Injured Bicyclist

College grad Marsha L. Taylor was recently released from the hospital after being involved in a bicycle accident.

Marsha is 37 years old and is currently managing a McDonalds in Chisago City. Taylor started bicycling in her first year of college only to get to and from her interviews. After she graduated her hobby turned into a passion. Taylor eventually became involved with some groups of cyclists were she participated in weekend rides and some races. This year alone Marsha said to have ridden over 3,500 miles in the Governors tour, which traveled across the state and another ride, which takes you across the United States.

This passion was abruptly taken from Taylor after a short ride down 72^nd Street almost to Southland Boulevard when a car hit her from behind, sending her flying off her bike into the air.

Marsha woke up in the hospital confused and in pain after her accident. She suffered from a mild concussion, broken neck, six broken ribs and a broken pelvis. The doctors told her it is a miracle she wasn’t paralyzed in the crash.

After being sent to a rehabilitation facility, Marsha soon developed complications. The doctors discovered she had internal injuries involving her liver, gall bladder and a perforated intestine. These undetected complications caused Marsha’s skin to turn orange like a “Halloween pumpkin.” Says her mother, and two extra months in the hospital.

Marsha is very thankful she was wearing her helmet that day, and will continue wearing her protective gear. She believes it saved her life and can’t wait to get back out on her two-wheeler. She just needs to wait until she is healed, crutches and a bike just don’t mix.

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Baby Girl Born on Air Plane

Tami Fobiola was born on Feb 14, 24,000 feet in the air. She was brought into this world by a doctor and nurse who were passengers aboard a military-run airliner. Tami was named after the aircraft which was called TAM.

Tami's mother issued a statement that the baby girls baptism will be held aboard the plane "to make this occasion memorable."

Tami will also receive free flights with TAM until the age of 21, and a scholarship through high school.

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Obituaries- Eddy Thompson

Eddy M. Thompson age 2 of Chisago City was sent to the South Shore veterinary clinic where he passed late Thursday afternoon. Eddy was a young playful cat who loved to cuddle, climb trees and chase squirrels. Eddy leaves behind best friend Sami and five family members. He will be missed by many. Services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Thompson's yard.

Violence in the Workplace

University of Alabama faculty member is in custody after killing three fellow co-workers and putting two others in the hospital. No reports of any students being involved. The suspect is listed as an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences who taught coarses in anatomy and physiology.

After finding out she was being denied tenured the suspect went into the Biology teachers faculty meeting. Where she pulled out a gun and began shooting. Two of the victems are in critical condition, the third is now stable. The suspects name is not being released at this time.




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Chisago County- Lakes Area Sheriff, Gus DiCesari, and several county commissioners met Thursday afternoon to discuss their differences over equipment and personnel; which turned into a debate about immigrants in the community.

The sheriff accused county commissioners of "shortchanging" the police department to save money. DiCesari stated, "You're putting the lives of the people of this country in jeopardy." DiCesari wants to hire five new deputies and supply eight new vehicles to the department, in belief this will better serve the people.

"It is getting to costly to maintain the older vehicles and they spend to much time in the repair shop. You commisioners eliminated the equipment budgets for my department this year and now I can't buy anything. This is the first time in my 27 years as sheriff, that the county hasn't allocated money to the sheriff's department to buy equipment. My deputies can't keep driving these old vehicles. Something bad is going to happen." Gus stated to commissioners.

The vote was torn amongst the commission members. President Anne Chenn disagreed with Gus DiCesari's statments saying they were "shortchanging" them. Chenn says the county does not have the money to buy new police cruisers and hire five new sheriff's deputies. Commission members Valerie Dawkins, Faith Ellis, Jose Gardoz and Roland Grauman support Chenn. Commissioners Anita Shenuski and Raymond Laybourne support Sherifff DiCesari.

Shenuski and Layborn proposed during the meeting that the county should spend more money on the sheriff's department and law enforcement than programs for migrant workers who come to the county to work. "We never had problems until we began letting migrants come to this county to work. They are a problem for our law enforcement, our schools, and our healthcare system. They take jobs from decent people and work for next to nothing and if something gets stolen, you can bet it is one of them that's taken it. We need to protect local residents from them," Shenuski agrued during a heated discussion with Chenn. Chenn denied that immigrants are the problem.

Chenn rebutled by saying, "Those people who come here to work are decent, hardworking people being employed at jobs that local residents don't want to do. They add a great deal to the local economy and they pay taxes. You are being a hypocrite when you try to blame those people for everything"

Chenn also stated the county ran short of money this year because of increased cost for health care for employees and higher fuel costs. Chenn confirmed that the countys' budget this year was $127 million and the money was already being spread out thin enough throughout the community. Chenn told DiCesari that the sheriff's department would have to make do this year because the county did not have the additional funds it would need to supply the Sheriffs requests.

Chenn offered several suggestions for the department, starting with not taking their cruisers home every day as they do now. By doing this more cars would be available and it would also save on mileage.

The commissioners voted 5-2 against the sheriff's request for additional money for eight new cruisers and five addition deputies and would have to figure out his own solution for this year.

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Kill or jail gays but not pastors: Church of Uganda

If people aren't the same as you, do you think that it is to put them in jail? Well, city officials of Uganda have clearly stated that being homosexual is against the law and you will either be killed or thrown into jail. Also any person who may be keeping their own or someones elses sexuality a secret may also face jail time. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan William has begun to speak out against this bill, he says that this bill is unjust and unchristian. Other leaders of the church are getting irritated with Williams response to the bill. Rowan will soon be asked to speak out against the Church of Uganda's statement.

First Day of School

The first day of any school can be a little overwhelming. Meeting new people, having new professors, not to mention even finding the class. Luckily, my sister had already been going to that school for a year and a half and was able to show me around. On my first day I met quite a few new people. One of my coarse was very interactive and helped me to meet a lot of people I'm still friends with today. The class was Introduction to Speech Communication, the very first day you had to get up and meet new people and get into large groups and work together as a team to accomplish a common goal. Some of the activities were to be tied to the persons next to you with a jump rope and then you had to work together as a team to get unattached.

Also on my first day of school I met a few professors that helped me in my coarse, and coarse in the future. During my first semester I also took a Mass Communication coarse. This is where I also met two of my really good friends that I still talk to frequently. Mr. Broderick was the professor of this coarse, he was a very helpful teacher when it came to learning new media styles and how to make good journalism articles online.

I would have to say the first day of school was very successful and have enjoyed myself at ARCC for the past year and a half.

Low Serotonin Levels Might Explain Sudden Infant Death Syndrom

Researchers may have discovered the cause of more than 2,300 deaths in babies each year. Infants who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS are said to have had low serotonin levels, which is a chemical in the brain that helps the brain stem regulate breathing, temperature, sleeping, waking and other automatic functions. When infants have low serotonin levels it effects their ability to gage their carbon monoxide levels, normally this would cause the child to roll over to get oxygen; but without that automatic reaction these children don't get the proper oxygen they need. Doctors hope to find new ways to test for this before it's to late in order to protect more newborns lives.