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Make wise investments The 2014 Minnesota Legislature should use money from the bonding bill on needs not wants.

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Dark plots unfoldChameleon Theatre Circle presents Sam Shepard’s dark drama “Simpatico” at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center.

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Apple Valley nets titleThe Apple Valley boys basketball team earned the South Suburban Conference title with a win over Lakeville North.

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available Tickets are still available for the 8 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, Exceptional Businesswomen Recognition Event, at Lost Spur Golf & Event Center in Eagan. People can purchase the $25 tickets by going to SunThisweek.com and clicking on the Exceptional Businesswomen link. Attendees can purchase tickets on the day of the event, but should RSVP by calling Callie Rendall 952-392-6808 by noon Feb. 24.

Lightning strikes twice

Couple’s nonprofit honors the daughter they lost Mary Moon Foundation hosts ‘Make a Splash’ children’s hospital fundraiser March 9

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK

DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

The old Jon Reicherts would sleep in as late as he could on many days and did little exercise, which he said led to an unfulfilled life. With the new Jon Reicherts having fitness goals where the sky is the limit, there is no telling what his body can accom-plish. That’s the philosophy he wants to share with others at Skybound Fit-ness, which opened recent-ly at 15255 Carousel Way in Rosemount. The business was launched last year after the Apple Valley man taught some boot camp classes at Grand Hall in

downtown Farmington in January 2013. “The classes were instantly successful,” Reicherts said. The offerings were moved outdoors in the summer when he taught them in area parks, then moved back indoors at the Rosemount site in Octo-ber 2013 when Reicherts

funded the startup with savings from money he generated from the classes. “It is a perfect space,” Reicherts said. “It has a slight industrial feel, without being cold and too rugged, and it has a professional-looking store front. The location is ideal

Tim Leslie to run for sheriff One week after Dakota County Sheriff Dave Bellows said he would not seek re-election, the man he endorsed to be his replacement said he would seek the elected office this fall. Chief Deputy Tim Leslie made the an-nouncement Tuesday in a release. “When my mentor, Da-kota County Sheriff Dave Bellows, an-nounced he would not seek another term,” Leslie said in the release, “I started contemplating what Dakota County needs in its next sher-iff; a proven leader, someone with extensive experience, a personal connection with Dakota County, and some-one who will relentlessly safe-guard taxpayer dollars.” As chief deputy, Leslie

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


Over time, Peter and Christine O’Keefe turned their grief into a spirit of giving. The Apple Valley cou-ple founded the Mary Moon Foundation to hon-or their 3-year-old daugh-ter Mary, who died from cancer in July 2009. The nonprofit founda-tion grew out of Chris-tine’s efforts, in the wake of Mary’s passing, to bring art supplies to chil-dren at the Minneapolis hospital where her daugh-ter had been treated, in hopes of brightening the days of other kids there. Founded in 2011, the Mary Moon Founda-tion conducts fundrais-ing events to help finance art supplies, toys and games for the University of Minnesota’s Amplatz Children’s Hospital. (The foundation is so named because Mary’s nickname

was Moon.) The good work of the Mary Moon Foundation was acknowledged by Mike and Jenny O’Masta

of Eagan, whose 5-year-old daughter Grace spent 445 days in the hospi-tal while awaiting a new heart.

The hospital’s Child-Family Life Services kept Grace and her sister Ol-ivia busy with art projects, Play-Doh and movies dur-

ing the stay. “They made a pretty horrible situation some-what better, not only for our children but also for us parents,” Jenny O’Masta said. “They took care of the simple things you wouldn’t think about and they were just there, there to do the ‘spirit’ things.” The Mary Moon Foun-dation is hosting its third annual “Make a Splash” event March 9 at the Wa-ter Park of America in Bloomington, with pro-ceeds going to Child-Family Life Services at the Minneapolis children’s hospital. Tickets for the event are $12 and can be purchased at www.marymoonfoun-dation.org. The founda-tion is also hosting a silent auction in conjunction with “Make a Splash,” and details can be found on the website.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Apple Valley man wants to share how exercise

changed his life

The Eastview High School dance team broke Maple Grove’s hold on the Class AAA championship, claiming its second Jazz title, and danced away with its fourth consecutive AAA High Kick crown during the 2014 State Girls’ Dance Team Tournament on Feb. 14-15 at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The Lightning won its one previous Jazz title in 2000, and, in addition to the past four years, the Lightning also won High Kick titles in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009. Judges scored the entrants in different categories, including execution, choreogra-phy, difficulty and routine effectiveness. (Photo by Rich Moll)

Peter and Christine O’Keefe of Apple Valley say that a multitude of toys, craft projects and other activities helped lessen the unease of their daughter Mary’s long hospital stay. The mission of the nonprofit they started in her memory is to help create that calming environment for other young patients at the University of Minnesota’s Amp-latz Children’s Hospital. (Photo submitted)

Clients at Skybound Fitness in Rosemount don’t pay any enrollment fees. They pay for classes they want to take, such as those that incorporate boxing. (Photo submitted)

Jon Reicherts is owner of Skybound Fitness in Rose-mount. Reicherts described himself as a person who used to sit around on the couch a lot but transformed his out-look on life by starting an exercise regimen. (Photo sub-mitted)

Sky is the limit for fitness goals

Tim Leslie

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Elko Speedway adds drive-in movie theaterFamily-friendly venue planned

to open in June by Laura Adelmann

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Dakota County resi-dents will soon have a new reason to rev up their ve-hicles’ engines.

Elko Speedway is set to open a drive-in movie theater, tentatively named “Champions Drive-In” and expected to open Fri-day, June 6. The Elko New Market property is the perfect site for such a project, said Elko Speedway owner Tom Ryan. He said there is plenty of room for the 720 park-ing spaces he is planning to cluster around a natural amphitheater that exists there now. “We will have high sides on the east and west and there are pretty much solid trees to the south,” Ryan said. “The screen will be in a bowl facing directly north.” No need for old-fash-

ioned speakers; the audi-ence will use radios to tune in the movie’s sound track. Planned is a lineup of family-friendly movies on a 116-foot-wide and 46-foot-tall screen he pur-chased from Cottage View Drive-In, which closed in 2012. Restrooms and conces-sions will be available at the track’s current facili-ties, and Ryan also plans to install temporary rest-room facilities and a con-cession stand near the pro-jection room, slated to be constructed this spring. “We’ve got some work to do this spring,” Ryan said. “May is going to be extremely busy for us, get-ting things ready to roll. We have a screen and pro-jection booth we have to build. The screen we’ve got is amazing,” He expects the movies

to be open every week-night through August, then reduce to three nights per week when school opens in fall and spring. Plans are to run a fea-ture film following the Saturday night races, with both events available through one ticket price. The area is also slated for development of a med-ical clinic in 2014 and a bank in 2015. “We think this is a good way to bring people in to look at the community,” Ryan said. “We think this is definitely going to be kind of a little gem for the city, the county and the re-gion.” For more information, go to www.elkospeedway.com. Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

AV Rotary lends a hand

Twenty-five Apple Valley Rotarians and family members participated in the largest mobile packing event ever hosted by Feed My Starving Children. The event was held at Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church in Prior Lake on Thursday, Feb. 6, when club members with others packed 810 boxes of food in two hours. That’s enough to provide 174,960 meals. On Saturday, Feb. 8, members and others in another two-hour shift packed 1,163 boxes for 251,208 meals. Rotary participation was organized by Tom Lawell, community services director for Rotary of Apple Valley. Members packed a blend of soy, vegetables, rice and seasoning into plastic bags, which recipients boil in water to make a meal that provides a day’s nutrition. Most of the meals are bound for Haiti and the Philippines. To join Rotary, contact President David Kingsbury at 952-432-4388 or visit www.applevalleyrotary.org.

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Lucky’s 13 Pub location coming to Burnsville Center by John Gessner


A pair of restaurateurs with their fingerprints all over the metro dining and bar scene are opening their latest venture at Burnsville Center. Business partners Linda Young and Charlie Burrows will open their fourth location of Lucky’s 13 Pub in the former El Azteca space across from Apple-bee’s. A late May opening is planned, Burrows said. “We wanted to be in Burns-ville, and it just worked out that’s where we ended up in Burns-ville,” he said of the mall loca-tion, which will include an out-door patio. Burger and beer choices are

abundant at Lucky’s 13, as pa-trons of its locations in Mendo-ta, Bloomington, Plymouth and Fargo, N.D., know. “I call it ‘American pub,’” Burrows said in an interview. Business partners for nearly 20 years, he and Young met while working for Champps. Young was part of a team that opened the Burnsville Champps location for former owner Dean Vlahos. “I love this city, and I think it’s going to be a great opportu-nity for us,” Young told the City Council Feb. 3, when the council approved the liquor license for Lucky’s 13. The 230-seat restaurant will employ about 100 people, Bur-rows said. Young grew up in the res-taurant business. Her parents

worked at the old Parker House on Highway 13 in Mendota. Her father, Axel, did maintenance and her mother, Janette, ran the kitchen, Burrows said. His and Young’s first venture was Axel’s River Grill, which they launched in the Parker House building after the restau-rant had closed, Burrows said. The Axel’s family of restau-rants grew to include locations of Axel’s Bonfire, including one in Eagan, and Rudy’s Redeye Grill. Young and Burrows sold Al-ex’s and Bonfire to Nath Cos. in 2007. They still own the Ru-dy’s Redeye Grill in Rosemount and Me & Julio, a Mexican and American restaurant in Hast-ings, Burrows said. The partners had already

started planning their first Lucky’s before they sold Axel’s and Bonfire, Burrows said. They razed a “grungy old bar” — the former Mendota Saloon, a block from the first Axel’s — and built a brick building. “We’ve always been about quality service, quality food, quality environment,” Burrows said. “Those are the things we’re always chasing.” Young said Lucky’s is a “fam-ily restaurant.” “It’s fun,” she told the coun-cil. “Our food is all cooked from scratch. Everything is home-made.”

