around 4:15 a.m, a dark-colored truck stopped behind the new apartment building. There were two males seen on the camera footage before the cameras were removed. They appeared to be white males wearing hoodies, hats and face masks. The cameras are valued at $150 a piece.

The incident continues to be under investigation.

Oct. 1 9:25 a.m. Drive-off. Riverside Avenue S. Officers arrived on scene and spoke with an employee who stated at around 9 a.m., he saw a female pumping

below-zero borderland – St. Francis, Ontario, Canada, right above Minnesota.

“When I was a young girl, I always made family Christmas wreaths out of wire hangers and dry-cleaner plastics of different colors that we’d weave around the circular hanger. Then we’d spray the plastic and put glitter on it. I was only about 8 years old when I started doing that. I also used to love to make Christmas centerpieces for the table.”

The ideas for future creations seem to tumble effortlessly from Theis’s mind like toys from Santa’s workshop.

Steph met her American husband, Bob Doehring of Rice, when he was on a fishing trip in Ontario. After their marriage, she lived in Rice. They have two grown children, Jason Doehring of Sartell and Tara Yaeger of St. Cloud. Bob Doehring passed away years ago.

Steph, now married to Glenn Theis, has lived in Sartell for about 14 years.

“Oh Baby on 8th” will be open from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday; and from noon-4 p.m. Sunday. It is closed Monday and Tuesday.

gasoline. Her total bill came to $19.18, and she made no attempt to pay. The employee didn’t take note of the license plate of the vehicle, and video surveillance didn’t catch the incident.

9:05 p.m. Traffic stop. Hwy 15/CR 120. While finishing up a previous traffic stop, an officer observed a vehicle approach his location. The driver failed to move over for an emergency vehicle. The officer caught up with the vehicle and initiated a traffic stop. The driver was issued a citation for the violation and released.

Oct. 2 4:36 a.m. Medical. Brianna Drive. An officer was dispatched for a 70-year-old Blotter • page 5

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At-risk boys thrive in leadership academy

by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com

After a steady week of classwork and lots of challenging-but-fun physical activities, the Johnson boys have earned a break and are proud to put on their blue shirts and ties, and graduate.

The 20 boys are participants/graduates of the St. Cloud Youth Leadership Academy. The most recent SCYLA graduation ceremony took place this past summer at the St. Cloud Police Department when each of the boys, ages 13-16, received a participation plaque and another plaque inscribed with name, camp nickname and laudatory comments about their character traits. In addition, each boy received a medallion engraved with three words: Respect, Trust, Responsibility. Those three words and – most importantly what they mean – comprise the three pillars of the Youth Leadership Academy program.

The boys must ask themselves and follow through on this question: “Am I doing the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason?”

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ulated by St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson, as well as the other 10 police officers who taught the 2016 program. Proud parents applauded with gusto as the 20 graduates were honored.

The Academy consists of a kind of boot-camp retreat on the grounds of Camp Ripley near Little Falls. The weeklong camp consists of classes and activities – everything from learning dinner-table etiquette to job-interviewing skills, from marching and running to wall-climbing and an obstacle course. During the camp, tight teamwork pervades every activity, mental and physical. Although it’s very rigorous, with no time for goofing off, participants have a fun time despite the grueling physical challenges of some of the activities.

The Academy was designed for at-risk boys in their young teenage years, not “bad” boys but rather those who made one or more unfortunate decisions that might have set them on a course toward further trouble. The candidates for the Academy are referred through various agencies and schools in the St. Cloud School District.

Modeled after a similar Youth Academy in Michigan, Anderson brought the concept with him when he was hired as St. Cloud police chief four years ago. Previously, Anderson had set up

a similar academy he led for about nine years when he worked in the Twin Cities.

The idea behind the academy is to build and support relationships with atrisk youth and to mentor them during a period of time.

After graduation from the week-long camp, the boys and their law-enforcement teachers/activities guides stay in touch on a regular basis, such as at quarterly field trips, recreational gatherings or community-service volunteer projects. Another way the program remains ongoing is some of the graduates are asked to help at subsequent camps, giving the new recruits encouragement and boosting their morale if it should sag from time to time.

The boy graduates also communicate on a regular basis at their schools with their school-resource officers, most of whom are the camp teachers, along with Anderson, a sergeant and a Minneapolis officer. The latter two have been involved in the academy ever since Anderson started it 13 years ago.

“I’m happy and proud of the academy,” Anderson told the Newsleader in an interview. “It will continue. It’s a good program that benefits the kids and the officers.”

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Above: St. Cloud Area Youth Leadership Academy members march down the street at their Leadership Camp site near Little Falls. Below: Recruits do pushups before boarding a bus to go to Leadership Camp.

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Our View

First Lady Obama delivers a speech of great inspiration A truly great speech transcends its time and place, and that is what a great speech given by First Lady Michelle Obama did last week in New Hampshire. It transcended its time, its place and it even transcended this nasty campaign season.

In her speech, Obama blasted comments made by Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, the obscene remarks aimed at women he made on a bus in a Hollywood parking lot in 2005. Her speech was also a rousing endorsement of Democrat Hillary Clinton and a rallying cry for every American to cast a vote.

However, beyond Obama’s sharp critique of Trump, beyond the Clinton endorsement, Obama’s riveting speech will likely stand on its own merits long after the Obamas are out of the White House and long after Trump is just a sour memory.

Obama, the mother of two intelligent daughters, was speaking from deep within her heart when she delivered her eloquent, passionate lesson about the despicable disrespect and violence against women in this nation, in this world.

Men degrading women is not mere “locker-room talk,” as Trump has argued, Obama said, her voice quivering with a mixture of anger and conviction. Obscene, demeaning remarks against women are not “politics as usual,” and it is not “normal,” she added.

“This is disgraceful; it is intolerable, and it doesn’t matter what party you belong to . . . None of us deserves this kind of abuse . . . The truth is, it hurts. It hurts.”

The children are listening, she reminded us.

“This is about basic human decency,” she told the audience members, who responded with rapturous applause. “We cannot expose our children to this any longer. Now is the time for all of us to stand up and say, ‘Enough is enough!’”

Trump’s dismissal of his vile remarks against women as “locker-room talk” is an insult to the millions of “husbands, brothers, sons” who don’t demean women, Obama said.

We are often told as children this dumb adage: “Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” But words can break hearts, especially little hearts.

As Obama put it in her speech: “The truth is, it hurts. It hurts.”

Leaders must lead by setting high standards, Obama emphasized. Degrading remarks against women should never be dismissed as minor, she said, because “ . . . then we are sending a clear message to our kids that everything they’re seeing and hearing is perfectly OK. We are validating it. We are endorsing it. We’re telling our sons it’s OK to humiliate women. We’re telling our daughters that is how they deserve to be treated. We’re telling all our kids bigotry and bullying are perfectly acceptable in the leader of their country. Is that what we want for our children?”

There are so many memorable lines in Obama’s speech that they are likely at some time, some place, to be engraved on stone monuments.

Abraham Lincoln’s unforgettable Gettysburg Address was a tribute to the soldiers who died at the Gettysburg battlefield, but it was also more than that, much more.

It was a profound call for national solidarity, for a common purpose, for the healing of wounds and for a striving for human freedom and equality.

In her great speech, Obama sounded those same notes: dignity, solidarity, freedom and equality for boys and girls, for men and women.

It is the kind of speech that will inspire for a long time. Dare we hope this extraordinary woman, Michelle Obama, will run for president in 2020?

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Friday, Oct. 21, 2016

Opinion Dylan’s genius honored with Nobel Prize We, Minnesotans, have another reason to be proud: Our very own local-kid-makes-good, Robert Allen Zimmerman, has just won the Nobel Prize for literature.

That kid, now 75, is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.

