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Starwatch party set Oct. 18 at Sartell Community Center
The Sartell Senior Connection is proud to bring meterologist Mike Lynch of WCCO radio to Sartell for a Starwatch party from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18 at the new Sartell Community Center, 850 19th St. S. The event will start inside with a short presentation and then move outside to look at the night sky through Lynch’s impressive telescopes. Please bring a flashlight and lawn chair. Free and open to all ages.
Park Escape to be offered at Kraemer Lake-Wildwood
HIKEhoppers has scheduled Park Escape: Into the Woods from 9:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. starting every hour daily from Oct. 19-22 and Oct. 27-29 at Kraemer Lake-Wildwood, 29700-29832 Kipper Road, St Joseph. Park Escape is an innovative twist on the Escape Room trend that takes advantage of our local county parks to promote healthy communities. Participants engage in a physical adventure game, solving puzzles and riddles while hiking through our local parks. This event provides live action entertainment for all ages.
Cold-winter clothing sought by charities
Donations of coats, boots, weather-proof mittens, hats and scarves for all ages are needed for the cold winter months. Contact Anna Marie’s Alliance at 320-2536900; Catholic Charities at 320229-4560; CROSS Center in Foley at 320-968-7012; the Salvation Army at 320-252-4552; or Place of Hope at 320-203-7881.
Disaster relief need ongoing No rain on this parade for Hurricane Harvey victims by Cori Hilsgen news@thenewsleaders.com
Disaster-relief cleanup will be needed for years to come after Hurricane Harvey left many people devastated in Texas. Husband and wife Jim and Flo Kruse, and Vicki Ferkinhoff, members of the Park Fellowship Church in Sartell, recently returned from helping with the Texas disaster relief. The three left for Texas Sept. 10 and returned to St. Cloud Sept. 24. They are part of the Southern Baptist Conference Disaster Relief and are trained in volunteer disaster relief. The Southern Baptist Conference is the third largest disaster-relief organization in the United States, after the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross Disaster Relief. To help the hurricane victims,
Jim pulled a 30-foot heavy-duty shower/laundry trailer to Texas. The trailer had four shower stalls and two washers and dryers so they could also do laundry for people. The group spent most of their time in Katy, a suburb of Houston, and also helped in Nassau Bay, Texas. Many people’s homes that had survived the 50 inches of rain became flooded when reservoirs were opened to release water. “Thousands upon thousands of homes and businesses were affected,” Flo said. “It was kind of a two-fold disaster really,” Jim said. The volunteers saw empty schools, businesses, homes and streets after they had been damaged or completely destroyed. The three volunteers did Harvey • page 4
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Mady Bertsch, 12, throws a handful of candy to onlookers Oct. 6 during the Sartell Homecoming Parade. See back page for an additional photo.
Library locker system can now be used by Dennis Dalman editor@thenewsleaders.com
The drop-off/pick-up library service is now operational in the new Sartell Community Center, which opened unofficially Oct. 2. A grand opening for the center is expected to be announced soon. The locker system is known as the “Great River Regional Library System’s 2GO” – or GRRL2GO, for short. Inside the front door of the
center, just to the right, is a big box in which to put returned library items, such as books, movies or music discs. Then, inside an inner door, against the wall to the right is the locker system with a computerized ordering system. There are 44 lockers for the system, as well as a payment kiosk at which to pay fines for overdue items and to renew materials. People in Sartell can request materials online. The ordered materials will then be delivered to
Good Shepherd hosts pub crawl
Good Shepherd will host a Pub Crawl event Thursday, Oct. 26. This year’s theme is “Dancing Through the Decades” and will offer five different decades/ locations across campus, featuring a sample of an alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage and snack representative of each decade. Volunteers are being sought to escort residents through the crawl, stopping briefly at each station. Volunteers should be able to push a wheelchair and wear good walking shoes. A fun time full of laughs and smiles guaranteed. Volunteers will be needed from 9:30-11 a.m. on Oct. 26. A brief orientation will be provided.
