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Fugitive arrested in Florida
Christine Bjornstad’s sixth grade science
class at Franklin Middle School was among
the top winners of the City of Thief River
Falls’ PowerSavers Energy Savings Kit
Contest. The class saved an estimated
11,833 kilowatt-hours or $1,420 a year. The
students include (front row) Karrissa
Adelman, Brandon Bruggeman, Jason
Nelson, Daltyn Quam, Keric Carpenter;
(middle row) Zach Myhrer, Stacia DeBoer,
Megan Gagner, Jestina LeClaire, Raegan
Espe, Cathrine Syverson, Kaleb Flaagan,
Zach Koestner; (back row) Grace Brickson,
Meadow Mills, Luke Perkovich, Christopher
Powell, Ty Johnson, Ellie Reishus, Nathan
Hinrichs and Sebastian Mott. Not pictured
are Marryn Dalager, Elise Kalsnes and Alivia
May.
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the doctor talking with Gant
and two of his friends. His
friends were also trying to
convince him to go into a
room.
For about 15 minutes, law
enforcement tried to persuade
Gant to go into a
room. They told him that he
would be physically forced
into the room if he didn’t
cooperate. During that time,
Gant requested to go into
another room several times
and asked to have a Bible.
They responded that he
begins his stay in one room
and then moves into another.
He was provided with a
Bible. They said he had no
choice but to go into the
room. Otherwise, they would
have to physically move him
into the room.
The doctor and nurses
soon told Gant to hand over
his clothing and belongings.
He appeared to be confused
and not listening to them.
Gant continued to say that
he wanted to go into another
room, which was occupied by
another patient.
Another 15 minutes went
by, and Bassett and Mattson
attempted to get him to
cooperate. They said they
would have to remove Gant’s
clothes if he didn’t cooperate.
Gant twice appeared to
cooperate and then began
asking questions that didn’t
pertain to what was happening.
At one point, he turned
over his phone and another
electronic device. However,
he continued to say that he
didn’t want to go into the
room. He also began asking
questions that didn’t make
sense.
Officers told him that
they weren’t going to negotiate
with him and they would
have to remove his clothes if
he didn’t cooperate.
Gant allegedly soon
began swinging at officers
and hospital staff while running
toward the door.
Mattson ran after Gant, who
then ran into Puetz at a
doorway. Puetz held onto
Gant’s sweatshirt collar as
he continued to try moving
forward into a hallway. Gant
began swinging his fists and
pushed Puetz backwards.
He then allegedly punched
Puetz about 20 times. Puetz
fell backwards onto the floor,
and Gant ran over the top of
him to continue down the
hallway.
Mattson ran after Gant
and physically forced him
facedown onto a bed. Other
officers and hospital staff
soon arrived and helped subdue
him.
Puetz remained on the
floor and appeared to be in
extreme pain. A backboard
was used to transport him to
the hospital’s ER. He was
later transported to a Fargo,
N.D., hospital, where he
underwent surgery for a dislocated
hip and a fracture.
UMC listed among “Best
Online Bachelor’s Programs”
Laura Brickson’s fourth grade class at St.
Bernard’s Catholic School was among the
top winners of the City of Thief River Falls’
PowerSavers Energy Savings Kit Contest.
The class saved an estimated 2,857 kilowatt-hours
or $343 a year. The students
include (front row) Bren, Lia, Abby,
Students learn to save energy
Ashleigh, Gabby; (back row) Alex, Brevyn,
Mrs. Brickson, Caleb, Camden and Jonah J.
Kaylin, Jonah K. and Anna aren’t pictured.
They are dressed as their future selves for
the school’s observance of National
Catholic Schools Week.
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trip,” said Susan Mosbeck,
customer service representative
for Thief River Falls
Municipal Utilities.
Bjornstad hasn’t yet chosen
where her students will
go on a field trip. Brickson’s
class plans to go on a field
trip with the St. Bernard’s
fifth graders to Mt. St.
Benedict Monastery in
Crookston.
As part of the program,
Mosbeck presented an energy
program to 170 FMS students
and also to Brickson’s
class. She gave each student
an energy savings kit, provided
by Minnkota and the
City of Thief River Falls
through its Conservation
Improvement Program.