He is the second Minnesotan to win the Nobel for literature, the first being that other major writer/eagle-eyed social observer – Sauk Centre-born novelist Sinclair Lewis.

Why Dylan? The prize is usually given to novelists or poets, not singer-songwriters. Dylan is a new and perfect choice for the prize: a poet who happens to sing his visions. His more than 500 songs have astonished us for decades. That “spokesman of his generation” is the most oftquoted poet-songwriter of the past 50 years.

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” (from Subterranean Homesick Blues – 1965).

I have long argued Dylan is the Shakespeare of our time. Both of those wordsmiths forged a new language, mixing together street-corner vernacular with traditional forms of oral and written language, combining low and high cultural forms – hipster slang meets the Bible, for example: “God said to Abraham, ‘Kill me a son.’

Abe said, ‘Man, you must be puttin’ me on.’

God said, ‘No,’ Abe said ‘What?’

God said, ‘You can do what you want, Abe, But the next time you see me comin’, you better run.’ “ (From the song Highway 61 Revisited – 1965) Shakespeare and Dylan helped us see anew; they fine-tuned our vision. In shaping language to both reflect and to create realities, they influenced the way we see the world, the way we think, the way we react. They brought a sharp focus to what the rest of us could only see blurry in this world of sometimes bewildering realities.

Dennis Dalman Editor In the 1960s, we would listen to Dylan songs and ask ourselves: “How did he know that?

How come we didn’t notice that?”

Like Sinclair Lewis, Dylan was not only an eagle-eyed observer; he was clairvoyant, time and again seeing changes ahead of his time, our time.

There is a vivid clarity, like a feverish dream, to everything he wrote. Dylan’s songs brought a breathtaking breadth and depth to music, inviting us to explore and question all life experiences: political, social, cultural, economic, spiritual, interpersonal.

Why is he so important? To fully appreciate the range of his great gifts, it helps to be older – like over 60. His magic is partly a “had-to-bethere” kind of thing. We who are now duffers grew up on radio-pop songs – fun but mostly trite teen-angst love ditties.

Then, one day in the fall of 1965, I put on my Decca record player an album called Highway 61 Revisited. I was rendered speechless as I stuttered, yelling for my younger brother, Michael, to quick run upstairs to hear this new stuff. We were stunned when we heard these opening lines from a song called Desolation Row. “They’re selling postcards of the hanging, they’re painting the passports brown.

The beauty parlor’s filled with sailors, the circus is in town.

Here comes the blind commissioner, they’ve got him in a trance.

One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker, the other is in his pants.

And the riot squad they’re restless, they need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight from Desolation Row.” When I heard those strangely beautiful lyrics, I knew instantly I was listening to a brand-new force in music. He was giving us a refocused vision of our complicated world. In the case of Desolation Row, Dylan was painting in words a hallucinatory picture of a disturbing and grotesquely comic society off its rails, far from Eden. It took my breath away – still does.

That same year, in mid-November, I sawheard Dylan perform in Minneapolis Auditorium. The first half of the show was acoustic, his early folk songs, those lightning flashes illuminating injustices. After intermission, the second half was “electric” as Dylan and his band exploded into his folk-rock songs and let loose those cascading phrases of astonishing images. Half of the audience, the “folk purists so-called,” walked out in protest; they didn’t like his going electric, his rock ‘n’ roll “sellout.” Oh, what “purist” fools they were; oh, what they missed!

For those of us who have listened to Dylan from the beginning with intense fascination and endless pleasure, we are happy he has been honored with the Nobel. It’s a long-overdue recognition this scruffy kid from Minnesota with the “voice like a dog caught in a barbedwire fence” is one of the towering geniuses and pervasive cultural influences of our time, of all time.

And, by the way, naysayers, make no mistake – this Nobel laureate wouldn’t make the Sunday choir, but he is not only a great writer, he is a great singer, too – that is, if you’re lucky enough to have a sensibility and ears attuned to his expressive brilliance.

Letter to the editor:

Fitzthum solid choice for Sartell city council Anna Gruber, Sartell I recommend Ryan Fitzthum for Sartell City Council. I have had the opportunity to serve on the Sartell Planning Commission with Ryan and have observed firsthand his commitment to our city. Not only is Ryan committed to our city through the planning commission, but he is also a member of the Sartell Fire Department, Properties Task Force and joint Sartell Le-Sauk Planning Board, among many other service-oriented commit-

tees. Through these commitments, Ryan has displayed an incredible amount of dedication to Sartell. Also, he and his wife were born here and chose to come back to Sartell, work for local employers, raise their kids here and be active members of their city. Ryan will proudly serve us as a council member through his loyal commitment and dedication to making Sartell a truly great place to live, work and play.

Ryan makes decisions for us and not for himself, spending time to research the issue

and meeting with others to gather feedback.

He does not always vote for what is popular but for what is right. He takes his decisions seriously and knows he is representing us with every vote he makes.

I am proud to vote for Ryan Fitzthum, and I encourage you to consider doing the same. I am confident Ryan will lead our city in a positive direction. He will continue to be dedicated to the city, humble in his decisions and, most importantly, will be honored to serve as your council member. Vote Fitzthum!

Mock election gives students a voice

With election day fast approaching, it’s easy to be discouraged. Many people I have talked to express concern over this election and whether we are voting for a lesser of two evils. There is also worry about whether later elections will continue this trend. As I have mentioned in previous columns, we as a society have access to more information than people could have imagined even a few decades ago. However, it seems the power of the Internet hasn’t helped us very much, considering the polarized state of our country right now. There is some hope, however, for the future.

The next generation of voters, high school students, are being influenced by and educated even more about the electoral process. High schools across the area offer courses in U.S. history, government and civics. I have had many lively political discussions on a range of issues in these classes, with good points for either side. These classes foster critical thinking and research, which is essential to an informed electorate. Too often though, young people are dismissed purely on the basis of age. There are many serious issues we have opinions on, ranging from the environment, the national debt, education and so forth.

Many bring great arguments and facts to back these up as well. There should be more encouragement, not less, for youth involvement in politics so we can make informed decisions right from the start.

A major problem with this, however, is young people are less likely to vote. With life changes and busy schedules after graduating high school, it can be hard to settle down and figure out where and when you are supposed

Connor Kockler Guest Writer to vote. This is especially true for out-of-state college students. It’s important to have high participation, especially when younger votes are so critical to the outcome of the election.

According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, only 49 percent of Americans ages 18-29 voted in the last presidential election. According to their statistics, if more or less young people turn out to vote, it can significantly impact the results of the entire election.

Part of why young people are less likely to vote is also routine. For many, this election will be the first time they are eligible to vote, so it is a completely new experience. Older voters have been participating in elections for many years, and so it becomes a habit. The only way to start a habit is to begin an activity and continue doing it over a period of time.

The only way to be a regular voter is to start voting, and that is why I am excited about the Minnesota Students Vote program for 2016.

This initiative, overseen by the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office, will include hundreds of high schools across the state, including many in the local area. Interested students must first register to vote and then show up on the designated date to cast their ballots.

This vote will be purely for U.S. President, but it covers many of the issues I have addressed above. Getting oriented with a registration process is great practice for voting in the future, and as voting is during the school day and not given special time, students will have to find their own time to vote, be it immediately before or after school, or during lunch and passing time. This is a great simulation of the self-initiative needed to go out to vote in the real world.

It also allows for debate within the school about the policies of the candidates and allows us to compare our results to that of the voting-age public. Students Vote results will be published Tuesday, Nov. 1, a week before the elections, with voting ending on Tuesday, Oct. 25. This gives students a chance to talk to their parents about who they voted for and why, further spreading information gained from the process. Most importantly, it gets future voters into the habit, which may serve to push up turnout in future elections.

A strong democracy needs an informed and educated populace. It’s my hope programs such as Students Vote across the country help a new generation of Americans learn the ropes of our age-old democratic process.

