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Sartell’s Winter Market open Saturday at city hall
Sartell’s Winter Market is open from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. (winter hours) Saturday, Dec. 19 at Sartell City Hall, 125 Pinecone Road N. Vendors want you to enjoy their products and are happy to share their knowledge and answer any questions you have. Get to know your local farmer at the Winter Market.
Gun-safety class set in St. Stephen
A gun-safety class will take place from 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Jan 5, 7, 19, 21 and 26 at St. Stephen City Hall, 2 Sixth Ave. SE (corner of Co Rd 5 and 6th Avenue SE). Registration will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 3 at City Hall.
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Everyone is invited to a free Christmas Day dinner at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 25 at Living Waters Lutheran Church, 1911 Fourth Ave. N., Sauk Rapids. If you don’t want to cook or clean up, want to start a new tradition, are lonely, or for any other reason, you are welcome. Rides are available. To make a reservation or for more information about rides, call 320255-1135.
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‘Hoopin’ for Tommy B.’ promises basketball fun by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
A green, green crowd will be whooping and hollering in memory of hoopster Tom Bearson on Friday, Jan. 8 when a basketball event dubbed Hoopin’ for Tommy B takes place at Sartell High School. The varsity game will start at 7:30 p.m. between the Sartell Sabres and the Rocori Spartans. There will be a half-time performance by the Alexandria Aces. Attendees are encouraged to wear green – especially neon green – as that was one of Tommy B.’s favorite colors. Tom Bearson is the young Sartell man who was found murdered Sept. 23, 2014 in Moorhead, a case that remains unsolved. The former superb high-school basketball player, son of Deb and Greg Bearson of Sartell, was a new student at the University of North Dakota, Fargo, at the time of his untimely death. Bearson’s family, friends and supporters started the Tom Bearson Foundation to keep Tom’s memory alive, to promote safety on school campuses and to promote basketball opportunities of young people because basketball was a sport Bearson loved and excelled in since the time he was a toddler.
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Above: Two of the Alexandria Aces wow a crowd with their uncanny basketball-spinning skills. At right: Tom Bearson, sometimes dubbed by friends as Tommy B., was an extremely talented basketball player for the Sartell Sabres. A basketball game Jan. 8 will honor his memory and raise funds for a foundation named for him. Hoopin’ for Tommy B is partly a fundraiser for the Bearson Foundation, although Tom’s parents mostly just want people who attend to have a lot of fun while keeping Tommy’s memory alive in the area, including among the younger players coming up through the basketball
Council gives go-ahead to community center by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
The Sartell City Council at its Dec. 14 meeting decided to move forward with plans, specs and bids for a Sartell Community Center in the “Town Square” south portion of the city. The vote was 4-1, with council member David Peterson vot-
ing no. Peterson has long opposed a center at the south site, partly because it won’t have a library in it. Council approval means HMA Architects will begin the final planning and specifications for the center, with council approval along the way; and for Strack Construction to seek bids. At the meeting were Bob
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Anna Marie’s Alliance holiday wish list for adults includes gift certificates to grocery stores and restaurants, alarm clock, curling irons, toiletries, underwear and sleepwear. For children: size 4 diapers, dolls, puzzles, games, activity books, LEGOs, children’s movies and diverse toys, games and dolls. Teens: board games, gift certificates for movies and books, jewelry and watches. For more information on this and other United Way volunteer opportunities, visit thenewsleaders. com and click on Dec. 18 Criers.
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Strack of Strack Construction, Murray Mack of HMA (Hagemeister-Mack Architects) and Lyle Mathiasen, consultant. The center will house three gyms, a walking track, a senior center, a community meeting area and an innovation area with some technology. It will not contain a library, a fact that has sparked much controversy (see related stories).
Council member Peterson said perhaps the walking track should be placed on ground level instead of above and around the parameters of the three gyms so that money could be saved. The track will cost between $350,000 and $400,000, Strack said, and the upper level (“mezzanine” level where the track Center • page 7
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program. Jan. 8 was chosen for the event because it’s as close as possible to Tom’s birthday, Jan. 6. After the Alexandria Aces perform, there will be a three-point shooting conHoopin’ • page 5
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Jonathan Carlson, a Sartell High School graduate, stands before the North Dakota tree for which he created ornaments during the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. Note the White House in the background. Inset: This is one of the 12 ornaments, which contains a painting of a buffalo head, Carlson designed.
