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by Tad JohnsonTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Rosemount High School choir students are hoping Home Free can send them far from home this spring. A concert by the Manka-to-based, male a cappella group will be held Thursday, Feb. 16, in conjunction with the school’s choir to help raise money for a European tour in March. The show will be a pre-view of the songs the choir will sing when it travels to Europe and features Home Free’s upbeat interpretations of songs by the likes of the Beatles, the Beach Boys and Simon & Garfunkel.

Home Free member Matt Atwood said people should expect an all-around fantas-tic time. “While we strive to achieve musical excellence within our show, we also put a lot of emphasis on that word ‘show,’ ” he said. “We guarantee that you’ll come away with a smile on your face.” Home Free members, who have extensive theatri-cal and musical training, are touted as weaving comedy and audience participation into their music, which cov-ers a mix of pop, jazz, classi-cal and country. “We are truly blessed to be able to do our art, and our passion, for a living,” Atwood said. “And every day brings something entire-ly new, so we never get tired of it.” The group has performed for the Minnesota Vikings, Fortune 500 companies, Celebrity and Norwegian Cruise Lines and many more. As part of the effort in Rosemount, Home Free members conducted a clinic at the school in January. “Having the chance to see professionals in your field, whatever field that may be,

while learning is an integral part of the development process,” Atwood said. “In our case, the kids are able to see that the skills and tech-niques they are learning in choir today are applicable to the performances of tomor-row.” The group devotes time to educating and encourag-ing music in public schools through such workshops and concert fundraising. Its programs have raised tens of thousands of dollars for schools in Minnesota. Kelsey Sijan, a sopho-more choir member, said she liked learning how to beat box, a way to use one’s voice as an instrument, which is a prominent feature of many Home Free songs. “They were amazing,” Sijan said of the Home Free quintet. She said having the chance to work with Home Free allowed the students to better understand the type of music that they perform, which is much different than other forms of music they know. “Every choir we sang for displayed a remarkable discipline, and love for sing-ing,” Atwood said. “When we were told there’s a choir

class every single hour of the school day, our jaws dropped.” The choir will travel and perform in Geneva, Annecy, Grenoble, Provence and Barcelona. Sijan said she is looking forward to seeing cathedrals and other sites, along with being able to sing for people of different nationalities. She said they hope that

“they see what American music is about and that even though we may speak a dif-ferent language, singing is universal and a part of all of us.” Tickets are on sale and can be purchased by calling (651) 964-1534 or from a Team Europe choir member.

Tad Johnson is at [email protected].

Presidential hopeful receives support, some protest at event

by Matt HankeyTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Fresh off his decisive victory in the Jan. 31 Florida primary, Republican presidential can-didate and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney spoke to an enthusiastic audience the following day at a Freightmasters Inc. trucking company warehouse in Eagan. “We just won Florida and we’re going to win the White House,” Romney said. Romney was introduced to the crowd of hundreds of supporters by former Minnesota governor and Eagan resident Tim Pawlenty and former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman. Pawlenty has been campaigning for Romney in several states after having dropped his own presidential bid after the Iowa straw poll in Au-gust. As he took the stage, Romney was “glitter-bombed” with confetti, which has recently been done to candidates who have anti-gay marriage views by pro-gay marriage activists. After brushing off the glitter protest, Rom-ney said it’s time for new leadership and then led the crowd in singing the first verse of “America the Beautiful.” Before the rally began, a small group of pro-testers gathered outside the warehouse where Romney would later rally his supporters. One protester decried Romney’s tax rate, which was recently released. “To be honest, it’s class warfare,” said St. Paul resident John Ewaldt of AFSCME. “Mid-dle-class Minnesotans are paying 35 to 38 per-cent and Romney is paying 15, and that’s just not right.”

Others, like Apple Valley residents Judy Finger and Charlie Curry, said they’re worried about Romney’s promises to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits if elected president. “We don’t support Mitt Romney,” said Fin-ger, who carried a “Keep Your Mitt(s) Off My Medicare and Social Security!” sign. “What more can I say?” Burnsville resident Bernie Rimnac, a conser-

vative, said he’s open-minded regarding all Re-publican presidential candidates and is currently undecided. “When the time comes to vote, I’ll have my decision made,” Rimnac said. “We can’t have another four years of debt upon debt upon debt. It’s not going to go away unless we do some-thing.”

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Romney, Pawlenty rally in Eagan

Photo by Rick Orndorf

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a campaign stop at Freightmasters in Eagan Wednesday, Feb. 1. His speech included mention of issues related to seniors, education, jobs and Obama’s leadership. Former Minnesota Gov. and presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty and former Senator Norm Coleman joined Romney as supporters.

Flying high Eastview High School cheerleaders were flying high at the 2012 Minnesota Cheerleading Coaches Association state competition on Jan. 28 at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, earning a second-place finish in the Small Non-Tumbling division. Also taking home hardware from the event were the Apple Valley High School cheerleaders, who finished second in Medium Non-Tumbling. For more photos, go online to www.ThisweekLive.com.


Home Free singers performance will help local choir

Caucuses provide stage for workings of democracyMembers of state political parties

will gather Feb. 7

by T.W. BudigECM CAPITOL REPORTER

It’s a chance to shape the political parties and the fortunes of candi-dates. Minnesotans will cau-cus on Tuesday, Feb. 7, gathering in neighbor-hoods across the state for an exercise in democracy. “It’s always a big deal,” said Minnesota DFL State Party Chairman Ken Martin of Eagan. DFL Secretary of State Mark Ritchie views the caucuses as a chance for people to arrange the “building blocks” of par-ties by molding party platforms. Beyond this, Ritchie sees the caucuses as pro-viding candidates willing to spend the time, make the phone calls and wear out the shoe leather with a means of making their political mark without spending a lot of money. Caucuses can be well-springs of new ideas, Martin said. He cites an idea out of a northern Minne-sota caucus in the 1950s that Hubert Humphrey latched onto, an idea about helping that eventu-ally took the shape of the Peace Corps. This year, a presiden-tial year, will have added zest as Republicans and Democrats will feature presidential straw polls. In 2008, in a presiden-tial race matching Sen. Hillary Clinton against Sen. Barack Obama, some 220,000 Democrats caucused in a record-set-ting display of fervor. “I remember stand-ing in a line a mile long,” Martin said. Republican officials are hoping for a big cau-cus turnout for their non-binding presidential straw poll. Some of the parties are getting innovative in their approach to the caucus. The Independence Par-ty of Minnesota this year is hosting a live, online caucus. “I’d love to see a hun-dred people (participate),” said IP Chairman Mark Jenkins. Jenkins expects a few glitches, but also fore-sees the use of technology continuing into the future. Details about the live,

Senate District 37 precinct caucuses will be held Feb. 7. Reg-istration will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the cau-cus will convene at 7 p.m. Democrats will meet at Apple Valley High School, 14450 Hayes Road. Republicans in District 37A (eastern Burnsville and west-ern Apple Valley) will meet at Eastview High School, 6200 140th St. W., Apple Valley. Re-publicans in District 37B (Rosemount and eastern Apple Val-ley) will meet at Rose-mount High School, 3335 142nd St. W., Rosemount.

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Mankato-based Home Free will perform a concert in conjunction with the Rosemount High School choir at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at the school. The concert will raise funds to help pay for the choir’s European tour this spring.

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by Jessica HarperTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

One group of Eagan middle school students has been rewarded with a trip to Washington, D.C., for thinking of the future. A team of seventh- and eighth-grade boys from Black Hawk Middle School took first place at the Fu-ture City Minnesota region-al competition Jan. 14 at the University of Minnesota.

