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I was seven years old and it was 1966. One evening my Mom was at a U of M night class working on her college degree and my Dad said he had to go to his office to get something and I needed to go with him as I couldn’t be home alone. While there I waited for him by sitting at his secretary’s desk and imagined what it would be like to work there. When he came out of his office he stood next to me and I said, “Dad, I want to be a secretary.” He replied, “No Sarah, you want to have a secretary.” Over the years I came to wholly understand the importance of his words and how he opened my eyes to other things in 1966 when you could count on one hand the acceptable jobs for single women and they had to leave them when they were married and became pregnant.
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This Father's Day Press Publications wanted to honor local dads. We asked our readers to share what life lessons they have learned from their fathers. Here were the responses:
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The biggest lesson our dad has taught us is to be ourselves. Ignore the distractions and listen to our own inner voices. Mind our own business and don’t be scared to walk alone sometimes. Work hard and enjoy life. And don’t let anyone’s ignorance, drama, or negativity derail us. We love you dad.
Our dad, Robert Madson has called White Bear Lake home now for over 50 years. Our dad always instills the importance of family. Family first! Thank you for being an amazing father and grandpa! Happy Father’s Day! We love you! SUBMITTED BY SHARI, MARK & MICHELLE
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Through example my dad taught me what it truly means to have integrity. He showed me this by the way he treats and respects my mom, which taught me my value when I was a young girl. He never lets me down. He is a man of his word and holds himself accountable for his actions. He knows how to lift you up with his words and provide comfort and encouragement when you’re struggling.
My husband is a phenomenal father of two beautiful daughters. He teaches them to have self-confidence, how to do hard math and laughs a lot with them. SUBMITTED BY MRS. SHELAGO-HEGNA
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Monthly food distribution The Vadnais Heights Food Shelf will distribute food products from 9-10 a.m. Saturday, June 20, at Vadnais Heights Commons, 655 East County Road F. To any family in need and considered lower income. Please visit www.cityvadnaisheights.com/foodshelf for information.
Manitou Days update Several Manitou Days events have been tentatively rescheduled, including the Grande Parade and fireworks, on Aug. 21. The Strive Scholarship Race is planned for Aug. 1, and the Community Garage Sale on Aug. 8. Many events are still to be determined.
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Sandcastle contest The White Bear Center for the Arts' annual “Castles and Creatures” family sandcastle sculpture contest will be held online this year. Participants can submit their entry by taking a photo of the work in progress and one of the finished sculpture, and emailing both photos to the WBCA by June 20 at wbca@whitebeararts.org. Winners will be announced June 27 with an award ceremony video and online galleries. The contest is free.
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Silver Harmony Singers Silver Harmony Singers has canceled its 2020-2021 Season and will not hold its annual benefit concert for the food shelf in 2020.
TED Talk TEDxMahtomedi will hold a viewing and discussion event with presenter Naaima Khan via Zoom on June 23 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. To join the conversation, email info@tedxmahtomedi. com for a link to the event.
Local award-winning journalist and author and Shoreview resident Marlin Bree will be honored at this year's Midwest Book Awards event, held June 27 on Facebook live. Bree and his wife Lois, who passed away seven years ago, founded the Midwest Independent Book Publishing Association with other local authors. Bree's latest book, “Bold Sea Stories,” was released in April.
New assistant superintendent named The White Bear Lake Area School District announced that Dr. Alison Gillespie has been chosen to serve as the new assistant superintendent for teaching and learning, a position that will be vacated when current Assistant Superintendent Sara Paul steps into the role of superintendent at North Branch Area Public Schools.
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STUDENT NEWS The National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of Minnesota (Minnesota Colonial Dames) is pleased to announce that Sophie Pratt, a student at
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t is good to see local businesses, including restaurants, opening last week. Many of the small businesses throughout our community were on the verge of dying and needed to open back up. Most of the local businesses I have visited in the past week are doing their best to follow the guidelines to keep their customers safe. Employees are wearing masks and sometimes gloves, and creative shields like shower curtains, plexiglass stands and old storm windows have been painted or repurposed as barriers. I have learned many businesses are still struggling as they bring back employees and try to keep up and get back into a groove. Business and retail areas and restaurants seem to bustling again. It will be a matter Publisher’s be of time to see if they can pull through. However, just because life is View starting to feel back to normal, we Carter Johnson can’t throw all caution to the wind. I’m really shocked that people are no longer social distancing or wearing masks. The re-opening assumed that we would continue to follow some basic safety measures, and my observation is that many— perhaps most—are not. The quarantine and stayat-home order were hard on everyone, and we can’t risk throwing all of that away and going back to square one. Aside from the obvious health concerns, I believe our economy will be devastated long-term if we can’t keep this virus at bay. People who are elderly or have known health issues need to stay especially vigilant. Everyone wants to live normally again, but some people just shouldn’t. And it’s not fair. Everyone should be able to get out and shop for groceries without feeling they might be putting their life at risk. Everyone needs to get out of the house for the sake of mental health, too. It’s not fair when there are some basic measures we can all take to protect others. We all need to do our part to get through this pandemic. So, stay vigilant about social distancing, washing hands and wearing masks in public and indoors when possible. Of course, if you have any symptoms at all, stay home. Do the right thing.
Buzzing honey bees I often get questions about our family’s beehives. Beekeeping and raising chickens are a newer option for residents in many cities and townships with a permit. We started beekeeping a few years ago. We purchased most of our equipment used and have many beekeeping friends to discuss issues with. This season we purchased two nukes, so we will have two colonies of bees in two hives. So far, our bees are off to a good start. The early spring has offered early food. I first thought of getting bees when a friend who works at the University of Minnesota shared with me about the struggle to stop colony collapse. People ask me why I would want to have bees when they sting (and I’ve learned the hard way that I am allergic). Bees are nature’s pollination tool. Not all honey bees sting and they don’t want to sting you because they die. Bees are hard working. They get ornery and restless if they are stuck in the hive for too many days because of rain or strong winds, as they just want to get out and forage for food. Many people are fearful of honey bees, but they aren’t like the carnivorous yellow jackets that are no one’s friend at a picnic. Honey bees are pretty small and their color is golden. Check out your garden’s flowers and see if you have honey bees in your neighborhood. If so, it means someone is beekeeping in your neighborhood, as most bees only travel a few miles. Look at their legs as they are often loaded up with pollen. DreamWorks’ “Bee Movie” is a fun way for kids and even adults to learn more about bees and their contributions. Beekeeping is hard work but can be rewarding. May God bless us all It is amazing to see the messages of love and peace in windows and yards throughout our communities. With so much hurt, so much anger and so much pain, may we all learn to love and respect one another. May God bless us all. Carter Johnson is publisher of Press Publications. Distributed weekly in:
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join our community in grief and outrage over the murder of George Floyd. No family should experience the pain his loved ones are feeling, and no Minnesotan should fear for their safety because of what they look like. In the past month, hundreds of thousands of people have come together to call for justice for George Floyd and all the people who’ve been killed or harmed by police officers. Many Minnesotans joined peaceful marches, vigils and Legislator demonstrations in their own Lingo communities in the Twin Ami Wazlawik and Cities. Similar events took place across the nation and even in other countries. It was deeply moving to see so many people raising their voices and demanding that we respect Black lives. Minnesotans also came together to support our Twin Cities neighbors in the days and weeks after George Floyd was killed. People from every corner of the state came to clean up and gathered food, medicine, and supplies for communities in
need. Minnesotans care about each other, and we want to live in a state where everyone can thrive, regardless of race, faith, or place. In order to build a Minnesota that works for everyone, we need to rethink our approach to public safety and criminal justice. In response to George Floyd’s death, lawmakers in the People of Color and Indigenous (POCI) Caucus unveiled a legislative agenda to help ensure all Minnesotans can be safe in their communities. It includes bills to ensure police officers are held accountable for officer-involved deaths and wrongful actions, repair and build trust between officers and the communities they serve, modify use-of-force laws to prevent wrongful deaths, and create a duty to intervene when unreasonable force is used. Other measures would move us towards a community-centered approach to public safety, which means investing in mental health services and communitybased intervenors and problem solvers who can partner with local police officers. I stand fi rmly with my POCI Caucus colleagues, and I agree that these long overdue reforms should be a top priority. I’ll work with other legislators and members of our community to pass legislation that’s needed
now and in the future. Enacting public safety and criminal justice reforms is the fi rst step towards fundamental change, but much more needs to be done. We must address persistent inequalities in other areas of our society, including education, housing, and the workforce. We need to acknowledge that racism still exists in our own community and in our state and that it’ll take all of us coming together as Minnesotans to fight it. I know it won’t be easy, but I hope all of us can commit to learning more, having conversations with other community members and standing together in solidarity – even when it’s difficult or uncomfortable. While the past few weeks have been difficult, they’ve demonstrated just how much Minnesotans can accomplish when we work together. I believe in the power of collective action, and I’ve seen our community come together to tackle enormous challenges in the past. I remain confident that we can create a better future for every person in Minnesota, no exceptions. Ami Wazlawik represents District 38B in the Minnesota House of Representatives. She can be reached at 651-296-3018 or rep.ami.wazlawik@house.mn.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Church leaders respond to racism We, as White Bear Lake area faith leaders, condemn in the strongest possible terms the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of the Minneapolis police. We acknowledge the evil and systemic nature of racism in our community, our institutions and our criminal justice system. We acknowledge our complicity in perpetuating the culture of white supremacy by our silence, our inaction and our negligence, by what we have done and what we have left undone. We call for courageous and compassionate leadership with integrity and truthfulness as we seek to dismantle centuries of oppression. This oppression and violence have continued for far too long and demand an urgent, immediate response. We commit as faith leaders to listen, pray, learn, speak and act to transform ourselves, our community and our world. Rev. Dr. Neil Craigan, First Presbyterian Church Rev. Arthur Hancock, St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church Rev. Victoria Safford, White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church Rev. Sara Goodman, White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church Rev. Deborah Hasdorff, Parkview United Church of Christ Rev. John McBride, White Bear Lake United Methodist Church Rev. Dr. Bill Eaves, White Bear Lake United Methodist Church
Watch for pedestrians Who are you? I wish I could talk to you in person. You are the one who nearly hit me on Wednesday, June 3. Do you remember doing that? I was in the crosswalk on Fourth Street and Highway 61 heading downtown. I was the one with a spine collar on, a face mask on, and pushing a walker. Do you have any memory of me? I was almost across with only that farthest lane to get through. You changed something inside me when I felt the wind of your vehicle as you sped up to get in that very lane I was about to step into. Maybe you didn't even notice me since you were fixated on beating the flashing yellow light. The crosswalk light was still on. I belonged in that lane; you did not.