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

Polar Bear Plunge in Burnsville The 2014 South Metro Polar Bear Plunge begins at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at Crystal Beach, 1100 Crystal Lake Road E., Burnsville. The event is a fund-raiser for Special Olym-pics Minnesota. The 2013 south metro event raised about $252,240 as more than 1,090 people took the plunge in icy waters. Statewide in 2013, the Po-lar Bear Plunge saw 15,000 participants raising more than $3 million. For more information, visit plungemn.org.


by Don HeinzmanSUN THISWEEK


Joe Nathan’s weekly columns pub-lished by this newspaper are making a dif-ference, potentially helping save families of college-bound students millions of dol-lars while helping improve public schools. ECM Publishers is proud to publish Nathan’s columns. His messages are shak-ing up content on state and school district websites, getting out information that state law requires schools to distribute. Nathan, director of the Center for School Change and author of two books, is a former award-winning Minnesota public school teacher, administrator and PTA president. He’s a frequent commen-tator on local and national radio and tele-vision. He helped write the Post-Second-ary Enrollment Options legislation, which enables sophomores, juniors and seniors to take college courses while they are in high school. High school students can earn a year of college credit, or more, thus saving on costly college tuition. Nathan is determined that the Min-nesota Department of Education and school superintendents obey the law and provide complete information for 10th graders who are eligible to take these col-lege classes for the first time. While monitoring the Department of Education website, Nathan saw incom-plete information about the 10th-grade career and technical PSEO option that the Legislature approved in 2012. He wrote about it in his column and contacted Education Commissioner Brenda Cassel-lius, who directed that more complete in-formation be provided on the state’s web-site. Earlier she had encouraged school

superintendents to provide information about dual-credit courses by March 1, as required by state law. What vital information about post-secondary options is revealed in these changes? • Low-income families can get funds from the state to pay for their child’s transportation to take PSEO courses at four-year universities and two-year com-munity or technical schools. • Tenth-graders who have passed the state’s eighth-grade reading test are eli-gible to take a free career and technical college course. If they earn a C grade or better on their first semester course, they can take additional classes in the second semester. • Some PSEO courses also are online. Contact the Department of Education with questions about dual-credit courses. The department’s Web page with PSEO information is at bit.ly/1nubZ1H. To Cassellius’ credit, after reading Na-than’s concerns about lack of updated in-formation on the department website, she had it changed. Nathan monitored 61 websites, mostly in ECM’s reader area, and noticed many of them, too, had incomplete informa-tion about PSEO opportunities for 10th graders. He contacted school district su-

perintendents before he wrote his column. Some said they didn’t know their website information was incomplete and thanked him for the alert. Last month, Nathan also looked at more than 25 Minnesota two-year college websites and found that almost half did not mention the 10th-grade career tech option. He contacted Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Chancellor Steve Rosenstone. Again, to Rosenstone’s credit, updates were completed. Nathan regrets there is such a discon-nect between the time laws are passed and when complete information about the law is put on school district websites. Nathan says he is determined to spread the word about dual-credit courses, in-cluding Advanced Placement, College in the Schools and PSEO, because research shows students who take these classes can save thousands of dollars and are almost twice as likely to graduate from some form of higher education. On another front, Nathan is pressuring the Minnesota Department of Education, Minnesota Office of Higher Education and administrators of Minnesota public colleges and universities to obey the state law and release the figures for how many Minnesota students from each public high school are taking remedial courses in college. State law requires the Department of Education and the public post-second-ary groups to work together to produce an annual report on this. But despite the requirement that there be a yearly, public report, no study has been produced since 2011. He continues to ask the department and Office of Higher Education, which apparently has taken over for the public

university officials, about the study. This report is important because the state’s educators need to know how many public high school graduates are taking remedial courses so they can change strat-egies to reduce that number. Parents also should be concerned be-cause they might be paying the costs for their students to take these remedial courses taught in college. They also can compare remediation rates for various high schools. Nathan cites research showing that na-tionally only 25 percent of students who have to take remedial courses in two-year colleges earn an associate degree in eight years. He says that, according to the Minne-sota Office of Higher Education, 22 per-cent of full-time, newly enrolled students graduate from Minnesota’s public col-leges and universities in four years, com-pared to the 48 percent who graduate in six years, in part because they had to take remedial courses and had problems with post-secondary education costs. Dual-credit courses could help with both prob-lems. Nathan’s agenda going forward as he writes columns is to have more students graduate from high school, have fewer high school students need to take remedi-al courses in college and boost the rate of one-, two- or four-year college graduates. ECM Publishers is pleased to partner with Nathan as he writes well-document-ed columns that get results and improve the quality of education of students.

Don Heinzman is a columnist for ECM Publishers. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

Snow angels To the editor: I looked out the win-dow Monday, Feb. 17, and didn’t think there had been much snow. So I got in my car and proceeded down the driveway. Near the street I became stuck, and the more I tried to get out, the more stuck I became. The back half of my station wagon was in the street. The street had not been plowed either. As I contemplated what to do, a good Samaritan came around the corner to help me. And then another one came by and stopped and

then another. I am handi-capped and really needed their help, so a great big thanks to the snow angels who stopped on Redwood Drive on Monday.

KAREN KRUMPELMANN Apple Valley

Give everyone a raise To the editor: Let’s dump the talking points and think about the income inequality gap. The lowest income is, and al-ways will be, $0. The high-

est income, due to produc-tivity, inflation, societal valuation and other factors, is almost always on the rise. A widening income gap is not to be bemoaned or cel-ebrated. It’s a mathematical certainty being used as an-other leftist manufactured crisis whose solution just happens to be more redistri-bution of wealth. One com-ponent of which happens to be a push for increasing the minimum wage. Employ-ment is subject to the same market forces as any other product. When the price is artificially raised there will be less demand, increasing

unemployment at the mar-gin. If the true goal were to give everyone a raise, cut taxes. KEVIN SCHLEPPENBACHApple Valley

About saving face To the editor: The Dakota County Board took action to adjust the process for the Lebanon Hills Regional Park Master Plan, leading to the appear-ance of concern for citizens and the park. During the board’s dis-cussion at its Feb. 11 meet-ing, not one single com-missioner mentioned that perhaps this plan does not meet citizens expectations. Not one comment regard-ing residents’ concerns over this plan’s violation of the 2001 plan. No discussion over concerns regarding the cost of ongoing main-tenance for all this devel-opment through a valued natural park. No discussion that the vast majority of public comments received during the past year have been opposed to this devel-opment plan. Instead, the commis-sioners’ discussion focused on the negative perception people have of them. It fo-cused on how to erase the

black mark earned by this County Board. It focused on how strict of guidelines should be placed on a po-tential citizen group. In oth-er words, it focused on how to repair their image … and still develop regional bike trails through the park. Their discussion was disappointing. Their action taken was about saving face above all else.

LYNN M. UTECHT St. Paul Park

Make Dodd Road safe To the editor: I travel the stretch of Dodd Road where Alyssa Ettl died in a car accident often, probably two of three times per week. Once in a while, I take my fresh-man daughter to school at Lakeville North in the morning. More frequently, I take my sixth-grade son (and a teammate or two of his) to and from basket-ball practice at the school. Long before Dec. 4, 2013, the many times I’ve trav-eled that road, I thought of the danger – going around that curve, the 55 mph speed limit, no shoulder, slippery conditions. This paper has printed a number of my letters, most of which were re-written over and over in an effort

to make my point clear in as little words as possible. But this time, the words come so easily. I think of my daugh-ter and all of her friends. And I think of my son and his friends. So many of whom I’m watching grow up, have coached in flag football, basketball and baseball. I’ve become close with many of their parents. It’s been such a joy watch-ing them grow up together and I know anybody with kids in any extra-curricular activities can relate. My daughter stood in the enor-mously long line the night of Alyssa’s wake at All Saints Church. She cried her eyes out the day of the tragedy. She still has a sim-ple drawing entitled “AE – trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” taped to our refrigerator in our kitchen. Make it the most beau-tiful stretch of road in Lakeville with lights, land-scaping and wide shoul-ders. And rename that stretch of road Alyssa Ettl Way. Don’t worry about the money. Our commu-nity will come together to take care of that. And we’ll never forget the tragedy of Dec. 4, 2013.

MARK BELLILELakeville

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Use state bonding dollars wisely

Education columnist inspires changes

If you had a billion dollars to spend on any public project within Minnesota, what would you choose? Would you spend $5 million to build a new security fence around the Shakopee prison, $500,000 for “pre-design” design, to improve and renovate historic Fort Snelling or $10 million to preserve public housing for low-income families? Should $20 million go to Minneapolis to spruce up the Nicollet Mall? Or may-be $7 million for the sculpture garden, to help the spoon get its shine back? How about $37 million for the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, $800,000 to restore the Carnegie Library in Bemidji, $5 million for an Asian carp barrier in Coon Rapids, or $3.1 million for a bike trail in Becker County? These are all real projects submitted to the state department of finance to be included in the 2014 bonding bill. Traditionally in Minnesota, the odd-numbered year is budget time for state lawmakers. They approve a two-year budget that covers revenues, expenses and all of the costs needed to keep our government running. The even-numbered year – here we are, 2014 – is a bonding year. Bonding is a government word for borrowing mon-ey. Minnesotans borrow money to buy a car, a boat or a snowmobile. It’s the same

thing. We take out a mortgage to buy a house or frivolously max out credit cards at 22 percent interest on things we don’t need. Government can do the same – spend wisely, spend foolishly or choose to not spend at all. The most recent state revenue report was quite good. The state is showing a surplus and might actually have a few extra million that can be put away for a rainy day. So now, back to the question: Where would you spend a billion dollars? Would you pick only projects within 10 miles of your home, so you person-ally could benefit? Would you concen-trate all of the spending in the Twin Cit-ies? Would you want to spread out the money, so everyone from Cambridge to Caledonia, from Lakeville to Little Falls, from Bloomington to Baudette, got a piece of the pie? Would you place priority on projects that enhanced the safety of our residents? Or would you pick the projects based on entertainment and recreation? Would you favor dull but necessary projects such as correcting waste-water discharge

issues? Or might you pick $8 million to build an arts center? Our state’s leaders will soon have to answer those questions. The initial “wish list” included over $4 billion in project requests. Gov. Mark Dayton wanted to narrow the list to about $1 billion and his official recom-mendation came in just under that at $986 million. As the 2014 legislative session ap-proaches, the structure and composition of the project list will be a huge topic. Legislative leaders will bring at least two, if not four versions of the spending list into the debate. House Republicans will not have the same list as House Demo-crats. Senate Republicans and Demo-crats will differ from each other. All four groups may have lists totally different from the governor’s. This is indeed a topic where each Min-nesotan should send a message to his or her legislator, suggesting priorities and specific needs. Is $1 billion about the right total? Or is it way too much? Should we borrow half that? Maybe you think we should go all out right now, while interest rates are low, and borrow a couple of extra billion dollars to fix dilapidated and dangerous rural bridges? As an editorial board, we support one project whole-hardheartedly: Our

incredibly beautiful State Capitol build-ing, designed by renowned architect Cass Gilbert, needs to be fully reconstructed and renovated so the building stands glo-rious and strong generations from now. We urge lawmakers to continue their bi-partisan support and approve the $126 million needed to preserve our Capitol. As for the many other worthy projects, we would offer these suggestions: Projects that benefit the whole state should have priority over local-only re-quests. Public safety needs to be high on the list – for example, bridges that are dan-gerous should be repaired or replaced. Be practical, placing “needs” over “wants.” Can we afford to enhance an art center before we fix rotting walls at a state prison? Finally, be frugal over fanciful. Our state and nation’s economy is still in re-covery, we still see ups and downs in fi-nancial markets. Job growth continues, but yet many are unemployed. How should we spend a billion dol-lars? Wisely.

