2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest

Better Newspaper Contest

Press Photographer’s
Portfolio
All Dailies
First Place: The Bemidji Pioneer,
Maggi Stivers
Captures the emotions behind the story,
whether good, bad or otherwise. Consis-
tently strong composition.

Second Place: The Forum of Fargo-
Moorhead, David Samson
Always finds a unique angle, perspective
or viewpoint to grab reader’s attention.

Third Place: The Free Press, Mankato,
Jackson Forderer
Wonderful slice-of-life moments caught at
just the right time.

PORTFOLIO WEEKLY WINNERS ON BACK 

 2016-2017 college Better Newspaper Contest

Website
First Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University
Many community newspapers could learn from the quality of this web-
site.

Local Breaking News Coverage

First Place: TommieMedia, University of St. Thomas, Lauren Andrego
St. Thomas student shot through wall in Flynn Hall
Good job reaching out to sources beyond the official statements issued
and getting student reaction as well. Writing style is clean and straight-
forward, as it should be.

Second Place: Clarion, Bethel University, Abby Peterson

Black lives matter, they matter here
Good job weaving student reaction/comment in with coverage of event.

Third Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University,

Jessie Wade, Kyle Fahrmann and Bailey Vertin
Attack at Crossroads Center mall sends victims to E.R.
Good job making relevant to readership by seeking out comment/reaction
from student witnesses.

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Government/Public Affairs Reporting

First Place: The Campus Eye, Anoka-Ramsey Community College,
Jessica Lueck and Dalton Hanken
Student Senate President Removed Mid-Semester
Good work investigating the Student Senate and recounting the tale of a
student politician who erred in judgment.

Second Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University,

Kyle Fahrmann
Students who voted for Trump talk personality and policy
Reporter did a fine job of tracking down varied viewpoints and put-
ting them into the story without weighing down the story. It clips along
nicely.

Third Place: TommieMedia, University of St. Thomas, Mary Brickner

St. Thomas law team leads to freedom for six men
Good, solid coverage.

Investigative Reporting
First Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University,
Jessie Wade*
Climate Action deems necessary for humankind

Second Place: TommieMedia, University of St. Thomas, Simeon

Lancaster, Carrie Tronvold and Noah Brown*
Mental health needs soar at St. Thomas, administration looks to new op-
tions

Third Place: The Campus Eye, Anoka-Ramsey Community College,

Lizzie Babashova and Jessica Lueck*
Chemistry Instructor Gone

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
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Human Interest Story

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First Place: Clarion, Bethel University, Maddie DeBilzan,
Jared Martinson and Josh Towner
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Simplicity at its oldest

TRUTH MATTERS.

Great story. Great subject. Great writing. Attention to and inclusion of

detail is phenomenal.

Second Place: ThreeSixty Journalism, University of St. Thomas,

Simplicity at its oldest TommieMedia, Staff
Not playtime anymore
Arts &
Published on May 22, 2017 — in Culture
Lifestyle — by Josh Towner

Lorraine Eitel, former Bethel

University student professor,
is A captivating lede and a well-written story throughout. Great use of
an 81-year-old with a metal hip
who is married to travel, long
walks and a whole lot of books.
quotes.
hy by
Story by Maddie DeBilzan, photograp
y done by Josh
Jared Martinson, videograph

Third Place: TommieMedia, University of St. Thomas, Noah Brown

Towner

81-year-old
Lorraine Eitel lives simple. She’s an
the bottom of
with dyed-brown hair cut evenly to

St. Thomas senior carves out a future in woodworking

and a blue vest
her ears. She tucks a red turtleneck
vacuum lines on
into her khakis. Her apartment has
a few
the carpet, four vases on a shelf, and

Great topic and strong writing.

Norway. She
paintings on the wall from Japan and
two nieces and
has no kids, no grandchildren. Just

Business Story
First Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University,
Kyle Fahrmann*
Eastman Hall renovations face budget quandary

Second Place: ThreeSixty Journalism, University of St. Thomas,

Zekriah Chaudhry*
Putting the ‘wow’ in journalism: Media companies embrace 360-degree
virtual reality for storytelling

Third Place: Manitou Messenger, St. Olaf College, Conlan Campbell*

Bring Ice Home benefits some, displaces others

Social Issues Story

First Place: TommieMedia, University of St. Thomas, Mary Brickner*
St. Thomas students write petition addressing sexual assault

Second Place: Manitou Messenger, St. Olaf College, Emma Whitford*

Campus wrestles with racism following a series of hate crimes

Third Place: TommieMedia, University of St. Thomas, Gamiel Hall*

Student behavior erodes neighborhood relations

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.

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 2016-2017 College Better Newspaper Contest
Arts and Entertainment Story
Sports Story
Rochester Community & Technical
College | The Echo
chance
Grateful for 2nd
l player recovers to play again
Once facing amputation, volleybal
By Zachary Deppa
Sports Editor
zachary.deppa 0009@mb.rctc.edu
Volleyball player Jessica Nelson
has an incredible story as she did
the unthinkable. Her story is a true
testament of what happens if you have
faith, courage and determination.
Jessica Nelson was injured in a
car accident in July 2014 in Tracy,
where her car rolled several the infection had done, she was told
Minnesota,
times into a field and crushed her legs.
Jessica was found by a farmer within
minutes, which saved her life. She
suffered compound fractures in her leg, into sports.”
but the other injuries she suffered were
a broken hip, punctured lung, a facial
fracture, hematoma in her eyes and a
concussion.
She was rushed to a hospital in
Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After 18
days in the hospital Jessica was able
to go home. Over the next few months
she went in for checkup appointments
until in September they discovered an
infection. After several attempts with
antibiotics and surgeries, amputation
became that the only option at Sioux
Echo Photo by Lydia Smith Falls, but she was given the choice to
Rochester for a
Two years after a near-fatal car
accident, Jessica Nelson go to Mayo Clinic in
Athletic Conference Hitter second opinion.
was named Minnesota College
of the Week on Oct. 4.
She faced a choice to either
amputate her leg or try a treatment
appointments and having the apparatus
removed, her doctor told her she could
using a Taylor spatial frame. The
play sports again. She was shocked.
device is a cage around the leg that is
Over the last year she had no hope
screwed through the bone and is used
of returning to sports, which she
to stretch the bone to replace a missing
segment. She decided to keep her leg.
The surgery successfully removed
the infection, but it had eaten away
three and a half inches of bone. Once
doctors discovered how much damage
she would never play sports again.
“I lived for sports,” Nelson said. “I
had spent my time, money and future
The spatial frame was installed and
she went through a painstaking process
that would take more than a year to
complete. Every day she would need
to
have screws turned three times a day.
“For every one day that I had to
do this I had would have to wear it
for three days to make sure that the
bone grew and consolidated properly,”
Nelson said.
The goal was to grow one
millimeter a day. After having finished
the process of stretching the leg she
would need to keep the apparatus on
her leg for another nine months.
First Place: ThreeSixty Journalism, University of St. Thomas,
Katelyn Vue
A mural of hope for brighter, safer days: Students paint wall of Minne-
apolis shelter to ease pain for Asian domestic violence victims
This story transcends arts and entertainment. College journalism at its
finest. The article makes me want to go see the mural and see how it
impacts people in person.
Second Place: The Northern Student, Bemidji, Shawn Campbell
Record Store Day
It doesn’t take long to tell the deep passion the subject of this story has
for vinyl and the music industry. An interesting feature story about Re-
cord Store Day.
Third Place: The Campus Eye, Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Kenna Gaztmer
Guest Speaker Jerrid Sebesta Inspires Students to ‘Live the Dream’
An important message for many college students to hear and this story
was written in such a way that the students will be able to relate. A must
read.
First Place: Echo, Rochester Community & Technical College,
SPORTS 9 Zachary Deppa
Grateful for second chance
At the end of one of her last
Interesting story about recovery after serious car accident. Well done.
absolutely loved and lived for.
Second Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University,
Shortly after this appointment she
toured the RCTC campus and the
athletic center, where she met with
volleyball coach Amber Zitzow. She
signed in April to play at RCTC.
Alexis Pearson
“It was tough starting out because
of how long it had been since I had
played or been able to do anything
physical wise,” Nelson said. “I had a
lot of muscle atrophy from my accident
as well, but I worked through it.”
Second place won’t slow down these stars
Starting sports again was a huge
challenge. She not only had new
limitations on her leg, but it had been
two years since she had been able to
do much physically. She worked hard,
Well-written story about Huskies wrestling postseason performance.
and it did not come easy. Now, all the
work and pain she went through has
finally paid off as she is now the front-
right starter. Jessica loves her team and
has loved playing sports again. She
is an amazing inspiration and a truly
fantastic person to be around despite
all the struggles she has been through.
Third Place: Clarion, Bethel University, Conrad Engstrom and
Nathan Klok
Down, but not out
Good story about player dealing with serious injury.
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Use of Information Graphics & Graphic Illustrations

First Place: The Northern Student, Bemidji, Hope Wall
Sex, What No One Talks About
A clear winner. The detail of this graphic is amazing and ties together the
story by making the hair go through the text.

Second Place: The Northern Student, Bemidji, Hope Wall

April Cover
I’m not sure what an octopus has to do with the Grammys, but after see-
ing this photo I sure want to find out. Very creative and nicely done.

Third Place: TommieMedia, University of St. Thomas, Kari Johnson

Electoral College explained
This graphic could have very easily become overrun with information.
The designers did a great job of not overwhelming people while still get-
ting the information out there.

Best Use of Multimedia

First Place: Clarion, Bethel University, Staff
24 hours at Bethel
Unique look at 24-hour period at Bethel College.

Second Place: Manitou Messenger, St. Olaf College, Dylan Walker

A Tangible Problem on This Campus
Admirable story dealing with racism.

Third Place: TommieMedia, University of St. Thomas, Mary

Brickner and Lauren Andrego
St. Thomas uses Arrupe College as model for two-year program
Great combination of video and printed word.

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News Photo
First Place: Manitou Messenger. St. Olaf College, Avery Ellfeldt
Occupy Buntrock
You really get a feel for how many people were protesting at this event.
The photographer did a great job of picking a good location to show the
most amount of people in a tasteful way. Good job.

Second Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University,

Jessie Wade
S.O.F.C. shows solidarity with Standing Rock Tribe
The placement of the sun behind the protest banner adds a special ele-
ment to this otherwise already powerful picture.

Third Place: Clarion, Bethel University, Callie Schmidt and

Nathan Klok
Repainting rock, reestablishing unity
Everything about this picture is nice. From the concentration on her face
to her holding the cap to the spray paint. Nice job.

Feature Photo
First Place: The Northern Student, Bemidji, Tony Grobove
December Cover
Well planned feature photo. Being able to see the liquid pouring out of
the glass adds a unique feature that makes this photo stand out above the
rest.

Second Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University,

Jessie Wade
Students who voted for Trump talk personality and policy
The concentration on these women’s faces was well captured. This
picture just has something that makes you want to find out what they are
looking at.

Third Place: ThreeSixty Journalism, University of St. Thomas,

Elezebet Mitiku
Protest hits home: Ethiopian runner’s gesture at 2016 Olympics resonates
with Minnesotans
Focusing on his face as opposed to his hands makes this photo stand out.
A great picture in a competitive category.

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Sports Photo
First Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University,
Maddie MacFarlane
SCSU Men’s Hockey vs. UND Photo Gallery
Nice hockey action with a lot of movement.

Second Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University,

Maddie MacFarlane
SCSU Men’s Hockey vs. U of M Photo Gallery
Nice reaction by SCSU player.

Photo Story
First Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University,
Maddie MacFarlane
2017 North Star College Cup Photo Gallery
Nice variety of shots, and interesting blend of action and emotion.

Second Place: University Chronicle, St. Cloud State University,

Jessie Wade
Guillermo del Toro gets spooky with ‘At Home With Monsters’ exhibit at
Mia
Good variety of angles and perspectives.

Third Place: Echo, Rochester Community & Technical College,

Lydia Smith
Flapdoodles is your favorite place
Nice variety.

Columnist
First Place: ThreeSixty Journalism, University of St. Thomas,
Skyler Kuczaboski
Recognizing – and addressing – white privilege: A reflection on how
society can treat people of color differently
Great column. Perfect example of how to use a personal experience to
address a larger issue without coming off as simply writing about oneself.

Second Place: Clarion, Bethel University, Carlo Holmberg

Love Series: I believe my father loved me all these years
Compelling tale that made me want to read every word.

Third Place: ThreeSixty Journalism, University of St. Thomas,

Zahra Mustafa
College Essay: Rewriting the single story about refugees
Another well-written piece from the folks at 360. Strong writing voice
here.

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Editorial
First Place: Echo, Rochester Community & Technical College,
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Second Place: Echo, Rochester Community & Technical College,

it is difficult to directly
Angelina Labonne
these days.”
His point is well taken.
Managing Editor
challenging time to be
Lydia Hansen in journalism,
especially when the president
nation seems white privilege remains
translate to much more divided than it’s prevalent in
been, and the media’s ever today’s society. Their
attempt to hold a rebuttal also elicited
mirror to these changes comments from students,
This is a is met with hostility staff and faculty.
by our audience, or worst We’ll take that as evidence
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not only because it’s who visited RCTC as speech and
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General Excellence
First Place: Clarion, Bethel University
The Bethel University Clarion was the obvious winner. Great design.
Solid photos. Very clean page layout. The stories addressed important
topics. This is a publication I’d want to pick up on campus.

Second Place: Echo, Rochester Community & Technical College

Never forget how far you have come
The Echo is obviously on top of covering campus news. There is a lot of
fresh content and photos in each issue. Judges were also impressed by the
number of ads sold in each issue. Congrats.

Third Place: The Northern Student, Bemidji

Northern Student Magazines-February, March and April
The Northern Student is full of creative design and feature stories. Judges
love the calendar on the back page of each issue.

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Typography & Design

Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: New York Mills Dispatch
Overall my top selection for first. There was no doubt in my mind which
newspaper should receive first. Great job! Kudos to the photographers
here! The photography, along with pagination, was what set this newspa-
per apart from second place.

Second Place: Ely Timberjay
Overall good job on the newspaper. Good content, great use of headlines
and fonts. The difference between this newspaper and the first place one
was all in the layout. While both had their strong areas. The first-place
entry edged out this one, for the design.

Third Place: Citizen’s Advocate, Henning
Not a bad newspaper, but covering the banner of the newspaper so much
by photos distracted my attention.

Weeklies 1,501-2,500
First Place: Dodge County Independent, Kasson
Great layout and use of fonts.

Second Place: Northern Light Region, Baudette*

Third Place: Waseca County News*

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
First Place: Anoka County Union Herald
Good choice of fonts and the content flowed in a way that made it easy to
read.

Second Place: Waconia Patriot*

Third Place: Hutchinson Leader*

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
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2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
Weeklies over 5,000
First Place: Southwest Journal, Minneapolis
The staff presents their report in a concise design with strong use of
typography, graphics and photographs that helps readers navigate this
tab-format newspaper. The front design is graphic and clean, with a clear
hierarchy on the page. The designers do a great job of breaking the gray
inside with the use of pull quotes, design elements and typography. Over-
all, a great, readable publication that is well designed.

Second Place: Chaska Herald

A great job of creating graphic, eye-grabbing fronts, balanced with clean,
use of typography and design throughout. The designers successfully
mix design elements creating a horizontal broadsheet design feel in this
tab publication. The mix of news and feature treatments is very effective.
Good work.

Third Place: The Journal, Minneapolis

Seems like an indispensable guide to weekly living in the city. The cover
design of the tab has definite pick-me-up and investigate further vibe. Ty-
pography through much of the interior sections is brief and to the point.
Use of graphics and images is definitely a strong point. Overall, a clean,
inviting design.

Dailies under 10,000

First Place: Austin Daily Herald
The designers do an excellent job of packaging multiple stories on the
page with a clear hierarchy to news value. The use of different headline
weights is effective to create eye movement across the page. Use of lead
art is dynamic and engaging. Supporting graphic elements are used at
appropriate sizes.

Second Place: The Bemidji Pioneer

The design staff do a great job presenting their news report in a graphic
way, using strong lead art to anchor pages, along with effective typogra-
phy. The front pages were well-organized with a clear hierarchy to news
value. Overall, a nicely packaged paper.

Third Place: Owatonna People’s Press

The design team gives their readers a clean, concise presentation of the
news that surely connects with the community. Strong fundamental de-
sign choices provide a clear presentation of the news. Headline weights
are balanced well across the pages. Typography is clear and concise.
Overall, good work.

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Typography & Design

Dailies 10,000 and over
First Place: Duluth News Tribune
Interesting that the paper obviously went through a re-design. What
helped carry the paper to the top was that the design was strong both
before and after the change. Front page design was clean, well-organized
with a clear hierarchy to news value. Effective use of dominant art on
each page. Secondary art elements did not compete on the page, provid-
ing good supporting content information.

Second Place: Grand Forks Herald

Does a great job of presenting the news in a clean and engaging way.
They strike a good balance between offering graphic interest on the page
without obscuring the content. Front page design was well-organized. Ef-
fective use of vibrant and fun illustrations in the features section. Content
of photo and art elements appeared to drive their placement and use as
dominant graphic elements.

Third Place: Brainerd Dispatch

This hybrid design that translates tabloid design elements to the broad-
sheet page surely creates news-stand interest. We laud the creative spirit.
Use of lead headline typography is dynamic and engaging. When there
are strong images and graphics, they are giving eye-popping treatments.

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Editorial Page as a Whole

Opinion
Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: St. Peter Herald
Thursday, June 15,
2017
ST. PeTer Herald
St. Peter Herald

Strong LOCAL editorials are what makes this the winner. The staff
Page 4a

Council was right to approv oUr oPINIoN

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e veterans memorial statue

GENERA L INFORM
ATION
The St. Peter Herald
is an The City Council made

clearly know what issues their readers care about and they aren’t afraid
independent newspap an ob-
er vious right decision The eagle design catches
published each Thursday on Monday eye and the The recommended design,
and night when it approved respects the council’s an Once the council delegates
ommended statue for the rec- stated goal to not glorify war.
is a division of aPG eagle seeming to rise to
Media of from the municipal
the It and other organizations’ ing that the council would again
Area Veterans Memoria St. Peter is abstract enough to allow inter- Minnesota River, was given a big committe
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l. vote of confidence by es, a decision.
Ann Rosen- recomme it should accept their Their response was
The St. Peter Herald pretation, but concrete
is a The council made the

to weigh in. The pages are rounded out by a robust community columnist
member of the Minneso enough to quist ndation unless there understand-
ta decision in August 2014 critical clearly show its relation to veter- Arts Fee, executive director of the an obvious compellin is able, especially coming
— six years
the memorial to be sited to allow ans’ service. The council had said Center of Saint Peter. She
Newspaper associati
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at the council at its work told not do so. They have g reason to after the memorial effort began.
— USPS ISSN 307-180 most visible park. Once the city’s it wanted a statue representing session experts and But the
— the council “peace and the statue hit all the marks that motivated community members St. Peter Area Veterans
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Southern Minneso morial in Minnesota Square committee. If the stalled public art.Public art is in- And respecting rewarded with the final

rotation and letters to the editor. Love the “How to contact a legislator”
ta Park, members had in public places, visible an artist’s creative falling piece
they could hardly oppose
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St. Peter, ers. cess themselves. Park “no matter what the of the
goes on in council’s
MN 56082. Periodica
ls that park.” work session and Mon- editorial board: Regional Manag-
ing Editor Dana

feature.
day’s meeting, perhaps
suspect- sociate Editor Melius and As-
Postage Paid at St.
Peter,
Minnesota 56082. Nancy Madsen.
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Second Place: Ely Timberjay

Address: 311 South
Minnesota ave.,
St. Peter, MN sporting events
56082
Office Hours: To the editor:
On June 6 my husband
I attended our granddau and
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Solid editorials and the number of letters to the editor make me think this
Monday through ghter’s
Friday softball game in Montgom
between TCU Titans ery
ADVERT ISING and St
Phone: 507-931- Peter Saints. We were totally
4520 disgusted by the disrespec
Display and Classifie tful
d ad actions of 8-10 young

is a popular feature for this publication. Good local columns too.

deadline: teens who
• 3 p.m. Monday. sat in the bleachers directly
hind home plate and be-
disrupted
Subscription Rates: the game. They called
players
$1.25 per single from St. Peter ape names
continually called out and
copy;
$70.20 for 52 weeks
their
delivered. numbers and made rude
The St. Peter Herald ments. Three St. Peter com-
retains parents
the publication rights stepped up and asked
them
all contents produce
to
stop and in addition the to
d or umpire
also told them to stop

Third Place: Stillwater Gazette

supplied by the St.
the
ments and to move out com-
Peter
Herald. Use of said
materials of the
without the written area. They did vacate
the
of the St. Peter Herald
consent
ers for a short time, but bleach-
eventu-
is prohibited. Contents ally came back to the
bleachers
and again started mocking

Good local content.

copyrighted: all
reserved.
rights
parents and adults cheeringthe
The St. Peter Herald our team. They continue on
d
makes every effort loud and obnoxious tirade their
ensure accuracy
to again when asked to stop and
in display back with a comment fired

and classified advertisi “Who do
but will not be liable
ng, you think you are?”
for It is a sad situation when
errors beyond the
cost this type of behavior
Visit your local museum
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OPINION
. to continue. In my opinion

s to learn about stories

The publisher reserves
the umpire, having given the
right to reject or them a
in your area
Weeklies 1,501-2,500
cancel any warning, should have
advertisement at Every person and every ruled that
any time. TCU forfeit the game.
gion have a story. Unique re- then the disrespectful
Maybe
REGIONA L GENERA stories Commun nesota historica l societies and energy, teens 56267
L that we as historical and ity
and authenticity. And, could a
cultural Perspective museums formed for answer Minnesot
Morris, to their team/par
MANAGE R organizations want to the pur- because we ents/peer -
share pose of promoting interest are connected with s regarding the loss.
Chad Hjellmin A6g ... everyone. So we develop with
new ex- participating organiza in the one another, the participating After attending years

First Place: Morris Sun Tribune

507-645-1110 hibits 2017 Jessica tions of
Saturday, January 14, and programs about the well as providing opportun as organizations are dedicated to games, this is by far the
chjellming@ neat events that happene
d in
Becker
for collaboration and ities creating historic
trails and COLUM
’Sitin- N e we have worst
experienc
southernminndig our past, trying, and sharing eraries that EDITOR Shame on those TCU
ever had.
ital.com
succeeding, in making
hopefully poses challenge resources for buying
supplies, six history
include each of  our youth!
REGIONA L MANAGI
NG them in- we depend s for us because ordering books, advertisin centers in the region. Corinne Brenke
backyard
teresting and relevant
to today. admissio on revenue from more. g, and Though local history

Find adventure in your

EDITOR muse- St. Peter

Great mix of local content, including editorials, columns and letters to

We think we’ve made n to create program ums like NCHS
s,
thing wonderful that some- exhibits, and (let’s face it) to just Rooted in common
themes, with the likes can’t compete
dana Melius ... 507-931-
8567 CONTACTING YOUR
editor@stpeterhe will have to keep the lights the partneri ng organiza of Google, Wiki-
people knocking down
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rald.com the
the social mediacost.LOCAL Even if LEGISLA
you don’tTORScare for
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR
. Then we address this their communities through of Byoutlets, Rae Yost
we still have a lot to offer. adventuro
State Sen.us meal,

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wait. And we wait some issue? theircelebrated my birthday. Nick Frentz
Nancy Madsen ...
collection, interpret recently I might be biased, but baby, is bound districtto 19like
it.
but the people aren’t more,
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the editor.
ation, is as much about leaving
8568
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a treasure
end being to explore Adventure
ableyear
of the email: sen.nick.f rentzas it is about
nmadsen@stpeter Where are they? tions realized small history.
I was a welcomed
local history your comfort zone
herald.com museums By combining resources that arrived stories
a few in days
a museum Phone: 651-296-6153 Try sitting in a
It’s not just stores that like us can’t do it alone History tax , SoMN
deduction built, supported, and mountain s.
SPORTS EDITOR
fected by the online movemen are af- anymore so we’ve
come has the unique
before the to
ability year ended. maintained climbing pew in church on Sunday.
by our local I received
t. to pool our collectiv together not only preserve and
different
State Sen.
need to share a cardcommun“If
Pat Beck ... 507-931- ities. Please That Rich Draheim
adventure for the
People aren’t visiting I chronicle could be an
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rald.com let County’s up with a go sen.rich.draheim@s
they to a monkey shows historic us choice displacesenate. a
to, including museum used Goodhu e County, Nicollet that distinguish the today,
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is rich and overflowi ion member, you may
Kathleen davies
R seeing fewer families We’re County, Northfield, Rice Coun- history. ng with
be: ‘Let me butgo grab my helmet.’”
also visiting
this summer,
My congregat
Phone: 651-296-5
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... through ty, Steele County, said, our friends
“Here’s to in domino effect. sun is
our doors on the weekend and Waseca written words
Northfield, Red roads are clear and
507-931-8564
as many tours being booked,s, not County Historic al Societie s. SoMN History isson’s aboutand adventure s in 2017.”Wing, Owaton- If the
State Rep. Clark Johnson take
kdavies@stpeterh fun
ing connections. It connects mak- na, Waseca, andA Faribaul
monkey shining and it’s not 10 below,
and We’re called SoMN agree more. district 19a

Second Place: Steele County Times, Blooming Prairie

erald.com dwindling numbers of History. I couldn’t
the We’ t too. route to a neighborin
g town,
field trips. people of Minnesota d love to see
showyou!up at my newrep.clark.
aemail:
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through a you johnson used for a while.
haven’t
from 2014, the stories that Not even or one
ing museums and historic visit- SoMN History has grown into a house on my birthday.
have shaped
@house.mn may say. I say
Becky asleson... our But I was “Waste of time,” you
507-931-
sites collaborative of lives. We are committe squirrel withJessica Becker is.the
a mini-bike
executive Phone: 651-296-8634willing to beat that
8561 southern Min- ing d to “Nope.” I’d be
ready.tell- director of the Nicollet busy challenge your

Keeping it fresh in St. Pe

basleson@stpeter those stories with clarity, it in this County less familiar route will
I figurel Society.
wayHistorica maybe prompt a good
herald.com The and State Rep. Boband Vogel
to be ready for fun brain a bit

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IAL world we need district 20a or two of a old friend or a

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SUN TRIBUNE EDITOR I don’t think

on July 4
LETTER S TO THE memory
EDITOR adventure at any time. email: rep.bob.v e.
 a mountain, friendly occurrenc ogel
The St. Peter Herald we all need to climb @house.mnthrough the University of
a zip line or Walk

Is re-opening the
welcomes letters strap ourselves into Phone: 651-296-7Morris campus during the
to the but we can Minnesota 065
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in day or evening.
had a bacon-w rapped, you
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letters must be 400 find fun and adventure of campus
deep- Community ing the St. Peter Highbackyards . names and the names
words or less and fried hot dog? Or specially School quartet periodically CITYbuildings. The names could inspire

prison a good idea?

Magic We OF ST. PETER
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get new erblende
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and drink choices at Over-60
you have friends or family e, the somewher
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First Place: Hutchinson Leader

with the gest-tenin the region lon- sorts of surprise s, of July Picnic in the sdgcarlin @gmail.com ideas may seem a little
in Appleton. those jokes. Fun.
letters must be exclusive The discussioSt. Peter Old-Fash
n touched ioned on Fourth
several ured member s of the
could argue
include that wageswhich will sharePark. Cards will to find in Morris
Sure, the
be long in
of July on a possible use World WarWhile some
II Last Man’s Club totheincrease wages Buster the Clown forAdventure is hard be 50 cents so. silly. But, winters can
to the Herald.
good points Parade and Picnicstate in the innNicollet the region need first time ever in the and Stevens or three County, for $1, and you yousay? Not Roger Parras, Ward I , and we need to grab every
Park. The It’s discussio in County. can
a new 651-235-8Minnesota
anonymous letters of the prison. 4 Taska Force
July also is also but at what cost?
They were Swift Peter County’s
lineup.
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Adventure couldcashbeif cooking
you shout a with 979 of fun and adventure we can
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be published. that needs to continue
giving each year’s ment rate is In
at the the parkrate legitimat
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when the sun rises slowly and
celebrat ion re and amongst city, Americanunemploy Legion while beginni ng meal. at 10 a.m.
all startsyou at can
percent so
its own the com- County’s family. to set all too quickly.

The strong local, relevant editorials make this the winner. They are well-
Writers are limited Legislatu Stevens andand
to onethe Make other public
identity
officials . munity in
could
noon, getPope’s,
ready for2.3 the
friends goes until 4and p.m., the
shareStephen
letter every 30 days. county and sure you are a part of it say thanks
2.4 percent and
for naires perform ing Gove- make meal
and the beer tent will
the together C. Grams, Ward II
their service. is around be open. 507-934-0176
with your family and
the region. 3.3 percent. their 2017 St. Peter is where
e-mail letters to: friends, g the The percent, Big Stone’s, music already
stpeterherald.com
srook@
Onbecause
the surface re-openin
the memorie 10 a.m. p arade of employer s during their say tradition
al is on the Fourth the action LETTERS TO THE
stephengrams@ho EDITOR
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s will last capped at Dozens is concert, emcee to of July! The
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a lifetime. 90 units so get enough workers comedia n Mi- parade 
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ta like daya really great idea. in time for the picnic How much on the
John Kvamme, Ward
Of course, Trump
seems The
s phone for needed micro- old-fashioned fun!
jobs?
festivitie II
that torture is bad.

written and have their readers in mind. Great mix of community colum-
ave., St. Peter, MN begins jobsthe in Minnesofill
existing
would be used,with
would 507-931-3761
56082 or prison
will finding thosethe annual hula hoop he is eager to
fax them to 507-931- Freedom Fun Run events
the region would at get Be readydifficult
ta Square Park.
contest andwith hot dog eating con- Time to get rid
of the club kvamme12@hotma has said multiple times – and more!
4522 . 7:30 and
return a.m. RegistrationAlso, the state for a fun arrays beofif a prison il.com
bring back waterboar
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band Holdout rocking ToEdthe
employee test, theopens? Leeeditor:
is executive director Putin are besties.
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spend what’s higher includ- the ofAsthetheSt. editor
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point-
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would not need to And what does re-openin
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of be a 507-382-7
million on in the , the ed out ine.an editorial, it
Commerc will with about $40
been reported as $141.5 state for 500 inmates solve s and others to spend247Bill Gates-kind-of-rich, which is weird
the prison

nists and elected officials to provide a broad perspective. I like the reader
to attract vacationer jerryp165 5@hotma (perhaps, more),
a 500-bed expansion billion il.com businessman.
state’s justice system? time in Morris. he’s never been a
prison in Rush City. people in that Morris folks since for the bank
Aaron Minnesot a had 11,000 She also pointed out a dictator is good
But, Morris City Attorney to the town and not bad Being
council member Kevin prison in 2012, according 1978, must promote the account. e
Jordan and . In Intelligenc
some downside s Prison Policy Initiative mouth it.
ago, or so, I was Also last week, Nationalexplained in
Wohlers brought up than 3,000 I recall some 45 years James Clapper
state leasing a privately Minnesot a had fewer stopped at a drug- Director that Russia’s

poll. The clean layout makes this page easy to navigate.

toA6the back in Morris and Senate testimony,
| November 23,
owned prison. 2016
people in prison. Sun (they had sepa- his ce was “a multifacet
ed cam-
store to get a Morris
and moral Analysis by the National when I came to pay interferen was only

opinion
Jordan has an ethical rate names then) and and that, “The hacking classi-
the state using a Acadamie s Press which uses the clerk said, “It (paper) is getting paign” of it...it also entailed
problem with other agency for it, www.hutchone part
insonleader ation, fake
He’s not Bureau of Justice and just like Morris.” .com a, | Hutchinson
disinform
privately owned prison. Policy Initiative smaller every week, for a cal propagand Leader
state leasing statistics, the Prison Had I been First in Morris to look Republican Senators
comfortab le with the I’d news.” Several
reports including business to buyestablishmen or toAmendmen
start a business,
t “Congress asked for a select committee
from a company that
makes money and various news choice.
shallhave
make no now law respecting ce. Of
in the Star wonder if I hadthe made the tright of religion, an
e Russian interferen
a Feb. 7, 2016, story
He’d rather or prohibitingto theinvestigat
free exercise
on the misery of others. significan t Morris is a nice town, but
freedom as ex-coun-
of speech, or of the press or the right remember when Trump
thereof; or abridging
all people
the vacant prison. Tribune show the assemble, andpointed to petitionout we course, we of the lost
the state , buy
editoriaLs Letters, CommeNta populatio n cil member Bill Storck the Government for aRussia find Hillary’s
to helppeaceably to
with increase in the prison so much asked redress of
Trump also loves
Wohlers said he agreed
ry
people need more businesses, as now a emails. (Lock her
grievances.”
up!)
isn’t just because
more Alexandria, and to – appar-
Jordan. shopping is done in and Julian Assange
EditoriA ng more crimes. A and Fergus Falls. WikiLeaks than our own intelligence

Second Place: Red Wing Republican Eagle

l also mentione d are committi extent Willmar
City officials smaller rid of its “good ently more

Thanksgiving is an invitat
fit within a laws such as Central Intelli-
union jobs would major reason is that But, until Morris gets will services, including the
Byhow
Publisher Brent schacherethat in the offenses now carry harsher
old boys” club, few new businesses And, Pence is right there

ion
privately owned facility r and editor doug drugHanneman require prison or be encour- gence Agency. up. In his typical digni-
n jobs. sentences that often want to come to Morris, backing Trump
past had non-unio more time now aged to come to Morris. the late 1950s fied correspondence with followers ce”
last

to give something back

the Prairie time. People serve
The state should buy or 30 years ago. We must look back
to said, “The “Intelligen
because in for a crime than 25 town in west- week, Trump

Solid local editorials. Good use of guest columnists. Letters to the editor
Correctio nal Facility hack-
more people when Morris was a leading on so-called “Russian
simple terms, the
state’s justice Are we safer because all worked together briefing delayed until Friday, perhaps
prison terms ern Minnesota, as we of Minnesota, ing” was
in prison. are in prison? Do a case. Very
system places inmates to bring in the University Center, etc., more time needed to build
has a responsib ility to the often multi-fac eted Agricultur e Research Some folks might think a
The state address Editor’s note: the and schools strange!”
prisons for committe d? Today the Leader improve our hospital elect openly ridiculing
operate and maintain reasons crimes are introduces its newest columnist,and not the case now. shopping new President- keep us
those are stealing to but that seems to be
John for Christmas presents that
e agencies
those inmates. Again, Reasons that includeMuske of Hutchinson. ls Mr. Muske, are getting new faces in Morris, and is more
intelligenc
the important

indicate robust interest in the community. Layout is clean.

to do
certainly individua
of son We not anthan why we t” thing
“intelligen
simple terms. An inmate pay for drug habits safe is
the of a Lutheran pastor, grew
the good old boys, celebrate both Thanksgivin Trump said about
decisions and for
up in Mapleton,health
mental maybe they’ll overrule for morale – but asg and good brain.”
has a large role in who self medicate Mankato Minnesota, attended
but I fear that won’t
happen. Christmas. Oh,“I we have
still give a avery
lead to prison. State University, and has
University, great pub-notice towe
himself, little
circumsta nces that reasons. been nt isn’t
in sales and marketing since We have a great So,
all the thingsbe
should we OK. are Romney
thought
all at least schools, but so manythankful for, was al
It should make us CCA Crime and punishme 1977. He currently works lic and parochial Russia
as well one of our top geopolitic
we should,
slightly uncomfor
table to know good reasons
simple. There are permanent field representativ
as a part-time
have just given up on
Morris. but the greatest gift to
But, Romney
be thankful must not have a
off inmates from to seriously consider e forfolks leadership that will keep for, inenemies.
my view, is to be in such
is making money for the state the U.S. Census We need the good brain. a
who are still in Appleton. There
Bureau. He told us he
buying the prison plans to write about local concerns,Morris great and
John
NOW and get rid of positionOf that we can be the Republican Congress
Minnesot a. Prisoners others. Justcourse,
helpful to
the uncle or business, too. Their
the brother, the son,
Minnesot ans.
“waysto consider
are also good reasons we can improve
500 beds
Hutchinson,
things good old boys club.
to the here in Ted Storck MUSKE thankful got for
as thedown
right Pilgrims
the help they
act after
to were
getting
received sworn-in was to

Helping all young

the father of other why adding another but not from complaints
Ariz. from the first Native Americans, oversight by gut-
to justify so much,
the best enhancing things we Morris and Surprise,
ratherchoice weaken ethics
It should be difficult system may not be each oftry us and
CoLUmNist
in our own wayofcan Congressio nal Ethics.
someone who is already do right.” We welcome the Office

Third Place: Cottonwood County Citizen, Windom

region. tingfor do
making money from for the state or the him to something
Trump had to ask why
incarcera ted. It seems
more than a
Kudos to Morris City
this page.
Officials for From piecesRussia with love
into pilgrim style hats, be a way Well
others. This would
done. Even,
we can keep this thing they wanted
to
Let’s hope the thisnewly was the first holiday
know
to as Republicans
from being
little exploitive . discussin g the topic. Toturkeys

people to succeed
It has the editor:
and other shapes that referred
don’t House
the prison,
been said many times
there. former were KGB spy- “Thanksget do – ting.” wall to build? They must be
But if the state buys thatend reminders of the the
Putin,
discussio n doesn’t November is a month of Vladimir season. This wasof Rus- there ifisyou a
it probably
ramificat ions? the prelude
and current President Regardless
Of course,
what then, are the great changes. This month to the holiday are religious
is late master asloves
Thanksgivin
we know
And, Trump loves not, or what brain damaged.
faith you might
or
of people
autumn, but feels like sia, Trump. g. that thousands
ascribe

Good local editorials. Asking readers questions is a good idea. Good mix
summer, However, Last week, multiple to, thesealso wordshelped from the Bible ask what they heck
and sometimes like
weekly on Saturdays 607
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they were doing. Of course,
Pacific Ave., Morris, story of howRussia
that interfered with the Matthew
excited to know that
25:35-40: ”For I was the U.S.
Since the 1970s, growing Tribune,
that would be impossible
a division of Forum in other it clear helped the Pilgrims
Native Americans
election to improve
the chances hungry and super
is exempt from conflict to
you gave me something of
disparities between Communications Co.
years.
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postage paid at U.S. survive, was
in our Presiden-
to eat, I was President have
the classes has widened the my life, I have both played not without cost
of thosea Trump victory ultimately to else interest
whosomething
thirsty and you gave
laws – so me he doesn’t
to drink, I was a strangerstuff. As, he said,
opportunity gap. football MN.
Morris,with who already And,existedyou know about this

of columnists from both the staff and community.

my brothers in shorts tial election. on this and of worry
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the CEO you invited me in, I needed clothes
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on Thanksgiving
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child, and how much after them from overseas, church, there is much
that each of
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t.” In Glencoe, since then. When I was never arrived on these filling our
That’s the view of Dr. it’s 32 percent. In Willmar, in grade shores. tummies to overflowing
Robert it’s 41 school, as this month In this day and age, we . Perhaps
percent. In Luverne, it’s now
Putnam, a Harvard social
scientist 47 percent. we would learn about
moved along, at the holiday of Thanksgivin look after Thanksgiving you
will ring
we told you about on this And in Windom, it’s 58 the Pilgrims g a bell next to a little red
page a few percent. and their struggle surviving quite a bit differently kettle
weeks ago. We think it’s The harsh reality is this: in than we once or donate to the local
important the New World. We would did. Now it seems that food shelf.
for you to know about ■ Kids from low-income cut out it’s all about Here is your opportunity
Dr. Putnam’s families construction paper of consumer marketing. Families this
upcoming visit to Minnesota have less access to everything black, orange Thanksgiving to give
on from and other colors, and plan on shopping trips something
Thursday, Dec. 15, so quality early childhood turn the the day after, back,
we’re bringing education known as Black Friday. as you in your life have
it up again. We hope a to Advanced Placement It seems blessed! been
good number courses in
of people from the Hutchinson high school to sport and
enrichment
Glencoe-Litchfield area
- activities that provide
mentoring, rEAdEr lEttEr
can make team-building and other

Poultry helps Minnesota’s

the trip to Marshall on lifelong
that day to skills.
learn about the situation

economy fly
we’re in, ■ These kids are our future
and how we can reverse
it. employees, entrepreneu
Here’s the bottom line: rs,
If you’re community leaders, volunteers,
50 or older, you grew up
in an homeowners and taxpayers. From PAul Wright
era when public education Our Lynn township farmer
and region’s economy depends
community support for on their mcLeod County commissioner
kids from success.
all backgrounds managed
to boost a Dr. Putnam’s visit to Marshall
significant number of
people up the part of a daylong event is Besides being the Land
ladder. We all know this sponsored by of
as “upward the Southwest Initiative 10,000 Lakes, Minnesota
mobility.” Foundation. is
The event, Grow Our Own Summit, host to a prestigious leadership
But since the 1970s, upward
mobility has been more will challenge all those program that focuses
who attend on building
difficult to work for opportunitie tomorrow’s agricultura
for kids from modest s to make l and rural
backgrounds sure all kids have the leaders. This program
because they don’t have opportunities combines
the same they need to succeed. leadership interests in
family and community agriculture
supports that SWIF President Diana and rural Minnesota
benefited children born Anderson and selects 30
earlier. says our 18-county region new leaders from around
And here’s why, according is the state
to Dr. operating from a position every two years to complete
Putnam: “Because of of strength the
growing class as we meet this challenge. program by process of
segregation in America, We application
fewer and have great schools, a and interview.
fewer successful people high home
(and even ownership rate, low crime The name of this program
fewer of our children) and high
have much rates of volunteerism is MARL, which stands
idea how the other half . for and the value of this
lives,” he But unless we work harder, Minnesota Agriculture industry to
writes in his book, “Our the and Minnesota. Here is a pounds of chicken wings.
Kids: The number of children facing Rural Leadership. I am honored list of facts
American Dream in Crisis.” this that I thought I should ■ In the U.S., there is
“So we to be chosen to participate nearly
are less empathetic than
we should
“opportunity gap” will
increase. in week of Thanksgiving:
share this laying hen for each American. one
be to the plight of less Does the Grow Your Own this program and for
privileged Summit two years I ■ Minnesota’s livestock ■ Kandiyohi County is
kids.” sound like a “can’t-miss” will be engaged in many industry turkey producer the largest
event for days of contributes $10 billion in the state.
you? Cost for the day, studies surrounding to our state’s
If you live in Hutchinson including the future of economy. ■ The direct economic
, you lunch, is only $20. For agriculture, Greater activity
might be unaware of more Minnesota generated by one turkey raised in
poverty across information, visit swiffoundat vitality and value-added ■ Minnesota’s agriculture our
the rest of southwester ion. benefits ploys nearly 400,000 jobs; em- state is $17.46!
n Minnesota org. of agriculture to our
state and 80 percent ■ Minnesota’s poultry
country. This program are off-farm. farmers are
meets for ■ There’s a good chance committed to raising
multi-day workshops that one and affordable safe, healthy
rEAdEr lEttEr state, Washington, D.C.,
around the in 10 people you know food for families in the
along with have an ag- state and
related job. around the world.
Reality of abortion is no
two weeks of internation
al studies. ■ Minnesota is No. 1 in This Thanksgiving, when

mystery
To be part of MARL is the U.S. for look at your you
more than a turkey savory
two-year educational production. turkey ready
activitiy. It is ■ Minnesota is in the to be carved, keep in mind
From Phil driEtz a lifelong endeavor. top 10 for tremendous the
The MARL mission statement chicken production. impact on our local
delhi, minnesota death? economy that our state’s
“to develop the skills is ■ Minnesota’s poultry turkey
Trump has no track record of Minnesota industry industry generates.
agriculture and rural supports 26,000 jobs. I will try
Here is a response to the in politics, but says he leaders and keep you informed
Nov. 16 is against so they may maximize ■ Approximately 46 of other
abortion and will appoint million
column in the Leader,
“Were your pro-life impact and effectivenes
their keys are raised in Minnesota tur- interesting facts I come across that
votes decided on a single judges in the mold of Anthony s in local, each show how important
‘hot button’ Scalia. state, national year. agriculture is
issue?” Hillary has an excellent and international to our state’s future and
track arenas.” ■ Poultry love to eat! economy.
The author says: ”It was record in politics — when Each year Resources for
it comes in Minnesota, turkeys
mystery to me how one
always a to supporting legalized This past week we met
for a consume $163 the Minnesota the above include
could be so killing of three-day workshop in million of corn and $169 Turkey Growers
firm about the beginning babies. She said she would Willmar, million of Association, Minnesota
of life and have where we heard of many soybean meal. Dept of
disregard these same appointed judges who topics Agriculture, and Chicken
children once will support surrounding the poultry ■ During Super Bowl
abortions. and Egg

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Americans eat nearly of Minnesota.
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the online of crisis pregnancy-type
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parties and celebrations. The
Minnetonka High School Class of
2017 has graduated. My son is one
of this year’s graduates, my third
to graduated from Minnetonka.
Three down, two to go in our
household.
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of the school year, a 17-year old
arrested
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The student threatened to shoot
school knowing the incident was
Minnetonka students of color and
urged white students to stay home.
an incredibly bad hoax.
On Facebook I read comments is
The student was arrested quick-
ly. Early reports stated that the
from parents of minority children
who expressed concern over rac-
student didn’t intend to carry out
ism at Minnetonka High School.
any kind of shooting. The threat
A few shared specific examples of
was made during finals week and
things that happened to their own
he may have just been trying to get children
children or other minority
out of taking his final exams.
munity is going to have a few igno-
their cars as I do when I’m at the
rant people. This doesn’t mean it is
OK; my point is that Minnetonka
not immune to this.
This does not mean incidents of if I had
racism do not occur. When a par-
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an individual who is a minority
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cerns. Some parents were still going
to keep their students home even
after the arrest, most parents were
knew.
Many parents responded,
that there is racism at Min-
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I could gather, the parents denying
the racism were parents of Cauca-
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Tuesda y to one of my knew. In my junior year, I became mark.weber@ecm-inc.com
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there was a lot of anti-American
fact, gut-wre nchingwas
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of-any sentiment from the government.
Qaeda. I thought, what descrip tion know traveled with her to visit her fam-
provide bindLaden?
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didn’t This though was not the opinion
ism? Who is Osama for all Muslim
the answer neighbors. ily and tour the country.
of our s to what
was clueless. had happened to Jacob high school, I was so excited! I wanted to go.
Inthat October we began to See Kieffer, Next Page
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news on the warsthe in Iraq
case. Prosecutors with murder in
murder case against simply did not have a
Jacob, and could him without the body of
not find the body
Heinrich’s coopera without
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ent
rich would go to prisonthat guaranteed Hein-
would bring Jacob for a long time,
home to his family that
nally answer the and fi-
question of what
pened to him. had hap-
Heinrich will be sentenc
term, 20 years in
prison
ed to the maximum
for the crime he commi — not long enough In a ‘change’ year,
Portman deserve Senator
seven years as the tted; not as long
period of agony and by
tainty he put the Wetterl uncer-

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awful truth they of young people Ohio. the Comprehensive
had who gathered on
years. Through it all resisted for so many in this Cincinna tion Addic-
a Saturday morning Strickland him and Recovery Act must forgive
they for having done so
of courage and compas have been examples doughnuts and his gratitude
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Reasoned examination of Stearns County sales tax issue and sharp expla-
of the same. She spoke million voter contacts.
her sorrow, about of man’s supporters Port- George ing abortions reticence ’s strategic
what Jacob has taught are a forgiving “safe, legal of does not extend to
and about how his
legacy will continu us, undeterred by his many accomplsort, ish-
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the matter
help and answers for e to seek ments and qualifications that to oppose the Trans-Pa y
other families of missing disqualifying in this season of could be seems to pre- nership. cific Part-
children. antagonism toward populist legal and fer
as frequent as subsidies “safe, campaig Strickland’s one-track-mind
actually governed people who have make them”: n focuses on internati
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nation of the newspaper’s Facebook policies.

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mean something to ing will continue ty of Michigan Law taxpayer funding biggest auto employe Ohio’s
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people across the President George tions. The center supports many one-third of the
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Second Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester

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y ordained Methodi years ago. He is an deaths from heroin be the epidemic of vard Law first in his class at the Har-
st minister from the School. We wouldn’t
gun-toting coal country Nationally, such and other opioids. Ohio to be permit
It was a tough time of southeast- deaths — about represen
lot of people, and for a ern Ohio. Fortunat
ely for Portman, 27,000 a year — are almost half by just a common ted in the Senate
Strickland, after losing man.”

page? How
for me, drug the
back in October 1989, ship to John Kasich the governor- more overdose deaths that now take In 1950, Taft was
easily re-elected.
when America Portman
the disappearance head of the Washing in 2010, became crashes. Opioidsn lives than do car though probably will be, too, even
Wetterling shocked of Jacob he should be.

Third Place: The Free Press, Mankato

ton-based, impec- are
and the nation. the state cably liberal Center tating in post-indu especially devas-
Progress Action Fund. for American of which Ohio strial communities,

dare us!
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shocked by the brazen were was one of 12 states In 2012, ©2016, Washington Post post.com.

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wasn’t there
boy, in front of his
and his friend. It was brother

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ing that it happened shock- his school the public’s
We liveinand breathe picture, You won-
think
Joseph, as bucolic to debate
right and
St. and dered whereWe
disagree. he was,
and if he By Rich Lowry
ful a hamletcivil peace- is vital to building
had somehow
as youdiscourse
could survived,
, and what
imagine. It was hell he
g a vibrant community
had gonegood
maintainin
small town is through if William McKinley She isn’t — as
of about 3,000 weoreven think crackinghe had. jokes And you would represented by her
wondered Hillary
at the time, dominate so people the soul.
if, despite
for the hopes Clinton has been be proud. entertai ning politics
of cronyism and corner-cu ded
high-han
d St. Wetterlin So why did we banof the closest thing running the or inspiring. —
Joseph’s Catholic Church g family, possible in the modern intolerable. The Clintons tting
Face- the worst context to Her speeches believe
Benedictine monaster the had from our to
you happened a front-porch campaign
n e v e r them, that the rules don’t apply to
famously
the College of St. y and ifbook page?ever Jacob, and
he would She is happy to .
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be found. about her opponen have the race all a c h i e v e ductedand why not? First, the FBI con-
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the kidnapping hit people, denly
tion, and it’s one
last Saturday, when with She avoids press t o r i c a l into tion
the she has taken to conferences, although liftoff, and arm her emails, and then, acting like an
tionally. My own me emo- Stearns lots ofCountyanswers.
Sheriff’s visiting reporters at she of the campaign,
children partment let’s
But announc start with De- back of her the has the ments released docu- CLOUDTIMES.COM
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feeling that Facebook by nearly In only
this could everyone in her with a cause. a s s o c i a t e d ton one sense does Hillary Clin-
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members acter and temperam based on char-
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place,dictate theadded
this spring
pace sales
ment business in, at Since
the very 2014, the county has imple- different project maps
s letters of the campaign, often tax.
wildly least, a tax, basically a
ters must be That’s the norm to thefor most
editor. All let- ment. As he has pursuing to his the
own detri- inappropriatemented manner.aThey wheelage amount of additional the tax,
funding.
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with Facebook and telephon plined, this approach themore
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be its hind through transactions —
Box 487, New Ulm to the Editor, Thelaced with foul But Hillary herself situation and seek their
“honorar y chancellor” It gig as legs. But
$1.4 million annu- by standing the St. Cloud metro area
launch tirades Journal, P.O. about lacksthealmost ofgenerates madea in flock
editor@nujournal. MNguage 56073-04 threats. I’m going to
the qualities county board
allthecollege. a for-profit counties to
or 87, or e-mail
outright them to
that make input for on whether
a compelli ally. The state will allow of sheep in that position
the partyou that lies within Stearns
com. presidential candidate adopt the ngtax. The meeting
Hillary fee to $20 starting in 2018.
let you in on a secret: people, Shebut .
should
has been prominen Sheatisn’t fresh. Bremer
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crowdCounty. of men.reality raises a couple of
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p.m.
t in our6politics, in the as embodie d by
If the
Donald county chooses to do it That
our Facebook Room at theas Cloud Public
St.unaccept Trump
million a year. Or Dave
we hide comments on formunity
25 years.
most asSt.
able, but takeshe has in $2.8
gone to repeal Max concerns. St. Cloud Mayor
page every single day. Library, 1300 St. Germain far in rendering decide al- Beerbohm (1872-1
the wheelage that metro Stearns resi-
leadership is couldthe status quo Kleis 956)
noted
Facebook allows page whenever
adminis- While the county’s pay most of the tax but
board at tax. million in dents will benefit from projects
trators to “hide” comments makes it appreciated, the county this sales Also in play is about $3 county not directly
they like. Hiding a comment the writ- this time should not adopt annual property taxes
the
spread countywide.
invisible to everyone
except tax. of now levies to fund transportation. Another issue worth examining
That means point
er and his or her friends. Not only is public awareness officials appropriately is the impact on Stearns compet-
businesses
there largely but the county County $3 million could be elim-
a hidden comment sits this tax still minimal,
plans in- out that and the prices from their
and responses, has not made clear its is added. Or coun-
unrewarded by “likes” s that kind of sources. inated if the sales tax in place. itors in Benton and Sherburne
volving other funding it
which in turn discourage should the county could keep making ties within the metro and most
area.
comment in the future. Rather, commissioners of an So while the county is As with every tax —
of start would gener-
The overwhelming majorityFace- view this spring as the that will clear the new sales tax it every public policy decision no
—
posts we hide on the SCTimes (Se- informational campaign lead up to a ate $9.27 million in new revenue, there are winners and
losers
foul language. plans and what will
book page contain clarify county has not told residents the solution.
some people Stearns tax or the matter what
riously, I can’t believe ballot question that asks to im- happen with the wheelage At this time, though, theis to
best
the same whether
email their mothers with with). residents to decide levied funds. the sales course for
Stearns County
about
keyboards they post comments get your plement the tax. time to In the five-year window tax continue educating residents
A “hell” or a “damn” won’t in all of That approach allows issues, tax would last, the wheelage or it could the not just the sales
tax proposal,
F-word address critically important is the in-
comment hidden. The ns will. If which could be dropped to zero million. but the many other variables
its iterations and combinatio the most important of main sourc- increase an additional $14 could volved and the costs and
benefits
that cross- county’s plans for three
you post a photo comment Similarly, the levied amount connected to each.
profanities, be ended or provide $15
million. to
es the line or includes es of funding. $29 Then put a ballot question
hide those, too. Funding sources that’s a potential let them decide.
we’ll generate Combined, voters and
We’ll also hide personal equivalent
attacks This sales tax alone will million swing.
the internet million in road and bridge
that go beyond $9.27
racial slurs,
of schoolyard taunts,
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must inspire activism

Exit from climate accord moral and
It also relinquishes our a leader-
amples of corporate leadership
companies such as Cargill, which
from
3M, Target,
Other Minnesota political
have spoken out.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar
leaders

stated in a
Maybe it’s for the best. to with- political authority, creating Best Buy and General
Mills,
June 1 Facebook post
that Trump’s
President Trump’s decisionagree- such as China in support of U.S. interests
ship vacuum that rivals exploit. have taken public stands reversal is harmful to
draw from the Paris climate will be happy to fill and that vacuum the Paris agreement. hold politicians businesses and
news we’ve had and called for states, to address
ment could be the best damage he Here’s the good news: y for the Individuals can also of gov- individuals to work together
the levels .
in a while, except for as a world also presents an opportunit accountable, across all
— climate change challenges Trump’s
has done to our standing to generate rest of us. ts ernment — local, state and federalto U.S. Sen. Al Franken called
governmen willing
leader and to our capacity social in- It’s an opportunity for and support those who
are
action a “catastrophic
mistake.”
21st century economic
and at all levels, as well as take a stand to reduce
carbon emis-
Maybe I missed it, but
I can find no
novations. universities, busi- sions. response yet from Congressm
an Tom
Group nesses, religious and
As my fellow Times WritersWednes- to Just this week, Gov. Mark Dayton Emmer. At his one and only town hall
noted
columnist Derek Larson now in a civic organizations signed onto the U.S. Climate
Alliance, in February in
meeting this year, held to be on the
day, the United States
is step up and fill the launched in response to the Emmer seemed
to the a coalition Sartell,
league with Syria in opposition void. by Trump. As noting
to counter leadership void created had signed on fence about climate change,others say
world community working Ordinary citizens and
of Tuesday, 13 governorsto honor the that some say it exists
the effects of global warming. have a role to play as to the alliance, pledgingthe United not.
has a down- well. Global warming clean air and
So, yes, Trump’s action commitments made by He did say he favors
be fully mea- affects us all, giving to re- good. Maybe at
side, one that cannot that. It dimin- GLENDA States in the Paris agreement clean water, so that’s
sured. No question about each of us as global duce carbon emissions. his next town hall meeting
he will ex-
and pres- BURGESON residents a responsi- ent Mon-
ishes our national credibility , even TIMES WRITERS and In making the announcem state- pand on that.
unreliable bility to monitor following while the
tige. It makes us look GROUP day, Dayton issued the Meanwhile, Trump tweets is his
foolish and backward. whether and to reduce our energy ment: news
planet heats. The good for the rest of
One indicator will be consumption. states will
recruiting ef- “Minnesota and other action is a wakeup call
what extent it will hurt corporations There are other ways
individuals we can achieve
and can support show the world what conserve ener- us to take up the slack. St. Cloud resi-
forts by universities to come can have an impact. We as national by working together
to This is the opinion of
to attract leading scientists research well
businesses locally as demonstrated a to use cleaner and renewable ener- Glenda Burgeson, whose column
gy, planet to our dent
here to work, teach, conduct corporations that have their carbon Sunday of the
educational and gy, and to leave a livableren.” is published the second
and contribute to our commitment to reducing children and grandchild for all of us. month.
Maybe they will
economic well being. where they will footprint. have ex- That is a call to action
choose to go elsewhere Here in Minnesota, we
be more welcomed.

