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St. Cloud doctor to speak on hip/knee replacement
At 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 10 at the District Service Center, 212 3rd Ave. N., Sartell, Dr. Mulder from the St. Cloud Orthopedic clinic, who specializes in hip and knee replacement, will guide listeners through the process that occurs after someone has been told they need a hip or knee replacement. The presentation is open to all ages, and refreshments will be served.
District Service Center hosts St. Patrick’s Day potluck
At 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 13 at the District Service Center, 212 3rd Ave. N., Sartell, the Sartell Senior Connection will host a St. Patrick’s themed potluck. The community will have the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the many programs Sartell Senior Connection offers while enjoying an array of delicious homemade cooking.
Daylight Saving Time begins
Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday, March 8 at 2 a.m. Clocks should be moved forward one hour, giving us more daylight in the evening, and less in the morning. Cable boxes, computers, cell phones and other high-tech devices will likely spring forward without you having to do a thing. Other clocks will need to be manually adjusted.
Volunteers needed for Faith in Action
Rural Stearns Faith in Action is looking for volunteers in the St. Joseph and rural Stearns County areas. Volunteers perform tasks such as transportation, housekeeping, simple home repairs, friendly visiting, chores and respite care for older adults to help keep them in their homes as long as safely possible. Call Mary Rademacher at Assumption Community at 320348-2316 or e-mail her at rademacher.mary@assumptionhome. com for more information.
March is Food Share Month
March is Food Share Month in Minnesota where donations are matched during the month. During this time of economic distress, many area families are using local food shelves more than ever before. Consider leveraging the match by running a food drive within your work place, church or service club and donate to your local food shelf. For more information, head to thenewsleaders. com, and click on Criers.
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Seven members of the Sartell Sabres swim-and-dive team are now competing at state. Pictured at their section 3A win are, left to right: Spencer Sathre; Cole Schroers; Dawson Coleman; Sam Fandel; William Bachman; Tyler Kadlec; Jacob Schumacher; Brannon Bjork; Mack Sathre; Isaac Stark; Spencer Terhaar; Zach Weiler; Blake Tunnell; Erik Skoe; Seth Jenkins; Jake Martin; Caleb Grosz; Mitchell Dockendorf; Chad Peichel; Bryan Sanchez; Jack Saxton; and, Dylan Plemel.
The Sartell Sabre boys’ diveand-swim team won the section 3A meet Feb. 28, and seven of its members are now competing in 10 events at the statewide tournament at the University of Minnesota Aquatics Center. The state meet began Thursday, March 5 and will continue through Saturday, March 7. At the district meet in Sauk Rapids, the Sabres scored an impressive 527 in overall points, which is 144 points more than second-place Monticello. Hutchinson was third with 343 points, followed by Dassel-Cokato/Litchfield, Sauk Rapids, Montevideo, Cold Spring Rocori, Willmar and St. Cloud Apollo. Time after time, the Sabres excelled at the Sauk Rapids sectional meet, taking many firsts. The following are highlights: Three first-place wins for Sabre relay teams: the 200-yard freestyle (Mitchell Dockendorf, Swim • page 8
Phase I of Pinecone Road improvements advances by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
Only two months into the new year, the Sartell City Council has already taken decisive steps toward two major, long-anticipated projects – Pinecone Road improvements and plans for a community center. (For more on the architectural firm for the center, see related story in today’s paper.) At the last city council meeting, members received detailed
plans for Phase I of Pinecone Road. The updates were presented by Sartell City Planner/ Developer Anita Rasmussen and Sartell City Engineer Mike Nielson. What’s scheduled for this year is a concrete resurfacing of Pinecone Road from 2nd Street S. to just south of 7th Street N. There will be right-hand turn lanes leading out of Pine Meadow Elementary School and another leading into the Bernick’s Arena area.