The seven-member team, called Vita Nova, also won the Best Essay award at the competition. Now the team is headed to D.C. on Feb. 21 to com-pete in the national tourna-ment. “I think it will be excit-ing to see all the different teams,” said Will Cobbett, a seventh-grader at Black Hawk. The competition, spon-sored by the National Engi-neers Week Foundation, re-quires students to research, design and create a model of a future city with the aid of a engineering specialist. The model must be built

to scale and include infra-structure such as trans-portation, water treatment processes, and heating and cooling distribution. All these aspects were required this year to be energy effi-cient and eco-friendly. Members of Vita Nova decided the best way to achieve this would be to cre-ate a fictitious sea-side city near a dormant volcano. The city called Ki Vita Nova, which is 150 years in the future and uses a geo-thermal system to generate energy and treat water. En-ergy is also generated using a solar satellite. Green features don’t end

Middle school students rewarded for forward thinking

there. Every skyscraper in-cludes a green roof, and transportation systems are powered using magnets, which enable buses and cars to float along the roads. Vita Nova and other teams were given seven min-utes to present their con-cepts at the competition. The team’s presenters will be the only members competing at nationals. Prior to building a model of their futuristic city, team members worked with Eagan city engineer Russ Matthys to learn more about how an actual city’s infrastructure is planned and created.

“He was so helpful in lowering their anxiety level by helping them feel pre-pared,” said David Herem, Future Cities advisor and teacher at Black Hawk. Vita Nova member and eighth-grader Collin West-gard said he enjoyed work-ing with Matthys. “I liked learning about the role of an engineer,” he said. “I plan to be an engi-neer when I grow up.” They also created a digi-tal model and wrote a 1,000-word essay on renewable energy. Then they wrote a sales pitch for their concept. The project took the team about four months to

complete. Team members agreed that the hardest part of the project was finding compromise during the de-sign process. Black Hawk has partici-pated in the competition for about 12 years. This is the second time a Black Hawk team has advanced to na-tionals in that time. Four other teams from the Rosemount-Apple Val-ley-Eagan School District competed at the Minnesota regional competition and all four earned awards.

Jessica Harper is at [email protected].

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Black Hawk Middle School team Vita Nova will compete Feb. 21 in the national Future Cities competition in Washington, D.C. The team took first place at the regional competition Jan. 14 at the University of Minnesota.

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Eastview High School s t u d e n t A s h e s h Rambachan battled to the end at the state debate tournament in January and took first place in the Lincoln-Douglas category. The Eastview junior loves participating in debate. “When you get into the round, and you’re talking about the issues, it’s really interesting,” he said. “You don’t know what the other person is going to say, and you have a limited time to think of what you’re going to say back.” The stakes were high and the competition steep at state event, held at the University of Minnesota. The tournament’s debate topic was whether victims should use deadly force as a response to repeated domes-tic violence. Arguing against the use of deadly force, Ram-bachan put in many hours researching and forming ar-guments. Reflecting on winning state title, Rambachan said: “I definitely worked really hard for it, and to see the re-sults come was awesome.” Rambachan said he plans to continue to participate in debate at Eastview as a senior and is excited about continuing to develop his craft.

Hunter Paulson-Smith is an intern who attends the School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley.

Eastview junior takes firstat state debate tournament

Ashesh Rambachan

Thisweek Newspapers won six Minnesota News-paper Association Better Newspaper Contest awards, which were handed out dur-ing the MNA Convention awards banquet Thursday, Jan. 26, at the Doubletree Hotel in Bloomington. Larry Werner, general manager and editor, won first place in the Columnist category for weekly news-papers with a circulation over 5,000. Aaron Vehling, Lakeville and online editor, captured second place in this category.

Vehling also won in Category X-Weeklies over 2,500 for his story about Dakota County Muslims’ observance of Ramadan. Category X was for stories that highlighted diversity. Rick Orndorf, staff pho-tographer, won first place in Feature Photo-Weeklies over 5,000 for his photo-graph of two boys launch-ing themselves on the diving boards at Redwood Com-munity Pool in Apple Val-ley. He also won second place in News Photo-Week-

lies over 5,000 for his photo-graph of the mock car crash at Rosemount High School. Laura Adelmann, Farm-ington editor, received honorable mention in Gov-ernment/Public Affairs Reporting for her story on issues raised after a Farm-ington teacher encouraged students to call Mayor Todd Larson to voice their opin-ion about the City Coun-cil’s consideration of an ordinance restricting raising chickens in the city.

Thisweek Newspapers wins six newspaper association awards


Burnsville High School cheerleaders competed in the small nontumbling division of the Minnesota Cheerleading Coaches Association state competition Jan. 28 at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul.

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Opinion

by Don HeinzmanTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

During these unsettled political times, public confi-dence in state and national lawmakers is declining. The average person who really wants to get involved has one chance to change the country’s direc-tion and its office holders, and that’s by at-tending their precinct caucus on Tuesday, Feb. 7. Changing the direction and electing someone other than the office holder is not an easy process, but political party leaders maintain it can be done. Political parties sponsor these precinct caucuses so everyone has an opportunity to become a delegate to their political unit and to vote on resolutions that could be-

come part of the party platform. A person can attend their precinct cau-cus if they live in the precinct, are eligible to vote and agree in principle with the po-litical party sponsoring the caucus. By reading today’s front page story or going to the secretary of state’s website (www.sos.state.mn.us), you can learn where your caucus is meeting in Thisweek News-papers coverage area. At the caucus of both parties, those at-tending will be electing delegates and alter-nates to the district and state conventions where candidates are endorsed. Changing the current cast of office holders who in turn could change the di-rection of the party would take a wave of disgruntled citizens across the congressio-nal districts and state. There is little evidence that such a wave

of discontent is forming enough to take over election of delegates at the precinct caucuses. While party leaders say everyone is eli-gible to attend the caucus and influence the future, odds are stacked against it because the party machinery usually controls. In the Republican Party, precinct conve-nors are appointed by the executive com-mittee of the party’s Basic Political Party Unit. The same committee determines the number of delegates at the caucus by using a formula dividing the selected number into the number who voted in the 2010 election. The DFL Party likewise selects the con-venors and determines the number of del-egates. The Tea Party, which has gained influ-ence and elected legislators, did not go through a caucus system to gain its power.

It started out as a grassroots organization and through social media quickly spread its gospel across the country. There are, however, stories of prominent office holders who got their start by attend-ing their neighborhood precinct caucus. Attend the caucus on Feb. 7, be eager to become a delegate, and work through the party system, but chances are you’ll have to work long and hard within the party to make a difference in how Minnesota and the United States are governed. Don Heinzman is chairman of the ECM Publishers Inc. Editorial Board. Thisweek Newspapers and the Dakota County Tribune are part of ECM. He is at [email protected]. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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Let’s get real on educationTo the editor: Let’s stop insulting read-ers with unfounded claims about private versus public education. A previous letter writer suggested the poorest public schools spend more money than private schools with worse results. Private education can cost in a range from $12,000 to $20,000 in the cities. Pri-vate schools are elite, expen-sive and may perform very well. Basic funding revenue for public education is $5,170 per student. When private schools match public schools in cost, teacher/student ratio, and in working hard to serve students, then we might be able to make a better com-parison. Let’s stick to facts and tone down contentious

opinions that are not based in reality. Sometimes reality hurts, but it appears to hurt poor and minority youth the hardest. The previous writ-er castigated me for defend-ing public education. The letter writer could not even spell my name (five letters) correctly. The public or pri-vate schools he attended should not be held account-able for his failure to spell or provide proof for his theories.