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 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest

General Reporting
Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: Stillwater Gazette
This paper had the strongest writing of the group – front to back. Also,
some solid guest columnists. In the end, the difference between this entry
and second place was the depth and writing of its Sports section.

Second Place: Ely Timberjay
The depth of reporting from this paper was a strength. The transgender
teen story was a delicate issue handled well. It has a really interesting
and educational Outdoor page.

Third Place: Jordan Independent
This paper had a really nice centerpiece each week. This was a consis-
tently solid newspaper through all editions.

Weeklies 1,501-2,500
First Place: Union-Times, Princeton, Milaca
Entry proves why community newspapers are relevant and essential. Is-
sues that are important to the community were reported professionally.

Second Place: Pipestone County Star
Good mix of hard news and features. Could feel the pulse of your com-
munities through your reporting.

Third Place: Waseca County News
Among the best in an excellent field. Good hard news, features, and
follow-ups.

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
First Place: Pine Journal, Cloquet
Nice Job!

Second Place: Anoka County Union Herald*

Third Place: Kenyon Leader*

Weeklies over 5,000

First Place: Insight News, Minneapolis
Nice job!

Second Place: Plymouth Sun Sailor*

Third Place: Fillmore County Journal, Preston*

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
Page 15 

General Reporting
Sports Reporting
SPORTS
SECTION B • THURSDAY, APRIL
shadow of one of two giant scoreboards in Minneapolis.
Keegan Klontz warms up in the
Central baseball team last Wednesday
opener for the Jackson County
‘The experience has been amazing’
JCC baseball team
opens season at
U.S. Bank Stadium
by DAN CONDON
Sports Editor
The Jackson County Cen-
tral baseball team opened
its season with a win last
Wednesday, topping United
South Central 11-1 in five
innings.
That was a positive, head
coach Mike Wierson said,
but the memories from the
game will revolve around
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13, 2017
where it was played.
The Huskies and Rebels
played at U.S. Bank Sta-
dium, the newly-opened
home of the Minnesota
Vikings.
With just one football
season played at the sta-
dium, the game marked the
first time many of the JCC
players, coaches and fans
had been in the stadium.
“ This place is huge,”
said Wierson, who was
at U.S. Bank Stadium for
the first time. “It is like a
mecca. It’s beautiful. It’s
really, really nice.”
16185
at U.S. Bank Stadium prior to the
Inside . . .
Huskies are off
B3 to 2-1 start after
three games.
Ryan Christopher took
advantage of a deep cen-
ter field, hitting a ball past
the USC center fielder and
to the wall for a three-run
inside-the-park home run
that highlighted the win.
He also pitched two score-
less innings to get the win
and struck out five batters.
But the game was sec-
Christoffer and Koep are
double winners in Mt. Lake
Schultz gets first
career individual
win for JCC boys
Kailey Koep were double
winners last Friday at a ond
track and field meet in in
Mt. Lake and Christof- boys
fer picked up a win in
PHOTOS BY DAN CONDON
season
ondary to the location,
Wierson said.
“The experience has
been amazing,” he said.
“It’s unbelievable. I
think everybody that
was a part of this is
going to remember be-
ing here for this. It’s
one of those things that,
yeah, we won — as far as
the team is concerned,
that is the most impor-
tant thing — but be-
ing able to play on the
field where you watch
million-dollar players is
just incredible.”
Left: Easton Bahr (from
left), Ryan Christopher and
Keegan Klontz are all smiles
after an inside-the-park
home run by Christopher.
Above: A Jackson County
Central baseball cap at U.S.
Bank Stadium. Bottom left:
Bailey Lesch glances at
head coach Mike Wierson
for a sign. Bottom right:
Klontz and Chris Gumto
celebrate a run.
2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
Dailies under 10,000
First Place: The Bemidji Pioneer
Exceptionally informative ledes, with smooth writing. Even long stories
don’t read long. Glacier Ice House piece is informative and intriguing.
Second Place: Owatonna People’s Press
Good focus on the “what it means” questions. Especially enjoyed the
campaign cash and bus safety stories.
Third Place: Faribault Daily News
Wide range of stories displayed. Love the lede on officer lifesaver award
story.
Dailies 10,000 and over
First Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester
Really strong selections with excellent clarity on what the news means
to readers – Hawthorne Education Center, the art center and property
assessments, pieces in particular. Solid ledes pull me into stories through-
out each of the entries.
Second Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
Great emphasis on the personal in each of the three main packages – and
variety on what that “personal” means. Good job playing things straight,
just-the-facts on daily news coverage.
Third Place: Grand Forks Herald
Good split between news-feature and hard news.
Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: Jackson County Pilot
Great writing, great photos, great packaging, great presentation. The
2011–2016
SPORTS REPORTING
clear winner in this category.
AWARD-WINNER
JCC TRACK AND FIELD
Second Place: Stillwater Gazette
last Tuesday’s meet in
Luverne.
Teague Schultz won in
Mt. Lake and Nathaniel
Post did so in Luverne,
giving the Huskies six win-
Nice breadth of coverage, and the packaging shines.
in the two meets.
Jessica Christoffer and ners
The JCC girls placed sec-
in Mt. Lake and fourth
Luverne, while the JCC
placed third in each
See T&F on B4
JCC SOFTBALL
Huskies split
first two games
Third Place: Le Sueur News-Herald
Great coverage!
as they each crushed a
Johnson nearly
two-run home run against
unhittable in Fairmont.
Unfortunately for the
opener for JCC Huskies, it wasn’t enough
in an 8-5 loss to the Car-
dinals in the home opener.
The Jackson County
Fairmont struck first
Central softball team split
with two runs in the top
its first two games of the
of the third and added two
season last week, topping
more in the fourth for a
Lake Crystal-Wellco me
Memorial 11-0 last Tues-
4-0 lead.
That’s when Rossow got
day before an 8-5 loss to
the Huskies back in the
Fairmont last Thursday.
game with a blast over the
The Huskies hit five
fence in left-center to score
homers in the two games,
herself and Blaney John-
including three over the
son, who singled earlier in
fence.
the inning.
Two dingers not enough
The Cardinals responded
with three runs in the top
The wind was blowing
of the fifth to lead 7-2, but
out to left field last Thurs-
the Huskies didn’t go down
day, but Keylee Rossow and
See SB on B3
Jacey Edlin didn’t need it
JCC GOLF
Benson, Flatebo each
medal in season opener
Abby Benson and Scott Benson medals for JCC
Benson shot five-over-
Flatebo were medalists in
season-opening meets for par 41 to earn medalist
the Jackson County Cen- honors by three strokes
tral golf team last week, against Spirit Lake, but the
but just the JCC boys Huskies lost 194-214 to the
earned a win. Indians.
Sydney Sadusky shot 53
The Huskies split against
Spirit Lake, Iowa, last in her varsity debut and the
Huskies also used scores of
Tuesday and had Monday’s
57 from Julia Bohl and 63
home opener postponed
from Reagan Farmer for
until Tuesday.
A pair of JCC girls their team total.
Nelah Hash (72) and
also played in an 18-hole
tournament Saturday in Grace Benson (74) also
Worthington. played for JCC.
Flatebo medals in win Two compete in tourney
Flatebo shot a one-over- Bohl and Grace Benson
par 37 to lead the JCC each played in an 18-hole
boys to a 166-172 win over girls’ tournament Satur-
the Indians in the season day in Worthington and the
opener. Huskies had an incomplete
Faltebo birdied two holes team.
Bohl shot 115 (56-59) and
and made par on four oth-
ers during his medalist Grace Benson shot 119 (51-
round. 68) in the meet.
Jack Brinkman shot 40,
which included a birdie Up next
The Huskies hosted
and three pars and tied
the lowest score by a Spirit Fairmont Tuesday in their
Lake golfer. home opener and play at
Austin Haar made three Worthington today (Thurs-
pars during his round of 44 day) in the Big South Con-
rter Olson and Alec ference opener.
 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
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Hometown Sports
First Place: Steele County Times, Blooming Prairie
B Section
www.steeledodgenews.com
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
I thought the front pages were eye-catching and well done, especially the
e
Blossoms compete at Chatfield invit in the top 60 runners. Rose Michaud ran the course in ran his best ever the difficult
course, and he has improved by
wrestling one. Great job on the wresting coverage overall and the pre-
view section was nice. Nice balance of all the sports.
4th and 6th. All five boys who ished girls paced 7th of the 26:52 and32: 54.
By LEMAR NELSON counted times for the locals fin-
BP’s leaps and bounds.”
Staff Sports Writer teams, but it marked just “It was a very difficult
ished in the top 25 to earn the eight remarked Coach John Adam Larson Dylan Johnson,
the second time a full team of course,” and Gustaof Ogren ran in the ju-
team second place. “but we ran well again.
In another invitational cross competed. Individually, Bruns, nior high meet for the boys, and
Ille and Baker ran the course girls Bobbie Bruns led the girls again,
country meet of the season, the Bruns led the team by
Asha Lightizer and Emily An-
in 17:47 and 18:28, Evan Do- Bobbie 12th in 22:11. Alison and Alec Ille and Elijah Baker
Blossom boys took the runner- derson ran for the girls. Light-

erhoefer ran a 19:44 (14), Kyle placing to impress the field.
up spot again, this time at the and Jerrin Jax both fin- continued izer placed 14th and Anderson
Bramstedt timed a 20:05 (18), Pryor the top 50-Pryor with a The runner who really provided
eight-team Chatfield Invitation- ished in 21st. Overall, BP runners had a
Homecoming
and Quentin Kubista came home to the team’s second
al. of 24:30 (29) and and Jax in the key productive day.
in 20:19 (22.) Jesse Schewe and time Kyle Bramsteadt. He
In the individual race, Alec (48). Olivia Johnson and place was
Ethan Grant also ran and fin- 26:05
sports

Bucs sweep Awesome Blossoms

Ille and Elijah Baker placed

It almost felt like fans were

on a carousel last Friday, as BP
and Medford went round and
around, before the Blossoms
Second Place: Dodge County Independent, Kasson
There are some really awesome pictures and articles in the paper.
tucked another win under their
belt. One has to give the Tigers
BP drops fifth straight match some credit, as they unleashed
a pretty good passing attack
against the prolific onslaught
game three, including four ace
By LEMAR NELSON of the Blossom runners. BP
serves, for an identical 25-17

Staff Sports Writer rolled up their season high point
win and the match. The play
total in the 54-29 victory, and
of Masberg and Androli at the
It has been a tough three Blossoms off bal- it marked a fitting climax to the
net kept the
weeks for the Awesome Blos- many activities of homecoming.
ance all night.
som volleyball team. of Although the Blossoms inter-
“Actually, I was proud
BP dropped its fifth match cepted three passes, Medford
the girls tonight,” commented

Third Place: Tracy Headlight-Herald

in a row at Waterville
day, as the Bucs swept the lo-
cals in three straight
The match was the only one
of the week for the Blossoms,
as homecoming activities took
Thurs- almost garnered 300 yards pass-
Coach Ranell Kittelson, “for
way they hung in al three
ing, and that is too many yards
the
games. given up. Hopefully, that part
games. They didn’t give up,
when they fell behind of the defense can still improve.
even
The other improvement has to
earlier. WEM has developed
come from the penalty depart-
into a top-notch team, and they

Good stories. Good photos. Very reader-friendly.

center stage at BPHS. ment. BP still makes too many
can compete favorably with
WEM won the first set in mistakes, from personal fouls to
the elite Bethlehem Academy
that match 25-14, but the last offensive holding. I think it is
squad squad now.”
two games remained competi- Lar- more of a concentration factor
Sam Wurst and Marissa
tive for most of the time. The than anything else, and it is an
son had 6 and 5 kills, with both
Blossoms had a tough n night area that certainly can improve
adding 3 blocks in the match.
contending with senior hitter Inwards had 10 assists with a little more attention to
domi- Leah
Katie Masberg, as she the situations. We will see.
and scrambled for 9 digs. The The volleyball team lost its
nated at the net, both in kills record dropped to 8-12
for team
and in blocking attempts fifth straight match last week,
with the loss.
kills. WEM JV team won its yet at times they have played
The
In game one, the score was pretty good volleyball. The
match over the Blossoms in
close at 16-10, until Janet Her- locals fell girls still have not learned to

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
two games. The
ing served 5 straight points and finish games when they have
just 25-2 , after losing the first opportunity, and that will
a 23-13 Buc lead. A Masberg Oswald the
game 17-25. Rachael
block gave the ball back to the have to happen before they can
served 8 for 8 and Julia Worke
winners, and MaeLea Harmon get back to winning matches,
went 7 for 7. WEM served 8
served the winner. The season is beginning to wind
points midway through game
Haley Androli and Alexis Staff photo by Seth Bedenbaugh-DeLap down, which means there is not
one for that victory, and a bal-
Morsching combined for 23 much time left to start playing

First Place: Cottonwood County Citizen, Windom

the
points, Morsching with
last 8 points ,in a 25-17 sec-
ond game victory, and Trista
anced attack won the second against
during the Blossoms matchup better. Fight on, girls.
game the JV team is now 10-10 Blooming Prairie senior Leah Schiefert winds up to serve their fifth straight match,
Thursday. Blooming Prairie dropped The cross country boys
for the season. Waterville-Elysian-Morristown on continue to record a success-

Fakrudin’s hat-trick lifts Owatonna

losing 3-0.
Hering served 7 points in ful season, with another team
second place again last week.
Against an 8-team field of

Joel Alvstad is an excellent writer. Good coverage and flow. It’s incred-
strong competition, Alec Ille
and Elijah Baker continue to
have banner years. The rest of
the runners contribute a great
Huskies finish regular season 8-7-1 deal with their high finishes in
the team competition. At the

ible that he is also a good sports photographer. Other sports writers are
last meet, a new face popped up
feed from his brother, Nick. Un- to have time contribute to the fi-
By JOSH ZIMMER
Sports Editor fortunately, the Century ‘keeper nal score when Kyle Bramstedt
managed to get a paw on the finished fourth of the Blossom

sports
shot, deflecting it just wide of runners. Good job, runners.

V
the hot
MORE ONLINE Searching to keep
the net.
streak going into the playoffs, was con- Homecoming glory!

pretty good, too. Ron Kuecker is a good columnist. I like his take on
■ Sports photos The Huskies offense
and polls the Owatonna Huskies had one
www.windomnew sistently making great runs into I doubt that there is any-
s.com final test with Rochester Centu-
■ Follow Joel on the final third but were stymied one who went to school who
twitter ry. For senior Abukar Fakrudin,
@SWMN_Sports on every attempt. By the twenty doesn’t have fond memories of
Guy he was planning on keeping not
minute mark of the half, Owa- at least one homecoming. It has
only the Huskies streak alive,
■ Cottonw
ood Count
y Citizen tonna’s attackers registered five been almost seventy years since
but built onto one of his own.

hunting. Writing in this section continues to be consistent. These pages

shots on goal. One attempt un- my last high school homecom-
In a rain shortened game, the
der the two-minute mark was the ing and sixty-two since my
Huskies kept their streak alive to adding
closest the teamwwas
TimE ouT Thursday night, defeating the
edn e S d A y, o last homecoming celebration

Miracle Eagles cele another goal. Keller fed a strong in college,

Cto BeR 12, 201
Cougars 3-1 behind Fakrudin’s but I remember
lead ball to Nick Smith, but his cidents from both of those occa-
6 in- 15
brate 20 years
third career hat trick on senior
Joel Alvstad
shot sailed high over the net, sions with fondness. There is
night at the Owatonna Soccer

are a joy to read. Captivating.

Sports Editor
keeping the score at 1-0 heading something about a homecoming
■ Windom made Complex. Head coach Bob Way-
its first trip into the half. that leaves warm memories in
to the state football
playoffs
Gibbon-Fairfax-W
inthrop in pa said the mindset of his play- The second half was all Fakru- the heart, whether one or many
the semifinals and futurereally teams.the evening.
in 1996. Madelia- ers Eagleshaped two minutes into the
By JOEL ALVSTAD
Truman in the
finals. Now, as part
“Our strikers and our mid- din as just
of Friday’s record argu- such events.
The Eagles then homecoming festivitie
refused to lose those 50- half, he managed to For BPHS last week, a big tip
The 1996 Windom Zumbrota-Mazep defeated 1996fielders
team will be
s, the
ably the goal of the year. After of the hat is due to homecom-
football team was, Eagle
pa
first round of the in the balls,” he added.
50 the recognized
before game at picked up right Nick Smith pushed the ball deep ing King Ben Smith and Queen
ways, a team of in many playoffs, earning
state Park. The Huskies Island into the Cougars zone, he sent Leah Schiefert, and congratula-
destiny
Just two short years .
a
Metrodome. There, trip to the where they left off Monday, to the backside of the de-
claimed an electrifyWindom Building not only the time of the ball to the other candidates
after the Eagles dominating
a winner the senior leaped to tions
enough players
barely had
semifinal win over ing Magnusobut
Billpossession the stat sheet as fense where the back of the up for the honor.
I mentioned
to fill a line- Benson n arrived the head the ball into that I thought all of
up, they battled earn a spot in the to well.inJust six minutesininto Smith and Fak- last week
Time to end it their Prep Bowl. Windom scored after net. The pair of
the fall of 1994,
a 4-4 regular season way to candidates were excellent

Second Place: Mille Lacs Messenger, Isle

in the
The magical run
came to teachFakrudin
hiredcontest, science and as from rudin would record the final goal the
brutally-tough to an end with a up by a nifty pass citizens, and any of them
One of my favorite Southwest 24-7 loss to being set
an assistant football just minutes lat- school
segments when Conference. Breck in the Prep
Bowl. On the day ofand
firstsenior
fellow captain, Dan for the Huskies
coach.
was would have made outstanding
Bill From there, Windom The Eagles made tice, 14Keller. prac- er. Only this time, Fakrudin
up. 1-0 early, able to easily put the ball on net. royalty.
Simmons wrote players showed
ESPN was his story
for on a magical playoff went more trips to state three Eventually, Huskies up
run in the With thethe
Eagles were
the “most cursed” on that captivated
the entire
following six years,
includ-
able to recruit more
Nate Smith was looking to add
fan community. ing another Staff photo by Josh Zimmer
to suit up, but Magnuso players LINES
bases in sports. state runner-up to the total. The nspeedy junior SOCCER

Good writing in this section. The in-house sports writers are strong and
At the top of the Windom won the finish in 2001 and had
Cou- Continued on page 3B Continued on page 2B
list 2B title, beating Section
(8) celebrates after Fakrudin’s
appearan goal againt
a semifina
diving l managed to get behind the SPENCE
Abukar Fakrudin (7) and Nick Smith
are three teams ce in 2002. a R HOLMEN
seemOwatonna’s
that state-ran ked
Soccer Complex.But Fakrudin netted all three of the
1996 set gars defense after receiving returned the opening (11) breaks toward an opening Citizen file
to be sharing
Rochester sim-Thursday at the Owatonna
Century the stage for S e e rEUNIo
N against Benson for kickoff of the 1996 as he

get you mo vin !

ilar paths thisgoals. state semifina
Huskies
the Cubs,
season: • P A g e 1 6 football team will bea touchdown. The 1996 state runner-upl game

wi’s
the
Indians recognized at Friday’s Eagle

oneLet
and the Vikings. homecoming game.

n fro consistent. Excellent writing by Ray Gildow. Solid stuff. Good job. Bob
The Indians have

m
already punched
their
ticket to the America
n
Jennifer Walsh
League Champio
nship

league title
Series. The Cubs
are
one win from doing
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League.
And the Vikings web: jenwalsh.kw. com
off to their first are
5-0
start since 2009, Windom clinched
Brett Favre donned
when
the
a
purple. share of the divisio Standings
n

stories from female sports writers, too. All the writers in this section were
I’ve never really
cared much for
the In- title with a 3-1 win BIG SOUTH
WEST DIVISION
dians. But I’ve always VOLLEYBALL
Volleyball
been a die-hard
fan. And watching
Viking over Marshall. Tuesday — BSC
Team W L
Win (18-8) ...5 0
the Cross-Division
JCC (17-4) ..4 1
Cubs on WGN grow- ■ Match at Win-
Mar (11-8) ...4 1
ing up was almost By JoEL ALvsTAD
dom: Opponent

good.
as Wor (13-11) .2 3
exciting as watching TBA, 6 p.m.
joela@windomnews.com Pipe (16-7) ..1 4
the Twins. Luv (12-11)..1 4
The Windom Eagles RV (11-14)...1 5
Since Simmons’ title for the
“most cursed” list controlled the back Eagles.
came out, a few attacked from the row and
teams service “As the smallest
have won titles: line Thursday night, in the conferen school
the away for a 3-1 victory pulling ce,
Giants, Red Sox
and get many chances we don’t
White Sox in baseball Marshall at Windom over conference title, at the
the Seahawks in , It was the Eagles’ . with teams like
especially
foot- over the Tigers first win Marshall
ball and the Cavalier since 2010, and JCC,” Eagle
in basketball. s and clinched no Coach Ron
worse than Wendorff said.
Hopefully this is a share of the Big “We needed
year that two more the Conference West South

Third Place: News-Record, Zumbrota, Pine Island

Division
teams cross their EAGLE PLAYERS
names off the “most See EAGLEs • P A g celebrate a key (from left) Maurissa
e 20 point in Thursday Isaacs, Jolyssa JoeL ALVStAd
10/12 volleyball
cursed” franchis
e ’s 3-1 win over MarshallHigley-Purrington and Porsha 301
the Cubs and the list: . Porath

Eagles run strong

Vikes.

at Alexandria Pro
Faye Haugen is truly a wonderful writer. Solid grasp of the teams’ his-
WhAT’s AhEAD?
Home stretch
The Windom Eagle
country team made cross
its annu-
spects improved
for pheasant opener
al trek north Saturday
Fall sports teams ing part in the Lions , tak-
heading to the end are Champions at Arroww Meet of
the regular season.of Resort near Alexand ood

tory. In addition to being a good writer, Faye is also a pretty good pho-
The Eagle football ria.
The Eagles Will Southwest
team hosts St. James
were one of ta return to being Minneso- When I’m out and
for homecoming
Fri- orange for this a sea of I’ve seen quite a about,
only a couple weekend’s few
day.
Class A teams pheasant hunting “There are some birds.
areas
The Eagle volleyba
ll in That remains to opener? that had more rainfall,
team will play the a Class be seen. depending on the and
But DNR Wildlife

tographer. The entry was a profile covering numerous events. It included

Big Cross AA-dominated timing
South cross-div
ision field. Win- ager Randy Markl Man- of those rains,
they could
match Tuesday Country about the prospect is upbeat have affected some
at Tuesday — BSC dom’s boys nests.
home. Meet (at Worth- pheasant season. s for the But the rains weren’t
finished 15th
And the Eagle cross ington Prairie After years of rebound cold or long duration very
in the team
country team runs
in
View), 4 p.m. ing following a - we could see some , but
the BSC Meet Tuesday standings few devas- im-
tating winters, pact. Hopefully,
in Worthington, with 402 the pheas- the birds

a page of history, stats, etc. Additional pages were consistent with strong
with points. Mounds ant population are spread out a
the boys looking View won has made a little bit
to the team title with considerable jump more.”
defend their conferen 42 points. past two years. in the Markl said that
ce The Eagle girls areas to
title. were 19th This year’s August the east, Blue Earth,
with 545 points.
Willmar won side counts revealed road- tonwan and Martin Wa-
the team title with coun-
“I thought the meet points.
36 all of Cottonwood almost ties, had heavier rainfall
very well,” Eagle went falls into what is County during nesting
A Look BAck season. As a

coverage. It’s good to get in plenty of shots of local athletes. Amazing

Coach consid- result, numbers
Melissa Pletcher ered “good” pheasan took a hit
said. “The ing prospects, meaning t hunt- in those
TEN YEARS AGO boys finished tied areas.
The Eagle volleyba Marshall, and A.J.with roadside counts
revealed
the “The southern
tier of
team saw a 7-1 lead ll was our tie-break Fauglid over 49 birds per
square
counties had some
substan-
er to finish
the deciding fifth in ahead of them. mile. tial rain that wiped
evaporate in a 3-2
set eral kids finish
We had sev- The lone exceptio lot of nests,” Markl out a
loss with career- ns in “There was a lot said.
the county are

shots of wrestlers and tournament. I’m sure the parents and family mem-
to St. James. St. best times, so it the of water
rallied for a 15-13
James was
to see the kids gain exciting northwest corner far- east of Mankato
and Blue
win and the
in the deciding confidence against more far southeast corner,
which of rain
Earth. There was
also a lot
game.
Megan Ysker led great competition.”some are considered
“fair,” to the north of
the
the meaning 25 to 49 Willmar area.”
Eagles with 15 kills, Windom’s boys birds per
set assists and six 22 without senior
ran
captain
square mile. But locally, the
March
numbers 9, 2017 | 13
blocks in the loss. solo Irwin, who was John “The numbers appear to be much
have re- proved from recentim-

bers enjoy these pages featuring their hometown wrestlers.

attending
Christensen had Casey a family funeral. EAGLE SENIOR JoeL ALVStAd bounded quite a
bit,” years.
12
and Katie Symens kills absence, the Eagles’ his
In Saturday’s Lions
Nickolas Green
(right)
10/12 cross country
139 said. “I think we’re Markl “I don’t think they’re
had Meet of Champio pushes the pace during a pretty good year. off to at
four ace serves. two finishers posted top finished 32nd, recordin ns the numbers we
News career- g a career-best in Alexandria. Green We had ably 10 to 15 years
had prob-
The Eagle football
irienews.com Eden Prairie
best| times. Senior time of 16:56. some early-hatch
birds that ago, but
teamwww.e denpra Green broke the Nickolas already have color.

sPORTS
Lions Meet of Champions
also saw a late lead 17-minute Girls Results: We also
slip away. Blue mark for the first
36. 2. Marshall 79.
3. Red Wing 140. 4. 1. Willmar had some late-hatc
Earth time in his
Lake 170. 5. Monticello White
188. 6. Roseville 194. Bear h birds.
scored two touchdow career, finishing Chanhassen 201. 8. 7.
Stillwater 245. 9. Alexandria
See HUNt • P A g e
32nd with 10. Chaska 22
in the final 90 secondsns
287. 11. 253.
a time of 16:56. Mounds View 303. Minnehaha Academy 291. 12.
13. Sartell 304. 14.
Senior Isaac 15. Sioux Falls Washington Becker 310.
of the game, stealing Tade wasn’t far Thief River Falls 502. 313. 16. Buffalo 383.
uss
behind, com/epsportsh
18. St. Cloud Apollo 538. 17.
Windom 545.
a 12-6 victory over finishing 38th with
s.com and twitter.
19.

Eagles. Blue Earth the a time of

edenprairienew
Windom Placings:
17:04.
Breaking news at
22:43; 129. KThompson53. CGreen 20:34;
117. JAlm
133. ASmith 27:00. 24:33; 132. FHansen
completed a 57-yard Jae Carlson placed 26:53;
touchdown pass, (18:03), followed 98th
Lions Meet of Champions
tying by Patrick Boys Results: 1. Mounds
the game at 6-6. Green in 111th View 41. 2. Stillwater

Weeklies over 5,000

Windom (18:18) and 152. 5. White Bear 69. 3. Red Wing 139. 4. Sartell
Lake 159. 6. Chanhassen
then fumbled away Daniel Green in Alexandria 186. 7.
the 123rd (18:30). ington 263.206. 8. Willmar 244. 9. Sioux
Falls Wash-
ensuing kickoff, Fauglid finished 10. Buffalo
Minnehaha Academy 275. 11. Roseville 294. 12.
with 129th, with 374. 14. St. Cloud 362. 13. St. Thomas Academy
the Bucs scoring his time of 18:56 Apollo 375. 15. Windom
with 15 serving as Marshall 402. 17. St. 402. 16.
427. 19. Becker 514. Cloud Cathedral 414. 18. Chaska
seconds left in the the sixth-score
game. tie-breaker. River Falls 686. 20. Monticello 566.
21. Thief .
Kirby Johnson The Eagle girls Smith exhaled
for 82 yards, leading
rushed
by Christianna
were led Windom Placings:
98. JCarlson 18:03;32. NGreen 16:56; 38. ITade 17:04; tournament, run, we had
the finished 53rd (20:34), who
Green, 18:30; 129. AJFauglid 111. PGreen 18:18;
123. “We had a good of
we made a lot
Windom offense. 18:56; 143. LStarback DGreen
a lot fun and
19:54.
fol-

First Place: Eden Prairie News

lowed by Jordyn we
After a 24-year
career Alm in said, “but if
with the DNR, Conserv 117th (22:43), Kara come away with memor ies,” he sea-
a- son in 129th (24:33),Thomp- this meet is alwaysmedal at
a made it, the
tion Officer Tim
DANIEL HUSS
Jenni- Faith exciting, wouldn’t have ering all as-
ges announced BY Hansen in 132nd and those kids
ran son, when considbeen a failure.
against kids their great
he would pub.com (26:53) and
retire at the end dhuss@sw Audra Smith in own age.” pects, would have that way going
of the 133rd (27:00).
month. The Eagles The Eagles were that

W
last Wednes day’s
added a meet sched- “I don’t feel one
The Windom area ith
runner-u - uled to close the adds. “We’re
p finish forwar d,” he

Great writing, great perspective, fun to read, good pictures. Use of the
2AA champi in the regular
expecting to again is Section
junior high race from Gracie
girls season yesterda
y (Tuesday) 10/12 good teams and
a hot spot for pheasan be onship game between
Bucher. at the Adrian Dragon JORDYN ALM cross country 40 of eight really
races down happen.”
hunting, with all t No. 1-seede
“Gracie
d Eden
took second Windom will head Invite. a straightaw
ay during anything can Prairi e was
city’s hotels booked the
of
andJadyn 2-seede d Holy and
No. Wormsta Worthington Tuesdayto Saturda y’s Lions
Meet of Sunda y, Eden top
Prairie
to latedtinwas the12th to take Champions in Alexandr tourna ment’s
capacity for opening in the at 3-3junior part in the Big awarde d the
Family knotted
girls high
tingrace,
South Confer- posted one of the ia. Alm s Academy, Moor-
weekend. and ,Cameron
two interes ence Meet. The best times seed. St. Thoma
third period Alm took
held at the former will be
meet of her career, finishing Grove and Grand

word “you” usually isn’t accepted in AP style writing, but sometimes you
12th in the d. junior time of 22:43 to with a head, Maple 3, 4
surface
statistics race,” high it boys Prairie
place 117th, seeded Nos. 2,
Pletcher
was 19-0said. when “To individually. Rapids were
Eden Prairie this
or more goals S e e MEEt
• PA g e 2 1 and 5. the draw
scored three 22-0 when it By the luck of
season; Holy Familygoals. (other than No. 4 playing
more und oppo-
scored two or No. 5, first-ro
lly, one of those streaks the top three
Tearfu

have to push the limits which this editor did. Great work.
nents for from a
was going to end. - seeds were drawn drew
opened Wednes
Eden Prairie hat), Eden Prairie Way-
with the game’s
day’s showdown Mittelstadt, a defending champi
on
first goal. Casey , raced past zata. a (7-
Mr. Hockey finalist fired a shot Prairie
but happy Eden trip to the On paper, Wayzat
the Fire defense
and Above — A tired, regula r
ore Spencer Ru- hockey team celebrates
a return 17-1 during the st
on net. Sophom ded Eagles ) is the weake
d the reboun
d and ment. The top-see Family Fire season ment.
drud gathere state tourna d Holy team in the tourna Tro-
past Holy Family defeated the No. 2-seede the
wristed a shot title game. On the flip side,
Section 2AA
goalie Jared Moe. r n e d r i g h t 4-3 in the jans return to
the tourney
r e b u (No. son’s big-
The Fi goal Nicky Leiver
mann
with the postsea
w pushin g a — Co-captain upset

Second Place: Eden Prairie Sun Current

back, someho goalie Nick Right the game-w ining goal. gest win (Wayzata
4) slapped home as I can,” he said. in the
past Eden Prairie No. 2-ranked Edina ion-
Wiencek. “Shot it as hard Section 6AA
champ
that the puck
Wiencek argued hand. While ship game).
with a BY DANIEL HUSS said
was pushed in le, PHOTOS “Exact ly right,” the
that was plausib Nervou s? that
it looked like the (board ing) with “ R e a l l y , ” Smith, adding
disagre ed and minute major ption and

Love the layout and pictures. Good information, good layout and good
the official s in the period. words redem
goal counted. 31 seconds left nswered been in his
ended with the just isn’t going to lie. “I a rematch have to
in since losing
The period fa- Smith a couple Smith. just whistles late players ’ heads
Shots on goal t t hey’d get With swallowed their year’s state cham-
game tied 1-1. 8-6. Big hits t hough Guess not. a in last
said. under 10 min- Wayzat be a
vored Eden Prairiecrushing hits goals,” he s left in the ’s Nicky games? gunned 6-4 for nearly “There won’t
of With just 21 second left, Eden Prairie Hockey Under- pionship game. ready
were even, lots and Family utes ann, another Mr.
Prairie hung locker room not
Eden Prairie penalty, Holy one minute, Eden . Note: with guy in our

work all around.

deliver ed by by five-minute top 3-2. Along the Leiverm, scored a power play goal, victory
of crushin g hits delivered went back on t. finalist only on for the 4-3 the Fire’s to play. he adds.
lots their one timeou on the Eagles’ the game, “They’re rivals,”
way, they used making good seconds left in k’s P rairie win,
Holy Family. , this was a unity of the ted off Wience Shou ld Eden
I anticip ated,” For Eden Prairie power- play opport last shot ricoche the winner of
“The game
Head Coach . skate. they’ll then face
said Eden Prairie posses sion small success side, success came game. it as hard as I can,” said Eden P rai rie vs. Grand Rapids.
On the flip A s a resu lt, ent Maple Grove three games in
Lee Smith. “Every “Shot
state-tournam “Can’t win
with a cost. Leivermann. punche d its in a you don’t win
the
mattered.” up 2-1 early our bench,” the upper fourth year three days if
Holy Family went “We had to shorten The slapper found ticket for the
to, but I first one,” said
Smith.
, makin g Eden “Didn’t want left corner. row. vs. Wayzat a
is
in the second Hartle pay for said Smith. to.” goal ever,” adds never gets old. Prairie
I had “My biggest And no, it Eden at
Prairie’s Tommy . There were thought s later, again, scheduled for
Thursday (today)
a tripping penalty on the power Two minute Leivermann. R will be played
at
es knotte d the pulled its goalie PRESSU RE COOKE p.m. The game
seven second
s left Hunter Johann Holy Family 58 sec- the pres- 6 and will
Fired from a
dis-
remaining. With was asked about Xcel Energy Center

Third Place: Alexandria Echo Press

the Fire scored. at 3-3. with 1:10 When pres- the
play when game Johannes and the on 45TV.
later, Mittelstadt went five-hole. onds remaining, g penalty. sure of the season be televised live
Two minutes tance, the shot Coach Lee it back to the state
at 2-2. Head for a hookin of making
knotted the game Eden Prairie his called t of f icia ls
sure
would end asked about Bet you t hough
While the period (Nolan Smith wasn’t the game.
Prairie until after
in a 2-2 tie, Eden five- nerves
whistled for a
Sullivan) was

A as No. 3 seed,
host Mi nnetonka Good paper, good coverage, good pictures.
en Section 2AAA
LL
BOYS BASKETBA

Tested Eagles op
in there. ready for the
in the 40s,” he “In terms of getting the perfect
to “Could be a game be surprised/ “it was
was schedu led that he’d playoffs,” he adds,
Eden Prairie with said, adding it gets out of the 50s.
Eden Prairie play Wednesday shocke d if d.” game to
play.”
only lost three
That being said, le it plays to open section onka. very well prepare DeLaSa lle had
schedu against Minnet “We’ll both be season,
doesn’t play the a home game will be played during the regular Grove
BY DANIEL HUSS we’ve done well Semifinal games
dhuss@swpub.com get a higher seed. “Histor ically, on Fri- games d Maple
said the coach. teams we’ve split with,” Saturday at Hopkins, finals once to No. 2-ranke d
“It’s to get better,” No. agains
t , once No. 1-ranke
to
in the Section awarde d the Flom. day, March 17. (Class AAAA) and
As the No. 3 seed Chaska was on is adds Prairie defeat- (Class AAAA)
ment, the Eden ngton Jeffers In January, Eden In February, Champlin Park y, a team from
2AAAA Tourna 1 seed. Bloomi No. 3 71-56. TESTIN G 1, 2, 3 once to IMG Academ
basket ball team’s No. 2, Eden Prairie Min- ed Minnetonka Prairie lost its reg-
Prairi e boys didn’t seeded Lake, d Eden Eden Prairie .
ails schedule and Edina No.
4. Prior onka defeate Friday,
falling 62-57 at
Florida left, Eden Prairie
tougher-than-n Shakopee Minnet ular-season finale, With 30 seconds
them any favors. netonka , Chanhassen and 8. 56-47. the last six 1, Class AAA). one possess ion (60-57).
do
No. 2 and expect- 6, 7 and “We were ahead
until DeLaSalle (No. trailed by tough,” adds
“Hopin g for seeded Nos. 5, been in the DeLa-
Head were regular-season
re-
s,” recalls Flom. “Have you ever “We played them
ing No. 3,” said
Eden Prairie Eden Prairie’s ts is 7-2. minute Eden Prairie was playing Flom. “The ceil-
Flom. “We needed section opponen Note: Salle gym?” asked walls are close. Flom. moving forward
.
Coach David seed cord against against Chaska, 1-0 vs. scorer Owen Chose. ing is low and
the That’s the plan
get the higher They’re 0-1 without leading people
three votes to 1-0 vs. Prior a third meet- there’s three
n, 2-0 vs. Edina, When asked about defense. It’s loud when
and got two. he Jefferso Minnetonka,
1-0 vs. about
risk we take,” Lake, 1-1 vs. ing, Flom talked
“But that’s the ee.
the schedule we Chanhasseen
and 1-0 vs. Shakop
adds, “for playing
play.”

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Sports Reporting
Owatonna swimmer
s come up shy in
Faribault, 94-90,
Dailies under 10,000
First Place: Owatonna People’s Press
2B Classifieds, 4B-7B

@OPPJonW
Sports Owatonna People’s Press
WNBA
Parker looking to

shift to LA 2B
regain
form as WNBA Finals

B
Great reporting.
BOYS SOCCER Friday, October 14, 2016

IN THE Owatonna @ New Prag

HIGH SCHOOL FOOT
BALL
Second Place: Austin Daily Herald*
ue
SPOTLIGHT New Prague High School, 7 p.m. Snapchat (oppspor
ts) during the game.
quarters. Facebook Twitter (OPPJonW )
in between

Third Place: Albert Lea Tribune*

& Instagram (oppspor
ts) after the game
for photos.

Last year: The

Huskies shook off
several penalties
and a few turnove
rs
to win 52-0. Current
Owatonna players
Bryce Goodwin
and Griffin Thorn

Dailies 10,000 and over

combined for more
than 150 rushing
yards. Owatonna
racked up 465 yards
on the ground in its
second, and final,

First Place: St. Cloud Times*

shutout of the season.
Last week:
Owatonna scored
six unanswered
Owatonna’s Seth touchdowns and
Bungum controls

Nice coverage.
against Lakeville the ball built a massive 42-7
North early in the
of the Section 1-AA first half lead late in the third
semifi
Thursday. The fourth-se nal in Lakeville on quarter against
eded Huskies upset
the top-seeded Panthers Rochester Mayo
brod/People’s Press) , 2-0. (Jon Weis-
before the Spartan

GROUND & POUND

s

Big-game Huskies
gained some traction
in the fourth quarter
and outscored

upset undefeated Owatonna 14-0. The

Huskies didn’t rack

Second Place: Grand Forks Herald*

up eye-popping

Panthers in Section yardage numbers,

but took advantage
Members of the Owatonn
against New Prague
Red Division. The
a defense, including
last season. The Huskies Brett Solie (11) and Ben Staska (51),
enter the game 4-2 team up to make

1-A A semis, 2-0

of several short fields. Trojans have struggle overall and 3-0 in a tackle
d and are just 1-5 the Big Southeast
Noah BudachSt.caught Cloud Times overall. (Jon Weisbrod District
Owatonna to face
, March 8, 2017
/People’s Press)
SECTION D
two touchdoWednesdaywn New Prague’s run-h
By JON WEISBR
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with five receptio
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JON WEISBR
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eavy Wing -T offense
jweisbrod@owaton
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ns jweisbrod @owatonna.com “We know what happe
ns ball off tackle. Three,
the quarterback
Prague was shutout if we don’t come out

Third Place: Brainerd Dispatch*

LAKEVILLE — The If there’s anyone who keeps the ball around
Owatonna boys soccer for the first time this the corner. And
the Owatonna football knows what

esce.” by NCHC
team has become every four, the quarterback
state-rank and play our game. fakes one or more

ded 2 gam
nightmare. SCSU HOCKEY ed team’s worst season and lost 32-0 team
against this Friday against is going up hand-offs and drops

SCSU’s Borgen suspen

back for a play-
Battling undefeated and We have eviden to sneaky Rochest
er it’s Jeff Williams. New Prague, action pass.
North in the Section 1-AA No. 6-ranked Lakeville Century.
When Williams took “It’s very difficult to pick for us
controlled the tempo from semifinals, the Huskies This week: Look coach at OHS 20 years over as head Jeff Williams,
after being a ball down a man, but it’s nice
is going [inhave
the Wing-T],”
up where
guys to step
the
in.
game Saturday
off a resounding 2-0 victorystart to finish and pulled for Owatonna to “Unfortun ate ago, he
evening,”
ran the OHS football for five straight because
said. we
“What New Prague
Williams
he
on Thursday evening. period of Satur-Wing-T offense for the one of healthy scratchhead
coachcaptain, we used “(Borgen) knows
is doingbut
The win qualifies Owatonn establish a solid Motzko said. first 13it’s
“I think years of games. An alternate to have done it, is whathe
minutes, shouldn’tlook like
day’s gamehis tenure. you’d in the Wing-T; it’s
those Owatonn
MICK HATTEN a (10-7-1) for things in life where
a enjoyed
consecutive section LOUDTIMES.COM its fifth
champion ground attack. against Colora- of success its share Widman has 14 penalty minus-6 very gottailback- up in the heat of the
caughtoriented
ship and moves the at the like during the span, back.
that moment on goal and is a with misdirec-
MHATTEN@STC
Huskies to 3-0-1 against and Williams 14 shots definitely learn
New Prague do College said for us, iscome out and For his tion, bringing
moment. He’ll
counters back and then
Brooks he thoroughl
ranked teamdefensema n did fortunate,
“What’sy enjoyed play this
our game,
season.
” Williams for
St. Cloud State in 2016. an excellent Herb deploying rightsaid.in“We 20 games fromofit. Another motivation a
have to sit out job Hock- deceptive
we’ve, got a guy who can gothe
run-orien have evidence.
Widman has 19 points, balance
” play-actio n passing.
to get (Borgen)
Will Borgen will National ted offense.
those minutes Although career, us is we want Just whento
of this weekend’s containing the
Center. Bor- “I love
eypass in and thefill
a lot of 37 penalty minutes and is a you thinkand
the Wing-T it’s another
we don’t run,want him
two gamesSee BOYS on off of experience
with a lot ense, ” Williams .” said. the isn’t as com-the back running
with they have a
NCHC playoff series 2B
at North last season against gen was called “It’s somethin mon plus-23
as it oncein was9815 to 20 years ago, tightbeend
games
sitting outbehind the last games of
Will g we don’t
St. Cloud State seehastooplayed
much Owatonn the great
coverage for
coreor a the
OHS and the Huskies for a slashing of anymore. Huskies.
a saw a variation fullback out inHe’s been
Dakota. from Borgen ”
majority of the season with sev- got a deep ‘D’ense
of the off
season. the flat.anThawesome
at’s what
Borgen, a sophomore the would like nothing penalty for ac-Under in a ma-in Week 3“We’ve
against got a lotThofe guys whothey us are all year
trying ... He’s
toand
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FridayER and Saturday of more
tions after
than
argued
netonka
to getwith, and made jority of the games. version
assistant Drew Danner,dress for can step into is much roles and
more fullback-heavy they’re deception
teammate
the ice.
and misdirect ion.”
backthen typically New time,” Huskies Aft
for the and Prague has fully migrated to the Wing- with bruising
fensemen all the er “Everyone
failing to winmakes mistakes

Lakeville North
the best-of-three series on track withwith, an offi- ready Felipe Ramirez liningnup and a game in 2015,
physical contact games. directlysophomore defensema the Trojans feels horrible
Huskies at Ralph Engelstad the running game
North cial as he was
leaving theTice. this season. Althoughdefensema
it’s been tough- n Nate behind the quarterba ck and tak-said. and started
(Borgen) the 2016 campaign
Junior Jimmy Schuldt 0-4 before picking up
Arena in Grand Forks, after an up-and- a game miscon- sledding through ing the ball
odd man captain25 to 30
He received
that and the conference
Widman the rst sixthe
hasfibeen games, New“It’s nevertimes
easya to play teams
game. since Oct. BORGEN,
their
Pagefi3D rst victory
Dakota. Williamsout lineup since mid-Jan- See10,

ends Owatonna’s
duct for
of down perform knows of the
all-too-w Prague’s schemeDakota when you’re
is balanced 2014 when they defeated
The suspension is because reviewed theanceincident before
thal the unique ell how le-
played his first like North
when it comes Red Wing 35-12 in
whistle against uary. Widman to who gets Week 5. Though
an incident after the Mayo. A win
suspending him further. offense can be. New
cording to Williams, the the ball. Ac- New Prague has scored
was blown at 16:04 of the third would wrap Prague has averaged Trojans 25 or more
up at more than two three
capable running backs deploy points three times this season,

NO SURPRISE
season — again
least a share of the touchdowns a game
playing a tough base FINAL in their is no ignoring there
Big Southeast District schedule, so Owatonn SUB-SE formation6-2A
CTION s, typically the inconsistencies the
PREP HOCKEY on high alert if it plans
EASTa will need to be and one fullback. two tailbacks program
has endured over the
Red Division for on staying un- last sea-
defeated in the Big Southeas There are four basic things son and a half. Bottom
dral
By JON WEISBR
Cathe
Owatonna.
Red Division. t District happen in a Wing-T. One, the
that can have
struggled on defense and
fullback district-h allowed a
line, the Trojans
OD “We know what happens takes the ball up the igh 30 points per game.
jweisbrod@owaton
wants to
na.com
if we don’t Two, one of middle on a trap.
the tailbacks receives
the
stay at the X
See SPOTLIGHT on
LAKEVILLE — The 2B
team improved immense Owatonna girls soccer
ly since
TOM its season-open-
ELLIOTT
ing loss to Lakeville North
in
Unfortunately for the late August. VOLLEYBALL
State-r edral
TELLIOTT@STCL OUDTIMES.COM

ankeede
ed W- knock off 2nd-seeded Cath
Huskies, so There’s

E-Ms pro
Panthers. ST. PAUL —did the a
d Tiger ves too much for Medford
St.
clear goal for the
Cloud Cathedral boys
See GIRLSteam on as it
2B
heads Top-s
hockey t: WATERVILLE
to the state tournamen in the beginnin — It was close share the league champio
g and tight in the
Stay at the X. but would need to defeat nship,
That’s the Xcel Ener-end, but still ended in just three No.
gy Center. And that’ssets as the Medford volleybal
1-ranked Faribault Bethlehe
are l Academy on Tuesday. m
where the semifinals team suffered its first The
played. Cathedral missed Conference loss of the
Gopher ful Cardinals gave droppedpower-
los- season just
that goal last season, after one set in five total Med-
round and a 3-0 (29-27, 25-15, 25-22) conferen
matches entering Thursday ce
ing in the first ford’s
winding up with the decision against No. 7-ranked W-
con-
. Callie
hip.
solation champions E-M on Thursday evening. Against the Buccanee
The consolation bracket“Well, we gave Payton Powers led the rs, Nagel
it a good try,” way with
is played at Mariucci Medford a triple-double, recordin sets
Arena in Minneapol n
is. coach Tanya Powers g 16 a ball
said. digs, 17 assists and 10 kills. Callie
The Class A consolatio “The first and third sets we Nagel picked up 28 dur-
games are in the morn- played with confiden
ce most of more digs and ing a
ing. Attendance theistime. The added to her career
second total that has match
sparse. The gamessure what happene set I am not reached 1,868, which puts
are
against
not televised. We honestly had our
d to my team. third all-time in MSHSL her WEM
“We really want to do chances. Dani Morgan handed history.
better than last year Weand just need to believe out 21 as- Thurs-
Energy and play sists and added day
stay at the Xcel with heart every point. We six kills. in
Center,” Cathedralnot head can- W-E-M moves to 26-4 Water-
let ourselves have doubt
and 5-1 in the conferen overall
Owatonna forward said.
Syd Kretlow (15)
coach Derek Brown
takes hesitate.” and ville.
pass from the sideline a
To do that, the Crusad-
against Lakeville W-E-M 3, Medford ce.
North 0 (29-27, 25-15, (Adam
ers must first get Despite the loss, the Tigers
in the second half past 25-22)
of the Section 1-AA J.S.
game. The Huskies semifinal Forks. (15-11Theoverall) Medford leaders:
allowed one goalEast Grand remain near Callie Nagel (28 digs), Holt/
the

Use of Photography as a Whole

half and lost 2-0. (Jon twoin each
teams play top in the Payton Powers (16
of 8 conference at
als atthe
digs, 17
Weisbrod/People’s
A quarterfin
Class Press) 5-1. They kills), Kaylee Kern (15 digs), assists, 10 Daily
technica
Thelly still have a chance gan (21 assists, 6 Dani Mor-
p.m. Wednesday. to (10 kills)
kills), Amanda Honsey News)
will
game, which likely
start closer to 8:30 p.m.,
by
will be televised
KSTC-TV Channel 45. a
“East Grand Forks is
very good team,’ Brown
de-
said. “They play great
fense.
“They allowed 25
shots in their three (sec-
in-
tion) games, which is
credible.”
The fourth-seeded
tied
Green Wave also
fifth-seeded Cathedral
sea-
during the regular
St.
son 4-4 on Dec. 3 at the
Cloud Municipal Athletic

Weeklies up to 1,500
Complex.
East Grand Forks
head coach Steve Kobe-
an
rinski noted that it was
afternoon game after
both teams played Friday
night. Cathedral beat
Warroad, 3-2 in St. Cloud.

First Place: Star Herald, Dodge Center

East Grand Forks beat
Totino-Grace, 6-5 on Dec.
2 in Brooklyn Park.
“The teams weren’t in
are
shape then like they
now,” Koberinski said. at

Nice clean layout with good main art and tasteful use of art in the banner.
Cathedral’s back
state for the second
straight season under
for
Brown, who took over
Eric Johnson as head DAVE SCHWARZ, DSCHWARZ@ST
CLOUDTIMES.COM

coach. Johnson resigned game at St. John’s University

in Collegeville.

Also, a willingness to crop a photo in non-standard ways.

because of a job change.a a Section 6-2A playoff
the first half Tuesday in
Brown led Luverne
to drives to the basket during
Cathedral’s Kate Tomczik
state tournament in 2014.
Getting back to state
has been easier, he said.
Now the hard part comes:
OUDTIMES.COM
TOM ELLIOTT | TELLIOTT@STCL

the St.
were no surprises for

C
3D
See CATHEDRAL, Page OLLEGEVILLE — There night,
basketball team Tuesday
Cloud Cathedral girls tears.
and in the end, a few
just some frustration Rush City was going to play ex-
The Crusaders knew were tall, talented and ex-
the Tigers
cellent defense and that

Second Place: Tyler Tribute

perienced, but also young.was how much trouble they would
What they didn’t know
issues on offense.
have solving their own to beat Cathedral 36-30 at Sexton Are-
It enabled Rush City campus.
na on the St. John’s University to go in,” said a tearful Julia
“We couldn’t get anything

This paper proves that you don’t have to have color to have excellent,
forward.
Meyer, a Crusaders senior a lot of good defense,
too,” Cathedral
“Obviously, there was
Prom added.
senior guard Morgan 25-0 Tigers capture their
first East
With the victory, the They play Sauk Centre, the West
CLOUDTIMES.COM
Sub-Section 6-2A victory. for the Section 6-2A title
at 7 p.m. Fri- DAVE SCHWARZ, DSCHWARZ@ST
against several
JASON WACHTER,
Sub-Section champion, Sauk Cen- tries to grab a rebound
Halenbeck Hall. Top-seededin the late Cathedral’s Kate Tomczik (1) second half of a Section 6-2A playoff

bold use of photos. Nice way of incorporating photos into the banner.
OM
JWACHTER@STCLOUDTIMES.C day at St. Cloud State’s ed Albany (20-8), 57-47 the
Rush City players during
Michael
Cathedral’s tre (28-1) beat third-seed in Collegeville.
University
Spethmann passes the
puck game Tuesday at St. John’s
past Fergus Falls’ Logan See CHS, Page 2D
Wentworth on Feb. 25.

Main art photos are community oriented, good choices and given the
space they need.

Third Place: The Voyageur Press, McGregor
Nice main art and use of typography incorporated with art without over-
doing it. Makes good use of tabloid format, which continues inside. Main
art has more of a magazine feel.

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
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2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
Weeklies 1,501-2,500
First Place: Wadena Pioneer Journal
Nice, bold and colorful photos. Blending the page 1 main art with the
banner is done tastefully. Attention also seems to be paid to the fold so
the main art presents well. What moved this entry to the top is that there
is good photography (and print quality) throughout. The treatment of in-
side photos is good with some played large, some with cutouts. In short,
photography is treated as important inside as it is on the cover.

Second Place: Perham Focus
Good, bold photos. Nice presentation of photos in sports section. Inter-
esting choice of charred wood in fire photo.

Third Place: Star-Gazette, Moose Lake
What moved this entry up is the quality of the page 1 photos. Composi-
tion, depth of field, framing, choice of subject matter, color – all really
good.

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
First Place: Pine Journal, Cloquet
There were quite a few papers in this category that incorporate large pho-
tos with the page 1 banner. This entry did it well without causing sensory
overload. Lots of nice, bold photos inside as well. Good use of photog-
raphy in telling the stories inside. Good focus on youth. The “In The
Neighborhood” page is like looking at another front page. Nicely done.

Second Place: Annandale Advocate

Interesting and subtle way of displaying nature photos in the banner.
Interesting page 1 photos make the reader want to know more.

Third Place: Aitkin Independent Age

Good balance of news and photos. The photographers capture emotion
well and even make routine photos more interesting. Lots of decent pho-
tos accompanying stories inside.

Weeklies over 5,000

First Place: Chaska Herald
The use of photography is strong throughout this publication. Choice of
photos is excellent and invites reader into the page.

Second Place: Winona Post

Terrific use of photography. Love the use of color to really make the
photos pop off the page.

Third Place: Alexandria Echo Press

There is no doubt in the pages of this newspaper which photo is domi-
nant. Great technique.

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Use of Photography as a Whole

Dailies under 10,000
First Place: The Bemidji Pioneer
Jillian Gandsey’s photo of activists being kicked out of a community
meeting is the standout image of the entire bunch, perfectly capturing the
tension and emotion of the scene. It provokes you to find out more about
what led to that image–exactly what you want with news photography.
The overall quality, clarity and color of the photos throughout the Pio-
neer were unmatched by any other submission. Maggi Stivers provided
an excellent image of a young woman leading a church procession: a dif-
ficult image to execute with the darkness and candlelight–yet this photo
is beautifully done and very effective. Maggi also showed outstanding
work with sports action shots. The clear winner.

Second Place: Marshall Independent

Jenny Kirk’s photos on a local rodeo were real standouts, showing a good
mix of images from the action itself and from the young fans. Sam Thiel
and Brennen Rupp provided perhaps the strongest work in sports photog-
raphy.

Third Place: Winona Daily News

Some of the best quality of work in the bunch. Chuck Miller’s photos of
young students learning to write in Spanish were the highlights. Taylor
Nyman managed to take an unlikely subject–a snow maker–and turned it
into an interesting active image.

Dailies 10,000 and over

First Place: Brainerd Dispatch
Brainerd wins in large part due to the strong work of Steve Kohls. His
image of a little boy eating a frosted cookie is a standout thanks to its
depth and rich composition. Kelly Humphrey also produced a standout
image on country star Jake Owen on stage.

Second Place: Duluth News Tribune

The sports photography is particularly outstanding. Clint Austin’s action
images of hockey are excellent and his image of UM-Duluth fans and
team celebrating a game-winning goal is a standout. Bob King’s image of
the Pineglen is beautifully composed. Very strong work.

Third Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead

Shows strong proficiency across a variety of photography, with the sports
images being a particular strong point. Michael Vosburg’s image of the
end of a wrestling match is outstanding. The images are visually interest-
ing and rich, and given generous space to shine.

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
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Headline Writing
Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: Jackson County Pilot
Witty, engaging, good headlines.

Second Place: Observer/Advocate, Mountain Lake
Just edged by Jackson County Pilot, but many of the same attributes.

Third Place: Carver County News, Watertown
Not many style points, but clear, concise headlines. Better than most.

Weeklies 1,501-2,500
First Place: Delano Herald Journal
Great headlines! Creative.