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Above: This is a photo of Jace Josephson in happier days before his heart condition caused him to be on life support as he waits for a new heart. Inset: Connected to so many tubes and sometimes so uncomfortable, Jace is staying at the Mayo Clinic until a heart can be found to transplant into him. He nearly died when he stopped breathing while he was riding in his mother’s car on Hwy. 10 in Benton County. Seven first-responders will soon be honored by the county board for using their swift expertise in saving Jace’s life one day last August.
the lockers every Tuesday by staff from the St. Cloud-based Great River Regional Library System. Materials placed in the drop box will be picked up by GRRL staff Tuesdays through Fridays every week. The locker system, the first of its kind in the state, is a product of Bibliotheca + 3M. It is equipped with a touchscreen interface computer, and patrons can use the user-friendly screen to have real-time communications
with the GRRL library-management system. The library locker system will be open every day from 7 a.m.-9 p.m. during the Sartell center’s hours of operation. The City of Sartell is funding the locker system on a three-year trial basis to see if Sartell residents will like it and use it. The locker system is a compromise of sorts by the planners and designers of the Sartell c wenter. Locker • page 3
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pened shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15 when a 911 call was answered at the Benton County Sheriff’s Department. The frantic call was from Akasha Ness-Breitwieser, 22, saying her 18-month-old son Jace had stopped breathing. While traveling south on Hwy. 10 about four miles south of Rice, Ness-Breitwieser had stopped her car near the intersection of Little Rock Road NW. She told the dispatcher what was happening, including her efforts to administer CPR to the boy. Just about that time, a Rice firefighter, Blake Phenow, happened to be driving on Hwy. 10 in his personal vehicle when he Jace • page 2
Jace remains at Mayo, awaiting a new heart A dramatic saving of the life of an 18-month-old boy on Hwy. 10 in Benton County has been capturing people’s hearts and minds far and wide. For their quick and expert actions, seven first-responders will be honored at the Benton County Board meeting when it meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17 in Foley. In the meantime, the boy whose life was saved – Jace Josephson of Upsala – remains at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, where he is awaiting a heart transplant. The dramatic life-saving hap-
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Sartell Swarm Fastpitch 14U Fall Ball softball team took first place in the Tier 4 Fall Fastpitch state championships in Hutchinson. Team members include the following (front row, left to right): Alissa Ahrndt, Megan Driste, Mary Goebel, Maggie Kruse, Abbi Scholz, Julia Johnson and Kora Akervik; (back row) Coach Daryl Scholz, Ellie Tragai, Lauren DeZurik, Emma Arenson, Ellie Pallansch, Rylie DeMaine, Valeriya Woodard, Coach Tony Ahrndt, Grace Halvorson, Coach Kevin Kruse and Coach Dave Driste.
noticed a woman’s car stopped on the side of the road in the shoulder. Phenow stopped his car and quickly learned about the problem, and began rendering aid to the child. Minutes later, Minnesota State Trooper James Orlando arrived at the scene and began assisting with CPR. Shortly after Orlando’s arrival, Benton County Deputy Ron Thomas arrived. He also helped with CPR until Gold Cross Ambulance Service arrived. At that point, inside the ambulance, a team of Gold Cross paramedics went into action. They were Jason Jacobson, Nicholas Engler, Amanda Cherne and Natascha Hennen. While they were attending to Jace, his heart began to beat and he resumed breathing on his own. Jace was rushed to the St. Cloud Hospital, and he and his mother spent about eight hours there. Then he was transferred to Children’s Minnesota Hospital where doctors attempted
to stabilize his condition – a very serious medical condition known as hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, which Jace had been born with. The left side of his heart does not function well and so the right side has to do all the blood-pumping to the body, but that causes the right side to overextend itself to the point where it can stop beating. Jace’s mother was aware of the condition before Jace was born. After two week’s at Children’s Minnesota Hospital, Jace was transferred to the Mayo Clinic to await his transplant. “We almost lost him twice,” said his mother, adding Jace had gone into cardiac arrest eight times since the incident on Hwy. 10. He is now on a life-support machine, which aids his breathing. “Hopefully, he’ll get the breathing tube out soon,” Ness -Breitwieser said. “We’re struggling to keep his lungs open. He also has a lot of blood clots from the life-support machine, which I’ve been told is common.” Since the Mayo Clinic is three hours from Ness-Breitwieser’s home in Upsala, it’s difficult for her and her husband, Tim
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Acceleration Fastpitch 16U Fall Ball softball team recently won consolation championship, the team went 4-1 Sept. 24 in Minnetrista. Team members include the following (front row, left to right): Ava Williams, Rainna Stangle, Brooke Koelln, Emilie Houge, Kenzie Clark and Kami Dougherty; (back row) Coach Matt Dougherty, Coach Rod Houge, Delaney Capretz, Alayna Tavale, Kaylee Oehrlein, Brooke Corrigan and Coach Joe Stangle.
