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Spoils of Nerf war benefit needy children Lakeville South winner donates toys

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK

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Some of the spoils of war among Lake-ville South High School students will help make Christmas brighter for some local underprivi-leged children. Lakeville South High School senior Levi Con-low won an intense Nerf war among 229 students that lasted over eight weeks and occurred throughout the commu-nity at all hours of the day and night. With his prize money, Conlow purchased 64

Nerf guns to donate to a children’s hospital and Toys for Tots. Organized by students and not affiliated with the Lakeville Area School District, Lakeville South High School “Nerfers” have for months been on the prowl, both as the hunter and hunted. “Basically, you had to be on your guard at all times,” Conlow said. “Whether mowing the grass, raking, or shovel-ing, you always had to be on your guard. Going to the movies, the store,

Levi Conlow, 17, used his Nerf war winnings to purchase 64 Nerf guns he will donate to local charities. (Photo submitted)

City limits event spot-saving City Council unanimously passes ordinance



A new Lakeville or-dinance aims to derail a growing spot-saving trend that has resulted in heated sidewalk and front-yard disputes dur-ing Pan-O-Prog, the city’s popular summer festival. The ordinance allows people to save spots one day ahead of a parade or any special event that happens in a street.

It specifies that peo-ple cannot begin placing items for Pan-O-Prog Cruise Night and Parade until 9 a.m. the day of those events and requires all items to be removed by midnight so city crews can clean the streets. The tradition of sav-ing viewing spots on sidewalks or in people’s front yards using tarps, bricks, chairs, ropes and blankets has grown in-creasingly competitive in

recent years. This summer, many people put their items in public rights of way four or five days ahead of time, clamoring for prime viewing of Pan-O-Prog’s Friday classic car event, Cruise Night, and Satur-day’s grand parade. Business owners and city officials say the items make downtown appear covered in trash.

City Council delays roundabout plans Seeks property owner input



After extensive debate, the Lakeville City Coun-cil voted to delay engi-neering work for a round-about at 190th Street and Holyoke Avenue. City Council members agreed on a 4-1 vote to begin engineering plans to reconstruct 190th Street as development

in the area is underway, but stopped short of in-cluding design costs for the potential roundabout after City Council Mem-ber Colleen LaBeau cited concerns that property owners in the area were not fully aware of the city’s plans. She and Council Member Doug Anderson also voiced reservations about moving forward

with a project when it is unclear who is paying the bill. “I don’t know if three landowners concur,” La-Beau said. “Should they agree before we invest $180,500 to design a roundabout?” City Administrator Steve Mielke said the de-velopers are paying for

The Lakeville Police Department teamed with Lakeville’s SuperTarget to make the holidays brighter for 10 local children in the department’s first “Shop with a Cop” program. Lakeville police officers were paired with children who received $150 gift cards donated by Target so they could shopping for family members. Officers also helped them wrap the gifts. Participants were treated to pizza and drinks donated by Ole Piper Restaurant of Lakeville. “One of our department’s priorities is building positive interactions with the community, especially our youth,” said Kevin O’Neill, outreach and crime prevention coordinator. “This is also a rewarding event for the police officers, all of who volunteered their time to shop with them.” O’Neill said the department hopes to hold an even bigger event next year. (Photo submitted)

Krause selling his businessWill not rule out County Board re-election bid



Dakota County Com-missioner Paul Krause has put his Lakeville business, Dairy Delite, up for sale, but says he has not made a decision about whether he will run for reelection when his term ends in 2014. Krause, who has rep-resented Lakeville on the County Board since 1995, said he is keeping his op-tions open and does not expect to announce wheth-er he will seek another term until next year.

“I’ve got things going on that we have to see how they work out,” Krause said. “At that time, when things happen or don’t happen, that’s when I’ll make a decision.” Krause said he has thought about sell-ing the Dairy Delite for a while, but would just “hang onto it” if the busi-ness did not sell. “I wouldn’t just close it,” Krause said. He said business is good at the small hamburger-

and-fries stand-alone shop Krause refurbished in a 1950s theme, but “it’s just time for me to pick and choose what I do, and slow down,” he said. In 2012, Krause unexpectedly vol-

unteered to take a two-year term that opened through redistricting, and at that time said if he won the election he would evaluate whether to seek another term in 2014. “Next year, I’ll let every-body know,” Krause said.

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Seniors use food shelvesThe number of older adults accessing food shelf services in Dakota County is on the rise.

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The art of playing chessBurnsville-Eagan-Savage School District students squared off in the district’s 30th annual chess tournament.

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North wins round oneThe Lakeville North boys hockey team won the first of two games the crosstown rivals are set to play this year.

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Tim Wynes service as interim president extended at DCTCChanges

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Minnesota State Colleg-es and Universities Chan-cellor Steven Rosenstone announced on Dec. 6 that Tim Wynes’ appointment as interim president of

Dakota County Technical College will be extended for an additional year. In a letter to the DCTC community, Rosenstone stated: “To (enable mo-mentum) to continue and to strengthen our hand in recruiting a new president, I have asked Tim Wynes to stay on as interim presi-dent through the 2014-15 academic year and he has

graciously agreed to do so. I will begin a national search for the presidency of DCTC in the fall of 2014 with the hope of complet-ing the search by April 2015 to allow ample time for a smooth transition in leadership.” Wynes’ initial interim presidency at DCTC be-gan July 1. He will serve through the end of the

2014-15 academic year. In addition to Wynes’ extension, the college has also experienced other shifts in senior leadership. In November, Vice President Kelly Murtaugh accepted a position as vice president of academic af-fairs at St. Paul College and Mike Opp was appointed to fill her position in the interim. Opp has been with

the college since 2003, most recently serving as dean of transportation and indus-try. Assuming Opp’s duties in the Transportation and Industry Division in the in-terim will be Chad Sheets. He was previously the Chrysler training instruc-tor and currently serves as director of the Transporta-tion Center of Excellence for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Details regarding pend-ing searches will be pro-vided at dctc.edu as they become available.

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Another hat in the ringFormer House

Minority Leader Seifert latest Republican

candidate for governor

by Howard LestrudSUN THISWEEK


Former Minnesota House of Representa-tives Minority Leader Marty Seifert is brim-ming with confidence just days after entering the gubernatorial race on the Republican side. Seifert announced his candidacy in late No-vember. His candidacy has been well-received, he said. Seifert, a candidate for governor in 2010, is one of six Republican can-didates who have tossed their hats into the ring for 2014. He was edged for the party endorse-ment by Tom Emmer in 2010. Other announced Re-publican candidates are Rob Farnsworth, teacher and candidate for Min-nesota’s 8th Congres-sional District in 2010; Scott Honour, invest-ment banker; Jeff John-son, Hennepin County commissioner and for-mer state representative; Dave Thompson, state senator and former ra-dio talk host; and Kurt Zellers, state representa-tive and former speaker of the House. It is speculated there may be more Republi-cans entering the race. They include Matt Dean, state representative and former House major-ity leader; Karin Hou-sley, state senator; Julie Rosen, state senator; and Richard Stanek, Henne-pin County sheriff. Seifert calls himself a unique candidate, one who, he says, can score the trifecta by winning the party endorsement, Republican primary and general election. “I am probably the only candidate who can pull that off,” he said. Seifert said he dis-tinguishes himself from other candidates by be-ing from the private sector the past four years “and living in the real world” and not in the bubble of the state Capitol building. Seifert served 14 years in the Minnesota House. The No. 1 issue in this campaign will be leader-ship, Seifert said. There are lots of other issues to address, for ex-ample, taxes and budget, education and public safety, Seifert said. Lead-ership has been missing from the governor’s chair the past three years, evi-dent by the meandering, inconsistent attempted leadership of DFLer Mark Dayton, Seifert said. Seifert criticizes Day-ton’s lead in the adoption of “a horrifically” bad stadium bill and the rais-ing of taxes by billions

of dollars. Seif-ert said Dayton has shown the in-ability to lead his departments to reduce spending or to do anything different for the good of Minne-sota. Seifert said he has the proven ability to get votes of non-Republicans, win-ning general elections in a House district that was carried by everyone from President Bill Clinton to Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, both Democrats. Seif-ert pulled 60-70 percent of the vote in the seven House elections he won. It’s a simple fact that a candidate can’t win a state election in Minne-sota with only Republi-can votes, Seifert said. Explaining his success, Seifert said: “I think people like straight talk and they like a sense of humor. People see me as a main street conserva-tive.” Seifert prides himself with a mix of legislative and private-sector expe-rience. He has also been a public high school teacher at Marshall and a former admissions counselor at Southwest Minnesota State Univer-sity. After retiring from the Legislature, Seifert obtained his real estate license and has chiefly been a buyer’s agent for Real Estate Retrievers in Marshall. Seifert was also hired in 2010 to be the execu-tive director of the Avera Marshall Foundation. In his role, he built a Grate-ful Patient Program for this regional hospital and a Grateful Family Program for the Morn-ingside Heights Care Center, oversaw an em-ployee giving campaign, increased attendance at events and helped raise millions of dollars for the new Avera Can-cer Institute Marshall, which conducted its groundbreaking in Octo-ber 2013. “I understand when someone comes to the emergency room of a hospital and can’t pay their health care bill,” Seifert said. He said some people believe Republicans don’t care about the av-erage person. “I do care,” Seifert said. “I grew up in a poor family, am a middle-class guy and understand Minnesotans’ fundamen-tal needs,” Seifert contin-ued. Seifert said he under-stands the state budget because he chaired a budget committee during his terms in the Minne-sota Legislature. He said, more importantly, he understands the middle-class family budget. Seifert said he has the skill and balance needed from a candidate run-ning for statewide office. He said he believes Day-

ton is vulnerable and is not the popular leader some polls have indicated. Still ear-ly in the cam-paign, Seifert has visited more than 20 Minne-sota cities, and he hoped to add

a dozen more before the end of the year. His goal is to travel to all 87 Min-nesota counties before the primary election next August. Seifert said his cam-paign is open to running in the primary. “We will assess it fully at the necessary time,” Seifert said. He also said he is not signing anti-tax pledge cards as he did during the 2010 gubernatorial campaign. Seifert is a political candidate who has con-sistently refused dona-tions from lobbyists. In all of his 14 years in the Minnesota House and during his campaign for governor in 2010, he said, he did not accept one penny from a lob-byist. He does expect his gubernatorial campaign to cost several million dollars to get all the way through the process. “I go into the gover-norship with a clear con-science and a clear mind, not being clouded with which lobbyist gave me a check before I walked into the office,” Seifert said. That quality makes him a stronger candidate, one who is unique, Seif-ert declared. On his website, Seifert has highlighted five im-portant issues under his theme of leadership: • Reducing taxes and the equivalent regulatory burden on the average Minnesotan. • Abolishing of three cabinet departments (Health, Labor and In-dustry, and Corrections), in addition to complete elimination of the Met-ropolitan Council. • Improving the state’s transportation system. • Stopping any at-tempt to release danger-ous sex offenders into the public. • Reforming the pub-lic education system to make it the best in the country. Seifert says the Re-publican Party has had some challenges and he does not believe his job is to rescue the party. “My job is to serve the people of Minnesota,” he said. “I do believe Min-nesotans want the con-versation to move back into the mainstream and not to the extreme left,” Seifert concluded.

Howard Lestrud can be reached at [email protected].

Marty Seifert

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK


In an effort to reach people who might be eligible for health care coverage under MNsure, the state awarded Da-kota County a grant of $190,376 to incite enroll-ment among minority and low-income households. As part of the pro-gram, in the coming months Dakota County’s certified MNsure appli-cation counselors will be at 360 Communities lo-cations in Burnsville and Rosemount to help people sign up for health care coverage through MN-sure – the state’s health in-surance exchange website. People can schedule hourlong appointments when counselors will help people navigate the web-site, which has experi-enced some technical dif-ficulties, and explain the options available based on income and other factors. “Sometimes all you need is some patience,” said Roger Meyer, MN-sure enrollment project director and consultant to Dakota County. The county’s effort to incite people to sign up for appointments at the locations includes the printing and distribution of 20,000 fliers. Meyer said last week the communication

reached 8,000 people from October to November. “We are doing great,” Meyer said as appoint-ments have been filled and people have enrolled in health insurance plans. The goal is to have 2,500 people in Dakota County sign up through MNsure. Meyer said the flier communicates the ben-efits of having health in-surance, such as receiving free wellness checkups for children and treatment before ailments require emergency room care. He said coverage for many low-income house-holds could be free or for a very low cost. Meyer said many po-tential MNsure users have been contacted during the holiday season as Burns-ville-based 360 Commu-nities is operating Arm-ful of Love – a program that provides gifts and food to Dakota County residents in need. Because 360 Communities already has such connections with lower-income residents, county officials felt the nonprofit agency would be a good partner for the MNsure enrollment ef-fort. Two other Dakota County nonprofits – Hastings Family Service and West St. Paul-based Neighbors Inc. – are also part of the effort.

Meyer said one of the other benefits of the ef-fort is informing residents about other options for financial assistance. Meyer said MNsure will know how effective the effort has been when its first report is issued in January. The January report might not tell the whole story, since Meyer said MNsure expects a rush of applicants as the deadline for open enroll-ment nears in March. The grant runs through September. Meyer and county officials will evalu-ate its progress this spring to determine if other ef-forts are needed. During the month of December, MNsure ses-sions with certified ap-plication counselors at the Burnsville and Rose-mount sites were on Tues-days and Thursdays with morning and afternoon time blocks. The next MNsure ses-sion at the Rosemount Family Resource Center is 8 a.m. to noon Dec. 31. To sign up for appoint-ments, call 651-322-5113 for Rosemount and 952-985-5300 for Burnsville. More information about the Dakota County MNsure program is at 651-554-5611.

Email Tad Johnson at tad. [email protected].

Program aims to bring MNsure to county residents


by Joe NathanSUN THISWEEK


Local field trips for students are common, but not so much for teachers. But a Minnesota school recently took its teachers around neighborhoods they serve to help them understand more about their students and families. The ultimate goal is more student success. Many of the students at Aca-demia Cesar Chavez, or their parents, come from Mexico. So Academia Ce-sar Chavez, a St. Paul charter public school, took the school’s faculty to visit Neighborhood House, CLUES (Cumu-nidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio) and the Mexican consulate – all located within 10 minutes of the school. “We want to expose the staff to the community so they can understand where their students come from,” ex-plained ACC founder and Executive Director Ramona de Rosales. Principal Hernan Moncada told me, “If the staff is going to work with the community,

they have to know the community.” There’s a lot of research to support the value of faculty knowing about, and using community information as they work with, students and faculty. For example, Gloria Ladson-Bill-ings, a University of Wisconsin profes-sor, studied outstanding teachers who appeared simultaneously on two lists: Principals created the first list, and par-ents developed the second. Billings ob-served faculty members who principals and parents agreed were excellent. In her award-winning book, “The Dreamkeepers,” Ladson-Billings de-scribed several things that most of the teachers did. One of the several strate-

gies that most of these teachers used was to include references to local events, ac-tivities and community groups in their teaching. Then, as Ladson-Billings explains, these teachers “help students make connections between their com-munity, national and global identities.” Other research by Joyce Epstein, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, examined characteristics of schools that had a lot of parent and family in-volvement. She learned, among other things, that the best predictor of family involvement was not the income, race or marital status of parents. The best pre-dictor of family involvement was what the school did to promote it. Understanding and respecting the community can help a school and class-room be more welcoming, encouraging and successful. So, for example, Aca-demia Cesar Chavez educators learned about the close, ongoing relationships between families it served and their ex-tended family members who still live in Mexico. Part of what ACC educators

learned was that many of the families are simultaneously working to support their families and to attend classes so they can learn or improve their English. Thus, it’s important to schedule confer-ences at times that will work for parents. Educators won’t always live in the community or communities that their school serves. But by touring, or by in-viting in community leaders, educators can learn more about “where students are coming from.” That allows them to help students make connections be-tween their own lives, their families’ ex-periences and school lessons. Educators who know more about their students and families have addi-tional tools they can use to help stu-dents succeed.

