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Original park group dissentsMost members of the task force that wrote a master plan for Lebanon Hills Regional Park 12 years ago take issue with Dakota County’s current proposed plan.

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SPORTS

Hotel planned near Eagan outlet mallSt. Paul company

aims to build in Cedar Grove by Jessica Harper

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

A St. Paul hotelier is looking to build a 123-room hotel next to the outlet mall in Eagan’s Cedar Grove Redevelop-ment District. Morrissey Hospitality Co., which manages the

St. Paul Hotel, hopes to buy half of a city-owned, 1.8 acre parcel — a re-quest that was prelimi-narily approved by the Economic Development Authority Dec. 3. “I think, in combina-tion with Paragon and Stonebridge, this will make that district the envy of redevelopers,” Mayor Mike Maguire said, referring to the out-let mall and a planned apartment and retail

complex. Morrissey recently ap-plied for franchise rights for Hilton Hotels and Resorts’ Home2 Suites extended-stay brand. The $14 million proj-ect — located near the intersection of Highway 13 and Silver Bell Road — is expected to bring in just under $1 million in annual tax revenue. The four-story up-scale, limited-service ho-tel would include a fitness

center, sizeable lobby and pool. Plans don’t include a restaurant. Rooms, which would all be suites, would have an average cost of $117 per night, said Bill Mor-rissey, president of Mor-rissey Hospitality. “We are very confident in the quality of Paragon and feel the hotel will be a very nice complement to the entire venture,” said Morrissey, an Eagan

resident. The hotel would use 129 spots in a city-owned, 1,543-stall park-ing garage now under construction and would pay $489,000 for them. Before construction can begin, the EDA will need to approve a final purchase agreement and a planned development and subdivision propos-al.

Snapshot of Eagan High talent Guilty plea ininfant’sdeath

Former Eagan day care provider expected to serve

one month by Jessica Harper


An Eagan woman pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree manslaugh-ter in the August 2011 death of an infant at her over-c r o w d e d i n - h o m e day care. B e v -erly Anne Greenagel, 65, could face up to a month in jail under the plea agreement, which was made one week before her trial was set to begin, ac-cording to a Star Tribune report. “We are pleased Bev-erly Greenagel accepted responsibility for what she did,” Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom said. Backstrom declined to comment further due to several pending cases that are similar in nature. Greenagel was the only licensed child care pro-vider in her home on the day 3-month-old Dane Joseph Ableidinger died while sleeping in a bed-room. Investigators deter-mined that the child was lying on his stomach on a fluffy blanket on the floor — a violation of state safe-sleep guidelines — and suffocated. His official

Eagan High School performers rehearsed for “Snapshot: ENCORE 2013.” A variety of songs and styles will be interpreted by nearly 100 of the school’s most talented singers, dancers and instrumentalists. Performances are Dec. 6-7 and 12-14 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 8 at 4 p.m. in the school theater. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)

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Eagan back at it with ComcastRedacted report on late fees irks

City Council by Jessica Harper


Eagan City Council members found them-selves once again laying into Comcast for its per-ceived lack of transpar-ency when raising fees. Less than a year after Eagan officials grilled the Philadelphia telecommu-nications company about its rate changes, Comcast asked the city for permis-sion to increase its late fees from $8 to $9.50. Comcast representa-tives claim the fees recoup

the cost of collecting de-linquent payments, but submitted to the city a re-dacted cost analysis study — which council members greatly criticized Dec. 3. “I feel the information we received is meaning-less,” Council Member Paul Bakken said. The document given to the council explained the study’s methodology and concluded that the compa-ny spends $13 per late fee. But nearly all other costs were blacked out, leaving council members with a number of unanswered questions. Mayor Mike Maguire also criticized the com-pany for failing to pro-vide the report until a few

days before the meeting at which its request would be heard. “The council likes to have information in a timely fashion so we can read it,” he said. Citing the redacted study, the council voted unanimously Dec. 3 to neither approve nor deny Comcast’s request, but to retain the right to regulate late fee increases in the fu-ture. The effect of the deci-sion is to allow the fee to rise. The Burnsville City Council unanimously ap-proved Comcast’s fee in-crease Dec. 3 with little comment and no objec-tions.

Eagan officials have butted heads with the communications giant for several years. Most recently, their frustration boiled over in February when Comcast announced major changes that included new fees and a requirement for basic ca-ble subscribers to obtain a digital transport adapter, a small box that allows pro-gramming to be viewed by decrypting digital signals. City officials were in-undated with calls from Eagan Comcast customers concerned and confused about the fees, prompt-ing the council to add the item to its Feb. 19 meeting

Domestic abuse survivor puts her life back together

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK

DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Sarah’s story of living with and breaking free from domestic abuse is all too familiar in Dakota County, Minnesota and the United States. With rates of domestic assault so high that it is the single largest cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States, Sarah’s path to repairing the dam-age wrought by her former husband shares similar

threads to other women’s stories. Sarah, not her real name, shared her story with the newspaper (which ran the three-part series

Behind Closed Doors on domestic abuse prevention in November) so other victims would know they

The courage to leave

Nearly 40 people across the state have lost their lives to domestic violence this year, more than double the number of similar incidents reported last year. The

newspaper’s series focused on levels of domestic violence, its psychological aspects and what can be done to help those abused. This fourth part was added as the subject wanted to have her story told in an effort to help

other victims break free of their violent relationships.

Sex, drugs, rock ’n’ rollcome to North Dakota

Burnsville novelist writes

family saga by John Gessner


Paul Legler re-members when sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll came to North Dakota. Much of the Burnsville author’s first novel, “Song of Destiny,” is set during the turbulent era when he was coming of age on his family’s farm near Jamestown, N.D.

A family saga about two brothers on diver-gent but ultimately similar paths, “Song of Destiny” was published in Septem-ber by North Star Press of St. Cloud.

“A lot of it cen-ters on that par-ticular period of time, the late ’60s to early ’70s,” said Legler, 58. “Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll are coming to even the smallest towns in North

Dakota and Minnesota. The cultural change is ex-

Paul Legler

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See GUILTY, 16ASee COMCAST, 16A

See HOTEL, 15ALebanon Hills’ poor trail plan A plan to put a paved trail through the heart of Lebanon Hills Regional Park should be rejected.

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Junie B. Jones in LakevilleA holiday musical featuring children’s book phenomenon Junie B. Jones plays the Lakeville Area Arts Center this month.

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Blaze shooting to improveBurnsville boys basketball expects much better than last year’s 3-23 record.

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Residents take issue with Lebanon Hills plan

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


Many of the Dakota County residents who helped frame the master plan for Lebanon Hills Regional Park 12 years ago are now urging coun-ty officials to reexamine the latest plan. The group, which calls itself Forever Wild, the 2001 Citizens Task Force, is made up of 10 mem-bers of the citizen Master Plan Task Force. Of the 13-member task force, eight oppose the county’s latest plan, five remain neutral, two are deceased and one couldn’t be locat-ed by Forever Wild orga-nizers. “Our goal is to encour-age the county to slow down and to learn from the process,” said Laura Hedlund, former chair of the 2001 task force. “Lebanon Hills is critical to the community and we encourage them to look critically at its ecological priorities.” The county’s proposed plan, which has met strong resistance from residents, includes 24.5 miles of unpaved trails, a new paved 6.5-mile con-nector trail that runs east and west and a 2-mile paved loop around Hol-land and McDonough lakes. The plan would keep all existing unpaved trails in Lebanon Hills the

same, and would add six miles of unpaved trails. In total, the 2,000-acre park located in Apple Valley and Eagan would have 46 miles of unpaved trails. Noting that the planned proposal costs twice that of the 2001 plan, the group questions the ecological cost of the plan. The group also criti-cizes county officials for what they say is a lack of public input. Dakota County Com-missioner Tom Egan dis-agrees, noting that the county has held several public meetings to gather input and plans to hold two more in the future. One of these meetings is set for Monday, Dec. 16 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Western Service Center at 14955 Galaxie Ave. in Apple Valley. Instead of creating a new task force, Egan said county officials opted to rely on the county Plan-ning Commission and the series of public meetings. “Our approach is dif-ferent and one reason is the 2001 plan has already been adopted, but it’s a work in progress,” he said. Egan said he also be-lieves the process allows more people to partici-pate, “not just those who have invested interests.” Another opposition group called Save Leba-

non Hills Wilderness plans to host a public meeting on the issue at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 9 at Falcon Ridge Middle School, located at 12900 Johnny Cake Ridge Road in Apple Valley. In addition to the pro-posed plans, Hedlund said Forever Wild is con-cerned about the inva-sive plant species buck-thorn. Hedlund questions whether creating the trail will further spread the destructive plant and whether the county is do-ing enough to combat it. However, Dakota County planning man-ager Kurt Chatfield con-tends county park of-ficials are doing all they can to eradicate buck-thorn. “It’s a big challenge that we have addressed in our restoration areas,” Chatfield said. Native to Europe, the berry-producing buck-thorn bush has sprawled across Minnesota for the past 100 years, accord-ing to the Department of Natural Resources. By taking over forests and wetlands, the inva-sive plant threatens native species. Jessica Harper is at jes-s [email protected] or facebook.com/sun-thisweek.

Jingle all the way

Holz Farm in Eagan hosted an Old Fashioned Holiday from noon to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1. The free event celebrated Christmas at the farm 1940s style, with caroling, hot cider, hayrides, s’mores, crafts, live reindeer and a visit by Santa. Holz Farm includes buildings that were part of the Holz family’s homestead, including barns for equipment, milking cows, chickens and other farm operations. More photos are at SunThisweek.com. (Photo by Tad Johnson)

Minnesota Zoo salutes troops The Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley is offering free admission for military per-sonnel during December. Military personnel (ac-tive, retired and civilian) will receive free zoo admis-sion and free parking. Fam-

ily members will receive discounted admission ($2 off adult, $1 off children and seniors). Other specials include $2 show discounts at the IMAX, a 20 percent discount on food purchases at the zoo, and a 10 per-

cent discount on all regular price merchandise in the gift shop. Military identification or proof of military service is required. No other dis-counts apply. Visit mnzoo.org for more information.

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Road fund boosted by Burnsville budget Tax hike on existing properties is modest, officials say

by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK


Road upkeep will be boosted under a 2014 city levy that raises taxes on existing properties by a modest 0.5 percent, Burnsville officials say. Capping months of meetings on next year’s budget and levy, the City Council unanimously approved on Dec. 3 the $85.2 million budget and $28.5 million levy. The total levy is rising by 5.4 percent, but most of the $1.49 million in-crease is covered by the year-end decertification of a County Road 42 tax-increment financing district. That will fully return properties in the district to the tax rolls, raising the levy by $1.1 million — 4.1 percent of the increase. New construction will cover another $210,000, a 0.8 percent increase, leaving only $135,310 to come from existing tax base — a levy increase of 0.5 percent. The $1.1 million from the TIF decertification will go to the city’s in-frastructure trust fund, which helps pay for road reconstruction and up-keep. Citizens’ “No. 1 criti-cism” of Burnsville is deteriorating roads, said Council Member Dan Kealey, who said people will see an increase in road work next year. The city has planned since 2009 to dedicate the new money from the de-

certified TIF district to the infrastructure fund in 2014, said Kelly Strey, city finance director. Scheduled increases in the infrastructure levy have been deferred to “re-duce the tax burden dur-ing those very difficult years during the worst of the recession,” Kealey said. “I think it’s very wise, prudent financial plan-ning on our part,” he said. Next year’s city tax-es on an average-val-ued home — valued at $184,600 in 2013 and $191,200 in 2014 — are expected to rise by about $30, a 3.8 percent in-crease. City taxes on $1 mil-lion in commercial prop-erty, whose average value has remained flat, are expected to fall by about $85, a 0.6 percent de-crease. The 5.4 levy increase is lower than the 5.7 maxi-mum increase the coun-cil certified in September and the 6.9 percent figure that opened budget talks in June.

Arts center In other budget news, the city says a naming-rights deal for the city-owned Performing Arts Center is expected to bring in $100,000 annu-ally for the next 10 years. The city announced in August it had reached a tentative agreement with Burnsville-based civil construction giant Ames Construction Inc.

The Ames deal, set to begin next year, is yet an-other step toward better financial health for the center, which was always predicted to post annual operating losses but has cut them in recent years. The center opened in January 2009 “un-der distressed economic times” and reached only 80 percent of budgeted operating revenue during its first year, according to the city’s 2014 budget document. The city is predict-ing an operating loss of $235,940 for 2013, less than the $271,090 in its original 2013 budget. The city is budgeting for a $215,480 loss next year and projecting that loss-es will dwindle to about $117,000 by 2018. The “reliance on the general fund” to cover operating losses is “going in the right direction,” Terry Schultz, director of parks, recreation and natural resources, told the council at a Nov. 26 budget work session. “We have targeted the Dec. 17 meeting to share with you the details of our naming-rights agree-ment,” Schultz said. “We’ll start to see rev-enues coming in in 2014.” Next year’s operating expenses are estimated at $1.56 million, an 11 percent increase over this year’s. With the naming-rights deal, operating revenue is expected to in-crease by 19 percent, to $1.35 million.

Eagan tax levy increase passesHomeowners to pay small increase in

property taxes by Jessica Harper


Eagan residents will pay slightly more in the city’s portion of property taxes next year due to rising home values and a small in-crease in the city’s tax levy. On Dec. 3, the City Council unanimously ap-proved a 2.7 percent in-crease in the city’s payable 2014 tax levy — a move that will allow the city to meet the rising cost of health care and pay for a 1.8 percent wage increase for city employees. This will bring the total tax levy to $29.08 million, which is $230,000 under the state limit. “I think this is a very well-managed, frugal and prudent budget and mod-est increase in the tax levy,” Mayor Mike Maguire said. Most homeowners will see the city’s portion of their property taxes in-crease slightly in 2014 due to rising home values, said Tom Pepper, Eagan’s chief financial officer. The average home value is expected to climb from $220,252 in 2013 to $225,289 in 2014. Under this scenario, the owner of an average-valued home can expect to pay about $22 more in the city’s por-tion of property taxes in 2014. This estimate is prior to the state’s market value exclusion, which offers ho-meowners an exclusion that lowers their taxable market value. If a home value remains the same in 2014, the hom-eowner will likely pay the

same in the city’s portion of property taxes. Only one resident spoke during the public hearing on Tuesday night to express concerns about the tax levy increase. The rise in property val-ues marks the first increase since 2009, and is expected to continue to climb in the years to come, Pepper said. Though homeowners may see a small increase next year, property taxes in Eagan have historically been lower than those in many neighboring cities. In 2013, for instance, the owner of a $220,252 Burnsville home paid $140 more in the city’s portion of property taxes than the owner of the same-valued property in Eagan, accord-ing to a 2013 state auditor’s report.

