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SartellNewsleaderWinter Farmers Market sets Eggstravaganza
Its an Eggstravaganza at the St. Joseph Winter Farmers Market
from 3-6 p.m. Friday, March 22 in the fellowship hall of
Resurrection Lutheran Church, 610 C.R. 2 N., St. Joseph. Activities
will include free egg decorating for children, live music by
Ordinary Folk, food samples and recipes, and the RLC youth group
returns with their homemade soup. There will be goods available
from area grow-ers including eggs, artisan bread, meats, preserved
goods, honey, sunflower oil and more.
Maple Syrup festsset March 16, April 6
Maple syrup season is a cel-ebration that gives true meaning to
the phrase Home, sweet home. If youre looking for a family event to
give you a sweet taste of home, join St. Johns Arboretum for the
annual Maple Syrup Festivals from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, March 16 and
April 6, at St. Johns Abbey and University. Registration will be
near St. Johns Prep School. Ad-vanced registration is the Friday
before each date. Call 320-363-3163 or visit www.thenewsleaders.com
and click on Criers.
Seminar March 18 tacklesbankruptcy, credit issues
A community-education semi-nar on bankruptcy and credit is-sues,
sponsored by the Volunteer Attorney Program for Central Min-nesota
Legal Services in St. Cloud, will be held from 10:30 a.m.-noon
Thursday, March 18 at the Great River Regional Library, 1300 W. St.
Germain St., St. Cloud.
McKnight Foundationseeks nominations
The McKnight Foundation in-vites nominations for its 16th
Distinguished Artist Award, in recognition of individual artists
with enduring and exceptional careers. Nominations for the $50,000
award must be received by March 31.
The award honors one art-ist each year for having made a
substantial impact on the arts in Minnesota over a lifetime. A
panel representing a variety of artistic disciplines considers
first and foremost the quality of nomi-nated artists work. Other
consid-erations include the artists com-mitment to his or her
field, and ways the artist has enriched life for audiences and the
community. Send your nomination via email to Kristen Marx, arts
program ad-ministrator, at [email protected]. For more
information, visit www.thenewsleaders.com and click on Criers.
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Girl wins national photo contest
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This photo won Lydia Anderson the top prize in a national photo
contest sponsored by the Boys and Girls Club.
by Dennis [email protected]
Lydia Andersons parents had to play hush-hush around her for
weeks and keep their lips zipped to make sure they wouldnt spill
the beans.
What they knew but Lydia didnt is that she had won first place
in the national Im-age Maker Photo Contest spon-sored by the local
Boys and Girls Club and its Kidstop programs. Her parents, Jason
and Gina of St. Joseph, had to keep it a se-cret so Lydia would be
surprised at a special presentation Feb. 28 at the Food Court in
Crossroads Center. And surprised she was! She was very pleased and
hon-ored to get such an award.
Lydia is a fifth-grader at Sar-tell Middle School.
What is unusual and remark-able is that last year Lydias
brother, Lance, also won first place in the same national photo
contest, when he was a second-grader at Pine Meadow Elemen-tary
School. One day, Lance was stunned to speechlessness when
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Longtime archer Doug Krebs of Sartell hit a bullseye without
even trying when he was named Volunteer Coach of the Year recently
by the USA Archery organization, based in Colorado Springs,
Colo.
He didnt expect the honor.I was surprised, he said. I
found out about it through our head coach, Linda Beck. Then, I
received the recognition formally a couple days later at our JOAD
club meeting.
JOAD stands for Junior Olym-pics Archery Development, a central
Minnesota club based in Sauk Rapids and a member of USA
Archery.
Beck, of Maple Lake, was also honored as Coach of the Year in
the developmental category. She has been a personal coach for two
fine, award-winning ar-chers from Sartell, Adam Wruck and Corey
Muellenbach. The third Coach of the Year, in the national category,
is Mel Nich-ols of Scottsdale, Ariz.
Krebs, in his award citation, was cited for his many hours of
serving as a volunteer coach for JOAD members. Krebs is a
pro-duction supervisor for Woodcraft Industries in St. Cloud.
Doug is really good at find-
ing what needs to be fixed in my archery form and then
explain-ing it to me in a way that I can understand it, said Kenny
Cru-ze, 12, of Sartell, who had been coached by Krebs. He is always
positive and encouraging in his instruction to me and the rest of
the archers. He is very patient and I respect him as my coach.
