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South places sixth at stateThe Lakeville South girls hockey team placed sixth at the state tournament after falling in the consolation final.

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Chorale hosts ‘Cabaret’ eventThe South Metro Chorale will present its annual “Cabaret” and silent auction March 5-6 at the Lakeville Area Arts Center.

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Lakeville’s Priore makes run for SenateFourth candidate

seeking Republican

endorsement by Laura Adelmann

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

A Lakeville tax attor-ney is seeking the Republi-can nomination to succeed the retiring Dave Thomp-son as senator in District 58. Mark Priore, 43, said he is running for the Sen-ate seat to help reduce the size and scope of govern-ment. A U.S. Navy veteran, Priore said he is concerned

with the overall di-rection of govern-ment after years of witnessing how government ac-tions, regulations and taxes negative-ly affect working people. “My interest is protecting the in-terest of this com-munity and to build on the leadership that Dave has established,” Priore said. He said he supports lim-iting government spending and focusing resources on core government services while reducing taxes where possible. Priore said he opposes

the Democrats and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton’s push for state sales tax and 16-cent gas tax in-creases. “With a $1.2 bil-lion surplus, I think certainly there’s some room to move,” Priore said.

He cited support for the Republican transportation plan that raises $7 billion over the next decade for roads and bridges without raising taxes. Priore said business property tax relief is also

Mark Priore

MNCAPS project hits hurdleDistrict 194 approves budget, lease parameters

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK

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Lakeville and Prior Lake-Savage school dis-tricts’ professional stud-ies program recently hit a setback local officials are scrambling to overcome before the fall grand open-

ing of its first joint educa-tional venture. About 130 high school students in Lakeville and Prior Lake-Savage schools have applied for MNCAPS, the Minnesota Center for Advanced Pro-fessional Studies, set to open in September, but the

off-site school’s location is unsure. The preferred Minne-sota School of Business site selected to house the new high school option for juniors and seniors is not zoned to allow public K-12 schools. An application to

amend the existing condi-tional use permit to allow the professional studies program in the building was hand-delivered to the city by Michael Baumann, District 194 executive di-rector of business services, on Wednesday. City Planner Daryl

Morey said the applica-tion costs $1,500 and takes about 60 days to process. Baumann said both the school district and the building owner, MSB Holdings-Lakeville, have to submit applications.

Carlson resigns as Lakeville North activities directorJob not ‘right fit’ by Laura Adelmann


For the second year in a row, Lakeville North High School is in the market for a new activities director. After a year in office, Brett Carlson has submitted his resignation. His last day on the job is June 30. In an email to Sun Thisweek, Carlson said “The professional fit is not right for me.” He did not respond to a question about his future plans or expand on the rea-sons for his departure. Carlson was hired for the position last June, replacing Russ Reetz, who left to per-form the same role in Prior Lake after having served in the position at Lakeville North for two years. “I think he’s done a really

great job for us,” said Dis-trict 194 Board Chair Mi-chelle Volk. “We wish him the best in his future endeav-ors.” The social studies teacher and coach brought a decade of coaching experience in football, basketball, baseball and track to the job in a va-

riety of high schools includ-ing Apple Valley, Champlin Park and his hometown of White Bear Lake. He taught in Apple Val-ley High School before mov-ing to Champlin Park High School where he stayed until 2008. Carlson moved to White Bear Lake until 2011 before moving to North Branch Area Public Schools, where he was a behavior tech and the activities coordinator until 2012 when he was pro-moted to his current role. “I will always look back with fondness at the rela-tionships I have made dur-ing my time at Lakeville North and wish the entire Panther community all the best in the future,” Carlson said.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

Brett Carlson

Anderson to run for mayor of LakevilleCouncil member is known as fiscal

watchdog



After three years of ser-vice on the Lakeville City Council, Doug Anderson announced Monday he will run for mayor. “I’ve thought long and hard about this,” Ander-son said. “It’s been a privi-lege to serve in City Coun-cil. I’m enjoying it, and I believe I’m making a dif-ference. I think a person of my experience, leadership

and skill set are a match to the needs of the mayoral po-sition of Lakeville as we look toward the near future.” Anderson, 60, recently retired from his position as a senior busi-ness officer at Hamline Universi-ty and is now working part time as a consultant and is the interim chief finan-cial officer and treasurer at Webster University in Missouri. A longtime fiscal con-servative, Anderson said one of his top initiatives is

to contain tax in-creases. Anderson said he has recommended and supported the lowest levy increases during his tenure on City Council, and as mayor would con-tinue to promote cost-saving mea-

sures that save taxpayer dollars. “We need to continue to hold down our levy in-creases and manage our budget,” Anderson said. “We shouldn’t spend mon-

Doug Anderson

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See MNCAPS, 19A

See PRIORE, 19A

by Seth RoweSUN THISWEEK


Minnesotans will help determine who be-comes the nominees for president of the United States on Super Tuesday, March 1. Precinct caucuses for the Republican Party and DFL Party, which is aligned with the na-tional Democratic Party, will begin 7 p.m. at sites throughout the state. The chairs of each party said they are ex-pecting a large turnout. DFL Party Chair Ken Martin, of Eagan, ad-vised people caucusing for the party to register at their local caucuses at 6:30 p.m. while Keith Downey, chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota, is encourag-ing people to arrive by 6 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. to en-sure time to register and find seats. Caucuses entail the election of local party

officers and the proposal of resolutions for the party platform, but the first order of business will be the presidential preference ballot. This year, the results will be binding for both parties, meaning that the delegates selected must agree to vote based upon the results of the choices of caucus attendees. Martin said the DFL Party’s presidential pref-erence ballot has been binding for years. The rule is new for the Re-publican Party, Downey said. “In past years, we held the straw poll vote, but it was not proscriptive in terms of how many delegates the candidates would get,” Downey said. “The delegates were actually chosen later in the spring with the dis-trict and state conven-tions.” The rules changed

A binturong cub was born Feb. 12 at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley, the first of its species born at the zoo in 35 years. Zoo officials say the cub, whose gender is not yet known, is doing well in a behind-the-scenes area, gaining weight and spending time inside a nest box with its mother. Binturongs are listed as a “vulnerable” species under the International Union for Conservation of Nature; the recent birth is the ninth born at the Minnesota Zoo in its history. Though the cub is not yet visible to the public, binturongs can be seen in the zoo’s Tropics Trail area; sometimes called “bearcats,” they are members of the mongoose family, and are tree-dwellers native to tropical forests in Asia. (Photo submitted)

Behold the binturong

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Transportation needs attentionThe first priority for state surplus funds should be to address transportation needs throughout the state.

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Officials unite to curtail Met Council’s authorityBurnsville

meeting airs gripes

by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK


A rising chorus of sub-urban angst over the Met-ropolitan Council came Monday to Burnsville, where critics lit into the re-gional transit and planning body and elected officials urged reforms to disperse its authority. Some proposals to cur-tail the council’s power emerged last year in the state Legislature. Expect more this year, officials said. A coalition of four counties, including Dako-ta, is calling for a majority of Met Council members to be local elected officials appointed by cities and counties. All members are now appointed by the gov-ernor. The Metro Cities group has also proposed reforms. “I personally feel like this is an opportunity,” said state Rep. Roz Peterson, R-Lakeville, who hosted a Feb. 22 “town meeting” on the Met Council at Burn-haven Library. “We have a governor (Mark Dayton) who is open to seeing some changes” and isn’t seeking re-election. “There are some ben-efits, certainly, to regional planning,” said Chris Ger-lach, of Apple Valley, one of three Dakota County commissioners at the meet-ing. “The pendulum has just swung too far.”

Several area Republican legislators also attended. Reform proposals have emerged from the Repub-lican-controlled House as well as the DFL-controlled Senate, said Rep. Tony Al-bright, R-Prior Lake. The Met Council’s long-term planning blueprint, Thrive MSP 2040, is stok-ing much of the animos-ity toward the 16-member council and its professional staff, which have an annual budget of nearly $1 billion. The council’s “assault on local control” has reached a “watershed” with the 30-year document, said prominent Met Council critic Katherine Kersten, senior fellow at Center of the American Experiment, a conservative think tank. The council uses its dual role as “planning czar” and “funding gatekeeper” to pick winners and losers among the seven-county region’s 186 municipalities, Kersten said. “Local officials must acquiesce and fall into line because in too many cases they’re unable to object on behalf of their constitu-ents for fear of retaliation,” Kersten said. Along with Thrive MSP 2040 the council has issued “system statements” that cities must use in writing their comprehensive-plan updates due in 2018, Ker-sten said. The Met Council is charged with signing off on cities’ plans. The council wants to impose principles that exceed its lawful author-ity, particularly in hous-ing, said Kersten and Kim Crockett, vice president

and senior policy fellow at the Center of the Ameri-can Experiment. Thrive MSP 2040’s 140-page housing plan is full of “top-down controls,” Ker-sten said. Burnsville, for example, already has plenty of af-fordable housing — “some-thing like 79 percent af-fordable to people who are at or below 80 percent of adjusted median income,” she said. “Nevertheless, the Met Council has assigned an affordable housing need of 266 (more) units to Burnsville, and about half of those must be affordable to very low-income fami-lies, about $25,000 income for a family of four.” Burnsville City Council Member Mary Sherry said

her nearly fully built city can’t accommodate that volume of housing in the Minnesota River Quad-rant, where most future development is expected to occur. “If we are expected to put more dense housing in, that is going to make it, sor-ry to say, even more afford-able,” Sherry said. “This is affecting our schools. It’s a vicious circle. It’s not under our control. We want back our control.” Kersten said Thrive MSP 2040 pursues a ruin-ous agenda to “densify our region and impose transit-oriented development;” deplete road funding in fa-vor of transit and increase traffic congestion; “push us out of our cars;” remake

cities and neighborhoods with a “government-ap-proved mix” of race, eth-nicity and income; distort market forces and sap development outside the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul; and make it harder for people to travel to their jobs. “The objective is to re-distribute wealth from the suburbs to the urban core in order to pay for all of this,” Kersten said. “Un-der the new plan, suburban residents will likely pay more in taxes but get less in infrastructure and in ser-vices.” The Met Council’s am-bitions don’t end there, Kersten said. It says its mission extends to solving complex social problems

like income inequality, the educational achievement gap and climate change, she said. Thrive MSP 2040 is “an advanced symptom of the governance problem that we need to solve,” Crockett said. “The good news here is the Legislature can fix this, and the bad news is only the Legislature can fix this,” she said. The Met Council should be “unwound in an orderly fashion, much like AT & T was broken into Baby Bells.” The four-county Twin Cities’ Local Government Coalition has sent model resolutions to 186 cities, hoping for passage to fuel its efforts at the Capitol. In addition to seeking locally appointed council mem-bers, the group wants to stagger terms of members appointed by the governor so a new governor can’t im-mediately replace the chair and all 16 members. “What we saw as the key problem was the cen-tralized control of the Met Council, that the governor holds all the cards,” Ger-lach said. It’s not merely a parti-san issue — even former Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed a measure to adopt staggered terms, Gerlach said. The four counties are Dakota, Anoka, Carver and Scott. Other elected officials at the meeting included Dakota County commis-sioners Mary Liz Hol-berg, of Lakeville, and Liz Workman, of Burnsville; Rep. Drew Christensen, R-Burnsville; Sen. Dan Hall, R-Burnsville; Rep. Linda Runbeck, R-Circle Pines, chair of the House Subcommittee on Metro-politan Council Account-ability and Transparency; and Savage Mayor Janet Williams.

John Gessner can be reached at (952) 846-2031 or email [email protected].

Dakota County Commissioner Chris Gerlach, of Apple Valley, discussed proposals to reform the Metropolitan Council during a Feb. 22 meeting at Burnhaven Library in Burnsville. (Photo by John Gessner)

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by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK


Paideia Academy will close at the end of the 2015-16 academic year as its board of directors has cited a lack of finan-cial resources to keep the 11-year-old charter school operating in Apple Valley. “Based on Paideia’s projected enrollment for 2016-2017 and the antici-pated revenue and costs over the next three years, the Paideia Academy Board of Directors has made the very difficult de-cision to close the school at the end of this school year,” the school reported in a Feb. 19 press release. Paideia Board of Di-rectors Chairman Jona-than Bradley said the board considered closing the school as one of its options after the school’s authorizer, Friends of Education, sent on Jan. 19 a “letter of concern” describing how the school had to increase student achievement, stabilize en-rollment, and create a bal-anced budget for the next three years. After two years of be-

ing designated a High-Quality Charter School by the Minnesota Depart-ment of Education, the school’s Minnesota Com-prehensive Assessment scores dipped in the past year to among the lowest 25 percent of Minnesota schools receiving Title 1 funding as it was desig-nated as a Continuous Im-provement School. This year the school added three staff positions to implement new pro-grams and intervention plans in an effort to im-prove its test performance. Enrollment dropped below 300 in 2015-16, ac-cording to Bradley, after it was 380 and 355 in the previous two years. Brad-ley said the board was reviewing a conservative 160-170 for enrollment in 2016-17. “As the board worked through our proposal for FOE, we came to the re-alization that we did not have high enough enroll-ment projections to create a financially sustainable program in our current facility,” Bradley wrote in an email to the newspa-per. “We explored all the

potential opportunities, but given the time frame, we did not have any finan-cially feasible options.” Paideia officials said the staff and board are com-mitted to ensuring that each student continues to receive a high-quality edu-cation through the end of the school year, and staff will be coordinating with families and their new schools of choice to sup-port students’ transitions. School Director Marci Levy-Maguire wrote in Paideia’s newsletter that the school is working on communications, planning events and gathering in-formation to help ease the students’ transition. She wrote that last Thursday the school’s ad-visers met with students to discuss the closing. Levy-Maguire said she could not have been more proud of the students on the day they were in-formed the Apple Valley school would close. “For many of them, their biggest concern was about the staff and where we would be working next year,” she wrote in a mes-sage to parents. “A num-

ber of them asked if we could join them at their new schools.” Paideia currently has a staff of 47 people, accord-ing to its website. Levy-Maguire de-scribed the week when the announcement was made as a hard one. “During the past few days, we have all experi-enced a wide variety of emotions even as we have continued to support your children to share and understand their own feelings,” Levy-Maguire wrote. “I know that there is a strong sense of sad-ness around our school closing, and I hope that we can continue to work together to support all of our staff, students, and families through this tran-sition.” In making the an-nouncement, school offi-cials said another impact that led to the decision was the recent approval of additional bond and oper-ating levy funds for area school districts to help bolster their programs in similar areas in which Pai-deia strove to be unique in – arts and music pro-

grams, language offerings and gifted education pro-grams. “Paideia’s successes have certainly impacted the academic program-ming of local districts, which expanded their arts and music programs, lan-guage offerings and gifted education programs,” the release said. Since 2005, Paideia has offered a modified year-round calendar, K-8 Span-ish program, Latin instruc-tion in fifth through eighth grades, a classical studies program, and strong mu-sic and art programs in ad-dition to a school uniform policy. The ways in which Pai-deia strove to be different have become “the new standard” for area dis-tricts, the release said. The school receives less state funding per pupil than surrounding districts, the press release said. Charter schools do not have the ability to seek voter approval for a school-proposed operat-ing levy or bond. Nearly all of the state’s public school districts receive voter-approved funds to

supplement the state’s per-pupil funding allotment, which is $5,982 for 2016. Paideia officials said they were proud to have graduated seven classes of eighth-graders during the past decade, and will be celebrating their eighth and final graduating class with a ceremony on June 9. They said they were thankful for the support the school has received from local elected officials, community members, and business owners through-out the school’s years of existence. “The decision to close was extremely difficult,” Bradley said. “Many peo-ple in our community were diligently working to try and make the necessary changes needed to make Paideia strong again. I was very disappointed to see this great school close.”

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @editorTJ.

Apple Valley charter school to closePaideia Academy leaders cite funding, projected enrollment as reasons for the decision

Dakota Communications Center leader to retire

Diane Lind second person to lead dispatch center



After nine years as ex-ecutive director of the Dakota Communications Center, Diane Lind will re-tire on May 31. Lind was appointed to the role in January 2007 after 21 years of working in 911 dispatch services and was responsible for overall management of the countywide emergency dispatch center. Lind was selected from multiple applicants to replace the DCC’s first executive director, Kent Therkelsen, former police chief in Eagan. She had been the DCC’s first operations director when the joint emergency dispatch center was being planned and then opened. She is a former commu-nications supervisor with the Burnsville Police De-partment. She announced her re-tirement to the board of directors, composed of elected Dakota County officials, at their Feb. 18 board meeting, according

to Justin Miller, executive committee board chair and Lakeville city admin-istrator. Miller described Lind’s leadership as key to the smooth operations at the DCC. “There’s just a great group of dispatchers and staff that, under her lead-ership, has really operated seamlessly,” he said. “That is a testament to her lead-ership.” In a news release, Lind expressed how hard it was to make the decision to re-tire. “While I am excited to take this step into re-tirement, this was an ex-tremely difficult decision to make,” Lind said. “Pub-lic service to the citizens of Dakota County is all I have known for over 30 years.” Miller said the execu-tive committee, composed of city managers and ad-ministrators throughout the county, has been di-rected by the board to find a search firm and recruit for the open position. The news release said

the search process is to be-gin immediately with the intent of having a new di-rector on board as soon as possible. “Over the next month, the executive board will be talking about the qualities, the traits and experience level we’re looking for the next director,” Miller said. Miller described Lind’s contributions as signifi-cant and the work as inte-gral to public safety. “She clearly has the knowledge and the exper-tise of that field, and so we’re going to miss her,” Miller said. Dakota Communica-tions Center provides 911 dispatch services to all of Dakota County under a joint powers agreement be-tween Dakota County and the cities of Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Farm-ington, Hastings, Inver Grove Heights, Lakeville, Mendota Heights, Rose-mount, South St. Paul and West St. Paul.