By learning about the issues and being able to express our views via a statewide vote, we can also signal some of our priorities for the years ahead. More young voters are ready to express their voices. Let’s get them off to a good start.

Connor Kockler is a Sauk Rapids-Rice High School student. He enjoys writing, politics and news, among other interests.

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Blotter from page 2 female who had fallen and was bleeding from the head. Upon arrival, the officer located the woman lying on the floor next to her bed. She had a very small laceration on the left side of her head that was no longer bleeding. The woman was monitored until Gold Cross Ambulance arrived. She was lifted into her bed and was not transported to the hospital.

4:59 p.m. Traffic stop. Le Sauk Drive/Twin Rivers Court.

An officer observed a vehicle drive past the road-closed signs and barricades by crossing into the northbound lane shoulder where there is an opening.

The driver then exited onto Le Sauk Drive. The officer initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle. The driver stated he was local traffic because he was trying to get to the businesses. The officer explained the businesses are not located inside the road-closed section, therefore customers are not considered local traffic. The driver was issued a citation for the violation and released.

Oct. 3 6:20 p.m. Motorist assist.

First Street NE/14 Avenue E. While on patrol, a reserve officer located a vehicle pulled over to the side of the road.

The driver’s door was open, and a male could be partially seen outside the vehicle. The officer approached the driver who stated he was just putting water into the radiator of his vehicle. The reserve officer stood by and provided emergency lights until the driver was finished with the procedure.

Oct. 4 7:49 p.m. Medical. Brianna Drive. Officers were dispatched for an elderly male with head pain and shortness of breath. Officers located the male who was alert in the upstairs office. He stated his breathing was normal but had shooting pain from his neck up to his head. Officers monitored the man’s condition until Gold Cross Ambulance arrived on scene.

Oct. 5 3:22 p.m. Accident. Park Avenue/First Street N.E. Officers were dispatched for a two-vehicle accident without injuries. Both drivers provided proof of insurance and valid driver’s licenses. Officers spoke to both drivers and concluded one vehicle turned in front of the other vehicle, causing the crash. The driver at fault admitted she should have waited for the other vehicle to pass before proceeding. Officers issued the driver a warning ticket for failure to yield.

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Friday, Oct. 21, 2016

St. Stephen F.D. hosts open house

by Dennis Dalman editorial@thenewsleaders.com

photos by Dennis Dalman

Top left: Derrick Barhorst, 4, of Sauk Rapids, grins through the window of a fire truck at the Oct. 15 St. Stephen Fire Department’s Open House. Barhorst is the grandson of Ralph Barhorst, who has been a firefighter with the St. Stephen department for 42 years. At right: Clayton Zemetz of Avon (left) and Michael Partch of St. Stephen try on for size grown-up firefighter suits at the Oct. 15 St. Stephen Fire Department Open House.

Children enjoyed getting to play-act as firefighters during the St. Stephen Fire Department Open House on Oct. 15 at the city’s fire station.

The annual event is a way for firefighters and residents to get to know one another, to share treats and refreshments, and to ask and answer ques-

tions.

But it was the kids who ruled the day.

Clayton Zemetz of Avon and friend Michael Partch of St. Stephen stood in the station all smiles when they had a chance to try on grown-up firefighting outfits. And 4-year-old Derrick Barhorst was proud as punch when he got to climb up to sit in a fire truck while wearing his red plastic fire hel-

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met. Meantime, Valerie Nack of St. Stephen stood beside her mother and munched on a chocolate-chip cookie.

Firefighters greeted the visitors as they arrived.

The 24-member department is led by Fire Chief Jeff Drais.

Its assistant fire chiefs are Gene Skaj and Jeff Blenkush; and its captains are Rodger Bellinger, Chris Hoeschen, Brian Quaal and Steve Trobec.

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Remodeled Coborn's now complete

by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com

A major remodeling of the Coborn’s Superstore in south Sartell is now finished.

For the past few months, the store underwent the extensive remodeling, although it remained open to customers, some of whom were confused and/or baffled by all the changes going on.

The remodeling is dubbed the Coborn’s “Next Generation” format, the first of its kind in the company’s many stores. The remodeled purpose puts a new emphasis on fresh products within a modern design. Another major part of the overall project is the new, huge Coborn’s Liquor Store, located in a separate building to the west of the grocery store.

One of the unique features of the grocery store is its Chop Shoppe. Shoppers can

Fund from front page gests the Eagle’s View Corp. would be able to obtain $850,000 of capital-improvement costs from identifiable lenders. Currently, the Eagle’s View Board, a park residents’ task force and Northcountry Cooperative Foundation are working together to find ways to obtain the other $750,000 needed for the infrastructure project.

Of that amount, Eagle’s View hopes to raise $200,000 of it in gap funding.

Recently, some of the Eagle’s View Board members, all longtime residents of the park, spoke before the Sartell City Council, requesting the city to help them in any way it can. The council took the suggestion under advisement.

Northcountry Cooperative Foundation, based in the Twin Cities, tries to help save housing through cooperative enterprises.

Since 2004, NCF has helped eight mobile-home parks (also known as manufactured-housing communities) purchase, own and operate their housing parks. That switch to resident ownership involved about 600 households – that is, thousands

select their fruits and vegetables from the produce department, then take them to the Chop Shoppe where they are chopped, sliced, diced or julienned per the customer’s instructions or their intended recipes for the ingredients.

The new Bake Shoppe features a wide selection of sweet treats, artisan breads and gourmet-style pastries, among many other baked products.

Other features include Sushi Kabar for sushi-style meals; a fresh-baked pizza area that bakes pizzas in a brick oven over an open flame; a “Flavors of the World: cheese case; a Caribou Coffee Shop; a smoked-meats operation right in the store; and Click-andCollect shopping, which allows customers to select the items they want online, and the items will be waiting for them, ready to go, when they arrive at the store.

There are also many readyof people who did not have to move from their homes and seek housing elsewhere.

Nationally, there are more than 1,000 mobile-home parks with a total of 10,000 home sites that are now resident-owned, according to NCF. A number of mobile-home parks in the state have been closing after the private owners sell the land. Two of them were in the greater St. Cloud area: Shady Oaks in St. Cloud and Tri-County in Waite Park.

What typically happens is as infrastructure (water-sewer lines, roads) in parks deteriorates, the companies that own the parks decide the major repairs are too expensive, and decide to close the parks and sell the land.

“From the start,” said Kevin Walker, NCF spokesman, “the residents (of Sartell Mobile Home Park) have shown a tremendous commitment and determination to take ownership and control of their community.”

In a record pace, the Sartell residents organized and convinced 94 households in the park to join the residents’ non -profit company, Eagle’s View.

According to NCF, mobile-home parks that are bought and owned by their residents provide their residents with long-term security, stabilized lot

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The Coborn’s Superstore in Sartell has just completed a major remodeling project that was months in the making. to-go meals prepared in the store that can be microwaved back home in a matter of minutes.

The new store features a vast selection of “natural” meats free of antibiotics and hormones.

For those concerned about healthy eating, there is a regis-

tered dietitian at the store who can advise people in search of the healthiest food choices and give tips to those with specialized dietary needs.

St. Cloud-based Coborn’s is an employee-owned grocery retailer, now 95 years old, with 55 stores and 8,000 employees in Minnesota, North

Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Coborn’s also owns stores under the banners of Cash Wise Foods, Marketplace Foods and Save-A-Lot. In June, Coborn’s was named one of the Top 150 Workplaces in Minnesota by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

rents, a direct voice in improvements, community rules and management and, over time, better access to home financing.

Leslie Herndon, a resident of the Sartell park and secretary of Eagle’s View, is proud she and others in the park have enlisted the support of more than 65 percent of households in just the first four months of organizing. That mobile-home park – and others – she said, provides affordable housing. If

they are forced to move, many will not be able to afford apartment rents, some of which are as high as $1,000 a month and even more.

