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INGRID BERGMAN IN SCANDIA? Yes, it really happened — a look back to 1942. PAGE 9

Game offers firstperson perspective on St. Croix River history

BY GREG SEITZ REPRINTED FROM ST. CROIX 360

come, first-served and items must be small enough to be carried in to the library building. The fix-it clinic is free. Items that could be repaired at a fix-it clinic include household items, such as broken lamps, blenders, or toasters, or small electronics. Participants will have their items weighed by Washington County

I stand on the banks of the St. Croix River and watch it flow past, listen to the birds singing overhead. The water is clear and sounds like a whisper.

On the other side, something glows golden, and I walk into the water and past an island, coming up to a birch bark canoe. The glowing object is a basket of wild rice, and I pick it up. An Ojibwe woman’s voice fills the air, talking about old ways of living off the land that had been disrupted by the arrival of rifles, alcohol and companies with an unquenchable thirst for beaver furs.

Decades later, I stand in the same spot and watch lumber and paddleboats compete for space on the St. Croix. The bluffs have been stripped naked, the water is filled with white pine floating down to the mills. Big flat-bottomed craft carry immigrants, provisions, newspapers and SUBMITTED the mail upstream to what Dave Beck (UW-Stout) was recently the far-flung frontier of America.

Leaping through time, a new video game immerses players in a small slice of the St. Croix over a significant span of 200 years. Players wander a section of braided river channels, bluffs, and a cabin perched overlooking the river among a stand of huge white pine.

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Scandia Elementary Holiday Concert Sixth grade choir students: front row from left-Gabby Soderlind, Jake Quevedo, Jack Thill, Emma Larsen, Jackson Harris and Rylen Kissell. Second row: Kaylee Robinson, Addie Wood, Mason Johnsen, Lyla Becker, Jackson Amlee and Kennedy Kari. Back row: Lucia Stene Carisza Bauer, Jackalynn Rapheal, Noelle Boerboom and Grace True. Director: Kelly Larson.

Fix-It Clinic offers hope for broken household items Washington County Library is offering a second chance for broken items destined for the garbage. Jan. 12 residents can bring these items to the Fix-It Clinic at R.H. Stafford Library in Woodbury.

A fix-it clinic brings together those with a knack for repairing things and individuals looking to save their broken items from being thrown away. Participants

can bring in up to three items to work alongside a fixer who will disassemble, troubleshoot and repair the piece. Washington County Library is also looking for volunteers to lend their time and talents at the Fix-It Clinic. If you are handy and have a flair for repair, visit WashCoLib. Link/FixIt for the volunteer application.

Fix-it clinic sessions are first-

‘Beneath The Ink’ at next documentary night In Ohio, a tattoo artist is offering a second chance to those who have moved beyond racism and hate, saying, "bring me your mistakes." Inspired by recent events, Billy Joe White and his Red Rose Tattoo Studio are turning swastikas and Klan imagery into mandalas and eagles, promoting a simple concept: erase the hate.

Cy Dodson’s 13-minute documentary about White and his studio, “Beneath the Ink,” offers a timely glimpse in the culture of the western foothills of Appalachia. The film, which will be featured at Marine’s next documentary night, reveals heartfelt stories of change and redemption.

The Marine Film Society and Marine Community

Library will present “Beneath the Ink” and two more short films “My Last Breath” and “The Ragman.” All are by by Dodson, a Minneapolis filmmaker.

Dodson’s films have screened at numerous film festivals across the U.S. and garnered several awards including a Midwest Regional Emmy for Best Documentary.

“Beneath The Ink” is Dodson’s most recent documentary. The film was shot in his hometown of Zanesville, Ohio.

“Although I was lucky to have been raised by loving and non-racist parents, it wasn't uncommon to hear racial slurs from various uncles and cousins,” he said of his experience growing up there.

The free screening will be

held at the Marine Village Hall on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019 at 7 p.m.

The Marine Documentary Film Series is supported by both Marine Library Association and a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council.

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GAME: Computer game offers players ďŹ rst-person perspective on St. Croix River history FROM PAGE 1

Titled “Tombeaux,� the game was developed

by Dave Beck, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Its objective is not to score points, or set speed records, or blow up bad guys, but simply to witness a couple centuries

wandering pace, it takes about a 30 minutes to cover the two centuries of story. “’Tombeaux’ encourages the player to take their time as they investigate and wander through its world. My hope is they will forget they are playing a game but instead experience

help from numerous people, and spent hundreds of hours doing historical research. In August 2015, he brought an early version of the game to the St. Croix Watershed Research Station, where he let the staff play it and offer feedback.

The details bring the game experience to life.

depth necessary for the game to succeed.

Tombeaux is based on real people, places, and events, but blends fiction and non-fiction artfully to express the experiences of life throughout the river’s recent history.

Optimism crashing into harsh reality is a running theme, and

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A scene from Level 3 of Tombeaux.

of stories.

Born on the banks Beck first began work on the game while an artist-in-residence at the historic Pine Needles cabin on the river in Marine on St. Croix. (All proceeds from the $4.99 game are being donated to the St. Croix Watershed Research Station, which runs the artist residency.)

The game was released this fall after four years of development. It was first available to play at The Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson during the Heart of the River art show. It is now available to purchase and download on game platform Steam. At a

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an interactive, historical movie of sorts,� Beck said.

Beck teaches digital imaging, 3D design, and game development at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He is Director and Associate Dean of the School of Art & Design. “I was essentially living in the real-life version of the future level of my video game,� Beck said of his residency.

The cabin in the game is partly an homage to Pine Needles, which was was built in the early 20th century just north of the village of Marine, and still looks out over the St. Croix with a phalanx of tall trees standing guard. A player can see how a stay on the St. Croix today would remind an artist that all rivers were once as wild and free.

The game was completed at additional residency programs around the country, and in Beck’s free time.