Joe Nathan, formerly a Minnesota public school teacher, administrator and PTA president, directs the Center for School Change. Reactions welcome, [email protected]. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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OpinionSupporting the hidden hungry through 360 Communities

Forest Lake High School student gives the gift of respect

by Karla BauerSPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

As a family support worker for 360 Communities Partners For Success, I witness poverty and hunger in schools and in homes every day. I see the barri-ers to success poverty throws up in front of students, and I work to help stabilize families so that children have a better chance to succeed in school and in life. But it was how I spent last summer that helped me see hunger and self-suf-ficiency in a new light. For two months, I performed intake assessments at 360 Communities Farmington Food Shelf. As food shelf guests would come in, I en-gaged them in conversation and listened to their stories. I would ensure they were accessing every resource they could to help them move toward self-sufficiency. Many of our clients were seniors who were in declining health and had little opportunity to work outside the home to supplement their income. They needed the food shelf to survive on limited in-comes and were in need of long-term support. One afternoon, an elderly couple ar-rived for their food and met with me. They were guarded at first, unsure about who I was and what I wanted. I explained that I was there to learn more about what brings them to the food shelf each month and to see if there were other resources I could find for them. Hank was in his 70s and had diabetes. His condition deteriorated to the point where he could not perform his duties as a truck driver. He lost his job and with it, their only source of income besides so-cial security. The couple’s children were not nearby and were unaware of their

parents’ need to access the food shelf. And there was an additional complica-tion. Hank began to tell me about the health of his wife, Carol. “I know I forget things sometimes,” Carol interjected. He turned to her and said, “Honey, I don’t mean to hurt your feelings. I’m telling her these things not to be mean, but so she understands.” Hank talked about his wife’s Alzheim-er’s, how the disease had progressed and how he had struggled taking over all household responsibilities. Unfortunate-ly, the couple’s situation is not uncom-mon. According to a 2012 report by the Greater Twin Cities United Way, almost 40 percent of the elderly (age 65 and old-er) have some kind of disability. I have seen how these disabilities and health concerns become a strain on finances with expensive medications and other medical related costs, such as travel, that are not covered by Medicare. Of the 30 families and individuals I met over the summer, almost half of them receive So-cial Security disability benefits as their primary form of income. Living on such a limited income, any emergency can pull someone’s self-sufficiency right out from under them. The food shelf helped Hank and Car-ol make ends meet. With little other sup-

ports from family and limited financial resources, their situation is difficult to say the least. I was able to help them get connected with other resources to help with specific financial concerns. They also appreciated having someone who would sit down and take the time to lis-ten to their daily stresses. Their long life together was taking a very different turn than they had anticipated and the emo-tional support they received during our conversation was just as important as the resources and food we provided. Throughout the summer I met other seniors who were experiencing food in-security as well. Some had children who helped them, others had children who never called, but they all shared the same burden: the stress and uncertainty that accompanies poverty. For senior women, poverty is a more common occurrence for a variety of reasons, from lower wages during their working careers to widowhood. Accord-ing to a 2013 report from the National Women’s Law Center, more than twice as many women over the age of 65 lived in poverty than men – that’s over 2.6 mil-lion women compared to almost 1.3 mil-lion men. Eleven percent of women over 65 lived in poverty in 2012, but among women who lived alone, that percentage jumped to 18.9 percent. In one case, we were able to help a senior who was dealing with anxiety over her adult daughter’s mental health challenges. Maggie’s daughter could not work a full-time job and had dental needs that were causing her pain. Mag-gie also had her own health concerns, as her doctor told her she needed to start a special diet. We were able to set Maggie up with more frequent food shelf visits to

ensure she had regular access to special food items that met her dietary needs. I also provided Maggie with information about a free mobile dental clinic for her daughter. Maggie sounded so relieved, knowing that her daughter was going to have the care she needed. My time at 360 Communities Farm-ington Food Shelf last summer opened my eyes to a population with long-term needs that are often hidden from view. One day, I visited with a senior named Jack. He was a regular client at the food shelf and always had a joke to share with the food shelf volunteers. I saw a differ-ent side to him when he opened up to me about the loss of his wife five years ago. He cried as he spoke about loneli-ness and his need to connect with other people. During this holiday season, please check in with your senior relatives, neigh-bors and friends. Make sure they are eat-ing well and have adequate housing and support. Even if you can just listen to their troubles, you can make a difference. Supporting 360 Communities is another way you can help. To make a donation or to find one of our five food shelf loca-tions near you, please visit 360Commu-nities.org or call 952-985-5300. Your gift will ensure people of all ages receive the stabilizing supports they need.

Karla Bauer is a family support work-er with 360 Communities and works in schools as a part of the 360 Communities Partners For Success program. 360 Com-munities provides hope and support to peo-ple by engaging communities to prevent violence, ensure school success and pro-mote long-term self-sufficiency. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

by Don HeinzmanSUN THISWEEK


A Forest Lake High School student is giving a gift to every student with a learn-ing disability by campaigning to end the use of the R word (retarded) in her high school. Clint Riese, editor of the Forest Lake Times, covered this story that deserves to be followed and duplicated in other high schools. Rachel Huset planned and carried out an all-school assembly where she ex-plained her message: “Spread the Word to End the Word.” The 2,000 students were silenced by Rachel’s simple message and comments from victims of the word’s use. Rachel told the students of her five-year special relationship with Emily, now a third-grader, who has a learning disability. She told the hushed audience: “Emily means the world to me, and I want ev-eryone to love her and accept her just as much as I do. She is my inspiration for

this campaign. My initial goal was to start this campaign so that when Emily gets to high school, she will be loved and accepted just the way she is.” She told the students that the R word “has absolutely no place in our vocabu-lary.” “People with disabilities should not feel like they are not accepted or not wanted, and the R word creates that en-vironment, whether you know that or not,” she said. One who listened was Brett Gravelle, senior and hockey team captain, who ac-knowledged that students have used the word repeatedly and don’t know what they are saying.

Rachel had some aces up her sleeve. She introduced Zach Anderson, who ex-plained he has a learning disability and Asperger’s syndrome. “All that means is that my brain works a little differently than yours,” he told the students. “But I’m just a regular teenager that wants to be treated just like all of you. When someone says the R word, it makes me feel like you don’t think that I’m a regular teenager.” He went on: “When you say it, I think that you think I am dumb. I am a hard-working student that gets A’s and B’s, so I’m not dumb. I’m a Link Leader. I’m a basketball player. I’m a friend. I’m a teenager just like you.” Next, Rachel introduced Yoko Yang, the homecoming king, who has a learn-ing disability, and he urged students to sign a banner pledging not to use the R word. It’s rare when a student plans an as-sembly all 2,000 students have to attend. Steve Massey, high school principal, said

Huset’s program easily met the high stan-dards for such an assembly. He said when students rise up and take the lead on is-sues, they have the power of what can happen. Now Rachel’s campaign is extending to the elementary schools. She learned of this international campaign when she volunteered with the Special Olympics. During this Christmas week, students with learning disabilities can be thank-ful for the gift Rachel has given them – a new respect because they no longer have to hear the R word from their classmates. Maybe other high schools can have this assembly and make a lot of stu-dents happier in the new year. Rachel welcomes your emails at [email protected]. Don Heinzman is a columnist for ECM Publishers and a member of the ECM Ed-itorial Board. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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Correction A photo of people walking to a memorial for Lakeville North junior Alyssa Ettl was misidenti-fied in the Dec. 13 edition. The photo with the cor-rect identification appears here. Sun Thisweek regrets the error.

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A memorial was placed at the Lakeview Bank where Alyssa Ettl worked as a teller de-scribing the active Lakeville North High School junior as “an exceptional young woman who left us too soon.” (Photo submitted)


Overdose treatment: second chance option by T.W. Budig

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

A Brooklyn Center law-maker is looking to give heroin overdose victims a shot at life, a second chance arriving too late to save her daughter. Sen. Chris Eaton, DFL-Brooklyn Center, plans to introduce legislation allow-ing law enforcement, fami-lies and even people on the street to possess naloxone hydrochloride, or Narcan, an antidote for opiate over-dose that can provide vital minutes for heroin over-dose victims. By temporarily warding off possible asphyxiation, Narcan can provide a re-spite from death for further medical treatment. It’s “a simple solution to a terrible problem,” Eaton said of the legislation. Her 23-year-old daughter, Ariel Eaton-Willson, died in a Burger King parking lot in Brooklyn Center in 2007 from a heroin overdose. Hennepin County Sher-

iff Rich Stanek and Eaton appeared at a state Capitol press conference Tuesday, Dec. 10, to promote the pending legislation. Heroin deaths in Hen-nepin County are running at an all-time high, with 48 deaths recorded this year. Since 2011, 107 overdose deaths have been reported. Stanek described the proposed legislation as “life saving” because it would allow all of his 340 sworn officers the opportu-nity to administer Narcan, which can be injected or sprayed. Other law enforce-ment agencies would likely make Narcan available to their officers, he added. Administration of the drug is currently limited to emergency medical techni-cians, Stanek said. Eaton, a nurse by pro-fession, wants Narcan readily obtainable — “to have it out there,” she said. She dismisses the idea that by making an antidote available, more people would be willing to try

heroin, perceiving a rem-edy is close at hand. Eaton said that is the same kind of logic critics of birth control had made. “If we can get this out in the community, we can save lives,” Eaton said. Stanek and Eaton de-scribed the drug scene in Minnesota as volatile and toxic, since high-grade heroin can be purchased cheaply, often by the young, blinded by a false sense of invulnerability. Eaton spoke of her daughter, who was per-haps driven to drugs from depression. “I was not aware she was using heroin,” Eaton said. “I knew something was wrong,” she said. Although her daughter did receive an antidote — a police officer noticed the commotion in the parking lot when the person her daughter was with fran-ticly attempted to stash evidence, Eaton said — the antidote was given too late.

“I miss her dearly,” Ea-ton said. “Ultimately, she made a bad choice.” Hennepin County has taken steps to combat the heroin scourge. For many drug abusers the gateway to heroin is prescription drugs, Stanek said. A prescription drug collection program, in which residents can turn in unwanted, expired pre-scription drugs at drop-off points for disposal, has disposed of tons of unwanted prescription drugs, Stanek explained. In addition to mak-ing Narcan more acces-sible, Eaton also proposes to include a provision in her bill providing immu-nity from prosecution for those calling 911 to report a drug overdose. Stanek said he would need to see the final language of the immunity provision to know whether he could support it.

T.W. Budig is at [email protected].

Stoffel family earns conservation award Vermillion Township residents Wally and Ber-nadette Stoffel, along with their sons Greg and Dan, were selected by the Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation Dis-trict to receive the 2013 Outstanding Conserva-tionists Award for their dedication to conserva-tion. They received the award at the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Dis-tricts Convention on Dec. 2. The Stoffels installed grassed waterways within their cultivated fields and a 14-acre native prairie planting to reduce soil loss. They also enrolled over 290 acres into Da-kota County’s Farmland and Natural Area Pro-gram permanently pro-tecting a quarter-mile of

vegetated buffer along the Vermillion River. Recently, the Stof-fels planted a cover crop of radishes, at their own expense, on 80 acres of cultivated land to sta-bilize the soil, improve soil health, and reduce nitrates from entering surface and groundwater resources. The Stoffels are work-ing with the University of Minnesota Extension and County staff to develop test plots that research and evaluate appropriate application rates of nitro-gen fertilizer on irrigated land. Each year the Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District honors a landowner, busi-ness, or organization for their contributions to conserve or restore natu-ral resources in Dakota County.


Farmington woman charged with tampering with a witness

A round of 3,000 company-wide layoffs announced by New York-based Thomson Reuters in October will affect its Eagan campus. “Thomson Reuters is routinely looking at ways to run our global business operations more efficiently and effectively,” Thomson Reuters representatives

said in a statement. “This disciplined approach sometimes includes the need to make personnel, or other changes which al-low us to balance our in-ternal resources with the needs of our customers in a highly competitive envi-ronment.” The layoffs account for 5 percent of Thomson Re-uters workforce and will

primarily affect its finan-cial and risk departments. The company employs 7,000 workers in Eagan, which serves as its head-quarters for its legal busi-ness. Thomson Reuters has yet to release the number of Eagan employees to be cut, but has said that job cuts are in management information systems.

When announcing the layoffs, Thomson Reuters said Mike Suchsland, president of its legal divi-sion, will be replaced by Susan Taylor Martin. Taylor Martin is cur-rently managing director of Thomson Reuters’ legal business in the UK and Ireland.

— Jessica Harper

by Andy RogersSUN THISWEEK


The Dakota County Sheriff’s Office issued a na-tionwide warrant for the ar-rest of Lisa Marie Polasik, 26, of Farmington, with charges of aggravated first-degree tampering with a witness, a felony, as well as misdemeanor assault in the fifth-degree for an incident on Oct. 25 in South St. Paul. South St. Paul Police were called to a residence at 3 a.m. on Second Avenue for a report of an assault. According to the police re-port, Mary Beth Kaul, 40, of South St. Paul, and Po-lasik began questioning the

unidentified victim and ask-ing why they “snitched,” re-ferring to a shooting in the city in August and showing her photos of police reports. They said they received them from Nicholas Mi-chael Mason, who was charged in August for second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, first-degree aggravated robbery and fifth-degree assault. According to the report, Kaul then punched the vic-tim in the face with a closed fist approximately 50 times. The victim was then kneed in the face, pulled by the hair, and pushed down the stairs leaving the victim with severe bruising around the eyes and marks over the

face. Polasik and Kaul’s cousin, Jeffrey Rewey, took the victim by the arm and threatened to strike with a pipe unless the individual gave something up. The vic-tim had no money or drugs to offer, so Polasik and Rewey walked the victim home, threatening “there’s more to come.” When they got near the victim’s house, Polasik and Rewey said to get some-thing and not to look back, then got in a car and left. A friend who had been at the house where the victim was assaulted said they had a lot worse in mind for her, and the victim was terrified that they may still be a threat.

Kaul was charged in No-vember for both tampering and assault. The tampering charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail, a $30,000 fine or both. Polasik was also sum-moned in November by the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office for a controlled sub-stance crime in the second degree with a prior convic-tion after selling 5.26 grams of methamphetamine to an informant. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 40 years, a $500,000 fine or both.

Email Andy Rogers at [email protected].

Latest Thomson Reuters layoffs are planned to include Eagan employees

Lakeville City Council approves 2014 budget, levy

Council praises staff for adapting to new process



The Lakeville City Council unanimously passed the 2014 budget and levy, praising staff for adapting to a new deci-sion-making process. City Council members approved a $56 million budget funded in part with a property tax levy of $23.6 million on Dec. 16. The levy is a $568,811 increase from 2013, and is estimated to increase taxes by about $31 for a median value home of $225,000, according to City Finance Director Dennis Feller. He said actual tax im-pacts will vary depending on several factors includ-ing property type and mar-ket value. Some primary cost-drivers of the budget in-clude increased personnel costs and rising insurance rates. Feller said the levy in-crease is primarily due to debt for street reconstruc-tion projects and rising costs driven by new devel-opment, and most of the increase will be financed from the additional tax base. City Council members praised staff for develop-ing the budget based on a

council-directed new para-digm to start by assuming no increase, then propos-ing changes. Most local governments plan budgets by devising a list of needs and costs, then spend months negoti-ating reductions to the list, creating the false percep-tion of budget reductions. Council Member Doug Anderson said the new process helped to focus on priorities and needs. Council Member Bart Davis congratulated Feller and the city staff for their work, calling the budget “a very good proposal” that focused on roads and Lakeville’s growth. Mayor Matt Little de-scribed Feller as “a liv-ing legend in municipal finance,” and credited the city staff and council for a budget that puts road im-provement projects on the fast track. Lakeville residents have consistently rated road re-pairs as a high priority. Little voiced support for putting money away when there are good times, as previous councils did, to ensure resources are avail-able to get through future recessions.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].


Obituaries

A call to end domestic violenceRoger Earl Holland

convicted for killing his wife, unborn child by Tad Johnson


The family of Margo-rie Ann Holland hopes to carry on in her name and stop further domestic violence after her husband was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to two consecu-tive life sentences for kill-ing her and her unborn child on March 7. “We will move forward now by the grace of God, to be Margie’s voice to oth-ers in advocacy for an end to domestic violence, an end to being left with arms filled with emptiness,” the Apple Valley woman’s fa-ther, Ron Brown, told the Dakota County court in a victim impact statement. With Tuesday’s convic-tion of Roger Earl Hol-land, 37, Margorie Hol-land was proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be among the nearly 40 peo-ple in Minnesota who have died as a result domestic violence in 2013 – more than double the number of deaths in 2012. Margorie Holland’s murder is all too familiar with other domestic vio-lence cases. Evidence introduced in court revealed that Mar-gorie Holland on March 6 told her husband that she intended to divorce him, and in a text message sent 10 minutes earlier she told him that she intended to report him to authorities “first thing in the morn-ing” for stealing her credit cards. “As advocates work-ing to prevent domestic violence will tell you – the most dangerous time is when a wife or girlfriend finally takes action to end the marriage or relation-ship,” Dakota County At-torney James Backstrom said in a statement. “And that, unfortunately, is ex-actly what occurred here. “We see far too much domestic violence in the Twin Cities and across Minnesota and through-out our nation. We must all dedicate ourselves to look for ways to prevent it. In Margorie Holland’s memory and the memory of the other innocent vic-tims who have died at the hands of their spouse or partner, let us all offer a prayer of hope that this deadly violence stops.” More than 2,500 women and children are supported annu-ally at Burnsville-based 360 Communities Lewis House domestic violence shelters in Eagan and Hastings – that’s nearly seven victims per day. “Our sympathies go out to the family of Margorie Holland for their tragic loss,” said Sal Mondelli, president and CEO of 360 Communities. “Unfortunately, Min-nesota has seen a surge in domestic homicides over the past year,” Mondelli said. “We want women to know that if they are in an abusive relationship, 360 Communities Lewis House offers confiden-tial help 24 hours a day.

Trained advocates provide shelter, counseling, safety planning and more to help women and children es-cape abuse. It is important that women don’t wait to call us until it is too late. They need to trust their instincts and call us if they don’t feel safe. “In order to curb this increasing trend of do-mestic homicides, we feel it is going to take the en-tire community to stand up against violence in all forms,” Mondelli said. “Most importantly, men need to get off the side-lines on this and engage as an active part of the solu-tion.” Backstrom described Roger Holland as a des-perate man who was expe-riencing financial troubles, was lying to his wife and had to do something to keep from being exposed as the liar he was. No evidence was intro-duced that Roger Holland had been physically vio-lent toward his wife prior to March 7. It was shown that the two had argued verbally and through text messages several times. Backstrom described Margorie Holland the morning of her death as ready to begin a new life. She was unaware that Roger Holland was con-sidering and planning her death for some time, Back-strom said, as evidenced by multiple Internet searches made on Roger Holland’s smartphone and computer asking questions about whether someone could break their neck by falling down a flight of stairs and whether a person could break someone’s neck with one’s hands. He said Margorie Hol-land, a former member of the Texas National Guard, fought for life like the trained soldier she was. “She scratched and she clawed and she kicked, but she could not overcome the superior strength of her husband, Roger, as he eventually choked the life out of her,” Backstrom said. Roger Holland was also a former member of the Texas National Guard. “Her dreams for a hap-pier life – her dreams of completing her schooling and starting a career as a physician’s assistant – her dreams of becoming a mom, would never be,” Backstrom said.

