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Shirley Gaber – OBIT

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Shirley Mae Gaber, 87, of Euclid, MN, passed away peacefully in her home Tuesday evening, August 27th, 2024, while surrounded by her family.

Shirley was born at home near Red Lake Falls, MN on April 11, 1937, the daughter of Hubert and Agnes (Rode) Hinrichs. She grew up near Red Lake Falls in the areas of Wylie and Dorothy and was raised by her mother and step-father, Victor Gaber. Shirley began her education in local schools and graduated from Lafayette High School in Red Lake Falls, the Class of 1955. A few weeks later she was united in marriage to the love of her life, David John “Jack” Gaber on June 25, 1955 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Euclid. Shirley and Jack made their home in Euclid and while Jack was employed by the Burlington Northern Railroad she enjoyed her roles as wife, mother to a growing family of 8, and homemaker. As the kids got older, and bit more independent, she began working for Frito Lay in Grand Forks. She then trained as a Certified Nurse Assistant and joined the staff on the 3rd floor of Riverview Hospital. After several years she became employed with Lutheran Social Services at their Group Home in Crookston and then finished out her career as a CNA at Villa St. Vincent where she was dearly loved by residents and co-workers alike. Sadly, Jack, passed away on February 22, 1998. A year later Shirley retired from her long and rewarding career as a caregiver. Throughout her life Shirley managed to put away a little extra for Christmas gifts by sewing and selling doll clothes for Barbie, American Girl, Baby, and Cabbage Patch dolls. 

Shirley loved making quilts, and doing embroidery. During the summer months she could be found in her beautiful flower and vegetable gardens. She looked forward to the annual fishing trip with her daughter and family. Nothing brought Shirley more joy than having her home filled with the kids and their families, especially for the holidays. She was an excellent cook and quite famous to family and friends alike for her wonderful apple and pumpkin pies, and basically everything that came from her kitchen. Shirley was a devoted member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and also held a 50-year membership in the Euclid American Legion Auxiliary.

Shirley will be very sadly missed and forever loved by her 7 children: Deb (Jeff) Ramsley of Minnesota Lake, MN, Lynn Gaber of Rochester, MN, Jerry (Margee) Gaber of Las Cruces, NM, Ruby Gaber of Warren, MN, Shelly (Rob) Kappelhoff of Red Lake Falls, MN, Brent Gaber of East Grand Forks, MN, and Paula (John) Borg of Viking, MN; 16 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; 3 siblings: Gloria Cote of Thief River Falls, MN;  Joe Gaber of Crookston, MN; Lorna (Carl) Tofsley of Crookston, MN; as well as nieces, nephews, extended family, and many friends.

In addition to Jack, her beloved husband of 42 years, Shirley is preceded in death by her daughter, Cindy Marie who died on April 21, 2011; a great-grandson, Baby Boy Oeffler; her father, Hubert Hinrichs, and mother and step-father, Agnes and Victor Gaber; an infant brother, Lester; and her parents-in-law, Joseph and Anna Gaber.

A Memorial Mass honoring Shirley’s life will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, August 31, 2024, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Euclid, MN, with The Rev. Xavier Ilongo, presiding. Visitation with the family will be from 10-11:00 am. Graveside prayers will be in St. Dorothy’s Cemetery, rural Red Lake Falls, and both services will be livestreamed by going to Shirley’s obituary page at www.stenshoelhouske.com and clicking on the prompt to view. Messages of condolence may be conveyed to the family on the funeral home website as well. 

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NEW BAND DIRECTOR MANNY GREEN, HOPES TO SOLIDIFY THE BAND PROGRAM FOR THE CROOKSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

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With just days left before the start of the 2024-25 school year, we caught up with the Crookston School District’s new Band Director, Manny Green, in the Crookston High School Band Room. Green is very excited about his role here with the schools. “My role here is going to be teaching 5th – 12th grade band director. So, I will be teaching 5th-grade band lessons at Highland Elementary school, and over here, I will teach 6th-grade band, Jr. High Band, and Concert Band here,” said Green.

