Sunday, June 30, 2019

Signs 6-30-19....all illegal and reported to LFPD

This sign below was just erected 7-3-19, after I reported all the others to the LFPD, the city and clarified with Mndot to see if they gave permits for ANY of these signs. They did not. 

State statute AND our sign ordinance forbid any signs ATTACHED to road signs.
JOBS sign in road right of way....a no no.
Right in front of POLICE STATION(picture below) in the road right of way. I think I will try this. 7-3-19
 This ILLEGAL SIGN attached to a stop sign at intersection of Paul Larson Drive and 9th Ave NE. Below...

City or MnDot didn't place this either.

 In talking with Adelle Starin this morning 7-3-19, of Babies on Broadway, she stated an Otremba from Knife River Construction, had given her permission to have these signs in the road right of way. She said business owners and Big Dig organizers were present at this meeting. Nobody is authorized to issue permits for the public road right of way, except the city or MnDot. And an actual paper permit would have been issued after filling out and paying for the permit. That's the way it works. There are laws in place to prevent this type of illegality. Our LFPD is not doing their job, if they have not removed the 3 that are attached to the stopsigns and road signs. It's their job. Adelle also stated that Dominos added their signs on their own.
Below, advertising signs ON THE STREET....I don't think so. Nothing can be in the roadway.  Unless city or MnDot places it there. They didn't place this....that's for sure.
 Sign on sidewalk, too close to stopsign, kitty corner from police station.
 City parking lot below with advertising sign for Baby's on Broadway
 JOBS sign in road right of way

Minnesota city council votes to DELETE the PLEDGE TO ALLEGIANCE to create a more welcoming city and meetings.


https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MCTI2uf?s=a3&pd=020qxQGy

Yay.....at least there is one smart city council out there.  There will be more.

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Barret Petfoods Innovations VIDEOS GALORE 6-25-19 across street from Midstate Education 18th St NE Little Falls, Mn 6-25-18

Today 6-25-19 I took a drive. https://www.facebook.com/235302383820181/posts/345197419497343/?sfnsn=moSee for yourself what I discovered and exposed.UPDATED.....here is the link for Lakeland News story on this broadcast 7-3-19
https://youtu.be/Kym6fibSrYM

News reporter not allowed inside the processing facility. Myself and 2 other whistleblowers denied entry. Reaks of suspicion.

Video below is final deal. City sells 52 acres to BARRETT for one dollar. Passes unanimously. You have all of them, Carol Anderson, and all members of EDA city and county boards to thank when you can't stand the stench of extruded dogfood anymore, or they bottom out and YOU have to foot the bill again.

https://youtu.be/yK-RSSnwLHY

 VIDEO LAST NIGHTS PUBLIC FORUM COMMENTS AT CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION BARRET PETFOODS/MIDSTATE UNSAVORY COMBO...

 Below ...part 1 of council meeting and work session 7-1-19



Part 2 council mtg 7-1-19


 I am outraged that our most vulnerable special needs students will be educated and play outside on their playground (in back on the east side of the new MidState Education Building that is not yet complete) right across the street and DOWNWIND from the proposed 160,000 sq ft Barret Petfoods Innovations dogfood extruding plant.http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/education/article109570792.html That's just a little smaller than our gigantic And lookie here who rigged up this deal, and pushed it through. Your one and only mayor Greg Zylka(also Sourcewell board member and former District #482 School Board member)
https://news.sourcewell-mn.gov/a-groundbreaking-collaboration/



 Walmart store which is 207,000 sq ft.

https://youtu.be/v0lFwdNm_G Who wants to buy the worst dogfood on planet earth....extruded dogfood?    That's the kind Barrett manufactures.  See the video link to hear all about it.