I am a vulnerable adult only because my health hinders me from doing some things. But I love to walk. I will walk until I can't. If you would have hit me, if I would have taken those final steps across that lane, you would have stopped me from walking, in the literal sense of the word. This has happened many times to me to me in that spot. You were the proverbial straw, if you will. So, what changed in me? I became determined to make myself feel better because what you did to me was wrong. I did something truly out of character. I made a sign that said it was not legal to pass me in a lane I haven't crossed. I walked back and forth across Hwy 61 tapping the walk light each time. When I got to that lane, I braked and I showed the sign to each driver as they passed. Each time, I waited for the timer to get to 3 seconds before moving across that lane. It took 3 seconds to do that, 3 seconds you didn't have for me that day. Why? Lonnie Mason White Bear Lake
A turning point The Twin Cities has witnessed the best and the worst of people over the past two weeks. Individuals and neighborhoods have been victims of violence and many small businesses and community outreach organizations have been harmed. The vast majority of Minnesotans have good hearts. Thousands have taken action, working together to rebuild neighborhoods that were seriously damaged by a small group of vandals who exploited a tragedy and peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd. Most of the small businesses that were set on fire and looted were minority-owned by hardworking people who did not deserve to have their livelihood shattered by a small band of vandals and bad actors. A positive sign through all this is that the Twin Cities community has rallied together to rebuild, whether by peacefully demonstrating against racism, cleaning up damaged storefronts and streets, contributing food and supplies, or raising funds to rebuild neighborhoods. Let’s pray that the events over the past two weeks will be a turning point that will result in more understanding and respect for everyone. Gene Hoff Vadnais Heights
Task force proposed to study racial equity WHITE BEAR LAKE — The mayor is proposing a task force of citizens to look at racial equity issues in the city in response to the alleged murder of George Floyd. “I've been trying to think of a way to respond to the tragic death of George Floyd,” Mayor Jo Emerson told City Council members last week. “I considered a statement but prefer something that has action.” Emerson asked council for its thoughts on forming a committee “to see what is working and what is not” in White Bear Lake. “It's important we move forward and affect change and not just talk about it,” the mayor said. Mainly, the task force would hold conversations about racial equity issues and implicit bias specific to the community. City Manager Ellen Hiniker said staff is eager to jump in as directed by council. “We would love to formulate ideas as to how it might look.” Hiniker noted that she has full confidence that the city is well served “by a progressive and thoughtful” police chief and department officers. The mayor encouraged people to read a book called, “A Good Time for the Truth, Race in Minnesota,” by Sun Yung Shin to “help understand better what some of our neighbors are facing that we don't face. “We have to start with our own community and make sure everything is good in our city,” she added.
Council Member Doug Biehn said he'd be interested in bias awareness and crisis intervention training. In his prior careers in law enforcement, Biehn said he had never been instructed in how to intervene in the actions of a senior officer. “That has not been trained, in my experience,” he said. Council Member Dan Jones isn't sure more discussion will be productive. “The racism issue is literally written into our Constitution. I don't know how conversation will change someone who is a racist or a bigot.” He recalled a phone call made to the former police chief by a resident who reported a black man standing at Hwy. 61 and Fourth Street. “That call happened. I don't know how we as a City Council can change that.” Emerson said there are things the city can change, whether it is code enforcement, prejudice in schools or housing issues. “What is happening in White Bear Lake that we don't know? It's on us, and we must do something.” Council Member Kevin Edberg would like council to adopt a formal charge or scope of work for the committee. He also suggested holding public meetings on what that charge might be. Jones added that if the conversation turns to mass change in the White Bear Lake Police Department, he's not interested. Debra Neutkens
Important changes to be addressed in special session Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has called for a special session of the Legislature. This is an opportunity to enact changes that are long overdue. Several key issues to be voted on during the special session include: 1. Criminal justice policy changes, especially around police training, use of force and oversight; 2. Human services policy bill that modifies provisions relating to child care, foster care, disability services, community supports, civil commitment, maltreatment of minors, child protection and child support; 3. Education policy bill that requires all teachers to receive training on student mental health and suicide prevention; 4. Robust bonding bill with a major investment in affordable housing. I am a constituent of Minnesota House District 38B represented by Ami Wazlawik and a constituent of Minnesota Senate District 38, represented by Roger Chamberlain. I will be contacting them to ask them to acknowledge the importance of these issues and will urge them to make passing these bills a priority. Please contact your own legislators and urge them to do the same. Anita Kerfeld White Bear Township
Wisconsin COVID-19 cases rising faster In response to the "Where is Wisconsin spike in COVID-19 deaths?" letter to the editor from 6/10, I can't tell if the author is upset Minnesota deaths are higher than Wisconsin or that Minnesota continues to reopen gradually. Both health departments have great websites and are a wealth of information. As of May 13, the day before Wisconsin overturned the order, Minnesota had roughly 7,000 more cases and 200 more deaths than our neighbor. As of June 11, Minnesota cases have risen by around 80% compared to 95% in Wisconsin. Another note: Since the June 5 date cited in the previous editorial, Minnesota cases went up by 2.6% versus 8.2% for Wisconsin. I hope that helps shed some light. It is nice to see things opening up again. Everyone stay safe out there. Andy Place White Bear Lake
Birkeland moves to Utah with national senior speedskating team BY BRUCE STRAND SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR
Giorgia Birkeland, a graduate of Mahtomedi High School, has moved to Utah as a member of the Senior National Long Track Speed Skating Team. The team’s youngest member, not yet 18, completed her graduation requirements and moved in May to Park City in the mountains of Utah. Birkeland transitioned from a local club, Midway Speedskating in Roseville, to the national team. She is now living at the Olympic Park residences and training at the Utah Olympic Oval, 7,000 feet above sea level. The team’s 18 members are coached by Gabriel Girard. “Giorgia is training with the best speed skaters in the U.S., and is pursuing her dream of competing in the Olympics,” reports her father, Tom, who accompanied her as she got settled in. “She is living, training and attending school there.’ She will start college at Salt Lake Community College in the fall, majoring in kinesiology. Birkeland, who missed nearly two years of competition due to a concussion, returned this winter, earning a spot on the junior national team and fi nishing 11th overall in the 2020 Long Track Junior World Championships in Poland. Also this winter, she placed second overall in the AmCup Overall Ladies, winning both the 1500 and 3000 while placing second in the 1000 and third in the 500. She also placed ninth in both the 1500 and Mass Start at Junior World Cup 3.
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Giorgia Birkeland, a Mahtomedi graduate, is now a member of the Senior National Long Track Speedskating Team.
In a U.S. Speedskating website article, Birkeland said her goal is to fi nish in the top three overall at the 2021 Junior World Championships in Japan.
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RAMSEY COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORTS The Ramsey County Sheriff's Office reported the following selected incidents in Vadnais Heights and White Bear Township:
Vadnais Heights • License plates were reported stolen overnight May 26-27 from the Barnett White Bear Chrysler Jeep and Dodge lot in the 3400 block of Highway 61. • CenturyLink reported their main terminal box dug up May 27 and placed under the deck of a residence in the 500 block of Westfield Lane. The case is under investigation. • A Columbia Heights man, 35, faces charges for threatening to kill the mother of his baby following a May 27 domestic in the 3500 block of Vadnais Center Drive. • A trailer was reported stolen May 27 from the Gephart Electric parking lot in the 3500 block of Labore Road. The trailer has been entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). • A River Falls, Wis. youth, 17, was arrested at 1:28 a.m. May 30 on Highway 96 and Greenhaven Drive, following a two-mile vehicle pursuit starting at Moon Lake Court and Highway 96 in
White Bear Lake. The case has been referred to the Ramsey County attorney for consideration of charges. • A Wyoming woman reported her windshield damaged by a protester's rock thrown at 7:00 p.m. May 31 on I-694 and Highway 61. • An Oakdale man, 24, was arrested June 1 in the 3400 block of Centerville Road for obstruction during an incident regarding an adopted dog. The case has been forwarded to the city attorney. • A St. Paul woman, 36, was arrested June 3 in the 3500 block of English Street for theft, after being found with mail belonging to a Gem Lake woman in her possession. Prosecution was declined. • A White Bear Lake woman reported a purse and other items stolen from her vehicle June 3 as it was parked in the Sucker Lake south lot on County Road F, after a passenger side window was broken in. Her bank has been notified and her accounts frozen. • A Vadnais Heights man, 49, was arrested June 4 in the 3300 block of Greenbrier Street for violat-
ing an Order for Protection (OFP). • A Mounds View man, 22, was arrested for DUI at 1:39 a.m. June 5 in the 3200 block of Highway 61, after Ramsey County Sheriff's Office deputies on patrol checked on the welfare of a driver slumped over in a parking lot. The report was forwarded to the city attorney for possible charges.
White Bear Township • A St. Paul man reported the front passenger side window of his vehicle broken in with a medium-sized rock as it was parked in the 2500 block of Fourth Street overnight May 31-June 1. • A resident in the 2500 block of Meehan Drive reported a basketball hoop tipped over and its glass backboard shattered, presumably by the medium-sized rock found next to it, overnight June 1-2. Trash carts and appliances in the area had been tipped over, and mailboxes were also damaged. • A resident in the 4600 block of Allendale Drive on June 5 reported receiving notice of someone trying to use her identity to apply for unemployment benefits.
WASHINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORTS The Washington County Sheriff's Office reported the following selected incidents in Birchwood, Dellwood, Grant, Mahtomedi, Pine Springs and Willernie:
Birchwood • A resident on Birchwood Avenue reported a vehicle taken from her garage overnight May 28-29. OnStar reported the GPS location of the vehicle, and it was located with items from inside missing.
Grant • An unidentified motorist was cited at 2:21 a.m. May 25 for failure to provide proof of insurance after he was pulled over for flashing high beams at Washington County Sheriff's Office deputies as they passed. The driver's slurred speech and watery eyes prompted deputies to administer field sobriety tests, which proved negative. The driver told deputies he bumped the high beams accidentally.
• A resident in the 9000 block of Ivy Avenue N. reported the neighbor's grandchildren May 28 for riding their ATV's on the roadway, ditches and private property. Deputies advised the grandmother, who said she would advise her grandchildren. • A suspicious helicopter reported May 28 in the 10000 block of 69th Street N. turned out to be the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District helicopter. • A resident in the 7000 block of Manning Avenue N. on May 29 reported a theft that may have occurred two to three years ago.
Mahtomedi • A couple in the 3000 block of Century Avenue on May 25 reported each other for civil misbehavior before moving out of the unit and going their separate ways. The male and owner of the lease left the unit at the end of the month, and the female must move and make way for new tenants on July
1. Deputies advised the couple that no crimes were committed — only childish behavior. The landlord told deputies he is staying out of the dispute. • A resident in the 1000 block of Lincolntown Avenue on May 26 reported theft of items from a motor vehicle. • A resident on Pineridge Court on May 26 reported an egging incident on a house. • A resident on Birch Street on May 27 reported an attempted scam by text. • A suspicious vehicle reported near Hickory Street and Mahtomedi Avenue at 1:12 a.m. May 28 turned out to be a communication service vehicle in the area. • A complaint on Emerald Lane about not getting enough custody time with the kids May 28 turned out to be unjustified, as the mother and children have a protective order against the complainant.
• A resident on Barrington Place on May 28 reported her parents for not taking her son to a follow-up doctor's appointment. • Vehicle tampering was reported May 28 on Park Avenue. • A damaged building was reported May 29 behind a business in the 3000 block of Century Avenue N. • A resident of Grove Street on May 30 reported her neighbors for planting trees too close to her property. • A resident on Juniper Street reported fi nding a bag of mail from South St. Paul in her backyard on May 30. The bag was taken and placed into evidence. • An iPhone was reported found May 26 near the Chatham and Killarney intersection. A business card was found inside, but deputies were unable to make contact with the company. The phone was entered into evidence for safekeeping.
WHITE BEAR LAKE POLICE REPORTS The White Bear Lake Police Department reported the following selected incidents:
the 4300 block of Lake Avenue S. June 5.
• Someone spray painted an indiscernible term in a street sign on 9th Street June 7, causing $50 in damage.
• A dispute was mediated in the 5000 block of Woodcrest Road June 3.
• A Lino Lakes man was arrested for a no contact order violation in the 4900 block of Georgia Lane June 5.
• A man was arrested on a felony narcotics charge following a traffic stop for no license plates on Buerkle Road June 3.
• A small amount of marijuana was recovered during a traffic stop on White Bear Avenue and Buerkle Road June 6
• A Vadnais Heights man was arrested for DWI at the intersection of Highway 96 and Hedman Way June 4
• A black Honda CRV was stolen from the 4300 block of Lake Avenue S. June 6
• Officers responded to a disturbance in the 2700 block of Cedar Avenue June 7.
• Fraud was reported in the 3300 block of Highland Avenue June 6.
• A suspicious vehicle with marijuana in plain view was found June 8 in the 1800 block of County Road F.
• Credit card fraud was reported in the 4800 block of Otter Lake Road June 4. • Criminal damage to property was reported in the 4700 block of Centerville Road June 4. • A homeless person was sleeping in the air compressor area without permission at the Speedway Gas Station on White Bear Avenue June 5. • A turtle was reported stuck on the curb at Lake Avenue and 6th Street June 5. The turtle was found, not stuck, further down the trail. • Flowers were damaged in the 1700 block of County Road E June 5. • Flowers were stolen in the 2300 block of Bear Court on June 5. • On June 5, a resident in the 3200 block of Glen Oaks Avenue was scammed online as he sought a loan, resulting in a $2,000 loss. • Officers responded to an animal complaint in
• A resident in the 2600 block of Aspen Court reported an ongoing issue with a neighbor's cat coming on the deck and damaging property June 6. • A bike was stolen from the 4300 block of Highway 61 June 6. • Following a report of a suspicious vehicle and person in the roadway near Highway 96 and White Bear Parkway, a St. Paul man was arrested for a narcotics violation June 6. • A man was cited for trespassing June 6 in the 3200 block of White Bear Avenue. • An underage, intoxicated male was cited after a welfare check in the area of Highway 61 and County Road F. • Someone spray painted “ACAB” on the newspaper box in the 4800 block of Bloom Avenue June 7, causing $50 in damage.
• A bicycle was stolen in the 4400 block of Lake Avenue S. June 7. • Criminal damage to property occurred in the police department parking lot June 7.
PUBLIC SAFETY BRIEF AJ is recovering A GoFundMe site has been set up to support the 10-year-old boy who was injured in a boating accident on White Bear Lake May 29. According to site organizer Keta Smith, Anthony-Joseph (AJ) was taken to the hospital conscious, but in critical condition. The decision was made to amputate his right leg above the knee to save his life. A recent post said he has had five successful surgeries since the accident and is beginning to heal and will begin rehabilitation. “We are overwhelmed and so thankful to all the people who have contributed and thankful for your hearts,” Smith said. For more information, search “AJ's New Ability” on gofundme.com.
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Ralph Denison Ebbott
Thomas E. “Tommy” Telschow Age 47. Lifetime resident of White Bear Lake. Tommy touched the lives of many with his caring heart and "quirky" sense of humor. On May 4, 2020 he was called home to begin his next adventure. Tommy is survived by the love of his life, wife Sharon (Wetch); their children Nicole, Melissa and Travis; grandchildren Nevaeh, Nathan, Alexis, Mariah and Hunter; parents Thomas (Diana) Telschow, Ginie (Marv) Cramer; brothers Joe and Phillip; and sisters Cherie, Jodie, Penny and Mary. A celebration of life will be at Podvin Park, June 21 noon to 3 p.m.. Luncheon will be served. Loving words of remembrance at 1:30 p.m. by Lizel Wetch.
Michael C. Hall Michael C. Hall, age 62, of White Bear Lake, passed away peacefully at home on June 6 after a long battle with cancer. He was deeply loved and will forever be missed by his beloved wife, Jan, adored children Dave and Lindsay, mother Donna, siblings Shar (Bill) and Bill (Jody), uncle Marv, and many more family and friends. He is preceded in death by his father, James, Sr. and brother, James, Jr. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Memorials preferred to Fairview Hospice, with special thanks to their caring team.
Joseph “Skip” Murphy Businessman and Army Veteran. Died May 30, surrounded by his devoted family. Born April 19, 1944 in White Bear Lake. Resided 40 years in Houston, Texas. Preceded in death by Joseph and Loretta Murphy, siblings: Patricia, John and Bryan. Survived by girlfriend Mary Jo; Children: Mike (Lucinda), Lori, Ryan, Joseph; Marcy - Friend/ Mother; Grand and Great Grandchildren; Sister Dianne, extended family and friends. Multi-talented and fun loving, Skip lit up a room when he entered and his presence was missed when he left. Loved by so many who will always have him in their hearts. Celebration of life, June 20 - noon at Post 618 – 13054 E FM 1097 Rd, Willis, TX. Minnesota celebration of life to be determined.
Alfred “Mickey” Mickelson Age 82, of White Bear Lake Preceded in death by his wife of 60 years, Judy. Mickey is survived by his children, Barry (Diane), Drew and Denise; his grandchildren, Sara, Joshua and Andrew; his great-grandchildren, Henry, Roy Roper, Olivia, Reese, Fredrik and Lucy; his siblings, Ellen White and William. Due to the limitations of Covid-19, the family will be having a private Mass of Christian Burial at St. Mary of the Lake Church.
Anthony “Tony” Olinger Age 78, of Hugo Died peacefully while surrounded by his family on Friday, June 12, 2020. Tony is preceded in death by his parents, August and Margaret (Leindecker) Olinger; siblings, Guy Olinger, Hubert Olinger, MaryLou Wright. He will be deeply missed by his beloved wife of 53 years, Judy; children, Kelly (Steve) Yates, Doug Olinger; step-grandchildren, Tyler, Tanner, Caleb, Coda; beloved dog, Mayme; siblings, John (Joan), Joanne Yukbonias, Sharon (Tom) Pogreba, Judy (Dick) Cohoes, Sandy (Rick) Hubmann, Wanda Olinger; nieces, nephews, family and friends. A Celebration of His Life will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, June 27, 2020 at Tony and Judy’s home. 651-464-3556, mattsonfuneralhome.com
Ralph Denison Ebbott passed away on May 30 at age 93. He died from age related and Alzheimer’s related issues, not directly connected to the COVID-19 virus. However, the isolation of the last few months was hard on this sociable, friendly man. Thankfully his family was able to be with him the last few days of his life. Ralph was born in 1927 in Edgerton, Wisconsin. He was a city kid whose father owned an agricultural equipment dealership. Ralph was the youngest of five children (his siblings pre-deceased him). He excelled at math and music, as well as words and language, and was awarded an oboe scholarship to UW Madison. He joined the SAE fraternity and was a lifelong Badger supporter. Ralph met Elizabeth Adams of Solon, Iowa and remained on campus an extra year to stay close to her. He graduated with an MBA in accounting in 1949; Ralph and Liz married in 1950. They were well matched and had an excellent life together. She pushed him to travel and explore. He shared his world of opera and music with her. They traveled and explored as a couple for several years, then started their family and had four children in less than six years. The family went on canoe trips, backpacking, scouting adventures, and took painfully long trips in the family station wagon. Ralph also made sure all of the kids had music lessons and played an instrument in band. After a stint at Arthur Andersen where he received his CPA, Ralph was hired by 3M in 1955 and remained a loyal and dedicated employee until his retirement after 34 years. In 1964, Ralph helped integrate a 3M acquisition in Milan, Italy while Liz dealt with four kids under the age of nine in a foreign country for a year. We’re not sure who had the harder job. Back in Minnesota, the family was happy to be a 3M home, and the Birchwood house was full of tape, sandpaper, and post-its. We were all very proud when Dad became the Treasurer of 3M in 1977 (his signature was on the paychecks!). Being a humble Midwesterner, Ralph always said he was “in fi nance” when asked about his career. Ralph generously shared his good fortune with others. He served on the Board of Children’s Home Society for many years. He supported many causes with both his time and money. Higher education was a priority, and his church and his community were very important to him. After retirement, Ralph and Liz explored the world. Dad was always happy to strike up conversations with others and he liked the educational aspect of seeing new places. Exotic trips included Papua New Guinea, Easter Island, and the Trans-Siberian railroad. Ralph served as the travel agent for some memorable vacations with their friends. Ralph and Liz also began a tradition of Christmas trips for the entire family. As the family expanded with spouses and grandkids, these trips continued.