Rising costs Eagan’s levy increase will help the city cover ris-ing expenses, including a 12.3 percent increase in health care costs. Of the $1.05 million increase in expenditures, $659,600 were due to the rise in health insurance pre-miums and a 1.8 percent wage increase. Police ser-geants, maintenance work-ers and clerical workers are expected to receive a 1 percent increase in January and another 1 percent raise in July. In addition to the pay increases, the 2014 bud-get contains a few new positions. The Police De-partment plans to add a full-time crime analyst/computer forensic exam-iner in September. The de-partment previously had the position but eliminated it in 2008 when the employ-ee resigned. The Fire Department

plans to replace its exist-ing three-person, eight-hour duty crew with two two-person, 10-hour duty crews. Although city officials are looking to raise wages this year, most city employ-ees have experienced pay freezes in the past several years with the exception of several union groups that had previously negotiated pay raises. Since 2009, the city has reduced staff positions by about 5 percent – from 243 full-time equivalent posi-tions to 232.3 in 2012, Pep-per said. In addition to personnel expenses, the city incurred an additional $83,000 in expenditures for elections and $249,600 in building inspection expenses relat-ed to Paragon Outlet and other developments. The inspection expenses are completely covered by ad-ditional revenues paid by the developers. The city’s increased ex-penses will be partially off-set by a projected savings of $324,400 from a sales tax exemption passed by the 2013 state Legislature. Under the approved budget, the city’s general fund expenditures are ex-pected to increase 3.7 per-cent to $29.92 million in 2014. The general fund bal-ance is $13.9 million, which is 46.5 percent of Eagan’s 2014 general fund budget and slightly above the city’s target of between 40 and 45 percent. This money is used for operating capital to en-sure the city has enough cash flow..

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


Get real citizen input for Lebanon Hills To the editor: They are going to do what? This is the question heard at a friend’s house in Apple Valley on Da-kota County’s plan for Lebanon Hills Regional Park. The biggest part of this plan is to grade in a 5 per-cent grade trail into the park cutting ski and hik-ing trails numerous times. This park is called Leba-non Hills for a reason as there are many large steep hills and putting in a 5 percent grade for 6.5 miles means a linear strip mine type development of that length with hills cut down, berms added, and retaining walls galore. There is very little 5 per-cent topography in Leba-non Hills. The new trail (some call it a road) duplicates existing trails surround-ing the park as well as the highline trail. Nothing new is being connected. In a letter last week, Valerie Dosland men-tioned that she is confi-dent in Dakota County as the development of mountain biking from the last plan worked. That development starting in 2001 began as this one

with a large objection to a number of features but no objection to the moun-tain bike development. The result of the 2001 objection was to restart the Lebanon Hills plan-ning with real input from citizens and elimination of most of the bad ideas. Today’s plan has a nega-tive response rate nearing 90 percent from the com-ments received. This rush to gain funding from Leg-acy Act or other sources should be slowed down to allow open planning and real citizen involvement. MIKE FEDDEEagan

Embrace bike trail plan along northern perimeter To the editor: As a fellow Eagan resident and avid biker, I’m pedaling side by side with Laura Dosland’s letter (Nov. 29) that Ea-gan’s hills aren’t always the most “bike-friendly” around. Unfortunately, after that I must part ways and disagree with her conclusion that a six-mile asphalt corridor through the middle of Lebanon Hills is the solution to our problem. I’m a big fan of these

corridors. I have biked many including those in Cannon Falls, Red Wing, Winona, Wyoming and Lanesboro. But these beautiful greenways used previously developed and level terrain in their de-sign (abandoned railways, levees, roadways, etc.). And in the end the re-turn was threefold: It im-proved their environment and removed abandoned industry, all while provid-ing a pleasant and non-hilly, “linear parkway” for people to ride and enjoy. This is absolutely not the case in Lebanon Hills, in fact it is the ex-act opposite. Having no abandoned railways in the park’s interior, the county must act as the railroad barons did. They will bulldoze off hills and fill in glens that were the gift of the glaciers so long ago. This “knob and ket-tle” terrain is the park’s trademark and a feature that makes its beauty truly unique. Bulldozing will change this park’s en-vironment. And it will be irreversible. I agree with Ms. Do-sland, we do need family-friendly bike trails. Did you know Lebanon Hills’ 2001 master plan already provides guidance for such a green corridor? It proposes a 10-foot-wide connector route along the

park’s northern perimeter, all the way from Dodd Road to Galaxie Avenue, passing numerous lakes, hiking and mountain bik-ing areas while preserv-ing the heart of this great park. It is a compromise established by citizens and park officials and one I believe we can all em-brace. I encourage everyone to take a moment and Google the Lebanon Hills 2001 master plan. Com-pare it with the proposed revisions. Let the planners know your thoughts. Let them know that Lebanon Hills is a special place. It’s something worth preserv-ing, not bulldozing.

DAVID SCOTTEagan

Require workforce housing in new neighborhoods To the editor: After reading the story about affordable hous-ing in Eagan near LeMay Lake, it states that Eagan is popular for “work-force” housing. My mind turned to my son and his family who would love to move to Eagan and School Dis-trict 196, but there are no single-family homes in his price range. Why are townhouses always considered “work-force” housing? In my opinion, having owned one, townhouses are very difficult if not

impossible to resell, a ter-rible housing choice and investment. Surely build-ers can build $150,000-$175,000 single-family homes for a profit. It is obvious to me they know Eagan will approve the more expensive hous-ing (higher profit) with-out any objections like the Parkview develop-ment. This City Council has shown it will cave to developers at the mere threat of a lawsuit. Why didn’t the city re-quire the Parkview Golf Course development to have some single-family “workforce” housing? Instead Parkview will be one step below a gat-ed community with its $400,000-plus homes and its “private” community swimming pool. It would not have been that hard for the city to require a number of single-fam-ily “workforce” homes. Could this have been to protect the Fairway Hills and neighboring develop-ments’ property values?

RICK JOHNSONEagan

What am I missing? To the editor: In a recent letter titled as above, Deborah Ma-thiowetz wondered why President Obama is be-ing blamed “for the whole (Affordable Care Act) mess.” Well, it is his signa-ture piece of legislation. ACA and the associated

exemptions (by executive fiat) are the crown jewels of his presidency. He and his administration are in charge of implementing ACA and should accept responsibility for success and failure. Instead we have seen this administra-tion’s arrogance. Despite repeated warnings about the website, Health and Human Services Secre-tary Kathleen Sebelius launched it. Thus, we have the current “mess.” Who else should we “blame”; better yet “hold respon-sible?” Mathiowetz blames the “GOP who failed to fund development of the websites to the neces-sary level.” Is $1 billion enough? The Government Accountability Office is indicates the IRS portion could be $534 million and HHS portion could be “well over $600 million.” An HHS official has indi-cated that there could be another $630 million in potential obligations (ref-erence The Fact Checker). The first billion dollars for the website and in-frastructure could have enabled the government to purchase insurance policies for over a million Americans without affect-ing the entire nation. Mathiowetz concludes that “we must go to a Medicare type system” or the “insurance com-panies will continue jerk-ing the American people around.” The most jerk-ing around the American

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Paved trail will slice through heart of park Newspapers offer voluntary subscriptions by Maryann Passe

SPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

The Dakota County Parks man-ager has claimed more than once that the proposed paved connec-tor trail at Lebanon Hills Regional Park will be near the perimeter of the park. The proof is in the recently published Lebanon Hills Develop-ment Plan. Slicing through the heart of the park from east to west is the proposed connector trail. County Commissioners posi-tively emphasize that this trail will not replace any existing hiking, ski, or horse trails. Instead this will be a new trail bulldozed through Leba-non Hills’ forests, fields, and rolling landscape. To meet the Metropolitan Coun-cil’s Greenway Trail requirements building the connector trail will be a huge construction project: • Pavement will be 10-12 feet wide. • Total clearing width will be up to 30–50 feet wide • Sightlines will be up to 150 feet long (meaning corners must be cleared wide to accommodate views at fast bicycle speeds) • Hills will be cut off and low ar-eas filled in to a 5 percen grade. The park will lose hundreds of trees and have its hilly landscape leveled. Additional environmental concerns include soil and water-shed contamination when installing petroleum-based asphalt and using salt/chemicals to keep the trail clear year-round. Widespread invasive species, such as buckthorn, will be accommodated as many of them

thrive in disrupted soil. Most of this construction will be within what the current Lebanon Hills Master Plan has designated as the park’s environmental preserve area (a designation that is removed without explanation in the proposed Development Master Plan). There are serious concerns about the county’s intention that this trail be multi-use. As a Greenway Trail it will be connected to the Met Coun-cil’s 200-mile Metro Greenway Sys-tem. Mixing Greenway bicyclists with pedestrians including families and people with disabilities may be disastrous at worst and unpleasant at best. Visit any of the single lane Greenway Trails anywhere in the metro on any weekend and you will rarely see pedestrians mixing with the groups of bicyclists. Contrary to the county’s original declarations, the new plan combines some equestrian and pedestrian trails. There are always safety con-cerns when mixing horses with pe-destrians, especially those walking dogs. The Development Plan states “Lebanon Hills is the planned hub of the county’s Greenway System, with seven Greenways connecting in or near the park.” No limits, specifi-cations, or costs for these other trails are included. Approval of this De-velopment Plan by our county com-missioners will give a green light to making Lebanon Hills a Met Coun-cil bicycle hub. The connector trail

could be just the beginning of level-ing Lebanon Hills with paved trails. Alone, the 6.1 mile connector trail’s estimated cost is almost $3.4 million with a loss of about 8 acres of parkland to pavement (the trail’s cleared area is not included in this acre estimate). Annual maintenance estimates are unclear from the draft plan but similar trails have annual maintenance costs of tens of thou-sands per mile per year. The connector trail will run al-most exactly parallel to the exist-ing Highline Bike Trail in Eagan. Merely a half mile apart, we taxpay-ers will be maintaining both of these trails for years to come. The proposed Development Plan’s changes are irreversible and costly in many ways. There are al-ternatives that will meet the goals of the county to bring in more people and preserve the unique character of this park. The county needs to restart the master planning process with user group involvement at every level. The Lebanon Hills Regional Park Development Plan is open for com-ments until Jan. 18. Send your com-ments to: • Dakota County Parks Depart-ment: [email protected] • Dakota County Board of Com-missioners: [email protected] • Your elected Commissioner www.co.dakota.mn.us/Government/Board/Pages/default.aspx.

Maryann Passe is an outdoor and travel writer from Eagan. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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people have seen in recent memory has been perpe-trated by the Obama ad-ministration and ACA. Perhaps the recommenda-tion is based upon various successes of big govern-ment: U.S. Postal Service (always broke), Social Security (turned into an easy pot of money and continually going broke), War on Poverty ($1 tril-lion/year and a higher percentage of poor after 49 years), Medicare and Medicaid (robbed and go-ing broke), Department of Energy (created to lessen dependence on for-eign oil 36 years ago), and the U.S. Tax Code/IRS (speaks for itself). Per-haps the “single payer” system is the end game for Obama and Mathiowetz will receive her wish. Just what we need, the IRS in charge healthcare or an-other government agency/bureaucracy to match past successes. To better understand the end game I recommend reading Obama’s book, “Dreams from My Father.”

AL KRANZBurnsville

Health care law will get us to a better place To the editor: The Affordable Care Act is making long over-due improvements to our country’s outdated health insurance model. Such a transformation to a very complex situation is call-ing upon our citizens’ courage and resilience to get us to a better place (no gain without pain). I believe that the American public is up to the chal-lenge, but are our elected officials? Judging by U.S. Rep. John Kline’s recent opinion column, he is not. Kline offers no im-provement alternatives or support, but instead chooses to spend his time (funded by all of us mind you) criticizing improve-ment actions that were developed by “his” Con-gress, supported by our constitutional process, our elections, and the Su-preme Court. All of our federal elected officials are accountable (Republi-can and Democrat alike) for the outcome of this piece of historic legisla-tion, and each had a role in its creation and roll-out. It’s time all of them accept this reality and do the work we sent them to Washington to do – im-prove the lives of Ameri-cans in a way we could not do for ourselves.

BRAD VERGINEagan

Many need to learn to behave To the editor: At a recent band per-formance at Apple Val-ley High School, I was appalled as the family seated behind us broke out a bag of animal crackers and loudly act-ed as if they were view-ing blockbuster movie, not attending a fine arts performance. After two dirty glances their way failed to register, I told them they were a distrac-tion and needed to put the bag away. I got a dirty look as they proceeded to feed their faces, albeit in a more quiet manner. Unbelievable. Driving home on a residential street, I was followed so closely that I could not see the tail-gater’s headlights. As the tailgater turned off, the driver laid on the horn to show their ire. My crime? Driving the speed limit on a 30 mph street. Every day, I see peo-ple speeding more con-cerned with their phone conversation or text message than the lives of those around them, often moms with young children. I wait at green lights because it is the norm for several cars to run red lights. Those making left turns are the

worst offenders, although they are not as scary as those who blow through reds at full speed. Is this the world we want? Where lives are secondary, expendable because we have to up-date our Facebook status from our cars? Because we have to reply to a text right now? Where lives are lost because some-one didn’t want to spend a minute or two at a red light? What have we be-come? A nation of me-first narcissists? How about this? Have a snack before the fine arts performance. Drive through a neighborhood like you want others to drive through yours. Stop at red lights like it’s your family in the car you might hit if you don’t stop. Take your turn in line like you would at Valleyfair. Realize that tailgating doesn’t get you anywhere faster. Treat others like you would want your family to be treated. Understand that you’re just one of 3.5 million people who are trying to get somewhere, and we all need to coop-erate to make it work.

JOHN MORGANBurnsville

The good, bad and ugly To the editor: Thank you for Sun Thisweek and the Da-kota County Tribune, which faithfully come to our homes each week. I greatly appreciate your covering of local news, both the good, bad and ugly. Thank you for the series on domestic abuse. Under the heading “ugly” I want to regis-ter my objection to the European Wax Center’s ad last week. Perhaps “sleaze” would be a bet-ter word, or maybe “soft porn.” It reveals poor judgment for what is oth-erwise a family-friendly addition to our commu-nity.

CAROL SODERQUISTBurnsville

MnDOT should be held accountable To the editor: I am concerned about 35W road construction from Eagan to Elko, as the project completion is delayed to 2014. This delay is completely un-acceptable and unwar-ranted, as it had seven months in prime weather to complete. As Lakeville residents my wife and I commute to downtown Minne-apolis every day. The construction added 15-90 minutes to our daily commute. I have heard extensive frustration from neighbors and co-workers who commute from the south suburbs. Last week I learned re-pair work on the south-bound lanes would be delayed to spring 2014, which will again create single-lane traffic and massive delays. This de-lay was a result of not managing a timeline and holding contractors to deliverables, a funda-mental project manage-ment task. There were no abnormal weather patterns to contribute to delays. The weather was very mild. Report-edly repairs were more significant than initially planned. This is another flaw in project manage-ment as this should have been identified during the scoping process. As a taxpayer I am ashamed to see contin-ued mismanagement of state projects and funds. There is a continued lack of accountability and concern for the impacts of decisions, evidenced by this continued in-convenience to tens of thousands of individuals every day in spring 2014. It is amazing that a com-plex and massive 35W bridge can be completely rebuilt in less than a year and about 10 miles of

road surface repairs will take a similar amount of time. This is wrong. It’s time to improve the decision making and ex-pect more from officials responsible for managing funds that are designed to improve our commu-nities. With this work, the state had every chance to approve the construc-tion of a third lane from Burnsville to Elko, which is a definite current need, but the project was not correctly scoped and ex-ecuted. In just about any corporate environment this mismanagement would lead to the respon-sible employees being ter-minated. Please join me in cre-ating a level of account-ability with the Min-nesota Department of Transportation and state officials and helping to improve the planning process so these types of issues will be prevented going forward.