Eagan businessman faces felony tax evasion charges

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


A 64-year-old Eagan businessman faces 24 felony tax evasion charges for a cleaning company he’s owned and operated since the 1990s. Stephen Edward Matters, owner of Matters Maintenance Group Inc., My Maid, and TLC cleaning services, was charged in Dakota County on Feb. 11 with the following felonies: • four counts of failure to file in-come tax returns, • four counts of failure to pay in-come taxes, • four counts of failure to file sales tax returns, • five counts of failure to pay sales taxes, • one count of making retail sales after revocation of a permit, • three counts of failure to file with-holding tax returns, • three counts of failure to pay with-holding taxes. According to the criminal com-plaint, Matters was previously charged and convicted of seven counts of tax evasion charges for failing to pay taxes from 2002 to 2006. The Minnesota Department of

Revenue began a new investigation in 2014 after receiving reports that Mat-ters had continued to fail to pay taxes. Prosecutors say Matters failed to file any Minnesota tax returns from 2011 to 2014 and failed to pay income taxes he owned from his businesses during the same period of time. Matters is also accused of failing to file tax withholding returns for 2012, 2013 and the first six months of 2014. On Nov. 21, 2011, Matters’ sales tax permit for his businesses was revoked due to failure to pay sales taxes. Au-thorities say he continued to operate the business after the revocation. In a telephone interview with in-vestigators last September, Matters claimed he had not been in the cleaning business since 2012 when he stopped filing tax returns. When asked about his bank records that showed business receipts and wages paid for 2013 and 2014, Matters didn’t have an explana-tion, according to the complaint. If convicted, Matters could face up to five years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine.

Jessica Harper is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sun-thisweek.

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Support Jason Lewis To the editor: Super Tuesday, March 1, will soon be upon us. I plan to do my part in our political process by at-tending my local precinct caucus to support our Re-publican candidates, par-ticularly Jason Lewis for Congress. I urge everyone in the 2nd Congressional Dis-trict to support Jason Lewis. He has a great knowledge of local and national issues and will be a solid voice for CD2 and all of Minnesota in Con-gress.

CAROLINE V.ERICKSONBurnsville

It’s party timeTo the editor: Admission is free, and the stakes are high. The

crowds are coming, and are ready for action. Do you have a better offer for Tuesday night, March 1? So where’s the party? Well, there’s more than one. Take your pick at caucus-finder.sos.state.mn.us. The parties are a bit exclusive though, and it’s dishonest to crash a party with which you are not truly aligned. But there’s a special party for those who like exclusion. Our nation was born in 1789 as an exclusive whites-only club. It took 76 years to free the slaves (1865), to give the right to vote to blacks along with most other “races” (1868 and 1964), to give the right of citizenship to Asians (1868), the right to vote even to women (1920), and finally citizenship to Native Americans (1924). It has taken a long time and unending struggle to expand that circle of citizenship, and many are still fighting back with

schemes like Photo-ID. If you want to take our country back, you’ll find a party that wants to build a bigger wall and to send them all back. How about another wall for the Cay-man Islands crowd? If exclusion is not your style, there’s a party that likes inclusion. Those party goers are trying to expand another circle, that of human and civil rights. Progressives are trying to make a place for everyone at the table, a big mix-up of rich and poor alike. Our nation has been struggling to realize that original vi-sion in a high-risk experi-ment to birth democracy into reality. A widening circle of inclusion has been the direction of our nation since its founding. There once was a party that’s no longer around. They came with a useful perspective that helped bring balance into solving problems. All that’s left is a wild party that has gone so

far out of balance that it is flying apart and has gone off the rails. Its wreckage sits there now, obstruct-ing progress. Wishing you success in trying to heft it back on again. RAY LARSONEagan

Later start times for schools needed To the editor: The studies have been done, the evidence is in: There is a simple way to improve our children’s ac-ademic performance, raise

their test scores, reduce their chance of suffering from anxiety, depression, substance abuse or obesity, all while keeping our kids and the community safer by reducing the risk of car accidents. The American

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Correction Sun Thisweek last week incorrectly transposed the scores of the Lakeville South and Lakeville North varsity High Kick teams in state competition. LSHS placed fifth and LNHS placed sixth in state. Sun Thisweek regrets the error.

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Community forums can foster interfaith relationships

Keep transportation funding as top priority for state surplus

by Don HeinzmanSUN THISWEEK


A Muslim mother recently told a hushed Bloomington crowd she is afraid for her safety and that of her children because of how Muslims are being tar-geted, particularly by the media. Zanib Mohamed, of Bloomington, is a student advocate for all students at Bloomington Kennedy High School. She was one of four speakers at a Janu-ary forum titled “One Nation, Many Beliefs,” sponsored by the high school, where over half of the students are non-white. Because the school’s enrollment is so diverse, Principal Andy Beaton and school staff decided to have the session, which was attended by high-ranking school and city officials, some parents and teachers. Mohamed said since the media has been singling out Muslim students, some Muslim Bloomington Kennedy students have been coming to her fearful and with tears in their eyes. Beaton said some Muslim students have expressed their fears to him as well. So far, students have not disturbed Mus-lims; none have been disciplined for that,

Beaton said. Mohamed and the other speakers par-ticularly zeroed in on the media, which they say is one-sided, citing Muslim Americans for some of the shootings while not citing other shooters as Chris-tian Americans or any other religions in their broadcasts. As a result, Muslim children are re-porting they are being taunted more. Mohamed related how she told her son she could not take him to a birthday par-ty because it was around the time terror-ists attacked a restaurant in Paris. The speakers all agreed that most Americans do not understand Islam, which they say in some ways is compa-rable to Christianity. They particularly stressed that Islam as well as Christianity have peaceful goals, and only a small percentage are in ISIS, which they said is not following the

teachings of Islam. As for women covering themselves and particularly their foreheads, the speakers said, today there are Christian sects who cover their body completely. Islam, they said, does not oppose other religions, but in effect accepts the teachings of other religions, including what is written in the Bible. The problem, they contended, is people are suspicious because they do not understand Islam. Speaker Hanadi Chehabeddine suggested that commu-nities should sponsor events so people can understand Islam, and she urged people to talk openly and ask ques-tions. In Brooklyn Park, Mayor Jeff Lunde led the formation of an interfaith discus-sion Jan. 28, put together by Islam and Christian faith leaders. He said: “We want people, across cultures and faiths, interacting and having a conversation. It’s really hard to hate someone when you know them.” Out of that discussion attended by faith and community leaders, the group decided to start field trips when members of churches and mosques will visit one another. “We rely on the faith community be-

cause we believe there are shared values and shared goals and we should talk about what we share,” Lunde said. Nausheena Hussain, a board mem-ber of the Brooklyn Park Islamic Cen-ter, shares the mayor’s opinion. She is working with others to get people to tell their stories about interactions between people of Islamic faith and their com-munities, hoping that people have more commonalities than differences. “The main thing is that we want ev-eryone in Brooklyn Park to be united. It is an opportunity for us to get to know each other and dispel the myths,” she said. As for Beaton, he believes the forum succeeded in convincing the people that Bloomington Kennedy respects all stu-dents and that it is a safe place to work and learn. Hussain summed it up well: “What people of Islamic faith want for them-selves and their families isn’t different than anyone else. Everyone is trying to live the American dream.” Don Heinzman is a columnist for ECM Publishers. He can be reached through [email protected]. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

It is commonly assumed that the off-year legislative session is simply a time for legislators to pass a bonding bill, fix some recently-passed legislation and go home. That’s far from the case in 2016. When this session opens on March 8, legislators will face a big challenge. They must figure how to utilize a $1.2 billion general fund surplus that is projected for the next biennium. According to Minnesota Manage-ment and Budget, the general fund fore-cast is now $1.871 billion. Under exist-ing law, $544 million must go into the budget reserve and $71 million must go to environmental funds, leaving a bal-ance of $1.256 billion. During this session the debate will be about that surplus: how to spend it, re-serve it or whether to refund dollars to taxpayers. The ECM Publishers Editorial Board continues to favor spending a major por-tion of the surplus to improve roads and fix bridges throughout the state. We rec-ognize passing a gas tax to fund a long-range plan won’t happen this election year, even though it is estimated $11 bil-lion will be needed the next 10 years to upgrade bridges, roads and highways. If a Republican-backed proposal to direct existing taxes on auto parts and rental car fees to road and bridge needs is ap-

proved, the negative impact on the state’s general fund must receive serious consid-eration. We favor utilizing some of the surplus to further build the reserve fund, and we believe some funds should go to reduc-ing taxes by increasing the eligibility for the Child and Dependent Care Credit, a reduction in the statewide business prop-erty tax and utilizing a new Market Tax Credit as proposed by Republicans. The latter is one of the nation’s most success-ful programs using the federal New Mar-kets Tax Credit program. New Markets Tax Credits revitalize low-income, dis-tressed communities by creating public-private partnerships that provide much-needed capital to strengthen businesses and community facilities. We also favor Gov. Mark Dayton’s plan to expand the state college grant program and address tuition issues at the two-year colleges and technical schools. We continue to favor spending for pre-school education, but funding questions remain for a universal, public school-based program. Districts continue to ad-just facilities and curriculum to accom-modate all-day, every-day kindergarten. If a universal pre-kindergarten program

is adopted, schools must have the class-rooms and facilities to handle the pro-gram. A study of the impact on private daycare facilities is warranted. Funding the Southwest Light Rail Transit line from Minneapolis to Eden Prairie is essential for easing traffic con-gestion, moving employees to jobs and stimulating investment along the line. With federal dollars again in the budget for 2016, the Legislature should continue to study a seven-county regional half-cent sales tax to fund the state’s $135 million share to keep this important line funded and on track. The proposed sales tax is the Metropolitan Council’s pre-ferred funding option. Last year, during the Editorial Board’s study of violence in society, we realized there is a need to have stronger penalties for hate crimes. We favor Sen. Ron Latz’s proposed legislation to stiffen hate-crime charges from a gross misdemeanor to a felony. We continue to call for stronger penal-ties for drivers whose distractions cause serious accidents and deaths. We believe the penalties for driving while texting should be the same as for drunken driv-ing. The penalty for a first offense of tex-ting while driving is $50 and $225 for a second offense. Compare this to a first drunken driv-

ing offense of up to 90 days in jail, a fine of up to $1,000, and a suspended driver’s license of 90 days. ` Furthermore, we favor a mandatory helmet law for motorcyclists, considering the number of fatalities involving motor-cycles. Local government aid (LGA) to Min-nesota cities also remains a viable topic, particularly for cities in greater Minne-sota that have seen this funding source gutted. A one-time injection of budget surplus would be welcome but the Legis-lature must decide if additional funding for LGA is a wise investment and how it can be supported with a permanent funding stream. The inability of the governor and lawmakers to agree on a special session this winter will create other topics for this session. The Real ID driver’s license requirement of the federal government, finding funds to study racial disparity and extending unemployment insurance compensation for laid-off miners on the Iron Range are all subjects that must be addressed.

This is an opinion of the ECM Edito-rial Board. Sun Thisweek and the Dakota County Tribune are part of ECM Publish-ers Inc.

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Academy of Pediatrics, the Minnesota Medical Association, the CDC and oth-er public health groups urge us to do it. This is what shifting to later school start times for teens is all about, and that is why many Minnesota districts are doing it. Contrary to popular belief, teens need more sleep than younger children. It is teen biology that makes it difficult for them to fall asleep before 11 p.m. In our district, most teens get up around 5:30 a.m. to get to school, which leaves them in a constant state of sleep deprivation. One study of Twin Cities metro schools showed that starting school just half an hour later reduced student car crashes by 65 percent. Teachers report-edly enjoy having students who are alert and ready for learning, and in Edina, when parents were surveyed one year after the switch 92 percent of them pre-ferred the later time. Depending on implementation, the change can result in earlier times for el-ementary students, and there may be initial additional transportation costs. However, the district’s own analysis shows they could move start times by half an hour with no added cost. Unlike many educational policy deci-sions, this one has long term effects on the safety and well-being of our children. Yet the board and administration have not led or educated on the matter. However, in January the administra-tion sent some information to principals

and asked for limited input from site councils. Neither the information nor the process was shared with parents. The su-perintendent will now write an executive summary for the board, who will decide whether to further explore it. There is a lot of information available online, and it is worth looking at closely. And now is the time write or call your board, superintendent, principal and site council. LISA MORLEYRosemount

Election will be interesting To the editor: The political letters regarding 2nd District candidates Angie Craig have been most interesting in their content. One day, in early January, upon an-swering the phone, I heard a gentleman ask me if I knew who Ms. Craig was. At that time, I had no clue. He informed me who she was. I have since read the papers a bit more closely. One is never too old to learn. The po-litical process is indeed going to be very interesting this year. They already have a good start. With the slate of possible presidential contenders coupled with the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the process is going to be wide open.

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Annual Spring Spree is March 12 in Burnsville Vineyard Community Services is sponsoring the annual fundraising event called Spring Spree at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at South Metro Vineyard Church in support of its Fruit of the Vine Food Shelf. The evening includes: • Kristen Spielman’s family-friendly comedy. Spielman is touted as hav-ing a gift for making the ordinary extraordinarily funny. Her ability to hit life’s curveballs with en-ergetic wit helps her take everyday experiences and turn them into comedic home runs. • Dinner starting with grilled chicken and ending with a variety of desserts.

• Silent auction with items from local commu-nity partners. “We are excited to cel-ebrate all of the VCS min-istry accomplishments in 2015 with a family-friendly comedy and dinner show featuring comedian Kris-ten Spielman, along with a great silent auction,” said Brian Geraty, VCS execu-tive director. Fruit of the Vine Food Shelf is a 501(c)3 non-profit emergency relief organization that relies on donations. This event aims to provide fun along with a forum to get to know FOTV. Donations, money or auction items, given as part of the Spring Spree

are matched dollar-wise by Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches as part of this year’s Minne-sota FoodShare Program in the month of March. Advance tickets are $20 and are available online at www.vcsmn.org/Spring-Spree Vendors wanting to donate items to the silent auction or those who want more information should contact Tori Peterson at [email protected] or 952-595-5980 ext. 111. “We’re inviting every-one to join us,” Geraty said. The church is located at 13798 Parkwood Drive, Burnsville.


Local mock trial teams to compete at state The mock trial teams from Apple Valley and Lakeville North high schools are among the 12 teams to compete at the 2016 state competition in St. Paul on March 3-4. This year’s competition case is based on the 1933 kidnapping of William Hamm Jr., the president of Hamm’s Brewery, by gangster and speakeasy operator Jack Peifer. Mock trial is a program of the Minnesota State Bar Association. More information is at http://www.mnbar.org/public/mock-trial.

Lakeville student nominated to service academy U.S. Sen. Al Franken has nominated Samuel Spangler of Lakeville for admission to the U.S. Air Force Academy. If chosen for an ap-pointment by the academy, Spangler, son of Michael and Beverly Spangler, would join the U.S. Air Force Academy class of 2020 and would enter this summer. Spangler will gradu-ate from Lakeville North High School in 2016. He is the captain of the Alpine ski team, an AP scholar with honors, and partici-pated in the Civil Air Pa-trol. Each year, Franken nominates qualified young Minnesotans to the U.S. Service Academies. The individual service acad-emies make the final ad-mission decisions and be-gin notifying nominees of their status in February.

Energy training for teachers offered through Dakota Electric Dakota Electric Associ-ation is seeking educators who desire to learn about the energy industry to at-tend a June 13-16 seminar. The Lignite Council is offering the seminar again in 2016 due to overwhelm-ing positive feedback it has received from past participants. Teachers

of all grade levels are ac-cepted, and Great River Energy, Dakota Electric’s power supplier, will cover the expenses related to the training. The seminar includes discussions on lignite coal mining and its conversion into energy, including the economic impact of the industry on the region. This training also includes a tour of a lignite mine, a lignite-fired power plant, the Great Plains Synfuels Plant (which converts coal into synthetic natural gas), and the Headwaters’ Visi-tor’s Center at Fort Man-dan, which was construct-ed with the use of coal combustion byproducts. The seminar is being held in cooperation with Bismarck State College, the Center for Economic Education at the Univer-sity of North Dakota, North Dakota State Uni-versity and Minot State University. Application deadline is April 15. For more information, contact Kay LaCoe at 800-932-7117 or visit lignite.com/teachers.

Prom dress resale and expo The District 196 AVID program is holding the 2016 Prom Dress Resale & Expo from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at Apple Valley High School, 14451 Hayes Road. The primary goal is to reduce the cost of prom for students and families by collecting 300 or more dresses to be sold for $10-$80 at the expo. Those who would like to donate a dress (or other formal wear) can drop it off by March 7 at any one of the five district high schools during school hours. All donations are tax deductible. Donors will receive a coupon to be used at the event. AVID is a college readi-ness program aimed at sup-porting underrepresented students in the “academic middle” in a rigorous Honors/AP courseload to prepare them for success in college and beyond. Contact Jodi Hanson for more information ([email protected]). For event details, visit www.facebook.com/ promresale2014 or promsale2016. weebly.com.