Seeking to get the details right, he enlisted

Fifteen different characters narrate their experiences along the river, sharing the hopes and hardships of life on the frontier, and the sorrow of a paradise lost. There are Ojibwe men and women, French fur traders, American adventurers, loggers, steamboat captains, Scandinavian immigrants, a National Park ranger, and even an American president.

As players explore the river, they pick up objects and hear the human stories connected to the item, while watching the scenery change from pristine to polluted.

The experience of traveling through time on the same section of river had an unexpected impact. We see the trees cut down, the river level raised to float logs, the water contaminated, a place of serene beauty becomes an eyesore.

People and progress Beck assembled a stable of voice actors to record the dialogue, who gave the characters

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Destiny and destruction At the beginning of the game, the St. Croix is a place of healing.

The narrator, the one common voice heard throughout the six levels, finds relief from “consumptive ailments.�

His health improvements seem to also be inspired by the apparently unlimited opportunities in the vast land of forests and prairies.

In Tombeaux, the river starts to suffer once the American frontier reaches the region. Three decades after Lewis and Clark first crossed the continent, the St. Croix Valley was opened to settlers and loggers.

This was another step in America’s march westward, fulfilling what many whites saw as the nation’s destiny, to control the land from coast to coast.

This was the “New World,� never mind the indigenous people who already lived along the river. It was a chance to leave dirty old Europe behind and “remake the world.� The game quotes one of America’s “Founding Fathers� to make this point. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand, and a race of men, perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom from the event of a few months.� – Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

the actor voicing settler Kristina Nilsson makes players feel the disappointment and loneliness of life where their farm can’t sustain their family, and her husband spends all winter gone at a logging camp. “Why must I share my husband with a lumber baron? A scoundrel, who takes his labor but returns but a fraction of its profit,� Nielsen laments.

What starts out as a place of promise, with seemingly endless resources of fish and game, The vast land reprelumber, and space, slowsented a new start for ly becomes people who the setting had been for destrucborn with tion and limited opfailure. portunities, This is no land or why the wealth to game bears provide for Dave Beck its name: their families, no way Creator of “Tombeaux� up, and A tombeaux is a song just one way out: across or poem written and the ocean. They came to performed to mark the America by the boatload death of someone, relatand were encouraged to ed to the word “tombkeep going west, where stone.� Some explanathe country needed tions for the St. Croix’s to expand its populaname credit French fur tion. Once the American traders who left crosses government acquired at comrades’ graves on land from Native Amerits banks. icans, they gave much of The game Tombeaux it away to white people basically argues that the willing to farm it. past two centuries have This new start for the

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settlers meant the end for the river’s riches. The wildlife was slaughtered, the prairie sod plowed under, the old-growth forests felled. The ambition of claiming the bountiful country as American soil was perhaps only matched by its steady destruction. Soon after Tombeaux’s hunters report easily killing dozens of animals in a day, both settlers and native people find themselves starving.

Later come the boaters who violate the silence, and invasive species that disrupt the ecosystem.

Ultimately, the river is almost unrecognizable, clogged with trash and waste.

The inexhaustible resources are exhausted.

The river remains It might seem a sour note to end on: the St. Croix befouled and taken for granted. That possible fate is important to keep in mind, but hopefully is being prevented by people and organizations working to protect the St. Croix.

The last moments of the game give players reason for hope. The view suddenly lifts from the water, seeing the original cabin surrounded by pollution and dead trees, then climbs into a fog, only to emerge among the towering white pines of the game’s beginning, the little cabin far below, the birds singing.

Maybe humans have screwed up our chance with the St. Croix — but there is always a chance for another fresh start.

The narrator closes the game by reading a poem called “I Bring You Beauty from the River,� written in the 1920s by Ruth Lusk Ramsey at her cabin near Copas.

I bring you beauty from the river, Shadowy hills in a rising mist, Pine trees standing high And a river flowing, flowing, Flows forever by.

I bring you beauty from the river Where leaves a golden carpet lie.

There are no smoky buildings here To shut away the morning sky— Just shadowy hills in a rising mist And pine trees standing high.

That’s the same poem that closes James Taylor Dunn’s 1964 book about St. Croix River history.

Dunn’s family built and owned the Pine Needles cabin before donating it to the Research Station for artist residencies in 1999.

It seems fitting for the game to mirror the ending, as Tombeaux is an interesting modern supplement to Dunn’s exhaustive book.

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DECEMBER 27 Super Story Time Super Story Time with Suzanne at the Marine Library on Dec. 27 at 10:30 am. 121 Judd Street.

DECEMBER 29 Audubon Christmas Bird Count On Saturday, Dec. 29, the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count will be held in the Marine and May Township area. A dozen local volunteers will be searching for birds from the north end of Arcola Trail to O’Brien State Park. Other teams will be counting in territories covering a 15-mile radius around Withrow as part of this nationwide citizen science activity. If you see any unusual winter bird species or large flocks of birds, please report them before the count day to Beth Honetschlager at 651-983-6121 or bhonetschlager@gmail.com.

CPG will be the featured speaker at the Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019 meeting of the DFL East Metro Senior Caucus, 11:30 a.m. at Sgt. Pepper’s Bar and Grill (930 Helena Ave. N., Oakdale). Michany will speak on Minnesota and Federal Tax Changes, What do you need to know about your taxes? All are welcome to attend; no fee. Participants buy their own lunch.

Writers Group People who are interested in writing for their own pleasure are invited to this informal gathering for encouragement and feedback. Meet at Osceola Public Library in the new Discovery Center, 5-7 p.m. Contact barbaraywetzel@gmail or 715.294.2657 to send your writing piece to the group before the meeting. Free; everyone welcome.

JANUARY 14 Stillwater Critical

Thinking Club Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, 7 p.m. Family Means Bldg (1785 Northwestern Ave, Stillwater). Topic: Invisible Children, Preteen Mothers, Adolescent Felons and What We Can Do About It. Speaker: Mike Tikkanen, founder and president of KARA (Kids At Risk Action Group) www. invisiblechildren.org. In 1996 Mike registered as Guardian Ad Litem in Hennepin County and has helped more than 50 abused children while working as a business/ real estate broker.

