Thursday, October 23, 2008
Hydrogen car is smooth but has hindrances
WASHINGTON - For years, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have been the far-off technological bets of the auto industry - the car that holds the promise of gasoline-free driving.
How to downsize your car and still carry your gear
NEW YORK - So you did the honorable thing.
FINE ARTS STUDENT OF THE WEEK
Sara Gardner
Arts and entertainment events
Live music
The Georgia bluesman comes to Nisswa
It takes a certain personality to be a singer-songwriter. Usually they wear their emotions on their sleeves, pour those emotions out in songs and have a tougher time with life than the average person. The Grassroots Concert series usually books this type of performer, and it often results in heartfelt shows.
AREA SHORTS
The Brainerd High School Choirs, under the direction of Brian Stubbs, will perform their Fall Concert at 7 p.m. Friday at Tornstrom Auditorium, Washington Educational Services Building, in Brainerd.
Completely random slice of pop culture
This is going to sound kind of random, but "Fringe" (8 p.m. Tuesdays, Fox) is developing into a cool series.
Best bets
Michigan folk singer Claudia Schmidt (above) will display her vocal, guitar and dulcimer prowess at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Pequot Lakes High School auditorium. Tickets are $8-$12.
Lo mein dish: Chow mein - with a twist
If you appreciate easy meals yet like to try recipes that are a bit unusual, you will want to try Wok Steak Lo Mein.
POLICE BLOTTER
Crow Wing sheriff
BIRTHS
John and Lisa (Schneider) Stangl, Little Falls, a boy, Rylan Ivan, 8 pounds, 12 ounces, Oct. 9, 2008. Grandparents are Tom and Charlotte Schneider, Little Falls, and Martin Stangl, Pierz, and the late Marlys Stangl. Great-grandparents are Herb and Loretta Schneider, Sobieski, Alice Lemke, Ironton, Bernadine Hayes, Pierz, and the late Carl Stangl.
POLICE BLOTTER
THEFT - Bradley Dejager, 11000 block of Burgwald Road, Tuesday reported someone stole $1,000 worth of change from his garage.
CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY
Go to Any Length
SUPPORT GROUPS
Lakes Area Ecumenical Bereavement
A successful day
Central Lakes College - Brainerd and Staples - hosted its first Student Success Day Oct. 8, giving the 1,500 students who attended the opportunity to attend sessions regarding personal, academic and career success.
PETS OF THE WEEK
Blaze is a 1-year-old male Lab mix. He loves to play fetch, is quiet, smart and keeps a clean kennel. Brainerd Dispatch/Heidi Lake
ORGANIZATIONS
Brainerd Jaycees
Seeing - and understanding
An uneasy curiosity was tagging along as I approached the familiar woods I had hunted for years. The soggy field road leading in was chewed up and deeply rutted, littered with small branches and wood chips. What was going on?
LOCAL BRIEFS
Ski Gull's open house and equipment sale is scheduled for 1-3 p.m. Nov. 1.
Itasca colors
ure that shows the beauty of the lakes area? Send it to photos@ brainerd dispatch.com for possible publication in the Neighbors section. Be sure to include your name, where you are from, a brief description of the photo and when and where it was taken.
2 BHS students credit Alworth Memorial Fund
The Marshall H. and Nellie Alworth Memorial Fund celebrates its 60th year of awarding scholarships to students with promising talent in the fields of math or science.
Arb opens compost facility
Need to get rid of your grass clippings and leaves this fall?
CLC at the Arb
Central Lakes College students in the Deck, Patio, and Pond Construction class of the Horticulture program worked on the landscape at Northland Arboretum recently.
Leaving the world behind
The Cuyuna Lakes State Trail affords bicyclists, joggers and the like in the Brainerd lakes area the opportunity to get away from it all - without actually getting too far away.
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Kaylee Mahowald, 5, great-niece of Pamela Richards, Baxter, enjoyed a nap this spring after meeting her baby brother at the hospital. Zak, the cat, kept her company.