Liz passed away in 1998. This was a hard time for Ralph. Figuring out how to live his life without her was a challenge he never wanted to face. He maintained his opera connections, continued to play bridge, and eventually he began exploring again. All of the kids visited Birchwood frequently and Dad visited them too. The fi nal family Christmas trip in 2015 saw 19 family members enjoying the sun in Mexico. In the 2010s, Ralph’s tremendous intellect began to falter and his short term memory no longer functioned. It was hard to see the mental decline of the most intelligent man we knew. Eventually, Alzheimer’s meant he had to move to a memory care facility. While the original Ralph was fading, this new version of Ralph was also an amazing human being. He continued to be kind and considerate, unfailingly polite to all. When asked “How are you today?” his sincere answer was “My day is better because I’m talking to you.” He retained his thoughtfulness, was often clever, and could still help out on crossword puzzle clues. Dad’s recipe for a good life would include daily grapefruit, marriage to a strong woman, gin gimlets until age 80, bridge until age 90, opera at any age, frequent family gatherings, church in regular doses, naps as often as possible, and being kind to others no matter what. He was a gentleman to the end. Ralph’s remaining family includes sons Andrew (Kate) of Chicago, Douglas (Sony) of Vanderhoof, BC, and Kendrick (Jan) of Plymouth, WI and daughter Alison (Bill Hasan) of Port Townsend, WA. He also leaves 10 grandchildren: Scott (Jordan), Eric (Chelsea); Nary, Visal, Maria, Elizabeth, Leander; Sarah, Rebecca, Cooper; and 1 great grandchild (Jasmine). The family wishes to thank Parkview United Church of Christ for their support of Ralph over many years. Sue Huebl was Ralph’s trusted caregiver; her kindness and warmth were much appreciated by all. A service honoring Ralph’s life will be scheduled when COVID-19 conditions permit us all to gather and share our fond memories and stories. Online condolences and updates will be available at honsafamilyfuneral.com. Donations can be made to either Alzheimer research (philanthropymayoclinic.org) or Opera for the Young (ofty. org).
Mary Frances Weightman (Nee Cantrill)
Elizabeth F. Fucini
Age 69, of White Bear Lake Formerly of Virginia, Minnesota Passed away peacefully near those she loved on June 4, 2020, after complications resulting from a long struggle with diabetes. Preceded in death by parents Leo F. and Gretchen I. Cantrill. Survived by spouse of 29 years, Gerald J.; loving children Sarah (Aaron) Orbeck; Matthew (Angela) Weightman; loving brother Michael (Linda) Cantrill; loving grandchildren Autumn Rose and Emmett. Graduate of Roosevelt HS (1968) in Virginia, MN. Attended Mesabi State Junior College and the College of St. Benedict. Worked as an office administrator for Kelly Services in Sioux Falls, SD, Minneapolis, MN and Rockford, IL. Dedicated to her Catholic faith, she lived virtuously and uniquely, and was loved by many. She will be missed by those that knew and loved her, and by those she unknowingly touched with her warm spirit. Public visitation was held June 10. Private family Traditional Requiem Mass was held Thursday, June 11.
Beloved Mom, Grandma Of White Bear Lake passed peacefully away in her sleep on June 2, 2020. She was 81 years old. She was born to the late Albert and Helen Fisher, Feb. 28, 1939, in Philadelphia, PA. She married the late Raymond V Fucini in 1961, and they lived together in Pennsburg, PA before relocating to White Bear Lake, MN in 1976. Elizabeth graduated from the University of Minnesota, and was employed as an administrative clerk for the State of Minnesota. A devout Catholic, she was a parishioner at St Pius X Church and a dedicated supporter of the St Joseph’s Indian School, and the St Paul’s Monastery. Elizabeth was a loving homemaker and devoted to her family. She was predeceased by her loving husband Raymond in 1997. Elizabeth is survived by her three children, Beth, Raymond Jr., and Bianca, and by her five grandchildren. A Funeral Mass is being planned for this summer. To leave a message to the family at the Johnson Peterson Funeral Home website at johnsonpeterson.com
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Elaine M. LaPointe Passed away peacefully on her 69th birthday. Due to Covid-19 a private family service was held Friday June 5, 2020 and a Celebration of Life Service will be held at a later date.
Mary F. Tucker Passed away peacefully of natural causes surrounded by her loving family. A private family Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday, June 12. Memorials preferred to St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church.
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White Bear Lake true crime page-turner turns 30 BY MATT MCMILLAN CEO
The summer of 2020 has notable anniversaries. Marketfest turns 30 years old next month. This month is the 30th anniversary of the release of “A Death in White Bear Lake,” a book by then-Los Angeles Times reporter Barry Siegel. The author’s ability to set the scene of a tranquil All-American City against the unspoken brutality of a child’s abuse and death showed it could have happened anywhere. The White Bear Press recently talked to Siegel from his home in Sherman Oaks, California, to ask him about his time in White Bear Lake researching, interviewing more than 100 people and writing this true crime book with such staying power.
Q: June is the 30th anniversary of publishing of the book, which tells the notorious and tragic story of the 1965 murder of 3-year-old Dennis Jurgens in White Bear Lake. You researched the book in 1988, after writing articles about it for the L.A. Times. What was your job at the Times? A: “I had a really very unusual assignment at the L.A. Times, and it is one of the reasons I stayed there that long. I was a roving national correspondent and did that for 25 years. I wasn’t covering basic news events. It was more like I teach now, literary journalism, narrative nonfiction writing, storytelling. I would travel around the country and look for something happening somewhere that kicked up some issues and seem to be worth a long-form narrative. I would fly to wherever it was and immerse myself in it. It was a great beat. It was more like a New Yorker beat than a newspaper beat. I was very fortunate the editor-in-chief of the paper at the time, Bill Thomas, was very supportive of this long-form narrative writing. When I proposed it to him, he gave me his blessings.”
Q: What prompted you to write those original news stories for the Times? A: “This is interesting. I started the roving national beat in 1980, so I had been doing it all that decade already. I spent a lot of my time scanning the horizon, looking for the next project. This was happening pre-social media and internet, so I was looking at obscure things. I would go down to the newsstand in L.A. and buy up Sunday papers from all around the country. I also subscribed to small and unusual niche publications. One of them was the weekly ‘National Law Journal,’ which is really for lawyers. One page was devoted to the anatomy of a legal case somewhere in the country ... I was drawn to that kind of story, courtroom drama. In June of ’87 I happened to see a story in there about the Jurgens murder trial that was going on or maybe just concluded … I flew out in November 1987 to start reporting it for the L.A. Times. It really was just one story. But, it was a 15,000word narrative. They were used to me writing long, but that was longer than normal. They didn’t know what to do with it. When it finally reached the editor-in-chief’s desk, he said ‘We’re going to put this on page one, but we need to split in two.’ They ran it on two consecutive days.”
Q: Of all the stories you’ve written for the Times, why write a book about this story? A: “I was looking around for my first book project. ‘A Death in White Bear Lake’ was my first book project. I’ve now published eight books, but … it holds a special spot because it was my first. First of all, I was mesmerized by this story from the first time I started working it for the L.A. Times. All of the elements were there. But, when it came out in paper, it drew enormous response from all over the country. I remember box loads of actual snail mail letters arriving. I remember one from Loretta Young, the famous actress, who wrote me from a hotel in Hawaii. She had just read the article. People all
over did. My own fascination combined with the fact I was getting this response from other people made me think about a book. The themes the story offered me were very compelling. One of the themes was about how society had evolved … no new evidence was really discovered about Dennis Jurgens’ death between 1965 and 1987. It was just that when they reopened the file all those years later, we saw it differently. Battered child syndrome really wasn’t recognized in 1965. That is part of what interested me. It was a way to write about the way of life into a community … It provides you a window. I was interested how this could happen among so many good people. People who cared. My book jacket says these were people who for all those years never stopped wondering what they could or should have done. They were good people, and I got intrigued with the idea not with the murder or Lois Jurgens but the place where it happened. “As a side note, it almost didn’t happen. I was talking and working with a publisher at the time, Bantam, Steve Rubin, who I met earlier and he wanted to do a book with me. But, he wasn’t sure about this. He said, ‘It is too local of a story.’ I said all stories are local. I finally managed to convince him. I got that contract and I went to White Bear Lake and lived in White Bear Lake from about April into August of 1988. I rented an apartment … That was quite an experience.”