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If you have a tip concerning a crime, call the Sartell Police Department at 320-251-8186 or TriCounty Crime Stoppers at 320-2551301, 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 a crime. This information is submitted by the Sartell Police Department. For incidents dating Aug. 28-30, visit www.thenewsleaders.com. Aug. 31 8:35 p.m. Medical. Fourth Avenue N. Officers responded to a 5-year-old female with a history of seizures gasping for air and possi-
bly having a seizure. Upon officer arrival, the child was out of the seizure and was communicating with her mother. Officers monitored her condition until Gold Cross arrived on scene. Officers then assisted as necessary. 3:52 p.m. Assist agency. CR 120. An officer was dispatched to assist a Stearns County Deputy with a warrant arrest. The Sartell officer arrived on scene and stood by to ensure officer safety as the deputy placed the wanted party under arrest. The suspect was cooperative and was transported to Stearns County Jail by the deputy. Sept. 1 4:40 p.m. Stall. Second Street S./ CR 78. Officers were dispatched for
Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 Josephson, to be with their son during his care.
Help for family
A GoFundMe page, dubbed “Beatz For Jace,” has raised about $2,000 of the $15,000 goal set for the family. There is also a “Beats for Jace” Facebook page with updates on the boy’s medical condition and news about other fundraising events. “Anything helps, and everything is appreciated,” said Ness-Breitwieser of the fundraising efforts. “We’re holding up as best we can. If I could, I’d also just like to send a personal thank you to the emergency-room team and to all the strangers who stopped to help that day.” There will be a benefit for Jace and his family, with a silent auction at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21 in the “Tavern on the Avenue” in St. Paul. The name of the benefit is “Jace’s Journey for a New Heart.” The sports bar is located at 825 Jefferson Ave. For more information about “Jace’s Journey” and a map of the tavern’s location, google “Tavern on the Avenue, St. Paul, MN.”
a report of a vehicle that was stalled and blocking traffic. Officers arrived on scene and made contact with the driver of the vehicle. Through further investigation, officers learned the driver had a revoked license. The driver was cited for driving after revocation. Officers then provided emergency lighting until the vehicle was towed from the scene. 11:46 p.m. Dog complaint. Second Street N. An officer was dispatched for a report of a dog that had been barking for the past three hours. The officer arrived in the area and located the barking dog. The officer made contact with the owner of the dog and told him of the complaint. The owner apologized and stated he would place the dog inside the garage for the night.
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Locker from front page Before the center was planned and built, many residents in Sartell wanted and petitioned for a GRRL branch library. That led to a controversy when the council voted 3-2 to build the center in south Sartell in the Town Square development area. That site, according to GRRL guidelines, is too
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Stefen Roberts, who hails from Colorado and works for a Minneapolis installer, sets up the library-materials pick-up locker system Oct. 4 at the Sartell Community Center. The system is now up and running and ready for business.
Correction
In the Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader’s Tribute to Firefighters, which was a special insert section in the Oct. 6 newspaper, there was an error on the double spread (pages 6 and 7). Toward the bottom, above the row of box ads, it should have read this: “These Businesses Would Like to Salute the Sartell and St. Stephen Firefighters.” An inadvertent transposition during the production process caused “St. Joseph” to be in that line where “Sartell” should have been. The Newsleader regrets the error.
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close to the St. Cloud library and the Waite Park branch library and thus would not be a suitable place for a branch library. In addition, the three majority members of the council, including the mayor, decided a branch library would be just too expensive to start in Sartell. Sartell city representatives and the GRRL management agreed a drop-off/pick-up locker system at the new center would at least allow Sartell residents to have a handier access to library
3 materials in the GRRL system. The center also has many bookshelves filled with donated books that were moved to the center from the former Senior Citizen Center in the School District Office Building. Some city staff and council members consider those shelves of used and donated books a library, of sorts. The Sartell Senior Connection now has its new headquarters, along with its bookshelves, inside the center.
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The Park Fellowship Church volunteers saw many homes, businesses, schools, streets and more that were damaged as a result of Hurricane Harvey. People’s lives were reflected by the debris on the streets.