BETTY FEDDEEagan

Democrats, jobs and taxes To the editor: It was good to see former state Rep. Will Morgan in the paper again (Jan. 27 let-ter to the editor). He wrote

that Gov. Mark Dayton had a jobs plan. I would like to know why the state of Minnesota has the money to give every company that hires a new employee a $3,000 tax credit and why I have to pay $444 for a food handlers license (they come out to see me ev-ery other year) and $434 for unemployment insurance. (Will someone tell me how to file unemployment on myself ?) Democrats seem to have all the answers — $300 for tabs on my vehicle as well as 7.25 percent sales tax on al-most anything I buy in this state. Where is the $3,000 coming from? The already grossly overtaxed citizens who somehow still have jobs, that’s where! While my income has dropped $30,000 over the last three years, my taxes

continue to go up on my house, along with heat and gas. Why? Because the Dem-ocrats have more ideas as to how to waste your tax dol-lars and line the pockets of their friends in the unions and the government. As I recall, I didn’t hear a single word of outrage when Dayton closed down the government and put 20,000-plus people out of work. That is what the Demo-crats really call a jobs plan, making more people depen-dent on the Democrats. If you are, you are doomed.

STEVE SCHOFIELDBurnsville

About Senator Thompson To the editor: When a capitalist mil-lionaire wants to make 45 additional millions by leaching it out of ordinary folks and evade taxes as Re-publican presidential can-didate Mitt Romney did, he needs to condition and lull folks and reduce their strength. To that end, the capitalist will bankroll a lawyer like state Sen. Dave Thompson, R-Lakeville, who also has been on the radio, and pay him 70 grand for so-called “communication consult-ing” and also get him elect-ed to the Senate. This is how to buy a sen-ator! As a radio host Thomp-

son convinces the ordinary folks that it is good for them to make the rich richer and to wait another 30 years for the “trickle down” effects to take hold. If the elections still do not produce the desired re-sults for the millionaires, and politicians like Norm Coleman or Tom Emmer lose, then you go after the election process itself, and claim it is fraudulent. The inevitable investiga-tion wastes tax money we ordinary folks paid (the mil-lionaire capitalist pay very little or no taxes), but also the investigation drags on and on and produces a lot of distrust. Even if no fraud is found, millionaire capitalist-owned senator can now push leg-islation to restrict who can vote, by requiring a photo ID. Coincidentally, the vot-ers being mostly restricted are likely to vote against the interests of the senator and his godfathers, the 1 per-cent. The remainder of us, the other 99 percent have been made poorer by the rich fleecing us out of our share. Since the Ronald Reagan era, only the tax-evading rich predatory raiders have become filthy rich. Today, on behalf of these predators, Thompson is at-tacking us the 99 percent - our solidarity - the unions. The union wages and ben-efits have built our families, our cities, our education, our nation. By contrast, the 1 percent is making itself

richer by tearing the coun-try apart and sending our livelihood offshore. They need the big money to retain this talent, says talk show host Thompson. But Thompson does not want to pay any big money for the talent of teachers because keeping folks dumb makes better suckers for his godfathers.

JOE NIEDERMAYRLakeville

Contract resolution is a relief To the editor: As one of the teach-ers of the Lakeville Pub-lic Schools, I would like to thank the Lakeville School Board and the Education Minnesota-Lakeville nego-tiations team for their ef-forts in finding a contract settlement agreement. It is a huge relief to both teach-ers and students to know that we have a contract. Any such settlement re-quires long hours and diffi-cult decisions on everyone’s part, and our economy has made these decisions harder than ever. So many thanks to the representa-tives who spent late nights and early mornings in this process. You can trust that your Lakeville teachers are working late nights and early mornings to show our thanks.

BETSY GRAWELakeville South High School teacher


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Team Conference Overall W L W LEastview 9 0 17 0 Lakeville North 8 1 16 1 Apple Valley 7 2 14 3 Eagan 6 3 10 7 Prior Lake 4 5 8 9 B Kennedy 4 5 7 10 Lakeville South 3 6 8 9 Rosemount 2 7 8 9 B Jefferson 2 7 5 11 Burnsville 0 9 0 16

Friday, Feb 3• Rosemount at Bloomington Jefferson, 7:15 p.m. • Burnsville at Bloomington Kennedy, 7:15 p.m. • Eagan at Eastview, 7:15 p.m. • Apple Valley at Prior Lake, 7:15 p.m. • Lakeville North at Lakeville South, 7:15 p.m. Monday, Feb 6• Eastview at Burnsville, 7:15 p.m. • Lakeville South at Apple Valley, 7:15 p.m. • Eagan at Bloomington Jefferson, 7:15 p.m. • Prior Lake at Rosemount, 7:15 p.m. • Bloomington Kennedy at Lakeville North, 7:15 p.m. Friday, Feb 10• Lakeville North at Eastview, 7:15 p.m. • Bloomington Kennedy at Apple Valley, 7:15 p.m. • Bloomington Jefferson at Prior Lake, 7:15 p.m. • Burnsville at Eagan, 7:15 p.m. • Rosemount at Lakeville South, 7:15 p.m.

Girls BasketballTeam Conference Overall W L W LEastview 10 1 15 4 B Kennedy 9 2 14 4 Lakeville North 8 3 12 7 Apple Valley 6 5 10 8 Prior Lake 6 5 9 10 Lakeville South 4 7 9 10 Eagan 4 7 7 12 B Jefferson 4 7 6 12 Burnsville 2 9 7 12 Rosemount 2 9 7 12

Friday, Feb 3• Lakeville North at Lakeville South, 5:45 p.m. • Bloomington Jefferson Rosemount, 7:15 p.m. • Eastview Eagan, 7:15 p.m. • Prior Lake Apple Valley, 7:15 p.m. • Bloomington Kennedy at Burnsville, 7:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb 4• Apple Valley at East Ridge, 2 p.m. Monday, Feb 6• Apple Valley at Lakeville South, 7:15 p.m. • Bloomington Jefferson at Eagan, 7:15 p.m. • Rosemount at Prior Lake, 7:15 p.m. • Lakeville North at Bloomington Kennedy, 7:15 p.m. • Burnsville at Eastview, 7:15 p.m. Friday, Feb 10• Apple Valley at Bloomington Kennedy, 7:15 p.m. • Prior Lake at Bloomington Jefferson, 7:15 p.m. • Eagan at Burnsville, 7:15 p.m. • Lakeville South at Rosemount, 7:15 p.m. • Eastview at Lakeville North, 7:15 p.m.

Boys HockeyTeam Conference Overall W L T W L TEagan 12 0 0 17 2 0 Burnsville 7 3 1 11 8 1 Lakeville South 7 4 0 11 7 0 Apple Valley 6 3 2 9 7 2 Prior Lake 6 4 0 13 7 0 Lakeville North 5 6 0 9 10 0 B Jefferson 4 6 1 4 12 2 Eastview 2 8 0 8 11 0 Rosemount 1 10 0 4 15 0 B Kennedy 0 6 0 4 15 0

Saturday, Feb 4• Lakeville North at Burnsville, 3 p.m. • Lakeville South at Prior Lake, 5:30 p.m.• Bloomington Kennedy at Apple Valley, 7 p.m. • Rosemount at Bloomington Jefferson, 7 p.m. • Eastview at Eagan, 7:15 p.m.Tuesday, Feb 7• Hill-Murray at Lakeville South, 7:30 p.m. • Eastview at Park, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Feb 9• Burnsville at Apple Valley, 7 p.m. • Rosemount at Prior Lake, 7 p.m.• Lakeville South at Lakeville North, 7 p.m.• Eastview at Bloomington Jefferson, 7:15 p.m.