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Friends of Alyssa Ettl carry on her vision

Lakeville students’ book drive yields outpouring of support in wake of fatal car crash

Organizers wearing T-shirts in memory of Lakeville North junior Alyssa Ettl sold raffle tickets at the Feb. 12 community event that capped off the group’s two-week book drive. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


In a tangible display of compassion, tribute and honor, the Lakeville community responded so thoroughly to a book drive in the memory of Alyssa Ettl that its out-pouring more than qua-drupled organizers’ goals. Ettl, a compassionate and selfless 16-year-old whose Dec. 4 fatal car crash shook the com-munity, had before her death shared with friends

her desire to hold a book drive for elementary stu-dents in need. In her honor, about 15 of Ettl’s friends recently carried out her plans by holding a two-week book drive. Their stated goal was to gather 1,000 new and used elementary-level books to donate to An-dersen United Communi-ty School in Minneapolis. The effort brought in far more than anticipat-ed: 4,550 new and used books, according to Ettl’s

friend and one of the book drive organizers, Lakeville North junior Caleb Bussler. To culminate the drive, organizers held a Feb. 12 community event at Lakeville North, featur-ing music, entertainment and food, where they also sold T-shirts, bracelets, car stickers and raffle tickets, raising about $1,200 to fund a scholar-ship being established in Ettl’s name. Riley Mostaert, a Lakeville North junior, got the second of the light blue T-shirts (Ettl’s favor-ite color) at the event. She said she and Ettl played basketball togeth-er, and she wears them during warm-ups. “I wanted another one because I wear it so much,” she said. Lakeville North ju-nior Karly Smrekar said demand for the clothing and bracelets memorial-izing Ettl have been so

strong they only have a few items left from the second re-order. Bussler said the volun-teers are considering car-rying on the book drive in the future for different schools. “I’m very happy with

the turnout and want to thank everyone for the in-volvement,” Bussler said in an email. “It meant so much to everyone involved that it was successful and that we could work with the community of Lakeville

to give back. The recep-tion was awesome, and it makes me very interested and excited to see where we can go from here.”

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

The Minnesota Zoo hosted its Tropical Beach Party from Feb. 15 to 17 when a giant sandbox was the main attraction on the Tropics Trail. The event also included face painting, calypso music, sand art activity and zoo-keeper talks. (Photo by Tad Johnson)

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Eagan man gets six months in drug deal-turned-robbery An Eagan man will spend six months in jail for his role in a drug deal-turned-robbery. Joey James Brown, 20, was sentenced on Feb. 4 to 180 days in jail with credit for 3 days served. Upon his release, Brown will serve seven years’

probation. Brown and another Eagan man, Paul Earnest McWil-liams Jr., 20, robbed a man at gunpoint and assaulted him after agreeing to sell the victim marijuana. The two men, and possibly

another accomplice, forced the victim into a car and drove to a bank where they had him with-draw $300. The men dropped the vic-tim off at the apartment park-ing lot where they met, and he called police.

Brown was charged in Au-gust 2012 and convicted in October 2013 of first-degree aggravated robbery, second-de-gree assault with a dangerous weapon and felony kidnaping. A charge of kidnapping to commit great bodily harm was

dismissed. McWilliams pleaded guilty in September 2012 and was sentenced in March 2013 to three years in prison. No arrests were made in connection to a possible third accomplice.

Farmington woman to be sentenced for manslaughter A 46-year-old Farming-ton woman pleaded guilty on Thursday, Feb. 13, to felony second-degree manslaughter involving endangerment of a child in connection with the death of 3-month-old Kaiden Robert Staebell on July 31, 2012, while he was in her care at her home day care facility in Farmington. Rebecca Lynn Graupmann was originally charged May 22, 2013, with another second-de-gree manslaughter count and

three gross misdemeanors that will be dismissed at sentencing, which is slated for April 15. “We are pleased the defen-dant accepted responsibility for her actions that caused the death of a child in her care,” Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said in a re-lease. “Our deepest sympathy is extended to the family of Kaiden Staebell for their great loss.” Graupmann was licensed to care for 12 children. The child

care was shut down following the death after her day care li-cense was suspended. An autopsy ruled Staebell’s death was accidental by “prob-able positional asphyxiation,” according to the complaint. Graupmann allegedly told police initially that Staebell fell asleep in a car seat, but a de-tective noticed a wet spot with what appeared to be blood in another bed in the house. When confronted with what the detective found,

Graupmann told police she had put Staebell in her daugh-ter’s adult bed for a nap on top of a comforter. She said later she saw the child on his side in the bed and left him in that po-sition. Staebell’s parents’ verbal and written instructions were to always lay him on his back, the complaint said. In speak-ing with police, Graupmann also referenced a crib that she should have put together for Staebell’s nap times.

Graupmann said she later found the child “cold to the touch, his lips were blue, and he had blood around his nose when she picked him up.” She then called 911. She told police she “should not have laid him in the bed” multiple times. Backstrom thanked the Farmington Police Depart-ment for their thorough inves-tigation in this case.

– Tad Johnson

Public Safety


At the CapitolMinimum wage debate resurfaces

Republican leaders discuss outlook for minimum wage, surplus, MNsure

Senate Minority Leader David Hann, R-Eden Prairie, and House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, share a light moment with the ECM Editorial Board in pre-viewing the 2014 session of the Minnesota Legislature. The session opens Tuesday, Feb. 25. (Photo by Howard Lestrud)

by Howard LestrudSUN THISWEEK


State Senate Minority Leader David Hann, R-Eden Prairie, said he will “go out on a limb” and say there will be a minimum wage increase during the next session of the Min-nesota Legislature, which opens Tuesday, Feb. 25. Hann and House Mi-nority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, met with ECM Editorial Board in Coon Rapids Feb. 14 to preview the session. The minimum wage is-sue will likely be a hot topic between Democrats, who control both houses of the Legislature, and Republi-cans. The current state mini-mum wage rate is $6.15 an hour. During the 2013 regular session, the Senate voted approved an increase to $7.75 an hour and the House approved a $9.50 an hour rate to go in place by 2015. The full Legislature failed to pass a minimum wage bill. Hann hinted that Re-publicans will favor an increase to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. “That makes sense and should not be too damag-ing,” Hann said. Hann and Daudt said they both have concerns

about too high of a mini-mum wage not solving a poverty issue or improving the economy. An increase in the mini-mum wage could have an adverse effect on nursing homes and could cause some to go out of busi-ness, Hann speculated. He said if the minimum wage is raised and nursing home workers’ wages go up, the state should fund this cost. He said other businesses in the state will raise prices and sacrifice benefit plans to accommodate the mini-mum wage hike. Both Hann and Daudt said they believe the Dem-ocrat-controlled Legisla-ture will go higher than $7.25 an hour. Gov. Mark Dayton has said he favors an increase closer to $9.50 an hour. “It is a pseudo issue, a distraction and a cynical, political play” of the Dem-ocrats, Hann said. Regarding the estimated $1.1 billion budget surplus, Hann and Daudt said sur-plus monies should be re-turned to the taxpayers. Hann said a package of tax relief could be put to-gether to account for half of the surplus. “We should also talk about permanent tax re-lief,” he said. “Let’s have spending in line with what the economy can reason-

ably generate.” The Republicans are pushing for a repeal of all three business-to-business taxes, which amounts to more than $300 million. “We hope to work with the other side to gain a full repeal of all three,” Hann said. Two of the three busi-ness-to-business taxes, those on business equip-ment and repair and on purchases of telecommu-nications equipment, went into effect July 1, 2013. The tax on commercial ware-housing services is not due to go into effect until April 2014. Two groups, the United for Jobs Coalition and Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, are strongly pushing for the business taxes repeal. A petition of signatures from more than 350 businesses and asso-ciations was presented to Dayton last August, ask-ing for a full repeal of the three taxes. Republicans at-tempted the repeal in Sep-tember 2013 during a spe-cial session but were foiled by Democrats. Daudt said the reason a surplus exists today is be-cause Republicans, when in control, erased the deficit without raising taxes. The focus of Repub-licans, Daudt said, is on what families want and

need. “Business taxes have made it more difficult,” he said. Minnesota must “look out for our families.” “I think the Democrats are going to have a difficult time taking the surplus and saying they want to spend it,” Daudt said. This session will mark the passage of a bonding bill, and Republicans have offered support of a bill no more than $1 billion. Res-toration of the state Capi-tol was in a small bonding bill passed last year. Education will once again be on the docket, and Daudt said the Legislature must look at changing technology and at the way students are educated. “The way kids learn in the world is different from what they learn in the class-room,” he said. Hann and Daudt said more education reforms are needed to improve edu-cation. He said the Legis-lature has approved an in-crease in education funding to more than 31 percent in the last two years. “We think education is our future,” Hann said. “Are we doing as well as we should be?” It’s a structure problem, he said, transferred from the Legislature to Wash-ington, D.C. Hann said it is impera-

tive that the parents be-come engaged in improving education. Local people and school officials must be trusted to make the right decisions, he said. “The Democrats want to manage for everyone,” Hann said. The two minority lead-ers also guaranteed that significant discussion will be directed toward what Hann calls “the MNsure debacle.” The leaders call for bet-ter solutions and say Re-publicans will continue to be at the negotiating table to offer solutions like they did in the past. Hann said maybe one-

half of the Republican members wanted to do things to make MNsure work, but their ideas were rejected from the start. The call is for more oversight, he said. Many other issues will be debated by the Legis-lature in this session and likely will include discus-sion on campaign finance reform, transportation proposals and a proposal to eliminate publishing of city and county legal no-tices in newspapers.

Email Howard Lestrud at [email protected].

Drug policy expert blasts efforts to legalize marijuanaby Mike Hanks


Legalize marijuana in Min-nesota? Not so fast, warns a former Obama Administration

senior adviser. Kevin Sabet, who served as the senior adviser at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy from 2009-11, said America in many ways is

being sold a false bill of goods” during a forum in Bloomington that drew an audience of more than 200. The audience, composed of professionals that work with

youths, including law enforce-ment, medical, public health and education professionals, listened for two hours Feb. 13 as Sabet – armed with statistics and studies to support his arguments – gave

a whirlwind review of his book “Reefer Sanity: 7 Great Myths About Marijuana.” Sabet, the director of the

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as it offers a niche gym with a large-city feel in a small suburb, something missing in Rosemount.” Reicherts hopes the ca-maraderie, unusual work-out equipment and its fit-ness results will draw area

residents to the no-mem-bership-fees Skybound. Pushing around over-sized tires and swinging thick ropes may not be what one thinks of when entering a gym, but at Sky-bound, they are staples. Use of the unusual equip-ment has also saved the

business money it other-wise would have spent on workout machines. Skybound emphasizes group fitness classes as a way to create a family at-mosphere and being a fun, positive reinforcement to hold people accountable for fitness goals.

