Bill to repeal retired military
income tax introduced at session
ON SATURADAY, JAN. 17, Deerwood Fire
Department held its Firemen's Dinner at the
Deerwood Legion and this year Jason Holmvig
was fire fighter of the year. From left to right are:
Fire Chief John Taylor, Fire fighter of the year
Holmvig and Assistant Fire Chief Mike Bodle.
THE DEERWOOD FIRE Department voted Ted
Abear as Volunteer of the Year at its annual
Firemen's Dinner. From left to right are: Fire
Chief John Taylor, Abear and Assistant Fire
Chief Mike Bodle.
Ruud co-authors
bill to repeal
mandatory trailer
decals in state
Senator Carrie Ruud (RBreezy Point) has coauthored a bill to repeal a new
law mandating an Aquatic
Invasive Species (A.I.S.)
trailer decal for anyone who
transports watercraft or
water-related equipment in or
through Minnesota.
The provision was adopted as part of the 2012
Environment and Natural
Resources Policy bill. It
requires anyone who trailers a
boat or related equipment,
like docks or lifts, to pass an
A.I.S. training course and
place a decal on each of their
trailers. The online training is
set to begin this month, while
decals will be required on
trailers traveling in or through
the state of Minnesota beginning on July 1.
“The lakes of Senate
District 10 are one of our
greatest assets and we must
protect them,” said Ruud.
“But I’ve heard from constituents, sportsmen and
women, legislators, and interested groups who are very
concerned with the particular
law.
“I am committed to working with all concerned parties
to combat the spread of A.I.S.
and welcome input on this
important issue. However, I
feel while well intended,
there is a more productive
solution to stopping A.I.S.”
Ruud encourages constituents to contact her
Capitol office at 100 Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd,
State Office Building, Room
25 St. Paul, MN 55155, by
phone at 651-296-4913, or
via e-mail at sen.carrie.ruud
@senate.mn.
As the 2015 Legislative
Session
convened
on
Tuesday, Jan. 6, State Senator
Paul Gazelka (R—Nisswa)
and Representative Josh
Heintzeman (R—Nisswa)
introduced legislation to
exclude retired members of
the military from state
income taxes. This legislation
will be a great help to military
veterans who would like to
retire and begin a second
career in Minnesota. The first
bill introduced by Senator
Gazelka and Representative
Heintzeman in the 2015
Legislative Session will begin
making its way through the
legislature.
Senator Gazelka said,
“The unfortunate fact is that
Minnesota has consistently
ranked in the bottom half of
states to retire as a veteran.
There are two million retired
military members in America
today, and Minnesota is home
to less than one percent of
them because we offer no
retirement incentives to
Veterans. Every day a service
member retires from the military, and every day a military
retiree is given a list of taxfriendly states in which to
retire, and every day
Minnesota is not on that list.”
Representative Heintzeman added, “States who have
exempted retired military personnel from income taxes
tend to see a large return on
Winter masterpiece concert
The Lakes Area Music
Festival will present violinist
Jonathan Magness and pianist
Mary Jo Gothmann, joined by
festival director Scott Lykins
on cello for an intimate program of chamber music masterpieces 7 p.m. on Monday,
Jan. 26 at Lutheran Church of
the Cross in Nisswa. The program will include works by
Felix Mendelssohn and
Dmitri Shostakovich.
This program is the second in a series of four concerts included in the
Festival’s winter series, and
will be presented again in the
Twin Cities on Thursday, Feb.
5 at the Woman’s Club of
Minneapolis. The concert is
free of charge with free will
donations accepted.
Mendelssohn's Piano Trio
in D minor is a virtuosic
showpiece for piano, paired
with vocal lyricism in the
strings. Shostakovich wrote
his Trio in E minor in Russia
in the midst of World War II,
and presents a contrast of
eerie sobriety and sarcastic
frenzy. Both composers are
well-known for their prolific
writing for chamber ensembles, and these works represent the most beloved of each.
Jonathan Magness joined
the Lakes Area Music
Festival for its first season in
2009 and has returned every
year as soloist, concertmaster
and chamber musician. He is
currently acting principal second violin of the Minnesota
Orchestra with whom he has
performed as soloist in concertos by Dvorak, Vivaldi,
and Piazzolla. A native of
Alabama, Magness studied at
the University of Minnesota
and continued his formal education at the Juilliard School
and the University of Graz in
Austria.
Pianist Gothmann has
been a frequent performer at
the Festival over the past seasons. A graduate of the
Lindemann Young Artist
Program at the Metropolitan
Opera, where she served as
vocal coach and assistant conductor, she now enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, piano soloist, and vocal
coach. She currently is a vocal
coach at Minnesota Opera and
a frequent guest of the
Minnesota and St. Paul
Chamber Orchestras, and
serves as the artistic director
of the JOYA chamber music
series at Zion Lutheran
Church in Anoka.
Festival director Lykins is
a native of the Brainerd Lakes
Area, beginning his cello
studies in the public school
orchestra program. He attended the Eastman School of
Music in Rochester, NY for
both his undergraduate and
masters degrees, and performs
regularly with numerous
chamber and orchestral
ensembles around the region.