Jonathan Carlson, a Sartell High School graduate, was an honored guest during the National Christmas Tree Lighting event in early December in Washington, D.C. Carlson designed the tree ornaments for the North Dakota Christmas tree, one of 53 trees that encircle the huge national tree. During the dazzling tree-lighting ceremony, Carlson and his father, Dan, sat in the audience just 30 yards or so from the stage on which President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their two daughters greeted speakers and entertainers. Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon was the
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evening’s emcee, with performers who included Crosby, Stills and Nash and Patti LaBelle. The First Lady, with Miss Piggy nearby, read The Night Before Christmas to children gathered on the stage. “We had really good seating,” said Dan Carlson, although he admitted as the 90-minute event progressed, the weather became a bit too nippy for how he and his son were dressed – light jackets. “We were glad afterward to take the subway back to our hotel just north of the White House where we could get warm.” The weather was 40 degrees, with a bit of wind. Jonathan, 24, is a 2010 graduate of Sartell High School and is studying art and engineering at Tree • page 3
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People Carly Spoden, Sartell, is a member of the Accounting Club for the 2015-16 academic year at Southwest Minnesota State University-Marshall. She is a junior ac-
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half Street. Multiple complaints were made regarding a vehicle swerving on the roadway and hitting a fire hydrant. Officers located the vehicle and detected the odor of alcoholic beverages coming from the driver. The driver was unable to pass field sobriety testing and needed assistance walking. He was placed under arrest without incident.
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Dec. 1 3:59 p.m. Domestic. First Street N. A report was made regarding an adult female and a juvenile female arguing. Officers arrived and found the juvenile female was refusing to do chores and had become aggressive toward her grandmother. Neither party wanted to pursue charges and agreed to stay separated for the evening. Dec. 2 1:10 p.m. Traffic stop. Riverside Avenue S. A vehicle was witnessed traveling 45 mph in a posted 30mph zone. The driver stated he was unaware of his speed. He was issued a citation and released. 1:33 p.m. Warrant. Riverside Avenue S. An arrest warrant was issued for an adult female. Officers located the female and placed her under arrest without incident. Dec. 3 9:06 a.m. Unwanted person. Sunset Avenue. A complaint was made regarding an adult male and female refusing to leave a residence. Officers found the male had an active arrest warrant. He was placed under arrest without incident and the female left the area. 10:48 p.m. DWI. Two-and-a-
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Dec. 4 3:53 p.m. Shoplifting. Walmart. An adult male was witnessed leaving the store with unpaid merchandise. The male was located and issued a citation. 5:14 p.m Suspicious vehicle. Eighth Street N.E. A complaint was made regarding a vehicle continually driving slowly by a residence. Officers located the vehicle and found the driver was looking for his dog, which was located at the police department. Dec. 5 2:54 a.m. Intoxicated male. Lawrence Circle. A complaint was made regarding an intoxicated male, becoming physically aggressive and out of control. Officers arrived to find him being restrained due to his physical violence. No one wanted charges pursued and he was transported to detox. 9:59 p.m. Driving complaint. CR 1. A complaint was made regarding a vehicle driving the wrong direction and slow. An officer located the vehicle driving slowly but found the driver was not intoxicated. The elderly female stated she was on her way home. She was advised to be more cau-
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tious with her driving. Dec. 6 8:14 a.m. Suspicious vehicle. A report was made regarding an unknown vehicle parked at the business for two days. An officer contacted the registered owner, who stated he was hunting and would pick the vehicle up soon. 2:04 p.m. Welfare check. Eighth Street N. A report was made regarding an adult male stopping at a residence and asking for directions to the same location twice within a week. An officer located the male, who stated he was just new to the area. Dec. 7 11:13 a.m. Welfare check. First Street N.E. A report was made regarding an occupied vehicle parked at a business for several hours, with a sleeping male. An officer spoke to the driver, who stated he was waiting for a friend to arrive so he could get gas. No assistance was needed. 7:19 p.m. Verbal. 10th Avenue N. A complaint was made regarding two adult women arguing. Officers arrived and found the argument was only verbal. One female agreed to leave the residence without incident. No further assistance was needed. Dec. 8 12:04 p.m. Domestic. CR 120. A report was made regarding an adult male and an adult female arguing in a parking lot. Officers arrived and found the argument was only verbal and they needed no assistance.