Girls HockeyTeam Conference Overall W L T W L T Lakeville North 13 2 1 18 5 1Eagan 12 2 2 18 3 3 Lakeville South 12 3 1 18 5 1 B Jefferson 8 8 0 12 11 1 Burnsville 5 6 5 9 10 5 Eastview 6 8 1 9 13 1 Rosemount 4 8 3 7 13 3 Apple Valley 5 10 1 11 12 1 Prior Lake 2 12 2 5 17 2 B Kennedy 0 8 0 6 16 2

Saturday, Feb 4• Bloomington Kennedy at Apple Valley, 2:15 p.m. • Lakeville South P at rior Lake, 3 p.m. • Eastview at Eagan, 3 p.m. • Rosemount at Bloomington Jefferson, 3 p.m. • Lakeville North at Burnsville, 5 p.m.

AlpineTuesday, Jan. 31• South Suburban Conference finals, at Buck HillGirls: 1. Lakeville North, 398; 2. Eastview, 371; 3. Lakeville South, 316; 4. Jefferson, 297; 5. Burnsville, 268; 6. Apple Valley, 266; 7. Prior Lake, 197

1, Anderson, Sally, EEV; 2, Larson, Amanda, LKS; 3, Spong, Erin, JEF; 4, Kavanaugh, Courtney, LKN; 5, Smith, Briar, LKN; 6, Noonan, Abby, LKN; 7, Knutson, Alex, LKN; 8, Hefko, Claire, APV; 9, Lindsay, Erica, Bur; 10, Karnopp, Courtney, EEV

Boys: 1. Burnsville, 431; 2. Eastview, 405; 3. Apple Valley, 402; 4. Jefferson, 373; 5. Lakeville North, 316; 6. Lakeville South, 286; 7. Prior Lake, 156

1, Murray, Michael, JEF; 2, Croasdale, Connor, LKN; 3, Ahlberg, Andrew, APV; 4, Huss, Jordan, Bur; 5, Anderson, Tommy, EEV; 6, Cumming, Andrew, EEV7, Flickinger, Tom, Bur; 8, Garbe, Jon, Bur; 9, Xi, Matt, LKN; 1,0 Bramer, Alec, JEF

Standings

by Andy RogersTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Few teams had less var-sity experienced basketball players coming into the sea-son than the Burnsville boys. Coach Matthew Eppen knew it would be a work in progress. While a 0-16 record halfway through the season can be a little discouraging, no one is giving up. “Our team has made tremendous improvements throughout the season,” Eppen said. “The kids have come to practice each day with the right attitude and a willingness to get better. Consequently the motiva-tion is still high and we con-tinue to improve.” While the coaches expect-ed a few growing pains, they didn’t expect as many physi-cal pains. Only a handful of players have played in every game. “Our player rotations have changed drastically due to injury,” Eppen said. “We have had four players miss considerable time due to in-jury.” There hasn’t been a short-age of players who want the chance. More than 15 play-ers have seen time on the court this season. “Both upperclassmen and underclassmen have taken advantage of their opportu-nity,” Eppen said. Zach Smith has emerged as a go-to scorer with 45 points in the last three games, and AJ Coleman scored a season-high 13 points in the 70-56 loss to Lakeville South on Tuesday. The focus is to earn that first victory. The team has played ev-eryone in the South Sub-urban Conference with one more shot at each. The closest game was a three-point loss to Shakopee on Jan. 14. The Blaze also have lost to Eagan by eight points and Bloomington

Jefferson by 10. “The second round of the conference season will hopefully give us a chance to continue to improve on the things we have been working on and also try some new things that will give us an ad-vantage this season but also in the future,” Eppen said.

Rosemount When the Irish began the South Suburban Conference portion of the schedule in early January, they had a 6-2 record and a Granite City Classic trophy. January wasn’t kind to that positive record. After an 81-58 loss to Apple Valley on Tuesday night the Irish fell below .500 for the first time since Dec. 8. “This obviously is a very tough conference and we have learned a lot about our-selves the first time through,” coach Brian Schnettler said. “You can’t take a night off and you need to play with energy every night.” The Irish have a veteran squad – seven seniors strong who have been through this before. “We will be a better team the second time through the conference,” Schnettler said. “We need to improve the consistency of our shooting a bit to compete with the top teams in our conference. Our goal has always been to be at our best in March and our guys are working hard to achieve that.” One of those seniors, leading scorer Matt Nelson, will continue his basketball experience at Minnesota State University-Moorhead next fall and has been a jack-of-all-trades for the Irish. “I am happy to see some of the work he has put in pay off for him,” Schnettler said. “Matt can score both inside and out, but he also leads us in rebounds, blocks, steals, free throws attempted, and

minutes played.” Brandon Forcier, Gar-rett Goetz, Cole Northwick, Tyler Liermann and Charlie Broback have been instru-mental in keeping the team competitive. Northwick led the team with 20 points in the loss to Apple Valley.

Eagan Other than Eastview, Lakeville North and Apple Valley, the Wildcats are the only other team in the con-ference with a winning re-cord. Eagan won four-straight conference games in an 11-day stretch beating Rose-mount, Lakeville South and Bloomington Kennedy. Eagan has averaged more than 60 points per game by improving its ball security. “I think the biggest key to those wins was eliminating the turnovers,” coach Mike

Sullivan said. “We still need to improve in that area, but our recent success shows the kids what they are capable of doing if they take care of the ball and get good shots with each possession.” Shea Mandli (29 points against Kennedy) and Nick Sabatke (23) are leading the team in scoring, both averag-ing in the teens. “They have been pretty consistent all season and are playing at the level we ex-pected they would play from the start of the season,” Sul-livan said. That’s helped the offense take better shots with con-tributions from Drew Bauer, Eric Woodcock, Jackson Prestrud, Isaiah Pearson and Mitch Knutson. The Wildcats have a re-match against Eastview – one of the conference teams to defeat Eagan – Friday

night on the road.

Apple Valley After starting the season 12-2, the Eagles were off to their best start since last qualifying for state in 2007. A trip to Lakeville North in late January was a set-back. After leading 32-24 at halftime, the Eagles lost by 14. Three days later, the team beat a five-win Bloomington Jefferson team 63-59 and on Tuesday night outscored Rosemount 81-58. The highest scoring team in the conference took a hit when it lost Harry Sonie to injury, but sophomore Tyus Jones has taken an even larg-er role as the go-to scorer av-eraging almost 30 points per game. Dustin Fronk, who led the team with 22 points against Rosemount, and Mitch He-schel with 17 points have helped out. With two conference losses, the Eagles have some work to do if they want to improve their standings. First task comes on Fri-day against Prior Lake, which marks the beginning of the second round of con-ference play. The Eagles de-feated Prior Lake 78-70 on Jan. 3.

Eastview The top-ranked team in Minnesota is showing no signs of letting up with com-fortable consecutive victo-ries against Lakeville South, Bloomington Kennedy and Bloomington Jefferson. Joey King has averaged 30 points per game during the stretch. The two teams that gave Eastview the toughest tests will pay a visit soon. Lakev-ille North comes to town on Feb. 10 and Apple Valley on Feb. 14. Andy Rogers is at [email protected].


Several area seniors signed their National Let-ters of Intent on Wednesday to continue their athletic ca-reers at the collegiate level.

