Saturday, October 18, 2008
BUSINESS NEWS
Julie Blanchard, Brainerd, successfully completed all requirements through the Center for Aromatherapy Research and Education and the Natural Therapies Certification Board as a board certified Raindrop specialist.
Hola
BAXTER - El Tequila Authentic Mexican Restaurant recently opened in Baxter.
Nisswa DQ: Something different is in the works
The Nisswa Dairy Queen is getting an upgrade, to be completed in time for its seasonal opening in March.
Silverstreak Dairy to pay $11K for alleged violations
Silverstreak Dairy LLC, and the Minnesota PollutionControl Agency have reached an agreement that requires the company to pay $11,700 for alleged feedlot violations at its facility near Buckman, in southern Morrison County.
AGENDAS
1. 9 a.m. Call to order.
Useful waste
The Northland Arboretum wants your grass clippings and leaves.
Brooks sings the blues
Soothing bluesman Brooks Williams is a departure for the folk-tinged Grassroots Concert series. But that might not be a bad thing.
ATV rider injured after hitting deer dies
Robb Reed, the Barrows man injured after his ATV struck a deer Saturday on Town Hall Road in Barrows, died Thursday at St. Cloud Hospital.
POLICE BLOTTER
THEFT - Regina Mbonu reported Thursday $40 stolen from her purse at Liquor Pigs, 718 Laurel St.
SCHOOL MENUS
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FIRES
The Brainerd Fire Department responded to a call at 10:06 a.m. Thursday on Pine Beach Road to find a boat on fire in the woods.
For the lead
The 3-3 Vikings and 3-3 Bears play in the Windy City on Sunday for the NFC North Division lead.
AGENDAS
1. Call to order.
CORRECTIONS
As a result of incorrect information provided the Dispatch, a phone number to order pasties from Anita Wilharm of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Crosby was listed incorrectly in the Church News on Page 6B Friday. To order pasties, call (218) 546-5430.
Cass court
WALKER - Jeffrey Lee Thorsen, 21, Pine River, was sentenced in Cass County District Court for felony kidnapping to commit great bodily harm/terrorize to 92 days already served, ordered to pay $782 fines and fees and was placed on 20 years supervised probation.
POLICE BLOTTER
CRASHES - No people were reported injured, but several vehicles collided with deer in the area resulting in property damage and dead deer.
NISSWA'S 19TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS TOUR OF HOMES
This dining room table set in Dennis and Kay Gerber's home was decorated by Carriage House Gifts and Gallery in Nisswa. The Gerber home is one of four homes in Nisswa's 19th annual Christmas Tour of Homes. Brainerd Dispatch/Jennifer Stockinger
LOCAL BRIEFS
Several Edina real estate agents from the Baxter and Crosslake offices recently attended classes for the Certified Residential Specialists training in Granite Falls.
Christmas comes early
LAKE SHORE - Fast forward to December and imagine yourself listening to Christmas music and sitting on your sofa looking at your Christmas tree, the rest of your home filled with holiday decor.
This was Brainerd
30 years ago (1978) - Local residents took advantage of Fall Family Days at the Paul Bunyan Arboretum Saturday afternoon to tour the Arboretum area in a flat-bed wagon pulled by a tractor.
MUCH OBLIGED
Ski Gull hosted its annual fall fundraiser Sept. 25 at The Lodge at Brainerd Lakes in Baxter. The event was the kick-off to the 2008-2009 season. With your support we raised funds to help maintain core programs and continue facility improvements. Exciting happenings this year include new snowboards, snowboard camp and new tubing lift. Ski Gull, a nonprofit organization, exists because of generous support of our community and a very special group of benevolent supporters.
WHAT'S DOING
The American Legion will have its post meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the Legion.
Kate looking for a mentor who is an animal lover
There's no doubt about it - this week's Child in Need is an animal lover and she probably wouldn't even consider being matched with someone who doesn't have at least a couple of furry friends.
Motley man faces exposure charge in Verndale incident
A 54-year-old Motley man is expected to be charged in Wadena County District Court for exposing himself to a group of junior high students during Verndale's Oct. 10 football game.
COURAGE
Gary Walters ended up about four miles short of his Kinship Challenge to ride a unicycle 25 miles around the track at Adamson Field, but he's very happy with his latest effort to raise money, awareness and mentors for the nonprofit group.
Going mobile
Joan Haff of Pequot Lakes said it wasn't so much that she avoided getting a mammogram as she found it difficult to make the time for one.
Overheard
"I'm tired, cranky, chaffed and super happy."