O’Brien happy for comm-ed support by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
What Kris O’Brien likes best about being the new community-education director is that she has seen from the get-go how O’Brien people in Sartell support the program and how they welcome its constant growth. O’Brien was named director of the Sartell-St. Stephen Community Education Program last July. Recently, she introduced herself to the Sartell City Council and
presented a brief update of the program’s summer-recreation activities. Last summer, there were 3,000 participants in the summerrec programs, and of that number, 2,000 of them participated just once for the first time. The others, about 1,000, take part in more than one of the recreation programs or are re-taking programs they took the summer before. There were more than 60 placements for summer jobs via community education, including parttime college students, high school students, adults and many volunteers who work with the children as supervisors or coaches. There is also a program that allows volunComm-ed • page 5
Another part of Phase I will be to install roundabouts at Scout Drive, Heritage Drive and 2nd Street S. Council members expressed strong approval of concrete (as opposed to bituminous) paving because concrete is know to last about 30 years, about 10 years longer than bituminous. Also in 2015 will be studies as to what will “fit” into the future, such as how LeSauk Drive and Dehler Drive will tie into CR 1. Many of the projects for the years
2016 and 2017 are co-dependent on county-road projects that haven’t been decided yet. There have been complaints about too many roundabouts, some council members noted. Engineer Mike Nielson acknowledged that fact but added that the nine roundabouts on Pinecone Road people have talked about were tentative solutions. In 20 or 30 years, depending on traffic patterns, there may have to be solutions at intersections Phase 1 • page 3
Ink ran dry at Annie Jr.
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Kylah Corcoran (left), a 7th-grader from Sartell Middle School, signed the program for a young fan last weekend after a performance of the musical Annie Jr. at the high school auditorium. Corcoran was part of the chorus in the musical.
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People B r o o k Eibensteiner of Sartell, daughter of Jennifer Romastad, will participate in the National Young Leaders State Conference March 12-15 in Chicago. Students are nominated by teachers and guidance counselors based on their academic performance and leadership potential. Eibensteiner, a 6th-grader, served on the student council, had the lead role in this year’s 6th-grade play, plays for the Sartell traveling basketball team, and enjoys writing.
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The Sartell White fourth-grade boys’ basketball team went 3-0 to win their division at the Braham Bombers Annual Basketball Tourney Jan. 25. Team members are (front row, left to right) Drew Geiger, Kaden Brook, Luke Ambrosier; and (back row) Logan Legatt, Kelechi Nwachukwu, Anthony Mahowald, Cole Hentges, Alec Martins. Not pictured: Nick Stone.
Carl Minnerath, son of Dale and Silvia Minnerath of Sartell, took part in a Habitat for Humanity home build in Palm Bay, Fla. over spring break. The students did typical construction work, such as framing, roofing, siding and drywall from Feb. 20-28. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit Christian housing ministry that uses voluntary labor to builds and renovate houses around the world for people in need.
Minnesota Optometric Association elects Dr. Nicholas Colatrella President of Board The Minnesota Optometric Association elected Dr. Nicholas Colatrella as president of its board of trustees at the Colatrella association’s recent annual meeting. Colatrella owns PineCone Vi-
sion Center, Sartell, where he is medical director. Colatrella was most recently president-elect of the MOA Board of Trustees and has twice been named Young Optometrist of the Year. He has been active both in community and MOA outreach efforts and has led the MOA Professional Education Committee. He is an honors graduate of the
Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago and completed a hospital residency in ocular disease. He is a nationally recognized lecturer and is a published author on the topics of LASIK surgery, cataracts, glaucoma, dry eye and corneal diseases. Colatrella and his wife, Dr. Stacy Hinkemeyer, live in Sartell with their two children.
St. Cloud Orthopedics to launch same-day urgent injury care Beginning March 9, St. Cloud Orthopedics in Sartell, will begin offering OrthoDirect, a same-day and walk-in care program for urgent orthopedic injuries, like broken or fractured bones, dislocated joints and athletic sprains. This fast access allows the patient to begin recovering sooner and get the specialty care they need as soon after an injury as possible. “The sooner a personalized treatment plan is put in place, the sooner the individual can manage his or her pain, begin healing properly, and move on to any needed rehabilitation therapy,” said St. Cloud Orthopedics Administrator, Bill Worzala. OrthoDirect officially opens
March 9. Walk-in care and sameday appointments will be available in the St. Cloud Orthopedics clinic in Sartell from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Patients can either call 320-257-STAT to schedule an appointment, or may walk-in and wait to be seen by the next available specialist. St. Cloud Orthopedics has been providing specialty orthopedic care in Central Minnesota for 60 years. In addition to OrthoDirect, St. Cloud Orthopedics also offers physical therapy services, athletic training and sports medicine through their Sports Center. Learn more at their website, stcloudorthopedics.com.