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relief to many people who put in numerous hours in incredibly hot and humid weather. Alongside the three volunteers, Red Cross workers fed people about 4,000 meals each day. Other volunteer workers worked with chainsaws, with chaplain services and much more. The volunteers slept on cots and sleeping bags in churches and gymnasiums. Men and women were in separate areas. Jim said everything was damaged by water. “It’s just surreal to see someone’s grand piano, their furniture, their photos and all their belongings just piled on the boulevard,” Jim said. “It is just so unbelievable.” Jim is certified by the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief to operate the shower trailer and to train other people to run the shower trailer. He is also trained to give emotional support to the
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Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 show genuine compassion, give encouragement and pray with them as well. To love others and (let them know) Christ loves them.” Jim described how some people had not yet been able to return to their homes. There was water in some of the reservoirs that had yet to be released. In most places, the water had receded, but some people about one-half mile down the street from where the three were volunteering were still using boats because of the flooding and the water that remained in their homes. “This was just one small area and the need will be ongoing for years,” Flo said. “It makes you realize in a moment it could be any of us.” “As of last week, there were 1.3 million cars that were destroyed in the Houston area that cannot be reused,” Jim said. “It’s bigger than Katrina and will take months for just the basic stuff and years for some normalcy.” The Katy location volunteers who were serving 4,000 meals each day to people in neighbor-
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Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 hoods are now serving 10,000 meals each day in that area alone. The meals are prepared by the Southern Baptist cooking crews and are distributed by the Red Cross. Flo compared it to grieving a death and explained how we generally give people six weeks to grieve a death and then assume they are fine. The problem is still down there, and it is very real. “Sometimes people think that with time it gets better, but the problem is people still need their houses cleaned out,” Flo said. The shower trailer remains in Texas. Jim had some truck transmission problems when they first arrived in Texas and the trailer also had some tire problems, but he said everything “miraculously” worked out. The trailer is being used by other people who are providing
more showers and laundry service to relief victims. Jim plans to pick up the trailer in late October. They said the Minnesota/Wisconsin Disaster Relief, which is located in Rochester, was incredibly organized. Before the group left for Texas, volunteer workers were coordinated by Dave and Jeanne Wedekind. The Wedekinds coordinate with FEMA and the Red Cross to determine what help is needed. “People shouldn’t just go down there and decide to be a volunteer,” Flo said. “It’s important to be trained and to be with an organization because otherwise it just creates difficulty. We didn’t go until we were sent and then when we were sent we had a place to stay.” Jim and Flo said they met so many wonderful volunteers. Many of them were retirees in
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Jim and Flo Kruse, husband and wife, and Vicki Ferkinhoff from Park Fellowship Church in Sartell recently returned from helping with the Texas Hurricane Harvey disaster relief. The three left for Texas Sept. 10 and returned to St. Cloud Sept. 24.
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Time for gun restrictions? Don’t hold your breath One big reason Hillary lost the election is because her enemies – Russian propagandists, too – convinced millions that on the day she’s elected, “she will knock on our doors and snatch our huntin’ guns away.” Well, folks, hang on, here we go again . . . A slaughter by a madman armed with an arsenal of guns. Shock, horror, dismay. Demands for a “conversation” about gun restrictions. Legislators say “wait awhile.” Wait until emotions cool down before a gun “conversation” begins. We wait; the dust settles; the massacre slips off the radar. The short “conversation” happens: “We want gun-restrictions,” say 90 percent of Americans. “Oh, no! The Second Amendment is sacred and absolute,” say hard-core gun supporters and their spineless legislative minions. “Nobody’s gonna take our huntin’ guns away!” Conversation ends. Flash forward a month or two. Another bloody massacre by a lone wolf armed with an arsenal of guns. Repeat the seven steps above. As many have said, if the slaughter of 20 sweet little children at Sandy Hook Elementary School didn’t move legislators to crack down on military assault-style weapons, why should the slaughter of 58 adults at a Vegas concert change their minds? The man who caused the latest bloodbath used “stock bumpers” on his rifles, which allowed his rifles to fire rapidly non-stop as if they were submachine guns used by crime-syndicate thugs in the 1930s. They weren’t “huntin’ guns” – that is, unless you include human beings as hunted prey. Websites, including one for stock bumpers, are riddled with blog posts from gun-enthusiasts post Vegas. Most of them are new variations on the tiresome old dictum that guns don’t kill people; people do. Excerpts from those postings: “Guns don’t rent hotel rooms!” “If it was up to me, big news networks would be banned!” “Why don’t they ban cars and airplanes?!” “Where can I buy one (stock bumper)? Everywhere is sold out. A…hole liberals are trying to ban them now. Grrr!” “A hundred more people die from smoking cigarettes than die by gunfire.” So much for “conversation.” There is, however, a little tiny ray of hope, if you can call it that. Some legislators who have categorically opposed gun laws for so long said last week they would consider banning stock bumpers. Trouble is, a ban on just the bumpers would likely to be a sop, an attempt to mollify the vast majority of Americans who have long wanted common-sense gun restrictions. And then the “conversation” would end. Once again. Until the next massacre with military assault-style weapons. Ninety percent of Americans have long favored reasonable gun-restrictions such as universal background checks and closing of gun-show loopholes. How disgusting it is that stubborn opposition by anything-goes gunrights advocates convince legislators they will be primaried and/or defeated if they so much as dare propose or vote for even the slightest gun restriction. We must ask: Are the lunatics in charge of the asylum?