Mr. Green did some student teaching in Hastings after graduating from college, and this will be his first full-time position. “This is my first full year teaching.  I graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College last December, where I student taught in Hastings. After that, I did some long-term subbing in the Hastings School District and the South Washington County School District, and then I applied here in May and got the job, and I’m super excited,” said Green.

There is a lot to cover coming as the new Band Director, and Mr. Green is ready to work with all the students, whether it be teaching lessons, pep band, marching band, or concert band direction. Mr. Green says because of his background at Gustavus Adolphus, concert band has always been one of his favorites. “I went to Gustavus, where concert band is super big, so that is probably my bread and butter. I really like that, and I that is where you really get to teach and learn the music skills, and then those extra co-curricular things like pep band and marching band that’s where the kids get to really have fun,” says Green.

Turnover has been a problem for the position, says Green, and he hopes to change that. “There’s been a lot of turnover. I think I’m the third band director in three years, so I’m hoping to finally have someone solidify the band program and start to build some culture where the kids are proud of what they are representing.”

The Crookston Public School District’s school year starts next week. The High School and Middle School start classes on Tuesday, September 3, and Highland Elementary starts back on Wednesday, September 4.

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison Urges Business Owners To Stop Harming Our Children

Attorney General Keith Ellison sent a letter to more than 5,000 tobacco distributors and retailers today asking them to stop distributing, marketing, and selling unauthorized and illegal flavored tobacco products in Minnesota. These products include flavored e-cigarettes and flavored nicotine pouch products that have not been authorized for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”). In the letter, Attorney General Ellison describes the harm to minors and the public at large from these products, many of which use kid-friendly flavors, including candy and dessert flavors, and youth-centric packaging and product design to entice minors, potentially starting a lifelong addiction to nicotine.

“For decades now, everyone has known the dangers nicotine poses to young people — increased risk of addiction, respiratory problems, even brain damage. Today, I’m asking Minnesota businesses to join me in protecting young people by taking unauthorized products off their shelves — particularly ones that are illegally marketed toward kids — in accordance with federal and state law,” Attorney General Ellison said.

“Our goal is voluntary compliance. Most Minnesota business owners are good people trying to do right by their communities, so I expect most will take swift action after receiving a reminder of the law,” Attorney General Ellison continued. “Any distributors or retailers that choose to defy the law and not comply, however, should know that my office has a wide range of options to ensure that they stop harming our children. I cannot and will not sit by and allow people to turn a profit by pushing toxins on our children.”

Under federal law, new tobacco products — whether they contain tobacco-derived nicotine or synthetic nicotine — must receive pre-market authorization from the FDA before they can be sold legally in the United States. As of mid-2024, the FDA has authorized only 34 e-cigarettes and 4 oral nicotine products to be sold in the United States.

In the letter, Attorney General Ellison notes that many unauthorized and illegal tobacco products on the market today include e-cigarette and oral nicotine pouch products that feature candy, fruit, or dessert flavors that are particularly appealing to minors. Teenagers and young adults who use nicotine are at risk of developing nicotine addiction, respiratory issues, and brain damage that can harm their attention, learning, mood, and impulse control. Because these products are unauthorized, they may contain other unlisted ingredients that expose users to additional harm.

Attorney General Ellison warns that the sale or distribution of unauthorized and illegal tobacco products may also violate several state Minnesota laws, including consumer-protection laws and a new law (2024 Minn. Laws Chapter 114, Art. III, §§ 50-51) that prohibits the advertising, sale, or distribution of e-cigarettes that are described or depicted as imitating candy, desserts, or beverages that are commonly marketed to minors, that imitate school supplies, or that are based on or describe characters that appeal to minors. Click here to see examples of unauthorized nicotine products.

In the letter, Attorney General Ellison asks Minnesota tobacco retailers and distributors to confirm they will comply with Minnesota law, refrain from advertising, selling, or distributing unauthorized and illegal tobacco products, and ensure that they will only advertise, sell, or distribute e-cigarettes and oral nicotine pouch products that have been authorized by the FDA.

