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The New Girl in Town By Laura Kay Prosser

ThRee Buns and a Hurricane®

 

Dear Editor,Matt. 10:28 “Do not be

afraid of those who kill thebody, but cannot kill the soul.Rather be afraid of the Onewho can destroy both soul andbody in hell.”

Do you fear terrorism inour country? There is anotherthreat that is much more seri-ous. Are you aware that the Is-lamist goal is to place mosquesin every city in America? Areyou aware that they have theability to replace the churchwith mosques. Their goal isto conquer. Their success isfigured by how many landsand nations they rule. Thisis the reason there is so muchbloodshed in the Middle East.Egypt, Syria and Turkey, allonce Christian nations, havebeen replaced by Islam. Havewe learned the lessons from

history?The Evangelical churches in

America have watered downtheir preaching to a point thatabsolute truth is now secondplace to accommodation andtoleration. People think theproblem is apathy but it is ac-tually more than that. Justas the Christian churches areweakened, the Koran is alsowatered down to sound more

friendly to Americans. Muchof the Koran readings are sugarcoated so one does not realizetheir true intention. This isagain done to make it accept-able to America.

Civilizational jihad will use

any means to infiltrate Amer-ica and has, not only throughterrorism, but also throughimmigration. They intendto use our constitutional free-doms in America to destroythe constitution. Their desireis to conquer through lullingAmericans to sleep. Accord-ing to Dr. Erwin Lutzer, favor-itism toward Muslims is hugein public schools. Are parentslaying down a strong Christianfoundation for their children?Many young women going tocollege fall in love with Mus-lim men and buy into this falsereligion.

The mosque is symbolic.Over 80% are supplied with jihad literature. Mosques arevery visible. Where they areplaced is where Muslims havebeen most successful. Is it nowonder that they desired to putone up next to the 9/11 Memo-rial?

The newest religion, Chris-lam, is a blend between Chris-tianity and Islam. This, of 

course, is an impossibility.Christians believe in the LordJesus Christ who suffered,died, and rose again, who isnow at the right hand of theFather, and who alone can saveus. Muslims hate the cross. To

them it is an offense and theirintent is to destroy crosseswherever they see them. Yetin America we are seeing emp-ty pews in our churches whilethe mosques next door havehundreds flooding into theirplace of prayer.

In all religions one will seea variety of believers: someare radical, some are nominal,some are devout, some are de-ceived and many are deceivers.What then are we to do? Ourcharge is to go to our Muslimneighbor and share Christ withhim/her. Islam is a religion of fear and oppression, not hope,

not joy. Christianity is a re-ligion of love, salvation fromsin and eternal life with andthrough our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Ref. The Cross in the Shad-ow of the Crescent

By Dr. Erwin Lutzer

Helen BeekmanRaymond MN 56282

It beginsSo it’s the second week of 

June. Summer seems to havearrived, kind of . . . depends onthe day. People, especially par-ents with school-age children,often look forward to summeras it means the schedule slowsdown a little. Even withoutchildren that age yet, I canalready tell it does not slowdown. I don’t think it ever doesactually.

There are so many possi-bilities these days for extracur-riculars. At age five or maybeeven sooner, children beginparticipating in activities be-yond the academic classroomand parents begin their shuttleservice and calendar night-mares. With one child goingin to kindergarten in the fall Iforesee the headaches in ournear future.

I work part-time as the Com-munity Ed Director for KMS.This gives me a unique vantagepoint to parenting and familyfunction or dysfunction.

Community Ed is the hub of dozens of activities for all ages,but it’s the elementary age stu-dents whose activities causethe most anguish for those in-volved at every angle. Somepeople seem to want their kidsinvolved in every possibleoption, others avoid as manyextras as they can. There arepeople who can’t afford to puttheir kids in some, if any, ac-tivities, and some who act likethey can’t afford it but drivevery nice automobiles.

Nobody wants “to be oneof those parents” who waitsuntil the last minute to registeror assume children can attendwithout preregistering, but inmany cases that’s the major-ity of people. Everyone justhas too many irons in the fire,and a lot of time they need ev-ery single minute, even the lastone, to get everything done.

There also seems to be an ex-pectation of receiving a t-shirtfor participating in activities. Ilove commemorative t-shirts;I have one from an outdoormusic festival in college thatI still wear. But when kids getseveral shirts a year they can-not possibly be special. Par-ents want to make sure theirkid gets that free t-shirt, evenif they don’t register by thedeadline, but really, who wantsmore laundry to do? That wasa tangent, I apologize.

The Hurricane is at the agewhere things he is interestedin become available as actualparticipatory events or activi-ties. Since he can’t possiblykeep abreast on all the offer-ings and also can’t read, I sharewith him things he may like todo. As his personality is natu-rally inclined to resistance,occasionally there are things Iknow he’d enjoy but he refusesto take part.

