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Pat Gerszewski, owner of Petro Pumper in Thief River Falls, Minn., fears U.S. Highway 59, which feeds into the Lancaster, Minn., Port of Entry to Canada, will become a "dead-end highway" if U.S. Customs and Border Protection reduces the hours at Lancaster. April Baumgarten / Forum News Service1 / 2
Petro Pumper cashier Susan Eischens hands cash to a customer Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, at the Thief River Falls, Minn., gas station. The business sits at the mouth of U.S. Highway 59, which feeds into the Lancaster, Minn., Port of Entry at the Canadian border. April Baumgarten / Forum News Service2 / 2
THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. — When southbound travelers on U.S. Highway 59 drive into Thief River Falls, one of the first things they see is Petro Pumper.
The gas station sits at the mouth of the traffic collector that eventually feeds into the port of entry to Canada near Lancaster, Minn.
That’s why Gerszewski and other business owners along the Highway 59 corridor filled the Lancaster Community Center Monday, Nov. 6, to voice their concerns on a move to reduce hours at the Lancaster and Roseau, Minn., ports. Citing decline in traffic over several years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection proposed changing the Roseau closing time from midnight to 8 p.m. and Lancaster’s closing time from 10 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Those proposed cutbacks could take effect Jan. 7, meaning travelers who typically cross at Lancaster would have to drive 30 miles west to the Pembina, N.D., port of entry for 24-hour border-crossing access. Roseau crossers would need to drive 21 miles east to Warroad, Minn.
The proposed changes are not a done deal, CBP spokesman Jason Givens said in an email. The agency still is collecting input before it makes a final decision. Comments can be sent to Lancastermailbox@cbp.dhs.gov or Roseaucbp@cbp.dhs.gov.
Gerszewski fears drivers would bypass Thief River Falls and anyone on Highway 59, effectively taking a large chunk of business out of operations after 4 p.m.
He said he is afraid the move will change traffic patterns on the highway and may start a chain of events that could lead to the complete closure of the ports.
“It is the shortest route from Winnipeg to Minneapolis,” he said of Highway 59. “It’s pretty much turning Highway 59 into a dead-end road.”
Lancaster and Roseau fall toward the middle of the pack when it comes to international traffic in the Grand Forks CBP sector, which covers 861 miles of international border in North Dakota and Minnesota. The Grand Forks sector oversees 25 ports of entry in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Numbers for border crossings from Canada at both stations have fluctuated up and down in recent months. For August, Lancaster saw 3,800 passenger vehicles come in from Canada, a 20 percent increase from last year, according to CBP reports. Truck traffic was down almost 32 percent from last year, counting 362 trucks in August.
Roseau processed 4,128 passenger vehicles in August from the north, almost 10 percent less from last year, the CBP said. About 500 trucks went through that port in August, an 8 percent jump from last year.
The two ports were identified for cutbacks to “more efficiently align our resources to meet the demands of ports of entry with higher traffic volumes, thus increasing border security,” Michele James, CBP director of field operations in Seattle, said in a statement.
“Minimal traffic after 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., along with fiscal responsibility with taxpayer money, were a determining factor for the adjustment of hours at Lancaster and Roseau,” James said. “Our analysis of traffic data from the past five fiscal years shows that the ports of Roseau and Lancaster would be minimally impacted by an adjustment of hours.”
Lancaster and Roseau are not alone. The CBP adjusted hours at 13 ports across the U.S. in fiscal year 2017, Givens said.
The agency said cargo and passenger traffic from Canada have steadily declined at the two ports since fiscal year 2013.
Roseau has seen a 19 percent decrease in personal vehicles and a 37 percent drop in commercial vehicles in the last five fiscal years, according to the CBP. Lancaster has seen a drop of 33 percent in all traffic during that time, the CBP said.
Lancaster averages three personal vehicles and 0.4 commercial vehicles per hour after 4 p.m., according to the CBP. Roseau’s numbers are even lower, averaging 1.4 personal vehicles and 0.4 commercial vehicles after 8 p.m.
He is the co-owner GrandStay Hotel and Suites in Thief River Falls. He also owns Falls Stay N Play, a campground that features a go-kart track, mini-golf and arcade.
People who work until 5 p.m. won’t be able to use the ports on Fridays if they want to come down for a weekend getaway. He believes travelers will take Interstate 29 or other routes, which will bypass the Highway 59 corridor.
“It’s going to hurt our whole community,” he said, adding he believes the move will affect businesses all the way down to Detroit Lakes.
The Thief River Falls Chamber of Commerce, as well as business representatives from other communities, filled the Lancaster Community Center to oppose the changes. In a room with about 250 chairs, it was standing room only, said Ashley Nerhus, executive director of the Chamber.
“We are concerned about that because Canadian visitors are very important to Thief River Falls and a lot of other communities, both north and south of us,” Nerhus said. “We feel that if they close that at 4 p.m. instead of 10 p.m., they will be less likely to visit Thief River Falls.
“All of the Canadians stood up, and about 10 to 15 percent of the people there were from Canada and were upset about it,” he said. “They want that border crossing left open.”
Gov. Mark Dayton strongly opposed the proposal this week in a letter to CBP Director Jason Schmelz. The changes would “cause significant health, safety and economic harm to Minnesotans who live and travel in those and surrounding communities,” he wrote.
