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Smith writes original story for Lilleskogen Park

BY JASON SCHULTE EDITOR

Visitors to Scandia’s Lilleskogen Park Children’s Story Path are going to be in for a treat.

Nationally published children’s literature author and Scandia native Debra Mitts-Smith debuted her newest book “Early to Bed, Late to Rise”, which tells the tale about Sven, the rooster and his interesting life on the farm.

Smith explained the Scandia Parks board came to her husband, Marschall, and wonder if she’d be interested in writing a book. She already had one in mind.

“I always like to write,” Debra

continued. “I love animals and I love photography.”

A little revising occurred and the result came what was shown around the park. Sven, a rooster sleeps late and the hens are trying to find out why.

“It tells the job of a rooster and you understand at the end,” Debra said.

The photos accompany the text along the path are animals from Smith’s farm.

“I think it was a great idea to have it along the story path,” Debra continued.

The Smiths have called Scandia home for the last 12 years after Marschall took a job at 3M. “I didn’t want a home, so we took a farm instead,” Debra explained. “We

love it here. It’s been a great community. The countryside has been great and the wildlife has been amazing.

Smith previously taught children’s and young adult literature at the University of Illinois. She has Master’s degrees in French and Library and Information Science and a PhD from the University of Illinois. Her publications include articles in Princeton University Library Chronicle and Library Trends, and a book chapter in From Colonialism to the Contemporary: Intertextual Transformation in World Children’s and Youth Literature and her book, Picturing the Wolf in Children’s Literature.

“I hope people go and visit it,” she said.

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One of the posts along the story path at Lilleskogen Park highlighting “Early to Bed, Late to Rise”, featuring Scandia native Debra Mitts-Smith.

Oak Park Heights man dies in car accident

Archaeologists find new evidence of early St. Croix River residents Recent excavations have turned up tantalizing clues about prehistoric people.

BY GREG SEITZ ST. CROIX 360

It was a hot and humid day like so many recently. The team of people slowly digging square pits on the banks of the St. Croix River were dripping sweat — while wearing face masks.

Even the mosquitoes whining in their ears sounded warm. The young excavators scraped slowly at the soil using flat shovels, then sifted the dirt through screens.

A stone stood out. One edge was straight and sharp. It showed chips that hinted it was hammered into this shape.

The apprentice archaeologist who uncovered the stone handed it to her teacher, Dr. Ed Fleming of the Science Museum of Minnesota. He cleaned the dirt off with a soft brush, studied it, and agreed it appeared to be a scraper made by prehistoric people.

It might have last been held by human hands a thousand years ago.

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University of Minnesota students working with Dr. Ed Fleming excavate an archaeological site on the banks of the St. Croix River.

Holding it made the heat and humidity only seem like another connection to its makers, people who would have also swam in the St. Croix to cool off on a steamy summer day.

Long before Europeans immigrated here, native people called the St. Croix River home. Several tribes of Ojibwe SEE ARCHAEOLOGISTS, PAGE 2

A 20-year-old Oak Park Heights man died July 16 due to the result of a motor vehicle versus commercial vehicle collision.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office reported at 6:20 p.m., deputies learned a dump truck was southbound on Manning Avenue North and a Nissan Sentra was northbound. Witnesses on scene reported the Nissan crossed over the centerline into oncoming traffic, causing a head on collision with the dump truck.

Both vehicles had single occupants. The Nissan driver was pronounced dead at the scene after Washington County deputies, Bayport Fie and Lakeview EMS attempted lifesaving measures.

Minnesota State Patrol assisted on scene.

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Nominations sought ARCHAEOLOGISTS: New evidence of early residents for Best of contest FROM PAGE 1

Readers of the Country Messenger are being asked to help recognize the best of everything from food to shopping to best local sports team.

An online contest, the Best of the Valley, begins its nomination phase. A ballot with over 90 categories goes live at www.countrymessenger/bestof Friday, July 24.

Readers are asked to nominate their favorites in seven categories: eating and drinking; arts and entertainment; health and fitness; local; services; shopping and sports and recreation. Readers may nominate in as many or as few categories as they like from July 24 – August 3.

If readers nominate at least two candidates in a category, the category will appear on the voting ballot. If only one nomination is received, the category won’t be on the ballot.

“It’s not because the one person who was nominated isn’t deserving, we believe to have a contest, you need to have more than one participant,” said publisher Tom Stangl. “So if you are nominating in a category where there might not be a lot of choices, perhaps nominate a second person or place.”

After the ballot is finalized, readers will be able to vote for their favorites once a day from August 14 – September 10. The ballot will be in the same spot, www.osceolasun.com/bestof.

The contest will be conducted exclusively online, with no paper ballots.

“When coronavirus entered our lives this spring, we learned to appreciate the local people who do so much to make our community a great place to live,” said Stangl “There are many ways we can support them, nominating and voting for them as the best at what they do is a simple, yet meaningful gesture.”

When voting closes on September 10, the results will be tallied and winners will be announced in the Messenger October 21.

No one injured as Lakeland house struck by lighting The Washington County Sheriff’s Office reported a house was on fire due to a lighting strike.

In a news release, deputies went to 895 Midwest Trail North in the township of West Lakeland at approximately

4:05 a.m., July 17 for the report of a residential stricture fire.

The news release also states all occupants were evacuated without injury. The Bayport Fire Department and Lake Elmo Fire Departments responded to the scene.

Gammelgården Museum Board update The Gammelgarden Museum, all tours, classes, programs and seasonal celebrations are canceled for 2020.

The Museum will remain closed for the 2020 season.

Correction In the July 1 Country Messenger, the story about Goose Lake residents struggling with shoreland management

issues contained incorrect information. Goose Lake is indeed a landlocked basin.

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and Dakota still live in the area. The St. Croix is a priceless source of food and other resources, and was historically an important travel route.

Recent work by Fleming along the lower river has uncovered new artifacts, settlements, and understanding of these people who lived and traveled along the St. Croix before the first European visitors.

Anyone who visits the river today follows in the footsteps and paddle strokes of indigenous people.

Searching along the St. Croix Archaeology is patient and methodical. It rewards attention to detail. It takes education and experience. Fleming was training a new generation of anthropologists and historians, archaeologists and teachers, by leading a University of Minnesota field school as he has for several summers.

Fleming’s field schools have previously conducted extensive excavations at the Sheffield Site, an approximately 700-year-old village south of Marine on St. Croix. They have also fanned out across the area, conducting preliminary searches and discovering more sites worthy of a full investigation.

Notes: For the purposes of protecting these invaluable historic sites and cultural resources, St. Croix 360 will not share their locations. Archaeology is regulated by extensive state and federal laws.

Fleming has come to know the region’s prehistoric people a little through his years of research.

He knows they liked to live next to water, including the St. Croix, but also lakes in the area. The sites has he has studied have been 20 or 30 feet above the river, safe from floods. They have also often been near the mouth of a cold, clean, spring-fed creek.

They crafted beautiful pottery and lived on both the corn and other crops they grew, and the abundant plants and animals of the valley that they foraged and hunted.

They would have traveled in birch bark canoes, perhaps dugouts before then. But those wooden vessels couldn’t survive the centuries.

They did not leave any written record of their existence, besides some pictographs and other rock art found along the river. Their historical record is tools, pottery, fire pits, animal bones.

History written in stone and clay While European people first came to the St. Croix about 400 years ago, and the first towns were established 180 years ago, there is evidence of other inhabitants going back more than 5,000 years.

One particularly promising site this summer turned up a stone point from the Archaic period, made by the people who inhabited the region shortly after the last glaciers melted away north.

They did not farm, and lived off what they could hunt and forage.

Fleming decided to save a full excavation at the intriguing site for another season, while spending more time at a new location on the other side of the St. Croix.

The artifacts they found this summer were primarily from the Woodland Period, which occurred from roughly 1000 B.C. to 1000 A.D., spanning the lives of Christ, Buddha, and Mohammed,

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Historic brass buttons found along the St. Croix River.

the advent of democracy and the rise of modern societies.

The cultures of this time connected the earlier hunter-gatherer people to the cultures that were present when the first Europeans arrived in North America.

The clay the Woodland people used for ceramics was mixed with grit from basalt or other hard rock to strengthen it. The broken pieces of pottery Fleming found bore these specks of stone, and trademark patterns, often created with cord wrapped around sticks.

At the Sheffield Site and elsewhere, Fleming has also found artifacts from a slightly later culture, the Oneota. These people were primarily based on the prairies to the south and west, while Woodland people lived in the forests of the north and east. The Oneota people innovated a new pottery method by using ground up mussel shells to strengthen their clay vessels.