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Tree from front page North Dakota State University in Fargo. The chairman of the NDSU Art Department nominated Jonathan to design the ornaments for the North Dakota tree, and the nomination was granted. At the lighting ceremony, there were 53 trees, each about 6 to 8 feet tall, one from each state, plus ones from three United States territories. Jonathan’s challenge was to design ornament inserts for 12 fairly large transparent glass bulbs sent to him by the National Park Service, which is in charge of the annual lighting ceremony. It takes place each early December on the Ellipse within President’s Park just south of the White House.
Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader • www.thenewsleaders.com Jonathan decided to create homespun, old-fashioned ornament inserts – quilted rounds serving as a background for his painted images representing North Dakota heritage, including buffalos, soy beans and so forth. The images were then embroidered onto the quilted inserts and placed within the 12 glass balls. At the ceremony, when the switch was thrown and all the trees suddenly blazed with lights, the large crowd oohed and aahed its approval. “It was unbelievable,” Dan said. “And we had such good seats, too. I was incredibly proud of my son.” Jonathan is considering getting a degree in bio-medical engineering. He was recently chosen to be part of an undergraduate engineering program that is developing prosthetics (artificial
limbs) that have sensory capabilities. His hobbies are drawing, ceramics and reading. “He definitely gets his creative side from his mother (Joan),” Dan said. “She’s very artistic and creative. I think he gets his analytical side from me.” Dan is a chiropractor at Spinal Rehab in Sauk Rapids. The Carlsons also have an older son, Michael, a 2007 Sartell High School graduate who is now a chiropractor in Bismarck, N.D. where his wife, Alexa, is a dentist.
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The event attended by the Carlsons was the 93rd annual National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, a tradition maintained by the U.S. National Park Service. Each year, a different place in the nation is honored by being
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asked to provide a tree for the ceremony. This year’s huge tree came from the Chugatch National Forest in Alaska. Its 4,000 ornaments were designed by 10 Alaskan artists. Anna DeVold, an Alaskan fifth-grader, was chosen by U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan to flip the switch to light up the big tree and the many that surrounded it. This year’s icicle lights and net lights on the big tree are golden and silver-white in color, all of them LED lights with a combined power of 6,000 watts. The electricity to run the energy-efficient lights cost only $150 daily through the holiday season from dusk until 11 p.m., according to the Park Service. That is one-fifth the cost of incandescent Christmas lights. Using LED lights saves nearly 7,000 pounds of greenhouse gases and avoids burning more than one ton of coal.
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Center praised; lack of library decried by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Two people, both members of Friends of the Library, spoke in favor of a Sartell library and one person sang the praises of the proposed Sartell Community Center during the public forum session of the Dec. 14 Sartell City Council meeting. Kevin Gross, the president of the Sartell Area Youth Basketball Association, thanked the city council for its decision to build a three-gym community center in the city, saying parents and athletes will not mind driving extra miles within the city to avail themselves of such a facility. He said he and others are “truly grateful” for such an “incredible endeavor.” There has long been a need for more gym space in Sartell, Gross said, adding many children have to go to gyms in other cities just to practice, sometimes late at night because gyms are so busy, and not just for basketball but for other indoor sports. Some even have to practice in cafeterias after hours, he noted. The three gyms in the Sartell Community Center will be a huge help, he said. “Thank you . . . It is an amazing asset for Sartell.” Friends of the Library members Zurya Anjum and Henry
Smoryinski, both of whom have spoken at previous council meetings, each read a letter addressed to the council. Anjum’s letter was basically a response to accusations made in an anonymous letter published as a submitted paid insert in the Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader. Entitled “Enough is Enough,” it was submitted and paid for by “Friends of the Sartell Community,” and criticized those who oppose the planned community center because it will not contain a library. Anjum said the paid letter contained “distortions of the truth.” She said the Great River Regional Library Board has been more than willing to compromise, including on a site for the community center, but that a majority on the city council has rebuffed those GRRL efforts to communicate and to compromise. A poll taken in October-November 2015 showed 70 percent of Sartell residents are in favor of a library, Anjum said. “It appears quite clear to the Sartell residents that although the majority of our city council members keep saying they support a Sartell GRRL library, they are doing all they can to delay/postpone the decision until all the sales-tax money is committed to other projects and there is nothing
left.” Anjum then announced an invitation from Friends of the Library to set up a meeting sometime before the new year with the city council, GRRL representatives and the St. Cloud Times Editorial Board to discuss the library issue and to find a solution. In his letter to the council, Smoryinski said the council had placed a lump of coal in children’s stockings because a majority on the council had turned a “deaf ear” to children’s requests for a Sartell library. The council majority of three members, he said, made its community-center-without-a-library decision in an uninformed way, without holding adequate public hearings, without updating a public survey, without doing enough research and by excluding input from library supporters and by not responding to the requests of 500 pro-library petitioners. The council, he said, has not allotted even one dollar of tax money for a library. “So if things continue, there will be no branch library, and the blame must rest with the council majority, not with GRRL or the residents labeled as whiners who only asked the council to honor votes, voters’ desires and past council promises.”