The Attorney General additionally invites both industry and the public to report any instances of the marketing or sale of potential illegal e-cigarette or oral nicotine pouch products in Minnesota to the Attorney General’s Office in one of two ways: by emailing vaping@ag.state.mn.us or by completing the Illegal Vaping Products report form on the Attorney General’s website. These reports will help the Attorney General’s Office effectively monitor Minnesota’s marketplace and ensure businesses comply with Minnesota law.

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PRINCIPAL TORGERSON TALKS ABOUT WHAT’S NEW AT CROOKSTON HIGH SCHOOL

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The first day of school for Crookston High School students is Tuesday, September 3, and in talking with Principal Matt Torgerson, everything seems to be in order for the students to return. “It’s great, we have staff back in here, and so that’s always fun; I kind of over the summer forget what it’s like and maybe don’t always look forward to the beginning of the school year, like I didn’t get as much done as I wanted and then the staff comes in and it’s like, Oh yeah, this is what it’s all about, and when the students come in next week I expect to have that same feeling,” says Torgerson.

The addition of some new staff is adding to the excitement of the upcoming year. “We have some new staff here in the building, and they are bringing a lot of energy I’ve already seen in the last couple of days, and I’m really looking forward to this school year,” says Torgerson.

Change can be hard, and when asked if he anticipated any issues with the new Cell Phone Policy that was recently put into place, Principal Torgerson had this to say. “Honestly, I think if you were to ask the students themselves about their thoughts on cell phones, they would be pretty honest and say that they realize that there are issues, there are addictions, and I think as adults, we can make that same claim too.”

One study that Principal Torgerson says has been done about cell phone use has to do with how are brains are wired to something as simple as the vibration of our cell phones. “One of the most addictive sounds that has been studied is the vibration of a cell phone; we have rewired our brains, we’ve trained our brains, so we need to make sure that our students whose brains are still developing, that we are doing what’s best for them, whether they agree a hundred percent or not,” says Torgerson.  Even so, he doesn’t believe there will be much of an issue. “I don’t foresee a lot of kickback. Obviously, not everyone is going to agree with it, but this is what we are going to do, and we are going try, and it’s really about what’s best for these kids,” added Torgerson.

When asked about the new Stadium and if there was hype around it being almost finished, Torgerson had this to say. “It’s pretty, it’s nice. Crookston is going to have something it can be really proud of, and again I know maybe not everyone agreed with the referendum to pass for that, but it is something that I know I have talked with the Superintendent and the Activities Director that we don’t want it to just be sports-focused, we really want to try to utilize it as much as possible, so, it’s not just our field, not just Crookston School Districts field, it should really be utilized by the community as well.”

Classes are back in session on Tuesday, September 3, and Principal Torgerson hopes kids are getting back into a routine and will show up Tuesday well-rested and ready to go.

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Fertile-Beltrami Volleyball hosts Red Lake Falls – ON KROX

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The Fertile-Beltrami Falcon Volleyball team hosts the Red Lake Falls Eagles in a Section 8A matchup in Fertile. Fertile-Beltrami is 1-0 on the year after beating Lake of the Woods 3-2 in the first match of the season. Red Lake Falls is 1-0 on the year after beating Goodridge-Grygla 3-2 in the first match of the season.
The match can be heard on KROX Radio (1260AM), online by clicking listen live, the KROX app, or on your smart speaker by saying “listen to K-R-O-X in Crookston.”

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Crookston Pirate Football takes on East Grand Forks – ON KROX

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The Crookston Pirate Football team will kick off the 2024 season as they travel to East Grand Forks to take on the Green Wave at the EGF Senior High School field. You can listen to the game on KROX Radio (1260AM and 105.7FM or in Grand Forks/EGF on 92.1FM), online by clicking listen live, the KROX app, or on your smart speaker by saying “Listen to K-R-O-X in Crookston.” Pre-game at 5:20 and kickoff at 6:00 p.m.

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Supreme Court declines to revive Biden’s latest student loan debt relief plan

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined the Biden’s administration latest student loan debt relief plan. In a brief order, the court denied an emergency request filed by the administration seeking to lift a nationwide injunction imposed by an appeals court.

The justices turned down a request from the Justice Department to lift a sweeping appeals court order that blocked the program (known as the SAVE plan) which has been the subject of legal challenges from more than a dozen GOP-led states in recent months. The Court’s unsigned order said that it “expects that the Court of Appeals will render its decision with appropriate dispatch.” There were no noted dissents.