JANUARY 18 St. Croix Crossing quartet and Marine Library Birthday Friday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m.

An evening of fabulous entertainment by the award-winning barbershop quartet, St. Croix Crossing. They have performed at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville

ONGOING NAMI Minnesota (National Alliance on Mental Illness) sponsors free support groups for families who have a relative with a mental illness. The group meets on the first and third Mondays of each month, 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the Stillwater Library, 224 Third St. N., in Margaret Rivers Room A. Use the Third Street entrance and free parking ramp.

FFI: Call Marie or Bob at 651-770-1436.

Marine Documentary Night The Marine Film Society and the Marine Community Library present three documentary short films: “Beneath the Ink,” “My Last Breath,” and The Ragman.” All are by Minneapolis filmmaker, Cy Dodson. The free screening will be held at the Marine Village Hall (121 Judd Street) on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019 at 7 p.m.

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AA Big Book Study: Mondays, 7 p.m., at Elim Lutheran Church, Scandia, in Room LL2 (lower level 2). Enter through the preschool door.

A two night event starting in January about simplifying your retirement will be held at the Discovery Center in Osceola. To register go to: www.simplifyyourretirement.com/ osceola.

Tri-County Seniors (50+) DFL Luncheon Meeting

JANUARY 10 Ruth Ann Michnay,

Swedish Dinner Christ Lutheran Church in Marine On St. Croix will hold their annual Tradition Swedish Dinner from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Hand rolled meatballs, lutefisk and other items will be served. Children 16 and under eat free. All proceeds support local, national and international mission projects.

Christ Lutheran Church is located at 150 5th Street, Marine on St. Croix. Call 651-433-3222 for further details.

Stillwater support group for families

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— and now at Marine Village Hall! One quartet member is our Marine neighbor — Jared Hoke. We’ll also eat cake to celebrate Marine Community Library’s seventh birthday. Free.

All are welcome. Marine Village Hall (121 Judd Street, Marine on St. Croix). FFI: MarineCommunityLibrary.org.

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Scandia students keep reading On Monday, Dec. 17, representatives from the Renaissance MyON company came to Scandia Elementary IB World School to encourage third graders to keep reading as part of their statewide initiative, “Read to the Final Four.”

MyON has offered their software program of reading books to all third graders in the state to encourage reading in a friendly competition to see which school can read the most minutes.

Pictured: Scott Mader from MyON presented a set of headphones to the school’s top reader so far, Rhett Plummer.

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Camera Club The St. Croix Valley Camera Club meets the third Monday of each month, 7 p.m. at the Chisago County Government Center in Center City. Meetings typically include a presentation by a professional or award-winning photographer, followed by more casual time for discussion. Photographers of all interests and abilities are welcome.

Mental Health Support Group A NAMI Connection peer support group for adults recovering from mental illness meets bi-weekly in Stillwater.

The free group is sponsored by NAMI Minnesota (National Alliance on Mental Illness). Trained facilitators who are also in recovery lead NAMI Connection groups. The group meets the first and third Mondays of each month, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at Episcopal Church of the Ascension Office (215 North 4th St., Stillwater). FFI: Call Diane at 651-724-0977 or NAMI at 651-645-2948.

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Built for a short time

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hope you had a wonderful Christmas. With Christmas Eve on Monday and Christmas Day on Tuesday, many people, including our staff, were treated to long weekends. This is the reason your paper arrived a day late and the same thing will happen next week with the New Years holiday.

Did you get what you wanted for Christmas? Were you able to rise to the challenge of “some assembly required”? Did you remember the batteries?

Christmas is a time when many new things are purchased. Some items are for fun, others serve a more practical purpose. People been decrying the increasPublisher have ingly more commercial and materialistic trends in our society for Tom Stangl decades, and a look at Christmas giving reveals a great deal about our priorities.

I am concerned about the lack of quality in many items made today and the increasing “throwaway” nature of our daily lives. I read recently that a staggering 90 percent of plastics made today are not recycled. I initially found this hard to believe because I thought awareness of the issue and recycling was happening. But as I thought about it, I recalled how many times I remove plastic packaging or used plastic items that were designed for a single use.

It is staggering when you realize how pervasive plastic is in our daily lives and the small amount that is actually being reused.

One of the large markets for recycled plastics has been China. With the current dip in oil prices and the ongoing trade war underway between our nations, plastics that would normally get reused are piling up in warehouses.

A year ago, China passed a policy it called "National Sword" that banned post-consumer plastic and mixed paper imports starting in 2018. China said the plastics it was importing were too often dirty, of low quality or contaminated with nonrecyclable material.

This is a much needed wake up call to us all.

For years, what we thought was a growing and vibrant market for recyclables was greatly dependent on China. It’s well past time that we took a long, hard look at how we package and sell items.

The business model of “planned obsolescence,” where consumer goods are designed to last a short period of time, is also contributing to our growing glut of trash. Items that used to last for decades are built to wear out sooner and spare parts are made of inferior materials so they need to be replaced more often. When consumers are faced with repairs that amount to over half the cost of replacing the item with a new model, it is not a large leap (or push) to buy the latest and greatest model.

I find this to be more than a little upsetting.

Proud brands that made their mark on being dependable are now breaking down in less than a decade of use.

So, what can one person do to make a change?

I think the best that we can do is to make a conscious choice to buy items that come in less packaging and can be reused, repurposed or recycled. I can recall as a child drinking Mountain Dew or Coke in glass bottles that went back to the bottler to be sanitized and reused. The pop tasted just fine.

When we reward firms that do the right thing, others will follow suit. It will take time, but it will be worth it.

The alternative is oblivion.