Second Place: Star-Gazette, Moose Lake*

Third Place: Dodge County Independent, Kasson*

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
First Place: Hutchinson Leader
Fun headlines draw readers into the story.

Weeklies over 5,000

First Place: Alexandria Echo Press
This paper knows how to have fun with headlines, especially for its cen-
terpieces. The main headlines, combined with subheads, entice readers to
delve into the article to learn more.

Second Place: The Pioneer, Long Lake

Headlines make the readers want to learn more about the stories they ac-
company.

Dailies 10,000 and over

First Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester
Over-all crispness and clarity of headlines is impressive.

Second Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead

Very effective use of quote headlines.

Third Place: Grand Forks Herald

Liked “Man hit by train walks home.”

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Advertising Excellence
Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: Tyler Tribute
Very visually appealing ads. Great punctuation usage. Super easy to read
and comprehend.

Second Place: Maple Lake Messenger
Excellent use of space and color on ads. Visually appealing.

Third Place: The Parkers Prairie Independent
Very nice ads but some punctuation problems.

Weeklies 1,501-2,500
First Place: Lake County News-Chronicle, Two Harbors
Excellent informative ads. Great use of space and content to size ratio is
excellent.

Second Place: Pipestone County Star

Excellent ads. Nice use of space and content.

Third Place: Steele County Times, Blooming Prairie
Visually appealing and eye-catching ads. Good use of punctuation. Nice
use of spacing and backgrounds.

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
First Place: Faribault County Register, Blue Earth
Great work.

Second Place: Anoka County Union Herald*

Third Place: Annandale Advocate*

Weeklies over 5,000

First Place: Winona Post
The Voter’s Guide was what put this one in first place. Great ads all
through. Well done.

Second Place: Southwest Journal, Minneapolis

Excellent work all throughout the sections. The Focus pages were a
favorite, and I particularly liked the Real Estate Guide. Magazine-quality
work in newsprint.

Third Place: Fillmore County Journal, Preston

The teacher of the year promotion and the veteran tribute pages really
stood out. I also liked the sig work done for the Wendy’s scholarship
winner and the shop local page. Very fine work!

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
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Dailies under 10,000

First Place: Austin Daily Herald
I liked the classifieds, and church and service directories. The ads at the
top of pages are bold and stand out. The “Business Review” group page
brought this over the top. It’s a good idea–and an older idea–but it’s a
smart money maker done well.

Second Place: Albert Lea Tribune

I really, really liked this paper. The house ads are eye catching and I liked
having the ads in the flag. The good luck to girls’ basketball state sig
page really stood out. Great!

Third Place: The Daily Journal, Fergus Falls

I liked the offer of 3 free signs with a garage sale–very good idea. Fergus
Falls is doing it right!

Dailies 10,000 and over

First Place: Brainerd Dispatch
The election section was what put the Brainerd paper over the top in a
very, very close race among the top three papers. They’re doing it right in
Brainerd.

Second Place: The Free Press, Mankato

Mankato makes their public notices stand out, which is key in this day
and age. Fine advertising design. A very close category.

Third Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester

The Reader’s Choice section was excellent, and provided some compel-
ling and smart design. A very close category.

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Classified Ad Section
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 • 11

Weeklies up to 2,500
CLASSIFIEDS
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ded, motor
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Second Place: Pelican Rapids Press

over $20,000 updates at 831-3455 or see us in 1030.
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4-door, sunroof, heated Miller Sellner, $48,000.
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Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: Ely Timberjay
Outstanding website. Bright, easy to read, easy to navigate.

Second Place: Country Messenger, Scandia

Good website. Love the big picture.

Third Place: Jordan Independent

Make sure a picture you use on the home page is clear.

Weeklies 1,501-2,500
First Place: Perham Focus
Nice clean design.

Second Place: Steele County Times, Blooming Prairie*

Third Place: Pipestone County Star*

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
First Place: Anoka County Union Herald
Clean, relatively uncluttered, appears to be responsive.

Second Place: Pine Journal, Cloquet

Simple design creates better focus on news.

Weeklies over 5,000

First Place: Lakeshore Weekly News, Wayzata
Stood out based on the strength of their local content on the site. The
design of the template is very clean and simple, offering readers a way to
quickly assess story links and get to different sections of the site. Head-
lines were clear and concise.

Second Place: Eden Prairie News

This site is built using the same template as the Lakeshore Weekly News.
However, the staff does a great job of generating strong local content for
their readers to tailor this site for their community. Yes, there is shared
content. However, they do a great job of featuring the work by their staff.

Third Place: Fillmore County Journal, Preston

A great job of reporting on the events of daily life. Strong content is key
to an effective website. We appreciated the quantity of local content on
the site. The template for the site is simple and clean, making it easy to
navigate. The ad treatment is simple but effective. The use of thumbnails
next to just about every story provides a visual clue to the content. Over-
all, good work.

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Website
All Dailies
First Place: Duluth News Tribune
Among a group of sister publications using the same template, the Du-
luth News Tribune stood out from the crowd for two main reasons: more
strong, local content from that newsroom, combined with good integra-
tion between dynamic visuals and headline treatments. The mix of edito-
rial content was engaging. Local photographs provided meaningful news
content. The video section appeared to be populated with local videos
that were engaging.

Second Place: Albert Lea Tribune

Stands out for having a news site that is clean and simple to navigate.
The carousel treatment provides a simple way to navigate to the top
stories of the day. The top flag treatment in the header clearly creates an
identity for the site. The use of strong images in the carousel is effective
at drawing in readers. The advertising placement throughout the page
definitely allows users to engage with that content.

Third Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead

Inforum definitely packs a lot of content onto their page. It uses the
same template as the Duluth News Tribune, but manages to look differ-
ent because their local content carries the day. The staff did a great job
of generating their own news/feature stories that connects their site with
the community. Yes, there is definitely shared content on all of the sister
paper sites, but Inforum was effective at highlighting their own reporting.

Advertising Campaign
All Newspapers
First Place: St. Cloud Times, Julie Schlagheck
American Heritage Bank
Nice use of photos and variation of text. Makes the logo really stand out.

Second Place: Alexandria Echo Press, Deb Zen and Shelly Beaulieu
Colorful Seasons
A tradition of
Love how colorful this ad is and how it makes it fun.
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Home Loan Special
for Veterans! Honoring
Military & National Guard
Services Everyday.
100% Financing Available!
Third Place: Alexandria Echo Press, Randy Jansen
Paffrath Jewelers
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Institutional Advertisement
Weeklies up to 2,500
First Place: Clarissa - Independent News Herald, Jennifer Krueger
April 12, 2017 — Page 3
Independent News Herald —Wednesday,

115 2nd Ave NW (218) 924-9200

Traditions Bar
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Love how the look and feel of the ad connects with the advertiser’s logo;
Bertha Days • July 7 & 8
Live bands both nights
July 7 • October Road • July 8 • Sweat Siren

July 8: Tractor Pull, Penny Auction, Parade

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Second Place: Citizen’s Advocate, Henning, Carly Johnson
Coming So on
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4 p.m. - 6 p.m. • 10 p.m. - 11 p.m. ry Wee k
Wednesday’s
All Day Happy Hour Watch our Facebook page for daily updates
Clip& & specials & entertainment.
Save – 7 days a week
Dinner Specials
Lunch &HAPPY
Third Place: Grant County Herald, Elbow Lake, Herman, Hoffman,
HOUR: 4 - 6 P.M. • 10 P.M. - 11 P.M. EVERY DAY!
Tuesday Wednesday
Monday $1.50 off Wraps Wing Night

Nikki Eystad and Darla Johnson

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Prairie Builders Construction

All you can eat fish $9.99 Sunday
$1 Taco Night!
Shrimp $11.99 Cook’s Choice
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All Day Happy Hour } Saturday
$2 off Appetizers Wing Night (Cook’s Choice)

Great layout; love the background; nice use of photos.

Weeklies over 2,500

First Place: Alexandria Echo Press, Izzy Rusch
Carlson Music
Great imagery; messaging is very clear. Ad is eye catching and overall
excellent presentation.

Second Place: Aitkin Independent Age, Kathy Robb

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The Churches of Douglas
11 Third Place: Detroit Lakes Tribune, Liz Warling and Carol Hennen
Ramsey Flooring
County • 2017 35

Great use of photography and love the tile background; very eye catch-
ing.

All Dailies
First Place: St. Cloud Times, Julie Schlagheck
American Heritage Bank
This ad does a fantastic job of projecting the best business image and
portraying the character of the business. It’s simple, attractive and ap-
pealing. Great work!
A tradition of
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Second Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Natalie Savat
Counselor - Diagnosing real estate needs
Services Everyday.
Military & National Guard
for Veterans! Honoring Financing Available!
Home Loan Special /Process Fee • 100%
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Third Place: The Journal, New Ulm, Karen Jensen and Kris Wilfahrt
We’ve Got Your Back - Century 21
This ad jumps off the page. Clean, attractive and a fun design. Nice job!

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Self-Promotion or House Ad
Weeklies up to 2,500
First Place: Sauk Centre Herald, Amanda Thooft
Renaissance Festival Subscription Promotion
Good choice of colors and fonts. The use of the tickets in the ad really
stood out.

Second Place: New York Mills Dispatch, Carly Johnson*

You want your own

The Forum
Third Place: Grant County Herald, Elbow Lake, Herman, Hoffman,
Business
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ment,
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Weeklies over 2,500

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First Place: Alexandria Echo Press, Jody Hanson

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Use of Color in Advertising

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Paynesville Press
Weeklies up to 2,500
First Place: The Paynesville Press, Andrew Enninga
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 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest

Use of Color in Advertising

All Dailies
FIND YOUR First Place: St. Cloud Times, Shawna Hanson
Callan Furniture
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Third Place: Grant County Herald, Elbow Lake, Herman, Hoffman,
Darla Johnson and Nikki Eystad*
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or email:
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Second Place: Faribault County Register, Blue Earth, Kristin

spector jennythiery@cullenshome
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required. Addi- center.com
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Great use of a smaller space to convey details about this advertiser.

All Dailies
First Place: Marshall Independent, Joyce Larsen
Faith’s Lodge
The three pictures used in this ad highlight the lodge skillfully. I like that
when you read the ad and you get to the bottom, you are shown the full
image of the lodge, Very impactful. The ad just gives off this inviting
feeling. Very well done. Good stuff.

Second Place: St. Cloud Times, Julie Schlagheck

Pine Grove Zoo
I like how simple the ad itself is. It says a lot without having to use many
words. I like how the images of the animals were used with the specific
phrases. Very expertly crafted. Well done!

Third Place: St. Cloud Times, Seth Johnson
St. Cloud Music Academy
I enjoy the emotion behind the ad. It really gives off the “music is fun”
feeling. The overall creativity of the ad is what gives it this spot. Nice!

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 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest

Innovative Online Advertising

All Individuals
First Place: St. Cloud Times, Dawn Scott-Yackley
MCI
Loved the time spent on this ad. The extra little wiggle (or sway) of the
lamps, pushed this ad to first place.

Second Place: St. Cloud Times, Dawn Scott-Yackley

Viking Coke
I literally wanted to go out and buy a Dasani after seeing this ad.

Third Place: St. Cloud Times, Emma Minear
Jose Cole Circus
Loved it - seemed like a perfect circus ad.

Human Interest Story Speech Starts, Page

3 • Deputy Charged,
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First Place: Eden Valley Watkins Voice, Laurie Schultz

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Good use of details in story.

at Library cribe final days
The Eden Valley
Area
Library will hold
a story to finding Jacob
hour on Friday, Feb.
from 9:30 to 11 a.m. 10,
them will be “ValentiThe
ne
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eight days
Second Place: Observer/Advocate, Mountain Lake, Vicki Beckendorf
Movie Night
at Libary
The Eden Valley
Library will host
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a free
to finding
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The writer got the subjects to share some very personal details about
kids movie night, featuring
the movie “Zootop
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Friday, Feb. 10, at By Michael Jacobso
6
in the Eden Valley p.m. n
Event
Center. Free popcorn Jerry and Patty Wetterlin
beverages will and the parents of Jacob, whose g,

their lives and health, and in so doing crafted a compelling story.

provided. Contac be remains were
t Judy nesville pasturefound in a Pay-
Thielen for more info. in September
2016, ending a 27-year
Author to Visit sota mystery, describeMinne-
eight days to finally d the
Eden Valley their son at the finding
Minnesota
Author Connie Louns- Newspaper Convent
Friday, Jan. 27. ion on
bury will return
to the As president, I arranged
Eden Valley Area for
Library the Wetterlings to
to talke about her speak at the

Third Place: Star Herald, Dodge Center, Karen Jorgensen

new convention to
a crowded
One Angel Touche
book, A Hobo’s Wish, Friday
Saturday, Feb. on lunch with 300 jour-
nalists from across
starting at 10 a.m. 11, Finding Jacob,
d
Photo Design by

So Many Hearts
the state. Laurie Schultz
The after
story follows the struggle likely the top Minnesoall, was
of hobos during the s story
of 2016.
ta news As they begin their beloved daughter

WWII vet recalls night he helped rescue 81 children in occupied France

Great sister’s tragic death. ’s and healing process,
Depression. “I do love what you their loss has
do,” said
Patty Wetterling to heal, the Ertls Their home in touched the lives
of so many
The support has been
amaz-
Class of 1977 “The print media
at the start.
once filled with Alayna’sWatkins, people
across the U.S., espe- ing and sometimes over-
to sit down, speak
allowed us share their story of tagious smile and con- cially in Watkins whelmin
and the sur- explaine g but in a good way,
to Reunite hearts, and get it right.” our
from has been filled, overlaughter, rounding communities. d Matt. “It’s good
loss and pain five months, with the last In a second so many see there are still to

A truly unique “old war story.” I learned something new reading it.
The EV-W Class “I want to echo so many changed lives people who
1977 will hold a 40-year of you the work raw emotions, some , explained Jen are willing to help other peo-
do in reporting By Laurie Schultz of which Brovold,
added Jerry. “Especia truth,” the Ertls have found a computer techni- ple,” said Matt.
reunion in July 2017.
Friday, July 28, they On our case, you didn’t stop…yo
lly in deal with. Althoug hard to cian It was the support
“She was
u sent here a borrowed angel, has hit their h tragedy Elementat Eden Valley and
tour five breweries will kept asking question to teach people to home, there is ary School, who strength they received, from
by bus, s.” be still a tremend works with Kayla. everyone, that helped
ending in Cold Spring. Despite the outcome not more caring, more patient, and ous sense of many “I feel so get through them
being what they more kind…and love and people Alayna’s funeral.
Classmates are encour- it was her within compassion, not only the better, have changed for “Friends and
Jacob did not come wanted, time to go, so knowing how frag- family
aged to stay home in her purpose home, the four walls of their ile and supportive and helpedwere so
at the way would be fulfilled. but also in their hearts. precious life
Riverside Inn (685-45the urged they had hoped, she ”
Family photos, know the Ertls haveis, and I mendously after Alayna
out tre-
the
and ask for EV-W 39, lose hope. journalists to not shared Through tears, Kayla
Ertl many photos of including huge
part of that,”
been a passed
away.
1977 “There are a lot of these words explain- Alayna, said ning errands, Between run-
rooms). On Saturda missing children ing why loved to wear “sparkly who Brovold. “Seeing them printing photos,
y,
29, there will be an July there, and theywho are out daughter she believes her es and “clicky” high ” dress- and about, out helping to

Weeklies 1,501-2,500
how strong they finalize every
open home,” do come Alayna was sent
to shoes, hang in the living heel are and how grateful they detail,” said
house at Boome she said, urging them them…a gift with are Kayla.
rville to continue a purpose, It’s the place room. for Carter and each “Everyt hing was done
Lodge, located betwee to tell these sto- to help people realize where they other, so
Cold Spring and St. n ries. short life truly is, how their last moment spent been an honor meeting its beautifully,” she added.
s with them

Staples World
Joe, to teach us Alayna. The Ertl family
The Paynesville Press It’s where Matt, and getting to know them has to continues
from 1 to 4 p.m. digi- how we should treat one Kayla, receive support
tal archives – currentl and Carter, all three, been a blessing,” she added.
– helped solve this y offline should be
another, how each
of us continue they receive gifts, daily as

First Place: Staples World, Dawn Timbs

case, noted thankful for each death. to sleep in since her Community Suppor care packages from
cards, and
Wetterling. Using t not only
them, blog- day, and to live with gratitud “It’s hard Matt grew
ger Joy Baker and On Friday e. upstairs, and it’s easier to be and graduate up in Watkins people they know, but com-
Paynesv , Jan. 20, as mil- of us for all d from EV-W in plete strangers,
resident Jared Scheierl ille lions of
people watched the night,to be together, to sleep at 2002. Kayla graduated from to them, reassurireaching out
was abducted in Cold , who inauguration in the living room,” Rocori in 2003. ng them, and
where he was livingSpring, ident of of the new pres- said
Kayla. Watkins nine years
They moved to letting them know
they are
the United States

Valentine’s Day gets sweeter with age

12-year-old in January as a America, of Five-yea ago and not alone. “Kind words,
Alayna’s dad Matt, kidnapp r-old Alayna was are very thankful, especiall gifts,
nine months before 1989, y simple gestures
Jacob was her mother Kayla, and her August ed and killed in now, that they choose to pur- helps us through, it’s what
taken, were able 2016, abducted from chase their home each day,”

1
to locate brother Carter dealt with the the and start said Kayla.
more victims, and
tion between the
a connec- five-month anniversary of night.
Paynesville
Ertl home during the their family in the Watkins
As the Ertls begin community.
Both Matt and Kayla
took
$
the some timery 9,
off 2017
attacks and Jacob’s Thursday, Februa from work after

Wonderful love story.

disappear- ERTLS – see page
ance was pursued
. 6
“It was because of ota SNOW DAZE

r with age
Staples, Minnes
Jacob and the pressure Joy and
EV-W Celebrates
Annual Snow Daz
Day gets sweete
brought,” she said. they
75¢ The cold case review,
e…
Valentine’s
more than a quarter after
Eden Valley Watkin looked at the attackscentury,
VOICE
s in St.
Joseph and Cold farm. Sis WWII. of the
Spring and taking care of the work as When he got out d to
Paynesville. “They of
knew her share easy for service, Cliff returne
there had to be a knew where
103 Stearns Ave.
E., link,” she simply known well. Life wasn’t it would the Twin Cities area,
was always but raised
said. either of them, and his first wife Lynn,

Second Place: Staples World, Dawn Timbs

P.O. Box 7, Dawn Timbs
By ‘Sis.’ them stron- he three children,
DNA from theasattack while, Clif f
’s serve to make
Eden Valley, reporter
55329WorldScheierl led M e a non difficul ties their .
MNStaples
conclusi lived on a far m ger for other Kathleen and Richard years,
Phone: 320-453
-8642 Danny Heinrich e’s family vely to
the road from along the way. During those
Every day is Valentin , just down
Lydia a Paynesv ille ows. “It was
grew
Cliff and Sis both John Cliff worked as a security
Fax: 320-243-4492 for Cliff native andwho at St. held
Day was the living Pribben
in the Country- up worshiping officer, a job he
www.evwvoic Goodwater.downtown Paynesvlocated where u rch a n d police his retirem ent in
e.com never had an ille during is now,” he Lutheran Ch
the Motley until

Vernon Drake remembers his mother’s prayers

• Copyright 2017 “We’ve the Paynesv side Restaurant
illea attacks both attende d
• ntwhenor spoken said. and friends, 1992. his mar-
argume Wetterling was and School. They were during After 31 years,
Index cross wordThat to each other,”
DNA allowed His parents, Edward
taken.
at the authoritGoodwater, raised a but never dated riage dissolved
and in 1980,
Valentine’s Day Cliff saidtorecently
get . Pearl ies . high school. marrie d a second
2 home inaMotley search warrant of twelve children differ- Cliff
“Grace and I
were
Speech Starts couple’s Heinrich ters total for would Their lives took
3 90, the Goodwa ’s Annand “I remember they we’d
ale home, neared time. until
Blotter Both
where ent paths as they two lost together for 21 years, had
they since to our farm and

Always appreciated what opportunities he was given and loved his fam-
4 been married found come the She
St.Anthony Dedicatio have known each all
child pornogr enough at Lean- adulthood and she passed away.
n 2001; 4 but have aphy (hundred go swimming touch over the years.moved bone cancer.”
Sups Corner they were kids. s Long Prai-
4 since
other of images) to charge
‘Sis,’ him ing Tree on the In 1942, Clif f work- Sis, meanwhile,
married
ed, with recalled of r,
Manannah News Lydia, nicknam
two dozen felony counts. rie River,” Cliff away from Motley,jobs in at age 19; had a daughte20
Snow Daze 5
when sheThe was just a tod- .
Sis and her siblingster kids of almost
5 up
DNA,
in the the
housesearch war- the Goodwa ing a variety
and Excel- Nan; and spent d.
Bulletin Board grew
dler, rant, and the her Or, North Dakota in Litchfiel
as a years living marriage did
Sweethearts
6 now shares withporn charges walk to the Pribbe- including a stint

ily dearly. Would be hard to not know family history.

Obituary she were were would games in When her
. Her like a noose
parents now gplace to play
tightenin child- sior,
tugboat pilot on
Lake Min- Sis moved
Public Notices 6
husband around Heinrich Pribbe- ter of Motley were not work out,
Classifieds
Otto
6 and Minnie
“We didn’t
, she said.the back yard.
had a lot of Lydia and Cliff Goodwa the knot until Sept. 8, 2001. netonka. a ser- back to Motley
to care for
now. necessar “We always
10 kids inily want Sis recalled of those hood friends but
didn’t tie Later on, he was
See GOODWATER
Scoreboard 7 it to bewere years to catch her,” army, serving
8-10 “There
Heinrich , because fun,” took me all those photo geant in the nes during on page 3a
Hoopin’ for a Cure I was number early
didn’t think
my family... it Appar-
we days. “She ran so fast it home. (Staples World in the Philippi
8seven,” she ,”
outcome said. would be a good
When Cliff was
12, his
joked recently at their
Wrestling said com-
siblingsJerry . leaving Cliff
8ently, On herMonday dad had a stroke, Dawn Timbs)
Girls Basketball
daysthat
9 plained ‘Lydia’ was too
, Aug. 29, eight the responsibility of by
Greg Lux/Jacob Streit before er, so she Cliff
to remembHeinrich

res
9 hardadmit would

School board hi nt
Boys Basketball in court the horrific
Wrestling Salute 10 details of Jacob’s abductio
10 n
WETTERLINGS – Juniors Jamie Schuma

Third Place: Waseca County News, Dana Melius

see page 3
on Monday, Jan. 30, cher (left) and Maggie Schmaltz (center)

ta
facility consulstyle
at EV-W High School reacted as Jada Jesberg Photo by Laurie
(by senior Dyani Acosta, (right) was crowned Schultz
last year’s queen). Snow Daze queen
Turn to Page 5 this
week for more pictures.

exercise
in leadership $59,000.
Board participates
General Manager
lead an assessm
By Brenda Halvorso
n

ing into a
ent to was
Bruce Lund
develop a long
ties plan for
range facili-
the school why
there was such
the two fees.
Jacobs & between Winkels said he
district to Foster, Duluth. Bryan
asked
a gap
Growing up ‘half and half’: Chinese-American’s family story hits the
stage
Before adjourn Johnson (FJJ),
Inc., WSN was trying
6 the Sta- pre- thought
work session Feb. The board heard com- to have all conting encies
Board three
ples-Motley School t to sentations from 30 work covered. ed
awarde d the contrac panies at a Jan. compa- Greg Frisk remind
The other that at a previ-
session. Smith the board ten-
nies were WidsethBaxter; ous meeting Superinhad

Would have been very difficult to tell that story, but it was told so well.
Nolting (WSN), cture & dent Mary Klamm
and Foss Archite Dak. her brother
disclosed that
Hello, Readers,
N. princip al partner
Interiors, Fargo, follow- was a
The discuss ion also noted that
d
Joseph Raymon y ations nar- in FJJ. He one of the edu-
ing the present to WSN Lynn
Dyer,
McCarthy, a relativel rowed the choicesasked for cation consultants
for FJJ,
an
obscure Republic Staples
Queen and King
n, and FJJ. WSN had before is a graduat e of
senator from Wisconsi
SMHS Sno Daze
tion
a more informa School.
announced during estimat e High h i n k t h e p u b l i c k were se-
g, West prepari ng a fee “I t VanAlst and Trey Skeesic
the school
speech in Wheelin 1950, for the work know and I don’t School seniors Grace Feb. 2. See more photos on page
Virginia, on Feb.
9,
board was requirin
g. That should
it’s detrime ntal,” Staples-Motley High king on
hand
that he has in his ists presented think “In fact, I think Sno Daze queen and by Mark Anderson)
fee proposal was Frisk. lected as the 2017
a list of 205 commun .
at the Feb. 6 meeting was
said
(Staples World photo
d the
See SCHOOL on
page 8a 3a, 8a, 1b and 3b.

mmunity
who have infiltrate ent. The fee from
FJJ

ve and well in co
U.S. State Departm from WSN
$22,900. The fee
The unsubstantiated

Youth ministry ali

declaration, which a
was little more than Community
long process),
publicity stunt,
suddenly and Young Adult Buildin g (relatio nships,
y paid Youth par- d
thrust Senator McCarth t. spoke with are rely Coordin ator at the p ro j e c t s ) , a n
presented we in s e r v i c e
into the national
spotligh years, which has member s, they St. Michae l’s Prayer and Worship
.
youth lead- staff rs to ishes of of
“McCarthyism”
reached By Dawn Timbs a challenge for dedicated voluntee and Sacred Heart Although the dogma
time that on facilitate their youth Motley s the
a fever pitch in
1953. Staples World reporter ers to find a in Staples. It’s
a position church remain
ed students to help s. A number
of past two- the Simmons
In widely publiciz y works for most program held for the over time,
remains s have she’s same y
hearings, McCarth Youth ministry attend youth group. same other area churche lf years. that youth ministr
defendan ts under f o c a l p oint at area Howeve r, these youth program s and-a-haworks with stu- said with the culture.
a
bullied with leaders also been thriving by vol- She with changes i-
cross-examination church es, with leaders have that are led solely World dents in grades 6-12, from “We need to commun
g providi ng encouraged by the support in a way that
unlawful and damaging commit ted to e to the from both unteers.
The Staples
in Wednes day
nights
as cate with kids
accusations, destroyin spiritua l guidanc they’ve received to speak with them p.m. designa ted ts their generat ion works,”
on. School plans include 7-8:30

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the reputations
of younger generati Wo r l d the Staples-MotleyStaples the near future and upcom- youth night. “Studen a Monica said. “Technology
hundreds of innocent The Staples and the
a few DistrictMiniste rial Asso- their
stories in an from both parishe
s are
s is a big part
of their lives.
officials. met with Simmon with
citizens and recently Motley ing edition. e, learn part
of this,” We need to connect
an youth min- ciation. Recently, these two
In 1954 Republic full-tim e area drew ed a In the meantim these said. them in this way.”
D. what organizations sponsor of aspects min-
President Dwight isters, learning of work about the work There are three For Monica, youth
Eisenhower pushedof them to this line No More’ activity four youth ministers: , Monica
week ‘Hunger attended by of youth ministryinclude page 2a
for an investiga
tion and what a typical their day which was Monica Simmons shared . T hese See MINISTRY on
and for Other activ- life-
McCarthy’s conduct, might look like over 80 youth. s is the Faith For mation (a
works. Monica Simmon
the televised hearings youth group. ity days are in the leaders
students Althoug h the
exposed the senator Helping guide
of faith
as a reckless and to embrac e a life
who matter the
excessive tyrant is a priority no
proper The vari-
never produced denomi nation.
 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
Weeklies 2,501-5,000
First Place: Litchfield Independent Review, Ellarry Prentice
Dancing the
Young artists
display works
Nettie’s Garden
Descriptive and heartfelt, this story illustrates sorrow, faith, love and
Throwing his night away Lake Ripley
Elementary
ry
way to histoeyes Litchfield and
hosts art show
Eden Valley-Watkins
Steven Orzolek
Litchfield’s shot
put shost annual prom B1

hope without being maudlin or preachy. Excellent job.

records
A2, A14
A6

Independent Review
LITCHFIELD

$1.50 Second Place: Pineandlakes Echo Journal, Pequot Lakes,

Nancy Vogt
SINCE 1876
MAY 4, 2017

Nettie's Garden
Iconic bobber water tower marks 30 years
This slice of life community coverage piece pops with quotes, descrip-
of rural Grove City
Heather Weseman in memory of her mom
pens children’s story
“But there’s a story
Jeannette’s unexpect
behind everythin
g.
ed death in
lowing Weseman and her
May 2014, God showed – hope that life
tion and perspective. It’s written in a way that a local resident or some-
one from out of town can understand–one of the many great traits of this
scar
on a wall. How a in its colors
How a picture got are family hope
Sometimes the stories and good, she said.
got on your face. can still be new no doubt God
s they are hard and For Weseman, there’s into miracu-
simple, and sometime
behind all your stories can turn ordinary
things
heartbreaking. But story, because hers
of
your mother’s lous events. The eventual blooming
is always e had waited patiently
is where yours begin.” the peony Jeannett

story–and then relay the story to others.

– to flower, Wese-
—Mitch Albom – more than 25 years Lord’s
a testament to the
man believes, is n,
PRENTICE faithfuln ess. Heather Wesema
BY ELLARRY unending
review.net God will send little right, of rural
prentice@independent “I really feel like – some
in that time Grove City
miracles to you

I
petals ascend- said
ashes,” Weseman recently self
n full bloom, maroon beauty among the d
stem, a flowering flower Brian discovere published “Nettie’s
ing from its green of the dark pink southwest of
the quintessence Garden,” a
peony plant was at the Cordes’ residence after Jeannette
’s late mother, weeks children’s book
of Heather Weseman Litchfield just two
Jeannette Cordes. ’s passed away. she wrote in
in 2014, Weseman in rural Grove memory of her
On a summer day gazed Weseman, who lives
stunned when he shed “Nettie’s mom, Jeannette
father, Brian, was City, recently self-publi

Third Place: Kanabec County Times, Mora, Kirsten Faurie

and spotted the
peony s book she penned Cordes, above.
out the window e had Garden,” a children’ e. Based on true
was a day Jeannett in memory of Jeannett SUBMITTED PHOTOS
in full bloom. It ... a day
a half decades for
waited two and Book to A9 
revealed.
its beauty was finally
difficult time fol-
During a dark and

st AIS Dumpster diving

Taking action agesain
PROM 2017:
PAR IS!
IT’S A NIGHT IN
Task Force launches

Informative, fun to read, and interesting from start to finish. It is also

tic Invasive Speci
Meeker County Aqua nt the spread of AIS
county lakes to preve
a new program at six Belle, one infestatio
n of starry stonewor
t
a, Minnie
Francis, Manuell (Koronis).

awareness-raising in how it outlines what can be found in societal trash

Washing ton. of Meeker
BY JULIANA THILL Ripley, Stella and In addition , several nal lakes
nt Review chosen because recreatio
For the Independe These lakes were County’s large
rated as recre- with neighbor ing
the DNR has them share a border
their water- Karen Langmo, g Cedar Lake
Before boaters launch lake this ational lakes, said counties , includin ),
County the Meeker County (McLeod ), Belle Lake (McLeod
craft in a Meeker chairwoman of
might have to pass Francis (Wright),
Lake Koronis
year, their boat AIS Task Force.

and prompts thought on how such items could have been repaired and/or
aquatic invasive a watercraft Lake and Collinwood
(Wright).
an inspection for The task force started Francis (Stearns) per-
on Lake & Lift already
species. inspection program Anchor Dock
program, which funds to the ns at boat access
A new inspection in 2016 and provided forms AIS inspectio ex-
AIS Task Force tion of Water County and has
the Meeker County Crow River Organiza ns. CROW sites in Wright
month, will have inspectio perience with the
process, Langmo
will start this at pub- to manage the & Lift of
s stationed Dock
trained inspector worked with Anchor hiring and said.

recycled.
six Meeker County of people who
lic access sites on Annandale to superviseThis agree- “There are a lot BY JULIANA THILL
going into and s.
lakes to check boats
PHOTO
scheduling inspector
water. serve on the
coming out of the and Mike Solbrack
spread AIS to Karen Langmo which was
“The goal is to not Charlene Brooks, Species Task Force,
have it,” said Mike Aquatic Invasive
lakes that don’t Meeker County
chairma n of the 2014.
Solbrack , vice Force. established in ience of hav-
AIS Task inconven
Meeker County ns, the task don’t like the ,” Langmo
and followed
In addition to inspectio ment will be expanded ing their boat inspected g part of the
to educate people this year.
force is looking on the six lakes said, but it’s becomin a boat and
ce of being aware been an adap- of owning
on the importan “Every year, it’s to responsibility
how to prevent we can respond
of AIS and knowing tive program so said using a lake. I have
g environment,”
JILL SMITH
spreading it. ani- the changin “If I go fly in an airplane, STAFF PHOTO BY
species are Brooks, water
resource I have to go through Schmidt took
Aquatic invasive to get inspected.

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not native to Charlenet with CROW. to this is Lundin and Rebecca
and plants that are You just get used Prom dates Jacob grand march at
mals
introduced either
specialis of zebra security.
becoming the new “moonlight” during
THE NEWSaSOURCE
Minnesot and are FOR DOWNTO Because of the discovery the way it is. It’s a walk under the . See more prom
photos
by accident . Their WN & NORTHE AST starry stonewor t in said. “It’s very much Litchfield High
School Saturday treview.net.
on purpose or mussels and MINNEAPOLIS RESIDEN
the past sev- TS norm,” Langmo at www.independen
environmental County lakes in try to prevent
1–14,to2016
DECEMBER ility on A14 and online
presence can cause or harm to Meeker “the (inspection) program
our responsib
c harm,
and economi eral years, it (AIS).”
pose an ongoing to,” Brooks said. and Brooks
human health. AIS is changing. It has Langmo, Solbrack
because AIS cannot is home to 170 the task force since
threat to a lake Meeker County have been with

First Place: Southwest Journal, Minneapolis, Dylan Thomas

r 2016, nine runs Langmo
be eliminated. lakes. As of Novembe its inception. Langmo and lives in
in Meeker County infestations of
The inspections of those lakes have Farms with her husband
, which is the milfoil (Clear, Erie, Litchfield. They own land on Lake
begin this weekend Eurasian water
the fishing opener , Minnie Belle, about 170 Meeker
weekend before Little Mud, Manuella Koronis, which has
run through Labor Washing ton, Wolf);
(May 13), and will Ripley, Stella,
AIS to A5 
plan is to have the ons of zebra mus-

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Giving Voice Chorus

unites people with memor
and their caregivers
in song
y loss
was still very well done.

Second Place: Prior Lake American, Hannah Jones

Where our best friends really go when they die
I really enjoyed this piece. The writing was stellar, the story itself was
By Dylan Thomas
/ dthomas@journal
unique.
mpls.com
Gabby Matzdorff
and her mother,
Voice Chorus because Donna Lou Leehey,
they were looking joined Giving
for something to About half of Giving
Her mother, Matzdorff do together. Voice Chorus’ members
said, “has always related memory are dealing with

Third Place: Roseville Review, Mike Munzenrider

As they chatted been musical.” loss, typically early age-
after a recent rehearsal The other half is to mid-stage Alzheime
Music, Leehey didn’t at MacPhail Center made up of their r’s disease.
remember that for wives, children care partners: the
school choir, or she sang soprano and grandchildren husbands and
that the group went in her high who help them
on to win a state “This is a group live at home.
“Some of these competition. of people who are
Choral director Jeanie things happened Marge Ostroush who they are today,”
after hearing her so long ago, you ko, co-president said
Brindley-Barnett daughter recount forget,” she said, of the Giving Voice
leads the story. But Leehey recently developed an online Initiative, which
Giving Voice Chorus the forgotten music’s

Sen. Bev Scalze: leaves legacy of clean water, art & improved infrastruc-
place in her life. hadn’t toolkit so that others
through two-year-old chorus’ can replicate the
a late-November “I raised five children, model. If someone
rehearsal. ” she said. “I had they tell the same is struggling that
Photo by Dylan them to sleep.” to sing quite a bit story they told at day, or if
Thomas to get Ostroushko said. rehearsal last week,
that’s OK,

SEE GIVING VOICE

ture
/ PAGE 9

Nonprofits see surge

in donations,
volunteer interest INSIDE
Trump railed against
after Trump’s electi
on
abortion, Muslim immigr
ation during campaign
Very good, very thorough profile.
By Nate Gotlieb
/ ngotlieb@journal
mpls.com
Carol Stoddart
of the American
ties Union of Minneso Civil Liber-
“People are really
ta said she and concerned about
coworkers were her what’s going to be some effort
“diving into taking happen under our to limit voting
within hours on action” dent-elect,” Stoddart presi- sota, where the in Minne-
the morning after said. “They’re really GOP gained a majority
lican Donald Trump Repub- understanding in
was elected president the challenges both the House
to the and Senate. She
Stoddart’s office . Constitution that her organization also said
wasn’t alone. many of his campaign is prepared for
Across the Twin promises pose.” of voter ID to resurface the issue

HOLIDAY
Cities, progressi .
nonprofits have ve Stoddart said her
reported surges organization raised She added that
in dona- she’s concerned
tions, volunteer $87,000 from more rights of immigran about the
interest and social than 1,000 donors ts, noting that a

GIFT GUIDE
followers in the media the annual Give on colleague
weeks since the to the Max Day, based in southern
election. well above Minnesota was
Nonprofit leaders its goal in the $30,000 to xenophobic and subjected
say people are feeling range. She said hostile language
a sense of urgency organization had the volunteering on while
in combating Trump’s about 85 requests Election Day.
platform on issues people who wanted from “For the first time IT’S CRUNCH TIME,
such as abortion to volunteer in in his life, he was
and immigration weeks after the the two because of his ethnicity, fearful SHOPPERS, AND HOLIDAY
as well as the rhetoric election. It receives ” Stoddart said. WE’RE HERE
surrounding his two requests in maybe Patti Walsh, developm TO HELP.
campaign. a typical month, ent and outreach
Stoddart said she she said. coordinator of
anticipates there the Minnesota Check out our gift
may chapter of ideas — from cozy
hats to hip home
goods to fancy eats.
SEE NONPROFITS
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 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest

Human Interest Story

Dailies under 10,000
First Place: Winona Daily News, Samantha Stetzer
Death, grief, life, celebration: Three generations of Hoffs have served
Winona-area families
Local art on disp
lay Trojans An interesting look behind the scenes at an activity that goes every day
Winona Art Walk &
showcases artists
Tour
REGION, PAGE A3 move on
Rushford-Peterson
advances to
in every community. The quality of the writing set this entry apart from
Friendsgiving
the others.
Class A title game
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Death, grief, life, cele Three generations

Second Place: Mesabi Daily News, Virginia, Leah Ryan
It Did Not Affect Me
of Hoffs have served
families in the
Winona area

A good, solid story on a topic that many readers might not understand.
SAMANTHA STETZER
Daily News
nably mild
It was an unseaso Hoff pre-
Tyler
summer day as whose fam-
pared to honor a man long.

This story should have answered their questions. Nicely done.

ily he had not known was busy
His sister, Ashley, increas-
out chairs as an
setting dressed
ing number of casuallyHoff Cel-
the
mourners filed into in Good-
ebration of Life Center
er their father,
view to rememb
fellow veteran.
husband, friend, rooms with
In the center, big
ing ceilings, soft lighting
overarch
filled the space
and warm colors
have memori-
where the Hoffs

Third Place: Hibbing Daily Tribune, Kelly Grinsteinner

lives, each with
alized so many
their own sets
their own stories, who gather
of friends and family
mourn.
to remember and attendees as
Tyler laughed with n of appli-
he recalled the collectiokept, noted

Lost and found; journey of the jersey

the man
ance manuals
ethic and devo-
his tireless work countless
and the
tion to family —
hunted. As an
deer the man had
filled the room,
old country song sang along
the man’s wife quietly last time.

This story had to have generated a lot of interest whether or not readers
the
to her husband for are the third
DAILY NEWS Tyler and Ashley
CHUCK MILLER PHOTOS, Hoffs to build on
generation of the
in a business
the family’s legacy grandfather
of the that began with their ago. Like

were hockey fans. Story put together well.

Tyler Hoff walks out tury
nearly a half-cen
ABOVE: Funeral director10, helping escort the casket of their parents who
preceded them,
Nov. same cycle of
Goodview home on rt, who died earlier
this month.
they followed the
Helen Patricia Corey-Fo business in and then returning,
operated their funeral leaving home
The Hoff family have Tyler and his
each for their own
reasons.
nearly 50 years, with
the Winona area for g the third generation to take over Tyler was always
intent on join-
sister, Ashley, becomin , just like
ing the family business not so
the business. his father, Tim;
Ashley,
Hoff Funeral and her uncle Gary.
funeral director at much — just like
RIGHT: Ashley Hoff, for Helen Patricia they would
Cremation Services,
watches the ceremony Nov. 10.
on And neither expectede each other
Goodview location be working alongsid on leading
Corey-Fort at the Hoff’s
as the latest generatit Minnesota
southeas

Dailies 10,000 and over

if your heart’s not
the family’s
area families in
“This is a job that in business, serving
to be burned out times of their
some of the hardest families and
into it, you’re going very lives, while starting
that’s why I am generation.
no time. And so raising the fourth
parents didn’t push
thankful that my Please see HOFFS,
Page A6

First Place: West Central Tribune, Willmar, Tom Cherveny

me into it.” UP TO

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give teen girls apossibl
Daily News
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to es-
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Superintendent
Stephen West throughout this year as
his son is born
will
in their lives and the end of the
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Second Place: Grand Forks Herald, Andrew Hazzard

son ChhengHope gave the letter arrived a letter emailed Stephen West,
in Mar- in Posy judge for a . “It is with
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Searching for closure

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Third Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Patrick Springer

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Benson
could lose ‘Little Dave’ leads fight against Big Oil
biomass
power plant
This piece gave perspective and insight to a subject of great magnitude.
Xcel Energy seek
ing
to acquire, close
plant
By Tom Cherven
tcherveny@wctrib y
BENSON – One .com
of Benson’s largest
employers, and
one of Swift County’
largest tax-pay s
ing entities, is
to be closed. expected
Xcel Energy is
negotiating to
the Benson Power acquire
tions of closing facility with inten-
the 55-megawatt,
mass-powered bio-
An aerial view of plant, possibly
the Willmar chain as the summer as early
of lakes, includin of 2018, accordin
Swift g to the

IMPROVING WILL
g from top to bottom: County Monitor
Foot, Willmar, Swan Submitted It reported that News in Benson.
and Skataas. the plant’s 45 employ-

MAR’S CHAIN OF
ees were told
of the possible
tion and plant transac-

LAKES
closing
The economic impactthis week.
With big plans for of its loss would
Robbins Island, ripple through
out
county and beyond. the community,
By Tom Cherven time to also focu Along with the
tcherveny@wctrib
y
.com
s on water quality at the facility,
Rob Wolfington
Benson City Manage
jobs
r
WILLMAR – With said it is estimate
plans the plant provides d that
in the works by and helped improve another 50 jobs
the water area trucking compan with
Willmar to invest city of quality. ies that transpo
nearly the turkey litter rt
$900,000 to make Extensive testing and wood pulp
Robbins used as the fuel that is
Island Park a regiona conducted by the for the plant, formerly
Hawk known as Fibromi
destination, officials l Creek Watersh
ed Project in Also affected
nn.
now is the time say 2008-09 found would be operatio
to focus on that Foot providing biomass ns
what makes it
so special.
Lake is meeting
many of nie-O Turkey Store to the facility. Jen-
Keep the momen
tum
the standards
for a shallow as well as other and Langmo Farms
going to continu lake, according independent turkey
e to to Heidi producers in the
improve water Rauenhorst, director region provide
quality in of key litter to it. tur-
The
Foot, Willmar
Swan and
the project. Yet
overall, gy Authority providesLaurentian Ener-
Skataas lakes,
as these
the levels of phosph
orus, loggers and compan wood pulp from
shallow lakes sediment, nitrogen Minnesota. ies in norther
and the and n
recreational opportu bacteria found The plant paid
nities in the four $928,946,000
they provide are lakes are higher in the previous in taxes
so than year, with $224,20
important. desired. of the total to 1,000
the state of Minneso
That’s the heart Anglers enjoy many Submitted
The city of Willmar and the remaind ta
of a shoreline fishing er
message heard
by over Lake in Willmar. opportunities on regularly tests
the quality local taxing entitiesof $704,745,000 to
50 people who Foot of water at of Benson, Swift including the city
gathered the Robbins County
April 18 at the Forrest Peterso Island Beach, Schools. and Benson
Willmar n, Brisendine
Community Center information officer what is now Rau said The city A representative
to hear Park. In the staff is planning to
about plans for Minnesota Pollutio with the town’s early days, lifeguards at the declined to speak of Xcel Energy
Robbins n Control manure beach about the possi-
Island Park and Agency’s office and other wastes Thursdays through ble closing, but
the Willmar in Willmar, were Sundays the company issued
chain of lakes. is encouraging deliberately placed this summer. statement that a
the
“A 55-acre park
the
lakes associations, local lake’s ice in winter.on the The city is hopeful the plant is “more cost of power from
sitting city and the expensive compare
Legislature will to other renewab
where it sits surroun
ded
agencies to take
on projects
The “legacy” phosph
orus approve an le resources and d
by water is just that will benefit from years of appropriation want to replace we
not an water runoff of $606,000 it with somethi
amenity you see quality. the waters continu into in Legacy Amendm cost-effective.’’ ng more
in every es to ent
community,’’ The shallow lakes pose a challeng tax funds for Robbins sales The company
estimate
said Steve e for cleanup the biomass requirem s that ending
Brisendine, Willmar long abused, Foot were efforts. according to Brisend Island,
Lake ine. If its rate payers ent would
Community Educati especially. “We
didn’t treat
And today, storm
sewers
awarded, the city
will match an estimated $667 save
Recreation director on and our lakes very still pour urban it with $250,00
0. Plans call
lion to $775 million
over the remaini
mil-
. well,’’ said runoff with 11 years of its ng
He called Robbins Peterson at the nutrients and for building a contract with
meeting’s wastes into boathouse
the “crown jewel” Island onset. the lakes. in the park where Power, accordin
g to State Sen.
Benson
of kayaks, Lang, R-Olivia. Andrew
Willmar’s 37 parks, Years ago, chemica But the city, Kandiyo canoes and paddle
and ls hi boards Lang said the
noted that water washed into it County and citizens would be availabl company is seeking
quality has from the have e for use in to protect its
always been a railroad yard and done much to the summer, and rate payers as well
big issue for others reduce the snowshoes do away with
it. leached into it
from a city
pollution load
as well. The
and cross-country
skis in what has turned as
dump ground dredgin the to be an “enviro out
located at g of Foot Lake winter. nmentally unfriend
1980s removed in the source of power.’ ly
sediment ’
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Social Issues Story

Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: Tri-County News, Kimball, Jean Doran Matua
TRI-COUNTY NEWS Serving Eden Valle
y,
Your Hometown
News
Patty Wetterling talks about raising resilient children + A new twist on
supporting safe children
Kimball, Watkins
and

Interesting focus on children despite rarity of the case of abduction and

Volum e 70, Issue surrounding comm
6 unities.
Patty Wetterling
Thurs day
March 9, 2017

raising resilient talks about

Inside this week: Kimball, EV-W

murder. Very apt for the social category.

wrestlers
children
• March food
Kimball, page 2. drive in
• Cards of thanks,
page 2.
at state
• BIRTH: Eleano
q u a rd t ; 6 0 T H r Mar-
A N N I V. :
individuals
Blanche & Allen By Pat Garry, Staff
Miller; p. 3.
• O B I T UA RY: The 2017 State Writer
(Kloeppner) Gohma A l v e r a Wrestling Tournam Individual
of Kimball; page nn, 92, was held Friday,
ent, Class A,
4. March 3, at the

Second Place: Ely Timberjay, Marshall Helmberger

• Weather, page Xcel Energy Center
4. in St. Paul.
• KES Student Results: Champi
onship Round
Month, page 6. of the 1 (16 Man): 132
lb. Jackson Held
• Alpine ski team (Royalton-Upsal
awards, a) 22-5 won by
page 6. decision over Zack
Holtz (Kimbal l)
30-6 (Dec 5-2);
138 lb. Austin

A Gathering of Voices
DeVlaeminck
(Minneota) 18-6
won by tech
fall
Schiefelbein (Kimbal over Payton
4:46 (17-1); Consola l) 27-9 (TF-1.5
tion Round 1:
160 lb. Derek Krieger
Murdock-Sunbu (Kerkho ven-

Good coverage of different points of view. Well organized.

rg) 32-9 won by
decision over Adam
Theis (Kimball)
18-20 (Dec 9-2);
Championship
Round 1: Dalton
• Kimball studen Wagner (Jackson
ts & County Central)
sports, page6-7. 39-4 won by fall
over Adam Theis
• Minnesota State (Kimball) 18-20
(Fall 2:41); 5th
ling Tournament Wrest- Place Match: 152
lb. Matt Schindle
pages 8-9. photos, r (Eden Valley-
Watkins) 36-6 won
by
Ian Frenzel (Blackdu decision over Patty Wetterlin
ck-Cass Lake- g spoke Thursday,
Bena) 35-7 (Dec March 2, at Assumpt
9-5); Consolation can do to help our children grow ion Church in Eden
up to be resilient and Valley

Third Place: Minneota Mascot, Scott Thoma

Round 2: Matt
Schindler (Eden By Jean Doran Matua, less likely to be a victim. about what each of us in our commun
Valley-Watkins) Editor Staff photo by Jean ities
36-6 won by At the invitation Research shows Doran Matua.
decision over of the Protect tors that several fac-
Sam Nordquist Our Children help strengthen be trusted. And adults
(Zumbrota-Maze campaign of the a child’s sense to need to listen
ppa) 31-17 (Dec Valley Area Library, Eden of well-bei what they say.
3-2); Consolation Patty Wetterling less ng, and make him
Round 1: Matt spoke to a group vulnerable to abuse or her Wetterling talked
Schindler (Eden gathered to hear or neglect: “social about doing a
Valley-Watkins) her. About 300 a feeling

Jim Fink at the Capital

36-6 won by major people attended of nurturing and autopsy” of Danny
, at ment, knowled attach- crimes: Heinrich’s
Jacob Hasbargen decision over Assumption Catholic Church. ge of parenting what went wrong
and when?
• EV-W students (Border West) In the 27 years child/youth developm and where
pages 10-11. & sports, 24-13 (MD 9-1);
Championship Jacob was abducte since her son resilience, social ent, parental vened? could someone have inter-
Round 1: Matt d, Wetterling has connections, and what patterns could
• Pruning apple Schindler (Eden learned much, concrete support discovered earlier? have been
trees, Valley-Watkins) and has devoted s for parents. how could it have
page 11. 36-6
over Colton Waldvogwon by fall life to helping prevent child abduc-
her Parents need connect been different had
adults believed the

Concise and a little inspiring. Glad the follow-up story appeared in a later
• Sen. Fischbach’s el (Osakis) tion, abuse and violence community, she ions to the boys
31-6 (Fall 3:44); says, and fathers who reported assaults?
tive update, page legisla- Championship Wetterling firmly
. need to be engaged The Minnesota Search
13. Round 1: 220 lb. in parenting. We
• Plane Grant Ludwig there are way more believes that need to raise our (search-institute.org) Institute
crashes near (Paynes ville) 26-10 won by good people in treat women boys, especial ly, to finding a child’s talks about
Paynesville Airport Aaron Holmberg fall over the world than bad. and girls respectf
, page 13. (Eden Valley- everyone who came She thanked We need ully. est passions SPARK: their deep-
Watkins) 19-20 (Fall to teach our and
0:20). it’s a great start towardthat night, as • the proper names children: give them meanin interests that

edition to show how the bill turned out.

Results by weight: healing, and of body parts; energy. g, focus, joy and
106A; 1st also protection for our • that Find their spark,
Place - Blake Legred,
United South also thanked law children. She private; parts of their body are can and you
Central; 113A; enforcem bring them in to
1st Place - Jeron attending. ent for with their commu be engaged
Matson, Kenyon • that everybody’s nity.
-Wanam ingo; ent and special; body is differ-
120A; 1st Place Special guests were Wetterling presente
- Hunter Burnett, of Alayna Ertl the family questions children d two new
Pipestone; 126A; from Watkins; they • that your body
1st Place - Michael occupied two belongs to you; can ask them-
Suda, Pipestone; pews. it is important to selves about interacti
132A; 1st Place - take care of your ons:
Tanner Pasvogel, Wetterling was body and keep it • Does this person
quick to point healthy and clean;
1st Place - Lane
Sibley East; 138A; out that in both
Jacob’s and Alayna’s • and that they break my safety rules?try to get me to
• Warm weathe Heim, St Charles; cases, there can talk to you
r is con- 145A; 1st Place is nothing about anythin g, • Does this person give me
fusing plants, page more or dif- and you will find an
- Jake Mandt, ferent that the
16. Chatfield; 152A; family or the com- an answer. “uh-oh” feeling?
1st Place - Tyler munity could Lack of this informa Children should
“In Brief” is on page Ryan, Kenyon-Wanam have done feel comfortable
ingo; 5th what happened to them. to prevent make a child more tion can telling

Weeklies 1,501-2,500
16. Place - Matt Schindle
r, Eden Valley- being victimized. vulnerable to ence a trusted adult if an experi-
Watkins; 160A; She said, though, fails these two question
1st Place - Bailee munity there that as a com- s.
O’Reilly, Goodhu are things to help Wetterling likens Remember the 11
Index - Alex Erpeldin
182A; 1st Place
e; 170A; 1st Place all children
g, Staples-Motley; resilient, and
in general to be
less susceptible
“captain of my
more control of
his or her
this to being represen
ship.” A child has
fair, Be
t Jacob’s life and
kind, Be
attitudes that
hope: Be
Opinion . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 2 Zumbrota-Maze - Caden Steffen, victimization. to we need to nurture own body, and honest, Be thankfuunderstanding, Be
and encourage l, Be a good sport,
Church & Obituaries. ppa; 195A; 1st this in children. Be a good friend,

First Place: Pelican Rapids Press, Louis Hoglund

She also emphasi
. . . . . . 4 Place - Christophor Bain, GMLOS happened with Jacob zed that what
Be joyful, Be gener-
Local Schools. . . . Children need to ous, Be gentle with
. . . . . . 6-10 220A; 1st Place - Reid Seelhammer,; extremely rare. and Alayna is
• Nobody has the
know:
Lastly, here’s how
others, Be positive.
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t Highlighted Div
ersity at Second Place: Melrose Beacon, Herman Lensing
Special Prom Nigh pids High School
Pelican Ra Sharing cultures
Interesting use of attire in lead. Very engaging and interesting story. Poi-
only–was hosted
prom event–ladies
A multi-cultural the first time at
for
school adminstration
and school board
“This was a great
members as well. that was student led.
bration of cultures and hard work put in
cele- gnant for the times.
School on April 22. It was a lot of timeorganize, plan, and put
Pelican Rapids Highevent was originat
ed
The idea for the by the students to together,” noted
by students. the whole evening activ-
girls don’t get a Pelican high school
“I felt bad that some Danielle Arntson, Derrick Nelson,
said
prom experience,” of the student-initiated ities director. multi-cultural prom
For Arntson, the meaning. She is a

Third Place: Scenic Range News Forum, Bovey, Ronald Brochu

one of the leadersabout the people that l
event. “I thought go to had added persona n, the daughter
not expecting to first generation America
were completely who immigrated
from
of Irina Artnson, her grandparents.
prom.”
events have been offered in Ukraine , as well as nt for
Similar
when Islamic students super importa
schools elsewhere, te “This event was into this diverse
and others were
unable to participa me. I was also brought said Arntson,

APM: Serious about tough reporting

and cultural norms. community as a
child,” ity
because of religious “Celebration of Pelican area commun
The end result: A 60 who thanked the the first ever “alterna-
which involved nearly for the support of
Cultures” prom, adult volunteers. There event.
girls and a dozen tive” prom evening, Danielle
said , Natalie Williams,
booth, and lots of Reflecting on the “natural...and purely Samantha Blakeway Severson
were games, a photoand smiles,” said and Michelle Urbano Emma Haugrud,
Abby
“mingling, laughter she was struck howwas. Karina Martinez

Good story lead and flow. Found content interesting, noted the affilia-
Arntson. es human” the event , laughter , smil-
Somali specialti “There was dancing
Dinner included Somali caterer; e barrier,” she said,
from a Fargo-based Escobar’s in Pelican; ing...but no languagof them are not entire-
Mexican food from Cormorant Inn. even though some e proficient. “The
and salads from
the ly English languag d me how tod-
Pelican Rapids grad- evening almost reminde
Guest speaker was , a graduate student they don’t know
the

tion with MPR. Don’t know what feedback you got, but it should have
uate Emma Sjostrom dlers interact–when they still talk to each e
ta, who spoke on language well, but
at University of Minneso g differen ces–and they’re friendly. ..And the languag
inclusion and acceptin other,
differences divide
us. affect them.”
not letting those well-received by barrier just doesn’t
The concept was

engaged the public.

