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Page 14A Moines Sunday Register OBITUARIES NEEDA ift? Homemakers.com Stopby 10215DouglasAve 515-276-2772 1-888-818-7283 399 EXPRESS IN-HOME DELIVERY Somerestrictionsapply. Seestorefordetails. Starting at DM-9000583962 FrancesE. (Halverson) passedaway lateTuesday eveningat TheCottages inPella.Fran,wifeofthe lateArthurH.Huyser,is survivedbythreechildren andHankSchuetteof AnnHuyserallofPella; ninegrandchildrenand 16great-grandchildren. Memorialserviceswillbe heldMondayat2pmatthe TrinityReformedChurch.

Visitationwillbegin SundaymorningatVan Dyk-DuvenFuneralHome withthefamilypresent from6to8pmatTrinity ReformedChurch. FRANCESHUYSER Pella Fred A. Kummerow, 102, a University of Illinois professor who spent decades pushing for a federal ban on artery-clogging artificial trans fats, died Wednesday at his home in Urbana, Illinois. Kummerow was a comparative biosciences professor whose trans fats research dated back to the 1950s. His efforts to have artificial trans fats removed from processed foods included filing a 2009 petition with the Food and Drug Administration.

He also sued the agency in 2013. Two years later, the FDA ordered food companies to phase them out. Manuel Noriega, 83, the former Panamanian dictator and onetime U.S. ally who was ousted by an American invasion in 1989, died Monday. Noriega ruled with an iron fist, ordering the deaths of those who opposed him and maintaining a murky, close and conflicted relationship with the United States.

After his downfall, Noriega served a 17-year drug sentence in the United States, then was sent to face charges in France. He spent all but the last few months in a Panamanian prison for murder of political opponents. Raymond Pfeifer, 59, a retired New York City firefighter who spent months digging through debris after the Sept.11 terror attacks, then became a key voice in fighting for health care for first re- sponders while wracked with late-stage cancer himself, died May28 after an eight-year fight with the disease. Pfeifer was among those who lobbied fiercely for the renewal of the Zadroga Act, which provides health benefits to first responders who fell ill after the attacks in 2001. He and others, including comedian Jon Stewart, went to Congress to challenge lawmakers to extend health monitoring and treatment for Sept.11 first responders in 2015.

Congress ultimately did reauthorize the program. RECENT DEATHS FROM REGISTER NEWS SERVICES MIDDLETON- Wisconsin Democrats re-elected Martha Laning Saturday to be the head of their state party despite a crushing 2016 election that saw President Donald Trump become the first Republican to win the state since 1984. Laning won her second two- year term at the annual convention in Middleton, where she defeated three other candidates: Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy, Madison attorney Eric Finch and Joe Donovan, a retired small business owner from Crivitz. The State Journal reports Laning told delegates she has a plan to help Democrats win in future elections, including hiring local organizers. have laid the groundwork, but we need to capitalize on Laning said, urging delegates not to give up on her plan.

In addition to losing the presi- dential race, Democrats lost seats in the Wisconsin Legislature, giving Republicans the largest Senate majority since 1971 and the biggest Assembly margin since 1957. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson also became the first Republican Senate candidate to win in a presidential year in 32 years. The Republican Party taunted Democrats after their vote.

Democrats are doubling down on their disarray and track record of state party spokesman Alec Zimmerman said in a statement. of changing direction, banking on failed leadership heading into Democrats kicked off their annual convention Friday voicing optimism that they can bounce back next year. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, of Illinois, joined with Baldwin and other Wisconsin office holders to rally an announced crowd of more than 1,100 Wisconsin Democrats at a hotel outside of Madison.

Baldwin urged Democrats to stay focused on the fights that really matter to working people and not get distracted. Laning re-elected head as of Wisconsin Democratic Party Oversaw disastrous 2016 election results ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota regulators are getting ready to open a series of 22 public meetings on an oil pipeline project that opponents have dubbed the next Dakota Access pipeline struggle. Enbridge Energy is seeking approval to replace its aging Line 3 pipeline across northern Minnesota. The meetings along the proposed route are meant to give the public a chance to comment on the draft environmental review for the project, which was released last month. The first two meetings are scheduled for Tuesday, and a final decision from Minnesota expected until next year.

Alook at some of the key issues: THE PIPELINE Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge built Line 3 in the 1960s to carry Canadian crude to its terminal in Superior, Wisconsin. It runs from Hardisty, Alberta, to terminal in Clearbrook in northwestern Minnesota, to Superior. Most of the U.S. portion of the route is in Minnesota, though it also clips a corner of North Dakota. Enbridge proposed the $7.5 billion replacement project because the deteriorating pipeline is now restricted to 390,000 barrels per day.

The replacement would restore the original capacity of 760,000 barrels per day. The company says the existing Line 3 is in an already crowded corridor. It says the best way to replace it is to follow the existing path as far as Clearbrook, then take a new more southerly route to Superior. The draft review looks at the proposed route as well as four alternative paths but does not recommend one over the other. The new route would cut through Mississippi River headwaters region and the pristine lake country of northern Minnesota where Native Americans harvest wild rice and hold treaty rights.

THE OBJECTIONS Tribal groups say preferred route risks oil spills in sensitive areas, and the six Ojibwe bands in the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe are preparing their own environmental impact statement. Environmental groups also oppose the project because Line 3 carries Canadian tar sands crude, which takes more energy to produce than conventional oil. Aleading opponent is Winona LaDuke, executive director of Honor the Earth, based on the White Earth Reservation. LaDuke depicts Line 3 as the next Dakota Access fight, and there are parallels in the ways that Native American concerns have fueled the opposition to both projects. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe considers Dakota Access a threat to its water supply.

That pipeline began shipping oil for customers Thursday. Protests over Line 3 have been on amuch smaller scale than the protests over Dakota Access, which brought thousands of people to North Dakota and resulted in 761 arrests. THE ARGUMENTS FOR LINE 3 Enbridge says Line 3 is a vital link in its system, and the replacement would help it continue to meet the demand for Canadian oil from refiner- ies in Minnesota, Wisconsin and elsewhere. The project is already fully approved in Canada and Wisconsin. Permits are pending in North Dakota.

Line supporters include the Jobs for Minnesotans coalition of business and labor groups, which tout the more than 1,500 construction and related jobs it would bring to the state, and the tax benefits. MEETINGS AND NEXT STEPS The Minnesota Department of Commerce is hosting public meetings that begin Tuesday in Bagley and Grand Rapids and finish June 22 in Gully and Bemidji. Regulators will consider meeting testimony and written comments in shaping the final version of the environmental impact statement. That will be followed by more hearings in September and October. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission will then decide whether to grant the certificate of need and route permit for the project.

The commission is expected to hold hearings on those questions in November and make a final decision next April. BRIAN MARK Paul Stolen, a retired state biologist, shows some of the sensitive wetland areas near Minnesota's Itasca State Park in 2014. State regulators will open a series of 22 public meetings on an oil pipeline project that opponents have dubbed the next Dakota Access pipeline struggle. Minnesota to open 22 meetings on disputed Enbridge pipeline STEVE KARNOWSKI ASSOCIATED PRESS MIDWEST REPORT.