As always, I welcome your comments. You can reach me by email at tstangl@theameryfreepress. com, telephone 715-268-8101 or write me at P.O. Box 424, Amery, WI, 54001.

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t’s that time of year when a person gets to thinking about what they’ve accomplished in the last 12 turns of the calendar’s pages.

Aside from telling a collection of the community’s stories, I find myself wondering what the paper has accomplished over the last year.

Sure, telling those stories is the paper’s primary job. But does it all add up to something larger?

I rarely pause to reflect on this question. Most weeks I feel like I’m hanging on, just barely, as we travel at warp speed to deadline. Once the stories are written and sent to print, Editor the clock starts ticking again.

Suzanne Lindgren But I think there is something larger at stake, perhaps even a few things: reader trust, the health of the paper and the health of the community. The way I see it, they’re all intertwined.

We’ll start with trust. Recently, a colleague sent a link to an article that led with this encouraging tidbit: “For the first time, media is the least trusted institution globally.”

Well, fabulous. The statement was based on a study comparing trust in institutions including media, business and government. Yes, you read that right.

People trust government and business more than the news. That’s how dire the situation has become.

To be fair, the study included large news outlets such as cable news channels driven by national market forces. The business model and content of those channels is so vastly different from a small-town paper’s that the two can hardly be compared. Thus, I was relieved when the article cited a study, Poynter’s

Media Trust Survey, that found trust in local media is considerably higher than national media.

As was the article’s ultimate point, it turns out there are things a small-town paper can do to end the “fake news” narrative, at least locally. Getting out of the office and showing up in the community, for instance.

Being accessible, accountable and accurate, for another.

In other words, being trustworthy. Novel idea, right?

Credibility and accountability are essential to the health of the paper. But a credible, accountable paper is also important to the health of a community. As I pointed out in this column earlier in the year, the mere presence of a local newspaper can prevent mismanagement of public finances, ultimately keeping taxes lower.

And that’s not simply because of the paper’s role reporting on government affairs. It’s also because the newspaper is a place for residents to exchange ideas and build community. Without a newspaper, locals must find another venue for civic dialog.

Although The Messenger is small, barebones and imperfect, accuracy and accountability are always our aim. And when it comes to trust, there’s evidence that we’re doing OK. Subscriptions are up 9 percent from this time last year and more than 30 percent from late 2014.

This is good news because together, we’re making the community stronger. Thank you for reading and thanks, too, for your support. See you in 2019!

I welcome your response to this editorial column: editor@countrymessenger.com.

Trust in local media is considerably higher than in national media.

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Warm up Winter Fun with Potato Soup

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eep family get-togethers simple and focus on having fun.

When my sister and her family come to visit, not only does she bring suitcases, but she also brings laundry baskets filled with gifts, food, ice skates, and a cooler the size of small car.

The cooler is filled with dinners, goodies, and breakfast fixings—thankfully she is ready to cook.

After the busiest time of the year, I am baked and cooked out.

This year, I am volunteering to make lunches and am more than ready to hand over my apron for dinner and breakfast.

Our families have been getting Wild Chow together for a winter fun weekend since we both started having kids.

Lisa Erickson Between us, we have 10, some of whom are now married and have kids of their own. It’s crazy when we are all together.

Everyone spends lots of time outside sledding, skating, playing boot hockey, and endless rounds of ping-pong. All that activity works up quite an appetite. Plus, with everyone going in ten different directions, it’s hard to round everyone up for a set lunchtime.

We make enormous amounts of food. Dinner is pretty civilized and more formal, but lunch is usually, “on your own.”

Soup is always on the menu. This year I’m making German potato soup in honor of our dad, who loved German food. This soup is filling and keeps well. It can be made days ahead of time and reheats in the microwave nicely. I double this recipe for this crowd.

Soup is a perfect meal when there isn’t a set lunchtime. I did my part and I’m more than happy to sit back and let everyone serve themselves.

Keep your winter parties easy—both you and your guests will be happy.

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less-seasoned journalist would have given up much earlier, but not Iris Long.

This “was not her first rodeo,” as she often said, and she had every intention of getting to the bottom of the story concerning the events at First Baptist Church on Sunday.

Juliette Stoughton had been difficult to track down, but there could have been Columnist any number of reasons for that.

Maybe she was in Kevin Slimp Springfield doing bi off shopping, h i a bit or perhaps she was off meditating somewhere, as she was known to do now and then.

Iris would find out soon enough, but her primary objective was to get some solid information for her upcoming edition of Lennox Valley Hometown News. That left her just 24 hours to get to the bottom of this story before deadline.

Thinking Sarah Hyden-Smith might have an idea of Juliette’s whereabouts, Iris stopped by the Methodist church just in time to hear the part-time secretary, Kari Lynn Harrell, answer a phone solicitor.

“Valley Methodist Church,” Kari Lynn answered. After a pause, continued, “You’d like to speak to the owner?”

Iris knew this was going to be good. Kari Lynn had a reputation as someone who didn’t waste time and especially didn’t like people who wasted her time.

Kari Lynn continued. “That would be God. Should I put you straight through?”

Apparently the solicitor heard enough and hung up before getting to hear Kari Lynn’s patented, “Have a holy day!”

Laughing at the “sucker” on the other end of the phone call, Kari Lynn looked up to see Iris.

“Hello, Iris,” she said, still grin-

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moral support.”

“Well, do you mind telling me what happened to you after the deacons rushed you out of the sanctuary yesterday?” Iris asked.

“The whole town is buzzing about it.”

“They didn’t hurt me or anything,” Juliette answered, “but they weren’t exactly nice, either.

The head of the deacons, Harley somebody, told me I’d need to speak with Rev. Prather at another time. He said it was wrong for me to make a scene on Sunday.”

“So you just met with him?” Iris asked.

“Yes,” Juliette answered timidly.

“Well, are you going to go the Men’s Breakfast and Turkey Shoot?” Long asked.