Q: You said you wanted to “write about the evolution of our understanding of child abuse because in 1965, this wasn’t recognized.” From the feedback you’ve received for the book, do you think the book helped child abuse be more recognized? Why? A: “I have no way to scientifically measure that, but I would sure hope so and think so from all the feedback I’ve received. This is 30 years out, and I still get emails and letters from ‘A Death in White Bear Lake.’ Yes, maybe it helped increase recognition. But, by the time my book came out in 1990, recognition had increased. Dennis died in 1965, at a time when we were just beginning as a society to recognize the idea of battered child syndrome … by 1990 we had already evolved as a society. From all the feedback I’ve received, I’d say yes, the book furthered that degree of recognition.”
Q: What was it like for an L.A. Times reporter to come to White Bear Lake in 1988 to research a book? A: “It is an experience I still remember with a lot of intensity, and I must say it was a pleasure. Keep in mind I was traveling all the time to someplace. All my stories were somewhere else. What was special to me about White Bear Lake? First of all, you live there, it’s just a great, special place. The Midwest is pretty different than buzzy, busy California. I quite liked going there. When I first worked on the Times story I was only there for week or two. It was really something to go back, rent an apartment and move in during those months in 1988. I got to know so many in the community and like them very much. Everyone was so open and friendly. Those pancake breakfasts. I was so deeply immersed in the story meeting new people day-in and day-out. It was a little tough. I was away from my wife at a time when she was pregnant with our daughter. But it was a pleasure and a privilege.”
Q: How were you treated by people you interviewed and met in the community? You interviewed more than 100 people, right? A: “Yes, that is one of the advantages of living there rather than just flying in for a little while. They treated me wonderfully. This is the upper Midwest. This is White Bear lake. They’re very, very hospitable, friendly. Yeah, you might think there might be some difficulty because of the subject I was revisiting. That really wasn’t the case.
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Author Barry Siegel and nearly 2-year-old daughter Ally outside Lake Country Booksellers in downtown White Bear Lake 30 years ago this month.
They wanted to talk and remember. They also respected what I was trying to do. I wasn’t trying to get a sound bite for a one-day headline. They treated me very well, made me feel comfortable in that community. It is very crucial I came several months after the trial. There is so much loud noise going on with something like a murder trial. Certain people can’t talk to you (during a trial). I would never have been able to talk to Melinda Elledge and Clayton Robinson, the assistant district attorneys who were prosecuting the case. Mindy and Clayton, I spent many, many hours with them. Ditto for two police detectives, Rob Meehan and Greg Kendell, who were the ones who had reopened the case and reinvestigated it. As a reporter trying to reconstruct from years before, I found that virtually all the people were there and involved in the story in 1965 were still there when I was living there in 1988. No one had moved away … Neighbors of the Jurgens, Bob and Camille Brass, lived across the street, for instance. All of them were willing to talk to me and were friendly, helpful.”
Q: You spent hours at the Press Publications office researching historical bound volume stories from the White Bear Press. How did we treat you? Did those archives help? A: “The people at Press Publications office were wonderful to me. I spent hours at the Press Publications office researching through the historical pages from the bound volumes of the White Bear Press … not just for stories of the Jurgens case, which there were not that many. I was going to be setting the Jurgens case against a larger backdrop of life in White Bear Lake. So, those editions were invaluable. This was pre-digital age. The only place where I could really open them up was in that conference room. That room was not available to me during the workweek because the editors needed it. The deal was I could come in on Sundays, which was the one day the conference room was available. I could sit there for hours and hours. How could I get in on Sundays? Because there would be one single junior reporter on duty … calling high school sports athletic teams, the coaches, to get the scores for the weekend games for the sports pages. Sunday was not a day I would interview people. Instead, I (read old Press stories) week-in, week-out on Sundays. I had a tape recorder. When I saw a story I wanted to remember, I would just read the story into recorder. I had a nice lady in St. Paul who was working for me doing transcribing. By the way, on Saturdays … I would go to the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul and do the same thing with the Twin Cities newspapers on microfilm. I would read those papers circa 1965.”
Q: Did you experience people still hesitant to talk about child abuse and this crime 22 years later? Please describe. A: “This is a good question. This was 30 years ago. I simply don’t remember that at all. I don’t think I did. Maybe that’s because it wasn’t 1965 anymore. I was there in 1988. People seemed not only willing but wanted to talk to revisit to try to understand what happened back then. Part of it is catharsis, I think. A few people would weep. They thought something was wrong. Not a soul was reluctant or hesitant to talk … for the most part, they wanted to. If I recall correctly, I even talked to family doctor who went to the Jurgens’ house on the night Dennis had died. To be honest, I think he was uncomfortable because of his role, but he even he agreed to see me … I don’t think anybody covered it up in 1965 or did something consciously bad … It was hard to believe, to recognize. We didn’t recognize it then. Your neighbor could be abusing her child? It just didn’t compute.”
Q: What was your impression of White Bear Lake? Have you been back? A: “If you go back and look at the weather records for that period and that year in Minnesota, you’ll see it was a legendary record heat wave/humidity wave. It was 100 degrees temperature and a 100% humidity. “The picture is in 1990 because the book had just come out and I was doing some promotion, some radio and TV interviews. I’d love to come back another time. I’ve been invited a number of times by various groups and people and I hope I get the chance to at some point.”
Q: You said the story affected you at the time because while living in White Bear Lake you were starting your own family. What advice do you give people who suspect child abuse of a neighbor or relative? Is there a resource you recommend if/when people ask? A: “You see me holding my daughter there in the photo. She was just shy of 2 years old then (June 1990). I decided to pack up and finish reporting because my wife was pregnant. We were getting close to the deadline (for our baby) to be born. I made it back with two weeks to spare. My daughter was born August 13. She was an infant at time I was writing the book. I did the writing in 1989. The fact I had a young child sometimes literally in the room with me while I was writing just made it all the more intense. As a writer you are always writing about difficult, intense things. “Advice? Again, I have to say that we live in so much more of an aware time now. Everybody is aware. Teachers, medical, health care people. Everybody is on alert for any signs. I don’t think SEE BARRY SIEGAL, PAGE 16
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Iron-enhanced sand ďŹ lter, baffles beneďŹ t Bald Eagle Lake
In June 2016, the Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) and Ramsey County Conservation District conducted an urban stormwater retrofit analysis to investigate the best locations to implement practices designed to improve the water quality of Bald Eagle Lake. General recommendations were made to install retrofits to the existing drainage systems to reduce phosphorus and to filter stormwater runoff. Installation of those retrofits began June 3 at two locations adjacent to the lake. The projects, joint ventures of the RCWD, Ramsey County Soil and Conservation District and White Bear Township, were expected to be completed within a few days. Specifically, it was recommended that SAFL Baffles be installed on South Bald Eagle Lake at the intersections of West Bald Eagle Blvd. and Park Street and West Bald Eagle Blvd. and St. Anthony Avenue. The baffles remove sediment from stormwater and the chemicals that cling
to that sediment. Once installed, the baffles will intercept water that already enters existing storm sewers in these locations. SAFL stands for St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, the University of Minnesota laboratory that created the concept. The university acquired several patents for the design of the stormwater pretreatment system. The SAFL Baffle fits into a manhole (new or existing) and keeps sediment out of the downstream bodies of water. Sediment is captured through settlement, and a vacuum truck is then used to remove the sediment several times a year, depending on the circumstances. Based on four years of testing by the university, the SAFL Baffle has proven to remove sediment from stormwater for a wide variety of flow rates and temperatures. Studies have shown the baffle installation improves water quality by providing a 55% reduction in sediment deposits downstream.
Another stormwater project is underway on Long Avenue, involving Ramsey County Judicial Ditch 11. This project involves installing a pump-operated iron-enhanced sand filter. Stormwater will be diverted into the drainage system to remove phosphorus, sediment and other pollutants before it reaches water bodies downstream. The filter system will be located on vacant property owned by White Bear Township near Four Seasons Park. This immense project is fully funded by a Clean Water Fund grant and RCWD, which will assume responsibility for its maintenance. The SAFL Baffle and sand filter improvements will provide good systems and best practice management tools to reduce phosphorous and sediment from entering the lake.
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CITY OF GRANT NOTICE OF HEARING ON IMPROVEMENT Notice is hereby given that the City Council of Grant will meet at Grant 7RZQ +DOO RQ .LPEUR $YHQXH DW 3 0 RQ 7XHVGD\ -XO\ 7KH PHHWing may be held using video conference and notice of call in information will be posted. The purpose of the hearing is to consider the making of an improvePHQW RQ WKH IROORZLQJ SDYHG VWUHHWV -RG\ $YHQXH 1RUWK -RG\ $YHQXH &RXUW North, 103rd Street North, 103rd Street Court North, Juno Avenue North, -ROLHW $YHQXH 1RUWK VW 6WUHHW 1RUWK .HOOPDQ &RXUW 1RUWK WKH SURMHFW improvement shall include pavement rehabilitation, pursuant to Minnesota 6WDWXWHV 6HFWLRQV WR 7KH HVWLPDWHG FRVW IRU WKLV LPSURYHPHQW LV $ UHDVRQDEOH HVWLPDWH RI WKH LPSDFW RI WKH DVVHVVPHQW will be available at the hearing. The area proposed to be assessed for such improvement is the property abutting such street. Such persons as desire to be heard with reference to the proposed improvement will be heard at this meeting. Written and oral comments will be considered. Persons who require WKLV LQIRUPDWLRQ LQ DQRWKHU IRUPDW VKRXOG FRQWDFW &LW\ RI *UDQW DW 3383 at least 72 hours prior to the public hearing. Kim Points - City Clerk Published two times in the White Bear Press on June 10 and 17, 2020.