While yoga, boot camp and Zumba classes are well known, Capoeira – a Brazilian martial art – is one of the new offering that Reicherts says is a rar-ity in the Twin Cities. “Many of our clients are nervous and anxious when they first try a class,”

he said. “They quickly be-come comfortable with the accepting atmosphere we provide.” Contributing to the family atmosphere, Reicherts, a longtime area resident, is making sure the business is involved in the community. The site was a recent drop-off loca-tion for Toys for Tots and it has offered free classes for various groups. In addition to volun-teering with Salvation Army, Reicherts’ wife, Tammy, is vice president of the Apple Valley Moms Club. Reicherts, who is mar-ried and has two young boys, said the best part about being in the fitness business is seeing relation-ships formed. “Many of our cli-ents have become great friends,” he said. “Know-ing that my business had a part of changing peoples lives not just through be-coming healthier, but im-pacting the people that become important and instrumental in their lives, there are no words.” He said couples who have taken classes together and have made their mar-riages stronger is on the

top of his list. Despite working a full-time job as security director for the Federal Aviation Administration in Farmington, Reicherts sets aside time each week to email clients to check in with them. He said he believes in being accessible to clients and offering advice as a personal trainer and nutri-tional consultant. “It’s important to be open to new ideas and to occasionally implement an idea a client has,” Reicherts said. “This makes them feel very important and listened to. They will speak your praises for a long time after that.” With an eye to the fu-ture, Reicherts said the best way to keep the busi-ness thriving is to provide results for clients. “Many people are sur-prised by how comfort-able our environment is,” Reicherts said. “Our busi-ness is family friendly, pro-viding an atmosphere sim-ilar to that of a family.” More about Skybound Fitness is at www.sky-boundfitness.com. Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

Obituaries

Engagements

CHRISTENSEN/SAFFLE

Jennifer Christensen and Christopher Saffle both of Farmington are engaged to be married.

Parents of the couple are Alfred and Mary Christensen, and Dar-rell and Judy Saffle all of Farmington. An August 2014 wedding is being planned.

oversees many of the day-to-day operations of the sheriff ’s office and works closely with law enforce-ment agencies throughout Dakota County. Bellows called Leslie “instrumental in the op-eration and strategic plan-ning in the sheriff ’s office.” “Tim Leslie is well re-spected in the law enforce-ment community and his experience and leadership has been invaluable to me and the citizens of Dakota County,” Bellows said in the release. “When I considered where I have been and all the remarkable things we’ve accomplished the past almost four years, and what all we have yet to do, I realized I was ready to meet this challenge and be the next Dakota Coun-ty sheriff,” Leslie said. Leslie’s law enforce-ment career spans more than 30 years having worked in and with state and federal agencies, serv-ing as an assistant com-missioner of the Min-nesota Department of Public Safety, where he led and managed the divisions of the BCA, State Patrol, State Fire Marshall and Homeland Security and Emergency Management among others. Leslie spent 20-plus years with the St. Paul Police Department. He worked his way from pa-trol and street crimes to

SWAT commander and senior commander of the Eastern District. He han-dled multiple assignments including communica-tions, K-9, narcotics and vice. “I have had the op-portunity to work closely with Tim Leslie since he became our county’s chief deputy sheriff in 2010, and I can tell you that he has the experience and skills needed to be the next Da-kota County sheriff,” Da-kota County Attorney Jim Backstrom said in the re-lease. “He is an outstand-ing leader and manager who is highly respected by his law enforcement col-leagues throughout Min-nesota. Tim Leslie cares deeply about protecting public safety and he will be an excellent sheriff.” Other people listed as supporters in Leslie’s release included former Dakota County Sheriff Don Gudmundson, for-mer Lakeville Police Chief Tom Vonhof, and cur-rent Police Chiefs Brian Lindquist (Farmington), Eric Werner (Rosemount) and Eric Gieseke (Burns-ville). Leslie and his wife, Ju-lie, have lived in Dakota County for nearly 30 years. He is a past member of the West St. Paul-Mendo-ta Heights-Eagan School Board and a youth sports coach. His campaign website is at http://timleslieforsher-iff.com.

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Some of the equipment used at Skybound Fitness in-cludes large tires and kettlebells. Owner Jon Reicherts says the unusual equipment appeals to clients and helps keep costs down for him, since he doesn’t have to invest in exercise equipment. (Photo submitted)


Once you’ve made the decision to send your son or daughter to a private school, you need to choose which school it will be. There are a myriad of education styles available today, and the choices are varied and interesting. In addition to the type of school, the choice of school is just as impor-tant. So, how SHOULD you go about choosing a school for yourself and/or your child? The choice you ultimately make can have a big impact in many ways. Here are some important qualities to look for in se-lecting a school that meets your specific needs. Does the school offer a full range of activities – sports, drama, music and student activities? For high schools, are the college entrance test scores above average? How many students go on to college? What is the school’s graduation rate? Read the school’s mis-sion statement. If it’s a faith-based school, read and understand its beliefs and principles. You should agree with their statement

of faith or values. Private schools will include their educational philosophy and beliefs throughout their curriculum. More intangible but very important is the school’s atmosphere. Will your student feel comfortable in the com-munity and personality of the school? Every pri-vate school has a distinct atmosphere that is unique to that school. Visit the school for a day and have your child go to classes so they can experience the student life. When you walk in the door, is the school pleas-ant and clean? You want to know that every effort is being undertaken to keep the facility as sanitary as possible. Talk to the school’s in-structors and make some notes. Ask them some hard questions: How do they handle discipline problems? What do they expect from each student? How do they promote good behavior? Do they act like the role models that they are? Watch how the instruc-tors interact with students.

Are they happy to be there? Do they treat each person as an important part of the class, or focus on “high-achiever” stu-dents? Are they respectful of the students, or do they simply demand obedience? These things will help you see a clear picture of the school. Finally, look at the stu-dents. Do they seem to be engaged in the process? Are they interested or bored? Are they happy? Ultimately you will have to deal with the fi-nancial issue. This is very important. Ask the school to provide you with its costs upfront. Don’t set yourself up for disappoint-ment. Make sure there are no surprises in this area. Finding the best school for your needs isn’t a mat-ter of luck. If you do your homework before choos-ing a school, you will find that there are differ-ences in each school. In-formation will make you an informed buyer, and will provide your best op-portunity for achieving the educational goals you have set for yourself and/or your child.

As every semester begins, college students re-search online, trying to find the best deals on textbooks. According to Colleg-eBoard, college students spend an average of $1,200 per year on textbooks. It’s no secret that expenses are high for students pursuing higher education and many young adults are constantly seeking ways to save money. Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Da-

kota reminds students e-textbooks are an option to consider. Many publishing com-panies have begun to offer textbooks in an e-textbook format, made for comput-ers, tablets and e-readers, at a lower price than the hard-cover texts found in campus bookstores. So why aren’t more students opting for a tablet instead of carrying around multiple textbooks? There are some advantages

and disadvantages to using a tablet or e-reader rather than traditional textbooks, and the BBB suggests that students should consider them all before making the decision to switch up their study tools. Reasons students should consider e-textbooks: • E-textbooks are signifi-cantly less expensive than their hard-copy counter-parts. However, you have to factor in the cost of the tab-

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which is definitely a conve-nience. • Most tablets operate off of Wi-Fi and can be used for many things be-sides just reading e-books. Reasons some students might stick with traditional textbooks: • With most textbooks, you may be able to sell them back to the bookstore or online at the end of the se-mester, giving you at least some of your cash back. Keep in mind that you can’t re-sell e-textbooks. • Tablets and e-readers may actually hinder study habits for those used to learning from physical text-books. Some people might find it more difficult to an-notate and take notes with e-textbook formats. Stu-dents that use e-textbooks

may choose to continue taking notes on paper. • Not all textbooks are available in all formats. Some editions may only be available as standard text-books. If you choose to opt for a tablet or an e-reader, you will also want to do some research to find out which model is the best fit for you. Read consumer reviews and make sure you under-stand the features that each tablet offers. If you already own an e-reader or a tablet, you may want to experiment with one e-textbook, to see how – and if – that works for you. Contact the BBB at bbb.org or 651-699-1111, toll-free at 1-800-646-6222.

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Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida, didn’t argue for legaliz-ing or criminalizing mari-juana, but he questioned and sharply criticized the policy decisions made by states that have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes, as well as Colo-rado’s recent legalization of marijuana for recre-ational use. Dakota County Attor-ney James Backstrom im-plored audience members to lobby against legislative considerations to legalize marijuana. “We cannot continue to stop this bill from passing without the support of ev-eryone,” he said. “We need to get this message to our legislators.” Sabet favors a smart approach to marijuana policy, based upon science, public health and pub-lic safety concerns rather than fear and rhetoric. Acknowledging the me-dicinal benefits of mari-juana, Sabet questioned the wisdom of 20 states ap-proving medical marijuana use, noting that the average medical marijuana user is a 32-year-old white male with a history of alcohol and substance abuse but no history of life-threaten-ing illness. He applauded the lobby that pushed for the legal-ization of marijuana for medicinal purposes, call-ing it a step toward the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes. “It’s a brilliant move,” he said. Opium does not need to be smoked in order to derive the benefits of mor-phine, Sabet pointed out, arguing that in the inter-est of medical marijuana, a product is available that provides the same ben-efits, but is administered through an oral spray. That product is being studied in the United States and is already approved for use in Canada and Europe, he noted. Sabet clarified he wasn’t lobbying on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry. He prefers medication to be laboratory tested and labeled to identify its con-tents, ensuring each dose is the same. “I think that’s a good thing,” he said. “Do we want people to grow meds in their backyard and sell them?” Medicinal drugs ap-proved for use in the United States are not de-termined by the voting population, he explained, noting that residents of states that permit the use of medical marijuana have abuse and dependence rates nearly double that of other states. He said another myth is that the legality of alcohol and tobacco strengthen the case for legal marijuana. “Alcohol and tobacco are the last examples that we’d ever want to use,” he said. The use of alcohol and

tobacco are much higher than marijuana in part because they’re legal prod-ucts. Legalizing the use of marijuana will create an-other industry that capital-izes upon the small percent that are addictive users. “That is the reason I’m against legalizing marijua-na,” he said. Industries built around addictive behavior “do not make money from people who causally, safely, occa-sionally use their product or engage in what they’re selling,” he said. The im-portant consumers are the 15 percent of the users who consume 90 percent of what the industry man-ufactures, he said. The 85 percent of consumers who heed the “enjoy responsi-bly” warnings: “They don’t care about you.” Those industries target children through the fla-vors, packaging or mar-keting of their products, Sabet noted. “You’re not going to have the lifelong customer unless you start them ear-ly,” he said. A benefit to prohibition is that it keeps the price of products artificially high. Studies show that when a product is legalized, the price collapses and more people will use it, accord-ing to Sabet. The argument that le-galizing marijuana will eliminate the underground market isn’t entirely true, Sabet said, as there will be a demand for marijuana by underage users and regula-tions and restrictions on the legal product will turn users to the black market for unregulated products, he explained. The push toward legal-izing marijuana “is about creating the next tobacco industry,” according to Sabet. “Will marijuana become the new big tobac-co?” Sabet and former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy formed Project Smart Ap-proaches to Marijuana a year ago. The nonprofit’s objec-tives are to inform public policy with the science of today’s marijuana, to have conversations about reduc-ing the unintended conse-quences of current mari-juana policies, to prevent the establishment of “big marijuana” that would market marijuana to chil-dren, and to promote research on marijuana in order to obtain FDA-approved, pharmacy-dis-pensed, cannabis-based medications. “Are you on the side of the American Medical As-sociation, or the industry that wants to make a lot of money?” he asked. “Focus on the data and the sci-ence.” Information about Project SAM is available online at learnaboutsam.org.