Family impact Roger Holland was told on Tuesday after-noon in court he would serve consecutive life sen-tences without parole af-ter he was found guilty just 12 hours prior of two counts each of first- and second-degree murder in the March 7, 2013, death of his wife and child, a girl who was to be named Ol-ivia. “Our arms are filled

with emptiness and the shallow satisfaction that comes with hearing the verdict of guilty in the first degree,” Brown said in a victim impact state-ment. “We will now be left with mere imaginations of how many more memories we could have shared with Margie and Olivia.” Roger Holland was found guilty of the same four charges that he was indict-ed for in April. “Words fail to express the grief, betrayal and hor-ror we are now left with when we hear his name,” Brown said. “Even know-ing justice is served does not comfort us.” His trial lasted two weeks and the jury deliber-ated for approximately 10 hours, delivering a verdict at about 1 a.m. Tuesday. During the sentenc-ing hearing, family mem-bers of Margorie Holland asked for consecutive life sentences for both of the deaths, and Roger Hol-land denied the killings in a statement read by his attorney, the Pioneer Press reported. The first-degree murder with premeditation and intent to kill conviction will be appealed automati-cally to the state Supreme Court under Minnesota law, according to the Pio-neer Press. The jury was faced with deciding if Roger Holland strangled his wife to death or that Margorie Holland died after she fell down the stairs at their townhome on 157th Street West. Roger Holland’s de-fense was that he returned home in the morning after going out to get break-fast and found his wife face down on the floor wrapped in a blanket and non-responsive at the bot-tom of a staircase inside their townhome. He then called 911 to report she was unresponsive. Upon arrival of medi-cal personnel, Margorie Holland’s body was cool to the touch, she was not breathing and had no heartbeat, according to the criminal complaint. Resuscitation efforts were attempted and she was transported to Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burns-ville where she and her un-born child were officially declared dead. She was approximately 15 weeks pregnant. The prosecution said the medical examiner as-signed to the case deter-mined that Margorie Hol-land died by strangulation. When this evidence was introduced, Roger Holland’s defense offered that someone else could have entered the home and strangled her before Roger Holland found her. The complaint said medical personnel found numerous injuries on Margorie Holland’s body, including bruising and

abrasions on her head, face, hands, legs, ankles and feet. Prosecutors presented that Roger Holland had visible scratches on the left side of his face and neck, and were signs of a strug-gle between the husband and wife. The defense at-tributed the scratches to rough sex, according to the Pioneer Press. Prosecutors also pre-sented the Hollands’ cell-phone records with a large number of text messages, which contained numer-ous arguments between the couple in the weeks prior to March 7 and some texts that referenced con-cerns about their financial problems. It was the text message records of March 7 that Backstrom said was the key piece of evidence. A text message Roger Holland claimed his wife sent him after he left the townhome was proven by a video surveillance tape to have been sent before he left the townhome, Back-strom said. “Inescapable proof of the truth of the vio-lent, premeditated and intentional murder Roger Holland committed that morning,” Backstrom said. Roger and Margorie Holland had been married for approximately a year and a half and had been dating for some time be-fore their marriage. They had moved into their Ap-ple Valley residence in De-cember 2012. Backstrom said in a press release that under Minnesota law, to con-vict someone of first- and second-degree murder of an unborn child, it is not necessary for a jury to find that a person had intent to kill the unborn child, or did so with premeditation, provided the defendant in-tended to kill the unborn child’s mother and did so with premeditation. Backstrom thanked the Apple Valley Police Department, the Dakota County Sheriff ’s Office and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehen-sion, which assisted in the investigation of this case. Backstrom praised chief deputy Phil Prokopowicz for his outstanding work prosecuting this difficult case.

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].


Community helps with Farmington Police

Department’s toy drive by Andy Rogers

SUN THISWEEK


For more than a quarter centu-ry, Farmington has helped make the season special for children with the annual Christmas toy drive Toys for Town. While some communities band together to help out with organi-zations such as Toys for Tots or other charities, Toys for Town is central to the Farmington Police Department. Farmington Police Chief Brian Lindquist said he didn’t know of any other police department in Minnesota spon-soring something similar. It started with former Farm-ington Police Chief Dan Siebe-naler and one family who needed gifts 26 years ago. It reached a high point two years ago when more than 240 children’s lives were touched by the community’s generosity. This year there are about 200 kids with families who requested help for the holidays. The drive started a few weeks ago when bins were placed in 22 area loca-tions including businesses, banks, health care facilities, schools, res-taurants and municipal buildings. This time of year tends to bring out the best in people. A few years ago, the department assisted on the death of a young boy’s grandfather who passed

away in his sleep. They noticed the young boy was “just nuts for fire-men,” Lindquist said. “He had firemen pajamas and pictures all over. It was just a few weeks before Christmas, so a few days later, we bought him the biggest fire truck I could find. They weren’t even on the list, but his grandpa just died. So we showed up in a fire truck and a few firemen helped us deliver the gift. We took him for a cruise around the block. Every year you hear something like that. It just all falls together,” he said. It’s a task that involves the Po-lice Department, school district, Fire Department, area businesses and organizations. The Tiger Leadership Club, with nearly 100 high school stu-dents, raises funds for the efforts. They organize the Mr. Farming-ton Pageant, a basketball tourna-ment, Mr. Farmington competi-tion and other fundraisers for Toys for Town. This year the stu-dents raised $3,600. Still, Lindquist is always wor-ried the department won’t reach its goals every season. “I’m always nervous until we’re done, but someone smiles down on us and it always works out,” he said. This year is no different. The community has been generous, but there are still unfulfilled spots on the Christmas list. “There’s always enough for the little kids, but we need some for the boys and girls ages 10 to 14,” Lindquist said. “We need supplies

too, like wrapping paper and tape. We try to bulk up after the season, but you go through so much of it.” Minnesota weather often dic-tates the shopping schedule. “It’s funny. If we don’t have any snow, the presents come in very slow,” Lindquist said. “If there is snow, we do well, but it’s been cold. People tend to hunker down and stay inside when it’s cold.” There never seems to be enough toys until the final hour. The drive will accept donations up until Sat-urday. “I look at all the toys and I’ll make that one last ditch plea,” he said. “All of a sudden the last day or two, we’ll have more toys than I know what to do with.” If they have toys left over, Lindquist will donate them to the Salvation Army or Hands of Hope. Department staff organizes the gift list by age group and gender. Each child receives four to five presents. It’s a complex puzzle that always seems to work itself out in the end. The department uses the mon-etary donations to buy the fami-lies enough food for one big holi-day meal along with filling in the gaps of toys. Last year they spent $6,000 on food and toys. Volunteers are welcome to wrap the gifts beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday at Farmington High School.


Lane Kingsbury, 6, cuts paper to wrap a toy at a wrapping party for the annual Toys for Town toy drive in 2011. His mom, Vanes-sa Kingsbury, watches his progress with the scissors. (File photo by Laura Adelmann)

Toys for Town continues to grant wishes

Prior Lake teacher charged with controlled substance crimes Criminal complaint: 47 marijuana plants, paraphernalia found

by Andy RogersSUN THISWEEK


Farmington resident and teacher in the Prior Lake School District Lori Jo-Meyer Abeln, 51, was charged in Dakota Coun-ty District Court with two counts of felony posses-sion and sale controlled substance crimes on Tues-day. Dakota County Drug Task Force found 47 plants growing on her property along with scales and drug paraphernalia during a search in Octo-ber, according to the crim-

inal complaint. She has been a physi-cal education specialist for 29 years and employed at Hidden Oaks Middle School as an eighth-grade physical education teach-er. The Prior Lake-Savage Area School District con-firmed she is a teacher in the district and she is cur-rently on medical leave. “There’s no indication she was selling to children or gave any drugs to any children,” Dakota County Attorney James Back-strom said. “We don’t take into consideration peo-

ple’s jobs when we make charges.” According to the com-plaint, the Dakota County Drug Task Force execut-ed a search warrant for Abeln’s house off Blaine Avenue on Oct. 16, but found no one at home. Officers found 47 mari-juana plants growing in a greenhouse along with a scale, marijuana seeds, glass pipe, a wooden pipe, a glass jar contain-ing marijuana, a metal tin containing marijuana, and miscellaneous drug para-phernalia in the house. The marijuana plants

weighed approximately 550 grams. Eight days later an offi-cer spoke with Abeln, who admitted to living at the residence alone. According to the police report, she said she knew the plants were on the property but said some-one had thrown marijuana a seeds in the greenhouse years ago and the plants just grew. She said she did not actively care for the plants. In the report, Abeln ad-mitted to using marijuana for medical reasons, but denied smoking it out of a

pipe, but rolling it with to-bacco. She denied the drug paraphernalia belonged to her stating someone else had left the drug para-phernalia at her house. She was charged with two felony fifth-degree controlled substance crimes for possession and sale, along with one count of possession of drug par-aphernalia this week. The maximum penalty for the charges is 10 years in jail, and/or a $20,300 fine. “Marijuana is a danger-ous and addictive drug,” Dakota County Sheriff Dave Bellows said. “It’s a

felony to possess a signifi-cant quantity of it.” Using marijuana for medical purposes is illegal in Minnesota. A first-time offender that doesn’t have any prior drug convictions is eligible for a stay of adjudication, meaning there would be a period of probation and fines, according to Bel-lows. “Typically a first-time drug offender wouldn’t end up with a criminal re-cord,” Bellows said.



Obamacare success stories laughable To the editor: Regarding Ron Goldser’s letter “Health care act suc-cess stories” published Dec. 12; it appears to be just an-other attack on U.S. Rep. John Kline that the newspa-per loves to publish. There well should be hundreds even thousands of “success stories” as logged on that Facebook site but they pale in comparison to the millions who have had their health plans cancelled, and/or will be paying sig-nificantly more beginning in 2014.

D.A. SCHORRFarmington

Why not copper? To the editor: As the Minnesota deer hunting season ends, I bet that few hunters thought: “How many eagles will die of lead poisoning this year because of the lead bullets I used.” The Raptor Center of Minnesota thinks and pre-pares for this issue following deer hunting season. “Ten days after deer season opens, we start getting eagles in. It just happens that quickly,” Raptor Center clinician Pat Redig told the Minnesota Department of Natural Re-sources. Many of the eagles are convulsing and unable to stand, which are symptoms of acute lead poisoning trig-gered by the use of lead bul-lets. Why don’t we use lead-free bullets? Hunters argue that lead bullets kill the ani-mal more humanely. Lead bullets do a great job at putting all their energy into the animal and fragment to increase damage. They argue that copper is not as effective because it travels through the animal and puts its force into the ground. Many pro-copper hunters argue that copper bullets leave an exit wound twice the size of the entry wound, which increases blood loss. Lead fragments in veni-

son although small can lead adverse health conditions. A 2007 University of North Dakota School of Medicine study found that thousands of pounds of venison do-nated to food shelves con-tained fragments of lead, especially ground venison, and 59 percent of 100 ran-domly-selected packages of ground venison donated to the Community Action Food Pantry were contami-nated with lead. So why not copper? Min-nesota Deer Hunters As-sociation executive director Mark Johnson argues: “The decision to use lead or copper should be a hunter’s preroga-tive. But from my own stand-point, if I can use something that is more accurate and something that is friendlier to the environment, then I’m going to do that.” Hunters have the right to shoot what they please. I would argue that with the knowledge we have pertain-ing to lead bullets and their harmful effects, it would be inhumane toward the eagles to not use copper. I am pro hunter, pro gun but believe if there is a better and safer way to kill deer why not try it.

MATTHEW KELLEREagan

Commissioner Egan is correct To the editor: Dakota County Com-missioner Thomas Egan is correct when he states: “the county has held several pub-lic meetings to gather input,” in the Dec. 6 story “Resi-dents take issue with Leba-non Hills plan.” He failed to mention that the comments generated by these public meetings are 10 to 1 against the Development Master Plan for Lebanon Hills Re-gional Park. These public comments can be reviewed at co.dakota.mn.us, click on Parks, Planning, Park Mas-ter Plans, Lebanon Hills. It is shameful (or should be to our elected commis-sioners) the way they have been unresponsive to the will of the people on this is-sue. Since the very beginning

of this coming to light, the attitude of our commission-ers has been “don’t confuse us with facts, our mind is al-ready made up.” It is not acceptable for Egan to just go through the motions of a sham to collect public input so that the public comment box re-quired by the Metropolitan Council can be checked. He should pay attention to the taxpayers who object to the $31,029,429 bill that he voted for at the November Dakota County Planning Committee meeting. SCOTT JOHNSONEagan

Kline’s repeal agenda puts insurance companies back in chargeTo the editor: U.S. Rep. John Kline has made it clear that he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act – he’s voted over 40 times to do so. What we haven’t seen from Kline and Republicans in Congress is what they would do to make our health care system work better. The reality is the system wasn’t working before. In-surance companies had free reign over families’ financial and medical wellbeing. They could deny care, drop cov-erage, and hike costs with unchecked power. Those important protections are included in ACA and would be repealed if Kline had his way. The rollout of the website was frustrating. I’m angry and frustrated, like many Minnesotans, who don’t understand how this rollout could have been botched so badly. What would be worse would be Kline’s approach to throw out the ACA pro-tections Minnesota families have. What have Kline and his colleagues done while they continue their repeal agen-da? Nothing. USA Today reported that this Congress has accomplished less than any Congress in the last 60

years. The signature accom-plishment of Kline and his colleagues was to shut down the federal government for the first time in 17 years. This political stunt may have shown their determina-tion to repeal ACA, but it hurt our recovery and cost our economy $24 billion. Worse yet, while Kline and his colleagues were shut-ting down the government, they weren’t working on im-portant policy, like raising the federal minimum wage, passing immigration re-form, or helping get people back to work. I remain focused on the priorities that matter to mid-dle class Minnesotans – fix the problems with ACA, not throw it out. Congress needs to start worrying how to cre-ate family-supporting jobs, rather than simply saving their own jobs. That means raising the federal minimum wage and finally passing a Farm Bill – to name just two basic things Congress has failed to do this year. If Kline and his col-leagues continue on this repeal agenda while ignor-ing things that would help Minnesota families get good family-supporting jobs, he will have earned the “do-nothing” label and the 9 percent approval rating that comes with it.

MIKE OBERMUELLEREagan, candidate for DFL endorsement in 2nd District

Commitment throughout the year To the editor: An incumbent member of Congress recently took the time to ask us to “make a difference in the life of a child” by purchasing a toy for the holidays. While buy-ing a toy for a child is fine, “making a difference in their life” could mean much more. Despite congressional hear-ings in which school districts asked for funding for feder-ally-mandated Special Edu-

cation, the incumbent has not yet seen fit to honor that request from constituents. I want to encourage all kinds of giving at this holi-day season, and I commend the incumbent for his spirit of giving at this time of year. There are many people in the 2nd District who suf-fer during this season. And for too many of them, their suffering is an all day, every day matter. The incumbent’s thoughtfulness needs to ex-tend to the other 364 days each year. On this he has failed miserably. In contrast, Mike Ober-mueller, local candidate for Congress, has long done a great job in advocating for investment in education. Obermueller says we should be putting money not only into Special Education, but also into preschool and other currently underfunded educational ideas, including higher education. People say Obermueller is totally reasonable. Having children in school and hav-ing to live on a budget bring an element of reality. But coming from outside the Beltway is not Obermuel-ler’s only strong suit. Ober-mueller has fought for effec-tive governance, opposing government shut down. His bipartisan work has helped to generate small business development, and he sym-pathizes with hard-working citizens, whatever their in-come level. In the holiday season, we can note his common sense, and support his durable values. Oberm-ueller’s commitment to jobs, educational opportunities and family stability is what I want in a congressman. LARRY KOENCKEagan

Coalition supports minimum wage increase To the editor: A broad coalition of community, faith, labor and nonprofit organizations are

supporting legislation that will raise the Minnesota minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2015. All Minneso-tans should, and can, be a part of our great state’s eco-nomic recovery, we can start by raising the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour (Min-nesota’s minimum wage, currently $6.15, is fourth lowest in America). With the increase in the minimum wage some em-ployers may cut work hours; fringe benefits or pass on the labor cost on to consumers. Some employers may ab-sorb the new wage and see their profits fall, while oth-ers may reorganize the work process in order to lower costs. However, some of the strongest evidence suggests that many employers may experience declines in costly turnover and workers may respond to the higher wage by working harder. As has been pointed out in several recent letters to the editor, an increase in the minimum wage will allow workers to move off assis-tance programs and to raise their families with the dig-nity they deserve while also pumping more than $470 million into Minnesota’s economy. Employers who pay the current minimum wage count on us, the customers and taxpayers, to supple-ment these low salaries with housing assistance, reduced-cost school lunches and food stamps. The officers and mem-bers of the DFL Senate District 56 (Burnsville, Sav-age, and Lakeville) join state Rep. Will Morgan, DFL-Burnsville, in supporting the minimum wage bill in the 2014 legislative session. We strongly urge residents of Burnsville, Savage, and Lakeville to insist that state Rep. Pam Myhra, R-Burns-ville, and Sen. Dan Hall, R-Burnsville, also support this legislation.

LAWRENCE SANDOVALDFL Senate District 56 chairman

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Hotel among the best for weddings The Holiday Inn and Suites Lakeville has been awarded The Knot’s Best of Weddings for 2014. It is the third consecutive year the hotel has won the award in the wedding venue category. Each year The Knot asks brides to rate and re-view their wedding vendors, highlighting their favorites. An annual list of the best wedding venues and other top wedding professionals are then compiled.

