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Teams fall short of stateThe Burnsville, Eagan and Eastview high schools’ track teams fell short in their quest to qualify for the state True Team meet.

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Sign concessionsThe Burnsville Fire Muster gained some city concessions for placing signs for the annual festival.

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Lewis earns 2nd District endorsement Radio talk show

host prevails after sixth ballot at

GOP conventionby Tad Johnson

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Radio talk show host Jason Lewis earned the Republican endorsement in the 2nd District on Saturday after six rounds of balloting and an early

exit from consideration by Burnsville businesswoman Darlene Miller, who will run against Lewis in an Aug. 9 primary.

Lewis overcame a strong showing by South St. Paul engineer David Gerson, who had sought the 2nd District endorse-ment against current U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Burns-ville, in the past two elec-tion cycles. Gerson led after the first ballot, but Lewis took the lead in subsequent bal-lots before Gerson con-ceded the endorsement be-fore the seventh round of

results were read. Former state Sen. John Howe and Apple Valley resident Gene Rechtzigel trailed behind the front runners from the outset. “I am humbled by your endorsement and I proud-ly accept,” Lewis said after being confirmed as the delegates’ selection at Ap-ple Valley High School. “The endorsement of this district is so crucial,” he said. “To have the im-

primatur of the activists in the district is so crucial and so important. You have got to have the grass-roots support, you have got to have the people to do the work on your team or you are not going to co-alesce around the cause in the fall.” “That is why I sought the endorsement, and it was the best decision I

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Metcalf Junior High band teacher Mark Mraz is retiring at the end of the school year. Behind him is a ninth-grade garage band he’s helping along after school. (Photo by John Gessner)

The last Mraz in District 191Metcalf band teacher retiring to club gigs

by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK

DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Retirement will not mean the mu-sic’s over for Metcalf Junior High band teacher Mark Mraz. Also in demand as a nightclub singer and piano man, Mraz is already booked for 14 dates in June. His gigs include a standing Wednesday engagement at Ju-niors Sports Cafe on Highway 13 in Burnsville — halfway between Burnsville High School, where he graduated in 1978 and taught for 10 years, and Metcalf, where he’s taught since 1994. “Really for the last 15 years, I’ve

probably played more jobs than days of school,” said Mraz, 56. “It’s always been kind of therapeutic for me. ... Oftentimes by the time I get to a music job, I’m like, ‘Oh, this is great therapy — I have to get away from children and hang out with adults for awhile, maybe have an adult beverage.’ ” His retirement will end more than a half century of the Mraz name on the payroll in Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191. Mark’s late father is Thomas B. Mraz, the revered BHS the-ater director and language arts teacher for whom the high school theater is named. “I think they’re about ready to be

Thief steals charity donations in Eagan

Social media video led suspect

to turn self in, police say

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


Eagan police say a man accused of stealing dona-tion jars from local gas stations turned himself in Tuesday after a video of him in the act was circu-lated on social media. During both thefts, which occurred about 10 minutes apart May 5, the suspect asked a store clerk for a job application and then left with donations from the checkout coun-ter, police said. The man used the ap-plication to hide the box or jar and had an accom-plice as a lookout. He nabbed an estimated $40. Police began publiciz-ing videos of the thefts May 10 and within about 12 hours, a 26-year-old man turned himself in and admitted to the thefts, po-lice said. Christopher Ar-senio Hall was arrested for suspicion of misdemeanor theft and was taken to the Dakota County Jail. There was also a felony warrant issued for Hall’s arrest for an unrelated crime in Ramsey County. The first theft occurred at SuperAmerica at Pi-

lot Knob and Yan-kee Doo-dle roads about 1:17 p.m., when Hall alleg-edly took a dona-tion box

for Minnesota military families. He then allegedly snatched a jar for World Vision at Lucky’s Station at Coachman and Yankee Doodle roads. “This has happened be-fore but it’s not a regular occurrence,” said officer Aaron Machtemes, media spokesperson for the Ea-gan Police Department. “What was unusual about this is that he had an ac-complice and in a relative-ly short period of time he went to two different loca-tions and used the same techniques.” Machtemes advises businesses to keep dona-tion boxes within the view of employees and empty the boxes on a regular ba-sis in an effort to prevent theft. “The less the reward, the less chance someone will risk getting in trouble for stealing it,” Machtemes said.

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

Christopher Arsenio Hall

All-girls robotics team is recognized for outreach

Apple Valley High School’s

Iron Maidens will travel to D.C. in June to lobby for STEM programs



An all-girls robotics team from Apple Valley High School has received international recognition for their efforts to promote science, technology, en-gineering and mathemat-ics (STEM) education in Minnesota. The Iron Maidens won the Connect Award at the First Tech Challenge World Championships, which was held April 27-30 in St. Louis. Top teams from across the globe bat-tle their robots in complex competitions at the annual event. The Connect Award is given to the one team deemed to be the best at community outreach to

promote STEM educa-tion. “I love the opportunity to make an impact on the community,” team mem-

ber Cori Roberts said. “And to be recognized is really exciting.”

Apple Valley High School’s Iron Maidens: Emily De-Board, Cori Roberts, Atalanta Stoeke, Connie Knipe, Barbara Tan and Marie Pena (front) took home the Con-nect Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge World Cham-pionships in St. Louis April 27-30. The award is given to the one team deemed to be the best at community out-reach to promote STEM education. (Photo submitted)

Off-sale growler restrictions to be eased in BurnsvilleLone brewpub eager to sell by John Gessner


Burnsville already has its first brewpub. Now the city is poised to ease restrictions on growler sales at brew-pubs and taprooms. City Council mem-bers agreed at a May 10 work session to liquor ordinance changes for the refillable 64-ounce jugs used to transport draft beer. Formal ap-proval is expected at the council’s May 17 meet-ing. Growler sales at Nut-meg Brewhouse, so far the city’s only brewpub, could begin a month or two later, said M.P. Singh, a partner in the business, which special-izes in India pale ale. Located next to the India Palace restaurant at the southwest corner

of county roads 42 and 5, Nutmeg has had nu-merous growler requests from customers since opening last November. The business asked for growler-friendly or-dinance changes with-in weeks of opening, Burnsville Economic Development Coordi-nator Skip Nienhaus said. Growler sales require an off-sale liquor license in Burnsville. The cur-rent liquor ordinance, last amended in 2015, requires applicants to be in a freestanding building and located at least .75 miles from the nearest off-sale license-holder. The distance requirement is excepted only for a proscribed Burnsville Center retail area. Nutmeg meets none of those conditions. It’s within .75 miles of

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See GROWLERS, 14ASee ROBOTICS, 20A

Partners for SuccessGuest columnist Lisa Lusk shows how a program that helps young people succeed in school is making an impact.

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Tribute to the Fab FourTribute band A Hard Day’s Night is set to perform classics from the Beatles’ catalog at the Steeple Center in Rosemount.

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2A May 13, 2016 SUN THISWEEK - Burnsville - Eagan

By Sam Potter

SUN THISWEEK - Burnsville - Eagan May 13, 2016 3A

Scott D. Johnson of Ea-gan MN has announced his campaign for Dakota County Commissioner District 3. Johnson is a third gen-eration Minnesotan and grew up in northern Min-nesota. He is a two decade home and business owner residing in Eagan. He has been a licensed insurance agent and financial plan-ner since 1988. He holds degrees in management, human resource man-agement and aviation as a professional pilot and flight instructor. He regu-larly instructs other insur-ance agents on regulations, ethics, insurance products,

and the Affordable Care Act. Johnson is an FAA national award-winning flight instructor who teaches risk management, flight planning, and avia-tion safety to other pilots and flight instructors. He is a community service volunteer with the rank of major in the USAF Auxil-iary; Civil Air Patrol, and mentors teens on leader-ship, emergency services, and aviation. In 2012 and 2014 John-son was appointed to the Eagan Airport Relations Commission on communi-ty aviation issues of noise, environment, and business.

As a flight instruc-tor Johnson teaches that when the pilot gets on an airplane he has planned the flight from start to fin-ish. The first rule of avia-tion safety is to never take off into the sky unless you have enough fuel to make your destination and that you know how to land the airplane so it can be reused by the next pilot. Johnson believes that our current board is currently lacking the fuel, knowledge, and judgement to safely pilot the county to the next des-tination based upon what he believes are wasteful spending projects current-ly in the works.

Scott considers running for public office a civic duty and honor. He feels that the current elected leaders have lost sight of their first obligation to protect the taxpayers’ trust and trea-sure, nor not to spend our children’s money without reason. The current board does not listen to citizens when it comes to stopping wasteful spending, emi-

nent domain land grabs, and focusing on needs in-stead of wants, Johnson said. A cardinal rule of fi-nancial planning is to take care of what you already have before you spend more money (especially other people’s money), he said. “We, the Dakota County community, need to determine what needs

to be built first, prioritize needs before those fun things we are told that we need to have built in the name of progress,” he said.” “We need to know how we are going to pay for the needs and wants of today, tomorrow, and in the future.” For more information, or to contribute, visit www.votescottdj.org.