Contact Mike Hanks at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @suncurrent.

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Perspectives offered by women in businessPanel discussion aims to highlight successes and challenges

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK


For the first time in the five years of the Exceptional Businesswomen awards pro-gram, people attending the recognition event will hear directly from the winners. In the past, the event has featured a guest speaker and remarks by the winners on video, but this year a panel discussion will highlight the successes, challenges and insights faced by these women. “This is something that grew out of comments from past attendees who want-ed to hear more from the winners,” said Krista Jech, marketing manager for ECM Publishers Inc., which is organizing the event through Sun Thisweek and Dakota County Tribune. With a wide range of work-ing experiences, the women are expected to offer perspec-tives that will likely comple-ment the stories about them that appeared in the newspa-per’s Feb. 20 special section. The section appears in select editions of Sun Thisweek and the Dakota County Tribune and is posted online at the Exceptional Busi-nesswomen link at SunThisweek.com. “We are very excited to have this pan-el discussion,” Jech said. “We expect the winners to talk about the challenges they met along the way, some of those related to women’s changing roles in the work-place.” The variety of stories is expected to be revealing, as the panel includes Audrey Aronoson Johnson, who was among the first class of women to be accepted in the Harvard-Radcliffe School of Business for Women program in 1959, and Linda Radue, who was among one of the few women in the vehicle sales business when she started six years ago. Though Johnson is above the typical retirement age, she continues to work with the Lakeville-based property management business Johnson Companies, and Radue is one of Volkswagen’s top salespersons in the state and country. The panel will also include perspec-tives from small business and industry with honorees Karen DeVaughn of Life Wellness Center, which offers chiropractic care in Lakeville and Eagan, and Karen Wentworth of Lakeville-based Hobo Inc., which primarily makes chemicals for the car wash and agricultural industries. Innovative Office Solutions co-founder and CEO Jennifer Smith will talk about her journey to build a small company into one of the most prominent office product suppliers in the country.

Roz Peterson will talk about how she balances her business and civic interests as broker for Cerron Commercial Properties, a member of the Lakeville Area School Board, active volunteer with area cham-bers and political candidate. Kari Mitchell of Rosemount-based Charity Events of Minnesota will offer her perspective from the nonprofit world as she’s raised millions of dollars over the years to fund research and other services for those affected by such fatal diseases as cancer and AIDS. Other award winners this year are Diane Lindo and Lara Kelley of the Minnesota School of Beauty and Sta-

cey Marmolejo, of Eagan-based Rock Mammas.

The panel discussion will be moderated by Cath-

erine Byers Breet, a 2013 Exceptional Business-women honoree, who is chief stripe changer at ARBEZ Inc., a company she founded that coaches

job seekers to find their true callings.

Breet, an Eagan resident for 12 years, is a motivational

speaker, developer of the Dream Job Workshop Series and has led count-less discussions like the one expected Tuesday. She has encouraged people to tap into their thoughts about the perfect career through individual sessions, workshops and the Easter Job Transitions Group at Easter Lutheran Church in Eagan. Her goal is to help people find a career to thrive in and truly be happy. “Most people spend their lives stifling that roar, trying to fit into other people’s plans,” she said. “Every single one of us has something special to offer this world, and when we finally acknowledge our unique gifts, and give ourselves permis-sion to be great, we can change the world.” Breet has gone through career transi-tions on her own. She’s spent time as a summer camp counselor, tour guide, flight attendant and she’s traveled the world. For nine years she worked as a corporate recruiter and “headhunter,” but felt the urge to go out on her own. In 2006 she launched ARBEZ, which provides tools, customized training and solutions for career counselors, corpora-tions, higher education and organizations. ARBEZ, zebra spelled backward, believes people can change their stripes.

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

The Exceptional Businesswomen Recognition Event will be held at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, at Lost Spur Golf & Event Center. Tickets are available online for the event; visit www.SunThisweek.com and click on the Exceptional Businesswomen link. (File photo)

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Business BriefsBusiness workshop The Dakota County Community De-velopment Agency, in partnership with Dakota County cities and the Dakota Scott Workforce Investment Board, will host Open To Business Dakota County: New Tools for Lenders, Entrepreneurs & Small Business on Thursday, March 6, at the Valleywood Golf Course in Apple Valley. This free breakfast workshop will cover new financial tools and resources available to entrepreneurs and small business owners through the Open To Business Dakota County Program and Dakota Scott WorkForce Centers, and highlight Open To Business partnerships with private commercial lenders. For more information or to register, visit http://opentobusiness2014.event-brite.com or call 651-675-4432. Registra-

tion closes at noon on Monday, March 3.

Fiber expansion in Lakeville Installation of gigabit fiber broad-band and data aggregation services has been completed at Lakeville-based Im-perial Plastics Incorporated by Velocity Fiber of Golden Valley. The services will provide Imperial Plastics newfound broadband speeds and reliability at its main location in the Lakeville Airlake Industrial Park, while integrating and connecting its new man-ufacturing facility in Mankato.

Moss Basket Days at Pahl’s Pahl’s Market in Apple Valley is hold-

ing its annual Moss Basket Days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 1, 4 and 8. Reserva-tions are required. To reserve a spot, call 952-431-4345 or email [email protected].

Clean-up funding info The Minnesota Department of Em-ployment and Economic Development and the Metropolitan Council will hold an information session Thursday, March 6, in Plymouth about public funding available for cleaning up con-tamination on real estate redevelopment sites. The focus of the event will be on competing for funding that can help in the development of new businesses and housing on privately owned sites with contamination concerns. Participants will learn about finan-cial resources available to clean up sites

with significant soil or groundwater contamination. Funding is also avail-able for adaptive reuse of older existing buildings with large amounts of asbes-tos or lead-based paint. The cleanup funding is awarded through competitive public grant pro-grams and is available to cities, counties and development authorities who part-ner with private developers on specific projects. More than $8 million is expected to be available this spring to help deal with petroleum contamination, groundwater contamination, soil contamination, as-bestos and hazardous materials. For more information, visit metro-council.org/News-Events/Communities/Events/Free-Brownfield-Resources-In-formation-Session-Marc.aspx.

Business CalendarTo submit items for the

Business Calendar, email: [email protected].

Apple Valley Chamber of Com-merce events: • Thursday, Feb. 27, 2-5 p.m., NEXT Leaders Tour of the Capitol. In-formation: Kristy Cleveland at [email protected] or 952-432-

8422. • Tuesday, March 4, 7:30-9 a.m., Chamber Coffee Connection, Cul-ver’s, 15225 Galaxie Ave., Apple Val-ley. Information: Kristy Cleveland at [email protected] or 952-432-8422. Dakota County Regional Cham-ber of Commerce events: • Tuesday, Feb. 25, 11:30 a.m. to 1

p.m., RABC – Senior Housing Project Discussion, Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Lunch pro-vided by Las Tortillas. Cost: $15. Reg-istration required. Information: Jessy Annoni at 651-288-9202, [email protected]. • Thursday, Feb. 27, 7:30-9 a.m., Breakfast With Champions – Immedi-ate Results Workshop, Hilton Garden

Inn, 1975 Rahncliff Court, Eagan. Speaker: Brent Widman, professional sales coach, Southwestern Consult-ing. Cost: $20 for members, $30 for nonmembers. Registration required. Information: Jessy Annoni at 651-288-9202, [email protected]. • Tuesday, March 4, 4-4:30 p.m., ribbon cutting at Orangetheory Fit-ness, 15624 Pilot Knob Road, Apple

Valley. Information: Jessy Annoni at 651-288-9202, [email protected]. Lakeville Area Chamber of Com-merce events: • Wednesday, Feb. 26, 7:30-9 a.m., New Member Orientation, cham-ber conference room. RSVP by Feb. 25.


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Several local skiers earn top-10 finishes at state

Eagles are South Suburban kingpins again

Distractions don’t throw AV off course

Hett is state runner-up in back-to-back years

Lakeville North girls team sixth in Alpine meet

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


Eagan resident and Cretin-Derham Hall se-nior Keillen O’Brien, Eastview ninth-grader Luke Doolittle and Eagan senior Sally Anderson were among the top-10 finishers at the state high school Alpine skiing meet Wednesday in Biwabik. Lakeville North also qualified for the girls team competition and placed sixth in the meet at Giants Ridge. O’Brien, who had to sit out of high school skiing as a junior after trans-ferring from St. Thomas Academy, had the fastest time (32.44 seconds) on the second of two runs. That brought his total time to 1 minute, 7.22 sec-onds. He was 0.25 seconds behind the winner, Louis

Nguyen of Chanhassen. Dolittle also made it into the top 10, placing 10th in 1:13.62. Apple Valley sopho-more Robert Hapke, one of three Eagles skiers to qualify for state indi-vidually, placed 15th in 1:13.86. Eagles senior Liam Tyler was 46th in 1:23.71. Croix Turner, a junior, was 67th in 1:46.47. Burnsville junior Jon Garbe, appearing at state for the second consecu-tive year, placed 51st in 1:28.02. Garbe was in 80th place after the first run but had the 25th fast-est time on the second run. The Blaze’s Jack Lind-say stood in 10th place af-ter his first run but did not complete his second run. Lakeville North’s Matt Xi was disqualified on his second run. Eagan sophomore Tommy Anderson was in position to make a push for the individual cham-

pionship when he finished his first run in 34.53, one-tenth of a second behind Nguyen. Anderson missed a gate on his second run and had to climb back up the hill, costing him a massive amount of time and dropping him to 64th place. He finished fifth in the 2013 state meet. Anderson’s sister Sally had a more memorable performance in the girls meet. She finished seventh overall in 1:20.36, improv-ing by two spots over her state finish in 2013. She had the sixth-fastest time on each of her two runs. Minnetonka senior Megan Greiner won the girls individual champi-onship in 1:18.28. Lakeville North’s girls were led at state by ninth-grader Bailey Servais, who finished 12th indi-vidually in 1:23.49, and senior Courtney Kava-naugh, who was 15th in 1:24.53. Kathryn Kossack fin-ished 45th for North in

1:30.66. Hoiland Taylor was 75th in 1:46.25 and Anna Konietzko was 77th in 1:47.79. Emily Ray competed but was dis-qualified. Lakeville North scored 113 points in the team competition, two points out of fifth place. Min-netonka, which had the top two individual finish-ers, scored 161 points to win the team champion-ship for the second con-secutive year. Other individual skiers competing at state includ-ed Eastview Claire Hefko, who was 24th in 1:27.57; Eagan’s Alison Hofs-tad, 36th in 1:29.37; and Burnsville’s Liz Drusch, 42nd in 1:30.35. Drusch was making her fourth ap-pearance at the state meet. Blake repeated as boys team champion, finishing 20 points ahead of Forest Lake.