Inside the kit were:
• An energy-savings
booklet;
• Two compact fluorescent
light bulbs;
• A low flow shower
head;
• A bag to test the
amount of water coming out
of the shower per minute
before and after the installation
of the low flow shower
head;
• A whistle that attaches
to a furnace filter to notify
occupants when the filter
needs to be changed;
• A thermometer to
check the temperature of the
refrigerator and the freezer
to see if they needed to be
turned down;
• Aerators for leaky
faucets in the kitchen and
bathroom;
• Plumber’s tape;
• A temperature guide
for the water heater; and
• A shower timer. The
timer attaches to the shower
wall and goes off after someone
has been in the shower
for five minutes. “I think
some of the kids were going
to use it as a competition in
their families to see if they
could get in and out of the
shower in five minutes,”
Mosbeck said.
Students in Brickson’s
class said they were able to
get out of the shower in five
minutes. One student, Alex,
claimed he was able to shower
in two-and-a-half minutes.
One of his classmates,
Abby, noted the importance
of the shower timer. “You
shouldn’t be taking an hour
or a half-hour shower,” she
said.
If the students installed
all of the items in the kit,
their families were expected
to save about 1,700 kilowatthours
or $200 over the
course of a year.
“My mom noticed our
water bill went down a little
bit,” said sixth grader
Megan Gagner. She noted
she used the aerators and
the shower timer. Her family
plans to install the low flow
shower head on a new shower
in the future.
Once they installed some
or all of the items, the students
returned their work
sheets to their teachers.
Then they received an LED
night-light.
This spring, Mosbeck
plans to present the program
and kits to Challenger
Elementary School fifth
graders.
MDA to hold listening sessions
on new ag water quality certification
The
Minnesota
Department of Agriculture
will hold listening sessions
at six locations throughout
the state in February to
gather input on the
Minnesota Agricultural
Water Quality Certification
Program. The new program
has been in development
over the past year and is
designed to accelerate voluntary
adoption of on-farm
agricultural practices that
enhance water quality.
Minnesota Agriculture
Commissioner Dave
Frederickson says farmers
and rural landowners are
encouraged to attend these
sessions to provide feedback
on the program prior to its
implementation.
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“We want to ensure this
program delivers what it
should for farmers and for
the environment,” said
Frederickson. “We want to
hear from farmers and others
about the proposed program
while we’re in the
planning stage.”
Under the program, farmers
would voluntarily implement
and maintain
approved conservation plans
and receive assurance that
their operations meet water
quality goals and standards.
In return, they would not be
required to implement additional
water quality practices
for the duration of their
certification.
The listening session
dates, times, and locations
are as follows:
• Worthington: Monday,
Feb. 4, 6 to 8 p.m.,
Minnesota West Community
College Commons
• Stewartville: Tuesday,
Feb. 12, 6 to 8 p.m.,
Stewartville Community
Center
• Roseville: Tuesday,
Feb. 19, 4 to 6 p.m., Ramsey
County Library - Roseville
Community Room
• Crookston: Thursday,
Feb. 21, 6 to 8 p.m.,
University of Minnesota,
Crookston Ballroom
• Mankato: Tuesday,
Feb. 26, 6 to 8 p.m., South
Central College, Conference
Room A
• St. Cloud: Thursday,
Feb. 28, 1 to 3 p.m., MNDOT
Training Center
The
Minnesota
Agricultural Water Quality
Certification Program is the
result of a state-federal partnership
that includes the
Minnesota Department of
Agriculture, the Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency,
the Minnesota Board of
Water and Soil Resources,
the Minnesota Department
of Natural Resources, the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Natural
Resource Conservation
Service, and the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency.
U.S. News and World
Report has ranked the
University of Minnesota,
Crookston among the
nation’s “Best Online
Bachelor’s Programs” for
2013.
The U of M, Crookston
was ranked in the top quartile
at #60 out of the 247
higher education respondents
in this year’s survey.
Rankings were based on factors
such as graduation
rates and academic and
career support services
offered to students among
others. The campus ranked
especially high in the subcategory
Student Services
and Technology coming in at
number 18.
U.S. News & World
Report published these
rankings for the first time in
2012 in response to today’s
high demand for education
provided in a flexible manner.
“Our faculty and staff are
leaders in the field of online
education and have been
working for more than a
decade to provide access to
our high quality degree programs
in a manner that is
consistent with our public
Understanding
the nicotine cycle
of addiction
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smokers actively tried to
quit in the past year. While
some can manage to quit
without assistance, most
need help.
“Cold turkey is only affective
3 to 5 percent of the
time,” Sheldon said.
The Center for Disease
Control and Prevention
notes that the use of effective
cessation treatments
can double or triple rates of
successfully quitting. One
example of an effective
treatment is QUITPLAN
Services, a free counseling
service that is available to
all Minnesotans.