Former Eagan Airport Relations commissioner runs for county commissioner

Fire Muster makes headway on sign requests Council agrees to consider ordinance changes

by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK


After more than 100 un-lawfully placed signs and banners for the Burnsville Fire Muster were removed last year, organizers of the annual community festival have won some conces-sions on future sign place-ment. City Council members agreed at a May 10 work session to consider loosen-ing the sign ordinance for city-sponsored “legacy” events — the Fire Mus-ter in September and the International Festival of Burnsville in July. Council members

agreed to lengthen the time some signs can be posted from the current 17 days. They agreed to allow a specified number of signs to remain for 30 days, with the rest limited to 17 days. They also agreed to al-low 12-foot banners in city rights of way. Last year city crews removed almost all the Fire Muster ban-ners, which violated size limits in the ordinance, said Tom Taylor, event chair. Twenty banners were among the 300 to 350 signs put up by Boy Scout volunteers to advertise the event, he said. City staff will work

with Fire Muster orga-nizers to find acceptable, “preapproved” banner locations under a “blan-ket” right-of-way permit, Public Works Director Steve Albrecht said. Any ordinance changes should include language that safeguards traffic safety and city property, officials said. “I think it’s just a mat-ter of making sure we’re not creating a sight line is-sue for the safety,” he said. The city will also con-sult with Dakota County on using county road right of way for the signs. Ac-cording to city staff, only directional signs for city-

sponsored events are al-lowed on county right of way. The city must obtain an “obstruction” permit, and the signs are limited to a day or two before the event. Albrecht said the per-mit would make the city liable for accidents caused by the signs. But he said staff is willing to explore other options with the county. Taylor said Fire Muster organizers want to use a “Burma Shave strategy” of multiple signs on coun-ty roads 42 and 5. Council members re-jected a Fire Muster re-quest to consider a banner

across Nicollet Avenue in the Heart of the City. The city would have to install permanent, wind-hardy poles and ensure a proper height clearance for vehi-cles. “I think right now, let’s leave it alone,” Mayor Elizabeth Kautz told Tay-lor, adding that the council had already given him “a whole lot.” Signs removed last year, days before the weekend after Labor Day when most Fire Muster events are held, were too large, placed in areas where they weren’t permitted or placed in overconcentra-tions, Taylor said last Oc-

tober. The council agreed to the ordinance review at the request of Council Member Dan Kealey, the council’s liaison to the Fire Muster board. City staff also asked International Festival or-ganizers about their sign needs. Organizers said the current ordinance is fine — but they’d consider us-ing the Nicollet Avenue banner if the poles were erected.

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

District 196 considers offering device protection plan Special School Board election set for Aug. 9



The Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School Dis-trict is considering offer-ing district families an electronic device protec-tion plan that would cover tablets and other devices students take home in the

event of accidental dam-age. “This will protect fami-lies against larger fees in the event a device is acci-dentally damaged,” said District Technology Coor-dinator Ed Heier during a May 9 board meeting. If approved by the School Board, the option-

al plan would cost $20 per device per year. The first incident would be covered completely. A second inci-dent would require a $40 deductible and incidents thereafter would require a “conversation with the parents,” Heier said. Lost devices would be covered by the plan if re-

ported to police. The plan wouldn’t cover intentional damage. The School Board is ex-pected to vote on the pro-posal at its June 13 meet-ing.

In other news A special election will be held on Aug. 9 to fill a

vacant seat on the Rose-mount-Apple Valley-Ea-gan School Board. School Board Member Rob Duchscher resigned in March due to a move outside the district. State law requires the district to conduct an election to fill the vacancy for the remainder any outgoing

board member’s term. Duchscher’s term ends January 2020. Filing for candidacy will be held May 17-31.

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


Burnsville student says support the U To the editor: As a current plant bi-ology major at the Uni-versity of Minnesota and a Burnsville native, I want to urge the Minne-sota Legislature and my hometown community to support the university’s 2016 capital request proj-ects, specifically the Plant Growth Research Facil-ity. As a student, I have the opportunity to learn, research and work in the current U of M Conser-vatory. My connections at the conservatory led to my first research experi-ence and increased my appreciation for plants and their uses on a daily basis. The opportunities I had here reinforced my interests and helped so-

lidify my plans for the upcoming years. The work has broadened my understanding of scien-tific study, and as I move into a career in plant-based pharmacology, it’s an experience that I’ll take with me. With funding from the Legislature, the univer-sity’s new Plant Growth Research Facility would greatly enhance the ex-perience of students. In the new facility, students would be given the op-portunity to dive deep into research, working alongside the university’s leading faculty members to make discoveries that could improve human health or produce new crops to feed the state. And that’s something worth supporting. I urge our legislators to remember the value the university brings to its students, the Min-

nesota economy and fu-ture generations. I hope they’ll support the Plant Growth Research Facility in this upcoming session.

EVA CARLSONBurnsville

Two programs deserve Kline’s support To the editor: Two programs have helped low-income work-ers and struggling fami-lies keep food on the table at home. They are the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Supplemental Nutrition-al Assistance Program (SNAP). EITC helped keep 9 million Americans out of poverty last year, most of them children. SNAP has been a bul-wark against hunger for

families without a lot of resources. Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, is support-ing extending the EITC to cover previously in-eligible childless people. He has set up a group of House committee chairs, a Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity and Up-ward Mobility, to exam-ine and make recommen-dations on programs like EITC and SNAP. Speaker Ryan recom-mends expanding eligibil-ity for the Earned Income Tax Credit. Minnesota’s 2nd District Congress-man John Kline is a mem-ber of this Task Force,

and is retiring in January. He has a chance to make a difference before leav-ing office for struggling citizens in his district and the entire country, as leaders in his party are advocating. Let’s extend full EITC to childless workers. Let’s keep SNAP as a lifeline strategically administered and guaranteed by the federal government for all qualified Americans. And let’s recognize these pro-grams as both humanitar-ian policies and lucrative financial investments.

PAUL HOFFINGEREagan

‘Climate Hustle’ hustleTo the editor: Curiosity led me to attend the May 2 show-ing of “Climate Hustle,” noted in the Area Briefs of these papers on April 8. It was described as, “Debunking the ‘Myths’ of Global Warming.” Slightly over 30 people were in attendance. Based on the few I had an op-portunity to talk with in the lobby prior to the showing, plus their re-sponses both during and at the end, it appeared they were split relatively

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Battle of ideologies in the Minnesota Legislature

360 Communities supports school success step by step

by Don HeinzmanSUN THISWEEK


The Minnesota House of Representa-tives may block the proposed metropol-itan-area extra half-cent sales tax that would enable the proposed Southwest Light Rail Transit project to stay on track. That extra half-cent would yield more than enough to get the federal money needed to plan and carry out the light rail line from Eden Prairie to Minneapolis. This deadlock between legislative Republicans and Democrats is a prime example where unaffected suburban leg-islators either ignore or oppose other sub-urban legislators’ interests. If Republican House members were to back their fellow suburban DFL leg-islators, the extra half-cent tax could be included in what will become this year’s transportation package. The fact is, suburban legislators show little interest in flexing exclusive suburban

power on behalf of their colleagues’ legis-lation. The division of suburban power is along ideological philosophies, not subur-ban interests. House Speaker Kurt Daudt is a Re-publican from the small community of Crown in northern Isanti County. He is opposed to light rail and favors a better bus transit system. Senate Minority Leader David Hann, also a Republican, is from Eden Prairie, the western edge of the proposed light rail, yet he has not rushed to support light rail.

Make no mistake – suburban legisla-tors have the numbers. Of the 67 Senate seats, suburban legislators hold 34: 18 DFL and 16 Republican. In the House, 56 are suburban legisla-tors: 32 Republican and 24 DFL. If there were a suburban caucus, it would have the potential of 90 members. Some say that voting blocs cause grid-lock. True enough, but consider that outstate legislators sometimes pool their votes, Minneapolis and St. Paul legisla-tors vote as an urban bloc and certainly the Iron Range has a bloc of votes. There are some unique suburban needs, particularly in education, with the need for every-day pre-K education and for the Legislature to contribute more aid for special education. Suburban communities, particularly, need better bridges, roads and highways because of traffic congestion. And as we’ve noted, light rail is need-ed to relieve traffic congestion and move

people to and from the suburbs, where the number of jobs is growing. Why are suburban legislators so reluc-tant to amass their votes and power for important legislation? Primarily because no leader is stepping up to organize a sub-urban caucus. Perhaps it’s because subur-ban issues are often as diverse as the geog-raphies that separate the east, west, north and south metro. This plea for a suburban caucus is not meant to pit suburbs against urban cit-ies. There’s general agreement that strong urban cities are vital for a vibrant seven-county area. If there were such a caucus, however, we would not be worrying about finding the funds to continue planning and build-ing the Southwest light rail line. Don Heinzman is a columnist for ECM Publishers. He can be reached through [email protected]. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

by Lisa LuskSPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Tears of joy and relief streaked down Sandy’s face when she processed the news. It was December, and the latest test results showed that her first-grader, Ky-lie, was now reading slightly above grade level, a monumental improvement from where she was at the beginning of the school year. Sandy was proud because she knew where her daughter had come from and the teamwork it took to get to this point. Just a year before, the divorced mother of two young children felt overwhelmed. Sandy’s ex-husband gave her no financial support, so she worked hard on her own to provide everything she could for her daughters. Her full-time retail job was not enough to makes ends meet. When school staff discovered that the family was struggling financially, they referred her to 360 Communities Partners For Success family support worker Beth Utz for help. Beth set Sandy up with a 360 Communities food shelf appoint-ment to help meet some of the family’s basic needs, connected her with donated school supplies and coats, and helped her work with Dakota County to keep her family’s medical insurance active. 360 Communities’ school-based Part-ners For Success helps preK-12 students and families overcome barriers to school success. Family support workers partner with students, parents, and educators to open lines of communication, connect families to stabilizing community re-sources, and implement effective home-based strategies that increase parental