That is a crucial consideration, she noted, because there are so many disabled people, veterans and seniors living on fixed incomes in the park. There are also a number of working people who live there and who make low wages.

Herndon said there have

been many major, disruptive water-main breaks and other infrastructure problems at the park throughout the years. That is why residents understand the infrastructure would have to be fixed before residents could secure a loan or loans to buy the park.

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Friday, Oct. 21, 2016

Sartell-Le Sauk Fire Hall open house delights children photos by Mindy Peterson

Below: Emmaline Brinker, 6, of Sartell, steps out of a Sartell Fire Department engine during the Oct. 13 open house at the Sartell-Le Sauk Fire Hall. At right: Stephanie Chapel of Sartell and her 2-year-old grandson, Preston Pool, play on the fire engine-shaped equipment in front of the Sartell-Le Sauk Fire Hall.

Below: Sophina Lindquist, 7, of St. Cloud, holds onto the fire hose with Adam Imholte during the Oct. 13 open house at the Sartell-Le Sauk Fire Hall. Sophina’s mother says the girl prays every night for local firefighters with more than 350 men and women on her list.

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Above: Janet Delre of St. Cloud takes a selfie with her 11-year-old daughter Ashlee, who attends St. John’s Preparatory School in St. Joseph, while they stand in the middle of Collegeville Orchards’ pick-your-own pumpkin patch Oct. 16 in St. Joseph. Right: Brittany Stang of St. Augusta crouches and peers through a flower cut-out while her sister, McKinzie of St. Cloud, pretends to be a scarecrow.

Pumpkin from front page chards for the first time during the colorful fall day.

She had a photograph taken of her and her sister from St. Cloud, McKinzie, who pre pretended to be a scarecrow by peering through a cut-out that just showed her head with a scarecrow’s body.

“I haven’t yet found the perfect pumpkin,” McKinzie Stang

said with some dismay in her voice. “We will probably carve it but leave making the pumpkin pies to my grandma.”

But Janet Delre of St. Cloud came to the orchards with her 11-year-old daughter, Ashlee, who attends St. John’s Prep School in St. Joseph, because of the “beautiful fall colors.”

“We did a wagon ride, we bought some apples and some mittens,” Delre said as she took a selfie with her daughter while they stood in the orchards’ pickyour-own-pumpkin patch.

Collegeville Orchards sells its own honey, local maple syrup, jams or jellies, mixes and fall decorations, according to the St. Joseph-based retailer’s website.

“Fall is my favorite season because of the colors, and the colors are just incredible – like over there,” said Delre, who gestured to the trees surrounding the orchards.

Lydia Erickson of Annandale works at St. Cloud Hospital and was on call on Oct. 16. She decided to swing by the nearby orchards with her mother, her

niece and nephew.

“We’ve seen a lot of the animals, and the little kids loved that,” Erickson said. “They liked to feed them. We have been into the animals for the most part.”

The petting zoo was free to orchards’ guests and is open the same hours as the store. Feed is available for the public, for a quarter, to feed the goats, sheep and alpacas in the petting zoo.

Other animals in the petting zoo at Collegeville Orchards include a miniature horse and donkey, rabbits and chicks and

ducklings when available, according to the orchards’ website.

Maddie Larson of Dassel also works at St. Cloud Hospital, and she went to the orchards for the same reasons as Erickson. It was, for Larson, also her first at Collegeville Orchards.

“We just kind of like the fall and the colors and being outside and that sort of thing,” Larson said. “St. Joseph is nice, it’s beautiful . . . And the trees are right at their peak right now.”

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Friday, Oct. 21, 2016

Childhood traumas, tragedies can lead to early death

by Dennis Dalman editorial@thenewsleaders.com

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Paige McConkey and Stacie Hoeschen are trauma-informed advocates and co-directors of the St. Cloud Area Child Response Initiative.

A boy or girl who experiences four or more traumas in childhood will likely die at least 20 years earlier than their healthier peers.

Besides dying earlier, such people generally suffer from adverse behaviors during their lives such as alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, depression, failed relationships, suicidal tendencies and trouble with the law, to name just a few.

And those are just some of the multiple bad outcomes of childhood traumas that can lead to too-early death.

An awareness about the link between childhood traumas and tragedies later in life is what informs the work of the St. Cloud Area Child Response Initiative – CRI for short.

In just the past two years, 400 children in the greater St. Cloud area have been helped through CRI, with about 176 of them referred for many

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That network includes the police departments of Sartell, Sauk Rapids, St. Joseph, St. Cloud and Waite Park; first-responders; child-protection teams; trauma-informed advocates; and the Stearns County Domestic Violence Partnership, among other agencies.

The first referrals are usually made by the police departments whose officers are the most likely to be first at the scene when crises, such as domestic disturbances, occur. Then, CRI can become actively involved in intervention, more referrals and safety support for children and their families. The support can include all kinds of services, often interconnected ones: education, support groups, court services, forms of treatment and follow-up work.

Paige McConkey is a mental health practitioner and trauma-informed advocate who is in charge of CRI, along with newly-hired assistant Stacie Hoeschen. Both work through the Central Minnesota Mental Health Center.

CRI was created about three years ago as an offshoot of the Stearns County Domestic Violence Partnership, which helps children and families traumatized by domestic violence.

McConkey said CRI has helped children as young as 6 months old and up to 18 years old who were traumatized by a wide variety of bad circumstances. Almost half of the cases were due to unhealthy domestic upsets.

There were also instances of physical or sexual assaults, neglect, maltreatment, loss of a parent or sibling, children present during a suicide attempt, the killing of a pet or, in one case, being attacked by a dog. Most often, McConkey noted, the children feel frightened or anxious be-

cause of what happened to them or what they have seen.

Early intervention equals early protection is one of the mottos of CRI. When there is a crisis, police officers and child-protection teams make sure the children are placed in safe places. Within 24 to 48 hours, the CRI will get the gears in motion to get the children (and families) help through the network.

McConkey said he is happy any traumatized child can be seen by a mental health provider within two weeks of the reported trauma. Such relatively early appointments are exceptions to the rule because there is such a great need for mental health services that longer waits for non-CRI cases sometimes cannot be avoided.

What makes CRI effective, McConkey said, is the cooperation from so many agencies, such as mental health providers. He also has high praise for the police departments.

“Law enforcement is always there for us,” he said.

“It’s a huge help, and so are the first-responders.”

McConkey also praised others: social workers, schools, public health, child protection and Stearns County in general. Such tight, expert collaboration is what makes CRI and its vital work possible.

For 10 years, McConkey was a chaplain for the St. Cloud Police Department.

The rapport established was helpful in setting up the trusting communications between CRI, law enforcement and the other agencies, he noted.

Origins

Some years ago, members of the Stearns County Domestic Violence Partnership were attending a conference in San Diego when they heard a speaker from Greensboro, N.C., talk about how a child-response initiative in

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Back home in St. Cloud, the members, inspired by what they’d heard, shared the concept with others at the Central Minnesota Mental Health Center. When they heard the plan, law enforcement agencies expressed immediate support, as did other entities, and the CRI soon began its work.

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Boys from page 3 girls and hope to have one ready for next year.

It would be ideal, Anderson said, if there were enough personnel and funding to expand the academy for more children, but – for now, anyway – the maximum number for each week-long camp is limited to about 20.

And that’s because in order to do close teamwork and small-group team projects, the number of participants has to be limited, otherwise it would be difficult, if not impossible, to do the intensive one-on-one communications and team work throughout the rigorous week. And it’s that kind of personalized working together that gets good long-term results, Anderson noted.

“The program needs that kind of personal touch,” he said.

How is the academy funded?

“I find the money for it,” Anderson said, a decisive determination in his voice.