DAN REITERLakeville

Teach, train employees to rise above minimum wage To the editor: Kevin McCarney posed a question in his letter published last week. Does John Van Hecke, executive director of Minnesota 20/20, care more about Enrique, the

minimum wage earner, or the Democrat Party’s success in the 2014 mid-term elections? McCarney also ex-plains reasoning from a business owner’s view on why raising the minimum wage is a bad idea. As a small business owner, I thank McCarney for his sentiment. Let’s look at the rea-soning from the mini-mum wage earner’s view. On the surface, this looks great. Who wouldn’t want more money in his pocket? But wait:If I have to raise the wages of some of my em-ployees at my hair salon, I’ll be laying off my re-ceptionist and raising the price of haircuts a few bucks. Not only would my remaining stylists

have to work harder, an-swering the phone, etc., but also imagine if En-rique was my reception-ist. He’s now out of a job, and his expense for his family’s haircuts and any other affected businesses just went up. This isn’t to maintain my multi-million dollar wage. Any one of my friends will tell you that although I’ve owned this business for eight-plus years, I’m a full time accountant outside of my salon, and invest in rental properties just to support my family. After six years of doing the salon accounting, I finally rewarded myself with a whopping $900/month salary, which has never increased. (I can’t even round up to $1,000.) McCarney is dead on.

Enrique is a pawn be-ing used in Van Hecke’s game. Meanwhile, the “Enrique” I hired as a receptionist will some-day go on to success as a hairstylist, being coached by my managers, learning the industry and making his mistakes along the way. He is currently earn-ing minimum wage, but ultimately will become self-sufficient, because I made the investment in him. It’s the education. And we business own-ers are portrayed as the selfish and greedy. I’ll wager that I care more about Enrique than Van Hecke ever would.

MARK BELLILELakeville

LETTERS, from 4A


Vikings break ground for new stadium

by Howard LestrudSUN THISWEEK


Skolt Scott, of Golden Valley, and David Gunder-son, of Brooklyn Park, were in full Minnesota Vikings makeup Tuesday morning, Dec. 3, as they witnessed the ground-breaking for the new $975 million multipurpose sta-dium that will replace the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis. These two Vikings foot-ball fans, part of Thee Vi-king World Order, are no strangers to other loyal fans and to Vikings man-agement. The duo is part of a very active Vikings fan group and played a major role in lobbying for a new stadium by attend-ing countless hearings of the Minnesota Legislature. Gunderson calls him-self Sir Gunnar and said he wears a different outfit and inscribes a different message on his face for every game and public appearance. On ground-breaking day, Gunderson said he had no message ex-cept to emphasize defense. “We worked years to get to this point and now we can participate in a cel-ebration,” Scott said. The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority and the Minnesota Vikings, in partnership with Morten-son Construction and project associate Thor Construction, led the groundbreaking ceremony for the new stadium. The event signifies the start of construction on the 65,000-seat, 1.7 mil-lion-square-foot facility, scheduled for completion in July 2016. Vikings owners Zygi Wilf and Mark Wilf ac-cepted congratulatory wishes from many stadium supporters prior to tak-ing a jaunt into the east side parking lot where two large earth-moving machines were placed as a backdrop for the ground-breaking. A short program in a large tent on Metrodome property kicked off the activities for the day. The program aimed at thank-ing many of those respon-sible for the birth of a new Vikings stadium. Michele Kelm-Helgen, chair of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Author-ity, called the stadium

iconic, which seemed to be the word of the day as it was used by other prin-cipals: the Wilfs; Minne-apolis Mayor R.T. Rybak; and David Mortenson, president of Mortenson Construction Co. of Min-neapolis. Kelm-Helgen saluted the architectural firm of HKS Architects and said the general contractor, Mortenson, is the best sta-dium builder in the coun-try. She said the stadium will attract thousands of workers from Minnesota, including minorities. The new stadium will be the home for the Min-nesota Vikings but also a location for high school and college sporting events, youth football, marching band competi-tions and Hmong New Year’s celebrations. In-line skaters who frequent the Metrodome will again be invited to use the new stadium facilities, Kelm-Helgen said. Kelm-Helgen said it is possible that the new sta-dium will be the host of a Super Bowl, a Final Four or a national champion-ship football game. She said the Vikings are final-ists to host the 2018 Super Bowl. The stadium is also expected to be the home of music concerts and oth-er special events. Zygi Wilf spoke to the more than 1,500 during the pre-groundbreaking program, saying, “What a great day this is for every-one in Minnesota.” He conveyed thanks specifically to the state of Minnesota, the city of Minneapolis, the Sports Authority, Gov. Mark Dayton, Rybak and to leg-islators Sen. Julie Rosen and Rep. Morrie Lanning for their work in getting the project approved. “This team stepped up and got the job done,” Wilf said. Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Pe-terson said the day was “a dream” for him. He jokingly tempered his re-marks, saying he was not looking forward to playing outside at TCF Stadium for two years until the new stadium is ready in 2016. Mortenson said “it is a pleasure and enormous privilege” to build one of the biggest structures ever constructed in Minnesota history. He said the new

stadium would be a world-class stadium and will be a lasting source of pride. Mortenson said hun-dreds of stories will be told as the stadium devel-ops. He quoted Winston Churchill: “‘We shape our buildings and they then shape us.’” Rybak said the stadium project was “all about weaving it all together in an urban fabric.” Dayton received a standing ovation as he was introduced. He has often been mentioned as the pushing force in the new Vikings stadium be-coming a reality. Dayton again called the stadium the “People’s Stadium” and said it will result in economic revitalization for the state. Construction of the new stadium will require nearly 4.3 million work hours and will involve 7,500 trades people from 19 different trades and hundreds of local subcon-tractors and supplies. In addition, the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority and the Vikings have es-tablished a Targeted Busi-ness Program that sets an 11 percent and 9 percent goal for construction con-tracts for the project to be awarded to women- and minority-owned business enterprises, respectively. A number of subcon-tracts have been executed in the past week, many of which are going to Minne-sota-based companies: • Ames Construction of Burnsville will complete mass excavation, utilities and demolition of the Metrodome, working with Frattalone Companies of Little Canada for demoli-tion services. • Veit Companies of Rogers will construct the drilled pier foundations. • Lejune Steel Com-pany of Minneapolis will provide steel fabrication for the new stadium, and Danny’s Construction, a certified women-owned business in Shakopee, will handle steel erection for the new stadium. • Tarraf Construction, a certified minority-owned company from Eden Prai-rie, will be providing con-tainer services for excava-tion and demolition. Howard Lestrud can be reached at [email protected].

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Board rejects accelerated expansion for AcademyOrchard Lake Elementary principal describes split school

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


The Lakeville Area School Board rejected a Nov. 26 proposal to ac-celerate expansion of Im-pact Academy, a multi-age teaching pilot program at Orchard Lake Elemen-tary, upsetting a proposal to transform the entire school into the teaching method by 2015-16. Principal Marilynn Smith and learning spe-cialist Julene Oxton, an Impact Academy leader, proposed a plan that with-in two school years would eliminate the traditional class model and imple-ment Impact Academy for all students and staff. Impact Academy opened this fall as an op-tion for students in kin-dergarten through third grade that replaces classes grouped by age to multi-age classes based on abil-ity level. Students have an “an-chor teacher” but are taught by many different teachers who share and collaborate to deliver in-struction. Impact Academy meets in an open space where there are no desks or walls between classes; tables and couches encourage inter-action among students. Smith and Oxton pro-posed adding fourth and fifth grade this fall, keep-ing some other traditional classrooms in all grades until 2015-16, when the school would be all Im-pact Academy, either open to all students in its at-tendance boundaries or become a choice school, open to others in and out of the District 194. The program’s acceler-ated expansion proposal split the School Board, with three members cit-ing concerns about costs, the lack of long-term data

about whether the teach-ing method works and questions of equity among schools across the district. OLE’s multi-age, indi-vidualized learning option will still expand to include a fourth grade Orchard Lake class next year, and plans are to open it to fifth grade the following year, but Superintendent Lisa Snyder said the plan is to still provide traditional classroom learning as well. She said the business plan offered a glimpse into the vision Impact Acade-my supporters have for the program. Also proposed in the plan was eventually ex-panding its service learn-ing and inquiry-based teaching model to the district’s middle and high schools. Smith presented sur-vey results and academic information that showed high levels of parent sat-isfaction and increased student achievement since Impact Academy opened this fall with 109 students, and many on waiting lists, but School Board mem-bers cited concerns the ac-ademic data only reflected about one month’s worth of information. “Before I can move to a schoolwide choice model, I need more data to show it works,” Board Member Michelle Volk said. Board Member Terry Lind, a former teacher and principal, also advocated for more academic data, stating while students may show progress now, they lose much of what they learn in school over the summer. Costs of the proposed accelerated expansion were also a concern for board members. The report estimated it would cost $71,840 to expand to a K-5 model in-stead of the planned K-4

model next fall, with mon-ey used for staff training, furniture, remodeling and iPads for students on a 2:1 ratio. To make Orchard Lake a complete Impact Acad-emy school, the report es-timated it would cost an-other $327,140. Consideration would also be needed for bound-ary changes, transporta-tion needs, staffing de-velopment, technology infrastructure, classroom redesign and learning space needs. Volk noted the pilot program was cost-neutral and expressed concern about spending money to remodel the Orchard Lake, questioning whether it, the district’s oldest school, is the right facility to host an expanded program. Oxton said the School Board initially approved the pilot with no data at all but relied on the dedi-cation and innovation of a team of teachers who were initially planning to open a charter school be-fore finding support from district leadership and the board. “You’ve trusted us be-fore,” she said. “We’re ask-ing you to trust us again.” Lind expressed concern about equity at Lakeville schools. He said that four Orchard Lake teachers were awarded grants for iPads and the proposal’s request for providing Im-pact Academy students iPads on a 2:1 ratio is not replicated at any other building or program in the district. He also said it is un-clear whether the addi-tional technology or the Impact Academy curricu-lum is responsible for stu-dent achievement. Board Member Bob Er-ickson said he knows why the proposal is before the board now that the levy

passed. He urged Snyder to tell voters how the dis-trict will spend $1.6 mil-lion of the recently passed levy referendum it said would be used to reduce class sizes and boost the district’s science, engineer-ing, math and technology instruction. In an interview, Snyder said the district “will be true to our word” and use the $1.6 million to address class sizes. She said she wants to have enrollment data by grade and school before making spending deci-sions. “We don’t want to rush into that work,” Snyder said. “These are precious resources we have from our public and we have to be very strategic and care-ful about placing resourc-es.” Snyder said the money will buy about 20 teach-ers, and while some board members have indicated a preference to focus on third through fifth grades , the board has never united on which grades to focus the resources. She said she will recom-mend the board carefully review enrollment and class sizes, set priorities then place resources. Snyder estimates they will have school staffing in place by April 2014. She added that she plans to recommend some of the funding be kept in reserve to allow flexibility so the district can provide resources to address high class sizes that are likely to appear at the last minute.

Split school Smith indicated moving to a model with one teach-ing method would help improve unity at Orchard Lake. The Impact Academy pilot got off to a rocky start when Orchard Lake

teachers, parents and school staff learned last spring that the School Board was going to vote on its implementation. The action came as a surprise to many who were not part of the Impact Academy committee and were unaware the topic was being discussed at public School Board work sessions. Board members delayed action on the proposal to allow informational meetings to be held. Dur-ing those meetings, some longtime Orchard Lake teachers cited concerns they would be moved to other schools, which even-tually happened. Since Impact Academy was implemented, the el-ementary has come under new leadership, as Smith started in her new role as principal this fall. The report stated that the spring’s events caused “significant disruption” within the school, and Smith said it is “tough” to pull the two communities together, stating there are “constant comparisons.” Sources, who asked not to be identified, have told the newspaper that there is tension on the staff and between parents regarding whether or not they are in-volved with Impact Acad-emy. Erickson said the Im-pact Academy teachers are “amazing” but added educators who have not chosen to be part of that teaching method also pro-vide significant contribu-tions in the elementary setting. Board Member Judy Keliher said she supports expanding Impact Acad-emy now. Waiting, she said, “shuts down innovation” in the district; she called it a “fairness issue” because some parents want this op-

tion for their students. The report describes is-sues that could be resolved if the entire school shared a single learning method. It advocates for align-ing work and resources of staff and students around a common focus because it “creates a climate of in-clusion and access for all students and prevents a competitive climate.” Criteria included in the decision to admit a stu-dent into Impact Academy is not strictly academic, as one of the program’s goals is to reflect the diversity existing in the school body. Smith said almost half of the school’s second-graders are on the Impact Academy waiting list. School Board Chairwom-an Roz Peterson said some parents are frustrated their student was not accepted into the program. Peterson said other parents are concerned the Impact Academy teach-ing style is not available in other schools or in middle and high school. The report advocates for making Orchard Lake a full-Impact Academy style and does not recom-mend a school-within-a-school model at other Lakeville schools: “Repli-cating a limited program school to school has the potential to repeat the pat-tern of division and dis-ruption in each commu-nity,” it stated. The School Board will review data regarding Im-pact Academy this sum-mer to consider whether to keep the program a choice in the school or take Im-pact Academy on a full-scale level. “There wasn’t enough data to make those kind of decisions yet,” Snyder said. Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].


by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


A plan to redraw Lakev-ille Area School District attendance boundaries is underway, but school of-ficials are hoping to keep changes from affecting students currently attend-ing Lakeville schools. “There’s going to be larger growth areas in the northern part of the dis-trict in the near future and we want to get ready for it,” School Board Mem-ber Terry Lind said. “We want to be proactive.” School Board Member Judy Keliher, who serves

on the committee with Lind, said the group is us-ing data from the city to determine developments that are starting in the next two to four years, and are also getting de-velopment information from Elko New Market to consider when making changes. “We are trying to get new developments as-signed ahead of time so existing students don’t have to move,” Kehlier said. She said the group is looking at all age levels, elementary to high school, in considering changes.

School Board Chair-woman Roz Peterson said the district hopes to have the new attendance boundaries finalized by this spring and actively in place with the start of the 2014-15 school year. “We do that so we can balance class sizes better and run more efficiently,” Peterson said. “We are trying to get equity in class sizes across the dis-trict.” Superintendent Lisa Snyder said the district plans to have possible at-tendance boundary sce-narios in place to share with the public by Dec. 18.

Email Laura Adelmann at [email protected].