“He said I was welcome to help prepare breakfast. He said there would be a lot of nice women there. He even said I might meet a nice single man if I worked in the serving line.”

Juliette turned to ask Sarah.

“What do you think I should do?

What would you do?”

Thinking for a moment, Sarah’s face lit up. “You know. I might just have an idea.” After pausing to think, she continued, “Could you both meet me at the Hoffbrau in 30 minutes?”

Walking into the newspaper office, Iris heard the last few seconds of “Renderings with Raymond” as Marvin Walsh offered his parting thoughts, “I guess the best idea is, if somebody looking like Perry Como comes knocking at your door, slam it as hard as you can, right in his face!”

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ning. She really did like getting the best of phone solicitors. “How may I help you today?”

“I came by to see if Rev. HydenSmith was available,” answered Iris, knowing better than to use too many words. Kari Lynn had things to do, after all.

“You just missed her,” the matter-of-fact secretary answered. “She walked out of here with Juliette Stoughton about 10 minutes ago. I believe Sarah said something about walking over to the Baptist church.”

“Hmmmm,” Iris thought to herself. “I wonder what that’s about.”

“Have a holy day!” Kari Lynn shouted as Iris exited the office, quickly making her way to the Baptist church.

Iris walked up the cobblestone sidewalk leading to the Lennox Valley Baptist Church office just as her two friends were exiting.

Juliette was in a frenzy about something, whispering to Sarah as fast as she could while they walked.

“Well, what a coincidence,” Iris exclaimed as the two looked up to see her.

“What are you doing here?”

Juliette asked.

“Well,” Iris answered, “I could make something up about coming by to visit with Rev. Billy Joe, but the truth is I have been looking for you.”

“Oh, I’m sorry,” Juliette said sheepishly. “I’ve been busy, doing a lot of thinking.”

“I mostly wanted to make sure you were okay,” Iris offered. “I heard about your experience on Sunday, and I was concerned.”

Iris wasn’t trying to deceive her friend. She had been concerned, very concerned, about Juliette.

Iris was a journalist, however, and wanted to know what happened after Juliette had been whisked out of the sanctuary on Sunday morning.

“I offered to come with Juliette to meet with Rev. Prather,” Sarah said. “She wanted to speak to him, and I offered to go with her, for

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f you read this column with any regularity you might have wondered why I revisited the Birkebeiner cross country ski race last week, a 32-mile race I completed back in 1982. It’s simple. At age 68 I’m thinking about doing it again. Call me crazy, and I have friends and family who do, and if Jack Rabbit can do it at 76 I’m thinking I might give it a try this season.

Who is Jack Rabbit? He was a skier who had skied in every Birkebeiner from its debut in 1973 to the year I skied it. His last name was not Rabbit, but that was his nickname. I can’t remember his last name and I’m not sure if he continued to ski the Birkie after 1982. I actually skied with him on the trail during that very race in 1982. I caught him and his wife, with and passed them. Being Wild River chatted 32 at the time I figured that was something I could and should do, Trails although it was never a goal. That’s Jim Bennett the thing about a long race. I paired up and chatted with quite a few other ki It was not a race I had planned on wining. skiers.

In fact the World Class and Olympic XC skiers had already crossed the finish line before I came to the first rest/first aid station.

This year, for some reason, my son Josh has gotten all excited about cross country (XC) skiing, something we once did a lot of together. So much so that he bought a new pair of Fischer XC skis, poles and boots. He decided to stay with traditional waxable

skis and boots rather than get set up with skate ski XC gear or no wax skis.

I compared his new gear to mine and couldn’t find a lot of differences. I was impressed that Fischer is still around and that the Fischer Racing skis I bought back in the early ‘80s are still a high quality XC ski. I noticed Josh’s skis are shorter than mine. Back then, the philosophy was the longer skis distributed your weight better to increase your glide and kick. The old adage doesn’t matter with XC skis anymore evidently. The other surprise is that my skis, a foot longer than his, weigh just 3 ounces more!

I skied many XC trails back in the day and am looking forward to getting back on those and some new ones. My favorite trail was the Birkie trail that runs from Cable to Hayward. Another great XC trail area was near Minocqua, at the time the National XC Skiing Training Center for our Olympic XC Team.

Another fun place to ski was at Hardscrabble Ski Resort near Rice Lake. It had the longest downhill XC ski run I had ever skied; it made your eyes water.

I found a great website called norwiski.com that lists many of the top trails in Northwest Wisconsin.

It allows you to link directly to a site with detailed information to each spot for location, description, management, facilities, parking, plus food and lodging nearby. Now all we need is snow!!!

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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Schools encouraged to apply for pollinator grants Minnesota high school students can help establish habitat for imperiled insect pollinators and monarch caterpillars.

High school agriculture and science educators in 20 Minnesota counties are encouraged to apply for $1,000 grants to raise and transplant native wildflowers in rural areas.

Insect pollinators and monarch caterpillars are essential for crop pollination and ecological diversity. In recent years their numbers are low partly due to loss of native wildflower habitat near farmland.

In response, Sand County Foundation and Enel Green Power North America Inc. are offering a pollinator habitat grant program for high schools. The program supplies plants, growing materials and $1,000 grants to high school agricultural and science departments.

Successful applicants will receive about 600 seedlings of five native wildflower species in March. Students must raise the plants in school greenhouses, transplant them to appropriate sites in the spring, and maintain and monitor the plants through the summer.

“The objective of the grants is for students to add native wildflower diversity to agricultural settings for the benefit of pollinators.” explained Craig

Ficenec, Sand County Foundation program director.

“For transplanting, we encourage applicants to find nooks and crannies within the working landscape. This could be a field buffer, a private roadside, open space around agricultural facilities, or other uncultivated areas” he added.

The deadline to apply is January 18.

To apply, visit www.sandcountyfoundation.org/SchoolGrant.

