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Shoreview says goodbye to sales of menthol, mint and wintergreen tobacco BY NOELLE OLSON STAFF WRITER
selected to ensure that flowers across the country would be in full bloom. Today Memorial Day is celebrated on the last Monday of May. The American flag should be hung at halfstaff until noon on Memorial Day, then raised to the top of the staff. And since 2000, when the U.S. Congress passed legislation, all Americans are encouraged to pause for a National Moment of Remembrance at 3 p.m. local time.
Shoreview is now the 18th city in Minnesota to restrict sales of all flavored tobacco products. The City Council voted unanimously May 17 to add menthol, mint and wintergreen to its restriction on sales of flavored tobacco products within its borders. The move amends the current ordinance, which restricts the sale of flavored tobacco except menthol to 21-over tobacco shops. The ordinance will take effect Sept. 1, 2021. According to the Minnesota youth tobacco survey released earlier this year, 70% of youth in the state who use e-cigarettes are showing signs of addiction. Overall, youth tobacco use had already taken an upward swing in 2017 for the first time in 17 years because of e-cigarette and flavored cigar use. Even though the council received letters against the sales ban, no one appeared during the council meeting to express their concerns in person. Members of the community who spoke gave testimonies of why the sale of menthol-, mint-, and wintergreen-flavored tobacco products should be banned in Shoreview. In Minnesota, African American (88%), LGBTQ youth (70%) and all youth (34%) smokers use menthol at a higher rate than does the general population. “It’s easy now to see how Big Tobacco worked to get Black people hooked through decades of relent-
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The meaning of Memorial Day
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ne of history’s most solemn days, Memorial Day is an American holiday that honors the men and women who died while serving in the United States military. Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971. In May 1868, Gen. John A. Logan, the commander-in-chief of the Union veterans’ group known as the Grand Army of the Republic, issued a decree that May 30 should become a
nationwide day of commemoration for the more than 620,000 soldiers killed in the recently ended Civil War. On Decoration Day, as Logan dubbed it, Americans should lay flowers and decorate the graves of the war dead “whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land.” According to legend, Logan chose May 30 because it was a rare day that didn’t fall on the anniversary of a Civil War battle, though some historians believe the date was
A Shoreview son reaches the major leagues Mary and Dave Hentges of Shoreview received a couple exciting phone calls recently from their son Ben, who has a pretty cool job in Cleveland. “Sam had told us he thought something was up,” Mary related, “and, on that Friday night, April 19, at about 10 o’clock, we got a call from him — and
he said, I’m on the team, I’ll be with them tomorrow.” That team is the Cleveland Indians. Sam Hentges, who signed with the American League club upon graduation from Mounds View High School in 2014, was getting his shot at the major leagues after six minor league seasons and the non-season of 2020. Six nights later came another cheery call after Hentges picked
up his first big-league win, in a relief role, throwing one 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing two hits, in a 7-3 win over the New York Yankees on April 25. “We had a party here that night,” Dave Hentges reports. “Sam did call us. He told us he had a shower in the locker room — his teammate had poured water and pop over him. They do that when you get your first win.”
The 6-foot-6, 245-pound righthander’s big league baptism has been rough for the most part so far. Through Sunday, in six games, including two starts, he had a 1-1 record, throwing 15 1/3 innings, allowing 23 hits, 11 earned runs, and nine walks, while posting 15 strikeouts. He got knocked out in the second inning against the Los SEE SAM HENTGES, PAGE 11
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