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North takes Apple Valley to overtime by Mike Shaughnessy


Apple Valley and Lakeville North played a game that was nothing like their previous meeting – but probably a lot like the ones they will have in the coming weeks. In a game with play-off pace, playoff intensity and a playoff-type over-flow crowd at the Lakeville North gym, Apple Valley survived 59-56 in overtime to win its second consecu-tive South Suburban Con-ference championship. “This was a great test,” said Apple Valley senior forward Dennis Austin, whose steal with about 15 seconds remaining in over-time might well have pre-vented a second overtime. “We know we’re going to have games like this in the playoffs. We have a lot of young guys on our team, and they needed to see how these games are going to go and how they’re going to be officiated.” No. 1-ranked Apple Val-ley, 24-1 overall, is 17-0 in the South Suburban with one regular-season game remaining Friday at home against Rosemount. Before Tuesday, all of the Eagles’ conference victories were by 13 points or more, in-cluding a 102-74 win over Lakeville North on Jan. 14. The Panthers (20-5, 15-2) would have tied for the conference lead with a victory over Apple Val-ley. With the game tied 47-47, the Panthers held the ball for the final two minutes of the second half – something rarely seen in a regular-season game – so they could take a last-second shot. Tyler Flack’s shot bounced off the rim and the ball went out of bounds, leaving about six seconds for Apple Valley to attempt its own game-winning shot. Tyus Jones’ pull-up jumper from 12 feet rattled out and the game went to overtime. Apple Valley scored the first eight points of over-time but North scrambled back and was within two points at 56-54 with 21.7 seconds left. The Panthers’ J.P. Macura drove toward the basket but was cut off and tried to kick the ball out to teammate Alex Reiland. Austin got in the way to deflect the pass and recover the ball. He was fouled and made two free throws, finally giving the

Eagles a chance to breathe easily. Austin said his team-mates defended the play so well that he could look to get into a passing lane. He saw Reiland out of the cor-ner of his eye and moved between him and Macura. “When (Macura) went up, he was off-balance,” Austin said. “He was going to have to throw it some-where, and he threw it to me.” Lakeville North coach John Oxton said he was pleased with his team’s de-fensive effort against Apple Valley, which scored at least 70 points in each of its previous 24 games and has had 100 or more points six times. “We didn’t allow them to attack the basket they way they’re used to,” Ox-ton said. “We don’t have a 6-11 kid protecting the basket so we have to draw charges, and I thought our kids did a great job of that. “But they’re a good team. They’ve won 19 in a row for a reason, and they’ve beaten a lot of good teams.” The Panthers shot 20 three-pointers but made only three. Macura, a 6-foot-5 senior forward averaging 32.4 points a game, had 27 points, seven rebounds and six assists. He was 12-for-14 from the free-throw line. Flack add-ed 15 points for the Pan-thers. Jones led Apple Val-ley with 25 points. Austin scored 12. Sophomore cen-ter Brock Bertram was lim-ited to 18 minutes because of foul trouble but had nine points and 10 rebounds. Apple Valley coach Zach Goring also praised senior forward Robert Tobroxen, who drew the assignment of guarding Macura. Lakeville North closes the regular season at Prior Lake at 7 p.m. Thursday and is likely to be the No. 1 seed in the Class 4A, Sec-tion 1 playoff that starts next week. Defending state Class 4A champion Apple Valley will be heavily fa-vored to win a second con-secutive Section 3 title. And that means the Eagles and Panthers might not be done with each oth-er, as a state tournament matchup is possible if both teams win their sections. The Panthers “chased us hard,” Goring said. “Their only two losses in the conference were to us. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had to play them again.”

Eagles down Rosemount for

section wrestling title

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


Apple Valley wrestling teams had grown accus-tomed to setting aside distractions, but this was different. The Eagles qualified for the state team com-petition for the 32nd con-secutive year after defeat-ing Rosemount 60-9 in the Class 3A, Section 3 cham-pionship match Friday night. It was not necessar-ily smooth sailing for the Eagles. Within the last several weeks, two varsity wres-tlers left the program and enrolled at other schools. David Lee Racer, whose son Dayton won the Class 3A 145-pound champion-ship last year, went public with his grievances, alleg-ing in a Star Tribune arti-cle that other parents had grown jealous of his son’s success and had sought to get him suspended from the team. Dayton Racer enrolled at Wheaton High School last week. The other de-parting wrestler, Trom Peterson, went to Simley High School and is wres-tling there. If these issues hindered Apple Valley at the sec-tion team tournament, it was difficult to tell. The Eagles outscored op-ponents 201-12 in three dual meets, dropping only three matches along the way. Apple Valley (30-0) advances to the Class 3A team tournament Feb. 27 at Xcel Energy Center. The Eagles’ first oppo-nent will be Maple Grove (19-14) at 9 a.m. They will seek a ninth consecutive state championship. “It’s too bad we lost a couple of guys, but we all know we still have a job to do,” said Apple Valley se-nior Seth Gross, the top-ranked wrestler in Class 3A at 138 pounds. “We still have to be prepared and work hard every day

in the room.” Asked if he thought the negative publicity af-fected his team, Eagles coach Dalen Wasmund said, “that’s always a dan-ger. We’ve been talking a lot about focusing on the things you can control instead of the things you can’t.” Kyle Rathman (106), Gross (138), Daivonte Young (152), Mark Hall (170), Bobby Steveson (182) and Paul Cheney (220) won their matches by fall against Rose-mount. The Eagles did not use two of their highly ranked wrestlers, Maolu Woiwor (No. 1 at 132) and Lord Josh Hyeamang (285) in the team champi-onship match. Rosemount’s Adam Hedin, ranked third in the state at 132, won by deci-sion and Payton Otter-dahl, ranked ninth at 285, pinned his opponent in 17 seconds. “We were hoping to be in the championship match,” said Rosemount coach Brett Larson, whose team is ranked 11th in Class 3A. “We had a good day. A lot of things can happen, but (the Ea-gles) have kids who are ranked No. 1 in the state and in the top five in the country.” Rosemount beat East Ridge 74-6 in the quar-

terfinals, then beat ninth-ranked Eastview 39-26 in the semifinals. “We knew we needed to get some bonus points against Eastview,” Larson said, “and the pins we got from Grant Jackson (145) and Connor Busho were huge. I think those 12 points turned the match in our favor.” Apple Valley will be heavily favored in the state team competition. The Eagles, ranked second na-tionally by theopenmat.com, are expected to face No. 2 seed St. Michael-Albertville or No. 3 seed Prior Lake in the state championship match. Apple Valley has defeat-ed Prior Lake twice this season but has not faced STMA in a dual meet since the schools tied 28-28 in the 2013 Class 3A final and were declared co-champions. The Eagles don’t get to face Blair Academy, a New Jersey private school that is No. 1 in the na-tional rankings, but Gross said a dominant perfor-mance in the state tour-nament might help Apple Valley take the top spot. “We’d like to wrestle Blair Academy, but we won’t get that opportu-nity,” Gross said. “But if we can win the state team championship and have seven or eight individual

champions, maybe that will put us up there.”

Individual

tournament The Class 3A, Section 3 individual tournament is Friday and Saturday at Eagan High School. The field includes four 2013 state champions from Apple Valley – Woiwor, Gross, Hall and Cheney – and Wasmund said he believes there’s a reason-able chance the Eagles can have a state qualifier at every weight. Rosemount’s Hedin, Jake Baker (113) and Ot-terdahl are among their school’s top contenders to qualify for the state meet. George Farmah (ranked fifth at 126), Nick Pegelow (fifth at 195) and Jacob Rukavina (seventh at 160) lead Eastview’s hopefuls. Eagan’s Nasir Ali is ranked eighth at 106, while Dawit Gebreb (120) and Joe Dubbels (152) are ranked ninth in their weight classes. The top two wrestlers in each weight class at the section tournament advance to the state indi-vidual tournament Feb. 28-March 1 at Xcel En-ergy Center.


Gabe Steveson of Apple Valley tries to keep Rosemount’s Craig Syzmanski on the mat during their 195-pound match in the Class 3A, Section 3 team final. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Lakeville North’s J.P. Macura swoops in to try to block a shot by Apple Valley’s Robert Tobroxen. Apple Valley won 59-56 in overtime to clinch the South Suburban Con-ference boys basketball championship. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Burnsville girls, Eagan boys both fourth in state Nordic team

meet by Mike Shaughnessy


Burnsville senior Viv-ian Hett finished her high school Nordic skiing ca-reer with a second con-secutive state runner-up finish.

Hett finished about six seconds behind Irondale senior Mattie Watts – a teammate of Hett’s on the U.S. junior national squad – at the Feb. 13 state pur-suit race at Giants Ridge in Biwabik. Additionally, Hett helped lead Burnsville to fourth place in the girls team competition, won by Wayzata for the second consecutive year. East-view qualified for state and placed seventh. Eagan finished fourth

in the boys team competi-tion, and Wildcats senior Josh Podpeskar was ninth in the pursuit race. Eastview sophomore Margie Freed was sixth in the girls pursuit race in 38:10.9, an improvement of 31 places over her fin-ish in the 2013 state meet. Senior Kaley Hedberg was 74th in 43:38.3, soph-omore Annika Martell finished 82nd in 43:58.4 and sophomore Kylie Kraemer finished 87th in 44:14.9. Sophomore

Sydney Hedberg finished 95th in 44:53.4. Junior Laura Herland (47:46.5) and sophomore Elena Dawson (48:29.1) finished 118th and 119th. Apple Valley senior Rhett Carlson, an indi-vidual qualifier for state, was 64th in 37:06.6. Lake-ville South senior Mitch-ell Miller finished 92nd in 38:44.3.



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Educationfor the more than 8,000 merit scholarships total-ing more than $35 million which will be awarded this spring. The finalists are Alexan-dria Daggett and Jonathan Morrow of Apple Valley High School; Nurullah Goren, Emily Quick, Alex-andra Rosati, Laurel Scott and Matthew Tran of Ea-gan High School; Jiwon Joung, John Kurila, Eliza-beth Palmi, Mara Reed and Jay Schuffenhauer of Eastview High School; and Emily Brossart, Connor Hagen and Anshika Rai of Rosemount High School. Students are selected for the National Merit and Achievement programs each fall based on their scores on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholar-ship Qualifying Test, which they take as juniors.