Ward 3 hopefuls list their priorities
Two of three candidates for Brainerd's Ward 3 have listed top priorities if they were elected to office.
Overheard
"The airline industry in general and Northwest in particular are well positioned to prosper despite the current economic uncertainties."
CORRECTION
In local briefs on Page 5A Wednesday, the contact information for the YMCA teen scene dance was inadvertently listed under the First Friday Drum Circle brief. For more information about the YMCA teen dance, call 829-4767. For more information about the First Friday Drum Circle, call 851-5900.
Mother Nature is an artist
A frost-rimmed leaf glowed as the sun rose behind it. The beams of light quickly warmed the leaf and melted the morning ice Tuesday at the Northland Arboretum in Brainerd. Brainerd Dispatch/Kelly Humphrey
Caugheys receive ag honor
FORT RIPLEY - Rosanne Caughey didn't bat an eye when a handful of people showed up at her front door Tuesday afternoon.
This was Brainerd
OCTOBER 22 - 40 years ago (1968) - There will be a Halloween party for all youngsters between 5 and 12 years of age at the YMCA. There will be prizes for best costumes and a ghost walk, etc.
Area unemployment numbers mostly unchanged
Area county jobless rates for September were largely unchanged from the unemployment percentages reported a month ago.
Lake Shore gets no break on land
BACKUS - The city of Lake Shore will not receive any special reduction for being a city if it purchased county tax-forfeited land.
Committee outlines priorities for district
The top three priorities for the Brainerd School District this coming year may be its finances, the curriculum and communication with the public.
Deerwood man dies in two-vehicle crash
A 53-year-old Deerwood man died Tuesday morning after the van he was driving collided with a semi-truck near Highway 210 and Crow Wing County Road 25 about one-half mile east of the airport, according to the State Patrol.
Coleman rallies backers in Baxter stop
BAXTER - Sen. Norm Coleman on Wednesday urged supporters at the Black Bear Lodge and Saloon to keep working hard in the waning days of his too-close-to-call re-election campaign.
Arrests made in armed robbery
Wadena County Sheriff Mike Carr reported Tuesday that three suspects are in custody and a fourth is being sought in connection with an armed robbery and burglary that occurred during the early morning hours of Oct. 9 at a rural residence in North Germany Township southeast of Sebeka.
Overheard
"These are historic decisions being made. It is as important a set of economic decisions I think this country will be making since the Depression."
CORRECTION
On Page 2V of the Voter's Guide in Tuesday's Dispatch, the questions and answers for Brainerd City Council Ward 1 candidate Lucy Nesheim were inadvertently transposed.
Cass continues participation in health alliance
BACKUS - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to continue participation in South Country Health Alliance, a joint county alternative medical assistance program to the state program.
LOCAL BRIEFS
The Crow Wing County Republicans for McCain-Palin will conduct a rally at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Central Lakes College in room E208.
Nesheim, Shaw show differing views in Ward 1
Brainerd City Council Ward 1 candidates Lucy Nesheim and Ed Shaw wasted little time during Tuesday's League of Women Voters' debate before they offered opposing viewpoints on the state of the city.
Johnson to receive
Hiram Award
The Aurora Lodge No. 100 A.F. and A.M. will present the Hiram Award to the 2008 recipient Steve Johnson on Saturday. Punch and coffee will be served at 12:30 p.m. with a program at 1 p.m. and lunch to follow. The event is open to the public.
LOCAL BRIEFS
LITTLE FALLS - The Central Lakes Conference All-Conference Jazz Band and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Jazz Band will perform at 7 p.m. Monday in the Martin Auditorium at Little Falls High School.
Frost on the flower
Autumn frost coated the petals still blooming Tuesday morning in the Northland Arboretum. Cold crisp mornings now quickly transition to warm fall days. Brainerd Dispatch/Kelly Humphrey
Arby's plans approved
LITTLE FALLS - An Arby's restaurant is coming to Little Falls.