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Work hard and remember to take time to rest and have fun. SUBMITTED BY KAREN DEMPSEY
Ken Perry, White Bear Lake
Dale Bailey, White Bear Lake
Here are the two life lessons father Dale Bailey taught his two sons Brian and Brad. From Brian (left): Family comes first no matter what. He made professional and personal sacrifices to always be present for both of us in all that we have done. He has always been there when we needed him. From Brad (right): Never find yourself more than an armslength away from your coffee mug or water bottle. Family first, then caffeine and hydration second. SUBMITTED BY JEN BAILEY
The life lesson that I learned from my Dad is to work hard now to relax later. He was always working hard, and playing hard at the same time. He passed away in August 2019 and I still use his advice every day. SUBMITTED BY AMANDA RABOIN
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Normally located on Washington Avenue, the White Bear Lake Farmers Market, like many other events in the community, has had to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic. The market will be moving to the West side of Clark Street to better meet the needs and requirements imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak. Not surprisingly, there will be some changes. “The biggest one is probably spacing, and that’s kind of why we moved it. I know a lot of the vendors had already taken it upon themselves to get hand sanitizers and other things,” said Mary Helmerick, White Bear Lake Farmers Market coordinator. By moving from Washington Avenue to the west end of Clark Street, the market will have more room to allow for 6 feet between booths and social distancing between customers. The move has been something Helmerick has wanted to do for a while, but was hoping to do gradually. Instead, these circumstances have forced the market to move all at once — and quickly. “I’m really excited to see how the new location works. I think it’s a great move for us,” she said. For those used to visiting the market on Washington Avenue, signs will be posted directing people to the new location not too far away. Face masks at the market are optional as it is held outdoors, and organizers have
worked to spread things out as much as possible. The new location won’t be the only new part of the farmers market this year. Many new booths will be open, including a pickling vendor and a mushroom one, too. “We have a lady who does prepackaged organic beverages. We have a lady who’s going to be selling fresh cut flowers. We have CBD, and it’s grown locally,” Helmerick said. There will be many familiar faces along with these new vendors. Helmerick estimates that about 75% of her vendors have been with her for multiple years. “My vendors really rock. A couple of them have volunteered for the fi rst couple days to try to help me get things moving along,” she said. With all of the changes to this year’s market, many vendors have had to adapt, including Jessica and Mark Gilberston of Gilbertson farms. The two sell beef, pork, chicken, eggs and many different kinds of produce. The meat and eggs are free-range, hormone- and antibiotic-free, and the produce is chemical-free. “I haven’t been nervous. It’s been more hard trying to adjust to everything that changes from one day to the next,” Jessica said. The two have worked to make their foods available in other ways to meet the needs of those less willing to venture out and explore during the pandemic. “We added contactless pickup where people are doing orders online, placing orders to pick
up at market,” Jessica said. People can order from Gilbertson Farms online through their website, Facebook page, or even by emailing them at markandjessgilbertson@gmail. com. Both Helmerick and the Gilbertsons are encouraging the community to do what White Bear does best and support the small businesses through the pandemic. “It’s local. You’re supporting the small farmer. It’s the freshest food you’re going to get. It’s small, and it’s great,” Mark said. “All of the stuff is locally grown and with this pandemic, a lot of those people have been suffering so they could use that support,” Helmerick said. The White Bear Lake Farmers Market has been around since the ’70s and is one of the oldest such markets in the Twin Cities area. The Gilbertsons began selling on and off there in the ’80s and began selling products there annually in the late ’90s. That’s one of the special things about the market: its longevity. “We’ve been around since the ’70s. We keep it basic. We don’t add any fluff. We’re just an oldschool market,” Helmerick said. The farmers market was created to draw people to downtown and help the area, and now it is White Bear’s turn to help the market and all of its vendors. More information regarding the White Bear Lake Farmers Market can be found on the Minnesota Grown website.
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WHITE BEAR LAKE CITY COUNCIL NOTES WHITE BEAR LAKE — City Council conducted the following business at its June 9 meeting: • Heard the 2019 auditor's report from Brad Falteysek of Abdo Eick & Meyers. The auditor's opinion was “clean,â€? meaning numbers and presentations in the annual report are in accordance with general accepted accounting principles. “There were no issues,â€? he said. In his report, Falteysek did point out that enterprise funds, namely water and sewer, do not have recommended reserves. The water fund has limited cash of $212,000. “You want to continue to build this,â€? he noted, recommending a reserve of $614,000 to support operating costs. The city did increase rates again this year, so is “going in the right direction.â€? The sewer fund has a similar deficiency. A cash balance of $655,000 last year is “well below the $1.3 million minimum reserve recommended.â€? A 5% rate increase in 2019 and 3% increase in 2020 should continue to help the cash balance. The ambulance fund is going in the right direction, as is the refuse fund. Pioneer Manor, owned by the city, is over the minimum target.
Council will consider acceptance of the annual audit at its next meeting. • Approved charitable gambling permit for Midwest Ski Otters at Admiral D's. The permit is contingent upon payment from Admiral D's owner Brian McGoldrick. The Ski Otters operate charitable gambling at two other establishments: Cabin 61 and Hollihan's Pub in White Bear Lake. Three locations are allowed per city ordinance. • Approved additional conduit debt authorization for Century Hill Partners. The partnership is rehabilitating a 55unit existing multifamily rental facility at 3525 Century Ave. N. and requested approval for additional funding. Federal tax code allows tax exemption for nonprofits to get a break on interest rates. Century Hills is a for-profit enterprise but qualifies if doing something for the public good. The city issued revenue conduit bonds for the project last year in the amount of $6 million but the project was never started due to an increase in costs. The borrower is asking for an additional $250,000. • Approved spending $81,300 for sanitary sewer lining program. A bid from Visu-Sewer Inc. includes grouting pipe joints in sewer mains on Cottage Park Road and Lakeview Avenue. Sewer
mains on Campbell Avenue, Gardenette Drive North, Lilac Lane, Pine Street and White Bear Avenue have been identified by Public Works as high risks for backups due to root problems, misaligned joints, pipe deterioration or inaccessible locations. The city has 120 miles of sewer line. • Approved massage therapist licenses for Pusya Wang-Anderson, Vita Day Spa; Kelly Admus, A Little TLC; and Paula Frost, Paula Frost Massage. • Approved a special home occupation permit for Therese Faison at 4445 Lincoln Ave. She plans to operate a massage therapy business out of a triplex. • Included in the council packet was a report from the Environmental Advisory Commission. Dog waste continues to be an issue along Lake Avenue. A resident alerted the city about the problem and asked if there is a fine for those who don't pick up their dog's droppings. A commission member
suggested providing more bag stations, possibly at West Park and on the other end of the trail closer to Shady Lane. Another commissioner stated that dog DNA sampling exists and said submitting DNA could be part of the city's dog license application requirement. Other suggestions were to install cameras and more trash cans along the trail. • Heard update on the buoys at Memorial Beach. City Manager Ellen Hiniker reminded council of the tension last year between boaters and swimmers and the buoys the city installed to keep the two separate. “It got a little contentious, but we got through the summer,â€? she said. The same infrastructure was installed this year. “We received some emails from boaters who are not pleased. We contacted Troy (the city attorney) and feel confident in our standing,â€? Hiniker added. Ramsey County water patrol will enforce adherence to the buoys. Debra Neutkens
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the Dennis Jurgens situation could happen now. If anybody sees a bruise on a child, they pick up the phone. The book itself … is described as a breakthrough book about child abuse, but that was many years ago. We are much more of an aware society now.”
Q: For those who have read and been captivated by your telling of this story, what surprised you when interviewing or researching this case? A: “The main thing was that everyone was still there. The cast of characters goes back to 1965 and I am sitting there in 1988. It was surprising and beneficial. The other thing that was surprising: They all knew. They knew something wrong had happened but couldn’t face up to it. This is human nature. They didn’t know in a real direct way, but they were willing to discuss that with me. It wasn’t like something was suddenly discovered in 1988. It was that something was acknowledged.”
Q: You met Dennis Jurgen’s biological mother, Jerry Sherwood, who was the driving force behind discovering Dennis’ death was actually a murder — 22 years later. How would you describe her and her drive to uncover information about Dennis’ death? A: “I met Jerry and visited with her when I was out there first reporting for the story for the L.A. Times. She was very passionate, strong-minded, angry, but just full of feeling. Obviously, there was a precipitating event that just drove the reopening of the story. She had gone through quite a lot in her life, a lot of difficulties. Remember this child, Dennis, had been taken away from her because she was just 17 and was having other problems and had gone through all kinds of difficult trying experiences afterward. To learn that Dennis, her firstborn, was dead after all these years was very upsetting and angering and part of a larger set of difficult circumstances she had experienced all through her life. She has passed away now. I think I learned this because her other son, Craig McIntyre, once reached out to me and told me that.”
Q: Dennis’ adopted brother Robert testified against his mother at the trial, saying he thought she had killed Dennis. Do you know if that is unusual in these child abuse cases? He was 5 years old at the time of Dennis’ death. A: “There was an accumulation of some really strong testimony. Obviously, Robert was a key piece of it. It was a dramatic part of the trial and dramatic part of my narrative to tell you the truth. He remembered and chose to testify against his mother. It was both unusual and quite a dramatic part of the whole story.”
Q: The funeral director did something extraordinary in 1965 to preserve evidence. You’ve researched and written eight books and many newspaper articles. Have you ever heard of anything like what Jim Honsa did before in your reporting life? A: “It did happen … It was Jim Honsa the mortician, the funeral director, in 1965. When they were preparing Dennis’ body for burial. Chapter 37 ‘A cry from the ground’ is the chapter when Michael McKee (the medical examiner in 1986 to 1987 who opened the file and said this is child abuse) is taking the body out of the grave so as to see the cause of death. It was Honsa, when he was preparing Dennis’ body for burial in 1965, who took the internal organs out of the body and put it in a bag full of preservatives because he felt something was wrong. And, in case anyone wanted to come along later and investigate this, he was going to preserve it … I found Honsa in 1988 and he told me all about that. And, Michael McKee told me all about it, too … That chapter gave me chills to write it. Honsa is in it and McKee is in it and they exhume the body at the time. And McKee finds the perforation in the abdomen that caused the peritonitis.”