involvement, boost attendance, and im-prove academic performance. The stabilizing support that Beth pro-vided as well as regular check-ins helped establish her as a trusted person in San-dy’s life. So this year, at fall conferences, when Sandy discovered that Kylie was having trouble with reading and writ-ing, she called Beth immediately. The first-grade teacher reported that Kylie was below grade level in reading and had trouble with sentence construction. San-dy felt lost, not knowing how to help her daughter. Beth encouraged Sandy to try a PFS Family Learning Plan. She told her that some strong intervention early can be all it takes to help a child to start feeling successful. They worked together with the first-grade teacher to develop the FLP. It involved Sandy reviewing Kylie’s home-work each night, Kylie reading out loud to her mom every night for 10-15 min-utes, and Kylie writing three sentences each night with editing and guidance from Sandy. Initially, it was tough for them to carve out the time to stick to the FLP consis-tently. In the first week, they followed through with the plan on only three out of five weeknights. However, the teacher could already notice a small improve-

ment in Kylie’s work, and Beth shared that with Sandy during their weekly con-versation. This success inspired Sandy and Kylie to make a deeper commitment to the plan. The following week, Sandy and Kylie reported that they were able to stick to the plan each weeknight. After four weeks, the routine produced dra-matic gains for Kylie. Beth modified the family learning plan to include more reading time, and supplied Kylie with new and interesting books. She suggested that Sandy and Kylie make regular trips to the library to ensure Kylie always had something new to read. By December, it was clear that all of the intensive work was paying off for everyone involved. Kylie appeared to be on a clear path to academic success. This is critical because research by the Annie E. Casey Foundation says reading proficiency by the third grade is a leading indicator of future school success. Ac-cording to the study, students who can-not read proficiently by the third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school than proficient readers. Partners For Success is a program that the University of Minnesota’s Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement says has at least a five-to-one social return on investment thanks to increased food security, increased housing stability, and increased parental involvement. The 2015 study says that preventing as few as four students from dropping out of high school per year, generates social benefits that far exceed the cost of the program. Benefits include personal earnings gains, higher tax rev-enues, public health savings, and crime

reduction. This program is successful because of the trusting relationships that family support workers are able to build with parents, students and teachers. By work-ing together to open lines of communi-cation, and to craft custom solutions to a family’s unique set of circumstances, success can be accessible to everyone. As the 2015-2016 school year comes to a close, Kylie’s transformation has been remarkable. Her teacher reports that she has become one of the top students in her class. Sandy is using a reading list for the summer from her local library to help Kylie build on the success she has achieved this year. By guarding against summer reading loss, Sandy is ensuring a solid start to another successful school year in the fall. You can make sure this innovative program helps create steps for success for more students like Kylie. On May 21, 360 Communities’ Second Annual Steps for Success benefit walk takes place on the Thomson Reuters campus in Eagan. Help support students, families and teachers by raising funds for 360 Communities’ Partners For Success program. WCCO-TV’s Matt Brickman will emcee the event which includes 1- and 2-mile walks, free food, music by The Divers, face painting, games, and prizes. For more details and to register, visit 360Communities.org.

Lisa Lusk is director of School Success at 360 Communities, a nonprofit based in Dakota County that works to prevent violence, ensure school success, and pro-mote long-term self-sufficiency. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

Sun ThisweekColumnistDon Heinzman

GuestColumnist

Lisa Lusk

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evenly between those who attended out of curiosity and those who wished to reinforce their “climate change denial” opinions. At the end of the show about half of the attend-ees began applauding, until they realized how few were doing so and stopped rather abruptly. The showing consisted of seven segments with titles such as “Stacking the Deck,” “Sleight of Hand,” “Switcheroo,” “Shell Game,” “Presto Chango,” “The Jig is Up,” each with basically the same five or six peo-ple making statements implying climate change is not even happening, let alone that humans have a part in causing it. Included in the vari-ous segments were state-ments that “Small groups of people are making cli-mate change claims, con-firming them by ‘group think’ and propaganda”; “Earth is getting greener – CO2 is fertilizing the planet”; “There was less ice in Antarctica in the 1930s than there is to-day”; “It was warmer in Greenland in the 1930s than it is now”; “Ant-arctic ice cap is grow-ing”; “Indices of extreme weather are absent”; “Hurricanes in the U.S. have not increased in in-tensity or frequency since 1900”; “There has been little change in drought in 60 years”; “Global temperatures have held steady”; “There is no evi-dence of warming since 1998.” Ample data is available to prove the fal-lacy of most, if not all, of the above statements. In truth, records for the Earth’s hottest year were set in 1997, 1998, 2005, 2010, 2014 and 2015 per

NOAA. The only “hustle” ex-posed was in the claims such as those above plus the $16.07 admission.

CARL W. “BILL” IRELANDApple Valley

Costs matter; so wake up, MinnesotaTo the editor: Minnesota business property taxes are among the highest in the na-tion. We rank as high as second in the country for some properties in Greater Minnesota and sixth highest in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. In fact, Minnesota busi-nesses comprise 12.4 per-cent of the total property market value, but pay 32 percent of the total prop-erty tax. Costs matter and the Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce believes that the Minnesota Legisla-ture has an opportunity to provide business prop-erty tax relief this year. Did you know that businesses pay an extra property tax? Only busi-nesses and cabins are required to pay a state business property tax in addition to their lo-cal property tax. Busi-nesses pay 95 percent of the $856 million tax that is automatically in-creased every year. The revenue for this tax goes to the state general fund not local governments and accounts for nearly 30 percent of a business property tax bill. Busi-nesses have helped gen-erate a projected budget surplus exceeding $900 million and we are count-ing on our legislators to share some of the surplus

with businesses across the state in the form of busi-ness property tax relief. With only a few days remaining in the 2016 Legislative Session, we urge the governor and

local legislators to pass business property tax re-lief and remove the au-tomatic inflator. There is no reason to wait for another year. States sur-rounding Minnesota do

not impose this burden on their businesses. Let’s be competitive and make Minnesota the best place to start and grow a busi-ness. Wake up, Minneso-ta!

VICKI STUTEDakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce president

LETTERS, from 4A

Pedestrian hit by Eagan police car A pedestrian is recover-ing at an area hospital af-ter being hit by an Eagan police squad car May 5. Anthony Pollard, 26, of South St. Paul, was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul to be treated for serious injuries after he was struck around 12:25 a.m. near the intersection of Yankee Doodle and Coachman roads, accord-ing to a news release by the Eagan Police Department. Officer Brian Rundquist was driving a marked squad car and was not taking any police action when he struck Pollard, who was walking in the right lane of westbound Yankee Doodle Road, the State Patrol said. Rundquist immediately radioed for help and para-medics responded. The State Patrol is in-vestigating the incident.

— Jessica Harper

Blaze destroys garage, severely damages home in Eagan

Availability of multiple duty crews led to quick response time



A fire on Monday evening destroyed a ga-rage and severely dam-aged a home in Eagan. Eagan firefighters re-sponded to a call at 4:30 p.m. May 9 of a garage fire in the 4300 block of Beaver Dam Road in Eagan. Crews arrived at the scene in less than five minutes after the call. Eagan Fire Chief Mike Scott credits the quick response time to the department’s ability to have two duty crews available during peak hours thanks to a fed-eral grant that has pro-vided funding for ad-ditional duty crews and the hiring of full-time firefighters. “Having that staffing model has been huge for us,” Scott said. Burnsville fire crews also provided assistance Monday evening.

When firefighters ar-rived, the blaze had ex-tended beyond the two-car garage and to the attached home. The homeowner had attempted to extinguish the fire with a garden hose to no avail.

Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze within 10 minutes of arrival and remained on scene for about two hours, Scott said. The garage was a total loss and the home sus-tained smoke and water

damage. Total damages are estimated at $150,000. The Eagan fire mar-shal is investigating the cause of the blaze.

Jessica Harper is at [email protected].

A fire on Monday evening destroyed a garage and severely damaged a home on the 4300 block of Beaver Dam Road in Eagan. Crews arrived at the scene in less than five minutes after the call. Eagan Fire Chief Mike Scott credits the quick response time to the department’s ability to have two duty crews available during peak hours thanks to a federal grant that has provided funding for additional duty crews and the hiring of full-time firefighters. (Photo submitted)

Native Plant Market Burnsville will hold its second annual Native Plant Market 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 21, in the parking lot across from City Hall, 100 Civic Cen-ter Parkway. The sale will be open for both residents and nonresidents. Native wildflowers, ferns and grasses will be for sale from multiple ven-dors at this farmer’s mar-ket-style event. The sale will be held rain or shine. Only cash or checks will be accepted – no credit cards. The mar-ket area will be closed to the public before 9 a.m. Exhibitors at the sale will include the Burnsville Natural Resources De-partment, Master Garden-ers of Dakota County and the Dakota County Soil & Water Conservation Dis-trict.

For more informa-tion on native plants and the Native Plant Market, visit www.burnsville.org/nativeplants.