Diaz,
Johnson, Lorena
Ahmed Senior Girls: Moriah Stetz, Abby Johnson,
Fosiya Aden, Lul
Hassan, Farhiya Danielle Pixley, Kenzie
Mason Thornton

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Olivia Bergquist,
Cassidy
Samantha Johnson, Thornton
Kubitz, McKenzie
Pelican Rapids High
Left, Emma Sjostrom of 2014, was guest
, Class She
School graduate tural Prom event.
speaker for the Multi-Cul
Universit y of Minnesota-Twin
is a student at the
Cities.
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Right, Abby Johnson, Kenzie Stetz, Mason
Pixley,
Martinez, Danielle Urbano
Thornton, Michelle
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Ali, Shelby Scherme
rhorn,
Fosiya Aden, Hodo Tompson
Chloe Miltich, Sarah
with the
pictured below right,
Allie Thompson, multi-cultural
for the first-ever
mural she created
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 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest

Social Issues Story

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
First Place: Shakopee Valley News, Victoria Cooney
Satanists challenge free speech zone
The narrative writing places the reader at the BBQ Days parade deftly.
This is a rather goofy local story, but it also touches on larger social is-
sues like freedom of speech and religion without losing any of the local
community’s heart and flavor. Follow-up article was a well-written news
story that tied up loose ends, but this entry wins on the strength of the
narrative-writing in the first article.

Second Place: Red Wing Republican Eagle, Samantha Bengs and

John R. Russett
Mental Health: Remembering Kristin; Reasons to Talk
Remember Kristin is a deeply touching and personal story, one in which
you’re not sure where it’s going to lead at first, but it’s so compellingly
told you want to find out, and once you do, the story becomes about a
social issue that affects every community. Excellent lead article for the
newspaper’s work on the topic mental illness.

Third Place: Northfield News, Philip Weyhe

Names of Northfield
This series did an outstanding job telling the story of local residents on
a topic of national interest, but doing so through the distinct and fully-
Neighborhood Spo
tlight. realized voices of those interviewed.
KENWOOD From
& CEDAR- around
ISLES-DEAN the world
to a theater
near you
Weeklies over 5,000
PAGE B1

PAGE B4

PAGE B10

April 6–19, 2017

First Place: Southwest Journal, Minneapolis, Dylan Thomas,

Vol. 28, No. 7
southwestjourna
l.com

Eric Best, Michelle Bruch & Nate Gotlieb

Making Change
I love the overall presentation of this story. It’s a crucially important
story, and this dives deep into the details from perspectives not always
MAKING seen.
CHANGE
Second Place: St. Louis Park Sun Sailor, Seth Rowe
Adding up the costs
and benefits
of a higher minim
um wage

WOR KER S SPEA

ON THE MIN IMU K OUT
Signs thanking police draw controversy
It’s difficult to find a unique way to cover police involved shootings, but
Views on a wage M WAGE
hike from those paid
at or near the minimum
wage
PAGE A10

WHAT $15 COU

LD MEA N
this story really brings out the emotion of the situation.
FOR YOU TH WOR
Those who employ KER S
youth workers and
say higher wages interns
could mean fewer
jobs
PAGE A13

A LOOK BEFORE
Third Place: Grand Rapids Herald Review, Kassandra Tuten
Hope with ‘What’s Left’: Exhibit provides a venue for addressing mental
MIN NEA POLI S’
Restaurants test LEAP
out a $15 minimum
for all — with mixed wage
results
PAGE A16

THE FIGH T FOR

illness and suicide stigma
I absolutely love the first-person approach to telling this story. This could
ACROSS THE COU $15
From Los Angeles NTR Y
to Baltimore, insights
the wage debates from
in other cities
PAGE A18

have been a typical event story, but the way it is written certainly con-
veys the emotion of the event.

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 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
Dailies under 10,000
First Place: Albert Lea Tribune, Colleen Harrison
Stop the silence
Well organized. Great blending of first-hand accounts and professional
sources. Video a nice addition to personalize sources.

Second Place: Mesabi Daily News, Virginia, Jerry Burnes

ATED AND READ ‘Ground Zero’ in Ely
Photos by Micha
el Vosburg / Forum
Photo Editor

Y
reopens with mus
eum,
More than skin dee
sprinklers, energy
efficiency
At first, I wondered if this was really a “social issue” and it probably
wouldn’t play in most other communities. But it’s at the heart of the
Station 1, whic
department head
was built in 1961
p
h serves as
quarters, Above: Fargo fire
future of Ely and it was well laid out by the writer.
on the site chief Steve Dirks
of the city’s first en
fire station shows an early
and city hall at
a cost of
$287,000, abou gas-powered fire

Third Place: Owatonna People’s Press, Jeffrey Jackson

t
$2.3 million in truck on display
today’s
dollars. It was in the remodeled
part of a
larger effort by

Harassing note prompts bullying investigation

the Station 1 and
improve fire prot city to
ection to Headquarters on
keep up with grow
th. The
then-new fireh Wednesday, at

Bullying note made a great lead. Well played and glad it made the front
ouse had
nearly double the 637 NP Ave.
space of
the old one and
number of bays
double the Left: Fargo fire
. Then-

page (not the jump!). This is a powerful piece, good use of quotes and
Fire Chief Fred chief Steve Dirks
Saefke told en
The Forum that shows firefighter
year it was
“built for the futu living space in
re.”

lays the issue out well.

But one thing it the remodeled
didn’t
have was insulatio
n. Station 1 and
he brick wall outs Between
ide and Headquarters.
he plaster insid
e was just
ome clay tiles and Bottom: Artifacts
an air
ap. The windows from the Fargo
may have
een adequate for

Dailies 10,000 and over

ut became draft
the time, Fire Department’s
y in recent history stand on
ars.
display in the

First Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Mike Nowatzki

REHOUSE: Page remodeled
C10
Station 1 and
Headquarters.

Corps trying to Corps trying to find balance between free speech, permit rules
find This makes a national story a local story combining the elements of 1st
balance between
free
speech, permit
rules Amendment rights, Native people’s rights, water and environmental is-
Dakota Access
Pipeline oppone
Ame ndm ent righ
its own rule s
ts with
sues, and access to oil.
nts that forb id
begin digging in cam ping on
for Corp
with out a perm s land
the winter. to men tion the
it – not

Second Place: Grand Forks Herald, April Baumgarten

righ ts of
the ranc her
By Mike Nowatzk who has a
graz ing leas e
Forum News Serv i on the land
ice and coul d be on
NEAR CANNON

Stretched thin
the hook
N.D. – For cam BALL, for any dam age done to
p lead- it.
er Everett Iron
Eyes Sr., “That’s kind of
the sea of tent

Well-told story of the hardship of making ends meet when incomes are
s, teepees we’re the risk
and vehicles dealing with
dotting the and that here,
landscape alon ’s
g the Can- challeng why it’s such a
Dave Wallis / The
he floodwall that Forum
nonball River repr e,” Corps spok
runs parallel to the

not enough and everything else is too expensive.

ntown Fargo. The First esents a woman Eilee es-
floodwall in cent concerned peop n Williamson
d River. A bike path er runs le express- said.
can be seen betw ing their free spee
een ch rights The challeng
to stop a crude e grows
oil pipeline daily
they fear will as pipeline oppo
struction season water supply
sacred sites.
spoil their nents
and disturb the
begin to dig in
harsh North
winter. Many are Dakota
-
for

mid-November Third Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Dave Olson

Morton County pledging
Kyle Kirchmeier Sher iff to stay unti
also sees Rock Siou l the Standing
it as a staging x Tribe’s federal
area for lawsuit

Father of white nationalist publicly disowns him

north and be peaceful protester agai
open no later than s of the over perm nst the Corps
closed this end the Dakota Access its issued for
of October. Broa Pipe line. the 1,172-mil
g off access dway But he’s increasin e, $3.8 bil-
in Northport is gly frus- lion pipe

How difficult for a family to take on its racist member in such a public
venue North to expected trated that the line is settled.
reopen in mid- land owned statu A
orhead until ber Novem- by the U.S. Arm s conference is
after a delay of y Corps of Nov. set for
e city has than more Engineers is bein 10.
a month. g used as Yuwitawin, a
a launching pad

way. Great reporting on a national social issue right in your own back
construction for pro- old Lako 39-year-
tests at pipeline ta mot
other key Downtown, construc- three her of
tion sites, with from the Chey
he city that We 95 arrests Rive enne
st Acres so far on tresp r Sioux Tribe in

yard.
o be com- assing and Dako Sout
Second Street other charges. ta, and her husb h
s fall. North is recently upgraded and
scheduled to Caug ht in the from a
3th Avenue reopen in mid dle is tent
phases. the Corp s, whic h to a teepee and fully
West Acres has take n a so far intend to
han ds-o ff ter ride out the win-
ter should ROA appr oach as if nece ssary.
DS: Page C3 it tries to
bala nce prot este
rs’ Firs t PIPELINE: Page
C5

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Sports Story Volleyball player Kayla

Gjerde and
cross country runner Alex Beach, a 2007
Jacob Ring are Stillwater Area High

Weeklies up to 1,500
SAHS Athletes of the
Week. Page B2 wins Player of the Year School graduate,
honors as Addison Stansbury
New Jersey Section a golf professional in the Stillwater boys run
places fifth as
PGA. Page B3 to second-place

SPORTS
finish at Victoria Lions
Invite. Page B3

B SECTION
First Place: Stillwater Gazette, Stuart Groskreutz
Duty calls for Ryder Cup
StillwaterGazette Oct. 7, 2016
.com

Surging Royals ha
FRIDAY
FOOTBALL

nd Stillwater thi
BY STUART GROSKR

WOODBURY —
THE GAZETTE
EUTZ six total yards in
the
It was just Woodbu opening half. — who have also
ry’s
over the Ponies since first victory injuries on the
like the football teamLooking more all-time in 39 meeting2008 and fifth leading rusher Mason
been plagued with
offensive line and
rd straight loss Great Story!
that was pro- — s Green — but
jected to contend
in the East Metro an achievement thatin the series also a performance
Blue sub-district unrecognized as did not go that left much
before the season the players doused to be desired according to Ponies
started, Woodbu coach Andy Hill coach Beau LaBore.
ry blanked Still- with an icy water
water 18-0 on Friday, bath afterwards. “This is the first
Woodbury High School.Sept. 30 at all of their players night they had

Second Place: Tri-County News, Kimball, Jean Doran Matua*

Woodbury has a
healthy and they
The Royals (2-2 vision I recruits handful of Di- got on the right page
EMB, 2-3) lost who contribute
three straight games on both sides of knew we were going last week so we
to start the been the ball, to get
season, but has
rebounded with dealing with injuries but have performance from them, a good
shutout victories issues that have and other were but we
each of the past sidelined players far from our best
two weeks. Stillwate throughout the season. night,” the coach football to-
r’s said.
meanwhile, reached losing streak, some quality plays, “They made

Peps Neuman Gymnasium named

“We’re still finding
three games af- our way, but to but
ter struggling offensive the nice part was
this is our first find a way. It’s more we’ve got
ond week in a row. ly for the sec- game played than how on how we
we had all of our they played. If we
The Ponies (1-3, 2-3) starters healthy,” projected play our
Hill kind of football
a first down and were did not gain finding said. “We’re more consiste and play Woodbury running back
our way.” ntly and step up Jalen Morrison tries
limited to just
It was bad timing and free around defensive back to break

for the Ponies more Stillwater Thomas
tacklers during an Bruchu and two
See Football, Page sub-district football East Metro Blue

Duty calls for Ryder

B5
Sept. 30. (Gazette game at Woodbury on Friday,
staff photo by Stuart
Groskreutz)

Cup Ponies wrap

GIRLS SOCCER

up their first Third Place: Minneota Mascot, Scott Thoma*

Redeye Softball Team
conference
championship
since 2010
BY STUART GROSKR
EUTZ
THE GAZETTE
OAK PARK HEIGH
— Even with a TS
game re-
maining, the
Stillwater

Weeklies 1,501-2,500
girls’ soccer team
wrapped
up the Suburba
n
Conference champio East
with a 2-0 victory nship
Forest Lake on over
Tuesday,
Oct. 4 at Stillwate
r Area

First Place: Delano Herald Journal, Matt Kane

High School.
Regardless of what
pens in their regular hap-
son finale at Rosevill sea-
Oct. 6, the third-rane on
Ponies (6-1 SEC, ked
13-2)

Unbroken
will capture the program
Members of the winning first conference champio ’s
Ryder ship since 2010 n-
Cup team from —
States celebrate
the United is Stillwater’s only which
following the league
conclusion of play title since a run of
on nine in
Oct. 2 at Hazeltin Sunday, a row that ended

Interesting story about two athletes competing in very different sports.

in 2001.
Golf Club in e National Cretin-Derham
Chaska. The
United States defeated (5-1-2, 9-4-2) knockedHall
fourth-ranked East off
Europe 17-11 to win Team
matches for the the biennial Sports. Tiger boys 9-4-1) to Ridge
(3-3-0,
2008. The Ryder first time OBITU sinceARIES scoop out bigsole over on ofwrap up
winpossessi
News. Cup drew second
notable athletes other place in the SEC.
Herald Journal actor Bill Murray, and celebritiesPage 11A rival Spartans “I told
like
Publishing wins left. • Ronald Harter, 79, Delano Page 13A great to the girls it was
Local PGA

rnal
Delano get a share
awardsprofessionals pitch • DavaDene Schleper, 69, but we aren’t done of it,

Delano Herald Jou

for the bienn
Page 7A ial in as volunteers Ponies coach Mike
with it,”
even Huber
in support of Team t before joining the hordes
said. “It’s been

Second Place: The Paynesville Press, Michael Jacobson

a really
good year so far
USA at Hazeltine girls have come
and the

BY STUART GROSKR
Natio nal and gelled. It’s
together
great to
EUTZ “It’s a once-in-a-lifetim win the conferen
THE GAZETTE retired Stillwate e chance,” said ce, but I
r Country Club know their goal is
Finding voluntee head Retired to get to

Bulldogs Claimed First State Title in 1987

professional Mike al.com state.”
rs
many activities can to help out with a shift on the ta, and Tracy, who
the surroun ding area
worked Stillwater Country
Club head professi www.De lanoHeraldJourn
ity — Delano,
be a challenge of Minnesodriving range on Tuesday
Mike Tracy and
current SCC pro onal Kallie Clements de-
Servingnot commun
but the Ryder Cup, the morning. “I sat fi among the 100 Nick Haag were livered a goal
ve
Several Minneso so much. Johnson watching feet behind
| $1.50 Dustin who volunteered
23hit
Minnesota Section
PGA members through the first
midway
ta Section PGA Volume 11 | Number him tee balls.” to work shifts at half to
members from
Monda y, Jan.
the St. 30, 2017 | Tracy was joined by fellow
Croix Cup at Hazeltin the recent Ryder give Stillwater a
1-0 lead
helped fill shifts Valley PGA e National Golf
at this year’s biennial Nick Haag of Stillwater Country pros Above, Tracy, from Club in Chaska. over the Rangers

Meet
Cool idea to recap a state title 30 years later.
matches at Hazeltin Scott Cole of StoneRi and left, and SCC member (0-7-0,
2-11-1).
Club in Chaska, e National Golf dge Golf Club Peltier and Don Harvieux, along s Paul
though it sure didn’t among those who volunteered at Hazeltine early with Haag, arrived
to watch the opening
The Ponies, who
held a
seem like work. to work the 19-6 advantage in

the new
Ryder Cup on Sept. tee shots of shots on
See Ryder Cup, Stuart Groskreutz, 30. (Gazette staff goal, extended the
Page B4 top, and contribu photo by lead in
Mike Tracy, left, ted photos by the 56th minute
and Nick Haag, above as Halle

DACC
and below) Peterson notched
her first
varsity goal off
a corner

UNBROKEN
kick from Dara Andring

president
One of the first subs a.
midfield, Peterson in the
stepped
in to replace

Third Place: Lake County News-Chronicle, Two Harbors,

Hannah
Beech, who was
held GABE LICHT
because of a nagging out Editor
injury. back
Mike Nielsen
“Halle is always strong sup-
is agood
the air and reallyporter ofin the
goes up

Jamey Malcomb
hard,” Huber said. Delano Area
s of
Serious ankle injurie Chamber
Evie Kohn finished
withe.
Commerc
six saves in goal for
did not break the spirits the the only
nies to earn her 10thAs Po-
shut-Insur-
es, out of the season. Sherman
of two Delano athlet agent in
ance Mike Nielsen
County,
who pushed hard to

Tori Bott battles back

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Johnson’s mother, “Mike is one of

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
daughter’s ankles. I who’s not afraid to jump in and
shock because DACC Execu-
“I think I was in said Johnson get involved,” said
had never been injured,”following the Gueningsman.
tive Director Ryan
of the initial moments staring at ev- our board of
“Mike has served on
injury. “I just sat
there and has been
I didn’t know what directors since 2015, develop-
erybody because active with our business
just happened.” or committees

First Place: Red Wing Republican Eagle, Joe Brown

suffered a ment and ambassad
Medically, Johnson tibia-fibular to the chamber
He’s been an asset
closed bilateral
distal business com-
inversion injury in and to the Delano for the
fracture from an terms, she suf- munity, and I’m excited
both legs. In general year to come.”
breaks of the tibia the
fered mirror-image Nielsen said he believes
and fibula in both
legs. Scar wars both underwent
surgery
DACC gives business with each
owners a

Well worth the pain

had never seen compare scars after on the
“They said they Kruse (right) can broke both ankles while chance to get together “obvious-
exact same break (left) and Andrew in the sports they love. Johnson
both ankles with the level
er
seniors Alaina Johnson ankle this past Septembg at high other on a different
a senior, said of the Delano broken ankles suffered while competin
g
re. Kruse broke his of solely what
before,” Johnson, competin the aspect
Bloomington. “It to repair ly outside
as a sophomo s and are now
surgeons at Tria in a gymnastics practice made quick recoverie work toward
same landing during High School Elite League. Both KANE their business is, and lot of vol-
was unique.” the PHOTOS BY MATT
There’s a
in
9, 2014, just playing hockeyrespective Tiger teams. other things.
It was Thursday, Oct. on. It’s good
unteering that goes whole.

Great quotes, well told. Writer was an unseen hand and deftly let story
Johnson’s sopho- levels
for their
before the start of High School. in a wheel- for the community
as a
more season at Delano a workout at ankles, to full-time
she earned both to re-learning see DACC, 6A
Johnson was finishingics Club in Ma- looking at her routine, chair, to walking boots,
right before but,
North Shore Gymnast one more tum- “The injury happened disappointed the spot.” how to walk correctly. she handled
received for her
ple Plain, getting
in
the season began.
I was The 7.075 Johnson “I was proud of how of her PUBLIC NOTICE S,
12A
SNAP, her ankles I knew that, if I 2015 section meet said Roxanne Johnsonand never
bling pass, when that it happened, but get back,” said bars routine at the it,”

tell itself to reveal character, grace and fatherhood at the center of this
season her higher scores,
folded in and the
upcoming
worked hard, I could may not be one of “She never cried
most meaning daughter. ed. She was rock solid.”
it may carry the
» City of Delano
was over. Her season Johnson. think there was any doubt but it took to get to
complain Notice of Public Hearing
Oh, wait, no it wasn’t. days after “I don’t because of the work
just 126 she would come
was not over, as,
» City of Loretto
from me whether score.
when,” said that early stages of Johnson’s road
in each leg, John- the question was Notice of Public Hearing
breaking two bones the uneven back, coach Jamie Greenberg. “I The
surgery, where see UNBROKEN, 6A
swinging from d from
son was Delano back progresse

coach’s being. Elegant.

2015, at the Sec- were surprised on
parallel bars Feb. 12, at Breck High think a lot of people and plates were inserted
that season, screws
tion 5A Championships she competed at sections
ntrols
$315K for temp co
School.

ard approves
Delano School Bo
of
and reviewing estimates
contact Bob receivingto increase the size of the in-
campus project should the cost by
g. gym as requested
$17,931,000. Prell at ICS Consultin termediate school
for the temperature It was noted that
American Auto- s
passed the alternate g project update many parents.
project). It was with Matrix is owned by Delano-area resi- Buildin “If it goes through
with an expan-
GABE LICHT controls (for that We looked at Schoen
during
informed the board begun we be to what they
Auto-Mat rix. sion, how close will
dent Lori Bauer. crews have
Editor
School Board ap- American the most sense be- because that came the work session that Member Alan Bries-
When the Delano both bids. That made “That’s important to work on the high school entrance. Dirt wanted?” Board

Second Place: Woodbury Bulletin, Youssef Rddad

00 bid for the inter- problem is of community meetings
proved the $17,616,0 the two buildings. The ate for up in a lot local companies as pos- is still being moved at the intermedi
ate emeister asked.
fall, it opted not to tween acted on the add-altern Schoen said the number
being con-
mediate school in the re controls. we never use as many
Chair Amy Johnson
said. school site, as well. Seguin said the sidered was 6,000 square
feet.
approve a bid for temperatu that open un- the intermedi
ate building.”
board meet- sible,” Board Member Lisa
any local business
“We decided to hold During the regular approved the Schoen added that e would be
6A
a see SCHOOL BOARD,
in November for the cially be considered as project oversight committe
til we got the bid ing, the board offi brings the total that would like to
school and middle school proj- bid, which r or subcontractor for a school 1-4C

Rising ACL tears raises alarms

high building to contracto
Matt Schoen said $315,000 | CLASSIF IEDS
ect,” Superintendent intermediate school 12A | SPORTS 13-18A
Jan. 23 work session. “We for the RIES 11A | CRIME
during the | VIEWPOINTS 7A | OBITUA
Lions Super Bowl
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Safeguarding Our or Internet Montr
ose Thursday Breakf Lions will host the second annual
mail, The Delano and
Importance of sleep target of a phone, featuring waffles
will
American Red Cross the

This is a common sports topic, but brought fresh eyes to it. Good use
Have you been the is often
– senior financial abuse Busi- The Super Bowl Breakfast to 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb.
more
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for students Tuesd scam? You’re not alone Better conduct a blood fried chicken from
9 a.m.
misunderstood. The to provide ity center, Center
Av- Legion Post 377. Tickets
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Delano Public SchoolsJan. 31 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the ness Bureau and Allianz enue and 2nd Street, 12:30 to and
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Kurcinka, Ed.D Tuesday,Auditorium. Sheedy Kurcinka, a program to raise action against senior fraud and Thursday, Feb. 2,
from
younger.
Delano Middle Schoolspeaker, licensed teacher, and and caregivers to take a.m. to noon 6:30 p.m.
a best-selling author, speak on the scientific link program will be 11
financial abuse. The Delano Senior Center.

of the opening athlete, her cluelessness about what happened to her and
will
parent educator, and lack of sleep. Childcare Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the
between student success a free event.
This is

WELL WORTH THE PA

will be available.

Top: Red Wing coach

game against Farmingto
Chris Rodgers addresses
n
the 12U AA team after
the third-base line, Red on July 25 in Red Wing. Right: Standing along
a IN then leading us into the strengthening issue and single sport issues that
likely led to injury. Reinjured athlete’s story was very well told and had
Wing 12U AA coach Chris
youngest son Tyler step Rodgers watches his
into
tournament game against the batter’s box during a Metro Baseball
Farmington on July 25 League
Joe Brown / RiverTown in Red Wing.
Multimedia

Terminal cancer wasn

me feeling her pain. Good research, good insight into a common issue for
’t enou
Chris Rodgers from coach gh to keep
ing Red Wing’s
champion 12U AA baseb
all team

female athletes and coaches. Second place, but lost by a nose.

By Joe Brown
joebrown@rivertowns.n Chris said. In the
state In need
of an outlet

E
et
ach breath and each tournament, Red Wing
Today, Chris, a former
swallow for Chris was a perfect 3-0 in pool
play, outscoring social worker at Red
Rodgers is painful. oppo- Wing
nents 41-12. Then High School, isn’t
Diagnosed in 2009 in the work-
with
pseudomyxoma peritonei, tournament, Red Wing ing anymore. Naturally,
a rare type of cancer, picked up a quarterfin all that time cooped
Rod- win against al up
gers was given a year Prior Lake at home has made him
to (5-4), followed
live. by a vic- antsy. Coaching was his
tory in the semifinals way to avoid cabin fever
And yet, for nearly over at

Third Place: Northfield News, Nick Gerhardt

a Bloomington (11-1). home while acting
decade, he has defied In the as the
the championship game, perfect motivator.
odds to the amazemen the tact. We really
t Wingers scored double “To have this as an rallied
of his doctors. He’s out- behind him.”
ter- digits again for
minally ill, but Rodgers an 11-1 let for me is what I’ve And whatever
tournam ent-clinc pain
keeps pushing forward. hing looked forward to every Chris may have
win over Mankato. single day,” Chris said. been feel-
“My doctors have “I ing earlier in the day,

Northfield High School activity director leaves legacy of leadership

said “No matter what situa- rested for a couple he
they have no idea how days wouldn’t show it
I’ve tion they got in, somebody at a time just to on the
made it as long as I be at the field.
have,” always came through
Chris said. “They ask and ballpark. This is where I “You wouldn’t
me made a play,” Chris said. want to be. Being even
all the time and I tell in the know he’s sick,”
them “They kept learning Hull
I think it’s being with all dirt and the green grass said. “He’s got
my year long. They got better at a baseball game his heart
kids, being in sports with and soul and he’s

Details made this so much more than a retiring AD story. Details about
and and it was so much fun a group like this, with inspiration a great
keeping my mind to to us. And he’s
occu- watch.” Tyler on the field and
pied with all these The state tournamen Jor- a darn good coach.”
activi-
ties with my kids.” t dan coaching with me, it Wherever the Red Wing
also provided plenty
PMP usually starts of was great for my health team went,
in family time for the Rod- and, at times, not people across
the appendix. The great the state’s baseball
cause gerses. With Chris coach- for my health. com-
It would munity checked

his car, the broken white board. His quote about not being very smart
isn’t known, according
to ing in the dugout and the get stressful but in on
the National Organizati overall, coach Rodgers, Red Wing’s William Hanisch
on third-base line and son it was good for the Hull said. takes a swing at a pitch
for Rare Disorders. long “At a tournamen during a 12U AA Metro
The Tyler in uniform, Chris’ run.” t in Baseball League game
mucus-secreting tumors eldest son, Apple Valley, the guys Farmington on July 25. against
Jordan, was in Even before he was sick, Byron at
create jelly-like ended up signing
liquid the dugout pumping up coaching was
that spreads and a part of a “Get Well” in a lot of different
swells the players. Chris’ life. He coached card,” Hull ways, Wing, enters

but organized and a hard worker. Just some good life lessons in this little
inside the peritoneum “Since for said. “There was a special season.” her junior
or my brother Jordan and Hannah, so the a young year of high school.
layer of tissue that started playing ball, I’ve advancing PMP umpire who’d ask how Chris is done coach- Tyler And
lines will be in seventh
the abdomen and pelvis. been trying to help certainly Chris is doing. ing. It’s up in the air
as wasn’t going to prevent Everybody, how grade at Twin
This summer, Rod- much as I can from other coaches much longer his battle Bluff Mid-
with them. him from coaching and with dle School and will
gers continued to Tyler. teams to umpires, PMP will last. But com-
battle I always love being around “This is nothing it’s there’s pete in football, basketball
through his daily new a neat thing to no quit in him.
aches these guys and they like for him,” Jordan see they

story. Well reported and cleanly written.

said. “The prognosis and baseball.
and pains and
helped having me around so it’s just does this because“He care.” isn’t Chris has been
his youngest son and he good for me right now for-
his been a lot of fun,” Jor- wants us to have fun. Hull continued,
“It’s I’m but tunate enough
to coach
teammates become He good to see people fighting through it,”
state dan said. “The state tour- wants to have our car- Chris all three of his kids.
champions. nament was a lot experi- ing about more said. “The most I And
of fun ence be enjoyable.” than just while there’s been
being with them. baseball.” can do is get rest and plenty
A season to It was There were days when stay of wins and
always our dream positive. My kids losses along
when Chris couldn’t make know the way, Chris
remember me and my friends it. It’s not the end this and everyone close
to resolve in the face
hopes his
were Weekend tourname me knows this: I’m of mor-
As the head coach of their age to be in the nts, On July 25, the going
the tournamen state according to 12U to fight tality is his ultimate leg-
Red Wing 12U AA t and winning were the Chris, AA team’s and keep going acy.
base- it all.” toughest with to season came
ball team, Chris led an end for as long as I can.
the upwards of eight in a 2-1 loss … It’s “I want them to real-
youngsters to 40 straight Meanwhile, daughter games to Farmingto going to be a tough
over a three-day stretch. n in the here battle ize that life
Hannah was keeping Metro League playoffs for the next couple throws these
wins, capped off pitch But, Chris added, roadblocks at you
with a count “We the team finished as months. But and it
first-place showing for the 12U Wingers. had I’m going may be
in the a great coaching staff with a day to tough but it’s not
2017 Gopher State “Hannah jumped 42-2-1 record. day and I want to
Tour- there in to where I could take the end,” Chris said.
nament of Champion for us, too,” assis- off days “We gave it all we got,” keep going for my family can’t treat “You
s on tant coach and everyone picked and my kids.” everything like,
July 16 in Sartell. Steve Reinitz each other Chris said after the ‘Oh my God, it’s the
said. up and I could “We loss. As far as his kids end.’
“It was a run where rest and could come worked really hard Jordan go, When something’s in
you Fellow assistant coach back.” and these is headed to the your
always knew the kids “Yeah, he missed kids worked College way, you can’t let
were David Hull a of St. it stop
going to come through,” added, “So it couple really hard for what they Scholasti- you, and
was a total family affair.” games,” Hull said, ca in Duluth. Hannah, I want (my kids)
“but he’s always in got.” a to know that and

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con- Hull added, “It’s been, volleyball, basketball and fully, hope-

es split
softball player for I’ve lived it and not
Red just said it.”

RE Sports
resports@republican-ea
Red Wing closed out
gle.com
the
the playoffs. The Aces
will open
the postseason at third-seed
ed
reliever Brady Schroeder
rendered six runs on sur- In the fourth, Mitch
playoffs
ular season on Sunday reg- Elko at 8 p.m. Friday. three hits ter scored on an Mat- in Section 1B with
a 10-0, eight-inni with Adam Thygesen, in 2 2/3 innings. error, and a record of
ng loss to Spencer Buck added a sacrifice 14-2, followed by
Tim Maus had two Dundas
Northfield. The Aces
also played
Schroeder, Kyle Blahnik
and doubles Morem scored the
fly. Seth 4), Elko (11-5), Northfield (12-
Bay C Dixon Irwin and four RBI for the Aces’ final (11-
K
 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
Weeklies over 5,000
First Place: Alexandria Echo Press, Eric Morken
17, 2017 Echo Press
B1 Long road to the diamond
SPORTS
Wednesday, May

A unique story, well told. The reporter does a nice job of setting the
scene. This kid and his family have been through a lot, and the reporter
brings that to life.
es 20
Infanger overcom

Second Place: New Hope/Golden Valley Sun Post, Chris Chesky

for Osakis
surgeries to pitch was his
Bill said. “That from the Infanger
family
By Eric Morken surgery. Submitted photo
s.com first goal after overcome 20
emorken@echopres
r was a It wasn’t
walking. It was park. Infanger has
catch in the park- Silverstreaks’ home team this spring.
Isaac Infange the dugout at the

Green thrives despite tragedy

more than playing Infanger sits in for the Osakis baseball
third-grader Osakis senior Isaac and knee to become a team captain
home at ing lot.”
1,000 miles from s on his legs
the Sinai Hospital in Bal-
Lifetim e wort h surgerie
ng from who have
timore recoveri 2008.
in of challenges love
to find doctors
it,” Bill
another surgery been That Isaac would familiarity with
What would have have seemed said.

A sad story, but an uplifting one. So many elements at play here. The
for most sports might old
a scary situation
new for inevitable for
those who Isaac was 5 years first
kids was nothing s. his
18 and know the Infanger when he had
him. Isaac, now and staple the
High Bill played football procedure to left
a senior at Osakis sur- baseball in Alexandria growth plates in his
20 an
School, has had head football leg, but that caused
fix issues and is the t base- additional problem. Scar
geries to try to

reporter does a nice job of documenting it all, nice job overall.

a con- coach and assistan the
that stem from at Osakis. His tissue formed around
called Leg Length ball coach a co-fe- it to lock
dition was knee, causing
visit to wife, Amy, in an
Discrepancy. This was male athlete of the
year
up. A broken femur pro-
Baltimore, though, playing accident sped up a
be a in Osakis while re to
supposed to finally tennis, basketball and cedure in Baltimo
on
solution. school. Their have a fixator placed
out there golf in high his left leg
“We’d flown t son, Hunter,
t,” Isaac’s younges in December
to see a specialis
“He had is a fresh- of 2007. Pins
father, Bill, said.
d us he man starter were insert-
basically promise
percent on the Sil- let it through
could fix this...85 this.” verst r e a k s I never really ed
fix I skin
chance he could for b a s e b a l l be something that
the

Third Place: Alexandria Echo Press, Eric Morken

Isaac was there and into the
more than seven phys-
weeks team.
“Growi ng
think about because bone.
to work with their was I don’t want it to
be The fixator
Members up, I orted
ical therapists. biggest something I take into s u p p
took turns the the femur.
of his family nut leg that was
to be with sport ration when a device on his left
flying out east could conside Isaac’s mom a third-grader with knee.
on his couch as

Brothers behind him

at the you g.
e , ” I’m doing anythin in his
dad
him as they stayed and Isaac falls asleep n the soft tissue
House, i m a g i n also had to used to apply tension to straighte
Hackerman-Patz for Isaac said. ISAAC INFANG ER, been an obstacle
suites make regu- Anoth- always
affordab le fami- “To this day, Osakis senior noticeable limp. could overcom
e.
patients and their lar realign- a tennis ball. in Baltimore he have
Hospital I’m still
the most er surgery of 2008 was Isaac would
lies on the Sinai biggest Min- ments with thread- “Honestly, I spend in January to play football
Campus. fan you’ll s on it in of my time not thinking to clean up the scar loved through
Vikings ed adjuster said of meant and basketball

A nice tale of perseverance, reported comprehensively. As in the first-

to a nesota
Isaac was confined I always loved an attempt to slowly about it,” Isaac around the knee school, but his
leg
surgery. ever meet. ly stretch the those early challeng
es. “I tissue range of high
wheelchair after but he playing sports, especial straighten and give him full wouldn’t allow
it at a
it be some- to
He couldn’t walk, ion to baseball.” knee. never really let about motion. competi tive level. Base-
permiss drove that for I think work. He
was given That passion Isaac wore thing that It didn’t t. He may
on as he because I don’t want it to ball was differen
stand if needed. to never give up more than a month a full knee down
he could Isaac into required be able to chase
The idea was of playing on the returned home. He was be something I take the summer not steal bases,
or pick his goal I’m replacement year fly balls or

place story, the reporter writes well and has a good eye for detail. Could
go to the bathroom table. diamond at the varsity in a wheelchair in school consideration when a after his freshman pitching opened a
off a all it would eventual- doing anything. It’s just Compli- but
something up ideas. level despite at first before in high school. for him.
Isaac had other get there. . What- part of who I am. I’d rather that led to door I felt
baseball take to ly using crutches cations from “It was the sport
There were no Isaac has a left
leg that is s were in be able to run and stuff just the skin up at with
immedi- ever obstacle I bleeding under to I could keep
fields in the his right that found a way like everybody else, but did nerve damage
was a longer than first noticed his way, he myself in that everybody else,”
he said.
ate area, but there them. Classma
tes
don’t think of of his leg. That’s
enough the family the around of it.” the front Isaac was never
going

have used a tighter edit; probably a bit too long.

parking lot with he walked around the held his crutches
when
any less way because experiences up. He was the
a ball. He as led to pain he
room to toss 3. Doctors told he reached stairs
so he as the to give it
to talk his age of the short the rail les can today in his foot bookkee per for the Silver-
just needed s that
him down Infanger to be the leg could
slide down Obstac nerves slowly
come back. and sixth
dad into taking leg tends and land on his
good leg.
be overcome bad streaks in fifth
problems for even caught gotten “It can be really
there. days,” Isaac said.
in the that causes Leg Length His parents Isaac has never
where some ER: Page B3
“Here we are with him playing goalie
in the pain has INFANG
downtown those the leg to the point To Isaac, that
parking lot in ncy. With Isaac, garage as Hunter pound- without a
this Hack- Discrepa the long one. he could walk
Baltimore at and it’s been shots at him with
erman-Patz House it hard ed slap

ward the best

catch,” “That’s made
we’re playing

Another step to
Cards ready
to showcase
All Dailies
their talent
at state True
Team
First Place: St. Cloud Times, Mick Hatten, Stephanie Dickrell &
By Eric Morken
emorken@echopres relay
Alexandria’s 4x400
team gathered
s.com

together to
with every-
Ryan Pietruszew
ski | Echo Press

on starts her
Calley Richards for a two-
David Unze
Opioid addiction package
say a prayer
going into Cardinals junior that she drives
thing on the line swing on the pitch . The
the final race at
the Section sixth inning on Tuesdaywhich
meet on RBI double in the ria a 6-5 lead,
8AAA True Team | Echo Press
two runs gave Alexand Lakes.
the win over Detroit
Eric Morken
May 9. Kaye Paschka they held on to for

A section
20 years
After more than Roderick, Madi Gay, up a
a true team of (left to right) Erika May 11. The group wrapped

Powerful series hits home on opioid addiction. Lengthy but worth every
of not winning
senior Madi The Alexandria
4x400 relay team at a practice on
title, pose for a photo May 9.
section
girls were and JeAnna Miller the final race on
Gay said these Team title by winning an accomplishment
this was the Section 8AAA True

t
the tal- point is

statemen
confident that she has ever seen away.
beat a that can’t be taken Orge-
group that could It came down ented sophomore run.
program final race. “I cried,”
perennially strong finish where “I just had to
run my
umb said. “I
was
-Albertville. to a photo anchor stum-

word, every quote, every detail.

in St. Michael ’ said. “Even man-Cr lmed with emotion
to do was the Knights race,” Paschka overwhe
All that was left finish line and when she passed me, I track and field
head-to- bled at the hard just because to step back
before she
ics
Late-inning hero
beat the Knights the baton she was running
relay to at lost dis- knew is really easy
head in the final It resulted in a running the race individual
tie and virtual crossed. the and I was and let it be an

lift Cards over DL

force a that gave run. I knew real-
least r sys- qualification I knew I had to I came from a
meet in the compute win because catch up to sport. and
Cardinals the any I was going to I ly strong high school that
wasn’t awarded because
tem.
the power STMA her at the end finish college track
program ewski
“We stood in pretty strong the team framewo in
rk. By Ryan Pietrusz
chests up points. ria’s have a blessed with. built
hopress.com
position with our Paschka was Alexand that I’ve been ed that rpietruszewski@ec was ready
down We’ve establish softball team
high and we walkedready,” anchor who ran side-by- I just ran my race.” program, and
I see the The Detroit Lakes its season
the track and
got Alex- emotion- this than they Alexandria ended
practice on side
down the stretch. It capped off an girls doing more for revenge after ls. The Lak-
Gay said from coach Meghan this team that section semifina
andria head day for they could on their last spring in the a five-run

Second Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Chris Murphy

May 11. “We
talked about n-Crumb said
it al set on think on their way before enough to
has its sights ers were well s just
ce in our- Orgema the photo now ready for the deep- own.” gave the Cardinal
having confiden clear from n-Crum b called sixth inning
running as was press being in the state at
Orgema k 6-5 win.
selves and reviewed in the team meet steal a comebac
and as hard as we they had the Knights ’ est teams
May 19. For a the section true she has
strong box that Stillwater on
the most inspired
not fallen, Paschka coaching staff that preach- B3
can.”
by senior anchor for STATEMENT: Page
Gay was joined have edged her importance of
team-
Page B3
freshman would head es the this RELAY:

That’s what I’m striving for

JeAnna Miller, outright win. The race work, just getting to
and sopho- the called it the best
Erika Roderick in that coach
more Kaye Paschka

A champion of a story. Tightly written, detailed emotion, effective

quotes, well done.

Third Place: Duluth News Tribune, Jon Nowacki

Making the most of life
Descriptive, detailed opening leads nicely into solid sports feature.

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
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Business Story
Weeklies up to 1,500
St. Peter boys soccer turns First Place: St. Peter Herald, Nancy Madsen
CITY COUNCIL ST. PETER up the offense/ SPORTS 1B
considers 2017
SOCCER Putting down the camera: St. Peter’s Photo Shop Studio closes

St. Peter Herald

preliminary levy / 2A
after 45 years
$1.25 Newsstand
Loved this story. Strong writing. Congrats!
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t due to St. Peter man

www.stpeterherald.c
2016

sts accessibility, in par

ber 15,
Thursday, Septem

U.S. Bank Stadium boa to participate gram

the council, he was asked e for the new University of Minnesota
College
at the design students
work on projects where
“The best skill a designer
and archi-
at the College of Design tect can have is listening to the user in
director of interior design of De- and other educational institutio
ns fre-
our drawing skills,”
interact- addition to projects I’ve been part of
of
Asojo Second Place: Jackson County Pilot, Justin Lessman
Ellefson buys into hometown
By NANCY MADSE
N a group of end quently users is required. For example, said. “Most es involved like that.”
m in the accessibility committe olis Multi- sign, said in any project, and feed- ing with s area have had committe the fruit of its labor
nmadsen@stpeterherald.co called the Minneap valuable insight worked on a common sees
stadium, lity Advisory users provide . students have Committee
Grams had Purpose Stadium Accessibiago, the com- back to architects and designers know at an elementa ry school and an expansion For those on the accessibility advi-
you clinics. where
St. Peter man Steve Committee. Several years a year with “It helps because upfront really are,” to one of the university’s health and sory committee, they could see
a committee to about teachers, staff incorporated.
worked for a year on go above and mittee met monthly for what the users’ requirem
ents
They had to work with committee’s input was

Good story. Not really sure what coffee has to do with rock and roll. I
make U.S. Bank Stadium for accessi- a consultant and architect
s. think about the the the $1.1 bil-
code things and dis- she said. buy-in medical personnel and , health care The firm that designed
beyond state building “We proposed certain Participation builds children, acoustics Stadium was HKS Archi-
ramps and seatings,” Grams
said. more buy-in size of on those lion U.S. Bank Dallas. The oft-touted ele-
bility. finished work. cussed group raised questions, especial- The end design will have they were equipment and accessibility in
In July, he got to see the first regular if African- tects, based nt
The or what from community members so ago, projects. Asojo worked on an ments of the stadium are the transpareve
the evacuate century or in Houston lene roof, fi
With the stadium hosting game Sept. 18, ly on lifts and how to able to give input. A American Catholic church ee sought ethylene-tetraflouroethy

think I would’ve liked to have had that explained a little better.

season Minnesota Vikings hundreds of would happen in power
outages. not a common practice. and lots
the group, this was the master where the
building committ igh pivoting glass doors out-
and
thousand of people — can enjoy the Wife Barb Grams said e more di- and design 95-foot-h more like an
Th “There was a time when and built more African architectural of glass to make it feel
—
those with disabilities and amenities. “does make a difference. the better the builder existed and designed “The sty- elements. ce while still in a climate-
stadium’s atmosphe re the group of people, building,” Asojo said. some complex ity to whole door experien ent.
new an, has verse the entire “It adds controlled environm
of the era.
Grams, also a city councilm .” influence was the focus on process,” she said.
with disabilities. outcomecommittee had members who listic wasn’t on the user but ure and 6A
long advocated for those wrestling in The
deaf and have The emphasis But it’s reality for architect See STADIUM on
neck
use wheelchairs, are blind, changed now.”
He suffered a broken
a wheelchair. the style of the time. It’s and interior design firms now.
high school and uses es.
ta State other disabilitiAsojo, professor and pro- Asojo said architecture

Broadway east of
He has served on the Minneso Abimbola
y. While he was on

Third Place: Minneota Mascot, Scott Thoma and Byron Higgin

Council on Disabilit

Minnesota Avenue to be
MER A
BUSINESS

PUTTING DOW N THE CA

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rebuilt in summer 201
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By NANCY MADSE
nmadsen@stpeterherald.co
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Rebuilding Minneota
St. Peter’s Photo Shop Stud
99 bridge
ta Avenue to the Hwy.

Good concept.
Broadway from Minneso
2017.

closes after 45 years

will be rebuilt in summer Minnesota Department of Trans-
The city of St. Peter and which
design stages for the project,
Lindquist said it was not
unusual portation are in the final rehabilita-
some de- with the Hwy. 99 bridge
as he tries to clear it out, desk, taping
that he would sit at his and hear will be done in tandem
cades old. working tion. disruption
‘I noticed often that here up negatives or closure and business
N
By NANCY MADSE “Anyone who’s got stuff said. music. Schmidt would be thinking “It will require just one ity development
nmadsen@stpeterherald.co
m Russ Wille, commun
to come down soon,” he for one period,” said
I would take a senior needsFocus on happy events
of a tune, pick up his guitar and start
director for the city. medians
After 45 years, Wayne
Schmidt school, photo- playing. will be narrowed, with with the
and tak- photo in high During his career, he years Sometimes wedding
s can get The driving surface
s, which will be complian
t
is packing up his camera from his

ing down frame corners
NEWS
Photo Shop Studio.
The storefront, at the
Broadway Robotics team
and Minneso
has long been a St. Peter
does demo
Weeklies 1,501-2,500
502 weddings in 20 someone is installed and sidewalk es Act, and green space expanded.
then the wedding, graphed countless family reunion
s, a little intense because bride and
Americans with Disabiliti of the Minnesota Avenue inter-
have and , an- taking over besides
the
side
corner of then they would
high school senior portraits oc- groom,” Lindquist said. “But we
got Broadway on the eastern different. The left turn lane will
SPORTS
es and other special ents. For the most
ally
section will be dramatic the left turn lane from Broadway
ta Avenue,
a kid and, next thing niversari a lot of complim with
landmark. casions. phers never get to eat line up much closer And a bump out in the ion in
sidewalk
dressed part, photogra you’re working, but
you know, the kid is Staebler, Grove
“Families were always west of the intersection.
vehicles coming to the
intersect

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The shop closed Aug.
31.
“People from all over say,
would
recognize the building at the
and
shop
‘Hey, do you own that
corner?’ and that they looked
stopped at
spirits,” a meal, because a lot of times to sit pavement will restrict n lane to go north on Minnesota
up and in pretty good
getting married.’ go head-to-head
Schmidt said. “It was
always an we got invited” the straight and right-tur
A10 lives.” down and eat.
— Wayne Schmidt honor to be part of people’sfamilies Some memories stand
out from Avenue. turning movement easier
and pre-
His connection with of capturing mo- “This will make semi
at my
genera- all B1
those hours
rs at one serve the curb better, ” Wille said.
to that of
would continue through ments. Schmidt remembe were the appearance similar

Riverview finds employees in immigrants

pictures while they were bride and groom The medians will make appropriate, he said, because
the stoplight,” Schmidt photog-
said. tions. I would wedding, a is
Minnesota Avenue, which“gateway” to St. Peter.
’s interest in several bands, that “doesn’t use as “I noticed often that presented to the congregation and d a
Schmidt high school,
was young, much equipment.” take a senior photo in a young
before anyone could clap, a loud the block is considere significant changes along the block
raphy started when he then the wedding, then Saturthey would
day, Dece back turned on But there will be some of road.
thing you man in the
mber 3, 2016 accidents along the stretchTess said
he said. person,” Decades of change have a kid and, next in the hopes of reducing

Strong story and sidebar on immigrant worker. Great work. Nice, clean
of Photo Shop Studio. Manager Zachary
“I was always an artsy t Wayne Schmidt stands behind the counter MnDOT District 7 Project crashes in five years from
he said. “Basically, it
was a hobby In his 40 years on that prominen damage
a lot. (Photo courtesy of Susan Taylor) there were eight property ta Avenue intersection. Of those,
that got out of hand.” corner, St. Peter has changed the bridge to the Minneso Police, which cannot delineate
went to Mankato State There’s a lot more traffic on Min- St. Peter
Schmidt
and re- nesota Avenue and the community box to Queen’s “Another
One five were reported by segments in
University for an art degree getting married,” boom Dust.” intersection or at road Minnesota
diversified from its know, the kid is between crashes at an

copy.
starting his
turned a few years after degree. has grown and Bites the he was in between the bridge and
he said. “I remember thinking between. The segment average per million vehicle miles
business to get a business Scandinavian roots. into the
Avenue is 0.9 miles, so have a crash average of 0.61 per
was And the photography
world has He said he will miss running big trouble,” Schmidt said.
His first business location ck and customers. is 8.18. Similar segments
on the first floor of the
Konsbru evolved. Color film improvedfilms those won’t have the same contact photos taken million vehicle miles.
when he started popularit y, higher speed “I
where Years of number of crashes, one priority was to
Hotel. In 1971, gained I know, taking Because of the high
businesses allowed better wedding pictures and with a lot of people and talk or Schmidt most enjoyed A few design features
were integrat-
there, a group of small improve vehicular safety. is the elimination of angle park-

Local veteran
digital photography developed
. we stop on the sidewalk ” high school senior portraits. he said.
were on the first floor. a recent I go to lunch and run into people, ” ed to accomplish that.
One
of Broadway.
The storefront at the Ave.,
corner During one summer, “All the kids look good, have be parallel on both sides
ta Gustavus Adolphus Schmidt said. young and ing — all parking will angle parking anymore,” Tess said.
building, 101 S. Minneso The graduate from taking “They’re healthy, “We don’t perpetuate
Schmidt set up the Although he stopped futures ahead of them. sight lines for angle parking
generally

recalls Pearl
1976.
became available in Schmidt College helped equipment and wedding photos years ago, he said their whole to parents later, some “We’ve found that the

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le and with digital many When I talked accident rates.”
rent was reasonab studio shot
those were fun days. He years a went on to be really successful at contributes to higher for driveways,
couple who learn the digital editing process. elimination of access points y and along
said he helped out the ly, he ” Schmidt by himself, but for several The other is the
owned the building. Eventual “It was a clean cut then, something.” the south side of Broadwa
Kevin Lindquist, worked including the homes on Fitness and St. Peter Woolen Mill.

Harbor news
them. friend, He enjoyed the chances to take Pulse
bought it from said. the west side of The start at
huge,” he for him. visitors at Gusta- number of crashes, we said.
“The exposure was He still kept old negativescus- with into the pictures of famous “Where we have a high
Lindquist said he walked 1987 vus, including the king and queen of

A new brew for Pine City

Tess
years, because occasion
ally a access management,” points,
said. building tomer would return looking for a photo shop for the
first time in
writers Elie Wiesel and
Toni general access and scene less access
Schmidt has sold the until his family Sweden, andYost “Where we have
the opportunity to have
,” he said. from decades ago. and worked there Viking
Morrison, and former MorrisJustice
Rae
to a “group of investors and his wedding photo rare anyway and moved to Minneapolis in 1994. Friday, ”
Court Sun Tribunethat’s where we start.March 13, 1942. At
After it’s cleaned out,
he “It was very I’ve ever Minnesota SupremeThe news of the attack 21, he was the youngest WAY on 6A
would like to pretty soon people were not really “It was the best place ever Alan Page. on of the 13 Stevens See BROAD
Carrigan most fun I’ve Pearl

Interesting and informative story about a new business. I felt the couple’s
wife Diana Harbor had County
re warm” hated to throw them worked and the put out a quality men who left
“spend winter somewhe Schmidt asking, but I had,” he said. “We See PHOTO 3A just been day. Now, Morris that
said. he’s only one of
and return in the summer. guitar, a out,” Schmidt the shop product and had a good time.
” announ ced
two of those 13
is planning to play more led to He still has orders in and Les- David
Jergenson
still alive.
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First Place: Shakopee Valley News, Deena Winter

“There was a lot
explaining what
of people e at Riverview
they did for a Rae Yost
job. I think that “When I decided
influenced quite Morris Sun Tribune to bring
few kids,” seventh a my family here
-grader Travis Several years it was
Kirwin said. ago Ben- tough.
jamin Juarez said I
Desi Estrada, another he made family had one part of my

Humans vs. robots

seventh- a tough choice. here and left other
grader, said the His grand-
students learned mother and mother family in Mexico,
about so many ” Juarez
different jobs. him he must decide told said. A tough decision
Students learned to live the right but
in Mexico or America
at Superior, employabout welders one, he said.
ees who work that he must choose and “Riverview, here,
with blueprints what care they
and other jobs. was best for his about the person,

Excellent use of video to add to narrative.

At SCMC, staff wife and Juarez ”
told children. said.
nursing jobs, administhem about happy in his
He’s been
“For me, it was
and jobs in radiolog trative jobs tough wife Vaneza
work. His
y. but I needed Hernandez,
Some of the employ to decide,”
Juarez said. He son Benjamin
shared with student ees who chose to Hernan E. Juarez
s during the move his family dez, 15, and Ana
day “had jobs to Min- Juarez V.
they dreamed nesota where Hernan dez, 12, are
Since they were about. he
kids they’d been work for Rivervie could happy in Morris.
thinking about w in
doing that jobs,” Morris and its “One importa
seventh-grader subsidiar- for nt thing
Maddix Erickso ies including me, is if my
said. n West fami-
Riverview operate River. ly is comfortable,”
Yet some of those s cattle said. Juarez
who talked lots, a constru “My wife is happy,
about their jobs ction com-

Second Place: Detroit Lakes Tribune, Kaysey Price

didn’t plan on pany and has the kids are
working in that locations in happy, I’m
job when they Nebraska and happy.”
were younger. others in
the U.S.
Jason Breuer, the VISA: Page A2
chief executive
officer at SCMC,
was an occupati
therapist before onal
he became a

Employee shortage strikes multiple local businesses

hospital adminis
trator. When he Chande l Dietz,
young, he thought was Center, a physica l therapi
maybe he’d be uses Morris Area st at Steven s Commu
accountant or lawyer. an some Schools student nity Medica l
of the therapy they Kenny Soderberg
Rusty Nielsen, the use for patients. to show
nursing at SCMC, director of
was a tool and dye it was interest
maker for more ing to learn that
some speakers were jobs in Morris

Revealing details in a topic lots of people are interested in and affected

than 10 years before didn’t have a “full
he became a nurse. idea of what they that paid for a
wanted to do” comfortable living.
Breuer and Nielsen for a career. Many of those
students to explore encoura ged jobs involved
different careers. Money, Heil said, more than student
Students should motivat wasn’t a s expected.
not ing factor for those A photographer
pressure on themsel put too much shared about their who said
photographs spends taking
ves to know work. They told
what they want time taking pictures “only a little

by.
for a students it was
shouldn’t be afraid career and important to do
job they enjoyed a lot more time . She spends a
to change rather than to do doing other stuff,”
careers, Breuer job just to make a
and Nielsen said. money, Heil said. seventh-grader
Eighth-grader But, Heil and the Cassidy Asmus
Emma Heil said said.
graders said they seventh-
learned there
CAREE RS: Page A10 Riverview employ Rae Yost / Sun
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Craft closure leaves some wanting more local restaurants in Wood-

bury
A good example of taking what could have been a simple business clos-
ing story and making it into a trend piece.

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Weeklies over 5,000
First Place: Southwest Journal, Minneapolis, Dylan Thomas
Emergent:
Winnersof the Jerome Foundat
Fellowships for ion
Businesses push back on minimum wage study
This story was informative for local readers and had ties to national is-
Emerging Artists
at MCAD exhibit

October 20–Nove
mber 2, 2016
Vol. 27, No. 21

sues.
southwestjourna
l.com

VOTE ’S 20 16
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Third Place: The Journal, Minneapolis, Eric Best

GU IDE
Local restaurants take off at MSP airport
This story had an enterprise twist that made it matter more to the reader
Hig
schoh stake
What’s on ol b s
oard
the ballot? elec
ti
than just a simple restaurant story.
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VOT
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All Dailies
First Place: Grand Forks Herald, Tom Dennis
Minneapolis work
s Businesses push The story of Digi Key
to prevent lead
back on minimum
poisoning Who outside of the industry would imagine that the story of electronic
wage study
R HITS
More than 80 perce
HOME
components could be fascinating? Not only does Tom Dennis provide
nt of city’s homes
constructed before
lead paint ban
Manifesto Skepticism that benefi
ts of higher wages
a hardto win
against diversity
won’t come with
Twins rally hit for business
6-5, Page C1
By Michelle Bruch

in tech industry
insights into Digi-Key’s success, but he does it with lively writing and a
/ mbruch@southwe
stjournal.com

sparks outrage
All kids under age six By Dylan Thomas
in Minneapolis should / dthomas@southw
be tested for lead in were constructed before estjournal.com
the bloodstream, 1978, the year lead
according to the Minnesot paint was banned, lead A city-commissioned
a Department of dust
Health. find its way into toddlers’ continues to the local minimum wage
study that found raising
a team of economists

conversational voice that makes his report a joy to read.

mouths. The City would from the University of
The number of children
poisoned by lead
Council approved state
grant funding this fall of color with little downside benefit workers Minnesota found 47,000
has fallen nationally to continue outreach skeptical reactions in for employers drew of the city’s 311,000
and in Minnesota. But on the issue. October from portions workers, or roughly 15
more than 80 percent as A total of 147 Minneapo of percent of the Minne-
of Minneapolis homes lis kids were the Minneapolis business apolis workforce, would
community and some feel the impact of a
members of the City minimum wage hike
USA SEE LEAD / PAGE In a report delivered
Council.
minimum wage would
to $12 an hour. A $15

A10 Oct. 5 to the Council,
TODAY
impact about 71,000
SEE MINIMUM WAGE
/ PAGE A12
B1

Second Place: Mesabi Daily News, Virginia, Jerry Burnes

017
ugust 7, 2
M o n d ay, a

Essar Bankruptcy: One Year Later

Thorough, layered reporting by Jerry Burnes that addresses the complex-
ities of the Essar bankruptcy.
Each Monday, the Herald
of
shares an interesting aspect
greater grand Forks through

its snapshot of data.
☐ ☐ ☐
Forks and
the cities of grand

THE STORY
require

Third Place: St. Cloud Times, Ben Rodgers

East grand Forks
the cities.
licenses for pets in
been
Both cities have had
pets in
licensing many new
2017.