Krebs and his daughter, Han-nah, are dedicated archers. Even
though Krebs has love shooting arrows ever since he was 8 years
old, he became very serious about the sport in 2007 when daughter
Hannah, then 12, took up archery as a hobby.
Hannah was introduced to archery at a Girl Scout camp and
instantly took a liking to it, so much so that now she and her
father take part in all kinds of competitions far and wide, and
they also go bow deer-hunting together. Hannah, now 17, is a senior
at Sartell High School.
Both are members of Granite City Junior Olympics Archery
Development in Sauk Rapids, and that is where Krebs has done
volunteer assistant coaching for six years. There are about two
dozen active members in the Sauk Rapids JOAD. His students come
from all over central Min-nesota.
Just last week, Krebs and
USA Archery names Krebs as Coach of Yearcontributed photo
Hannah Krebs, a senior at Sartell High School, takes aim at a
target 20 yards away at the Voyageurs Cup tournament last week. Her
father, Doug, (inset) has been her trusty coach for six years.
Photo page 3
Krebs page 3
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The Sartell Peewee As were the South Region Tournament Champions
earning a trip to the Minnesota State Peewee A Tournament to be
held March 15-17 in Faribault, Minn. Sartell beat the St. Cloud
Black team 4-0; Owatonna 4-0; and Luverne 3-0. Players include:
(front row, left to right) Maddux Hagy and Cole Bright; (middle
row) Jason Sjogren, Eric Minnerath, Garrett Freeman, Trevor Dummer,
Jack Hennemann, Cameron Cromwell and Dylan Michaud; and (back row)
Johnny Kirchner, Luke Schmidt, Connor Kahltoff, Michael Ramseth,
Nathan Warner and Luke Spanier.
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Sixth-graders (from left to right) Jacob Miller, Tina Chen,
Elizabeth Ruder, Cindy Zhang and Patrick Stalboerger, all students
at Sartell Middle School, participated March 8 in the regional Math
Masters of Minnesota Challenge at Sauk Rapids Middle School. The
team coach is Carly Larson. Five students competed individually and
as teams on eight sets of math-ematical problems in this
competition. In the individual round Cindy Zhang placed first;
Elizabeth Ruder second; and Tina Chen, Patrick Stalboerger and
Jacob Miller placed third. Math Masters is designed to promote
excellence in critical thinking skills and problem-solving
abilities as well as provide recogni-tion to students for academic
effort and achievement.
If any readers have tips concern-ing crimes, they should call
the Sar-tell Police Department at 251-8186 or Tri-County Crime
Stoppers at 255-1301 or access its tip site at
www.tricountycrimestoppers.org. Crime Stoppers offers rewards up to
$1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of
those responsible for crimes.
Feb. 27 10:02 a.m. Traffic stop. Riverside
Avenue S. A vehicle was witnessed traveling 46 mph in a posted
30-mph zone. The driver stated he was not aware of his speed. He
was issued a citation and released.
10:17 a.m. Traffic stop. Riverside Avenue S. A vehicle was
witnessed traveling 47 mph in a posted 30-mph zone. The driver was
aware of her speed. She was issued a citation and released.
12:10 p.m. Traffic stop. 19th Av-enue S. A vehicle was witnessed
trav-eling 54 mph in a posted 40-mph zone. The driver stated she
was not aware of her speed. She was issued a citation and
released.
Feb. 28 5:50 p.m. Traffic stop. Riverside
Avenue N. A vehicle was witnessed passing numerous vehicles at a
high rate of speed in a posted No Passing Zone. The driver admitted
to passing the vehicles and not having any proof of insurance. He
was issued citations for both violations and released.
6:55 p.m. Traffic stop. Riverside Avenue N. A vehicle was
witnessed traveling 40 mph in a posted 30-mph zone. The driver
stated she was not aware of her speed. She was issued a citation
and released.
10:14 p.m. Traffic stop. 2nd Street S. A vehicle was witnessed
traveling 40 mph in a posted 30-mph zone. The
driver stated she was aware of her speed. She was issued a
citation and released.
March 1 9:49 a.m. Traffic stop. 2nd Street
S. After checking a vehicles regis-tration, it was found the
registered owners license was revoked. The driver admitted to
knowing his li-cense was revoked. He was issued a citation and the
licensed passenger drove the vehicle.