Long before voyageurs, lumberjacks, farmers, and other European settlers founded the region’s towns, logged the forests, and plowed the prairies, there were villages and campsites, temporary shelters under overhangs, rock quarries and workshops, and a river that provided for the people.

Evidence of early immigrants Fur traders, soldiers, surveyors, and other European travelers all visited the St. Croix Valley before significant settlement, and left their own marks on the valley. Some of Fleming’s recent work has turned up interesting artifacts from these 19th-century visitors — findings that are outside his professional focus, but fascinating nonetheless.

Recently, Fleming acquired some small, intriguing artifacts: brass buttons. They had been found near this summer’s excavations by an individual who had surveyed the area using a metal detector. One in particular piqued his curiosity because it was stamped with “U.S.” By contacting a specialist, the button was identified as coming from a U.S. Army greatcoat, produced in the 1830s.

That was the time when Fort Snelling was the only significant

white settlement in the area.

When Henry Schoolcraft led an expedition up the St. Croix after identifying the headwaters of the Mississippi and when Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant, the infamous bootlegger and first resident of what is now St. Paul, arrived in the region. In 1837, treaties with tribes opened up the St. Croix to white settlement.

There is no known record from that era of a fort or trading post or any other settlement where the button was found. Its presence suggested something, but remained an enigma.

Smoke spot Then, one day this June, Fleming and his team were inspecting cliffs along the river on the Wisconsin side, not far from Stillwater. They were looking for signs of prehistoric rock shelters (like a similar one on the same stretch of river).

These sites under sandstone overhangs may have been used by small groups for millennia, and can contain rock art and artifacts. Such a shelter is always appealing to someone seeking somewhere for a meal, a night, or a rainstorm.

Up on a ledge below an overhang, Fleming’s student called out she though she found something. It turned out to be part of a pipe that would have been produced in the 1840s or 1850s. It bore a faint patriotic pattern.

Sitting by the St. Croix and smoking a pipe would have been an enjoyable, relaxing part of the day for someone back then, just as today. The smoker might have been white or native, a traveler, trader, a settler, a logger, a soldier, or someone else. There’s no way of knowing why the pipe was left there for nearly 200 years — forgotten or discarded or something else.

Archaeological excavations always seem to raise more questions than they answer.

With this year’s field school surveys now complete, Fleming will carefully clean and organize the artifacts. He will look for patterns and clues. He’ll read and research and discuss and piece together the past.

And we’ll keep wondering what else is still out there.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. a Public Accuracy Test pursuant to Minn. Stat. Sec. 206.83, will be conducted for the August 11, 2020 Primary Election, to be held at the May Town Hall located at 13939 Norell Avenue North.

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The polling places are as follows: Precinct Name Voting Location Afton W-1 P-1 Shepard Of The Valley Lutheran Church, 14107 Hudson Rd S, Afton, MN 55001 Afton W-2 P-1 Shepard Of The Valley Lutheran Church, 14107 Hudson Rd S, Afton, MN 55001 Afton W-3 P-1 Shepard Of The Valley Lutheran Church, 14107 Hudson Rd S, Afton, MN 55001 Afton W-4 P-1 Shepard Of The Valley Lutheran Church, 14107 Hudson Rd S, Afton, MN 55001 Bayport Bayport Fire Department, 1012 5th Ave, Bayport, MN 55003 Baytown Twp. Baytown Community Building, 4020 McDonald Dr N, Stillwater, MN 55082 Birchwood Village City Birchwood City Hall, 207 Birchwood Ave, White Bear Lake, MN 55110 Cottage Grove P-01 Cottage Grove Elementary School, 7447 65th St S, Cottage Grove, MN 55016 Cottage Grove P-02 Park High School, 8040 80th Street S., Cottage Grove, MN 55016 Cottage Grove P-03 Cottage Grove Middle School, 9775 Indian Blvd S, Cottage Grove, MN 55016 Cottage Grove P-04 833 School District Service Center, 7362 Point Douglas Rd E, Cottage Grove, MN 55016 Cottage Grove P-05 Cottage Grove Service Center, 13000 Ravine Pkwy S, Cottage Grove , MN 55016 Cottage Grove P-06 833 School District Program Center, 8400 East Point Douglas Rd S, Cottage Grove, MN 55016 Cottage Grove P-07 National Guard Armory, 8180 Belden Blvd S, Cottage Grove, MN 55016 Dellwood Mahtomedi District Education Center, 1520 Mahtomedi Ave, Mahtomedi, MN 55115 Denmark Twp. Denmark Town Hall, 14008 90th St S, Hastings, MN 55033 Forest Lake P-1 Forest Lake City Center, Community Room, 1408 Lake Street South, Forest Lake, MN 55025

Forest Lake P-2 Forest Lake City Center, Community Room, 1408 Lake Street South, Forest Lake, MN 55025 Forest Lake P-3 Faith Lutheran Church, 886 North Shore Dr, Forest Lake, MN 55025 Forest Lake P-4 Hosanna Lutheran Church, 9300 Scandia Trl, Forest Lake, MN 55025 Forest Lake P-5 Forest Lake Service Center, 19955 Forest Rd N., Forest Lake, MN 55025 Grant Woodbury Lutheran Oak Hill Campus, 9050 60th St N, Stillwater, MN 55082 Grey Cloud Island Twp. Grey Cloud Island Town Hall, 9910 Grey Cloud Island Dr S, St Paul Park, MN 55071 Hastings W-1 P-1 Washington County Government Center, 14949 62nd St N, Stillwater, MN 55082 Hugo W-1 P-1 Hugo Fire Hall, 5323 140th St N, Hugo, MN 55038 Hugo W-2 P-2A Oneka Elementary School, 4888 Heritage Pkwy N, Hugo, MN 55038 Hugo W-2 P-2B Hugo W-3 P-3A Hugo W-3 P-3B Lake Elmo P-1 Lake Elmo P-2 Lake St. Croix Beach Lakeland Lakeland Shores Landfall Mahtomedi P-1 Mahtomedi P-2 Marine On St. Croix May Twp. Newport Oak Park Heights Oakdale P-1 Oakdale P-2 Oakdale P-3 Oakdale P-4 Oakdale P-5 Oakdale P-6 Oakdale P-7 Oakdale P-8 Pine Springs Scandia St Mary’s Point

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Heritage Park Building, 1345 Laurel Ave, St Paul Park, MN 55071 St Paul Park City Office, Community Room, 600 Portland AVE, St Paul Park, MN 55071 Stillwater Town Hall, 13636 90th St N, Stillwater, MN 55082 First United Methodist Church, 813 Myrtle St W, Stillwater, MN 55082 St Paul Lutheran Church, 605 5th St S, Stillwater, MN 55082 Ascension Episcopal Church, 214 3rd St N, Stillwater, MN 55082 Trinity Lutheran Church, 115 4th St N, Stillwater, MN 55082 Stillwater Readiness Center (Armory), 250 Mary Knoll Drive, Stillwater, MN 55082 Our Saviors Lutheran Church, 1616 Olive St W, Stillwater, MN 55082 Lily Lake School, 2003 Willard ST W, Stillwater, MN 55082 Oak-Land Middle School, 820 Manning Ave N, Lake Elmo, MN 55042 White Bear Lake W-4 P-2 WBL Alternative Learning Center, 2449 Orchard Ln, White Bear Lake, MN 55110 Willernie Willernie City Hall, 111 Wildwood Rd, Willernie, MN 55090 Woodbury P-01 Woodbury Baptist Church, 6695 Upper Afton Rd, Woodbury, MN 55125 Woodbury P-02 Woodbury City Hall, 8301 Valley Creek Rd, Woodbury, MN 55125 Woodbury P-03 Woodbury High School, 2665 Woodlane Dr, Woodbury, MN 55125 Woodbury P-04 Woodbury Lutheran Church, 7380 Afton Dr, Woodbury, MN 55125 Woodbury P-05 New Life Academy & Church, 6758 Bailey Rd, Woodbury, MN 55129 Woodbury P-06 Bailey Elementary School, 4125 Woodlane Dr, Woodbury, MN 55129 Woodbury P-07 King Of Kings Lutheran Church, 1583 Radio Dr, Woodbury, MN 55125 Woodbury P-08 St John Lutheran Church, 1975 St John’s Dr, Woodbury, MN 55129 Woodbury P-09A Brookview Elementary School, 11099 Brookview Road, Woodbury, MN 55129 Woodbury P-10 Central Park, 8595 Central Pk Place, Woodbury, MN 55125 Woodbury P-11 Lake Middle School, 3133 Pioneer Dr, Woodbury, MN 55125 Woodbury P-12 Valley Crossing Community School, 9900 Park Crossing, Woodbury, MN 55125 Woodbury P-13A Liberty Ridge Elementary, 11395 Eagle View Blvd, Woodbury, MN 55129 Woodbury P-14 Five Oaks Church, 4416 Radio Dr, Woodbury, MN 55129 Woodbury P-15 East Ridge High School, Cafeteria, 4200 Pioneer Dr, Woodbury, MN 55129 Woodbury P-16 St Ambrose Church of Woodbury, 4125 Woodbury Dr, Woodbury, MN 55129 Published in The Country Messenger July 22, 2020

CITY OF SCANDIA WASHINGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA NOTICE OF PUBLIC ACCURACY TEST JULY 30, 2020 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Scandia will conduct a Public Accuracy Test of the DS200 Vote Tabulator and Automark equipment to be used for the August 11, 2020 Primary Election. The test will be conducted on Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. in the Board Room of the Scandia Community Center, 14727 209th Street, Scandia, MN. Interested parties are encouraged to attend. All in attendance must wear a face covering.