Eastview Brianna Ismale, women’s soccer at South Dakota State University; Taryn Macmillan, women’s soccer at the University of North Dakota; Leah Nesheim, women’s soccer at Univer-sity of Minnesota-Duluth;

and Zach Johnson, football at North Dakota State Uni-versity.

Eagan Drew Bauer, foot-ball at University of M i n n e s o t a - D u l u t h ; Eric Woodcock, foot-ball at University of Minnesota-Duluth; Connor Randall, football at Univer-sity of Minnesota-Duluth; Mitch Knutson, football at St. Cloud State University; Lindsey Micheletti, soccer at the University of North

Dakota; Kristen Knutson, soccer at the University of Minnesota; Lauren Doug-las, soccer at Southwest State University; AJ Albers, soccer at University of New Hampshire; Gustavo Agui-lar Castro, soccer at Upper Iowa University; and Jona-than Garcia, cheerleading at MidAmerica Nazarene University.

Burnsville Chase Roullier, football at University of Wyoming; Jalen Dyson, football at

North Dakota State College of Science; and Bailly Dray-ton, soccer at St. Cloud State University.

Apple Valley Lauren Hoeppner, soc-cer at Minnesota State Uni-versity-Mankato; Zachary Martens, football at Uni-versity of Missouri S&T; and Anna Edgren, soccer at Bemidji State University.

Andy Rogers is at [email protected].

Burnsville boys basketball team falls short against South

Area seniors sign letters of intent

Blaze stay positive in winless season


Eagan student athletes signed National Letters of Intent on Wednesday morning.


Burnsville’s Zach Smith, No. 10, goes up for a shot against Lakeville South on Tuesday.


Many senior athletes have officially made their decision where to take their talents in college this week. What to do after high school can be a stressful decision. For Rosemount’s Adam Jackson, one of the top wrestlers in the state, he has had the added rigors of serving his country in mind. Jackson won his 100th varsity match Jan. 27, the day after he was given a nomination certificate for the Air Force Academy from U.S. Rep. John Kline. Jackson wants to become an officer in the Air Force, which won’t be easy. Consid-ering the rigorous process to get to this point, anything is possible. The laws governing ap-pointments require a nomi-nation – congressional nomi-nations being the primary source.

Jackson applied to Kline and both U.S. senators and was interviewed by all three political leaders. “It’s pretty for-mal,” Jackson said. “Going into my first interview I was a little intimidated with all the military personnel and sen-ate staff there.” After he earned one of Kline’s limited nominations, Jackson needed the acad-emy to accept him, which he earned in late January. He said the application process was definitely a lot harder. He wrote three essays along with a full personal bi-ography. “They have to know ev-erything about you,” Jackson said. “Every activity. Every community service you’ve done. Every aspect of you as a person. And you have to have good standardized test scores and GPA. “They don’t want people going there only to find out they don’t want to be there.” The idea of applying to the academy came to Jack-son as a sophomore when he

attended a summer leadership seminar at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. After finishing his junior year as a run-ner-up to five-time state champion Des-tin McCauley from

Apple Valley, he figured he could wrestle in college. “The Air Force coaches approached me,” Jackson said. “It proved to be better than West Point. The coach-es made a good impression. The other wrestlers had a similar personality to me.” The mentality to become an officer only grew during his time wrestling. “I think everything in my wrestling will prepare me well with basic training,” Jackson said. “Mentally, wrestling has made me pretty strong. It don’t think it will be too big of a shock to me.” If studying at the acad-emy and wrestling in Divi-sion I sounds intense, that’s because it is. “I’ll have the stresses of a really tough academic sched-ule as well,” Jackson said. “It will take some getting used

to but you need to have really good time management.” Based on his success at the Minnesota level, Jackson feels he’s ready. “If you can wrestle in Minnesota, you can wrestle pretty much anywhere,” Jackson said. “I read that Minnesota is like the second best state in the country for wrestling. There’s a lot of tough competition here.” There’s one more thing he’d like to accomplish be-fore heading to the academy – win a state tournament title. But, perhaps he’s even more proud of the strides the Irish have made this season. The Rosemount wrestling team is 15-3 after defeating Roseville, Henry Sibley and Hopkins last weekend. Henry Sibley was one of the “Lean and Mean” mem-bers ranked by the Guillotine last week. Jackson feels Rose-mount has a good chance to be on the list next week. “The program is better than it’s ever been,” Jackson said” The program is grow-ing.”

Weekend warriors Wrestlers have stayed

warm during winter week-ends filled with tournaments, quadrangulars and invita-tionals. Burnsville finished sixth at the South St. Paul tourna-ment last weekend out of 16 other teams, and third at the Henry Sibley Tournament the weekend before with strong performances from Bill and Andy Underhill. Eagan went 1-2 over the weekend at the Robbins-dale Cooper Darrel Sohn Invite defeating Minneapo-lis Southwest but losing to Goodhue and Wayzata. Eastview defeated East Ridge 48-24 last Friday, but lost to Hastings 56-16. Mitch Rechtzigel and BJ Groskreutz earned two wins in the process. Apple Valley won the For-est Lake Duals beating the host 44-22 in the finals. Gan-non Volk, Seth Gross, Hark Hall, Mason Manville, Bran-don Kingsley, Benn Sullivan, Dan Woiwor, Paul Cheney and Trom Peterson had vic-tories in the final.

Andy Rogers is at [email protected].

Rosemount senior receives

nomination certificate

Wrestling primed Jackson for the Air Force

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cus, check the Secretary of State’s website under “Elec-tions” for a caucus-finder. Caucus locations that were submitted to Thisweek are posted online at www.ThisweekLive.com. Caucusing begins at 7 p.m. In addition to the Re-publican, Democratic, and Independence parties, the Green and Constitution parties also are caucusing. The Grassroots and Lib-ertarian parties are not. To be eligible to partici-

pate in a caucus, attendees must be eligible to vote in the next general election, live in the precinct and gen-erally agree with the prin-ciples of the political party. Delegates to party con-ventions are often elected at caucuses. One theory about cau-cuses is that supporters of opposition parties some-times infiltrate competing caucuses to twist the results. While Martin and Jen-kins don’t wholly discount that scenario, they down-

play it. “It would be very diffi-cult to accomplish,” Martin said. Democrats are eager to bring new blood into their caucuses, he explained. Democratic statewide can-didates have struggled, Mar-tin believes, in part because the same people attend the party’s caucuses. And these activists tend to send simi-larly patterned candidates into the primaries, election after election. A turnout of 100,000

citizens on caucus night wouldn’t be too bad, Ritchie indicated. Martin expects around 30,000 people to at-tend the DFL caucuses this year. Jenkins said he was unfa-miliar with the previous IP caucus turnouts, but, what-ever the total, they’re hop-ing for more, he explained. The IP, which has seen some election success in Minnesota, is focusing on getting a half dozen candi-dates elected to the Legisla-ture, Jenkins said.

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Age 57, died Saturday, January28 at Rapid City Regional Hospi-tal. Funeral mass will be held at10 am on Saturday, February 4 atSt. Paul the Apostle CatholicChurch in Iroquois, SD. Therewill be a prayer service on Friday,February 3 at 3:30 pm at KinzleyFuneral Home in Salem and thena prayer service at 7 pm at thechurch in Iroquois.

He was born in Mitchell, SD onNov 9th, 1954. He attended St.Mary's Grade School and SalemHigh School. He attended TheUniversity of South Dakota inSpringfield. He was trained as amechanical draftsman and spenthis entire professional career as am e c h a n i c a l d r a f t s m a n a n ddesigner. He owned his ownbusiness designing and building avariety of metal products.