District 196 eyes Lakeville site for new elementary school

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


The Rosemount-Ap-ple Valley-Eagan School District is looking at po-tentially building a new school in Lakeville. The School Board di-rected staff on Feb. 23 to begin negations with Lakeville developer Tra-ditions Company to pur-chase a 22.4-acre parcel at Diamond Path and 160th Street. “When we start to look at location and impact on the need for boundary modifications, this partic-ular site is one the better sites,” said Jeff Solomon, finance director for Dis-trict 196. The property — located in the Traditions housing development — is one of three sites that the district considered. Officials also consider another Lakeville property as well as land in Rosemount and Apple Valley. District officials agreed that the Traditions site would best alleviate over-crowding issues and ac-

commodate future growth in the southeastern por-tion of the district without drastically altering exist-ing attendance boundar-ies, Solomon said. The site was previously a mining site. Environ-mental contaminants from past mining activity have already been cleaned up by the developer, district officials said. Solomon said he ex-pects a purchase agree-ment will be made in time for a proposal to go before in the School Board on March 14. At that time, a purchase price will be made public. The project’s estimat-ed cost is $29.8 million, which will be paid by the bond referendum that vot-ers passed last year. Site work is expected to begin this summer with construction of the build-ing to be complete in Au-gust 2017, in time for the start of the 2017-18 school year.

Jessica Harper is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

EducationEducation BriefsSledding at Crystal Lake

Lakeville Area Public Schools held a sledding outing Thursday, Feb. 18, at the hill at Crystal Lake Education Center. About 70 people from Oak Hills and Orchard Lake elementary schools joined 10 staff and community members for a night of sledding. The district’s Smart Bus served as a temporary warming house. With the support of Schmitty and Sons, the Smart Bus now also has heat, which means it also can support more year-round learning and community events. (Photo submitted)

To help young women experience first-hand the excitement of careers in science, technology, en-gineering, the arts, and math (STEAM), Visita-tion School in Mendota Heights will host STEAM Day for middle school girls from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12. This year’s participants will select four hands-on workshops from among 15 options, including sew like a surgeon, police forensics, international disaster re-lief homes, digital video, remote control airplanes, pendulum painting, epide-miology, and the chemis-try of making soap. The workshops will be

guided by STEAM profes-sionals. The keynote speaker will be 2004 Visitation alumna Courtney McCar-thy, who has worked at Li-onsgate film studio in Los Angeles and FOX Broad-casting and is currently with Google’s computer science education division. Registration is limited to 100 participants. The $55 fee includes lunch and a gift. Scholarships are available. To learn more go to www.visitation.net/steamday or visit www.visitation.net and enter “STEAM Day for Girls” in the search box.

STEAM Day set for middle school girls

Eastview stars at state One-Act; Eagan’s record appearance The cast and crew of Eastview High School’s one-act play “Doubt: A Parable” earned a starred-performance rating at this year’s state One-Act Play Festival held Feb. 12 at O’Shaughnessy Auditori-um in St. Paul. Eagan High School was also among the eight state qualifiers in Class AA, but not among the three to earn a starred rating. Eagan also per-formed “Doubt” by John Patrick Shanley. For Eastview, it was the school’s 11th appearance at the state festival and 11th starred rating. Eagan made its record 20th appearance at the state festival and has received 18 starred ratings in previous appearances, the most of any school in the state. The starred rating is the highest award given to a one-act play and is the equivalent of a state cham-pionship. One-act does not involve direct competition. Judges rate the plays ac-cording to specific criteria, including pace, blocking, costuming and projection of the play’s meaning. Each production is limited to 10 minutes of stage prepara-tion and 35 minutes of

actual performance. The judges consult after each production and then open-ly critique each in front of the cast, crew and audi-ence. Starred-performance ratings are determined by private balloting of the judges. Eastview’s performance was directed by Scott Du-rocher and Rob Rachow and student director Cali Swanson; cast members included Caleb Rotman, Kacie Riddle, Rachel Wil-liams and Maya Butler; Kaila Hellam played vio-lin, and crew members were Sarah Amundson, Jill Baker, Brian Coan, Corey Christian, Dayton Duffy, Andy Johns, David John-son, Claire Jordahl, Sam Lynch, Jasa Mahlen, Cade Schroeder-Phillips, Zahra Shaba, Bhoomi Parikh and Whitney Weichelt. Eagan’s performance was directed by Nancy Owzarek. Cast members included Jackson Cobb, Jenna Herbrand, Han-nah LoPresto and Nyanna Wright; crew members were Cassady Davis, Mary Dratz, Mark Dulac, Rachel Kaisler, Henry Najlis, Ca-mille Nierengarten, Jerry Ostrem and Ellie Simonett.


Parents honor daughter’s memory with ‘Make a Splash’

Fundraiser at Water Park of America set

March 6 by Andrew Miller


An Apple Valley couple is honoring the daughter they lost to cancer through the Mary Moon Founda-tion. Peter and Christine O’Keefe started the non-profit foundation in honor of their 3-year-old daugh-ter, Mary, who died from cancer in 2009. The Mary Moon Foun-dation is hosting its fifth annual “Make a Splash” event Sunday, March 6, at the Water Park of Amer-ica in Bloomington, with proceeds going to Child-Family Life Services at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hos-pital. Mary was hospitalized for much of her final year

— 63 consecutive days, at one point. The toys, games, painting supplies and puppet shows provid-ed by Child-Family Life were a regular source of pleasure for the girl while she battled neuroblasto-ma, a cancer that occurs mostly in infants and tod-dlers. “From our perspective, the services of Child-Fam-ily Life were just as impor-tant as the medical proce-dures,” Christine O’Keefe said. “They were there the day Mary was diagnosed — blowing bubbles to ease the tension — all the way to the end, when they made a mold of her hand as a memorial.” The nonprofit grew out of the O’Keefe’s efforts in the wake of Mary’s pass-ing to bring art supplies to patients at the children’s hospital where Mary had been treated, in hopes of brightening the days of other kids there. Founded in 2011, the Mary Moon Foundation

holds fundraising events to help finance toys, games and art supplies for Ma-sonic Children’s Hospi-tal. Craft supplies such as crayons, paper and mark-ers are all given to the hos-pitalized kids to keep, be-cause the risk of spreading germs is high. Largely due to its an-nual “Make a Splash” event at the Water Park of America, the Mary Moon Foundation — so named because Mary’s nickname was Moon — has gifted $85,000 to the hospital since the nonprofit’s in-ception. This year’s “Make a Splash” event, which starts at 4 p.m. on March 6, features discounted ad-mission to the Water Park of America, games, enter-tainment, food and a silent auction. Tickets can be purchased at www.mary-moonfoundation.org.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Three-year-old Mary O’Keefe plays with crafts and toys provided by Child-Family Life Services at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital during one of her many hospitalizations in 2008 and 2009. (Photo submitted)


Local woman named volunteer of the year Lakeville resident Mar-ilyn Nordaune, a volun-teer with E b e n e z e r R i d g e s in Burns-ville, was h o n o r e d by Leadin-gAge Min-nesota with the District Volunteer of the Year Award. The District Volunteer of the Year Award honors indi-viduals whose commit-ment and dedication en-hance the quality of life for seniors and their com-munities. Since she began volun-teering in 2013, Nordaune has been committed to serving the residents and children of the campus in various capacities. She was recognized for her excep-tional ability to connect with those she serves and provide them with warmth and kindness in every in-teraction. Nordaune’s husband, Ken, was a resident of Eb-enezer Ridges Care Center for three years and it was from his time at Ebenezer Ridges that they grew to love MacPhail’s Music for Life Intergenerational ses-sions and the experiences that were created in each class. Wanting to ensure that this experience was provided to others in this community, Nordaune dedicates herself to help-

ing gather, escort, sing with and encourage resi-dents of the care center for each weekly intergenera-tional MacPhail session. Nordaune received the award at the LeadingAge Minnesota Institute, the state’s largest and most comprehensive aging ser-vices conference.

Bike race is March 26 in Lakeville The fourth annual L a ke v i l l e - M i l l t o w n -Lakeville bike race will be Saturday, March 26. The race will start and end at Harry’s Café in Lakeville, with a checkpoint at Mill-town Cycles in Faribault. The self-navigation gravel road race will be 80-plus miles. This year the race will raise awareness and funds for a local man with inop-erable cancer. In addition to the race, a team of volunteers sponsored by Hearth and Home Technologies of Lakeville will bag grocer-ies Saturday, May 7, at the Cub Foods Lakeville Heritage Square location to raise funds and cancer awareness. For more information, visit lakeville-milltown- lakeville.blogspot.com.

Snowmobile rides and snowshoeing Lakeville Parks and Recreation will offer free snowshoeing noon to 3

p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28, at Ritter Farm Park. Free snowmobile rides will be offered by the SnoTrack-ers Snowmobile Club. Attendees can take photos of the Hastings Huskies and stay warm with hot chocolate. No registration is re-quired. Call 952-985-4600 for more information.

Lakeville Legion fundraiser Lakeville Legion Post 44 will hold a fundraiser on Monday, March 14, at Buffalo Wild Wings, 18425 Orchard Trail, Lakeville. Buffalo Wild Wings will donate 10 percent of patrons’ food bills all day to Post 44 if they mention “We’re here to support Lakeville Legion Post 44.”

Lakeville Parks and Recreation programs Lakeville Parks and Recreation will offer the following activities. Reg-ister at https://webtrac.lakevillemn.gov or in person at 20195 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Nickelodeon Universe, Mall of America, Bloom-ington: Purchase all-day discount wristbands for $26 at the Lakeville Parks and Recreation office in City Hall, 20195 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville, or call 952-984-4600. Pick up tickets at City Hall. Country Two-Step Dance Classes, 7-8:30 p.m. Mondays, Feb. 29 to April 4, Heritage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Ages 17 and older. Cost: $72 per cou-ple. Learn to Skate Pro-

gram: Indoor skating les-sons for ages 3 to adult. One-hour lessons are held Tuesday evenings, March 15 to May 10 (skip March 22), and on Satur-day mornings, March 12 to May 7 (skip March 26). Several skating levels and times are offered. Lessons are held at Ames Arena, 19900 Ipava Ave., Lake-ville. Cost: $89 per session and $125/P.A.L.S. level. Registration begins Feb. 27. Easter Egg Scramble & Breakfast, ages 2-10 with an adult, 9:15-10 a.m. Sat-urday, March 12, at Heri-tage Center, 20110 Holy-oke Ave. Scrambled eggs, doughnuts, juice, coffee and chocolate milk will be served. Features Easter activities and an egg hunt throughout downtown Lakeville businesses. Pre-registration is required; registration deadline is March 8. Cost: $8.

Heritage Library children’s programs The Heritage Library in Lakeville will host the following children’s pro-grams: Storytimes for All Ages, 10:30-11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. to noon Wednesdays, March 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30. Stories, songs and activi-ties that build preschool literacy skills. For children of all ages and their care-givers. Baby Storytime, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Fridays, March 4 and 18. A program of stories, songs and rhymes followed by playtime with age-appropriate toys. For infants up to 24 months of age and their caregivers.

Library Picnic and Sto-rytime, 12-1 p.m. Friday, March 4. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy in the li-brary meeting room fol-lowed by a fun storytime program. For families with children of all ages. Early World of Learn-ing Online Demonstra-tion, 3-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1. Discover the wealth of material avail-able for families to ex-plore and enjoy together through the library’s web-site in this introduction. For families with children ages 3-8. Story Man from Eng-land, 3-3:45 p.m. Tuesday, March 8. “Zoom Zoom Zoom” interactive story-telling fun with The Story Man from England. For children ages 2-10 and their caregivers. Legos and Duplos, 10-11:30 a.m. Friday, March 11. Build with Lego and Duplo blocks. For chil-dren of all ages and their caregivers. 3-D Hogwarts Castle with Artistry, 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 12. Staff from Artistry will lead a 3-D Hogwarts Cas-tle building project. For ages 8-12. Registration re-quired. Books and Beyond: Up in the Sky, 10:15-11 a.m. Monday, March 14. A program of stories and a craft about things in the sky presented by the Dis-trict 194 ECFE Advisory Council. For children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. History Players Pres-ent Dr. Daniel Hand, Civil War Surgeon, 4:30-5:15 p.m. and 6:30-7:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 15. Meet Dr. Daniel Hand, distin-guished doctor and Civil War veteran. He served as a surgeon in the Union army with the famous 1st Minnesota Infantry, cared for sick and wounded sol-

diers throughout the war, and survived a Confeder-ate prison camp. Learn about how experiences on Civil War battlefields changed the way medicine was practiced forever. Pre-sented by Historic Fort Snelling. Best for ages 10-16. Make and Take Pen-nant Craft, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Monday, March 21. Make a pennant celebrat-ing a favorite sport or hob-by or a personal motto. For ages 8-15. Coloring Fun Day, 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 22. Provided will be crayons, markers, col-ored pencils and projects from simple coloring pag-es for young children to intricate designs for teens and adults. For all ages. Code Like a Pro, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, March 23 and 24. Learn comput-er programming. Craft computer programs and watch them come to life through lights, music and animation. Understand the underlying code be-hind video games, apps, 3-D printers, and quad-copters. Participants must attend both days. Regis-tration required beginning March 23. For ages 8-15. Make and Play Games, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Friday, March 25. Learn how to make and play some clas-sic games. Participants will take home the games they have made and learned to play. For ages 6-10. Waggin’ Tales, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, March 26. Read aloud to a registered therapy dog. For ages 5-12. These library programs are free. For more in-formation or to register, call 952-891-0360 or visit www.dakotacounty.us/li-brary.

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Lakeville seniors All Lakeville Area Active Adults events are held at Lakeville Heritage Cen-ter, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Call 952-985-4622 for information. Monday, Feb. 29 – Yoga, 8:15 a.m.; Computer Tutoring, 9 a.m.; Wii Bowl-ing, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Crib-bage, 12:30 p.m.; Cards and Mahjong, 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 1 – Dominoes & Pok-er, 9 a.m.; Happy Feet, 9 a.m.; Tappercize, 9:30 a.m.; Book Club, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Zumba Gold, 10:30 a.m.; Party Bridge, noon; Ping Pong, 12:30 p.m.; Active Adults Advisory Com-mittee Meeting, 12:30 p.m.; Bingo, 1 p.m.; Billiards, 1 p.m.; Pilates Mat Class, 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 2 – Poker & Hearts, 9 a.m.; Line Dancing, 9 and 10 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Pinochle, noon. Thursday, March 3 – Classic Voices Chorus, 9 a.m.; Interval Walking, 9:30 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Red Hat Chorus, 10:30 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fit-ness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Euchre, Hand & Foot, noon; Quilting Group, 1 p.m.; Red Hat Chorus at Trinity Care, 1:30 p.m.; Zumba Gold, 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 4 – Yoga, 8:15 a.m.; Poker & 500, 9 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Du-plicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Oil & Acrylic Painting, 1 p.m.

DFL Senior Caucus Ken Pentel, director of The Ecology Democracy Network, is the guest speaker at the DFL Senior Caucus, South Metro Chapter’s next meeting at noon Wednes-day, March 9, at the Apple Valley Pizza Ranch, 15662 Pilot Knob, Apple Valley, 952-431-3333. Buffet lunch is available for purchase. The chapter meets the second

Wednesday of every month. All are wel-come.

Declutter workshop Burnsville adults age 62 and older can get a jump start on spring cleaning at a free declutter workshop 10-11 a.m. Wednesday, March 9, at Burnsville City Hall, 100 Civic Center Parkway. The workshop will provide advice from various city departments on how to restore order to homes, as well as tips on how to let go of possessions. Participants will also get information on local resourc-es that will take items for free – or even pay for some items. Registration deadline is Friday, March 4. Participants can register online at www.burnsville.org/recreation or by phone at 952-895-4500.

Burnsville seniors The Burnsville Senior Center is located in the Diamondhead Education Center at 200 W. Burnsville Parkway. Call 952-707-4120 for information about the following senior events. Monday, Feb. 29 – Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Cribbage, 11 a.m.; Pinochle, 12:45 p.m.; SS Flex. Tuesday, March 1 – Scrabble, 10:30 a.m.; SS Yoga, 10:30 a.m.; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Evening Taxes, 5:30 p.m., Presbyterian Church of the Apos-tles; Line Dancing. Wednesday, March 2 – Woodcarvers, 8 a.m.; Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Taxes, 9 a.m. to noon; Cribbage, 11 a.m.; Chair Tai Chi, 11 a.m.; 500, 12:45 p.m.; BABS, 1 p.m.; SS Flex. Thursday, March 3 – Foot Clinic, 9 a.m.; Health Insurance Council, 9 a.m.; Crafters, 10 a.m.; SS Yoga, 10:30 a.m.; Defensive Driving Refresher, 1 p.m.; Cof-fee Talk – Choices, 2 p.m.; Wood Carving, 6 p.m. Friday, March 4 – Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Men’s Breakfast, 8:30 a.m.; Paint-ing, 9 a.m.; Texas Tenors, 9:15 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 12:15 p.m.; SS Flex.

Seniors


Suicide prevention program organized

March 4 at Apple Valley High Schoolby Tad Johnson


A suicide prevention program called Don’t Stop Believing will start at 6 p.m. Friday, March 4, at Apple Valley High School. The event, which will include a per-formance by comedian and author Kevin Breel, was organized in response to recent suicides in Dakota County and beyond as Apple Valley resident John Glynn has led the effort. Glynn has coordinated with the Rose-mount-Apple Valley-Eagan School Dis-trict, Apple Valley High School and St. Paul-based Suicide Prevention Collab-orative to organize the event that aims to remove the stigma that prevents people from talking about mental health issues. Designed for high school-age stu-dents, the event will include a resource fair, panel discussion led by local high school students and a presentation by Woodbury-based theater group S.O.S. for Youth. Glynn said the highlight of the event will be Breel, who is in demand world-wide and is touted as offering comedy along with an honest and hopeful con-versation about mental health. He has battled depression, which he has chronicled in his book “Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live.” As a mental health activist, Breel is the national spokesperson for the Bell LET’S TALK campaign and has been a guest speaker at more than 100 college campuses. His work has been featured by Huff-ington Post, MTV, CNN, “The Today Show,” Mashable and the Wall Street Journal. As a 19-year-old, Breel’s TEDx talk “Confessions of a Depressed Comic” went instantly viral online – with more than half a million views in less than 30 days. It has amassed more than 3 million viewers and has been featured on more than 200 media outlets. Glynn said he hopes the event empow-ers young people to talk about the prob-lems they are facing and seek help when they need it. “We are trying to make a shift for stu-dents to help inspire forever tomorrows,” he said. People will go to the doctor if they have a broken arm, he said, and he wants young people to think the same way if they are broken by depression.