3:17 p.m. Traffic stop. 1st Street NE. A vehicle was witnessed
display-ing expired tabs. The driver stated he was unaware the tabs
needed to be re-placed. The driver could not provide any proof of
insurance. A citation was issued for both violations and he was
released.
5:57 p.m. Traffic stop. 1st Street NE. After checking a vehicles
reg-istration, it was found the registered owners license was
revoked. The driver admitted to knowing his li-cense was revoked
and he had re-ceived a citation earlier in the day for the same
offense. The vehicle was parked and the driver was issued another
citation and released.
March 2 6:18 p.m. Stalled vehicle. Hwy.
15. An occupied vehicle was stalled on the side of the road. The
driver stated she was waiting on Andys Towing. Officers remained
and pro-vided safety lights until the vehicle was removed.
8:28 p.m. Theft. Walmart. A male was witnessed attempting to
leave the store with unpaid merchandise. The male admitted to
switching the tags. He was issued a citation and released.
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Sartell Bantam A recently played in the VFW Regions at the MAC
and won the championship. Team members are the following: (front
row, left to right) Graham Lorsung, Dillion Blommer, Logan
Brookins, Matt Partch, Alec Adelman and Cole Nelson; (back row)
Matt Michaud, Keenen Lund, Tommy Pinkerton, Matt Moran, Jordan
Roller, Isaac Dammen, John Schmidt, Will Mc-Cabe and Jared Freeman.
Not pictured: Spencer Meier. They will play back-to-back state
tour-naments March 15 in Buffalo for Bantam A State Tournament and
March 22 n the VFW State Tournament in White Bear Lake. This may be
the first time in Sartell Youth Hockey Association history where a
team at Bantam A level plays back- to-back state tournaments. The
champion-ship game in VFW was a shutout over the St. Cloud Bantam
AA team, 8-0. Coaches are John Swanson, head coach; Al Dedomonices,
assistant coach; and Pete Weitz, lineup.
Taylor Welle, Sartell, has been accepted to and has chosen to
at-tend the University of Minnesota, Morris. Welle, a 2013 graduate
of Becker High School will attend Morris beginning fall 2013. He
is
the recipient of an achievement scholarship, which is based on
academic accomplishments and is renewable up to four years.
Two Sartell students recently
graduated from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul.
They are the following: Olayi-wola Adetunji and Kevin Xie, Both
received masters degrees in healthcare.
SMS students compete in regional Math Masters PeeWees, Bantams
to play in state hockey meets
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Come early summer, Fido and Fifi just might be yip-yip-yipping
for joy when they discover they have their very own park in
Sartell.
The Sartell City Council has as one of its goals for this year
the construction of a dog park within Pinecone Central Park in
Sartell.
But, first things first, Sartell residents are needed to serve
on a Dog Park Committee. There is no limit to the number of people
who can serve on the committee. Its members will come up with what
kinds of amenities should be within the park, as well as
fundraising plans to make those amenities happen. Anyone
inter-ested should contact the Sartell Planning Department at
320-258-7306 or email [email protected]. People may also just show
up for a public meeting slated for
6-7 p.m. Wednesday, April 3 at Sartell City Hall.
At its March 11 meeting, the Sartell City Council endorsed the
idea for a dog park. Council members agreed its possible the city
could chip in as much as $10,000 to get the project started. There
are hopes that commit-tee members will come up with ideas for
raising funds, possibly with the help of establishing a fund with
the Central Minne-sota Community Foundation or the Central
Minnesota Initiative Foundation.
A dog park is a safe, bounded area where dogs and their own-ers
can exercise and play togeth-er in a beautiful natural settting.
The one in Sartell, for instance, could be a fenced-in area with
benches, walking trails, a water source, waste-disposal stations
and a landscape that could in-clude lots of grass, bushes, trees
and who knows? maybe even
a look-alike fire hydrant or two.The specific amenities of
the
Pinecone Central Dog Park will be considered by the members of
the Dog Park Committee. The committee will also decide which rules
of behavior for both pets and people should govern the park and
which rules should be clearly posted for the benefit of all.
The citys park commission, planning director and public-works
director will serve as sounding boards for fundraising efforts and
act as facilitators in the review of plans and moving those plans
through the review process.