One of Dave's passions wasvolunteering as a Fireman. Davewas a volunteer in Salem, Eagan,MN for 19 years and finally inIroquois, SD for the last 5 years.Dave always felt a calling to helpothers in emergency situations.

Dave's other passion was metalworking. He was a member ofthe Guild of Metalsmith's in MN.He served as President and taughtclasses in the arts of traditionalBlacksmiths. Dave was veryenthusiastic about maintainingand passing along the knowledgeof traditional metalworking. Hewas an active faithful member ofSt. Paul the Apostle CatholicChurch in Iroquois, SD where healso served as a lector.

Dave is survived by his wifeBarbara (Kutzke) of 25 years, hismother Marilyn Feterl of PriorLake, MN, his sister Louie Feterland brother Doug (Kim) Feterl ofRapid City, SD, his sister Margie(Jeff) Schmitz of Apple Valley,MN, his brother Darryl (Mary)Feterl of Eagan, MN, and sistersMarcy (Jim) Norquist and MollyFeterl of Burnsville, MN. He isalso survived by his father andmother-in-law, Lando and Luci-lle Kutzke of St. Cloud, his twobrother s - in - law Dan (Kim)Kutzke of Rochester, MN andMichael (Jennifer) Kutzke ofAndover, MN, a sister-in-lawConnie (Steve) Dilts of Billings,MT and many nieces and neph-ews and other relatives. He waspreceded in death by his brother,Daniel and father, Leon.

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Memorial Service will be heldSaturday, February 4, 2012 withthe visitation starting at 2 pm anda service following at 3 pm. Ser-vices held at Faith LutheranChurch, Morris, MN.

Mickey Robert Culbertson wasborn on January 23rd, 2012 andwent to meet the Lord the sameday. He brought joy to his familyevery day of his short time hereon earth. He is survived by hisparents, Robert and WhitneyCulbertson of Morris, sistersMagdalyne and Gracey; grand-parents, Robert and CharlotteCulbertson of Burnsville, andGary and Kirsten Anderson ofRed Wing, aunt Jenifer Culbert-son of Burnsvil le, uncles IanAnderson and Brennen Ander-s o n o f R e d W i n g a n d f i v egreat-grandparents. Mickey isp r e c e d e d i n d e a t h b y t w ogreat-grandparents.

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Becky Sue Lombardo, daugh-ter of Daren & Amy Belfiori ofOakdale , and Joe l MatthewDammann, son of Dennis &Claudia Dammann of Paynes-vil le,(formerly of Lakeville),announce their engagement.Becky and Joel will be married atBack to the 50's in St. Paul

Becky is a 2003 graduate ofTartan High School, Oakdale,and attends The Univ of Wisc,River Falls, pursuing a degree inAnimal Science Vet Technician.She is currently employed atDogs at Play in Newport, Mn. asa dog groomer.

Joel is a 1999 Lakeville SeniorH i g h g r a d u a t e , a n d a 2 0 0 3graduate of Dunwoody Institute.Joel is a Journeyman Electricianand a proud union member ofIBEW Local 292 Mpls, Mn. He iscurrently employed with Van Ertat Brookings, SD.

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Katie Emma Kleeberg, daugh-ter of Paul Kleeberg and JohannaRian of Apple Valley is to bemarried to Kyle Steven Schlesser,son of Steve and Patti Schlesserof Burnsville. The two recentlyreturned from Europe togetherwhere Kyle proposed in Rome,Italy. They current ly attendBethel University in St. Paulwhere they are studying BusinessMarketing and Finance respec-tively. They look forward to see-ing how the Lord will use theirlives as a married couple.

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and Mary Anne Clark of Burns-ville and Matt Stickels, son ofRodney St i cke l s and SandyE f f l a n d t o f P r i n c e t o n , I L ,announce their upcoming wed-ding.

Jul ia is a 2003 graduate ofBurnsville High School & 2007graduate of Marquette Univer-sity.

J u l i a & M a t t m e t a f t e r aCubs/Brewers game in 2008.Their wedding will be February11, 2012 and they will be living inElmhurst, IL.

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Another rally attendee, John Ryan of St. Paul, said his attendance was purely happenstance. “To be honest with you, I was walking my son’s dog who lives real close and I heard Romney was going to be here so I stopped by,” Ryan said. “I want to hear what he has to say. He’s the front-runner, and I’m just interested in anybody who can beat Obama.” Ryan said he would “def-initely vote for Romney” because he considers him the best suited to unseat the current president. Also inside the Freight-masters warehouse were Minneapolis resident Kurt Hanna, 26, and Lakeville resident Kathy Rippen-grop. They hoped to speak with Romney regarding his stance on medical and rec-reational marijuana use. Rippengrop said her mother, who had cancer, used marijuana to treat her nausea. “They told her she would live one year and she lived four and half,” Rippengrop said. Hanna said Romney op-poses medical marijuana and marijuana legalization on the whole and cited a re-cent Gallup poll that shows half of U.S. residents are now in favor of legalizing marijuana. “He’s very out of touch with the voters,” Hanna said. Apple Valley resident Thomas Southwell, 6, took a day off from school to catch Romney’s speech. “Our son has been inter-ested in the presidential con-test, so this is an opportuni-ty to see him,” said Thomas’ father, Wayne Southwell. “He’s been watching a lot of the presidential debates.” Minneapolis resident Bill McGaughey has a spe-cial connection to Romney. McGaughey’s father, Bill McGaughey Sr., worked for Romney’s father, George Romney, at American Mo-tors in Detroit. “It’s a historic event,” McGaughey said of the ral-ly in Eagan. “He has a good chance to be our next presi-dent and I think he would do a good job.” Minnetonka resident Barry Kelner and his son Marshall Kelner are both conservatives, but don’t see eye-to-eye on who should be the Republican nominee. A self-described “Gin-grich guy,” Barry Kelner said, “If Pawlenty tells me to support Romney, I will take a look at him.” Marshall Kelner is a Romney supporter, but there haven’t been any fam-ily scuffles because of it. “Just a friendly discus-sion,” said Barry Kelner.

“We’re in different camps, but our goal is a Republican president in 2012.” Following the rally, Bar-ry Kelner acknowledged Romney gave an effective speech. “Very impressed,” he said. “I’m more favorable than I was before.”

Matt Hankey is Sun News-papers community editor for Apple Valley, Eagan and Rosemount.

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by Andrew MillerTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

The Apple Valley City Council has decided against a tax levy increase or special assessments to pay for need-ed reconstruction of the city’s aging street system. Instead, the council on Jan. 26 unanimously voted to use money from the city’s Future Capital Projects fund to initially cover the additional $960,000 needed each year. Future Capital Projects dollars will be used until 2018, at which time the city may levy the needed fund-ing for roads. The council spent

months debating its fund-ing options – a tax levy in-crease that would affect all property owners; special as-sessments to properties ad-joining road reconstruction projects; and money from the Future Capital Projects fund. What was not a matter of debate was the need for the funding. The city currently spends $4.3 million each year to maintain its 175 miles of streets, using preservation practices such as seal coat-ing and crack sealing, in ad-dition to full reconstruction projects. But additional funding is needed in coming years when about 80 miles of Ap-ple Valley’s streets – built in the years of rapid develop-ment between the late 1960s and early 1970s – reach the end of their service life. According to city Public Works Director Todd Blom-strom, the service life for an

asphalt street constructed in the 1960s or 1970s is about 50 years, and in the near fu-ture the city will have about five miles of streets reaching the end of their 50-year ser-vice life each year. The $960,000 annual funding increase is what is required to simply maintain the city’s street system at its current condition, Blom-strom said. The city hosted three public meetings in January to provide information and gather input on the funding options. “Time and again I heard people saying we don’t want to see the street system in Apple Valley decline over the years,” Blomstrom said, adding that the lion’s share of feedback from residents indicated a preference for use of the Future Capital Projects fund. Apple Valley’s business community also “over-whelmingly preferred” use

of Future Capital Projects dollars and not a tax levy increase or special assess-ments, according to Cham-ber of Commerce president Ed Kearney. “This task of finding $53 million over 10 years … it’s a large, large task,” Kear-ney said. “No one has ever questioned the need.” Kearney called the deci-sion to use Future Capital Projects dollars “a real asset to the community for future job growth.” “We can tell businesses with full confidence that five, 10, 15, 20 years from now no one’s going to sur-prise you with a really big assessment,” he said. An overview of the road funding options considered by the City Council can be viewed on the city’s website at www.cityofapplevalley.org under “News.”

