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CROSBY-IRONTON COURIER
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015
Opinions
Letter Box
CLMTBC annual
meeting
Transportation
legislation
Dear Editor:
The
Cuyuna
Lakes
Mountain
Bike
Crew
(CLMTBC) would like to
extend heartfelt appreciation
to all who attended our 2015
Annual Meeting at the
Heartwood Senior Living
Community on Thursday, Jan.
8.
It was so heart-warming
to see an attendance of over
120 as we released the results
of the 2014 Cyclist Survey
and new Master Vision for
trail expansion. For those not
able to attend, we highlighted
the following:
—The approximately 700
survey respondents helped us
get a picture of the economic
impact of cyclists to the
Brainerd Lakes and Cuyuna
Lakes areas. Taking that data,
Mr. Andrew Hook, economist
and
Brainerd
Lakes
Economic
Development
Council (BLAEDC) executive, was able to quantify current impact to a minimum of
$2 million dollars annually.
—A Master Vision trail
expansion that will take the
Cuyuna Lakes Mountain Bike
Trails from their current 25
miles, which is less than a day
of riding, to at least three days
of riding. This will make the
trails an even larger vacation
destination. With this three
days of riding outlined in the
Master Vision, the economic
impact to the region is estimated to grow to $21 million
dollars annually.
—The Cuyuna Lakes
Mountain Bike Crew and the
MN Department of Natural
Resources will be undertaking several trail expansion
projects in 2015, including a
return loop from the Yawkey
and Portsmouth Unit trails, a
combined length of 3.5 miles,
and a skills area near the new
parking lot at the Pennington
access.
We appreciate the local
community and those that
completed our survey for all
your support. We look forward to working with the
local community and its representatives in making the
Master Vision for the Cuyuna
Lakes Mountain Bike Trails a
reality.
Best Regards,
Aaron W. Hautala,
President
Cuyuna Lakes Mountain
Bike Crew, Cuyuna Lakes
Mountain Bike Trails,
Cuyuna Lakes IMBA
Ride Center
Dear Editor:
The 2015 Legislative
Session has just started and it
appears that Reps. Dale Lueck
and Josh Heintzeman are giving up when it comes to fixing
our state’s transportation infrastructure. As a rural legislator,
I know how important our
roads and bridges are to our
residents and farmers.
During the campaign,
Reps. Lueck, Heintzman and
their Republican allies committed to fixing our state’s
crumbling roads and bridges.
But their new leader, Speaker
Kurt Daudt, has already admitted that Republicans “may not
be able to solve this on the
long-term basis.” And the so
called plan that Republicans
offered certainly isn’t a fix It’s not even a band-aid!
HF 4 would spend just
$200 million in new, one-time
money on transportation over
the next two years. That might
sound like a lot, but it would
only allow us to build about
130 miles of rural two-lane
highways, or 40 miles of fourlane highways. To put that in
context,
Minnesota
has
140,000 miles of roadways.
Projections have shown
that our state needs $6 billion
over the next 10 years just to
maintain our state roads and
bridges and reduce congestion.
For comparison, the DFL-led
legislature invested $743 million in transportation over the
past two years – an amount
that Republicans called inadequate.
To make matters worse, the
House GOP’s top legislative
priority is to cut taxes for corporations. Rather than truly
fixing our crumbling roads and
bridges, Republicans want to
send hundreds of millions of
taxpayer dollars to corporations — the same tired, failed
policies of the past.
Cutting businesses taxes
won’t
boost
greater
Minnesota’s economy or provide greater economic security
for Minnesota families. Will
Reps. Lueck and Heintzeman
stick with their party boss’s
plans that favor corporate special interests over rural roads
and bridges or will they make
good on their promise to fix
our state’s transportation system?
Only time will tell.
Paul Marquart
State Representative
Deputy Minority Leader
District 4B
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Jan. 29—Cuyuna Lakes Chamber of Commerce and the Cuyuna
Lakes Mt. Bike Crew host Business After Hours at the Crosby
Bar, 5-7 p.m.
Feb. 6-8— Cuyuna Lakes Whiteout. For more information visit
www.cuyunalakeswiteout.com.
Feb. 7—Ice Fishing Contest on Serpent Lake with Scorpion
Homecoming from noon to 3 p.m. Tickets available at chamber
office. Call 546-8131 for more details.
Feb. 7—Scorpion Homecoming on Serpent Lake from noon to 3
p.m. coinciding with the chamber’s Ice Fishing Contest on
Serpent Lake.
Feb. 7-8—Second Annual Bar Stool Races in Ironton. Entry fee is
$30 for two-person team if paid by Dec. 31. Entry fee is $50
after Dec 31. New this year...beer garden and bathrooms.
Admission is $1 for spectators which will be donated to SnoSerpents Snowmobile Club. Call 546-5997 for more details.
Feb. 10—Unlimited Learning presents Stories Battlefields Tell, 1:30
p.m., Heartwood Senior Living Community, Crosby.
Feb. 14—Woodtick’s Annual Ice Fishing Contest on Rabbit Lake.
Call 772-0252 for more details.
Feb. 14—Pie Social at Cascade United Methodist Church, 1 to 3
p.m.
Feb. 16—Unlimited Learning presents Putin Pushback Against
European Expansionism, 11 a.m., Heartwood Senior Living
Community, Crosby.
Feb. 17—(Note date change) Ironton Commercial Club annual
Spaghetti Feed prior to the boys’ basketball game with Aitkin at
CIHS. $6 for adults.
Feb. 19—Author Talk featuring Beth Hautala and her young adult
novel, Waiting for Unicorns, at the Jessie F. Hallett Memorial
Library.
Feb. 21—Bridge Tavern’s Annual Fishing Contest, noon to 3 p.m.