Urban living trend comes to area downtowns

OF DIGI-KEY Photo courtesy
of Digi-Key
Ben Rodgers didn’t just notice the changes taking place downtown. With
disciplined and insightful writing, he explained why they’re happening.
away.
some 65 miles
in Thief River Falls. incorporated has announced
The Digi-Key campus when Stordahl Digi-Key now
n Thief River expansion, one
business has grow
his business in a $300 million
selling his in the region’s
Thief River Falls
Falls, and the staff of the biggest
eyer” accessory
r course of
ld’s largest selle original “Digi-K
two. Including
history. Over the will build

to become the wor ents that are

ey
dogs in grand Forks: numbe red only 10 years, Digi-K
even bigger

821
Stordahl. an additional,
pon Corp. hire 1,000 more
of electronic com
ey
Today, the Digi-K seller of warehouse and

ediate shipmen t is the world’s

largest
ents that
workers — all
in Thief River

avai lable for imm electronic compon

are availab le for immed iate Falls.
Not bad for a town of 8,600,
dogs in Because
Boy, does it ever. that’s 20 miles
later, you and shipment. especially one
East grand Forks: By Tom Dennis a few decades The company stocks
chips,
from the nearest
four-lane

88 A
Grand Forks Herald s now stock ic River Falls’
your 3,500 worker food items, diodes and other electron highway. But Thief part of
Thief River Falls t g-mall-
millions of differen orders parts in its shoppin sales remoteness is
a big
little alternative ship grocery use. A .
us and you
a year from sized wareho Digi-Key’s success
history can help totaling $2 billion 16,000 orders the beginning
use in Thief team processes Let’s go back to
tell this tale. your giant wareho system that we won’t need
a day, using a — and this time, real-life
You’re Ray Kroc, River Falls. 10 languages The
accommodates an alternative.
it’s 1955, and you’ve Substitute a hand-h
eld radio ies while sending ic enough.
Cats in grand Forks: McDonald’s rgers, and 16 currenc history is dramat
didn’t have

248
es.
just started selling — and accessory for hambufoodstuffs parts to 170 countri of three Back then, you to
for than one out
hamburgers. Except electronic parts More a choice. If you wanted
history veers ant) Ron gton r) radio
here is where our and (most import of the jobs in Pennin be a ham (or amateu and ’70s,
— your burgers
Stordahl for Ray
Kroc, and are located at 1960s
way off course County, Minn., operator in the
well. In fact, sense of the company runs Morse code.
don’t sell very you’ve got a fair Digi-Key. The you had to learn
Cats in selling at all. in workers from
soon they’re not Digi-Key story. buses bringing
East grand Forks: start selling the timeline, ton, East Grand
Forks EY: Page A3
So instead, you Oh, and shorten Crooks DIGI-K

10
, the Digi-Key the latter
the buns, the picklesd and the too. Because the and Bagley, Minn.,
recently as 1972,
ketchup, the mustar story starts as
beef. That works.
t for CRP hay
ranchers look eas
Drought-ravaged
coun-
some of the isn’t
ty’s farmla nd
crops and
well-suited to
CRP for
By Jonathan Knutso
n has been in the
Agweek Staff Writer years.
many
GRAND FORKS
— Jus- It’s unclear how
d across in Grand
tin Mead travele CRP acres
hay. will be
the state to make Forks County
trip because
The 370-m ile hayed, in part
CRP are
from his ranch
in Grassy not all types of
a tem- . And
Butte, N.D., to open to haying
won’t
porary home
in Grand some CRP land
from e weeds
Forks took him be hayed becaus
of hay
a brown -and-s tunted limit the value more
green from it, adding
Forks Police world to a lushly er-
source: East grand
Forks one. uncertainty. Uncoop
department & grand in August
ative services “It’s different,
that’s ative weather
Finance and administr said against
for sure,” Mead also would work
he stood haying.
with a smile as a Grand
in a field enrolle
d in the Paul Sproule,
Reserv e con-
Conser vation Forks farmer who’s
he and n North
Progra m that necting wester
his rs with
Aaron Reddis h, Dakota ranche
longtim e Nick Nelson / Agweek Forks-area land-
hired man and involved in Grand
friend, were haying
. one of many people , said he’s already
Grand Forks, is ranchers and owners with more than
of many Sproule Farms in Program) land to
Mead is one
Dakota Paul Sproule, of on CRP (Conse rvation Reserve wildfire s.
visited
ners.
t and
To get your Herald
: western North providing hay grown lly those affected
by drough 20 landow
much
are hay- “There ’s so
ranchers who others in need, especia acres it’s
(701) 780-1215 ing, or trying
to hay, it. million
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North need
for this. And
vegetation on those of
(800) 811-2580 CRP land in Grand
Forks
get enough CRP
hay here other
e of the drough
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News tips: County. The meager Becaus Department of Dakota acres us fortuna
county — to offset their the U.S. about 1.5 million re this year help
(701) 780-1136 North Dakota hay crop back
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its dom- volunt ary Agriculture and and Grand Forks acres. some of the people
Sports: CRP is a ncy haying 74,000
inant city — has
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he says.
(701) 780-1120 t ravag- federal progra
to take grazing a Though most is in the
ed the drough pays landowners Dakota, Montan A5
ing much of
the state, ly sensi- North Forks County CRP HAY: Page
For the very latest environmental South Dakota. Red River Valley,
includi ng the
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tive land out of Of the roughl
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Mead and grass and
tion and plant
Herald online at other ranchers
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StillwaterGazette

Judge dis misses 4 claims aga Rule 12.

closing Withrow,
Marine Discove
r, or BOLD, plan
on by the Still-
elementary as voted School Board. Second Place: Jackson County Pilot, Justin Lessman
a and Oak Park
s in lawsuit On April 13, 2016, and failed to dis-
water Area

In the Remaining 2 claim

asks for
Invest- schools, The lawsuit also

All Access
group called Voters Edu- close conflicts of interest re-
October judgments that would
are set for trial in
’s
ed in Our Children
know
the 2015 facilities move members from the
filed the during
ry cation (834 Voice) bond campaign. board based on
sure of three elementa school
lawsuit against the court. In the lawsuit, the
un- school
BY ALICIA LEBENS ns of violating
schools. district in district plaintiff s state allegatio Open Meeting
THE GAZETTE Judge Daniel O’Fallon school named Minnesota
The lawsuit alleges aim to stop the Law, and Fair Campaign

Love the two-story approach here.

order March 20 and dis- their
SPORTS Last week, an
Anoka issued the
the four claims
board member s
held closure of
the schools
Court to dismiss trict administration the Building Op- See Lawsuit, Page
A8
County District Stillwater Area meetings through to Learn and
Few changes in store
for Stillwater four of against closed-door over portunities
judge dismissed a civil
Public Schools in called
after the Minnesota
High School in a lawsuit while deliberating
six civil claims re

d
assign- clo- court procedu

Carefully crafte
League releases section related to the planned
2018-19.
ments for 2017-18 and
Page B1
for
Welcome home celebration
try skier
Team USA cross-coun

Third Place: Jordan Independent, Rachel Wittrock

April 12.
Jessie Diggins set for
Page B1

Cole Leb-
Noah Johnson and
for Stillwa-
ourgeois finish 1-2

At home with monsters

team in
ter boys’ track and field
3,200-meter time trial.
Page B2

INSIDE
Concise and well-done.

History – The Stillwater

facturing industry is the
manu-
subject of
in Time”
Weeklies 1,501-2,500
First Place: Union-Times, Princeton, Milaca, Jeff Hage
Brent Peterson’s “Back
column.
Page A2

charged for
Public safety – Four
l sex

She’s My Sister hits the big Stage

‘sophisticated’ internationa
trafficking ring
Page A3

Cool story about a unique subject. Good reactions from the subjects.
she’s my siste www.MilleLacsC
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from page 1
business, Musicm
and were invited How was the his Park Heights-based
perform liveTHIS WEEK
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afternoon Escape the library photo by Jonatha T
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of skills
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day, Aug.tecting wanted

Local instrument
30. 1 at Bay- to see what we that Audrey and Franny nts. As
And while program, 1-2 p.m. April m
make of this,” Lily added. can ther Jeff Larson to musical instrume ’s fa- closed
the e 582 N. Fourth s not only lery came up with. s
girls didn’t win
port Public Library, Chloe took on the - ers’ worksho p produce “Playing before timethemoved on, supplier Music-
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andconcert
Minnesota State Nelson has ukulele finished. harps, was scary,” kits and Franny doors,
their said.
the clues andefind the
Maltese Fal-
BY JONATHAN YOUNG instrument pl lays guitar. Audrey
harp-building “There were its own
Fair talent con- - runs out. For ages
builder,
Heights yourself
so many people.”makers began creating
folk instru- Oak
test, they all con before time THE GAZETTE worked Oak Park
at the“Singin g is all a myriad of stringedThe girls nt kits in its current
agree required. saaid Lily,
akerswh since 2000. I can contribute,” won instrume
the hearts ofworksho p. Its prod-
being on the 14 and up. Registration business Musicm ho doesn’t ments. , that night g Heights Milaca globe.
stage was Event
fair
is part of The Big Read
in the
scent of dry wood — cher- Last year the m Cottage Grove resi- play
ment. an instru-
akers began
since. in 1978 and in Park
haven’t slowed
ship around the
an ex- The in Musicm ucts now
perience ofSt.a Croix Valley, celebrating “The ry, maple and walnut — hangs h i n ie Botz, downtown Stillwater as a hobby
W i tStephan
his wife, Harps and harp
kits are the
life-
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Ham- curl and dent and a the from Kits. Its do-
time. the air. Wood shavings ed weekbusiness of store called St. Croix ranged from
Since coming is free. Registration: ch or the floor purchas Jerry f o r Brown.
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Second Place: Perham Focus, Marie Johnson

mett. Event
tog fall to the workben founder it-yourse See Harps, Page
gether as a a planing Frranny Joseph’s cut-
musical group, bit.Ly/2nBE 5mt Nelson pushes just north had dof clocks and from
played for fairs
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laca Arts Center, gigs at the Mi- asked if she was the
th Milaca
the Princeton Depot she talked about formingserious when Art Center. a
Museum, the Milaca Population
nty continues
a band.
ket, and have opened Farmers Mar-
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percent
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of by accident. water a three-quart
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list
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them follow for She She’ss My Sister will

Sometimes the best stories are like that.

beach as ing its trend of line upFranny
over again,” and ing the stages after tak
2015-16 grounds and a bathing a r sthe
of the L says o nnumbersThe unnameple, andsaid.we as a county at the Mille Lacs tak-
along with the rest esti-h
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school yea ar, soon as finances are available. to with expectat
home, Au- ceived
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First Place: Hutchinson Leader, Kay Johnson

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later that evening had performed from time The family formed their p
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Tornadoes of fire
patch
from page 1 and curiosity will
mine his curricul deter- following day we had to
um
ington, D.C. the road, accordin on wait two hours for the that he gave them a re- “Patch’s story
That’s because www.sc hooloft g to buffalo to membrance of their meant ing he
clear the stop that much
has been accepte Patch com, a website heroad . on which we were road through town. to him,” he said can’t do,” Sanders
d to a dedicated ing. travel- said. of Patch.

A well-written, first-person piece about researching one’s roots and ap-

specialized school When they cleared According to
for to Patch’s journey. ers, Rick Olson Sand- And then there When it comes
children with “He is leading the road, they told him one of was tism, the family to au-
and soon will be autism guiding and along side walked “I can’t
let you forget the founder is intent
moving us along of us,” Sand- Milaca” the North Dakota s of on taking a common “I
away from home. way,” Sanders said. the ers said. and ripped the
tism Au- can’t messag
e” and
shirt off his back. Center in Fargo
Because the The trio has Sanders , ping it to a “I can flip-
will soon be separat family
across biked found the said he has “He literally took who welcomed
Patch, sage,” mes-
trail in

plying for membership in an organization few in the general public might

ed, cascades, the the Sanders said.
they flew from
Austra- Rocky Mountains nesota to be green, Min- shirt off his back and Travis and Fiona as “We That “I can” messag
lia to Seattle, Washin and and quiet, presented came in from the e
g- the Continental Divide. amazing. it to us,” Sand- plains,” means biking
ton to embark ers said. he said. 40 to 60
on what “We have gone over “We rolled into miles per day.
Travis Sanders Min- The shirt read Travis Sanders
mountain passes, six nesota to find beautifu says
“journey of a calls a and trails,” he said. l ful Milaca” and “Beauti- to date, the bike ride has “Every hour in
the
lifetime” biked through featured been a “big kick” car is a day on
and a “three-m Glacier a picture of the for his Sanders said. the bike,”

know about, at least regarding how to join. Fun read.

onth “We have also met
connect” as a family. re- National Park,” Sanders credible in- Olson Co.,
the
Alfred son.
said. people along longtime “It’s been an emotion Based on that
Patch was diagnos
ed It’s incredible way,” Sanders said. the Milaca department store al frame, Sanders time
with autism trip with lots of
at 21 that with a child, to do One of that was owned ups and trio will reach says the
months of age.
He dis- he said. Milaca’s those people is son’s parents Alfred by Ol- downs,”
he said. “It’s also ton, Washing-
Days before own and given us an D.C. in
plays restricted arriv- the longtim Rick Olson, Florence Olson. opportunity half weeks. four July and2, a2017 | B1
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A man in Shelby, to have many reflectio
planning delays motor ily camped and biked Super Valu.
tana rode 85 miles Mon- on life.”
ns “That would be
the
and so- through Theodor Olson first few days of
e Roos- Market was at Teal’s the trio and will with
Celebrate
cial and commun The cross country October
issues. ication evelt Nationa on Leader when be fly- bike if all goes as planned
| Hutchins l Park. Travis and Fiona Patch, ing to Washington, D.C. ride has brought to life said. e ,” he
with a smoothi
www.hut chinsonleader.com
His passion “Forty buffalo
s, interests peded stam- rolled to ride a saying of the
past us, and the into town. He was so Patch, the last mile with family. Sanders And Patch has a
front- t.
cross-coonnec
to a ove.C
moved by their Travis Sanders row seat

Second Place: Anoka County Union Herald, Olivia Alveshere

story said. “There’s nothing This week’ s Eat.M un-
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vania State House were
4, 1776, at the PennsylUnited States of America and
meeting on July as the to
ntal Congress would be known features 13 stars
Second Contine sovereig n states onary War and ire,
was issued by the 13 independent the American Revoluti , New Hampsh
of Independence to the world the was designed during Massachusetts, Maryland,
South Carolina
The Declaration phia. It declared ed to Betsy Ross,
Hall) in Philadel popularly attribut Georgia, Connect
icut,
Independence The fl ag, New Jersey,
British rule. e, Pennsylvania,
no longer under 13 colonies of Delawar Island.

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represent the original and Rhode

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conversation.
t started with a
ther,
It was my grandmo
who told her
Peter Clara Householder,
that we could
daughter, my mother,
Michel’s Daughters of the
tombstone be members of the
n.
with the American Revolutio got
years ago that I
Daughters It was about two
what Grandma said.
of the to thinking about
be members of the
Kay
Could we, really,
American
JOHNSON
n,
s of the American Revolutio
Revolution Daughter
Seemed like a stretch
patriot or DAR for short?
STAFF WRITER
plaque. to me. ’s
of July, America
With the Fourth
on Tuesday, it seems
WWW.FINDAGRAVE. Independence Day,
share this story.
a fitting time to
Who was
COM
The National
What is the DAR?
Patriot Peter Michel?
s of the
Society of the Daughter a lineage-based
n is
American Revolutio
hip service organization for 25, 1735, in Prince
members d from He was born on Nov.
directly descende Maryland.
women who are George’s County,
in the United States’
a person involved Revolutionary
ence. Founded in During the American
struggle for independ l an associator, which
is to promote historica War, he served as
1890, its purpose and patriotism.
of a colonial
meant he was a member
preservation, education & Country.”
Home militia.
Its motto is “God,
the quest as a He took the Patriot’s
Oath of Fidelity
Why bother? I saw
grandmother and
to March Court, 1778,
way to honor my and Support in the .
had a relative who had on County, Maryland
find out if we in Washingt
ent to fight for our the King of
made the commitm Michel swore to renounce
— somethin g each and and pledged allegiance to the
independence England
nt of Maryland.
every day. revolutionary governme
every one of us enjoys e of the quest, too.
There’s the challeng Schmitt in 1764.
would He married Dorotha
my scholarship children: Jacob,
I was curious if s of the The couple had seven
ng standard Peter, Elizabeth,
meet the demandi Christoper, Henry,
to the task?
DAR. Was I equal ta George and Conrad.
to live in Minneso
It seems strange in 72 on April 2, 1808.
patriot who fought Michael died at age n Reformed in
and search for a
more than two He is buried in Middletow .
a war that took place Maryland
a place far, far away. Frederick County,

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centuries ago in ere.
are found everywh
Patriot families has more than 20 is
DAR who
For instance, the Bob Allison,
board
ta. a member of the
chapters in Minneso g for family in the
When it comes to
searchin
y and a volunteer
In 2014, genealog ancestry and research
roots, I’m not alone.
popular hobby in section of the McLeod
was the second most g. It was also the l
the U.S. after gardenin County Historica
category of websites Museum, is a member
second most visited
after pornography. So of the Sons of the
y is popular, too. American Revolutio
n.
Locally, genealog Historical Bob
County tion is
much so, the McLeod d Library System The organiza
aining Allison

Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016
That’s personal
Lori
Minnesota Attorney General
Swanson explains how to protect
personal info from marketers. Page 4
Sweeping facility study looks at scho
Proposals
included filling
in courtyards,
establishing
flexible spaces
BY ANDREW WIG
SUN CURRENT NEWSPAPERS
The next 10 years could bring
major changes to the build-
ings that make up the Richfield
School District, according to a
Community
art project
comes to
Portland
Avenue
BY ANDREW WIG
SUN CURRENT
NEWSPAPERS
Next time you go for a
stroll along Portland Av-
enue, look down.
The freshly reconstruct-
ed street is Richfield’s
newest art venue, the site
of 13 poems sandblasted
into the sidewalk at sev-
eral intersections.
The immortalized work
was the result of a contest
organized by the Rich-
field Arts Commission,
which invited residents
to submit their work for
the chance of having it
engraved on the sidewalk.
Following the reconstruc-
tion of Portland Avenue,
the poems were sand-
blasted into the cement
last month.
Among the poets se-
lected for the honor was
Bethany Schmoll. The ad- This poem is one of 13 that were sandblasted into
ministrative assistant for a recently completed road reconstruction project. (Photo
Fargo said the con-
Duluth
Wells
News stab at e | Thursd
test was her first Tribun
poetry since high school, art at
u best bets u mov
although she does bring Minnesota.
an artistic background titled
– Schmoll minored
ies
u music u com
ics/games
A&E
Through struggle with Alzheimer’s
A chorus for
those with
dementia
is a source
of therapy,
research and
outreach
BY ANDREW WIG
SUN CURRENT
NEWSPAPERS
They say the music is the signed up
last thing to go.
So, a collection of Al- joining
zheimer’s patients are singers
still singing, thanks to a Wednesday
groundbreaking program the MacPhail
Sun Current
10917 Valley View Rd.
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
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Carrie Mohn (left) places
BELOW: A padded cold gel packs
layer made of foam, on Jody Kujawa’s back as she and EB
BUILDING CHARACTER
Known for come
dic
Christa LawLer
clawler@duluthne
ws.com
E
xcuse Jody Kujawa
’s
reluctance to get
into
costume. It’s hot
— even
with ice packs strategi
cally stuck into -
in a harness he wearsthe pockets
T-shirt. It’s heavy over his
—
pounds of anatom about 50
ically accurate
padding to make
him look like a
600-pound shut-in
who
be dead from congest will soon
ive heart
failure.
“I put it off until
the last
minute,” he said
before a recent
rehearsal at Teatro
Zuccon
Kujawa plays Charlie e.
with major relation , a man
ship tidying
to do in the final
days
in Renegade Theater of his life
production of “The Company’s
Whale,” a
contemporary play
by Samuel D.
Hunter that opens
at 8 p.m. today
at Teatro Zuccon
e.
Earlier this week,
sat on a couch in Kujawa
the theater’s
green room while
two cast and
crew mates helped
him into
his costume. The
suit,
from Walking Shadow on loan
Company in Minnea Theatre
composed of a pair polis, is
of stuffed
blue pants and a
large beige top
that falls below the
waistband.
Carrie Mohn, who
plays
Charlie’s friend
and
Liz, and EB DeGros caretaker,
s,
stage manager, split assistant
the
pulling, harness
ing,
duties of
buckling and findingstrapping,
his slip-on
shoes.
They slid a soft,
grey sweat-
shirt over his head
— “World’s
largest Snuggie,”
Mohn
The back ice packs, said.
tively new addition a rela-
, felt good,
Kujawa said.
“I didn’t think there
were
degrees of wet —
once you’re
wet, you’re wet,”
he
sweat that accumu said of the
lates — aided
by the heat of stage
lights — dur-
ing the course of
a rehearsal. He
has since learned
“It feels like you
he was wrong. “I have to work in a differ
were in
(Fun fact: The actor a pool.”
who the movements. The
played Charlie in
Walking
Shadow Theatre
production shed
Company’s face-wise. There isn’t
pounds through
about 40
out the show’s
I have to rely more on
run, according to
E.
the Twin Cities-b Amy Hill,
designer behind
ased costume
the piece she
2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
Weeklies over 5,000
First Place: Richfield Sun Current, Andrew Wig
Current
Through struggle with Alzheimers, the music remains
Richfield
$1 A moving story that showed the resilience of the human brain’s capacity
for art, even in those suffering through Alzheimer’s. It blended a moving
Vol. 46, No. 49
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Public notices
Lacing up the skates The Richfield School District publishes
narrative with an entertainment angle. Well done.
able to
Richfield students are once again minutes from its Nov. 7 meeting.
play hockey after the creation of a
co-op Page 10
boys hockey program. Page 7
ol needs
have been identified and oppor-
Each building pretty well needs
variety of users.
For now, “you’re pretty much
facility study that is underway. that can be considered a new system,”
ICS Program
In a Nov. 21 presentation, the tunities move forward,” said Manager Ryan Hoffman told stuck with
classrooms or typical
Second Place: Plymouth Sun Sailor, Kristen Miller
Richfield School Board heard
as things office spaces,” Hoffman said.
the board. “That’s a big, heavy
from consultants who outlined
Pat Overom, co-owner of ICS.
Board Chair
Secure entries are another
Peter Toensing hitter, which is typical.” impact common need in district build-
the study’s progress in evaluat- But the most visible
observed it’s the most compre- study could come ings, he added.
Most of the
ing the district’s physical spaces district’s fa- of the facility
hensive look at the buildings’ offices are not located
and mechanical operations. The
cilities in the approximately 20
from an analysis of what to do
Retired WHS counselor shares story of losing spouse to cancer
Blaine-based firm, ICS Con- at the entrance, meaning, “most
with all the district’s nooks,
years he’s been involved with of your buildings – you can just
sulting, is finished assessing the
the district. How best to use the
crannies and under-utilized out-
come into the building, you have
district’s technical needs, and is posts.
district’s physical spaces is still the office wherever it’s
currently consulting with stake- debate. However, the con- As the consultants addressed to find explained.
up for at,” Hoffman
holders on how best to use space those opportunities, one com-
sultants found some areas where Food service facilities are also
This showed how loss led a local man toward the path of art. A touching
the district’s seven buildings. potential solution was to
necessary action is already mon in need of attention. In some
The recommendations are pre- the establish more flexible spaces
clear.
liminary, and the school board blur classroom lines by al-
“Mechanical system updates that STUDY - TO PAGE 6
was seeing the proposals for the lowing for a variety of uses for a
are by far your biggest need.
first time, “but they’re items that
blocks away from the
sidewalk poem, Schmoll’s
two daughters, ages 5 and
6, will often be reminded
story that dug a little deeper than the average A&E story.
of that message as they
grow up, although it may
be tough to match the ex-
citement from their first
time seeing their mother’s
Third Place: Eden Prairie News, Patty Dexter and Tim Engstrom
words in cement.
“They were squeal-
ing and jumping up
and down when we saw
it,” Schmoll recounted.
“They couldn’t believe
EP Faves
it.”
Schmoll’s work
emerged from a field of
54 submissions, judged by
the Richfield Arts Com-
The EP Faves series was unique and would surely be a fun read for lo-
mission.
“It was definitely a
tough decision,” said
Mary Kay Champa, who
helped organize the con-
test as a Richfield Recre-
cals. Fits well into the arts and entertainment category.
ation supervisor and staff
liaison to the arts com-
mission. “We got many
more submissions than
we thought.”
The poetry project
caught the interest of the
arts commission several
years ago, drawing inspi-
ration from similar proj-
ects in other cities, includ-
ing Northfield and St.
All Dailies
Paul, according to Rich-
part of the finishing touches to field Recreation Director
the sidewalk on Portland Avenue last month,
Jim Topitzhofer.
courtesy city of Richfield)
“We wanted to go that
to keep the end route and make
Port-
it there is always a journey reminder land kind of our pilot,”
ay, October 13, 2016
of Portland Avenue where
goal in mind and go for
First Place: Duluth News Tribune, Christa Lawler
the University
Her work, intersects with 71st
Street. and you have to start
Schmoll it.”
“Endless,” can be “The poem is just about somewhere,”
“It’s just a Living about two POEMS - TO PAGE 2
in found on the west side of wherever you are in life, explained.
, the music remains Building character
OFFER GOOD THRU
C
OCT. 31, 2016
The best in a very crowded and competitive field. Focusing on an un-
things we were told
called the Giving Voice of the
Chorus, which brings to- is to get
involved,” his wife
“Don’t just stay in
gether people from across said.
the metro for music thera- your
house and become Serving the Iron Range,
001486479r1
Duluth, Grand Rapids,
py while promoting a bet- hermits.”
specialized chorus is
Northwestern WI, and
all of NE Minnesota
usual element of a local play- the lead’s costume- takes this far above the
ter public understanding The
of the disease. one activity on a menu of
each week that
“It took me about a year happenings
and a half of denial of this help Steve
and Mary cope
new reality.
disease to actually get in- with their one part of
volved,” said Mary Munt, “This is
usual pre-opening night story. Add to that a good lead and a great final
things that we do,
whose 70-year-old hus- many
is a highlight,”
band, Steve, is approach- but this
ing the two-year anniver- Mary said.
She speaks for her hus-
sary of his Alzheimer’s
diagnosis. band, who often has trou-
his thoughts
line and you’ve got a winner.
The Richfield couple ble conveying a little
for the Giving verbally. “It takes
get something out
Voice Chorus this fall, time to Steve said.
about 65 other of my mouth,”
every Learning the music, Meeting
for rehearsal Nov. 21 as part of the Giving Voice Chorus.
morning at ranging from “We
are
Mary and Steve Munt take part in rehearsal as therapy
Joy,” Music in Minneapolis, the chorus is meant
Center for Family” to “Ode to every Wednesday at MacPhail Center for
helped Steve ver- for those living with dementia. (Sun Current
staff photo by Andrew Wig)
Music in downtown Min- hasn’t
but it does have an
neapolis. They’re prepar- bally,
on his mood, his wife Nancy Fushan, a board shown this,” she said.
ing for a concert in which effect Alzheimer’s take many
they’ll join another section observed. forms, Mary explained. member for Giving Voice.
him feel good,” Learning as they grow
Second Place: Grand Forks Herald, Pamela Knudson
of singers from the pro- “It makes While no two patients
“He’s just happy. “Where Steve’s problem is Giving Voice isn’t just
gram to perform a concert she said. he can’t spit it out some- are alike, the progression
that he’s com- therapy; the program is
Saturday, Dec. 17, at Olson He’s happy happy when times,” other Alzheimer’s of Alzheimer’s is consis-
he’s tent regarding the part of making its own contri-
Middle School in Bloom- ing here, patients have no problem
we’re going home. And the brain that processes butions to Alzheimer’s
ington.
he’s ever been re- forming sentences, she research, as Fushan ex-
When Steve Munt, who not that music, Fushan notes.
New recipes, old flavors, Molly Yeh
but it just kind of said.
“It is the last part of the plained. When the chorus
had worked as a mental ally sad, “If you know one case of
up, and when that brain to be affected by the
health practitioner, was lifts him Alzheimer’s, you know one VOICE - TO PAGE 3
into retirement happens, it lifts me up.” disease. Neuroscience has
forced
The outward effects of case of Alzheimer’s,” said
upon his diagnosis, “one
Engaging look at how this cookbook writer and blogger developed.
Thorough and well-written. Comments from her husband and mother-in-
law added color.
plastic mesh — and DeGross dress him
even dried lentils — in a fat suit for his
is covered with a sweatsh role as a dying, 600-pou
irt. Photos by Steve nd man in the play
“The Whale.”
Kuchera / skuchera@duluth
news.com
Third Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead,
roles, Kujawa tak
es big departure in
‘Whale’ Chelsey Engelhard Ewen
New Heights
calls a “soft sculptu
re.”)
The weightiness
a challenge for Kujawa of the suit is
known for his full-bod , who is
y
“I have to work in comedy.
way,” he said. “There a different
Great lead for this interesting story. A little more explanation of the pro-
subtlety in the movemis more
physicality is contain ents. The
emotions, face-wis ed more as
e. There isn’t a
lot of room to use
my physicality
as a crutch. I have
cess would have added to it.
to
on mental gymnas rely more
tics than I do
physical.”
It’s for the best, probabl
Kujawa said. In y,
some shows it
would make him
nervous if he
wasn’t getting laughs.
case: “(Charlie’s) In this
not
guy,” Kujawa said. a funny
Still, it’s a role director
Ahasay liked for Julie
the mostly
comic actor.
“I think he’s a remark
ably
versatile actor,”
she said. “Every-
one knows he’s funny
and sharp and fearlessand witty
don’t often get to . People
where he really,
see something
in. He’ll just break
really gets to dig
he’s so good.”
your heart;
Charlie is a shut-in,
a fondness for Herman with
In preparing for his Mel-
role as a ville, living in rural
600-pound man, Jody 1980s-grade Idaho. His
grew out his toenails Kujawa with stuff: couch is covered
,
his character wouldn’ figuring papers, contain pillows,
dirtied
t be able ers,
to cut them. pizza box, blanket wrappers, a
s, crumbs. His
final days will include
If you go Thomas and his Liz, Elder
mouthy teenage
What: Renegade Theater daughter, Ellie. He’s
dying of
Com- congestive heart
pany’s production of failure.
“The Whale” The people come
to him
by Samuel D. Hunter,
directed by during the 90-minute play;
Julie Ahasay doesn’t move much. He
When: 8 p.m. today-Sa
In addition to growing
turday out his
and Oct. 20-22, Oct. toenails — Kujawa
27-29 Charlie is capable
doesn’t think
Where: Teatro Zuccone of cutting
, them — the actor
222 E. Superior St. prepared for
Tickets: $20 for adults,
the part by conside
ring what it
would feel like to
students and seniors $17 for die
Conclusion: drowninlike this.
at g.
renegadetheatercompany “Most people have
.org.
drowned at one point, almost
ent way. There is more felt like they were or have
subtlety in drown,” Kujawa
going to
physicality is contained to mentally bring
said. “You have
more as emotions, that panic. It’s disturb
yourself into
a lot of room to use my revisit it.” ing to
physicality as a crutc It brought him back
mental gymnastics than h. childhood, where
he
to his
I do physical.” with allergy-related suffered
First, he said, there asthma.
Jody Kujawa, actor resignation. is fear, then
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ladders on the south friend Aaron Larson Scheier l was also .
murder employees did, Heinrich heldthe owners and the gun up to
sides of the structurof and west
abduction. Jared ed by for Jacob’s is released watching nearby.
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to
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Heinrich on Jan. in the court- from continu
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the children, which Kraeme ed nine months before fender under again,
from apartments rescued admits is hard room, happenr pulled the trigger
for reghters was still stand-
down a ladder, crawled
and murder to . Pat Elfering is comfort s against seven fired, but Jacob
with family see and watch. n the assault the trigger
waiting. “At the 11th Heinrich did not
Judy, asmentio
they watch the
ed by her brother,
1980s, of Uphoff,
Steve
crimes Night of terror ing. Then he pulled Jacob
contributed photo
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re. Twenty- and his wife,ng is a summary again, the gun fired and
This photo of Jacob month s boys in Paynes ville
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in the courtroom
kable cru- back to the murder scene and
cause of its unspea body about 100
elties: dragge d Jacob’s
of Oct. 22, yards. He tried to dig a hole
On the evening
on a road but the shovel
Heinrich was driving ip when with a shovel, He later went
small.
in St. Joseph Townsh riding was too company and

Third Place: Detroit Lakes Tribune, Kaysey Price

he noticed three
boys to an excavation
onto a road borrowed a skid loader to dig
bicycles. He drove
use (the buried the boy with
leading to a farmho y), then a hole. He on, except
clothes
Robert Rassier propert all of his
the car around facing the for his shoes. He camouflaged

Christmas Day car accident

turned
see the boys the area and brought the skid
road so he would
on the road. loader back.
again heading back coming shoes in a
them Jacob’s
When he saw He threw
Heinrich put ravine and went back home.
down the road, Heinrich

Solid.
d a flashlight About a year later,
on a mask, grabbe site
revolver and returned to the burial
and a snubnose He or- and saw the
boys. with a flashlig ht
walked up to the
nt to get grave partially uncovered, with
dered them at gunpoi
lie down. He Jacob’s red “St. Cloud State
into the ditch and He
their names. University” hockey jacket.
asked them to say ing and and clothing
He told Trevor Wetterl put the remains the
run toward the into a bag and took it to
Aaron Larson to the
grabbed Jacob trees on pastureland across
woods. Then he buried the
the car, hand- highway, where he

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and put him in ts. That is the
cuffing the boy. bag and its conten to
wrong?” Ja- burial site Heinrich revealed
“What did I do ago.
cob asked him. - authorities a week ed to
Heinrich drove
to Paynes Heinrich is expect the
a police scan- be sentenced Nov. 21 on

First Place: Shoreview Press, Sara Marie Moore

ville, monitoring charge.
ner on the way. child-pornography hearing,
of
Somew here outside Right after the court held.
a gravel pit, nce was
Paynesville near a press confere
his car at a (See related story).
Heinrich stopped

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Third Place: Winona Post, Chris Rogers

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Heinrich confesses to abduction, killing of Jacob Wetterling

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A thorough package about an explosive topic that can devastate any

community. Stories were thoughtful, compassionate, and detailed. Good
ER 7, 2016
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMB

HEINRICH ADMITS TO
sidebar on how to talk to your children about the case. Good work online,
always an important component of a breaking news category.
KILLING WETTERLING Plea deal:
Volatile, Second Place: St. Cloud Times, Staff
uncertain
DAVID UNZE
.COM
Mall stabbing
Pulling together such a thorough report for the Sunday paper about a
DUNZE@STCLOUDTIMES
Danny
From the moment
arrested and
Heinrich was ing child
charged with possessyear, inves-
pornography last on get-
tigators were focused

stabbing that injured eight after 8 p.m. on Saturday is the definition of

his involve-
ting him to admit n of Jacob
ment in the abductio
Wetterling. Attorney
Stearns County that the
knew
Janelle Kendall ns would
statute of limitatio charging

solid breaking news coverage. Nice interviews with witnesses.

prevent her from January
the
Heinrich with
and sexual as-
1989 abduction newspa-
sault of Cold Spring l, even
per boy Jared Scheier
with a DNA match. for sure

Without knowing
dead, she
that Jacob was
Heinrich with
couldn’t charge the same
killing Jacob. And ns prob-
statute of limitatio couldn’t
TIMES.COM she
, KANDERSON@STCLOUD lems meant

Third Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Amy Dalrymple

KIMM ANDERSON with kidnap-
in federal
suspect Danny
court where charge Heinrich
conference Tuesday old St. Joseph
speaking at a press ping the 11-year- after
son, Trevor, after boy nine monthsd.
is comforted by her Wetterling.
Patty Wetterling and murder of Jacob Scheierl was assaulte U.S. At-
to the abduction
RS
OF BOY’S LAST HOU
Heinrich admitted So Kendall called hoping

OM HEARS DETAILS
Luger,
torney Andrew te Heinrich

STUNNED COURTRO
Morton County Mayhem
he would prosecuwhere child
in federal court,
es are
UNZE pornography sentenc
AND DAVID
N IMES.COM
KIRSTI MAROH DUNZE@STCLOUDT 2A
UDTIMES.COM See PLEA, Page
KMAROHN@STCLO that
question to a world
has asked a simple

Way to own the national story in your backyard.

F
Patty Wetterling
or nearly 27 years, and, until recently, in vain:
has watched in pain the discovery of
Jacob’s ONLINE
“Where’s Jacob?” answered late last week with To view live updates
from Tuesday’s
That question wasCounty farm near Paynesville. with video of
court how he kidnapped, court coverage, along
remains at a Stearns Heinrich admitted in federal s. Heinrich didn’t answer conference, visit
the complete press
On Tuesday, Danny killed Jacob with two gunshot www.sctimes.com
d and
sexually assaulte
Danny Heinrich
the question of why.
4A
See DEATH, Page

Wetterling case
children about the ren

Investigative Reporting
r
How to talk to you
a child is
Primarily, when
of ques-
asking these types for the
ration of child
affects a new gene tions, they’re looking
s with abduction
it couldn’t
reassurance that
The fear that come
old case? says Emily
nearly 27-year- when you happen to them,
and help your chil- you say
Play munity do psychologist
Urke, licensed r at Catho-
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L . Giggle. dren understand don’t when and clinic manage
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s as “Mom, are lic
SDICKRELL@STCLOUDTIM you child says: Health Clinic.
joy. Help your neigh- details emerge. You can’t you going to protect me if She also urges parents
to
Wetter- Create site or Face-
On Monday, Patty state- bor.” the look at a news comes here?”
Jacob that man isn’t always what
ling posted a simple Those are exactlybe do- book without seeing Well, it See JACOB, Page
4A
ment: kinds of things you can right Wetterling’s photo. you say, but how you say it.
to know explain a
“Everyone wants ing with your family But how do you
to help us. to grieve as a com-
what they can do a can- now, both
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MEDAL STAND First Place: Stillwater Gazette, Jonathan Young

Sexually explicit emails, more found during investigation of former Still-
Fragnito earns all-sta
te honors. Stor
Story on page B1
THE ST. CRO
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water prison warden

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Nov. 25, 2016

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• LAKE ELMO Minnesota Data Practices Act. Fine reporting of a scandal.
ually explicit em Sex VOLUME 147,
NO. 48

In the ails, more

know investigation of for mer Stillwa found during
ter prison warden
Second Place: Stillwater Gazette, Alicia Lebens
BY JONATHAN YOUNG
ment of corrections
THE GAZETTE
cies related to anti-dis(DOC) poli- but many of the
substantiated ous
SPORTS Sexually explicit and sexual ha- crimination allegatio
ns against emails had been
printed and
of private informa
emails, release rassmen
t, elec- his tenure as wardenhim date to collected by his executiv
tion, of the Rush istrative e admin-
Gina Jablonski scores employment referenc a falsified tronic communi- City prison.

Lake Elmo Library Board to revisit transparency practices after items

two goals assistant — who
and Olivia Knox records
treatment of staff e and mis- cations, personnel Under the Minnes proxy access had
a shutout
as Stillwater girls’ hockey were behind a fi Practices Act, The ota Data she noticed to his email — after
team recent decision to les and more. He several emails
blanks Wolfpack in
conference
fire
water prison warden former Still- was terminated tained a redacted Gazette ob- that she felt were inappro he sent
opener. Steve Ham- from investig copy of the priate.
mer, according to his positions ation results In one email exchange
Page B1 information from
newly released as Hammer’s termina that led to tained in the report, con-
the Minnesota and both warden

omitted from minutes

tion. friend a female
Department of Correct According to the
Stillwater seniors Hannah ions.
CEO of the report, Ham- told not employed by the state
An- Hammer was termina prison. Hammer mer sent and received Hammer her love
derson, Lexi Dahl, Ava sexually good, life
Howard, 19 for violating ted Oct.
several depart-
Hammer took over explicit emails using and Hammer respondwas
Grace Howe, Gina Jablonski as the Still- state his
Olivia Konigson finalize and water warden in
March last year, email account in 2014,official “Mine misses you.” She ed,
college he was warden in while asked,

Excellent reporting on a cagey library board, which is having transpar-

Rush City. Vari-

Who are you?

plans during early signing
period. See Warden, Page A5
Page B1

Guest columnists Gary

and George Thole reflect
Kriesel
Air pistol
ency issues. Keep up the good work!
on dedi-
cated Ponies fan and
Flock, who was one of
finest.
booster Pete
Stillwater’s on school
Page B2
bus prompts
concern from
INSIDE Muslim group
BY JONATHAN YOUNG
THE GAZETTE
An incident in the
water School Still-
District
prompted the Minnes
Chapter of the ota
Council
on American-Islam
ic Re-
lations this week
to
for increased protecticall
of Muslim student on
s state-
wide.
According to the
cil (also known as coun-
CAIR-
Back in Time – Brent MN), a fifth-grad
Peterson er from
writes about a Stillwater Afton-Lakeland
mansion Elemen
that belonged to several tary allegedly brought -
lumber- an
men. air pistol onto a
bus af-
Page A2 ter threatening to
shoot a
Somali-American
Muslim
third-grader.
Pop-up gallery – ArtReach The group says
Croix has a pop-up gallery St. parents
down- of the third-grader
town Stillwater for the CAIR-MN that told
fourth year. a school
Page A3 bus driver confiscated
air pistol from an
the
grader on Monda fifth-
y,
14, after the student Nov.
Westley Simon of Stillwate
r isn’t sure what to threatened to shoot had
mas at the Courthou think
HAPPENING se as he sits on Santa’s
photos. (Gazette staff event Nov. 19 at the Washington County lap and stares him down third-grader on the
Friday,
photo by Jonathan Young) Historic Courthouse during the Victorian Nov.
THIS WEEK in Stillwater. See page Christ-
A12 for more
11.
“Thankfully, a
tragedy was averted major

Stillwater man fi quick action of the by the

school
nds
overcome paralysi ways to
bus driver,” said
CAIR-
MN Executive
Director
Jaylani Hussein
in a writ-

s after accident
ten statement.
“We are
asking all school
districts
BY LINDSEY SLATTER across the state to
step
CONTRIBUTING WRITER Y life,” Kott explaine
d. protection for Muslim up
After the acciden
t, Kott other minority student and
When Stillwater’s spent time in rehabili the wake of this s in
David tion, and ta- incident
Kott was injured once he was set- and because of
in the
tocross bike acciden a mo- tled back at home he was of racist and anti-Muwave
than 10 years ago, t more forced to take a hard look incidents nationw slim
his ide
was forever changed life at what he would do next. lowing the Novem fol-
Bagpipes – Throw on
your kilt neck injury left him . His He considered all his in- election.” ber 8
the “Bagpipes and Bonfires” for para- terests and how
cele- lyzed from his waist he would The district confi
bration this weekend
at Ascension and limited his down, need to adapt. an incident took rmed
ability to
but offered few place,
Church in Stillwater. “It’s been a long
use his hands like road
Page B8 he did trying to details,
before. fi gure out what except that the pistol
Everything changed to do after the
accident,” an Airsoft-style pistol. was
. Kott explained. Airsoft pistol is An
Kott didn’t let that designed
feat him — he de- His passion for craftsma to shoot plastic BBs.
chose to ship led n- The
keep trying new Kott to build a shop guns are often
PUBLIC NOTICES inspired and pursue what things, be in his
own garage, starting competitions similar in
used
makes him happy. with some essentia paintball. to
ls.
Legals – Keep up on “It’s a radically differen David Kott of Stillwat “We had a situatio
the latest t See Kott, Page A9 designed to help er operate s a device he lier this month n ear-
notices in your area. him
his wheelchair. (Photoreach items while seated in where a
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October 14, 2016 www.wasecacountyne
ws.com
Richland
Janesville and New

On the ballot:
Serving Waseca,
Newsstand $1.25 ALLIANCE
IE COUNTY
proposed sales tax
Second Place: The Paynesville Press, Michael Jacobson
MINNESOTA PRAIR www.faribault.com

for lake and park

improvements, trails The Scourge Named Dewey Hart
By JACOB STARK
tynews.com

Excellent, unflinching reporting of a grim case: a molester is brought to

jstark@wasecacoun
go to the voting
When Waseca residents issues on the bal-
the key
booth Nov. 8, one of tax.
lot is a half-percent sales the inclusion
Waseca City Council approved

justice. Fine reporting from Mr. Jacobson, who doesn’t hold back from
on the ballot in July. If
of the sales tax question to generate approxi-
approved, it is expected or $3.5 million over

County attorneys
mately $350,000 annually,
its 10-year lifespan.
apply to items like
The sales tax would not and unprepared

say policies, showing how this crime reverberates through even today.
drugs
clothing, prescription
food. the tax would go
Dollars generated from

stonewalling
improvements, com-
toward lake water quality
system and capital im-
pletion of the city’s trail
provements to the

by MNPrairie city’s parks.

Among lake
quality improve - on the races
INSIDE
Run downs

leaders puts... ments is a regional

Third Place: Star-Gazette, Moose Lake, Charlotte (C.M.) Swanson

for county
stormwater pond.
commission,
After heavy rain in
Septemb er led to Waseca mayoral
county city council
sharing with other flooding across the race,
limit information board.
restrictive policies
e social worker says area, City Manager and school

Estate claim “merry-go-round”

CHILDREN IN DANGER
and a former MNPrairi 9A-11A
in Waseca and Steele Creative Images) Danny Lenz point- Pages
County attorneys in danger. (Metro
agencies and are
putting children ed to the proposed
pond as one of the
efforts the city was g
help to address continuin
looking at that would

Solid reporting of all facets of a fascinating issue.

the city.
flooding conditions in built to hold incom-
A stormwater pond is
of time, the goal of
attorneys say that the
current policy ing stormwater for a periodhelp protect against
Both county is to slow the fl ow to
ger at the unit’s which
children in danger.
manager, Shari puts flooding. ents also include
By SUZANNE ROOK m Kottke. Proposed lake improvem on, which in-
ing
W a s e c a Screen
restorati
srook@wasecacoun
tynews.co
in January 2015, as a Loon Lake shoreline
When MNPrairie, formed cut costs, Steele and vegetation and clearing
C ou nt y At - cludes planting native
want Steele County “to streamline services and methods to screen area more aesthetically
Dan McIntosh doesn’t torney Brenda way to out brush to make the filtration, and alum
a child dies under circum- Waseca counties used
different and to help with
be the next place where Miller agrees pleasing
phosphorous in the lake.
been avoided.” treatment to reduce the
stances that could have that there are cases. a team approach en- the

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
to Steele County com- Waseca County preferred of Human Services. us reduces oxygen in
In a strongly worded letter urged McIntosh Miller lapses in how Too much phosphor
, the county’s attorney, by the state Department similar to the one water and increases algae. system were identi-
missioners, McIntosh Ser- M N P r a i r i e dorsed ent was
its three-county Human col- its Steele County’s arrangem The difference McIntosh Gaps in the city’s trail
the board to require “a spirit of trust, protectio n cases and questions MNPrair ie. 2013 Comprehensive Plan,
tive to rebuild child to now used by his of- in the city’s
vices collabora lost.” manages she says, have also led ie is now shutting out fied
connect ing the trails
purpose that has been leadership. Those issues, had en- says, is that MNPrair ent, two important resources and complet ion of
laboration and common was sent a day aft er workers, most who is estimate d to cost $1
McIntosh’s Aug. 17 letter a hemorrhaging of case e counties, fice and law
enforcem ly throughout the city

First Place: Shakopee Valley News, Amanda McKnight

by Waseca County Com- joyed a long tenure with their respectiv maltreatment is adequate
a public forum called in ensuring suspected million.
where nearly two dozene particularly Waseca. $1 million are the
missioner Mike Hintz once collaborative and
addressed.
system used to determin
e Also estimated at around
County Alliance. Th Relationships that were distrust, says Miller, Screening refers to a previously outlined in
blasted Minnesota Prairieexpressed by the Waseca receive county ser- improvements to parks, ent plan. The council,
builds on concerns at- collegial, are now fraught with MN- whether individuals or families abuse. A case the city’s capital improvem sum-
letter assistant county a mid-2015 reports of suspected sales tax this past
much of it stems from in discussions about the Clear Lake, Southview
County attorney, a longtime ie child protection adding that forbids case workers from
sharing vices following
out wouldn’t meet criteria
for ser-

Investigation into spending by Shakopee school administration

torney and a former
MNPrair in Prairie policy that Kottke’s approval. That’s led to that’s screened that’s screened in would. Services mer, decided to prioritize ents that would be
took a similar position without one and Oak Parks for improvem
worker who said she what information are learning vices, while classes to
I stopped believing in instances where attorneysduring court range from safety plans and parenting ng a par- made with sales tax revenue.
another county “when left children in situations a number of and or measures, such as terminati
I was doing. I believe
we critical information second-h Waseca County more drastic
some cases, Assistant
that were dangerous.” said he has continues to hearings. In Cornelius said at the Aug. 16 forum, ent’s rights. See BALLOT on 12A

Great gumshoe reporting that led to real consequences for a person in

McIntosh, this week, Attorney Rachel to require case See CHILDREN on
12A
about MNPrairie’s handling are now asking judges
have serious concerns and in his letter, obtained prosecutors information.

potential aid
of child protection cases, request, points the fin- workers to share

damage, total determines

through a public records

flood
State, federal teams assess Waseca City Manager ton, Le
Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue
Danny Lenz told Earth, Sueur, Rice, Steele and Waseca coun-
, Hous- power.
is dealing with excess estimate of $13 mil-
By JACOB STARK officials that Birds Eye ties reported a combined
tynews.com of the flooding, and threshold set by FEMA
jstark@wasecacoun wastewater in the wake lion in damages. The disaster declaration
may have to help treat ial
that it’s possible the city to request a president
Sept. 21-22 floods
After the unprecedented it. 608 Third Ave. SE, is $7.5 million.
t for the teams to
assessment teams Also on the tour was Reed says it’s importan do their assess-
that hit Waseca County, determine whether foundation that’s at

Second Place: Northfield News, Nick Gerhardt, Philip Weyhe and

to
visited affected homes and federal aid. which had a damaged the communities to
significant rain get into be additional dam-
they may qualify for state of further collapse if more ments because there may
ent of Home- risk ely follow-
Teams from the Departm Management occurs. that went unnoticed immediat
and Emergen cy Deputy Director Kevin Reed says age fl ooding.
land Security HSEM the
y Management nts is to refine ing that may not have
(HSEM) and Federal Emergenc that the aim of the assessme of- “There are some things there may be
in Waseca County be- the preliminary numbers given by local

Brad Phenow*
Agency (FEMA) were seen. As water goes down,
ay. Th e initial infrastru cture damage as- been that weren’t initially noticed,” he said.
ginning Wednesd ficials. things
y management of- state was $1.6 million. “That’s why we wait a little bit to bring some
In their tour, emergenc sessment sent to the (Jacob Stark/Wase-
Ave. NE, Waseca, cy Management Director teams in.” with structural damage.
ficials looked at 112 Sixthdamage. The home County Emergen the Surveying a home
l since said she knows
which has seen structura worker at Birds Eye Nancy Lageson has than that. ca County News)
See FLOOD on 12A

The state of Northfield Estates: City officials respond after months of

was rented by a seasonal actual figure is higher s in Anoka, Blue
workers go earlier than Emergency manager
Foods, which let those
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Third Place: Shakopee Valley News, Deena Winter*

Shakopee school investigation

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
 Page 46
 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
CMYK
Weeklies over 5,000
First Place: Winona Post, Laura Hayes and Sarah Elmquist Squires

winonapost
MN 55987
P.O. Box 27, 64 E. 2nd St., Winona,
email: winpost@winonapost.com

Mr. West does not hold a Dr. degree from [SMU]

contact us: 507.452.1262 fax: 507.454.6409
1971
ly newspaper since
w i n o n a ’s t w i c e - w e e k

sunday, december 18, 2016

volume 45, no. 101
winonapost.com Comprehensive reporting that had a real impact. Lots of thorny issues
inserts: full: . Fleet Farm . Slumberland partial:

Official newspaper of Winona

. Sport & Spine . Godfather's Pizza . Aldi
County and School District 861 to navigate, but the results show demonstrate the importance of the hard
'Mr.West does not hold aonDr. degree from [SMU]' work done here.
he plagiarized parts of doctoral thesis
SMU statement follows professor's allegati
which he later admitted and apologized
sertation on the internet, the professor
A closer review showed that more
than 70 percent of the 107-page dis-
Board just before board members met
in closed session to consider allega-
said that he/she was "shocked to dis- tions against West. With raised voices
by LAURA HAYES
— and the professor wondered. Stu- sertation was nearly identical to previ- from
cover that complete pages of the West 70 that could sometimes be heard
dents who plagiarize one thing have ously published material and almost
SARAH SQUIRES
2009 dissertation replicated complete outside the meeting room, the board
A local university professor was curi- often
done it before, the professor percent closely mirrored Humphrey's
pages of a 2007 dissertation by Dennis met for more than an hour. Board mem-
thesis, the professor said. (See page

Second Place: Crystal/Robbinsdale/New Hope/Golden Valley Sun

ous. thought.
Leroy Humphrey from the University bers never took formal action on any
The professor put down the Septem- The professor headed to Saint Mary's 5a for a side-by-side, 1,900-plus word
of Georgia. allegations against West.
(SMU) — from which West sample comparison.)
ber 16 Winona Post cover story about University "'Wow,' [the professor thought]. anony- West did not respond to requests for
he received a doctorate — and re- On October 6, the professor
allegations that Winona Area Public said 'Wow' … I was completely shocked comment for this story.
a copy of West's doctoral disser- mously shared a portion of the alleged
Schools (WAPS) Superintendent Ste- trieved and appalled. Egregious is one word
of tation. After searching passages from plagiarism with members of the WAPS see WEST page 4a
phen West had plagiarized portions that comes to mind."