YOU SHOULD KNOW: Be sure to read, “A Death in White Bear Lake: Notorious crime in city history marks 50 years,” which Press Publications published in 2015 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of an abused 3-year-old boy named Dennis Jurgens. The story can be found online at presspubs. com by searching “Dennis Jurgens.” Q: Has the book stayed in print for 30 years? A: “I had quite a lot of success and history with this. The hardcover had different editions. The hardcover with Bantam came out in 1990. The next year, 1991, Bantam brought out a paperback edition. Ten years later in 2000, Ballentine, another publisher, had brought out a new edition. I had switched publishers … they secured the rights from Bantam and brought out another paperback edition. Three years ago, 2017, another publisher, Open Road, published an e-book because there weren’t any e-books back when I first did ‘Death in White Bear Lake.’ At the same time they brought out a new trade paper edition (larger size paperback) in 2017. This year, Tantor Media brought out an audio edition, which had not been done before either. And we’ve had some foreign editions, too, Germany, France and such. I have to say it keeps rolling. One of the things I think is happening is it is a book that is sometimes selected for book clubs.”
Q: How did the book sell? A: “The first edition didn’t get on the New York Times bestseller list, but it was on the bestseller list for the upper Midwest. The paperback did particularly well. It has been (30) years now. The book still sells. It did well, but it wasn’t John Grisham, either.”
Q: Do you still get feedback about it 30 years later? A: “I am, and it’s really quite something. It is one of the most striking parts of the experience having written and brought out this book. Thirty years later, I have eight books out. ‘Dreamers and Schemers’ is my eighth. Easily, easily the book that continues to elicit the most feedback is ‘A Death in White Bear Lake,’ the first book that I wrote. I hear from people … with e-mails, snail mails. It’s a story that captured and meant something to a lot of people. They often reach out to me.”
Q: What questions are you most asked? A: “Certain people want to know about Lois, tell me about Lois Jurgens. Some people just write me because they live now or used to live in White Bear Lake, and they want to talk about the community. Sometimes I’ll get a note that I exactly conveyed, communicated what White Bear Lake was like. I love that as a writer. I was trying to use this case as a window into a community and way of life. To move beyond the murder case and just tell me I got the community right was encouraging. A good number want to talk about their own experiences with child abuse. Either them as the victim or them knowing someone. They want to tell me other stories about child abuse. Some of them want me to write those stories. There is a Wikipedia page just on the book. It continues to generate interest.”
Q: If you were to write this book today, is there anything different you’d change or pursue? A: “Normally, I’d say ‘Of course.’ But, I don’t think so. This book was very exciting, engaging. I thought about it long and hard. I know I wanted it to read like a novel, a real narrative. And I had a lot of time to go over it. I had a wonderful editor at Bantam with feedback pageby-page, and line-by-line. So, there was an intensive editing process. I shared it with a couple of colleagues. There were things in the drafts that I wanted to change, but I changed them. The book that came out was the book I wanted. That is very unusual. All of my writing I
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Q: How does it compare to the other books you’ve written in popularity, subject matter? A: “It was definitely the most popular in terms of attention paid. It got reviewed in the New York Times book review, which is really hard to get that kind of attention. It was reviewed all over the place. It was a finalist for the Edgar award. People still write me about it. My first book is easily the most popular. “Subject matter — throughout my life I’ve been drawn to legal cases; not just in my books, but in my articles for the L.A. Times. So, I had written about legal cases before. It is a window into things. There is a little morality play going on. Right versus wrong. Legal versus not legal. A lot of my stories have pivoted around legal cases and more than one about a murder.”
Q: Your most recent book is “Dreamers and Schemers,” the story about the pursuit by Los Angeles to stage the 1932 Olympics. You’ve also written other true crime books such as “Manifest Injustice,” about a man imprisoned for 38 years for murder who fights for his freedom. Did your time in White Bear Lake 30 years ago writing this book help prepare you for future books? A: “Yes. What White Bear Lake did, it was my first book. I had been writing long-form narratives for years for the L.A. Times. It was a leap to go from 10,000-word article to 100,000-word book. It was a big leap. I was equal parts excited and scared. I had never written a book. I was a reader of nonfiction narratives and novels. You know that it is the best way to learn to be a writer. Fortunately, I kind of instinctively knew what I was doing writing long-form narratives for the Times. I tried to treat each chapter as its own free-standing article in a way. I took it a chapter at a time. Writing ‘A Death in White Bear Lake’ gave me the experience having done a book. It showed me I could, which is encouraging if you want to keep on writing books. It prepared me for future books.”
Q: Two years after your book was published, there was a TV movie made, “A Child Lost Forever,” starring Beverly D’Angelo, Dana Ivey, Max Gail and others. You were a production consultant on it? What did you think about how it turned out? A: “Yes. It was an interesting story. I wasn’t too involved. They gave me a credit. That TV movie is based not my book but my L.A. Times article. A production company affiliated with NBC bought rights to the L.A. Times story before the book existed. They bought the rights to use the article in 1988. The credit has
to do with me writing the article, not making the movie. As to how it turned out, I watched it once 30 years ago. I don’t remember. It wasn’t based on my book. I know the story too well. It was a TV movie, which is a different form. It is not the book or the story I told.”
Q: Regarding child abuse, what has changed for the better during the past 30 years? A: “Everything has changed for the better. There is a chapter in the book where I leave White Bear Lake and shift the story to Colorado. That’s where a guy named Dr. C. Henry Kempe was working at Colorado General Hospital and the University of Colorado. He’s the one who first wrote about battered child syndrome. You can just follow the arc from 1965. From the time of Dennis’ death … the recognition about child abuse has just increased more and more. It has changed for the better. There is no doubt about it.”
Q: Tell readers about your latest book, “Dreamers and Schemers.” A: “It is a nonfiction narrative with one foot in history. It is my first book entirely based on archival research. There was no one to interview. Really, L.A. from about 1885 to the Olympics in 1932. Fascinating experience to do that kind of work. Something I always wanted to try. I always felt literary journalists had one foot in the world of the historians.”
Q: Are you planning to write another book? A: “People always ask. I should hope so. I have not. I don’t have anything underway right now. It was pretty exhausting to get the last one done on a tight deadline. Then, the school year began. I’m very deeply involved with U.C. Irvine, both as a teacher of writing workshops and the director of the literary journalism program. (Siegel left the L.A. Times in 2003 to start the program). The school year is just ending. It was a weird quarter teaching remotely via Zoom. Now going into the summer, maybe I’ll get a chance to recharge and think of a next project. But, I don’t have it in mind.”
Q: Any final thoughts? A: “Convey to everybody please how much I loved living in White Bear Lake and how it is a favorite place for me, particularly because it wasn’t southern California. When I was driving home in early August after spending all those months there, I was in my car and remember coming through the mountain pass on (Interstate) 15 to that greater southern California zone. It was like culture shock to me. I hope to come back and visit (White Bear Lake) sometime.”
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White Bear Lake resident switching to solar energy BY KATIE LEIBEL CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Solar energy has been around for a while, but the panels in our community sure haven’t. Many residents are now switching to solar energy, and for good reason. In 2018, White Bear Lake held a solar energy information session where representatives from solar and energy organizations spoke about the benefits of solar. The event was purely informational, but those who attended had the opportunity to join other homeowners who wanted to work together to purchase solar and receive a group discount. “From my experience, it’s an item that a lot of people have wanted to do for a long time,” said Bobby King of Solar United Neighbors, one of the organizations that participated in the session. “There’s interest in being more self-sufficient, and also leaving a smaller carbon footprint.” But the information session wasn’t the only thing that has pushed people to switch to using solar power in recent years. Right now, it’s cheaper to install solar power: After 2020, the federal solar tax credit for doing so will decrease from 26% of the system’s cost to 22%. “The incentives that the state of Minnesota and the federal government are offering are decreasing and going away. Those incentives are on a first-come, firstserved basis. We’re encouraging people to take advantage of them because they’re available,” said Michael Allen, owner of All Energy Solar, a St. Paul family-owned company celebrating its 10th year in business. Allen believes solar is a better overall product than normal electricity. He said it’s safer and less expensive. “Our current version of electricity is burning gas or coal that omits harmful gases into our environment. That same electricity can be done with zero emissions,” he said. Two homeowners, one in Lino Lakes and one in White Bear Lake, recently made the switch with All Energy
Phone and Internet Discounts Available to CenturyLink Customers The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission designated CenturyLink as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier within its service area for universal service purposes. CenturyLink’s basic local service rates for residential voice lines are $15.96-$20.76 per month and business services are $34.56-$43.29 per month. Specific rates will be provided upon request.
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An array of recently installed solar panels gather energy on the roof of a home on the south side of White Bear Lake.
Solar and gave glowing reviews. “It’s just something I grew up with, that sort of intrinsic value of lowering our carbon footprint,” said White Bear Lake resident Kyle Manley. Jennifer Rooney echoed that view. Rooney, a Lino Lakes resident, has children and wanted to reduce her own carbon emissions for the future. Although the two homeowners love their product, Allen believes that there are a lot of myths about solar energy that discourage people from investigating it as an option.
Myth No. 1: Solar is too expensive. According to Allen, in the majority of cases solar is less expensive than buying from the electric company. It provides a lot of value to a homeowner. Rooney was told that the panels would add 4% to her home value. “Electricity prices are continuing to rise, and if you want to stop renting your electricity and start owning it, now is the time to do that,” Allen said. King echoed this thought. “Depending on your electric bill and suitability of your roof, solar will pay for itself in about 10 years. Solar panels are guaranteed for 25 years, and they’ll likely last more than 25 years,” he said. Both Manley and Rooney agreed that solar was no more expensive than electricity. Both homeowners secured loans to pay for their panels. Rooney obtained a 12-year loan for her panels, while Manley’s will be paid off in eight years. “I would say once the panels are paid off that it’s going to be cheaper. Our monthly loan (payment) is going to be about what our electricity bill was, and then when it’s done we’ll just be making money,” Manley said. Rooney decided to take a slightly different approach. “We opted to put additional panels on because the electric company has to pay us back at the end of the year (for energy) that we don’t use,” she said. “If I had opted not to put the additional panels, on we’d be paying $11 more than our usual bill.” According to both homeowners, all the extra power that their panels generate goes back into the grid to power places around them. This means that their energy company is obligated to pay them back for the extra energy they generate. “Right now, I’ve got a monthly payment that’s like $100 a month for eight years,” Manley said. Neither Manley nor Rooney have to pay an electric bill; they’re just paying off their loans. Once the loans are paid off, they may even be pulling in some money from their panels. Rooney found the savings to be huge, as well. “The numbers were just astounding. If we did nothing, our cost of electricity would be $60,509 over 25 years,” she said, noting that those numbers also accounted for inflation. Not only was it affordable, but cost have gone down since solar panels were first popularized. “The cost has just plummeted. Since 2010, the cost has gone down (by) 70%,” King said.