Road vacation sought
BACKUS - Cass County Board referred to a special committee consideration of a petition from some residents to vacate old County State Aid Highway 50, former Upper Ten Mile Lake Road. It now is named Ten Mile Lane.
Judge to decide annexation battle between Pine River and Wilson Township
It's up to a judge now to decide the fate of Wilson Township in the annexation proceedings with the city of Pine River.
Hackensack firm wins water line contract
BACKUS - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to award a contract to Young Excavating of Hackensack, the lowest of 23 bidders, to install new water lines from Walker to Ah-Gwah-Ching and service lines on the Ah-Gwah-Ching property.
Comfortable 'Crazies'
AITKIN - At first, Connie Pettersen thought she was crazy for accepting a role in Aitkin Community Theater's "Borderline Crazies." Four months after she started memorizing her lines, her dog still thinks she's crazy.
Hearing held on expansion by Wausau
Brainerd will consider asking Wausau Paper to donate a portion of paper from its new sheeter machine to the Brainerd School District.
Unorganized Territory tract annexed into city
BAXTER - The Baxter City Council Tuesday passed a resolution to annex five acres of Unorganized Territory into the city.
At-large hopefuls sound off on city
Candidates for the two Brainerd City Council at-large seats up for election Nov. 4 attempted to distinguish themselves Tuesday during the League of Women Voters' debate at Brainerd High School.
Special meeting set
BACKUS - Cass County Board will host a special meeting with Leech Lake Tribal Council at 9 a.m. Nov. 25 at the tribal council meeting chambers in Cass Lake.
Department heads to retire next spring
BACKUS - Two longtime Cass County department heads will retire by next spring, as will a longtime contract service provider.
County board candidates look at budget issues
Budget issues and future challenges were topics debated Tuesday by candidates for the Crow Wing County District 1 seat at a forum in Brainerd.
This was Brainerd
OCTOBER 23 - 40 years ago (1968) - A 16-yard pass, thrown by quarterback Chuck Miller to Dave Carlson who made a diving catch in the end zone, proved to be the winning touchdown as the Brainerd Warriors surprised Bemidji 26-20.
Katherine L. Larson
BAUDETTE - Katherine "Midge" Lucille Larson, age 92, of Baudette, formerly of Brainerd, died Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, at the Lakewood Medical Center in Baudette. Midge was born on June 12, 1916, in Brainerd to Omar and Katherine (Denis) Burton.
John Nordstrom Sr.
DULUTH - John Thomas Nordstrom Sr., 63, died suddenly Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, in Duluth. He was born to Eric and Burnett Nordstrom in 1945. John was adopted by Julius and Vera Morey at age 11 and grew up in Preston, Minn.
Obituary policy
Obituary notices are charged at 40 cents a word, exclusive of the first 125 words, which are free. A $10 fee is charged for a half-column photograph. To place an obituary in the Dispatch, consult the funeral home handling arrangements.
Alton H. Sterling
AITKIN - Alton H. Sterling, age 82, of Aitkin, formerly of Prior Lake, Minn., died Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008, at the Riverwood Healthcare Center in Aitkin.
Gary L. Buckley
HINCKLEY - Gary Lee Buckley, age 63, of Hinckley and formerly of Forest Lake, passed away on Oct. 21, 2008.
Harriett E. Swartout
Harriett E. Swartout, 91, went to her heavenly home on Oct. 18, 2008. She was a longtime resident of Brainerd and resident of Diamond Willow in Baxter. She was born in Houghton, S.D., to Philip and Nellie Anthony.
George W. DeRosier
George W. DeRosier, age 88, resident of Brainerd, died Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008, at the Lutheran Care Center in Little Falls.
Father John P. Miller
SARTELL - Father John P. Miller, age 76, of Sartell, Minn., died Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008, in Little Falls, Minn. Services will be Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, at 11:30 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Little Falls. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Sunday and from 9 a.m. until the hour of service Monday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Little Falls.