Brenda Eklund Scandia City Clerk Dated: July 9, 2020 Published in The Country Messenger July 22, 2020

CITY OF SCANDIA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

BY THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE is hereby given that the Planning Commission of the City of Scandia will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, August 4, 2020 beginning at 7:00 p.m. to consider the following: Request by Debra and Robert Davies for Variances to reconstruct a

residential structure at 12050 196th Street North, Scandia, Minnesota.

The property is more specifically described as follows: Part of Government Lot 3, Section 29, Township 32, Range 20, Washington County, MN Anyone wishing to express their opinion on this proposal will be heard at the public hearing. Given the current protocols for social distancing during the Covid 19 situation, the meeting will be held via online video and phone conferencing.

Submit written comments concering this application to mail@ci.scandia. mn.us. To participate in the online meeting, call City Hall at 651-4332274 by 4:00 pm on Monday, August 3, 2020 to register for the video conferencing. This notice is given pursuant to the Development Code of the City of Scandia. Contact City Hall for information about this request during office hours, Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., except holidays.

Brenda Eklund City Clerk Dated: July 8, 2020 Published in The Country Messenger July 22, 2020

WASHINGTON COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC ACCURACY TEST NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public accuracy test of vote counting equipment to be used in the August 11, 2020 Primary Election will be held on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 10:00 AM at Washington County Government Center, 14949 62nd Street North, Stillwater, MN 55082.

FOR THE CITIES OF : CITY OF GRANT AND CITY OF FOREST LAKE AND CITY OF LAKELAND AND CITY OF LANDFALL AND CITY OF OAKDALE AND CITY OF PINE SPRINGS AND CITY OF WOODBURY WASHINGTON COUNTY If you would like to witness this demonstration, you are welcome to do so at the above mentioned location.

Jennifer Wagenius, County Auditor Published in The Country Messenger July 22, 2020

Summary of Proceedings Washington County Board of Commissioners June 23, 2020 Present were Commissioners Fran Miron, District 1; Stan Karwoski, District 2; Gary Kriesel, District 3; Wayne Johnson, District 4; Lisa Weik, District 5. Board Chair Miron presided.

Commissioner Reports – Comments – Questions Commissioners reported on meetings and other events that they attended. Please see archived web streaming of the board meeting for full commissioner reports at www. co.washington.mn.us, under “County Board”.

Attorney’s Office - Approval of Joint Powers Agreement No. 13468 with the State of MN Department of Corrections, Facilities Division, for reimbursement of expenses related to prosecution services for events in state correctional facilities.

General Administration Approval of the following actions: - Board workshop to discuss Land and Water Legacy Program contribution to the City of Belwin-City of Afton-Stanton conservation area park project and conservation easement terms.

- June 2, 2020, County Board meeting minutes.

- Resolution No. 2020-066, declaration to participate in the 2020 Performance Measurement Program.

- Resolution No. 2020-067, Land and Water Legacy Program contribution for permanent protection of the Stanton property.

- County Administrator Kevin Corbid reported that on Monday, June 29th, the county will begin Phase III of reopening. There will no longer be centralized reception at the front

doors; instead, reception will occur in individual departments. Most services are still by appointment, and walk-in customers will be served as possible. Libraries will be opened to reduced capacity, and continuing curbside pickup for those most vulnerable or at-risk. License Center operations have been challenging with the volume of customers calling for appointments or walking in for services. Staff have been working very hard to continue to provide services while practicing social distancing requirements.

Information Technology - Approval of Amendment No. 1 to Contract No. 13491 with Simacor in the amount of $52,000.

Property Records & Taxpayer Services - County Board of Appeal and Equalization reconvened at 11:33 a.m.

Public Health and Environment - Board workshop to discuss yard waste services in Washington County.

Public Works Approval of the following actions: - Contract No. 13434 in the amount of $126,000 with Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. to provide pre-design services to determine the feasibility of moving ahead with the County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 14 signal replacement and trail construction project.

- Cooperative Agreement No. 13486 with the MN Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and the City of Oakdale for landscaping on and adjacent to Trunk Highway (TH) 36 at CSAH 13 (previously CSAH 35) Hadley Avenue.

- Resolution No. 2020-065, Agreement No. 1032936 with MnDOT. - Change Order No. 19 to Contract No. 12333 with Shafer Contracting Company Inc. in the amount of $234,517 for TH 36 at CSAH 13 Hadley Avenue interchange project.

- Assent to Proceeding Subsequent to Initial Registration of the adjacent landowner’s property along CSAH 38 (Maxwell Ave) in the City of Newport.

Washington County Regional Railroad Authority (RRA) Approval of the following actions: - March 24, 2020 RRA meeting minutes.

- Amendment No. 3 to extend the existing option agreement between Washington County RRA and Washington County Community Development Agency for the purchase of the remaining excess property at Newport Transit Station until March 1, 2023.

A complete text of the Official Proceedings of the Washington County Board of Commissioners is available on the county’s website: www. co.washington.mn.us, under County Board, or for public inspection at the Office of Administration, Washington County Government Center, 14949 62nd St. N., Stillwater, MN. Published in The Country Messenger July 22, 2020 CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAME Minnesota Statutes Chapter 333

1. The exact name under which the business is or will be conducted: Scandia Bread Company.

2. The address of the principal place of business: 19320 Parkview Lane N., Scandia, MN 55073.

3. The complete name and street address of all persons conducting business under the assumed name, OR if an entity, provide the legal corporate, LLC, or Limited Partnership name and registered office address: David Albright, 19320 Parkview Lane N., Scandia, MN 55073.

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Credit where it’s due

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o, the summer is half over. Have you done anything fun? How about a trip or at least a day trip, even if it is to your back yard?

Experts tell us we need to take some time off and relax. Heck, I might even do it myself.

We have been working on something fun and hope you all want to help us.

With the coronavirus and its fallout putting a damper on everything, we decided it’s time to let businesses, professionals and organizations in our community know we appreciate what they do, day in and day out.

We are launching a Reader’s Choice contest later this week on our website and we need your help.

There are over 90 categories on our nomination ballot and we want to hear from you. The categories are: eating and drinking; arts and entertainment; health and fitness; local; services; shopping and and recreation.

Publisher sports Here’s how it works. Starting this Friday, go to www.counTom Stangl trymessenger.com/bestof and nominate the place with the best appetizer to the best local park. You don’t have to nominate in every category, you can only do one if you like. The website has a tool that will find the correct spelling and location of the place you are nominating.

The nomination period runs from July 24 – August 3. After we have our ballots set, we will move on to the actual voting to determine who has the best hamburger in The Sun and Country Messenger area. If we receive two or more nominations in a category, that category will appear on the ballot.

If only one nomination is received, the category won’t be on the voting ballot. It’s not because the one person who was nominated isn’t deserving, we believe to have a contest, you need to have more than one participant. So if you are nominating in a category where there might not be a lot of choices, perhaps nominate a second person or place.

Voting on the ballot will run from August 14 – September 10. The ballot will be in the same spot, www. countrymessenger/bestof. You will be able to vote once every 24 hours.

When voting closes on September 10, we will tally the results and prepare a special section of The Sun and Country Messenger to announce the winners. All winners will be announced October 21.

What will the winners get? We will provide a certificate and window cling to the winners and a logo that the person or business can use to promote themselves.

More importantly, they will have what everyone truly wants in life: bragging rights.

When coronavirus entered our lives this spring, we learned to appreciate the local people who do so much to make our community a great place to live. There are many ways we can support them, nominating and voting for them as the best at what they do is a simple, yet meaningful gesture.