Obituaries

All elementary schools to offer all-day kindergarten Parents will have an option of early pickup by Laura Adelmann


Every Lakeville ele-mentary school will offer no-fee all-day kindergar-ten this fall, but parents will still have another op-tion for their youngsters. Superintendent Lisa Snyder said the district will allow parents to pick up their children early from school if they believe their child is not ready for the all-day experience. The decision to allow the option was made af-ter concerns were raised by School Board Member Michelle Volk, who advo-cated for parents to have a choice. “My whole concern is are we forcing parents to move into all-day kinder-garten when they’re not ready to,” Volk said. “I

want to make sure parents have a choice on what they want academically for their child.” School Board Member Judy Keliher said the dis-trict will be expanding its kindergarten curriculum, and Snyder said parents may have to supplement what is taught when their child out of the class. She said parents inter-ested in an early release for their kindergartner should talk to their stu-dent’s teacher and prin-cipal to make a plan for the parent to supplement materials the child may be missing when not in the classroom. “They would work together to make it very clear what the child is missing academically, then create a plan with the parent, teacher and prin-

cipal so the student will be ready for first grade,” Snyder said. New legislation allows state funding for all-day kindergarten, and the dis-trict expects $916,957 in available revenue to run the program anticipated to serve 562 kindergart-ners. Lakeville School Dis-trict expects to spend $667,027 on kindergar-ten staffing and $50,000 for additional materials, training and equipment. The district anticipates it will save $185,000 by eliminating midday bus routes, leaving the dis-trict with a balance of $315,438.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

Lakeville school district attendance areas to change

District intends to keep changes from affecting current students

Education

District 196 maintains high capture rate Nearly 90 percent of school-aged children who live in Independent School District 196 are attending district schools this year, according to student en-rollment and census data maintained by the district. There were 30,507 school-aged children liv-ing within District 196 on Oct. 1. Of those children, 26,727 are attending dis-trict schools, giving the district an 88 percent “cap-ture rate” among resident

students. Anything over 80 percent is considered a high capture rate in Minne-sota, according to former state demographer Hazel Reinhardt of Hazel Rein-hardt Consulting in Edina. Capture rate is a reflec-tion on the quality of local public schools, Reinhardt said, as well as the presence of charter schools, non-public schools and other educational alternatives in and near the district. The number of chil-dren living in District 196 who are home-schooled or attend traditional non-public schools has aver-aged 7.6 percent over the

past five years. The other approximately 4.4 percent of school-aged children in District 196 attend charter schools or public schools in other districts. Students who open enroll into the district are not included when calculating capture rate.

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Teachers recognized Dakota Hills Middle School science teacher Ross Albertson and Apple Valley High School science teacher Chris Lee were selected recipients of the TIES Exceptional Teacher Awards in District 196 for the 2013-14 school year. Sponsored by the edu-cation technology coop-erative TIES, the annual awards honor teachers in member districts who ef-fectively integrate technol-ogy into the learning pro-cess. Albertson and Lee will be recognized with other award recipients at the TIES Annual Confer-ence in Minneapolis Dec. 16. Dakota Hills Middle School students are us-ing Chromebooks in their science classes this year thanks to a grant Alb-ertson received from the Lockheed Corporation last year. He proposed the grant so that students could use the devices to work on Google Docs files to enter and analyze lab data and report their find-ings. His leadership has prompted other teachers to find ways to better utilize technology in their class-rooms. Lee has been sharing his passions of science and

technology with the stu-dents at Apple Valley High School for more than two decades. He has been a pio-neer in using technology to enhance the learning pro-cess. He was an early user of cellphone technology to stay connected with stu-dents and continues to use text messaging to share in-formation and engage stu-dents. Lee was “flipping” his classroom before the teach-ing method became popu-lar, videotaping lectures, demonstrations and study-guide sessions, then up-loading them to YouTube for his students to watch as homework. Through the use of Moodle, Lee inte-grated all facets of his cur-riculum online. Each day, students are using his site to review lectures and take practice tests to build bet-ter understanding of the content.

AP scholar honors The College Board rec-ognized 666 District 196 high school students for their performance on Ad-vanced Placement course exams taken during the 2012-13 school year. District 196 high schools offer 24 different AP cours-es, which have been audited and approved by the Col-lege Board. An AP exam

score of 3 or higher (on a scale of 1 to 5) earns credit at many of the nation’s col-leges and universities. The following students were named national AP scholars. They received an average score of at least 4 on all AP exams taken and scores of 4 or higher on eight or more of the exams. Apple Valley High School – Mitchell Dawson and Nader Helmy; Eagan High School – Kasey Ah Pook, Aaron Anderson, Madison Janvrin, Joseph Keegan, Jonathon Sabel, Kevin Wei and Aliya Zh-danov; Eastview High School – Kelly Bryant, Cara Desmond, Cuong Duong, Landon Hafstad, Eric Holland, Emily Jew-ell, Jimmy Ji, Emily Kilen, Jonathan Lenz, Jennifer Loomis, Prithviraj Ma-hida, Ryan McGuire, Kai-tlyn Moe, Dung Nguyen, Asheshananda Ram-bachan, Audrey Roche, Joshua Ruth, Vladi-mir Sagalovskiy, Aidan Schmitt, Nicholas Selchow, Cole Stapleton, Zach-ary Tollefson, Lane Un-derdahl, Anna Underhill and Karin Yndestad; and Rosemount High School – Cody Poole and Paul Wol-lersheim. For a complete list of all AP scholar honorees, go to district196.org.

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All kidding aside, 1983 Rosemount High School graduate Peter Breitmayer is surprised and humbled to be this year’s recipient of the school’s Legacy Award. “I’m really grateful for what I have in my life, the greatest of which is my family and my wife Mi-chelle and son Jackson. I am very touched by it. And very excited and ner-vous to see everyone and to say a little something about supporting the arts and being grateful for the opportunity,” said Breit-mayer, the comedic actor who since 1988 has starred in movies, television shows, stage productions and Progressive Insur-ance commercials with the iconic “Flo.” “And clearly the mes-sage the Legacy Commit-tee is sending is that they are giving out awards for hawking insurance on tele-vision now,” Breitmayer wrote in an email. “Final-ly, someone is seeing the light.” Breitmayer returns to Rosemount this week-end to accept the Legacy Award during intermis-sion of the 7 p.m. OnStage production of “Letters.” At that time, he will speak for a few moments about his time at the school and life since then. Breitmayer credits longtime Rosemount-Ap-ple Valley-Eagan School District teachers Steve Boehlke, Judy Sagen and Thomas Hoffman for en-couraging his love of the arts. He said the first junior high production he starred in was directed by Sagen. “I was just enjoying singing, getting attention and overacting,” he said of his junior high days. “I did the same thing through four years at Rosemount High, too. I don’t think I ever seriously thought I could actually act ‘when I grew up.’ I mean, regu-lar people from suburbs in Minnesota don’t be-come professional actors, right?” Having appeared in 12 theater productions and singing in choir, he said his teachers molded him and created the foundation for everything he built on af-ter high school. “They taught me how to do the work,” he said. “They were my first train-ing. They opened my eyes to the beauty and joy of the arts, but also the ne-cessity of learning what was craft. Inspiration is not enough. They taught me how to focus, project, listen and interpret and breathe and make your communications specific and in the moment, with an audience. “They encouraged me

to keep going. And I’m sure it wasn’t easy because I was a much more selfish performer back then when it came to giving to others on stage … more out of blind fear and insecurity than out of intention.” Not long after graduat-ing from Gustavus Adol-phus College in 1988, Breitmayer took an im-prov class at Dudley Riggs Brave New Workshop and was offered $50 a week to become the five-member cast’s “sixth.” “And of course I said: ‘No way. I’d be bored out of my mind’ … I mean: ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you!’ ” Performing seven shows a week and five improv sets a week, Bre-itmayer called the three and a half years he spent at Dudley’s an amazing training ground. “That was the ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said. “When I walked out on that leg-endary stage that first night, and people were howling. It was pure bliss. … It’s been 22 years since

I did my last show at Dud-ley’s and I’ve had mostly a great life as an actor since, but I have never laughed so hard in my life, as I did working at The Brave New Workshop.”

Back home Breitmayer was 12 when he moved to Minne-sota with his mother and sisters after his parents’ divorce. The family later moved to Eagan when it was in the Rosemount High School attendance area. He played football and tennis growing up in what he called a safe and sup-portive environment filled with school and friends. “I was taught to be in-terested and see the won-derfulness of difference,” he said. “And I was ex-posed to a pretty good deal, all things considered. I’m very grateful for that. I have a lot of life skills as a result. I can’t believe I just said, ‘life skills.’ ” Breitmayer, his wife, 1988 RHS graduate Mi-chelle Pederson, and their

son, Jack, 8, have taken a little bit of Minnesota with them to life in Los Angeles. He said he built a “big Minnesota deck” and has many friends who are transplants from the Go-pher State. “There is an entertain-ment industry Minnesota Mafia out here, and it is going to take over the place if we have anything to do with it,” he said. “We are swarming … and soon … very soon … will be in charge. Ha.” He said he misses the greenness of Minnesota summers, the lakes, trips to the Boundary Waters for last-minute fishing, the vibrant live arts scene and family.

Working actor Breitmayer said he can’t imagine doing any-thing else for a living. He describes his jour-ney as one of a “working actor,” whose primary job has been auditioning. “If you are booking one out of 10 projects you are seen for, you are kick-ing butt in this town,” he said. “Some years, I’ve narrowed that spread sub-stantially.” Breitmayer said he con-tinues to study and work at his craft, and credited acting teacher Jocelyn Jones with being one of the greatest teachers he’s had in any subject. “And I’ve had a lot of ‘book learnin’ ’ in my life,” said Breitmayer, who has a bachelor of arts degree in religion and considered obtaining his master’s in

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Rosemount High School graduate Peter Breitmayer on the set of the NBC show “Las Vegas” with James Caan. (Image from NBC TV clip)

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SportsWatchful Wildcat

The Eagan mascot looks on as Michael Gorder takes a jump shot during a boys basketball game Tuesday night against Edina. Gorder scored 23 points but the Wildcats lost 85-63 to drop to 1-1. Eagan defeated Henry Sibley 81-69 on Nov. 26. (Photo by Rick Orndorf)

Notebook: Locals helping ‘U’ hockey by Mike Shaughnessy


Several players with Dakota County ties have helped the University of Minnesota men’s hockey team stay at No. 1 in the national rankings. Freshmen Hudson Fasching of Burnsville and Justin Kloos of Lakeville are tied for third on the team in scoring with 14 points each. Fashing has six goals and eight assists and a plus-14 rating; Kloos has five goals and nine assists and is a plus-8. Fasching played for Apple Valley in the 2010 state Class AA tournament and was with the U.S. National Development Team program in Ann Arbor, Mich., the last two seasons. Kloos, the 2012 Mr. Hockey Award winner while playing for Lakeville South, spent one sea-son in the U.S. Hockey League before joining the Gophers. Sophomore defenseman Brady Skjei of Lakeville has played in all 14 games and has four points and a plus-9 rat-ing. Skjei skated for Lakeville North in the 2010 state tourna-ment and also spent two years with the U.S. National Devel-opment team. Sophomore forward A.J. Michaelson of Apple Valley has one goal and one assist in eight games. Michaelson, a 2011 graduate of Apple Val-ley High School, also played for the Eagles in the 2010 state tourney and has one year of USHL experience. The Gophers (11-2-1) play at Michigan State on Friday and Saturday, then are off until the

Mariucci Classic on Jan. 3-4 at Mariucci Arena.

Dixon is All-Big Ten University of Minnesota middle blocker Tori Dixon, a Burnsville High School gradu-ate, was named to the All-Big Ten volleyball team this week. It’s the third time Dixon has been named all-conference; she was a unanimous selection for the second time. Her teammate, outside hitter Ashley Wittman of Shakopee, also was a unani-mous all-conference selection. According to the University of Minnesota sports informa-tion department, Dixon leads the Gophers in sets played (114), kills (414), kills per set (3.63), hitting percentage (.393), total blocks (151) and points (516.5). She also received five Big Ten weekly awards. The Gophers (27-6) are at home against Radford in the first round of the NCAA tour-nament at 7 p.m. Friday at the University of Minnesota Sports Pavilion. The winner will play Iowa State or Colorado State at 7 p.m. Saturday, with the winner of Saturday’s match ad-vancing to regional play in Lex-ington, Ky.

Big mat match On Friday night at Apple Valley High School there will be a state tournament-caliber wrestling match almost three months before the state tourna-ment starts. Apple Valley will play host to Prior Lake in a 7 p.m. match between the top two teams in theguillotine.com Class 3A rankings. It’s also a rematch of

the 2013 state semifinals, where Apple Valley prevailed 36-19. The Eagles have five wres-tlers ranked first in their weight classes by theguillotine.com: Seth Gross (138 pounds), Day-ton Racer (160), Mark Hall (170), Bobby Steveson (182) and Paul Cheney (220). Apple Valley’s Gannon Volk (120) and Maolu Woiwor (132) are ranked No. 2 at their weights. Prior Lake’s Blake Carlisle is ranked first at 152, and the Lakers have the No. 2-ranked wrestlers at 220 and 285. Apple Valley is fifth and Pri-or Lake 49th in the InterMat.com national high school rank-ings. The match also will count in the South Suburban Con-ference standings, meaning the winner will take a major step toward the league champion-ship even though the regular season won’t end for two more months. Apple Valley, which shared the 2013 Class 3A champion-ship with St. Michael-Albert-ville, opened its season with a victory at the Dick Shiels Invi-tational in Faribault on Nov. 30. Gross and Hall did not wrestle in the Faribault tourna-ment, but Apple Valley still fin-ished 92 points ahead of fifth-ranked Owatonna. Kyle Rathman (106), Noah Buck (113), Woiwor (138), Brock Morgan (145), Daivon-te Young (152), Racer (160), Jackson Graham (170), Bobby Steveson (182), Gable Steveson (195), Cheney (220) and Lord Josh Hyeamang (285) won their weight classes.

Eagan boys hockey gets consecutive shutouts

Wildcats face defending state champion Edina on Saturday night by Mike Shaughnessy


The strengths of Ea-gan’s boys hockey team figured to be on defense and in goal, and that proved evident as the Wildcats earned back-to-back shutouts recently. Junior goalie Andrew Lindgren made 20 saves in the Wildcats’ 4-0 victory over Hastings in a non-conference game Tues-day night at Eagan Civic Arena. Three days earlier, Lindgren stopped 27 shots as Eagan defeated Farm-ington 2-0. The victories moved Eagan’s overall record to 2-1. The Wildcats lost to Lakeville South 5-3 in their season opener Nov. 26. Eagan had only five shots on goal in the first period against Hastings but took a 2-0 lead on goals by Jack Jenson and Taylor Karel. Max Elsen-heimer and Ian Entzion scored in the second pe-riod. Jenson assisted on Karel’s and Entzion’s goals. Senior defenseman Nick Wolff had a goal and assist in the Wildcats’ vic-tory over Farmington on Nov. 30. Kevin Sturgeon had a first-period goal. Eagan will play host to No. 1-ranked Edina at 8 p.m. Saturday at Eagan Civic Arena. The defend-ing Class AA champion Hornets are 4-1, with the loss coming against Elk River on Nov. 30.

