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The NewsHopper furnished FREE, because of the advertisers. Please let them know you appreciate it. PRST STD First Copy FREE, subsequent U.S. Postage copies $1 per copy. PAID Princeton, MN Vol. 9 • Issue 10 Sat., March 8, 2008 ZIP CODE 55371 Permit No. 161 GetGet It,It, ReadRead It,It, LoveLove It!It! What’’S Area medical team going to Haiti where the need is great BY CONNIE PETTERSEN more times a year, he goes “We face many difficulties InInSIde Setting up Project Haiti to oversee and do admin- in trying to help the Haitian VIOLIN MAKER For about 20 years, people istrative duties for “Project people, the poorest country BY PHILIP NEESE from the Crosby/Aitkin/ Haiti” that also include a in our hemisphere.” Pages 2 Brainerd area have gone school and orphanage. When they first went to to Pignon, Haiti to bring Each March, the area medi- Pignon, many Haitians came ONLINE HIGH SCHOOL about a better quality of cal team returns for their up, touching them, need- Page 3 life. Mission trips began yearly mission to a country ing help. Over the years, OBITUARIES/BIRTHS establishing medical care. still impoverished and suf- they were able to help one Page 4 & 5 Over the years, they and fering from poor health, person after another. “Pretty others helped build a hos- poor disease control, and soon there was a grade RED BREASTED pital, brought down and malnutrition. Speaking at school for kids, then an NUTHATCH installed medical and other local churches, Dr. Severson orphanage, and all kinds of Page 9 equipment and trained lo- talked about Project Haiti other projects besides the Sheriff’s reporT cal staff. helping the people of the hospital,” said Severson. Page 13 Dr. Paul Severson, a sur- Pignon area by bringing “It’s a big machine with a geon at Cuyuna Range Med- awareness of the situation lot of folks helping right CROSBY ical Center and Riverwood in Pignon. now from around the whole CITY COUNCIL Dr. Paul Severson with nurses Kelly Hagestuen (L) and Health Care Center, flies to “Going to Haiti opens Brainerd Lakes area.” Page 13 Vicki Monson from Cuyuna Range Medical Center. They Haiti once a year as part of your eyes into the world are part of a medical mission team going to Pignon. the medical team. Several of poverty,” said Severson. Continued on Page 12 CROW WING COUNTY BOARD Page 14 Sesquicentennial tour — Casey House/Maryhill Academy LEGAL NOTICES BY CONNIE PETTERSEN religious impacts on the innovative Aitkin merchant, Page 15 Another residence on the area. Originally called “The who hired Casey to man- Aitkin County Seat Sesqui- Casey House” from 1901 age Potter’s store in Grand GARDENING TIPS centennial Tour was the until 1938, it housed the Rapids. Page 19 former Casey house. Built in Patrick Casey, Sr. family. In 1882, Casey brought 1901 for Patrick and Emma Casey was the respected his bride, Elizabeth Emma 202 Minnesota Ave. N., Aitkin Casey, the Queen Anne/ business partner of Col. Killeen, to Aitkin from On- 218-927-6990 Classic Revival was consid- William Potter. tario, Canada. Fax: 218-927-6980 ered “one of the handsom- Casey first came to Aitkin When Colonel Potter’s 21 Washington St., Brainerd est in Aitkin.” around 1874 — a few years business associate, Da- 218-454-4017 Originally built on twen- after the village founding vid Willard, retired, Potter Fax: 218-454-4018 ty-two wooded acres, the and first worked as a team- offered a partnership to home has been referred ster in the logging camps. Casey. 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My mother, Edith, played they need to be of just the piece of Mille Lacs maple BY PHILIP NEESE the piano and encouraged right thickness so that the and pine was about as fi ne Stanley Berge, of rural me by giving me a self- vibration will enhance the an instrument, as you could Wahkon, is 92 years old and help book on playing the sound. My only tools were want. Of course I may be a is working on making his violin. I was soon playing a block plane and a jack little prejudiced.” second violin! by ear but realized that if knife. I judged the arching “I had to take a break but “I was helping my neigh- I were going to get to play and thickness by eyeball. now I have started the sec- bor build a boathouse and any serious music I would One unusual aspect of the ond instrument. The work we were sorting a load of need to read notes. I have violin is that it expands and is going slowly but I am not freshly sawn lumber when I played the violin all my contracts with the tempera- rushed. I have been blessed spotted this beautiful piece life. I played for the Aitkin ture in such a way that the with a wonderful life. Music of maple. It was eight ft. orchestra, which is called violin would be torn apart if has given wonderful mean- long and just covered with the Great River Strings. We the new plastic glues on the ing to my life.” the lines of optical illu- would play several concerts market were used. These Duane Hawkinson has sion that are called fl amed, a year. Now I play almost glues have no give, how- played his guitar in groups fiddle back or tiger tail. every week with a group ever, hide glues, principally with Stanley Berge. When this wood is sanded of friends. Classical music horse hide glue not only Duane put it this way, and finished it produces is my favorite.” has the expanding capa- “Stanley is one of the fi n- some of the world’s most Stanley often had to make bilities but such glue joints est musicians that I have Stanley Berge displays the violin he crafted. beautiful grain. My friend repairs on his violin and can be taken apart without ever played with. Age has gave me this piece of lum- soon he was repairing vio- damage to the wood when not affected his ability to ber and I put it away to age. lins for neighbors. This repairs are needed. When play. That instrument just I knew that I would build repair business grew until the violin was sanded and comes alive when he puts a violin but I did not think Stanley estimated that he fi nished in 1993, I played a bow on it.” that it would take close to had repaired over 200 vio- fi fty years to complete. I lins. He had also collected was raising a family and over 50 violins. He has farming, time just seemed cut his collection down so to slip away.” he will have a few for his Stanley’s grandfather, children; however, none of Andrew Collin (he calls them play the instrument. him his mor far, Swedish “I was working on this for his mother’s father) one violin and had it all built and played violins torn apart. I got some paper in Sweden. When Stanley and traced out the parts and Shown here is the fi ddle back design in the maple of the was seven years old his then started to build. It took Some of the violins in Stanley’s collection. handmade violin.. MON. - SAT. 8 A.M. - 10 P.M. • PRICES EFFECTIVE MON., MAR. 10 THRU SAT., MAR. 15, 2008 Largest locally owned liquor store in the Brainerd/Baxter lakes area. MASSIVE WINE SALE SAVE % % 20 -50 OFF ON OVER 500 WINES FRIDAY & SATURDAY NOON - 7 P.M. 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