Post, Joe Bowen and Simoen Lancaster*

for the first few dozen pages of West's dis-
the district's technology plan —

ols Final vote on

The voice of Winona Area Public Scho 10.5% tax
Photo by
Laura Hayes

. Every week, Gay

hike Monday
by CHRIS ROGERS
Campaign finance at city level is an unmonitored system
Mortensen records
the “Winhawk On Monday, the Winona City Council
Wake-up” — a plans to approve the largest tax increase
in 11 years, including plans to borrow
re-
morning radio $10 million to fund long-hoped-for

Third Place: Alexandria Echo Press, Al Edenloff*

segment discussing
the highlights of
the school district.
Mortensen will retire
pairs to the Historic Masonic Temple
Theatre, “streetscaping” improvements
on Main Street, upgrades to Levee Park,
in-
and the replacement of aging sewer
frastructure.
“If we want the projects, this is what

Where are the sex offenders?

this month. we have to do,” said city council mem-
ber George Borzyskowski.
The council’s proposed 2017 budget
by
would increase overall property taxes
total
10.5 percent next year, raising the
property tax levy collected from Winona
mil-
businesses and residents from $7.4
lion this year to $8.1 million next year.
In addition to that tax hike, the 2017
budget assumes that the City Council
—
will take out $10 million in loans
the
called a bonds. That would commit

what they can look forward to every
by LAURA HAYES
week.
After serving the district for the
She’s the voice behind Winona
past 26 years as publications and
Area Public Schools (WAPS) — lit-
promotions coordinator, Mortensen
All Dailies
to
city to charging property owners taxes
WAPS Director of Community Edu- repay the debt over the next 12 years.
tion and across the district. When
cation Margaret Schild said. For the most part, city departments
you’ve done something for so long
Mortensen had an interesting start
with such intention, it starts to define will have a “status quo” budget in 2017,
to the district — especially to the with incremental increases. In total,
lo-
you. I have to go find out who else
former Central Elementary School
I am.”
where her office is housed. Her

Biologists monitor
erally. Every morning, students wake “I’ve heard people say that Gay

First Place: Duluth News Tribune, Brady Slater

is retiring. “I’ll miss the energy of Win-
up to administrator Gay Mortensen bleeds orange and black [the
it all,” she said. “I’ll miss my col- TAX HIKE page 4a
wolf movements ne
see
on the radio, telling the community here at Community Educa- hawk colors] and I think that’s true,” see VOICE page 4a
leagues
what’s going on in the district and

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tdoors, c
Winona bargeOutraffi 56
rises
Winona to decide on D1 IN CO
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INSID NS
Safety concerns follow Fraser
Y site, Windom Park
Photo by

Good use of data from various agencies to alert the public to a safety
Chris Rogers E
to modify their homes. Decades later, Despite ice .
the current proposal has been widely
by CHRIS ROGERS
forming in the
by residents.
Monday’s Winona City Council supported
be a big one for the The Winona YMCA needs to find main channel of

hazard.
dulutwill
meeting hnew stribu and the ma buyer for its current facility inbuild or- the Mississippi
Winona Area Family YMCA ne.co
der to help fund a campaign to

Safety concerns
Windom Park neighborhood. The Sunday, July 16, River, tugboats
its final de- a new Y facility near the Winona
council expects to make 2017
Health Clinic. A change to the city’s kept working
cision about whether to designate
comprehensive plan would be the

follow Fraser
on the Winona
the neighborhood as a local historic $2.50
first step in a two-step process need-

district and whether to grant the Y’s redevelop- bridge project last
ed to allow virtually any
request for a change to the city’s com-
ment of the site. Step two would be week. A big grain
prehensive plan.
The local historic district would rezoning. this year, the Y proposed
harvest made
Earlier
protect the historic character of the 2016 the busiest
tackling both steps at once and allow-
ornate homes surrounding the park by

Second Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Tu-Uyen Tran

ing the development of a gas station Documents year for barge
requiring city approval before home-
at the current Y site. After concerns about going
owners could make any changes to back to ing traffic in over a
from Windom Park neighborhood work.” — except to spend
the exterior of their houses. The Y’s
request to change the comprehensive
residents and others that a gas station in worker’s The reunion betwee his last decade.
days at
n Hospice House. Solvay
would hurt the area aesthetically and
plan would be the first step toward an the welder and
suffered lulls in recent
ultimate rezoning and redevelopment
a Planning Commission vote against death reveal
history. To of his1,284
date, barges the Barge traffic
trav- tools The inciden annualto

Do tax breaks work for Fargo?

trade never when Winona’s typical
t led
it, the Y pulled that plan.
by CHRIS ROGERS
elled through Winona’s harbor years, the
thishap-
of the Y property. pened second1,000federal to
barges fellfine
Now the Y is just seeking a compre- as Burch, making count of around
Some Windom Park neighborhood
residents lobbied the city to designate
a reactive
A bountiful fall harvest fueled a big year, according
hensive plan change that would allow
year for Winona barge traffic. While 2016
to city
in April
the biggest
staff, 53,
twotraffic
— river
year for month
died levied in 2013
just 722 barges againstandBurch’
s marked
854 last
a big turn-s
for a later rezoning of the property after the inciden year. employ
This yearer, the Superi
the neighborhood as a local historic large harvests nationwide kept lo- since
2006. t aboard based Fraser Shipya or-
district in the 1990s, but dropped
for redevelopment. Y CEO Derek
cal farmers’ per-bushel earnings low,
Madsen says the comprehensive plan
workplace the active year,”
“It was a very docked
Development
said
freight
Di- er within the past year.
rds,
the proposal after other neighbors Roger Blough

Lots of well-researched examples that don’t outright answer a politically

Community
how the dis- strong crop yields helped make 2016 Winona .
A see BARGE page 6a
raised concerns about barges recent
in Slaterrector Lucy McMartin.
Burch 127-ye ar-old ship-
the busiest year for By Brady succum
trict’s rules would limit their ability
see Y SITE page 6abslater@duluthn to sepsis, Mackie bed ping industry mainst
ews.com which said, ay
Even after he’d
for over 45 years had been the in Howard’s Bay and
community newspaper been one of
the winona post... proud to be your badly burned in a work- result of infections to panies a roster of com-
the burn wound
s on his Duluth belonging to the

charged question, but definitely serve the public by hedging the debate to
place incident

Helping Parents
at Fraser legs.
Shipyards in -based holdin
Februa g
Joseph Burch figured ry, A Superior residen company Capsta
n Corp.,
he Burch was t, Fraser is
hadn’t seen the a single man a stranger
An aerial view of Steve Kuchera last of who
doted on his niec- neither to the work it
Fraser Shipyards / skuchera@dulu
thnews.com his welding torch.
of a worker who in
was burned at the Superior on July 10. The death this es and loved performs, nor
with their children’s injury claims.
real, quantifiable information to weigh.
“He to scram-
record into
PAUL BROSNAH
questio AN site last winter has brough spring mistic was always opti- But after the to camp. bling to provide
n. t Fraser ’s ,” said Burch’ incident, workpl a safe
507-450-242 2 safety sister- in-law s he never left ace in which
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Mackie. “He would ’s burn unit perform it.
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rifice’ Third Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Helmut Schmidt

Diversity dilemma
Lots of entries tackled school diversity in what seems to be a trend
throughout Minnesota and North Dakota communities. Here the info-
graphics set this one apart.

A horse-drawn caisson
carries the remain
s of Marine Sgt.
James Joseph Hubert
to the site of the Clint Austin / caustin@
Long-lost Duluth By Lisa Kaczke
funeral at Calvar
y Cemetery in Duluth duluthnews.com
on Saturday mornin
g.
lkaczke@duluthnews.co Col. Mark James
Marine killed in
A
Hagen.
fter leaving Duluth m Hubert fought of Hubert’s mothe
in
years ago to becom nearly 75 Guadalcanal before the Battle of Cemetery, the
r at Calvary
WWII interred Marine, Sgt. James e a U.S.
Hubert came home Joseph
on Nov. 21, 1943, being killed
in
Tarawa. The militar the Battle of
carrying Hubert
way along the
horse-drawn caisson
’s casket made
its
on
“In terms of militar Saturday. him as “non-recovey designated road, a riderless
cemetery’s flag-li
ned
defending our y service, rable,” and his horse following
country, there body remained the casket to symbo
truth that all gave is a buried on a sandy lize the fallen
Watch video of James some, but some coral beach on Marine. Seven
gave all. United the island of Betio decades after he
Joseph Hubert’s for decades. Due was killed, six
duluthnewstrib
service at
une.com 4 Sgt. James Joseph
all,” said Hubert
namesake, retired
States Marine
Hubert gave
’s nephew and
Corps nonpro
was found and
to the work of
fit History Flight,
Hubert
laid to rest in his
the his casket from
caisson to his
Marines carried
the horse-drawn
final resting place
U.S. Air Force Lt. hometown of Duluth on Saturd Soldier’s Rest. at
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possibly put all the things
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Knapp, now Now,
a senior at cancer more than 10 years
the University -free, he will Submitted photo
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Duluth, was diagno thing normal peopledo some- Drew Knapp carries
cannot. his brother Dalton
a rare and aggres sed with Knapp on the set
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competition TV
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Monday.

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Columnist
LocaL coLumnists
balmy weather
The many birds of
ON THE ROUTE
Duane Hamer
d chair”
From my “comman a line of ever- are the first
see
family room I can the northeast. The to come back sometimes do not seem pened a chain saw up. I have heard of
greens that angle
to
catches the morning to leave at all, and will come
edge of that line
place for hawks to
sun and is a favorite a north or north- soon as the
perch protected from warming rays of the little
west wind and in
the
The day before
the mor ning sun. were two hawks vehicle approach
Valentine’s Day therewere already cele- patience to
they
side by side like
holiday. I am guess- “mask” and have little feathers
brating the lover’s
phased
ing they were light
Should I report a nea
Q:
My husband was
driving while I was
a passenger and
elderly man driving front
in
stop sign and cut
of us. My husband driver
the
his horn to alert
prior to him attempti
come into our lane. appear he was attentive.
However, he did
not
to hear us. Fortunat
were able to avoid
hit, as my husband this
saw
alert driver and
coming. Is this somethin not
I am
we can report?
sure if this man should to
driving, as he appeared
have no regard for
else on the road.
sure what police
done, as there was
dent or injury. I
curious to know
protocol is in such
situation.
Brownsdale
holds blood
drive
live music
Page 4A Rock County
Star
Page 4A Decembe
r 22, 2016
Bree, the family
to being an empty
Family dog’s role
changes as house
becomes empty
Since becom-
ing an empty nest-
er, I’ve noticed
changes in how
the household
operates without
children at home.
No one
tells Mom milk
is needed. The
shoes piled in the
entryway belong
to one adult
(not me) and the
family dog is
starved for attention
. One way is to look
Bree is a 10-year-o
late Labrador we’ve ld choco-
had since
she was a puppy.
Her
guard the livestock job is to
from the
numerous foxes,
raccoons and
coyotes in the area.
However, she thinks
family member and she is a
she should be treatedshe thinks
We learned early
as such.
she is not a hunting on that
dog.
sounds (such as gunfi Loud
her hiding. She will re) send
retrieve and
will spend hours
chasing a ten-
nis ball and bringing
be thrown again and it back to
again. Her
ever-wagging tail
acts
club, hitting anything as a billy
including one’s leg. in its way,
Bree is a good dog.
had formal obedienc She’s
e training
by our children’s
4-H
ects. She’s generally dog proj-
a good companion. calm and is
While she doesn’t
she will go hunting. like guns,
I often see
her in the waterway
nose to the ground, and ditch,
sniffing
after some rodent
or
happily trot along bird. She’ll
during horse-
back rides or run
alongside one
of the kids out playing.
She’s a busy family
now that our at-home dog and
mem-
bers have dwindled
from six to
two, Bree has become
what I
describe as a little
“needy.”
Without one of the
kids
sneaking her into
the
a sleeping compani house as
on or taking
her along during
one of their
outdoor adventur
es,
taken it upon herself Bree has
on the head or scratchto get a pat
behind
the ears any time
she can.
It doesn’t matter
her the attention who gives
either.
Visitors to the farm
often get an uncomfo would
nuzzle in the butt rtable
as
her head between Bree poked
The attention-getting legs.
their
would get a startled gesture
cry from
the recipient — and
wanted pat on the the much
head.
With visitor numbers
dwindling, Bree attaches also
herself
needy dog is all we
to me anytime I am
outside.
ers need.
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2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
ry 22, 2016 — Page
3
Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: Star Herald, Dodge Center, Emily Steffens
• Wednesday, Februa
Corp / Star Herald
Community News
Smile!
It’s My Life
It's fun to smile. Smiling I
is my absolute favorite.
their heads that look makes
up from the top of love it the most! It It
Very human, very brave, and very good move for newspaper to give fo-
had solid white bel- times they are mixed me feel good inside.
Hawks because they upper breast and like horns. Many snow buntings and loved.
of makes me alive and
lies and a rust coloredcommon hawk to in with f locks now they are mostly For a while there
after my
heads. Not the most unusual either. long spurs, but long spurs in my I couldn't smile at
area, but not I did not see any accident,
see in this alone.
have been very sur-
brain
same species was all. That part of my I
A third hawk of the travels and would the
pond, but the two prised to see any snow buntings with got hurt really badly. to do
It’s My Life
rum to a fresh voice. The author’s brain injury strips away the blather and
in a tree near our how
made a good photo. nice weather we have been having. couldn't figure out
together would have
Emily Steffens
the camera and temps in the fifties it right.
I thought about grabbingthem, but knew The forecast is for lips
on a chance of rain
next week. What In the accident, my
trying to sneak up lly happening and snow that’s out there will be gone of my Living with Severe
got cut up and three
the odds of that successfu little
be shocked to see
a out. My Traumatic Brain
Injury
least for any lens that teeth got knocked
were very slim. At stay very long and for sure. I wouldn’trd or some ea rly . I
right side got paralyzed
I own. They did not seen them since. robi n or bluebi
delivers simple truths in deceptively simple language.
two
was in a coma for out of of my mouth would smile.
I
flew away and I haven’ta bit the last few blackbirds. pair of rubber months. When I came
I had to buy a new go look for an
I did drive around I didn't
larks out and to coma, I didn't remembe
r didn't like it at all.
horned I am ready the have a
days and noticed so
Horned larks boots shed in the woods and generally even think I would ever
on the rural roads. how to do anything, but I do.
in our about songbirds antler see what has hap- to smile. good smile again,
of the migrating a little to how but I did it
is poke around get ambitious I went to physical
therapy, It was work,
each year. If the winter this winter. I might anyway because I
had to.
occupatio nal therapy and
dis-
very mild they back as and start ries that are learn how Sometimes I got real wasn't
garlic and strawber speech therapy to I
They are tulips, some normal and smile. couraged. I felt like
weather warms up. The garlic will survivenot sure about to speak, swallow
are usually up. Learning to use my
face making any progress.
brown birds that but I am Sometimes all I could
do
a winter temps, of
away as soon as over again was kind too. I and
alone and will f ly the other two. was pray with Mom think I
es. It takes a little Enjoy the balmy
above seasonal weird, but it was fun,
Second Place: Lake Region Life, Waterville, Lisa Ingebrand
and Larry. At first I don't but
get a good look at
them.
temps and have a
good week. had to make faces
breast band and the muscles in my knew if it was helping,that I
have a black stretch I love it
They that stick in a mir- now I know.
face. I would look I got my
’s and move my jaw could pray and that
Swainson ror
smile back.
r-miss?
around. my
at Now, I love to show
I didn't like my smile It
people
smile and make other
Lisa’s Lines
me.
first. It was so not
one side smile, too.
was broken. Only
for review
can send a request
A:
This situation is a to the Minnesota Departmand
ent
good reminder of Driver
of Public Safety
the importance of
Irma Bombeck apparently moved to Minnesota. Stories of motherhood
S)
an ns Vehicle Services (DPS-DV
avoiding all distractio as driver who
ran a if they identify a
behind the wheel, should re-test or
ASK A TROOPER
while they believe
you might see a potential be checked by a doctor.
DPS-
honked
or crash before it allow the person to
Sgt. Troy
hazard was DVS can
happens. Your husband r ive w it h
ng to c o nt i nu e t o d
exceptionally and honestly told. I’d love to have lunch with her feisty
to avoid a crash because increased limitations such as
able
speed, daylight
Christianson
If you witness any
danger- roadway times of the day of the Minnesota
ely, we call law only, certainset limit of miles State Patrol
8c
ous driving conduct, a
being report the or within or her home. They
was an enforcement and his
possible. from p
incident as soon as direc- can also
require follow-u
Celebrating
4-year-old, just not at a taco joint.
g Report your location,driving doctor’s exams. drive Minneso ta
Toward
tion of travel, the Avoid i ng d ist r a ct ion
s
Zero Deaths.
and
conduct you are
seeing the wheel will If you have any questions
be license while behind related
attempt to get the do our increase your chances avoid- concerni ng traffic
plate number. We
will save Minnesota
a crash and could laws or issues in
anyone
stop that vehicle ing life. Take driving seri- s to Sgt.
I am not best to
Law your send your question s o n –
anyone is injured. time you get Tr o y C h r i s t i
an
Ten Years of
could have before ent will talk to the ously each Patrol at
enforcem behind the wheel. Minneso ta State
no acci-
to determin e if they You can avoid a
ticket — 290 0 48th S t
r e e t N W,
guess I am driver impaired , distract- 48.
a crash — if you
simply 55901-58
the Arts!
are/were Rocheste r, MN
what the reason for and up, drive at safe at, Troy.
a ed, fatigued, the as well buckle (Or reach him
their driving conduct drive. speeds, pay attention us
and
Christianson@stat
e.mn.us)
Third Place: Jackson County Pilot, Jessica Oye
to
as if they are valid officers always drive sober. Help
Law enforcement
.
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ers.
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First Place: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Mavis Fodness
artist’s concept
c by: Brad Boice: 5:30pm
Enjoy live musi4:30pm
Beware
Higher Call Quartet: 3:30pm
The Benson Family Singers: of ATM and
gas pump skimm
If card reade r looks ers Family Dog’s Role, Amazing Impact, Clarice the Clarinet
She had me at the chocolate lab, but the death of her friend was espe-
different or tampe
red with, don’t use
Criminals are constantl
new types of technolo y using machine
steal consumers’ gy in order to
credit and debit
card information.
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to ATMs and gas pumps. as “skimmers,” By Minnesota Attorney
MAGEN TA Lori
General YELLOW
CYAN Swanson
the column.
What are “skimme
dog, is not adjusting rs?”
well
X Slug Here
A skimmer is a small
nester. smaller than a deck device, often
the others or looks
of
scan credit or debit cards, that can like it has been
tampered with, do card option for your
the card’s magnetic card data from Look for security
not use it.
is significantly more
debit card. There
stripe. Criminals tape. Many fraud protection
often install a skimmer gas stations are now for credit cards than
onto an ATM
or gas pump and
then collect it a day of security tape over putting a piece by using the credit
debit cards. Also,
or two later. reader is installed. where the card your debit card, you
card option for
Th
For debit cards, is modified so that e security tape enter in your PIN will not have to
also place a small criminals will
will be obvious to any tampering and that informa-
camera in order the casual observer. tion will not be recorded
to record a cardhold Look for tamperin When using your .
Identification Numberer’s Personal nals have the time g. Some crimi-
at an ATM, use your debit card
(PIN). and expertise to other hand to
Second Place: Pipestone County Star, Jen Burris
Once the criminals break into the gas cover the keypad
skimmer and camera, retrieve the and install the skimmer pump or ATM
That should block
as you enter PIN.
sell the information they can either machine. However, inside the any
recording your PIN. cameras from
over the Internet there
or create counterfe
it cards to use for be signs of the break-in: will usually If you believe your
RUMINATIONS shopping sprees. ored parts that don’t different col- tion was stolen by card informa-
match the rest of a skimmer, report
Oftentimes, the cardhold the pump or ATM, that immediately
er does graphics that are to
not know about the not lined up, or signs credit card company your bank or
Deep thinker and simple style, judiciously choosing her facts and mak-
theft until they
get their card statemen keypad or card readerof tampering at Since criminals act and the police.
credit cards that have t. The newer Wiggle everything.
itself.
type of stolen informati
quickly with this
By Mavis Fodness, installed still have security chips see any visual diff If you cannot
to report the matter on, you need
Reporter information on erences, push at as soon as pos-
the magnetic strips ferent parts of the machine, dif- sible so that you can
that
recorded by a skimmer. can still be the card reader. ATMs especially ity for any fraudulen
limit your liabil-
How can you tell are solidly construct and gas pumps Regularly review
t transactions.
is attached to a gas if a skimmer not have parts that ed and should
ing it feel like a coffee shop conversation with a friend. More local flavor
... now that our pump or ATM? are loose. credit card statemen your bank and
ts for any unau-
How can I protect thorized charges
at-home members gas pumps or ATM at other nearby If you can, pay with
myself?
you suspect fraud
to your account. If
machines. They cash inside contact
should all have the the gas station to or credit card company your bank
have dwindled from card reader at the
same set-up. If the
information remains
ensure any card
possible. as soon as
gas
you are using looks pump or ATM
not an option, only safe. If that is
six to two, Bree has different from use a credit card There are laws to
protect you
would be nice, though.
at the gas pump or from certain unauthor
choose the credit
if you promptly report ized charges
become what Memories of grandpar them.
I describe as a ents past, present
little “needy.”
I think the gifts are
and under the tree, all wrapped and future
Santa made an earlyso it looks like
visit to the Pe-
terson house.
Mary and I, like most For what it’s wor
th
Generally that means
twice a ents, are looking grandpar-
day when I do morning forward to having
a house
evening chores. Bree and holidays.
full of grandkids
over the
a pat on the head can expect
and As we anticipate
behind the ears, but a scratch
Third Place: Pipestone County Star, Kyle Kuphal
only when weekend, I find myselfthe upcoming By Rick Peterson,
General Manager
I exit the house. how we spent Christma remembering Tollefson Publishin
g
I, in return, have grandparents. s with our
tripped
over her, been uprooted
As kids we always
suddenly appears as she
between my Grandma Pete’s house went over to Once Mary and I
legs, and licked on
the Eve. Her house was on Christma s own, we would had kids of our
wasn’t able to make
bend over to pet the face as I small and full of spend
Eve with Mary’s mom. Christmas Mary made sure her it to the house,
Nice column on fatherhood that carried the entry. Column on faith and
tomcat. her collection of all
things Th
Her nose slowly nuzzles mas collected. On that grand- I was introduced at is when Christmas dinner mom never ate
way into the doorfram its
e as I try ing we would open
Christmas morn-
fruitcake and ham
to the ever-popular alone.
to shoo gifts at salad. A few years back my
her from the front as a family and by our house bologna salad but It was really from Brewster to mom moved
Because pushing door. 10 we called it ham
a 60-pound headed to Grandmaa.m. would be salad. I still buy a fruitcake Christmas I would
Westbrook. Each
dog with puppy eyes Christmas dinner. Schultz’s for every year drive from Luverne
and throw most to Westbrook, pick
way is hard, I have out of the Christmas dinners
Grandma Schultz’s of it away, and we her up, bring her
relented still serve up ham back to Luverne
Bernie Sanders was also nicely done.
have let her take residence and were the best. salad sandwiches. for
her kennel in the in After Mary and We would open gifts take her home later the day, then
basement. It’s we would go to her I were married, on Christmas morning,at our house and return back
that afternoon
cold outside so coming Grandma Scha- to Luverne. I used
fer’s house on Christma over to my mom’s house then head to complain about
prevents frozen paws. inside where I was introduce s Eve. That is for Christmas driving four hours
dinner. You could on Christma s Day to spend Christma
count
Having her inside
also An S cookie is a butterd to S cookies. undercooked vegetable on the best at my own home. s
breathes some life cookie in the s and some of My
house. Empty nests
into the shape of an S for
Schafer no doubt
the oddest-shaped
lefse you’ve ever years ago this week. mom died two
are quiet and I couldn’t get seen at my mom’s. Oh, how I wish I
and, at times, a little enough of them. could spend four
hours on the road
when you’re the onlylonely Mary’s Grandma As our parents got Christmas Day just
always very nice to Schafer was to bring them to our older, we tried to have Christmas
one home at my own home
in the evening. me,
would leave her house and when we mas for as many years
house for Christ- one more time.
I’m not sure what
While Bree is banned
from Eve, she always made on Christmas To this day it still
as we could.
will one day remembe our grandkids
the furniture, she least one more S sure I had at breaks Mary’s r about spend-
has heart that it became ing Christmas with
allowed to leave the been cookie for the trip the
home. ficult to get her mothermuch too dif- I do hope, however, grandparents.
and lie in the sun basement
in front of the for Christmas. Althoughto our house are as fond as ours their memories
patio doors on Saturday Mary’s mom are.
noons. She’s a good after- Merry Christmas.
companion
for a mother who
So while Bree has
is used
ing children underfoo to hav-
t. VOICE OF OUR READ
needy, I too miss the daily
become ERS
los and goodbyes hel-
dren coming and the chil-
of
Biever: Gift of freedo
going.
then I relished a little Back m came from Korea
the house. Now that quiet in
To the Editor: n War, other vetera
quiet, a dog has become it’s always As we consider our
Christmas season, blessings this
the price they paid. ns
substitute. a good let’s remember The United States 3,450 returned alive.
the gift of freedom Korea between June casualties in
Sometimes a hug that 25, 1950, and July Let’s count our
with a and past military service our current 27, 1953, resulted Christmas, and let’s blessings this
in 54,236 soldiers
empty nest- so generously provided people have killed, 103,000 wounded erans for sacrificing thank our vet-
. , and 8,177 so much for our
In particular, let’s missing in action. freedoms. We shall
Korean War veterans. remember our Of the 7,000 prisoners comrades and their
never forget our
have forgotten, we Though others percent died in prison camps
of war, 51 service.
must remember and 389 Wayne Biever, Luverne,
POW were never accounte
d for. Only Korean War
U.S. Marine Corp Veteran,
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By Robin Givhan
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Second Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Jen Koski
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Grand Palais have
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way past security
checkpoints that included
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inspectio
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Chanel rocket centered n hall to find a
Soaring several stories on a launch pad.
rocket looked like towards the sky,
a NASA specimen
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Third Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester, John Weiss

was surrounded by
industrial-looking Maurie Sween chats with
cubes with looping a Rukai man during a
ducts and ventilati recent visit to the mountaino
on
“radio towers” rose shafts. Blinking
Aboriginal folktales from
us village that inspired Submitted photo
up his book.
landscape of bleacher between the

Taiwan inspired
s.
The set was not so
tion of our current much a celebra-

Rapidan native to write

John Weiss, Outdoors
era
tion, in which tourist of space explora-
are the dream, but flights to Mars
rather a look back,
when scientists still By Kristine Goodrich
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A Warm, well-written outdoors columns. The command of the language

was man’s great to learn; no pressure
existential fear. ,
This collection, rolled
s a missionary in Taiwan,
Maurie would laugh at my lots of fun. The kids
Sween worked at a terrible language and
John’s “Rocket Man,” out to Elton hospital, taught help me get better,’”
at seminary schools he said.
the boots and bouffantwas defined by lead a school for children and helped When the school transitio
ned again to
-the years when fashions of the 1960s palsy. with cerebral a day center for children
and adults with

was impressive.
away from the reserved was shifting Now he’s hoping to
disabilities, Sween
decided to continue
“Hidden Figures” style we saw in of Taiwan by penning avail the people studies in Scotland his
to the iconoclasm . His doctorate work
the Youthquake. of youths inspired by a chapter book for at the University of
aboriginal folktales Edinburgh included
This collection included The book hit Taiwan . an inquest into the
booksto life and influence
knee-high boots, structur glittery Taiwanese version res and the Liu Hsia, a Taiwanese of
dresses and squared- ed shift of Amazon last week. disabilities and startedwriter who had
A native of Rapidan
kled with sparkles
off jackets sprin-
most of the past 30 , Sween has lived social welfare organiza Taiwan’s largest
. Some dresses were years in Taiwan, ex- tion.
practically blinding cluding “From her I learned
— doctorate studies the power of sto-
patterns, Milky Way constellation married a doctor he in Scotland. He ries, and also the strength
in weakness,”
galaxies, starry met during his first Sween said. “She was
night images. There visit to the island
temporary, sporty
were more con- off
They have a 13-year- the coast of China. ized woman, but her a terribly marginal-
gestures old reflections on pain
included silver backpac , too. They he first spun the tales son with whom and suffering were
able
dresses emblazoned ks, hoodies and in his new book. and transform society.” to touch hearts
with moon-man Sween said his “interest
prints, silver trousers kindled” at Calvary in ministry was Sween returned to
and Lutheran nary, this time in Taiwan’s teaching at a semi-
that suggested astronau quilted wraps Rapidan. Church in
capital city.
t blankets. The cover of Maurie Sween’s His wife and son,
It was a fun and delightfu His “interest in internat newly released book. meanwhile, returned
in which the theme-p l collection was incited by a year ional living” to Pingtung. He grew
ark A year later he returned tired of commut-
added to the joy. There atmosphere year of high school abroad his senior gian hospital. to the Norwe- ing, though, and decided
to retire from
of hopefulness in it. was also a mood in 1978. His mother, teaching.
Mary Sween, who “Someth
Perhaps it was taught reading and ing had just “Plus, I’m
that the show served English in Rapidan there,” he said of his clicked while I was said. “I don’t a countryside boy,” he
distraction from the as a full-throated and
to teach in Port-au-P Garden City, went the whole first visit. “It was like Taipei. It’s cold,
many grim matters rince, milieu that overcrowded and rainy,
here on Earth. He first went to Taiwan Haiti. friendships, but also excited me — the busy.
after earning a the the South is warmer The weather in
Or maybe it was the
child-like
master’s degree from ing spiritual and social ethos of combin- and less rainy, and
optimism that can Seminary in Californ Fuller Theological ministry in lovely it’s not so crowded
and people are more
fuel
spaceships and space dreams about ia and before earning service.” relaxed and not so
a second master’s A few years later he hurried. You talk about
travel. degree from Yale Uni- ‘Minnes ota Nice.’
versity. He spent two friend at joined his pastor South Taiwan is rather
Norwegian mission months serving at a abilities. a school for children with dis- that way.”
hospital in Pingtun It was started by a Sween lives just a
on the southern end g, doctor in response Norweigan few miles from tower-
of the island. to a polio epidemi ing mountains, but
He met the woman half-century prior. ca most days he cannot
his wife there, though who would become “In those days, children
see them.
didn’t bloom until their relationship “On most days you
he brought with disabilities have to be almost
He also met a Taiwanereturned years later. hidden shame on their families and were driving up into them before you can
se Presbyterian pas- away,” Sween said. them, the air pollution see
tor with whom he allowed to attend “They were not is that bad,” he
would later work. public said.
After Yale he wanted missionaries built schools. So the
work in Brazil. to do missionary a residential instituti Second only to seeing
that provided physical on family, Sween
“I like the sound of tion.” therapy and educa- said fresh air is what he looks forward
beauty of the Amazon Portuguese and the Later, the school turned
most about coming
back to Mankato. He
to
said. was enticing,” he returns home for a
children with cerebral its focus to few weeks every sum-
mer with his
But every organiza a decade at the school,palsy. Sween spent son.
Photo for The Washington
Post by plied wanted to send tion to which he ap- trator and later a chaplain first as an adminis “We take trips
- sharp, to keep back to keep his English
A giant rocket dominated Marcelo Soubhia, MCV Photo He chose a position him back to Taiwan. Learning the Chinese . roots with his America
fall-winter 2017 collection,the set at the Chanel seminary on the recomm
at a Presbyterian
language side of the family
deep,
n
Palais in Paris. staged at the Grand endation of the challenging feat at
first
was a we love it in Mankato and, well, because
pastor he befriend
ed when he moved from but became easier it is just . In the summer time
who was an alum. during his first trip, school. the hospital to the a fun place to be,”
Sween said.
Failed attempts to
“Working with children share wisdom with
was a great way

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day in Minnesota? Time

I grew up thinking
dads were drunk all all
the
time. Like mine. Well,
all the time, but … not
He also taught me
men drink beer. Or that
so I
thought. In the evenings
page committing America
League baseball scores n garbage to the alley garbage
for a ROAD TRIP!
Dad, not being much
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at memory or analyzin to can and picking up
Let me explain. our house at 1577 g the the water spaniel’s
Sadie planner, sometimes of a the border, the more
exotic
My dad was a E. Arlington Avenue report from the previous yard treasures, was
back- to procure enough
forgot it seemed. Crossing
the
wonderful man who on St. Paul’s rockin’ night’s North Stars game ing my dad’s returnab
carry- to get him through
Pfeiffer giant bridge that spanned
— a game he might Sunday
was there for me in East Side, he’d set have
watched on that fridge- empties downstairs le (or maybe he just
drank
the St. Croix River
seemed
every w up camp to the mo like crossin
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with a Passover meal, the bone.
the cross.
ing and stations oferent activities d be able

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r Service Photo
“That person shoulline while
“We have diff in a straight
us with the to walk chuckled
that will connectr,” said Pastor holding hot things,”
mean ing of Easte
Knoll. the word
Jason Knoll. one with He explained thatA few hun-
Knoll greeted every d the guest s Easte r has a histor y.
the Ger-
“shalom” as he guide ional Jew- dred years ago it went by e that is
through the tradit , Aoster. Befor
with a Seder man wordHebrew word Pesach
ish Passover meal was the
Pesach. s Passover.
the table was matzah ball which mean for Easter is Eng-
On eat before “Our word
soup that guests could an, to Hebrew, the
plate on the lish, to Germ ver,” ex-
dinner began. Each s of juice and word Easter means Passo
table had four glassea small bone. plained Knoll. of Pass-
one plate contained the table was He shared the story

Weeklies up to 1,500
ians
Wrapped in foil onas well as sev- over, of a time when EgyptThey
unleavened bread the Israelites.
ined horse- enslaved
eral plates that conta
y, an apple , a nut Cont inued on page 10
radish, parsle

First Place: Citizen’s Advocate, Henning, Chad Koenen

and salt wa-
and honey mixture
of the
At left, at the end ce,
Last Supper Servicre-

A crowning achievement
guests visite d seven
ns. At
ative prayer statio sta-
the “Spike of Sin” ered
tion, guests hammcross
a spike into the
as the Roman soldie
once did. At the
rs
“Re-
n
I like the joy captured on the girl’s face. Catching her in the middle of
member me” statio
they used red
to symbolize Chris
blood and wrote
paint
t’s
their clapping just adds to how genuine feel of it.
names on it.

process
ins dissolution
Eagle Valley beg
Second Place: The Exponent, East Grand Forks, Bruce Brierley
4-3 to become
Resolution approved Fire Safety Week
erville's District
y! entirely part of Brow at their April a e
to our di-
sensible solution can’t reject For one, this white-hot fiery shot grabs the reader’s attention. Two, it’s a
sented to the board recommen- lemma. Browervill commission-
by Marlo Benning 10 meeting. Thisfor the entire what the [county]
marlo@inhnews.com
l
ity of the dation would be
Due to the inabil to secure Eagle Valley District e District.
ervill
to becom
Eagle Valley Schoo for their part of the Brow that one of the about the recom
e ers decid e.”
When asked how
he felt
mendation,
er
good lesson about not trying to douse a grease fire with water.
a tuition agreementa neighbor- Duevel said County Commissionthe
lving the dis- Todd “I know
7-12 students with statute they big parts of disso d time frame Gary Kneisl said, surer would
ing district, by state is the limite county audito r/trea
their doors to their trict have. it [not splitti ng up the EV
must close they to one prefe r

Third Place: Star Herald, Dodge Center, Melanie Dobson

in Clarissa. .”
elementary school solely an el- “If our district goes to take district]. It would be easier EV
They became ct, then they have According to what
and had a distri all records, etc. It stream- all six of
ementary last fall coopera- over that. School is being told, ed teach-
tuition and a sports Eagle Valley’s tenur
Wagon Train
for the lines er of jobs, but
With basket in place ission
If not, the comm rtment of ers would be assur members ed
tive agreement in with the
tow and dressed in 2016-17 school year the Minnesota Depa of their board
warm clothing for l district. The ) becomes in- none into a new
Browerville Schoo l Board vot- Education (MDE the Eagle Val- would be absorbed
the outing, Avery

Good vantage point chosen to take this. The parade of unusual vehicles
ervill e Schoo d and splits ct.
Fritzlar of Long Brow y’s newly volve distri
Bertha-Hewitt Schoowas in
l Su-
Prairie, above, ed down Eagle Valle ment on ley
district up. cs could
proposed tuition agree “Emotions and politi As stat- perintendent Eric Koep ng and
found a large pile they were meeti
March 13 and since make that really hard. a-Hewitt attendance at the on behalf of
an agreement
comes at you. It’s one of those shots, also, where the closer you look, the
of eggs at the bot- unable to secure district, they ute says now,
Berth
offered an apology EV is in.
tom of the slide to refere ndum
with any other lose their the spot that
add to his growing lution pro- would d us that BH forwish I would have been a
must begin the disso and any district aroun lose “I
collection. higher tax base would part of this,” he said. he shares
cess. ncipa l has a , too,” noted Duevel.

oughout Nelson Par Park in Eagle Bend il

last
the event were Abiga
Supe rinte nden t/Pri
Dessica Veum and
Manager Dawn
Business theirs
Veum said, “We are recom
Duevel have mending that it goes to one
side their e houses the
- Koep said that es with
comm on philosophi
Continued on page
6
more you see (e.g., covered wagons).
ggs at the finish ofwho were in town visit- been working alongal advisors district. Browervillstudents; it’s
atz of Alexandria t members as well as lawyers and nanci they pre- majority of our
on a recommendation
liary and depar tmen
hotos on page 6.

’s
Weeklies 1,501-2,500
First Place: Clarissa - Independent News Herald, Ray Benning
s race!”
otho.
Fatal crash at familiar intersection
ndma’s,
idea—
er that
Great photo!
passion
s fortu-
Marla’s
n to take

rway the
ay, 2002,
zed event
Second Place: Pipestone County Star, Mark Thode*
the high-
n page 11
Grain bin rescue

intersection
Fatal crash at familiar Long Prairie.
Third Place: Union-Times, Princeton, Milaca, Jeff Hage
Eagle Scout, Two new flags now fly at Gorecki Community Center in
aCare Hospital in
Dorothy to CentrTodd County Sheriff ’s Office was as--
Venture driven by The e, Brow
ff ’s 2004 Chevrolet Eagle Bend. erville Fire and Rescu
Todd County Sheri rural les sisted by Browlance, Long Prairie Ambulance
According to the 15, at approximately Holder of crash , both vehic
As a result of the Holder was trapped erville Ambu esota State Patrol.

Milaca’s Recreation Park

Department, on April nded to a two vehicle up in the ditch. - and the Minn pronounced dead after her
12:35 p.m., they respoection of County Road ended vehicle and was extricated by Brow Holde r was
accident at the inters 14 in Iona Township. in her e and then was trans- arrival at CentraCare Hospital.
11 and County Road erville Fire and Rescu to Cen-
osted Mama driven by Robert ported by Browerville Ambulance
A 2014 GMC Sierra ing e. Carpentier
helped raise ing, MN was travel le traCare Hospital in Long Prairie Ambulance
tunate with- Carpentier of Wyom Road 11. As his vehic orted by Long Prairi
on Coun ty by a was transp
Schnell calls north ection, it was struck
entered the inters news.com
e-mail: news@inh

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First Place: Detroit Lakes Tribune, Meagan Pittelko

over the
price.

Shattered Innocence
Like the use of shadows in this photo. Could have been cropped in a bit
closer. Technique was used in this photo, which is why it was chosen for
first place.

Second Place: Pope County Tribune, Glenwood, Tim Douglass

A frozen village
Like this photo. Good technique and idea for a shot.

Third Place: Morris - Stevens County Times, Brooke Kern*

Active shooter training at UMM

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Weeklies over 5,000
First Place: Forest Lake Times, Ryan Howard
Council OKs sheriff’s proposal
Photo conveys feelings in the room over losing sheriff’s department

Second Place: Grand Rapids Herald Review, Britta Arendt

God Bless Veterans
The look on the veteran’s face truly captures the importance of this event
to thank the veterans.

Third Place: Crystal/Robbinsdale/New Hope/Golden Valley Sun

Post, Laci Gagliano
Black Lives Matter marches May 31 in Crystal
SERVING
THE BRAI
NERD LAK
ES AREA A
ND CENTR
AL MINNE
A moment of reflection perfectly captured.
FRIDAY, N SOTA SIN
OVEMBER CE 1881
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Jeep crashes thro

2nd story garage ugh
, takes
All Dailies
First Place: Brainerd Dispatch, Steve Kohls
NOSEDIVE

Jennifer Stockin
ger

A
Staff Writer
n elderly man

Jeep Hanging
escaped injuries
his vehicle through Thursday when
his second-story he drove
Terrace Apartm garage at Mississ
into the paveme ents in southw ippi
nt below. est Brainerd
slamming
Brainerd police
and firefighters
upon arrival, they were called at
found that the 3 p.m. and

Great Photo!
straight through Jeep Grand Cheroke
the back wall of e went
the second-story
garage and
NOSEDIVE: Page
A7

Second Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Michael Vosburg*
Water is life

Third Place: St. Cloud Times, Dave Schwarz*

BD Photo Gallery & Video
brainerddis patch.com

Law enforcement
and emergency
garage at Mississ personnel rescue
ippi Terrace Apartm a man who drove
ents in Brainerd his
Steve Kohls / Brainerd
Thursday. The man vehicle through the back wall of

With Honor
Dispatch his
was rescued with
unknown injuries.

CRIME & COURTS

Charges filed WINTER WEATHER

in fatal crash WE’RE IT— the ce

nter
Chelsey Perkins

T of highest
Staff Writer
Jennifer Stockin he winter storm
ger was charged bearing down on
Staff Writer

A
with gross is expected to Minnesota
misdemeanor pack such a punch,
31-year-old Bena third-degree named. it’s been
man driving while impaire

expected
faces three d and After the forecas
felony three misdem t changed briefly
counts of crimina eanors of to indicate fewer Wednesday
l traffic DWI, driving inches expecte
vehicular homicid lakes area, Thursd d for the
e after the suspension after ay morning ushered Brainerd
passenger car he and having no ter storm warnin
was driving proof of g for Winter Storm in a win-
crashed Oct. 29 insurance. storm’s expecte Argos. The

snowfalls
near d path shifted
killing his passeng Walker, Nelson will
appear in placing Brainer
d squarely within
to the southea
st,
er. court Monday dicted to receive
Phillip C. Nelson for an omni- the zone pre-
was bus hearing. some of the heavies
charged Nov. throughout the t snow totals
1 in Cass The Minnes day today.
County District ota State The forecast
Court in Patrol called for rain
Walker to three responded to turning into snow Thursday
felony crash at 4:11 the in the early mornin night,
counts of crimina a.m. involving Friday. g hours blowing and drifting
l vehicu- a Pontiac snow.
lar homicide Grand Prix that “It’ll mix with “It’s going to
— including was and change to whip around,
being under the travelin by the time most snow, probabl especially in the
influence on Highwa g eastbound people are heading y morning (Friday),” Melde
of alcohol, having y 200 when tomorrow (Friday out the door pretty nasty said. “It’s going
an alco- ran off it ),” day.” to be a
hol concentration the roadway, struck ogist at the Nationa said Dean Melde, meteorol- According to
or more and of .08 three “Through the l Weather Service the NWS website
having a .08 trees and rolled in Duluth. expecte , the highest
eral times near sev- day, we’re looking d snow totals
concentration inches. Most of at about 10 County range from souther
within two Onigum it is going to fall across central and n Cass
hours of driving we’re expecting during the day northea
. He also CHARG close to a foot … into northern St. st Itasca County
ES: Page A7 Along with the of snow.” Louis County.
8-12 inches of “The highest contour
fall, Melde said predicted snow- on this map is
windy conditio 14 inches,
ns will lead to
WEATHER: Page
A8

Brainerd Lakes AIRPORT COMM

ISSION
Regional Airport
Spenser Bickett
plans utility con
nections
T
Staff Writer water lines running
Tom’s Backho out to the airport.
enants at the Steve Wright
Brainerd Lakes city of Brainere Service is completing the said, as opposed
Regional Airport d’s portion of Contracting. to Ryan
are preparing the project, Wright has request
connect to the to while Ryan Contracting It’s been tough plumbing contrac ed quotes from local
nearly comple is responsible for to plan on when
utility extension
project. ted the airport’s portion. connect, Wright to one estimat tors and has
received
The airport During the project said, because the e to connect the
commission planning process is waiting for airport minal airport ter-
approved a plan Thursday it was determined Tom’s Backho to the new lines.
the airport could , complete its e Service to There are three
to seek quotes tenants on the
plumbing contrac from money by having a save It’s possible portion of the project first. existing utility
tors to connect local plumbing the airport could with the system
few buildings a select tractor connect
to the newly constru the airport to con- nect to
the still con- connect terminal, which will also
the new year, water and ed. be
cted sewer and water lines, he said, thanks
sewer lines this
Airport Directo to the unseaso “The tenants I
r warm fall. nably have talked to
are aware
INSIDE TODA AIRPORT: Page
Y VOL 137-60 A7
DEATHS A5 OPINION A6 CLASSIFIED C1
COMICS A4 SPORTS B1 DEAR ABBY A7

www.brainerddis
patch.com Enjoy Dispatch E-ed
ition!

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
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Sports Photo
Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: Minneota Mascot, Brian Jeremiason
Under the Lights
A unique shot of an otherwise ordinary scene. It’s framed well, too.

Second Place: The Parkers Prairie Independent, Jakki Wehking

An unexpected look at a drive to the basket.

Third Place: Stillwater Gazette, Stuart Groskreutz

November 11 volleyball
A good shot of an important moment. It tells the story without words.

all ball game to Weeklies 1,501-2,500

state First Place: Albany Enterprise, Herman Lensing
Kyle Lieser’s play
A great, unexpected shot which captures the moment well.

Second Place: Dodge County Independent, Kasson, Chris Schad

Photo of Volleyball Team
A fun photo which captures the athletes’ joy.

Third Place: Lake County News-Chronicle, Two Harbors,

Adelle Whitefoot
A high jump for Christian Beamer
A good shot of a tough event to photograph.

yle Lieser forced Weeklies 2,501-5,000

ok to the air to try out Elrosa’s Matt Middendorf, th
en
e to retire the battefor a double play. The throw was First Place: Northfield News, Nick Gerhardt
r. too
Tommy Gallagher, Cristian Fuentes
au and Bryan Sc So much emotion here in everyone’s face.
mbined to shut hlangen ning resulted in setting
ou up
nich 3-0 Saturday t New scores and scoring runs for the
t round of Region in the M art ins . In the fif Second Place: Faribault County Register, Blue Earth, Kevin Mertens
Jaylyn Arceneau C.
15 when they added th inning,
str ug - runs, Michae two more A gritty outing for BEA
d early in the ga
me en- Bryan Sc l Schlangen and Can almost taste sand in my mouth.
ng New Munich hlangen executed
to
bases in the first, load a delayed double steal with
r and two walks, on an Michael Schla
bu ngen scoring Third Place: News-Record, Zumbrota, Pine Island, Faye Haugen
nse came through t his the run. Scott Schlangen later
. Kyle drove him in Coming up just short
er snared a line dr with a single
ive
to end the first inn at After the fifth inn . I feel your pain!
r also started two do ing . Si lverStreaks moun ing the
ub le mo ted no
in the game. re serious threats.
Br
wice in the game Sc hla ngen faced just 10 yan
St . ters in his two bat-
n outfielders raced
back innings of rel and one-third
fence to take away ief.
ex
hits from New M tra Lieser, be
unch. RBI robbing sides making
h case the SilverS
treaks drives and catches off line
nners on base. starting
. Martin never tra ble plays, had three two dou-
aking a 1-0 first inniled St. game for the Mart hit in the
ing Martin-3 New Mu .
ins
n Bryan Schlang nich-0
en’s St. Ma rti n
ngle. Good base 001
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Taylor Holthaus
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eau 0-
2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest

Weeklies over 5,000

First Place: Isanti-Chisago County Star, Cambridge, John Olson
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a Hornet?
I loved the action sequence!

Second Place: Eden Prairie Sun Current, Mark Trockman

Under the bright lights... A skier passes…
An unusual sight - great composition.

Third Place: Isanti-Chisago County Star, Cambridge, Bill Stickels III

Fat bike racers feel the burn
You can almost feel the cold just looking at this photo!

All Dailies
First Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Andrew Link
Diving catch
Excellent job of not only getting the catcher mid-air, but also capturing
his intense expression as well.

Second Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Dave Wallis

Upside down at 2nd base
Perfect timing to get a great shot. Nice effort.

Third Place: Brainerd Dispatch, Kelly Humphrey

Go, Grandma, Go!
Wonderful feature photo. A real eye-catcher.

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Feature Photo
Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: The Voyageur Press, McGregor, John Grones
Barefoot’n Big Sandy
This photo is framed nicely, with the skier’s reflection in the water really
adding a nice touch to the composition. Good demonstration of skill and
well-timed photo.

Second Place: Spring Valley Tribune, David Phillips

Homecoming doesn’t start until next week…
Beautiful frame with a great look at five faces, none of them really ob-
structed. That the ball was framed inside the hula hoop was great timing
and a good placement of the photographer. Really fun shot.

Third Place: Jackson County Pilot, Dan Condon

The Experience
The photo tells a story in and of itself, and it is cropped perfectly. Third
place was a tough choice, as the photographer took a creative angle in
getting this shot. Helped this photo edge out stiff competition for third
place.

Weeklies 1,501-2,500
First Place: St. Michael/Rockford Crow River News, Susan Van Cleaf
When Sinks Sprout Wings
Good “fun feature.” Glad to see a photo that has the actual spontaneity I
feel is present in the best feature photos.

Second Place: Pipestone County Star, Julie Carrow

Victory Harvest
Good light, good composition. I like the contrast (both in terms of color
and composition) between the main photo and the secondary.

Third Place: Staples World, Janice Winter

Wall cloud
A good feature of a weather phenomena that probably would have been
what people in town probably talked about when it happened.

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2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
Weeklies 2,501-5,000
First Place: Kenyon Leader, Terri (Washburn) Lenz
Held together
Without reading the story, you can feel the emotion of the elderly gentle-
man. The logo on the younger man’s hat tells the story of what is hap-
pening regarding the family business to your readers.

Second Place: Park Rapids Enterprise, Nicole Vik

High flying action
Just looking at the top picture gives you a rush of adrenaline. You can
feel the riders’ excitement.

Third Place: Park Rapids Enterprise, Kevin Cederstrom

Mutton Bustin’
The determination on the little boy’s face is captured perfectly.

Weeklies over 5,000

First Place: Hopkins/Minnetonka/Deephaven Sun Sailor,
Mark Trockman
Color me purple
Best use of photography techniques. You can see the joy and excitement
in the boys’ faces running through the color.

Second Place: New Brighton Bulletin, Jesse Poole

A year and a day, a vigil for Philando
Looking at this storyboard you can feel the emotions the people in these
pictures are feeling...hurt, sadness, disbelief, anger, etc. Even without
reading the story, your reader knows what the images are saying.

Third Place: Excelsior/Shorewood Sun Sailor, Paige Kieffer

Local Muslims and non-Muslims celebrate Ramadan
Powerful picture that shows although Muslim women must remain cov-
ered they still show their individuality with colorful headdresses.

All Dailies
First Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, David Samson
Swing leap
What fun! The boy’s face is pure joy, and the empty swing tells the story
beautifully. There’s nothing to distract attention from the main subjects.

Second Place: Grand Forks Herald, Eric Hylden

Sugarbeet farmer with storm clouds in background
This photo movingly illustrates the life of a farmer. The composition is mag-
nificent, with the close-up of the plants, the perfectly flat horizon, and the
lines in the clouds directing the eye to the central element in the picture.

Third Place: Brainerd Dispatch, Kelly Humphrey

Chubby-cheeked chipmunk
The expression on the chipmunk’s face is priceless as it prepares to eat
its lunch. The use of sharp focus to capture the detail of the face of ani-
mal and its crabapple and soft focus to establish the context makes this
photo work.

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This was a great photo spread celebrating Memorial Day, the pictures
showed the emotion that everyone was feeling and made you reflect.
mo-
2017 was comme

Second Place: Jackson County Pilot, Jessica Oye

Memorial Day nal way at Kerk-
rated in the traditio
Cemetery on a of
cool,
hoven’s Hillside is a montage
blustery day. Here ’s event, held to
images from Monday ies of those brave
honor the memor who have served

Icy Water Rescue

men and women Armed Forces and
our nation in theon to their rewards.
have since gone

Just from looking at the photos I was able to see a rescue operation was
going on. Glad it was only practice, but the photos showed me exactly
what they were all doing.

Third Place: The Voyageur Press, McGregor, John Grones

Minnesota SALSA traditions
This photo made me want to go and dig right in. It looked like everyone
was having a fun filled day.
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VARIETY
16, 2017 Rock County
Star Herald

Star Herald

February 16, 2017

Page 1B

Hole-y mackerel! Weeklies 1,501-2,500

First Place: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Lori Sorenson
Hole-y mackerel!
ver what
Great job, loved the action shots of the fisherman pulling up his catch.
to go out and disco
over. Now it’s time roni pizza .
done, tests are olives on your peppe
Your studies are you... like green
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ch, or walleye ...) Second Place: Lake County News-Chronicle, Two Harbors,
More than 200 anglers
hit the ice for second Adelle Whitefoot
annual fishing derby
Cabin Fever Reliever
Photos and text by
Lori Sorenson
Luverne’s second
Fishing Derby attractedannual Get Hooked Ice
tered anglers, and more than 200 regis-
half of
“That is a great thing, them were children.
” said Chamber Direc-

These pics just make you feel happy, great job.

tor Jane Wildung Lanphere
parents and grandpar . “There were lots of
and grandchildren. ents with their children
”
After a couple of days
tures the lake surface of thawing tempera-
still nearly a foot thick.was slushy but the ice was
to rain out the event, Heavy clouds threatened
but

Home meet
vailed until after dark. light sprinkles pre-
Fishing competition

Get healthy
and the awards ceremon was from 1 to 4 p.m.
first
The winner in the
y followed.
Bronco girls place
Bid awarded fitness center
Jake Gonnerman who adult competition was
Big Falls opens Page B1 
Third Place: Morris Sun Tribune, Brooke Kern
fish to win an Ion caught 5.765 pounds
of
Electric Auger. any
out-ofdivision wascomp
Winner in the youth -town
with Page A10 
Board goes
Loosbroc k who caught 1.88 Brody
pounds of fish to
Page A3 
win an Eskimo three-per
auger, a prize supplied son hub tent and ice
by
Winner of the largest TCI.

Principal Plunge
who registered a 3.32-poufish was Will Stegenga
home $500 cash. nd walleye to take Find us on
“It was a great day, Twitter
” Lanphere said.
She recognized the
unteer team of Jeremy major tournament vol- Find us on
Mike and Traci Davis Wallenberg, Josh DePyper, Facebook

BRRRRR you can almost feel just how cold that water is! Great job!
Sportsman’s Club. and the Beaver Creek
“They did a great job, Scan for
had a wonderful group ” Lanphere said. “We The Journal
the event a success. of sponsors who made online
They deserve so much
credit.”
Courtney Gonnerm
an (left) and Wednesday,
April 19, 2017
her fishing mates
Alena and
Vaughn Sandbult
e stay warm.
Above left, It was
hard to stay
dry after thawing

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
temperatures
turned the surface
of The Lake $1.50
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www.i(from left) Sara Fongemie, Leif In-
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International Falls, Pictured above right,

First Place: International Falls Journal, Emily Gedde

Matt Van
Grootheest keeps
Mason Wenzel and his root beer
Carson Ehde voluntee cold while he waits
for a bite.

Board
with the local Boy red Kloe Brockberg and
Scouts to help scoop her brother, Owen,
holes and clean up out an eye on their bobbers. keep Pictured at right center,
after the fishing d
erby. more than 100 registere They were among abandoned on the
a carp is These excited anglers
d youth. wrong side of didn’t

to seek
down Saturday afternoo let the gray skies get them

Fire claims residence, garage

the ice on The Lake.
Mostad, Charlie Mostad,n. They are (from left) Ingrid
Kylie Kindt and Caitlin
Kindt.

referendum
increase Photos do a great job of telling the story and giving the sense of urgency
Voters in
November to see
question on ballot
as this fire carried on. Good photojournalism.
BY EMILY GEDDE
Staff Writer

S o m e vo t-

Second Place: Pineandlakes Echo Journal, Pequot Lakes,

ers in Novem-
b er w i l l se e
a question on
their ballot s
that would in-

Travis Grimler
crease prop -
er ty taxes,
but could

FIRE CLAIMS
Kevin
give the local Grover
Cole Vos, Pipeston
e, snags a nice perch
school dis- Star Herald photogra timed just right for

Wild rice plant in Pine River may be one of a kind

a
ial nudge it ph of the action late
trict the financ in the day.
future deficit
needs to avoid
spendi ng.

RESIDENCE,
l Board
The Falls Schoo renew
to
Monda y ag reed

This is a great piece spotlighting an area business/industry. The photos do

levy referen-
and increa se a
ndent School
dum for Indepe
Novem ber,
Distri ct 361 in to be
t levied
with the amoun

GARAGE well to capture every step of the cultivation and processing.

determined.
to decide
“We don’t need
Board to A7 

es were also damaged

Firefighter
E
2017 LEGISLATUR Matt LaVig ne,
Two other structur left, receives suppor
t from Fire

Bakk: | Staff Writer

ausau Friday.
Chief Adam Mann25 firefighters
Mannausau said

Third Place: Anoka County Union Herald, Olivia Alveshere

BY EMILY GEDDE

Process
TO SEE MORE the scene for about
TURN TO PAGE A9 remai ned on
4 hours.
l Falls man FIRE.

A
n Intern ationa PHOTOS FROM THE
alized after a

ramping up
remain s hospit from a
his house and Top: Flames erupt
fire destroyed garage and
afternoon. County Road 116

47th annual Nowthen Threshing Days draws large crowds

garage Friday stable but will other nearby Einar Korpi
Einar Korpi is and garage, two house owned by Friday as
hospit al for an- house damag ed in the just after 1 p.m.
BY LAUREL BEAGER stay in a Duluth struct ures were l Larson drags
weeks, according ing to Intern ationa firefighter Mike
Editor other two or three The 79-year-old fire, accord Mannausau. the yard to
rs. Fire Chief Adam a hose across
to family membe his legs to Falls we had on g efforts.
weeks left on on begin exting uishin remains

This is a great collection of photos that is employed in a unique manner.

grafts the situati
With about five will need skin “With to con-
ture, Sen- burns, they said. were very happy As of Tuesday,
Korpi
in the 2017 Legisla treat third degree to escape his Friday, we to that block,” stable.
Leade r Tom the fire spread hospitalized, but
ate Minor ity Korpi was able ce Friday fine
will begin County Road 116 residen
Bakk said action began to engulf Fire to A7 
to ramp up. afternoon as flames
said he addition to Korpi’s

Great graphic design pulls this together and keeps it from being just a
On Monday, Bakk the structu re. In
y morning
would meet Tuesda

petition
Gov. Mark
for breakfast with

ticipate in state com

strategy” and
Dayton to “talk
would begin

Indus students par

those meetings

smattering of images.
regularly.
to happen more governor
“Now is when the
d in the pro-
really gets engage
explaining h an online
cess,” Bakk said, petition throug
or submits his REPORT
JOURNAL STAFF assessment,
that the govern personal finance
in January, and
budget proposal ed Indus family
and Senate in the con- report er scienc es teacher
then the House Three students
als. class at Indus consum
develop their propos sumer education the Lois Lewis.
in up of 46
Bakk to A7 
School partic ipatedFinance Twelve teams, made
sota Person al
ts, were at the competi-
Minne
Federal Re- studen personal
Decathlon at the apolis on tion,
and the online
serve Bank in Minne taken by about
finance test was
April 12. ts in Minnesota.

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involves 300 students also toured the
The event, which Studen
VOLUME 8 study and about the his-
analyzing a case bank, learning
ER 31 ting an analysis in a of the Federa l Reserve
NUMB presen n before tory and
visual demonstratio the state Bank, econom ic policyin the
red d
judges, is conside program, how money is handle
the
competition for Ninth District bank. Person-
the Minnesota the
INSIDE coordinated by The purpose of CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
ic Educa- lon “is to
Council on Econom al Finance Decath n and Cody Servis
OBITUARIES/A6 ial literacy by Maverick Wolde
tion. increa se financ Arryn Swartz, and presentation
N/A8 uniors Cody Servis, and rewarding on their case study etition
 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest

Weeklies over 5,000

relationship with the
| Octobe
river
r 19, 2016
First Place: Northeaster, Minneapolis, Mike Madison
Bringing light to our
16 Northeaster

by Mike Madison on land ends up

“Everything that happens Jim Brenner at
Bringing light to our relationship with the river
The clarity of the photos and color are absolutely brilliant. The photos
sculptor
in the river,” stated t Minneapolis on Sep-
his studio in Northeas his team were in full
and
tember 12. Brenner an
for Hydro-Illuminata,
production mode held on October 1 next
artistic performa nce
to the Lowry Bridge. teamed up with the

are both of high artistic quality AND are done in a way to help tell a
Last year Brenner ta Waldorf School to
students of the Minneso included the students
do an iron pour which filled with iron to
create
creating star molds grand scale. This year
a
a constellation on decid-
students at Waldorf
Brenner and the

story. Very good!

river.
ed to take to the 1 event Brenner
Before their Octoberthe Mississippi Wa-
and co-sponsors/hostsOrganization and the
ent
tershed Managem Associ-
rhood Improvement
Holland Neighbo ps. These worksho ps
ation held four workshood Studios, the Water
were held at Homewo and the City of Lakes
Bar, Walker Art Center to MCAD. Students
de-
Waldorf School next 100
molds of just under of
signed and made ce
and learned about the importan
boats
water management.