“Your announcement regarding the reduced hours has left little time for negatively affected Minnesotans to respond,” Dayton wrote in the letter. “I ask you to consider carefully the comments provided by Minnesotans at those meetings.”
Several members of Congress also have expressed concerns about the cutbacks, including U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn. He said the CBP should have consulted Roseau and Lancaster residents long before making the reduction decision.
“Ever since the decision was made, my office has received a flood of messages from folks who believe this is a real bad idea,” he said in a letter read at the town hall meetings. “The benefits of shifting Customs personnel and reducing hours simply don’t outweigh the negatives.”
“Now in five years, they are going to turn around and say our traffic count is lower yet,” he said. “In five years from now, they are going to want to totally shut down those border crossings.”
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There were many dead soldiers. One body was a little different. It was wrapped in the flag and there was a suicide note. The rest of the soldiers had simply perished through fatigue and hypothermia, combination of heat and humidity. My platoon was sent to rescue the company that has lost its direction in the middle of one of the harshest environments in the world, along the coast of the Red Sea, somewhere between Massawa and Assab. The dead soldier in front of me was a sergeant and he preferred ending his life than suffer under a slow death. The suicide note was tied at the corner of the flag and it simply said: “ Our flag: I have fought for you and now I die for you. Long live Ethiopia.” I kneeled down took the flag which was all covered with his blood, kissed it and felt like crying but could not. We buried all in the desert with the sergeant’s body covered with his flag. (The full story in my book, Kihdet be Dem Meret). There are thousands of soldiers and officers, including my own course mates from the military academy, who preferred killing themselves, wrapped in a flag, than surrender to the enemy. Major General Amha Desta, the distinguished Air Force Commander committed suicide wrapped up with This Flag.
There is no other flag in the world that evokes so much passion and so much pride. There is no other flag that gives so much hope and courage in the face of adversity. There is no other flag that is so sacred and so revered. There is no other flag in Africa that is as old. According to Blaten Geta Hiruy, This Flag was designed by Minlik the first, between 982-958 BC, which makes it the oldest national flag in the world. This Flag has been carried in every battle won and lost. This Flag is the flag of Africa and the flag of the Ras Tafarians as the symbol of emancipation from slavery and colonialism.
This Flag has been the symbol of freedom, hope, unity, territorial integrity and honor. It is a symbol that unites every race creed or religion in Ethiopia. When you raise the flag, you raise your hope. When you fight the enemy, the flag is the engine that drives you. When you sing the anthem you celebrate the memories of all who have fallen for the cause. When you march together with all the others, you feel the sense of irreversible unity of our people. When you look at the beauty of the colors, it radiates hopes and brings memories of the glories of our forefathers. When you hold the flag you carry it with awe and responsibility.
This Flag has eternal life. Because of the spirit of courage, peace,valor and unity that it radiates, it is always revered. When my friend Captain Sahle witnessed a soldier dropping the flag by mistake, when he was hoisting it, he was furious. But the soldier also felt embarrassed and asked for forgiveness from Captain Sahle and asked to be punished. He later asked forgiveness from the squad that was lined up behind him. He felt that he was desecrating the flag. He was troubled by the incident for days because every soldier and officer was brought in a tradition where the flag was more important than each one of us; that even if you were to fall while carrying the flag you make sure you hit the ground first; not the flag.
‘Be Bandira!!! Don’t move!!!’ If a person was about to run away from a scene and you shout ‘bebandira !!; wedka betenesatchew, don’t move!!!’ it is impossible to imagine a situation where the person does not stop. He will. And the crowd around will freeze and watch the reaction of the person. Such was the respect that our flag commanded. This Flag; the Green, Yellow and Red; untarnished, unchanged for decades; it has carried our people this far. When the flag started being desecrated and called names, disfigured and abused, then our unity started being fractured but not broken.
When you honor This Flag you honor the ideals that it has stood for hundreds of years and the respect of those who have sacrificed their lives in defense of this great country. Changing the color, the emblem, the shape and design of the flag in whatever form, is considered blasphemy and desecration. When the TPLF put the flag on the back of a donkey and marched in public, it brought out all the anger and fury that no time can heal. It was an insult to the millions who died and suffered for the cause that this flag stands for.
In highland Eritrea until the time it separated from Ethiopia every funeral service was decorated with This Flag. Every household had a flag hoisted outside its house on holidays. No where in Ethiopia has our flag been so honored and revered like in Eritrea. It became the irony of life that Eritrea seceded from its own country, from the very flag that it honored for generations, from the flag that ‘Hager Fikre Mahber’ proudly waived in every march and demonstration demanding reunion with the motherland. Most of our wars were fought in the North, in Tigray and Eritrea, against invaders coming through the Red Sea, and it was there that This Flag was most honored. Another irony is that Tigray, where so many lost their lives carrying This Flag, became the one to desecrate this flag. Did the Prime Minister say that it was only a piece of cloth? It was difficult to believe that any Ethiopian with a sane mind would utter these words. That was the ultimate act of shame and treason, which in our time would have warranted execution.
Thanks to the sacrifices and unity of our people This Flag has been redeemed and flying high and proud in many places in Ethiopia these days. It is a sign of good times to come. When our flag flies high and proud in all the places that is the time of redemption for Ethiopia. Claiming This Flag is claiming our unity.
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