Builders donate to feed families Local home builders Country Joe Homes and Bob McDonald Homes are rallying their vendors and employees to donate time to help programs that feed local families in the Twin Cities. The builders broke ground Dec. 16 in Farming-ton on a home expected to be completed by March. It will be featured in the 2014 Parade of Homes. The goal is to have all of the materi-als and labor donated by their vendors and employ-ees. Once the home is sold, all of the proceeds will go to Hope for the City, St. Louis Park, and Communi-ty Cares, Lakeville. Both or-ganizations have programs that support local families who are food insecure in Minnesota.

Quello Clinic to change name Quello Clinic will change its name to Allina Health ef-fective Jan. 1. Its five Quello Clinic locations will become Allina Health clinics. “Quello Clinic has been part of Allina Health since 2008,” said Geoff Sylvester, vice president for opera-tions, Allina Health clinics. “The name change supports our work by more clearly linking the Quello Clinic to all of Allina Health.” All the same doctors, providers and staff mem-bers will continue at their current locations. The 952-428-0200 phone number will also remain the same. Locally, the newly re-named clinics include: • Allina Health Burns-ville Clinic, Burnsville Med-ical Center, 14000 Nicollet Ave. S., Burnsville. • Allina Health Lakev-ille Clinic, 17599 Kenwood Trail, Lakeville. • Allina Health Sav-age Clinic, Savage Medical Building, 6350 143rd St., Suite 102, Savage.

‘Swipe Out Hunger’ ends Merchants Bank’s “Swipe Out Hunger” Face-book giveaway has con-cluded with more than 1,700 votes cast to benefit Minnesota food shelves.

Merchants Bank do-nated 5 cents each time a Merchants Bank credit card or debit card was used between Nov. 29 and Dec. 15, for a total of $10,000 to be split among food shelves that were nominated by bank locations. Votes were made on Merchants Bank’s Facebook page. Local food shelves ben-efiting from the program include 360 Communities ($270), Eagan & Lakeville Resource Center ($352), and the Randolph Food Shelf ($264).

Lakeville chamber seeks nominations The Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for the 2013 Business Person of the Year award through Friday, Dec. 20. The award will be presented at the 65th annual Meeting & Holiday Dinner on Monday, Jan. 27, at Crystal Lake Golf Club. Call the chamber at 952-469-2020 for more in-formation.

Rose Creek grand opening Ryland Homes celebrat-ed the grand opening of its Rose Creek community in Lakeville Dec. 14-15. The sales center for the single-family homes is at 17928 Hyde Park Ave. Call 952-373-0564 for more informa-tion.

Provincial Bank awarded grant A grant totaling $15,000 was recently awarded to Provincial Bank by Fed-eral Home Loan Bank of Des Moines. The grant is part of FHLB Des Moines Homeownership Fund sup-porting home-ownership opportunities for families and individuals across five Midwestern states. Through the Home-ownership Fund program, qualified individuals and families can receive funds to assist with the down pay-ment, closing cost, counsel-ing or rehabilitation of a property. Provincial Bank has locations at 20280 Iberia Ave. and 7303 161st St. in Lakeville.

Exhibitor registration open for home and landscape show Registration is open for exhibitors and sponsors of the Lakeville 2014 Land-scape & Home/Consumer Showcase Expo set March 15 at Lakeville North High School. Home sponsor: $895, in-cludes two booths. Must be a Lakeville chamber mem-ber. Landscape/Showcase

sponsor: $450 (includes one booth) for chamber mem-ber, $795 for nonmember. Booth: $345 for cham-ber member, $750 for non-member. Early bird special: $245 for chamber member, due by Dec. 31. Electricity: $25 per booth. TV/VCR: $25 per booth. For more information, call the Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce at 952-469-2020.

Wohlhuter named to board post Lakeville resident Jon Wohlhuter, a certified regis-tered nurse anesthetist, has been named treasurer-elect of the Minnesota Asso-ciation of Nurse Anesthe-tists. Wohlhuter, MS, RN, CRNA, has been active in the professional organiza-tion since serving as a stu-dent representative to the board from 2009-10.

Chuck & Don’s giving event Chuck & Don’s held its third annual Grateful & Giving Back event on Black Friday. Shoppers at the 20 Chuck & Don’s locations nationwide helped generate a donation of 2,353 pounds of pet food for local food shelves. This is double last year’s donation. Chuck & Don’s donated one pound of pet food for every guest who visited Chuck & Don’s that morn-ing, and two pounds of pet food for every shopper who attended with their pet. Treats were served for both people and pets. Lakeville shoppers helped raise 103 pounds of pet food toward the to-tal donation, while Eagan shoppers helped generate 175 pounds.

Businesses open in Lakeville Poquet Auto’s Lakeville location is now open for both service and vehicle sales at 21100 Gateway Drive. Poquet purchased the building last summer and has completely remod-eled and updated the site. A new McDonald’s opened Nov. 8 at 16205 Ke-nyon Ave., next to Bruns-wick Zone. Advance Auto Parts Inc., an automotive after-market retailer of parts, batteries, accessories and maintenance items, has opened at 17830 Kenwood Trail in Lakeville. General manager Steve Brummer oversees the business’ 10 employees. A four-year veteran of the au-tomotive and retail sales in-dustries, Brummer has been with Advance Auto Parts for one year. The store is open Mon-day through Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sun-day from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce events: • Tuesday, Jan. 7, 7:30-9:30 a.m., Chamber Cof-fee Connection, Augustana Health Care Center, 14610 Garrett Ave., Apple Valley. In-formation: Kristy Cleveland, 952-432-8422, [email protected]. Burnsville Chamber of Commerce events: • Thursday, Jan. 9, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Business After Hours, Park Chrysler Jeep, 1408 W. Highway 13, Burns-ville. • Wednesday, Jan. 15, 8-9 a.m., AM Coffee Break, Con-tour Clinic, 150 E. Travelers Trail, Burnsville. Information: Tracey Rudolph-Lakin, 952-

882-9292, [email protected]. Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce events: • Tuesday, Jan. 7, 8-9 a.m., Rosemount Coffee Break, Winters Pediatric Dentistry, 3410 151st St. W., Rosemount. Information: Jessy Annoni, 651-288-9202, [email protected]. • Thursday, Jan. 9, 8-9 a.m., Eagan Coffee Break, Home Federal, 2805 Dodd Road, Suite 160, Eagan. In-formation: Jessy Annoni, 651-288-9202, [email protected]. • Wednesday, Jan. 15, 8-9 a.m., Farmington Coffee Break, Family Fresh Market, 115 Elm St., Farmington. Information: Jessy Annoni, 651-288-9202, [email protected].

• Friday, Jan. 17, 7:30-9 a.m., Legislative Breakfast Series – Economics of 2014, The Commons on Marice, 1380 Marice Drive, Eagan. State economist, Dr. Laura Kalambokidis, will speak on the economic realities for business growth in 2014. Cost: $25. Registration re-quired. Information: Jessy Annoni, 651-288-9202, [email protected]. Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce events: • Wednesday, Jan. 8, 7:30-8:30 a.m., Morning Brew, GrandStay Hotel & Conference, 7083 153rd St. W., Apple Valley. • Thursday, Jan. 16, 4-6 p.m., Business After Hours, Rudy’s Redeye Grill, 20800 Kenrick Ave., Lakeville.

Winners of the Holiday on Main coloring contest sponsored by Sun Thisweek Newspapers and Downtown Lakeville Business Association, from left, Mike Jetchick, sales manager, Sun Thisweek Newspapers; Ella Fowler, second grade, Lakeview Elementary; Nohwa Fowler, kindergarten, Lakeview Elementary; Quinn Weaver, first grade, Oak Hills Elementary; Paul Haglund, president, Downtown Lakeville Business Association. Not pictured: Tally Hessian, third grade, John F. Kennedy Elementary. (Photo submitted)

European Wax Center opened its eighth Twin Cities location recently at 1100 E. County Road 42 in Burnsville. The store is managed by Apple Valley resident Mary Conner, who has more than a decade of experience in the spa and beauty industry. First-time customers receive complimentary services. Visit Waxcenter.com or call 952-895-4015 for information. (Photo submitted)

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Education

The Minnesota De-partment of Education this week announced that 48 schools are being designated as Celebra-tion schools, including Oak Hills Elementary in Lakeville. This year, 166 schools were eligible and applied for the honor. “I want to congratulate these schools for this in-credible accomplishment,” Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius said. “Minnesotans should be proud of the work go-ing on in our schools. I look forward to continue learning about their suc-cessful efforts to ensure all students succeed and share that work with other schools across the state.” The Celebration school designation is part of Minnesota’s federal ac-countability system that replaces No Child Left Behind. Under Minneso-ta’s program, schools are assigned a Multiple Mea-surement Rating (MMR)

based on students’ pro-ficiency and growth, as well as a school’s progress towards reducing achieve-ment gaps and increas-ing graduation rates. The state’s Title I schools – those serving racially and ethnically diverse student populations with high lev-els of poverty – qualify for designations if they are top performers. Celebration-eligible schools are the 25 per-cent of schools directly below those designated as Reward schools (the top 15 percent of Title I schools). These schools are then able to apply for Celebration status by documenting what efforts they are using to increase student achievement. MDE selects schools based on their ability to effectively document best practices that have led to student success to receive the Celebration school recognition. Celebration-eligible schools are identi-fied annually.

College news Minnesota State Univer-sity, Mankato, summer/fall graduates, from Elko New Market – Megan Marvig, B.S., psychology, magna cum laude; Charlotte McDonald, B.S., American Indian stud-ies; from Lakeville – Emma Brandenburg, B.S., nursing, summa cum laude; Benja-min Briesacher, B.S., open studies; Calista Carlson, B.S., elementary education, magna cum laude; Samantha Dewars, B.F.A., art; Sandra Flen, B.S., nursing; Michael Guentzel, B.S., marketing; Shannon Helgemoe, B.S., biol: microbiology; Matthew Johnson, B.S., economics; Kelsey-Ann Lundberg, B.S., nursing, magna cum laude; Cassandra Mitchell, M.S., spec ed: emotional behavior disorders; William Newton, B.S., nursing, cum laude; Lily Paine, B.S., law enforce-ment, magna cum laude; Michael Palmby, B.S., mass communications; John Pratt, B.A., art; Rebekah Schieck, B.S., sport management; Ka-tie Spaude, B.S., rec, parks & leisure services; Justin Tors-eth, B.A., economics; Col-leen Tripp, B.S., nursing.

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Cold weather means higher natural gas bills CenterPoint Energy is seeing higher consumption by natural gas customers as a result of the recent cold weather. Customers should expect that the bills they receive for December us-age could be twice as high as the bills they received for November usage due to in-creased heating needs. “Temperatures have been 36 percent colder than av-erage in Minnesota for the first half of December and throughput for firm cus-tomers on our system is es-timated to be approximately 97 percent more than last month,” said Joe Vortherms, vice president of Gas Op-erations for CenterPoint En-ergy. “This increase is based primarily on higher usage and not on increases in the cost of natural gas, which re-mains a great energy value.” CenterPoint Energy rec-ommends the following tips: Furnace: A furnace is the largest natural gas con-sumer, and typically makes up about 70 percent of your natural gas bill. Lower your thermostat to 68 degrees when you’re

home and 65 degrees when you’re not. By lowering your thermostat 10 to 15 percent for eight hours a day, you can save up to 10 percent a year on your heating costs. Change your air filters monthly. A dirty filter re-stricts airflow and can in-crease the operating cost of your furnace by as much as 10 percent. A good reminder is to change the filter each time you receive your natu-ral gas bill. Water heater: The water heater is the second-largest gas consuming appliance typically making up about 25 percent of your bill. Set the water heater tem-perature at 120 degrees and wrap any exposed water heater pipes and install a wa-ter heater insulator blanket around the tank. Lowering the temperature to 120 de-grees from 140 degrees and insulating your pipes and water heater can save you up to 15 percent on your water heating costs. Run your washing ma-chine, dish washer and gas dryer only with full loads. Seal leaks around doors,

windows and other openings such as pipes or ducts, with caulk or weather-stripping. The most common places where air escapes in homes are floors, walls, ceilings, ducts, fireplaces, plumbing penetrations, doors, win-dows, fans, vents, and elec-trical outlets. If it has been a while, consider adding more insu-lation in your attic. Take advantage of Cen-terPoint Energy’s energy ef-ficiency programs including rebates for high-efficiency natural gas heating and water heating equipment, electronic ignition direct-vent fireplaces, furnace and boiler tune-ups, and low flow devices, such as show-erheads, spray valves and faucet aerators. Offerings include low-income house-hold home weatherization for customers whose income is at less than 50 percent of the Minnesota state-median income level and who own a residential structure of 1-4 units. To learn more about these programs, visit CenterPoin-tEnergy.com/saveenergy.


Lakeville All events are held at Lakeville Heritage Cen-ter, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Senior center inquiries can be directed to Linda Walter, senior coordina-tor, at 952-985-4622 or [email protected]. Heritage Center will be closed Dec. 24-25 for the Christmas holidays.

Low impact

aerobics Low impact aerobics classes will be offered at Heritage Center begin-ning Jan. 6. These classes are comparable to the UCare classes and Silver Sneakers. Classes will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. and on Fridays at 10 a.m. Cost is $5 per class. There is a minimum of 10 participants per class with a maximum of 20. Pay in advance for the classes you will take for the month.

Cooking Club A new cooking club is starting up at the Heritage Center. Members will get together once a month to cook a meal, enjoy the food, and socialize. Each month during the meal, participants will decide what they will cook the following month. The group will meet at Heri-tage Center at 4:30 p.m. on the first Friday of each month, beginning Jan. 3. If interested, sign up by Dec. 30.

Photography Club This club meets on the first and third Fri-days of the month at 10 a.m. (Jan. 3 and 17.) All are welcome to learn and share ideas for making better pictures. Cost is one punch per class.

Technology

classes Mike Pahl is offer-ing the following classes at Heritage Center on Wednesdays. Cost is $12 per class for members, $17 for nonmembers. Class minimum is four with a maximum of 12. Sign up early. Bring your device with you. Get to Know Your iPad (Course No. 6797), 9-11 a.m. Jan. 15. Learn about the hardware, ac-cessories, lock screen, home screen and the App Store. Deadline: Jan. 2. iPad – Beyond the Ba-sics (Course No. 6798), 9-11 a.m. Jan. 22. Learn how to get the most out of Mail, Contacts, Cal-endar, Reminders and iCloud. Deadline: Jan. 9. iPad – Tricks of the Trade (Course No. 6799), 9-11 a.m. Jan. 29. Learn how to get the most out of Safari, Siri and Maps. Learn how to use multi-touch gestures, spell check, copy and paste, and more. Deadline: Jan. 16. iPad – Exploring En-tertainment (Course No. 6800), 9-11 a.m. Feb. 5. Learn how to sync pho-tos and music from your computer, purchase me-dia from iTunes, use Air-Play, download e-books and get the most out of the Photos app. Deadline: Jan. 23. All four of these class-es will be repeated in April-May.

Apple Valley The Apple Valley Se-nior Center, 14601 Hayes Road, is home to the fol-lowing activities, which are organized and run by the Apple Valley Seniors and Apple Valley Parks and Recreation. The fa-cility is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 952-953-2345 or go to www.cityofapplevalley.org. Monday, Dec. 23: Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Int. Line Dancing, 10:30 a.m.; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Pool, 1 p.m.; Happy Stitchers, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 24: Closed. Wednesday, Dec. 25: Closed. Thursday, Dec. 26: Beginning Line Danc-ing, 9:15 a.m.; Int. Line Dancing, 10 a.m.; Dupli-cate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Tap Dancing; 12:30 p.m.; Recreated Cards, 1 p.m.; Pool, 1 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m.; Hardanger, 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 27: ES Committee, 10 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m., Women’s Pool, 11 a.m.; New Year’s Party, 1 p.m.

Rosemount The following activi-ties are sponsored by the Rosemount Parks and Recreation Department and the Rosemount Area Seniors. For more infor-mation, call the Rose-mount Parks and Rec-reation Department at 651-322-6000. Monday, Dec. 23 – Bridge, 9 a.m., Do Drop Inn; 500, 1 p.m., DDI. Tuesday, Dec. 24 – Coffee, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rosemount Cub; Bid Eu-chre, 9 a.m., DDI; Rose-mount Community Cen-ter closes at noon. Wednesday, Dec. 25 – RCC closed. Thursday, Dec. 26 – No activities. Friday, Dec. 27 – Eu-chre, 9 a.m., DDI; Lunch Out, 11:30 a.m., Casper’s in Eagan; Bowling, 1 p.m., Apple Place in Ap-ple Valley. Senior Driver Improve-ment – Four-hour re-fresher course, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, Rosemount Community Center. Cost is $20. Pre-registration required. DMC on Sale – Met-ro Dining Cards (south metro) are now available. The cards offer two-for-one dining discounts at 166 area restaurants. Buy one breakfast, lunch or dinner and receive the second “on-the-house” every month at each res-taurant for a year. Cards are valid through Oct. 31, 2014. The set of 166 dining cards costs $22 and can be purchased at the Rosemount Parks and Recreation office, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Rosemount Area Seniors “Do Drop Inn” is open to senior citizens 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday-Friday. The room is lo-cated in the Rosemount Community Center and allows seniors a place to stop by and socialize dur-ing the week.

Driver improvement classes for seniors The Minnesota High-way Safety Center will offer 55-plus driver-im-provement courses on the following days: • 5:30-9:30 p.m. Jan. 8 (four-hour refresher course), Apple Valley Se-nior Center, 14601 Hayes Road, Apple Valley. • 5:30-9:30 p.m. Jan. 6 (four-hour refresher course), Lakeville Senior Center – Heritage Cen-ter, 20110 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. • 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Jan. 10 (four-hour refresher course), Market Village Apartments, 100 J Roberts Way, Elko New Market. • 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 11 (eight-hour full course), Rambling Riv-er Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington. • 5:30-9:30 p.m. Jan. 13 and 14 (eight-hour full course), Lakeville Senior Center – Heritage Cen-ter, 20110 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. The courses are open to the public; preregis-tration is requested. The eight-hour course is $24; the four-hour refresher is $20. For more informa-tion or to register, visit www.mnsafetycenter.org or call 888-234-1294.

