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When the clocks change, so does our sleep BY MADELINE DOLBY QUAD COMMUNITY PRESS EDITOR
Every year at the beginning of March, daylight saving time will spring our clocks forward an hour, depriving us of an extra hour of sleep and taking away the opportunity to be exposed to sunlight during the earlier part of our day. “When we move to daylight savings time and everything is pushed back an hour, it affects us in the morning and in the evening,” said Dr. Akinbolaji Akingbola, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School. According to Akingbola, standard time is ideal for sleep due to the earlier evenings and the earlier sunrise. Standard time is observed for approximately four months, running from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March. “With the later daylight, we tend to stay up later so we have more difficulty falling asleep in the evening because of the extra hours of sunlight,”
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Volunteers gear up for cleanup The 23rd annual late winter lake cleanup is scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 7 on White Bear Lake. Since the event’s inception in 2004, over 1,700 volunteers have pulled nearly 7,000 pounds of trash off the lake. Volunteers will clean up designated sections of the lake. If ice conditions are not safe, it will switch to a land-based cleanup. A clean up is also scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday, March 8 on Bald Eagle Lake.
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Mahtomedi accountant follows in father’s footsteps BY SHANNON GRANHOLM MANAGING EDITOR
Brady Ramsay grew up around accounting. From the age of about 10, he can remember visiting his dad’s office to page through pages upon pages of IRS tax codes and clean up the office. One year for Halloween he even chose to dress up as a CPA. “From a young age, I always kind of wanted to follow in his footsteps and be an accountant,” Brady explained. “Seeing my dad be successful, I thought it might be something that I could be good at.” Brady’s father, Rich Ramsay, started Ramsay & Associates out of his home in 1976. This year marks the business’ 50th anniversary. Brady grew up pretty much across the street from the building Rich purchased in 1979 on Mahtomedi Avenue. He was always good at math. In elementary school, his teacher would hold up flash cards, and Brady could instantly rattle off the answer. A couple of times a week, Brady would go to the office to help clean. “I was the janitor. I’d scrub the toilets and pick up all the dots from the paper punchers on the floor,” Brady recalled. While attending Mahtomedi High School, Brady took a business course and was able to go to his dad’s office every day to do tax preparation.
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“I really figured out that it was something that I could do and would enjoy,” Brady said. After graduating from MHS in 1999, Brady attended the University of Minnesota-Duluth. While there, he worked for a firm all four tax seasons. After graduating, he and Heather — who would become his wife — moved to Phoenix, Arizona, for a few years. “The plan was always to come back, we just didn’t know when,” Brady explained. Rich added, “That was the best thing he ever could have done, because if he would have come here originally, he wouldn’t have experience from someplace else. He brought that experience here.” One day, Rich called Brady to let him know that he needed an accountant. “He said it was either going to be me or somebody else, and he didn’t know when there would be another opportunity for me,” Brady recalled. “So, I quit my job, and we moved back here — and that was 20 years ago.” Brady started out as an accountant and shareholder and eventually, in 2016, Rich transferred ownership to his son. “It was in the cards. I never wanted to go start anything from scratch or move out of state SEE 50 YEARS, PAGE 24
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Rich Ramsay, left, started Ramsay & Associates in 1976. Now, 50 years later, his son Brady Ramsay owns the business and Brady’s 13-year-old son Henry has expressed interest in accounting.
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