Yuk. 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 Above is the video of the EDA meeting on 6-24-19 at Little Falls, Mn city hall. Mayor Greg Zylka is president of that board. He admits his brother just started working for Barrett 3 weeks ago, then proceeds to tell everyone that he has been working hard on this project for more than a year.  Cronyism at it's worst and then some.  And we thought former mayor Cathy VanRisseghem was bad.  I think he follows her footsteps pretty well.
https://www.hometownsource.com/morrison_county_record/news/business/barrett-petfood-innovations-breaks-ground-for-new-addition/article_10c7f8af-7c36-5bd9-8a8c-56fa773c4422.html

 They are going to be surrounded by stink from every direction.

 Who's idea was this anyway? Carol Anderson Morrison County EDA? Mayor Greg Zylka? Lori Kasella city finance director? Jon Radermacher city administrator? Stephen Jones school district #482 superintendent? The school board? MidState school board? Loren Boyum(has been with MidState and former councilor)? Shame on anyone who had their hands in this rotten deal for our kids.

This has to be one of the biggest blunders in Little Falls, Mn. history.

What a sham.  Cronyism at it's worst. Greg Zylka announces yesterday at the EDA mtg that his brother was just hired at Barret 3 weeks ago. Think that's an accident?  This same brother John, who used to work for Falls Distributing, Larson Boats, and I am told, Mala Mills, sure seems to bounce around a lot.

Barrett family says they value community and give back....yes but only to some they like. They very verbally opposed a necessary half way house proposed in 2017 for addicts that need a transitional place to stay and get their feet on  the ground, before finding employment and returning to society.  Barretts opposed it.  https://www.youarenotaloneinc.com/about-us Only "THEIR'' family matters, evidently. Shameful.

https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/4192265-crow-wing-county-board-halfway-house-receives-board-support......yup, they're a decent family alright.  In who's eyes?  Not mine.

Some kind of peas are growing on the 52 acre site Barret (below) is buying from the city. They use yellow peas in their petfoods. Think it's coincidental that peas are the crop here this year?


It is morally wrong to do this, regardless if it's all legal.

The wetlands below is Daggett Brook/Creek, about half mile south of Barrett Petfood plant on highway 25 north of Pierz. Any runoff or pollutants would end up in here. If you zoom in on the photo with the seagulls feeding on something, you can see there is water that is on the ground flowing into Dagget Creek.
One wonders, where does a plant this large discharge their wastewater? There are not sewer pipes in the country. Only septic systems. This looks really suspicious.


Don't you think?

If so, get to the city council mtg on July 1, 2019 Little Falls city hall and tell them you object. Show up at 6:30pm for the work session public forum comment where everyone is allowed 3 minutes to speak.

This is your last chance. I have been warning people for months now. The stench on this town will never end, if Barrets get their stinking plant in our town.  And all you homeowners behind Aldi, if you think there's traffic now on 18th Street, you have no idea what's headed your way. You will smell it more than other homes in town because you too, are downwind. Get ready.....better yet, show up to oppose this. Don't ever say, I didn't warn you.

Business....at what cost?
https://youtu.be/v0lFwdNm_G EXTRUDED DOGFOOD IS THE WORST KIND YOU CAN FEED YOUR DOG. WATCH THIS VIDEO.

https://www.hometownsource.com/morrison_county_record/free/lf-council-supports-barrett-expansion/article_77da6d4c-d46c-11e8-a5b8-5793da50d5ed.html

https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/4250065-klobuchar-visits-brainerd-area-pet-food-maker