Second Place: Northeaster, Minneapolis, Margo Ashmore, Carol

people into the
“It’s about engaging g part of the art…
process, and becomin something into that
icate
trying to commun The molds were
process.” said Brenner. and his
boats that Brenner metal
placed into steel
The flat-bottomed oth-
team constructed.

Jensen and Mike Madison

connected to each the
boats were then Metal tapped from
er in groups of ten. bank of the river was
the
large furnace on mold and then pulled
into each
then poured As they
river as they set.
along through the of light,
they created a line
were being pulled river

Though rainy, Art-A-Whirl 2017 not a washout

with the pull of the
moving and swaying one has cast into boats
“No
and its currents. [like this.]” stated
and tried line drawings
Brenner. to
students managed
Brenner and his anyone
unlike anything
create a spectacle t’s riverbanks. “It’s the

This is another great entry by the Northeaster. Again, we have great

seen on Northeas the
has said Brenner of
reason we are here,” waters powered the
Its
Mississippi River. built this
and factories that partic-
many flour mills ns of their
custodia
city. “They are the when
explained Brenner
ular storm drain,”

photography with brilliant use of color and a photographer willing to tell

g we can do to better
asked what is somethin clippings
our river. Grass
the condition of into the sewer enter
the
and leaves that drop depletes
algae that then
river, feeding the fish. By
river and kills off
the oxygen in the of native plants
with
rain gardens

a story not just with the photos that are obvious...but also with the photos
creating wa-
slow the flow of rain
deep roots, we can ls from the streets
ters that carry chemica we
something this simple
and lawns. With filter out the chem-
create a way to naturally they flow the river.
icals and toxins before now pretty much was
“The water we have time,” Brenner said.

that others would not think of taking. And yet, these photos also lend
in
here all the way backform. It accepts every-
its
“It just changes
and sheds everything!”
thing

themselves to the storytelling experience. Great stuff!

Third Place: Northeaster, Minneapolis, Mark Peterson, Alex Schlee

and Karen Kraco
Open Streets 2017
While this is probably the third favorite for The Northeaster’s entries this
year, it still challenges the better of the remaining entries and continues
the trend of not just telling but “showing.” Again, great color and quality.
This has a different angle though. These photos also show great move-
ment. Wicked!

All Dailies
First Place: Brainerd Dispatch, Kelly Humphrey
Testing the water
I love the story being told, and the quality of the photos and the subject
make it even better.

Second Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Joe Ahlquist
Olmsted County Fair After Dark
Good idea, great execution.

Third Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Andrew Link
Nerves pushed to the limit
Really, really good action and emotion.

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 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest

Portrait and Personality Photo

Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: The Voyageur Press, McGregor, John Grones
A symbol of love and faithfulness
I love this picture. She looks so serene in it. A definite sense of peace.
Playing it big was also a great choice. Definitely hooks the reader in.

Second Place: Spring Valley Tribune, David Phillips

Laura Perez-Nichols takes to the runway
This is a great photo. She really stands out in the red dress. I wish there
was more detail in the caption, because it looks like there’s more to this
story.

Third Place: Jackson County Pilot, Dan Condon

A Purple-Ribbon Fair
The subject of this photo is simply happy to be there. It draws the reader
in.
★ OPINION
Independen
t News Herald ★
/ July 19, 2017
/ Page 2

In Focus Weeklies 1,501-2,500

BY

It’s the height of

TRINITY GRUENB
ERG
derbies are in full summer and that means demolit
First Place: Clarissa - Independent News Herald, Trinity Gruenberg
Cowboys
swing. ion
July is always a busy
bies and town festivalsmonth for me with back to back der-
and enjoy it all sometim . It makes it difficult
to slow down
Henning, usually es. One of the
coincides with Bertha shows in the area,
the case this year.
I was able to enjoy Days. That was not

An excellent moment. A keepsake photo.

val for once and fi my hometown festi-
lmed Henning the
worked out great following weekend
for me. I was even . It
Hewitt and check able to swing through
out the street dance
Is it even possible after the derby.
summer? There is to stay inside on the weekends in
just the
lier, stay awake longer so much going on. You get up ear-
in circles before the and spend four months just running
cold
I have another weekendhits.
turn of the demolit to be out and
ion derby in Perham about with the re-
end. They used to this coming week-
hold three derbies

Second Place: Steele County Times, Blooming Prairie, Rick Bussler

ing the popular last each summer includ-
chance bash at the
brought out everyon end of the year that
cars for the season. e that wanted to wreck the last of their
Then they scaled back
year then cut it altogeth to one show for a
the fact I lost filming er. I’m not going to
get to see some of three shows, but the lie, it hurt. Not
fact that I don’t

Portrait Photo of Farmer

my friends as often
derby. or get to watch them
It’s interesting to
stay close to home see where people go to derby. Many
and just derby at
many that went to their
Perham and Hennin local fair, like
others that will go g, and I know of

A good low-key portrait, fittingly made for story.

where
I’m excited for Perham ever there is a show.
~ photo by Trinity
Gruenberg ~ ger and better than to come back and
before. I hope this I hope it is big-
just bounce back. is a sign the sport
my

Confessions of a Teenag
The e
Glass Half Full Drama Queen
by
Lacing up my shoes, Addison Neal
by Addison Neal Confession… I have an obses- defi
sion. Okay, so this
isn’t really an abnorma
don’t eat
my feet hit the asphalt slipping on my headphones and feeling my skin toilet paper, or bleach to me, but
obsession So, no, I
By: Taylor Schnettle
nitely a bookworm.
l one. I obsession don’t have a strange
, well it isn’t strange
r
Third Place: Union-Times, Princeton, Milaca, Jeff Hage
Jolean Grell- Bibbidi Boddidi Boutique
Valley residents demand whipping through
is the best feeling
I can describe. The
like some people
on to people that
it could be strange
FAIR ELECTION! our youth display my hair wind My Strange Addictio don’t like
winning animals, their prize- to me. Some might tell you
and the smell of fresh ns have read.
Mary Ann Tinkersly done. I just like to read, to
ride the feeling of falling air is calming ally My “obsession” isn’t re- anyone
row to my left and sat one ris wheel, or see our a Fer- your favorite food is the
so if
asleep or eating an obsession has any good books
ahead of me in algebra one seat entertain favorite feeling best feeling in the , I just really that
ers world. For me, the like to read. they’d like to recomme
class week,” she in person?”“This ing
is when I’m running. best nd
during the spring continue
Feeling my feet hit I didn’t always I’m all ears!
of 1998, and will me down the asphalt
enjoy our fair, d, “we people
the
like a car is a powerfu ground blast- read. I actually

Nice, natural moment.

no amount of studying like to
ing to make up for was go- same time we have but at the scribe call me crazy, but I prefer the term l feeling. Some use to hate it
sion she created the confu- business at hand.” important runner’s high, to de- until my second grade teach-
Independent
what I feel.
in my brain of She was, er recommended
cells each day during course, writing A runner’s high is I join an
exactly what it sounds
period. In June, Mary fourth mayoral election. about the one achieves after intense
after
like, a happy feeling knowschool program. I don’t
I began walking our Ann and suggest,” she
gether in anticipat lambs to- reality and see Raymon
“Let me
wrote, “we face more interesting. To take your body,
and pushing it through
running. This denitely makes
however you
what
running program, but ever
it was about the
since I
News Herald
FFA judging at theion of the per for who he really d Coo- light. In an intense run to make may be feeling, joined I’ve been in love with published weekly
at
Spring County Fair. upcoming went on to detail Cooper’s is.”She this world, all you
truly have is yourself.
it feel happy and reading. 310 Main Street,
Archibald, was My lamb, tics, from an- control your body and what Being able to I started off small, Clarissa, MN 56440.
the egg price-xing ing me
Mary Ann’s entry,looking t. scheme to his conversi
goes on inside of ing books such read- Periodicals postage
feel at peace. I may it is
Snowake, Lutheran on at the be stressed out with key for mak- and Th as Biscuit
Clarissa, MN 56440 at
paid
was in pristine condition church. “Join me,” but I know that I can always control work or school, e Magic Tree House
time August rolled by the she continue time myself series, but & additional mailing
around and Dick d, “in voting out of my day to and that is it. Taking as I got older my offices.
Bland for mayor of for turn my mood around. go for a twenty minute run can complete

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
was a favorite to win. books got thicker
The most memorab nox Valley.” She conclude Len- Feeling the endorphi ly ger. I read and lon-
stream and my heart ns kick into my blood- the entire Harry Business Hours:
of my growing up le days editorial, “When electiond her and rate increase gives
me a feeling of strength Potter series and have since
years oc- is over
Thursday evening, day
curred in late August vigor.
reread them at 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
The anticipation was 1998. can all take we How do you start running? least five
a collectiv times, because it is Independent News
as three historica palpable and enjoy our children,e breath You have to take the rst
One foot in front of my favor- Herald
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d at one they are community in the way just ten minutes out take the rst run. I read various types Clarissa, MN 56440-01
time and in one of your day to go

First Place: Kanabec County Times, Mora, Kirsten Faurie

88.
meant to be enjoyed. walk for that matter, of
the mayoral election. place. First,
The third memorab ” can change your day. for a run, or even a genres and don’t really have Subscription Rates
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one expected the was, of course, the do it just about anywher much one. I’ll read Todd & Surroundi
be concluded prior election to ing. As much as I FFA judg-
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nox Valley Hometow The Len- were kepta bath. The livestock and go straight to been dying to see
or to take a shower temptibl “a foolish or con-
e-mail news to
in a barn next to the bed, use e person who lacks news@inhnews.c
normally lled with n News, Pavilion, which housed While you’re running it to get your run in. social skills or is om

Nice combination portrait. Happy for a true candid moment.

lated to fair competitstories re- plays from gutter companidis- quite a bit of time to you may nd that boringly e-mail ads to
you actually have studious.”
visiting celebritie ions and real estate es, think. Taking this time ads@inhnews.co
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with articles about lled Deere dealer from sense of peace. If you ever run some web address
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week’s ballot countthe previous The Pavilion was usually eld. shoes out, don’t be afraid need a minute social skills and you
to step into your running never find me studying will
http://www.inhnew
s.com
Stoughton’s decisionand Juliet tively quiet, with folks rela- and hit the street for
a few minutes. un- Ray and Marlo Benning
out of the upcomin to bow through to look at displays walking I’m a sprinter, and less it is for a really
impor-
g run-off, and ing. Fast and that’s how my thoughts tant Co-Publishers/Co-Editors
allowing “Silver Tongue” ll out cards, hoping are when I’m run- test. I prefer the
Bland to face Raymon Dick a used car, ironing to win think faster, short. Listening to fast music pushes bookworm, because term
board, just me to run I am Kathy Marquard t
per “mano a mano.”Sd Coo- some other valuable or Find music as listening to slower songs makes and
the scheduled appearanecond, fair gates opened onprize. The an intense Managing Editor
that ts both your me slower.
taste and your pace.
Tangi Blevins and ce of day at 11 Wednes- run, or a slow paced Whether it’s Jennifer Krueger
a.m., allowing folks minutes in walk, getting out
enly Hosts Friday the Heav- to wander through the day can make
a difference.
for just a few
Graphic Designer
night at the over and look

Second Place: Detroit Lakes Tribune, Meagan Pittelko

fair.
Each year in late
livestock before I know that as long
tions began at 2 p.m. competi- feeling accomplished.
as I have my run in
I can go to bed at night
Tickling the Vicki Rowe
August,
most of the exciteme
pecially among
Generally not much
nt, es- pened before hap- funny bone Customer Service
the competit Trinity Gruenberg
female populatiothe Valley’s but this was no normal ions, A child asked
n, was re- noon
served for the lineup there seemed to be
year. At ther, “How were his fa- Reporter
do-celebrities who of pseu- motion in the Pavilion, a com- people

The gift of sight

born?” Karin Nauber
way through the made their eryone began to head and ev- So his father Reporter/Web Designer
circuit, and 1998 county fair When I got to the that way. “Adam and Eve said,
ception. Not since was no ex- could barely believePavilion, I babies, then their made
Shari Streit -Todd-Wadena
Effects” Wes Harrison “Mr. Sound There my eyes. babies Courier Sales Consultan
was Raymond Cooper, became adults and
visited beginnin t
Spring County in
1983 had a “Renderig his live broadcast of babies, and so on.” made Lydia Hennagir
celebrity of this stature

Good portrait, good light.

ngs with Raymon The child then went
an appearance. It made from the Spring d” to Sales Representatives
County Fair. his mother, asked
imagine which waswas hard to As an excited same question and her the Sierra Wagner
more discussion, the subject to er handed her baby fair-go- told him, “We were she Endless Ink Represen
election, as Wednesdfair or the candidate, Raymon to the keys then we evolved mon- tative
Iris Long, editor of ay began. nounced, “You know, d pro- to Dave Lorenz
become like we are
town News, wrote the Home- heard Dick Bland doesn’t I’ve now.” Pressman
her weekly editorial. as much in babies.”S like The child ran back
eated at a table next his father and said, to Karen Benning
town,” Iris began, “Every to the standing “You
Cooper, Mar- lied to me!”
week each year to “deserves a vin Walsh bellowed Proofreader
from the ordinary. take a break he hates puppies and , “I heard His father replied,
“No, your mom was Display Ad Rates
What better way than too!” kittens,
to watch ing about her side talk- $8.50 col. inch
of the $7.50

Third Place: Park Rapids Enterprise, Shannon Geisen

family.” Repeat
Classified Line
$9 • Repeat $8
20 word limit
20¢ each additiona
l word

Conservation project thrives at Boy Scouts’ Camp Wilderness

Feel that the portrait conveys the tone of the story well.

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
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2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
Weeklies over 5,000
First Place: Crystal/Robbinsdale/New Hope/Golden Valley Sun Post,
Laci Gagliano
George the Pig
The pig says personality! And a fun subject.

Second Place: Wayzata /Orono/Plymouth /Long Lake Sun Sailor,

John Sherman*
Boy on mother’s shoulder - A young Wayzata High baseball fan...

Third Place: Excelsior/Shorewood Sun Sailor, Paige Kieffer

Local filmmakers work on summer production across metro area

All Dailies
First Place: Winona Daily News, Chuck Miller
Player of the Year
Position of subject shows power. Lighting works for this photo. Framing
and placement works great, as well.

Second Place: Brainerd Dispatch, Kelly Humphrey
Fire department open house
Excellent composition. Good capture of expressions, action of the hose,
lighting, etc. Everything works in this photo.

Third Place: Grand Forks Herald, Eric Hylden
Mike Hergert, Voice of Ag signs off
Good choice to place subject in wheat field at sunset. He’s at the sunset
of his career. Lighting is excellent and he looks happy to be retiring.

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 poin .
om Saturday night
in a win over Wind
B5
Stories, B1 and
RY 16, 2017
THuRsDAY, FEbRuA

127TH YEAR/Iss
uE 72016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
s Grammy
Ellefson gets hi

Use of Information Graphics & Graphic Illustrations

his home-
a coffee shop in
ions, winning a has been re-
found cal aspiratwas just an elu- town, which
band Ellefson helped y n Coffee
n brande d Ellefsobusine ss’
a Grammy Gramm
The 12 time’s pipe dream,” Ellefso
th
as bassist, won his coffee
evening in sive “Now, 12 nominations Co., nd-mortar re-
Award Sunday
a charm for the
the category of
best metal said. 34 years of hard work first brick-an. Though the
“Dysto- over we are tail locatio currently dis-
Jackson nativeperform ance with
track from and
persev erance , shop
the presti- coffee severa l pieces of
pia,” the title studio bestowed with plays
N
the group’ s 15th deth”
by JusTIN R. LEssMA gious honor at last.” s 11 Ellefson and “Mega said
n
Publisher album. Ellefson The band’s previou date memorabilia, Ellefso
“We are elated,” g. tions his newly
Grammy nomina he’s not sure if
In a lifetim e
worth of said Monday mornin his back to 1991. ed Gramm y will
For Ellefs on
and win with acquira trip to Jackson or
career highlights
for Jack- Ellefson’s big
Ellefson, bandmates, the 12th
time on the make
son native David “Megadeth” comes this not.
have been a charm. of him earlier N A3
Sunday’s might proved n in heels see ELLEFSO on
“When I left Jackso ownership in
the biggest. musi- year taking
interna- to pursue my
subMITTED PHOTO “Megadeth,” the metal 1983
a newly minted tionally known heavy
vid Ellefso n is

FOR Weeklies 1,501-2,500

ner.

ICES SLIDE
schools LOCAL LAND SALE PR
d benefit SECO ND STRAIGHT First Place: Jackson County Pilot, Justin Lessman
propos al YEAR
AN
Gunther bill seeks $7,984 Local Land Sale Prices Slide for Second Straight Year
to address rural
Very eye-catching graphic and easy to comprehend the story’s message at
ricts $7,665 $7,311
more teacher shortage
s of a
In an effort to rural
attract
to
$6,825
more teache rs

first glance.
oms,
Minnesota’s classro
lo c a l s t ate
Re p. b o b
Gunther is sponso allow
ring leg- $5,981
While the local
generally mimics south-
trend
that of
islation that would
out-of-state teache
rs to
ota so long
$6,453 the 14 countie
wester n Minne
s of
sota over
work in Minnes Jackson
efforts the last few years,
as they are makingd. County’s 2016
slide is an
to become license hearing the year prior. comes to
Mark
The averag
e outlier when it
“From what I’m oring
yton
of 150 ap- price paid for
an sale prices in neighbe sale
locally, the days son counties. As averagCounty
teaching acre of Jack

Second Place: Pipestone County Star, Mike Hellie

o child plicants for one nd in prices in Jackson
n are long gone,” County farmla to $500
f-dozen positio dropped by close prices
$4,100
ont, last
Gunther, R-Fairm n the first half of — 2016,
ould re- said per acre in
who repres ents in the
easter year was $6,825 oring
in-home than held steady in neighb an
$4,425 $3,999
n Count y 6.6 percen t less
under a Jackso Watonw
“One in the Cottonwood and
state Legisl ature. wait- the averag e paid in 2015 sed by

Lost In State
orth last counti es, increa points
in my district same time period low for
ark Day- school over a year to hire single percentage coun-
ed for and a four-y ear
ade teacher. We price the county. The local sales in Martin and Nobles
The averag e -
Opportu- a fifth-gr
r a Better need
to figure out a way t-
more people interes
to
$3,332 n County
paid for Jackso fell for price slide
is the second
year-o ver-
ties and shot up by doublein
digit percentage
points
Dayton ’s get teaching in Greater farmland in 2016 utive consec utivese, the third .

Good use of image to convey a compelling decrease in county aid.

for close ed
on to be
in
Minnesota, and
I believe
it.”
$2,969 the second consec
year, even as sale
year decrea
prices in this decade and the fourth
Murray County
Dave Bau, area
exten-
A3
is one way to do s held in the past 10 years. see PRICES on
de better this compa ri- neighboring countiefrom
Gunther said in
N ed
y learning oring by JusTIN R. LEssMA steady or increas
to some neighb Publisher
s for stu- son , Minnesota offers
the state states salaries and ben-
acre of farmland 2015 2016
Average price paid per 2007 2008 2009
Minnesota better 2013 2014
their efits for its teachers. 2010 2011 2012 $6,825
g for

FARIBAULT NATIVE A PART OF WINN

teach- $7,311
To entice veteran $7,665 $7,984
and in child border, 2006 $6,453 $5,981
-6.6
ers to cross the
$4,100 -8.4

JUNIOR NATIONAL VOLLEYBALL ING TEAM AT U.S.

$4,425 $3,999 +4.2
allow $3,332 +28.2

Third Place: Stillwater Gazette, Alicia Lebens

-7.3
Gunther’s bill would least
$2,969 +57.4 $7,332
Jackson County -9.6 +2.5 $7,012
tors with at
+32.8 $8,944 $7,950
+12.2 $6,860
for schools educa
+11.2 $4,725 +4.6
BILL on A3 Percent change $4,279

CHAMPIONSHIPS / 1B
$3,777 -11.1 -11.8
see $3,096 $3,899 +30.4
POSAL on A3 Neighboring countie
s $2,845
-3.1 +13.3 +10.4 +45.2
$7,556 $6,929 $6,751
+8.8 +25.9 $8,466
+16.2 $4,687 $6,245
-2.6
Percent change $3,702 $3,733 $3,913
-10.7 -8.3

St. Croix Crossing by the numbers

a so- $2,849 +35.6
Hamilton offers $2,574 +19.8 +33.2
cal state Rep. Rod housing shortage in Regional average +0.8 +4.8
+11.5 +30.0
rce +13.9
tion to the workfo approval Percent change
and announces

Faribault Daily News

eater Minnesota program of Minnesota Extension
Authority loan
a Rural Finance
source: university

location.
tax hikes
Local rep: Huge ss needs Good use of imagery to describe the different aspects of a local landmark.
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this the real Mr. 2017
IN R. LEssMAN
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in Jack- RecordWednesd
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Serving Faribault and
Rice County, Minn.
new year baby,
the Genzlinger late last
A n CountyLING
JacksoTROUB
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COMEBACK, PART 1
local court re- has in re- the rest of the
state

Weeklies over 2,500

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Mark Faribault Foundation
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residents of Jack- b y i n f o r - weighed 8 pounds n Coun-
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just
on
nty in 2017 — mation es at birth. Jacksont first doesn’t make sense.
to be exact — the obtained from www.faribault.com
That’s the word
quality of life
First Place: Northfield News, Jess Smoll and Philip Weyhe
ty’s new appare siblings Bob
ctually may belong f r o m t h e baby of 2017 joins Riley, local state Rep.
a as
e boy born nearly state of Xavier 12;
Isaiah, 15; Sarah, Hailey, Gunther, who servedr at
arlier. Minnes o- Rehnelt 10; Savann ah, 9; the keynote speake By GUNNAR OLSON
r JJ Rehnelt was Teagan , 4; tion
m, ta by
the 8; Landry, 6; in Saturday’s conven golson@faribault.com
an. 2 in Windo t Jackson Party
Nolan, 4; at home of the Republican

A troubling comeback
of Jeremy Rehnel er’s Office. and . LEssMAN
ger of County Record County Jackson. of Jackson County has PHOTO bY JusTIN
priorities Those who loved growing up
n or
manda Genzlin However, Jackso The govern r talks legislative in
a way to help the next generation Faribault have
of Rep. Bob Gunthe Saturday’s
n. proposed all kindsthe Local state ways to address them during n County. According to Faribault Foundation
do the same.

felony sex crimes

s and the best Party of Jackso
ways to addres of the Republican tive Director Dee Bjork and Execu-

otographer charged with

Gun-
needs of the state, all convention
licans
Board Member Todd

Jubilant Repub
Markman, the goal of the foundation

Helpful graphic to show a trend in drug use.

they
ther said, but a 10 Faribault is to
a better place. While many charitiesmake
raphed add up to about
plans
regula rly photog extra- se in nonprofits have similar aims, and

gather and lay

a social media percen t increa
juveniles on sports teams, only this one represents the city
usTIN R. LEssMA
N d by student a- spending over last
year.
app. He was charge curricu lar student organiz or raised tion. of Faribault.
Publisher events for “The govern their annual conven those
the Jackson tions and student s. 10 per- N Only 700 community foun-
At- local school districtcriminal his budget by by JusTIN R. LEssMA Members elected par- dations exist
has Countys Of- cent,” said Gunth
er, Publisher local in the United
cal photographer torney’ According to the east- who will lead the years, States, most
two fel- case, who repres ents two of which are con-
charged with Mon- complaint filed
in the ty for the next
nic fice ly engaged ern Jackson County
in ng vic- es to the nected to cities or heavily popu-
counts of electro for day. Fitzloff alleged ture. Fresh off sweepi as well as delegat ssiona l lated areas.
tation of a child sation the state Legisla the state and congre
Fitzloff in an online converFitzloff ’s tories across November’s state and t- In places like Chicago,
“I think the people t centra l commi

Second Place: Eden Prairie Sun Current, Sean Miner

al conduct. s with an agent who in last the Markman
48, of co-own o p - for that nation election, jubilant districheard from one ofgifts from the community foun-
egory Fitzloff, d believed was a
15-year-old ability to pay l tees;
d by a n Gregory ngton. In s — in- genera Republi- s; anddation can be in the millions
field, was arreste rates a male from Worthi conver- — their income members of the their elected official — or billions — of
n County Sher- e ld Fitzlof f of the crease d by one-an d- can Party of Jackson Coun- PLAN on A8dollars. Usually, these foundations start
Jackso large, lump sum donation intended with one,
the course see
after Lakefie a- f alleged ly ed Saturday for
Office Friday t photogr sation, Fitzlof TAX HIKES on A8 ty gather cause. for a specific
contac his wife. see In Faribault, the origins of the foundation
gedly making phy studio with

2016 Election: Precinct-by-precinct results for Eden Prairie voters

on A2
law en- to this year, he
had see PHOTOGRAPHER were more modest.
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ement agents posing class, a group
tHE PaPER of young professional s in Faribault who focus on
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A TROUBLING COMEBACK
Commons state “We were started by Faribault’s
Future, not from
an endowment,” Bjork said. “We
didn’t start from
where a community foundation
normally would,

ners and parties.

where somebody leaves a few
million dollars.”

See FOUNDATION on 3A

Administrator’s year one

review a big thumbs up
By SUZANNE ROOK

Third Place: Chaska Herald, Mike Gears

srook@faribault.com

It’s not often that a county commissione

an administrator has proven r admits
him wrong.
But Jake Gillen did just that
Tuesday, praising

The 41st Ryder Cup

Administrator Sara Folsted following
with Rice County. Gillen and her first year
his fellow Rice County com-
missioners voted unanimousl
y
last week to approve a positive

Very useful map for those attending the event.

performance review of Folsted,
finding that she meets or exceeds
Meth seizures by Minnesota Forum Section D expectations in all areas.
TheViolent Crime Enforcement Teams hit
2017by Philip
April 3,(Graphic

SPORFTIVSE TO WATCH
Monday, 2007-2011. Weyhe) an all-time high in 2016
at 489 pounds. The lowest
Those include Organization
points came between Management, Fiscal/Busin
ess Folsted
After decade of decline, Manageme nt; Program De-
methamphetamine The rise and fall velopment; Relationship with
resurging locally, statew and rise of meth Board; Long Range Planning;

By PHILIP WEYHE
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Relationship with Public/Publi
Relations; Interagency Relations
c
kohara@northfieldnews.com
pweyhe@northfieldnews.com and Professional/Personal De-

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EDITOR’S NOTE velopment.
After a sharp decline in 2005,

INS
Meth is back. And bigger This is the first of a two-part methamphet- “She works very good with
amine use is on the rise in Minnesota.

MINNESOTA TW
than ever. series looking at the rise And south- the board,” said Gillen, chair Gillen
in methamphetamine seizures ern Minnesota is no exception. of
More than a decade after and arrests in Minnesota the county Board of Commis-
a as well as the two counties An annual report released in
federal crackdown, those dedi- that make up the Cannon April shows an sioners. “The board has a good
Valley Drug and Violent increase in meth that surpasses working relation-
cated to stopping the use Offender Task Force, Rice the
statewide meth epidemic in 2005, height of the ship with the administrator.”

First Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Meaghan MacDonald

and Sueur. and Le
spread of methamphetamine and this trou- Gillen said he didn’t vote to hire
— bling trend only confirms what Folsted, believ-
nation-, state- and countywide experts warned: ing she wasn’t tough enough
— are grappling with new THE SERIES meth is making a comeback.
ment heads a couple decades her
to deal with depart-
and TODAY: Methamphetamine The “Drug Abuse Trends in Minneapolis senior or the inevi-
less centralized mechanism in Minnesota, its effects, /St. table difficulties that come with
s Paul” report is released annually
Abuse ts But Gillen said Folsted,
of distributio n from a wide- efforts that reduced its Drug pundi the top county job.
impact and the troubling of reaso nsby for

Five to Watch
meth sales and use. rise in with Dialogues,
plenty an education organization founded by , friendly, while outgoing and
reaching criminal drug
net- Twins head into 2017 former state drug abuseaoffi cer Carolng
winni record has shown her mettle.

T
work. And as meth seizures, NEXT WEEK:
he Minn Theesota
new fight ed 2015 with Falkowski. “She wants things to work,” he
methamphetamine in the istic. The Twins finish Falkowski creates
against n.
abuse and arrests in Minnesota pessim
the report last
losses seaso
as part of a collabora- said. “She can talk
to be state, including efforts from
ise-re cord
tion with 103
the National
her way through disagreemen
climb higher than ever, law law enforcement, education ed to a franch Institute on Drug
be depen Abuse’on
dent s Comments from the board, according
ts.”
forcement and education/p
en- then tumbl groups and prevention Minn esotaicalwill
epidemiolog surveillance network. Her find- to a sum-
quiet offseason, a look at fivemary of a July 25 closed session review that was
teams.
re- isactivity

Perfect blend of content and art. Informative, attractive, easy to read,

ings show methamphet
vention teams are stepping After a relatively from seaso
s this n. Here amine reversed approved by the board, included
their efforts.
up
rounds .from many of its player a previous decline that began
and potential: in 2006. Folsted has a good knowledge
recognition that
particularl
Locally, police are honing numbers turna y vulnerable The s who carry
In recent years, both uncertainty
much
In the early 2000s, meth was surging in Min-
working
of the budget, a good
bear that out. player of the nesota and around the country, due relationship with the board,
in on dealers while drug courts
amount of meth seized by
The focus in the fight against
drugs the creation and operation of meth primarily to munication skills, positive leadershipexcellent com-
focus on users. The drug’s the has shifted away from labs — make- she is involved with public functions, qualities, that
local Cannon River Drug meth and shift facilities for manufacturin

inviting and not overpowering.

most prevalent route today and g and/or cooking and that both
Violent Offenders Task Force to the growing and deadly opi- the drug. elected and non-elected officials
have provided posi-
— interstates and highways oid epidemic. Meth dealers, tive feedback about her and her
— nearly tripled from 2015 in The Minnesota Department of Health work.
makes counties like Rice to
and 2016. Statewide figures weren’t the meantime, have managed to meth recipes can easily be attained, notes that The board in a 4-1 vote also
Le Sueur, with I-35 and Hwy. so approved a step
much better, more than dou- re-establish the drug. tion quickly became common across illegal produc- increase and 2.5 percent wage
169 running through them, the state. increase
bling in the same period. 25. That puts her salary at $125,638 effective July
See METH on 8A annually. Com-
missioner Galen Malecha was
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have the Twins
had the same Third Place: Brainerd Dispatch, Lisa Henry
nly once since 2004 their season opener in

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of 3.55. The back s sidelined again, Gibson, who saw ng his delivery,
and
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PILOT EDITORIAL
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The true story beh AWARD-WINNER

Book sale an We often associa

te the es down
ind the candy can
e
Second Place: Mille Lacs Messenger, Isle, Staff
candy cane with into the ditches
Christmas. of
But it was never the world to lift TRIVIA:
intended fallen out the A full 93 percent table.

opportunity
only as a Christm lambs who, like of Min-
as candy; the all nesotans age • Your TV is a big
it was intended sheep, have gone 25 or older screen
as a year- astray. are high
round witness to Thinkin school graduates. if you use your binoculars.
the gospel somewh g the candy was That’s the • You’ve ever had
of Jesus Christ. at plain, the can- highest percent to bail
Here is the dy age in the - your mother

Really liked “Mess Asks,” and I know how difficult that is to compile
true story behind maker stained
it with 2006, aboutnation. Also, in beating up out of jail for

to help kids,
the candy red
cane: stripes. He used a Little League
small three bachelor’s a third had a umpire.
A candy maker stripes to show degree.
diana wanted in In- stripes the
to make a Jesus of the scourgi ng TURNIN OLD BURMA-
candy that would received by which G 60 SHAVE
be a wit- we Question: What SIGNS:
ness to the good are healed. The do some

our libraries
news of red stripe was large 60-year All though insured

every issue. Mille Lacs is doing it right! Great!

Jesus Christ. -olds sink their
He incor- shed for the blood teeth into Remember, kiddo
porated several by every night?
symbol s so we Christ on the cross Answer: Denture They don’t pay
you
of the birth, ministry could have the prom- -cleans- They pay
and ise of eternal ing solution.
death of Jesus. life. Your widow
He began with Unfortunately, the
candy -Burma-Shave-
As scientific study of pure white harda stick became known as a Question: Where
may a
candy 60-year-old wear
after scientific — white to symboli candy cane — a meaningless a reveal- Until next time,
study continue virgin birth and ze the oration dec- ing gown? please
to show the detrim the sinless mastimeseen only at Christ- Answer: In a hospital take good care
effect too much ental nature of Jesus,
and hard is still . But the meaning . B.G.
of yourself.
screen time has to symbolize the
children, a perfec on our solid rock seek there for those who Question: W
t opportunity to — the foundat
ion of the it. h
60-year-old who a t i s a
the kids in front get church — and takes out
of something that firmness of a 30-year mortgag

Third Place: Alexandria Echo Press, Echo Press Staff

entertain and educat will the promises of
God.
TITANIC TRIVIA: e?
Answer: An optimist
e them without The candy maker “Mother would
harmful side effects the the candy in the made and see my never go - All of the above .
is fast approaching. form of a this particul father off and the book, “What from
It’s the Friends “J” to represe
nt the pre- and always ar day she went Know about You Don’t
of the Jackson cious name of swore that was Turning 60.”
Libraries annual County Jesus. It the most
book sale. could also represe unlucky thing that
staff of the “Good nt the she ever did.” -Mrs. Molly
YOU MIGHT BE
An overabundan

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ce of screen time herd” with which Shep- Adams, daughte REDNECK IF…
kids has been linked for He reach- steward r of Titanic • You’ve ever
used
to
side effects as obesity such unpleasant
John Stewart- ironing board an
as a buffet
BILL’S BITS
, irregular sleep Goede Bill
schedules, behavi
oral problems, saying farewel
of social skills and loss l to cherished mem

sharp design going on here.

violence — among
others. So, after
a day of school
If the pen is
than the sword,
mightie r is to
then this
say goodbye. ories in Jackson
has included plenty — which is my farewell It’s funny to think now has an even
of time spent in to arms — all after place bigger country
for now. the years of fantasiz in my heart. I do love deeply.
front of SMART ing I want
Boards, iPads and In a whirlwind about moving In
to another tion, this time of transi- munity to thank the com-
maybe even a TV minute decisio of last- country, how difficult I know there for the support
screen — let’s get are
prepar ations, ns and to take that step. The it is things I will miss. I’ll miss en to me as I learned to be-
giv-
kids to look at someth our my
ing other than a and I have decided wife ficulty doesn’t come dif- watching one brother play come a journalist through
glowing screen to ful- the though from football
in his senior year the opportunity given to
. fill a dream of
ours and a foreign t of being in of high me by the Livewir
Like a book. Printe spend some time country for at school and e.
d on paper. and teaching abroad,living least a year; it comes er as he develop anoth- has a story written God
A huge selection start- spendin from cross country s on the each
one of us and,
for
of these things ing with where g nine months course in his al-
be available for will all began
the desire my
hometow in freshman
year. though we can’t
sale at pennies in Chiang Mai, n of
and cherishing Jackson
see the

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on the I’ll miss having next chapte r,
original dollar Thailand. the time mates class- that’s I’m glad
at next week’s Friend Because we both spent with family, work on my car the case.
of the Jackson s invest- and coworke friends help
me at the hardwa
and Life is much more
County Libraries ed in a Teachin
g English rs. re esting that inter-
book sale. The annual as a Foreign Never had I imagine store and grocery way.
sale is open to the Langua
certific ation course, ge be working for Livewir d I’d And, especia store.
starting Sept. 22, public we Printin g e
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these two men were
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about
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conservatism wasn’t focus story about on views and discredit
hard to argue that tives at CPAC were project on Destinati Saturday and watched her 6-year-old grandson
old-style conserva skiing She worked with do anything when peaceful event.
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I son play hockey reading, g a going- I resumed the talk
unimpressed. was talking. his other She’s also organizin Christianity
room when Bannon . you read well.” minister of her asked about how
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offi- for the outgoing Natalie’s interfaith tions
work.
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almost felt sick,” sound like conser- Reporter
for stories coming , I have had many
conversa
Park, N.J. “It didn’t cials for specifics published on March 27
church.
dozen more reportersstaff don’t like Islam
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me.” Bannon didn’t she complained. special report to
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vative values to tried to get to the editors, photogra cit- but they at least
such as abortion, e and April 3. He with and being good g Muslim
conservative issues when White House aide Kellyann financial report just doing their jobs, the Post est in what the practicin
It didn’t help much back of her hand, saying the con- Mayo Clinic’s annual He talk- were of the people. At after expressing
at Johns Hopkins. officials izens, not enemies d to the facts and
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until Trump came
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will be TPAC,” the
Trump Political made That’s all we’ve Our nation’s leaders of the
“Tomorrow, this to Chicago. He RCTC and be about. example
kids to and from what we’ll always ting a very poor
ce, she joked. bristled at that. deck. He took his ion meetings. conversation.
Action Conferen host Mark Levin library commiss om. etiquette of civil
Conservative radio call it RPAC,” he Century, and to about the it to letters@postbulletin.c espousing a cul-
Nachtigal wrote a comment? Send Instead they are
for Reagan, we didn’t Reporter Taylor on immu- Got Its results were
“When I worked district’s hard line ture of bullying.
conservative.” e to Trump, an Rochester school my talk show.
grumbled. “It’s on full display at
naturally hospitabl hs on his way men insisted their
manner
CPAC was never These
Reaganit e shibbolet “dialogue” but
outsider who flouted on. The activists’ convention has of questioning was
a failed attempt
to the GOP nominati by social conserva
tives
EDITOR in reality it was
in recent years
LETTER TO THE
rganized
been dominated ial straw polls to sabotage a Muslim-o
its most recent president investigated
and libertarians; in election must be discussion.
Russia’s involvement
Paul. The down and
Cruz and Rand in our election process. Is it so hard to sit someone
were won by Ted . trust and integrity would attempt
dged the divisions in this Rep. Tim Walz a foreign power just LISTEN to
Bannon acknowle of opinions late U.S. possibilit y that enough. It listen,
person in turn
wide degree I want to congratu ranking member on the election is scary
“If you look at the whether you’re
a
to influence our else and have that
you’re a populist, on his election as
the
if a presidential
cam- onto you? And
room — whether whether you’re
lib-
Affairs Committ
ee. Thank
would be even worseting this. bestow that honor have to bend
nt conservative, nationalist — we House Veterans g you have done
for our neither side’s views positive.
limited-governme paign was coordina aired out
you’re an economic ” (He left you, Tim, for everythin in active investigated and for the outcome
to be
ertarian, whether s divergent opinions. our men and woman This needs to be is with an acknowl-
veterans and for happen again. Congressover- Leaving the table
have wide and sometime tives — again.) so that it cannot provide basic
out the social conserva on the right now military service. ring H.R. 356, the by the Constitution to is edgemen t of the other’s
all those factions Rep. Walz is co-sponso which would
required
leadership in this
matter enough to turn
But he argued that under the banner of Trump. Democracy Act,” sight. Rep. Walz’s human rights is the hopeful
unite “Protecting Our te the Russian ed. this ugly tide towards
have a chance to Trump spoke on Friday , conser- ion to investiga greatly appreciat
John Swanson , ROCHESTE R
create a commiss g with the 2016
presi- shores of change.
It’s true that when qualms aside and news: there
variety put their role, if any, in interferin we maintain Now for the positive St. Cloud,
vatives of every loudly when he It is essential that in
president — most of the peo- dential election. are so many people
cheered their new am media as “enemies and Muslim and
other
criticized the mainstre Clinton’s dismissal of Trump IT Christian dedicatin g
? WE WANT TO HEAR
col- been
ple” and recalled
Hillary also welcome guest is faiths, who have
GOT AN OPINION Guest columns: We length ning ties
their lives to strengthe I was met
t public issues. Ideal
les.”
voters as “deplorab audience chanted. is where Post Bulletin umns on importan ities.
“Lock her up!” the tives togeth- The Opinions page ve and we prefer guest
columns between commun
the factions of conserva and gain perspecti up to 600 words, with warm greetings
and stories
But what binds n for Trump as
their readers share opinionsview. Here’s how to get to the Post Bulletin. ost-
er is not so much
their admiratio
their common agen- on different points
of that are exclusive to letters@p of hope. the
for Democrats and the Rea- of Send letters and columns page, Post Before I left, I thanked in an
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Rochester, is the
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surface. sampling of letters the
for Trump to succeed.
disappointing, the stick to issues go to gram- erty of the PB and can be republish founder of Communit
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him to deliver. But tive base may not head of the line. Letters ss. format.
pieces of his conserva
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which looms over
the entrance, stands public would like,” out what the
Bumblebee metal about nine feet is from a very, he said. “Iron
tall, draws curious sculpture, standing high, weighs between Man
spectators at the 1,200 and 1,500 very popular Disney
about 9 feet pounds movie.”
entirely with recycled , and is made
Grand Forks. River Cinema 15
theater in East The Predator and
metal car parts
in Indonesia, said
Bob Moore, theater cost almost $40,000Alien figures each
owner. Bumblebee and each, while the
“There’s no way Iron Man ran about
you can’t be $35,000 each.
taken in by him,” They are on perman
he said. “It’s very display in the ent
authentic.” theater.
Price was not a
Predator is one barrier.
of “I’ve owned theaters
hover over custom four figures that it’s in my blood,” for 40 years;
ers in the theaters said
lobbies. The others
are Iron Man,
’ the imposing sculptu Moore, who saw
Bumblebee and way to promot res as a unique
Alien. e his business.
Each figure took “Why do the Blue
six months to
by artisans; each
is one of a kind.
build and Cabela’s have Moose (restaurant)
“We thought there’d a big moose at their
entrances?”
theater with someth be no other
ing like this,” The metal sculptu
Moore said. “They’v
e gone over well.” in parts, but withoutres arrived
He estimates thousan instructions, Moore assembly
have been shot ds of pictures said. “It took four
and shared on guys an eight-h
media. social our day to put
of them togethe the four
Moore came across r.”
He was glad to
figures a few months the massive in finished form
have pictures of
them
storefront at a ago in a as a guide.
Las Vegas hotel. “The Predator
spotted Iron Man He is probably the
behind glass at bulkiest and tallest,”
Viewing up close, storefront in the a in pieces – torso, he said. “It came
hotel
sculpture can be
the individual car
parts that make “I was quite surprise complex. a scissors lift to
arms, head. We
used
identified. up the Alien recalled. “Wow, d by it,” he position it.”
what are these?”
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for speakers and (Jan.
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through Monday “We are looking
(Jan. 9) to fill two change agents for local
seats for their
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who
their ideas through can share Robby Vee Con
event. performance, who a talk or
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ideas that could have great of Famer
create lasting Robby Vee, son Their Voice For
change in our of the late Care.” His
region,” said singer-songwri single “Blue Moon
Courtney Olson, ter Bobby Blues”
co-organizer. Vee, performs at was co-written
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Mic Sunday at the Pekin late legendary
set for 7 p.m. Feb. Night is (N.D.) songwriter
Wayne Carson,
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the UND Vee, named after for his songs, “You
campus. Feb. 6 his Were
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to apply online is Mind” and
for that event. on tour with his “The Letter.” All
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by audience vote album, diagnosed with
at each Open Mic “Blue Moon Blue,” Alzheimer’s
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ance is
to purchase a ticket tion, or He describes his the Fourte’ quartet.
to attend music as the $15 at
as an audience a blend of country door. Doors open
member, go to , rock-n- p.m.; at 2
www.tedxgrand roll, blues, jazz limited seating.
forks.com. A and bop. Info:
total of 100 tickets In 2015, Vee joined call the Nelson
are available. County Arts
Alzheimer’s Foundat the Council at (701)
296-4410.
America “Artists ion of The Pekin Auditor
Raising at 121 Main St. ium is

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Special Section
Weeklies up to 2,500
First Place: Barnesville Record-Review, Gene Prim, Lynae Schenck
and Kelli Froslie
And Sometimes We Were Bad! Wet & Dry Alcohol in Clay County
By far our favorite out of a ton of entries. Great content, layout and de-
sign. Impressive amount of local ads. Great Job!

Second Place: Pelican Rapids Press, Louis Hoglund and

Cindy Hensch
Pelican Pete’s 60th
This section truly makes us want to visit to take a selfie with the Pelican!
Impressive support from the business community. Great Job!

Third Place: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Staff

Glory Days, Spotlighting Historic Manitou Hotel Renovation
Great layout with a ton of impressive photos. What a beautiful historical
work of art. Great advertising Support. Great Job!

Weeklies over 2,500

First Place: Pope County Tribune, Glenwood, Erica Stoen, Erika
Andreas, Emma Nyhammer & Tim Douglass
Minnewaska Visitor Guide
This guide was clear, concise and easy to read. The articles were inter-
esting, map was easy to read and the advertising support was great. An
all-around nice guide!

Second Place: Agri News, Rochester, Staff

Simply Rural
Loved the cover and the photos held my interest. All the articles were
interesting. An enjoyable section.

Third Place: Park Rapids Enterprise, Staff

Youth Art
Loved how the section was laid out with the kids and art at the top and
sponsors at the bottom so as not to take away from the art being shown.
The photos were large and nice to look at. A very creative section involv-
ing youth.

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Special Section
All Dailies
First Place: Daily Globe, Worthington, Staff
This was a very creative section. The story was very clever as it incor-
porated the different businesses into the story line. Great use of graphics
with Santa. Along with the ads, it has fun puzzles to do also.

Second Place: Brainerd Dispatch, Staff
Salute Veterans Day 2016
The Salute Veterans Special Section used innovative ideas to salute the
veterans, along with informative stories. Loved the way they used Veter-
ans pictures in the Century 21 ad and the chosen picture for An Unlikely
Ally article.

Third Place: West Central Tribune, Willmar, Sharon Bomstad

Impact 2016, Bridal guide
Very informative, hands-on section. Takes you step-by-step as to plan-
ning your wedding from the very beginning. Ads were very creative with
great use of graphics.

Best Magazine
All Weeklies
First Place: Faribault County Register, Blue Earth, Staff
Our Heroes
This magazine entry caught my eye as I was going through the many fine
entries. I like the way the edition was explained on page 3 and I thought
the stories were well written and interesting. Job well done.

Second Place: Perham Focus, Staff
Perham High School 100 Years
WOW! Takes me back to high school. A very fun and informative edi-
tion.

Third Place: Hutchinson Leader, Juliana Thill
Dockside - Winter 2016
Cute little quarterly publication, love the picture on the cover. Very
informative, lots of good tips. Stories very interesting. Good news to
advertising ratio. If I lived on the lake or river - I would look forward to
each issue.

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All Dailies
First Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Staff
Rochester Magazine
This magazine was by and far the best one of the contest. The cover art is
sharp and draws the eye. Photography throughout the magazine is played
up well and toned to bring out vibrant colors. The layouts make good use
of white space and various visual elements and the stories are interesting.
The advertising is placed well and I’m impressed with the number of full
page ads throughout. If I were a reader in your coverage area, I would
definitely spend a significant amount of time reading this product. Well
done.

Second Place: The Bemidji Pioneer, Staff
inMagazine Summer 2017
The thing that I notice the most about this magazine is the photography.
It’s great. In areas where you play it up, it really pops out and makes me
want to read the story (Like the Kangoos and the Paul Bunyan stories). I
feel that content-wise, this magazine offers something for everyone. The
design is good where you play up your pictures (Paul Bunyon, Kangoo
and the margarita recipe). Overall, this magazine is very well done, and
something I could see myself sitting down to read if I lived in your cov-
erage area. Well done.

Third Place: Albert Lea Tribune, Staff

Albert Lea Magazine- July/August 2017
This is a solid magazine. You play up your photography well and the
pictures, mostly the portraits, pop. You have a good variety of content.
You have some smaller vignettes and some larger stories. This is good
because it makes for easy reading. Too often magazines focus on either
one or the other. Your layouts and creativity are solid too. What surprises
me about your layout is that its inherently simple, playing with fonts and
white space, but it really adds a unique flavor to the magazine. This is
something to be commended. Overall, I enjoyed reading this magazine. I
think it appeals to various different types of people. Well done.

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Best Use of Video

Weeklies up to 2,500
First Place: Hancock Record, Brooke Kern and Rae Yost*
Anniversary of ‘97 State Championship Teams

Second Place: Morris Sun Tribune, Rae Yost*

Anderson Haunted Yard

Third Place: Hancock Record, Brooke Kern

Hancock football previews playoffs
Good work!

Weeklies over 2,500

First Place: Kanabec County Times, Mora,
Natasha Stenbock Kawalek
Fat bikers queue up for 2nd year of races
Great video!

Second Place: The Globe, Worthington, Tim Middagh, Doug Wolter

and Adam Watts*
The Drill

Third Place: Pineandlakes Echo Journal, Pequot Lakes,

Travis Grimler*
PR-B student’s close call years ago reiterates need to stop for schools

All Dailies
First Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Hannah Yang
Winona Warrior: Staff Sgt. Sebo battles for top honor
Good job!

Second Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Archie Ingersoll and
Chris Flynn*
Fargo mom urged police to arrest her sons to save their lives

Third Place: Brainerd Dispatch, Jim Stafford*
Mississippi River Tour

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
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Best Use of Multimedia

Weeklies up to 2,500
First Place: Stillwater Gazette, Alicia Lebens and Jonathan Young
Pints and Pours Podcast
This is a great use of multimedia. It’s a light, evergreen feature that could
still be relevant even after summer has passed. Simultaneously, I liked
the combination of interviews with brewers and others in the industry
and actual reviews and discussion between the hosts. I’m curious as to
what the print content looked like and covered.

Second Place: Lake County News-Chronicle, Two Harbors,

Adelle Whitefoot
Election Forum
Reporting debates isn’t necessarily super exciting. Recording them isn’t
either. However, you broke out the answers by question so that if some-
one had an interest about a particular topic, they weren’t forced to watch
or fast-forward through all the other questions.

Third Place: Hancock Record, Brooke Kern and Rae Yost

Anniversary of ‘97 State Championship Teams
I enjoyed this feature because your staff talked to all of the individual
basketball players who returned. The video was a nice mixture of
voiceover/B-roll and interviews.

Weeklies over 2,500

First Place: The Globe, Worthington, Tim Middagh, Doug Wolter
and Adam Watts
The Drill
Easily the best multimedia project I saw. The videos are professionally
produced, and they don’t feel like they were added to other content just
to say that there’s multimedia attached to it. I think people would enjoy
watching these, and it looks like they are sponsored, so you’re bringing
in revenue as well. Well done.

Second Place: Shakopee Valley News, Jo Herrera

Personal purchases made by superintendent on company card
Having a list of purchases that can be searched is interesting. Undoubt-
edly, nosy readers will want to know what was purchased and how much
the items cost. I imagine that this was popular online, or at least frequent-
ly linked on social media. I felt it added to the story. Well done.

Third Place: Shakopee Valley News, Jo Herrera

On the road again
I liked the integration of the timeline and specific travel documents. I
presume the publication wrote about the conference trips that the super-
intendent made, so those stories, if they exist, could be linked as well.

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Best Use of Multimedia

All Dailies
First Place: St. Cloud Times, Stephanie Dickrell
A recycling bin here, a geothermal system there: St. Cloud VA gets
greener
Great work!

Second Place: The Free Press, Mankato, Deanna B. Narveson, Pat
Christman & Tim Krohn*
Downtown Madelia returning to normal one year after fire

Third Place: The Bemidji Pioneer, Jillian Gandsey*

DYNA5TY: HydraHeads overcome early upset to earn a five-peat as
Dragon Boat Festival champs

Best Use of Social Media

Arrow grapplers
Weeklies up to 2,500
First Place: Pipestone County Star, Debra Fitzgerald, Kyle Kuphal
Players’
to see the Calumet
One more weekend
aid”
Sandra Rieck (left) as
Libby,
remain underdogs
despite earning
as Monet
“Always a Bridesm and Jess Robinson
“Always a Bridesmaid”
at
in
Arts
the Pipestone Performing
Center. Friday, Saturday
and
No. 1 seed

and Jen Burris

Call 507-
Sunday shows remain. In Sports
825-2020.
TM
$1.25

Pipestone
Facebook Photo Contest
Thursday,
February 16, 2017
County
cation funding goals Great idea to drive people between social media and the print version.
Dayton outlines new edu $642,041 for PAS, $223,0
54 for Edgerton, and
$346,787 for RTR
pil funding by
Proposal boosts per-pu
nor’s data;
and successful Pre-K to
in legislative for better opportunities •$75 million in voluntary
budget is now being debated spoke to economies across opportunities for
$121 equals kids, communities, and expand early learning
The 2 percent increase committees. However,
Dayton legislators to take
$6,067 to $6,188 in via teleconfer- our state. I encourage families;
By Debra Fitzgerald more per pupil, from reporters last Wednesday proposed education over four years
more to $6,312 initiatives. up Governor Dayton’s •$62 million invested
fiscal year 2018, and $124 ence promoting the education investments this session.” repay school bond
to help school districts
Gov. Mark Dayton wants to
With him was Scott Monson,
superinten- about $17

Second Place: Jackson County Pilot, Staff

over the next two in
fiscal 2019. Minnesota now spends levies; and
spend $609 million more Increasing the general
education Schools. Monson education, for the Department of
and help to the budget dent of Marshall Public on billion every two years for E-12 •$31 million
years to benefit E-12 students funding formula, according said schools in his district
are short Dayton took office Program, which
all students and of stu- up by $1.5 million since Health’s Home Visiting
close achievement gaps. educa- document, would benefit space for a growing population able in 2010. helps teen parents gain
the skills they
of the additional to closing the hasn’t been receive addi-
More than half increase resources targeted in the seven dents, but the district Other areas that would children. In Pipe-
spent on a 2 percent to pay for improve- need to care for their
tion dollars would be achievement gap for
students
to pass a referendum tional funding under
Dayton’s proposal
stone County, no families
are currently
in each of the ing student
per-pupil funding increase K-12 public traditionally under-perform ments. include: served by this program,
but an estimated
next two years for Minnesota’s statewide. Indian, Hispan- Care As- were the addi-
groups: Asian, American “Governor Dayton’s Opportunity •$84 million for the Child

Opinion
$371 million Free/Reduced -Price $1.3 million access to six families would benefit
schools, for a total ic, African American, Agenda would bring over sistance Program to expand according to data
gain from the and English tional funding passed,
All school districts would Lunch, Special Education for Marshall Pipestone County, an office.
education formula. in essential investments
families, and quality childcare. In from released by the Governor’s
change in the general schools, and children would benefit
Schools would
Learners.
education plan Area students, estimated 54
Locally, Pipestone Area The details of Dayton’s the state” Monson to the Gover-
countless others across this provision, according

Guilty x 5
$642,041, Edgerton in his $46 billion budget is the foundation
receive an additional are included said. “Good education
Russell-Tyler-Ruth- biennium. That
Public $223,054, and proposal for the 2017-2018

–
Social media users love to give their opinions readily so this is an inter-
ton $346,787.