Grace M. Look
Grace Marie Look, age 85, resident of Baxter, died Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008, at St. Cloud Hospital. She was born Aug. 15, 1923, in Foley, Minn., to Otto and Cora (Sherbing) Balder. Grace was a member of St. Andrew's Catholic Church and a RSVP volunteer. Her nickname was instant Grace.
Arthur Schuster
PINE RIVER - Arthur Schuster, age 88, of Pine River, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008. Services will be 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25, at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Pine River. Visitation will be Friday from 6-8 p.m. at Kline Funeral Home, Pine River, and one hour prior to the service at the church.
George R. Shanks
George R. Shanks, age 86, resident of Brainerd, died Friday, Oct. 17, 2008, at the Monticello hospital in Monticello.
Obituary policy
Obituary notices are charged at 40 cents a word, exclusive of the first 125 words, which are free. A $10 fee is charged for a half-column photograph. To place an obituary in the Dispatch, consult the funeral home handling arrangements.
Evelyn Callahan
Evelyn (Dufault) Callahan, 79, of Brainerd, Minn., formerly of Arizona and Minneapolis, passed away Oct. 19, 2008.
Deb (Smuda) Williams
HARDING - Deb (Smuda) Williams, age 40, of Harding, Minn., passed away Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008, at her home following a long battle with lung cancer.
Open Forum
My son's history class at Forestview has 36 students in it. It is also my understanding that there are quite a few classes throughout all grades in the district that also have 30 plus students. Can somebody explain to me why we have now decided to open up our district to open enrollment?
Open Forum
I looked up the Minnesota state government Web site the other day and found some interesting statistics. Beside our federal senators and representatives, we have 67 state senators and 134 state representatives.
Deadline for letters
The deadline for political letters to the editor before the Nov. 4 election is 5 p.m. Oct. 28. The Dispatch must receive a letter by 5 p.m. Oct. 28 in order for it to be considered for publication. The Dispatch won't publish any pre-election political letters after Oct. 30.
Deadline for letters
The deadline for political letters to the editor before the Nov. 4 election is 5 p.m. Oct. 28. The Dispatch must receive a letter by 5 p.m. Oct. 28 in order for it to be considered for publication. The Dispatch won't publish any pre-election political letters after Oct. 30.
VOX POP
It's time to set aside petty bickering about the economy, war and boyhood terrorist friends and direct our focus to an issue that threatens the fabric of this nation.
Warriors score refreshing win
Virtually everything about the Brainerd Warriors' 55-7 victory over the Elk River Elks in the opening round of the Section 8-5A playoffs Tuesday night was special.
Guentzel, Agates run past Rangers
Two Harbors gained 502 yards on the ground and held C-I's passing game to 105 yards.
Cardinals advance to semifinals
MINNEAPOLIS - The Staples-Motley Cardinals won three singles and two doubles matches in a 5-2 victory over Roseau in the quarterfinals of the Class 1A state team tournament Wednesday at the Reed Sweatt Family Tennis Center.
Diver wastes no time achieving her lofty goals
Samantha Smith has already smashed one Brainerd High School diving record - twice.
Flyers succumb to the Storm
SAUK RAPIDS - For the second straight week the Sauk Rapids Storm defeated the Little Falls Flyers.
LOCAL SPORTS SHORTS
Brainerd senior attacker Kelly Rosenthal has repeated as a first-team selection on the Minnesota State High School Soccer Coaches Association Class 2A all-state girls' team.
Osakis derails Pillager
OSAKIS - Sean Nokken scored the fifth-ranked Pillager Huskies' only touchdown in a 32-6 loss to the Osakis Silverstreaks in the Section 6-1A quarterfinals Tuesday.
Aitkin moves up to the quarterfinals
AITKIN - Brittany Bordwell had 10 kills and 20 digs to help the third-seeded Aitkin Gobblers defeat the No. 6 Crosby-Ironton Rangers 3-0 in a Subsection 1, Section 7-2A play-in game Wednesday.
