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GRANT CITY COUNCIL: Members squabble over seating, are re-establishing Planning Commission PAGE 8A
City, school board election results
White Bear Lake: Two seats decided by few dozen votes
Mahtomedi: Incumbents survive challenges
District 624: 3 newcomers to join school board
A political communicator and a firefighter are joining the White Bear Lake City Council. Bill Walsh was elected to the Ward 1 seat and will replace Renee Tessier, who did not seek re-election. Steven Engstran won the Ward 5 seat and will succeed Bryan Belisle, who also did not seek re-election. Dan Jones was re-elected to his Ward 3 seat. Walsh is the director of public affairs for the Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus and a leader at St. Mary of the Lake Church. Engstran is a White Bear Lake firefighter, part-time White Bear Lake police and fire 911 dispatcher and a warehouse supervisor. All candidates received fewer than 200 votes. Engstram defeated his challenger by 15 votes and Walsh beat his challenger by 36 votes. Turnout in the city was 9 percent. Ward 1 had the highest turnout of 12 percent.
Mayor Judson Marshall and councilmen Richard Brainerd and Timothy Deans were re-elected. They defeated challengers by large margins. The threeterm mayor survived challenges from the city's former fire chief and a former Planning Commission member. Four people ran for two open council seats and the two incumbents persevered. Almost twice as many residents of the northern part of the city turned out to the polls than their neighbors on the south end of town. Turnout in Precinct 1 was 30 percent while turnout in Precinct 2 was 18 percent.
Two former teachers and a current educator were elected to the White Bear Lake District 624 School Board. Ellen Fahey, Marge Newmaster and Scott Wilson were the top vote-getters. They will replace Chris Hiniker, Cathy Storey and Lori Swanson, who all decided to retire. Fahey is a recently retired teacher who most recently taught at Sunrise Park Middle School. Newmaster is the media specialist at North Campus and previously also taught German. Wilson taught eighth-grade science in Fridley before retiring last year. There was a slate of six candidates, after a primary held in August narrowed it from 10. Less than 1 percent of registered voters turned out for the primary. For the general election, turnout was 10 percent.
White Bear Lake City Council Ward 1 Dan Louismet: 136, 44% Bill Walsh: 172, 55% White Bear Lake City Council Ward 3 Dan Jones: 177, 98% White Bear Lake City Council Ward 5 Steven Engstran: 158, 52% Jim Berry: 143, 37%
Mahtomedi mayor Bill Coleman: 396, 30% Judson Marshall: 637, 48% Todd Rogers: 298, 22% Mahtomedi City Council Chris Belflower: 375, 17% Richard Brainerd: 779, 36% Tim Deans: 690, 32% Richard Geier: 327, 15%
District 624 School Board Ellen Fahey: 1,512, 23% Marge Newmaster: 1,275, 19% Nathan Nelson: 671, 10% Bob Shevik: 1,011, 15% Leslie Sieleni: 813, 12% Scott Wilson: 1,294, 20% Complied by Kristine Goodrich
The fountain of youth must be on 4th Street BY DEBRA NEUTKENS REGIONAL EDITOR
During her time in the service, Rose Bayuk crossed the Atlantic Ocean 26 times. The WWII Army nurse worked on a hospital ship called the USAHS Thistle that shuttled troops back and forth to Europe. Return trips carried the casualties of war, filling the ship's 454 beds. Her memory fully intact, the veteran of the Great War reminisced about those days during her 100th birthday party Nov. 2 at the Best Western Country Inn. Bayuk's son Mark threw the bash for Rose, complete with a Chinese lion dance and a surprise visit from the mayor, who proclaimed Nov. 2 as Rose Bayuk Day in the city of White Bear Lake. The diminutive centenarian has
vivid recollections of her life on the ship and the patients she attended. On one return trip, she was checking on a soldier in a top bunk when a "beautiful young man" in the bunk below tugged at her slacks. "He was calling for his mother," she recalled. "When I turned to him, he died right then and there." They were both nurses and social workers, Bayuk said. "We listened to their problems as much as we treated their wounds. Many didn't know what they were going back to because they got Dear John letters while overseas." The hospital ship went to northern Africa, Italy, France and England. It cruised without escort, carried no fire power and was "lit up like a Christmas tree at night," Bayuk said. The ship, like other medical carriers, was considered neutral and never attacked. SEE WWII VET, PAGE 9A
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World War II veteran Rose Bayuk received a banner of Good Fortune Nov. 2 during her 100th birthday celebration. At right, a young Bayuk is pictured during her days as an Army nurse on the hospital ship Thistle.
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