Andrew Miller is at [email protected].


Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney drew a large crowd at a campaign stop at Freightmasters in Eagan on Wednesday, Feb. 1.

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After working in the utilities business for 44 years, Wayne Schwanz retired in December as utilities superintendent for the city of Eagan. His contri-butions to the city are wide-ranging. “He was very instrumental in looking for and understand-ing potential problems with new developments based on his experience with past problems,” said Tom Colbert, the director of public works in Eagan. Schwanz began working in city utilities in 1966 as a part-time employee for the city of Mendota Heights. Later, he moved to Bloomington and then to Eagan where he has served as utilities superinten-dent for 27 years. In this position, he oversaw the operation of the city’s utili-ties, which includes the water treatment plants, water distri-bution systems, sanitary sewer collection system and storm sewer systems. The department has grown and improved immensely over the past three decades.

Schwanz has been instru-mental in the management of utilities in the city of Eagan for the past few decades. He con-siders the development of the GIS system, a mapping pro-gram used for analyzing and solving problems with Eagan’s utilities, to be among his great-est achievements. Schwanz also oversaw the expansion and upgrade of Ea-gan’s north water treatment plant in 2005. Eagan’s period of significant growth was among the most exciting points in his career, because of the many utility

expansions and improvements that were needed at the time, Schwanz said. Colbert has worked closely with Schwanz for his entire ca-reer in Eagan. “Wayne grew up with the system, he knew the system like the back of his hand,” Colbert said. Schwanz truly loved his job as utilities superintendent. When reflecting on the many years he worked for the city, he said, “Honestly, I really en-joyed my job, there wasn’t a day I didn’t want to get up and go to work.” Schwanz has some exciting plans for retirement. He is plan-ning to continue to be involved in his church as well as the Pa-triot Guard. He is also plan-ning a two- to three-week trip to the Canadian Rockies on his Harley motorcycle. “Right now I’m pretty open to anything,” Schwanz said. “I have my health and I have my Harley.”

Hunter Paulson-Smith is an intern who attends the School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley.

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by John GessnerTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

The percentage of rental hous-ing in Burnsville has crept upward, along with the number of single-fam-ily homes that have been converted to rentals. It’s long been an official city goal to reach 70 percent home ownership in Burnsville. The city had pegged home ownership at 68 percent, but recently released 2010 U.S. Census data show it’s down to 66 percent. Data also show that 313 single-family homes or townhomes have been converted to rentals since the 2000 Census, according to the city. “It’s just kind of become a newer industry,” Community Development Director Jenni Faulkner said. Officials discussed the owner-rental balance at a Jan. 27 City Council re-treat. Burnsville has 25,759 housing units, 1,476 of which are vacant. A total of 1,498 housing units were built from 2000 to 2010, only 374 of which were built as rentals. But the city had 687 more rental units in 2010 than it did in 2000. “Other communities around us are seeing higher increases in the amount of rental than we have,” Faulkner said. “It’s going up everywhere.” And what’s worse – a single-family home sitting vacant in a down market or a home occupied by renters? she asked. “But with the proliferation of more rentals, there are more problems,” Faulkner added. Council Member Bill Coughlin said he noticed the proliferation of single-family rentals when he was a candidate door-knocking before last summer’s special council election. On one block of $200,000 to $300,000 homes, four of eight were rental, he said. “It just is what it is,” Coughlin said. “There’s no remedy for it. ... There’s nothing we can do to change the trend.” Council Member Dan Gustafson suggested charging a fee for rental li-censes, both for apartments and sin-gle-family rentals, to cover inspection costs. Since the city launched its rental

license requirement in 2005, the need for inspections of aging rental proper-ties has grown, he said. Many single-family rentals remain unlicensed, even though the city re-quires a license. Some 1,585 rentals are single-family units or townhouses or condos in buildings where the bal-ance of the units are owner-occupied, according to the city. The city has 600 to 700 single-fami-ly rental licenses, Faulkner said. Gustafson called for the city to welcome higher-end apartments in a down housing market, even though that would work against the 70 percent owner-occupied goal. When the city sought to unload 1.75 acres of city-owned land in the Heart of the City last fall, only high-end apartment builders responded to a request for proposals, and the city turned them away, Gustafson said. “People that can afford that can’t rent out here because we don’t have that,” he said, adding that the Heart of the City is a perfect place for high-end rentals. His suggestion didn’t get far. “The thing is, if you open that door, it flies open. ... We already have a good land-use plan in place,” Mayor Eliza-beth Kautz said. The 70-30 split between owner-oc-cupied and rental reflects “what our community has told us over and over again” in surveys and citizen com-ments, Council Member Mary Sherry said. High-end apartments could be-come lower-end apartments through ownership changes the city can’t con-trol, Coughlin said. Council Member Dan Kealey said the housing market is turning to rent-als, and he’d support high-end apart-ments in the Heart of the City if it could be guaranteed they’d stay that way. Overall, Burnsville has “way too much budget rental housing that’s causing a lot of problems we’re dealing with today,” he said, blaming councils of the distant past.

John Gessner is at [email protected].

More single-family homes are being convertedRentals on the rise in Burnsville

Burnsville Mayor Elizabeth Kautz is one of three elected offi-cials in the nation cho-sen to receive the 2012 Public Leadership in Arts Award. The award was pre-sented by Americans for the Arts, a nonprof-it organization for advancing the arts and arts education, and the United States Conference of Mayors. They’ve presented the awards annually since 1997. The award honors elected of-ficials who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the advancement of the arts. Kautz was presented the award at the

Conference of May-ors’ 80th annual winter meeting in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19. Kautz is a past president of the conference. Kautz received the award for her and the community’s work on the Heart of the City,

the Burnsville Performing Arts Center and the city’s annual Art and All that Jazz Festival. The other two honorees are Illi-nois Gov. Pat Quinn and Frank Ortis, mayor of Pemroke Pines, Fla. “Gov. Quinn and mayors Kautz and Ortis have each demonstrated their dedication

to thoughtfully using the arts to spur economic development while enhancing the quality of life in the communities they serve,” said Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Ameri-cans for the Arts. “I am thrilled and honored to receive this national award for local arts leadership,” Kautz said. “I have been blessed to work with so many business and community leaders who make the arts in all forms a priority. I share this award with them. We are very aware that the arts enrich the lives of our citizens, document our history and drive economic vitality.”