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Mayor Nicoll defends self, colleagues by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Sartell Mayor Sarah Jane Nicoll gave a personal defense for her and her colleagues about what she characterized as personal attacks against her from people who support a library in the city. Her comments came at the close of the Dec. 14 Sartell City Council meeting. Just previously, council member Amy Braig-Lindstrom said library supporters have always been positive but an anonymous letter published as a submitted, paid insert in the Dec. 11 Sartell Newsleader had created an “us vs. them” divisiveness. The insert from “Friends of the Sartell Community” entitled “Enough is Enough,” defended the council’s decision to build a community center, without a library, in south Sartell and questioned those who insist the center must have a library. In her comments to the council, Nicoll took issue with Braig-Lindstrom’s contention the members of Friends of the Library have always been positive. She said some have used mistruths, assumptions, much negativity, personal attacks and name-calling against her and two council members, calling them such adjectives as arro-
gant, immature and even corrupt. Nicoll said she was happy a “silent majority” in Sartell decided to defend the council’s community-center decision, including via the anonymous insert letter. That letter was written, Nicoll said, because of people fed up with personal attacks by library supporters. “I am super happy to see some positivity,” she said, referring to the insert letter and community-center supporters. Nicoll also emphasized how unfair it is she should be accused of being anti-library. “To keep saying I’m killing a library is ridiculous,” Nicoll said. She said she has long valued libraries, education and literacy but she has serious issues with the parameters set by the Great River Regional Library system for a branch library in Sartell. She said she remains in favor of a compromise for a library in Sartell, especially books for children and technology access. There is, she added, no need to duplicate a $30-million asset (St. Cloud Library) that is so close to Sartell. “I am and will probably always be against a 12,500 squarefoot traditional branch library (as proposed by GRRL) that would cost all kinds of money,” she said.
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Our View Christmas spirit can touch the hearts of everyone Christmas means many things to many people, from devoutly religious people to those who just enjoy the cheerful camaraderie of the colorful season. The true meaning of Christmas, of course, is to celebrate the birth of the Christ child in a manger in Bethlehem more than 2,000 years ago. That world-changing event is appropriately reflected in crèche displays, tree ornaments and countless beautiful Christmas songs. But even those who are not so religiously inclined can and do enjoy Christmas. It’s supposed to be a joyous time when family and friends gather to enjoy delicious dinners, to exchange gifts, to listen to holiday songs and to relax with a few days off of work. “Peace on Earth, good will toward men (and women)” may be religious in origin, but everybody should be able to relate well to that gentle admonition, especially in the often dark, anxious, fearful days of the current world situation. For believers and non-believers alike, Christmas ought to be a happy time when we all demonstrate kindness to one another, when we go the extra mile to do good deeds for the less fortunate, when we experience joy in being alive, when hope and goodness fill all hearts. Christmas, all too often, becomes an orgy of spending, of consumerism run rampant, of gifts, gifts and more gifts. And though spending on “things” can become a bit too much, there is nothing wrong with buying and sharing gifts with others, especially for kids who are so unboundingly happy when they’re opening their presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. Yes, Christmas is a time for one and all. What’s beautiful is Christmas at its best is when its Christian meaning and its more secular traditions overlap, causing people to demonstrate to one another their kinder natures. It’s a time when the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” has a chance to shine, for awhile anyway. The great writer Charles Dickens, who gave us the immortal A Christmas Carol and its mean-spirited but teachable Scrooge, was never happier than during the Christmas season when he turned into a virtual kid again. Dickens was so aware, up close, of the poverty and misery of people in London during the thick of the Industrial Revolution that Christmas, for him, became a kind of respite from suffering, a wish-fulfillment, a glimpse of a better world, brief but promising. Christmas, as Dickens knew in his bones, is a time for children, a kind of paradise regained for children at heart, no matter what their age. He said it so well in this quote from A Christmas Carol. “For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.” We at the Newsleaders would like to wish our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Or as a frail but happy Tiny Tim proclaimed, “God bless us, every one!”