Glynn said young people will often talk to their friends about their prob-lems facing depression and thoughts of suicide, but often don’t turn to adults for help. He said he hopes the program results in students realizing that if they notice their friends need help that they take charge and get adults involved. “We want them to say: ‘I know where you can go. You have to go. I care about you,’ ” Glynn said. He said a similar program was orga-nized in Woodbury and had great success in getting students talking more about their mental health problems and seek-ing help. Glynn said prevention programs like this are tricky to judge since the lack of bad things happening is the main out-come. He said he has appreciated the help of-fered by Apple Valley High School Princi-pal Steve Degenaar, who has really cham-pioned the cause of suicide prevention. Glynn said he has sent information and posters regarding the event to high schools throughout District 196 and even into St. Paul and Prior Lake. “We hope to pack the house,” he said. More information is at www.sui-cidepreventioncollaborative.org.

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @editorTJ.

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Event encourages youths to Don’t Stop Believing


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Cleaning the shores of the Vermillion River

Volunteers needed for Trout Unlimited project

March 5 by Andy Rogers


Twin Cities chapter of Trout Unlimited is look-ing for volunteers to help with shore restoration work from 9 a.m. to noon March 5 along the Vermil-lion River south branch east of Farmington. Volunteers will be asked to help clear buckthorn, honeysuckle and other in-vasive plant species chok-ing the banks of the trout stream next to 4758 200th St. E. in Farmington. The brush is degrading habitat for the fish and the wildlife, according to Dan Callahan of Minnesota

Trout Unlimited. “We’ll cut and drag brush into big piles for the Department of Natural Resources to burn next winter, so dress to get muddy,” Callahan said. Volunteers should bring hiking or knee boots; work gloves; tree loppers or hand saws; and a few people could bring wad-ers. They also need a few expert chain saw operators with proper training and gear. The hope is restoring the shore will provide bet-ter fishing access. Once it’s completed, Trout Unlimited plans to restoring the native prai-rie and stabilize eroding banks, which will improve water quality and wildlife habitat by preventing dirt from washing into the stream and filtering pol-

luted runoff. Everyone from the community is welcome, including families, school groups, community groups, Trout Unlimited members and nonmem-bers. Trout Unlimited will provide lunch, so par-ticipants should RSVP to [email protected] for an accurate head count. For those interested in helping with lunch, reply to Tony Nelson at [email protected] or call 952-486-2282. There are seven chap-ters of the nonprofit con-servation group Trout Un-limited in Minnesota, all run by volunteers. “We’ve restored habitat on more than 40 miles of trout streams across the state, including 3 miles of the Vermillion River

in Dakota County, which runs through Lakeville and Farmington to Hast-ings and the Mississippi River,” Callahan said.

For information about the Vermillion River-keepers volunteer day on March 5, visit www.twin-citiestu.org.

Email Andy Rogers at [email protected].

The Department of Natural Resources set fire to piles of buckthorn and other invasive species along the shores of the Vermillion River earlier this year. Trout Unlimited is looking for volunteers to help clear more of the plants on March 5. (Photo by Andy Rogers)


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[email protected].

Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce events: • Tuesday, March 1, 7:30-9 a.m., Chamber Coffee Connection, Apple Valley City Hall, 7100 147th St. W., Apple Valley. Hosted by Apple Valley Business Watch. Free. Information: Fabiana at [email protected]. • Wednesday, March 16, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Business After Hours, Think Mutual Bank, 15751 Emperor Ave., Apple Valley. Free. Information: Fabiana at [email protected]. Burnsville Chamber of Commerce events: • Tuesday, March 1, 7:30-9 a.m., Cham-ber Breakfast: Legislative Session Preview, Best Western Premier Nicollet Inn, 14201 Nicollet Ave. S., Burnsville. Panel with lo-cal legislators. Cost: $15 members, $25 nonmembers. Register at www.burnsvil-lechamber.com. Information: [email protected]. • Thursday, March 3, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Business After Hours, JL Beers, 1230

County Road 42, Burnsville. Free to at-tend. Information: Tricia Andrews at [email protected]. • Wednesday, March 9, 8-9 a.m., AM Coffee Break, Welcyon - Fitness After 50, 14635 County Road 11, Burnsville. Free. Information: [email protected]. Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce events: • Wednesday, March 2, 7:30-9 a.m., Dakota County State of the County Ad-dress, Dakota County Community Devel-opment Agency, 1228 Town Centre Drive, Eagan. Free to attend. Registration re-quired. Information: 651-452-9872. • Thursday, March 3, 4:30-6 p.m., Legislative Reception, Southview Country Club, 239 Mendota Road E., West St. Paul. Area legislators invited to attend. Free to attend. Registration required. Cash bar and complimentary hors d’oeuvres. Infor-mation: 651-452-9872. • Friday, March 4, 7:30-9 a.m., Legisla-tive Breakfast, The Commons on Marice, 1380 Marice Drive, Eagan. Cost is $25 members, $30 nonmembers; a series pass is $160. Registration required. Information: 651-452-9872.

• Monday, March 7, 12-1:30 p.m., Farmington State of the City Address, Ground Round, 20700 Chippendale Ave. W., Farmington. Dutch treat. Registration required. Information: Vicki Stute at 651-452-9872 or [email protected]. Lakeville Area Chamber of Com-merce events: • Wednesday, March 2, 7:30-8:30 a.m., Morning Brew, Aero Drapery & Blind, 1254 County Road 42 W., Burnsville. • Saturday, March 12, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., 2016 Landscape & Home/Consum-er Showcase Expo, Lakeville North High School, 19600 Ipava Ave. Information: 952-469-2020. Small Business Advisory Board event: • Wednesday, March 9, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Marketing Your Business Effec-tively, Lost Spur Golf and Event Center, 2750 Sibley Memorial Highway, Eagan. Speakers: Ryan Berkness, founder and CEO of PR Caffeine: Home of EspreSEO; Todd Churchill, owner and founder of CFO Insights LLC. Free, but RSVP required at http://www.smallbizab.com/rsvp.

Business Calendar

Business BuzzLegislative session kickoff The Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce and St. Paul Association of Realtors will sponsor a kickoff to the 2016 legislative session 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, at the Lake-ville Area Arts Center. Attendees will hear from state legislators regarding policy issues and learn their outlook for the 2016 session. Elected officials invited include: Sen. Greg Clausen (confirmed); Sen. Dan Hall (confirmed); Sen. Dave Thompson; Rep. Jon Koznick (confirmed); Rep. Roz Peterson (confirmed); Rep. Tara Mack; Rep. Bob Vogel (confirmed). Legislative updates begin at 6 p.m. Cost is $5. Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be provided. Registration required. Information: Tim Roche at [email protected].

WomEn’s Conference The Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce is hosting its sixth annual WomEn’s Confer-ence on March 10 at Lost Spur Golf and Event Center in Eagan. The conference aims to connect women and enrich their personal and pro-fessional lives by providing the tools and resources to fulfill their aspira-tions. Keynote speakers include Gina Soleil, speaking on leadership, and Jenni Lillidahl, co-owner of Brave New Workshop, speaking on how to energize our authentic selves. The event features a panel of women who lead in male-dominat-ed industries and is moderated by Vineeta Sawkar, Star Tribune. Pan-

elists include Jean Kane, CEO of Welsh/Colliers International; Kelly Larson, CFO of Summit Brewing; and Lana Siewert-Olson, president of Ideal Printers. A marketplace of businesses of-fering their products and services related to energizing, educating and empowering women will be avail-able throughout the conference to participants. This year’s nonprofit partner is the DCR Charitable Foundation. Funds raised will be used to give four $500 scholarships to deserv-ing female students attending high school in the Dakota County re-gion. The four students who will be awarded this year’s scholarships are Emiliana Almanza Lopez, Henry Sibley High School; Noelle Hin-richs, Burnsville High School; Talia Hintermeister, Eagan High School; and Gelila Solomon, Eastview High School. For registration, sponsorship or scholarship information, contact the chamber at 651-452-9872 or visit http://www.dcrchamber.com/womens-conference.cfm.

Nominations open for small business award Nominations are open for the Champions of Business Awards, a specialized awards program for small businesses in the Twin Cities metro area. Sponsored by Calhoun Compa-nies, Thompson Hall and C-Level Magazine, the awards recognize the importance of the nearly 500,000 small businesses in Minnesota. Candidates must be owners, em-ployees or a professional-service provider who work with indepen-dently owned businesses with 500 or

fewer employees in the Twin Cities metro. The awards program was launched as part of a local celebra-tion of National Small Business Week to honor the often unacknowl-edged leaders and contributors who have made a significant impact on their businesses and communities. Nominations are open through March 1, and winners will be an-nounced during National Small Business Week in May. Nominations are accepted on-line at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bDY71-z1Q2jpql5jTv V R l L L F 1 F o 4 n y R h 2 D TVQVGGGdY/viewform.

Credit union to open new location Burnsville-based US Federal Credit Union, which rebrands to Firefly Credit Union in March, will open a new branch location in Chanhassen this summer. This will be the first credit union to locate in Chanhassen and is the ninth full-service location for US Federal. The branch will be located at the corner of Highway 5 and Great Plains Boulevard.

Marketing agency expands to Florida Media Relations Inc., a Burns-ville-based marketing agency, has opened a location in Fort Myers, Florida. “We are eager to jump in to help local businesses improve their prod-ucts’ visibility,” said CEO Lonny Kocina, who with wife and COO/CFO Robin Kocina founded the agency in 1988.


SportsIt’s another Farmington vs. North section final

Boys hockey rivals play

Thursday for spot at state tourney

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


If Lakeville North needed a reminder not to let down its guard in the postseason, the Panthers got it last week when three No. 1 seeds departed the Class AA boys hockey playoffs. “A No. 1 seed means nothing. It’s a number next to your team’s name,” said North coach Trent Eigner, whose team is the top seed in Section 1AA. Last week No. 1 seeds Minnetonka (Section 2AA), Blaine (5AA) and Benilde-St. Margaret’s (6AA) saw their seasons end after playoff upsets. For the defending state champion Panthers to avoid the same fate, they’ll have to beat Farmington in the Section 1AA cham-pionship game at 7 p.m. Thursday at Rochester Rec Center. Lest anyone forget, No. 2-seeded Farmington de-feated North twice during the regular season. The Ti-gers certainly haven’t for-gotten; they were the last team to beat the Panthers (1-0 on Jan. 21). Since then Lakeville North has won 10 in a row. In nine of those games the Panthers held opponents to two goals or fewer. “They’re more wide-open than we are,” said Farmington coach Greg May. “They have some very high-end, skilled of-fensive players. We’re more of a hard-hat team, one that has to win by play-ing good defense. It’s two contrasting styles, which I think will make for a great game.” In North’s first two Sec-tion 1AA games, victories over Dodge County (12-0) and Rochester John Mar-shall (6-1), “we did a good job defensively,” Eigner said. “We had some lapses in the Prior Lake game (a 7-6 victory Feb. 13 to close the regular season) in the third period after we got a big lead. But we’ve gotten back to what we’ve been doing well.” Lakeville North (21-5-1) held Rochester John Marshall to eight shots on goal during its victory in the Section 1AA semi-finals Saturday. North grabbed control early with two goals by Henry En-ebak and one each by Tay-lor Schneider and Spencer Schneider in the first 8 minutes, 16 seconds. Max Johnson and Ryan Poeh-ling scored in the second period. Farmington (17-8-1), which lost twice to Lakev-ille South during the regu-lar season, turned things around on the Cougars with a 5-3 victory in the other Section 1AA semi-final. The Tigers scored three goals in the second period, turning a 1-1 tie into a 4-1 lead. “One of the differences was we were healthy,” May said. “In the two games we played against Lakeville South during the regular season we were missing some big-time players. We also tried to get a little more pressure on their de-fensemen. They have four skilled, puck-moving de-fensemen, and we wanted to try to limit their time and space.” This will be the third consecutive year Farming-ton has played Lakeville North in the section final. The Farmington-Lakeville North winner goes to the state Class AA quarterfinals March 3 at Xcel Energy Center. First-round pairings will be de-termined this weekend.

Gymnastics coach’s loyalties pulled in several directions

His daughter finishes 3rd on

floor at state; his team takes 8th



Fans paying close at-tention at Saturday night’s state Class AA finals might have wondered why a Lakeville North assistant coach would be spotting for an Apple Val-ley gymnast. Or why that same coach would watch intently while an Eagan gymnast competed on floor exercise. It was all in a night’s work for Mick Ramboldt, whose influence is felt across several South Sub-urban Conference pro-grams. For the last several years he has run Lakev-ille North’s gymnastics off-season program, which isn’t restricted to just North gymnasts. Apple Valley senior Sid-ney Bethke trained in that program the last six years with Ramboldt, and when Bethke qualified for the state meet in the all-around, it stood to reason that Ramboldt would be there to lend support – and spotting. That Eagan gymnast he was watching? It’s Ram-boldt’s daughter Teagan, an eighth-grader who fin-ished third on floor exer-cise in her first state meet. Until a few years ago Ramboldt was an assis-tant coach for his wife Jodi on the Eastview High School team. This season they coached for opposing teams because Jodi Ram-boldt is an assistant at Ea-gan. “When we left East-view, Jodi actually re-tired (from coaching) and I started coaching at

Lakeville North,” Mick Ramboldt said. “That was when Milan (Mad-er, Lakeville’s legendary gymnastics and volleyball coach) was still there. I coached there two years, then got a teaching job in Chaska and coached three years at Chaska/Chanhas-sen.” He left teaching but continued to run the North off-season program. This season, current Panthers head coach Teri Homan asked Ramboldt to be an in-season assistant coach for the Panthers. “I didn’t want to coach because then I would miss some of Teagan’s meets,” he said. “So we made a deal that (on meet nights) I would coach vault, and if Teagan had a meet the same night I would leave when vault was done and drive to her meet. I’d miss her vault but watch her last three events.” Floor exercise was Tea-gan Ramboldt’s only event at the state meet, and she had to wait until the sev-enth of eight rotations to compete. She scored 9.65 to place third behind two seniors from East Ridge. Lakeville North eighth-grader Ashley Goodlund earned a medal in the all-around, placing fifth with 37.525. “We wanted someone to place,” Mick Ramboldt said. “Ashley definitely had aspirations to (place). We just built her up to think that she could.” After helping gymnasts from several teams on the floor Saturday at the University of Minnesota Sports Pavilion, Ramboldt said he might watch next year’s state meet from a different vantage point – in the stands. He said he’s leaning against coaching next winter. “I just did this for one

year to help Teri,” he said. “I like being a parent for Teagan. It’s kind of fun.”

Lakeville North The Section 2 champion Panthers finished eighth at the state Class AA team competition Friday night, scoring 141.175 points. St. Cloud Tech won the meet with 149.125. North was hindered by the loss of one of its all-arounders, Indya Volk, who fractured her arm at the Section 2AA meet. The Panthers also struggled on balance beam, where they had to count scores of 7.5 and 7.4. “We came in to have a good time,” Homan said. “We figured if we hit we’d be in the top half of the pack. It just didn’t happen that way.” North junior Megan Lemley led the Panthers on vault in the team competition, scoring 9.4. Goodlund had the top un-even bars score with 9.05 and led the Panthers on balance beam with 9.35. Lemley had 9.475 on floor. In Saturday’s individual competition, Lemley was seventh on floor exercise with 9.575. Goodlund was 22nd on floor and senior Emma Johnson finished 23rd, both with scores of 9.275. Goodlund was sixth on uneven bars with 9.475. Lemley tied for 13th on vault with 9.425 and John-son was 28th with 9.025. Goodlund “wants to Division I someday and I think she’s well on her way to meeting that goal,” Homan said. “She looked really calm and strong. She likes competing on the big stage and she did a good job.”