Info night at Paideia Paideia Academy, a tuition-free public char-ter school for children in grades kindergarten through eight, will hold a 2014-15 open enroll-ment information night

for prospective families of elementary and mid-dle school students from 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27. For additional infor-mation or a tour of the school, call 952-953-6200 or visit www.paideiaacad-emy.org. Paideia Academy is at 7200 W. 147th St., Apple Valley.

Eagan and Eastview receive starred performances Eagan and Eastview high schools both earned a starred-performance rat-ing at the state One-Act Play Festival Feb. 13 at O’Shaughnessy Auditori-um in St. Paul. Eight Class AA schools qualified for the state festival and Ea-gan and Eastview were two of the four schools that earned a starred per-formance, the highest rat-ing possible. Eagan performed “The Diviners” by Jim Leonard Jr., directed by Nancy Ow-zarek. Eastview performed “Frozen” by Bryony Lav-ery, directed by Scott Du-rocher and Rob Rachow.

College news St. Cloud State Univer-sity, fall graduates, from Apple Valley – Laura Bak-ker, B.S., elementary/K-6 education; Jodi Brown, A.A., liberal arts and sci-ences; Kevin Peterson, B.S., finance. University of Minne-sota, Morris, fall dean’s list, from Apple Valley – Jesse Carlson, Samantha Woods. University of Wiscon-sin-La Crosse, December graduate, Elizabeth Jones of Apple Valley, M.S., oc-cupational therapy. Bethel University, St. Paul, fall dean’s list, from Apple Valley – Margaret Schiffman, Charles De-neen, Jena Mielke, Emily Kieser, Ellise Weber. Bemidji State Univer-sity, fall graduate, Renee Deegan of Apple Valley, B.S., elementary educa-tion, magna cum laude. University of Wiscon-sin-Stout, fall chancellor’s award recipients, from Apple Valley – Abigail Broderdorf, Jisela Corne-jo, Katie Grutza, Jillian Lentz, Madeleine Paulsen, Amara Peterson, Sean Tansey, Erika Werner.

SeniorsApple Valley seniors 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 facility is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 952-953-2345 or go to www.cityo-fapplevalley.org. Monday, Feb. 24 – Ex-ecutive Committee, 10 a.m.; 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, Feb. 25 – Quilting Bees, 9 a.m.; Zumba Gold, 9:15 a.m.;

Tuesday Painters, 9:30 a.m.; Pinochle, 12:30 p.m.; Spanish, 1 p.m.; Crib-bage, 1 p.m.; Hand & Foot Cards, 1 p.m.; Table Ten-nis, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26 – Donated Bread, 9 a.m.; Diaper Sewing, 9:15 a.m.; Yoga, 9:45 a.m.; Morn-ing Stretch, 10 a.m.; Vel-vet Tones, 10 a.m.; Intro to Line Dancing, 1 p.m.; Dominoes, 1 p.m.; Mah-jong, 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27 – De-fensive Driving, 9 a.m.; Beg. Line Dancing, 9:15 a.m.; Knitters & Crochet-ers, 9:30 a.m.; Int. Line Dancing, 10 a.m.; Dupli-cate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Tap Dancing; 12:30 p.m.; Pool, 1 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m.; Hardanger, 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28 –

Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Women’s Pool, 11 a.m.

Rosemount seniors “Always a Bridesmaid” at the DayTrippers Din-ner Theatre – Wednesday, March 19. Buffet lunch served prior to the stage production of “Always a Bridesmaid,” a com-edy about six high school friends who make a vow to be in each other’s wed-dings no matter what. Cost is $50; includes show, meal, bus, and gratuity. The bus will depart from the Rosemount Commu-nity Center at 11:30 a.m. and return at 4 p.m. Reg-istration deadline is Mon-day, March 10.


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LEGAL NOTICES

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

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

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mort-gage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE: May 24, 2007MORTGAGOR: Christine A.

Herrmann, a single person.MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems, Inc..DATE AND PLACE OF RECORD-

ING: Filed June 6, 2007, Dakota County Registrar of Titles, Docu-ment No. 612050, as corrected by Corrective Mortgage recorded No-vember 14, 2013 as document no. T725151 on Certificate of Title No. 111704.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: M&T Bank. Dated June 7, 2013 Filed June 20, 2013 , as Document No. T718114.

Said Mortgage being upon Reg-istered Land.

TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems, Inc.TRANSACTION AGENT’S

MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON MORTGAGE:

100196800031001998LENDER OR BROKER AND

MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE: Home Loan Cen-ter, Inc., dba LendingTree Loans

RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICER:

Bayview Loan Servicing, LLCMORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-

DRESS: 14620 Garrett Avenue #310, Apple Valley, MN 55124

TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 01.81401.01.138LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF

PROPERTY:Residential Unit Number 310

and Garage Unit Number 53 in Condominium No. 36 Garrett Square Condominium Homes

COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Dakota

ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $97,000.00

AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NO-TICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY MORTGAGEE:

$96,169.84That prior to the commence-

ment of this mortgage foreclosure proceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of

Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements as required by stat-ute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or other-wise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof;

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

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: March 18, 2014 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Of-

fice, Law Enforcement Center, 1580 Hwy 55, Lobby #S-100, Hastings, MN

to pay the debt then secured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, including at-torneys’ fees allowed by law sub-ject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns unless reduced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat. §580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on September 18, 2014 unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next weekday, and unless the redemp-tion period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE: None

“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”Dated: January 13, 2014M&T BankMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LIEBO, P.L.L.P.

Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assigneeof Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688837 - 13-008787 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATIONFROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published in theApple Valley

January 24, 31, February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014

166464INDEPENDENT SCHOOL

DISTRICT NO. 196CALL FOR BIDS

OAK RIDGE ELEMENTARY BAS UPGRADE

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received for the Oak Ridge Elementary BAS Upgrade by Independent School District 196, at the Facilities and Grounds Office located at 14445 Diamond Path West, Rosemount, MN 55068, until 2:30 p.m., March 4, 2014, at which time and place bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

A pre-bid meeting is scheduled for February 20, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. at Oak Ridge Elementary Main En-trance. Attendance at this meeting is highly recommended.

Complete instructions on how to obtain Bidding Documents can be found at: http://www.district196.org/District/LegalNotices/index.cfm

The School Board of Indepen-dent School District 196 reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any informality in bidding.

Gary L. Huusko, Board Clerk Independent School District 196

Published in Apple Valley,

Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganFebruary 14, 21, 2014

175997NOTICE OF MORTGAGE

FORECLOSURE SALETHE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION

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

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that default has occurred in conditions of the following described mort-gage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE: August 9, 2007MORTGAGOR: Phillip A. Klang

and Elizabeth C. Klang, husband and wife.

MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Systems, Inc as Nominee for Summit Mortgage

Corporation.DATE AND PLACE OF RE-

CORDING: Recorded August 28, 2007 Dakota County Recorder, Document No. 2540644.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: U.S. Bank National Association. Dated July 19, 2013 Recorded July 26, 2013, as Document No. 2965860.

TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems, Inc.TRANSACTION AGENT’S

MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON MORTGAGE:

100061907000032151LENDER OR BROKER AND

MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE:

Summit Mortgage CorporationRESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE

SERVICER: U.S. Bank Home Mort-gage, a division of U.S. Bank Na-tional Association

MORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-DRESS: 15970 Heath Court, Apple Valley, MN 55124

TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 014580108140LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF

PROPERTY: Lot 14, Block 8, Lon-gridge Second Addition, according to the recorded plat thereof, Dakota County, Minnesota

COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Dakota

ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $222,000.00

AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NO-TICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY MORTGAGEE:

$234,705.54That prior to the commence-

ment of this mortgage foreclosure proceeding Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements as required by stat-ute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or other-wise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof;

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

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: March 13, 2014 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Of-

fice, Law Enforcement Center, 1580 Hwy 55, Lobby #S-100, Hastings, MN

to pay the debt then secured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, including at-torneys’ fees allowed by law sub-ject to redemption within six (6)

months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns unless reduced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat. §580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on September 15, 2014, unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next weekday, and unless the redemp-tion period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE:None

“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”Dated: January 2, 2014U.S. Bank National AssociationMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LIEBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assigneeof Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688819 - 13-001222 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATIONFROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published in theApple Valley

January 24, 31, February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014

166488CITY OF APPLE VALLEY

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON-SALE & SPECIAL SUNDAY

INTOXICATING LIQUOR LICENSE APPLICATION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that theCity Council of the City of Apple Valley,Dakota County, Minnesota, will meet atthe Municipal Center, 7100 147th Street

W., on Thursday, March 13,2014, at 7:00p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible.The purpose of the meeting will be tohold a public hearing on the application ofDDJ Crooked Pint Apple Valley, Inc., d/b/a Crooked Pint Ale House, for “ON-SALEINTOXICATING LIQUOR” and “SPECIALLICENSE FOR SUNDAY LIQUOR SALES”pursuant to City Code Section 111.22.

The business, which will be operated inconjunction with the proposed licenses, isa restaurant located at 15668 Pilot KnobRoad.

The owners and officers of the corpora-tion are:

Darren Gregory Hetland, President Di-ane Marie Peterson, Vice President Jer-emy Allen Brown, Secretary

AH interested parties will be given anopportunity to be heard at said time andplace.

DATED this 13th day of February, 2014.BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCILPamela J. Gackstetter,Apple Valley City Clerk

Published in Apple Valley

February 21, 2014177677

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 196CALL FOR BIDS

ECFE/ECSE/ABE BUILDINGNotice is hereby given that Inde-

pendent School District #196, will receive multiple prime sealed bids for the ISD#196 ECFE/ECSE/ABE Building project, at the District Of-fice located at 3455 153rd Street W. Rosemount, MN 55068 until 2:00 pm on Tuesday, March 11th, 2014 at which time they will be opened and read aloud.

Complete instructions on how to obtain Bidding Documents can be found at: http://www.district196.org/District/LegalNotices/index.cfm

A Bid Bond, Certified Check or Cashier’s Check in the amount of 5% of the base bid price, made payable to Independent School District 196, must be submitted with the bid as bid security. No personal checks will be accepted.

The School Board of Indepen-dent School District 196 reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any informality in bidding.

Gary Huusko, Board ClerkIndependent School District 196

Published in Apple Valley,

Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganFebruary 21, 28, 2014

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Books New York Times bestsell-ing author Elizabeth Berg, 7-8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 26, Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. Berg will discuss her latest book, “Tap-estry of Fortunes,” the story of four women venturing into their pasts in order to shape their futures. Copies of the book will be available to purchase.