He founded the Lakes Area
Music Festival in 2009 and
currently serves as the organization’s artistic and executive
director.
Founded in 2009, the
Lakes Area Music Festival
brings together more than 80
nationally known musicians
for three weeks of classical
music performance in the
Brainerd Lakes Area, including chamber music, symphonic orchestra and semi-staged
opera. The collaborative roster
includes talent from ensembles and conservatories such
as the Minnesota Orchestra,
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra,
New World
Symphony,
Metropolitan
Opera,
Minnesota Opera, Juilliard
School, Eastman School of
Music, Curtis Institute and
more.
For more information
about all upcoming Festival
events, visit www.lakesarea
music.org
their investment. For example,
since exempting retired military personnel from their state
income tax, Wisconsin has
gained $340 million additional dollars that has circulated in
their economy. Their retired
military residents have begun
lucrative second careers; creating businesses and bringing
new revenue and jobs into the
state that would have otherwise not existed. Iowa enacted
similar
legislation
last
January. It’s time Minnesota
does the same.”
Senator Gazelka concluded, “I’m thrilled to see strong
bipartisan support on such an
important financial investment for Minnesota. Not only
is supporting veterans the
right thing to do, but military
retirees make good neighbors.
They are well educated, with
many having taken advantage
of educational opportunities
provided by the military. As a
result of their service, many
have acquired advanced technical and leadership skills.
Virtually none have criminal
records. Veterans have proven
themselves to be highly productive citizens and make
many contributions to the
communities in which they
choose to retire.”
Representative Heintzeman added, “Minnesota is
falling millions of dollars
behind Wisconsin each year in
retiree pension incomes. In
2001
we
fell
behind
Wisconsin by nearly $10 million and we have fallen behind
each subsequent year. With a
projected $1 billion surplus,
now is the time to invest wisely in Minnesota’s economy
and welcome retired military
personnel with open arms.
Not only is it the right thing to
do, it’s the right thing for
Minnesota.”
Pyschologist at
CRMC beginning
in February
Psychologist
Julie
Christensen, MSW, LICSW,
in February will begin treating patients on Wednesdays at
Cuyuna Regional Medical
Center’s Crosby Clinic.
Christensen has served
Crosby as a Mobile Crisis
provider the past two and one
half years. The Licensed
Independent Clinical Social
Worker sees patients from
ages 10 to adult. She has
individual counseling experience working with anxiety,
depression,
dependency,
grief/loss, situational stress
and many other issues.
The psychologist is a
member of the College of St.
Scholastica Advisory Council
for the Brainerd Social Work
program, Crow Wing County
Child Protection Team, Board
of Directors for Sexual
Assault Services, National
Association
of
Social
Workers and adjunct faculty
member for the College of St.
Scholastica Social Work program.
CRMC began offering
psychiatric and psychological
services for adult patients this
past September through a
partnership with Northern
Psychiatric Associates. Clinic
services include family and
individual therapy; parenting
evaluations; stress and health
issues; depression, anxiety,
and trauma; grief and loss;
self esteem; post-traumatic
stress disorder; assertiveness
problems; medication management; bariatric support
services; sleep disorders; and
workplace/customer service
conflict resolution and team
building.
For an appointment at the
Crosby Clinic, call 454-0090.
CROSBY-IRONTON COURIER
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015
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Library hours
The Jessie F. Hallett
Memorial Library fall and
winter hours (from Labor
Day to Memorial Day) are:
Monday and Wednesday from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Tuesday
and Thursday from 10 a.m. to
8 p.m. and Friday and
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. The library is closed on
Sundays.
Community
band in need
of members
The
Cuyuna
Range
Community Band is looking
for members. If you have
interest in playing an instrument or enjoy music, please
contact Beverly Bailey at
678-2217; Dick Gunderson,
527-0527 or Chris Halverson,
Band Director at 821-6119.
Clippings…
Over the past 100 years
Winter Rendezvous at Deep Portage
Deep Portage Learning
Center invites everyone to
participate in the 36th Annual
Winter Rendezvous—a funfilled day of old-time games
and activities—on Saturday,
Jan. 24. Registration will
begin at 9:30 a.m. and the day
will wrap up with an awards
ceremony beginning at 2 p.m.
Journey back in time and
learn about the cultural heritage of Minnesota! In this
one day event we will have
activities based on traditions
from lumberjacks, voyageurs
and Native Americans. Try
your hand at events such as
the tomahawk toss, snowsnakes, spear throwing using
atlatls, the cross-cut saw, trap
shooting, northwoods curling
and many more! Bring the
whole family to join in a
friendly community competition while learning about the
rich cultural history of the
area!
The participation fee $5
for adults and $3 for children
under 12, seniors and Deep
Portage members. Lunch is
an additional $5 for adults
and $3 for children, seniors
and members. Please feel free
to bring your own bag lunch.
For reservations or additional information, please call
Deep Portage at 682-2325,
toll-free at 1-888-280-9908,
or e-mail portage@uslink.
net. Visit the Web site at
www.deep-portage.org or our
Facebook page at www.facebook.com/DeepPortage.
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