“The parents don’t have to pay for anything, and that’s the way we want it to be.”

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The study involved questionnaires filled out by more than 17,000 members of a health-maintenance organization regarding their childhood experiences (good and bad) and their subsequent health factors as adults.

The study was launched after a doctor at a Kaiser Permanente obesity clinic in San Diego discovered an alarming number of patients who were greatly overweight had experienced childhood sexual abuse.

The ACEs study then began with two massive waves

of data collected. The results established a link between early traumas and later adverse behavior-and-health outcomes.

The study’s respondents gave personal input about the following categories of traumas in their childhood years: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, mother treated violently, household substance abuse, household mental illness, parental separation or divorce, incarcerated household member.

The study revealed an alarming number of people had experienced at least one

Anderson has talked up the program to many organizations, businesses and individuals. After they hear his passionate spiel, they are always receptive. Two dozen business sponsors have been very generous. Anderson said donors fully understand kids are the resources of the future and keeping them out of the criminal justice system must be a top societal priority.

“This (the academy) does help keep kids out of the criminal justice system,” he said. “It’s a program of true mentoring.”

It costs taxpayers anywhere from $60,000 to $75,000 if a “kid” grows up to become enmeshed in the criminal justice system. Anderson is a firm believer that funding programs in schools, such as music and sports, is a wise investment because it’s well documented those kinds of programs set children on the right paths. Cutting those programs because of budget constraints is a big mistake in Anderson’s mind.

Children, Anderson said, can see right through the hypocrisy of adults talking about “children as the resource of the future” and then cutting funds for school

programs and non-school programs that help children develop in healthy ways.

“These kids in the academy are not ‘bad’ kids,” he said. “But, like all of us at that age, they came to a fork in the road and made a decision that started them on the wrong trajectory. That trajectory can be changed.”

One of the officers working with the children at camp was St. Joseph Police Officer Matt Johnson, who serves as the school-resource officer for Kennedy Community School in that city. Johnson described to the Newsleader how he worked with the kids in small groups of from three to five students. Among their activities were paintball, a rappelling tower and an obstacle course of about two dozen tough obstacles to overcome. At the end of day, Johnson participated in small mentoring groups with the children.

“The camp was fun. It was exciting,” Johnson said. “The kids were very respectful, and I think it was very beneficial for them to be there. A lot of them said they want to return to help. At that camp, there were five mentors who had been students in the program from previous camps.”

childhood trauma, with physical and sexual abuse the most common (28 percent and 21 percent, respectively).

Almost 40 percent reported having suffered two or more kinds of trauma.

The study further found early traumas can cause social, emotional and cognitive impairments. They, in turn, can lead to health-risky behaviors, which can cause social problems, disabilities and disease. Early death can be the tragic consequence.

Some of the behaviors and conditions leading to early death can be one or more of the following: drug and/ or alcohol abuse, poor diet

11 and lack of exercise, heart disease, liver disease, obesity, sexually transmitted diseases, depression, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, financial stress, sleep problems, doing poorly in school, lack of ambition, developing a-social or anti-social responses and inability to develop or maintain good relationships with others.

The Kaiser Permanente study had an enormous influence on similar, subsequent studies worldwide. And the studies’ results led to the formation of many childhood-trauma intervention and support systems such as the St. Cloud Area Child Response Initiative.

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LEGAL NOTICE REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS SEPT. 19, 2016 DISTRICT SERVICE CENTER BOARD ROOM The regular school board meeting of Independent School District 748 was called to order at 7 p.m. by Mary McCabe, director. Members present were the following: Patrick Marushin, treasurer; Pam Raden, director; Jason Nies, director; Lesa Kramer, director; and Jeff Schwiebert, superintendent. Members absent: Michelle Meyer, clerk/vice chair.

A motion was made by Marushin and seconded by Nies to APPROVE THE AGENDA WITH THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENTS: add to Personnel Omnibus Resolution – Quinn Anderson, Kristen Heinen, Carrie Kadoun, Jeannie Klehr, Tyler Labonne, Tucker Lorentzen, David Miller and Brian Nord. All in favor. Motion carried.

A motion was made by Kramer and seconded by Raden to APPROVE CONSENT ITEMS A-D AS PRESENTED BELOW. a. Minutes of the regular school board meeting held on Aug. 15, 2016 b. Checks in the amount of $1,900,578.50 as presented: General Fund 1,639,086.92 Food Service Fund 16,842.20 Transportation Fund 23,365.99 Community Service Fund 18,751.34 Capital Expenditure Fund 182,648.93 Summer Rec Agency Fund 19,883.12 Check numbers 164970 to 165327 Receipts in the amount of $5,875,850.27 as presented: General Fund 5,487,566.24 Food Service Fund 25,039.30 Transportation Fund 14,737.74 Community Service Fund 35,665.73 Capital Expenditure Fund 173,441.89 Building Fund 49,277.34 Debt Service Fund 78,587.78 Summer Rec Agency Fund 11,534.25 Receipts 42486 to 42555 Wire transfers in the amount of $6,681.14 as presented: General Fund 4,863.14 Food Service Fund 1,413.12 Community Service Fund 269.28 Summer Rec Agency Fund 135.60 Wire transfers 201600015-201600020

results; Oak Ridge Elementary 68.86 percent, Pine Meadow Elementary 74.72 percent, Sartell Middle School, 73.87 percent, and Sartell High School, 64.80 percent. Class of 2016 ACT results compared to state average; College English 76 percent to 61 percent for the state, College Algebra 68 percent to 46 percent for the state, College Social 58 percent to 45 percent for the state, College Biology 57 percent to 45 percent to the state, and Meeting All 4, 46 percent to 29 percent to the state.

A motion was made by Raden and seconded by Nies to APPROVE #1-58: New Employees/Changes: Quinn Anderson, SHS, assistant gymnastics, $3,739 (9.5 percent), BS 4, ($39,360), replacing Tyler LaBonne, 11/14/2016; Emily Andrewsen, ORE, cashier, $14.18/hour, RI, S1, 3 hours/ day, $45,168.32, replacing Stacy Schoenberg, 8/22/2016; Katie Beckmann, PME, third-grade teacher, MA, S4, .92 FTE, new position, 9/19/2016; Jenna Boyle, ORE, student supervisor, $13.73/ hour, R1, S1, 2 hours/day, replacing Sarah Karolus, 9/13/2016; Jennifer Brix, SHS, server, $14.18/ hour, R1, S1, 3 hours/day, replacing DanLynn Kolstad, 9/16/2016; Sarah Claseman, SHS, cashier, $14.18/hour, RI, S1, new position, 8/22/2016; Chad Claybaugh, SMS, junior high cross-country (outside funded), $1,687 (4.5 percent), new position, 8/29/2016; Amber Coons, SHS, server, $14.18/hour, RI, S1, 3 hours/day, replacing Sheila Johnson, 9/2/2016;

hour, R1, S1, 2 hours/day, replacing Tammi Hanson, 9/20/2016; Jeannie Klehr, Transp., van driver, $19.07, R1, S1, 2.25 hours/day, additional assignment, 9/6/2016; Jeannie Klehr, SMS, server, $15.67/hour, R1, S3, 3 hours/day, returning to position, 8/22/2016; Mary Knellwolf, Early Childhood, 1:1 SPED para, $16.26/hour, RIV, S1, 3 hours/ day, 162 days/year, replacing Julie Schnettler, 9/12/2016; Allison Kuklok, ORE, SPED para, $16.26/hour, RIV, S1, 6.25 hours/ day, replacing Susan Pekula, 9/6/2016; Tabitha Kunst, Early Childhood, child-care attendant, $13.73/hour, RI, S1, 5.25 hours/ day, 132 days/year, replacing Marilee Lefeber, 9/12/2016; LaBonne, Tyler, SHS, head gymnastics, $5,737 (12.5 percent), BS 11 ($45,893), replacing Jennifer LaBonne, 11/14/2016; Marilee Lefeber, PME, SPED para, $17.50/hour, RIV, S2, 6.25 hours/day, replacing Patricia Ness, 9/6/2016; Megan Lindbloom, SMS, student supervisor, $13.73/ hour, R1, S1, 2.25 hours/day, new position, 9/6/2016; Tucker Lorentzen, SHS, ninth-grade boys soccer – JV2 , $1,526 (8.35 percent), BS1 ($36,559), (50 percent contract), replacing Amandu Kondeh, 8/22/2016; Noel Meyer, SHS, assistant football, $4,231 (10.5 percent), BS 5 ($40,294), replacing Matt Darling, 8/15/2016; David Miller, SHS, 10th-grade football, $3,473 (9.5 percent), BS 1 ($36,559), replacing Noel Meyer, 8/15/2016;