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Myth No. 2: Solar panels are ugly Solar panel designs have changed quite a bit since they were first developed. Not only are they stronger and often last longer than they did years ago, but they’re
also able to fit onto a roof fairly well. “When you walk my neighborhood, they look beautiful,” Rooney said. “They’re flat against the roof. They don’t stick up.” Depending on the roof, solar panels are now able to sit right on the roof. They don’t necessarily have silver edges, which means that all you see is the shiny black color. “You can design a project that complements the design of your home,” Allen said.
Myth No. 3: Solar panels aren’t powerful enough Solar panels in the past weren’t as strong as they are today, but times and technology have changed. “We have entire towns, we have entire cities that run their homes on renewable energy,” Allen said. Both Rooney and Manley agreed that the solar panels produced more than enough energy for them. In the summer months, “I can basically cover my basic needs in 10-12 days a month,” Rooney said.
Installation and more Both Rooney and Manley went through All Energy Solar to get their panels. “They come out and do a survey of your house. They are very communicative. The whole install process took three days. It was little bit loud, but it was very seamless and hands-off, which is what I love,” Rooney said. The process took even less time for Manley. “The solar install itself only took one day. They cut the power for 30 minutes so Xcel (Energy) could stop in and install their meter. In terms of the transition, it was really pretty simple,” Manley said. Rooney mentioned that the group was very transparent with her. They checked out the roof, how mounting would work and how much sun the yard receives, as well as angles. “If you had too much shade in your yard they’re going to say it’s not going to work out for you,” she said. Both Rooney and Manley had similar reasons for switching. It wasn’t just because of the reduced cost, but also for the environmental impact. According to Rooney, her solar panels had a significant effect: Following installation, 169.7 metric tons of CO2 will not be emitted into the atmosphere, roughly the equivalent of the elimination of 36 passenger vehicles or the growth of 2,805 tree seedlings. “I think the one that hit me the most was 185,480 pounds of coal (not being) burned,” Rooney said. “I really have a hard time coming up with drawbacks,” Manley said. Not only does this allow people to live lifestyles that reduce their carbon footprint, but it also helps them to become more self-reliant. “It provides a lot of independence for a lot of people, and people really appreciate that, especially in a time like right not where there’s a lot of fragility,” Allen said. Both homeowners encouraged residents who are interested to look into solar options and see if the switch is right for them. “I’d say it doesn’t hurt to reach out. It doesn’t hurt to have a solar company come out and do a bid and an estimate. It doesn’t cost you anything,” Manley said. Rooney noted that some solar panels can be put up now and more can be added later, five or 10 years down the line.
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Rush Line tweaks include new trail, new stoplight
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Southbound left turns will be prohibited at Seventh Street and Highway 61, according to a refined downtown Rush Line station design.
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A draft concept of the downtown White Bear Lake station.
ST. PAUL — A trail may be added on the east side of Highway 61 from Cedar Avenue to County Road F as part of additional refinements to the Rush Line bus rapid transit (BRT) project. That change and more were part of an engineering update on "15 Percent Plans" made to the Policy Advisory Committee by Ramsey County's Rush Line team at its latest virtual meeting. The new trail is being evaluated in the current two-year environmental assessment phase. Ongoing coordination with project partners will be required to determine feasibility of the segment, according to team leaders, and sources for the non-federal funding share identified. A maintenance plan is also needed prior to including the trail in the project scope. Additional refinements pertaining to the White Bear area presented at the May 28 meeting include: • Pedestrian improvements and a traffic signal at Eighth Street and Highway 61. Southbound left turns will be prohibited at Seventh Street. It was noted that additional coordination is needed with the Minnesota Department of Transportation and White Bear Lake Area Schools. • Platform locations that provide maximum transit accessibility for both local service and bus rapid transit, while minimizing potential impacts. • A station platform height of 10 inches to provide equitable, safe and efficient access. • Inclusion of additional pedestrian and bicycle facilities to improve station accessibility. • Adjusted BRT and Bruce Vento Trail design within the Ramsey County rail right of way to improve safety and reflect public input. • Refine design to Maplewood Mall Transit Center to serve both existing service and Rush Line BRT. • Agree to review the project with and without the Highway 36 park and ride. The Policy Advisory Committee, chaired by White Bear Lake Mayor Jo Emerson, was told that engineering and environmental assessment work remains on track despite COVID-19. Also noted were resolutions of support on the 15 Percent Plans from the city of White Bear Lake, White Bear Township, Vadnais Heights and Maplewood. Gem Lake has yet to schedule the agenda item. A refined capital cost estimate is upcoming based on the
White Bear Lake Area Church Directory Find the church that fits your needs. CHURCH OF ST. PIUS X 3878 Highland Avenue White Bear Lake • 651-429-5337 www.churchofstpiusx.org Masses: Mon.-Fri. 8 am • Wed. 6:30 pm First Sat. 8 am, Sat. 4 pm
Sun. 8:45am & 10:30am, 7:30pm • Reconciliation: Sat. 3pm
15 Percent Plans. Current estimated cost for the 14-mile route is $420 million. Funding will come from county funds generated by the transit sales and use tax and the Federal Transit Administration's capital investment grants program. Next steps for the two-year environmental phase are Federal Transit Administrative and legal reviews, June through November, followed by publication of the environmental assessment and a 45-day public comment period. Public hearings will be scheduled in January 2021 and an anticipated environmental decision is expected in April. Based on the project's current timeline, construction would begin in 2024 and open in 2026. Buses will operate all day, every 10 minutes during rush hours and every 15 to 30 minutes at other times, 5 a.m. to midnight. The committee next meets July 23 in virtual format. Comments and questions can be submitted to info@ rushline.org.
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All Are Invited! Online worship is available at saintandrews.org Saturday at 5 p.m. (Contemporary)
Sunday at 9 a.m. (Traditional)
Sunday at 10:15 a.m. (Contemporary)
Sunday at 4 p.m.
(Depot Church in Hugo)
First Christian Church of St. Paul (disciples of Christ)
ST. ANDREW’S LUTHERAN CHURCH 900 STILLWATER ROAD, MAHTOMEDI WWW.SAINTANDREWS.ORG 651-426-3261
St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church
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LAKEWOOD WORSHIP CENTER L Sunday School and Fellowship at 9:00 am Family Worship Service at 10:30 am Capt’s Michael & Erin Metzler, Pastors 2080 Woodlynn Ave., Maplewood • 651-779-9177 208
650 Wildwood Road Mahtomedi, MN 55115 www.fccstpaul.com 651-779-3330
Worship time: Sundays 10am
Sunday Worship Livestreaming on
YouTube: FPCWBL Masses: Saturday – 5:00 PM Sunday – 7:30, 9:00, & 11:00 AM
5th and Bloom Ave, White Bear Lake • 651-429-3381 • www.fpcwbl.org
651-429-7771 www.stmarys-wbl.org
OF THE LAKE CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOOL
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Monday & Wed-Fri: Mass at 9 a.m. Wed-Fri: Mass at 96 a.m. Tuesday: p.m. Saturday: Mass at 5 p.m. Sunday: Mass at 9 a.m. & 11 a.m. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. 700 Mahtomedi Ave., Mahtomedi 651-426-3245
Service times are subject to change during the coronavirus crisis. Contact your local church or check church web sites for service time and online service information.
South Shore Trinity Lutheran Church South Shore Blvd. at Bellaire Avenue White Bear Lake, MN 651-429-4293 LCMS Pastor Bob Gehrke Pastor Dan Bodin
In person worship Traditional Worship Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Sundays at 8 a.m. in the sanctuary. Contemporary Worship 1st and 3rd Sunday, 9:45 in the Sanctuary. Lakeside Worship (weather permitting) at 9:45 a.m. the 2nd and 4th Sundays beginning June 14 thru August at Bellaire Lakeside Beach. Bring your lawn chair or blanket. In event of rain, worship will be held in the sanctuary. www.sstwbl.org
We are Sharing, Caring, & Growing in Christ We’d Love to Have You Come Join US!
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1. Congratulations to the Frassati Catholic Academy 8th grade graduating class of 2020. — Submitted 2. Nico Fiola, a 6th grade student at Mahtomedi Middle School, finished his year at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 2nd and was at the State Capitol by noon to actively participate in the fight for social justice. — Submitted 3. Noah Neuhaus, Carley Neuhaus, and Alli Neuhaus conducted a resource drive outside of Anchor Coffee to bring food and supplies to help families affected by the fires and looting in the Twin Cities June 2. — Submitted 4. A black bear was spotted earlier this week on Manitou Island. — Submitted 5. The Frame family and other passersby watch as a turtle lays eggs along the Lake Avenue path. — Submitted
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Escape to a wine experience unlike anything you’ve seen before...
We’re brewing up a Storm in Willernie! Stop in for a flight of our House-made beers on tap this week!
CRAFT BREWERY & TAPROOM IN THE HEART OF WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMITTED TO QUALITY BEER
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6428 Manning Ave., Stillwater Since 1992 • 651-430-3310 Open 7 Days a Week 10-6
• Wine Tastings: Flights or Glasses • Traditional Tuscan-flare culinary creations • Corporate or life events
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