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This year’s White Bear Lake Area Schools’ supply list (provided by the state and district) includes rubber gloves, face shields, face masks, eye goggles and protective gowns to protect students and staff from the COVID-19 respiratory virus. Students and teachers will receive two reusable masks each and custodial, health, nutrition and special education staff will wear more protective gear as needed. The district has 50,000 disposable masks on hand. White Bear Lake Area Schools plans to have a hybrid learning plan for all students this fall due to the COVID-19 virus that has been spreading through the country and state since last spring. Students did distance learning last March-June. Like all districts statewide, the district was given decision power by the state but also given guidance by the Minnesota Department of Health and Minnesota Department of Education. Districts were guided to pursue an in-person, hybrid or distance-learning model based on the number of COVID-19 cases per 10,000 county residents, over the last 14 days. In mid-July, Ramsey County had the highest case count of the three counties the district serves at 19.65 per 10,000 residents. “That puts us in that borderline for that in-person learning for elementary students and hybrid learning for secondary students, and the next category would be hybrid learning for all students,” said Superintendent Wayne Kazmierczak at a special school board meeting held Aug. 7. If there were 20 cases per 10,000 residents, the state would recommend a distance-only model. The school board decided students in all grades will rotate in the classroom two days a week Monday through Thursday. Board members expressed how
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The FBIs most wanted roamed the streets and rented cottages in this 1930s crime resort BY MATT MCMILLAN
Before prohibition-era gangster Ma Barker died in a hail of thousands of bullets during a 1935 shootout with the FBI in Florida, she and her gang sometimes hung their Tommy Guns in White Bear Lake, Mahtomedi, Dellwood, Shoreview, Idylwild and Forest Lake. But why take a powder here? And, where? “White Bear’s Notorius Gangsters” program plans to put a local fi nger on the likes of Ma Barker, Baby Face Nelson and Alvin “Creepy” Karpis. The wingding is from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24 and hosted by the White Bear Lake Historical Society and Ramsey County Library. No need to scram on over, it is a virtual event. RSVP at: whitebearhistory.org/event/white-bearsnotorious-gangsters/ It was said gangsters laid low while they were visiting here from Chicago, Kansas City and other places because of a deal with John O’Connor, police chief of St. Paul. “Hey guys, you come to St. Paul, you give some nice donations to the police federation and we will not bother you,” was the copper’s quote according to author Bob Koblas. Koblas wrote “Ma, The Life and Times of Ma Barker and Her Boys.” However, the Barker gang didn’t stop robbing, kidnapping and bumping off those who got in their way once they arrived here from the Ozarks. The gang included Ma, four sons Herman, Lloyd, Doc and Fred, and Alvin “Creepy” Karpis among others.
Alvin “Creepy” Karpis
Baby Face Nelson
Besides robbing the Third Northwestern National Bank in Minneapolis for more than $100,000, a payroll in St. Paul, a bank in North Dakota and perhaps a bank in Cambridge, Minn., The Barker/Karpis gang kidnapped William Hamm of Hamm’s Brewing and Edward Bremer of the Commercial State Bank and whose family owned Schmidt Brewery. Those two kidnappings added another $300,000 to the nest egg. Although, loot may have been divvied up to Chicago connections. In between jobs, the gang used an alias and hid out renting cottages in-and-around White Bear Lake including Wildwood, Bald Eagle, hotel rooms at the Marsh Hotel in Forest Lake, Dick’s Inn in Mahtomedi, and reportedly ran a dance hall known as Paradise Park near Snail Lake now part of Gospel Hill Camp. The heat after the kidnappings was on. “Creepy” Karpis was made public enemy No. 1. The gang needed to blow town. Ma went to Miami, then a little north to another lake house on Lake Weir by Ocklawaha, Fla. Others went to Cuba to try to launder the kidnapping money, which was marked. Ma and Fred put on their “Chicago overcoats” (coffins) at the Lake Weir house after a four-hour shootout with the FBI. The Barker gang was just one of the names visiting this 1930s “crime resort.” Those wanting to know the inside story of hangouts such as the Plantation night club (now Lion’s Park) and gangsters the likes of Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly, Bugs Moran and others can wise up and reserve a spot on this virtual tour. Keep the fin in your pocket. It is free. Just RSVP.
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