Individuals Three Lakeville South gymnasts competed at state. Sophomore Alli

Dornbros was in two events, finishing 15th on floor exercise with 9.425 and 22nd on vault with 9.3. Ninth-grader Kari Wenzel was 10th on bal-ance beam with 9.275 and

senior Bella Iversen was 31st on beam with 8.225.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

(Above) Lakeville North eighth-grader Ashley Goodlund competes on floor exercise on her way to fifth place in the Class AA all-around. (Below) Lakeville South sophomore Alli Dornbros vaults at the state meet. (Photos by Mike Shaughnessy)

South takes 6th place in Class AA girls hockeyCougars fall

to Eastview in consolation final by Mike Shaughnessy


Lakeville South’s fourth trip to the state girls hock-ey tournament ended with a 2-1 loss to Eastview in the Class AA consolation final Saturday at Ridder Arena. The loss was the Cou-gars’ (21-7-2) first all sea-son to a South Suburban Conference team. SSC champion South was 16-0-2 in league games dur-ing the regular season, including a victory and tie against Eastview. Abbie Pearson of Lakeville South scored the game’s first goal at 10 minutes, 16 seconds of the second period. The lead held up until early in the third period when East-view scored two goals 30 seconds apart. The Light-ning’s first goal came on the power play. Eastview (20-7-4) was making its second con-secutive appearance at state; the Lightning fin-ished sixth in Class AA

last year. Lakeville South’s best state tournament fin-ish was fourth in 2015. Lakeville South ap-peared to be in a good place after two periods of its game against Maple Grove in the Class AA quarterfinals Feb. 18 at Xcel Energy Center. The Cougars and Crimson were tied 1-1 and South managed to survive a Maple Grove 5-on-3 ad-vantage without allowing a goal. But the Crimson, play-

ing in the state tournament for the first time, broke the tie at 2 minutes, 8 seconds of the third when Taylor Wente got behind the Cou-gars’ defense and scored. Later in the period, Lau-ren Kaufman scored her second and third goals of the game to seal her team’s 4-1 victory. “It was a back-and-forth game,” South coach Mark Johnson said. “A bounce here, a bounce there, maybe that changes things. (Maple Grove)

made some good plays, made some good moves to the net. You have to give them credit.” The game was fairly wide-open for playoff hockey with 68 shots on goal (36 by Maple Grove). “When I get a lot of shots, it almost makes it more fun,” said South goalie Chloe Crosby, who made 32 saves. Crimson goalie Coco Francis made 31 saves, and a bit of bad luck kept her from a shutout. Less than five minutes into the game Francis stopped a Halle Gill shot with her blocker, only to see the rebound go into the net off a Maple Grove defender. That gave South a 1-0 lead. Maple Grove’s Kaufman tied it late in the first period. Maple Grove was unable to convert on more than a minute of 5-on-3 advantage in the second period after two Lakeville South players drew penalties for check-ing, and the game re-mained tied. Just three minutes into the game South goalie Chloe Crosby stopped Kaufman on a breakaway. Crosby made several other

big saves while the Cou-gars skated shorthanded to keep them in the game. “It could have been 6-1 or 7-1” if not for Crosby’s play, Johnson said, “but we had a lot of good chances, too.” “Their goalie played great,” Crosby said. “Their team played great. It was just frustrating, not being able to score.” Sophomore forward Emily Fischler scored twice in Lakeville South’s 3-1 victory over Sartell/Sauk Rapids in a conso-lation semifinal game last Friday at Ridder Arena. Janna Haeg scored at 9:26 of the second period to put South ahead 2-1 and assisted on Fischler’s first goal. Crosby made 24 saves for Lakeville South, which outshot Sartell/Sauk Rapids 43-25. Maple Grove went on to upset two-time defend-ing champion Hill-Murray 1-0 in the Class AA semifi-nals before losing to Eden Prairie 3-2 in overtime in the championship game Saturday night.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Lakeville South forward Janna Haeg poke checks the puck away from Maple Grove’s Lauren Kaufman (14). (Photo by Jim Lindquist/sidekick.smugmug.com)

Class 3A individual wrestling tourney starts FridaySix from

Lakeville schools will compete



Almost three dozen wrestlers from the Sun Thisweek and Dakota County Tribune coverage area – including five who have won state champion-ships – will compete in the state individual tourna-ment Friday and Saturday at Xcel Energy Center. Among the former champions is Apple Val-ley senior Mark Hall, who

is seeking to become the only high school wrestler in state history to win six individual titles. Hall is heavily favored to successfully defend his Class 3A, 170-pound title this weekend, and with good reason: He has a career record of 271-4 and has won his last 164 matches. Hall, a Penn State recruit, has not lost a high school match since his freshman year. On Tuesday, Hall said he’s content to let his op-ponents take the risks. “I’m wrestling a lot safer now,” he said. “In seventh grade, maybe

I would do something where I would hit a roll-under or some other move that could put me in dan-ger, but those are things now I completely rule out. I have enough body control where I don’t have to try out those things. I just have to wrestle basic, wrestle smart.” Rosemount senior Adam Hedin (132) and Apple Valley sophomore Gable Steveson (220) also are defending state cham-pions in Class 3A. Also re-turning to the Xcel Energy Center are Farmington senior Taylor Venz, who won a state title in 2013,

and Lakeville North ju-nior Wade Sullivan, a state champion in 2014. After the state team championships are de-cided Thursday, the indi-vidual tournament takes over Friday and Saturday. First-round matches in Class 3A begin at 11 a.m. Friday. Championship matches in all three classes start at 7 p.m. Saturday. Here are the Lakev-ille qualifiers for the state tournament:

Lakeville North Wade Sullivan, junior, 34-5. Section 2 runner-up at 145. Three-time state

qualifier; won 113-pound championship in 2014. Jackson Dunnell, se-nior, 33-7. Section 2 run-ner-up at 195.

Lakeville South Grant Hendren, fresh-man, 20-7. Section 1 champion at 126. Brady Bastyr, junior, 27-9. Section 1 runner-up at 138. Two-time state qualifier. Kelby Johnson, senior, 24-8. Section 1 runner-up at 152. Adam Lucast, senior 23-4. Section 1 champion at 220. Two-time state qualifier.


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Caucus locations Caucuses will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, with doors open-ing at 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise not-ed.

Senate District 57 DFL: For residents in Apple Val-ley, Rosemount, and Lakeville pre-cincts 16-17 at Apple Valley High School, 14450 Hayes Road, Apple Valley. Republican: Apple Valley pre-cincts 1-5A, 6 and 11-15 and Lake-ville precincts 16-17 in House District 57A, Eastview High School, 6200 140th St. W., in Apple Valley. Apple Valley precincts 5B, 7-10, Rosemount and Coates in House Dis-trict 57B at Rosemount High School, 3335 142nd St. W. in Rosemount.

Senate District 51 DFL: Eagan (except Precinct 1) and Burnsville precincts 1, 5, 6, 9 and 10 at Eagan High School, 4185 Brad-dock Trail, Eagan. Republican: 6 p.m., Eagan (except Precinct 1) and Burnsville precincts 1, 5, 6, 9 and 10 at Black Hawk Middle School, 1540 Deerwood Drive, Ea-gan.

Senate District 56 DFL: Burnsville precincts 2-4, 7-8, 11-17, Lakeville precincts 6-8 and Savage precincts 1-8, at Nicollet Junior High School, 400 E. 134th St., Burnsville. Republican: 6 p.m., Burnsville pre-cincts 2-4, 7-8, 11-17, Lakeville pre-cincts 6-8 and Savage precincts 1-8 at Prior Lake High School, 7575 150th St. W., Savage.

Senate District 58 DFL: Lakeville precincts 1-5, 9-15 at Lakeville South High School, 21135 Jacquard Ave., Lakeville. Farmington residents and most town-ships in House District 58B, Robert Boeckman Middle School, 800 Den-mark Ave., Farmington. Republican: Lakeville precincts 1-5, 9-15 at Lakeville North High School, 19600 Ipava Ave. Lakeville. Farmington residents and most townships in House District 58B, at Farmington High School.

after the 2012 presidential year, in which states sought to “leapfrog” each other to become the earliest to vote for president, threatening to establish a “national prima-ry” in which a candidate was essentially chosen in January of an election year, Downey said. The party decided to re-quire states that chose to hold an event in March to allocate their delegates proportion-ally, according to the vote of attendees. “The result of those rule changes would keep it open to more than one candidate and not simply favor the can-didate with the most money and highest name identifica-tion,” Downey said. On the Democratic Party side, most delegates will also be assigned according to the proportion of votes their candidates receive. However, superdelegates will be free to vote for whomever they like at the party’s national con-vention. In Minnesota, the superdelegates include Gov. Mark Dayton, DFL members of Congress and the U.S. Sen-ate, the state party chair, vice chair, other Democratic Na-tional Convention members and “Distinguished Party Leader” Walter Mondale. Each party will select dele-gates based on the percentage of votes for each candidate by congressional district. They will also select some delegates based on the percentage of votes for each candidate state-wide. Downey noted that in past years many Republican caucus attendees mistakenly thought their votes in the presidential straw poll deter-mined the national delegates from Minnesota. “Now it’s actually true,” he said.

Turnout

expectations Both state party leaders anticipate the robust debates this year will help prompt a strong voter turnout. “There’s a lot of excite-ment for both Secretary (of State Hillary) Clinton and Sen. (Bernie) Sanders in our party,” Martin said. “We ex-pect there to be near-record turnout on Tuesday, March 1. The race around the country right now is very tight, and we happen to fall on Super Tues-day this year for the caucus.” For Democrats, Minnesota is the second largest state after Washington to hold a caucus and is therefore a large prize, Martin said. As for Republicans, Downey said, “The energy and excitement that we have seen in the states that have had their primary and cau-cus events so far indicate that we will have a lot of turn-out. It’s a very close race and one where Minnesota gets a chance to be a part of the Su-per Tuesday states that could very well swing the nomi-nation one way or another. People are excited to have the caucuses be relevant in Min-nesota, so we’re anticipating a big night.” In some years, Minnesota has been an island regarding the timing of its caucuses, Downey said. He and Martin met about a year ago to work out an agreement to hold this year’s caucuses March 1. “Lo and behold, it ended up being great for a lot of the other states’ calendars, too, because there’s 12 of us going on March 1,” Downey said. Many of the other states will conduct primaries, a sys-tem similar to a general elec-tion, but Minnesota leaders have supported maintaining the caucus system. Both ma-jor parties support caucuses

because they allow ordinary people to have a say not only in the selection of candidates, but also in the election of of-ficers and the party platform, according to Martin. “Primaries tend to support those candidates who have the most money and run a lot of glitzy commercials and send out a lot of mailers, but in a caucus system it’s much more grassroots,” Martin said. He added that the caucuses allow neighbors to gather to-gether to debate issues of con-cern. “Minnesota’s caucus sys-tem provides an opportunity that most states do not have to show up at a precinct cau-cus room and have a direct say in who will actually nom-inate those candidates from each of the political parties,” Downey said. “On Super Tuesday, we’re right in the heart of one of the most ex-citing nights in determining who those candidates are.” Each of the party chairs said they have instructed peo-ple organizing the caucuses to prepare for big crowds. “I’ve said it’s better to be safe than sorry,” Martin said. “You never know how many people will show up.” Downey said he told pre-cinct organizers to assume a turnout one-and-a-half to two times higher than the re-cord. He noted he had heard stories from a past caucus in which people could not get into the parking lot. “We’re hoping to avoid that,” Downey said. Caucus attendees will re-ceive ballots with which to se-lect their choice for the party’s presidential nominee. They may stay to participate in the rest of the party business but are not required to do so. The ballot process will end at 8 p.m. for each of the par-ties. “You can’t show up at 8:15

and expect to be able to vote,” Downey stressed. “Get there early.” Anyone who is eligible to vote by this year’s November general election may partici-pate. Each person is limited to attending the caucus in his or her precinct. They must sign a statement that includes an ad-dress within the precinct and state that they generally agree with the principles of the par-ty hosting the caucus. Although the parties run the caucuses, Minnesota Sec-retary of State Steve Simon has announced an official state precinct caucus finder to help Minnesotans deter-mine where they should go to participate. The tool includes caucus locations provided by the DFL Party and the Re-publican Party of Minnesota. It is at caucusfinder.sos.state.mn.us. “Our vote is our voice, and I encourage all Minne-sotans to go out and caucus on March 1 and make their voices heard,” Simon said. “This is an important election year in Minnesota and going to a caucus is a great way for Minnesotans to show support for their preferred candidates, raise an important issue, and meet people in their commu-nity.” The DFL Party includes information about its caucus at dfl.org while the Republi-can Party of Minnesota pro-vides information at mngop.com. Some minor parties are also planning caucuses. In-formation about the Inde-pendence Party of Minnesota is at mnip.org. The Libertar-ian Party of Minnesota lists caucus details on its website, lpmn.org. The Green Party of Minnesota lists its caucuses at tinyurl.com/jcjgt6g.

Contact Seth Rowe at [email protected].

CAUCUSES, from 1A

The Dakota-Scott Workforce Development Board is recruit-ing employers to participate in the “Employers of Excellence” Awards program. The program recognizes the best employ-ers in the two-county area and provides an overview of em-ployment data, and trends and practices on what employers are doing to maintain an engaged workforce. The program collects data from area employers and pro-

duces a 20-page report on em-ployment trends and practices in Dakota and Scott counties. From the data received the WDB will recognize the busi-nesses that are experiencing the best results in employee reten-tion efforts and providing the best work environments in the area. Participating employers will receive a confidential report including their individual met-rics. “Employers throughout our

business community are look-ing for the best ways to retain and attract talent. We want to know who is doing a great job and what are they doing to keep their workforce engaged,” said Mark Lofthus, chairperson of the WDB’s Business Services committee. The Dakota-Scott WDB is working with Personnel Dy-namics Consulting in Florida to collect the data from area busi-nesses. Personnel Dynamics will

analyze the data and calculate the turnover rates, growth per-centages, promotion percentag-es, and benefit packages for each company. A total of 37 different measurements are analyzed. Ev-ery participating company will receive a personalized report de-tailing how they compared with other companies in the area and suggestions for improving the work environment. Winners will be announced May 25 at the Employers of Ex-

cellence Awards Banquet to be held at the Eagan Community Center. Contact WDB Director Mark Jacobs at 651 554-5622 for more information or go to http://mn.gov/deed/excellence to find a link to the survey under the “Employers of Excellence” tab. Deadline for consideration for this program — available this year at no cost to employers — is April 1.

Workforce Development Board seeks participants in Employers of Excellence Awards


LEGAL NOTICES

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CITY OF LAKEVILLEDAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA

ORDINANCE NO. 956AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 3, CHAPTER 1

OF THE LAKEVILLE CITY CODECONCERNING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEVILLE, MINNESOTA OR-DAINS:

SECTION 1. Section 3-1-4(J) of the Lakeville City Code is amended to provide to provide as follows:

J. “On-Sale Brewpub License”: On-sale brewpub licenses shall be issued only in accordance with Minnesota Statutes 340A.

SECTION 2. Section 3-1-4 of the Lakeville City Code is amended by adding the following:

L. “Off-Sale Brewpub License”: Off-sale brewpub licenses shall be issued only in accordance with Minnesota Statutes 340A.

M. “Small Brewer Off-Sale Malt Liquor License”: Small brewer off-sale malt liquor licenses shall be issued only in accordance with Min-nesota Statutes 340A.

SECTION 3. Section 3-1-7-1 of the Lakeville City Code is amended by adding the following:

Type Of License Amount Of License

On-sale:

Annual sales of $375,000.00 or less of alcoholic beverages

$6,250.00

Annual sales of more than $375,000.00 of alcoholic beverages

7,000.00

Special club:

For a club with under 200 members 300.00

For a club with between 201 and 500 members

500.00

For a club with between 501 and 1,000 members

650.00

For a club with between 1,001 and 2,000 members

800.00


1,000.00


2,000.00

For a club with over 6,000 members 3,000.00

Sunday liquor 200.00

On-sale 3.2 percent malt liquor 300.00

Off-sale 3.2 percent malt liquor 300.00

Temporary 3.2 percent malt liquor 50.00

Wine 800.00

Consumption and display 300.00

Temporary consumption and display 25.00

Investigation fee 700.00

Cocktail room 300.00 [no fee with an on-sale liquor license]

On-sale Brewpub 300.00 [no fee with an on-sale liquor license]

Off-sale Brewpub 50.00

Taproom 300.00 [no fee with an on-sale liquor license]

Small Brewer Off-sale malt liquor 50.00SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its

passage and publication.ADOPTED this 16th day of February, 2016, by the City Council of the

City of Lakeville, MinnesotaCITY OF LAKEVILLEBY: Matt Little, MayorATTEST:Charlene Friedges, City ClerkPublished in the Lakeville Sun Thisweek February 26, 2016 511258

NEW MARKET TOWNSHIPANNUAL MEETING AND ELECTION

The Citizens of the Township of New Market, County of Scott, State of Minnesota who are qualified to vote at General Elections are hereby notified the Annual Township Election and Meeting will be held on Tues-day March 08, 2016 in the New Market Township Hall, 8950 230th St E, Lakeville, MN. Located at the corner of Cty Rd 29 and Cty Rd 91. Voting hours are from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM.

To be elected are one (1) Supervisors for a three (3) year term and one (1) Treasurer for a two (2) year term. A special election for one (1) Supervisor to fill vacancy in term expiring March 13, 2018.

Town Question:Shall option B, providing for the appointment of the clerk, be adopted

for government of the Town?Absentee Voter Information:To obtain an absentee ballot application contact Scott County Elec-

tions at 952 496 8161. Voters can also vote at the County Government Office Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, and Saturday March 5, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

The Annual Meeting will be held at approximately 8:30 PM for the following purposes: To levy money for the annual Township budget and to do any other business to be done at said meeting.

In case of inclement weather, the Annual Meeting and Election will be held on Tuesday March 15, 2016 at the same time and place.

The Board of Canvas will meet after the Annual Meeting is adjourned. Purpose of the meeting is to review and certify the results of the elec-tion.

Public Accuracy Test: A public test of the election equipment for the March 8, 2016 Township Election will be Friday, February 26, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Scott County Government Center, 200 4th Ave. ShakopeeLeRoy Clausen, ClerkNew Market Township

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CREDIT RIVER TOWNSHIP ELECTION AND ANNUAL MEETING NOTICE

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND ELECTION OF OFFICERSNotice is hereby given that the Annual Town Meeting and Town Elec-

tion of Credit River, in the County of Scott, State of Minnesota, will be held on March 8, 2016.

The Election Polls will open at 7:00 am and close at 8:00 pm at the Credit River Town Hall, 18985 Meadow View Boulevard, Prior Lake, MN 55372, to elect the following town officers:

Supervisor Seat B, for a three (3) year termSupervisor Seat D, for a two (2) year termThe Annual Meeting will commence at 8:30 pm to conduct all nec-

essary town business as prescribed by law. The Annual Meeting will be held at Prior Lake Fire Department #1, located at 16776 Fish Point Road, Prior Lake, MN 55372.