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The trophies keep piling up for JP Bou-vet. The 2007 Lakev-ille South High School graduate’s skills on the drum kit earned him a first-place finish in the Guitar Center Drum Off on Jan. 14 in Los Angeles. Bouvet bested 4,500 oth-er drummers from across the country as he battled his way through local and re-gional competitions on the way to winning the Drum Off finals last month. His prize package is a king’s bounty: $25,000, a custom drumset and other gear, three days recording time at a New York City studio, an article about him in Modern Drummer maga-zine, and a video episode featuring him on Drum-Channel.com that ends with Bouvet jamming with Terry Bozzio, former drummer for Frank Zappa. “The most valuable prize from the competition is the publicity,” said Bouvet, who since high school has been studying at the Berklee Col-lege of Music in Boston. “My name is posted all over Guitar Center’s magazines and catalogs and website, and the YouTube video will reach a couple hundred thousand views before too long.”

Riding high on his victory in Los Angeles, Bouvet headed to Ana-heim, Calif., the following weekend to compete in the Roland V Drum international com-petition.

He’d earned a berth in the event by winning the V Drum national finals held in Las Vegas last fall, and this competition pitted him against 15 other drummers from around the world. V Drums, or program-mable electronic drums, al-low drummers to use MP3s and perform solos that tran-scend the typical flailing snare-and-bass-drum theat-rics. “My solo included jungle animal sounds, metal guitar, a choir, and it ended with pieces of the Star Span-gled Banner interrupted by dubstep breakdowns,” said Bouvet, who placed second at the Anaheim event, fin-ishing behind a drummer from Norway. Bouvet is now looking forward to a tour of Turkey this month with his band Helicopria, a rock quartet consisting of fellow Berklee music students. His other band, The Su-per Pilots, a jazz-funk group that includes Bouvet’s Berk-lee classmate and 2008 Apple Valley High School graduate Mike Linden, will

JP Bouvet wins national Guitar Center Drum OffLakeville drummer is on a roll

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Lakeville native JP Bouvet, seen here playing a V-drum set (programmable electronic drums), earned top honors at two drum competitions in California last month, including a first-place finish at the Guitar Center Drum Off finals. The win netted him $25,000, a feature article about him in Modern Drummer magazine and a host of other prizes.

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Rosemount’s own Sawtooth bluegrass band will be featured Thursday, Feb. 9, at Celts Pub & Grill in downtown Rosemount as part of the monthly Bluegrass Americana Family Night concert series. Co-sponsored by the Rosemount Area Arts Council, the series offers a different bluegrass band the second Thursday of each month and runs through April. The concerts are free and open to all ages; all the shows run from 7 to 9 p.m. More information is at www.bluegrassamericanaweekend.com under the “Family Night” link.

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‘Love Letters’ at the Steeple Center The Rosemount Area Arts Council will present a free performance of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama “Love Letters” at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at the Steeple Center, 14375 South Robert Trail, Rose-mount. To register, email [email protected] or call (651) 600-8693.

be making a stop in Burns-ville this August to perform at the Art & All That Jazz Festival in Nicollet Com-mons Park. Bouvet blogs about drumming and offers drum lessons on his website, www.jpbouvetmusic.com. To view a video about his expe-rience at the Guitar Center Drum Off, visit www.you-tube.com/JPBouvet.


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Spencers: Theatre of Il-lusion will bring magic to the Burnsville Performing Arts Center in a 7:30 p.m. performance on March 8. Tickets range from $15

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The Chameleon Theatre Circle’s production of “Al-most, Maine” promises to bring romance, magic and comedy to Burnsville’s Per-forming Arts Center. Performances are sched-uled for 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24-25, March 2, 3, 5, 9, 10 and

IMAX holds 3D festival The IMAX Theatre at the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley is hosting an IMAX 3D Film Festival Feb. 10 through March 8. The festival will feature three films: “The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D,” “Hubble 3D” and “Born To Be Wild 3D.” Guests who purchase a ticket at the $9.75 regular price have the option to stay for a second film for an ad-ditional $6 and a third film for $3 more. View show times at www.imax.com/minnesota. Film Fest tickets are available only at the theater box of-fice.

at 2 p.m. March 11. Tickets are $20 ($17 for seniors and students) at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center box office, 12600 Nicollet Ave., by phone at (800) 982-2787) or online at Ticketmaster.com.

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A Lakeville woman who suspected a roommate of stealing jewelry from her bedroom set up a camera system to catch the culprit in the act. The woman’s homespun detective work yielded a re-cording that allegedly shows her then-roommate, Lori J. Wegner-Barthol, purloining a bag full of jewelry hidden in a closet. Wegner-Barthol, 50, of Apple Valley, is now facing a charge of felony theft in Da-kota County District Court. According to the crimi-nal complaint, the victim contacted Lakeville police in August to report that Weg-ner-Barthol, her roommate from November 2010 to July 2011, had stolen property from her. After she began to sus-pect Wegner-Barthol was responsible for her missing jewelry, the woman placed her remaining jewelry in

a bag and buried it in her closet. She then purchased a camera system and set it up in her bedroom facing the closet. The recording, she re-ported, shows Wegner-Bar-thol going into the closet, grabbing the bag of jewelry and then running out of the room. The woman confronted Wegner-Barthol about the theft and kicked her out of the house. Police spoke with Weg-ner-Barthol, who admitted that she stole a ruby ring, a pearl necklace, a gold ring and about 15 DVDs, the complaint said. Wegn-er-Barthol told police she pawned several of the items – and threw several other items in the sewer drain. Police say the value of the stolen items is more than $1,000. If convicted of the one felony count, Wegner-Bar-thol faces a maximum pen-alty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.


Woman’s home camera system snares theft suspect

Zamboni driver arrested for DWI

A Zamboni driver at Hayes Arena in Apple Valley was arrested Monday night for allegedly driving drunk while resurfacing the ice dur-ing a youth hockey practice. Apple Valley police of-ficers responded to the ice arena at about 8 p.m. after receiving calls from people there that the Zamboni driv-er appeared to be intoxicat-ed. Upon arrival, officers ob-served the driver, a 34-year-old part-time employee of the city-run arena, strug-gling to maneuver the Zam-boni off the ice, according to police. Police say the man was unsteady on his feet and smelled of alcohol. He failed field sobriety tests and was arrested for DWI. Charges have not been filed yet. The driver’s blood-alcohol level was tested Monday night at the Apple Valley Police Station, and the sample has been sent to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s lab for analysis.

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Will zoo’s new wolf find love?Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Zoo

Minnesota Zoo officials are hoping the newest addition to the wolf exhibit will make a love connection in the near future. The male gray wolf, which recently arrived at the zoo from Quebec, is still a bit shy and getting acclimated to his new home, but zoo officials say they’re hoping he will eventually breed with the exhibit’s resident female. The wolves can be seen in their exhibit on the Medtronic Minnesota Trail; more information is at http://mnzoo.org.

Genealogy program offered Feb. 16 A free genealogy pro-gram, “Using Timelines for Your Genealogy,” will be presented by Mary Hawker Bakeman, owner of Park Genealogical Books, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at the Dakota County His-torical Society, 130 Third Ave. N., South St. Paul. The program is sponsored by the Dakota County Genealogi-cal Society. Contact Dick Thill at (651) 248-9251 for more information.

Fundraiser benefits families in crisis Moms and Neighbors, a nonprofit organization con-sisting of women who want to help families in District 196 through crisis, will hold a Valentine spaghetti din-ner fundraiser from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Rosemount VFW, 2625 120th St. W., Rosemount. The family-friendly din-ner will include spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, dessert and a raffle ticket. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children. Children age 2 and younger eat free. Order tickets by calling Sara at (651) 905-3737 or

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