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Friday, Dec. 18, 2015
Opinion Shout out against barring of Muslims Imagine being a Somali refugee who happens to be a Muslim living in the St. Cloud area (or anywhere else), working hard to make a living, struggling to learn a new language, trying to adjust to the ways of a new culture in this great nation. And then imagine turning on the TV and seeing a flamboyant billionaire and presidential wannabe suggesting the United States should ban the entry of Muslims into this country. Worse than that, imagine how insecure those immigrants feel when they learn about a third of Americans agree with the billionaire’s bluster. In last week’s polls, 57 percent of Americans disagree with Donald Trump’s broadside against Muslims. It’s a pity that number of Americans who disagree is not 100 percent. Every American should speak out – shout out! – against Trump’s unfair aspersions against Muslims, and here are the reasons why: • A very tiny percentage of so-called Muslims are of the terrorist persuasion. I say so-called Muslims because terrorists are not interested in Islam other than using a sick and twisted version of that religion to commit acts of barbarism, wreak havoc and gain territorial power. They’re about as “religious” as gnats. • Trump is casting a net of suspicion on a religion and its adherents. It’s worrisome because that is how Nazis began their murderous campaigns against Jews in Europe. That reign of terror started with deftly planted suspicions against Judaism and Jews, who began to be viewed as the “other,” the not-to-be-trusted, the trouble-makers, the wreckers of “Aryan” civilization. Jews were made to wear the Star of David, they were isolated into ghettos, their businesses were confiscated, they were vilified in vicious propaganda films. Their synagogues were trashed and burned; Jews or anyone mistaken for a Jew were beaten and abused in the streets. Fellow citizens did not speak out; they played deaf, dumb, blind. Then the deportations began, and we all know – or should know
Dennis Dalman Editor – what happened next. • I am not at all comparing Trump to Hitler. However, Trump’s sowing the seeds of suspicion in this fearful time can lead to inhuman consequences, at the very least making even the American Muslims who have long been outstanding American citizens feel insecure and under fire. Trump’s comments can also energize radical groups like white supremacists by letting them think their hateful rhetoric and tactics have a newfound “legitimacy,” coming from the mouth of a presidential candidate. Immediately after Trump’s anti-Muslim talk, Internet interest in those toxic organizations surged, according to some news reports. • Trump’s comments are antithetical to everything we cherish as quintessentially American, most specifically the right to due process under the U.S. Constitution, with the equal right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not to mention the right to practice the religion of one’s choice. • Placing Muslims under suspicion for the vicious acts of ISIS is as misguided as being leery of all Christians just because some homegrown lunatics, some of whom professed to be Christians, committed the many mass-shootings in this country. • Trump knows perfectly well a ban on all Muslims to the United States is a fool’s wish because it’s constitutionally problematic to say the least, not to mention virtually impossible to implement. To legitimize his no-Muslims stand, Trump refers to “precedents” that include policies initiated during World War II when
Japanese-Americans were forced into internment camps and to other severe abridgements of rights for minorities in times of national crisis. Instead of lauding previous policies as precedents, Trump should be condemning them for the cruel abuses of human rights they were. • Many planned terrorist attacks have been nipped in the bud, thanks to good intelligence gathering, and many of the “tips” have come from Muslims who deplore terrorist violence as much as all good people do. Muslims, in fact, have been the main targets of violence by thug psychopaths known as ISIS. To cast suspicion on the millions of good, peaceful, law-abiding Muslims because of ISIS terror is doubly cruel, like blaming victims for their own suffering. Alienating Muslims by treating them as “suspects” is likely to make them disaffected, especially young ones who may begin to feel – oh how wrongly! – that ISIS is looking out for their well-being. Thus, more recruitments of gullible, foolish people to the “cause,” which is no cause at all but rather a hideous cult of death. What a bleak irony ISIS is cheering Trump’s proposals. • Trump claims his proposal for barring of Muslims from entry into America would be temporary, that there would be some exceptions. In all fairness, Trump is not a racist or a bigot, and he would never intend to bring harm to innocent people. On the bright side, he has made us aware of the importance of securing our borders and of scrupulously scrutinizing the documentation of anyone who enters the United States. Yes, Trump has some good ideas, too, and he is, most probably, a “nice guy,” as he often says of others. However, as a nice guy, he should realize once and for all his sweeping “solutions” to national problems, including the barring of Muslims, are not only hurtful, inflammatory and potentially dangerous, but they threaten America’s status as a free nation that strives to accommodate good people seeking to make a decent life free from shadows of suspicion, discrimination and violence.