A tentative time frame has been established by Sartell
De-veloper and Planner Anita Ras-mussen. Committee members ideas
would be reviewed by the planning commission in late April. The
council would consid-er those ideas in early May. The
People needed for Sartell Dog Park Committee
teachers led him into a gymna-sium filled with students who
burst out clapping and cheering. The students had been tipped off
earlier for the sake of the sur-prise. They cheered again when
Lance learned shortly after en-tering the gymnasium that hed won
first place for his photo of two entwined trees he took during a
family trip to Ontario, Canada.
Lydia entered her winning photo last year, but because of some
confusion about entrants in the national contest, it took a long
time for the results to be
announced to parents.For her category, Lydia chose
essay-photo, which required her to write a short essay on the
theme of My Future Looks Bright and to submit, along with the
essay, a photo that evokes that theme.
For her photo, Lydia submit-ted one she took in the summer of
2011 while sitting in an apple tree at the Willmar home of
grandparents Gene and Gloria Hippe. On that summer day, Lydia
noticed her shadow was on the ground beneath the apple tree. She
arranged herself so that one of her shadow hands on the ground
looked as if it was just about to pick an apple. Then, using one
hand, she snapped the photo, showing part of the tree
branches and the shadow hand ready to pluck the apple.
In her essay, Lydia stated the apple symbolizes her happy
fu-ture while the shadow evokes the uncertainty of life on her way
to her goal. She concluded her essay with confidence that despite
uncertainties she is de-termined to reach that goal.
Besides her enjoyment of pho-tography, Lydia also likes art,
soccer and running. A newer hobby is her learning how to hunt with
her father.
Lydias parents and her broth-er are all proud of her first-place
honor.
Oh, my goodness, said her mother. She was very creative in how
she designed and set up that photo before she took it.
Hannah returned from the three-day Voyageurs Cup tournament near
Princeton. For other tour-naments, theyve traveled as far as Iowa,
Ohio and even Sacra-mento, Calif.
At the Voyageurs Cup event, Krebs placed 87th out of 100
archers, which doesnt sound too impressive until Krebs says
how happy he was, placing 87th while competing among the top
archers in the world. Hannah placed 13th of 27 in the junior
division.
At one time, Krebs took first place in the Minnesota State
Ar-chery Association tournament. Hannah has won first in a num-ber
of tournaments.
I love archery because, in a sense, its really an individual
competition in which youre re-ally competing with yourself, Krebs
said. Youre always trying
to improve. And on top of that, you meet a lot of friends and
the camaraderie is just great.
When asked how many bulls-eyes hes hit in his years of ar-chery,
Krebs paused.
Oh, lets see, it would be thousands, he said, pausing, mentally
calculating, remember-ing. Oh, yeah, tens of thou-sands.
Easily.
And many of those bullseyes, incidentally, were the size of a
dime on a target 20 yards away.
Photo from front page
Krebs from front page
actual park could be constructed sometime in May or June, if
city expenditures (up to $10,000) are within budget. Private
fund-raising could quicken the initial
construction and add amenities throughout the summer and in
future years as raised funds be-come available.
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The new-and-improved football field at Sartell Middle School
will soon have a new-and-improved, state-of-the-art scoreboard.
The Sartell Sabres board, which will be 35-feet high (includ-ing
its 10-foot pole), will display digital images and will broadcast
sound. It will display live video of the ongoing games; scores,
of course; student and program highlights; upcoming events; and
some advertisements.
At its March 11 meeting, the Sartell City Council approved a
sign-variance request for con-struction of the scoreboard. Coun-cil
member David Peterson voiced concerns about the board showing signs
and sounds during times when there is no activity on the field, as
possible disruptions for neighbors in that area. The coun-
Sabre Field to get new scoreboardcil agreed to approve the
score-board placement on the condition the board be turned off when
games are not being played.
The surface area of the digital scoreboard will be 371-square
feet. It will be placed in the same posi-tion as the old
scoreboard, on the north side of the field adjacent to 7th Street
N. and facing the play-ing field.
The Sartell city sign ordinance allows potential variances for
sports signs that deviate from al-lowed sizes and types because
such signs are needed where large numbers of people gather and the
use of the sign (scoreboard) is unique to a particular activity
(sports on the field).
The citys planning commission also recommended approval of the
variance request.
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Three Sartell High School students take turns being the student
representative on the Sartell-St. Stephen School Board meetings.
