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Retired CEO’s life has always revolved around bicycles BY DEBRA NEUTKENS EDITOR
Lake Links trail advocate Jim Muellner admits the lack of a non-motorized path around the lake frustrates him. A safe route is something he’s been working on for 30 years. But really, his passion for bike safety goes back much farther — to eighth grade when he ran away from his St. Paul home and headed to his grandmother’s house in Melrose. “My father and I were never
on good terms,” recalled Muellner, a township resident since 1968. “He was an alcoholic; not strict, but coarse and feisty. There were eight in our family, six girls and two boys. I had a paper route and when you’re the only one that has money, you share it. At the end of the month, I was short. My father said, ‘if you’re ever short again, don’t come home.’” Come Easter, the young teen was “short” again. Remembering his father’s warning, Muellner took off on his bike. “I was peddling through
Anoka and I saw a paperboy on his bike hit and killed by a speeding car. I walked my bike for the next 10 miles. I remember it well. There was snow on the ground and I spent that night outside. I never went to my grandmother’s. I just kept biking to Paynesville where a woman convinced me to call my parents.” That summer, a penchant for buying ice cream for his buddies left the generous Muellner “short” once more. SEE ADVOCATE, PAGE 9A
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Jim and Marilyn Muellner sold the Oak Ridge Centre office building on Hwy. 61 last winter to Pratt-Ordway Properties. Finance & Commerce reported a sale price of $3.7 million. Their son Todd managed the building.
Hockey association won’t get fourth gambling site here,” he wrote. Hiniker explained to Benshoof that the gambling ordinance does not restrict the establishment’s ability to seek a charitable organization outside of the community; but it does require that the selected organization use at least 50 percent of its profits within the city’s trade area, which includes communities inside the school district and Mahtomedi. The city manager added that a limit is placed on the number of establishments that any one charitable group can have in order to equalize the opportunity to raise funds across the community. “If we were faced with a situation whereby an establishment wanted to host charitable gambling but could not attract a licensed organization due to city-imposed limits, the ordinance would need to be reviewed,” Hiniker said. “However, it is my understanding there is another licensed organization interested in working with you.” She was talking about the White Bear Lake Lions, which operate gambling in three city
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Sailors and skiers test their skills
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Water skiers skim across the surface of Bald Eagle Lake while participants in the Bald Eagle Yacht Club and Hobie Fleet 52-sponsored regatta take advantage of an afternoon breeze Saturday, July 14. Lack of wind postponed the morning races, but E-Scow and HobieCat catamaran sailors from around the region were able to compete in a series of afternoon races when the wind conditions improved.
WHITE BEAR LAKE — Pull tabs can be a lucrative endeavor. The city limits lawful gambling groups that run pulltabs, bingo, paddlewheels and raffles to three establishments within its borders. The White Bear Lake Area Hockey Association would like a fourth. City leaders said no. That answer followed a request to change the gambling ordinance by the hockey association and a downtown restaurant that wanted to be No. 4. It was a discussion item on the July 10 City Council agenda. Manitou Grill & Event Center wants to bring in White Bear hockey pull tabs, a move manager Tony Benshoof called “crucial to the success of the business.” In an email to City Manager Ellen Hiniker (formerly Richter), Benshoof alluded to getting attorneys involved if they didn’t get their way. “We are also going to reach out on social media and various other outlets to get support from local hockey parents, who all want to support our efforts to get White Bear hockey in
SEE GAMBLING, PAGE 8A
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