At first I found this veryfrustrating, because aboutthree days after preschoolended I could tell he was boredat home and rightfully so – Ican’t possibly schedule eight

hours of busywork and do thiswith him every day. When itcame time for him to get outand participate in some ac-tivities specifically for him, hefought us on leaving the house.

Then I thought, why am Ipushing him? He’s five. If hewould rather stay home andplay in the mud than go to gym-nastics with other kids, whocares? Between school, all theschool-sanctioned events, andnon-school things (4H, musiclessons, boy scouts, churchactivities, etc.) we will haveplenty of time out and about inour near future. Last weekendwe ate four meals, all six of us,at the table together. How longbefore that never happens?

I work with a lovely ladywho has four boys of her own,all out of high school now (hiPaulette!). She told me recent-ly that her all four of her boyswere three-sport athletes from7-12 grades. That means sheand her husband sat through,cheered on, encouraged, andpaid for her children to par-ticipate in 72 seasons of sports.Think of the hours, the mileson the car, the meals on theroad. And that’s just the sports.

Makes me want to slowdown a little. I know some-times my boys will need a littlepushing, but I think it’s okayto miss an activity once in awhile. There will be plenty of time over the next 15 years orso to overextend our calendars.I don’t want to be one of thoseparents either.

Head deep in his car be-tween races and even duringhis off time at home, ShaneKruger is dedicated to the sportthat captivated his imagination

at a young age, car racing.“My uncle used to race yearsago and I went with my cousinto watch,” Kruger said.

From the pit Kruger watchedand allowed the diesel to sinkinto his bloodstream. Soon hiscousin and his friends wereracing as well, and before heknew it his friend Justin Tam-men, a driver sponsored byClara City like Kruger, hadtalked him into buying a car.

“This is his old car,” Krugersaid.

However, it’s been yearssince the car has seen anyonebut Kruger behind the wheel.

So, he bought the car, foundan engine builder, bought ev-erything he needed to get start-ed and has been racing for overthree years now.

“You don’t race for moneybecause you really don’t makemoney racing people,” Krugersaid.

Everything goes back intothe car. According to Kruger,there is always something tocheck and to make sure it’sdone right so that once on thetrack there are no problems.

“These things are pretty highmaintenance,” Kruger said.

Two to three nights a week

Kruger spends working onhis car with friends OwenSchipnewski, Jordan Freese,Lucas Doesken, DarrinCaspers and Dakota Runly. Al-most every other day he is rac-ing. Most weekends he makesinto a four day racing weekendfrom Thursday-Saturday.

“You race, then you work toget the car ready for the nextrace and you race again,” Kru-ger said.

Racing for Kruger is a lot of time and commitment that hedoesn’t seem to mind, not withhis friends doing everything toget his car ready and sitting in

the pit with him assessing thetrack with him between races.Being constantly aware of 

everything is key to racing, ac-cording to Kruger. One has tobe aware not just of the trackbut also the other racers andeveryone on the track and inthe pit.

“When you’re racing youdon’t think of anything else,and when you’re done youcan’t even remember what wasgoing through your head outthere,” Kruger said.

The first time Kruger racedhe jumped the wall of the trackand busted into a horse pasture

because his throttle was stuckopen.

“I remember flying throughthe air and just closing myeyes,” Kruger said.

He didn’t roll, but with a fivepoint seat belt and a roll cagehe’d be pretty safe no matterthe type of crash. His car land-ed on the right front tire andwhile he was ok, his car waspretty screwed up.

“A bunch of stuff can gowrong at any given time andyou see people crash all the

time in this sport,” Krugersaid. “But people think racingis more dangerous than it actu-ally is.”

On a given night Kruger canrace 16-18 cars and lately hehas been finishing in the top 10.

“I’m a pretty competitiveperson,” Kruger said.

This year he switched fromthe category of Pure Stock toStreet Stock. He’s only racedeight times in this category,though he hopes to race about70 nights this summer alone.With this move Kruger willbe able to race more than twonights a week and can race on

more tracks than when he wasPure Stock.

Last year he was TrackChampion in Montevideo, soit’s no surprise that with thisnew switch he has locked hiseye on a new prize.

“I’m going for NationalRookie of the Year in StreetStock,” Kruger said.

Kruger will be competingagainst hundreds of drivers and45 rookies. His top 30 showswill be totalled for points so themore nights he drives the better

his odds are, if he drives well.“Everyone in this classs hasbeen doing it many more yearsthan I have, they have a lotmore laps under them than Ihave,” Kruger admitted.

However, he doesn’t seemto be daunted by this fact. Ashe gets his car ready week af-ter week and gets behind thewheel to race weekend afterweekend, he is one step closernot only to dying of an adrena-line rush but also taking theprize of being Rookie of theYear.

“The game plan is to keep iton four wheels and try to win,”

Kruger said.