Seniors


SportsNorth kicks it into gear in 3rd period

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


There’s little doubt which team holds the edge right now in the Lakeville high school boys hockey rivalry. The question is, will it be different in Feb-ruary? That’s what Lakeville South coach Kurt Weber is hoping for after the Cougars’ 6-0 loss to North on Tuesday night at Ames Arena. North led 2-0 af-ter two periods, then ap-peared to pounce on every mistake the Cougars made in the third period to score four more goals. North improved to 5-1 in the South Suburban Conference, maintain-ing a two-point lead over Burnsville, which has played one fewer league game. Another potential threat is Prior Lake, which has played only three SSC games so far but won them all. “We’re a young team; we’re playing a lot of sophomores and juniors,” Weber said. “We’ve played well at times, and other times we’ve hurt ourselves. (Tuesday) was a good ex-ample. It was a 2-0 game going into the third pe-riod, then we made some mistakes in our ‘D’ zone that they converted into goals. By the end of the season, we’re hoping we’re not making those kinds of mistakes.” It’s not too early for the Cougars (2-6 overall) to plan for a playoff rematch with Lakeville North be-cause the teams have met in the Section 1AA tour-nament the last six years. Five of those games were for the section title. North, 5-3 overall, had a productive last few days, winning 4-2 at Blooming-ton Jefferson on Saturday before shutting out its crosstown rival. The Pan-

thers’ top line of broth-ers Jack, Ryan and Nick Poehling did their damage, combining for three goals and with six points against South. Conner Hyden, Jack McNeely and Henry Enebak also scored, and goalie Will DuPont made 15 saves to earn the shut-out. “We’ve played better recently because we’re get-ting healthy,” North coach Trent Eigner said. “We’ve had an incredible rash of injuries that prevented us from having the same line combinations two games in a row. Now we’re settled on some lines that seem to be doing well.” Jack Poehling, a ju-nior, leads North in goals (eight) and points (13). Senior forward Tristen Hazlett has 11 points and a team-high eight assists. Hyden and Ryan Poehling have nine points each. On Tuesday, North out-shot South 36-15, includ-ing 15-3 in the first period and 17-3 in the second. The Panthers also suc-ceeded in keeping South’s prime scoring threats, se-nior forward Patrick Lau-derdale and sophomore forward Nick Swaney. They are the Cougars’ leading scorers with 11 and 10 points. Nick Oel-rich (seven points) is the only other South player with more than four. Eigner, in his third sea-son as the Panthers’ head coach, said the North-South hockey rivalry re-mains special, but added that both teams appear to be interested in more than just Lakeville bragging rights. Both teams have ambitious non-confer-ence schedules. Lakeville South has already played Hill-Murray and Eden Prairie, while North has faced Minnetonka and St. Thomas Academy. “We’re trying to get to

where teams like Edina and Burnsville are, where we can throw anybody on the schedule and feel like we have a chance to win,” Eigner said. “The rivalry is good for our programs, the fans and the city, but we also have to focus on consistency of effort.” North plays Rose-mount at home in a South Suburban game at 7:30 p.m. Saturday before go-ing to a holiday tourna-ment at St. Louis Park Rec Center beginning at noon Dec. 26. Eden Prairie will be the first opponent. Lakeville South plays host to Eastview at 2:45 p.m. Saturday, the goes to the Schwan Cup tour-nament in Blaine, where its first-round opponent is Stillwater at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 26.

Lakeville South’s Nick Swaney (left) and Lakeville North’s Matt Arnold battle for the puck behind the Lakeville North net during a South Suburban Conference boys hockey game Tuesday night. Lakeville North won 6-0. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Lakeville South forward Patrick Lauderdale skates in for a shot against Lakeville North goalie Will DuPont. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Panther skaters win the first round against South

Hett wins going awayin Nordic opener

Burnsville girls, Eagan boys are 1st-place teams

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


Burnsville senior Vivian Hett, the 2013 state girls Nordic skiing state runner-up, won the first race of the 2013-14 South Suburban Conference season by almost one minute. Hett completed a 4.7-kilometer freestyle race Dec. 12 at Baker Park Reserve in 14 min-utes, 40 seconds. Eastview sophomore Mar-gie Freed was second in 15:32. Tamer Miche-Richter of Bloomington Jefferson/Kennedy was the boys winner in 13:01, one second faster than Eagan junior Josh Podpeskar. Burnsville’s girls and Ea-gan’s boys won the team competitions. Tori Felton (seventh, 16:51), Jordan Horn-er (eighth, 16:53) and Jane Koch (10th, 16:54) also placed in the girls top 10 for Burnsville, which scored 168 points at the Dec. 12 meet. Freed, Kaley Hedberg (fifth, 16:46) and Kylie Kraemer (ninth, 16:54) were top-10 finishers for Eastview, which scored 151.5 points. Lakeville South finished fourth in the eight-team meet led by senior Carley Ender-sbe, who placed 11th in 17:05. Brianna Vetter finished 19th in 17:41 for fifth-place Lakev-ille North. The ISD 196 team consisting of Apple Valley, Eagan and Rosemount placed eighth, and its top finisher was sophomore Ruby Carlson, who was 29th in 18:42. Eagan won the boys team competition with 156 points, 22 more than the ISD 196 cooperative of Apple Valley, Eastview and Rosemount. Wildcat skiers Podpeskar, Jacob Edmond (fourth, 13:45) and Patrick Acton (fifth, 14:20) placed in the top five individu-ally. ISD 196 skier Rhett Carlson was third overall in 13:19 and teammate Grant Udel-hofen was 11th in 15:02. Mitchell Miller finished eighth in 14:37 to lead Lakeville South, which took third in the team standings with 125.5 points. Burnsville’s Nate Blichfeldt finished sixth individually in 14:21. The Blaze placed sixth with 68 points. Lakeville North was eighth with 51 points, with Grant Eggan (24th, 15:33) leading the way for the Panthers. The conference held a classic technique race Tuesday, also at Baker Park. The next conference meet is a relay at 11 a.m. Dec. 31 at Valleywood Golf Course in Apple Valley.

Notebook: Cougars taking it outdoorsSouth boys picked to play hockey at TCF Bank Stadium

in January by Mike Shaughnessy


The Lakeville South, Eagan and Eastview boys hockey teams will play out-door games Jan. 11 at TCF Bank Stadium as part of the Hockey City Classic Winter Festival. The “High School Hock-ey Faceoff” will feature five games, two of which will be regular-season South Sub-urban Conference boys con-tests. Lakeville South plays Bloomington Jefferson, ranked 19th in Class AA by Let’s Play Hockey, at 3 p.m. The final game of the day at 8 p.m. has 15th-ranked Eagan playing 18th-ranked Eastview. The event starts with a girls game between Eden Prairie and Minnetonka at 10 a.m. Benilde-St. Marga-ret’s plays Minnetonka in a boys game at 12:30 p.m. White Bear Lake takes on Cretin-Derham Hall in an-other boys game at 5:30. Tickets, good for all five games, are $12 and are available by calling (612) 624-8080 or visiting www.mygophersports.com. Tick-ets also will be available at TCF Bank Stadium the day of the event. Participating schools will sell advance tickets for $10. The Hockey City Win-ter Classic will be a 10-day event including youth, high school and adult hockey games. There also will be a free day of public skating. It concluded Jan. 17 with a doubleheader involving University of Minnesota teams. The U of M women will play Minnesota State, Mankato at 4:30 p.m., fol-

lowed by a Gopher men’s hockey game against Ohio State at 8. More information is available at www.hockey-cityclassic.com, www.Face-book.com/HockeyCity-Classic or on Twitter at @HkyCityClassic.

SSC hockey

showcase All 10 South Suburban Conference schools played five boys hockey games Sat-urday at Bloomington Ice Garden. Lakeville North im-proved to 4-1 in league play and kept the conference lead with a 4-2 victory over Bloomington Jefferson. Matt Arnold scored twice for the Panthers, with Jack Poehling and Nick Poehling getting one each. Ryan Poe-hling had two assists. Eastview shut out Apple Valley 3-0 in the first game of the day. John Snodgrass scored twice for the Light-ning, which got all three of its goals in the final period. Apple Valley goalie Mac Wartick stopped 31 of 33 shots; Eastview’s final goal came after Apple Valley pulled its goalie. Six players scored one goal each as Lakeville South beat Bloomington Kennedy 6-0. Nick Swaney and Tony Dahlberg each had a goal and assist, and Cougars goalie Daniel Swail made 18 saves. Rosemount narrowly missed getting its first vic-tory of the season, falling to Prior Lake 3-2 in overtime. Lukas Gillett and Zach Bi-chler each had a goal and assist for the Irish, and Jus-tin Crowell had two assists. Burnsville defeated Ea-gan 3-1 in the final game of the event, breaking a tie by scoring twice in the final pe-riod. Brock Boeser scored twice for Burnsville, and

Will Missling scored the go-ahead goal 49 seconds into the third period. Jack Ah-can and Carter Dupre had two assists each. Eagan was outshot 35-16 and got its only goal from defenseman Tommy Muck on a second-period power play.

Breakdown Tip-Off Lakeville North’s J.P. Macura had another mon-ster game, but Hopkins held off the Panthers 89-84 in one of 15 boys games played at the Breakdown Tip-Off Classic on Satur-day at Minnetonka High School. Macura scored 48 points, which wasn’t even his big-gest-scoring game of the week; he had 55 in an over-time victory at Farmington on Dec. 10. Sophomore point guard Drew Stewart added 14 for the Panthers, who lost for the first time in four games. Macura is averaging 43.8 points through North’s first four games.

Skating for

their country • Lakeville North High School defender Taylor Flaherty is one of eight Minnesota hockey players invited to the U.S. Women’s National Under-18 Winter Festival. The festival, sched-uled Dec. 27-31 at Schwan Super Rink in Blaine, is an audition for spots on the U.S. team that will play in the world Under-18 tourna-ment in Hungary in March. Twenty-eight players were invited to the festival. • University of Min-nesota men’s hockey play-ers Hudson Fasching and Brady Skjei are competing for spots on the U.S. team for the International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship

scheduled to begin Dec. 26 in Malmo, Sweden. Fasching, a freshman forward from Burnsville, is fourth on the Gophers in scoring with 14 points (six goals, eight assists) and has a plus-16 rating. Skjei, a sophomore defenseman from Lakeville, has five points and a plus-9 rating. Fasching played high school hockey at Apple Valley and Skjei played at Lakeville North before joining the U.S. National Team Development Pro-gram in Ann Arbor, Mich. Twenty-six players skat-ed at a training camp this week at the University of Minnesota, with camp re-suming Dec. 19 in Sweden. The final roster is expected to be announced Dec. 23. Gophers coach Don Lu-cia is head coach of the U.S. team. The U.S. will be go-ing for a second consecutive world junior championship and a fourth medal at the tournament in five years. • Eagan native Molly Sparks is playing for the U.S. women’s hockey team at the Winter World Univer-sity Games currently tak-ing place in Italy. Sparks, a former Eagan High School girls hockey player, now plays for the University of Minnesota women’s club team. She’s one of two U of M players – Ellie Gleason of Edina is the other – play-ing for the national squad. The U.S. team went 3-2 in the preliminary rounds, defeating Russia, Great Britain and Spain while losing to Japan and Can-ada. The U.S. team played Russia in the semifinals on Wednesday. Championship and third-place games are scheduled for Friday.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].


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Avery Doman of Rose-mount, Ashtyn Gagner of Farmington, Ella Hilis of Lakeville, Maurine Lock-wood of Minneapolis, and Carys Sundberg of Eagan. The Level 5 team was led on vault by Isabela Krulich of Rosemount, who placed 11th with 9.125. Kailey Renn of Ea-gan and Cecilia Gerlach of Prior Lake scored 9.075 and 8.9. Renn paved the way on the uneven bars, earning her season-high score of 9.325 and second place. Gerlach also received her

season high score and placed fourth with 9.25. Krulich scored 8.75 (13). Gerlach dominated on the balance beam, winning the event with a 9.375. Renn earned her second season high of the night with a 9.275 (2), while Olivia Gore of Lakeville broke into the top three with her score of 8.075 (4). On the floor exercise, Gerlach and Renn both scored 8.975, followed by Krulich with an 8.6. Renn was second in the all-around with a sea-son-high 36.65. Gerlach

finished fourth with 36.5 while Krulich counted to-ward the team score with 34.2. The TAGS South Lev-el 5 team placed eighth with 107.7 points. Also competing for the Level 5 team were Ailey Kuehn of Eagan, Hannah Mac-carone of Eagan, Keegan Messner of Rosemount and Madison Nguyen of Farmington. Level 5 will next com-pete at the Jan. 17 Chow’s Winter Classic in Des Moines, Iowa.

Level 5 team places eighth

The TAGS South Level 4 and 5 teams competed in the Minnesota State Championship hosted by Classic Gymnastics on Dec. 13-14. On vault, the Level 4 team was led by Maren Sundberg of Eagan, who scored 8.65. Athena Zahn of Apple Valley received an 8.5 (15) and Jaden Ri-

vera of Lakeville brought in an 8.275. Kajsa Thrawl of Ea-gan had the team’s high-est uneven bar score with a 9.175 (12). Sundberg was close behind with a 9.050 and Emily Renn of Eagan rounded out the top three with 8.95 (16). Thrawl had the team’s highest balance beam score of 9.15 (18). Kai-ley Tomzak of Lakeville scored 9.0 for 12th place while Rivera finished with

8.9. Tomzak was the high-est scoring TAGS South gymnast on floor exercise with 9.05 (12). Sundberg and Alexa Erzar of Rose-mount received scores of 8.95 and 8.925 (15). Thrawl finished with 35.15 in the all-around, followed by Sundberg with 34.925. Tomzak counted toward the team total with 34.6. Also competing for the Level 4 team were

TAGS South teams compete in state championships

Apple Valley attracts the bright lights for basketballExcept for Eagles’

loss, TV game comes off

without a hitch by Mike Shaughnessy


When it came time for its TV close-up, Apple Valley High School was ready. In organizing what was likely the most eagerly anticipated and heavily hyped sports event in the school’s history, it was able to accommodate national television and put on a show that appealed to a wide range of people, from curious grade-schoolers to nonagenarian sportswrit-ers (the Star Tribune’s Sid Hartman, of course). Last week’s boys bas-ketball game between Apple Valley and Whit-ney Young high schools went off without incident – and by time the buzzer sounded to close Whitney Young’s 80-70 victory, it seemed like something the school had done numer-ous times before. Except that nobody in Minnesota really had done anything like this before. It is believed to be the first nationally tele-vised high school basket-ball game in Minnesota. ESPN2 showed the game live, with the spotlight on two longtime friends – Apple Valley guard Tyus

Jones and Whitney Young center Jahlil Okafor. They had pledged to attend the same college, follow-ing through last month when both signed with Duke University (they announced their choices in a live broadcast on an-other ESPN network). The school, meanwhile,

produced a 23-page media guide – unheard of for a regular-season high school game – and sold tickets for the 2,000-plus seats in ad-vance. When ESPN people visited the Twin Cities last summer to review logis-tics for a possible game, AVHS athletic director

Pete Buesgens made it clear that if an Apple Val-ley team was going to be involved, he preferred the game to be held at the high school. That brought with it a number of issues that don’t arise for a normal regular-season game, such as: What happens if the coach who signed Jones and Okafor, who also hap-pens to be one of the most famous coaches in the world, wants to come? Several Apple Valley police officers served as a security detail for Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and assistant coach Jeff Capel, yet Krzyzewski still was bombarded with au-tograph requests. One of the autograph seekers was AVHS teacher Carla Christiansen, who has a copy of Krzyze-wski’s book, “Leading with the Heart,” dating to her days as a coach in the Eagles girls basketball program. He wrote, “To Carla: Always Lead with Your Heart,” then signed it. Christiansen, a site manager for AVHS events, also got to watch her nephew, Stephen Chris-tiansen, knock down a three-pointer early in the game. For her, the night was a win-win. Oh, and the game? It lived up to expectations, except maybe for those who were expecting the Eagles to win. There is

speculation that Okafor could be the No. 1 pick in the 2015 NBA draft, and it’s not difficult to un-derstand why. At 6 feet, 11 inches, with a huge wingspan and hands large enough to palm a bas-ketball, he controlled the paint at both ends of the floor. Apple Valley coach Zach Goring said there were a couple of times when he thought Oka-for was hopelessly trapped under the backboard, only to see him use his length and strength to get the ball up to the rim. Okafor had 22 points and 15 rebounds, and the majority of his baskets were dunks. “We were trying to double him, but he’s so big, so strong, and agile,” Goring said. “We wanted to make their oth-er kids beat us.” And that was the Ea-gles’ problem as the other Whitney Young players proved they were up to the task. The Dolphins have two other Division I-bound players in their starting lineup – Paul White (Georgetown), a 6-9 forward, and Miles Reyn-olds (Saint Louis), a 6-3 guard. Reynolds had 18 points and White 17. We don’t know much about the Dolphins’ bench because they never used it. All five starters played all 36 minutes. None of the reserves as much as took off his warmups.

Getting a Whitney Young player to foul out was a longshot at best as the Dolphins went the en-tire first half without be-ing called for a foul. Additional breaks for TV timeouts and a com-mitment to a 2-3 zone helped keep the Whitney Young starters from wear-ing down. “They’ve got a bit of Syracuse in them the way they play that 2-3,” said Goring. Apple Valley even resoTyus Jones scored 25 points in the second half, finishing with 29, and sparked an Eagles’ rally after they fell behind by 17 points. But they couldn’t hit enough shots to com-plete the comeback. “I know I had to be more aggressive,” Tyus Jones said. “They put me in the middle to try to at-tack, tried to put me in positions to help the team. We were right there.” But even as the Eagles’ 35-game winning streak ended, they recognized they had been part of something bigger. They put their school, and their community, on a national stage. “I was happy for Apple Valley,” Jones said. “Apple Valley deserved this.”

