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Thursday, October 30, 2003
Firefighter fatally struck by pickup
Forty-nine-year-old Don Billig was positioning a barricade at a road construction zone in St. Augusta with two other firefighters when a pickup fatally crashed into him Monday night.
Lorin Richard Pfannenstein, 36, was the driver of the pickup and fled on foot into nearby fields after the accident. Police and tracking dogs searched through the night but were not able to locate the man. Pfannenstein turned himself in Tuesday morning.
Pfannenstein has had at least seven speeding tickets since 1988 and has DUI convictions from 1990 and 1997. Police do not yet know if he was speeding or under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash.
Billig was an assistant chief in the St. Cloud Fire Department volunteer division and is the first St. Cloud firefighter to die in the line of duty since 1929. He leaves behind a wife and three children.
Ojibwe lodge being built on campus
Students of SCSU Professor Gary Cheeseman's Ojibwe language and culture classes are in the process of building a traditional Ojibwe lodge. The lodge is 12 feet in diameter and constructed from birch bark and other natural materials from the Leech Lake area.
Located behind Lawrence and Stewart Hall, the lodge might be used for teaching and an example of future projects that might include a sweat lodge and a rack for stretching animal hides.
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