Its the first time in its history the board includes a student
representa-tive.
Having a student join the meetings is just one effort for the
newly reconstituted board to improve communication with the public
it serves, in-cluding students and parents. Other efforts include
holding some school-board meetings in St. Stephen, making
video-taped meetings available via computer and holding occa-sional
informal meetings with the public.
The three student represen-tatives are Brady Anderson, Sienna
Schneider and Hannah Tilstra. When the board decid-ed to include a
student repre-sentative, those three students applied and were
accepted by a school-board committee. Stu-
dents on the board are non-voting members and serve in an
advisory capacity and as liaisons between the board and the student
body.
Tilstra, Schneider and An-derson are certainly not new to
school-board issues. Last year, all three became active when the
school board vot-ed to discontinue traditional spring break. That
decision riled many parents and stu-dents because they said it was
hastily arrived at with virtu-ally no public input. Schnei-der,
Anderson and Tilstra, who questioned the spring-break decision,
became involved at that time. At one school-board meeting about the
cancellation of spring break, Tilstra and other students were
present. They were disappointed stu-dent representatives had not
been chosen to tell the stu-dents side of the story, and so Tilstra
and Schneider there and then decided to address the board, telling
them why spring break should not have been dropped and why
students
Three students alternate on school board
photo by Jack Hellie
The student representatives on the Sar-tell-St. Stephen School
Board are (left to right) Hannah Tilstra, Brady Anderson and Sienna
Schneider.
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made. Shortly after that, the two young women, An-derson and others
started a campaign to bring back spring break, complete with
T-shirts that said, Sartell Spring Break. Make It Happen. They
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Our View
The idea for a canine park in Sartell is a doggone good one.
Imagine, if you will, all kinds of happy dogs and happy owners
gathered in Pine-cone Central Park, enjoying a summer day. Dogs are
being walked. Owners are chat-ting with one another. Many of the
dogs and owners are having fun with bounding, bouncing bow-wows
catching and retriev-ing frisbees or other fun activities.
The dog park, hopefully, will have walk-ing trails, a water
source, a dog-waste sanitation station and a beautiful and varied
landscape on which to romp and roam.
Another use for the park would be a site to host educational
programs about dog care, perhaps with guest speakers from the
Tri-County Humane Society. It could even be a good venue for
various dog-training classes and even dog shows and pet
pa-rades.
Sometimes a great idea is a very simple one, and this is an
example of that. What is needed now are city residents who are
will-ing to serve on the Dog Park Committee. City staff wants to
hear ideas from the com-mittee, specifically what kind of amenities
people wish to see in the park. As far as amenities go, the skys
the limit, depending on how much money can be raised. That will be
another function of the commit-tee to start fundraisers for the
park. At this point, the City of Sartell is consider-ing pitching
in $10,000 to help start-up costs for the dog park. Donations and
other means of raising funds will go a long way, over time, to pay
for amenities that will be placed on a wish list by Dog Park
Commit-tee members.
This project wont cost a ton of money. For one thing, much of
the work could be accomplished through volunteerism and donated
materials. For another thing, once the fledgling park opens this
early summer, it would be a perfect place to host a fun fun-draiser
or a series of fundraisers involving both dogs and people.
We urge all dog-lovers to attend the committee-formation meeting
from 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, April 3 at Sartell City Hall. Those who
cannot make that meeting but want to become involved should call
320-258-7306 or email Anita Rasmussen at [email protected]. There
is no limit to the number of members who can be on the committee.
Ideas are welcome from any-one, even from people who do not want to
be on the committee.
We hope all Sartell residents rally round this idea for a
Sartell dog park. Its bound to be a bow-wow-wonderful park.
Canine park concepta doggone good idea
Hey, I have a good idea: Lets eat Grandma.
Whoops!, I mean to say: Lets eat, Grandma.
Today, I received an email with an at-tachment, a photo of a
T-shirt that states boldly:
LETS EAT GRANDMA.LETS EAT, GRANDMACOMMAS SAVE LIVESIm going to
buy it and wear it every
day for the rest of my life, taking it off only to wash it once
in awhile. It will be my perma-shirt. Next time I become in-volved
in a discussion and/or argument about why commas are important, I
can just point to the T-shirt.
Many people say, Oh, whats the big deal? So what if Im lousy at
using com-mas? People know what I mean.
