U.S. Curling gold medalist John Shuster to host free youth curling clinic at Lakes Curling Club in Detroit Lakes on Dec. 27
Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) – At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the U.S. Men’s Curling Team failed to make it out of round-robin play; finishing with a dismal 2-7 record in nine matches.
Then, four years later in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the improbable happened, the U.S. team took the top of the podium.
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The U.S. Men’s Curling Team, led by skip John Shuster, won the gold medal over what many considered the best team in the world at that time, Sweden, 10-7 in nine ends.
Now, Shuster is coming to Lakes Curling Club in Detroit Lakes to host a free youth curling clinic on Dec. 27 for kids in grades 4-12.
Dustin Richter, president of the Lakes Curling Club, said, over the past couple of years, they’ve been trying to get more young kids into the sport. Part of that youthful push developed into a novice-level league night for kids to learn the techniques and strategy behind the popular Minnesota past time.
“On the greenhorn league, it’s a lot of technique,” said Richter. “It’s kind of teaching technique and then on the league nights, we’re teaching technique and practicing our technique and then learning strategy.”
He also said he thinks curling is appealing to kids because of the social aspect of the sport, which can see opposing players chatting and socializing between shots.
“It’s a lot of fun and it’s very social,” he said. “Especially if you go to a bonspiel, you meet curlers from different places and you are able to visit. You are standing next to each other and competing against each other and there’s a lot of etiquette in curling. I think that would be beneficial for youth to understand the etiquette. There are no cocky curlers.”
Free pizza will also be provided to the kids during the youth clinic with Shuster on Dec. 27.
In a social media post, Lakes Curling Club stated that due to space constraints at the club any child wishing to participate will need to register for the event ahead of time.
For more information, or to register your child for the event, visit our station’s website or the Lakes Curling Club Facebook Page.
To sign up, email Lakes Curling Club Youth Instructor Jake Blow at: jakeblow14@gmail.com.
Moorhead K9 Zeke passes away after medical emergency over the weekend
The Moorhead Police Dept. has announced that one of its dogs has died unexpectedly.
K9 Zeke had an acute medical emergency while at home over the weekend. The dept. says officer Brett Musich took Zeke to an emergency veterinary clinic on Sat. and he died a short time later.
Zeke was deployed over 150 times during his service to the city.
In August, the pair received the prestigious “Case of the Year 2022,” a national award from the National Police Canine Association for their work in a Fargo drug investigation.
17-year-old juvenile injured in single-vehicle crash near Upsala
A teen was injured following a crash over the weekend in central Minnesota.
According to the Morrison County Sheriff’s Office, they received a report of a one-vehicle accident with injuries at the intersection of 70th Avenue and 20th Street, two miles east of Upsala.
According to the report, a 17-year-old juvenile male from Albany was traveling west on 20th Street when he lost control of the vehicle and it went in a ditch before striking a tree.
The teen was taken to St. Cloud Hospital with unknown injuries.
The incident remains under investigation.
St. Cloud City Council meeting descends into accusations of open-meeting law violations
Things got a little heated at the end of St. Cloud’s City Council meeting Monday night as Councilmember Mike Conway requested an investigation alleging other members of the council are guilty of multiple open meeting law violations.
Conway specifically accused councilmembers George Hontos and Dr. Karen Larson of breaking the rule through email and other forms of communication.
His request was to let a third-party view all emails from council members since the beginning of the year to make a determination if anything improper occurred.
Conway planned to discuss the possible open meeting violation at the November 6th meeting but withdrew the item from the agenda due to Dr. Larson’s absence.
The item was added back to November 20th’s agenda but was removed by a majority vote, and there was no further conversation on the issue.
Conway brought the issue up again for a third time during the open discussion portion of the city council’s meeting on Monday, Dec. 4.
Following the meeting, Conway said: “We’ll let the authorities look at it, review [it] and see if my belief is correct or not. So that’s kind of where we’re at. And now it is moved from the council having the open discussion to now we are going to have another agency look at [the] possibilities.”
No timetable for the investigation was given.
After the meeting, Councilmember George Hontos said he wasn’t about to be pushed around by Conway.
Hontos said: “I do believe that his tactics are unfortunate. He acts as a bully, and he tries to intimidate and the last person he’s going to intimidate is myself.”
He also accused Conway of making a mountain out of a molehill.
Adding: “I think it’s very childish on his part to initiate a censure for something that was an email communication that copied everybody on the council. And it had to do with procedure of the council, an internal thing.”
Hontos stated the emails had nothing to do with taxpayers, a development, a project, or anything on the agenda coming forward.
Renee Courtney, St. Cloud City Attorney, said Minnesota’s open meeting law regarding email communication is complicated and unclear, and every case is different.
An open meeting law violation could result in a civil fine of up to $300. If an elected official is found to have violated the open meeting law three times, they could be removed from office.
Alexandria police update public on homicide investigation
The Alexandria Police Department has released an update on a stabbing death in that took place in Alexandria last month.
Officials say they still don’t have a suspect in connection to the murder investigation of Desiree Frederick, 58, of Alexandria. She was found stabbed to death inside the home she shares with a family member on Nov. 24th.
Alexandria Police Chief Scott Kent says a number of items of evidence were collected at the scene, but they are still waiting for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension lab to process those items.
Police have established a timeline for Frederick’s whereabouts on the days leading up to her murder.
The report says that investigators have also gone through hundreds of hours of recorded data; have reportedly executed a number of search warrants and collected evidence; and are still waiting for more electronic data.
Kent says the public has been very helpful when his staff has needed assistance in connection to the case.
Air Force to continue looking into medical issues of service members stationed near nuclear weapons
The Air Force is expanding its study of whether service members who worked with nuclear missiles have had unusually high rates of cancer after a preliminary review determined that a deeper examination is needed.
The review was launched in response to reports that many who served are now ill. The Air Force isn’t making its initial findings of cancer numbers public for about a month.
Medical teams conducted thousands of tests of the air, water, soil and surface areas at its three nuclear missile bases in Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming.
Samples came back clean in Montana and Wyoming, with results from the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota still outstanding.
The Air Force said preliminary analyses of the heath record data found that additional study is warranted.
Ice Cube coming to West Fargo on Aug. 30; tickets on-sale Friday
The award-winning rapper, actor, director, producer and civil rights leader Ice Cube will take the stage at The Lights in West Fargo on Friday, August 30.
Ice Cube hit the national spotlight in the late 1980’s with N.W.A.’s groundbreaking “Straight Outta Compton”.
He went on to a successful solo career in music and movies with appearances in the “Friday” and “Barbershop” franchises.
Ice Cube was also part of a recent controversy following the cancellation of his June 9 show at Northern Lights Casino in Walker after severe weather postponed the concert after just one song. Fans waited for the show to resume for hours before it was officially cancelled. Refunds made available to concertgoers after sharp online backlash on social media following the event.
A ticket presale for Ice Cube’s West Fargo show begins Wednesday with general public on-sale starting Friday at 9 a.m. through Ticketmaster.com.
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