David Miller, SHS, assistant boys hockey, $3,473 (9.5 percent), BS Building Fund Checks in the amount of $51,762.00 as presented: 1 ($36,559), replacing Brian NyBuilding Fund 51,762.00 holm, 11/14/2016; Kathy Mugg, Check numbers 600005 to 600006 Early Childhood, 1:1 SPED para, $16.26/hour, RIV, S1, 3 hours/ c. Accept the following donations: day, 127 days/year, replacing ShirSartell-St. Stephen Education Foundation, Sartell-St. Stephen ley Emerson, 9/12/2016; Patricia School, $100, new-staff breakfast; Sartell-St. Stephen Education Cecilia Fiedler, SHS, cafeteria Ness, Early Childhood, SPED para, Foundation, Sartell-St. Stephen School, $100, all-staff breakfast; worker, $14.18/hour, RI, S1, 3 $21.65/hour, RIV, S6, 6 hours/day, Randy and Jeanne Jaeger, Sartell High School – Band Departhours/day, 4 days/week, replacment, $600, used instruments (bell set, alto sax, snare and mal- ing Susan Butkowski, 9/15/2016; 132 days/year, replacing Christina lets) for the Sartell High School Band; Early Childhood PTO of Stacy Friedrich, Early Childhood, Henkensiefken, 8/29/2016; Brian District 748, Early Childhood, $113.27, light-table manipulatives. EC teacher, $27.86/hour, BA, S5, Nord, ORE, SPED para, $16.26/ hour, RIV, S1, 6.25 hours/day, rehire, 8/24/2016; Bethany Gieske, new position, 10/3/2016; Susan d. Accept the resignation of Susan Bukowski, SHS, cafeteria worker, SMS, fifth-grade teacher, $53,762, effective 9/3/16; Terri Deal-Hansen, ORE, cashier, effective MA, S9, new position, 8/29/2016; Pekula, SMS, SPED para, $19.26/ 9/7/16; Sheila Johnson, SHS, server, effective 8/16/16; Tiffany Valerie Gruba, SMS, student su- hour, RIV, S4, 7 hours/day, replacing Chad Claybaugh, 8/29/2016; Sharpe, Early Childhood, paraprofessional, effective 8/22/16. pervisor, $13.73/hour, RI, S1, 2.25 Shayna Peterson, Early Childhood, hours/day, replacing Julie Counter, Student Representative Report: Nicholas Juntunen, student representative 9/6/2016; Leslie Grutsch, Early child-care attendant, $13.73/hour, • Student Representative Nicholas Juntunen reported on events that oc- Childhood, EC teacher, $31.41/ R1, S1, 5.5 hours/day, 132 days/ curred during the start of the school year. Highlights of those events hour, BA30, S3, rehire, 8/24/2016; year, 4 hours/day, 30 days/year, reinclude the following: the ninth-grade Sabre Splash event, football te- Deb Hahn, PME, server, $16.33/ placing Danielle Trauba, 9/19/2016; Aubri Petron, Early Childhood, am’s and school dance Tackle Cancer event, and homecoming is the hour, R1, S4, 3 hours/day, replacing child-care attendant, $13.73/hour, first week of October.

Carol Williamson, 8/22/2016; Jeff R1, S1, 6 hours/day, 132 days/year, Hauge, ORE, student supervisor, replacing Christina HenkensiefSuperintendent Report: Jeff Schwiebert, superintendent $13.73/hour, R1, S1, 2 hours/day, ken, 9/12/2016; Ty Rassier, SHS, • Superintendent Schwiebert reported on security and discussions with replacing Aubri Petron, 9/13/2016; dishwasher, $14.18/hour, R1, S1, 2 staff the events that occurred at the Crossroads Mall during the week- Kaylee Heinen, ORE, student su- hours/day, replacing Jaclyn Opatz, end, the agreement and fee structure with the Cunningham Group, and pervisor, $13.73/hour, R1, S1, 2 8/22/2016; hours/day, 4 days/week, replacing the status of the building project.

Diane Amundson, 9/6/2016; Deborah Raveling, ORE, cashArchitect Report on Building Process ier, $14.18/hour, R1, S1, 3 hours/ • Architects David Leapaldt and Judy Hoskens updated the board on the Kristen Heinen, PME, student su- day, Replacing Terri Deal-Hansen, design for the new high school, renovations and timelines on the Oak pervisor, $13.73/hour, R1, S1, 2 9/2/2016; Alexandra Roos, SMS, Ridge and Pine Meadow elementary buildings, following LEED stan- hours/day, replacing Angela Bur- junior high girls soccer, $2,321 dards, but not certification, and upcoming staff tours of the Alexandria nett/Julie Counter, 9/19/2016; (6.35 percent), BS1($36,559), reChristina Henkensiefken, PME, placing Joe Perske, 8/29/2016; DoHigh School on Sept. 22 and Oct. 28.

SPED para, $17.50/hour, RIV, S2, reen Schmidt, SMS, activities re6.25 hours/day, replacing Katie ceptionist, $16.77/hour, R1, S1, 4.5 Student Enrollment Report: • Jeff Schwiebert, superintendent, reported on current enrollment num- Rohling, 8/23/2016; Sandra Hom- hours/day, new position, 9/6/2016; merding-Trettel, PME, dishwasher, Julie Schnettler, PME, SPED para, bers including large increases at Pine Meadow Elementary. $14.18/hour, R1, S1, 3 hours/day, $17.50/hour, RIV, S2, 6.25 hrs/ replacing Deb Hahn, 8/25/2016; day, replacing Deb Johnson-Shea, Assessment Results/Building Goals for 2016-17: Matt Horning, SMS, junior high 8/23/2016; Julie Schnettler, SMS, • Kay Nelson, assistant superintendent of Learning Services and Marie boys soccer, $2,321 (6.35 percent), SPED para, $17.50/hour, RIV, S2, Pangerl, executive assistant/assessment coordinator presented the asBS 1 ($36,559), replacing Beau sessment results and building goals for 2016-17 school year with input Penk, 8/29/2016; Carrie Kadoun, 7 hours/day, replacing Sara Yarand, 9/19/2016; Vanessa Schreiner, from building principals.