If any readers have tips concerning crimes, they should call the Sartell Police Department at 320-2518186 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at 320-255-1301 or access its tip site at www.tricountycrimestoppers. org. Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for crimes.
Feb. 19 9:40 p.m. Stalled vehicle. Riverside Avenue. While on patrol, an officer located a stalled vehicle on the roadway. The driver stated she ran out of gas. The driver had a revoked license and was unable to provide insurance information. She was issued a citation for both violations and released to a valid driver.
Feb. 18 12:41 p.m. Traffic stop. Riverside Avenue. A vehicle was witnessed traveling 48 mph in a 30 mph zone. The driver stated she was unaware of her speed. She was issued a citation and released. 8:28 p.m. Theft. Walmart. An adult male was witnessed attempting to leave the store with unpaid merchandise. The male was located and admitted to the theft. He was issued a citation and released.
Feb. 20 11:07 a.m. Personal assist. 7th Avenue S. An adult male requested assistance in lifting an adult female from the tub. The female stated she needed no medical attention but was unable to stand up on her own.
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Phase 1 HMA Architects to design community center from front page along Pinecone Road, but that does not mean there will necessarily be nine roundabouts, he noted. The three roundabouts planned for Phase I, Nielson said, will enhance safety, make possible a smoother flow of traffic and increase fuel efficiency by not making vehicles wait idling at the intersections. The chance of pedestrian injuries will also be diminished, he added. City Planner Rasmussen gave accident statistics for the three intersections for the last three years: at 2nd Street S., 33 accidents; at Heritage Drive, 12; at Scout Drive, 3. The first two (2nd and Heritage) are above the state’s standard’s “criticalcrash rate,” Nielson noted. The roundabout at 2nd Street S. has been the topic of concern because of all the bustling businesses located at that intersection. Nielson said that roundabout will likely take about six to eight weeks to complete but that accesses to businesses should be open at least half that time one way or another. The council will receive more detailed plans about Phase I Pinecone Road improvements (and other future projects on that road) in the near future, Nielson said. The council will review all those plans before any bids are awarded. The project will also be the subject of a public hearing, to be announced. Precise cost estimates will also be presented and then considered for approval by the council
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An architectural firm has been chosen to design a Sartell Community Center. The Sartell City Council Mack at its last meeting unanimously selected the St. Cloud-based HMA Architects. Earlier, the council had interviewed two bidders for the job – HMA and GLT Architects. The final selection, council members agreed, was very difficult because both firms gave excellent presentations to the council.
HMA, they agreed, had a slight edge because it has worked with the City of Sartell so successfully currently and in the past and has designed so many other buildings in the Sartell area. A community center, long on Sartell residents’ wish lists, is expected to be built starting as early as the spring of 2016. The city has earmarked $1.6 million in sales-tax revenue for a center, and more sales-tax funds for the center could well become available because area voters approved an extension of the regional half-cent sales-tax to 2028. Before the architectural design process even begins, HMA will consult with the council, city staff and residents to get a
firm grasp of what they want the facility to contain and where they want it built. An orderly schedule has been approved for every step of that process so that by the end of 2015, all involved should have a clearcut vision of the center, which HRA can then translate into an attractive and functional design. HMA stands for Hagemeister and Mack Architects. Murray A. Mack was the principal founder of the firm in 1988 and is now the company’s sole owner. A co-founder with Mack, Richard Hagemeister, retired in 1993. HMA has a staff of nine people. HMA is an award-winning architectural firm well known for its creative, innovative buildings for a wide variety of purposes: offices, medical
facilities, governmental buildings, entertainment-recreational venues, apartment complexes and churches. Some of the HMA-designed buildings in Sartell include First United Methodist Church, Grandview Estates, the ProSource office complex, the SilverCrest Office and Training Complex, the Regional Diagnostic and Vein Center and Sartell Pediatrics, which won a major award for its innovative retro-fitting in what used to be a bank and then a bar. Other notable buildings in the greater St. Cloud area designed by HMA are the Herb Brooks Hockey Arena, the River’s Edge Convention Center and the Rejuv Medical Center in Waite Park.
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Expert angler to share tips at talk by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
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Expert angler and fishing guide Stephan Scepaniak holds a 54-inch muskie he caught last October on Lake Mille Lacs. He nabbed it during a full-moon phase while using a Salmo crankbait lure just 200 feet from Hwy. 169.