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Friday, Oct. 13, 2017
Opinion Chilling similarities to massacres
Maybe too many people are too young to remember. Maybe too many older people are suffering from amnesia. But I, for one, remember Aug. 1, 1966 all too well. I remember it screaming from a huge headline in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. It’s the day a deranged sniper shot to death 16 people and wounded 31 others from his deadly 300-foot-high perch atop the observation tower of the University of Texas, Austin. I’m surprised that ghastly event has not been mentioned in the media in the past couple weeks. Well, maybe it was; maybe I missed it. There are chilling, disturbing coincidences between that massacre and the one that happened in Las Vegas. Both men enjoyed gambling to the point it disrupted their lives; both amassed virtual arsenals of weapons; both killed their victims by shooting them from 300 feet above; both snipers kept firing until police stormed their deadly lairs. I can’t help but wonder if the Vegas killer’s evil deed was somehow “triggered” a half century later by the Austin sniper’s butchery. Another similarity: Many on the Austin campus thought the loud cracking sounds were coming from a construction site, and when people began to fall down, many thought it was some kind of college-students’ street theater or part of yet another anti-Vietnam war protest. In Las Vegas, most concert-goers thought the sounds were merely firecrackers or fireworks. The “tower massacre” stunned America because it was such a “new” form of murderous rampage. It happened just short of three years after another unthinkable crime, also in Texas – the assassination of President Kennedy, also committed by a sniper concealed from the fifth
Dennis Dalman Editor floor of a Dallas building. The Austin incident was one of the first acts of “domestic terrorism” that would stun and outrage us again and again throughout the subsequent decades – violent eruptions that still, to this day, keep us reeling, on-edge. And the demonic domestic terrorism – Timothy McVeigh springs sickeningly to mind – has been compounded by acts of international terrorism, making an already dangerous world more dangerous all the time. The Texas man’s name was Charles Whitman, a 25-year-old former Marine, born in Florida, who had attended college in Austin. In the months before the killings, he had complained of extreme headaches and sought counseling because of sudden, irrational urges to become violent. The night before the rampage, he killed his mother in her Austin apartment, then stabbed to death his wife. He left handwritten messages – twisted reasonings – about how he loved them but did not want them to suffer because of the shocking publicity that would follow his evil deed. Just before the noon hour on Aug. 1, Whitman, who had achieved sharpshooter status in the Marines, lugged some kind of large case filled with his rifles to the top of the tower. Then he began his fiendish killing, picking off people fon the streets far below who were
going about their daily business: a tower receptionist, many students, a shopkeeper, a policeman, an electrician, a Peace Corps volunteer and a baby boy inside the womb of its mother (she survived, thankfully). Police stormed Whitman’s perch and shot him dead. An autopsy showed a tumor in his brain that may have been causing his headaches and eruptions of temper, but a definite causal effect was never established. His horrific behavior shocked many because Whitman had been a kind of all-American clean-cut young man: Eagle Scout, a very high IQ, a Good Conduct Medal from the Marines. Some claimed his father, a perfectionist who could be physically abusive, may have caused his later rages, but it’s all conjecture at best. Why? Why? Why? That’s the hand-wringing question we keep asking about the Vegas killer. We will probably never know why, and even if we do, an “explanation” can never explain away that infliction of pain and death. “Why” can never bring back the 58 good people who were slaughtered, and “why” will never bring comfort or consolation to families of the deceased and the hideously wounded. That insane massacre will forever remain an open wound, just as 51 years of time have not healed the wounds of the sniper killings in Austin. In the meantime, we cannot help but feel less secure about the world we live in – all too often wondering with dread when will the next explosive horror erupt? The best defense we have against such darkness is the light of solidarity – constant acts of kindness, people doing daily good deeds for others – nurturing kindness, not stoking cruelty.