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Apple Valley’s Tyus Jones goes to the basket against future Duke University teammate Jahlil Okafor during last week’s boys basketball game at Apple Valley High School. Okafor’s team, Whitney Young High School of Chicago, won the nationally televised game 80-70. (Pho-to by Rick Orndorf)


Blue Christmas worship offers hope St. James Lutheran Church, 3650 Williams Drive, Burnsville, will offer a Blue Christmas worship service at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, for those who have suffered a loss or are strug-gling during this time of year. Healing prayer will be offered at 5:30 p.m. Call 952-890-4534 for more in-formation.

Beyond the Torah Rabbi Norman Cohen, the founding rabbi of Bet Shalom in Minnetonka, will be a guest speaker at the 9:30 a.m. Bible study Friday, Jan. 10, at Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville. All are welcome to his presentation, “Beyond the Torah: What Happens Af-ter Moses?” For more information, contact Julia Taube at [email protected] or 952-890-0045 ext. 236.

Christmas in Sugarland Good Shepherd Lu-theran Church and School will hold its fourth annual Christmas in Sugarland event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, on the Good Shepherd campus, located at 151 E. County Road 42 in Burnsville. This free event, open to all area families, features activities geared for children ages 3-12. Families are in-vited to step into Sugarland and experience Christmas in this self-guided event. Activities include story-time, a skit, cookie decorat-ing, crafts, music, games, and a souvenir photo. Lunch, beverages, and treats will be served. For more information, call 952-432-5527 or visit goodshep.com.

Area Briefs ReligionBabyLove collects diapers For the third year in a row, Eagan childbirth edu-cation center BabyLove is collecting gently used cloth diapers for local families in need. Diapers will be donated to the local Cotton Babies Share the Love program. “The St. Paul Share the Love site opened in 2012 when the program launched nationwide. At the time, I was a mother of a young child in diapers and was heartbroken to hear families were strug-gling to provide such a ba-sic need for their children and wanted to help,” said local site coordinator Re-nee Kuhl. “Many of the families we work with are forced to choose between diapers and something es-sential, like food, utilities, housing and/or child care. Share the Love allows us to alleviate some of the fi-nancial burden these fami-lies are under and provide loving care to their little ones.” Local cloth diaper de-livery service Do Good Diapers has donated dia-pers to the program. Donations will be col-lected through Dec. 22 at BabyLove, 4590 Scott Trail, Suite 200, Eagan. Questions on the diaper drive can be directed to [email protected].

Keep gas meter clear of ice and snow Snow or ice formations on or near a natural gas meter can cause potential-ly dangerous conditions by affecting proper operation and ventilation of the reg-ulator, which could lead to over-pressurization. Natural gas regulators are designed to maintain a constant pressure, ensure

safe delivery of natural gas and vent natural gas safely to the atmosphere. If blocked, pressure may build up, creating a dan-gerous situation and caus-ing appliances to fail. Cen-terPoint Energy would like to remind the public of important winter natural gas safety tips: • Keep the meter area and a path to the meter clear of snow and debris. • Do not deposit snow piles on or near the meter. • Do not use a snow blower or shovel near the meter or attempt to re-move ice from the meter yourself. You can use a broom to keep the snow cleared around and on top of the meter and piping. Call 612-321-5200 or 1-800-296-9815 if there is ice on the meter, or one or more of the following con-ditions exist: • Snow or ice forma-tions are visible above the meter. • Meter is located below a downspout. • Overhang or eave does not fully extend over the meter. • Meter is located be-low a roof valley without a gutter. • Meter is located below an exterior water spout. If you suspect you have a natural gas leak, leave the area immediately on foot and tell others to do the same. Do not drive into or near a gas leak or vapor cloud. Do not use electric switches, telephones (in-cluding cellphones), or anything that could cause a spark. Once safely away from the area, call the Center-Point Energy emergency gas leak hot line at 1-800-296-9815 and 911 to re-port the location and de-scription of the leak and CenterPoint Energy will send a trained service tech-

nician immediately. For more natural gas safety tips, visit Center-PointEnergy.com/besafe.

Lakeville Parks and Recreation activities Lakeville Parks and Recreation will offer the following activities. Reg-ister at www.lakeville-rap-connect.com or in person at 20195 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Nickelodeon Universe Mall of America, Bloom-ington: Purchase all-day discount wristbands for $24 online at www.lakev-ille-rapconnect.com or at the Lakeville Parks & Recreation office in City Hall, 20195 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Pick up tickets at City Hall. Discount tickets avail-able for Sesame Street Live. For more informa-tion, go to lakeville-rap-connect.com or call 952-985-4600. Learn to Skate pro-gram – Indoor skating les-sons for ages 3 to adult at Hasse Arena, 8525 215th St., Lakeville. One-hour lessons are held Tuesday mornings and afternoons, Jan. 7 to Feb. 25, and Sat-urday mornings, Jan. 4 to Feb. 22. Several skating level times are offered. Cost: $89/session and $125/P.A.L.S. level. Regis-tration begins Dec. 14. Adult dance classes – East Coast Swing and Country Two-Step, ages 17 and older, Mondays, Jan. 6 to Feb. 10 (no class-es Jan. 20), at the Lakev-ille Heritage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. East Coast Swing: 7-8 p.m. Country Two-Step: 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $60 per couple per session. Winter Wonders – Ages 6-12 (no school ISD 194). Explore the outdoors from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday,

Jan. 17, at Ritter Farm Park, 19300 Ritter Trail. Build quinzee winter shel-ters, track animals, snow-shoe, build bird feeders and more. Dress for the weather. Cost: $50. Public skating sched-ule: 4-9 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday; noon to 8 p.m. Sunday. Holiday schedule: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 23, 26, 27, 30, Jan. 1, 17, 20 and Feb. 17; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 24, 31; closed Dec. 25. Map of outdoor rinks – A map of outdoor rinks is at www.lakevillemn.gov, or call 952-985-4600 to have a map mailed. Inclement weather – Call the hotline at 952-985-4690, option 1. A decision on the status of rinks will be made one hour before the scheduled opening of rinks. Snowshoe rental – Snowshoes are available for rent. Call 952-985-4600 to reserve a pair or for more information and availability. Cost: $3 per pair per day, three-day minimum on weekends. Deposit: $75 per pair. Three sizes to choose from (up to 150, 200 and 275 pounds). Pick up and re-turn snowshoes 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at Lakeville City Hall, 20195 Holyoke Ave. Wynne earns recognition from Dakota-Scott Work-force Investment Board Tim Wynne, nutrition and culinary director at McKenna Crossing, re-ceived the Willis E. Bran-ning Excellence in Youth Employment Services Award at the Dakota-Scott Workforce Investment Board’s annual legislative and awards event Dec. 13 at the Eagan Community Center. The award is presented to an organization, em-ployer, individual or a pro-gram that has demonstrat-

ed a commitment to and effectiveness in preparing young people ages 14-21 to enter the workforce. St. Francis Regional Medical Center sponsors the award for a Scott County recipi-ent and Dakota Electric sponsors the award for a Dakota County recipient. Located between Sha-kopee and Prior Lake, McKenna Crossing (af-filiated with Presbyterian Homes) serves older adults through community ser-vices, housing and health care. It offers numerous living options from apart-ment living to long-term-care housing. Wynne and his staff prepare meals, cater and serve to the pa-trons and residents of the facility. For the past several years, McKenna Crossing has worked with the Scott County Employment and Training programs, particularly the summer program. The facility has been and continues to be a strong proponent of estab-lishing the work readiness skills of youth. Youth participating in the program have the op-portunity to work in a kitchen and dining setting, starting in the dish room and potentially mov-ing into other aspects of the food service industry. Those who complete the 10-week summer program acquire work experience and potential job refer-ences. McKenna has also hired youth from the pro-gram, including one indi-vidual who now supervises the operations of the dish room and monitors new youth workers who join the team. The award Wynne re-ceived is named for Will Branning, a long-time Da-kota County commission-er and advocate for youth and youth employment opportunities.


Don Speiker, owner of Lakeville Bowl, approves of the ordinance. “If I put junk out on the sidewalk, people would scream and hol-ler,” Speiker said. He said if someone tripped, the city could be sued. The ordinance also bans people from se-curing their items to the boulevard with any materials that could “damage or negatively impact” the sidewalk or public right of way. Ben Franklin Drug store owner Scott Erick-son also approves of the ordinance. He said he worries that his elderly custom-ers could suffer serious

injuries. “I can’t have 75-year-old grandmas stepping over blankets, tables and chairs to get inside our business,” Erickson said. City Council mem-bers said some frustrated business owners or ho-meowners in the past have moved items placed to save spots, and have been confronted by an-gry spot-savers. A City Council memo states during this year’s Pan-O-Prog the city “received a significant amount of feedback” about the spot-saving trend. City Administra-tor Steve Mielke called the issues surrounding place-saving materials “a growing concern” at the Dec. 16 City Council

meeting where the coun-cil unanimously passed the new ordinance as part of the long list of consent agenda items. The city will inform residents about the new rules in its publications and on signs posted be-fore and during Pan-O-Prog. “We are hopeful this will improve safety and avoid heated discussions between people,” Mielke said. City staff worked with Pan-O-Prog officials, the Downtown Lakeville Business Association and city attorney to de-termine the ordinance provisions. Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

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road improvements, and the roundabout would be a shared cost city, which could include as-sessments. He said city staff had talked to property own-ers individually, and they expressed support for the roundabout. LaBeau, who owns a real estate company and is the daughter of Jim Stanton, owner of Shamrock Development and a property owner building in the area, said she was not sure every-one was clear about the costs and plans. Mayor Matt Little urged the council to take action to avoid delays for the developers, but Anderson advocated for clarity and transparency. He and LaBeau sug-gested the city get all af-fected property owners together to discuss the roundabout and road costs to ensure everyone

is in agreement. Little called not tak-ing action the kind of de-lay that developers com-plained to him about. “My intent is not to put hardships on devel-opers,” Anderson said. “I disagree with your implication, Mr. Mayor, that I’m trying to slow down the process. That’s not what I’m doing.” Anderson said the city’s plans were not clearly communicated to property owners near the County Road 50/185th Street roundabout, slat-ed for construction dur-ing 2014 and 2015, and wanted to make sure the city is “fully transpar-ent” about its round-about plans at the inter-section. Little apologized to Anderson and said he meant no implication that he was trying to de-lay a project. “I’m just telling you from my point of view, having heard from busi-

nesses and developers,” he said. Council Members Kerrin Swecker and Bart Davis also cited con-cerns that the project be completed correctly, but the majority agreed they did not want to delay it all. The council agreed to move ahead with aspects of the project that do not involve the roundabout; Anderson cast the dis-senting vote. LaBeau said there is need to straighten the dangerous curve on Holyoke Avenue. “There’s been six deaths since I’ve been there on that ‘S’ curve,” LaBeau said. “There’s no doubt in my mind it’s very dangerous.” The council will con-sider the roundabout at its Jan. 6, 2014, meeting.


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bowling, were always a risk.” He said participants paid $5 to play and there was a first-week redemp-tion for those who were eliminated early after be-ing shot by another player with one of the Nerf guns’ soft discs or darts. “For $25, they could be back in the game,” he said. Students could play as an individual or in a group; Conlow and four friends formed “Team USA.” “The No. 1 rule which was said often is, ‘Trust no one!’ ” Conlow said. “I found it was a great way to learn teamwork, prepara-tion and planning. You also learned to be patient and wait for the right op-portunity. Information-gathering and building al-liances played a key role in the outcome. You need to know who your friends are and be constantly aware of your surroundings. Those are good lessons for all aspects of life.” Any player who did not defeat an opponent within a week was eliminated from the game. Conlow said their most effective technique for win-ning was to “kidnap” kids from the school grounds and drive them off the property to “shoot” them. “Of course, there was a lot of struggle and an oc-casional fat lip,” Conlow said. “We ambushed one player at his girlfriend’s house, chased down oth-ers in their neighborhood or sprung upon them early in the morning when they walked from their house to their car. “We chased one player and he ran into a pond. The water was freezing and we waited for him but he stayed there a long time so we left him alone.” Lakeville interim police Chief John Kornmann said he is familiar with

the Nerf war game, also referred to as “Assassin,” and cautioned students to remember it is just a game. He said they should not risk harm to themselves or others while playing. “Someone needs to show responsibility and make sure the kid comes out safely,” he said. He said the department received calls this spring from alarmed residents who wondered what teen-agers were doing prowl-ing around outside their homes carrying Nerf guns. “The people who live there don’t quite get why there’s 75-100 kids run-ning around their neigh-borhood,” Kornmann said. He said the students were all “more than respectful” when ap-proached by police and agreed to respect people’s private property. “The kids we encoun-tered were very respect-ful,” Kornmann said. “They were just trying to have fun.” Conlow said in the re-cent game, players were eliminated either by being “shot” with a Nerf gun or “stabbed” with a plastic spoon; some areas were declared “safe zones,” in-cluding the school and area churches. The game started Oct. 18; by Dec. 8, there were 14 remaining players who played the final 90-minute battle at Ritter Farm Park. Conlow said key for him was playing as part of a team instead of choosing to play as an individual. “We helped each other along the way and all five of us made it to the final battle,” Conlow said. He split his $1,300 winnings with his “Team USA” teammates, Zach-ary Klesch, Zach Emond, John Grenier and Jake Tipka, allowing each $260. Although Conlow said it is “highly recommended and encouraged” that they

donate their winnings, everyone can choose to spend the money as they wish. “The rest of my team-mates haven’t disclosed what they are doing with their funds yet,” Conlow said. “There are so many great ways to use the money. I’m confident ad-ditional funds will be do-nated which will have far reaching impacts on our community. Giving the award away makes it more fun and enjoyable. It keeps the game in its proper per-spective. Further, it’s great to know that the real win-ners were those who will receive these gifts com-pliments of the Lakeville South Nerf war players.” Conlow hopes his do-nation inspires other fu-ture “Nerfers.” Conlow’s driving ambi-tion to win was so he could donate Nerf guns, said his father Brent Conlow. “I’m not sure I fully appreciated his commit-ment to this effort until I came home from work and found a bunch of toys that he purchased under our Christmas tree,” Brent Conlow said. Levi Conlow said he hopes his donation will encourage the next genera-tion. “I hope to encourage a bunch of mini-Nerfers who will have fun run-ning around the house on Christmas morning play-ing Nerf,” he said. “It’s something you can play with family and friends or just target practicing on your own. Either way, the Nerf toys encourage active involvement and exercise, which is something kids of all ages need.” Conlow said future wars are planned and a countdown to the next one is on their website, south-sidenerf.com.


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Apple Valley Chamber hands out awardsApple Valley

Medical Center named Business

of the Year by Tad Johnson


Apple Valley Medi-cal Center was named the Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce 2013 Business of the Year during the chamber’s Dec. 11 event at Old Chicago Conference Center. The Medical Center, which was established in 1974, employs more than 500 people and is owned by medical staff members. “Apple Valley Medical Center is a medical insti-tution which is doctor-owned and a model other communities would cov-et,” said Edward Kearney, chamber president. “They are very active in both the business community and the community at large.” The Medical Center was nominated along with many other businesses by chamber members and selected for the award by the chamber’s board of direc-tors. Among the award criteria are a com-pany’s sense of volunteerism, business citizenship, ethics, customer service, phi-lanthropy, job growth and reinvestment in Apple Valley, and its standing as a great place to work. The other 2013 finalist was Wings Fi-nancial Credit Union (formerly North-west Airlines Credit Union). Kearney said Wings is celebrating its 75th anniversary, is a $4 billion company headquartered in Apple Valley and is just as deserving. The Medical Center sponsors many local organizations with financial contri-butions and encourages its employees to volunteer. Among the organizations it supports are the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life, the American Red Cross, 360 Communities Lewis House domestic violence shelters, Toys for Tots and local food shelves. The Medical Center also sponsors nu-merous chamber events and actively par-ticipates in chamber and civic projects.

The 60,000-square-foot facility offers family medicine, specialty care, occupa-tional health, physical therapy, imaging, pharmacy, eye care and 24-hour urgent care. Kearney noted that giving back is part

of the Medical Center’s mission state-ment. The awards luncheon, which was at-tended by 120 people, included a perfor-mance by the Eastview Chamber Choir and Stagebenders Comedy Group.

Past winners of the Business of the Year award have been Anchor Bank; Dougherty, Mo-lenda, Solfest Hills & Bauer Law Firm; Apple Valley American Legion; Culver’s; Kwik Kopy; Uponor; Enjoy Restau-rant; Pahl’s Market; Great Lakes Window & Siding; TAGS Gymnastics; and Rascal’s Restaurant.

Entrepreneur Ellickson Photo was se-lected the chamber’s 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year. “Chris Ellickson is one of the most giving people in Apple Valley who has never once asked for any-thing in return and has do-nated his services for many years,” Kearney said. The 20-year-old busi-ness has offered its pho-tography and technology services to a wide range of business, youth sports,

nonprofit and individuals. It offers wed-ding and studio portrait photography. Ellickson Photo and Linhoff Photo have taken thousands of photos for youth and high school sports organiza-tions, including Eastview Athletic Asso-ciation, Rosemount Athletic Association and high schools in Edina, Chanhassen, Chaska and St. Louis Park. Chris’s wife, Kelli, was a semifinalist last year for Minnesota Teacher of the Year.