Pequot survives into semis
PEQUOT LAKES - The fourth-seeded Pequot Lakes Patriots proved the old adage that defense wins playoff games.
Brainerd's season ends with loss to Bemidji
BEMIDJI - Nikker Graumann had 15 set assists and Carlie Kramer 10 digs as the sixth-seeded Brainerd Warriors lost to the No. 3 Bemidji Lumberjacks 3-0 in a North Subsection 8-3A play-in game Wednesday.
Bulldogs knock off W-DC
HENNING - Aaron Kern caught a 70-yard touchdown pass from Kevin Tumberg in the fourth quarter of the seventh-seeded Wadena-Deer Creek Wolverines 40-6 loss to second-seeded Ottertail Central Tuesday in the quarterfinal of the Section 6-2A playoffs.
Flyers suffer 42-21 setback
SAUK RAPIDS - Alex Scott passed for 229 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for 90 yards as the Sauk Rapids Storm defeated the Little Falls Flyers for the second straight week.
Cardinals poised to make noise
As a team the Staples-Motley Cardinals will open the Class 1A state girls' tennis tournament against Roseau.
Pioneers silence Thunder
PIERZ - John Omann and Cody Stangl combined for four touchdowns to guide the top-seeded Pierz Pioneers past the eighth-seeded Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Thunder in the Section 6-2A quarterfinals Tuesday.
Aitkin defeats C-I
AITKIN - Emily Mehr had 17 kills as the Aitkin Gobblers ended the regular season Monday with a 3-1 victory over the Crosby-Ironton Rangers.
Cards tumble to Foley
FOLEY - Alex Jansson scored the only touchdown for the sixth-seeded Staples-Motley Cardinals as they were eliminated from the Section 6-3A playoffs by third-seeded Foley Tuesday.
LOCAL SPORTS SHORTS
The Brainerd Warriors are seeded sixth in the North Subsection 8-3A volleyball tournament and will play at No. 3 Bemidji at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the opening round.
SCOREBOARD
Area events
PR-B blanked
HAWLEY - Class 2A's top-ranked Hawley Nuggets outgained the seventh-seeded Pine River-Backus Tigers 619-53 to advance to the Section 8-2A semifinals with Tuesday's 65-0 victory over the Tigers.
Top-seeded Proctor eliminates Aitkin
PROCTOR - Dan Catlin scored on a 70-yard run and caught a 7-yard pass from Nick Harmon in the eighth-seeded Aitkin Gobblers 53-15 loss to top-seeded Proctor Tuesday in the Section 7-3A quarterfinals.
State forecast for S.D.
Today...Rain east. Windy with rain slowly decreasing west...Except decreasing clouds far west. Highs in the 40s except near 50 far west.
State forecast for Minnesota
Today...Mostly cloudy. Rain likely far south. Highs in the mid to
All pumpkin wants for Halloween is a few front teeth
Weather drawilng by Tallie Chrisinger in the Lowell second grade of Mrs. Larson.
State forecast for S.D.
Today...Mostly sunny far west. Rain southeast. Areas of rain central and northeast except dry far north. A little morning snow possible south central. Highs in the 40s east and central and in the 50s far west.
Wisconsin state forecast
Today...Mostly cloudy far west with a slight chance of showers. Partly cloudy east. Highs in the lower 50s.
Wisconsin state forecast
Today...Increasing clouds. Chance for rain southwest. Highs in the 50s.
State forecast for Minnesota
Today...Cloudy. Rain likely west. Chance of rain east. Highs in
State forecast for N.D.
Today...Mostly sunny north and southwest...Cloudy southeast with
State forecast for Iowa
.Today...Cloudy. Widespread showers and isolated
Pumkpin might be scared
Weather drawing by Jenna Meyer in the Lowell second grade of Mrs. Larson.
State forecast for Iowa
Today...Cloudy. Scattered to widespread showers. Highs 42 to 52.
State forecast for N.D.
Today...Sunny west...Clearing central...Cloudy with scattered