Summer playground programs Burnsville Recreation is offering summer play-ground programs for youths ages 4-12 that run June 13 to Aug. 18. Kids of Summer (KOS), Camp X-Treme, and KOS for Little Tykes are playground programs featuring games, sports, arts and crafts, carnivals, water fun, field trips and special events. The programs are held four days a week at mul-tiple park locations. Morn-ing and afternoon sessions are available. Full-summer registered participants can come as often as they like – or, parents can purchase

daily passes for more flex-ibility. For more information, visit www.burnsville.org/KOS.

MVTA adds language line The Minnesota Val-ley Transit Authority has implemented a language line to assist non-English-speaking transit riders. Riders still call the MVTA at 952-882-7500, but when MVTA answers, callers should indicate what language is needed (such as Spanish, Manda-rin, Russian, etc.). MVTA operators will then call the language line to obtain someone who can speak the necessary language and translate information for the rider and MVTA op-erators. This service is provided through the State of Min-nesota MnIT Services on a

per-call basis. Interpreters are available in some 170 languages. For more information, call 952-882-7500 or visit www.mvta.com.

ProAct Golf Classic set Aug. 15 The ProAct Golf Clas-sic is set Aug. 15 at South-view Country Club in West St. Paul. The event sup-ports people with disabili-ties and is ProAct’s only annual fundraising event. The foursome scramble-start tournament features skill contests, team prizes and group photos. It be-gins with 10:45-11:30 a.m. registration, lunch starting at 11 a.m. and a noon shot-gun start. A live auction, raffle and gourmet dinner follow the game. Cost is $150 per golfer, which includes lunch and dinner, a golf cart, use of

the clubhouse and practice facilities. A portion of the tournament golf cost is tax-deductible. A variety of sponsorship opportuni-ties are available. The price for the dinner alone is $35. To register, go to pro-actinc.org or contact Shee-na Henry at 651-289-3149 or [email protected].

Job Transitions Group to meet Kris Albright will pres-ent “Non-Profits” at the May 17 meeting of the Easter Job Transitions Group. The group meets at 7:30 a.m. at Easter Luther-an Church – By The Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Ea-gan. Small group sessions are offered following the meeting at 9:30 a.m. each week on many different topics. Call 651-452-3680 for information.

News Briefs

Hansen elected vice president of Metro Cities Eagan City Council member Gary Hansen was elected vice president of Metro Cities, the Associa-tion of Metropolitan Mu-nicipalities, at the organiza-tion’s annual meeting in St. Paul on April 21. A Metro Cities Board member since 2014, Han-sen has been active on the Governance Committee and the Transportation and General Government Committee. He also serves as a Metro Cities appoin-tee to the Transportation Advisory Board, which coordinates regional trans-

portation and transit initia-tives with the Metropolitan Council. Metro Cities represents the interests of 91 mem-ber cities, comprising more than 90 percent of the re-gion’s population, before the Metropolitan Council, State Legislature, and Gov-ernor’s Office. Metro Cities provides a forum for bring-ing city officials together to share ideas and and works to foster open lines of com-munication among city of-ficials and officials at the state and regional levels of government.

NAMI parent resource group meets in Apple Valley NAMI Minnesota (Na-tional Alliance on Mental Illness) provides support groups to help parents discover resources to meet the challenges of raising a child with mental illness. Parent resource groups are facilitated by a par-ent who has a child with a mental illness and who has been trained to lead

support groups. A par-ent resource group meets 6:30-8 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley. Pizza is served at 6 p.m. Child care is available. For infor-mation, contact NAMI at 651-645-2948.


BHS Hall of Fame to induct eight new members Kirby Dennis (Class of 1996), Annette Kuz (Class of 1980), Brad MacDon-ald (Class of 1989), Karen Schaefer Ruth (Class of 1979), Deanna Thomp-son (Class of 1985), Don Timm (Class of 1967), the 1985 Boys Hockey Team and the 1985 Boys Swim Team have been selected as the 2016 inductees into the Burnsville High School Hall of Fame. They will join 74 cur-rent members at an induc-

tion ceremony beginning at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, at the BHS’s Mraz Center. A reception in their honor will be held beginning at 4:30 p.m. and they will be introduced during half-time of the football game that evening. Honorees serve as ex-amples of the quality edu-cation BHS provides and as role models for current students and staff. They have made significant con-tributions to their com-munity on a school, local, state, national or interna-tional level.

National Merit $2,500 scholarship winners The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced this year’s Na-tional Merit $2,500 Schol-arship winners. Area winners include: Sophia Moschkau, Apple Valley, Apple Valley High School; Edward Hoey, Eagan, Trinity School at River Ridge; Britta Koenen, Eagan, Eagan High School; and Jacob Grunklee, Rosemount, Rosemount High School. The 2,500 Merit Schol-ar designees were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 finalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program.

District 196 teams excel at state Destination ImagiNation Twelve Destination ImagiNation teams rep-resenting nine District 196 schools had top-three finishes at the state tour-nament April 9 and quali-fied to compete at the DI Global Finals in Knox-ville, Tennessee, May 25-28. Destination Imagi-Nation is a worldwide, performance-based com-petition that develops students’ creative skills through problem-solving,

improvisation, teamwork and independent thinking. Teams of students ranging from elementary to high school compete by age level in one of seven differ-ent challenges or problem categories. A total of 24 teams from District 196 schools qualified for the state tour-nament at regional com-petitions held this spring. The following 12 teams had top-three finishes at state to earn a spot at the Global Finals: • The Little Chicks team from Woodland El-ementary School finished first in the In Plain Sight scientific challenge. Team members are Kaira Cul-len, Greta Jensen, Arianna Johnston, Julie Koudelka and Phoebe Noel; parent coach is Julie Jensen. • Super Seven from Shannon Park Elementary School finished first in the Get a Clue fine arts chal-lenge and was selected to receive the Renaissance Award for outstanding design, engineering or performance. Team mem-bers are Zoe Smith, Katja Smith, Robert Magan, Jack Shoemaker, Abrial Westbrock, Sam Ockwig and Hanna Meyer; parent coach is John Smith. • Manatee Express from Dakota Hills Middle School finished first in the Get a Clue fine arts challenge. Team members are Kylie Kennedy, Molly Mimm, Kristine Nguyen and Jordan Brisky; parent coach is Amy Mimm. • Weight for Inspiration from Dakota Hills Middle finished first in the Mu-sical Mashup structural challenge. Team members are Jack Burright, David Tschida and Lucas Wil-liams; parent coach is Darla Agard. • The Five Firing Fire-crackers team from North-view Elementary School finished first in The Meme Event service learning/outreach project chal-lenge. Team members are Connelly Jarrell, Kate Fi-field, Addison Smith and Sophie McShane; parent

coaches are Becky John-son, Carmen McShane, Michelle Smith and Trina Fifield. • The Psychedelic Crea-tures team from Scott Highlands Middle School finished first in The Meme Event challenge and was selected to receive the Torchbearer Award for their fundraising efforts to help a family struck by cancer twice. Team mem-bers are Halle Decker, Abby Duensing, Maura Hewitt, Henry Lambert, Pranav Mathur and Brady Thomas; parent coach is Judi Thomas. • Driven By Change from Woodland Elemen-tary finished second in the Pace of Change technical challenge and was select-ed to receive the DaVinci Award for outstanding creativity in the elemen-tary division. Team mem-bers are Samson Axelrod, Jacob Braginsky, Karen Miller, Maggie Williams and Aidan Zilge; parent coach is Darla Agard; stu-dent co-coaches are Drew Agard, David Tschida and Cole Anderson. • Dragon Bolts from Rosemount Middle School finished second in the In Plain Sight chal-lenge. Team members are Ryan Armstrong, Yagor Balotsin, Caelin Smith and A.J. Meyer; parent coach is Leah Armstrong. • Lost at Sea from Ea-gan High School finished second in the In Plain Sight challenge and was selected to receive the Di-Vinci Award for outstand-ing creativity in the high school division. Team members are Drew Agard, Cole Anderson, Quinn Foerster and Maxwell Schwartz; parent coach is Darla Agard. • The Scary Bubbles team from Woodland El-ementary finished third in the Pace of Change challenge. Team mem-bers are Lily Axelrod, Harper Madson, Grace Nelson, Hailey Siwek, Cassie Turner and Angie Wohletz; parent coaches are Brianna Axelrod and

Eydie Nelson. • The 3…2…1! team from Falcon Ridge Mid-dle School finished third in the Close Encounters improvisational challenge. Team members are Mor-gan Gallagher, Sarah He-lou, Kennedy Brom, Ara Wenzel and Sophie An-derson; parent coaches are Kristin Helou and Camille Gallagher. • Magical Diamonds from Diamond Path El-ementary School of In-ternational Studies fin-ished third in The Meme Event. Team members are Benjamin Conner, David Conner, Damon Green, Rylie Lunke, Isabella Pet-tit, Kate Sidla and Ayla Weers; parent coaches are Corrin Sidla and Judi Thomas.