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Anglers become green with envy when they hear about the magnificent lunkers Stephan Scepaniak landed in his years of fishing, mainly on Lake Mille Lacs but also elsewhere. In the past couple decades, he’s caught more than 129 northern pike, all exceeding 20 pounds, and he’s reeled in at least 1,000 muskies, all more than 45-inches long. As a guest of the Sartell Senior Connection, this master fisherman will give a free talk – open to all residents of any age – at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 16 at the District Service Center in Sartell (the old school building). Its address is 212 3rd Ave. N., near the DeZurik valve plant. If Scepaniak includes catches made by his clients, the number of muskies and pike increases to many thousands. What sounds like a fisherman’s fantasy is a fact, and Scepaniak has photos and documentation to prove it. Scepaniak is the owner of Predator Guide Service of Mille Lacs. He’s been a passionate angler and fishing guide for 30 years on that vast lake, where he lives for six months out of every year. He and his wife, Christine, spend the other six months in Waite Park, where he grew up. Scepaniak was the first muskie guide on Lake Mille Lacs, and he is respected widely as being one of the best guides in the business. He has been featured twice in Field and Stream and once in Outdoor Life. His clients come from as far away as France and China, Russia and Poland, as well as every state in the nation.
Successful fishing, as Scepaniak well knows, is a mixture of luck and skill – but mainly a lifetime of knowledge and acquired skills. And he is more than willing to share a knowledge of those skills with others – thus, his guide work. “I’d rather be lucky than good (at fishing skills),” Scepaniak said in an interview with the Newsleader. “You can know all the stuff you want, but that still doesn’t make the fish bite. Really, only the good Lord can make those fish bite.” Still, knowledge and knowhow are big helps, he added. It helps to know, on any given day, the barometric pressure, weather patterns and weather fronts moving in. All affect fishes’ inclination to feed. Even the phases of the moon will affect fish, he added. Familiarity with the lake is, of course, a prerequisite. What about bait? “It’s like a cheap date,” he said, grinning. “I use whatever works. Bait depends on the season, mainly.” Seasonal factors are also very important as fish live in different places in the lake in different seasons. “Just last spring, on fishing opener, we caught big muskies in two to three feet of water on Mille Lacs,” he said. “That was spring. Later, the fish move to other parts of the lake.” Scepaniak, unlike some anglers, has not developed any good-luck charm superstitions, such as wearing one particular item of clothing or a certain color of socks when fishing. He does, however, always avoid wearing bright colors, donning neutral or earthtone colors of clothing. Fish, he said, can definitely see up
through the water at people sitting or standing in a boat. “Muskies will stare right at you,” he said. Scepaniak vividly remembers how a giant muskie’s stare caused one of his fishing clients to faint dead away, literally, flat down to the bottom of a boat. It happened during a fall day on Mille Lacs. The client was instantly stunned, as if he’d just come face-toface with Jaws or a slightly smaller version of Moby Dick. “That guy took one look at that fish and then keeled over,” Scepaniak recalled. “We thought he had a heart attack. The muskie was at least 63 inches long. That fish followed the lure right to the boat. The guy had never seen a fish that big, and he fainted just like that. Fishing to Scepaniak is practically a genetic inheritance – a happy one. He still clearly remembers the first fish he caught when he was a tyke, fishing on Pelican Lake near Avon with his father, Leo. “I caught a sunfish, and I remember how fun it was,” he said. Scepaniak was hooked. That sense of fun he later passed on to his own family. His wife loves to fish; so do their three children, now grown and successful. “All of them grew up fishing since they were 2 years old,” he said. “They were walking in the woods with me since they were 3.” For years, Scepaniak’s clients, their children and grandchildren have also caught the fishing bug, and they become excited every season, still, dreaming about that prized elusive lunker they just might catch.