$10 entry fee includes a meal after contest. Over $2,000 in cash
and prizes awarded. Call 546-5219 for details.
Apr. 15—St. Joseph’s Church, Deerwood salad luncheon, noon.
Aug. 7-8—Deerwood Summerfest.
Newspaper on the Cuyuna Range…
JAYCE DeCENT of
Crosby took second
place with a 4.85 pound
Northern on Blackhoof
Lake during the ice fishing contest Saturday.
CHILDREN WERE very much in
attendance at the ice fishing contest
on Blackhoof Lake on Saturday. All
children who attended the awards
ceremony following the contest and
were registered to fish were given
the entry fee of $10 back. From left
to right are: Bobby Papenguth,
MacKenzie
Maassen,
Jayce
DeCent, Dawson and Colten
Weimer (Dad Darrin Weimer is holding Dawson), Natalie Simonson and
Jordan Viehauser.
THE TOP 10 PLACES FOR the
Town Tavern Ice Fishing Contest
Saturday went to: Dave Mills,
Cuyuna, first place with a 6.25
pound Northern; Jayce DeCent,
Crosby, second place with a 4.85
pound Northern; Dennis Rasmussen,
Deerwood, third place with a 2.56
Northern; Tom Hallin, Ironton, fourth
place with a 2.3 pound bass; Kathy
Portz, Ironton, fifth place with a 2.17
pound Northern; Brandon Laffin,
Ironton (not pictured), sixth place;
Pete Peterson, Crosby, seventh
place with a 1.96 Northern (not pictured); Bobby Papenguth, North St.
Paul, eighth place with a 1.96 pound
Northern; Jon ‘Goose’ Gutzman,
Ironton, ninth place with a 1.78
pound bass and Austin Laughton,
Brainerd, tenth place with a 1.67
pound northern. Sixty-eight fish
were registered during the threehour tournament with $669 donated
to the Ironton Fire Department.
JORDAN VIEHAUSER,
8, of Crosby, caught .7
and .75 pound crappies
on Saturday during the
ice fishing contest.
Biggest loser in
Brainerd Feb. 5
The Biggest Loser contestant Lisa Rambo will share
her amazing 108-pound
weight loss story and inspire
others in their own transformations at Cuyuna Regional
Medical
Center’s
free
women’s health and wellness
event on Thursday, Feb. 5, at
Franklin Arts Center in
Brainerd.
Health is Your Best
Accessory:
Women’s
Wellness Experience will
begin at 4 p.m. and Rambo’s
presentation will start at 6
p.m.
CRMC is coordinating the
event as part of the American
Heart Association’s Go Red
for Women campaign to create awareness that heart disease is the number one killer
of women. Ladies are invited
to wear red to the event and
participate in a best red outfit
contest. The winner will
receive
a
heart-themed
bracelet donated by Pandora.
Numerous demonstrations
including healthy cooking,
fitness, and stress relief will
be offered together with
health education booths.
BMI measurements, blood
pressure monitoring, bone
density, hearing, and dental
screenings will also be available. Women can also enjoy
chair and hand massages as
well as mini manicures.
Physicians, specialists, nurses, dietitians, and numerous
other health care providers
will be on hand to answer
questions and provide advice.
The first 300 ladies will
receive a goody bag at the
door. There is no charge to
attend but because of limited
seating a ticket is required by
registering at www.cuyunamed.org before Jan. 30.
Sponsored by BL Radio and
Charter. For more information, contact Peggy Stebbins
at pstebbins@cuyunamed.org
or 545-4447.
Office hours at
Crosby City Hall
The hours at Crosby City
Hall are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday through Friday
(unless a legal holiday is
observed).
SIERRA LEIGH LAFFIN, 19 months,
holds grandpa’s (Tom Hallin) 2.3
pound bass during the ice fishing contest.
Lueck urges PUC to allow pipeline
the panel to allow construc“The Public Utilities
tion of the Sandpiper oil Commission has not acted in
pipeline to proceed without the public interest by delaying
further delay.
the permitting process of this
project,” Lueck wrote in the
letter. “I ask the commission
Motor vehicle services in Crosby to refocus and place public
safety ahead of the manageYou can transfer vehicle instruction permits, or any able enviromental concerns
titles, get your license tabs, license needing a photo. For raised by some citizen groups,
and license your snowmobile, those services, you need to go the Minnesota Department of
ATV, boat, trailer, and change to an office that takes photos, Natural Resources and the
your address on your driver’s such as in Brainerd or Aitkin. Minnesota Pollution Control
license as well as replace your For more information, call the Agency.”
lost, stolen, or damaged Crosby DMV office at 546Lueck continued, “The
license at the Crosby Motor 7738.
Public Utilities Commission’s
Vehicle Office located 1/2
unwarranted delay in the perblock off Main Street at the
mitting process continues to
corner of Cross Avenue South Reminder if
unnecessarily
place
and First Street SE in Crosby
Minnesota
citizens
at
you
recycle
(1 First Street SE). Hours are
increased
risk
of
a
catastrophThose who participate in
Monday through Friday, 8:30
ic accident by forcing crude
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (excluding the C-I-D drop-off recycling oil onto transportation modes
program are reminded to
holidays).
that are known to be less safe
Because the Crosby Motor break down their cardboard than modern new piplines.”
Vehicle Office is not a license boxes and crush plastic soda
The proposed pipeline
photo office, such as in and milk bottles in order to would carry oil from North
Brainerd or Aitkin, it is not maximize the space in the Dakota to refineries in
authorized
for
license recycling bins in Crosby, Clearbrook and Superior, WI.
renewals, change of name, Ironton, and Deerwood.
Rep. Dale Lueck, (RAitkin) recently issued a letter to the Minnesota Public
Utilities Commission, urging
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