Well, I beg to differ. If someone emails me to say we should eat
Grand-ma, Ill call the cops.
Kidding aside, that T-shirt is a good reminder of the need for
English classes. Like the lost art of penmanship and
letter-writing, correct grammar, spelling and punctuation have been
debased due to sloppy misuse and outright abuse.
What has caused such debasement? I dont blame teachers.
Teachers, these days, seem to get blamed unfairly for just about
everything. I tend to think one cause of language debasement is
people who seem to relish unlearning what they hated to have to
learn. Another reason, probably, is our emailing/texting that
results in a hurried sloppiness and all
kinds of rapid shortcuts, such as u for you, r for our and the
dropping of com-mas and apostrophes as in the example of Lets eat
Grandma.
Another reason, possibly, is there seems to be an ascendance of
the vi-sual (photos, images, symbols, graph-ics) at the expense of
written language. Some magazines have become razzle-dazzle visual
kaleidoscopes in which text, at best, becomes just a lesser form of
the visual.
The same is true of many email com-muniques mainly visuals
accompanied by rapid-fire writing, a hybrid (and hyper) breed of
shorthand. Its under-standable because many people are not adept
typists, and sometimes even the best typists do not want to take
the time for proper usage. Nobodys perfect. I can guarantee there
are examples of sloppiness in many emails I write, al-though I try
to avoid them. Whats hap-pening, I think, is email communiques will
eventually evolve into a virtually different kind of language, with
more and more improvised rules and pecu-liarities spawned from
improper usage.
Such email sloppiness and short-cuts will catch on contagiously,
for better or worse.
Language is a culture that is and always was in a constant state
of evolu-tion. As in geologic evolution, change is its ever-present
lifeblood. Thus, its pos-sible email styles might even invigorate
written and spoken English. However, I have a hunch the influences
will be mainly on the negative side.
On a Nov. 12, 2012 news show, I heard TV commentator Chuck Todd,
a brilliant man, say this: The president would have almost TOOK
that deal. It was yet another awful case of using a simple past
verb instead of the past participle form took for (have) taken.
Professional communicators are supposed to set good examples, and
yet increasingly I hear them say pundint for pundit, eminent for
imminent, and bloated phrases like learning en-vironment for school
or trendy buzz words and phrases such as stakehold-ers and social
capital.
Here is a hypothetical example of butchered English in an email:
Hey, lets eat Grandma. Ive alredy ate but still hongree. u r the
best kookie maker. b rite thare for kookies then have two go too
lerning enviromint to lern sum stuff to git smart so I can b a
steak holder sum day and get sum soshal capitul.
If that kind of lingo evolves into stan-dard Inglish, our
language will be in a sadly debased state, indeed.
Im hungry so lets eat GrandmaDennis Dalman
Editor
True listening crucial to judicial fairness While interviewing
to become a judge,
I was asked how my experience as an at-torney had prepared me
for the position. I responded that trying cases for 20 years in
state and federal court had been like studying to become a judge. I
admit I wondered how different this studying would be in relation
to the test of ev-eryday judging. Specifically, I questioned how
difficult it would be adjusting from being an advocate, pleading
and arguing on behalf of a client, to the role of neutral
decision-maker.
The Minnesota rules which govern lawyers conduct say a lawyers
duty in representing a client includes the re-sponsibility to act
with commitment and dedication . . . and with zeal in ad-vocacy
upon the clients behalf. In my years as a lawyer, I zealously
advocated for a wide variety of clients. As a legal services
attorney, I advocated for victims of domestic abuse. As a criminal
defense attorney, I represented men and women charged with crimes
ranging from traffic tickets to homicide. As an attorney in a law
firm, I represented families fighting for better education for
disabled children. In each of those roles, I did what lawyers do
worked at being as persuasive as I could to help my clients.
When I took the bench in March of last year, my responsibilities
changed dramatically. The rules governing the
conduct of judges provide a judge . . . shall perform all duties
of judicial office fairly and impartially. They also say to ensure
impartiality and fairness to all par-ties, a judge must be
objective and open-minded. According to Webster, I am impartial if
I treat or affect all equally. I am no longer an advocate. I am a
fair and impartial decision-maker with the ul-timate duty of
insuring justice is served.