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teer teenagers to work with their peers or younger children. “I want to continue our partnership with the city,” O’Brien told the council. Of course, community-recreation for Sartell and St. Stephen is comprised of far more than summer-rec youth programs. There are also recreation programs, some year-round, for adults and senior citizens. There are a staggering variety of enrichment classes to learn skills, hobbies and other kinds of information. In addition, community educa-
tion offers Early Childhood Family Education classes, as well as a pre-school program called Kids’ Connection. “We have lots of partnerships,” O’Brien noted. “There are 10 teachers in our pre-school program and 10 paraprofessionals in the pre-school and early-childhood program.” The Sartell-St. Stephen Community Education Program is far larger than O’Brien at first imagined. “It’s a challenge,” she said last week during an interview with the Sartell Newsleader. “But it’s very exciting to be part of it. This community is so open to growth. It feels good to know there is support for growing programs and
Do police officers have ‘quotas’ for tickets? Q: I was talking with a friend the other day and the topic of “quotas” came up. He told me cops have to write a certain amount of tickets each month otherwise they get in trouble. He also said this is why you see so many more out on the streets and highways at the end of the month trying to get their numbers in. Is this true? A: No, traffic citation quotas are prohibited in Minnesota. State Statute 169.985 says, “A law enforcement agency may not order, mandate, require or suggest to a peace officer a quota for the issuance of traffic citations, including administrative citations authorized under sec-
tion 169.999, on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly basis.” Through education and enforcement, the Minnesota State Patrol strives to reduce fatalities and injuries on our roads. Illegal or unsafe speed is a leading contributing factor in Minnesota’s fatal crashes — accounting for at least 80 deaths annually. Twothirds of those deaths occur on rural, two-lane roads in Minnesota and young adults are the most common offenders and those at greatest risk. Speeding is not an innocent crime — it puts every motorist at risk on the road: Greater potential for loss of vehicle control. Increased stopping distance.
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new programs.” Born and raised in Mankato, O’Brien has lived in Kimball for 15 years. She has been a physical education teacher at Kimball High School, as well as that city’s community-education director. O’Brien has a bachelor’s degree in K-12 physical education and an education director’s license. She and her husband, Sean, have three daughters who attend school in Kimball – Erin, 8th grade; Caitlin, 10th grade; and Madelyn, 12th grade. Sean is a sales representative for Fed Ex. When she’s not busy with her job, O’Brien loves to spend a lot of time watching her children play volleyball and basketball. One of her favorite hobbies is golfing.
Slower response time to avoid crashes. Increased crash severity — the faster the speed, the more violent the crash. Lack of seat-belt use also plays a significant role in contributing to driver and passenger deaths. About half of the motorists killed in Minnesota are not buckled up. To keep you and your loved ones safe: Drive the speed limit, buckle up, pay attention, and never drink and drive. A portion of state statutes were used with permission from the Office of the Revisor of Statutes. If you have any questions concerning traffic related laws or issues in Minnesota, send your questions to Trp. Jesse Grabow – Minnesota State Patrol at 1000 Highway 10 W., Detroit Lakes, MN 56501-2205. (You can follow him on Twitter @MSPPIO_NW or reach him at, jesse.grabow@ state.mn.us).
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Opinion Our View Architectural firm Senseless rampage extends to artifacts good step for center
At several open forum sessions at Sartell city council meetings in the past couple of months, residents have stepped up to the podium to urge the council to build a community center and stop the delays that have occurred for so many years. We cannot blame those residents. For nearly 15 years, a community center was a number-one priority by residents and councils and yet, somehow, very little or no forward movement occurred. However, not to worry. This council and its mayor are passionately committed to building a community center, and the proof is in the pudding. The step-by-step schedule and time frame approved a few months ago is moving right along, and there is no doubt at all that a center will be built, starting in 2016. Most of the residents who spoke at open forum meetings, urging the council to move swiftly on plans for a center, were members of the Sartell Senior Connection, the city’s senior-citizen group. They want the council to reassure them there will be spacious quarters for their group within a community center. We certainly hope community-center planners make certain the facility will include a senior center. That is because in the seven years since it began, the Sartell Senior Connection has hosted an astonishing variety of activities, meetings, games, arts-and-crafts sessions, guest speakers, day trips, educational sessions, entertainment, and more. The group even developed its own lending library stocked with excellent donated used books. If any group deserves prime placement in a community center, it is that excellent, thriving group of seniors. And we have no doubt the council doesn’t need convincing because its member thinks so, too. So far, the seniors have been meeting on school-district property. They had to move several years ago from a previous place in the District Service Building because of a major remodeling project. The group meets in another part of that building, which is adequate for now, but there is no doubt that space will, too, be needed for school uses in the not-too-distant future. Other groups, besides the seniors, will also make their needs and wants known to the community-center task force and to the council. It is a pleasure to hear residents, like Sartell’s seniors, address the council about a community center. Their sense of urgency, their excitement, is palpable as they become convinced that, yes indeed, a center will become a reality fairly soon. The one fear, as one resident said at a council meeting, is that the center might turn out to be too small, with no way to expand. We hope that doesn’t happen. The council must commit to spending enough regional salestax money to make it a more-than-adequate facility, and we have no reason to believe the council won’t do just that. In the meantime, another good step among recent steps toward progress is the appointment of HMA Architects to help plan and design the center. That architectural firm, based in St. Cloud, has created outstanding, functional, beautiful structures of all kinds in Sartell and in the greater St. Cloud area. The council made a wise decision in hiring HMA because now we can all be assured of a superb – and beautifully designed – Sartell Community Center.
