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BOOYA!!! Gethsemane United Methodist Church Annual Booya Festival – Sunday, September 20th Fun, Food, Entertainment, Bake Sale, Cake Walk, Silent Auction and of course, Booya
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Prison time for former councilman By Debra Neutkens
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STILLWATER — Nine months after his home was searched, former Councilman Tony Bronk pleaded guilty to six counts of felony theft by swindle. He took an offer from the state that calls for 23 months of prison and $172,000 in restitution to the organization Bronk swindled from 2010 to 2014: the Minnesota State Fire Department Association. He served as secretary/treasurer of the firefighters group during that time. At a hearing last month before Washington County Judge John McBride, Bronk waived his right to a jury trial and accepted an amended complaint from the Ramsey County attorney's office that dropped a check forgery charge.
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X-treme Paint has donated custom painting services and race winning to benefit the Minnesota chapter of veterans’ advocacy group Tribute to the Troops, based in Circle Pines. c
Tomato Mike
by Michelle Miron
For the sixth consecutive year he won the State Fair blue ribbon for growing the most gargantuan tomato.
Football Centennial entertains Andover (0-3, 0-4) Friday night.
WYOMING — During a powerboat race, Aaron Wachholz once flipped backward at 100 mph and landed upside down in the water. The impact damaged his boat, but he walked away with only a few scratches and bruises. Both he and his boat raced again two weeks later. The Wyoming businessman said that setback wasn’t enough to stop him from pursuing his favorite hobby: powerboat racing. “I haven’t experienced a single thing in life as exhilarating,” explained Wachholz, founder of Team Tribute Racing. ”Nothing gives me as much of an adrenaline rush as racing my boat, the speed
and just the conditions you race in along with other boats on the water.” His passion for racing is now a huge part of his career as well. The Lindstrom resident, a 1987 Forest Lake Area High School grad, not only has his own boat and auto body repair and custom painting business ( X-Treme Paint Auto Body &Marine in Wyoming) but custom-builds powerboats from scratch. Last weekend (after press time) he raced his own craft in the Ron Baker Senior Memorial Regatta in Forest Lake, suiting up in the v-bottom class and competing at speeds of up to 130 mph. His top racing achievement prior to that was winning the OPC National Championship in the VP-75 class in 2011,
X-treme Paint/see page 2
Calling all turkey hunters
Prison Time/see page 3
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Week of Sept 16 - 22, 2015 Weather tidbit: A late season tornado touches down in Itasca County on September 17, 1985. No injuries were reported. Year Ago this week: Seasonable temperatures. September 20, severe storms hit much of the state with hail covering the ground and downed trees in southeastern Minnesota.
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Shane Simpson likens turkey hunting to a game of chess. The White Bear Lake man says bagging a gobbler requires a lot of strategy. It's his favorite animal to hunt because there is a lot of interaction between hunter and bird, he said. He sometimes spends hours luring the same turkey with calls and a decoy, while deciding whether to chance moving closer or to a better vantage point. The chase of the very vocal birds is as rewarding as the kill, he said. Simpson travels the Midwest every spring and fall in search of turkeys. He's also a champion turkey caller and organizes an annual calling contest. And he hosts a website and social media pages where he shares blogs and videos about hunting and calling. His young daughter is also is a medal-winning caller and is aiming to snare her first turkey this spring. His fiancée also is a hunter, although she prefers to chase deer. A hunting question initially posed by his fiancée on a social media site is what sparked their relationship. He's from South Carolina and moved to Minnesota in 2008 to be with her. The move prompted his first calling contest entry and his first videotaping of hunting trips, which prompted him to start a website. He was a frequent hunter back in South Carolina, where there are longer seasons and a five-bird limit. In Minnesota, hunters are limited to one bird per season. After Simpson had claimed his
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Shane Simpson doesn't generally use blinds. He prefers to wait in plain sight in camouflage, as in this screen grab from a video of a March hunt. Minnesota bird but wanted to spend more time in the woods, he started following hunting buddies and filming the excursions. He started a website as a way to share his footage with his hunting companions and so they could share it with their friends. Its audience has grown as his videos have become more polished and his website has added more features including a blog, turkey-calling tutorial videos and a calendar of calling contests. The site — www.callingallturkeys.com — makes a little advertising revenue that helps subsidize Simpson's hunting equipment and travel expenses. In addition to the website, he also shares videos and other hunting resources on a Facebook page (facebook.com/callingallturkeys)
that has nearly 2,700 likes and a Twitter page (twitter.com/callingallturks) that has nearly 500 followers. He now travels to multiple states each season so he can claim more birds. So far this year he's been to Nebraska, Wisconsin, South Dakota and Illinois. He works three 12-hour shifts as a printer at a Little Canada small business, allowing him five days a week for hunting. He films each hunting excursion and, assuming they aren't a bust, posts a 10- to 20-minute video recap online. He usually hunts and stays with a family member or friend or two. A shotgun is his weapon of choice. He's tried bow-hunting
NEW YORK, New York — Watching endless MTV music videos as a youth has apparently paid off big for Stillwater Area High School grad Brendan Kane. Since last fall, the 33-year-old double bass virtuoso has been a staff musician with one of the world’s most skilled and best-known orchestras — the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, known commonly as The Met.
Hunters /see page 5
Kane /see page 3
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