A poetic view of one man's breast cancer experience
It seems like yesterday, when I was a very young man,
Walker man pleads guilty in death of girlfriend
WALKER - L.C. Wesley Armstrong, 24, Walker, pleaded guilty last week in Cass County District Court before Judge David Harrington to felony second-degree manslaughter in connection with the motor vehicle death of his girlfriend Aug. 1, 2007, at Backus.
Mille Lacs judges uphold tribal chief's removal
MILLE LACS (AP) - A special magistrate and three other judges have ruled in favor of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in its removal of chief executive Melanie Benjamin.
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
A Baxter woman, Grace Look, 85, injured in a two-vehicle collision Monday at Elder Drive and Highway 210 in Baxter, remained in critical condition Saturday at St. Cloud Hospital.
Interactive health program aimed at students
The Brainerd Lakes Health system, which includes St. Joseph's Medical Center and Brainerd Medical Center, and Northern Orthopedics Clinic will be sharing information with ninth-graders about how to protect their bones and joints as part of the national Bone and Joint Decade initiative.
SUSAN G. KOMEN BRIEFS
Eat yogurt and save lives? Yes, that's the message from the Brainerd Lakes Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Yoplait.
This was Brainerd
OCTOBER 17 - 100 years ago (1908) - Chief McGivern will again employ boy policemen for Halloween night. He will select five boys in each ward to help keep order on Halloween night. It worked well last year.
Initiative Foundation announces 15 grant recipients
The Initiative Foundation announced that it awarded 15 community grants totaling $99,500.
Unicycling Walters grinds hard but spins wheel in quest of goal
Gary Walters ended up about four miles short of his Kinship Challenge to ride a unicycle 25 miles around the track at Adamson Field, but he's very happy with his latest effort to raise money, awareness and mentors for the nonprofit group.
Overheard
Turnout was more than I thought or ever imagined.
LOCAL BRIEFS
The regular October meeting of the Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors was moved to 9 a.m. Monday in the USDA Service Center conference room at 7118 Clearwater Road in Baxter.
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
ST. PAUL (AP) - The Department of Public Safety says Minnesota's overall seat-belt use compliance is 87 percent. That's in line with the record-high 88 percent rate set in 2007.
Louis C. Gish
ONAMIA - Louis C. Gish, 96-year-old resident of Onamia, Minn., passed away Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008, at the Mille Lacs Hospital in Onamia.
Robb Reed
BARROWS - Robb Reed, age 43, of Barrows, died Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, at St. Cloud Hospital.
Robb Reed
Robb Reed, 43, Brainerd, died Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, at St. Cloud Hospital as a result of injuries sustained from an ATV accident. Funeral services will be Monday at noon at St. Andrew's Church in Brainerd with Father Tony Wroblewski officiating. Burial will be in Wildwood Cemetery in Pillager. The relatives will receive friends from 3-6 p.m. on Sunday at the Brenny Funeral Chapel in Baxter and one hour prior to services at the church. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Brenny Funeral Chapel in Baxter.
Tony Mitchell
ONAMIA - Tony Mitchell, 21-year-old resident of Onamia, Minn., passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. A funeral ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008, at the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Community Center on the Mille Lacs Reservation.
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Regina T. Warzecha
ROYALTON - Regina T. Warzecha, age 91, of Royalton, Minn., passed away, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008, at the County Manor Nursing Home in Sartell, Minn.
Clarie E. Pearson
MORA - Clarie E. Pearson, 88, of Mora, formerly of Minneapolis, passed away Oct. 16, 2008.
Open Forum: Moral rules differ regarding abortion
This is a very difficult letter to write because it can affect people in so many different ways; all, which I will not be able to list in the brief space allowed by this format, and with the limits of my knowledge. The subject is abortion.
Good news/bad news for Obama
WASHINGTON -The good news for Barack Obama is that the calamities in the financial world may have created an insuperable barrier to John McCain's White House ambitions.
Think pink and think health
In case it escaped your attention, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Thats why were being asked to Think Pink this month.
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VOX POP
To the person who hit the yellow Lab on River Lane in Pillager Thursday, it would have been appreciated had you taken a moment to check his dog tag and notify me that you accidentally hit him instead of leaving him to die on the road. Do you realize he struggled to get home in order to let me know he was injured?
Open Forum
As an attendee of John McCain's town hall meeting in Lakeville I was extremely disappointed that I didn't get called on to speak so I see this paper as the only source to get out publically what I would have said.
'Reign-bows'
CROSBY - The fight lasted only seconds. By the time the fluorescent orange nugget of Berkley PowerBait bobbed to the surface, the trout was long gone.