The entire contest will be conducted online, there are no paper ballots.

The contest is meant to be good natured fun and a way to recognize all of the little things that make our area special. Please join me in taking some time to nominate your favorites, starting Friday.

We will be holding more contests in the months to come. Let me know what you think of the contest and your experience.

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The joys of being a dog owner, take two

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or 14 years, my wife, Michelle, and I were the proud owners of a Black Lab named Casey.

I know a lot of people say they have the greatest dog, but for those who ever met Casey, they complimented us repeatedly on his demeanor, his overall attitude and his love of vanilla ice cream and peanut butter.

However, like everything else in this world, when it comes to aging, Father Time wins every battle and for Casey, his last breath came in 2018.

Not having a dog around felt weird and sad, because he was integral part of our lives for so long (maybe the only positive about not having a dog was going somewhere and not having to find a sitter or having to come back the same day).

Anyway, earlier this year, discussion about having another dog returned.

For partial reasons, I leaned toward Black Lab. Black Lab was a favorite of other family members, but they preferred other breeds.

Editor Getting a dog from a shelter was Jason Schulte at the top of the list for everyone, and luckily, Michelle found a shelter outside of the Twin Cities. We passed their tests, the dogs passed our tests (it was pretty much telling our daughters, Lauren, 13 and Hannah, 9 we were getting a dog and it was at least part Black Lab).

A couple of months ago, we made the trip to the shelter to decide the newest member of our family. It was

between two girls and a boy.

The backstory on them was interesting. They came from Texas where they apparently weren’t welcomed or didn’t receive much attention, which is the goal of the agency we found. Once the dogs were ready for adoption, they were transported to Minnesota using volunteer transporters.

After some hemming and hawing, we settled on the boy dog who was more than happy to come with us.

We put him in the kennel and as we started heading back home, my mind flooded with questions.

Casey never did this, will this dog do that? Will he chew? How will he handle the kennel? How much does he want to be around us?

Those questions could wait, we had a bigger question that needed an immediate answer: A name.

What about Archie? Between the four of us, it wasn’t universally loved, but not universally hated at the same time. It was a name we could grow to love, just like him.

So Archie it was.

Today, a couple of months into being a dog owner, those earlier questions have some clear-cut answers.

Does he chew? Yes. We are on our third leash already because he chewed through the first two (maybe, he has more hound than we think). He also loves chewing on socks and paper.

Does he like the kennel? Strangely enough, yes. When he’s in trouble or has to go in there for the night, minimal barking.

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Surprising way to use cottage cheese

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ottage cheese is one of those foods people have strong opinions about. Either you like it, or you don’t.

I grew up eating lots of cottage cheese. But, only a certain brand. According to my dad, all other brands were subpar. I didn’t realize all cottage cheese is not the same until I bought my first tub.

My dad was a serious cheese freak. We always had specialty cheeses in the house. Unique cheeses like Emmental from Bern-Switzerland, Manchego from Spain, Comte, Brie, Roquefort or Camembert from France littered our fridge.

Each cheese my dad bought was carefully analyzed. Even our cheddar cheese had to be from a certain cheesemaker, and it had to be aged. Our cottage cheese was Wild Chow not any different.

I thought cottage cheese was the Lisa Erickson perfect snack when I got do playing sports. I’d eat it plain or spoon it on a baked potato heavily doused in black pepper. My parents did not believe in store-bought snacks, so I learned to improvise.

My dad only bought Old Home Cottage Cheese. I never paid attention to brands as a kid; I just ate it.

I r emember when I was living on my own, I bought my first tub. It was not the same cottage cheese I was used to. What? The curds were squishier (yes, that’s a real thing), and the cream was tangier. All cottage cheese is not the same from brand to brand.

I called my dad and asked what kind he bought.

This year, a Wisconsin cheesemaker from Westby, made award-winning cottage cheese. It’s the best cottage cheese I’ve tasted. The curds are perfectly firm, and the cream is mild and has a lovely “ milky-dairy” flavor.

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Birthday Blow-Out

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t’s my birthday this week.

This is not normally cause for a big celebration and this year it is less than usual. Still, unlike my husband, Peter, I actually do celebrate my birthday. I don’t expect anyone else to celebrate— although it’s nice to know my parents remember I was born and still seem to think it was a good thing.

But I’m puzzled by reports of people my age who Columnist have huge celebrations or pout Carrie Classon if they don’t get a party. My grandmother had a big party on her 100th birthday and I think that’s an appropriate time for a “blowout” (as she called it). Otherwise, I think the only person who has any reason to celebrate my birthday is me. It’s good to have been given another year.

This year, Peter asked, as he always does, what I wanted on my birthday. The choices were more limited than in the past, but that really didn’t matter. It’s fun to receive one unusual thing that makes me happy. One year, I asked Peter for a new toilet seat.

Peter saw nothing wrong with the existing one (he wouldn’t!)

TO THE EDITOR

Thank you for taking interest in reporting on our local water resources. The Carnelian Marine St. Croix Watershed District did not have the opportunity to be interviewed for the article “Goose Lake Residents Struggle with Shoreland Management Issues”. The Watershed District, Washington County, and City have been responsive to Mr. Greg Hed’s concerns. Goose Lake is one of over 450 landlocked basins in

the Watershed District.

The lake elevation is still below its 100-year flood elevation and it’s highest recorded elevation in 1996. It is very unfortunate Mr. Hed’s property is located fully within the floodplain of Goose Lake and was constructed prior to flood control rules being in place. Under current rules City, Watershed, and County would prohibit construction on this property. In a September 23, 2019 email from the Department of Natural Resources Mr. Hed was notified he can raise the structure by two options: 1. flood proofing SEE LETTERS, PAGE 6

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year ago or five years ago on that date. She tells me, from time to time, about something she wrote a few years back.

“Oh! We were worried about you,” she’ll tell me. I had no idea my parents were worried, but her journal knew.

My daily journal rarely records anything as exciting as my dental appointments. Usually, I am just trying to figure stuff out, seeing where I am, where I’m going, noting what I’ve done and what I’d still like to do—both in the near term and before I run out of time for good. Journaling reminds me of how much I have to be grateful for. Birthdays do the same thing.

As an afterthought, I ordered a dozen cupcakes. I didn’t figure a cake made much sense since there was no one to share it with, but I thought it might be fun to distribute cupcakes to friends and neighbors. I’m getting one dozen red velvet cupcakes with buttercream frosting. I’m having mine with a scoop of peppermint ice cream.

If that isn’t a blowout, I don’t know what is.

Till next time, Carrie Carrie Classon’s memoir is called, “Blue Yarn.” Learn more at CarrieClasson.com.

The King and I

SEE ERICKSON, PAGE 6

Government has been responsive to public’s concerns

but cheerfully replaced it on my birthday.

“Just don’t go telling everyone I got you a toilet seat for your birthday!” he said.

But now I have.

This year, my plans are less grandiose. I was thinking about cheese, specifically, a big pot of melted cheese. I know, the weather has been warm but the idea of fresh fruit dunked in a vat of nice cheese sounded irresistible.

“Fondue,” I told Peter. “I’d like fondue for my birthday.”

“Hot oil or cheese?”

“Cheese—good cheese!”

We ordered long forks and are all set. Peter is making cheese fondue.

I celebrate my birthday for the same reason I journal—to keep track of where I am in life. Peter says it would be better just to forget about that, especially as we get older, but I disagree. I like to know where I am and where I’ve been. I think that might be more important this year than ever.

I probably get this from my mom. She’s kept a journal every day of her life since she was in college. She claims it is a profoundly dull document. She famously described it as, “an uninterrupted record of every dental appointment I’ve ever had.”

But I know this is not strictly true because she does look things up to see what she was doing a

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here is a reason they call them kings. It may be the fact that they start their lives in wild cold mountain streams later migrating to the ocean where they will live and grow. During the first three years of their lives they have been known to swim from the West Coast of California, Canada and Alaska to Japan and back. Feeding and growing large in the Pacific Ocean they become the wild giants and great fighters anglers seek out.

King salmon, the largest member of the Salmon family, made famous in videos fighting their way up cold wild Alaskan streams, battling wild rapids, jumping up waterfalls while fighting through grizzly bears to spawn. After 4 years they will reWild River turn to the stream they hatched in, to spawn and then die.

Trails Powerful giant fish, the world record was caught in Alaska in 1985 Jim Bennett weighed over 97 pounds. Wisconsin’s record fish, caught in Lake Michigan tipped the scales at over 47 pounds in 1995. Powerful fish with great tasting flesh they are sought out all over the world. Stocked in waters all over the world and into Lake Michigan along with Coho salmon

in the 1960’s, today there is an estimated 10 million salmon swimming in Lake Michigan, Superior and Huron.