Wildcat notes • The girls hockey team is struggling to gain its footing. The Wildcats dropped to 1-5-1 after los-ing to Lakeville South 3-0 on Tuesday night. The Wildcats haven’t played soft competition, though. They have played both Lakeville teams on the road and also visited No. 2-ranked Benilde-St. Margaret’s. Their tie was 3-3 against Edina on Nov. 14; it’s the only game in the Hornets’ first 11 that they haven’t won. Eagan beat Park of Cottage Grove 3-2 on Nov. 21 as Taylor Ander-son had two goals and an assist. Brooke Madsen also scored for the Wild-cats. Eagan plays host to Eastview at 7:15 p.m. Thursday and Apple Val-ley at 4 p.m. Saturday in games at Eagan Civic Are-na. • Senior Naser Ali is eighth at 113 pounds in the state Class 3A wrestling rankings done by theguil-lotine.com. Ali reached the state tournament last year at 106. Wildcats junior Sodan Ka is ranked No. 3 at 103, one spot behind another South Suburban Confer-ence wrestler, Michael Ramirez of Burnsville.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Blaze expects better results on the court

Boys hoops team looks to be improved, but will be without head

coach for a while by Mike Shaughnessy


Burnsville has 11 ju-niors and seniors on its boys basketball roster – and, coach Matt Eppen hopes, enough experi-ence and maturity to keep things running smoothly while he’s gone. The Blaze, which went 1-1 in its first two games, is not likely to see much of Eppen for the next couple of months while he under-goes a bone marrow trans-plant. He was diagnosed in August with multiple myeloma, a form of can-cer that affects plasma. “I had never heard of it, and I guess it’s pretty rare for someone my age to have it,” said Eppen, who added that the disease was diagnosed at an early stage. The players were noti-fied of Eppen’s condition in early September, when the school year began. Initially, Eppen was told a bone marrow transplant could happen within the next 12 months, but the timetable has been moved up and the operation now is tentatively scheduled for next week. Jeff Butorac will be Burnsville’s interim head coach. Eppen will remain in contact with the staff during his absence and hopes to return to his coaching duties in Febru-ary. He was able to coach

in Burnsville’s 81-77 sea-son-opening victory over Chaska. Eppen was not on the sideline for a 90-51 loss to No. 5-ranked Minnetonka but was giv-en plenty of information from his staff about what went wrong that night. “The Minnetonka game was a situation where you hope you’re ready for something, but you find out you’re not quite there yet,” Eppen said. Still, Burnsville is ex-pecting considerable im-provement on last year’s 3-23 record and last-place finish in the South Sub-urban Conference. The Blaze has a number of returning varsity players. The program also had a good summer, winning the varsity championship of the Eastview Fastbreak League and finishing sec-ond in the junior varsity division. “We definitely think we’re better than we have been,” Eppen said. “We didn’t have a perfect game against Chaska, but we felt good about the way we played, and Chaska prob-ably is one of the better teams in our section.” Senior guard Zach Smith averaged 15 points a game last season and had a team-high 20 against Chaska. Jake Ruffing, a junior, also is expected to get a lot of playing time at guard and scored 19 points against Chaska.

Burnsville center David Gilray makes an outlet pass to Donny Parsons (20) in a recent boys basketball game against Minnetonka. (Photo by John Sherman)

Other key returnees in-clude senior forward Ben Nienow and junior for-wards Joe Morris and Brett Shepley, all of whom aver-aged about seven to nine points last year. Shepley also is likely to be matched up frequently against the opposing team’s top offen-sive player. Eppen said the team is looking to take some pres-sure off Smith to score big every game, and the Blaze showed some potential for balanced scoring. “In the Chaska game we also did a good job of getting to the free-throw line and making those shots,” Eppen said. “That’s very important in our league. The best teams get to the free-throw line.” In the coming weeks, Burnsville will look to improve a defense that al-lowed 167 points in its first two games. It would be

difficult, if not impossible, to run with teams such as South Suburban Confer-ence powers Apple Valley and Lakeville North, both of which qualified for the state tournament (Apple Valley won the Class 4A title). Fortunately for Burns-ville, it has a month to work on defense before it plays North and Apple Valley in back-to-back South Suburban games Jan. 7 and 10. “Those two games are coming up fast enough as it is,” Eppen said. The Blaze, which played host to Shakopee on Tues-day, goes to Bloomington Kennedy for its South Suburban opener at 7 p.m. Thursday. Burnsville is home against St. Louis Park in a non-conference game at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Eagles show off their depth as they begin title defenseWinning streak

grows with victory over Minnetonka

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


How heavy will the crown be for Apple Val-ley’s boys basketball team? If coach Zach Goring has his way, the Eagles won’t feel it at all. “I don’t think there’s a lot of pressure for us,” said Goring, whose team opened the season at No. 1 in the Class 4A rankings after winning the state

championship in March. “We can’t afford to look three months ahead. Our schedule is so aggressive that we can’t look much beyond the next game.” The Eagles, who opened with an 85-55 vic-tory over Edina on Nov. 26, beat No. 5-ranked Minnetonka 86-76 in their home opener Nov. 30. They will play defending Class 3A champion De La Salle at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Hopkins High School in one of Breakdown Sports’ two Tip-Off Classics. Apple Valley returns to Hopkins High to play Hopkins on Tuesday night

before its nationally tele-vised game against Whit-ney Young High School of Chicago at 6 p.m. Thurs-day, Dec. 12. The Whitney Young game, scheduled to be broadcast on ESPNU, features future Duke Uni-versity teammates Tyus Jones of Apple Valley and Jahlil Okafor of Whitney Young. That, Goring hopes, should be enough to keep the Eagles’ minds on the present and prevent pre-mature thoughts of win-ning back-to-back state championships. The Eagles were happy to come off the floor with

a victory over Minnetonka last Saturday as their win-ning streak grew to 32 games, but their perfor-mance drew mixed reviews from Goring and senior captains Jones and Dennis Austin. “We played well. You’re always happy when you pull out a win,” Jones said. “But there were things we could have done better. If we did a better job on the O-boards, I don’t think it would have been as close at the end.” Minnetonka had 25 of-fensive rebounds in Satur-day’s game – a number that jumped off the statistic

sheet when Goring looked at it. That led to the Skip-pers getting 25 more shots than Apple Valley. But the Eagles defended well, holding Minnetonka to 36 percent shooting as they held the lead the whole night. Jones, who’s starting his fifth season on varsity, led Apple Valley with 38 points (including 14-for-15 from the free-throw line), eight assists and five rebounds. He had a triple-double against Edina with 15 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds. Austin had 15 points on 6-for-8 shooting against

Minnetonka. Sophomore center Brock Bertram had 12 points and nine re-bounds. Those three, along with senior captain Rob-ert Tobroxen and senior Jake Rhyner, made up the Eagles’ starting lineup against Minnetonka. But Apple Valley went 11 deep in that game, with senior Trey Pipkins, junior Ste-ven Christiansen, sopho-mores Jordan Bolton and Cam Kirksey, ninth-grader Gary Trent Jr. and eighth-grader Tre Jones (Tyus’ brother) seeing playing time off the bench.


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theology. Aside from developing his ability to deliver lines, Jones taught him how to administrate his career and work smart. “She held our feet to the fire when we were lazy or scared and not working to find people to connect to and places to infiltrate the industry and prove ourselves as invaluable,” he said. “It’s a marathon, not a sprint.” He said he enters each audition prepared as best

he can and tries not to beat himself up when he’s not thrilled with what he did. He has worked with Jim Carrey, James Caan and William Shatner. His film credits include “Jingle All the Way,” “Changeling” and “A Serious Man.” Having done more than 60 stage productions, trav-eled internationally with Minneapolis-based “Tri-ple Espresso,” and been in movies and TV shows, Breitmayer’s recent work includes “Coffee, Kill Boss,” which premiered this summer at the Austin

Film Festival, and appear-ances in the new FX televi-sion series “Fargo.” As for advice, he says: “Follow your bliss. Don’t be afraid to dream big. Get a good agent. Be nice to the crew. They got there two hours be-fore you did and will leave two hours after you do. If you’re scared … do it anyway. And, most impor-tantly, share your sand-wich.”

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

This year’s Legacy Award win-ner, Peter Breitmayer, a 1983 Rose-mount High School graduate and former Eagan and Apple Valley resident, entertained some ques-tions from the newspaper in ad-vance of the award presentation Saturday, Dec. 7. We allowed him “to have fun with it,” and these are some of the results. Q: When did acting emerge as an inter-est? A: Most living residents of Rose-mount will never forget my seminal per-formance as Captain “Big Jim” Waring-ton, in the 1977 production of “Little Mary Sunshine” at Rosemount Middle School, directed (if memory serves) by the lovely Judy Sagen. I knew then and there that if I could do this kind of melo-dramatic musical comedy, I could do anything. I think people were shocked at the depth I brought to “Big Jim,” the Royal Canadian Mountie. Q: What was going on in your life/mind at the time? A: I probably spent most of my time worrying I might accidentally score a goal for the other team in seventh-grade soccer. No wait … that happened. I mean I worried about doing it again. Q: What were you like in high school? A: A dork who wanted to be accepted. Q: How did the people at the high school help build your talent? A: They didn’t. I did it all by myself. Q: What teacher(s) are you looking forward to seeing again? Why? A: Well foremost, Judy Sagen, Steve Boehlke and Thom Hoffman. Why? To check their pulses. Q: Do you have any regrets about any-

thing you did in high school? Re-member it’s a family newspaper. A: Your caveat pre-cludes my answering the ques-tion. Ha ha. Q: On career choices when he was in college: A: Well, I could move to Minneapolis and try to get an internship in “nonprofit theater

administration.” THAT field would be practical AND very lucrative. Q: On career choices as a post gradu-ate: A: I joke with my wife that my backup plan is orchestra conductor – much easi-er to slip right into than acting. Q: Are there some well-known actors who have inspired you? A: I’ve always admired Philip Sey-mour Hoffman, John Malkovich and Al-bert Finney … and Meryl Streep, cause every actor HAS to include Meryl Streep or you’re blind. Q: What advice would you give to someone who wants to follow in your foot-steps? A: As Bette Davis said after some young aspiring starlet asked her what the secret was to making it to Hollywood, she said: “Take Fountain.” As in Foun-tain Avenue, often the least jammed road through the center of town. You had to be there. Q: What’s the most fun you’ve had in your career? A: Being in front of an audience when you can feel them eating out of your hand, is not like anything else in the world. It’s pretty satisfying. That’s hap-pened a couple dozen times in the last 30 years … and that’s not bad.

– Tad Johnson

Big Jim, Bette Davis and pulse checking: Breitmayerreviews his acting journey

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Lakeville teen dies in Dec. 4 crash

Driver killed in Dakota County crash A St. Paul man died Thanksgiving night follow-ing a one-vehicle crash in Dakota County. According to the Min-nesota State Patrol, 80-year-old David A. Jones was trav-eling east on Highway 110 near Dodd Road in Men-dota Heights at about 8:40 p.m. Nov. 28 when his Jeep

Wrangler left the roadway and collided with a tree. Jones, who was not wear-ing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle and died as a result of his injuries about an hour after the crash at 9:50 p.m., the State Patrol said. Jones was the sole occu-pant of the Jeep Wrangler,

which was totaled in the crash. No alcohol was de-tected in his system. Road conditions were dry on the divided, blacktop state highway at the time of the crash. Mendota Heights police assisted the State Patrol at the scene.

—Andrew Miller

State, metro officials will talk transportation Dec. 17 in Burnsville Minnesota Department of Transportation Com-missioner Charlie Zelle and Metropolitan Council Chair Sue Haigh invite the public to attend Decem-ber town hall meetings on transportation, including transit. A meeting in Burnsville will be held Tuesday, Dec. 17, from 4-6 p.m. in the Mraz Center for the Per-forming Arts at Burnsville High School, 600 E. High-

way 13. Zelle and Haigh will lead a discussion about transportation, how it af-fects quality of life, its link to Minnesota’s economy and the importance of in-vesting in it. They will also take feedback and answer questions about Minneso-ta’s transportation system. Other MnDOT staff will also be available to answer questions. More information and

a full list of meetings is available at www.mndot.gov/minnesotago. To request an ASL or foreign language inter-preter, or other reasonable accommodation, call Ja-net Miller at 651-366-4720 or 800-657-3774 (Greater Minnesota), 711 or 800-627-3529 (Minnesota Re-lay). You also may send an email to [email protected].

Cheer clinic set at Eastview High The Eastview High School competition cheer-leaders will hold a cheer clinic Sunday, Dec. 22, in the high school gym, 6200 140th St. W., Apple Valley. The clinic is open to chil-dren from kindergarten to eighth grade.

The $35 registration fee includes a T-shirt and pom-poms, personal in-struction by the Eastview cheer team, cheer booklet, snack and special awards. Register online at www.leaguelineup.com/East-ViewLightn ingCheer.

Walk-ins are welcome the day of the event. Registra-tion and check-in for the clinic begin at 12:45 p.m. The clinic runs from 1-4 p.m. with a performance at 3:45 p.m. for family and friends.

A 17-year-old female driver was killed Wednes-day morning on Dodd Boulevard (County Road 9) south of 190th Street in Lakeville. The victim was identi-fied on Lakeville School District’s Facebook page as Alyssa Ettl, a junior at Lakeville North High School. Lakeville police said the driver and passenger of the other vehicle suffered minor injuries. A preliminary investi-gation led police to believe Ettl, who was driving her Pontiac Grand Prix south-bound, lost control on the slush-covered roadway, slid

sideways and was broad-sided by a GMC Acadia travelling in the opposite direction. Occupants of both ve-hicles were wearing seat-belts. The crash was reported at 9:45 a.m. and occurred one quarter mile north of Lakeville North High School. School was scheduled to open two hours late as a part of the regular school year calendar and not as a result of the weather con-ditions. School staff members were immediately notified and activated a crisis plan to assist students dealing

with Ettl’s death. The district described Ettl as “an exceptional stu-dent, athlete and friend to many.” The Lakeville area re-ceived a coating of snow overnight and it had snowed on and off during the morning hours. A light mist was falling at the time of the crash. Dodd Boulevard remained closed for several hours. Lakeville Fire Depart-ment and Allina paramed-ics assisted at the scene. Lakeville police with assis-tance from the Minnesota State Patrol reconstruction team are investigating the crash.


Religion

Many faiths under one roofEcumenical service at

St. Joseph draws more than 300



More than 300 people of varying faiths joined together Wednesday, Nov. 27, at St. Joseph Catholic Church for the ecumeni-cal service “Praying in Thanksgiving – Praying as One Community.” Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Episcopalians and Bap-tists sang and prayed to-gether for unity and for all the things – great and small – for which they are thankful. Various clergy from five area churches were at the service, including the Rev. Karen Bruins, of Rosemount United Meth-odist Church, who deliv-ered the sermon. The Rev. Paul Jarvis, of St. Joseph Catholic Church, said the most moving part of the service was the procession of an empty shopping cart to the altar with the assis-tance of a young worship-per. The empty cart signi-fied that donations are needed to fill food shelves this winter as many peo-ple in Dakota County

need help putting food on the table. “The vast majority of those receiving assistance from counties’ social ser-vices and food from food shelves are young kids,” Jarvis said. He said the cart sym-bolized the “new face of poverty, in which the im-poverished are not only the young (the vast, vast majority of the poor) and the recently divorced and seniors who cannot live on Social Security alone, but now those who were once among the middle class or upper middle class who

were before contributing to food shelves like 360 Communities and are now receiving from them.” Several hundred pounds of food and mon-etary donations were col-lected during the service to benefit Burnsville-based 360 Communities, which operates a food shelf out of the Rosemount Family Resource Center. The service, which also was attended by people from nondenominational churches and those with no particular affiliation, included a combined choir from the representa-

tive churches. “We can’t wait for next year’s,” Jarvis said, “which we hope will be at a church not previ-ously hosting this ecu-menical service. This was the only ecumenical ser-vice in Rosemount, and one of very few in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Lakeville-Eagan-Farm-ington area.” More informa-tion about donating to 360 Communities is at www.360communities.org.