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Every thug, every invader, every dictator knows smashing culture goes hand in hand with butchering people. And this is exactly what ISIS is now doing. Along with their mass killings, their abductions and rapes, their beheadings, their torching people alive, their unspeakably cruel rampage now extends to history and culture. Their latest stomach-churning video depicts a wrecking crew of ISIS maniacs in an antiquities museum in Mosul, Iraq. Wielding sledgehammers, the video shows these culture-killers toppling ancient statues from museum pedestals, then smashing them with repeated blows of their sledgehammers. The statues they could not pound to rubble and dust with their hammers they destroyed by using power drills. At an archaeological site near the museum, the destroyers worked as energetically as demons to drill and smash into chunks a massive, magnificent Assyrian winged-bull deity that is 3,000 years old. Their ferocity against the stone artifacts is sickening to watch not just because it is such a senseless attack against a cultural heritage but because it is all too easy to imagine the same ferocity used against flesh-and-blood human beings. An ISIS narrator on the video explains that the artifacts are false idols that must be smashed. Orders from God. Before their assault at the museum, the militants attacked the Mosul Public Library, where they removed books to be burned, then set off bombs, destroying thousands of books and rare manuscripts. They have also let loose their violent attacks against other libraries, mosques of the “heretics” and other “ungodly” works of ancient art. Ironically, these vicious plunderers, these haters of all things civilized, are
Dennis Dalman Editor doing their dirty work in the “Cradle of Civilization,” the ancient area near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Throughout history, there has always been a thin line between civilization and barbarity, between lightness and dark, between enlightened tolerance and blind intolerance. It’s astonishing how many worldwide artifacts have lasted, considering how many waves of barbarians have smashed their way through their plundering invasions. Hitler’s regime hosted book-burnings and confiscated or destroyed what was considered decadent, degenerate works of modern art. In Cambodia, Pol Pot’s sadistic Khmer Rouge members smashed every trace they could find of “corrupt” Western culture and even tortured and murdered anybody who wore eyeglasses (a sign to them of Western weakness). During their self-proclaimed Cultural Revolution, Maoist communists indulged in scavenger hunts, rooting out and destroying cultural artifacts they deemed politically unacceptable. The Taliban gleefully used ancient carved cliff Buddhas as target practice for their mortar rounds. Those are just a few recent examples of tyrants trying to erase history and culture. Like all fools, they thought – they think – that by destroying artifacts they can simultaneously kill the ideas or beliefs that go along with the artifacts. Invaders have long known that to undermine their victims, it’s necessary to
damage or destroy their culture, which is the foundation of identity. Once identify is undermined, the cultural-social bonds come undone. Thus, to the victor the spoils. But not for long. Not forever. Those who think they can kill ideas they don’t like might as well try to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. All this hideous killing and culture-wrecking indicates just how insecure these destroyers are about their own belief systems. The more their doubts surface, the more insecure they become and the more they plunder, smash and kill. Their murderous selfrighteousness stems from inner fears and quaking uncertainties. Do they really believe they will be welcomed with open arms into heaven for their heinous rampages in the here and now? It’s more likely dancing devils and flickering flames will greet them. People who are confident in themselves and their belief systems do not indulge in destructive rampages or violence against people or artifacts. It’s only baseless egotistical monsters who actually think they can remake the entire world in their own image. To do so, they would have to kill everybody and destroy everything that is not “them,” which means, of course, they will end up with nothing at all except for the flimsy shadows of their own baseless egos, the empty outcome of their own ruthless behavior. You’d think after thousands of years of history, fools would learn those lessons. But terrorists, daring to invoke “religion,” keep trying to conquer the world when they haven’t even mastered themselves. Thus, they try to underline their “causes” by plundering, smashing and killing, and that is why they always end up – fortunately – causing their own destruction.