Volunteer David Hurley with Global View Capi-tal Advisors was named the chamber’s Volunteer of the Year for Apple Valley. “David is one of those quiet people who anyone who runs anything wishes they had working on their event or proj-ect,” Kearney said. “He puts in more hours of volunteerism than anyone I’ve seen in my 13 years here.” Through his work, Hurley’s client base is primarily in Apple Valley and Eden Prairie. “David is an example of the person who steps up before being asked and is tireless in his giving,” Kearney said. “We feel so happy for David being recognized for the philanthropy of his time.”

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

The Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce selected Apple Valley Medical Center as its 2013 Business of the Year. At the award presentation Dec. 11 were (from left) Scott Kadrlik, chamber board chairman; Linda Hack; Susan Berg; Abby Oxendine; Jacqueline Fitzgerald; Mike Foley, Apple Valley Medical Center administrator; Ed Kearney, chamber president; Derek Hensche; and Sue Seline. (Photo by Ellickson Photo)

Chris Ellickson David Hurley


LEGAL NOTICES

EUREKA TOWNSHIPNOTICE FOR FILING FOR TOWNSHIP ELECTIONS

Notice is hereby given to qualified vot-ers of Eureka Township, Dakota County,State of Minnesota, that filing for town office will be held for a two week period beginning December 31, 2013. Affidavitsof Candidacy shall be filed with the Town-ship Clerk at Eureka Town Hall, 25043 Ce-dar Ave., Farmington, MN during postedhours from December 31, 2013 to Janu-ary 14, 2014. Filings will close at 5:00 pm Tuesday, January 14,2014.

Filing Fee - $2.00Offices to be filled at the March Annual

Election are: Supervisor Seat 1 - 3yr. termSupervisor Seat 2 - 3 yr. termLinda Wilson, Clerk/TreasurerEureka Township

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CITY OF LAKEVILLEADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

CITY HALL ADA DOOR UPGRADES AND

INFORMATION DESKThe City of Lakeville will receive single

prime sealed bids for City Hall ADA Door Upgrades and Information Desk until 2:00p.m. local time on January 16, 2014 atthe Lakeville City Hall, 20195 Holyoke Av-enue, Lakeville, Minnesota 55044 at whichtime and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Bidding documents, including theProposal Form, Drawings and Specifica-tions, will be on file at the Offices of the Architect, Wold Architects and Engineers, 305 St. Peter Street, St. Paul, Minnesota 55102. (651) 227-7773; at the Minneapo-lis Builders Exchange; McGraw Hill Con-struction/Dodge Plan Center; Reed Con-struction; iSqFt Plan Room (St. Paul, MN); and from PlanWell at www.e-arc.com/MN/Plymouth.

This project includes: Hardware revi-sions, access control and new wood in-formation desk.

American Reprographics Company (ARC), 4730 Park Glen Road, St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416 (612) 722-2303,facsimile (612) 722-2958 will providecomplete downloadable sets of the Bid-ding Documents to prospective biddersand subcontractors. The downloads will be available December 12, 2013. A de-posit check in the amount of $25 madeout to ARC is required for each set down-loaded via the internet at www.e-arc.comand clicking on the PlanWell icon, then the Public Plan Room icon, select CityHall ADA Door Upgrades and InformationDesk.

Make proposals on the bid forms sup-plied in the Project Manual. No oral, tele-graphic or telephonic proposals or modi-fications will be considered. Submit witheach bid a certified check or acceptable bidder’s bond payable to City of Lakeville (City) in an amount equal to five percent(5%) of the total bid. The successful bid-der will be required to furnish satisfactoryLabor and Material Payment Bond andPerformance Bond.

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

The City requires Substantial Comple-tion of the project on or before June 1, 2014.

CITY OF LAKEVILLECHARLENE FRIEDGES, CITY CLERK


151309

CITY OF LAKEVILLEORDINANCE NO. 914CITY OF LAKEVILLEDAKOTA COUNTY,

MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 7 OF THE

LAKEVILLE CITY CODE CONCERNING

SPECIAL EVENTSTHE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

LAKEVILLE ORDAINS:SECTION 1. Section 7-3-7 of the Lakev-

ille City Code is amended to provide:7-3-7: BOULEVARD MAINTENANCE

AND USE:A. The following are prohibited in or

on any public boulevard or right of way without the written approval of the Public Works Director or City Engineer: privately owned structures, shrubs, boulders, land-scape material. The following are per-mitted in the boulevard area of a right ofway: grass, ground cover, mailboxes, anddelivery tubes.

B. The owners or occupants of build-ings, grounds or premises shall maintainthe boulevards abutting the same.

C. With the exception of the specialevents listed below, written approval is required from the Public Works Directoror City Engineer to place obstructions oritems on any public boulevard or rightof way for the twenty-four (24) hours preceding a special event and during the special event. A “special event” is an event that will take place in a public street. With respect to the events listed below, obstructions and items cannot be placed prior to the time listed and must be removed by the time listed. Further-more, obstructions and items may not be secured with any materials that could damage or negatively impact the public boulevard or right of way.

1. Pan-O-Prog Cruise Night: 9:00 a.m. – 11:59 p.m.2. Pan-O-Prog Parade: 9:00 a.m. – 11:59 p.m.SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be ef-

fective immediately upon its passage and publication.

ADOPTED this 16th day of December,2013 by the City Council of the City ofLakeville

CITY OF LAKEVILLE BY: Matt Little, MayorATTEST: Charlene Friedges, City Clerk


153165

CREDIT RIVER TOWNSHIPPUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF FILING FOR TOWNSHIP ELECTION

Notice is hereby given to qualified vot-ers of Credit River Township, Scott Coun-ty, State of Minnesota that filing for Town Offices will be held for a two week periodbeginning on December 31, 2013.

Affidavits of Candidacy shall be filed with the Town Clerk, Lisa Quinn, fromJanuary 2-14, 2014, at the Credit River Town Hall, located at 18985 Meadow ViewBlvd., Prior Lake, MN 55372 on Tuesdaysfrom 9 AM until noon, or by appointment Monday through Friday from January 2, 2014 to January 14, 2014 by scheduling via email at [email protected]. Youmay call with questions during business hours of Tuesday 0830-1200 at 952-440-5515.

Filing will close January 14, 2014 at 5 PM.

Filing fee $2 (by check only)Offices to be filled at the March 11,

2014 Annual Election are:Supervisor, Seat C, for a three (3) year

termSupervisor, Seat E, for a three (3) year

termCandidates will be required to file for

one of the open seats.Submitted by:/s/ Lisa Quinn, ClerkCredit River Township

Published in LakevilleDecember 13, 20, 2013

68554

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 194

REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING MINUTES

NOVEMBER 26This is a summary of the Independent

School District No. 194 Regular School Board Meeting on Tues, November 26,2013 with full text available for public in-spection on the district website at www.isd194.k12.mn.us or District Office at 8670 210th Street W., Lakeville, MN 55044

The meeting was called to order at 7:04p.m. followed by pledge of allegiance. All board members and administrators were present except Exec Dir Ouillette.

Truth in Taxation Hearing was held. Public comment by: Dale DeGross, 1016 144th Street East, Burnsville.

Consent agenda items approved: Min-utes of the meetings on November 12; employment recommendations, leave re-quests and resignations; payment of bills& claims as presented; wire transfers andinvestments as presented; alt facilities change orders as presented; donations and fieldtrips.

Reports presented: Science: AP Chem-istry; Summer school update; CommunityEd summer programs update; Kindergar-ten 2014-15 update.

Recommended actions approved: Poli-cies 206-Public Participation in Board ofEducation Meetings/Complaints About Persons at Board of Education Meet-ings and Data Privacy Considerations;207-Public Hearings; 208-Development,Adoption, and Implementation of Policies; 209-Code of Ethics.

Closed session: Discussion was held inaccordance with MN Statute 13D.05 Subd3(c) Regarding Sale of Property.

Adjournment at 9:06 p.m. Published in

Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganDecember 20, 2013

150125

NEW MARKET TOWNSHIPPUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF FILING DATES AND OFFICES FOR

ANNUAL TOWNSHIP ELECTION

Notice is hereby given to qualifiedvoters of New Market Township, ScottCounty, Minnesota that filing for the Annual Township Election to be heldon Tuesday, March 11, 2014, will beaccepted for the following offices.

Two (2) Supervisors for a three (3) year term.

One (1) Clerk for a two (2) year term. Affidavit of Candidacy will be accepted

at the Township Hall, 8950 230th St E Lakeville, Mn 55044 by appointment withthe Town Clerk , Telephone 952- 461- 2333.

Filings will be held for a two week pe-riod beginning Tuesday December 31, 2013 at 8:00 AM and ending Tuesday,January 14, 2014 at 5:00 PM. The filing fee is $2.00.

LeRoy Clausen, ClerkNew Market Township

Published in LakevilleDecember 13, 20, 2013

67280

CITY OF LAKEVILLEDAKOTA COUNTY,

MINNESOTA SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 916

AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FEE SCHEDULE

This ordinance prescribes fees suffi-cient to defray the costs incurred by the City of Lakeville in reviewing, investigat-ing and administering applications for the amendment to an official control es-tablished pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Sections 462.351 to 462.364 and applica-tions for permits or approvals required un-der an official control established pursu-ant to those sections.

A printed copy of the ordinance is avail-able for inspection by any person duringregular office hours at the office of the City Clerk.

APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION this16th day of December, 2013, by the City Council of the City of Lakeville, Minne-sota.



153179

CITY OF LAKEVILLEORDINANCE NO. 915

DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 10 OF THE

LAKEVILLE CITY CODE, THE SUBDIVISION ORDINANCETHE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

LAKEVILLE, MINNESOTA ORDAINS:SECTION 1. J. In lieu of land dedication the city may

require the cash contribution as adopted by Ordinance by the City Council.

SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be ef-fective immediately upon its passage and publication.

ADOPTED this 16th day of December,2013, by the City Council of the City of Lakeville, Minnesota



153176

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 194

SPECIAL BOARD MEETINGNOVEMBER 26

This is a summary of the IndependentSchool District No. 194 Special Board ofEducation Meeting on Tuesday, Novem-ber 26, 2013 with full text available for public inspection on the district websiteat www.isd194.k12.mn.us or 8670 210thStreet W., Lakeville, MN 55044

The meeting was called to order at 5:00p.m. All board members and administra-tors were present except Exec Dir Ouil-lette.

Discussions: Impact Academy businessplan; kindergarten planning; boundarycommittee update;

Meeting adjourned at 6:57 p.m.Published in

Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganDecember 20, 2013

150109

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 196SCHOOL BOARD

AGENDA ITEM DECEMBER 9, 2013

CALL TO ORDER: Chairperson Rob Duchscher, called the regular School Board meeting to order at 6 p.m. on November 12, 2013 at Da-kota Ridge School.

ATTENDANCE: Present: Joel Albright, Art Coulson, treasurer; Rob Duchscher, chairperson; Gary Huusko, clerk; Jackie Magnuson, vice chairperson; Bob Schutte and Superintendent Jane K. Berenz.

Absent: Mike Roseen.PLEDGE: The Pledge of Al-

legiance was led by the School Board.

MOMENT OF SILENCE: There was a moment of silence for Todd Wengenroth, Highland Elemen-tary School custodian, who passed away.

AGENDA: Motion by Huusko, seconded by Albright and carried, with six members voting in favor and no member voting in opposi-tion, to approve the agenda.

RECOGNITION: The board rec-ognized Minnesota Community Ed-ucation Association (MCEA) Award recipients Derek Appleyard and Jan

Stoven, who received the MCEA Project Award for Project Explore’s Spring Prom and the Region 5 Community Educator of Excellence Award, respectively.

SUPERINTENDENT’S RECOG-NITION: Berenz recognized:

• All veterans for their service to our country, and students and staff from Apple Valley and Eagan high schools, who hosted events recog-nizing area veterans.

• Members of the Eagan High School girls’ volleyball team who won their state tournament;

• EVHS boys’ soccer team on qualifying for state;

• Football and volleyball teams, who are competing for spots at state tournaments, and

• Clerical, secretarial and main-tenance support employees.

CONSENT: Motion by Schutte, seconded by Magnuson and car-ried, with six members voting in favor and no member voting in op-position, to approve the following Consent items:

Minutes Minutes of October 28 regular and October 30, 2013 spe-cial board meetings (Exhibits A1 and A2);

Claims: Claims for October 23-November 5, 2013 (Exhibit B1);

Electronic Funds: E lec t ron ic funds transfer schedule for October 19-November 1, 2013 (Exhibit B2);

Investments: Schedule of in-vestments for October 19-Novem-ber 1, 2013 (Exhibit B3);

Gifts – October: Gifts received for the month ending October 31, 2013 (Exhibit B4);

Advertising – October: Advertising revenue received by

October 31, 2013 (Exhibit B5);NEA Foundation Grant – GH

STEAM Room: A $5,000 grant from the NEA Foundation for compen-sating teachers who are integrat-ing arts and science curriculum to utilize the STEAM Room at Glacier Hills Elementary School of Arts and Science (Exhibit B6);

Personnel: Separations, leaves of absence and new staff (Exhibit C1);

Clinical Experience: Agreement with St. Catherine University for clinical occupational or physical therapist experience effective De-cember 2, 2013 through June 30, 2018 (Exhibit D1);

REPORTS: Early Learning/Adult Basic Education Facility

Director of Finance and Opera-tions Jeff Solomon introduced the report on the Early Learning/Adult Basic Education facility and noted he had previously shared financ-ing information for the project and would be happy to address any questions on the pre-sale analysis completed by Ehlers.

Scott McQueen and Lynae Schoen with Wold Architects and Engineers, provided an overview of the current phase, which is completion of the Design Develop-ment for the Early Learning/Adult Basic Education Facility project. McQueen reported on the progress that has been made since his last report in September on the Sche-matic Design phase. He noted the 52,000 square foot space has been increased slightly to meet program needs and accommodate addi-tional staff. He noted the additional 2,000 square feet is still within the project budget and has worked with the city to gain the approval to move forward with construction of the site. McQueen reported the zone to the west, toward the neigh-bors on Drake Path, has been thor-oughly designed to the next level to include additional landscaping and berming; more development of ar-eas for student use and to address storm water management issues.

McQueen introduced Lynae Schoen who has been working with district staff. Schoen walked through the interior views and uses of each area in the building and the types of materials that they are looking to use.

McQueen noted the project is moving into the Contract Docu-ment phase where final decisions will be made regarding materials and engineering. Wold will prepare the documents so that vendors are able to complete their bids in Janu-ary. He plans to return to the Feb-ruary School Board meeting for the board to award the bids. The build-ing is scheduled to open in January 2015.

Shane Butler, Project Manager with Bossardt Corporation, the construction management com-pany, reviewed the project budget cost analysis and noted the first five contracts were $370,000 un-der estimated budget, which is re-flected in the design development costs. The current total project budget is $13,510,000. Bossardt will put together another estimate and refine the budget even further as the project moves to the Con-tract Document phase; probably in mid-December.

Seven people spoke to this topic and mostly expressed concern with traffic.

Duchscher announced the administration will contact area residents within the next couple of weeks to respond to their con-cerns.

Enrollment Projections for 2014-15 through 2018-19: Student Infor-mation Supervisor Kim Reis pre-sented five-year district enrollment projections (Exhibit E), focusing on projected numbers for the 2014-15 school year.

An Enrollment Projections Com-mittee reviewed key assumptions and results from the census-based and cohort survival (grade progres-sion) models to determine projec-tions through 2018-19. Assuming all factors that affect enrollment stay the same, the projections show the enrollment decline has slowed and enrollment is stable.

The total district enrollment for 2014-15 is projected to increase overall by 26 students to 27,228. Reis said the district’s peak enroll-ment was in 2003-04. The district attempts to maintain a 100 percent census of district population, and new development is tracked by in-dividual census areas. New growth, which has begun, will be in the eastern and southern portions of the district.

OLD BUSINESS: Audited Com-prehensive Annual Financial Re-port

Solomon asked the board to ap-prove the 2012-13 Audited Com-prehensive Annual Financial Report (Exhibit F). There were no changes from the report that was presented in detail at the last board meeting.

Motion by Magnuson, second-ed by Huusko and carried, with

six members voting in favor, no member voting in opposition and Albright abstaining, to approve the report.

NEW BUSINESS: High School Course Revisions for 2014-15

Director of Teaching and Learn-ing Steve Troen presented pro-posed revisions to high school courses for 2014-15. Details for all new course proposals, repli-cated courses, dropped courses and course title changes are in Exhibit G. He gave a brief overview of the course revision process and highlighted some of the changes. Courses are aligned with state academic standards and federal graduation requirements. In addi-tion, the district engages the com-munity as to what they think would be best for students. This was evidenced with the expansion of magnet school curriculum in world languages to middle schools and high schools.

Troen noted students may earn college and high school credit by taking College in the School (CIS) Advanced Placement classes and other dual credit options. These courses have seen increased en-rollment, save families’ tuition dol-lars and benefit students by being college ready. The changing world of technology and student interest also drives course revisions and exclusions. Programs are shifted to meet student needs.

There were no requests for course revisions at the middle school level for next year.

The board is scheduled to act on the proposed high school course revisions at its next regular meeting

OTHER ACTION: Canvass Re-turns of November 5, 2013, Gen-eral and Special Election:

Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent Kim Craven asked the board to approve a resolution canvassing the returns of votes of the November 5, 2013 school district general and special elec-tion (Exhibit H). She noted nearly 24 percent of registered District 196 voters cast ballots and there were 553 absentee votes. There were 21,361 voters who cast votes for three School Board members and one challenger as follows: Mike Roseen-12,138; Gary Huus-ko-10,616; Art Coulson-9,811 and Craig Angrimson-7,199.