Letters to the editor
Do we really need a branch library in Sartell? Jason Harren, Sartell Do we really need a library in Sartell? The new St. Cloud library is five miles away. The Waite Park branch is three miles away. If you need a hard copy of a book and don’t have a
car or a friend to take you to the library, then the bus is available. The Internet is prevalent in most homes and books can be found for rent there. Offer free Wi-Fi and computer stations at the community center for those who need access. Let’s not be ridiculous and build a building
to house paper that is traded from one person to another. Lets look to where the schools are going for education materials and it should be clear. They are going to the Internet and issuing iPads or laptops for all students. Let’s spend our money smart, be green and get out of the past.
Council decision undemocratic Henry Smorynski, Sartell In the Dec. 11 Newsleader there was an insert from a group claiming to be the Friends of the Sartell Community. The insert insults the democratic efforts of more than 500 Sartell residents and 4,300 GRRL card-holding Sartell residents wanting a branch library. The insert refers to a document on the city’s website that analyzes costs of the community center. No data or analyses are provided regarding benefits to residents of potential amenities. A branch library is undervalued by not addressing the benefits of the library. A cost analysis without a benefits analysis is not a thorough review and does
not constitute an informed decision. The insert asserts collaboration with the GRRL is unattainable. Collaboration requires the city to make serious efforts. It has not. It has allocated no funds nor has it defined an acceptable location for a library. The insert is correct that residents have been waiting for a community center since 1999, but it challenges the view Sartell voters have already “approved” a library facility. This assertion is not based in reality. The 2014 voting question confused the issue by mentioning gyms and aquatics before the library, meeting rooms and senior center. There is no evidence since the 2007 city survey that voters have changed their his-
toric commitments for a branch library. The open house and on-line survey on the center showed 70 percent support for a branch. The council majority decision-making process did not adequately solicit resident input via either a survey or a series of public hearings. It excluded library advocates from participation in the location of the center. The majority voted for the southern site knowing its unacceptability to GRRL. The majority voted their personal preferences only, without adequate review of a branch library. City residents will likely be paying tax dollars for a facility that many will not use, especially those with limited financial means, due to fees and hour restrictions.
to Internet with which to finish projects, turn in assignments or send questions to their teachers outside of class time. Sad because those in our city who don’t drive cannot access social programming at our regional library like book clubs, writers’ groups and technology classes. Sad because teenagers can’t access great-writers groups, game nights and book clubs designed especially for them. Sad because the majority of my city council is taking no action to bring these wonderful resources to Sartell, even though money has been raised through a sales tax. Instead of feeling sad, I choose to feel hopeful.
Hopeful our city will open dialogue about a library branch rather than shut it down. Hopeful citizens of this great city will share their opinions with their leaders. Hopeful we can explore ways to get a library branch in Sartell. Please reach out to your city council and implore them to discuss a plan to bring a library branch to Sartell. Ideas such as using the current city hall or moving the proposed community center to a central location and setting aside funding for a library. Also, please thank council members Amy Braig-Lindstrom and David Peterson for their support and encourage the others to engage in the conversation!