If inclement weather should occur on the above scheduled date, the Election and Annual Meeting would be held on the third Tuesday in March at the above scheduled times and locations.2/12/2016/s/ Karen DonovanTownship ClerkCredit River Township


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EUREKA TOWNSHIPNOTICE OF ELECTION AND ANNUAL TOWN MEETINGNotice is hereby given that Eureka Township, Dakota County, Minne-

sota will, on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 conduct its Annual Town Meeting and Election of Town Officers.

In case of bad weather, the Annual Town Meeting and Election may be postponed until the following Tuesday, March 15, 2016.

The election polls will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., at which time the voters will elect:

One (1) Town Supervisor Seat 5 - Three year termThe Annual Meeting will commence at 8:15 p.m. to conduct all nec-

essary business prescribed by law.The Annual Election and Town Meeting will be held at the following

location:Eureka Town Hall 25043 Cedar AvenueBoard of Canvas will meet on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.

in the Eureka Town Hall.Mira Broyles, ClerkEureka Township

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NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That default has occurred in the conditions of the following de-scribed mortgage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE: October 4, 2005ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

OF MORTGAGE: $618,400.00MORTGAGOR(S): Carmen M.

Wieczorek and Tace R. Wieczorek, Wife and Husband

MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Lake-land Mortgage Corporation

TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems Inc.MIN#: 100137510000217028SERVICER: Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC LENDER: Lakeland Mortgage Corporation.DATE AND PLACE OF FILING:

Scott County Minnesota, Recorder, on October 18, 2005, as Document No. 717097.

ASSIGNED TO: The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWMBS, Inc., CHL Mortgage Pass-Through Trust 2005-HYB10, Mortgage Pass Through Certificates, Series 2005-HYB10 Dated: May 6, 2015, and recorded May 13, 2015 by Docu-ment No. 979117 .

LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:

Lot 8, Block 1, Century Pond, Scott County, Minnesota

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 21931 Century Court, Prior Lake, MN 55372PROPERTY I.D: 040690080COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY

IS LOCATED: ScottTHE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO

BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: Six Hundred Three Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety-Two and 34/100 ($603,792.34)

THAT no action or proceeding has been instituted at law to recov-er the debt secured by said mort-gage, or any part thereof; that there has been compliance with all pre-foreclosure notice and acceleration requirements of said mortgage, and/or applicable statutes;

PURSUANT, to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: 10:00 AM on April 7, 2016PLACE OF SALE: in the lobby of

the Scott County Law Enforcement Center, 301 S. Fuller Street, Shako-pee, MN 55379

to pay the debt then secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any actually paid by the mortgagee, on the premises and the costs and disbursements allowed by law. The time allowed by law for redemption by said mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns is 6.00 months from the date of sale. If Mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or the prop-erty is not redeemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the Mortgagor must vacate the property on or before 11:59 p.m. on October 7, 2016, or the next business day if October 7, 2016 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”

Dated: February 19, 2016The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWMBS, Inc., CHL Mortgage Pass-Through Trust 2005-HYB10, MortgagePass Through Certificates, Series 2005-HYB10Randall S. Miller & Associates, PLLCAttorneys for Assignee of Mort-gage/MortgageeCanadian Pacific Plaza, 120 South Sixth Street, Suite 2050Minneapolis, MN 55402Phone: 952-232-0052Our File No. 15MN00637-1THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

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MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE CERTIFICATE

OF ASSUMED NAMEMinnesota Statutes, 333

The filing of an assumed namedoes not provide a user with exclu-sive rights to that name. The filingis required for consumer protectionin order to enable customers to be able to identify the true owner of abusiness.

1. List the exact assumed name under which the business is or will be conducted:

Integral Hockey Southeast Min-nesota

2. Principal Place of Business:17191 Hayes Ave.Lakeville, MN 550443. List the name and complete

street address of all persons con-ducting business under the aboveAssumed Name, OR if an entity, provide the legal corporate, LLC, or Limited Partnership name and reg-istered office address:

Southern Minnesota Hockey Works Inc.

17191 Hayes Ave.Lakeville, MN 550444. This certificate is an amend-

ment of Certificate of AssumedName File Number 795497200029originally filed on 11/21/2014.

5. I, the undersigned, certify that I am signing this document asthe person whose signature is re-quired, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign thisdocument on his/her behalf, or inboth capacities. I further certify thatI have completed all required fields,and that the information in thisdocument is true and correct and in compliance with the applicablechapter of Minnesota Statutes. I un-derstand that by signing this docu-ment I am subject to the penaltiesof perjury as set forth in Section609.48 as if I had signed this docu-ment under oath.

Date: 02/10/2016SIGNED BY:Timothy Gorski - President

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The filing of an assumed name does not provide a user with exclu-sive rights to that name. The filing is required for consumer protection in order to enable customers to be

able to identify the true owner of a business.

ASSUMED NAME: Carla Bast DesignPRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 16864 Island AvenueLakeville, MN 55044NAMEHOLDER(S): CRB Design, Inc.16864 Island AvenueLakeville, MN 55044I, the undersigned, certify that

I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in both capacities. I further certify that I have completed all required fields, and that the information in this document is true and correct and in compliance with the appli-cable chapter of Minnesota Stat-utes. I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Section 609.48 as if I had signed this document under oath.

DATE FILED: February 1, 2016SIGNED BY: Greg Bast

Published in theLakeville Sun ThisweekFebruary 19, 26, 2016

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INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 192

FARMINGTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Notice is hereby given that at a public meeting of the School Board of Independent School District No. 192 on March 14, 2016, the School Board will consider adop-tion of a written resolution autho-rizing a project labor agreement to construct or repair Akin Road El-ementary, Farmington Elementary, Meadowview Elementary, North Trail Elementary and Riverview El-ementary Schools, Boeckman and Dodge Middle Schools, Farming-ton High School, Gateway Acad-emy and the former District Service Center through a contractor bid. A project labor agreement is a hiring agreement that establishes wages, uniform work schedules, and rules for dispute resolution to manage construction projects that gener-ally require, among other things, payment of the union dues or fees to a labor organization or member-ship in or affiliation with a labor or-ganization. This notice is provided pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 123B.52, subd. 1a.


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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSMULTI-SITE EXTERIOR DOOR REPLACEMENT

DISTRICT OFFICE8670 210th STREET WEST

LAKEVILLE, MINNESOTA 55044ORCHARD LAKE ELEMENTARY

16531 KLAMATH TRAIL LAKEVILLE, MINNESOTA 55044

CRYSTAL LAKE EDUCATION CENTER16250 IPAWA AVENUE

LAKEVILLE, MINNESOTA 55044Independent School District

#194 will receive single prime sealed bids for Multi-Site Exterior Door Replacement until 3:00 PM local time on March 10, 2016 at the Lakeville District Office, 8670 210th Street West, Lakeville, Minnesota, 55044, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Bidding documents, including the Proposal Form, Drawings and Specifications, will be on file at the Offices of the Architect, Wold Architects and Engineers, 332 Min-nesota Street, Suite W2000, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101. (651) 227-7773; at the Minnesota Builders Exchange; McGraw Hill Construc-tion/Dodge Plan Center; Reed Construction; iSqFt Plan Room (St. Paul, MN); and from Plan Well at www.e-arc.com/MN/Plymouth

Mankato Builders Exchange; Builders Exchange of Rochester; St. Cloud Builders Exchange; Mid Minnesota Builders Exchange (Will-mar, MN);

This project includes: Removal and replacement of existing exte-rior entrance systems at the Lakev-ille District Office, Orchard Lake Elementary, and Crystal Lake Edu-cation Center.

American Reprographics Com-pany, 4730 Park Glen Road, St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416 (952) 697-8800, facsimile (952) 697-8803 will provide complete download-able sets of the Bidding Docu-ments to prospective bidders and subcontractors. The downloads will be available on or about February 18, 2016. A deposit check in the amount of $25 made out to ARC for each set downloaded via the internet at http://wwvv.e-arc.com/mn/saintlouispark and clicking on the Plan Well icon, then the Public Plan Room icon, select Multi-Site Exterior Door Replacement.

Make proposals on the bid forms supplied in the Project Manual. No oral, telegraphic or telephonic proposals or modifications will be considered. Submit with each bid, a certified check or acceptable bid-der’s bond payable to Independent School District #194 in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid. The successful bidder will be required to furnish satisfactory Labor and Material Payment Bond, and Performance Bond.

Bids may not be withdrawn within thirty (30) days after the scheduled time of opening bids, without the consent of the Owner. The Owner reserves the right to accept any bid or to reject any or all bids, or parts of such bids, and waive informalities or irregularities in bidding.

The Owner requires Substantial Completion of the project on or be-fore August 19, 2016.Board of EducationINDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIS-TRICT #194

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Burnsville/Eagan Sun ThisweekFebruary 19, 26, 2016

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CITY OF LAKEVILLEDAKOTA COUNTY,

MINNESOTAADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

SUMMERLYN PARK DEVELOPMENT PROJECTCITY PROJECT NO. 16-08NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

sealed bids will be received by the City of Lakeville at the office of the City Clerk, 20195 Holyoke Avenue, Lakeville, MN 55044 until 1:00 p.m. CST, March 24, 2016, at which time the bids received will be publicly opened and read.

Said proposals are for the fur-nishing of all labor and materials for the construction, complete in-place, for the Summerlyn Park de-velopment project. The work shall include, but will not be limited to, the following:

Site earthwork, bituminous trails, concrete flatwork, concrete playground curbs, prefabricated picnic shelter, and restoration

Bids must be submitted on the proposal forms provided in ac-cordance with the contract docu-ments, plans, and specifications dated February 26, 2016, as pre-pared by WSB & Associates, Inc. Complete digital proposal forms, plans, and specifications for use by contractors submitting a bid are available at www.questcdn.com.

No bids will be considered un-less sealed and filed with the City Clerk of Lakeville and accompanied by a cash deposit, cashier’s check, certified check or bid bond made payable to the City of Lakeville for five percent (5%) of the amount bid.

The City of Lakeville reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive informalities in bidding and to accept the bid or bids which best serve the interests of the City.

No bids may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days from the bid opening date.DATED: February 26, 2016 Charlene Friedges, City Clerk


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CITY OF LAKEVILLENOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARINGNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

a public hearing will be held be-fore the City Council of the City of Lakeville in the Council Chambers, 20195 Holyoke Avenue, on the 7th day of March, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the parties may be heard to consider the ap-plication of Lakeville Brewing Co. LLC for an on-sale and Sunday li-quor license, an on-sale brewpub license and an off-sale brewpub license. Lakeville Brewing Co. LLC proposes to operate a brewpub at 8790 Upper 208th Street W.

DATED this 22nd day of Febru-ary, 2016Charlene Friedges, City Clerk


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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSJFK ELEMENTARY SITE PAVING REPLACEMENT21240 Holyoke Avenue

Lakeville, MinnesotaIndependent School District

#194 will receive single prime sealed bids for JFK Elementary Site Paving Replacement until 1:00 p.m. local time on March 10, 2016 at the Lakeville District Office, 8670 210th Street West, Lakeville, Minnesota 55044, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Bidding documents, including the Proposal Form, Drawings and Specifications, will be on file at the Offices of the Architect, Wold Architects and Engineers, 332 Min-nesota Street, Suite W2000, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101. (651) 227-7773; at the Minnesota Builders Exchange; McGraw Hill Construc-tion/Dodge Plan Center; Reed Construction; iSqFt Plan Room (St. Paul, MN); and from Plan Well at www.e-arc.com/MN/Plymouth

Mankato Builders Exchange; Builders Exchange of Rochester; St. Cloud Builders Exchange; Mid Minnesota Builders Exchange (Will-mar, MN);

This project includes: Exterior Site Pavement Removal and Re-placement.

American Reprographics Com-pany, 4730 Park Glen Road, St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416 (952) 697-8800, facsimile (952) 697-8803 will provide complete download-able sets of the Bidding Docu-ments to prospective bidders and subcontractors. The downloads will be available on or about Febru-ary 18, 2016. A deposit check in the amount of $25 made out to ARC for each set downloaded via the inter-net at http://www.e-arc.com/mn/saintlouispark and clicking on the Plan Well icon, then the Public Plan Room icon, select JFK Elementary Site Paving Replacement.

Make proposals on the bid forms supplied in the Project Manual. No oral, telegraphic or telephonic proposals or modifications will be considered. Submit with each bid, a certified check or acceptable bid-der’s bond payable to Independent School District #194 in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid. The successful bidder will be required to furnish satisfactory Labor and Material Payment Bond, and Performance Bond.

Bids may not be withdrawn within thirty (30) days after the scheduled time of opening bids, without the consent of the Owner. The Owner reserves the right to accept any bid or to reject any or all bids, or parts of such bids, and waive informalities or irregularities in bidding.

The Owner requires Substantial Completion of the project on or be-fore August 19, 2016.Board of EducationINDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIS-TRICT #194

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INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 917

SPECIAL MEETING MINUTESFEBRUARY 17, 2016

This is a summary of the Inter-mediate School District 917 Special School Board Meeting on Wednes-day, February 17, 2016, with full text available for public inspection on the district website at www.isd917.k12.mn.us or the District Office at 1300 145th Street East, Rosemount, MN 55068.

The meeting was called to order at 4:30 PM. Board members pres-ent: Bob Erickson, Ron Hill, Dan Cater, Deb Clark, Dick Bergstrom, Vanda Pressnall, Melissa Sauser, and administrators were present. Board members absent: Joanne Mansur (was not physically pres-ent but on conference call) and Jill Lewis. Recommended actions approved: January 5 and January 19, 2016, minutes, personnel items, bills, wire transfers, investment reports, and donations. Valerie Dosland of Ewald Consulting re-ported on the upcoming legislative session. Approved maintenance payments to member districts; resolution directing administration to make recommendations for re-ductions in programs and positions and reasons therefore; changed March meeting to Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at 4:15 PM, and added a finance board work session on Tuesday, March 15, at 2:00 PM. Board went into closed session at 6:10 PM to discuss negotiations and resumed at 6:55 PM. Adjourn-ment at 6:56 PM.

Published in theApple Valley Sun Thisweek,

Lakeville Sun Thisweek, Burnsville/Eagan Sun Thisweek

February 26, 2016511705

CITY OF LAKEVILLE DAKOTA COUNTY,

MINNESOTA SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 957

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 3 OF THE LAKEVILLE CITY CODE CONCERNING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

This ordinance amends Title 3 of the City Code concerning alcoholic beverages. The ordinance elimi-nates the Best Practices Program for the sale of alcoholic beverages, amends the presumptive penalties for violations of Title 3, amends the provision on persons ineligible for licenses, and makes other wording changes.

A printed copy of the entire ordi-nance is available for inspection by any person during the City Clerk’s regular office hours.

Approved for publication by the City Council of the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, this 16th day of Febru-ary, 2016CITY OF LAKEVILLEBY: Matt Little, MayorATTEST:Charlene Friedges, City Clerk


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The filing of an assumed name does not provide a user with exclu-sive rights to that name. The filing


LEGAL NOTICES

is required for consumer protection in order to enable customers to be able to identify the true owner of a business.

ASSUMED NAME: Frenchies Modern Nail Care-Lakeville

PRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 8720 207th Street W., Suite 164Lakeville, MN 55044NAMEHOLDER(S): Made U Look LLC20780 Hollins Avenue W.Lakeville, MN 55044I, the undersigned, certify that


DATE FILED: February 11, 2016SIGNED BY: Kate Wensmann


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CITY OF LAKEVILLENOTICE TO BIDDERS

2016 MISCELLANEOUS ROADWAY REPAIRS

AND OVERLAYS, CITY PROJECT NO. 16-01The City of Lakeville, Minnesota,

hereby gives notice that sealed bids will be received in the office of the City Clerk, 20195 Holyoke Avenue, Lakeville, Minnesota, until 10:00 a.m., local time, on Friday, March 25, 2016 for construction of the 2016 miscellaneous roadway repairs and overlays, City Project 16-01. The project involves road-way repair, storm sewer repair, and trail reconstruction.

Download the full notice at www.lakevillemn.gov and select “Re-quests for Bids”. A full notice may also be obtained at the City’s Cen-tral Maintenance Facility located at 7570 179th Street, Lakeville, Min-nesota.


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able to identify the true owner of a business.

ASSUMED NAME: PCG ConsultingPRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 15871 Kendale DriveLakeville, MN 55044 USANAMEHOLDER(S): Name: Palisandro Consulting

Group LLCAddress: 15871 Kendale DriveLakeville, MN 55044I, the undersigned, certify that


DATE FILED: 01/27/2016SIGNED BY: Natalie Wood

Published inLakeville Sun Thisweek

Friday, Feb. 19 and Feb. 26, 2016510016

CITY OF LAKEVILLENOTICE TO BIDDERSLIFT STATION NO. 6 IMPROVEMENTS,

CITY PROJECT 15-16 The City of Lakeville, Minnesota,

hereby gives notice that sealed bids will be received in the office of the City Clerk, 20195 Holyoke Avenue, Lakeville, Minnesota, until 10:00 a.m., local time, on March 18, 2016, for the construction of improve-ments to Lift Station No. 6, City Project 15-16. The project involves the removal and replacement of the existing lift station structure, equip-ment, and generator.

Download the full notice at www.lakevillemn.gov and select “Re-quests for Bids”. A full notice may also be obtained at the City’s Cen-tral Maintenance Facility located at 7570 179th Street, Lakeville, Min-nesota.