This mess is not going to fix itself Lois Lerner and John Koskinen of the IRS could be in serious trouble. Investigators have found some 32,000 missing e-mails which were reported to a congressional committee as irretrievably lost. “Hard drive crash, erased, gone forever,” those kinds of reasons and excuses. Well, as anyone with a modicum of knowledge of computers knows, emails are never gone forever. They are always somewhere. You just have to find them; and they did. Time will tell what is contained in those emails, but it will probably not be good news for Lerner and Koskinen or their unnamed coconspirators. Criminal charges and penalties are a very real possibility regardless of how high up it goes. The University of Minnesota has decided, in its politically correct wisdom, that persons suspected of crimes at the school cannot be identified by their race. They claim it would further stereotype young black men. I wonder if they can be identified by gender. Isn’t that also stereotyping? Be on the lookout for someone somewhere who may or may not have committed a crime/misdemeanor/indiscretion. The individual could be dangerous. That should make it easy to find them. A federal judge in Texas has stayed the Obama amnesty order. Twenty-six states have sued to stop the amnesty order and a federal judge in Texas has given them temporary relief. Of course the administration has fought back and filed an appeal.
Ron Scarbro Guest Writer
The best estimate is that it will take some two years to get to court to decide on the legality of the order, because no doubt the Supreme Court will ultimately have to rule. By then Obama will be gone and his order will be basically invalid. Presidents need to understand that they have to obey the law just like everyone else. Presidents don’t make laws; their job is to see that the laws are faithfully enforced. Congress makes the laws. It’s written in the Constitution. Perhaps the president should read the document sometime. Do you think the Department of Homeland Security won’t be funded? Do you think federal workers will work and not receive paychecks? Me neither. The silly little games our elected representatives play is really getting tiresome. How about that Keystone Pipeline? The president has vetoed the bill which was overwhelmingly approved by both Houses of Congress in a bipartisan vote. The bill will now be reheard as Congress tries to override the veto. Every single individual
who fails to vote with the majority and override this veto will have to find a new job after the next election. The American people are not going to look too kindly on elected representatives who defy the will of the people. Warren Buffett and his railroad will find something else besides oil to carry. Buffett, as always, will land on his feet. So, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin doesn’t have a college degree. I have personally known hundreds of people with advanced degrees from prestigious universities who could not shine Walker’s shoes. For the most part, college degrees are highly overrated and definitely overpriced. Many colleges and universities have become nothing more than liberal laboratories. I’d prefer real-world experience. We have serious problems in the world today. Contrary to what Secretary of State John Kerry recently said, we are not safer than we have been in years. We need serious people who have their heads in the game, not in the sand. We need to be ready to face headlong those whose only reason for living is to eliminate us. This mess is not going to fix itself. Scarbro is retired and spends most of his free time with his grandchildren having moved from Sartell to St. Simons Island, Ga.. Writing and commenting on the news of the day is a pastime. Visit his weekly blog at ronscarbro.blogspot.com for more commentary.
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Swim from front page Chad Peichel), the 200-yard medley (Dockendorf, Zach Weiler, Jake Martin, Peichel) and the 400-yard freestyle (Dockendorf, Spencer Sathre). First place in the 200-yard freestyle (Sathre). First place in the 500-yard freestyle (Sathre). First place in the 100-yard backstroke (Dockendorf). First place in the 100-yard butterfly (Weiler). Second place in the 200-year individual medley (Dockendorf) Second place in the 100-yard breaststroke (Jacob Schumach-
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er). Third place in the 50-yard freestyle (Peichel). Third place in the 100-yard butterfly (Isaac Stark). Third place in the 100-yard breaststroke (Martin). Third place in the 200-yard individual medley (Weiler). At the state meet in Minneapolis, the defending champions in class A are the St. Thomas Academy Cadets of Mendota Heights. They have been the consecutive champs for the past three years and will compete in every event except for 1-meter diving, according to the Minnesota High School League’ website. Wayzata is the defending champ in class AA.
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