ORE, student supervisor, $13.73/ SMS, building supervisor, $13.73/ • Highlights include the following: MMR (Multiple Measure Rating)

hour, R1, S1, 8 hours/day, replacing Carly Law, 9/13/2016; Michelle Shouse, SMS, dishwasher, $14.18/ hour, R1, S1, 3 hours/day, Replacing Jeannie Klehr, 9/2/2016; Alan Smith, SMS, custodian, $15.72/ hour, RIII, S1, 8 hours/day, replacing Adam Thiel, 9/6/2016; Melissa Smith, Early Childhood, EC teacher, $26.25/hour, BA 3, new position, 8/24/2016; Lori Stadther, SMS, cleaner, $14.18/hour, R1, S1, 8 hours/day, replacing Alan Smith, 9/19/2016; Ben Streitz, SHS, ninthgrade boys soccer-JV2, $1,526 (8.35 percent), BS1 ($36,559), (50 percent contract), replacing Amandu Kondeh, 8/22/2016; Tammy Theisen, Early Childhood, child-care attendant, $13.73/hour, R1, S1, 5.5 hours/day, 132 days/ year, replacing Tiffany Sharpe, 9/12/2016; Adam Thiel, PME, PT cleaner, $15.07/hour, R1, S2, 3.25 hours/day, 173 days/year, replacing Stephanie Andrews, 9/5/2016; Kristen Will, PME, cashier, $14.18/ hour, R1, S1, 3 hours/day, replacing Carol Williamson, 9/2/2016; Carol Williamson, SMS, server, $17.04/ hour, R1, S5, 4.5 hours/day, replacing Karen Klein, 8/22/2016; Sara Yarand, SHS, para, $17.50/hour, RIV, S2, 7 hours/day, new position, 9/6/2016; Emily Yule, Early Childhood, EC teacher, $29.57/hour, BA20, S3, replacing Mary Wenker, 8/24/2016.

Leaves of Absence: Jeff Frank, ORE, fourth-grade teacher, LOA, 9/10/16 to 10/21/16.

All in favor. Motion carried.

Kramer abstained.

A motion was made by Nies and seconded by Marushin to APPROVE THE COBORN LEASE FOR LEVEL 4 PROGRAM. All in favor. Motion carried.

A motion was made by Nies and seconded by Kramer to APPROVE CENTRAL OFFICE CONSTRUCTION PLAN. All in favor. Motion carried.

A motion was made by Nies and seconded by Marushin to APPROVE THE CERTIFICATION OF THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT FOR THE PROPOSED 2016/PAYABLE 2017 LEVY AS PRESENTED. All in favor. Motion carried.

A motion was made by Marushin and seconded by Nies to APPROVE EXISTING SITE SURVEY. All in favor. Motion carried.

A motion was made by Raden and seconded by Nies to APPROVE NEW SITE SURVEY. All in favor.

Motion carried.

Schedule Work Session and Committee Meetings: Organizational Plan – Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. at the District Service Center A motion to ADJOURN THE MEETING AT 9:12 p.m. was made by Raden and seconded by Marushin. All in favor. Motion carried.

Michelle Meyer, clerk Publish: Oct. 21, 2016

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photo by Frank Lee

Sartell resident Michael P. Maurer was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division from 1968-69.

The experience inspired him to begin writing poetry and most recently the novel, Perfume River Nights, as a way to document this period of his life, with all royalties from the novel to benefit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

Novel from front page and silent as Maurer talked about the war’s death toll.

“Robert Kennedy, when he was running for president in 1968, said something that helps us see the meaning of those figures,” Maurer said. “What he said was this: ‘Our brave young men are dying in the swamps of Southeast Asia. Which of them might have written a poem, which of them might have cured cancer . . . which of them might have taught a child to read? It is our responsibility to let those men live.’”

Maurer said almost 17,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War in 1968, and that it was seven more years and 30,000 more American lives lost before the last U.S. soldier was killed in Vietnam.

“I know those young men Robert Kennedy spoke of. I’m one of them,” Maurer told the audience, an older group of people, most of whom certainly lived through those tumultuous years and times of the Vietnam War. Maurer served in Vietnam as an infantryman with the 82nd Airborne Division in the late 1960s. So many years later, in 2003, the University of Minnesota graduate moved to Vietnam before settling in Sartell.

“Perfume River Nights is a story about those young men – how they experienced combat and are changed by it,” Maurer said. “It is the culmination of my 50-year effort to save those guys . . . guys who long ago were dead. . . . I’m still trying to save them.”

America’s involvement in Vietnam escalated throughout the 1960s. Maurer and his fellow comrades faced difficult combat conditions. Emotions were pulled in various directions, from compassion, fear and aggression, according to Stearns History Museum officials.

“Perfume River Nights is for the men who died beside me,”

Maurer said. “This book is for the 60,000 who died before their dreams or potential were realized. This book is for the friends and family who continue to mourn.

“We fought in that river, in and around it, and its tributaries. We drank its water. We bathed in it. We killed in it. And we died in it. The river holds our stories.”

According to Stearns History Museum officials: “As a decorated veteran himself, (Maurer) knows firsthand what soldiers went through in Vietnam. His words, both spoken and those penned in poetry, offer hope, healing and understanding.”

“As an 18-year-old, it was my responsibility to decide when to shoot and when not to shoot,” Maurer said. “I had to make split-second decisions whether to shoot or not to shoot – there was no one beside me – decisions that would determine who would live and who would die.”

President Richard Nixon informed the world in a televised address March 29, 1973, that the last American troops had left Vietnam.

“I have laid on the ground and in holes with dead men and dying men. I’ve had men beg me to save them, and I’ve had men beg me to kill them,” Maurer said in his presentation, which included admissions of being grief-stricken and confessions of survivor’s guilt.

“And I’ve killed men. . . .

I’ve killed men . . . and it took me a long time before I could admit that to myself, much less stand in front of anybody and admit that to them, but I’m telling you this morning because it’s part of who I am.”

According to a Public Broadcasting System account of the Vietnam War: “As the deaths mounted and Americans continued to leave for Southeast Asia, protests erupted on college campuses and in major cities at first, but by 1968 every corner of the country seemed to have felt the war’s impact.”

Maurer is still sickened by how many people died.

“Nearly 17,000 of us were

killed in 1968 in Vietnam, nearly 90,000 of us were wounded. On average in 1968, 2,000 of us were being killed or wounded every week – every week,” Maurer shouted full-throttle.

“How did we endure that? How did we allow that to happen?”

Proceeds from the novel’s sales benefit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. That memorial (aka “The Wall”) is “a symbol of America’s honor and recognition” of those “who served and sacrificed their lives in the Vietnam War,” according to the VVMF. Inscribed on the black granite walls of the memorial in Washington, D.C., which was dedicated on Nov. 13, 1982, are the names of more than 58,000 men and women “who gave their lives or remain missing.”

“It was important to me to write honestly, no matter how painful it would be,” Maurer said. “And there were many days during the 13 years of writing the novel that I sat at the computer and cried. How does a soldier survive doing the things that infantrymen have to do and hold onto some sense of self-good?” Maurer asked the audience rhetorically.

“I wanted to write about love, hate, loyalty and friendship – the things that pulled us together and the things that tore us apart.”

For more information about Sartell resident and Vietnam veteran Michael P. Maurer, or his Perfume River Nights, visit www.michaelpmaurer.com.

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CITY OF SARTELL NOTICE TO VOTERS CITY ELECTION – NOV. 8, 2016 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that County Sartell Precinct #6 (east of a city election in the city of Sartell, Pinecone Road and north of 12th Counties of Stearns and Benton, Street North) will vote at Sartell State of Minnesota, will be held Middle School, in the South Gym; between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 residents of Stearns County Sarp.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. Res- tell Precinct #7 (west of Pinecone idents of Stearns County Sartell Road, north of Second-and-a-half Precinct #1 (east of Pinecone Road Street North, and that portion north and south of Second Street South) of Third Street North that lies west will vote at the Sartell Public Util- of 19th Avenue North) will vote ities Building, 230 Fourth Ave. S.; at Celebration Lutheran Church, residents of Stearns County Sartell 1500 Pinecone Road; Residents of Precinct #3 (east of Pinecone Road, Benton County Sartell Precinct #2 north of Second Street South and (east of the Mississippi River) will south of Fifth Street North) will vote in the Chapel Area at Country vote at Messiah Lutheran Church, Manor, 520 First Street NE. 320 Fourth Ave. N.; residents of Stearns County Sartell Precinct The following city offices will be #4 (west of Pinecone Road, south on the ballot: of Second-and-a-half Street North and that portion south of Third COUNCIL MEMBERS – TWO Street North that lies west of 19th (2) FOUR-YEAR TERMS Avenue North) will vote at Sartell City Hall, 125 Pinecone Road N.; Sample ballots are available to residents of Stearns County Sar- view at Sartell City Hall or at tell Precinct #5 (east of Pinecone www.mnvotes.org.