Prior to taking the bench, I found myself wondering how the
skills I had developed as a zealous advocate would apply to this
new undertaking. Im find-ing its easier to let go of my role as an
advocate than I thought it would be. I still get to do what I value
most listen to peoples stories. The only way I could do my job well
as an attorney was to listen, patiently and attentively, to my
clients. As a judge, I have the privilege of being able to spend my
days listening to people tell me about their lives, their work and
their families. I spend more of my day listening now than ever
before. I might spend the morning hearing a childs tes-
timony about her abuser, how he hurt her but she loves him and
doesnt want him to go away. My next case might involve an assistant
county attorney fighting to protect the public from a man who
can-not or will not stop drinking and driving. Later that morning,
a public defender will ask I send a client addicted to
pre-scription drugs to a treatment program rather than prison. The
afternoon might begin with an attorney representing a credit-card
company that cannot get a debtor to pay and end with a woman who
cannot afford an attorney fighting on her own to get visitation
with her child.
These stories can be hard to hear. At the end of a long day, it
might be tempt-ing to assume you know the story behind the person
in front of you without giving him or her the chance to tell it. My
ex-perience in advocating for clients taught me the only way to
really understand the person standing before you is to listen to
him or her with an open mind. I have committed myself to
open-mindedly lis-tening to each party before me. This is the
foundation for treating those who come before me equally and for
making fair and balanced decisions.
Judge Sarah Hennesy of St. Cloud is district-court judge for
Minnesotas Seventh Judicial District, which includes Benton and
Stearns counties.
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From the Bench
Sarah HennesyDistrict Court Judge
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Friday, March 15Fish Fry, 5-7:30 p.m., Immaculate
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Saturday, March 16Maple Syrup Fests, 1-4 p.m. today
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A busy stretch of Pinecone Road is in cruddy condition, and the
Sartell city engineer means to do something about it soon.
Some residents have called with complaints and concerns about
Pinecone Roads condi-tion, mainly from 2nd Street S. to 7th St. N.
At the March 11 Sartell City Council meet-ing, Sartell City
Engineer Mike Nielson said he and his crew this month, weather
permit-ting, will take pavement cores to evaluate the overall
pave-ment condition. The informa-tion, once its analyzed, will be
used to make recommendations to the council on how best to preserve
and maintain the road for some years into the future.
Pinecone Road from 2nd
Street S. north to 12th Street N. was reconstructed in 1997,
Nielson noted, with a 12-inch gravel base and 5.5 inches of
bituminous. Any improvements to the surface this spring will
involve that entire 10-block sec-tion, Nielson noted.
Most paved roads have a 20-year lifespan, but most can be made
to last longer with proper maintenance, repairs and over-lays,
Nielson told the council.
Even 16 years ago, when that road was reconstructed, no one
could have predicted the ex-tremely heavy traffic count on that
stretch of road, so heavy that it, along with Minnesotas severe
seasons, took a toll on the roads surface.
Nielson will report back to the council with a Pinecone Road
diagnosis at its first May meeting, May 13.
Part of Pinecone Road due for repairs
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started a website called Stu-dent Voices, a forum where students
could register their ideas, suggestions, questions and complaints.
All of their ef-forts helped begin a vigorous, healthy schoolwide
debate on spring break and other issues.
A recent development, which is an outgrowth of that group, is
the high schools Hy-dration Station, a place in the school where
students can refill their water bottles instead of buying new ones
all the time and tossing the empties. It has not yet been
installed, but its ready to go, Tilstra told the Sartell Newsleader
during a recent interview.
The board will be discuss-ing a new calendar for the schools,
Tilstra said. We want to get more students involved with the
calendar discussion. To start that, we began a three-
question survey and are asking students whether we should have
spring break or a series of long weekends (as decided last year by
the school board). We are asking students what are the pros and
cons of having spring break and what are the pros and cons of
having long weekends.
Tilstra was student repre-sentative and sat at the school-board
meeting table during its second meeting this year. The three will
alternate in upcom-
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ing meetings, although the two not sitting up front at the table
will try to attend the meetings and listen from the audience
area.
The members of the school board are Michelle Meyer, chair; Mary
McCabe, vice chair; Jason Nies, clerk/treasurer; and directors Pam
Raden, Dan Riordan and Krista Durrwachter. Four of those
Durrwachter, Meyer, Nies and Raden were elected last No-vember.