O CONTEST WINNERS
–FACEBOOK SEASONAL PHOT
ts himself. Jury
Defendant represen two hours.
returns verdicts within

By Kyle Kuphal

A jury has found Bradley

Miles guilty of kidnapping,
terroristic threats, false
im-
assault
the entire trial was when
cross-examined his ex-wife,
Renae Christian, after
called her to the stand
about the events that
during a roughly 14-hour
he

Sandy
to testify
took place
period
esting way of incorporating this into the print product.
prisonment, domestic 26 and 9
domestic between 7 p.m. on Jan.
by strangulation and was
a.m. Jan. 27, 2016. Christian
assault. look at
jury soft-spoken and did not
It took the 12-member turned
–– Miles, keeping her head
–– nine men, three women direction.
the away from his general
about two hours to render “A lot happened that
night

Third Place: Jackson County Pilot, Staff

followed
verdicts. The decision and my chil-
9, during that I won’t forget
a day-long trial on Feb.
him- dren won’t forget,” Christian
which Miles represented
said.
self. she
at She told the jurors that
Miles sat alone at a table to Miles and
at the had loaned her van
the front of the courtroom him to
they had arranged for
Pipestone County Courthouse. off at
Coun- drop it and their daughter

Sports
Damain Sandy, Pipestone on Jan.
Loeffler, her work in Sioux Falls
ty attorney, and Cassie later than
26. Miles showed up
Pipestone County assistant time,
away at expected, around supper
attorney, sat a few feet with three of Chris-
Paul Malone, intoxicated,
a separate table. van. She
tian’s daughters in the
a court-appointed, stand-by he told her the kids were
against the wall said
attorney, sat her to get

A great way for the newspaper to provide current, up to date informa-

to hungry and directed
behind Miles, available
about the in the van.
answer any questions Christian told the jury
that
frequently
trial process. The two but to
she felt she had no choice
spoke during the proceedings, were
his own get in “because the girls
but Miles said little in on to
in the van.” She went
defense. trip from
an describe a back-roads
Miles declined to make took 90
Sioux Falls to Jasper that

tion especially for something so important to a small town – high school

the start
opening statement at e She said Miles yelled
minutes.
of the trial, or to cross-examin her
Pipestone at her, insulted her, struck
two officers with the the arm and face, choked
who on
County Sheriff’s Office kill her
stand her and threatened to
Sandy had called to the
solstice, 2015
point,
during the drive. At one
Courthouse: Winter
observed
to recount what they
to the Jas- she said he told the children,
when they responded

sports.
was
Court- per residence where Miles
of the Pipestone County her
Julie Carrow’s photo readers holding his ex-wife against
the most votes from 2016. TRIAL • PAGE 10
house (above) received will on Jan. 27, JURY
the 18 photos
photo contest. Out of The most Miles said during
during our Facebook 298 total positive reactions

An invitation
submitted, Julie’s received nt, and
$100 for her achieveme
and shares. She received Free Star.
in the
publication here and Dec. 21,
said she took this photo the evening of
Julie house
home from her boyfriend’s she
2015. She was driving
the trees were gorgeous,” ne’s future
around 8:30 p.m. “and
said. She had to work
the next day, and it was
evening
already
forced her to
to help plan Pipesto
of the winter
late, but the beauty
riven,
to shoot. view of the community-d
tripod and go back out
get her big camera and
and
The city of Pipestone strategic planning process

Weeklies over 2,500

result,” she said.
“This picture was the various goals set forth.
group,
of and the civic nonprofit
the second highest number Pipestone Forward, will
host The conversation is open
The photo that received top). Tara said get
by Tara Baker (right, a community conversation to all attendees to actively
votes(184) was taken 6:30 to a plan
their acreage in Jasper. Thursday, Feb. 23 from involved in carrying
she took the photo near of votes (168) went to
Leah 8:30 p.m. at the Hiawatha
Lodge forward.
The third highest number
step
bottom). Leah in Hiawatha Pageant
Grounds The session is the next
a bird in a tree (right,
Blom for her photo of
planning
during a in the community
in early February 2016
Park. in April
The conversation is designed process that was begun
said she took the photo

First Place: Shakopee Valley News, Jo Herrera, Amanda McKnight,

acreage north of Pipestone. a forum for commu- 2016. That process included
25
blizzard on her family’s during the
to provide inter-
names were withheld nity involvement in shaping one-on-one stakeholder
The photographers’ and not Toby views; 371 survey responses;
90
would react to the photos the future of Pipestone.
voting so that people of achieving Spanier, a Minnesota
Extension attendees at the first
Commu-
the contest in honor Aug. 18 at
to the people. We held nity Conversation on
to Ju- and
Educator on Leadership
page. Congratulations the Cen- and three
3,000 likes on our Facebookand thanks to all who partici- Civic Engagement from the Hiawatha Lodge;
by city offi-
, ter for Community Vitality
will full days of planning

Callie Schmidt and Alayna Hoy

lie and the two runners-up cials and members of
Pipestone
votes. facilitate the conversation.
pated with photos and/or On the agenda is a brief
re- Forward.
-Debra Fitzgerald

Pipestone County Star

Live from the Shakopee School Board

MON ONLINE: 138th Year • No. 7
SUN www.pipestonestar.com
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62°/34° 57°/36° news@pipestonestar.co
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Amazing use of social media and reporters going above and beyond to
cover a board meeting and important community news event. It had to
really increase credibility and reliability for the newspaper in the com-
munity’s eyes and really boost readership.

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
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All Dailies
First Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Jeanette Caban
Crowdsourcing to gather content & encourage dialogue
This is a perfect example on how to use the benefit of being able to
interact with readers through social media and then using it in newspaper
content, driving both types of readers to each outlet.

Second Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Jeanette Caban

Putting a face to the name: Humanizing our reporters via social media
What a great way to use social media to create ties on a personal level to
the creators of the newspaper.

Third Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Fargo Forum Staff

Share your photos and videos from the eclipse in Fargo-Moorhead
Good use of steering traffic to the website through something as popular
as the eclipse.

Government/Public Affairs Reporting

Weeklies up to 2,500
First Place: St. Peter Herald, Alex Kerkman, Nancy Madsen and Ben
Farniok
WINTER
SHATTERED: Where is the Justice? Sentencings, court procedures for
WINTER
HEALTH

ON
GUIDE
January 2017

HEALTH Girls hoopsters move into

TOP
Inside

tips

drunk-driving deaths frustrate families

Special Section

St. Peter Herald

tie for 1st in conference
from local

guest columnist

Inserted
on how to

1B
stay healthy
Herald | St. Peter Herald
Le Center Leader | Le Sueur News
this winter

A well-researched series on a topic that most readers would be unfamiliar

Thursday, Januar
y 12, 2017
www.stpeterherald.c
with unless they had a personal reason to be aware – and an editorial that
properly wraps up their findings. The reporter tells this story primarily
om
CRIMINAL VEHICULAR $1.25 Newsstand
HOMICIDE

City plans
new programs, from the viewpoint of the families who had to bury a loved one, who
collaboration
with schools are living through the follow-up and finding the system wanting. Well
By NANCY MADSE
nmadsen@stpeter
N
herald.com researched, lots of sources, and a very interesting topic. This story gets
the top prize for tackling a complex subject and a largely unknown one,
With the retirement
of the senior center
coordinator, the city
of St. Peter is plotting
new course. a
Sylvia Perron retired
Her position had been about a week ago.
County and the city for shared by Nicollet

with authority. Well done.

the past 15 years. The
city paid half of her
salary
out of the senior center, to run programs
which is in the city’s
community center.
The city plans to hire
nior programs and reach someone to run se-
area. beyond that service
“We will set up our
maintain many of the own program and

‘WHERE IS THE JUSTICE?

provided,” said Jane services that were
Timmerman, director
of Recreation and Leisure

Second Place: Pine County Courier, Sandstone, Traci LeBrun

Tuesday’s City Council Services, during
work
be expanding the program session. “We will

’
be offered in the daytime s that are going to
technology, health-re and they will be on
lated, literacy and other
possibilities.”

Real life CSI in Pine County

But the new position,
to be
recreation program superviso the assistant
Sentencings, court proced
ures for drunk-driving deaths age cross-overs between
diff
r, will encour-
Editor’s note: This is the frustrate families boxes, such as the library, erent department
youth programs
who kill, how Minnesot first in a three-part series on how the criminal and senior program.

The narrative writing style employed here is what sets this story apart
a sentencing guidelines justice system deals Part of that comes with
building a new series
push to strengthen sentences apply to those convicted of criminal vehicular with drunk drivers of classes,
and St. Peter Public Schools which the city
for offenders and keep homicide, and the Commun
drunk drivers off the road. Family Education program ity and
By ALEX KERKM is calling Learn-
AN head on into Alison Mackie’s ing Is ForEver or LIFE.
akerkman@lecente
r.com Acura tween 2013 These classes will be
Integra. He’d crossed geared for adults and

– besides eliminating the need for endless “he said” repetitions, and the
the center line 3,600 and 2015 there were seniors and begin this
on Hwy. 99 near Le Sueur DWI incidents in Blue month.
Krista Mackie shook slightly, County Dodge, Le Earth,
voice battling a never-end her Road 140 in the May Sueur, Nicollet, Rice, “What we want this
27 crash after Sibley, position to do is to
ing night- fleeing another Steele and Waseca counties. THIS WEEK shepherd that along and
mare. he caused just a mile make it grow,” Tim-
to the east. During that span, 16 merman said.
Facing her sister’s killer, people were Families of those whose
she re- killed in a crash where This assistant recreation

real-time feel as the investigation progresses keeps the reader engrossed.

counted her pain and Just 21, Alison Mackie at program supervisor
was killed driver had a blood alcoholleast one
the emotions loved ones are killed would also assist with
she’d felt since Alison’s by publicizing events and
drunken driv- on impact. of .08 or higher.
content drunk drivers are rarely building programs for
ing death. adults
And while her family
and many In the last 15 years, Moran
prepared for the seeming
ly library. It will be a 24-hour-p and families at the
“I am extremely angry, in the public were outraged has short setences Minneso er-week position.
Mackie said with tears ” Krista at what handled about 10 criminal vehicular ta “We can re-evaluate
that as the program
in her eyes, they viewed as a light sentence, it was homicide cases. law allows. unfurls,” Timmerman

The autopsy sequence is the best example of this. Overall this is an excit-
the muffled sobs from one of the stiffest Domingo said.
the
family filling the silence rest of her face. Both the could “Whenever a (criminal
vehicular
Timmerman also proposed
some changes
between her judge and prosecu- homicide) CVH NEXT WEEK for the recreation program
sentences. “Where is the occurs, the public
justice? (63) tor in the case said they wished they tends to think the Are criminal vehicular tion based on increased supervisor’s posi-
months? What a travesty. could have handed down defendant responsibilities. That
”
penalty. a harsher a 15- to 20-year sentence will get homicide offenses position is currently
open. And she recom-
Frustration broke said. “Most victims ,” Moran
rise? How does the
on the mended changing the
title of lead librarian

ing and very informative piece and a good use of an under-used literary
“The sentencing guideline and families number to library supervisor.
through failed (Mackie’s) family, s have don’t understand what will hap- of drunk driving deaths
” Assistant Le pen. It’s incredibly difficult for in Minnesota compare City Administrator Todd
“Alison was taken from Sueur County Attorney me of the changes would Prafke said none
the court intends on givingmy life and said at Jason Moran to explain the light sentence to to
other states in the affect
the
Domingo only a little time Modesto palling. Sept. 20 sentencing. “It’s ap- families.”
the region? The council asked that the budget.
behind bars.” If I could find a way to supervisor position descripti the assistant library
turn it In Minnesota, defendan JAN.

style.
Modesto Godinez Domingo into 20 to ts are 25 also. Both library position on be updated
24-year-old illegal immigran , a 30 years I would do it.” given a score based on
past felony Why is Mothers Against filled. s are currently
Guatemala, was given t from convictions. That is
a 63-month Sentencing guideli weighed with Drunk Driving promoti “I imagine you would
prison sentence in nes the current conviction ng
exchange for Minnesota Departm a sentencing range.
to determine the use of ignition
interlock filling these positions like to get going on
pleading guilty to smashing ,” Councilwoman Susie
his car lic Safety statistics ent of Pub- devices over pushing
for
Carlin said. “You can
bring the two rec posi-
show that be- tougher sentences? tion descriptions to a
See JUSTICE on 8A council
First-time offenders
convicted of criminal
away and maybe at a future meeting right
sentence in favor
of probation or jail vehicular homicide look more at the library workshop, we can
time. (Photo illustrati face a maximum
prison sentence of positions.”
on) 48 months, but judges Timmerman said, “I
often stay the would love that.”

Third Place: Jordan Independent, Rachel Wittrock

Reach Associate Editor
507-931-8568 or follow Nancy Madsen at
Parks Board chairm @SPHnancy.
her on Twitter.com

an proposes fieldhou
By PAT BECK
se, ice arena for St.
Coverage of mascot debate
has met with most sports
Peter
pbeck@stpeterhera
ld.com city, school and chamber groups, “We are trying
of com- using the taxpayersto do it without A multisport
merce officials. ,” Alger facility
It’s in preliminary stages, the project goes through, said. If
Lee Alger gives himself but “I haven’t met with any
resis- pects it will operate he ex- Alger, a retired athletic
direc-
years for his field house seven tance,” Alger said. “Some of them through the tor of 30 years, foresees the field

A good explainer, covering the results of the community survey. There

of dreams said, ‘Keep going. Recreatio house as a year-round
to become a reality in
St. Peter. We need this.’” Departm n and Leisure Services multi-sport
Alger is working on ent. facility with a rubber
The St. Peter Parks a strate- tartan floor.
Board gic plan with represen St. Peter Public Possible
chairman proposes
that a field groups in tatives of tor Pete Moulton Works Direc- practices events could include
house and ice arena be the city. They are try- has discussed , games, meets, camps
built on a ing to raise the project with Alger,
12-acre diamond of city money for a study City Ad- and tournaments for a wide range

was obviously a lot of community interest in this debate, and the paper’s
property through I&S ministrator Todd Prafk
across the street from Group, Mankato, to e and the of sports such as basketball, vol-
the park board. leyball, wrestling, gymnast
high school along Broadway new see if if the project is workable. ics,
enue, bordering Gustavus Av- ISG will survey groups in the city, “There hasn’t been any football and track. Bad
action formal weather
Adol- propose the size and early practice for
phus College soccer fi
elds. and scope of the missionbesides the fact-finding football,
project and estimate on Lee’s part,
” he soccer, baseball and
Alger started working takes a while for things said. “It would also be options. softball and
costs. St. Peter Parks Board

treatment of it was in line with that interest – several stories leading up

project more than a year on the Public meetings Chairman Lee Alger
like these hopes a fieldhouse
ago. He strategic planning will follow the to develop into somethin
ice arena grow on
this cornfield on
group meetings. that g solid 357th Street, across Broadway Avenue
will actually work.” the street from the and
Vol. 131, No. 2 ©2017 adjacent to Gustavu new high school
s Adolphus College and
CALL US See ARENA on 8A water and sewer access. soccer fields. It has

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Government/Public Affairs Reporting

Weeklies over 2,500
First Place: Shakopee Valley News, Amanda McKnight, Jo Herrera
and Deena Winter
Shakopee school investigation
Tough, relentless reporting and straight-forward writing by Amanda
McKnight, Jo Herrera and Deena Winter produced powerful coverage
that served the citizens of the Shakopee Public Schools. Congratulations
to the Shakopee Valley News for meeting its obligation to the public.

Second Place: Eden Prairie News, Tim Engstrom and Patty Dexter
An EP view of St. Paul and two-part series (Un)affordable Housing
Enterprising, thorough, solid and focused reporting that may not be glam-
orous but serves the public.

Third Place: Forest Lake Times, Ryan Howard

Unions donated thousands to School Board winners
Ryan Howard does a good job of “following the money” and not only
bringing the facts to light but helping readers understand the implica-
tions.

All Dailies
First Place: St. Cloud Times, Stephanie Dickrell
A recycling bin here, a geothermal system there: St. Cloud VA gets
greener
An outstanding overview not just on St. Cloud’s recycling efforts and the
response to them – but also how in concrete terms that recycling is being
used. A real eye opener. Wonderful interactive graphic – an enterprising
way to tell the story.

Second Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Archie Ingersoll

Experts weigh in on possible outcomes of DAPL protests
Striking presentation on the people on the front lines of the battle over
the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The Ingersoll goes deep on how this pro-
test mirrors others in our history.

Third Place: Grand Forks Herald, Andrew Haffner
Autism
Terrific details and strongly reported series. Reporter stayed on top of an
issue and managed to write compelling follow-ups on an issue that man-
ages to affect everyone in some facet.

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Freedom of Information Award

All Newspapers
First Place: Pine Journal, Cloquet, Jana Peterson
Good mix of news and columns. Wide variety of sources with strong
interviews getting to the point.

Second Place: Woodbury Bulletin, Scott Wente and Mathias Baden

State opinion: Woodbury police improperly withheld data
Filed information so they could get the information they needed.

Third Place: Shakopee Valley News, Amanda McKnight, Jo Herrera,

Maggie Stanwood and Deena Winter
Uncovering wasteful spending in the school district headquarters
Brought out to the public eyes about wasteful spending in a school dis-
trict.

Explanation of News Operations /Newspaper Ethics

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THE OTHER OPINION

about the Herald Drought

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A conversation not entirely true.

Newshole has
nine Wednesday,
Sunday, 12 Saturday
11 Tuesday, 11
and nine Great explanation of comprehensive changes, and kudos for being honest
has big
18 percent – wasn’t so great,
I figure. been cut by about Friday. Monday

about the harsh comments, too.

So the reader and me
I will more, sometimes s do take days
up the phone sometimes a bit with five. Reporter
Soon, I’ll pickinvitatio n to have lunch. She’ll
tell
less – on a monthly
basis. And
off, and it is summer
vacation
and accept an who wants about bridge and I’ll
ask her reduce the price,

effect
from a reader the while we didn’t its season. of our
lunch about raised
I’m missing what she thinks the Herald hasn’t Actually, I’m proud
to tell me what – nity, the state of the tion rates in years despite local production lately, and the
bridge commu subscrip
in my life without the Herald can s in inflation, don’t include our
Herald and how

Those are her constant increase numbers above
the card game. a reader. supply costs, the many local

on ND
serve her as newsprint and editorial s,
actual words. more ed with the daily of just a few
convince This should happen to sit compensation associatyment rate briefs (short stories
I’m not sure she’ll look wants are still locally
but I often. Who else region’s low unemplo paragraphs that
me about bridge, the Herald? t) or regional wire
service
forward to the and visit about and so forth. pertinen out the
Morning weeks ago,
conversation. Service clubs? W.C.: “Several section stories
published through The Dickinson
Press

Second Place: The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Matthew Von Pinnon

Bridge players? same comic day. s of winter
Her letter coffee groups?
we are you ran the Herald each
– this one When hugeupamount this past winter
arrived early It’s a conversation two days in a row.” That One last letter snow piled
but we prefer
this week after willing to have, Response: Uh, yeah. from C.E. around the state,
flooding
conversation are sorry about 70th big concern.
she and I had that it’s a real wasn’t good. We C.E.: “This is our was certainly the
underst and Herald. imagine that
discussions the with people who that. year for our daily Few, if any, could
all industri es change – reader (L.O.) wrote in 1946 or ’47 in and early summer would
about Another started spring

We debated whether to include motorcyclist’s driving history

past month that We any real
newspaper when it was
the merits of and yes, even the the following: at what Michigan, N.D., come and go without
L.O.: “I am angered school. … Good measurable precipit new to
ation.
KORRIE her pastime, and industry
. delivered after
have the Herald. years. Thank Flooding is nothing
WENZEL especially the We know people has become of paper all these Dakotans know
s, comments and The last straw
is the bridge our state. North
Publisher Herald’s decision question For example, here’s as news, the
you.”
, thank you, water can be a
concerns. column. As far Response: Actually that too much can be a
 to discontinue reading is te your note more problem, but drought

Good explanation of a tricky issue. Your reasoning was sound and well-
week’s
the daily bridge a note from this only thing worth C.E. We apprecia
: can imagine . disaster .
ed for years. mailbag W.C.): “I
USA Today.” te the than you U.S. Drought
column we publish strong, Reader (initials Response: We appreciaToday Would you or your
group This week, the
was what you have the Herald? the North Dakota
Her argument cannot believe comment about
the USA
like to talk about Monitor raised
drought to 36
ood when I into. It have that land in extreme
and she underst time to turned this newspaper section. Interestingly, we We’re happy to have of the state,
me nts about it’s very percent; 95 percent
asked her to give is so pathetic.” received many complaithat some conversation. And er of the is abnormally
solution.

explained, but you also included a valid opposing viewpoint.

consider a possible and Response: As noted
in this ng at the very least,
it, too. It’s fascinati possible the publish has affected
Eventually, her
logic fast-moving others loathe it. would come dry. The drought
space in the past, people love it and newspaper himself of life in our
willingness to
have a true in national local to answer your almost every part wildfires,
downward trends L.O.: “Forget about late.” visit your group
convincing pushed It is a day or two state. It has fueled
discussion was week advertising have make news. question s. Indepen dence Day
last ide to our been canceled
enough that we newspapers nationw not unique Response: We reduced Korrie Wenzel has ated burn
column – It’s 18 months, Herald since celebrations, necessit
resumed a bridge changes and adapt. staff over the past publisher of the fireworks sales

Rand’s column s are still tasked reached at 701- bans, decreased
albeit only Tom to Grand Forks. but our reporter 2014. He can be hit agriculture
friend from the cut the size strong local @gfherald. and, of course,
on Mondays. A W.C.: “You have with producing 780-1103 or kwenzel the hardest.
a part, too. two-thirds but nine local ure
Rotary Club played of the paper by content. We had com. North Dakota Agricult
column isn’t the price. y’s edition, Doug Goehring,
A Monday-only have not reduced stories in Thursda Commissioner
want, but e: Actually, that’s n farmer,
exactly what they Respons a third-g eneratio

Third Place: Albert Lea Tribune, Staff

compromise, worst drought
it’s a reasonable says this is the
DOUBLE PLAY more than four
he has seen in
 decades of farming
. Recently,
s met
and rancher
ag producers Heitkamp,
with U.S. Sen. Heidi rs gathered
D-N.D., and producetown

Tribune to partner with Postal Service

for a Golden Valley
Gov. Doug
hall meeting with the effects
Burgum to discuss
having on
the drought is
agriculture. g and
Heitkamp, Goehrin

Props for giving above-the-fold coverage to a big change. The Q&A was
the same
Burgum heard
the summer of
message: That
the perfect
2017 has become
storm.
their elected
Producers told
already

a nice touch.
officials what they
are at near-
knew: Cattle prices
some ranchers
record lows and or all, of
are selling off parts,there is not
their herds because to feed
hay
enough grass or
a herd takes
them. Rebuilding
time and a lot of money.
a long
may choose to
OINT Some ranchers s.
VIEWP just get out of
the busines

ation
shriveling up.

ilds strong found

 Wheat fields are
for farmers
It’s heartbreaking

Ag innovation bu
only to watch
to work so hard,
of time and
their investment
benefits Minnesotans gain lost. Many crops are so
of their farms. tion first” money even be fed
business aspect from this “innova bad that they can’t
an economic ments to for new
agriculture has For these advance mentality, support to cattle.
By Karolyn Zurn $23 billion of farmers, the agricultural are pledging
impact of roughly get into the hands technology in Elected officials
As such, must be farmers they can to
As a top agricultural for our state alone.
success of our
all Minnesotans sector can prepare to do everything
producing state,
Minnesotans
we rely on the
in these ng challenges help. But, sadly,
there is little
willing to invest for the upcomi
that we the financial farmers to the future. can be done to
know first-hand farmers to bolster technologies. From that will define if anything that
constan tly work hard of Minnes ota. When akers, it is imperative vation will ensure
help the folks who put food on
must success policym Ag-inno
decisions to an above or get e to
and make smart our farmers have that the right peopleour farmers can continu our tables. ation Reserve
and profitable farming season, a changing Opening Conserv
run productive below average in making
the overall involvedural products higher harvest crops in to haying
farms. that greatly impacts agricult climate where
weather Program fields
their less predictable but haying
As many who make health of our state. while expending patterns are less will help some,
know all farmers quality, increased
living on the land During tough times, resources. and arable land
is harder of CRP will have
economic promotion ion is also costs.
too well, recent shouldn’t have
to choose Critical to the to find. Innovat transportation
uncertainty refinanc ing farming ion is support ing feeding the Working with drought
between of innovat essential to crop insurance
due to various off ment population that monitoring and
equipment or selling research and develop growing global help, too.
ag-related of their land. the three billion companies can
precious parcels (R&D) efforts in stands to increase we know our
challenges, should be able A key The one thing
Instead, farmers agricultural space. by the year 2050. on is this: North
like weather technological ural R&D has on ag state can count
to utilize new player in agricult A renewed focus and ranchers
and pests, left can positively the private technologies Dakota farmers
advances that increasingly been innovation and will respond to
the historic
farmers working challenges with brought build a strong
ly address these For sector, which has s the will continue to for the drought of 2017, as they
always
especial s. advance ion their belts,
long-term solution precision us many of the granted. and lasting foundat here and do. They’ll tighten
hard to ensure e, advances in now takes for of our farms and rely on a
Zurn r instanc of public success work harder
their summe the aid mergers . We should innovation
on time. agriculture, with With high-profile as across the country from pioneer spirit and
allow farmers ion them so well
crops were planted GPS satellites, like Dow and Dupont welcome innovat that has served
only on good al crop Monsanto es with open of homesteading.
Farmers rely not s for to target individu t well as Bayer and d this private industri ents since the days
on method to the smalles finalize investm e, when
weather, but treatments in line to be arms, as future We urge everyon
ways to reducing ations will be the key break bread this
continually finding e plots of soil, thus year, these organiz and inventions sitting down to
cy and mitigat mental impact improve their future. for granted
bolster efficien overall environ stand to vastly to a strong ag year, to never take
unpredictable inputs. New, ties and the Callaway, that food on
additional and and maximizing research capabili Karolyn Zurn, of the folks who put
planting ous, farm d to finding t of Minnesota
challenges during often autonom resources allocate Minn., is presiden your table.
farmers save technologies.
season. equipment helps groundbreaking Agri-Women.
on allowing economic
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the bedrock it on
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Category X
Category X: Coverage of Local Law Enforcement
(Competition among 2 classes: weeklies and dailies.)
This award will recognize excellence in local coverage of law enforcement. The award will be presented to newspa-
pers with strong coverage of local law enforcement, crime, policing, and related news; that tell stories that explain
the role of cops and courts in their communities; or those that find new and innovative ways to approach the
“crime blotter.” These may include investigations, feature stories, human interest, breaking news or other relevant
content. You may submit a statement about your entry and its impact in the community. Judges will consider: con-
tent and form of writing, clarity, relevance and impact.

All Weeklies
community
sports
Elevating
excellent Swimmers outduel Camb
ridge-Isanti

First Place: Forest Lake Times, Ryan Howard

educators Rangers
Teacher of the complete
Year nominations busy week

Contract law enforcement lead-up and controversy

now open. in the pool.

Forest Lake Times

5
7

Impressive depth.

Thurs day, Oct. 6,
2016
fOresTlak

Police and council

eTimes.cO
m
Vol. 114 No. 19

: A relationship ex
Officers, councilmen
offer
different perspective
s
tinued to grow.
In the 10 months
voted to lay off
a
since the council
discussion never patrol officer, that
amined Second Place: Jackson County Pilot, Staff
Solid news features.
Editor’s note: This But really went away.
in a two-part series article is the first localnow, with votes on the line, some
tionship and recent examini ng the rela- outsider politica
begun l factions have
history between
Forest Lake City the while using it as a campaign issue,
Council and the others have insisted
Lake Police Departm Forest that the
council
cover some of the ent. Part one will been ’s votes on the matter have

this issue becomin factors that led to The good moves for local taxpayers.
g
community as well controversial in the council Forest Lake Times
spoke with
of the city’s Civil as the dissolution members, police
Service Commission. other involved parties officers and
Part t wo will cover to get their
uling discussions department sched- perspectives on the
situatio

Third Place: Quad Community Press, Circle Pines, Shannon

and what, n and on
tives on the relation current perspec- ease if anything, should be done
ship. the related tension to
munity. in the com-
Ryan Howard
News Editor Origin
Forest Lake commus
These days, you nity members

Granholm
ter to the editor might read a let- have rallied before when
about it, overhea the Police Departm they thought
conversation at r a by ent
a local watering
hole a council decision could be hurt
or see a homem after the City Council. In the fall 2014,
ade campaign
mentioning it. sign requested a $1
As election season million reduction
has heated up in in the 2015 prelimi-
Forest Lake, the nary levy, City
cal discussion Administrator Aaron
surrounding the lo- Parrish brought

Local law enforcement involved in all aspects of community

Council’s relation City budget back a
ship
Lake Police Departm with the Forest cuts that include number of Forest Lake’s police
d two police Lake headquarters now
ent has only con- City Center, only occupy the ground Photo by Ryan Howard
chambers. a minute’s walk floor of the Forest
Police see page from the doors
8 a hot topic The council’s relationship with of the City Council
of conversation the
around town this Police Department has been

Solid news features.

year.

Columbus endors
es
diverging bridge
Firefighter Chad
through a windsh
to safely retrieve
Photos
by Jason DeMoe
Payment cuts
ield in an effort
design for Hwy.
97
victims from Wider design still on-ramp, allowing

All Dailies
the inside of
a crashed to turn left without them
vehicle. a goal for cities ing for oncoming wait-
traffic
and eliminating
a major
Paul Rignell source of back-up
Columbus Reporte on the
bridge. Drivers
r crossing
Columbus the bridge to

First Place: Grand Forks Herald, Staff

council continue

Homemade holiday
members reached west (perhaps
con- traveling
sensus Sept. to Running Aces
28 that Harness
the city will endorse Park) would be

ningful
directed
a

treats make mea

diverging diamon back to
terchange for the d in- the con-
State
Page B1
Hooked in the Heartland
Highway ventio nal

stocking stuffers:
97/County
Highway 23 bridge right lane
ing its scheduled dur-
rebuild when leav-
in 2018-2019. ing the
Their support for bridge.
diverging diamon the
Drivers

Solid enterprise work.

d pat-
tern aligns Columb Daly from Co-
with recommendatio us lumbus
from Anoka County ns would un-
The the Minnesota and
Forest Depart- dergo the
Department coordinLake Police ment of Transpo same pro-
rtation.
crash that took placeated a mock

A second design cess, driv-
Lake Area High at the Forest tion that has been op-
School Sept. 28. ing along
The event focused cussed for the dis-
on bridge the north
driving and simulat texting while rebuild could feature barrier of
killed one student ed a crash that standard diamon a the bridge
injured two others. and seriously d pat-
11, 2016
tern, or basicall Griffith before ei-

Heroin Second Place: The Free Press, Mankato, Kristine Goodrich,

EMBER
A film of the y
the current bridge how
incident featurin
EC
S U N D A Y , DFire
g scenes from the ther turn-
hospital, funeral Mem bers of the nearly 50 years (built ing left onto northbound
home and more ago) is I-35 or moving

HOOKED
can be found at Forest laid out for traffic

IN
Depa Lake back to

use soars
goo.gl/Cs5ZHh.
North Memrtment and the Minnesota
flow. the right side of
the road
crew tend orial Ambulance ment of Transpo
Depart- as they
enter Forest
victim Paig to injured crash rtation Lake.

Mark Fischenich and Pat Christman

engineers believe
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be
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drivers Avenue and near 34th

Dakota
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medical personnel. to turn some commu America),
left after the bridge ter
head south on and cles were waiting vehi-
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lab to 400
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from Forest Lake he
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lane
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the left side of to was also stant. Meth hadhe
Crash witnesses familiar with the area, but
Liam Coleman the
(or along the south road the traffic widely used in
still flow
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relay what they
saw to a rier). They would bar- verging an even deadlier drug
diamon
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not something
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they saw coming. seemed like
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Jesse Trelstad
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she struggled Grand Forks
the story of how ed to 25 accidental opioid
Grand Forks, shares respond
year alone, Johnson
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or at Northeast Human said. Two of them
were fatal.
an addiction counsel Centers for
Cindy McMillan, addict, drug Last week, the
drugs in her youth. Day 1: Once an and Preven-
with alcohol and tells her story. Disease Control
counselor there were more
tion announced
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deadly heroin
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dose, 12,989,
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Day 3: What educato fight.
In the late ’90s
and early 2000s,
was meth-
out the the drug of choice
parents, she dropped 12th students say about Officers would
amphetamine.
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Grand Forks Herald
of high school
before
home.
Through persona
l stories
reports,
Day 4: The court system.
clean and
meth labs
find mom-and-popout the the
grade and left
1983, her and investigative in the
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was hanging
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the Country
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 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest

General Excellence
Weeklies up to 1,500
First Place: Stillwater Gazette
Ambitious coverage, great mix of topics. You come away from this paper
with a real sense of the community.

Second Place: St. Peter Herald*

Third Place: Le Center Leader*

Weeklies 1,501-2,500
First Place: Waseca County News
This paper cracked the first place with its newsy and cleanly designed
front pages. It made its way to top with a wide array of local news, well-
reported.

Second Place: Union-Times, Princeton, Milaca

Strong entry – really good mix of people-focused content.

Third Place: Lake County News-Chronicle, Two Harbors*

Weeklies 2,501-5,000
First Place: Hutchinson Leader
The Hutchinson Leader reads much “bigger” than its circulation category
would indicate. Clean, open, reader-friendly design and typography
complement a nice mix of solid news and features, and we really ap-
preciate seeing a front page dedicated completely to editorial content. In
regard to advertising, in the three copies we reviewed, the display ads in
particular are well done. Most importantly, the ads are nicely stacked and
in their proper spaces, while contributing nicely to the overall content of
the newspaper. One of the things we really appreciated about the Leader
was its use of photography, in at least one issue using a photograph of a
5K run the width of the front page. Extremely well done. We found the
Leader to be a very solid publication with good, local (but not hokey)
content throughout. This is a local newspaper that is operating on a much
higher plain in delivering quality journalism to its community. The staff
and leadership have every right to be pleased with what they are produc-
ing for their readers.

*Please note, an asterisk indicates that no comments were submitted by contest judges for the entry.
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General Excellence
Second Place: Aitkin Independent Age
Again, judges were impressed with the uncluttered, thoughtful design
shown. It’s simply an easy to look at, easy to navigate newspaper. This
type of thoughtful layout makes it so much easier for readers to consume
the information. One of the things that really sets the Independent Age
apart is the content and display on pages two and three. Great content
is supported by good use of color photographs. The pages just seem to
say, “read me” The newspaper’s “extra! what’s doing” section is a great
example of packaging all the community meeting notices and other
“what’s happening” info right before public notices, classified ads and
local sports. The Independent Age is a thoughtfully arranged newspaper
with substantial content throughout, which is something we said about
the first-place winner, too. But that’s a fact. Nice job!

Third Place: Pine Journal, Cloquet

Of course, we have to say it: The Pine Journal, like the other winners,
features clean and simple design. Front page presentation appears to
consist mostly of three stories, which makes for an easy to digest amount
of information. Again, reader friendly. We appreciate the nice use of
quality photographs in all areas of the newspaper. On the second page of
the Opinion section we noticed the effective display of local happenings
under the City Briefs logo. It just caught our eye as a nice design element
and a good way to anchor that information each week.

Weeklies over 5,000

First Place: Southwest Journal, Minneapolis
Judges were impressed with the strong front page content of each issue
and the ease of reading this publication. Nice mixture of tightly written
stories in “Biz Buzz” packaged with interesting display ads. Very thor-
ough coverage with Civic Beat, Voices and News sections, and the Focus
section is lively and packed with significant content.

Second Place: Northeaster, Minneapolis

The Northeaster also features strong content. Judges particularly liked
the editorial and letters to the editor displayed on page 2. Some of the
inside pages feel a bit cramped, but on the other hand, readers get a lot to
look at. The Northeaster left judges with an overall feeling of a serious
newspaper with multiple, well executed components.

Third Place: Prior Lake American

From a general excellence judging standpoint, it is difficult to compare
several newspapers from the same company that are virtually identical.
In the final analysis, the Prior Lake American was chosen over similar
Southwest News Media publications because judges felt that the overall
content was strongest, especially on the front pages of the issues submit-
ted. The paper is well designed and easy to read, just like the other South-
west News Media publications.

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2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest
Dailies under 10,000
First Place: Owatonna People’s Press
Nice variety of stories on the front pages, with statewide news brought
local when possible and a nice number of community features. You have
a fine mix on your editorial page between letters, local editorials and
national columnists. Very strong Lifestyle section.

Second Place: The Bemidji Pioneer

Great, great front page main photos, including clever text treatments on
the Easter egg hunt and the Splat Witch project. Your DAPL coverage is
quite good. Your local commentary is well done, and I especially enjoyed
the April 16 entry, with an all-local – and well-varied – commentary/
opinion page.

Third Place: Mesabi Daily News, Virginia

Three good entries with a clear focus on covering your community well,
from breaking news to local features. Very active sports photos! Orchids
and Onions page isn’t to my personal taste – anonymity in commenting
is a pox on our discourse! – but clearly your community responds to it
well, and the balance is nice for a small town.

Dailies 10,000 and over

First Place: Post-Bulletin, Rochester
Quite strong design throughout the papers, makes reading them easy.
Newswriting is handled well, with good interviewing and quotes. The
Opinion/commentary pages are spot on, and the number of local voices
that you feature is very commendable. Reliably excellent local photos
and from different angles (think Capitol renovations and the school
newspaper feature package) are a treat. And I very much like the promo/
refer design at the top of the cover.

Second Place: Duluth News Tribune

Methodical and factual newswriting is much appreciated. Ditto the great
photography. Love that you feature a photo essay on your weekend
feature section cover. And you clearly have talented headline writers, as
evidenced by the storm cleanup story. Almost entirely local editorial page
(just one national column) is a treat.

Third Place: West Central Tribune, Willmar

Especially liked the “district divided” cover as a way to inform voters.
Smooth and easy modular design. Nice, large-play photos with appro-
priate text treatment on them. You have an active letters portion to your
opinion page, though a little less reliance on national columnists would
be welcome. Many of the crime stories could be written and edited more
tightly.

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Dave Pyle New Journalist Award

This award will recognize high achievement and dedication to the craft of journalism by a reporter, copy editor, photojour-
nalist, editor or designer who has worked at a professional paper for two years or less. This award is named after longtime
MNA committee member and friend Dave Pyle who worked to establish the award during his time as the AP Bureau Chief
covering Minnesota and as a member of the MNA Journalism Education Committee.

All Weeklies
First Place: Woodbury Bulletin, Youssef Rddad
Youssef shows a real talent for using public records and real people ex-
amples to dig beyond the surface of a local news story. Overall, Youssef
shows he understands how to put a story into a broader context and how to
give it depth. He is a real talent very deserving of first place.

Second Place: Savage Pacer, Jo Herrera
Jo’s work chronicling the questionable spending on travel from a local
school district and its superintendent was the real standout. It showed solid
use of public records and illustrations to show readers exactly what its dis-
trict leaders were up to and why. This is the kind of work that shows why
local reporting is so valuable and impactful, and it is clear Jo has a knack
for it.

Third Place: Detroit Lakes Tribune, Meagan Pittelko

Meagan’s stories on rising child abuse and lack of adequate dentists in
rural areas showed a lot of promise. Her stories are detailed and chock full
of data, showing her ability to look at an issue with a wider perspective.
CE — B1
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T H E NEWS SO URCE

4 PEAS IN A PONTO couple expecting quadruplets

object to IRRRB First Place: Mesabi Daily News, Virginia, Leah Ryan
After heartaches, Hoyt Lakes
LEAH RYAN
reform bill effort Leah’s stories on a transgender veteran, and the need for more foster
STAFF WRITER Metsa, Ecklund opposed to making
homes and child care services were exemplary and show a very strong tal-
board
agency a state department, citizen
now
Four miscarriages and
— at
pregnant with four babies
once. agency,” Ecklund said.
Ponto JERRY BURNES
“She’s trying to make
it
Hoyt Lakes couple, Tony

ent at work. In each, she smartly finds a way to illustrate a local dynamic
are ex- MANAGING EDITOR
more accountable to the
and Allyson Ferris-Ponto, experi-
pecting quadrupl ets after Legislature, but our con-
while fam- Two Iron Range cern is if the whole state
encing a roller coaster atives stand
ily planning, and hope
to nally represent gets some say, are our
four healthy babies home opposed to a House bill taxpayers ’ money going
welcome that would reform the

within the context of a broader problem, using data and outside experts to
this summer. to be spread out or get
native, Iron Range Resources more diluted down?”
Allyson, a Hoyt Lakes and Rehabilitation
married her Wisconsin
man, Metsa cited the cost
Tony’s Board (IRRRB), chang- to local taxpayers if the
Tony, in 2005. Along with ing it to state depart-
daughter, Brooklyn, the
little fam- board was renamed. The
ment rather than an

support the premises of her stories.

g in state would be on the
ily looked forward to expandinnear agency. d
numbers with a baby in
their hook for new letterhea
State Rep. Sandy Lay- and marketing, among
future. man, R-Grand Rapids,
They became pregnant
in 2007. other costs. He started
y, is the main sponsor of to
It was an ectopic pregnanc was not a an online survey ding
egg the effort, but found it gain an understan
meaning the fertilized tough sell to DFL Reps. of what local residents
maturing in
in the uterus but was Jason Metsa of Vir-
the tiny fallopian tube.
This type think of Layman’s pro-
to both ginia and Rob Ecklund posed reform bill.
of situation can be fatal of International Falls.
the mother and the embryo.
The More discussion and
Metsa and Ecklund said public input, he added,

Second Place: Daily Globe, Worthington, Karl Evers-Hillstrom

baby miscarried. a reform bill for the
They became pregnant in 2009 is needed before com-
preg- IRRRB needs to follow pletely overhauling the
— again it was an ectopic issued last year
nancy.
a report board. Reform was a
pregnant in 2010 by the Legislature Audi- ripe topic in 2016 after
They became tor, and transition the

Karl’s stories show great versatility in handling a variety of assignments.

— again it was an ectopic
preg- the Legislative Audi-
agency into an advisory tor ripped the IRRRB’s
nancy. in 2012 board with expenditures current function. Then-
They became pregnant ultimately approved by Senate Majority Leader
ectopic
— and again it was an the governor. ,
pregnancy. Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook
“That’s the major con- proposed an effort that

Karl’s piece on the shock death of a high school principal is notable for its
family
Each and every time, the y MARK SAUER
tention we have. I think would make the IRRRB
was elated with the pregnanc of Hoyt Lakes,are expecting we should still keep it
the result.
and then devastated by coaster Allyson Ferris-Ponto and Tony Ponto endured four ectopic SEE IRRRB, A7
The couple as a board and state
Years passed as the roller quadrupl ets this summer.
specialists.
of emotions continued
. ies before seeing fertility
A12 pregnanc

s lives impacted by disabilities deft touch and detail to explain the pain of a community in dealing with
SEE PONTO,

Adaptive Ski Program change

ANGIE RIEBE
STAFF WRITER
Northland chapter, based
in Duluth, provides
training and equipmen
to the volunteer-driven
t

program, which runs six

loss. His story about food deserts in SW Minnesota, though one of his
shorter clips, was smart and showed an understanding on how to look more
BIWABIK — Grow- Sundays beginning in
ing up with a ski resort January.
practically in her back- It’s open to children
yard fostered a great love and adults ages 6 and
of the sport for Andriana older who have physical

broadly at a local issue.

Senarighi. disabilities and youth
The 22-year-old, of with autism spectrum
Biwabik, was just 3 disorder.
at
when she began skiing Twenty-eight volun-
a
Giants Ridge. teers made this season

“She spent her whole success for the 15 partici-
life skiing,” said her pants who trekked to the
i. from
mother, Sara Senarigh her Ridge each Sundaysaid
But that all changed ed hill, the better, says as far as Canada,
eration was exacerbat love is going
for Andriana at age 18, mom. “Her Mark Hanna, Courage

Third Place: West Central Tribune, Willmar, Jake Schultz

by chemotherapy she down the hill.”
when she developed a underwent to treat a Kenny sports/recreation
mitochondrial disease Andriana’s dream to coordinator.
brain tumor. ski again has come true
that has left her unable Mother and daughter The institute holds a SUBMITTED
to walk or talk. ’s thanks to Giants Ridge’sa weekend-long training with
both thought Andriana is shown at Giants Ridge Ski
“She was a normal kid, Adaptive Ski Program, Jaden Johnson, 12,
passion for the winter session each December Biwabik resort's Adaptive

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of high school — boom,” age Kenny Rehabilita- Program. The Mesabi which assists kids and
practices for people with
past. tion Institute and Allina disabilities and how to thrived with the program, s.
said her mom. However, Andriana is adults who have disabilitie
The disabling ge- back on the slopes.
Health. SEE PROGRAM, A12
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Herman Roe Editorial Writing Award
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violates
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you’ll overlook the
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or he isn’ t. He can ’t don or doff takes onin Fargo’s circles of power given these examples. It’s not hard to stances. look wea k, so Gov . Jack Dalrymple
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Today’s issue: an elected
city Pla nne d Par ent
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of watchdog in the civic conversation that represents the best of what
also the eng inee
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based
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flip-flop by
aid whe n it pro vides can- Second Place: Winona Post, Sarah Elmquist Squires
other med
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sur- health is the slow
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enforcement
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being can die. To
Our position: saying he is not
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Too busy to listen to your boss?
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good health and find age ncies and the state
of North
,000. What
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those programs
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to by com
medical devices, som
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we think
’s
the protesters have
spent in time
content reveal a quick step is reimbursement which are surely sold to VA own mind. What rt hasn’t been totaled
serious lack of hypt, dishonest at
ocritical at men tion
when women are
coveredWriting award that had to do with development: Pieces aimed at encour-
military medical faci
l- we become.
and effo
yet. Nor has the eco
nomic impact
bes ce pro- and 1806. The
by health insuran of closing highway
judgment. worst.
vided to federal emp
aging, guiding different decisions about what to build or tear down. This
loy- itie s.
Obviously, we sho
uld Nic e art icle on
men financial burden on
the Standing
But that’s their dependents). ban all freight companies, impressive young and the Cannonball
what he’s doing. He
and a Bismarck
ees and
Even though thes
e reim-piece, from the Winona Post was the best. Combining deep understand-
ical device manufa
c- By Janel Simonson
Roc k Nat ion
district has been hug
e.
are engaged in nothing med e sense
city commissioner
to elim inat e bursements have
n, peo - ture rs, packaging com
pa- Moorhead
ing with conversational tone made the argument for a reuse study an easy
oved the recent For um Wouldn’t it have mad
s instead of
sell, and a maddeningL
ture to do with abortio panies
lobbying the Legisla es, such nies, and drug com ve to try a little kindnes
city developmen t tax ince ntiv
ful Renaissance
ple want to ban Plan ned
munity from oversight. The author makes a case that this choice
having any of thei r articles on Sam
.
Gro
this show of force?
As
arrived at the camp,
the Native
as the wildly success Parenthoods com pro duc ts paid for, direct- and Chase Morlock Nat ions
Zone program. The
y penned a
ting as much on
lett er
health clinics from of topic is important to residents and drives home why and what should
bein g
lifying ly or
indirectly, with fed- The one thing tha
icaid, article didn’t mention was
t the
wouldn’t it have mad
e sense to
th Dakota?
to lawmakers advoca reimbursed for qua eral funds via Med welcome them to Nor
Fargo City Commis
sion lett erh
undermined his
ead .
serv ices pro vide d to be done. The writing is friendly and crisp yet unceasing in what it is
qua li-
Med icar e, and other fede ral tha t these two are ver
men.
y
Sho w kind ness to help insure
In doing so, Gehrig fied patients. insurance programs. kind, polite young they were as comfort
able as
his own — that ority health
advocating for: It’s the kind of grounded discussion of policy any city or
burse- You can be a great athlete e been
claim of acting on Aware that the maj After all, those reim pos sible. Wouldn’t it hav
nting the ent ire ied out in com - rds, but mental
he was not represe of abortions carr ments “free up” the and win lots of awa kind to greet environ
commission. Last tim
e we look ed,
the U.S. tod ay are med town should be so lucky to have.
ica-
dered panies
to allocate reso urce s
that doesn’t real ly mat ter
protesters who hav
e arri ved
stationery tion abortions, I won , pack- if you don’t conduct your- world with
official city letterhead to the manufacture from throughout the
city ’s full imp rim atur, who mak es the drugs used ship pin g, and pro vi- and trea t oth ers with
to Nor th Dakota, the
carries the s. One I aging, t
self a wel come
s parochial ure e miles of
for these proced of abortions. So wha respect.
not merely Gehrig’
preachments. found in Pfizer, and
Third Place: Sartell-St. Stephen Newsleader, Dennis Dalman
anoth- sion
if it rest ricts companies As a form er school coun-
state that planted mor
lter belt s to stop wind erosion
eutics. she
er is Corcept Therap ng drugs or devices selor to both of these fine
The reality is that
no one
t Gehrig had Both companies mak
Don’t let knife attacks fuel climate of suspicion
e other providi
for treating diabetes
, high
young men, I got
to see than any other?
try a little
would give a fig wha pro vide It is not too late to
to say wer e he not a Far
voice
go city
is amp lifie d
med icat ions whi
med ical
ch
ben This is a brave stance in the face of a nightmare situation. The editorial
efit s bloo d pre ssu
diseases,
re, cancer, or that. Their parents have
or per form - kee pin g kindness. Of course
people are
, and of course
commissioner. His critical
whom other done a great job tired of the conflict
only because he sits
on the governing to people, some of
purchase those med
represents a measured, sensitive response following tragedy that seems
icat ions ing needed surgerie
s?
them humble (most of the tem per s are short and people
largest city. As Makes sense? time — haha) role
mod- . But it is
body of the state’s are acting irrationally
such, he can’t play
fast and loose
n
with the help of Med
hea lth
so often lost in this kind of discourse. One can imagine that this voice is
icare,
insu r- s-e xpe nsi ve wa y els to others and exc
ellent
still inexpensive to
be kind, and
with the fact — the
fact — tha t whe Medicai d, or A les students. Great job,
Cha se
it will generate fast
er solutions.
he lobbies the Legisla
ture about tax ance for federal emp
eve
an important one in the community.
n
loyees
if the to goo d health and Sam ! Kin dne ss is contagious. Gov. Dou
g
ct representing and dependents, By Je�rey Row, MD and Chairman David
policy, he is in effe is not cov - wh en Bur gum
the city of Fargo. Leg
islators who particular dru g Fargo Pro-life, except Archambault, and oth
ers, started
centives letter on behind the wheel?
ng-
ered. f we can’t make cha
I
the Prairie
received his anti-in Far go, icat ions are not sim- , thin gs it when they met at
ead see Med es in hea lth care
By Denis Richardson kind to get
official Fargo letterh ply scooped out
of bulk s dear Knights Casino. It is
n though he that our country hold 1806 open, it is kind
to
not Gehrig alone, eve han ded to peo - we
Fargo high way
did not represent supply and
ted in will destroy
the things
ow the hell can
you
re that people aren’t
suffering
said in his letter he
the city.
The commissioner
has violated a
ple. The y are
bottles or, in the
pre

ion
sen
case of want at the
s, per - sive health care.
cost of exc
H
es-

you
call yourself pro-lif
adv oca te being able to
e if insu
in the weather and
floo din g. It will
threatened by
be kind to treat
going rogue about these medicat Immunology, antibio
tics your ect, even
trust or two. First, blister lly hit people with protesters with resp
n pivotal in haps more likely in ry surgery are lega to defy
an issue that has bee ns kag es. Oth er compa- and necessa lthy food car? tho se who feel compelled
t raises questio pac necessary. Eat hea here? ers.
Fargo’s developmen ing nies mak e those packages. exe rcis e and What am I missing state and tribal lead
, hav y, e for
about his judgment
. Second freight moderatel Kindness is an antidot
eagues on Then there are the of you
sandbagged his coll viol ence and for those
has further biblical. The
the commission, he that care, it is also
ibility; he has pter 6 verse
undermined his cred t him . prophet Micah in cha
to not trus wed you, O
given them a reason 8 said, “He has sho
geme nt and what does
man, what is good;
opinion of Foru m mana
Editorials represent the
and the newspaper’s Edito
rial Board. you, but to do
the Lord require of
ness and
justly, and to love kind
ble yourself
OP INI ON mercy, and to hum
YO UR and walk humbly with
your God.”
 e” kindness
In this context, “lov Page 77 
lier, (Chapter
is an action verb. Ear
n’s march
Cartoon about wome 4 verse 3), Micah utte
rs his
e
ds “And He shall judg
 2016-2017 Better Newspaper Contest

Lynn Smith Community Leadership

This award will recognize local leadership initiatives that were encouraged, initiated or promoted by the newspaper. Leader-
ship actions may have caused something positive to happen or may have prevented something negative from happening.
Lynn Smith inspired a D Day in his community using the power of the press positively by partnering with his community. 
D Day stands for Don’t Smoke Day that led to the Great Smoke Out that is being observed every year around the country and
even Great Britain.

All Newspapers
First Place: Albert Lea Tribune, Staff
Albert Lea community splash pad

Splash Dash
present

Great way to get the community working together on a large project.

Awesome continued coverage.
Family 5k walk/run

Second Place: St. Cloud Times, St. Cloud Times Staff
When: Oct. 15
Spark: Igniting Your Future (a career exploration project)
Where: Start at
Fountain Lake Park
Great way to get families talking about career paths and exploring pos-
lts, $10 for
Cost: $20 for adu
school-age children,
sibilities. Also drawing younger readers to the paper.
$70 for fam ilies
tion,
Info.: 9 a.m. registra
race begins at 10 a.m.
Third Place: Steele County Times, Blooming Prairie, Steele County
Times Staff
efit the Albert Lea
splash pad! Detailed coverage and stories about the effects of drunk driving.
All proceeds to ben e on our
ut registering onlin
Find out more abo
lbert Lea Splash Pad
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Special Awards
The Mills Trophy Al McIntosh Distinguished S
­ ervice to
The Mills Trophy, awarded to the top weekly each year, was established in 1982 in honor
of the late Charles Edward Mills who founded the Montevideo American-News. Four Journalism Award
sons and three grandsons listed on the trophy have all been publishers of Minnesota Background: The name Al McIntosh was long one of the most distinguished in the field
newspapers and three, Russell, L.D. “Tip” and Everett S. Mills were the only brother of editorial writers. In the ’60s, McIntosh wrote the editorial “I’m a Tired American”
combination ever to serve as presidents of the Minnesota Newspaper Association. which was reprinted across the country hundreds of times. He served as president of
Recipients: both MNA and the National Newspaper Association. McIntosh was publisher and editor
1981-1982 Paynesville Press of the Rock County Star Herald in Luverne, MN, from 1940-1968.
The award was established to recognize those who have provided exceptional service
1982-1983 Monticello Times
to journalism. It is not necessarily given every year. Nominees for the award must be
1983-1984 Brownton Bulletin
approved by the MNA Board of Directors.
1984-1985 Monticello Times Past Recipients:
1985-1986 McLeod County Chronicle, Glencoe 1966 Clark Mollenhoff
1986-1987 Monticello Times 1970 Judge Archie Gingold
1987-1988 Monticello Times 1971 Walter Brovald
1988-1989 Monticello Times 1972 Dave Vorland
1989-1990 Monticello Times 1973 John Finnegan
1990-1991 Norwood-Young America Times 1974 Charles W. Bailey, Frank Premack & Peter Vanderpoel
1991-1992 Dakota County Tribune, Burnsville 1975 Ellen Olson
1992-1993 Byron Review 1976 Judge C. Donald Peterson
1993-1994 Kerkhoven Banner 1979 Scott Schoen
1994-1995 Detroit Lakes Tribune 1980 August Erickson
1995-1996 Detroit Lakes Tribune 1981 Grant Utley
1996-1997 Jackson County Pilot 1982 Robert M. Shaw
1997-1998 Jackson County Pilot 1983 Jared How
1998-1999 Chaska Herald 1984 John Cameron Sim
1999-2000 St. Peter Herald 1985 Otto Silha
2000-2001 Observer/Advocate, Mountain Lake 1986 Gene Johnson & Jerry Kline
2001-2002 Echo Press, Alexandria 1987 Lynn Smith
1988 Walter Barnes & Mitchell Charnley
2002-2003 Litchfield Independent Review
1989 Charles Warner
2003-2004 Echo Press, Alexandria
1990 Mark Anfinson
2004-2005 Hutchinson Leader 1991 Peter Popovich
2005-2006 Stillwater Courier 1992 Robert R. Weishair
2006-2007 Stillwater Courier 1993 Justice John E. Simonett
2007-2008 Northfield News 1994 Philip S. Duff, Jr.
2008-2009 Ely Timberjay 1995 John R. Finnegan
2009-2010 Hutchinson Leader 1996 Michael A. Parta
2010-2011 Detroit Lakes Tribune 1997 Arlin Albrecht
2011-2012 Detroit Lakes Tribune 1998 Donald Q. Smith
2012-2013 Detroit Lakes Tribune 1999 Donald Gillmor
2013-2014 Jackson County Pilot 2000 Elmer L. Andersen
2014-2015 Detroit Lakes Tribune 2003 Reed Anfinson
2015-2016 Detroit Lakes Tribune 2004 James M. Kinney
2005 Jim Pumarlo
2006 Gary Gilson
2007 Michael Vadnie
2008 Peter & Lynne Jacobson
2009 Rep. Gene Pelowski
2010 Sandy Neren
The Vance Trophy 2011
2013
Terry McCollough
John R. Finnegan
The Vance Trophy honors the Jim Vance family of Worthington. V.M. Vance was the first 2015 Mary Liz Holberg
family member to get into newspapering when he worked on the Des Moines Register in 2016 Rollin & Julie Bergman
the 1920s. V.M. bought the Worthington Daily Globe (then a weekly) in 1929. His sons, 2017 John Bodette
Bob and Jim, later continued the newspaper tradition.
Recipients: Lynn Smith Community Service Award
1985-1993 St. Cloud Times The winners of this award are selected from the first place winners of the MNA
1994 Tie - Post-Bulletin, Rochester / St. Cloud Times Community Leadership contest category.
1995-1996 Post-Bulletin, Rochester Past Recipients:
1997-1999 St. Cloud Times 2005 Pine Journal, Cloquet and St. Cloud Times
2000-2001 Post-Bulletin, Rochester 2006 Rock County Star Herald, Luverne
2002-2003 St. Cloud Times 2007 Melrose Beacon
2004 The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead 2008 Pine Journal, Cloquet
2005-2008 St. Cloud Times 2009 The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
2009 The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead 2010 Albert Lea Tribune
2010-2013 St. Cloud Times 2011 Mankato Free Press
2014 The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead 2012 Albert Lea Tribune
2015 St. Cloud Times 2013 The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
2016 The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead 2014 The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
2017 St. Cloud Times 2015 Blooming Prairie Times
2016 Grand Forks Herald
2017 St. Cloud Times

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Press Photographer’s
Portfolio
All Weeklies
First Place: Lake County News-Chroni-
cle, Two Harbors, Adelle Whitefoot
Love the photos, very engaging, great mix.

Second Place: Tri-County News, Kimball,

Jean Doran Matua
Great photos.

Third Place: Tracy Headlight-Herald,
Per Peterson
Well done.