Clergy from five area churches were at the ecumenical service “Praying in Thanksgiving – Praying as One Community,” including the Rev. Karen Bruins, of Rosemount United Methodist Church, who delivered the sermon. (Photo by Leo Avenido, St. Joseph Catholic Church)

Women’s luncheon The Minnesota Valley Christian Women’s Connection luncheon will be 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, at the GrandStay Hotel & Conference Center, 7083 153rd St. W., Apple Valley. The luncheon is open to all women. Speaker Joyce Harley will share “The Gift of Love.” Cost is $16. Call Pam at 612-207-3100 or Jan at 651-434-5795 for reserva-tions.

Bible study at Woodcrest Woodcrest Church, 525 Cliff Road, Eagan, will offer a Bible study on the book of James, writ-ten and taught via video by Beth Moore. The study will begin at 7

p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, continuing each Thursday through March 7. There will be small discussion groups as well as large group view-ing of the video lesson. Cost is $20, which includes all materials. Register online at www.wood-crestchurch.org, in person at the church on Sunday mornings, or by calling either Nancy at 651-454-9039 or Susan at 651-263-8018.

Blood drive at St. Michael’s St. Michael’s Catholic Church, 22120 Denmark Ave., Farmington, will host a Red Cross blood drive from 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12. Call Marlene at 651-460-6083 for an appointment. Walk-ins are wel-come.

Randolph Baptist events Randolph Baptist Church, 29020 Dawson Ave., Randolph, has planned the following December events. Call 507-663-1347 for more information. Dec. 1, 10 a.m.: Christmas music and “Christmas in Luke.” Dec. 1, 5 p.m.: Community Christmas carol sing-along. Dec. 8, 10 a.m., “Christmas in Matthew.” Dec. 15, 10 a.m., children’s Christmas program. Dec. 22, 10 a.m., “The Fascinat-ing Background of Christmas.” Dec. 24, 5 p.m., Christmas Eve candlelight service.

Religion Briefs

DNR issues ice warning for aerated lakes The Minnesota De-partment of Natural Re-sources warns ice anglers, snowmobilers, skiers and other outdoor enthusiasts to use caution when going onto any lake covered or partially covered with ice, especially those that fea-ture aeration systems. Aerated lakes in Da-kota County include: Ali-magnet, Bald, Blackhawk, Bur Oaks, Carlson, Cliff, East Thomas, Farquar, Fish, Gun Club, Hay, Heine, Holland, Isabelle, LeMay, Manor, Marion, McDonough, Pickerel, Rebecca (Hastings), Rog-

er’s, Schwanz, Thomas (Eagan) and Thompson. “Open water areas cre-ated by aeration systems can shift or change shapes depending on weather conditions,” said Marilyn Danks, DNR aquatic biol-ogist. “Leaks may develop in air lines, creating other areas of weak ice or open water.” Aeration systems are generally operated from the time lakes freeze until ice break-up in the spring. They help prevent winter-kill of fish, but they also create areas of open water and thin ice, which are sig-

nificant hazards. Two types of signs are used to post aerated lakes: “thin ice” and “warning” signs. The person who applies for the permit (permittee) is to main-tain “warning” signs at all commonly used access points to the lake. This sign warns people ap-proaching the lake that an aeration system is in op-eration and to use extreme caution. The permittee must also put up “thin ice” signs to mark the area’s perimeter. Some municipalities may have ordinances that pro-

hibit entering into the thin ice area and/or prohibit the night use of motorized vehicles on lakes with aera-tion systems in operation. These local regulations are often posted at accesses where they apply. Aeration systems are inspected for safety and compliance with regula-tions by permittees and DNR personnel. For more information, call a regional fisheries office or the DNR Infor-mation Center at 651-296-6157 or toll-free 888-646-6367 or email [email protected].


LEGAL NOTICES

MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE CERTIFICATE

OF ASSUMED NAMEMinnesota Statutes, 333

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

ASSUMED NAME: W & D ServicesPRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSI-

NESS: 4215 Nicols Road Eagan, MN 55122NAMEHOLDER(S): Fannie Deng1721 Nokomis CourtMinneapolis, MN 55417I, the undersigned, certify that

I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in both capacities. I further certify that I have completed all required fields, and that the information in this document is true and correct and in compliance with the appli-cable chapter of Minnesota Stat-utes. I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Section 609.48 as if I had signed this document under oath.DATE FILED: November 19, 2013SIGNED BY: Fannie Deng

Published in Burnsville/EaganNovember 29, December 6, 2013

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICECITY OF EAGAN

DATE/LOCATION OF HEARING: Ad-visory Planning Commission Meeting:Thursday, December 19, at 6:30 pm, City Hall Council Chambers, 3830 Pilot KnobRd

DEVELOPMENT/APPLICANT: FairviewHealth Services/Dan Harrington

LOCATION/LEGAL DESCRIPTION:1440 Duckwood Drive, Lot 1, Block 1, Pondview

REQUEST(S):Interim Use PermitAn Interim Use Permit to allow a tempo-

rary modular building for officeFile Number: 16-IN-03-11-13QUESTIONS: Call the Planning Depart-

ment at (651) 675-5685 or contact PamDudziak, the Planner at (651) 675-5691 or [email protected] with theabove information.

CITY OF EAGANChristina M. Scipioni - City Clerk

Published inBurnsville/Eagan

12/06/1365585

CITY OF EAGANPUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a pub-lic hearing will be held before the EaganCity Council at the Eagan Municipal Cen-ter, 3830 Pilot Knob Road, on December17, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. regarding approvalof the 2014 Fee Schedule.

Dated: December 6, 2013/s/ Christina M. Scipioni City Clerk

Published in Burnsville/Eagan

December 6, 201364751

NOTICE OF PROPOSED MERGER

Notice is hereby given that Minnwest Bank, M.V., Redwood Falls, MN, has made application to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for its written con-sent (1) to merge Minnwest Bank South, Tracy, MN, Minnwest Bank Luverne, Luverne, MN, Minnwest Bank Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, Minnwest Bank Central, Monte-video, MN, and Minnwest Bank Metro, Eagan, MN, with and into Minnwest Bank, M.V., (2) to change the name of the resultant institu-tion to Minnwest Bank, (3) to merge MinnData, Incorporated and Min-nwest Capital Corporation with and into the resultant institution, and (4) to establish detached facilities at 250 Third Street, Tracy, MN 56175; 300 Broadway, Lake Wilson, MN 56151; 2565 King Avenue, Slay-ton, MN 56172; 116 East Main, Luverne, MN 56156; 304 East First Avenue, Beaver Creek, MN 56116; 800 South Kniss Avenue, Luverne, MN 56156; 5001 South Louise Av-enue, Sioux Falls, SD 57108; 5324 East Arrowhead Parkway, Sioux Falls, SD 57110; 107 North First Street, Montevideo, MN 56265; 21 Southeast 2nd Street, Ortonville, MN 56278; 1404 State Highway 7, Montevideo, MN 56265; 579 Pine Street, Dawson, MN 56232; 1150 Yankee Doodle Road, Eagan, MN 55121; 14820 State Highway 7, Minnetonka, MN 55345; 331 16th Avenue Northwest, Rochester, MN 55901; and 276 Center Street East, Hammond, MN 55991. It is contemplated that all offices of the above-named institutions will con-tinue to be operated.

Any person wishing to com-ment on this application may file his or her comments in writing with the regional director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at its regional office located at 1100 Walnut St., Suite 2100, Kansas City, MO 64106, not later than December 23, 2013. The noncon-fidential portions of the application are on file in the regional office and are available for public inspection during regular business hours. Photocopies of the nonconfidential portion of the application file will be made available upon request.


November 22, December 6, 20, 2013

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CITY OF EAGANPUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF INTENT TO OPERATE

AERATION SYSTEMSThe City of Eagan, pursuant to the

terms and conditions of Permits for LakeAeration Systems, granted by the Min-nesota Department of Natural Resources,hereby gives notice of its intent to oper-ate winter lake aeration systems in Eagan.The systems shall consist of an air injec-tion pump. The systems shall be in opera-tion on some or all of the following: Bald,Blackhawk, Bur Oaks, Carlson, Cliff, EastThomas, Fish, Hay, Heine, Holz, LeMay,Schwanz, and Thomas Lakes. The periodof aeration operation shall be during peri-ods of suitable ice cover commencing onor about December 9, 2013, and endingon or before April 18, 2014. The aerationsystems may create open water and thinice conditions. The public is cautioned tostay clear of all areas marked with warningsigns on the lake.

Dated: November 25, 2013CHRISTINA SCIPIONICity Clerk, City of Eagan


December 6, 13, 201364737



DEVELOPMENT/APPLICANT: GreatOaks 2nd Addition/Mark Gergen

LOCATION/LEGAL DESCRIPTION:3535 Elrene Rd.

REQUEST(S):Preliminary SubdivisionA Preliminary Subdivision of approxi-

mately 2.4 acres to create 5 single familylots.

File Number: 14-PS-05-11-13QUESTIONS: Call the Planning Depart-

ment at (651) 675-5685 or contact PamDudziak, the Planner at (651) 675-5691 or [email protected] with theabove information.



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DEVELOPMENT/APPLICANT: North-field Lines/John C Benjamin

LOCATION/LEGAL DESCRIPTION:1034 Gemini Road, Lot 10, Block 6, Ea-gandale Center Industrial Park

REQUEST(S):Conditional Use PermitA Conditional Use Permit to allow out-

door storage of up to 31 buses.File Number: 11-CU-10-11-13QUESTIONS: Call the Planning Depart-

ment at (651) 675-5685 or contact Sarah Thomas, the Planner at (651) 675-5696or [email protected] with theabove information.



12/06/1365604

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 194

SPECIAL BOARD MEETINGThis is a summary of the Independent

School District No. 194 Special Board ofEducation Meeting on Tuesday, Novem-ber 12, 2013 with full text available forpublic inspection on the district websiteat www.isd194.k12.mn.us or 8670 210thStreet W., Lakeville, MN 55044

The meeting was called to order at 5:30p.m. All board members and administra-

tors were present. Discussions: All day vs. half day Kin-

dergarten options, staffing, resourcesand program development; 2012-13 auditreview.

Meeting adjourned at 6:55 p.m.Published in

Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganDecember 6, 2013

63536



DEVELOPMENT/APPLICANT: Spec-trum Development Group 2013/Richard

LOCATION/LEGAL DESCRIPTION:2905 Lexington Ave S, Lot 1, Block 1, Ea-gandale Center Industrial Park No 10

REQUEST(S):Conditional Use PermitA Conditional Use Permit to allow out-

door storage of vehicles.File Number: 03-CU-12-11-13QUESTIONS: Call the Planning Depart-

ment at (651) 675-5685 or contact Mike Ridley, the Planner at (651) 675-5650 [email protected] with the aboveinformation.



12/06/1365613


REGULAR BOARD MEETINGThis is a summary of the Independent

School District No.194 Regular SchoolBoard Meeting on Tues, November 12,2013 with full text available for public in-spection on the district website at www.isd194.k12.mn.us or District Office at8670 210th Street W., Lakeville, MN55044

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

Consent agenda items approved:Minutes of the meetings on October 22;employment recommendations, leave re-quests and resignations; payment of bills& claims as presented; alt facilities changeorders as presented; and fieldtrips.

Resolution regarding acceptance of giftdonations was approved on a 5-0 votewith Keliher abstaining.

Reports presented: 2012-13 audit re-view; staff laptop roll out and prof dev plan; special services update; first read-ing of policies 206-Public Participation inBoard of Education Meetings; 207-PublicHearings; 208-Development, Adoptionand Implementation of Policies; and 209-Code of Ethics.

Recommended actions approved:Resolution canvassing return of votes ofschool district special election; procla-mation designating Dec 2-6 as InclusiveSchools Week; Joint Powers Agreementwith City of Lakeville.

Adjournment at 9:08 p.m. Published in

Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganDecember 6, 2013

63562


SCHOOL BOARD MINUTESNOVEMBER 7, 2013

The meeting of the Board of Educationwas called to order by Chair Sweep a 6:30 p.m. at the Burnsville High School SeniorCampus in the Diamondhead EducationCenter.

Members present: Directors Vanden-S C

Boom, Luth, Schmid, Hill, Currier, Alt, and Chair Sweep. Others in attendance wereSuperintendent Gothard, Student AdvisorShreedaran, administrators and staff.

Sweep welcomed the public and askedVandenBoom to lead the Pledge of Alle-giance.

The board received a report from CarlaStaffa regarding Burnsville TEDx .

Moved by Schmid, seconded by Alt, to approve the agenda. Motion carried (7, 0).

Moved by Luth, seconded by Currier, toapprove the consent agenda as follows:

- Approve minutes of October 3, 2013,regular board meeting and closed ses-sion.

- Approve personnel changes for M. Christensen, V. McCartney, G. Sifferle.M. Young, B. Andrews, A. Jarzyna-Ingles,K. Ploehn, A. Wilkinson, D. Johnson,R. Laatsch, M. Christensen, J. Gust, T.Packer, J. Wesley, E. Voit, L. Erickson,J. Lemley, B. McCarthy, T. Pham, and J.Tomlinson.

- Adopt a resolution to approve and ac-cept donations as presented: $100 fromAlerus Mortgage/B. Wong; two TwinsTickets from the MN Twins, six gift bags from K. Robinson, candy and $10.00Target gift card from J. Corcoran, $25.00 gift card from Cub Foods, $10.00 giftcard from Rainbow Foods, six tickets toFrightmares from Buck Hill, and $45.00 ingift cards from Solar Nails to Eagle Ridge Junior High for the F.I.R.E. program; cloth-ing donation from A. Walker, $68.88 fromShaparoo, and $3,607.34 from Target toEagle Ridge Junior High; 1996 Volkswa-gen Passat VIN #WVWEE83A4TE046254to Burnsville High school for student in-struction and learning; $50.00 from M.Berger to Gideon Pond Elementary forthe music department; $229.50 fromRahn PTO to Rahn Elementary for varioussupplies, $3,000.00 from Mount CalvaryLutheran Church to Rahn Elemntary forschool supplies, $10,000.00 in school supplies from Office Max to Rahn Elemen-tary; $1,000.00 in supplies from Office Max to Rahn Elementary for A Day MadeBetter; Coats and mittens of various sizesfrom Eagan Lions Club to ISD 191 for chil-dren in need of winter coats, $25.00 fromE. and C. McDowell to Burnsville HighSchool for the Burnsville Hall of Fame, and $3,583.74 from Target to Sioux Trail.

- Approve the appointment of Tom Um-hoefer to represent the school district at the Burnsville Breakfast Rotary Club.

- Approve change order #2 for the Inter-mediate 917 SUN Program Alterations toCedar School.

- Approve change order #3 for the 2012BHS Main Entry Addition Project.

- Approve change order #3 for the2013-2014 Burnsville High School De-ferred Maintenance Project in the amountof $114,007.00.

- Approve change order #1 for the 2013Diamondhead Education Center and Me-chanical Upgrades Phase 2 Project.