Ben Elfelt is a professional angler who fishes in the AIM professional walleye circuit and operates Prime Time Guide Service out of his home in Shafer. He is also the head of Polk County, WI Parks and Recreation Dept., was on Lake Michigan recently chasing kings with his good friend Jason Swingen of Duluth, an avid steel header on Superior streams on both the North and South Shores.

“It was going to be a quick trip to Sturgeon Bay to fish but on Thursday night when we got to Green Bay we were hit by heavy rains and flooding. When we got to the Sturgeon Bay we decided to just sleep in the truck until daylight for a short time and then hit the water. We awoke and found out that we were in the middle of a giant Bass Tournament. There we ran into Kevin VanDam, the all-time money winner in professional bass fishing having earned well in excess of $6 million.” But the lake was still boiling from the big storm so Elfelt and Swingen had to wait until Friday evening to hit the water in Elfelt’s 19 foot Lund Pro-V tiller.

“We got on them right away. We were running two SEE BENNETT, PAGE 7

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Uninsured Minnesotans can get free COVID-19 tests

New health care option covers cost for many residents in need Many uninsured Minnesotans can get tested for COVID-19 at no cost to them during the federal public health emergency, thanks to a new health care option. The state will cover the cost of testing for individuals who apply and meet all of the following conditions: • Be a resident of Minnesota.

• Be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national or lawfully present noncitizen with an immigration status that qualifies for Medical Assistance.

• Provide their Social Security number unless they meet an exception for not having one.

• Not be enrolled in any other health insurance.

How to apply

Information can be found on the Minnesota Department of Human Services website at www. mn.gov/dhs/health-care-coverage. The site also has information about programs to help Minnesotans having a hard time paying their health care bills during the pandemic. Uninsured Minnesotans can print the application for free COVID-19 testing. They can also ask the health care provider administering their COVID-19 test for the application, or call the DHS Health Care Consumer Support team at 651-431-3994 or 800-366-5414 to request an application be mailed to them. Applicants will get a notice in the mail with a response to their request.

The 2020 Minnesota Legislature passed a law authorizing this new coverage.

Insurance options available for Minnesotans Uninsured Minnesotans looking to get health care coverage have options. Visit MNsure.org to see if you qualify for low- or no-cost health insurance through MinnesotaCare or Medical Assistance or qualify for a special enrollment period to enroll in private health insurance.

Marine on St. Croix 175 Years Ago

BY PHIL ANDERSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER

(Editor’s Note: Last week’s article said it was written by Ann Kirn.

Kirn emailed the article. Anderson actually wrote the story) The writer Wendell Berry has said that homemaking is the unfinished business of humanity. Those who came to establish a sawmill enterprise and forge a settled community along the St. Croix River shared in common with others what the Scandinavians have come to call a holistic understanding of landskap, that is, “a lived territory.” This is the development of a strong sense of the meaning of place (e.g., home, town, county, state, nation, folk) with its physical features (e.g., landscape, scenery, climate, flora, fauna). It is little wonder that residents of Marine, or elsewhere throughout the St. Croix valley, have always had such a strong attachment to the land and their way of life together.

A group of New Englanders established Marine Settlement in 1818 in an area of southern Illinois central to the industrial traffic patterns of wagon roads and the Mississippi River. There was a pressing need for lumber to fuel Midwestern development. Word had spread rapidly of the Indian treaties of 1837, and a dozen or so entrepreneurs gathered in Elizur Judd’s tavern in the early months of 1838 sketching plans for a lumber company that would profit from the vast virgin white pine stands of the St. Croix. Elizur’s three sons—Albert, George, and Lewis— along with David Hone (New York), Orange Walker and brothers Asa

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and James Parker (all from Vermont) were among the dreamers and planners. Chosen to carry out the exploratory trip and make a claim, Hone and Lewis Judd boarded the steamer Ariel for Fort Snelling that September. From the head of Lake St. Croix (just north of the later settlement of Stillwater), they poled a flatboat up to the Falls and beyond to the mouth of the Kettle River.

Along the way, they observed above the Dalles the then futile efforts of Franklin Steele and a ragtag group of laborers to get a sawmill up and running. Floating back downriver, on the west bank they found the perfect spot for them, where the cascading Fall River (so named by the Ojibwe) flowed into the St. Croix, tucked into a broad natural ravine.

Here they “staked” their claim and returned home to Illinois to finalize plans with investors and those who would venture back with them in the spring.

The quest for profit breeds competition and, in this case, sheer opportunism. In the meantime, while the Marine Lumber Company was being formed in Illinois, the claim was jumped by three of Steele’s workers. They followed the ice-covered river down to the spot in December, cleared four acres, and built a log cabin. When the eight partners, along with Hone’s wife, returned in late April of 1839 on the Fayette and found the squatters waiting for them when they arrived on May 13th, being potential squatters themselves they had no choice but to cough up $300 to get back their claim. Work on the sawmill began immediately.

Orange Walker was the boss, and three months later on August 24,

the first log was cut by the muley saw, and commercial industry in Minnesota was born. By then a 28’ by 40’ log boarding house had been constructed for the company, Mary Ann Henry Hone fully in charge of all things culinary, including small vegetable gardens, to accommodate the expanding ranks of workers and would-be settlers.

Surely the new arrivals in Marine Mills had some inkling of the longstanding tensions between the Dakota, the Ojibwe, and the U.S. government, just that summer having reached another outbreak of tragic violence. During the third week of June, 900 Ojibwe from Crow Wing, Leech Lake, and the St. Croix converged on the fur post in Mendota to protest the change of annuity payments from the Falls at St. Croix to the Indian agency at La Pointe on Madeline Island in Lake Superior—a real hardship of distance and travel.

Eight hundred Dakota were also camped at Fort Snelling to receive money according to the 1837 treaty.

All seemed to go well between them with dancing, feasts, and peace pipes until July 2nd when an Ojibwe killed and scalped a Dakota hunter at Bde Maka Ska (Lake Calhoun). Two war parties were formed to pursue the Ojibwe up the Rum and St. Croix rivers. Only a day later, a group of Ojibwe was ambushed in a ravine just north of Stillwater, the location of a bloody massacre still known as “Battle Hollow.” Indian agent Taliaferro despaired at “the lamentable state of things on the St. Croix.”

In James Taylor Dunn’s 150th anniversary volume, Marine on St. SEE HISTORY, PAGE 9

ERICKSON: Uses for cottage cheese FROM PAGE 5

If you’re one of those people who doesn’t like cottage cheese, I encourage you to try a different brand or try one I mentioned here. You’ll be surprised.

Not all cottage cheese is created equal.

Amazing cottage cheese can be eaten straight from the container, but if you have extra, try this unique healthy tropical pudding. It’s perfect for those of us that like to watch our sugar intake.

It’s sweetened with bananas, and it’s high in protein. It’s the perfect healthy treat or cold breakfast when you top it with some granola. Plus, it tastes like cheesecake. What could be better?

Tropical “Cheesecake” Pudding Adapted from Andrew and Carrie Purcell

2 bananas 1 cup cottage cheese 1/3 cup half and half 1 Tbsp. cream of coconut by Real Gourmet (you can find this in the beverage section) ½ tsp. vanilla 1/3 cup toasted macadamia nuts In a blender or food processor, blend the bananas and the cottage cheese until very smooth; about 4 minutes.

Add the half & half, cream of coconut, and vanilla; blend until combine. Spoon into bowls and top with nuts. Serve immediately.

Lisa Erickson is a food columnist who loves adventure and food. You can find more recipes by emailing her at wildchowrecipes@gmail.com.

TO THE EDITOR FROM PAGE 5

the structure on fill or 2. flood proofing the lower level. Both would involve engineered work to raise the structure to bring it up to current floodplain standards. Temporary sandbagging is also permittable to protect the property.

Creating lake outlets for public benefit is regulated by Minnesota Rule 6115.0221. The rule identifies the conditions that need to be met for a local unit of government to initiate a lake outlet project.

Designing and constructing an outlet for Goose Lake would cost millions of dollars from local taxpayers. It is the opinion

of the Watershed District Board of Managers this expenditure would have little public benefit and other reasonable alternatives are available to the landowner.