Exhibits Burnsville Visual Arts So-ciety’s Art Fete, Feb. 13 to March 23, Burnsville Perform-ing Arts Center gallery, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Information: 952-895-4685. “Opposing Landscapes,” a photography exhibit by Dean Seaton, is on display during February at Dunn Bros Cof-fee, 1012 Diffley Road, Eagan. Includes images captured at Lake Moraine, Alberta, Canada, and the Badlands near Rapid City, S.D. “My Minnesota,” a photog-raphy exhibit by Dean Seaton, is on display through March 10 at Dunn Bros Coffee, 20700 Chippendale Ave. W., Farming-ton. Features images captured near Grand Marais. 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.

Music Sirens of the ’60s: The Girl Singers of the Hit Pa-rade, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Tickets: $22 adults, $18 seniors and students. Information: 952-985-4640. South Metro Chorale Cab-aret Show, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1, and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 2, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Si-lent auction at 6:30 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively. Tickets: $20 adults, $15 seniors and stu-dents at 612-386-4636 or by email ([email protected]).

Theater “Simpatico,” presented by The Chameleon Theatre Circle, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21-22, Feb. 28, March 1, March 3, March 6-8, and 2 p.m. March 9, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Cen-ter, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tick-ets: $20 adults, $17 students/seniors at Ticketmaster.com or 800-982-2787. “Scooby-Doo! Live Musi-cal Mysteries,” 2 and 7 p.m. Thursday, March 6, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Cen-ter, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets

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Saturday, Feb. 22 Providing Emotional Sup-port to Your Children, 9-11 a.m., InnerLight Healing Center, 17305 Cedar Ave. S., Lakeville. Cost: $39. Registration/infor-mation: counselingandhealing.com, 952-435-4144. Volunteer Income Tax As-sistance (VITA), 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley, 952-981-7045. For those who are age 65 or older, disabled, speak limited English, or whose an-nual household income is less than $52,000. Free income tax preparation assistance. Bring tax-deductible expenses (in-cluding property tax or rental payment records), photo ID, family Social Security cards and a copy of last year’s tax re-turn. No appointments taken.

Thursday, Feb. 27 AARP Tax Aide, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville. Tax preparation help for low-income seniors, adults and families. Registration re-quired at 952-891-0300. Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA), 2-6 p.m., Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley, 952-981-7045. For those who are age 65 or older, disabled, speak lim-ited English, or whose annual household income is less than $52,000. Free income tax prep-aration assistance. Bring tax-deductible expenses (including

property tax or rental payment records), photo ID, family So-cial Security cards and a copy of last year’s tax return. No ap-pointments taken. Clear Communication workshop, 6-7:30 p.m., Thrive Therapy, 190 S. River Ridge Circle, Suite 208, Burnsville. Free. Register at http:// thrive-therapymn.com. Home staging seminar, 7-8 p.m., Rosemount Commu-nity Center, Room 215, 13885 S. Robert Trail. Learn the tricks professional stagers and real estate agents use to make homes attractive and enticing to buyers. Presented by Patty Farris, interior designer, and Denise Sjoberg, Realtor. Free. Apple Valley Garden Club meeting, 7:15 p.m., Apple Val-ley Community Center, 14603 Hayes Road. Marty Bergland will give a presentation on herbs. Free.

Friday, Feb. 28 Eagan Grace Support Group for infant loss, 6:30-8:30 p.m. RSVP to [email protected]. Information: http://www.babylovemn.com/eagan-grace-support-group/.

Saturday, March 1 Winter Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to noon, Eagan Com-munity Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan. Items for sale include locally produced food items such as honey, jams, sauces, sweet treats, artisan bakery items, strudel, root veg-etables and more.

Ongoing

Firearm safety class, 7-9 p.m. Tuesdays, March 4 to April 29 (no class March 25), at Rosemount Middle School, 3135 143rd St. W., Rosemount. Range day on April 26. Regis-tration night will be Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. A parent or legal guard-ian must accompany student to registration. Class fee is $7.50. Upon class completion, a $7.50 DNR fee is paid online to self-certify. Class size limited. Mini-mum age to attend is 11. To en-roll student(s), send full name, age and name of parent or legal guardian to [email protected].

Blood drives The American Red Cross will hold the following blood drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit red-crossblood.org to make an ap-pointment or for more informa-tion. • Feb. 21, noon to 5 p.m., Culver’s, 3445 O’Leary Lane, Eagan. • Feb. 22, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Caribou Coffee, 14638 Cedar Ave., Apple Valley. • Feb. 25, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Minnesota School of Business, 17685 Juniper Path, Lakeville. • March 3, 12:30-6:30 p.m., Lutheran Church of the Ascen-sion, 1801 E. Cliff Road, Burns-ville. • March 4, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Edina Realty, 17271 Kenyon Ave., Lakeville. • March 4, 12:30-6:30 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church, 16725 Highview Ave., Lakeville.

The Girl Singers of the Hit Parade’s latest musical revue, “Sirens of the ’60s,” salutes some of the best-loved female vocalists of the 1960s in a 7:30 p.m. performance Satur-day, Feb. 22, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Advance tickets are $22 for adults and $18 for seniors and students. Tickets are available at Lakevil-leAreaArtsCenter.com and at the Arts Center. For more information, call 952-985-4640. (Photo submitted)

Matt Wall, left, and Brendon Etter are among the cast of Chameleon Theatre Circle’s production of “Simpatico.” (Photo by Corinna Knepper Troth)

Dark plots unfold in ‘Simpatico’

Noir-style drama from Chameleon Theatre Circle opens Feb. 21

Hidden identities come to light, betrayals abound and long-buried secrets are revealed in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard’s dark dra-ma “Simpatico,” which will be presented by Cha-meleon Theatre Circle Feb. 21 through March 9 in the Burnsville Perform-ing Arts Center’s Black Box Theatre. “Simpatico” follows Lyle Carter, a man who believes all his mistakes are behind him, but whose life starts to unravel after a desperate phone call from an old associate. Chameleon’s produc-tion is directed by Mat-thew Greseth and the cast features Frank Blomgren, Brendon Etter, Kelly Hou-lehan, Elizabeth Olson as Kelly, Matt Wall and Ka-

tie Wodele. The show’s producers advise that “Simpatico” contains adult situations and language as well as simulated violence. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21-22, Feb. 28, March 1, March 3, March 6-8, and 2 p.m. March 9. The show on Monday, March 3, is “Pay What You Can” night, at which audience members can set their own price for a tick-et; that evening’s perfor-mance will be followed by a discussion with the cast and crew. Tickets are $20 for adults, $17 for students and seniors, and can be purchased at the Burns-ville PAC’s box office, at Ticketmaster.com and by phone at 800-982-2787.

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range from $25-$65 at Ticket-master.com or 800-982-2787.

Workshops/classes/other Watercolor class by Can-vas and Soul, 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Mediterranean Cruise Café. No experience necessary, appetizers included. Register by emailing [email protected]. Informa-tion: www.canvasandsoul.com. Art-themed birthday par-ties are offered by the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Cost: $125-$135 for up to 10 people. Additional guests are $12.50 per child. Supplies pro-vided. Information: 651-675-5521. Winter art classes are open for registration at the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Information: www.cityofeagan.com/index.php/recreation/ea-gan-art-house, 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. Act-Sing-Dance winter session enrollment open for ages 7-17. Burnsville location. Information: 952-220-1676, Drama Interaction. Homeschool Theatre Pro-gram, winter session open enrollment, Wednesdays, ages 7-17. In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., 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, 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 Lake-ville Senior Center, 20110 Holy-oke 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].

‘Sirens of the ’60s’ sizzle


The art of mounted animals Local photographer’s ‘Moving Skin’ exhibit

focuses on taxidermy

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


For her new photo ex-hibit, Courtney Reints turned her artist’s gaze on stuffed animals — and we’re not talking about teddy bears. “Moving Skin,” which opened Feb. 15 at CO Ex-hibitions in Minneapolis, marks the first solo gal-lery show for Reints, a 2009 graduate of Apple Valley’s School of Envi-ronmental Studies who went on to major in pho-tography at the Minne-apolis College of Art and Design. The exhibit, and its focus on taxidermy, grew out of a college project around the theme of “the expressive body.” While many of the other stu-dents focused on people — and especially dancers — as their subject matter, Reints found inspiration in mounted bucks. “A lot of my family is from South Dakota, so it’s something I grew up around — we have a lot of hunters in our fam-ily,” said Reints, 22, who photographed the 13 im-ages featured in “Moving Skin” at sites throughout Minnesota, including a particularly fruitful photo shoot at Taxidermy Un-limited in Burnsville. No appointment was necessary, she recalled. “I just walked in to Taxidermy Unlimited and asked if I could pho-tograph,” she said. “The owner Marv (Gaston) was a great guy to talk to, and he let me photograph throughout the building.”

Reints, who works as a production manager at The Lab digital printing studio in Minneapolis, produced “Moving Skin” with an artist initiative grant from the Minne-sota State Arts Board. She brought an artist’s eye, and a philosophical bent, to the taxidermied animals that served as her subjects. “Seized during nature’s docile moments, taxi-dermy can resurrect an animal’s form as a sym-bol of achievement, the ultimate document of a hunt’s fortune,” she said in an artist’s statement posted on the CO Exhi-

bitions website. “An au-thentic record of antler, feather and flesh. These inert fragments reveal the evocatively raw and ele-gantly beautiful nature of nature.” “Moving Skin” runs through March 7 at CO Exhibitions located at 1101 Stinson Blvd. in northeast Minneapolis. Admission is free, and all the photos are avail-able for purchase. More about the exhibit is at bur-lesquedesign.com/temp/coexhibitions. Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

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Comedy and magic The Rosemount Area Arts Council will host Comedy Club at the Steeple Center 7:30-9 p.m. Saturday, March 8. The PG performance features Dennis Carney and William Hill with guest star Pizpor the Magician. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at www.rosemountarts.com or at The Front Porch at the Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail.

Michael Monroe at the Frozen Apple Acoustic artist Mi-chael Monroe is bring-ing his blend of folk, jazz and reggae to the Valleywood Golf Course clubhouse on Satur-day, March 1, as the fi-nal performance in this year’s Frozen Apple win-ter concert series hosted by the Apple Valley Arts Foundation. Admission is free to the 6-9 p.m. concert in the clubhouse located at 4851 McAndrews Road,

Lehto & Wright, a Celtic-American folk-rock band, takes the stage for a 7:30 p.m. performance Friday, March 7, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Tickets are $12.50 in advance and $17.50 at the door. Tickets are available online at LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com or at the Arts Center. For more information, call 952-985-4640. (Photo submitted)

“Two Deer,” one of 13 images featured in Courtney Reints’s “Moving Skin” exhibit, was photographed at Taxidermy Unlimited in Burnsville. (Photo submitted)

Courtney Reints

and food and beverages, including a full bar, will be available for purchase.

More about the concert is at www.avartsfounda-tion.org.

theater and arts briefs

Celtic folk-rock band in Lakeville