The Education Department paused loan payments for borrowers enrolled in the program earlier this month because of the ongoing legal proceedings.  The Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s earlier plan last year that would have benefited more than 40 million Americans and forgiven nearly half-a-trillion-dollars in loans.

The latest program is an income-driven repayment plan in which monthly payments of a loan are based on the borrower’s income. The SAVE plan lowers monthly undergraduate loan payments to 5% of a borrower’s’ discretionary income above 225% of the federal poverty line — up from 150% — and provides for shorter repayment periods and earlier loan forgiveness for borrowers with smaller starting balances. The administration said it had the authority to make these changes under the Higher Education Act and estimated that out of the 8 million borrowers who enrolled in the SAVE Plan, 4.5 million have monthly payments of $0.

The brief unsigned order saw the Court reject the states’ request to lift that appeals court’s stay, noting that “the states said they do not require relief from the Supreme Court as long as the 8th Circuit’s order is in place.” The 8th Circuit’s decision blocks implementation of the program for borrowers nationwide and is at odds with the order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in the dispute involving the three other states, which kept the SAVE plan intact during legal proceedings.

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin granted new trial in defamation lawsuit against New York Times

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On Wednesday, a federal appeals court revived former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel Wednesday granted former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin a new libel trial, faulting the trial judge for dismissing the case before the jury had reached a verdict. The jury was allowed to continue deliberating before ultimately finding the newspaper not liable in February 2022.

Senior United States Circuit Judge John M. Walker Jr. wrote in the opinion: “Unfortunately, several major issues at trial — specifically, the erroneous exclusion of evidence, an inaccurate jury instruction, a legally erroneous response to a mid-deliberation jury question, and jurors learning during deliberations of the district court’s Rule 50 dismissal ruling — impugn the reliability of that verdict. We conclude that the district court’s Rule 50 ruling improperly intruded on the province of the jury by making credibility determinations, weighing evidence, and ignoring facts or inferences that a reasonable juror could plausibly have found to support Palin’s case. No statement in this opinion should be understood as resolving issues of fact.”

Palin sued for defamation in 2017, claiming she was defamed in an editorial when her rhetoric was linked to the Tucson shooting attack that wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.  According to the appeals court opinion, the editorial in question said the Giffords shooter’s “rage was nurtured in a vile political climate” and that the “pro-gun right [was] criticized” at the time. The editorial also noted that before the shooting Palin’s political action committee had “circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized crosshairs.”

The libel case against the Times was first reinstated on August 2019, but the district court dismissed her case again under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50. The New York Times said in a statement: “This decision is disappointing. We’re confident we will prevail in a retrial.”

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LeBron James, Jimmy Butler among NBA players to be featured in Netflix sports series ‘Starting 5’

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Some of the NBA’s most famous players are set to star in a 10-episode Netflix series titled ‘Starting 5,’ which ‘offers an intimate look at the 2023-24 NBA season, through the perspective of five basketball stars.’

produced by Barack and Michelle Obama. A social media post from Netflix read: “Jimmy Butler – Anthony Edwards – LeBron James – Domantas Sabonis -Jayson Tatum ‘Starting 5’, a new Netflix Sports series, will follow their 2023-24 season on and off the court. Coming October 9.”

Starting 5, a 10-part series, will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the 2023-24 NBA season from the perspectives of the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James; Minnesota Timberwolves’ star Anthony Edwards; the Boston Celtics’ Jayson Tatum; Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler; and the Sacramento Kings’ Domantas Sabonis. The series will premiere on Oct. 9.

An official synopsis reads: “”Starting 5 delivers an unfiltered view of life at the pinnacle of professional basketball. Though they share a common goal of winning the NBA championship, each athlete is at a different point in their career, trying to lead their teams to victory while navigating their own respective journey…The series captures all five athletes in their battles on and off the court as they chase greatness, push through injuries, and balance the demands of family and legacy.”

LeBron James’ Uninterrupted produced the series, in association with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions.

Starting 5 premieres on Netflix Oct. 9.

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