Erickson receives DCTC Advocacy Award Lakeville resident Bob Erickson is the recipient of the Dakota County Technical College Foun-dation’s 2016 DCTC Ad-vocacy Award. The award recognizes an individual or business that has displayed extraor-dinary support for the college mission through partnerships, community engagement and the pro-motion of technical edu-cation as a pivotal com-ponent in the quest for economic prosperity. Erickson’s professional successes and extensive volunteer contributions have spanned over 25 years. He’s known for his commitment to legislative efforts, fiscal accountabil-ity and fundraising for DCTC. During the past de-cade, Erickson has been an advocate on the DCTC Foundation Board, serv-ing as board chair for two years. He has leveraged his personal and professional connections to benefit DCTC students, raising money for scholarships,

hardship grants, and equipment. Erickson has been ac-tive in other foundation initiatives including the es-tablishment of the Foun-dation Finance Commit-tee, lobbying for Phase 1 and 2 state bonding proj-ects, which resulted in the renovation of 118,000 square feet, and his favor-ite event, Scholarship in the Haystack. Erickson has provided insight as the college has gone through strategic planning, HLC reaccredi-tation and the Charting the Future. He continues to serve the south metro in a va-riety of roles including: chair of the Friends of the Lakeville Area Art Center; treasurer, Lakeville Area Schools Board of Educa-tion; Citizens Bank Board; vice chair, Intermediate School District 917 Board; and president, Bellante HOA. Erickson received the award during DCTC’s Foundation Gala April 28.

Friends of Education Award recipients named Each year Lakeville Area Public Schools pres-ent Friends of Education Awards to honor out-standing individual contri-butions to Lakeville Area Public Schools. This year’s recipients are: • Volunteer Service – Sarah Matasosky • Business/Commu-nity Partnerships – Chris Casey • Distinguished Service – Maureen Carrigan • Education – Harry Robbins, Julie Ryan and Kim Budinski, and Kari Dykhoff The awards will be pre-sented at the 2016 Staff Recognition Reception on May 25 at the Holiday Inn Lakeville.

Lakeville South senior headed to speech nationals Alli Kennon’s world changed when she joined speech team

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK

DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE.

Alli Kennon never knew she had it in her. The Lakeville South High School senior found speech to be more of a landing spot than the step-ping stone she expected when she joined during her ninth-grade year. “I just tried it because I thought it would look good on my college appli-cations,” Kennon said. “I didn’t think I would fall in love with it like I did.” Encouraged by then team captains Megan Sperl, Brittney Ebling and Audrey Lane, Kennon said they put all their ef-forts into mentoring her during her first year. “They really like

showed me the type of family and team that

speech is,” she said. Kennon found her

natural talent in speech drama, performing a por-tion of literature, a play, monologue or musical in character. “The biggest thing about dramatic interpreta-tion is having a solid char-acter and having really good characterization,” Kennon said. “You really want to have a strong story line, message and charac-ter that feels real and like you’re telling a real per-son’s story.” Kennon performed “Unlucky Star” by Char-lotte Higgins, playing a Southern woman who loves babies, but is abused by her boyfriend and loses the baby. “I just tied it back to how loss really changes us and how we need to have

certain experiences in our life to be who we are,” Kennon said. She won the state cham-pionship in the drama cat-egory, earning first place in every round against the top 24 students from around the state. Her performance also propelled her to compete in on the national level in June, also earning her the distinction of becoming the first female from Lake-ville South to advance to nationals in interpretive speech, according to the school’s speech coach De-serea Niemann. “I get to take the first steps on the moon with this category,” Kennon said. Niemann described Kennon, who was a speech

captain in her junior and senior year at Lakeville South, as an “amazing young lady,” who she has helped practice and pre-pare for nationals every day. Kennon has also earned a college scholarship to continue speech at Hast-ings College in Nebraska, where she plans to major in communications, with a focus on rhetorical theory and media studies. She hopes to become a professor in those disci-plines and also be a head speech coach at a college. “I don’t really see speech going out of my life any time ever,” she said.

Laura Adelmann can be reached at [email protected].

Lakeville South High School senior Alli Kennon is the first female speech student at LSHS to compete at the national level. (Photo submitted)

Education


From the Archives

With NASA’s Gemini manned spaceflight program in full swing, space travel was on the minds of many Americans in the summer of 1966. Among them were these youngsters, who rode on their neighborhood’s rocket-themed float in Eagan’s Fourth of July parade. The group was dubbed “The Emerald Astronauts,” on account of their families hailing from Emerald Lane in Eagan. The photo was published in the July 7, 1966, edition of the Dakota County Tribune.

Fairview nurse elected to national committee Cheryl Langford, RN, clinical informatics special-ist and endoscopy nurse manager at Fairview Ridg-es Hospital in Burnsville, was elected to the Nomi-nating and Leadership De-velopment Committee of the Association of periOp-erative Registered Nurses (AORN). AORN represents the interests of more than 160,000 perioperative nurses nationwide by pro-viding nursing education, standards and practice resources to enable opti-mal outcomes for patients undergoing operative and other invasive procedures. As a member of the Twin Cities AORN chapter for the past 17 years, Langford has held multiple offices and mentored members for official positions – skills she’ll use in her new role with the national organiza-tion.

Local girl organizes charity drives CAP Agency Ambassa-dor Sanya Pirani of Prior Lake organized an April 30 Feed My Starving Chil-dren packing event result-ing in 41,904 packed meals, enough to feed 115 children for one year. Sanya also presented a $1,100 check from donors to FMSC at the event. Sanya, a fourth-grader at Jeffers Pond Elementary School, has been working as a CAP Agency Am-bassador since December 2015. She has raised over $1,600 through her Com-passion Jar project and Bookmark for Help proj-ect. She has plans for a com-munity service award pro-gram where youths could earn gold, silver or bronze medals by rendering ser-vice to the local commu-nity. This summer Sanya is organizing a food drive and school supply drive in collaboration with libraries

in all three counties. Learn more about Sanya’s charity projects at http://sanyapirani.wix.com/mycharity.

Find solutions to plastic problems Lakeville Friends of the Environment, Clean Water Action, and Con-servation Minnesota host “Convenient Solutions to Plastic Problems” 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 17, at the Redwood Community Center, 311 County Road 42, Apple Valley. The event aims to help attendees find convenient solutions to living with less waste. Speakers include students from the School of Environmental Studies, a Dakota County Master Recycler, electronics recy-cling experts, and a Dakota County food waste expert. RSVP at www.cleanwater.org/plasticproblems. Call Debbie at 952-250-3320 with questions.

News Briefs


Board approves CR 50 design in Lakeville McDonald

Eyecare to be acquired



After almost two years of negotiations and alter-natives, a definitive design for widening a segment of County Road 50 in the heart of Lakeville is set for approval. In committee, Dakota County commissioners on May 10 unanimously rec-ommended a road design, estimated to cost $2.1 mil-lion, that addresses the future of multiple long-standing Lakeville busi-nesses located on County Road 50 between Ipava Avenue and Dodd Boule-vard. To clarify the best road design option, a study was conducted primar-ily focusing on McDonald Eye Care, White Funeral Home and Lakeville Den-tal, whose frontages close-ly abut County Road 50. Lakeville officials work-ing with the county have already negotiated and ac-quired several neighboring homes, the Kindernook Preschool and Farm Show Magazine and the Emond building; they will be re-moved to allow for the ex-pansion. Under the recommend-ed design, McDonald Eye Care, which is a business and a home, is proposed by city and county officials to be acquired and relocated to adjacent space created by the acquisitions of the neighboring properties. White Funeral Home

and Lakeville Dental are proposed to remain in the same location, with chang-es to their access and park-ing lots. A new city street, a backage road, will be built behind the businesses, lo-cated between the busi-nesses and a neighbor-hood on Ideal Way. The new backage road will provide connections to Icenic Trail and County Road 50 and provide ac-cess to the remaining busi-nesses. Their front drives to County Road 50 are planned to be closed un-der the new design. Under the design, the paved trail is also located alongside the new road instead of along County Road 50, where space is tight between the busi-nesses and the road. Dakota County Engi-neer Brian Sorenson said the plan moves Lakeville Dental’s parking lot to the

building’s rear, possible af-ter the Emond building is removed. He said the county worked closely with busi-ness owners to create the design, which the owners preferred to another op-tion that would have put a paved trail along County Road 50, but under both scenarios considered, White Funeral Home owners felt their building orientation would be com-promised, according to Sorenson. “If we reorient them, under both scenarios, I think they felt like their situation isn’t really situ-ated properly anymore to receive people as they park and enter the building,” Sorenson said. He said the project es-timate includes compensa-tion for damages related to White Funeral Home, land acquisition, access re-moval and rear approach,

costs to cure parking, new business location identity and new signs for the busi-nesses. Sorenson said the road design challenges by the businesses’ close proximity to County Road 50 were compounded by the rail-road across from the busi-nesses on County Road 50. “To expand this road-way, we wouldn’t be able to move toward the rail-road,” Sorenson said. “The expansion would have to happen toward the north and the east, which creates an issue potentially with the businesses.” In addition, Progressive Rail had for years since the 2008-2009 Recession regularly parked train cars on tracks next to the road, which goes through the heart of downtown Lake-ville, but recently removed them all. Sorenson said the rec-

ommended design for County Road 50 provides more efficiency and safety to the transportation sys-tem than the other option, while also providing a bet-ter buffer to the residential properties to the north. He said it also provides more direct access to and from the area in all direc-tions, allows traffic on County Road 50 to find businesses easily and pro-vides more efficient main-tenance of the access road. Appraisals are planned to be conducted from May to July with first offers ex-pected to be made to prop-erty owners this fall. Phase one construction of the project is proposed to start next summer or fall, which Sorenson said will start with the back-age road and the business’ parking areas to allow businesses access before the major work in 2018. Multiple Lakeville offi-

cials attended the meeting and expressed support for the recommended design option. Lakeville Public Works Director Chris Petree said the city, council members and business owners fa-vor it over the other one and added they started to consider the road work af-ter hearing from residents concerned about traffic flow on the road as plans for the county roads 50 and 60 roundabout project were being presented to the community. “It’s a very critical area for us,” Petree said. “We have some multigen-erational businesses we’ve been talking about. The county has partnered with us, and we really appreci-ate the work county staff has done.”