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ASSUMED NAME:

Sneak Peek DesignPRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 16864 Island AvenueLakeville, MN 55044NAMEHOLDER(S): CRB Design, Inc.16864 Island AvenueLakeville, MN 55044I, the undersigned, certify that


DATE FILED: February 1, 2016SIGNED BY: Greg Bast


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ASSUMED NAME: The Wedding CollectivePRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 16864 Island AvenueLakeville, MN 55044NAMEHOLDER(S): VIP Booths, LLC16864 Island AvenueLakeville, MN 55044I, the undersigned, certify that


DATE FILED: October 6, 2014SIGNED BY: Greg Bast


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Women’s luncheon The Minnesota Valley Christian Wom-en’s Connection will hold its March lun-cheon 12:30-2 p.m. Thursday, March 10, at GrandStay Hotel and Conference Center, 7083 153rd St., Apple Valley. Speaker Donna Clark will share a mes-sage on “Picking Up the Pieces” through song and spoken word to tell how her life was put back together. Lifeway Christian Book Store staff will share new releases for 2016 along with other items from the store. Cost is $16. To RSVP, call Jan at 651-434-5795.

Prayer vigil On June 17, 2015, nine black people were shot dead at a Bible study at Eman-uel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Mother Emanuel AME) in Charleston, South Carolina. Community of Christ Church, 5990

134th St. Court, Apple Valley, will hold a prayer vigil 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, for the congregation and families of victims. The church is on the east side of Johnny Cake Ridge Road, north of Moeller Park.

Community meals Grace Lutheran Church in Apple Val-ley will serve free community meals on Mondays, March 7, 14 and 28. Dining hall doors open at 5:30 p.m. and dinner is served from 6-6:30 p.m. These meals are for senior citizens, sin-gle-parent families, families in transition and all others in the surrounding com-munity seeking a healthy meal in a relaxed atmosphere. Although the meals are free, donations are accepted. For more information, call the church at 952-432-7273. Grace Lutheran Church is located at the intersection of Pennock Avenue and County Road 42.

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Dakota County open house Dakota County will host an open house for two projects 6-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, at the Dakota County Western Service Center, 14955 Gal-axie Ave., Apple Valley. The county is currently preparing a Natural Re-sources System Plan to develop an overall ap-proach for managing natural resources and re-storing healthy landscapes and waterways in parks, green ways and conserva-tion easements. It is also preparing a Park Visitor Services Plan to improve services that enrich the parks experience, includ-ing events, outdoor educa-tion, food, volunteerism, rentals, marketing and customer service. Both projects are in the research phase — evaluat-ing the current state, po-tential opportunities and public interests in a better park system. Project teams will share information from both projects and learn more about people’s percep-tions, opinions and ideas related to natural resourc-es and park services. The open house will include a formal presenta-tion slated 6:30-7:45 p.m. Displays and other project

information will be avail-able to view and weigh in on from 6-6:30 p.m. and 7:45-8:30 p.m.

Extension offers events A new Nitrogen Smart training will join the an-nual Crops Day in the schedule of agricultural education events on offer in March. Nitrogen Smart, 9 a.m. to noon Friday, March 11, Dakota County Extension and Conservation Center, 4100 220th St. W., Farm-ington – This training will present the fundamentals for maximizing economic return on nitrogen invest-ment and minimizing ni-trogen losses. Nitrogen Smart will be presented by University of Minnesota Extension, funded by Minnesota Corn Growers, and hosted by the Minnesota Agri-culture Water Resource Center. Preregistration is requested but not required and there is no registration fee. For preregistration and more information, visit http://z.umn.edu/ni-trogensmart. Crops Day, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, Dakota Electric As-sociation, 4300 220th St. W., Farmington – Top-ics this year will include

farm finances and busi-ness planning, monitoring soil moisture for irrigation management, the Min-nesota Nitrogen Fertil-izer Management Plan, energy conservation, and weed control. Lunch will be provided. Drop-ins are welcome, but if pos-sible preregistration is re-quested for food-planning purposes. To RSVP, or for more information, contact Neith Little at 651-481-7723 or [email protected]. After lunch, the Southeast Minnesota Ir-rigators Association will hold its annual meeting in the same space.

Job Transitions Group to meet Catherine Byers Breet will present “Breaking Through the Job Hunt Jungle (aka How to Break Through the 10 Worst Employer Offenses)” at the March 1 meeting of the Easter Job Transitions Group. The group meets at 7:30 a.m. at Easter Lu-theran Church – By The Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. Small group sessions are offered following the meeting at 9:30 a.m. each week on many different topics. Call 651-452-3680 for information.

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5110 Building &Remodeling

5110 Building &Remodeling

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5390 Roofing, Siding& Gutters

5370 Painting &Decorating






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1000 WHEELS

1010 Vehicles

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2500 PETS

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3000 ANNOUNCEMENTS

3070 OrganizationalNotices

EG/BV & Savage AA MeetingsSun 6:30pm AA,

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Tues 6:30pm & 8pm AA, Wed 12noon AA,

Thur 6:30pm Alanon& 8pm AA,

Fri 6:30pm AA,Sat 10am ACA,

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3500 MERCHANDISE

3520 Cemetery Lots

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3600 MiscellaneousFor Sale

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Escobar Hardwood Floors, LLC

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Installs/Repair Sand/RefinishFree Ests Ins’d Mbr: BBB

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SANDING-REFINISHINGRoy’s Sanding Service

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CONCRETE & MASONRYSteps, Walks, Drives,

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5300 Heating &Cooling Services

To place your Classified Ad contact Michelle Ahrens at: 952-392-6883 or email:

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3 Interior Rooms/$275Wallpaper Removal.

Drywall Repair. Cabinet Enameling and

Staining. 30 yrs exp. Steve 763-545-0506

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TOPSIDE, INC. 612-869-1177

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SNOW PLOWINGCommercial & ResidentialDependable - Insured - Exp’dLSC Construction Svcs, IncMbr: Better Business Bureau Free Ests. 952-890-2403

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Silver Fox ServicesTree Trimming/RemovalFully Licensed & Insured

BBB AccreditedRegistered W/Dept of Ag.

Located in Bloomington Family Owned & OperatedFree Est. Open 8am-7pm

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Free Ests 952-440-6104


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5540 Healthcare

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5540 Healthcare

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5500 EMPLOYMENT

5510 Full-time

Admin Asst. – FTFor audio visual company. MS Office & QuickBooks skills required. Organiza-tional skills pref’d. $15/hr. Starting 8:30am – 5:00pm M-F. WNAV Bloomington. Call Mary 612-850-5126 up

until 10:00pm daily.

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Bob’s Wood Specialties is looking for a Lead

Cabinet Fabricator. This is a career oriented position. The candidate must have several years of all aspects of cabinet fab-rication, have programing experience with today’s CNC equipment, and pos-sess strong leadership skills and the ability to train and work well with oth-ers. Interested individuals can send resume or apply:

Bob’s Wood Specialties 14200 Ewing Ave S.

Burnsville, MN 55306 Call: 952-890-4700

Fax: 952-890-6448 EOE

Class A CDL Regional/OTR Dry Van Drivers

needed. $4000 Hiring Bonus! Min. 1 yr. exp. preferred Will consider

new CDL Drivers. Free Insurance!

Commercial Transload of Minnesota Trucklines, Inc. 7151 University Ave.

Fridley, MN 55432. [email protected] fax : 763-571-9549

or call: 763-571-9508 ask for Pete or Chris

Do you have experi-ence in custom cabi-netry or interested in learning the trade?

Designed Cabinets, Inc.

located in Lakeville, MN is looking to add members to our family owned & operated busi-ness. We are seeking up-beat, hard working indi-viduals, from entry level to experienced cabinet makers, & wood finish-ers. If this is you, please stop in to fill out an ap-plication, 7965 W. 215th St. Lakeville, or send us a resume [email protected]

Experienced Landscape Foreman Wanted! Apply online themustardseedinc.com. Call Mark at 952-261-9654.

5510 Full-time

DRIVERS – LOCAL AND OTR TEAM

EAGAN / ROSEVILLE /SHAKOPEE

The TFE Toro Transport Express is seeking quali-fied professional Drivers (Class A) to support the Private Toro fleet. An excel-lent safety record is req’d. Benefit package includes competitive wages, com-prehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; com-pany paid pension, match-ing 401K, 9 paid holidays, fuel and operational bo-nus incentives and more. $1000 Sign-on bonus - $500 paid after 6 months, $500 paid at 12 months. To apply, contact Jack 800-328-3685, # 8371, 952-887-8371-Business or 952-212-6006 - Cell . The TFE Toro Transport is an EOE.

Patient Service Rep(Contract Work) Delivery/set-up Orthopedic equip-ment in patient homes and hospitals. Reliable vehicle & auto insurance req’d. Email or Fax resumes to [email protected]

651-423-7170

5510 Full-time

Journeyman PlumberFarmington Plumbing & Heating is looking for an experienced Journeyman Plumber for new home construction & service calls. Must be able to work independently. Wages DOQ. For more info call Laura or Dan 651-463-7824

MACHINE OP/FAB for sheet metal parts w/tight tolerances. Advanced exp w/CNC press brakes, saws, shear and more. Able to read/interpret blue prints. Lift 30 lbs., 75 lbs. occas. FT 6:30 am - 2:30 pm M-F. Email resume to

[email protected]

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RV Technicianwill trainShakopee (952)496-9000

5510 Full-time

Service TechnicianInstall & Service water treatment systems. Plumb-ing experience helpful, but will train the right person. Must have mechanical ability. Good pay & ben-efits. Call 952-224-0630

5520 Part-time

HOUSECLEANERS$13-$15/Hour

15-25 hrs/weekMorning & early afternoonSouth metro area. Car req’d

KDS Cleaning Inc. Email resume to:

[email protected] call 952-831-5178

PT Janitorial Cleaning

3-5 hours per night, 3-5 nights per week.

Apple Valley, Shakopee or Rosemount/

Inver GroveWage depending on Exp. Call Mike leave msg. 952-758-4238

5520 Part-time

Accounts Receivable Clerk -Lakeville PT- Ap-proximately 20 hrs a week, flex schedule, summers off optional, great opportunity for someone with school age kids. Duties: invoicing on customer portals, pro-cessing monthly AR State-ments, Communicating with Customers via email, phone & mail. Computer Data entry, good work-ing knowledge required of Microsoft Excel and Word, and Outlook. Assist with researching differences between amounts invoiced vs. amounts paid. Light Reception duties. Must be team oriented, comfort-able in working with cus-tomers and able to handle confidential information. Miscellaneous administra-tive & other duties as as-signed. For consideration, please e-mail your resume,

to: [email protected] or fax to 952-469-0177.


5540 Healthcare

Community Assisted Living in Apple Valley & Farmington is looking for dedicated employees to work as Certified Nursing Assistants taking care of six seniors in our assisted

living homes. We are currently looking to fill FT/PT positions on Eve-nings, Nights and W/E

Days. All shifts include E/O weekend. CNA

positions start at $13 /hr. Call: 952-440-3955 for

application address.


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School Board Member Bob Erickson said at the District 194 Feb. 23 meeting that the city would have to amend its zoning ordinance to allow public schools in the C3 dis-tricts. In an interview, Mo-rey said the zoning ordi-nance would not have to be amended because the use of the building by MNCAPS is similar to the use of the building by Minnesota School of Business, which has an approved CUP. He added that parking is a concern at the site, and the districts may have to work out an agreement to use parking space at a neighbor-ing property. District 194 does not plan to provide busing for students in the program. Despite the location uncertainty, District 194 School Board members vot-ed 5-1 Tuesday night to ap-prove the MNCAPS budget and parameters of a poten-tial lease agreement that in-cludes a clause releasing the district from the lease if the there was an issue with the conditional use permit. District 194’s total cost for the MNCAPS program’s is $412,143, according to Baumann. Most of the expense is covered by shifting resourc-es, but of District 194’s total

share, $178,412 is additional spending specifically for the program. Sources of the funding are the District 194 general fund, a $77,700 lease levy and $70,000 from the voter-approved levy referendum last fall. Citing concerns about program costs and the unre-solved zoning issues, Board Member Jim Skelly cast the dissenting vote against the budget and lease param-eters. “I do think it’s a worth-while program and it would do great things for students,” Skelly said. “It’s just the cost is high for me to vote yes.” Lease parameters the board approved are for the district to rent 8,400 square feet of space at $14 per foot ($117,600 in year one) for five years, plus $4.38 per square foot annually for central area maintenance costs. Rent would increase an-nually by 2.5 percent. MNCAPS costs are pro-posed to be split 50/50 be-tween the districts until the 2018-19 school year, when funding would shift to a per-pupil funding formula. Because of the funding plan, the districts are pro-posing that no additional school districts be added to the partnership until the 2018-19 school year. At the meeting, Erick-

son requested that for the first two years, the program would be limited to 120 stu-dents to ensure costs of the program do not negatively affect school budgets. Board Member Judy Ke-liher said they may register more than that limit to en-sure the program retain high numbers if some dropped out of the program. Superintendent Lisa Sny-der said the districts will have to discuss the issue with the Prior Lake-Savage School Board at a joint meeting. “I hesitate to say ab-solutely not because once we get beyond the start-up costs, any additional stu-dents is just a shifting of FTEs (full-time equivalents) from our high schools and the cost is not as much as the first year,” Snyder said. She said in the future, the program may expand to of-fer additional pathways be-sides medicine and business, or provide two cohorts of each topic area due to de-mand. The Prior Lake-Savage School Board has approved a budget and authorized the administration to negotiate a lease and return to them, according to Snyder.


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ey that we don’t have and we need to continue to look at who’s paying the bill and what their situation may be economically.” Anderson also advocated for en-couraging citizen participation and engagement. Noting the city will soon be re-quired to update its comprehensive plan, Anderson said there is need for a community development plan that focuses on certain areas, including the city’s historic downtown. Residents near downtown in re-cent years have cited complaints about late-night noise from bar patrons as new restaurants have opened and the city has been work-ing toward building a thriving down-town that drives economic growth. Anderson said he wants to build a plan that addresses issues by in-volving everyone in the dialogue. “We’ve got some work that we need to start now in terms of down-town as well as other areas of the community, so we have some specif-ic planning to feed into that compre-hensive planning,” Anderson said. During his time on the council, Anderson said he is most proud of efforts he has taken to improve effi-ciencies in government. “I’m a tireless advocate for ef-ficiency, effectiveness, fairness and fiscal conservativeness,” Anderson said. He said he is also proud of his behind-the-scenes communications with Dakota County that played a significant role in the county’s ul-timate decision to add striping to the two-lane roundabout at county

roads 50 and 60 instead of leaving the road unmarked. He said he has also built a repu-tation as a council member who is concerned and interested in learning all he can about an issue, often visit-ing areas and meeting with citizens. “I’ve had many citizens come to me and are very grateful about my willingness to listen to their con-cerns,” Anderson said. Among the issues Anderson said he has worked with citizens to ad-dress are those related to gravel min-ing, downtown business patio hours and Highway 50 upgrades. Anderson described himself a “driver of compromise,” noting he has more than 37 years of business experience and more than 20 years in senior leadership positions. Anderson’s community involve-ment includes terms with the Friends of the Boundary Waters, Hosanna Church, Lakeville Rotary, Lakeville Jaycees, Okoboji Bible Camp and the Lake Marion Association. In many of those organizations, he served in many leadership roles, including chairperson. Last summer, Anderson also rode the entire 2,100-mile, 39-day bike adventure dubbed “Tom’s Big Ride” to spread awareness of mental health issues. A graduate of University Min-nesota-Duluth with an MBA from Carlson School of Management, Anderson has resided in Lakeville with his wife, Deb, and family for nearly 33 years. Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

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needed, and advocated for Minnesota’s estate tax level to be the same as the federal tax level. He also called for changing or repealing some regulations that give power to various govern-mental agencies that have the full force and effect of the law. “Whether or not you know they exist, it doesn’t matter,” Priore said. “There are tons of regula-tions out there that people don’t even know about, and the point is to get the Legislature to start look-ing at those regulations to

see where the delegating authority can be reigned in.” Priore said the Metro-politan Council has been given too much authority and he supports represen-tatives being elected or ap-pointed by member units of government, and not appointed by the governor. “(The Met Council is) branching off into areas which the delegation has never authorized or in-tended,” Priore said. “I think there’s work that needs to be done there in changing government reg-ulations to kind of harness the Met Council in and make it more representa-

tive of the people which it affects or regulates.” Priore said he is not a “career politician,” is pro-life and referred to himself as “pretty conservative,” but is not opposed to gay marriage. “I think it’s OK for ev-eryone to get married, no matter what person you are,” Priore said, adding that as an attorney he of-ten advises clients to think about not getting married. “It’s hard to advise peo-ple to opt into government regulation, which is essen-tially what you’re doing if you’re going to get mar-ried,” Priore said. Priore is the fourth can-

didate to seek the Repub-lican endorsement for the seat, held by Thompson since 2010. Other candidates are Melissa Sauser and Tim Pitcher, both from Farm-ington, and Lakeville resi-dent and small-business owner Mike Freundschuh. Sauser is a member of the District 192 School Board and Pitcher is in his first term on the Farming-ton City Council. Lakeville Mayor Matt Little is the only Democrat to announce candidacy for the seat. Thompson announced in January he would not seek re-election because he

is moving to North Caroli-na for a job promotion. He is maintaining a residence in the district and plans to complete his term which ends January 2017. Priore ran an unsuc-cessful campaign for Dis-trict 194 School Board in 2014, earning 13 percent of the 40,044 votes cast. All incumbents retained their seats in that race. He said he is active in the community, including serving as the District 58 treasurer for the past four years, chairing the Lakev-ille Chamber Public Policy Committee and Taste of Lakeville Committee for Lakeville Rotary.

He said his experience and understanding of the law sets him apart from other candidates. “I’m an attorney and I’m dedicated to the service of others,” Priore said. “I think that my knowledge of the law, my understand-ing of the legal process and its affect on people really does distinguish me from the other candidates in this race.” Priore and wife Kathy have two children, Isabel-la, 8, and Jack, 5, and have lived in Lakeville for nine years.