- Authorize the superintendent, thechairperson, and the clerk to sign andsubmit the Statement of Assurance onbehalf of the district.

- Approve preliminary planning of anextended field trip for BHS band andchoir students to travel to Italy in Marchof 2014.

- Approve preliminary planning of anextended field trip for BHS InternationalTravel Club to travel to London, Paris,Florence, and Rome June 10-21, 2014.

- Approve an extended field trip pro-posal submitted by Sky Oaks ElementarySchool for sixth grade students to go toEagle Bluff Environmental Center Decem-ber 11-13, 2013, and to grant an excep-tion to Board Policy IICA that prohibits ex-tended field trips for elementary students.

Motion carried (7, 0).Received a report on Enrollment Projec-

tions from Executive Director of BusinessServices Lisa Rider.

Moved by VandenBoom, seconded byHill, to approve the Financial Audit Reportfor 2012-2013. Motion carried (7, 0).

An oral report was given by Student Ad-visor Shreedaran.

An oral report was given by Superinten-dent Gothard.

Oral reports were given by DirectorsCurrier and Schmid.

Moved by VandenBoom, seconded bySchmid, to adjourn at 8:07 p.m. Motioncarried (7, 0).

Dated: November 21, 2013/s/ Bob VandenBoom, Clerk

Published in Burnsville/EaganDecember 5, 2013

62744

CITY OF BURNSVILLENOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARINGA Public Hearing will be held on

December 9, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible by the Burnsville Planning Commission, 100Civic Center Parkway, in the Coun-cil Chambers on the application of Burnsville Sanitary Landfill Incorpo-rated for a Conditional Use Permit for reconstruction of a temporary main-tenance road located at the landfill property at 2650 West Cliff Road.

The application will be scheduled for the next appropriate City Council meeting following the Planning Com-mission meeting.

All persons desiring to speak on thisapplication are encouraged to attend.For more information concerning thisrequest, please contact Planner Chris Slania (952) 895-4451 at the City of Burnsville.

Chris Slania On Behalf of the Chair of the

Burnsville Planning CommissionPublished in Burnsville/Eagan

November 29, December 6, 201362105

CITY OF BURNSVILLEPUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given that a Public

Hearing will be held on Tuesday, De-cember 17, 2013 at 6:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, by the Burnsville City Council at the Burns-ville City Hall, 100 Civic Center Park-way, to consider the approval of aresellers (Pawn Shop, Second HandGoods & Precious Metal Dealer) li-cense for Gold Money Express LLC for 915 Co Rd 42 W (Burnsville Cen-ter).

All persons desiring to be heard onthis item will be heard at this time.For more information concerning this request, please contact the City of Burnsville. Telephone (952) 895-4460, TDD: (952) 895-4567.

Tina ZinkCITY OF BURNSVILLE


December 6, 201364354

CITY OF EAGANPUBLIC HEARING NOTICE APPLICANT: Steve Smith, Paradise Car

WashREQUEST: A Variance to allow a de-

tached trash enclosure.LOCATION/LEGAL DESCRIPTION:

Lot 1, Block 1, Town Centre 70 Tenth Ad-dition

TIME OF HEARING: City Council Meet-ing: December 17, 2013 at 6:30 pm

PLACE OF HEARING: City Hall CouncilChambers, 3830 Pilot Knob Road

ANY QUESTIONS: Call the PlanningDepartment at (651) 675-5685 or contactSarah Thomas, the Planner at (651) 675-5696 or [email protected] withthe following information:

DEVELOPMENT -Paradise Car WashCASE #: 15-VA-13-11-13CITY OF EAGAN Christina Scipioni - City Clerk


65233

CITY OF EAGANPUBLIC HEARING NOTICE APPLICANT: Brandon Smith,REQUEST: A Variance to the required

50’ structure setback from state highwayright-of-way for a garage addition.

LOCATION/LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Lot9, Block 1, Lakeview Trail Addition

TIME OF HEARING: City Council Meet-ing: December 17, 2013 at 6:30 pm

PLACE OF HEARING: City Hall CouncilChambers, 3830 Pilot Knob Road

ANY QUESTIONS: Call the PlanningDepartment at (651) 675-5685 or contactPam Dudziak, the Planner at (651) 675-5691 or [email protected] withthe following information:

DEVELOPMENT - Todd AveCASE #: 36-VA-12-11-13CITY OF EAGAN Christina Scipioni - City Clerk


65230

If approved, construc-tion is expected to begin in spring 2014. In addition to the planned hotel, city offi-

cials received a request to reguide three acres at Old Sibley Highway to allow the development of a 32-unit senior housing com-plex. The City Council tabled the proposal until

Dec. 17 to obtain addi-tional information from the applicant.

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

St. Paul-based Morrissey Hospitality Co. plans to build a 123-room hotel next to the outlet mall under construction in Eagan’s Cedar Grove Redevelopment District. (Photo by Jessica Harper)

HOTEL, from 1A

tremely rapid during that period of time. The older generation had a hard time understanding some of the cultural changes that were happening.” It’s the first novel by Legler, a lawyer and for-mer Washington, D.C., policy wonk who served under President Bill Clin-ton. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1979 and practiced for 10 years in Minnesota and North Dakota. Keenly inter-ested in public policy, Legler used a Bush Fel-lowship he received in 1990 to earn a master’s degree in public adminis-tration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He also worked as a public policy analyst for the school’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. In 1991, then-Arkan-sas Gov. Clinton was intrigued by the center’s work on welfare reform. “I did a small amount of work for his campaign, and when he got elected, I got a political appoint-ment and moved to Wash-ington, D.C., and worked on public policy there,” Legler said. During his eight years as an attorney adviser in the Department of Health and Human Ser-vices, Legler played a key role in crafting part of the historic welfare reform law signed by Clinton in 1996.

“About a third of the welfare reform legisla-tion dealt with child-sup-port enforcement. I was in charge of developing that,” Legler said. Those provisions re-main “entirely intact” and are “credited with really turning the system around,” he said. “There’s been some re-search more recently that shows as the importance of cash welfare assistance has declined, the impor-tance of child support has increased,” Legler said. Today he’s a public policy consultant with his own company, Innova-tive Social Policy LLC. A noted expert and frequent speaker on child support, fatherhood and welfare, Legler consults for gov-ernments and nonprofits. His company also de-velops and runs demon-stration projects such as Hennepin County’s Co-Parent Court, which helps unmarried parents. An incessant reader and fiction lover, Legler began writing “Song of Destiny” four years ago when the delay of a proj-ect he was working on freed up some time. The book traces five generations of a fictional family, from Germany and Russia to present day. It’s not autobiographical, despite the familiar rural North Dakota setting and the fact that he has an older brother, Legler said. “Basically, the story is about a family grow-ing up on the plains,” he said. An older brother

returns from the Vietnam War, “damaged by his ex-perience but in some un-known way. So the family tries to cope with that. The older brother slides downhill further and gets into trouble and eventu-ally robs a bank. “The younger brother tries to go off in a differ-ent direction and actually becomes a monk at St. John’s Abbey (in Colleg-eville, Minn.). It’s about the two brothers. On the surface, they go differ-ent directions in life, but I think the careful reader will find they’re not so dif-ferent after all. It’s a story about guilt and redemp-tion.” Legler submitted his manuscript to North Star Press, which specializes in regional authors, at the suggestion of a writing instructor at The Loft Literary Center. “The reactions have been very gratifying,” said Legler, who has three grown children with his wife, Julie, and is working on a second novel. “I’ve been getting emails from all over the country say-ing they love the book. As a writer, you can’t hope for more than that.” Stores carrying the book include Barnes & Noble in Apple Valley, Legler said. It’s also avail-able online through Ama-zon and Barnes & Noble.

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

AUTHOR, from 1A

Winter Lighting Contest nominations open in Burnsville through Dec. 13 Nominations for Burns-ville’s Winter Lighting Contest are open through Dec. 13. Burnsville resi-dents may nominate single-family dwellings, neigh-borhoods (20 single-family homes or less), apartment or condo complexes, town-homes, apartments or con-dominiums that they think have outstanding winter light displays. Nominees must be lo-cated within Burnsville city limits, be visible from the street and match crite-

ria for the submitted cat-egory. The top three entries in each category will receive the following: $100 Visa gift card donated by Da-kota Electric Association (first place), $50 gift card to a Burnsville restaurant (second place) and two passes to the Minnesota Zoo (third place). To submit a nomina-tion, visit http://www.Burnsvillemn.com/Winter-Lighting-Contest.cfm or pick up a form at any of

the following locations: Burnsville Convention & Visitors Bureau, Burnsville City Hall, Burnhaven Li-brary, Cornerstone Copy, Jo Jo’s Rise & Wine. All submissions must be accompanied by a photo. Winners will be notified by phone. The Burnsville Winter Lighting Contest is pre-sented by the Burnsville Convention & Visitors Bu-reau in partnership with Dakota Electric Associa-tion.


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are not alone, to inspire them to end abusive rela-tionships and seek help from 360 Communities’ domestic violence shelters – Lewis House in Eagan and Hastings. “A lot of women are distant and alone,” she said. “They don’t know where to go.” Sarah said her marriage was not good for the past four years as her then hus-band would yell and some-times throw things, but only since about the first of the year did it turn vio-lent against her. She said her husband hit her during 12 separate incidents. Each of the previ-ous 11 times, she either went to stay with family or held back information from them, friends and co-workers. She would write

about the beatings in detail and cry, holding out hope the violence would end. She feared leaving the relationship would be im-possible because she didn’t earn enough money to support her children on her own. “I worried more about my children than I worried about myself,” she said. As an immigrant from Africa, Sarah came from

a country with a male-dominated society where domestic violence was only made a crime in 2005. She said women often would go back to their husbands even if relationships had turned violent. “You don’t hear about it in our culture,” she said. “In my culture you are married for life. If your husband hits you, it is your luck.”

She said her husband didn’t care about their marriage and wasn’t work-ing at all to make it better. “I did my best to change him,” she said. “I would avoid saying anything he could take the wrong way. I thought: ‘Tomorrow, he is going to change.’ ” The last beating she en-dured hurt her around the face so badly she couldn’t hide it. She said she knew in her mind that the next time could turn worse if her husband had a knife or a gun. “I thought: ‘You will die one day,’” she said. She told a friend, who encouraged her to go to Lewis House where she found the help she needed. There she met with po-lice to whom she related what happened. She was treated by doctors who told her she could have lost her eyesight because of the

last beating. Staff at Lewis House helped Sarah navigate the court process to obtain a restraining order and work through child support is-sues. They helped her and her children move from their residence to a new place with below market-rate rent that allows her to save money as she waits for approval to move into income-qualifying hous-ing. They also helped her with job counseling. While she still has the same job, Sarah is hoping to take a program that will help her get a full-time job in the health care field. “They changed my life,” she said. “This is my fam-ily. Everybody here is nice. They listen to you, it is not like the people I work with. They hear you. They no-tice when you are hurting.”

Sarah attends a sup-port group for victims of domestic abuse, which has been important to her, to know she is not alone in her struggles. “They tell their story and how they changed their lives,” she said. “Lis-tening to them tells you a lot about yourself and how to change yourself.” When asked if it was dif-ficult for her to talk about the abuse in the group, she said: “I talk and I cry, I talk and I cry. Before, all I did was cry.” Her children have also received counseling servic-es to help them deal with issues related to the abuse. “I grew up in a good family,” she said. “They raised us with love. My wish for my kids is that they can have the same.”


Where to get help 360 Communities and Lewis House – Trained ad-vocates offer emotional support, safety planning, re-ferrals to community resources and help in navigat-ing the court system. More information about 360’s Violence Preven-tion service and information on presentations is at 651-244-9823 or online at www.360communities.org. Eagan: 651-452-7288 Hastings: 651-437-1291 Sexual Assault Services: 651-405-1500 Main: 651-437-1291/TTY Crisis: 800-336-7233

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agenda. At that meeting, coun-cil members expressed frustration with their lack of regulatory au-thority over the matter and criticized the com-pany for what they said was a lack of transpar-ency and poor communi-cation with customers. Eagan, in partner-

ship with Burnsville, had previously maintained regulatory authority over its cable franchise. In 2007, the Federal Communications Com-mission stripped many cities of that authority after Comcast submitted a petition to the federal regulator stating that the company could be effec-tively regulated by the free market.

The FCC decided that a city cannot regulate cable providers if at least 15 percent of its popu-lation subscribes to a competitor such as Dish Network. A survey at the time concluded 16.5 per-cent of Eagan’s popula-tion subscribed to satel-lite. Since losing their regu-latory authority, officials in Eagan and other cities

have been disappointed by Comcast’s rising rates. After the Feb. 19 meeting, Eagan officials sent a letter to the FCC and local representatives in Congress voicing con-cern with what they per-ceived to be Comcast’s lack of transparency and poor customer service. Eagan also complained about the inconsistency of allowing some cit-

ies, such as Inver Grove Heights, to regulate cable providers but not other cities, due to subscriber percentages. Though the city’s hands are tied in relation to most fee increases, Ea-gan has authority over late fee increases under its franchise agreement with Comcast. Maguire said he hopes Comcast will in the fu-

ture be willing to seek the city’s input on changes to rates and fees. “I would like more dialogue when it affects more residents,” he said. A copy of Comcast’s redacted study submitted to the city is available at www.sunthisweek.com.

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

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cause of death was listed as “probable position as-phyxia.” State authorities also discovered that Greena-gel was caring for more children than her license allowed, and that she at-tempted to cover up her lack of supervision and the child’s unsafe sleep po-sition. Investigators say she tried to hide the baby’s blood-stained blanket and

coerce her 12-year-old helper to tell authorities Dane had been placed in his crib on his back. Greenagel, who had op-erated a licensed in-home day care since 1976, was licensed to care for 12 chil-dren without assistance, but the facility had about 20 children at the time of Dane’s death. Her child care license was suspended immedi-ately after his death and later revoked by Dakota County.

Greenagel had been advised several times by county licensing workers to change her sleeping ar-rangements for children in her care, according to court records. In 1999, she was ad-vised in a letter from Da-kota County that infants must sleep in a crib or a wooden portacrib, and in 2002 she was reminded by county workers to remove pillows from infant cribs. A county worker also reported in 2007 that

Greenagel placed an in-fant on the floor for a nap, which violates licensing re-quirements. Greenagel was initially charged in July with two counts of second-degree manslaughter, a felony, as well as one count each of endangerment of a child, neglect of a child and in-terference with a death scene — all gross misde-meanors. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 10 at the Dakota County Court-

house in Hastings. Greenagel’s plea agree-ment follows a string of infant deaths in home day cares in Minneso-ta, including that of a 3-month-old boy who died at a Farmington home day care. The Minnesota De-partment of Human Ser-vices has since toughened its child care policies, the state Legislature passed new child care standards and the Obama adminis-tration issued new federal

child care regulations. Changes in the state law include a required doctor’s note to place children in sleep positions other than on their backs in a crib. A state task force on child care deaths recommended stricter limits on the num-ber of children cared for at in-home day cares, but that wasn’t included in the state reforms. Jessica Harper is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

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theater and arts briefs

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Holiday dance production DanceWorks Perform-ing Arts Center presents its annual holiday produc-tion “Sharing the Season” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at Lakeville North High School. The performance in-cludes “Nutcracker” dances by Hopkins’ Youth Ballet and DanceWorks, as well as songs and music by Forté Performing Arts Academy. Tickets are available at danceworksmn.com or by phone at 952-432-7123. Admission is $10 with a donation to the local food shelves.