Mike Isensee Administrator Carnelian-Marine-St. Croix Watershed District Scandia

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DNR hosts a virtual open house for conversations about deer MN DNR

Anyone interested in discussing deer and deer management can tune in to a virtual open house on Tuesday, Aug. 18, hosted by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

The meeting will include a presentation from Barbara Keller, the DNR’s big game program leader, who will share information about Minnesota’s deer and deer hunter population, explain some of the upcoming changes for this fall's deer hunting season, and describe how the public can provide input about deer management in their areas. There will also be time for ques-

tions and answers.

As part of Minnesota’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DNR will be using a webbased platform to host this deer open house online.

“We’re looking forward to continuing these conversations about deer management using this web-based platform,” Keller said. “This is a great opportunity to bring everyone safely together across the state and hear people’s deer-related questions.”

Participating in the open house All are welcome to join the virtual meeting from 6-7 p.m. on Aug. 18, on their computers,

on smartphones or by phone (with limited visual capability). Registration for the event is required and available on the deer open house webpage. Attendees are encouraged to submit questions in advance on their registration form.

The open house will be recorded and available online on the deer open house webpage for those who cannot attend. For questions about deer in local areas, at any point during the year, people are encouraged to contact their local wildlife manager. A list of area wildlife offices is available online at mndnr. gov/areas/wildlife.

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There is something magic about being on big water. The varied colors of the clear water, the singing of the down-rigger wires and the sunrises and sunsets make it almost mystical. Here Jason Swingen keeps an eye on three poles set for action.

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downriggers at 115 feet, two Dipsey divers set 30 feet down and two boards with lead core. All with line counters. We started out with spoons on one downrigger and large flies on the other. Both rigs had 11 inch chrome flashers in front of the baits. Rule of thumb is that the lures are set back 3X the length of the flasher. You can consistently change the action by changing the speed of the boat keeping everything consistent. Consistency catches fish. “ In this case the large trolling flies were catching all the fish, so this pair of seasoned anglers switched out spoons for flies. “One fish is a fluke, 2 is coincidence but three fish are a pattern. Find a pattern and you catch fish. The large flies and flashers (skateboards) were working trolling 2.4 to 2.6 mph going with the current and 3.2 to 3.4 going against. One fish actually spooled us. Jason had on 40 lb fluorocarbon leader and heavy line and he couldn’t stop the big king. He actually thought the drag was broken but it wasn’t. Jason sounded like an auctioneer counting off line as the fish rocketed away calling out 200 (yards of line left) 150, 100, 75, 50 PING!! We didn’t catch anything on lead core

down 30 feet.”

“We hooked into one fish that actually passed us in the middle of the fight. It was a big king that wanted to go where it wanted to go. We actually netted it up near the front of the boat while we kept on trolling.”

With only two people in the boat landing big kings proved to be a challenge with a tiller motor! “Whenever we’d hook into a fish I’d start the kicker motor and keep it on a lower trolling speed. That gave the guy fighting the fish an opportunity to battle it in while the other person could get poles and downriggers out of the way and then net the fish,” added Elfelt with a laugh!

“I’ve been fishing Lake Michigan for the past 5-years and everyone says it’s never going to get better but it gets better every year. The average size is getting bigger; our fish were averaging 20 pounds. Jason landed a 13 pound steelhead.

Elfelt can’t wait to get back. After talking to him I'm rigging my boat to go. There is a reason they call them KINGS and I can’t wait to get over there too!

Jim Bennett is an outdoorsman who lives and worked in the St. Croix River Valley and can be reached at jamesbennett24@gmail.com

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MOVIE REVIEW

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The Old Guard movie not the same as the book

was disappointed this week there were no new video on demand (VODS) that were released. Generally, I don’t like to review movies that are on movie services as they are not available for general audiences. However, this week, the biggest film released was the Old Guard on Netflix. I have had Netflix for a long time and actually ditched all of cable television except for basic because for the price Netflix brings in a lot more value. Is Old Guard the Contributing movie that will create buzz and tempt people to Writer join the platPaul Backstrom form?

The Old Guard is about a covert team of immortal mercenaries whose identity has been exposed and they must figure out how to slip back into the shadows. This film is based on the graphic novel series of the same name.

The studio got the creator of Old Guard, Greg Rucka to come in and write the screenplay for this film. This is Rucka’s first foray into films. He has done some television work before

but, as we will find out that isn’t the same as writing for a full feature film. Rucka does a pretty good job of creating characters. Each character feels fleshed out and different.

There are also some interesting dynamics between characters.

Rucka also does a great job of world building. Having never read the graphic novel, the world he creates feels alive and immersive.

These are two big hurdles to overcome in creating a great film and Rucka does this well.

Unfortunately, there are some other very important story elements that Rucka falls short.

These two elements are the villain and the stakes. Rucka makes a very cartoonish villain, played by Harry Melling (yes, that is Dudley Dursley from the Harry Potter films).

Going from an ultra-realistic and gritty world to a very campy villain is a big disconnect for me. It also affects the second element I stated which is the stakes. For a movie about super powerful characters, the stakes seem very low risk.

The universe isn’t at stake, heck even the characters’ lives don’t seem to be at stake. For a graphic novel which is about episodic storytelling this isn’t a bad thing but for a stand-alone movie, this is terrible.

My other big problem with this film is the music choices and placements. I don’t know who thought it would be a good idea to break up scenes, which are meant to create a sense of tension with the music choices. This was so jarring it took away from the writing and made the scene fall flat.

This would not be a movie to get you on to the Netflix platform. If you already have a subscription, I would give this one a look if you are looking for a decent action movie that has some good world building.

Overall, I would give this movie a C+ (An Above Average Movie). Greg Rucka first foray into film is a good one. Rucka does a great job of giving his characters interesting personalities and back stories. As the writer of the Old Guard comic, he does a masterful job of world building and placing us in the middle of an action-packed story. Where Rucka’s lack of experience shows comes through with his choice of villain and creating tension.

As much as I liked the concept and some of the execution of the ideas, without these two important elements the film was a letdown because I wasn’t worried about the characters in the end. No tension, no drama, means a lack in engagement of the audience. The other thing that really bothered me about this movie was the choice and placement of the music. This movie wouldn’t be the reason I would get Netflix but if you already have the service, if you are looking for a decent comic action movie then I would give this a view.

Old Guard is rated R for sequences of graphic violence and language. The film was directed

by Gina Prince-Bythewood and written by Greg Rucka. Old Guard stars Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne and Matthias Shoenaerts.

Congress considers legislation that would support local news organizations

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n the past five months, Congress has responded to the coronavirus public health crisis with several emergency relief measures, including the stimulus checks sent to individuals and households, payroll protections to small businesses, expanded unemployment payments, fee waivers for borrowing against 401(K) plans and more.

Now, Congress will get the opportunity to pass a relief measure that protects your access to trustworthy local news, helps grow local businesses through ads placed in local news media — and rewards you for subscribing to a newspaper like this one.

The Local Journalism Sustainability Act, introduced on July 16, is a bipartisan bill co-sponsored by U.S. Representatives Ann Kirkpatrick, a Democrat from Arizona, and Dan Newhouse, a CEO, Republican from Washington state. In America’s brief, the legislation provides for tax for subscribing to a local newspaNewspapers credits per, payroll credit for paying journalists Dean Ridings who provide local news, and credit for advertising in local newspapers and local media.

This act responds to the insidious way the pandemic has deeply damaged American communities in a malevolent cycle. It forced the shuttering of many local businesses that stopped advertising in their local paper.

Newspapers, which have seen their revenues plummet, responded by laying off the people who bring the news or dropping the days they publish. That threatens the access to vital news by people in the community who themselves may be out of a job temporarily or permanently and can no longer afford newspaper subscriptions.

Here’s how the Local Journalism Sustainability Act would help everyone caught in this vicious circle: • Credit for advertising in local newspapers and local SEE RIDINGS, PAGE 11

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Washington County Parks will feature fishing programs

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A Washington County fishing pier.

Programs include: • Family Fishing at Square Lake, 6 to 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 25. This is free, with a vehicle permit required. Registration is required, as space is limited. Meet at the fishing pier.

• Family Fly Fishing at Cottage Grove Ravine Regional Park, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. The program is free with a vehicle permit.

Registration is required, as space is limited. Meet at the canoe launch.

Reservations are required for these programs on the county’s website at www.co.washington.mn.us by searching “Fishing Programs.”

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HISTORY: Marine on St. Croix 175 years ago FROM PAGE 6

Croix: 150 Years of Village Life, he described the town between 1839 and 1895 as a “Lumber Village.”