Teachers will receive a training webinar, remote consultation from a private native plant nursery, and a $1,000 cash award paid to school districts or FFA chapters to offset project expenses.

This opportunity is made possible to Minnesota schools in Enel Green Power’s 20-county service area: Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Clay, Dodge, Goodhue, Kandiyohi, Le Sueur, Lincoln, Meeker, Olmstead, Pipestone, Rice, Rock, Sherburne, Stearns, Steele, Waseca, Washington and Wright counties.

Enel Green Power North America Inc. operates the 150 MWdc Aurora Solar project in Minnesota.

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LIBRARY: Fix-it clinic FROM PAGE 1

Department of Public Health and Environment, which is partnering with the library on the fix-it clinic. Weighing the items provides an accurate number of the total pounds of potential waste being kept out of the waste stream thanks to the clinic.

The upcoming Fix-It Clinic is one example of the way Washington County Library advances its strategic initiatives to spark opportunity, inspire curiosity, and champion innovation through new programs, events, and offerings.

IF YOU GO WHERE: R.H. Stafford Library, 8595 Central Park Place, Woodbury (in Valley Creek A/B rooms in the lower level) WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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County will request foundation money Washington County will request $81,875 from the Huelsmann Foundation to restore doors and windows in the county’s Historic Courthouse over the next two years.

The County Board approved the request Dec. 18. The Historic Courthouse is in Stillwater.

The project would help bring the building up to fire code by having operating windows that can open and close, and repair leaking and rotting wood around the doors.

The grant does not require any match by the county.

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County will request speed studies on county roads

PUBLIC NOTICES CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAME Minnesota Statutes Chapter 333

son during regular office hours at City Hall or by standard or electronic mail.

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1. The exact name under which the business is or will be conducted: DIANEDAVIES.COM. 2. The address of the principal place of business: 8481 Quaint Ave. S., Hastings, MN 55033.

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: Diane Davies, 8481 Quant Ave. S., Hastings, MN 55033.

4. I, the undersigned, certify that I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in both capacities, I further certify that I have completed all required fields, and that the information in this document is true and correct and in compliance with the applicable chapter of Minnesota Statutes. I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Section 609.48 as if I had signed this document under oath: Cheyenne Moseley.

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SUMMARY PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE No. 205, AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING AN ADMINISTRATIVE CITATION PROGRAM, AND PROVIDING FOR THE PURPOSES AND ADMINISTRATION THEREOF

Dated December 7, 2018.

Filed with the State of Minnesota.

Published in The Country Messenger December 26, 2018 and January 2, 2018 SUMMARY PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE NO. 202, AN ORDINANCE GOVERNING THE “201” COMMUNITY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM On December 18, 2018, at a Regular Meeting of the Scandia City Council, by majority vote, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 202 which governs the “201” Community Sewage Treatment System. The ordinance repeals all previous ordinances governing the system and amends the previous ordinance regulations related to unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disturbance of the system and the cost of repairs to the system.

A printed copy of the Ordinance is available for inspection by any per-

SUMMARY PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE NO. 203, AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS OF CITY ORDINANCES AND REPEALING AN EXISTING ORDINANCE On December 18, 2018, at a Regular Meeting of the Scandia City Council, by majority vote, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 203 which establishes the penalty for violations of City ordinances and repeals the previous ordinance. The ordinance establishes the maximum penalty for petty misdemeanors and misdemeanors and designates a petty misdemeanor as the penalty where the penalty is not otherwise specified.

A printed copy of the Ordinance is available for inspection by any person during regular office hours at City Hall or by standard or electronic mail.

Published in The Country Messenger December 26, 2018 SUMMARY PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE NO. 204, AN ORDINANCE ELECTING TO MANAGE ITS RIGHT OF WAYS, ESTABLISHING THE PURPOSES AND ADMINISTRATION THEREOF, AND REPEALING CERTAIN EXISTING ORDINANCES On December 18, 2018, at a Regular Meeting of the Scandia City Council, by majority vote, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 204 which provides for the City’s management of its rights of way and repeals the previous ordinance. The ordinance amends the previous ordinance provisions regulating small cell wireless to be in conformity with FCC regulations and provides for the regulation of unopened streets.

A printed copy of the Ordinance is available for inspection by any person during regular office hours at City Hall or by standard or electronic mail.

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On December 18, 2018, at a Regular Meeting of the Scandia City Council, by majority vote, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 205 which establishes an administrative citation program.

The administrative citation can be used as an alternative to relying on courts to reconcile ordinance violations. Previously all ordinance violations were criminal offenses. The ordinance provides for notice to correct violations before a citation is issued, sets the penalty for violations, and provides for a hearing process if the citation is contested.

A printed copy of the Ordinance is available for inspection by any person during regular office hours at City Hall or by standard or electronic mail.

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SUMMARY PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE No. 206, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SCANDIA, MINNESOTA, ADOPTING A FEE SCHEDULE FOR THE CITY OF SCANDIA AND REPEALING THE 2018 FEE SCHEDULE ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE 195 On December 18, 2018, at a Regular Meeting of the Scandia City Council, by majority vote, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 206 which adopts a 2019 fee schedule and repeals the 2018 fee scheduled adopted by Ordinance 195.

A printed copy of the Ordinance is available for inspection by any person during regular office hours at City Hall or by standard or electronic mail.

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The Washington County Board of Commissioners requested Dec. 18 that the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) conduct a number of speed studies on county roads in 2019.

The studies will help determine the reasonable and safe speed limit on the roadway segments to be studied, and MnDOT will authorize the County Engineer to install and maintain the appropriate signs on the roadways.