https://www.brainerddispatch.com/business/3833439-pet-food-pioneers-how-brother-sister-duo-transforming-industry
https://www.brainerddispatch.com/business/3160567-farming-exotic-pet-foods-barretts-convert-operation-successful-global-business
https://www.brainerddispatch.com/business/3160567-farming-exotic-pet-foods-barretts-convert-operation-successful-global-business
https://www.hometownsource.com/morrison_county_record/free/central-mn-renewables-closes-its-doors/article_32fbfe04-943b-11e9-8592-736fbf94756e.htmlhttps://www.hometownsource.com/morrison_county_record/free/central-mn-renewables-closes-its-doors/article_32fbfe04-943b-11e9-8592-736fbf94756e.htmlhttps://www.petfoodindustry.com/articles/2576-odor-reduction-solutions-in-petfood-productionhttps://www.jwce.com/application/pet-food/https://truthaboutpetfood.com/pet-food-can-be-stinky-business/https://fox2now.com/2019/04/07/state-monitoring-odor-complaints-in-joplin/https://truthaboutpetfood.com/pet-food-can-be-stinky-
Barrett says they don't use rendered meat by products.....ya for now.  Unless in time, they decide to change their minds and once the plant is operational, they can choose to manufacture whatever batches of petfood they want. The city would have no say in any of that. And if they ever sell out to some big petfood conglomerate, that company decides what to manufacture at this plant. Think about it Littlefallsians. These are pictures from Tom Barretts Facebook page, that show fish within the Barrett plant ready for processing into petfoods.

Below is the video of the December 2018 public hearing for the TIF for Barrett Petfoods Innovation.


EDA mtg Oct. 2018 Barrett Petfoods below


business/http://www.poisonedpets.com/nestle-purina-pet-food-plant-plagued-putrid-stench-years/https://www.petfoodindustry.com/articles/6192-royal-canin-decreases-odor-from-pet-food-production-plant
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Pelican Rapids racism.....sets a whole new standard for bigotry.


https://www.brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columns/4627090-mcfeely-pelican-rapids-newspaper-pushes-back-bigotry

Don't miss this poignant interview with Coleen Rowley, former FBI whistleblower and 2002 Times Magazine Person of the Year.
She tells it like it is with perpetual wars and the crisis we are in now because of them.
https://www.spreaker.com/user/9119584/empire-episode48-colleenrowley

Flensburg, Mn city council meeting 6-17-19 Margurite Cofell amongst the audience. Mayor John Gessell, Jr. thinks he can control free speech at public meeting.

This will blow your mind....the video above shows how dense a mayor can get.   Flensburg dense. He sets a new standard of it. My public forum is above also....asking pertinent questions and informing this illiterate council about the open meeting law and it's requirements. Here is the link for Mn statute 13D..04 https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/13D.04
Interesting they were discussing bringing fiber optic into town.  I was not able to get reception in order to broadcast Facebook Live.   It's a dead zone out there, in numerous ways. Their next meeting is July 15, 2019.  They can expect my presence.  Somebody should have been monitoring/reporting on them decades ago.  It is abundantly clear they have violated the open meeting law, more than once recently.  See the photos of the minutes from their May 13, 2019 meeting below.  Absolutely no mention of hiring the new clerk.  I was present at the April 15, 2019 meeting where Margurite Cofell turned in her resignation and it was decided to put an ad in the MC Record to hire a new clerk.  There was supposedly no meeting in between.  So how did she get hired then? and by whom?   Looks like a round robin must have taken place, or an illegal, unpublished meeting. A round robin is where council members call one another, in order to skirt the open meeting law.  It is illegal.
Mayor John Gessell, Jr. is not fit to hold public office.  Neither are any of his band of merry cohorts.  Is this the best that Flensburg can come up with? Remedial education is in order for every one of them.








Monday, June 17, 2019

Sunday, June 16, 2019

Recipe Concocted for Perpetual War is a Bitter One, by Coleen Rowley and Robert Wing

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/04/recipe-concocted-for-perpetual-war-is-a-bitter-one/

War is what ameriKa feeds off of....and war is the "teet' that Camp Ripley soldiers suck on every day.  The military(including National Guard, Air Force, Navy, Army, Marines, and all other branches) is the biggest welfare handouts program EVER.

Monday, June 10, 2019

Sen.Paul Gazelka....this is what you deserve. Ron Kresha shame on you, for defending this torture.


https://www.brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columns/4622063-shaw-gay-conversion-therapy-legalized-torture

You should both hang your heads in shame for manipulating the gullible rightwing radicalized members of the audience.