Subsequent sections explore successive changes into a “Summer Haven,” and then to the present as “Metro-Marine.” Its first half-century was shaped by the timber industry, and settlers continued to arrive fashioning other commercial enterprises: blacksmith and carpenter shops, general merchandise and groceries, religious services by visiting Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists, hotels and eateries, and a post office. The first frame home was constructed by the lumber company in 1848 (still lived in), followed the next year by the first schoolhouse. By 1850, Marine had

a dozen buildings and, according to the Minnesota territorial House Journal, the village had grown in a decade to 187 residents—156 males and 31 females—a pioneer mill town, indeed.

In the fall of 1850, the celebrated Swedish author and women’s rights activist, Fredrika Bremer, visited the Marine-Scandia area and predicted, “What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become!” At precisely that moment the first of a tide of Swedish immigrants began inhabiting northern Washington, Chisago, and Isanti counties. Oscar Roos, Carl Fernstrom, and August Sandahl arrived in October and built a log cabin on Hay Lake, a few miles west of Marine. They stayed the winter and sold to the Daniel Nilson and

Magnus Englund families; a monument has commemorated the spot for many decades. The story of this mass migration, melding a Scandinavian character into the old New England fabric in the village of Marine, is a fuller story than can be told here. If the impulse to homemaking is universal, it is important then to remember that the disruption and dislocation of the native peoples’ ancient homeland gave place to the unbridled dreams and hopes of the newly arrived.

Phil Anderson is an emeritus professor of history at North Park University in Chicago. Since 1989, he has been president of the Swedish-American Historical Society in Chicago. Anderson lives in Marine on St. Croix.

The Washington County Board of Commissioners began work July 14 allocating the $31.7 million that the county received to assist residents in recovering from the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, and cover county response costs.

The money is part of the more than $1.8 billion that the state received from the federal government through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES), which is overseen by U.S. Treasury guidance. Of that amount, the state has provided $841 million to its counties, cities, and townships to cover the local costs of responding to the pandemic.

The county’s plan calls for a major portion of the funding to provide direct assistance to individuals and business; $5.25 million will be used for financial assistance to county residents, and $10 million will be used for economic and small business assistance. Of the $5.25 million directed to assist residents, $4 million be allocated to rental assistance and provide short-term mortgage assistance to avoid eviction or mortgage foreclosure. The additional $1.25 million will pay for basic needs for residents in need of safe housing during the pandemic, provide emergency food support, transportation, hygiene and cleaning supplies, and child care assistance to families impacted by the pandemic.

The county’s Community Development Agency (CDA) will administer the county’s small business assistance through the Open for Business program, which currently works with the CDA. Assistance will be in the form of grants of up to $15,000 to small businesses to reimburse the costs of business interruption caused by required closures or costs incurred to respond to the pandemic, including costs for changes that are necessary to operate safely under the public health guidelines. Most small business with fewer than 50 employees and less than $3.5 million in annual revenue will be eligible to apply.

The county will use a portion of the funding to reimburse itself for expenditures made to manage the pandemic, and modifications made to county facilities to allow county business to continue safely.

Reimbursement of costs will incur for county staff that were pulled away from their regular duties to respond to the pandemic. The CARES Act requires that the payments only be used to cover expenses that are necessary expenditures incurred due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. The money must be spent by the end of the year.

The county will also use funds for the acquisition and distribution of medical and protective supplies, including sanitizing products and personal protective equipment. It may also use the money to pay the expenses for public safety, public health, health care, human services, and similar employees whose work was to mitigate or respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency.

The spending plan calls for $1.5 million for public health work, including money to assist with contact tracing COVID-19 cases in the county, and the cost for a program to test residents in long-term care SEE SPENDING, PAGE 12

AREA CHURCHES Ascension Episcopal Church 214 North Third Street N, Stillwater (651) 439-2609 • www.aechurch.org Rev. Marilyn Baldwin Rev. Daniel V. Pearson, Interim Rector Mindy Boynton, Christian Ed/Youth Nancy Whipkey, Director of Music

The Baha’i Faith For information about Baha’i Faith or times and places of meetings call (651) 433-3686.

Christ Lutheran Church 150 Fifth Street, Marine (651) 433-3222, office ext. 10 Pastors Joel Martin and Hannah Bartos

Elim Lutheran Church Scandia (651) 433-2723 www.elimscandia.org Senior Pastor Scott Westphal Associate Pastor Meredith McGrath 9 a.m. Worship Outdoors at Gammelgarden

Faith Lutheran Church (ELCA) Faith Lutheran Church (ELCA) Forest Lake (651) 464-3323 886 North Shore Drive Pastor John Klawiter

Forest Hills

United Methodist Church Hwy. 97 at County Road 34 S.E. Forest Lake (651) 464-5249 Pastor: Rev. David Werner www.foresthillsumc.net

Grace Church 722 Seminole Ave. Osceola Pastor Mark Barlow “The Cure for the Common Church” e-mail: info@gracechurchosceola.com www.gracechurchosceola.com or call (715) 294-4222 or (715) 755-3454

Hosanna Lutheran Church (ELCA) Living, loving and serving as Jesus did... so that all may know him.

9300 Scandia Tr. N. Forest Lake (651) 464-5502 www.hosannaforestlake.net Linda Friesen, Lead Pastor Jen Collins, Associate Pastor

Lakes Free Church www.lakesfree.org Lindstrom (651) 257-2677 29620 Olinda Trail N. Senior Pastor Jason Carlson, Associate Pastor Stephen Moore

Lord of the Lakes Lutheran Church (LCMS)

25402 Itasca Avenue Forest Lake, MN 55025 651-462-3535 / lordofthelakes.org Pastor Craig Bertram

Maranatha Church Chisago Lakes Campus 10963 Lake Blvd. (Hwy 8) Chisago City (651) 257-8605 Pastor Bill Headley

Osceola Community Church

River Valley Christian Church Lake Elmo (651) 430-9950 5900 Lake Elmo Avenue N. (Hwy 36 & County Road 17) Pastor Jon Neitzel, Teen Pastor Greg Hamm Children’s Pastor Karen Hynes

St. Croix Falls Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

2492 Education Dr., Osceola, WI Larry Mederich, Pastor (715) 417-0608 • www.occconnect.org

201 North Adams St., St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 Rev. Kelli Clement www.scuuf.org

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St. Croix Falls United Methodist Church

2600 65th Avenue, Osceola, WI www.myomc.org/specialtyserv_1chapel.php 715-294-5645 fax: 715-294-5712 email: alan.hagstrom@myomc.org Chapel open daily for meditation.

Osceola United Methodist Church 306 River Street Osceola, WI (715) 755-2275 osceolaunitedmethodistchurch@gmail.com

Upper St. Croix Parish 300 N. Adams St. • (715)-483-9494 Pastor Carolyn Saunders Pastor MIke Brewbaker

St. Croix Valley Friends Meeting Stillwater (651) 439-7981 Seventh Day Adventist Church, Fifth & Laurel Streets

St. Francis Xavier Catholic

Church Father John Drees Three miles north on Hwy. 95 from Hwy. 97. West on Redwing 1/4 mile.

St. Joseph Catholic Church 490 Bench St., Taylors Falls, MN (651) 465-7345 Father John Drees

St. Joseph Catholic Cluster Osceola (715) 294-2243 Rev. Andy Anderson

Trinity Lutheran Church (WELS) Osceola (715) 294-2828 300 Seminole Avenue

Trinity Lutheran Church Stillwater (651) 439-7400 www.trinitylc.org • 115 North Fourth Street Pastors: Dan Poffenberger & Stephanie Vos,

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RIDINGS: Legislation that would support local news organizations considered ter and helps consumers while incentivizing support of local news organizations.

• Payroll credit for journalists. This five-year refundable tax credit could be used by local newspapers on compensation of its journalists up to $50,000 a year. The credit would cover 50% of compensation, up to $50,000, in the first year and 30% of compensation, up to $50,000, in each of the subsequent four years. This provision will go a long way toward ensuring that communities keep their local news coverage.

This simple yet comprehensive legislation helps the three keys to trustworthy, fair and accurate local journalism: citizens, business owners and journalists. This is not a bailout or handout to any of these elements of a thriving community — but an urgently needed assist with a strictly limited timeframe

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media. Businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees would be eligible for a fiveyear non-refundable tax credit to spend on advertising in local newspapers or local radio or television stations. The credit, up to $5,000 in the first year and $2,500 in each of the next four years, would cover 80% of advertising costs in the first year and 50% annually thereafter. This provision helps local businesses as well as local media companies.

• Credit for local newspaper subscriptions. The act provides for a non-refundable tax credit of up to $250 per year to help cover the costs of subscriptions to local newspapers, in print or digital form, that primarily produce content related to news and current events. The credit would cover 80% of subscription costs in the first year, and 50% thereaf-

responding to an unprecedented public health and economic crisis.