Let’s explore ways to get a library Kim Tjaden, Sartell
As I was riding in my car today, listening to a program on Minnesota Public Radio about the best books of the year, I began to feel sad. Sad because children of Sartell cannot ride their bikes or walk to a library to check out the newest books or old classics while their parents are at work. Sad because busy Moms and Dads don’t have close access to great infant, toddler and preschool reading programs where their children will learn to love books. Sad because children whose schools embrace technology may not have access
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Friday, Dec. 18, 2015
Center from front page will be located) will cost about $1 million. Strack said putting a walking track at ground level is probably do-able but it could be problematic. If there were a walking track indoors around the three gyms, there would be all kinds of cross traffic between walkers and those involved in activities on the gym floors. Strack said he does not know at this point how much money would be saved by putting a track at ground level.
Council member Steve Hennes said putting the walking track above is a good idea for the reasons Strack mentioned and because walkers would have pleasant views from that height of the activities on the gym floors as well as a view of the outdoors. “It’s worth the investment,” he said. The center will cost about $11 million, but Strack said there is already an $800,000 shortfall in the budget with current amenities planned. Those amenities, he said, can be changed somewhat in the near future, with council approval. He said the council
will receive a kind of a la carte menu of features in and on the building that could be added or eliminated to fit the budget and avoid cost overruns. There will be 250 parking stalls at the center, but parking areas could easily be extended in the future, Strack noted. Amy Braig-Lindstrom said she is excited about the project and thanked the planners for their hard work. “It (the center) will be such a gift to the community when we have it up and running,” she said. The planners will return to update the council in a couple of months.
Community Calendar
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First United Methodist Church, 1107 Pinecone Road S., Sartell. 320-251-0804. fumcscr. org. Christmas Mass, 5 and 10 p.m., Church of St. Joseph, 12 W. Minnesota St. 320-3637505. churchstjoseph.org. Christmas Eve Service, 5-6 p.m., Gateway Church, 708 Elm St. E., St. Joseph. 320-282-2262. Choirs, Carols and Candlelight, 5:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 1107 Pinecone Road S., Sartell. 320-251-0804. fumcscr.org. Christmas Eve Worship, 7 p.m., Abounding Joy Lutheran Church, 6000 CR 120, St. Cloud. aboundjoylcmc.org. Caroling and Christmas Eucharist, 9 p.m., St. Benedict’s Monastery, 104 Chapel Lane, St. Joseph. 320-363-7100. sbm.osb.org.
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Friday, Dec. 25 Merry Christmas! Christmas Mass, 9:30 a.m., Church of St. Joseph, 12 W. Minnesota St. 320-363-7505. churchstjoseph.org. Christmas Day Eucharist, 10:30 a.m., St. Benedict’s Monastery, 104 Chapel Lane, St. Joseph. 320-363-7100. sbm.osb.org. Free Christmas Day Dinner, 11 a.m., Living Waters Lutheran Church, 1911 Fourth Ave. N., Sauk Rapids. 320-255-1135. Wednesday, Jan. 6 St. Stephen City Council, 7 p.m., St. Stephen City Hall, 2 Sixth Ave SE. 320-2510964.
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CITY OF SARTELL SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 15-15 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY FEE SCHEDULE The following official summary of the ordinance referred to has been approved by the City Council of Sartell as clearly informing the public of the intent and effect of the ordinance: The Council of the City of Sartell hereby ordains: Summary The 2016 Schedule of City fees is hereby adopted. The fees adopted include Administrative, Animals, Cemetery, Compost, Development-Related, Fire Department, Licenses, Liquor, Maps, Parks, Police, Public Safety, Public Works, Rental and Utility Service Fees.
Jan. 1, 2016. A printed copy of the entire ordinance itemizing all City fees is available for inspection by any person during regular office hours at the office of the City Clerk at the Sartell City Hall. PASSED BY THE SARTELL CITY COUNCIL THIS 14th DAY OF DECEMBER, 2015. /s/Sarah Jane Nicoll Mayor ATTEST: /s/Mary Degiovanni Administrator-clerk-treasurer
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! s y a d i l o H y p ap Wishing you the very best this holiday season!
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Friday, Dec. 18, 2015
Warm wishes for the holiday season!
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Warmest greetings of the season and every good wish for the coming year!
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