Art sale extended Lakeville Area Arts Center’s annual Holiday Art Sale will remain open this week during business hours 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 7, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Sun-day, Dec. 8, from 2:30-5:30 p.m. The sale features unique artwork hand-crafted by Lakeville Area Arts Center students and instructors in a variety of media. As part of the sale, the arts center’s pottery studio is sponsoring an “empty bowls” fundraiser. A lim-ited number of soup bowls remain with a suggested donation of $10 each. All

proceeds go to local food shelves. The Lakeville Area Arts Center is located at 20965 Holyoke Ave. For more information, call 952-985-4640.

Christmas radio play in Eagan The Eagan Theater Company will present the radio play, “A Christmas Carol,” at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, and Saturday, Dec. 14, at Woodcrest Church, 535 Cliff Road, Eagan. Doors open at 6 p.m. with caroling at 6:30 p.m. The characters and sound effects will take the audience back to the days of radio, when people gathered round their radio in the living room to be en-tertained by their favorite shows. Tickets are $10 in ad-vance at www.etc-mn.org and $12 at the door.

‘Heroes of Today’ exhibit The Dakota County Public Art Citizen Advi-sory Committee invites children in grades 6-8 who live in Dakota County to create an original work of art that explores the theme “Heroes of Today” and submit it for consideration in a new exhibit. “Heroes of Today” is the fourth open exhibition

of work by local artists sponsored by the public art committee. It will run February through August at the Dakota County Western Service Center, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. Artists must live in Da-kota County, and their art-work should be ready for hanging. Entries are limit-ed to one per person. Digi-tal images of submissions may be emailed to [email protected] or mailed to Jean Erickson at Dakota County Public Services and Revenue Di-vision, 1590 Highway 55, Hastings, MN 55033, by the deadline of Monday, Jan. 7. For a complete list of criteria for the “Heroes of Today” exhibit or to ac-cess a submission form, visit www.dakotacounty.us and search art exhibit. For more information, call 651-438-4286.

‘Welcome Christmas’ VocalEssence – with Dan Chouinard, piano, and Mariachi Mi Tierra – will present “Welcome Christmas” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, at Shep-herd of the Valley Luther-an Church, 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley. Tickets range from $20 to $40 at vocalessence.org. Call 612-371-5656 for more information.

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Friday, Dec. 6 Forever Wild Family Fri-day: Nature Bingo, 7-8:30 p.m., Lebanon Hills Visitor Center, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan. All ages. Free. Registration requested at www.co.dakota.mn.us/parks.

Saturday, Dec. 7 Art, crafts and bake sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Peace Church, 2180 Glory Drive, Ea-gan. A portion of the proceeds will help fund a mission trip to Tarasaa, Kenya, and provide support to Families Together Therapeutic Preschool in the Frogtown area of St. Paul. Photos with Mrs. Claus fundraiser, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Windmill Feed & Pet Supply, 350 Main St., Elko New Mar-ket. Receive a photo shoot with Mrs. Claus, the photo of your choice printed and put in a holiday photo greeting card, and all of the images on a disk for a suggested donation of $25. Proceeds benefit the ani-mals of Windmill Animal Res-cue. Spirit of Christmas Shop-ping, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., La-Grand Conference Center, 7083 153rd St., Apple Val-ley. Features 40 vendors with handcrafted items.

Sunday, Dec. 8 Pancake breakfast by the

Farmington Knights of Colum-bus, 9 a.m. to noon, Church of St. Michael, 22120 Denmark Ave., Farmington. Menu: pan-cakes, French toast, sausage links, scrambled eggs, cof-fee, juice and water. Good-will offerings accepted for local community needs. Cookie Walk by the Farm-ington Yellow Ribbon Net-work, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Ram-bling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington. Bring two plates of a dozen cookies or holiday treats for local military families. Those who donate can walk the cookie walk to select holiday cookies to take home. To donate cookies or volunteer for the walk, contact Kara at 651-463-2148 or 651-302-4831.

Monday, Dec. 9 Depression Support Group, 7-8:30 p.m., Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley. Speaker: Dr. William Orr, “Medication Options for Mental Health.” Free. Information: 952-432-6351 or DepressionSupport-Coalition.org.

Sunday, Dec. 22 Cheer clinic for children in kindergarten through eighth grade by the Eastview High School competition cheer-leaders, 1-4 p.m. in the main gym at Eastview High School. Check-in at 12:45 p.m. Cost is $35. Register at www.leaguel-

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Blood drives The American Red Cross will hold the following blood drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org to make an appointment or for more information. • Dec. 7, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Nelson Chiropractic, 14321 Nicollet Court, Burnsville. • Dec. 10, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Family of Christ Luther-an Church, 10970 185th St. W., Lakeville. • Dec. 12, 1-7 p.m., Church of St. Michael, 22120 Denmark Ave., Farmington. • Dec. 13, 12:30-5:30 p.m., Easter Lutheran Church – By The Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. • Dec. 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. • Dec. 14, 10:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville. • Dec. 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Culver’s, 3445 O’Leary Lane, Eagan. • Dec. 16, noon to 5 p.m., Rasmussen College, 3500 Federal Drive, Eagan. • Dec. 17, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Coca-Cola Refresh-ments, 2750 Eagandale Blvd., Eagan. • Dec. 18, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Culver’s, 17800 Ken-wood Trail, Lakeville.

Hand bells for the holidays Toll Free quartet featured at Dec. 14 Rosemount concert

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


Rosemount’s St. Joseph Catholic Church is ringing in the holiday season with a hand bell concert next weekend. The 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, concert will see performances by the Twin Cities-based Toll Free Handbell Quartet along with the church’s own chil-dren’s hand bell choir. “The children use what are called ‘little ringers’ – they don’t use the really big bells the quartet uses,” said Bill Bradley, liturgist at St. Joseph. “It’s one of those things you have to hear – it’s really quite won-derful.” Toll Free, whose mem-

bers met through the larg-er Bells of the Lakes hand bell ensemble before form-ing their own group, will be performing holiday stan-dards at the Rosemount concert such as “Deck the Halls” and “You’re Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” as well less traditional fare in-cluding “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.” “We like to explore all over the musical spec-trum,” said Toll Free member Christina Wood, a parishioner at St. Jo-seph church and Eagan resident. “Most people will think of the bells for Christmas music – which we do – but we also do things that are jazz or swing or blues. We chal-lenge ourselves by playing

music people wouldn’t ex-pect from hand bells.” Following the concert, guests will be invited to check out the hand bells, and to give them a ring if they’re so inclined. The church, which held its first holiday hand bell concert last year, plans to make the concerts an an-nual event as part of the church’s “commitment to building community,” Bradley said. The concert is free to attend; “free will” dona-tions will be accepted. The church is located at 13900 Biscayne Ave.

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Toll Free Handbell Quartet members are, from left, Debra Olsen, Kate Graber, Christina Wood and Anne Jeddeloh. (Photo submitted)

Holiday performances of “Ole & Lena’s Family Christmas” will be 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 18 and 19, on the main stage at Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets are $20 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or online at Ticketmaster.com. (Photo submitted)

Things are getting a little macabre at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center this month with Chameleon Theatre Circle’s production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” The Stephen Sondheim musical about a vengeance-seeking barber who slits the throats of his customers and has them baked into pies runs Dec. 7-22 in the Burnsville PAC’s Black Box Theatre. The Chameleon production is directed by Garrick Dietze and performances will feature a 12-member live orchestra. Tickets range from $17-$20 and are available in person at the Burnsville venue’s box office and through Ticketmaster.com. Above: Shana Eisenberg plays Mrs. Lovett and Phil Gonzales is cast as Sweeney Todd in the show. (Photo submitted)

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Auditions Auditions for the Prior Lake Players’ production of “Oliver” will be Dec. 9-10 at Twin Oaks Middle School, 15860 Fish Point Road S.E., Prior Lake. Ages 7-14: 6-7:30 p.m. Ages 15 and older: 7:30-9 p.m. No appoint-ments necessary. Those audi-tioning will read from the script and should come dressed for movement. All adults and any boys interested in the role of Oli-ver should prepare a short song that shows their vocal talent. An accompanist will be provided. Performances will be March 6-9 and March 13-16. Information: plplayers.org.

Comedy Louie Anderson, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Cen-ter, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets range from $32.95 to $102.95 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com.

Dance DanceWorks Performing Arts Center’s “Sharing the Sea-son” holiday production, 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at Lakeville North High School. Admission: $10 with a donation to area food shelves. Tickets: danceworks.com, 952-432-7123. Twin Cities Ballet of Min-nesota performs “Nutcracker” Dec. 13-15 at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets: $16 to $32 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com.

Exhibits “Metamorphosis: New Dreams, New Visions, New Directions,” an exhibit featur-ing La Feminine artists Patricia Schwartz, Christine Tierney and Leslie Bowman, is on display through Dec. 14 at Burnsville Performing Arts Center. Infor-mation: 952-895-4685. Wildlife paintings by Rose-mount artist Lynda Dykhouse are on display through Decem-ber at the Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rose-mount. Winter Art Experience hosted by the Eagan Art Festi-val and Eagan Art House, noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Eagan Byerly’s, 1299 Prom-enade Place. The exhibit will be on display through February. In-formation: 651-675-5521. Savage Arts Council’s De-cember exhibit features digital works by illustrator Franklin Haws. It can be seen during business hours through Dec. 30 at Savage City Hall, 6000 Mc-Coll Drive, Savage.

Music Alison Scott’s Soulful Christmas, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Tickets: $17.50 in ad-vance, $22.50 at the door. Pur-chase tickets online at Lakevil-leAreaArtsCenter.com or by phone at 952-985-4640. Lorie Line: Born in Bethle-hem, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, and 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sat-urday, Dec. 7, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets are $48 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com. “88 keys to Joy,” piano concert featuring Christmas music, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, Peace Church, 2180 Glory

Holiday show features ‘world’s funniest first grader’ ‘Junie B. Jones’ runs Dec. 13-30 in Lakeville

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


It could be the “bestest” time you’ve ever had. Junie B. Jones is re-turning to the stage of the Lakeville Area Arts Cen-ter this month, imperfect grammar and all. Junie B. is the star of nearly 30 children’s books that have sold more than 55 million copies in North America. The New York Times has described the boisterous 6-year-old as a “dispenser of abundant opinions, Runyonesque wisecracks and dubious syntax.” This is the second year Lakeville-based children’s theater group The Play’s The Thing has staged the holiday musical “Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” at the city’s arts center. Last year, the show proved such a hit, and the demand for tickets was so great, that the arts center

ended up revamping part of its website to accom-modate all the requests for tickets, according to TPTT founder/director

Dayna Railton. “It was huge – we were only the second the-ater group in Minnesota to do ‘Junie B.’ and the

public was so enthusias-tic,” Railton said. “The onslaught of tickets sold is the reason the arts cen-ter now has a wonderful

new online ticketing sys-tem.” Featuring student-actors in The Play’s The Thing’s “advanced play-

ers” program – the com-pany’s more experienced actors – “Junie B.” is split into two casts, which will alternate performances. While the show is geared to kids, Junie B. has a way of winning over adults as well, Railton said. “Junie B. is described as ‘the world’s funniest first grader,’ and the show grabs the kids immediately because it’s classroom hu-mor, but it doesn’t matter what age you are because the humor is sort of uni-versal,” she said. “Junie B.” will be pre-sented Dec. 13-30 at the arts center at 20965 Holyoke Ave. in Lakev-ille. Tickets are $13 and can be purchased at www.LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com or by calling 952-985-4640. More about the show is at www.childrens-theatretptt.com.

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Cast members of “Junie B. Jones” include, from left: Blake Swanson, Parker Jelen, Emma Hovde, Ryan Dircks, Audrey Tinkleberg and Kamrie Frost. (Photo submitted)

Drive, Eagan. Free. Simple Gifts with Billy McLaughlin, 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Tickets: $28.50 in advance, $34 at the door. Purchase tickets on-line at LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com or by phone at 952-985-4640. The Dakota Valley Sym-phony Chorus and Orchestra performs Handel’s “Messiah” at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. (sing-along) Sunday, Dec. 8, at Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets: $16 at the box office and Ticketmaster.com. Allegro Choral Academy presents “Season of Peace” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley. Tick-ets available at the door. Infor-mation: allegroca.org, [email protected]. The South Metro Cho-rale presents “A Celebration of Carols” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Prior Lake, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, at Emmaus Lutheran Church in Bloomington. Tickets are $10 ($8 students/seniors) and can be purchased by calling 612-386-4636. Information: www.SouthMetroChorale.org. The Shaun Johnson Big Band Experience, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16, at the Burns-ville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets are $26 in advance and $31 on the day of the show at the box of-fice, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com. And Glory Shone Around: An Early American Christmas Concert by The Rose Ensem-ble, 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley. Tick-ets are $25 in advance and $27 at the door. Information: 651-225-4340 or www.RoseEnsem-ble.org.

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“Sweeney Todd: The De-mon Barber of Fleet Street,” 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7, 12-14, 19-21, and 2 p.m. Dec. 8, 15 and 22, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets: $20 for adults, $17 for seniors and students at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com. “Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” Dec. 13-30 at Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakev-ille. Tickets: $13, www.lakevil-leareaartscenter.com, 952-985-4640. “Ole & Lena’s Family Christmas,” 7 p.m. Dec. 18-19 at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets: $20 at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Tick-etmaster.com.

Workshops/classes/other Winter art classes are open for registration at the Eagan Art House. A class list is at http://www.cityofeagan.com/images/recreation/EaganArtHouse/Fall_2013.pdf. Information: Ea-gan Parks and Recreation at 651-675-5500 or the Eagan Art House at 651-675-5521. Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Bat-tle, 4-5 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Apple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, 952-953-2385. Ages 12-18. Adult painting open studio, 9 a.m. to noon Fridays at the Ea-gan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Fee is $5 per session. Information: 651-675-5521. Drawing & Painting (adults and teens) with Christine Tier-ney, 9 a.m. to noon Wednes-days, River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville. Information: www.christinetierney.com, 612-210-3377. Teens Express Yourself with Paint, 5-7 p.m. Mondays at Brushworks School of Art in Burnsville, www.BrushworksS-choolofArt.com, 651-214-4732. Drama/theater classes for ages 4 and up at River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville, 952-736-3644.

Show Biz Kids Theater Class for children with special needs (ASD/DCD programs), In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, 952-736-3644. Broadway Kids Dance and Theater Program for all ages and abilities, In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville (Colonial Shopping Center), 952-736-3644. Join other 55-plus adults at the Eagan Art House to create beaded jewelry. The Jewelry Club meets on the third Friday

of each month from 1-3 p.m. In-formation: 651-675-5500. Soy candle making classes held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Jamie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Present-ed by Making Scents in Minne-sota. Country line dance classes held for intermediates Mondays 1:30-4 p.m. at Rambling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farming-ton, $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. Country line dance classes

on Wednesdays at the Lakeville Senior Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; In-termediate, 10 a.m. to noon. $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. Infor-mation: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected].

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