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Northern Herald In this issue Chairman Announces Smokes for about $1 a pack - pg. 5 LEADING EDGE JOURNALISM Ridgeway Court Apts. Jails Tenant - pg. 11 Beltrami Co. Changes No-Insurance Towing Policy-p. 2 Progress Against ® Single guys and gals: No more Hamburger Helper. The new free Personals at scrooyahoo.com are so efficient, you could be married tomorrow! See p. 15 to contact one of the eligibles Drugs, Gangs listed or to find out how to place your own free ad. Red Lake Chairman Jourdain Outlines Aggressive Proactive Multi-Band Plan at Second Corruption Annual Summit on Drugs and Gangs at Red Lake RED LAKE -- With Red Lake emergency, kept people from Erupts in E. authorities citing the 2007 busts of turning out and filling the floor the "Pablo" (Martinez-Miranda) seats, and overflowing into the cocaine ring (at least 28 persons bleachers. The two-day summit LEADING EDGE JOURNALISM were arrested) as substantially designed to severely cramp the Chairman Gull Lake limiting the flow of this deadly style of drug pushers and gang Floyd poison onto the Red Lake Nation recruiters, was coordinated in "Buck" EAST GULL LAKE -- A (Red Lake Officer Pat Graves: "I conjunction with the Minnesota Jourdain shroud of mystery surrounds the Randy think anytime you get a substantial Bureau of Criminal Apprehension firing of 14-year East Gull Lake Ramsdell bust like that, it helps law (BCA), the U.S. Dept. of Justice, some acknowledgments as to Wastewater Super, Randy enforcement. We have seen a and other law enforcement, some of the organizers here who Ramsdell, and city officials are decrease in the drug problem . ."); medical, and educational agencies. make this event possible. This is tighter than a clamshell on the issue. Floyd "Buck" Jourdain Jr., the Presentations included a the second one! Last year, we were The Players. Maureen K. charismatic and well-visioned comprehensive delineation of gang really pleased with the turnout and Cirks is the extremely beautiful Chairman of the Red Lake Nation, activities, with graphic visuals, by the way things went and what blonde City Administrator for East unveiled to its citizens and the Minneapolis officers, Sgt. William followed after we had our sessions Gull Lake. Routinely, the City world, what the Red Lake Nation, Blake, and Robert Thunder; here last year. Administrator is the person as well as other Native American informative sessions with other law "I'd like to thank the charged with doing day-to-day bands of the Minnesota Chippewa enforcement officers; community organizers. First of all, I'd like to bookkeeping, billing city charges Tribe, and First Nation (Canadian) meetings and panel discussions, thank the Red Lake Tribal Council (like water, etc.), and paying bills bands, have done, collectively, to detailed information on and all of the members for for the City. Married into an rid themselves of this problem, and methamphetamine, cocaine, and supporting these type of events on influential Nevis family, Maureen "ratified" by the full Council at progress made; in his moving the Tribal Courts, and testimony the Red Lake Reservation, Cirks had, for many years, been the their regular meeting 4/3/07, address at the 2nd annual Summit from medical professionals as to Chemical Health Programs work City Clerk for the City of Nevis, council minutes (http:// on Drugs and Gangs, held Feb. the effects of drugs and how to very hard to see that this summit Minn., where she, and the Deputy www.eastgulllake.govoffice.com) 14th and 15th, 2008, at the Red counter addiction. Opening drum is happening again this year, City Clerk that she had requested disclose that the Council was only Lake Humanities Center, adjacent songs were provided, each day, by Project Safe Neighborhoods, (this is for a city of 364 people) informed that Ramsdell was "no to the Red Lake Casino. the Battle River Drum Group, and Alice Benais, the Dept. of Public exacted salaries that amounted, longer employed" by the City as of It was a cold day February 14th, the Invocation, Feb. 14th, by Mr. Safety, the Red Lake Schools, the each year, to about $142 for every 3/20/07. The question was never when the Chairman opened the Larry Stillday, Tribal Elder. The Red Lake Youth Council, Red man, woman, and child in Nevis. put before the Council. summit, but neither the 10 degree award-winning Hip-Hop group, Lake Gaming and the Red Lake Following the Minnesota State A legal question exists as to cold, nor some of the authorities Red Nation provided music attuned Casino for hosting this event; I Auditor finding several irregularities whether the termination by the scheduled to be there being a bit to the likes of young people there. know I'm going to be missing in Nevis's books, (see State Auditor wastewater committee, rather than late due to having to respond to an Quiet Thunder. Following the somebody, I apologize for that, but Cites Irregularities At Nevis, NH of the full council, was lawful; as Invocation and the opening drum, also I'd like to thank the Mpls. 3/23/02, at northernherald.com), M.S. 412.111 empowers the Corrections Chairman Jourdain, masterfully, Council, in the absence of a City (no, not even we are without sin) Police Dept., and Fox Valley Mrs. Cirks moved on to a town with but with his soft-spoken, "plain [Technical College] for graciously a higher tax base. She landed in East Manager (not the same as • The name of the owner of folks straight-talk" rapport, accepting our invitation and come Gull Lake. Administrator), to make these The Hawg Pen cycle shop, uncanny for someone of his stature back and facilitate the summit this Other E. Gull Lake city officials decisions. M.S. 412.621 allows Grand Rapids, is Steve Storrs but for which he is known, took year." (loud applause) mentioned herein include: statutory cities to establish a public (NH of 01/21/08, p. 3) the podium, and issued powerful "I'm also proud to announce Brenda Thomes - Deputy Clerk- utilities commission, but only in an • The article (in NH of words that would fall hard upon that at this year's Summit will be a Treasurer (essentially an assistant/ advisory capacity, not to discharge 01/21/08, p. 3), Ridgeview Apts., anyone who was contemplating 'youth-track' this year. That was sidekick to the Administrator) the powers of the Council. Bemidji Has Tenant Arrested drug or gang activity on the Red one of the things that was Mayor-Dave Kavanaugh, who City Attorney Tom Fitzpatrick After Unlawful Eviction Attempt Lake Nation; condensed and suggested under the sessions last also owns Kavanaugh's Resort in E. has adamantly maintained that the was in error as to the name of concise, within his short year and also [by] the Red Lake Gull Lake. firing was lawful and proper. But the apartment complex. It is, impromptu and unscripted, but Schools; they were limited in what City Councilor (1 of 4) - Marty neither Fitzpatrick, nor Cirks, will correctly, the Ridgeway Court fact-filled, talk: they could do in attending last Carlson, also owner of MG allow the inspection of the minutes Apartments, at 2800 Ridgeway "I tried to write a speech this year's, so we wanted to make sure Carlson Construction, Baxter. of that 3/20/07 wastewater Ave., NW., Bemidji (follow-up morning but, . that we reached out to the youth Randy Ramsdell had been the committee meeting, and Northern on p.