Voters also voted to revoke the district’s existing referendum authorization of approximately $1,110.95 per pupil and replace it with a new authorization of $1,485.95 per pupil for ten years, with 14,217 voting in favor, 7,124 voting against the same and there were 20 blank ballots.

Motion by Albright, seconded by Schutte and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve the resolution.

Issuance of Certificates: Cra-ven asked the board to approve a resolution authorizing issuance of certificates of election and direct-ing the school district clerk to per-form other election-related duties (Exhibit I).

Motion by Magnuson, seconded by Schutte and carried, with six members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve the resolution.

Clerical and Secretarial Employ-ees Appreciation: In conjunction with American Education Week and Education Support Professionals Day, Berenz asked the board to approve a resolution recognizing the vital role played by clerical and secretarial employees in supporting the education of students and de-claring November 17-23, 2013 as District 196 Clerical and Secretarial Employees Appreciation Week (Ex-hibit J).

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Albright and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve the resolution.

Maintenance Support Employ-ees Appreciation: In conjunction with American Education Week and Education Support Professionals Day, Berenz asked the board to ap-prove a resolution recognizing the vital role played by maintenance support employees in supporting the education of students and de-claring November 17-23, 2013 as District 196 Maintenance Support Employees Appreciation Week (Ex-hibit K).

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Coulson and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve the resolution.

BOARD MEMBERS AND SU-PERINTENDENT UPDATES: Al-bright congratulated re-elected incumbents, thanked citizens for voting and reminded people that November 14 is Give to the Max Day and schools may re-ceive matching donations through GiveMN.

Duchscher thanked everyone for voting and the parent group for its support.

Berenz reported she wrote Rick Heller who spoke at the October 14 board meeting. She congratulated incumbents and thanked all who took the time to learn about the levy and who shared that knowl-edge with others in the community. Berenz said the one-on-one en-gagement on the issue combined with community leaders and or-ganizations such as Chamber and Rotary resulted in high voter turn-out.

ADJOURNMENT: Motion by Huusko, seconded by Schutte and carried, with six members voting in favor and no member voting in op-position, to adjourn the meeting at 7:15 p.m.

Published in Apple Valley, Lakeville, Burnsville/Eagan

December 20, 2013150386

The holidays are a time of good cheer, but they can also be a time for battling traffic and inclement weather all the way to the homes of your loved ones. Staying safe should be a top priority for all travelers, so Better Business Bureau of Min-nesota and North Da-kota (BBB) recommends taking a few precautions before hitting the road this holiday season. Every year, holiday travelers take to the skies and hit the rails, but most hit the road. In 2012, AAA estimated that 93 million Americans trav-eled more than 50 miles over the holidays – 90 percent of which drove. “Because of increased traffic and the possibil-ity of wintry conditions, staying safe on the roads over the holidays re-quires additional precau-tions,” said Dana Badge-row, president and CEO of the BBB of Minne-sota and North Dakota. “Make sure your car is in good shape and that you’re prepared for bad weather. While you’re driving, put down your cellphone and focus on the road ahead.” BBB recommends taking the following steps for safe travel this holiday season: • Create a car safety kit – Holiday driving of-ten includes the threat of dangerous winter weather. Snow and ice can lead to accidents, car troubles, long delays and road closures. You can be ready for bad weather by creating your own safety kit. Basics for the kit include a blanket, flash-light with extra batteries, radio, first aid kit, jump-er cables, non-perishable foods like granola bars

and nuts, bottled water, an ice scraper and warm gloves. • Get a tune-up – If your car is due for a tune-up, take it in before mak-ing that long haul. At the very least, check the car’s fluid levels, wipers and tire pressure. Check the condition of your tires and, if you plan on driving through serious winter weather, consider getting snow tires. • Take the BBB with you – When you’re away from home or in the midst of an emergency, it’s hard to know which businesses – such as tow trucks and locksmiths – you can trust. The good news is that free BBB Business Reviews are op-timized for smartphones. Now you can easily find businesses you can trust when you’re on the go and away from your computer by visiting bbb.org. • Start early and slow down – The best way to fight holiday traffic is to give yourself some extra time to make the trip, and don’t speed. Also, if you’re caught speeding by law enforcement, that adds travel time and puts a dent in your holiday budget. • Drop the distrac-tions – A lot of tragic and unnecessary acci-dents take place when people are talking on their cellphone or send-ing text messages. When you’re behind the wheel, don’t text and drive. Pull into a rest area or a ser-vice station before send-ing a text message or making a call on your cellphone. For more advice on staying safe over the hol-idays, visit bbb.org/us/consumer-tips-holiday.

Red Cross: Safety tips to prevent holiday home fires The American Red Cross urges residents to take extra precautions with cooking and deco-rating around the holi-days. “Cooking is the lead-ing cause of home fires, and as people are cook-ing, entertaining, and stringing lights this holi-day season, we’re urg-ing that they take safety measures to ensure that their homes and loved ones are safe from the threat of fire,” said Phil Hansen, regional chapter executive of the Ameri-can Red Cross Northern Minnesota Region. Christmas Day, Christmas Eve and Thanksgiving are the top three days for cooking fires, according to the National Fire Prevention Association. Nationally, the Red Cross responds to a disaster on aver-age every eight minutes, and the vast majority of them are home fires. The Red Cross has some simple steps every-one can follow to prevent home fires around the holidays:

Holiday

entertaining Test your smoke alarms. Check food regularly while cooking and re-main in the home while cooking. Use a timer as a reminder that the stove or oven is on. Enforce a “kid-free zone” in the cooking area and make children stay at least three feet away from the stove. Keep anything that can catch fire away from the stove, oven or any appliance in the kitchen that generates heat.

Clean cooking surfac-es on a regular basis to prevent grease buildup. Purchase a fire extin-guisher to keep in the kitchen. Contact the lo-cal fire department to receive training on the proper use of extinguish-ers.

Holiday

decorating Choose decorations that are flame resistant or flame retardant. Keep children, pets and decorations away from lit candles. Keep matches and lighters up high in a locked cabinet. Replace any string of lights with worn or bro-ken cords or loose bulb connections. Connect no more than three strands of mini-light sets and a maximum of 50 bulbs for screw-in bulbs. Read manufacturer’s instruc-tions for the number of LED strands to connect. Some strings of lights are only for indoor or outdoor use, but not both. Use clips, not nails, to hang lights so the cords do not get damaged. Keep decorations away from windows and doors. People should also download the free Amer-ican Red Cross First Aid app, which provides instant access to infor-mation on handling the most common first aid emergencies. The apps can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store for Android by searching for American Red Cross or by going to redcross.org/mobileapps.

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Church Basement Ladies The Church Base-ment Ladies return in “A Mighty Fortress is our Basement,” at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Cen-ter. Tickets are $30 and $40 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or at Ticketmaster.com.

‘Snow White’ auditions Giant Step Theatre will hold auditions for youths in grades one and above Friday, Jan. 3, and Saturday, Jan. 4, for its Lakeville Area Commu-nity Education produc-tion of “Snow White and the Seven or Eight Dwarfs.” All youths who audi-

tion will receive a part. To sign up for an audi-tion and for information regarding the schedule, send an email with the child’s name, grade level and preference for a Fri-day evening or Saturday afternoon audition time to [email protected]. Registration fee is $98 and includes 10 free tickets. Information on Giant Step Theatre is available at www.Lakev-illeAreaCommunityEd.net or by calling 952-232-2170.

Dream Theater at BPAC Progressive metal band Dream Theater will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Dec. 20. Prices range from $49-$69. All ticket levels

increase $5 the day of the show. Tickets can be pur-chased at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or at Ticketmaster.com. More information about the band is at dreamthe-ater.net.

Art house winter classes Registration for winter classes at the Eagan Art House is now open online at https://parkandrec.cityofeagan.com/Start/Start.asp or by calling Eagan Parks and Recre-ation at 651-675-5500. The Eagan Art House can also be reached at 651-675-5521 for ques-tions and registration. A full list of classes can be found at cityofea-gan.com/images/recre-ation/EaganArtHouse/Fall_2013.pdf.

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

[email protected].

Comedy Chris Franjola featuring Brent Terhune Dec. 27-29 at Mystic Lake Comedy Club. Tickets: $19. Information: mys-ticlake.com, 952-445-9000. Louie Anderson, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31, at the Burnsville Perform-ing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets range from $32.95 to $102.95 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com. SNL Legends: Rob Sch-neider, Tim Meadows and Chris Kattan, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31, Mystic Comedy Club in Prior Lake. Tickets: $45. Information: mys-ticlake.com, 952-445-9000.

Exhibits Best of Bonnie Feather-stone & Friends exhibit will be on display Dec. 19 through Feb. 1 in the art gallery at Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Information: 952-895-4685, facebook.com/bon-nieandfriends. Wildlife paintings by Rose-mount artist Lynda Dykhouse are on display through Decem-ber at the Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rose-mount. Winter Art Experience, an exhibit sponsored by the Ea-gan Art Festival and Eagan Art House, is on display through February at the Eagan Byerly’s, 1299 Promenade Place. Infor-mation: 651-675-5521. Savage Arts Council’s De-cember exhibit features digital works by illustrator Franklin Haws. It can be seen during business hours through Dec. 30 at Savage City Hall, 6000 Mc-Coll Drive, Savage.

Music Great Northern Union Chorus presents Christmas Stories at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, at the Burns-ville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets

are $15-$35 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com. And Glory Shone Around: An Early American Christmas Concert by The Rose Ensem-ble, 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, at Shepherd of the Valley Lu-theran Church, 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Val-ley. Tickets are $25 in advance and $27 at the door. Informa-tion: 651-225-4340 or www.RoseEnsemble.org. The BoDeans, 8 p.m. Sat-urday, Dec. 28, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets are $40-$45 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmas-ter.com.

Theater “Sweeney Todd: The De-mon Barber of Fleet Street,” 7:30 p.m. Dec. 19-21, and 2 p.m. Dec. 22, at the Burns-ville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets: $20 for adults, $17 for seniors and students at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com. “Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” Dec. 13-30 at Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakev-ille. Tickets: $13, www.lakevil-leareaartscenter.com, 952-985-4640.

Workshops/classes/other Winter art classes are open for registration at the Eagan Art House. A class list is at http://www.cityofeagan.com/images/recreation/EaganArtHouse/Fall_2013.pdf. Information: Ea-gan Parks and Recreation at 651-675-5500 or the Eagan Art House at 651-675-5521. Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Bat-tle, 4-5 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Apple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, 952-953-2385. Ages 12-18. Adult painting open stu-dio, 9 a.m. to noon Fridays at the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Fee is $5 per session. Information: 651-675-5521. Drawing & Painting (adults

and teens) with Christine Tier-ney, 9 a.m. to noon Wednes-days, River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville. Information: www.christinetierney.com, 612-210-3377. Teens Express Yourself with Paint, 5-7 p.m. Mondays at Brushworks School of Art in Burnsville, www.BrushworksS-choolofArt.com, 651-214-4732. Drama/theater classes for ages 4 and up at River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville, 952-736-3644. Show Biz Kids Theater Class for children with special needs (ASD/DCD programs), In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, 952-736-3644. Broadway Kids Dance and Theater Program for all ages and abilities, In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville (Colonial Shopping Center), 952-736-3644. Join other 55-plus adults at the Eagan Art House to create beaded jewelry. The Jewelry Club meets on the third Friday of each month from 1-3 p.m. Information: 651-675-5500. Soy candle making class-es held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Ja-mie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota. Country line dance class-es held for intermediates Mon-days 1:30-4 p.m. at Rambling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington, $5/class. Call Mar-ilyn 651-463-7833. Country line dance class-es on Wednesdays at the Lakeville Senior Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; Intermediate, 10 a.m. to noon. $5/class. Call 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 Library. Infor-mation: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected].

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Friday, Dec. 20 MOMS Club of Eagan West monthly social, 10-11 a.m., Peace Church, 2180 Glory Drive, Eagan. Ashley Lundgren will speak about dressing your body type/updating your look. The club offers support to stay-at-home moms and mothers working part-time. Play groups, tours and weekly events are of-fered for mothers and children. Information: https://www.face-book.com/MomsClubOfEagan-West or [email protected]. Movies for Kids: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” 10:30 a.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 County Road 42 W., Burnsville. Ages: 2-6. Informa-tion: 952-891-0300.

Saturday, Dec. 21 Christmas in Sugarland, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Good Shep-herd Lutheran Church, 151 E. County Road 42, Burnsville. Area families are invited to step into Sugarland and experience the true meaning of Christmas. Activities include storytime, a skit, cookie decorating, crafts, music, games and a souvenir photo. Free. Information: 952-432-5527 or goodshep.com.

Sunday, Dec. 22 Skate with Santa Claus during the public skating ses-sion, 3:30-5 p.m., Apple Valley Sports Arena, 14452 Hayes

Road (adjoining AVHS). Free apple cider and treats. Christ-mas music and Christmas face painting will also be featured. All ages welcome. Cost: $4 at the door.

Friday, Dec. 27 “The Princess Bride,” 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Gal-axie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. Enjoy this bent fairy tale, complete with fencing, fighting, chases and escapes in a time when men were men and swamps were fire swamps, full of quicksand and rodents of unusual size, and the most beautiful woman in the world was named But-tercup. For all ages. Free. Infor-mation: 952-891-7045. “Despicable Me 2,” 2:30-5 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 County Road 42 W., Burnsville. Comedy adventure featuring the return of super-villain Gru, the girls, the unpredictably hi-larious Minions, and a host of new characters. Popcorn and cocoa provided. Ages: 6-15. Free. Information: 952-891-0300.

Saturday, Dec. 28 Free children’s concert led by Colorado-based duo Jeff and Paige, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Presbyterian Church of the Apostles, 701 E. 130th St., Burnsville. Information: 952-890-7877.

Monday, Dec. 30 Board Games, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101

County Road 42 W., Burnsville. For all ages. Free. Information: 952-891-0300.

Tuesday, Dec. 31. Dakota County New Year’s Eve party, 5-8 p.m., Visitor Center, Lebanon Hills Regional Park, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan. Cost is $8 per person if pre-registered by Dec. 30 and $10 per person at the door. Children age 5 and younger are free. Information: dakotacounty.us/parks or 651-554-6530.

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. • Dec. 20, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Fairview Ridges Hospital, 201 E. Nicollet Blvd., Burnsville. • Dec. 23, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Walmart, 7835 150th St. W., Apple Valley. • Dec. 26, 2-8 p.m., Car-mike 15 Cinemas, 15630 Cedar Ave., Apple Valley. • Dec. 26, noon to 5 p.m., Culver’s, 15225 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. • Dec. 26, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., School of Environmental Studies, 12155 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley. • Dec. 26, noon to 6 p.m., Brunswick Zone XL, 11129 162nd St. W., Lakeville. • Dec. 28, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Culver’s, 3445 O’Leary Lane, Eagan.

More than two decades after being named “Best New American Band” in a Rolling Stone readers poll, the BoDeans are still going strong. The Wisconsin roots rockers best known for their alt-rock anthem “Closer to Free” – which was the theme song of the TV show “Party of Five” – will be playing the Burnsville Performing Arts Center’s main hall on Saturday, Dec. 28. Tickets for the all-ages 8 p.m. show range from $40-$45 and are available in person at the PAC’s box office and via Ticketmaster at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com. (Photo submitted)

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Steve and Tommy Marcio will perform the “Hope is Alive” benefit concert for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at 7 p.m. Jan. 18 at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. A silent auction and activities will start at 5 p.m. with the Elvis Presley tribute concert starting at 7 p.m. Steve Marcio, the father of Tommy, covers Elvis’s later years while Tommy takes on the persona of a younger Elvis. Tickets for the show are $25 per person. People can purchase tickets in person at the BPAC box office or through Ticketmaster at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com. (Photo submitted)

Remembering the King

Sixty elementary students competed in the 30th annual chess tournament in Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191 on Dec. 14 at Metcalf Junior High. Rahn School of Arts & Technology earned its first district championship title. Sixth-grade teacher Dan Jacobsen is the head coach. Runner-up was defending champion Harriet Bishop El-ementary, coached by Jes-sica Perry. The team is the largest chess club in the district with 78 students. The third-place tro-phy went to William By-rne Elementary, coached by community member Stan Ke-gel. The individual hardware winners are: 1. Jai Chadha, a sixth-grade Savage resident. 2. Gavin Kellen of Wil-liam Byrne. 3. Zach Smith, a sixth-grader from Rahn. 4. Brayden Taheri, a sixth-grader from Byrne. 5. Adam Stadick, a fifth-grader from Rahn. 6. Jaden Ma, a sixth-grade Savage res-ident. 7. Andrea Day, a fifth-grader from Marion W. Savage. 8. Ethan Hemmesch, a sixth-grader

from Rahn. 9. Chance Persons, a sixth-grader from Sioux Trail. 10. Caige Oxendale, a third-grader from Rahn. Grade-level award winners are:

First grade: Jake McKee of Burns-ville.

Second grade: Kaiden Cheung of Harriet Bishop. Third grade: Bianca Froebe of Harriet Bishop (also primary novice win-ner). Fourth grade: Calvin

York of Harriet Bishop. Fifth grade: Elliot Huh of Sky Oaks.

Sixth grade: Robert Miller of Harriet Bishop. The event was directed

and organized for the 30th year by Brian Ribnick, a math

teacher at Metcalf who is the district’s elementary chess co-

ordinator. District 191 is one of the few school districts

in Minnesota with a chess team at every elementary

school. In addition, all fourth-grade students have the opportunity to learn chess during the school day from a chess-master through a residency spon-sored by Community Education and PTO organizations.

Rahn Elementary earns first District 191 chess title

Sixty elementary students competed in the 30th annual chess tournament in Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191 on Dec. 14 at Metcalf Junior High. Rahn School of Arts & Technology earned its first district championship title. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)

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