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

In committee, Dakota County commissioners unanimously recommended this version of the County Road 50 realignment that closes all business accesses to the road, reorientates their parking and creates a new backage road. (Photo submitted)

Neighbors sue Lakeville food truck owner for damages by Laura Adelmann


State Farm Insurance, representing three neigh-

bors whose property was damaged after a food truck exploded in Lake-ville last year, filed a civil lawsuit seeking more than

$50,000 against business owner Martin Richie. Bradley Mann, Ken-neth Ackerman and Karl Weissenborn are named as plaintiffs with State Farm Fire and Casualty Compa-ny against Richie and his business, Motley Menus LLC, doing business as Motley Crews Heavy Met-al Grill. Also named as a defen-dant in the civil lawsuit are unknown individuals re-ferred to as “John Doe” in court documents. Plaintiffs allege Richie is negligent for the explo-sion, which the State Fire Marshal’s Office conclud-ed in a recent report was caused by leaking pro-pane. The report found three cooking griddle control knobs were left in the “off” position, but their

three propane gas controls were all found in the “on” position following the inci-dent. A propane gas mani-fold valve supplying the griddle was also found in the “on” position. It also concluded doors to the truck were left un-locked and Richie and his girlfriend, Lisa Caufield, were away from home with friends at the time of the blast. The lawsuit alleges Richie is negligent either because he failed to turn off propane gas or allowed or did not prevent un-known individuals to gain access to the food truck, which was parked in his driveway before it explod-ed around 11 p.m. March 6, 2015. It also cites Lakeville city code, which prohibits

parking commercial vehi-cles or equipment in resi-dential areas. There were no injuries in the blast, which neigh-bors reported felt like a bomb went off. It scattered debris, shattered windows and damaged several homes, including Richie’s. In an answer to the al-legations, Richie admitted the food truck was “some-times temporarily” parked at his residence, but denied any negligence or allow-ing any individual to gain access to the food truck while it was temporarily parked in the driveway. The response also states that evidence gathered in-dicates an unknown per-son or people gained ac-cess to the truck, which was unlocked according to the State Fire Marshal report.

Richie’s answer said that the person or people “manipulated valves and control knobs which even-tually led to an explosion.” It said the last time Richie was in the truck all the valves and control knobs were in off posi-tions so no propane was flowing through the sys-tem or into the truck. The lawsuit seeks pay-ment of interest, costs and other relief as courts deem just for damages that took months to repair and forced some neighbors to seek temporary housing as work was completed. Court documents pro-pose a jury trial date of Dec. 1 and estimates it will last four days.


Monday morning crash injures one A 19-year-old Lonsdale man driving a 2007 Ford Focus rear-ended a semi-truck at about 9:25 a.m. Monday on Interstate 35 near the County Road 50

exit in Lakeville. Mathew Hammitt was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center after suffering a serious in-jury in the crash, accord-

ing to the Minnesota State Patrol. He was wearing a seat-belt, had no alcohol in his system and the airbag de-ployed.

The semi driver, Kelsey Chester, 58 of Faribault, was not injured in the crash.

– Laura Adelmann

ReligionVBS at Camp Sacajawea The Church of Christ will have a free Vacation Bible School July 27-29 at Camp Sacajawea in Lebanon Hills Regional Park, 5120 McAn-drews Drive. The school for ages 4 years old through sixth grade will have the theme of “The Promise Voyage of

the Alpha and the Omega.” Registration will be at 6:45 p.m. with activities from 7-8:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday. The sessions will include Bible study, puppets, skits, refreshments and more. An adult class is available. Preregister by phone at 651-452-1102 by leaving a voice mail with the participant’s name and contact phone number.

Calvary moves to high school Calvary Church, a regional evan-gelical church in the New Prague area, is moving to the New Prague High School auditorium starting Sunday. The Sunday schedule is: Bible & Life 9:15 a.m.; fellowship, 10:15 a.m.; worship, 10:30 a.m.

Eagan woman named Civil Servant of the Year Eagan resident Terry Williams has been named one of three 2016 Civil Servants of the Year by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul Dis-trict.

The St. Paul District presents this award an-nually to the top three or four employees of its nearly 600-person staff. Williams, who’s worked for the Corps of Engineers

for 30 years, is a project manager at the district’s headquarters in St. Paul. She received the award in recognition of her out-standing leadership abili-ties, technical competence

and professional commit-ment. The awards were pre-sented at the May 5 Min-nesota Federal Civil Ser-vant of the Year Awards in Bloomington.


Lakeville’s Pan-O-Prog festival is turning 50 Community

celebration to be bigger, better



Lakeville’s annual com-munity celebration is turn-ing 50 and all are invited to the party. Planning started months earlier than nor-mal, said Pan-O-Prog Committee President Jaci Taylor and are still underway as organizers work hard to enhance the already feature-packed schedule of events July 4-10. Among the biggest change is the return of carnival rides to be located in downtown Lakeville from Thursday, July 7, to Sunday, July 10. Taylor said the carnival selected runs an award-winning, quality operation that will feature about a dozen mechanical rides, including a Ferris wheel along with carnival games with prizes. “We’re actually expand-ing the site location,” she said of the area that will have more food booths

than in the past. Taylor said a passport for unlimited rides for all four days will be avail-able for about $50 starting about a month before Pan-O-Prog starts. Details about where to get the passports are still being worked out. “Once the carnival opens up, that passport will not be available to

purchase,” she said, add-ing that individual tickets will be sold during the event, and unlimited rides are planned to be offered on Thursday night and Sunday afternoon. The Lakeville Area Arts Center will offer more craft projects for visitors to create, and the committee is also develop-ing a display featuring the

history of Pan-O-Prog, a project headed up by Sun Thisweek and the Dakota County Tribune’s Mike Jetchick, a longtime com-mittee member and Pan-O-Prog volunteer. A commemorative pin, button and booklet will be available for purchase to-gether at a special price. Taylor said they plan to have a community draw-

ing for bigger-ticket items. The event will be bus-tling with Pan-O-Prog alum, including its past presidents and Miss Lake-ville winners. The traditional softball tournament is being re-placed with a Wiffle ball tournament, but many of the other popular events Pan-O-Prog is known for will remain unchanged. Its annual Fourth of July fireworks show is on the schedule. Beer, Brats and Bingo is set for July 7. Cruise Night and the car show are July 8. The kid-die and grand parades will return July 9. Taylor said the baby crawl event will be held again this year, and pre-dicted organizers will bet-ter display rules so there is less confusion. Last year, a baby was disqualified from the race for crawling in a different way than the traditional hands-and-knees method. The ruling was upset-ting to family members and drew significant me-dia attention. Taylor, co-owner of Primrose School in Lake-ville, said Pan-O-Prog

would not happen without businesses in the commu-nity coming together. “It would not happen without the local busi-nesses supporting it,” Tay-lor said. “They rely on sponsorships from the lo-cal businesses to actually keep this event going on. It’s really about the busi-nesses giving back to the community and the com-munity appreciating the businesses that are part of their local community.” She said generations of Lakeville-area residents have built fond memories at Pan-O-Prog, some even schedule their holidays around it to take advan-tage of all the fun activi-ties it offers. “It’s about the tradition of coming back to Pan-O-Prog year after year,” she said. “There’s so much to do during that week for the young and the old. I think it’s really a great event for the entire family.” More about Pan-O-Prog is at panoprog.org and SunThisweek.com/tag/Pan-O-Prog-2016.


Lakeville’s annual community celebration, Pan-O-Prog, turns 50 this year. Plans are underway for an enhanced event that honors the event’s storied past. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)

Registration is open for Dew Days eventsCommittee

always looking for volunteers

by Andy RogersSUN THISWEEK


There aren’t any major changes to Farmington Dew Days this summer, but based on the number of happy participants in recent years, that’s a good thing. Organizer Darla Don-nelly agrees that the event has really hit its stride. “It has everything, all the traditional things that bring people down,” Don-

nelly said. The favorites are back and the recently added events are growing. Last year more kid-ori-ented events like a bouncy house and bungy tram-poline filled the streets of downtown. Donnelly said she expects an expanded experience for youths. “We have a lot of ven-dors coming in to do stuff for the kids,” Donnelly said. “We’ll have more face painting and people doing things with hair.” Some of the newer events are growing such as the chili cook-off, bean bag tournament and vol-

leyball tournament. “Those are really start-ing to catch on,” Donnelly said. Whether one is into running, softball, volley-ball, tossing bean bags, cruising cars or racing beds, registration is open for all of the Farmington Dew Days events at www.farmingtondewdays.com. Other main attractions include Farmington Roy-alty Ambassador Corona-tion on June 14; Flavors of Farmington on June 15; Beer, Brats and Bingo June 16; car cruise June 17; bed races June 17; Dew Run June 18; and a parade

June 18. Donnelly said there are also openings for the Fla-vors of Farmington, an event featuring a selection of food and drinks from local businesses June 15. Donnelly also said they’re always looking for volunteers. Bingo has become pop-ular, which means they need more help, and the beer garden is also always looking for volunteers. “We can always find something for people to do,” Donnelly said. “There’s so much to set up.” They also welcome any

local clubs to come togeth-er for some group volun-teering. Donnelly said the lacrosse team does all the clean up at night. Contact Donnelly at [email protected] for more information. They are also still look-ing for arts and crafts vendors for the air fair and business expo from noon- 8 p.m. June 17 and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. June 18 in downtown Farmington. Contact Dallas Hodg-kins at [email protected] for more infor-mation. And don’t forget the Dew Days button.