The speed studies will be conducted at: • County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 4, from Parade Avenue North to Highway 95 in the City of Marine on St. Croix; • CSAH 13, from 44th Street North to 50th Street North in the cities of Lake Elmo and Oakdale; • CSAH 14, from Stagecoach Trail to Highway 95 in the City of Bayport; • CSAH 14, from 39th Street North to Mendel Avenue North in the City of Lake Elmo and Baytown Township; • CSAH 15, from 30th Street North to 43rd Street North in the City of Lake Elmo and Baytown Township; • CSAH 21, from 50th Street South to Hudson Road in the City of Afton;

• CSAH 21, from 34th Street North to CSAH 14 (Fifth Avenue North) in the City of Bayport and Baytown Township; • CSAH 24, from Minnesota Correctional Facility – Oak Park Heights to 65th Street North in the cities of Oak Park Heights and Stillwater; and • CSAH 38, from Glen Road to the Interstate 494 westbound ramp in the City of Newport.

State law grants the authority to set speed limits only to MnDOT, including for all local and county roadways, to ensure objective and consistent practices for setting speed limits throughout the state. The law further requires that these limits be set based on the results of an engineering and traffic investigation.

MnDOT conducts such investigations upon the request of the local road authority. Washington County has requested that MnDOT study these county highway segments which have been affected by construction, development, or other changes to the roadway character. Based on the results of the studies, MnDOT will determine the appropriate speed limit for the requested segments and the county will be required to install speed limit signs accordingly.

Board sets salaries for commissioners County Sheriff, County Attorney, County Administrator The Washington County Board of Commissioners set salaries for 2019 for several elected and appointed officials Dec. 18, including salaries for board members.

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Commissioners set their salary at $69,000 for 2019, the first increase in commissioner salaries in nearly a decade, with the last increase in 2009.

The board also set

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salaries for: • Attorney Pete Orput, at $180,159; • Sheriff Dan Starry, at $161,570; and • Administrator Molly O’Rourke, at $185,161.

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This week in history: A very Swedish Christmas JESSICA ANDERSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In 1943 United Films presented a short film documenting Swedish immigrants and their descendants in the United States. The documentary was hosted and narrated by the famous Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman who travelled the U.S. in order to explain the kinship felt between Swedes and America. While there are, and were at the time, cities all over the U.S. with high populations of Swedish immigrants, Bergman only travels to a handful of these cities to see what life is like for the Swedes there. These include New York, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis.

From Minneapolis she traveled to more rural areas, including Scandia and Lindstrom. Quoting the famous Swedish author Fredrika Bremer, Bergman explained that in the landscape of the northwest “the Swede would find his clear, romantic lakes, … plains…, and valleys.”

They showcase the work done on the Swenson farm, Bergman even helping with some of the chores. When she travelled to Lindstrom, she found the townspeople in the middle of their weekly tradition of cleaning the streets

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Ingrid Bergman stayed in Scandia while footage of the film was shot. “Look” magazine published a story and photos about her visit in their April 1943 issue. Here, 86-year-old Mrs. Abraham Johnson teaches Bergman to spin on a spinning wheel from Sweden. According to the caption in “Look,” Mrs. Johnson, “unaware of her pupil’s identity, asked ‘What is your name?’ Miss Bergman said, ‘Ingrid,’ and took the old woman in her arms and kissed her.”

and sidewalks. They had decided as a community that despite wartime difficulties, they would work together one day per week to keep their town looking nice. They began this tradition in the early years of the twentieth century; it

seems to have sadly fallen by the wayside sometime after WWII. On Christmas Day, at Scandia’s own Elim Church they filmed the Christmas mass.

Bergman explained that she found the highest spiritual connection for

the Swedish people in America to be Christmas time. The documentary shows full pews at Elim, including Bergman herself. “A man’s concern with the well-being of his neighbor is but another way of saying good will on Earth. These hymns echo a common understanding that life can be good today, and tomorrow still better” Bergman states.

The full video can be found on YouTube by searching “Ingrid Bergman: Swedes in America 1943.” In the video you can see our community as it was in 1942 (the Christmas before the film’s release), both the landscape and the people. The goal of the film, Bergman explains at the beginning, is to help herself and friends in Sweden understand the fondness Swedes have for America after living in the country. After talking to some Scandia residents she says “[t] hey too spoke of the freedom they enjoyed to preserve the traditional ways of their youth. And this freedom holds true not only for the Swedes, but for all the peoples from the many countries of the world who have made America their home.”

God Jul, merry Christmas, everyone.

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Hwy. 97 at County Road 34 S.E. Forest Lake (651) 464-5249 Pastor: Rev. David Werner www.foresthillsumc.net 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship

25402 Itasca Avenue Forest Lake, MN 55025 651-462-3535 / lordofthelakes.org Pastor Craig Bertram Regular Worship 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Communion First and Third Sundays 9:00 a.m. Coffee Fellowship 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Adult Bible Class

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Fellowship at 11 a.m.

490 Bench St., Taylors Falls, MN (651) 465-7345 Father John Drees Sat. Mass 5:30 p.m.

Sun. Mass 7:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.

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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 Sunday Worship and Childrens’ Church 9:30 a.m. Nursery available.

Saturday Worship and Children’s Church, 6:00 p.m.

Sunday Teen Service 7:00 p.m.

Osceola (715) 294-2243 Rev. Andy Anderson Saturday Mass: St. Joseph’s, 4 p.m.

St. Anne’s, Somerset 5 p.m.

Sunday Mass: Assumption, East Farmingon 8:30 a.m.

St. Anne’s, Somerset 8 & 10 a.m.

St. Joseph’s, Osceola 10:30 a.m.

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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 Sunday Worship 8:15 a.m. and 9:45 a.m.

Kid’s Church during 9:45 service.

Wednesday Life Night schedule: Community Supper at 5:30 p.m.

Faith formation classes for all ages at 6:30 p.m.

Elim Lutheran Church Scandia (651) 433-2723 www.elimscandia.org Senior Pastor Scott Westphal Associate Pastor Meredith McGrath Sunday Worship: 8 and 9:30 a.m.

Adult Christian Ed. at 8:45 a.m.

Kid City PreK-Grade 6 Christian Ed. 10:30 a.m.