Ripley's allure: Believe it
Camp Ripley is a state-owned military training center located just south of Baxter/Brainerd. The camp is open each year for some "special" hunts, including a pair of two-day archery hunts for hunters that are successfully drawn from a lottery.
OUTDOORS BRIEFS
Deep Portage Learning Center near Hackensack is offering a program in which to sight-in your rifle and another to weave snowshoes.
PATRICK AND FANESSA SCHNEIDER
Fanessa Rae Powell and Patrick Edward Schneider were married Jan. 26, 2008, at Evangelical Covenant Church in Bemidji.
Patrick and Mary (Hines) Bock
Patrick and Mary (Hines) Bock, Brainerd, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house from 2-5 p.m. Nov. 1 at Oak Lawn Town Hall, 12404 State Highway 18, Brainerd.
Mr. and Mrs. Brandon Matich
Cassandra Sanford and Brandon Matich were married Feb. 18, 2008, at Little White Chapel in Las Vegas.
James and Marjorie (Kletschka) Peterson
James and Marjorie (Kletschka) Peterson will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with their family in St. Cloud on Oct. 18.
Mitch and Julie Smith
Mitch and Julie Smith, Nisswa, recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a two-week trip to Alaska.
Al Moby
Al Moby will celebrate his 80th birthday with an open house from 2-4 p.m. Oct. 25 at his home, 404 Fairfield Lane, Brainerd.
Explaining the liberal Christian tradition
The liberal Christian tradition.
Brainerd lakes area churches
Brainerd
CHURCH NEWS
In honor of parents, grandparents and other people who have helped bring others to a relationship with Christ, everyone attending worship at Trinity Lutheran Church in Brainerd on Sunday is invited to wear a hat to either the 8:15 or 10:30 a.m. service. Pastor Blair Anderson will be the guest preacher at both services.
Scoreboard
Area events
Brainerd caps another strong season at 15-3
ST. CLOUD - When the game ended, members of the Brainerd girls' soccer team formed a line, put their arms around each other and collectively bowed to Warriors fans.
Flyer freshman making waves, breaking records
One of Whitney Weisz's supporters is her top competition.
AREA SPORTS SHORTS
The Golden Lakes Boxing Club will start its season at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at its new gym at 217 S. 7th. St., Suite 106, in downtown Brainerd.
Bison blitz BHS in second half
ST. CLOUD - With the constant pressure the Buffalo Bison were applying, it seemed only a matter of time before they broke through.
Pats' Redmond grows into quarterback role
Jeff Redmond worked hard at becoming a better quarterback and a better leader.
Gil Millette steps into the spotlight
Gil Millette will be remembered for scoring the biggest goal in Brainerd Warrior boys' soccer history. In 11 previous years of varsity soccer the Warriors had never won a section quarterfinal game.
BYAA hoops registration, clinic Tuesday
Registration and a clinic for fourth and fifth grade boys and girls interested in playing Brainerd Youth Athletics Association basketball is scheduled Tuesday in the Forestview Middle School gym in Baxter.
State forecast for South Dakota
Today...Sunny to partly cloudy. Breezy east. Highs from 60 to 65 east...With 70s to around 80 central and west.
State forecast for N.D.
Today...Mostly sunny west. Becoming partly sunny east.
Fall night
Weather drawing by Emma Anderson of Mrs. Olsons fifth-grade class at St. Francis Catholic School.
State forecast for S.D.
Today...Mostly sunny west. Decreasing clouds east. A chance of early morning showers far east. Highs from the lower 50s far east to near 70 southwest.
State forecast for Iowa
.Rest of today...Partly to mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s
State forecast for Minnesota
Today...Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain showers south. Highs in
State forecast for North Dakota
.Today...Partly to mostly sunny. Highs from the mid 60s northeast to
Wisconsin state forecast
Today...Cloudy south. Light rain showers likely southwest. A chance of light rain showers or sprinkles rest of south half. Mostly cloudy north. Highs 50 to 55.
Wisconsin state forecast
Rest of today...Becoming partly sunny northeast. Partly sunny elsewhere. Highs from the mid 50s north...To the upper 50s south.
State forecast for Minnesota
...Dense fog advisory in effect for parts south and east this morning...
The Nation's Weather
A slow moving system was to move down the East Coast on Saturday, bringing scattered showers to the Gulf Coast, Florida and across the Carolinas.
Raked into a pile
Weather drawing by Elizabeth May Harting of Ms. Hemstad's third-grade class at Baxter school.
State forecast for Iowa
Today...Cloudy. Scattered showers with isolated thunderstorms south