Fortunately, there were some present who knew better. Kudos to Steven Browning for telling it straightup and confronting you headon.

Sunday, June 9, 2019

Chalk the Walk, 2018/2019 guidelines violate the First Amendment. Little Falls, Mn

https://www.hometownsource.com/morrison_county_record/opinion/letters_to_editor/chalk-the-walk-event-still-unconstitutional/article_c11f9ffc-893b-11e9-aa8f-47175abb6249.html

What on earth were the city council/city staff/city attorney thinking? Or were they? 5th graders could perform better. Remedial classes are in order.

Remember what the official city/county newspaper had to say about lawsuits......
https://www.hometownsource.com/morrison_county_record/taxpayers-foot-the-bill-when-city-is-taken-to-court/article_5637334b-5a57-5c72-a730-f8996db29be9.html

The city will never win.  The law was on my side.  It still is.

https://www.aclu-mn.org/en/cases/hill-v-federal-protective-services

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Saturday, June 8, 2019

St. Gabriels Hospital expansion update video 6-8-19

Video made 6-8-19

EARL LEMIEUR'S "BEER BELLYS BAR" bldg, 6-8-19 electronic illegal sign REMOVED

Picture and video 6-8-19.

Finally removed.


Flensburg,Mn COUNCIL UPDATES 6-8-19 LuAnn Morrow becomes acting city clerk??

I want to know how and when LuAnn Morrow(Margurite Cofell's sidekick) was made the acting city clerk. It was not decided at the April 15, 2019 meeting that I videorecorded(all are above). And there was no meeting between April 15th and May 13th. Or was there? And the public was not aware? All of a sudden at the beginning of the May 13th meeting, she magically has this title of "acting city clerk." How's that possible? Did they violate the open meeting law?  Doesn't council hire city personel? Did Mayor John Gessell, Jr just appoint her without a council vote?

Now here below, is what was in the public announcement box today 6-8-19 outside the Flensburg community center where the council meetings are held.


Mr. Crabby Pants Ken Merten was mowing the grass when I arrived today 6-8-19. He quickly came over by the front of the community building where I was taking photos of the public announcements. If looks could kill, I'd be dead. I greeted him but he burst into the building, then came out, slammed the door and hopped back on the mower, all in a huff. What friendly folks reside in Flensburg. Especially this angry joker!  

I wonder what he gets paid for that mowing job? I wonder who hired him? Council? And I wonder if he was a councilor when he was hired as lawn maintenance person. I wonder if that job was put out for bids as required by law. I wonder if the city has a drug testing policy for city job applicants? If not, why not. 

I wonder if they have a Responsible Authority? If not, why not? 


Sidenote....acting city clerk LuAnnMorrow could use some remedial writing classes. Suppose the city council will authorize that, or continue to publicize 5th grade minutes?


Notice city attorney Peter Vogel advises they appoint a data privacy representative.  Council decides to appoint LuAnn Morrow to that position.
Notice in TINY PRINT it states the next meeting will be held on June 17th. No time or year listed and it's at the very bottom of another document, not listed by itself in large print as it was for the May 13th mtg which is still in the public announcement box. (Pictured at left)



Check out the missing notes from the April 15, 2019 meeting that were publicly posted after that meeting, that mention everything I said, but are NOT in the official minutes posted today 6-8-19. Why not?

Here is what was in the box after the April 15, 2019 meeting I attended.





Here is the 2018 Flensburg budget on the Mn State Auditors website, but I sure can't find any 2018 Flensburg audit on the OSA website as LuAnn Morrow told Beth Super.  If I find it, I will publish it.
Lastly, I made a data request a few weeks ago, asking to inspect a number of items from the city of Flensburg council meetings and policies. 



 I received this response recently....
 Somebody can't read....my last name is spelled HENSEL.  Not Henzel.
Just a few tidbits below from the League of Mn handbook on data practice requirements.