“We promote QUITPLAN
services because we know
there are a lot of people who
wish to quit smoking who
need that help,” Sheldon
said. “The key with QUIT-
PLAN and other support
programs is the expert counseling
that they provide.
Patches and medication will
help deal with craving, but
there is still a psychological
addiction.”
Sheldon said most health
plans will also offer free
services that will aid a
smoker’s efforts to quit.
During the initial call,
counselors will gather
intake information to truly
understand what the
patient’s habit is like, what
are their cravings and what
are their triggers?
“Counselors work one on
one to help you get through
the process,” Sheldon said.
“It’s not a one-size fits all
program.”
Sheldon said the length of
time it takes to quit varies
based on the level of commitment.
“Generally, if they are
just thinking about quitting,
they can quit within three
weeks,” Sheldon said. “If
they’ve been trying to quit
due to a family member
death or something else,
they can quit much quicker.”
QUITPLAN also offers an
online program that is more
self-directed. It can be
accessed
at
www.quitplan.com.
QUITPLAN counselors
can be accessed by phone at
1-888-354-PLAN.
“We would encourage
anyone in any stage to call
the help line or check out the
motivation
on
Quitplan.com,” Sheldon
said.
Stephen/Argyle Central High School Principal Mark
Kroulik presented an honorary high school diploma to
Harry Anderson on Thursday, Jan. 24. Anderson, 90, would
have graduated in 1940. He lives at Valley Home in Thief
River Falls.
land grant mission. Their
experience with and understanding
of online students
is unparalleled,” said Fred
Wood, chancellor of the U of
M, Crookston. “This recognition
is confirmation of the
exemplary efforts of our faculty
and staff to provide
quality programs and the
best online learning experience
for students who need
the flexibility that online
learning affords.”
The U of M, Crookston
currently offers 10 degree
programs entirely online
(these degrees are also
offered more traditionally
on-campus as well). They
include Accounting (B.S.),
Applied Health (B.A.H.),
Applied Studies (B.S.),
Business
(B.S.),
Communication (B.S.),
Health Management (B.S.),
Information Technology
Management (B.S.),
M a n u f a c t u r i n g
Management (B.M.M.),
Marketing (B.S.), and
Quality Management
(B.M.M.). The online programs
are administered
through the Center for Adult
Learning and delivered via
three academic departments:
Business; Liberal
Arts and Education; and
Math, Science, and
Technology. The campus currently
has more than 700
online only degree-seeking
students.
While U.S. News has
applied some of its rankings
standards used for traditional
schools, measures were
developed and used to evaluate
online programs. U.S.
News defined a distance
education program as “a program
for which all the
required coursework for program
completion is able to
be completed via distance
education courses that incorporate
Internet-based learning
technologies. Distance
education courses are courses
that deliver instruction to
students who are separated
from the instructor and support
regular and substantive
interaction between the students
and the instructor
synchronously or asynchronously.”
Online bachelor’s degree
programs were ranked in
three different sub-categories:
Teaching Practices
and Student Engagement,
Faculty Credentials and
Training, and Student
Services and Technology.
Ranking indicators for the
Teaching Practices and
Student Engagement category
included class size,
teacher response timeframe,
student collaboration policy,
and anti-plagiarism screening
policy among others.
Student services and technology-based
indicators
included live tutoring and
24/7 tech support, the ability
for students to receive classes
through both audio and
visual, and having all courses
centralized into a single
student information system,
such as Blackboard or
Moodle.
Data was collected from
for-profit, private, and public
schools. For more information
about the rankings
methodology, go to
www.usnews.com/education/online-education/bachelors.
A high school
graduation 73
years later
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The destroyer encountered
a typhoon near Japan
in June 1945. The typhoon
broke 100 feet of the bow off
of the USS Pittsburgh.
Despite the damage, it
stayed afloat.
Anderson also served on
the USS Mindoro, an aircraft
carrier, before his military
service ended in 1946.
Two years later, Anderson
married Hazel Nelson. Over
the years, he farmed. He
also worked several wintertime
jobs, including working
at a sugar beet plant and
serving as a diesel mechanic
and assembling machinery
in Stephen. He retired in
1984. The couple moved
from rural Stephen to Valley
Home on Dec. 15, 2011.
Anderson and his wife
have six children, Renae
Seibel, Arlan Anderson,
Anita Hendrickson, Gregory
Anderson, Mary David and
Cindy Paschke. He estimated
he has 14 grandchildren
and just as many greatgrandchildren.