Faith Lutheran Church (ELCA) Faith Lutheran Church (ELCA) Forest Lake (651) 464-3323 886 North Shore Drive Pastor John Klawiter Sunday Worship: Traditional, 9 a.m.

Contemporary Praise, 10:30 a.m.

Grace Church 722 Seminole Ave. Osceola Pastor Mark Barlow Amy Germain, Day Care Bety Greydanus, Office Manager “The Cure for the Common Church” e-mail: info@gracechurchosceola.com www.gracechurchosceola.com or call (715) 294-4222 or (715) 755-3454 Sunday: Praise and Worship Service 9 a.m. with Children’s Church Adult Bible Study 10:45 a.m.

Children’s Sunday School 10:45 a.m.

Christian Child Day Care Monday-Friday 5:30 am – 6 p.m.

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 Sept-May Worship Schedule Sunday 9:00 & 10:30 a.m.

In Great Hall (lower level) Wednesday (thru Apr) 6:00 p.m. in Garden Chapel (upper level)

Lakes Free Church www.lakesfree.org Lindstrom (651) 257-2677 29620 Olinda Trail N. Senior Pastor Jason Carlson, Associate Pastor Stephen Moore Sunday Worship 9 & 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School 9 & 10:30 a.m.

10963 Lake Blvd. (Hwy 8) Chisago City (651) 257-8605 Pastor Bill Headley Worship service Saturday, 4:30 p.m.

Sunday service 9:30 a.m.

Osceola Community Church 2492 Education Dr., Osceola, WI Larry Mederich, Pastor (715) 417-0608 • www.occconnect.org Sunday Worship 9 a.m. with provided Nursery Kids Church 9:30 a.m.

Meeting in home groups throughout the week. Call for details, 715-294-4332.

Osceola Medical Center Spiritual Care 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.

Upper St. Croix Parish 300 N. Adams St. • (715)-483-9494 Pastor Carolyn Saunders Pastor MIke Brewbaker Sunday Service 10 a.m.

Osceola (715) 294-2828 300 Seminole Avenue Sunday Worship: 9 a.m.

Sunday School/Bible Class: 10:15 a.m.

Wednesday worship: 7 p.m.

St. Croix Valley Friends Meeting

Trinity Lutheran Church

Stillwater (651) 439-7981 Seventh Day Adventist Church, Fifth & Laurel Streets Sunday Worship: 10:00 a.m. Childcare available.

St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church Franconia (651) 465-7345 Sunday Mass: 9:15 a.m.

Father John Drees Three miles north on Hwy. 95 from Hwy. 97.

West on Redwing 1/4 mile.

Stillwater (651) 439-7400 www.trinitylc.org • 115 North Fourth Street Pastors: Dan Poffenberger & Stephanie Vos, Saturday Evening Worship: 5 p.m.

Sunday Worship: 9 a.m Traditional; 10:30 a.m. The WALK Contemporary Worship Children’s Learning, Sunday 9 a.m. and on Wednesday 6 p.m.

Wednesday 7:15 p.m. “The River” Youth Worship

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City of Marine on St. Croix

DECEMBER 17 At 8:43 a.m. fraud was reported in the 17000 block of St. Croix Trail.

At 3:37 p.m. a medical need on Oak Knoll Drive was reported.

City of Scandia

DECEMBER 17 At 9:34 a.m. a welfare check was needed in the 21000 block of Lofton Avenue.

DECEMBER 18 At 3:47 p.m. a welfare check in the 16000 block of O’Brien Trail was needed.

At 6:03 p.m. a medical need in the 16000 block of Scandia Trail was reported.

At 8:28 p.m. a complaint about a driver on Manning and Scandia Trail was received.

DECEMBER 19 At 10:15 a.m. suspicious

activity in the 20000 block of Kirby Avenue was reported.

At 12:15 p.m. fraud was reported in the 12000 block of 181st Street.

At 6:04 p.m. a fire on Big Marine Lake was reported.

Town of May

DECEMBER 18 At 4:19 p.m. a medical need in the 10000 block of 176th Street was reported.

DECEMBER 19 At 9:32 a.m. abuse of a vulnerable adult was reported in the 14000 block of Oldfield Road.

DECEMBER 20 At 7:30 p.m. a driver in the 14000 block of St. Croix Trail was stopped for a violation.

At 8:22 p.m. a driver in the 140000 block of St. Croix Trail was stopped for a violation.

DNR warns of deteriorating ice conditions

‘Let your light shine’

Elim Church in Scandia was transformed by Christmas lights both outside the church and in the Elim Cemetery celebrating the Christmas season and 22 years of grant giving by the Elim Lutheran Church Foundation. The foundation’s light shines all

over the world.

A matching challenge this year will light the four trees on the southwest corner of Olinda and Oakhill; each blue lit tree represents 10 household gifts of any amount.

This year’s gifting brings the total 22-year cumulative gifting to

$543,360, supporting 82 agencies locally, nationally and internationally.

Organizations receiving gifts were nominated

by Elim members but cannot be ministries of Elim Church. All recipients must be a Christian based organization.

This year grant recip-

ients will be announced on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019.

We welcome the community to attend our worship service at 8 and 9:30 a.m. The Elim Foundation welcomes additional gifts to the foundation, saying “Let YOUR light shine!�

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Several days of above-freezing temperatures and abundant sunshine have led to deteriorating ice conditions across the state. With kids out of school for holiday break and many people hoping to head onto the ice, the DNR warns people about ice conditions, reminds parents to stay with their kids near the ice, and urges anyone who rides an ATV or snowmobile to take the weight of the vehicle into account.

General ice safety information is at mndnr.gov/ icesafety.

Ice condition and safety-related video and sound bites from DNR Conservation Officer Arnaud Kpachavi are available at ftp://mediaroom.dnr. state.mn.us in news release resources, then in folder named “12-21-18 ice conditions/safety resources.�

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