The button contest was won by Haley Zinnel, a 14-year-old student from Dodge Middle School. Those who purchase the button will have several discounts available to them at area businesses and restaurants through June 18. Pins are for sale at al-most all local businesses as well as any member for the Farmington Royal Ambassadors program. More about Dew Days is also at SunThisweek.com/tag/Dew-Days-2016.

Email Andy Rogers at [email protected].


SeniorsApple Valley seniors The Apple Valley Senior Cen-ter, 14601 Hayes Road, is home to the following activities, which are organized and run by the Apple Valley Seniors and Apple Valley Parks and Recreation. The facility is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For informa-tion, call 952-953-2345 or go to www.cityofapplevalley.org. Monday, May 16 – Int. Line Dancing, 9:30 a.m.; Tap Danc-ing, 9:30 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Defensive Driving, noon; Pool, noon; Women’s Table Ten-nis, 12:30 p.m.; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Happy Stitchers, 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 17 – Quilting Bees, 9 a.m.; Zumba Gold, 9:15 a.m.; Tuesday Painters, 9:30 a.m.; Bike Group, 10 a.m.; Blood Pres-sure Checks, 11:15 a.m.; Catered Lunch, 11:30 a.m.; Cribbage, noon; Pool, noon; Pinochle, 12:30 p.m.; Hand & Foot Cards, 1 p.m.; Table Tennis, 1 p.m.; Spanish – In-termediate, 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 18 – Donat-ed Bread, 9 a.m.; F.F. on Spokes, 9:30 a.m.; Yoga, 9:45 a.m.; Velvet Tones, 10 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Men’s Bowling at Apple Place Bowl, noon; Pool, noon; Dominoes, 1 p.m.; Mahjong, 1 p.m. Thursday, May 19 – Beg. Line Dancing, 9:15 a.m.; Int. Line Dancing, 10 a.m.; FMSC, 11:30 a.m.; Pool, noon; Insurance Coun-seling, noon; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Table Tennis, 1 p.m.; Hardanger, 1 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m.; Color & Chat, 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 20 – Men’s Break-fast, 8:30 a.m.; Defensive Driving, 9 a.m.; Women’s Breakfast, 9 a.m.; F.F. on Spokes, 9:30 a.m.; Nicol-let Island Presentation, 10 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Wom-en’s Pool, 11 a.m.; Men’s Bowling at Apple Place Bowl, noon; Mem-bers Bingo, 12:30 p.m.

Senior Fitness Day in Burnsville Burnsville senior citizens can participate in Senior Health & Fitness Day 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, at Nicollet Commons Park, 12550 Nicollet Ave. Activities for people of all fit-ness levels are planned to stimulate the body and the brain. New this year, participants can select between both physical and educational activities that match their interests. Choices will include topics/activities such as pickleball, balance, de-cluttering, nutrition, yoga, sleep, resistance training and dance lessons. Massages and health screenings will also be avail-able. Vendors from senior service organizations will be on hand to answer questions and offer infor-mation; door prizes will also be awarded. Cost is $5 and includes break-fast and lunch. Registration is lim-ited to the first 150 people. Register at www.burnsville.org/recreation, click “Online Registration” on the left, or by calling 952-895-4500.

Burnsville seniors The Burnsville Senior Center is located in the Diamondhead Edu-cation Center at 200 W. Burnsville Parkway. Call 952-707-4120 for information about the following senior events. Monday, May 16 – Sunrise

Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Cribbage, 10 a.m.; Pinochle, 12:45 p.m.; SS Flex. Tuesday, May 17 – Scrabble, 10:30 a.m.; SS Yoga, 10:30 a.m.; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Line Dancing. Wednesday, May 18 – Wood-carvers, 8 a.m.; Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Cribbage, 10 a.m.; Chair Tai Chi, 11 a.m.; 500, 12:45 p.m.; Belle Luncheon Porter Creek, 1 p.m.; SS Flex. Thursday, May 19 – Foot Clinic, 9 a.m.; Health Insurance Council, 9 a.m.; Belle Scrappers, 9:30 a.m.; Crafters, 10 a.m.; SS Yoga, 10:30 a.m.; Defensive Driving Refresher, noon; Wood Carving, 6 p.m. Friday, May 20 – Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Painting, 9 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 12:15 p.m.; SS Flex.

Eagan seniors The following senior activities are offered by the Eagan Parks and Recreation Department in the Lone Oak Room at the Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway. Call 651-675-5500 for more information. Monday, May 16 – Defen-sive Driving, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Zumba (Oasis), 9 a.m.; F&Fab, 10 a.m.; FFL (Oasis), 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 17 – Quilting, 9:30 a.m.; Euchre/500, 12:45 p.m.; Defensive Driving, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18 – Coffee, Conversations & Games, 9 a.m.; Brain Fitness, 9:30 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 12:45 p.m. Thursday, May 19 – Dominoes, 9 a.m.; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Book Club No. 4 (Library), 7 p.m. Friday, May 20 – Drop In Time, 9:30-11:30 a.m.; Zumba (Oasis), 10:15 a.m.; S/B/Yoga (Oasis), 11:10 a.m.; Bingo, 1 p.m. For full information on senior events and details, read the Front Porch newsletter on the city of Eagan website. Become a senior center member for a $10 annual fee and receive the Front Porch quarterly by mail. For questions or to register for events and pay by credit card, call Eagan Parks and Recreation Department.

Farmington seniors The Rambling River Center is located at 325 Oak St. For more information on trips, programs and other activities, call 651-280-6970. Monday, May 16 – Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Dulcimer Club, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10 a.m.; Meet the Author, 10:30 a.m.; Re-cycled Cards, 12:30 p.m.; 500 Cards, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 17 – Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Fitness Center Orienta-tion, 9:30 a.m.; Chair Exercise, 10 a.m.; Lady Slipper Garden Club, 11 a.m.; Wood Carving, 1 p.m.; Table Tennis, 2 p.m.; Yoga, 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 18 – Turtle Lake Casino, 8 a.m.; Wii Games, 9 a.m.; Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10 a.m.; AMP Class, noon; Bridge, 1 p.m. Thursday, May 19 – Zumba Gold, 9:15 a.m.; Coffee Guys/Gals, 9:30 a.m.; Pinochle, 12:30 p.m.; Table Tennis, 2 p.m. Friday, May 20 – Wii Games, 9 a.m.; Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 9:30 a.m.; King’s Room, 10:30 a.m. Happy Harry’s Furniture Fundraiser – Stop by Happy Harry’s Furniture in Farmington and mention the Rambling River

Center when ordering/purchasing new furniture. Happy Harry’s Fur-niture will give 10 percent of the purchase to the Rambling River Center.

Rosemount seniors The following activities are sponsored by the Rosemount Parks and Recreation Department and the Rosemount Area Seniors. For more information, call the Rosemount Parks and Recreation Department at 651-322-6000. Monday, May 16 – Bridge, 9 a.m.; 500, 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 17 – Coffee, 8 a.m., Rosemount Cub; Bid Eu-chre, 9 a.m.; Bowling, 9:30 a.m., Eagan; Crafts, 1 p.m., Room 202. Wednesday, May 18 – Casino Trip, 8:15 a.m.; Walking Club, 9 a.m.; Velvet Tones, 10 a.m., Ap-ple Valley Senior Center; Hand & Foot, 1 p.m.; Yoga, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 19 – Cribbage, 9 a.m.; Yoga, 1 p.m. Friday, May 20 – Euchre, 9 a.m.; Bowling, 1 p.m., Apple Val-ley; 500 Tournament, 7 p.m. The Rosemount Area Seniors are located in the Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail. Cards and games take place in Room 100. Check room schedules at the facil-ity for locations of other programs and activities.

Lakeville seniors All Lakeville Area Active Adults events are held at Lakeville Heritage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Call 952-985-4622 for infor-mation. Monday, May 16 – Yoga, 8:15 a.m.; Computer Tutoring, 9 a.m.; Interval Walking, 9:30 a.m.; Knit-ting Class, 9:30 a.m.; Wii Bowl-ing, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Cribbage, 12:30 p.m.; Cards and Mahjong, 1 p.m. Dead-line: St. Paul Saints Game. Tuesday, May 17 – Dominoes & Poker, 9 a.m.; Creative Writing, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Zumba Gold, 10:30 a.m.; Party Bridge, noon; Ping Pong, 12:30 p.m.; Billiards, 1 p.m.; Bingo, 1 p.m.; Pilates Mat Class, 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 18 – Men’s Golf at Gopher Hills, 8 a.m.; Health Angels Biking, 9 a.m.; Pok-er & Hearts, 9 a.m.; Line Dancing, 9 and 10 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fit-ness 1, 11 a.m.; Pinochle, noon. Thursday, May 19 – Inter-val Walking, 9:30 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Classic Voices Chorus at Kingsley Shores, 10:30 a.m.; Red Hat Chorus at Villages–Lonsdale, 10:30 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Health-ways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Euchre, Hand & Foot, noon; Quilting Group, 1 p.m.; Classic Voices at Augustana Regent, 1:30 p.m.; Red Hat Chorus at Millstream Com-mons, 1:30 p.m.; Zumba Gold, 3:30 p.m.; Lasagna Dinner, 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 20 – Yoga, 8:15 a.m.; Pickleball, 9 a.m.; Poker & 500, 9 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 21 – Driver Safe-ty Class (four hour), 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Motorcycle Club Ride, 9 a.m.

