Daily Journal, The (Newspaper) - April 18, 2007, Fergus Falls, Minnesota MERCHANDISE some exceptions CONTINUES THROUGH APRIL 21st Come help us celebrate our Anniversary with Specials and Free Dra wings 1914 Hours Thurs nights till 8 75 Cents Subscribe today Call 218 7397015 or 800 Chris Marvel Fergus 7393377 American Federally Wednesday April 91 Fergus Tax preparers report 1 hour delays By Matt Bewley Daily Journal Despite nationwide reports Tuesday of problems using software to electroni cally file tax Fergus Falls preparers report nothing more than a delay in logging into their online sys tems Tuesday the deadline for filing tax At in the morning at No returns were late because of filing software slowdown about 9 I was having a hard time getting connected to the administrator Shannon Hohrman of Richard Pickett LTD I wasnt able to do any But it only lasted about an It did not cause any and every thing got filed on It was a little yester day Randy Highland of Carlson Highland and Co LLP but that was We didnt have any trouble getting everything filed on The problem was with the popular and tax whose users were forced to wait hours for confirmation that their elec tronic returns had been submit ted A record number of returns from both individual taxpayers and accountants started causing delays in the system early and the problem got worse as the mid night deadline for getting forms to the Internal Revenue Service said Harry a company The amount of filing that has been done today has been absolutely and we are doing everything we possibly can to expand capabilities of During times of peak of Intuit was processing 50 to 60 returns per he The Mountain company contacted the IRS to alert the agency to the While stop ping short of promising that fil ers whose returns fail to reach the government before the deadline would not be penal he its fair to say the IRS understands what the situa tion is and would have a state ment about the situation High court upholds partial birth ban today By Susan MA Larson Daily Journal The news of that the Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act Wednesday drew local reaction on both sides of the Its good news for unborn babies and the Marsha Fergus She and her Byron are active members of the West Otter Tail County Chapter of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for There are so many partial birth abortions being performed and this ban will help decrease the Theres always hope Roe will be over This is just a small step towards Its a huge Bonnie Bell president of the local Business and Professional Women national platform supports reproductive The death of any child is a tragedy and the partial birth abor tion is an extreme of Bell but its not my place to choose for The nations high court ruled five to four to uphold the signed into law by President Bush in It was the first time the court banned a specific procedure in a case over how not whether to perform an The law bans a method of ending a rather than limiting when an abortion can be per The opponents of the act have not demonstrated that the act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority Enthusiastic kids prepare for help others Marinn and May Wiese check to see if they have the winning card dur ing a bingo game at the Senior Center Tuesday after The center adopted Lynette third grade class in and has partnered with her as part of the program that pairs classes with Journal photos by Erin Schlueter Students at McKinley Elementary School wave their homemade pom poms during a learning Tuesday organized on the Teaching Kids to to help motivate kids to do their best on upcoming MCA and MAP The MCA test for is scheduled Wednesday and and again April 25 and The MAP for all grades kindergarten through will start April 30 and continues through May For more education see Pages 5 and Expo features advice for job shoppers By Bob Williams Daily Journal The goal of Thursdays Career Expo is to provide a shop for anyone looking for a job or career though it is geared toward More than 60 education and business institutions will have booths at the scheduled from to 7 at the Fergus Falls High School This in an attempt to encourage more parental the expo coincides with When parents come to con we want them to come over to the gym and take a peek at what the students are going to be able to Its going to be great and a good time to visit with all these Harold Economic Improvement Commission Parents of high school juniors are encouraged to attend high school counselor Dave Thorpes Senior Year at or 7 in the high school media This is an informal discus sion for parents of current juniors seeking information on grade We go over the calen dar for the responsibilities of being a senior and a peri See Expo Page 2 Local women have heard comments similar to Imus statements before By Matt Daily Journal Responses to last weeks derogatory comments made on MSNBC by shock jock Don Imus are strongly felt by local women and athletes The Fergus Falls chapter of the National Organization of Women NOW deplores the NOW chapter member Maryjane Westra We find his comments sexist and extremely dangerous to our The players on the Rutgers womens bas team are successful college stu several of whom have grade point averages and at least one is seeking a while Wifliams playing bas More these women are sisters and Imus comments were also widely dis cussed at the Community Martin Minnesota State and Technical He just gets on a power instructor and womens athletics coach Ann Williams Its like the f He wants the shock The coach of womens basketball and volley ball has seen this sort of deni gration of female athletes in the I think in the past it has hap Back in the they used to You play like a or cry a We had some really good athletes in college my first couple but if you went out and you wanted to kind of stay she Women jocks were a negative She is also of the opinion that he should be If people are going to be what can you do she If people are going to say things about people they dont even what can you do You have to ignore him and move Some people are into control and into power thats my I he has sophomore basketball forward Sam Martin You Hes just trying to get Most of my teammates were upset by and thought it was That could be any of See Imus Page 2 TOMORROW HIGH 60 LOW 45 5 31 TOMORROW YESTERDAY HIGH 64 LOW 33 PRECIPITATION 0 You have a Acute Rehabilitation at No requirement of 3 day qualifying hospital stay Patients receive more intense therapy At least 2 therapy disciplines 3 hours per 5 days per week Acute unit attached to hospital with 24 hour physician availability In house Medical Director is a Rehab Medicine hour rehabilitation nursing staff in one In todays Page 2 Delores Fergus Falls Thelma Fergus Falls
