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SENT BY: SRC; <br />t l/inml \I.; ‘^piii*. <br />2- 5-99 3:28PM; 6122969441 ->#4/5 <br />lmp.//WWW vvHiil>.CwUl ''C«.>HC‘' ff tJa>\>yMO<‘5 /•'••'•Av./m.. <br />P.uK <br />2-V»8 West liiJrt A\»* <br />WilliiMi MN Tribune Td (»ri*> J r <br />I 4% I 'Oui : i5 o ‘7o*> <br />il'v\wCf lb Com <br />Home I Ncw.s | Sports | | Fculur^ 1 Dusttie'^s | <br />Rccoras (()bitiuu>es [ Cl;u>i»i nccls <br />^ivhi\e 1 About Us | Special Sections T Links | Feedback <br />KUITOKIAL: Quick Spins <br />FtB. 5 - I'HUMDS UP: To the forces behind Wednesday's <br />out*ot*llic-bluc announcement on the Highway 12 expansion. <br />It was a marvelous coalescence of good fortune, years of hard <br />work and recent decisions by the cities ot Way7ata, Omno <br />and Long Lake to unlock their resistance to an expanded <br />highway. <br />A tentative agreement was announced, focusing on plans to <br />build what's called a "Super 2" highway througli those cities <br />on the western side of the metro area. The Iwo-hine highway <br />with limited access is designed to case congestion. It won ’t be <br />the four-lane highway that many fought for ycar.s, but it <br />should do much to take the pain out of a trip to the Twin <br />Cities from we.st central Minne.sola along Highway 12, <br />tackling the highway at one of its most ditTicull spots. <br />Now that this hurdle has been cleared, wc hope transpurluliun <br />otVicials will heed the urging of Sea. Dean Joluison, who <br />pushed Wednesday to have the pn>jecl speeded up. Hven with <br />the plnnncd widening of Highway 23 in northern Kandiyohi <br />County, wc still need a better Highway 12 to serve west <br />Central Minnesota. News like Wednesday’s moves u,s closer to <br />that reality. <br />1HUMBS UIV To Minnesota’s new Korean War Memorial in <br />St. Paul. 1 he memorial was de.signed by a man with strong <br />Willmar tic.s. Art Norby, .'Uid was dedicated in a ceremony last <br />fall. We spent some time there Sunday morning, and were <br />iinprc.<iscd. <br />Not fji* fnmi the state Capitol, the memorial - W'hich mixes <br />.sculpture and luvhitectural design to strong effect - is an <br />eye-catching, and touching, tribute to troops who served in <br />Korea in the eiuly 1950s. It’s worth the visit. <br />I'HUMBS IIP: To tlic compromise that appears tv> be <br />emerging In ,St. Paul over snowmobile studs. <br />A bill, making its way through the Senate, will continue to <br />ban studs from all paved trails in the state, but would, in its <br />currcni lorm, drop the $51 surcharge. Snowmobilers gam <br />linaneially by not having to pay the surcharges, a move that <br />would please, for instance. Gov Jesse Ventura, who owns <br />live snowmobiles am.’ must pay surcharges on each. <br />l ol .’I III r'