Road, north of Fifth Street North and south of 12th Street North) will Mary Degiovanni vote at Sartell Middle School in the City Administrator South Gym; residents of Stearns

Publish: Oct. 21 and 28, 2016 NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 748 (SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN) STATE OF MINNESOTA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the general election has been called and will be held in and for Independent School District No. 748 (Sartell-St. Stephen), State of Minnesota, on Tuesday, the 8th day of November, 2016, for the purpose of electing three school board members for four-year terms. The ballot shall provide as follows:

The precincts and the polling places for this general election are those polling places and precincts or parts of precincts located within the boundaries of the school district, which have been established by the cities, towns or townships located in whole or in part within the school district. The voting hours at those polling places shall be the same as those for the state general election.

A voter must be registered to vote to be eligible to vote in this election. An unregistered individual may register to vote at the polling place on election day.

Dated: Oct. 12, 2016

BY ORDER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD /s/ Michelle Meyer School District Clerk Publish: Oct. 21, 2016

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Friday, Oct. 21, 2016

Under-12 soccer team wins championship

by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com

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The CMYSA championship Under-12 Girls Soccer Team is comprised of (front row, left to right) Mikayla Gorder, Athlos Academy; Olivia Bauer, Sauk Rapids-Rice Middle School; Madden Quinn, Clearview Elementary; Bella Lee and Jaden Perry, both of St. John’s Prep; Emily Koepp, North Junior High; (back row, left to right) Coach Kevin Quinn; Annabel Walk, South Junior High; Hope Schueller, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School; Claire Quinn, South Junior High; Mya McKnight, Sauk Rapids-Rice Middle School; Reese Kloetzer, Sartell Middle School; Kenzie Oksa, South Junior High; Nora Miller, St. John’s Prep; and Head Coach Stuart Perry.

The Central Minnesota Youth Soccer Association Girls Under-12 team defeated Hastings Futbol Club United to win the Minnesota State Youth Hockey Association state championship last weekend in Rochester.

Reese Kloetzer of Sartell Middle School is a member of the 13-girl team.

It was among 41 teams that played the Fall League through the Minnesota Youth Soccer Association. Eight of those teams qualified for the state championship.

Single-elimination play on Saturday resulted in a 7-0 win over Richfield Soccer Association and a 0-0 tie with River Falls, earning CMYSA a spot in the semifinals. A 2-0 semifinal victory Sunday over Dakota Rev led to the championship game,

a 3-0 win over Hastings Futbol Club United.

The Girls Under-12 team increased its cumulative fall team record to 11-0-1. What’s remarkable is they had only two goals scored against them the entire season.

The team, coached by Stuart Perry and Kevin Quinn, is made up of 13 girls who will be attending Tech, Apollo, Cathedral, Sartell, Sauk Rapids and St. John’s Prep in the future.

Established in 1980, Central Minnesota Youth Soccer Association is a volunteer-driven soccer program that provides for the growth and development of players, coaches and referees.

The association promotes fun while helping develop players’ skills, sportsmanship, teamwork and self-confidence. The recreational and competitive teams are comprised of youth ages 5 to 18.

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Community Calendar Is your event listed? Send your information to: Newsleader Calendar, P.O. Box 324, St. Joseph, MN 56374; fax it to 320-363-4195; or, e-mail it to news@thenewsleaders. com.

Friday, Oct. 21 Burger and brat sale, sponsored by Knights of Columbus, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 First Ave. N.W. Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org.

St. Cloud Singles Club Dance,

8 p.m.-midnight, American Legion, 17 Second Ave. S., Waite Park. 320339-4533. stcloudsingles.net.

Saturday, Oct. 22 Burger and brat sale, sponsored by Knights of Columbus, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., St. Joseph Meat Market, 26 First Ave. N.W. Roast Beef and Ham Supper, 4-7 p.m., Richmond Parish Center, 111 Central Ave. S, Richmond.

Monday, Oct. 24 Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320-

253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org.

Sartell City Council, 6 p.m., Sartell City Hall, 125 Pinecone Road N. 320-253-2171.

Thursday, Oct. 27 Coffee and Conversation, a senior discussion group, 9 a.m., Country Manor, 520 First St. NE, Sartell.

Sauk Rapids Chamber Meeting, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m., Sauk Rapids Government Center, 250 Summit Ave. N. 320-251-2940.

218 First St. N., Sauk Rapids. 320253-9614. mnbentonhistory.org.

Trick or Treat on Main Street, 3-5 p.m., Main Street, Rice.

Sultans of String Performance, 7:30 p.m., Stephen B Humphrey Theater, St. John’s University, 2840 Abbey Plaza, Collegeville. 320363-5777. csbsju.edu/wow.

Cold Spring-St. Nick and Richmond, 4 p.m. social, 5:30 p.m. dinner, music and speaker Brody Hagemeier, Rockville Parish Center.

320-597-2228.

Friday, Oct. 28 Benton County Historical Society, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.,

Saturday, Oct. 29 Craft and Bake Sale, sponsored by Sartell Area Churches, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., St. Francis Xavier School, 308 Second St. N, Sartell.

Life Banquet, sponsored by MCCL Chapters of Rockville area,

Sunday, Oct. 30 A Choral Community, a fall concert celebrating the breadth and diversity of choral music in Central Minnesota, featuring the Youth Chorale of Central Minnesota, Cantabile Girls’ Choir, the St. John’s Boys’ Choir and the St. Cloud Area Singing Saints Barbershop Chorus, 7 p.m. Ritsche Auditorium, St. Cloud State University. tickets.yccm.org.

• Passing on the shoulder • Making hand and facial gestures • Screaming, honking and flashing lights.

If confronted by an aggressive driver, you should: • Get out of their way.

• Stay calm — reaching your destination safely is your goal.

• Do not challenge them.

• Avoid eye contact.

• Ignore gestures and don’t

return them.

• Report aggressive driving (vehicle description, license number, location).

• Always buckle up to maintain proper seating position in case of abrupt driving maneuvers.

Report Aggressive Drivers: •Find a safe place to call 911 •Be prepared to provide location, vehicle description and license plate.

A portion of state statutes was used with permission from the Office of the Revisor of Statutes. If you have any questions concerning traffic-related laws or issues in Minnesota, send your questions to Trp. Jesse Grabow – Minnesota State Patrol at 1000 Hwy. 10 W., Detroit Lakes, Minn. 56501-2205. (You can follow him on Twitter @ MSPPIO_NW or reach him at jesse.grabow@state.mn.us).

Ask a Trooper How many ‘road rage’ incidents are reported to the State Patrol on a yearly basis?

Q: I read about a recent study by the AAA Foundation for traffic safety, which found nearly 80 percent of drivers expressed significant anger, aggression or road rage behind the wheel at least once in the previous year.

How many “road rage” incidents are reported to the State Patrol on a yearly basis?

A: Troopers respond to a number of calls on a daily basis based on driving conduct and many other issues and actions occurring on our highways.

While we do not specifically track “road rage” incidents, I can provide statistics on the number of incidents related to

driving conduct and other issues.

Driving complaints: 57,465 (2015) 33,865 (2016 to-date) Gun-pointing incidents: 119 (2015) 76 (2016 to-date) Signs of an aggressive driver: • Ignoring traffic signals • Speeding and tailgating • Weaving in and out of traffic • Making improper lane changes frequently and abruptly

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