Letter to the editor
Reader says Las Vegas tragedy – it’s time to demand gun laws
Jean Abercrombie, St. Joseph I am a retired teacher from Texas who lives in Minnesota now. I have, for sure, found this state and its people to be Minnesota Nice! One of the nicest things I’ve enjoyed has been occasionally taking my granddaughter to school. However, from the very beginning as a preschooler, after our “goodbye and have a good day,” she would inevitably call me or her mom or her dad back to her. She would demand an extra hug and whisper in a scared little voice, “Do you think anything bad will happen today?” What prompted this heartbreaking ques-
tion from a preschooler? It was the required “lock-down drills,” a seeming necessity in our schools these days. Conducting lockdown drills was hard enough with my seniors in high school back in Amarillo, but one can only imagine the fears evoked in very young children by this unfortunate requirement. At the recent concert in Las Vegas, before the horrific shooting, Big and Rich sang “America The Beautiful” along with a happy and patriotic audience holding up their lighted cell phones. All were united in our pride as Americans. It’s time for us to unite as patriotic and
responsible Americans and demand sensible gun laws. Call or write your government officials. Many organizations exist who could use your involvement. We must work to save innocent American lives, be they clubgoers in Florida, or country music fans at a Las Vegas concert, or school children in Newtown. And the examples just go on and on. The NRA is about money, not guns. The politicians who support them are about money, not citizens. We must demand better for our country. We are repeatedly told “Now is not the time.” If not now, when?!
Should voting be required? In my social studies class this last week, I was reminded of an issue that comes up after every election here in the United States. Our country has one of the lowest voter turnouts in the developed world, as Canada and most European countries get well over 60 percent. The United States, by contrast, rarely gets over 50 percent except in presidential elections. This gap has been growing during the last few decades, but what can we do about it? And does increasing voter turnout really make our politics better? There’s a few things that other countries do that we can look at. One of them is making Election Day a holiday. This would make sure people can have time to vote, and hopefully reduce lines at polling stations before and after work. Another idea comes from places such as Australia and Belgium. This is compulsory voting. So how does it work? Taking Australia as an example, all voting-age citizens must register on the voter roll and if they do not vote on Election Day, there is a fine of $20. Same-day registration is not allowed. This serves to bring turnout up a significant amount, 91 percent in 2016. This gives some electoral legitimacy, but do people really know more about the issues?
Connor Kockler Guest Writer The answer is not always, and so is it really always good to have people vote just to vote? Americans are more likely to participate in politics and their communities other than voting, so maybe voter turnout isn’t the end-all be-all. There would be many people who would argue maybe low turnout is alright as long as those who are voting are the most informed. I would say compulsory voting seems to me to be almost in itself anti-democratic. We have the rights to do – and not to do – many things in this country. Why should voting be any different? If we force people to vote who don’t want to vote or aren’t informed, then we’re not really solving the problem. The real issue seems to be why people aren’t informed, or don’t feel as if they can affect politics at all. In our new age of constant information, all the statistics about every candidate is at our
fingertips, but there is also misinformation and distractions. People are busy, and they often don’t have time to do extensive research, so they may only get information from one or two places. In such a polarized political environment, it can also feel like your voice isn’t heard. If you’re a Democrat in a heavily Republican district, or vice versa, it may feel like there’s nothing you can do. People shouldn’t throw up their hands and say what’s the difference, though. Every vote counts, and if everyone thinks the same thing, pretty soon even less people will vote. Find causes you are passionate about and watch out for them. Due to determined voters like us, things can change, but not if you don’t vote and make your voice heard. To me, voter turnout isn’t the biggest thing; it’s voter engagement. Our country should have as many people as possible who know what they believe in and are willing to make their stand on what matters to them. Voting and engagement should be a choice, but it’s a choice worth making. Connor Kockler is a Sauk Rapids-Rice High School student. He enjoys writing, politics and news, among other interests.
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Friday, Oct. 13, 2017
No rain on this parade
Disney mermaids Mo Alkhatib and Hannah Congdon, both Sartell seniors, wave and blow bubbles Oct. 6 on the Make-a-Wish float at the Sartell Homecoming Parade.
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