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Obituaries

Engagements

Steffen/KevittJackie Steffen and

Corey Kevitt of Lakeville, MN will be married on September 17, 2016 in Chaska. Jackie is the daughter of James and Denise Steffen and the late Mary Tierney Steffen and Corey is the son of Rich and Laura Kevitt.

Jackie is a graduate of UW-River Falls. Corey is a graduate of Metropolitan State University.

theater and arts briefs

theater and arts calendar

family calendar

‘Cyrano’ at Trinity School The Trinity School at River Ridge drama class will present “Cyrano de Bergerac” 7:30 p.m. Fri-day, March 11, and Satur-day, March 12. Actors include Maddy Brylski of Apple Valley; Emma Maslow, Ruth Ol-son and Peter Zhao of Burnsville; Eddie Hoey, Will Rasschaert and Bec-ca Wilkin of Eagan; Josh Cline-Cole of Farming-ton; Ivy Liu and Patrick Votel of Lakeville. Tickets will be available at the door for $6 adults, $4 students and senior citizens, or $25 per family. The school is at 601 River Ridge Parkway in Eagan. For more information, vis-it www.TSRR.org or call 651-789-2890.

Art and architecture series A series by Art & Ar-chitecture in Cinema will be presented at the Car-

mike Theater in Apple Valley. All episodes will be shown at 7 p.m. and in-clude: • March 31, “Leonardo Da Vinci - The Genius in Milan” • April 21, “Renoir – The Unknown Artist” • May 12, “Monet to Matisse” • June 16, “Teatro Alla Scala” • July 14, “Papal Basili-cas of Rome” Cost is $15 adults, $12.50 seniors, $10 school groups. The theater is at 15630 Cedar Ave., Apple Valley. For more information, go to www.carmike.com.

‘Man of La Mancha’ at Burnsville High The Burnsville High School Theatre Guild presents “Man of La Mancha,” directed by Randy Day, at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25-27 and March 3-5, and 3 p.m. Feb. 28. Performances are at

the school’s Mraz Center. Tickets are $10 adults, $9 seniors and $8 students. Purchase tickets at www.mrazcentertickets.com.

‘Zootopia’ fun at Paragon In conjunction with the release of “Zooto-pia,” Paragon Odyssey 15 IMAX Theater in Burns-ville is offering free face painting, coloring and musical chairs 12-4 p.m. Saturday, March 5. Call 952-892-3456 for informa-tion.

River Heights Chorale The River Heights Cho-rale celebrates 10 years of music with a 7 p.m. con-cert with special guest, Lumuna, Saturday, Feb. 27, at First Presbyterian Church, 535 20th Ave. N., South St. Paul. A recep-tion follows the concert. More information is at www.riverheightschorale.org/.

To submit items for the Arts Calendar, email: darcy.

[email protected].

Auditions The Northfield Arts Guild will hold auditions for “Grease” 6-8 p.m. March 6 and 7 at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 418 Sumner St. E., Northfield. Those auditioning should prepare 16 bars of a musical theater or ’50s/’60s classic rock ‘n’ roll song. Dress for a dance audition and bring along a schedule of any rehearsal conflicts. To sign up for an audition slot, send an email to [email protected] or call 507-645-8877. Send name, age (if a minor), phone number, email address, and give preference of date and time slot (6, 6:30, 7 or 7:30 p.m.). Information: northfieldartsguild.org/the-ater/auditions/.

Books SouthSide Writers, Sat-urday workgroup for aspir-ing writers, offering critique, submission and manuscript preparation information, sup-port and direction, 10 a.m. to noon, Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. Infor-mation: 651-688-0365.

Comedy Adam Ray and Gary Vid-er, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26 and 27, Mystic Lake Casino, Prior Lake. Tickets: $19. Mature audiences only. Information: 952-445-9000 or www.mysti-clake.com.

Dance Dance Show: “Be Moved,” Rosemount High School, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26-27. Information: 651-423-7501.

Events Halfway to Leprechaun Days Chili Cook-off, 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, Shenani-gan’s Pub, 14605 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Enter con-test by Feb. 26; email [email protected]. Chili tasting: $10.

Exhibits Acrylic abstract paintings by Sue Kemnitz are on exhibit through March 4 at the Lakev-ille Area Arts Center gallery, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Information: 952-985-4640. Paintings by Lynn Moore are on exhibit through March 2 at the art gallery at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. The gallery is closed Feb. 26-28. Informa-tion: 952-895-4685.

Music Zeitgeist, 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28, part of the Coffee Concert Series at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holy-oke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets: $15 adults, $12 seniors age 60 and older, $6 ages 12 and under. Information: 982-985-4640.

EHS showcase vocal concerts, 6 and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 29, Eagan High School. Information: 651-683-6900. RHS percussion ensem-ble concert, 7:30 p.m. Mon-day, Feb. 29, Rosemount High School. Information: 651-423-7501. LNHS Masterworks choir concerts, 6 and 8 p.m. Thurs-day, March 3, Lakeville North High School. Information: 952-232-3600. First Thursday Pub Night: Relativity the Band, 6-9 p.m. Thursday, March 3, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holy-oke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets: $5 in advance, $7 at the door. In-formation: 952-985-4640. RHS jazz concert, 7 p.m. Thursday, March 3, Rose-mount High School. Informa-tion: 651-423-7501. Twin Cities Community Gospel Choir, 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 5, Galaxie Li-brary atrium, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. A Black History Month program. Free. Information: 952-891-7045. South Metro Chorale’s Cabaret – “Radio Time Ma-chine,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5, and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 6, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Silent auction one hour before each show. Tick-ets: $20 adults, $15 seniors and students. Information: 952-985-4640.

Theater “[title of show],” pre-sented by Chameleon The-atre Circle, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25-27, March 3-5; 2 p.m. Feb. 28, March 6; at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burns-ville. Tickets: $22 at the box office, 800-982-2787 or Tick-etmaster.com. The Feb. 22 show is “pay what you can.” Intended for adults. Informa-tion: www.ames-center.com. “Broadway 2016: At the Dance,” Apple Valley High School, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26-27; 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28. Tickets: $9 adults, $7 senior citizens, $5 students. Tickets available on-line at www.seatyourself.biz/avhs. Box office open for cash ticket sales 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 22-26 and one hour prior to each performance. “Encore 2016: Road Show,” Eagan High School, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26-27. Tickets: $9 adults, $7 senior citizens, $5 stu-dents. Purchase tickets online at www.eagan.k12.mn.us/. Ticket booth open each day students are in school 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. beginning Tuesday, Feb. 16, and one hour prior to each performance, 651-683-6964. “Man of La Mancha,” presented by Burnsville High School, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25-27 and March 3-5, and 3 p.m. Feb. 28, at Mraz Center, Burnsville High School. Tick-ets: $10 adults, $9 seniors, $8 students, at http://www.the-

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[email protected].

Friday, Feb. 26 Walleye fry by Dakota County Elks Lodge 2832, 5-7:30 p.m., Mary Center at Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville. All-you-can-eat walleye, baked potatoes, coleslaw, rolls, milk and coffee. Cost: $13 adults, $6 ages 11 and younger, $3 ages 8 and younger for a kid’s meal of macaroni and cheese, animal crackers and milk. Fish fry, 5-9 p.m., Rose-mount American Legion Post 65, 14590 Burma Ave., Rose-mount. All-you-can-eat fish ($11.95 adults, $10.95 seniors, $7.95 kids). Information: 651-423-3380.

Saturday, Feb. 27 14th annual Twin Cities Area Trade-O-Ree, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., St. James Lutheran Church, 3650 Williams Drive, Burnsville. Silent auctions all day. For those who collect or trade Boy Scout or Girl Scout patches and memorabilia. Open to the public; free admis-sion. Collections Merit Badge will be offered (sign up in ad-vance with Bruce Paulson at [email protected] or 651-492-9089). Snack bar pro-vided by Boy Scout Troop 445. Indoor Winter Farmers Market, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ea-gan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway. Information:

www.cityofeagan.com/market-fest. Adopted Friends lunch, 12:30 p.m., Culver’s in Apple Valley. Adopted Friends is a group for friendship, support, and fun for adoptive families. Information: [email protected].

Wednesday, March 2 Parkinson’s Support Group, 2-3 p.m., Augustana Regent at Burnsville, 14500 Regent Lane, Burnsville. Infor-mation: Jane Hubbard at 952-898-8728.

Thursday, March 3 Burnsville Park Nicollet’s Dementia Caregiver Support Group, 10 a.m., in the third floor administration conference room, 14000 Fairview Drive, Burnsville. No registration re-quired. Information: Connie at 952-993-8739.

Friday, March 4 Fish dinner by the Faithful Shepherd Knights of Colum-bus, 5-7 p.m., at the St. John Neumann Social Hall, 4030 Pi-lot Knob Road, Eagan. All-you-can-eat fish (fried or baked), macaroni and cheese, cole-slaw, and ice cream. Cost: $10 adults, $5 children. Walleye fry by Dakota County Elks Lodge 2832, 5-7:30 p.m., Mary Center at Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville. All-you-can-eat walleye, baked potatoes, coleslaw, rolls, milk

and coffee. Cost: $13 adults, $6 ages 11 and younger, $3 ages 8 and younger for a kid’s meal of macaroni and cheese, animal crackers and milk. Fish fry, 5-9 p.m., Rose-mount American Legion Post 65, 14590 Burma Ave., Rose-mount. All-you-can-eat fish ($11.95 adults, $10.95 seniors, $7.95 kids). Information: 651-423-3380. Mental health awareness event, 6-8:30 p.m., Apple Val-ley High School, 14450 Hayes Road, Apple Valley. For people high school age to adult. Fea-tures writer and comedian Kev-in Breel, a resource fair, SOS for youth presentation and teen panel. Information: www.sui-cidepreventioncollaborativemn.org. Forever Wild Family Fri-day: Celebration of Spring, 7-8:30 p.m., Lebanon Hills Visitor Center, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan. Musical ensemble Tra-ki plays Bulgarian folk music that celebrates the coming of spring. All ages. Free. Regis-tration requested. Information: www.co.dakota.mn.us/parks/.

Saturday, March 5 Let’s Get Growing Spring Expo hosted by the University of Minnesota Master Garden-ers of Dakota County, 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Rosemount Com-munity Center, 13885 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Cost: $35. Register by calling 651-480-

From the Archives

This photo of a buried railroad sign along the Mankato Line tracks on Denmark Avenue south of Farmington documented the heavy snowfalls that hit Dakota County in early 1979. “It is obvious the trains have not been running,” the Dakota County Tribune noted in its coverage in the Feb. 8, 1979, edition. The photo was published on the front page under the headline “We’re Havin’ a Cold Wave.”

atrebhs.com/la-mancha/.

Workshops/classes/other Rosemount Area Arts Council classes at the Stee-ple Center: Watercolor class-es, 1-3 p.m. Feb. 26, March 18 and April 29, $22 RAAC mem-bers, $24 nonmembers. Water-color classes, 6-8 p.m. March 7 and April 11, $22 RAAC members; $24 nonmembers. Knitting: Beginners Cowl, 10 a.m. to noon March 1, 3, 8 and 10, $54 RAAC members, $60 nonmembers. Knitting: Beyond the Basics Cowl, 10 a.m. to noon March 2, 9 and 16, $45 for RAAC members; $50 nonmembers. Woodburn-ing, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 5, $54 RAAC members; $60 nonmembers. (Woodburning tool with three tips must be purchased prior to class. Con-tact Megan at [email protected] for places to purchase tool.) Nuno Felted Silk Scarf, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 7, $36 RAAC members, $40 non-members (plus a $25 materi-als fee payable to instructor). Felted Vases, Vessels & Bowls, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 22, $36 RAAC members, $40 non-members (plus a $20 materials fee payable to instructor). The Joy of Photography, 6:30-9 p.m. March 8, 15, 22 and 29, March 19 at the zoo (time to be determined), $45 RAAC members, $50 nonmembers. Basket Weaving: Fruit Bowl Basket, 6-9 p.m. March 9, $11 RAAC members, $12 non-members (plus a $10 materials fee payable to the instructor). Basket Weaving: Heart Embel-lished Basket, 6-9 p.m. April 12 and 16, $11 RAAC mem-bers, $12 nonmembers (plus a $10 materials fee payable to the instructor). Basket Weav-ing: Yarn Storage Basket, May 10 and 17, $11 RAAC mem-bers, $12 nonmembers (plus an $18 materials fee payable to the instructor). Kind Hearts Princess School offers Daddy/Daugh-ter dance classes, ages 3-6, 6:30-7:30 p.m. begin-ning March 11. Information: [email protected]. Watch Me Draw Art Stu-dio, 20908 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville, classes: Ladies Night Out, 6-8 p.m. the sec-ond and fourth Friday of the month, create a 9x12 acrylic painting, $30; Date Night Painting, 6-8 p.m. the first and third Friday of the month, choose to paint individual can-vases or one large canvas, age 21 and older, $55 per couple includes light appetizers; Coffee & Canvas, 9-11 a.m. Wednesdays, create a 9x12 acrylic painting, $25. Informa-tion: www.watchmedraw.net or 952-454-2736. Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Battle, 4-5 p.m. the first Tues-day of each month at Apple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, 952-953-2385. Ages 12-18. Drawing & Painting (adults and teens) with Chris-tine Tierney, 9 a.m. to noon Wednesdays, River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville. Informa-tion: www.christinetierney.com, 612-210-3377. Brushworks School of Art Burnsville offers fine art edu-cation through drawing and painting. Classes for adults and teens. Information: Pa-tricia Schwartz, www.Brush-worksSchoolofArt.com, 651-214-4732. Soy candle making classes held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Jamie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota. Line dance classes Wednesdays at Lakeville Heri-tage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave., beginners 9-10 a.m., intermediate 10 a.m. to noon. Information: Marilyn, 651-463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Li-brary. Information: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected].

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The South Metro Chorale, a 50-member mixed choir based in Prior Lake, will present its annual “Cabaret” and silent auction event at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5, and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 6, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. This year’s theme is “Radio Time Machine,” and guests can enjoy a variety of small and large group performances, along with games, a cash raffle and refreshments. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students and seniors, and can be purchased at the door or in advance at 612-386-4636 or [email protected]. More information is at www.southmetrochorale.org. (Photo submitted)

Chorale hosts ‘Cabaret’ event

7Days, a co-ed a cappella group from the University of Minnesota, is set to perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Steeple Center in Rosemount. The 20-member group, which includes past “Rosemount Sings!” vocal contest winner Madison Holtze, performs original arrangements of pop, rock and country. Tickets are $10 for the concert hosted by the Rosemount Area Arts Council, and can be purchased at www.rosemountarts.com. The Steeple Center is located at 14375 S. Robert Trail. (Photo submitted)

7Days concert in Rosemount

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


The Front Porch Players are making their return to Rose-mount’s Steeple Cen-ter next month with a classic Agatha Christie whodunit. The theater group, sponsored by the Rosemount Area Arts Council, made its de-but in the summer of 2014 with the Neil Simon play “Bare-foot in the Park.” It was the first and, until now, only production the Front Porch Players were able to stage at the Steeple Center because of construction of an addition to the historic venue, which the troupe considers its home site. With the Steeple Center operational again, the Front Porch Players are set to present the murder mystery “The Mousetrap” March 4-13. The play, which debuted in London’s West End theater district in 1952, is set at an English manor during a snow-storm following a murder. “It’s just a fun show to put on,” said director Keith Reed, who serves as president and artistic director of the Front Porch Players. “People know the Agatha Christie characters — a lot of people read Agatha Christie, and even

if you don’t, you know the name.” The cast of the Front Porch Players produc-tion includes April Bai-ley, Brian Broszko, Alan Davis, Dave Hefferman, Ginny Leutgeb, Jeny Stevens, Andrew Troth and Kaleb Wick. The set for “The Mousetrap” — featur-ing two large bay win-dows and a fireplace — was under construction

this week, with the Second Act Play-ers, the arts council’s theater group for adults 50 and older, serving as the pri-mary volunteers. Reed said the Front Porch Players’s aim is to stage two full productions, along with two smaller melodrama pro-ductions, each year at the Steeple Cen-ter. A follow-up production to “The Mousetrap” is tentatively planned for fall 2016. Tickets for “The Mousetrap” are $14 and can be purchased on the Rose-mount Area Arts Council website, www.rosemountarts.com. Show times are 7 p.m. March 4-5 and 11-12, and 2 p.m. March 6 and 13.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Murder mystery comes to Steeple Center stage

Front Porch Players present ‘The Mousetrap’

7700. Information: www.da-kotamastergardeners.org.

Ongoing Emotions Anonymous meetings, 7:30-9 p.m. Tues-days at SouthCross Commu-nity Church, 1800 E. County Road 42 (at Summit Oak Drive), Apple Valley. EA is a 12-step program for those seeking emotional health. All are wel-come. Information: http://www.emotionsanonymous.org/out-of-the-darkness-walks.

Blood drives The American Red Cross will hold the following blood

drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit red-crossblood.org to make an ap-pointment or for more informa-tion. • Feb. 27, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Caribou Coffee, 3868 150th St., Rosemount. • Feb. 29, 12:30-6:30 p.m., Lutheran Church of the Ascen-sion, 1801 E. Cliff Road, Burns-ville. • March 1, 12:30-6:30 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church, 16725 Highview Ave., Lakeville. • March 2, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Culver’s, 15225 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. • March 3, 1-7 p.m., South-wind Village, 15025 Green-haven Drive, Burnsville.

FAMILY, from previous • March 4, 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Easter Lutheran Church – By The Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. • March 5, 10:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville. • March 7, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Minnesota Valley YMCA, 13850 Portland Ave., Burnsville.

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