Please contact the office of your local U.S. representative to ask them to support your local businesses, your local news media and your access to the trustworthy local news that only your community newspaper provides by co-sponsoring the Local Journalism Sustainability Act. To see how to contact these legislators by email, phone or mail, just go to https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials.

You’ll be taking another important step toward helping your community and its small businesses, including the local newspaper, emerge healthy from this crisis.

On behalf of its approximately 1,500 newspaper and associate member companies, America’s Newspapers is committed to explaining, defending and

advancing the vital role of newspapers in democracy and civil life. We put an emphasis on educating the public on all the ways newspapers contribute to building a community identity and the success of local businesses. Learn more: www.newspapers.org

Editor’s Note: America’s Newspapers supports passage of the Local Journalism Sustainability Act, which was introduced July 16. It is critically important that newspapers across the country get involved and take action to encourage their Congressional representatives to support this legislation. Members are encouraged to publish this opinion piece and the accompanying editorial cartoon — or write their own editorial — to educate the public about this important issue.

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Arcola Bridge.

JULY 7

JULY 6

At 7:29 a.m., an alarm sounded on 5th Street.

At 2:19 p.m., an abandoned 911 call was reported on Judd Street.

At 6:36 p.m., trespassing was reported on Arcola Bridge.

JULY 11

At 7:41 p.m., a suspicious person/activity was reported at 180th Street N./Manning Trail N. At 8:38 p.m., a suspicious person/activity was reported on the 13000 block of May Avenue N.

At 1:19 p.m., an abandoned 911 call was reported on Maple Street/Judd Street.

At 1:23 p.m., an abandoned 911 call was reported on Judd Street/Maple Street.

May Township

JULY 5

At 12:39 p.m. a traffic stop was made at Square lake Trail N./Norell Avenue N. At 7:07 p.m., a suspicious person/activity was reported on Norell Avenue and Square Lake Trail N. At 11:51 p.m., trespassing was reported on

JULY 7

JULY 8 At 11:22 a.m., an animal complaint was reported on Manning Trail N./170th Street N. At 2:37 p.m., theft was reported on the 10000 block of 176th Street N. At 6:59 p.m., a traffic stop was reported on the 14000 block of St. Croix Trail N.

JULY 9

was reported on the 10000 block of 176th Street N. At 4 p.m., an animal complaint was reported on 170th Street N./Olinda Trail N. At 4:58 p.m., an animal complaint was reported on the 14000 block of Ostlund Trail N.

JULY 10 At 5:10 p.m., a park complaint was reported on the 15000 block of Square Lake Trail N. At 5:24 p.m., a watercraft complaint was reported at the Square Lake Boat Landing.

At 6:11 p.m., a watercraft complaint was reported on the 15000 block of Square Lake Trail N. At 10:26 p.m., an accident was reported at 116th Street N./Partridge Road N.

Scandia

JULY 11 At 12:23 p.m., a park complaint was reported

At 12:58 p.m., a theft

on the 15000 block of Square Lake Trail N. At 12:31 p.m., a park complaint was reported on the 15000 block of Square Lake Trail N. At 1:34 p.m., a park complaint was reported on the 15000 block of Square Lake Trail N. At 1:42 p.m., a park complaint was reported on the 15000 block of Square Lake Trail N. At 2:21 p.m., a park complaint was reported on the 15000 block of Square Lake Trail N. At 4:44 p.m., a civil matter/dispute was reported on the 11000 block of 180th Street N. At 8:28 p.m., threats were reported on the 12000 block of Arcola Trail N.

JULY 5 At 1:04 a.m., a suspicious person/activity

was reported on the 14000 block of Scandia Trail N. At 12:03 p.m., a theft was reported at the Goose Lake Boat Landing.

At 1:15 p.m., a boat stop was made on Big Marine Lake.

At 1:21 p.m., a civil matter/dispute was reported in Scandia.

At 2:35 p.m., a civil matter/dispute as reported on the 23000 block of Manning Lane N. At 10:03 p.m., mail left was reported on the 18000 block of Layton Avenue N.

JULY 6 At 1:29 p.m., a fraud/ scam was reported on the 14000 block of Old Marine Trail N. At 3:15 p.m., a fraud/ scam was reported on the 21000 block of Ozark Avenue N. At 6:21 p.m., internet crimes were reported on the 14000 block of Old Marine Trail N. At 8:31 p.m., a neighbor dispute was reported on the 19000 block of Oxboro Avenue N.

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Spotlight on Area Businesses Edward Jones of Marine on St. Croix

What Should You Do with an Inheritance?

If you were to inherit a large sum of money, what would you do with it?

The question may not be hypothetical, especially if you are in the millennial, Gen X or Gen Z demographic groups. That’s because the baby boomers – often referred to as the richest generation in history – are poised to transfer some $30 trillion in assets over the next few decades, according to the consulting ¿rm Accenture.

Of course, this is a “macro” ¿gure, and everyone’s situation is different. Furthermore, since baby boomers are living longer, more active lives, the total amount passed on may end up being considerably less than the estimate. Nonetheless, you may well receive a medium-to-large inheritance someday, and when that day arrives, you’ll need to decide how best to use your newfound wealth.

Your ¿rst move may be to do nothing at all. Generally speaking, you have enough time to decide how to handle the various elements of an inheritance, although if you are inheriting an investment vehicle such as an IRA or a 401(k) plan, you will eventually have to make some decisions about liquidation or withdrawals.

(And since these accounts may carry tax obligations, it’s a good idea to consult with your tax advisor fairly soon after you receive your inheritance.) But if a big part of your inheritance simply consists of cash parked in a bank account, there’s nothing wrong with moving the money into a cash management account at a ¿nancial services company until you decide what to do with it However, after some time has passed, you may want to put your inheritance to good use. If you’re already working with a ¿nancial advisor, you might want to get some guidance on how to use your new assets to strengthen your existing investment strategy. Do you

have any gaps in certain areas? Can you use the money to help diversify your holdings? Diversi¿cation can’t guarantee pro¿ts or protect against all losses, but it can help reduce the impact of volatility on your portfolio.

And, of course, if your inheritance is large enough, it may permit you to “max out” on your IRA for years to come, and possibly free you to have even more of your salary deferred into your 401(k) or similar employer-sponsored retirement account. Plus, you could use the money for other long-term goals, such as funding a tax-advantaged 529 college savings plan for your children.

You also might use part of your inheritance to donate to the charitable organizations you support. Due to recent changes in tax laws that caused many people to stop itemizing their deductions, charitable groups are in more need of support than ever.

And last, but certainly not least, take this opportunity to review your goals. Is your inheritance large enough for you to adjust your planned retirement age? And if that age may indeed change, what about your other plans for retirement? Will you now be free to travel more or pursue other hobbies? Will you even need to modify the way you invest for your new reality, possibly by taking a less aggressive approach? Again, a ¿nancial professional can help you answer these questions Someone thought enough of you to leave you a valuable inheritance – so use it wisely.

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JULY 10 At 3:25 p.m., a gas drive off was reported on the 14000 block of Scandia Trail N. At 4:08 p.m., a theft was reported on the 14000 block of Scandia Trail N. At 8:30 p.m., a vehicle unlock was reported on the 20000 block of Quinnell Avenue N. At 9:37 p.m., an accident was reported on St. Croix Trail N./O’Brien Trail N. At 11:09 p.m., an alarm sounded on the 15000 block of 240th Street N.

JULY 11 At 11:16 a.m., an abandoned 911 call was reported in Scandia.

At 4:10 p.m., a civil matter/dispute was reported on the 12000 block of Mayberry Trail N. At 6:19 p.m., a traffic complaint was reported on St. Croix Trail N./ Scandia Trail N.

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At 9:33 a.m., an animal complaint was reported on the 11000 block of Mayberry Trail N. At 12:36 p.m, a fraud/ scam was reported on the 23000 block of Nolan Avenue N. At 4:57 p.m., a train complaint was reported on Manning Trail N./ Scandia Trail N. At 9:41 p.m., a disturbance was reported on the 16000 block of O’Brien Trail N. At 10:57 p.m., a fire was reported on the 16000

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facilities in the county during the remainder of 2020.

The federal funding will also cover nearly $1.5 million that has already or will be spent for equipment and facility modifications to maintain safety in county facilities. Other money will be used to pay the added

expense of administering the primary and general elections, as well as costs incurred to support county teleworking.

In addition to the money that the county received, cities and townships in the county received a total of $19 million in aid to be used for similar expenses at the city and township level.