Fairview Home Care and Hospice seeks volunteers Fairview Home Care and Hospice is seeking volunteers in the com-munities of Bloomington, Burnsville, Apple Valley, Lakeville and Eagan. Support volunteers for Fairview Home Care and

Hospice do things like pro-vide companionship, offer caregiver relief or run er-rands for homebound in-dividuals. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and be willing to complete a back-

ground check and health screening. They must have their own transportation and undergo required vol-unteer training. Most volunteers aver-age two to four hours per week. They are asked to

give a minimum time com-mitment of three months or 50 hours of total ser-vice. Those interested in vol-unteering can apply on-line at www.fairview.org/hospicevolunteers.


Zoo tiger’s death at age 3 was unexpected University of Minnesota conducting

autopsy by Andrew Miller


A 3-year-old Amur ti-ger at the Minnesota Zoo died last weekend follow-ing an emergency surgery, zoo officials said. The tiger, Nadya, had been ill the week before she died, but the cause of her illness was a mys-tery to zookeepers. Nadya had become lethargic and stopped eating, and blood tests revealed compro-mised liver function. When a painkiller was administered and Nadya still refused to eat, she underwent emergency ex-ploratory surgery, after

which the tiger went into cardiac arrest, according

to zoo officials. The results of the surgery were incon-

clusive. A necropsy, or animal

autopsy, is being con-ducted by the University of Minnesota in hopes of determining what caused Nadya’s death. The tiger had no pre-existing condi-tions, zoo officials said. “We are very sad over the unexpected passing of Nadya,” Kevin Willis, the zoo’s vice president for biological programs, said in a news release. “Because she was hand raised here, she was one of our favorite animals and despite receiving the very best in medical care, she unfortunately didn’t survive. She will always be remembered by staff and volunteers as a sweet-na-tured tiger.” Nadya was transferred from the St. Louis Zoo to the Minnesota Zoo in 2012 as a cub. Nadya was brought up with Sundari,

a Minnesota-born cub, and both were hand-raised by zoo staff because their mothers could not nurse them. Since it opened, the Minnesota Zoo has wel-comed more than 40 Amur tiger cubs. The zoo currently cares for four other tigers: Sundari and Patrice, both 3, 6-year-old Putin, and 16-year-old Molniy. Molniy has already surpassed the frequently reported lifespan of 10-15 years for wild tigers, zoo officials said. He is being treated for a variety of age-related conditions in-cluding arthritis.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Nadya, a 3-year-old tiger at the Minnesota Zoo, died last weekend after an emergency exploratory surgery, results of which were inconclusive. (Photo: Minnesota Zoo)


SportsNDSU alums inch closer to NFL jobs

Smith, Vraa participate in rookie

mini-camps by Mike Shaughnessy


North Dakota State University football alumni C.J. Smith and Zach Vraa are trying to add to the list of NFL players with local ties, as both attended rook-ie mini-camps last week-end. Having signed with the Philadelphia Eagles as a rookie free agent, Smith is likely to go to their training camp starting in July. There are no such assurances for Vraa, who participated in the Minnesota Vikings’ rookie mini-camp but re-mains a free agent. Vraa, who graduated from Rosemount High School in 2010, will return to Fargo, N.D., to train and see if his trial with the Vikings amounts to some-thing more down the line. Regardless of what hap-pens, he said the experience was valuable. “If something does happen with the Vikings, they’ve seen me,” said Vraa,

a record-setting wide re-ceiver at North Dakota State. “They know what kind of player I am. If it doesn’t work out with the Vikings, then other NFL teams will know I’ve at least been to a mini-camp and have some idea of what professional football is like.” There’s no question Vraa wants something to work out with the Vi-kings, a team he’s followed for years. “My childhood dream is finally here!” Vraa tweeted before attending the Vikings’ rookie mini-camp. Once at the mini-camp, he understood where he was on the priority list. Players the Vikings drafted or signed as free agents were going to get more rep-etitions than invitees such as Vraa. Still, he said he received some encouraging feedback. “The wide receivers coach pulled me aside and

said he liked how I ran my routes and caught the ball,” Vraa said. “But I didn’t have any big conver-sations with the offensive coordinator (Norv Turner) or head coach (Mike Zim-mer).” Vraa, the 2009 Minne-sota Mr. Football award winner as a senior at Rose-mount, holds NDSU ca-reer records in receiving yardage (2,957), receptions (195) and touchdown re-ceptions (28). In 2015 Vraa had 40 receptions for 510 yards and five touchdowns. During his career, he has been named to the All-Missouri Valley first team as well as its All-Academic team. Vraa (6-foot-2, 202 pounds) also was a 110-me-ter hurdles champion for Rosemount in the state high school track and field meet. North Dakota State’s reputation was not for throwing the ball all over the field, but Vraa said he didn’t think that would hurt his chances of making an NFL team. It certainly didn’t hinder Bison quar-terback Carson Wentz, who was drafted by Phila-delphia with the No. 2

overall pick. “We had a reputation for wearing other teams down,” Vraa said. “If we got on a roll, we might run the ball 40 or 50 times a game. But we were a bal-anced team. We could throw when we wanted to, and when we needed to.” Vraa said he hoped NFL teams would view him as a dependable, low-maintenance player. “I want to be the kind of player who, when the ball’s in the air, is going to be the one who comes down with it,” he said. “I think I’m dependable. I don’t drop many balls I’m supposed to catch.” Smith, a Savage native and Burnsville High School graduate, signed with the Philadelphia Eagles as a rookie free agent, reuniting him with NDSU quarter-back Carson Wentz, who was drafted by the Eagles with the No. 2 overall pick. Smith visited the weightroom at his high school alma mater May 4 before joining the Eagles last weekend. “Excited for the opportunity to prove I belong. Got a huge chip on my shoulder,” Smith wrote on his Twitter account.

A 5-foot-11, 189-pound cornerback, Smith played 58 games over five seasons with North Dakota State, including 44 starts. He had 139 career tackles (96 solo) and eight interceptions. Smith is fourth in NCAA Football Championship Subdivision history with 57 passes defended. Smith was one of the NDSU football captains in 2015 and was a first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference player. He had 16 pass breakups and four interceptions, including an interception return for a touchdown in a second-round playoff victory over Montana. Smith and Vraa both played on five FCS nation-al championship teams at North Dakota State. Eight of the 14 seniors from NDSU’s 2015 graduating class went to rookie mini-camps – two as drafted players, three as signed rookie free agents and three more as invited rookie free agents. “It helps to know that NFL teams aren’t just looking at players from (Bowl Championship Sub-division) schools,” Vraa said. “They’re looking at

FCS players, and at times Division II and Division III players.” Local players currently in the NFL include Rose-mount High graduate Tom Compton, an offensive lineman who played 44 games (including 10 starts) over the last three seasons for Washington and signed with Atlanta as a free agent in March; Zach Zenner, a running back and Ea-gan High graduate whose rookie season with Detroit in 2015 was cut short be-cause of an injury; and Apple Valley graduate Tom Obarski, who competed for Cincinnati’s placekicking job last year and has since signed with the New York Giants. Apple Valley graduate Varmah Sonie, the 2008 Minnesota Mr. Football winner, is a defensive back for the Orlando Preda-tors of the Arena Football League and is seeking an-other chance in the NFL. Sonie has not played in an NFL game but has been on Tampa Bay’s practice squad.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Wildcats 2nd at ‘Great 8’

(Above) Eagan infielder Jillian Sass takes a throw at first base during the championship game of the Eastview ‘Great 8’ Invita-tional softball tournament Saturday in Apple Valley. (Right) Pitcher Alyssa Joliffe works for the Wild-cats in the championship game against Mankato West. Eagan (12-3) defeat-ed Bloomington Jefferson 4-2 and Maple Grove 10-2 before losing to Mankato West 2-0 in the champi-onship game. The loss to Mankato West ended the Wildcats’ 10-game winning streak. (Photos by Mike Shaughnessy)

Four local teams win their way to state True Team meet

Rosemount, Lakeville North squads have shot at

wild card spots by Mike Shaughnessy


Lakeville South’s boys and girls teams, Eagan’s girls and Trinity’s girls can make plans to be in Stillwater next week for the state True Team track and field meet. Several other local teams have to wait until Saturday to find out if they’re invited to the party. Lakeville South’s girls, who won three consecutive state Class 3A True Team championships before finishing second to Mounds View last year, will return to the state meet after winning the Section 1 championship Tuesday at Lakeville North. The South boys also took the title in Section 1 and will go back to the state meet looking to im-prove on last year’s seventh-place finish. It’s also a return trip for the Eagan girls, who won the Class 3A, Section 2 championship Tuesday at Eagan High School. The Wildcats were sixth at the state meet last year. Teams at Lakeville North and Rose-mount, however, can’t set their schedule for next week yet. North was second in the Section 1 boys and girls meets, while Rosemount’s teams were runners-up to Prior Lake in the Section 3 meet Tues-day at Apple Valley High School. All section runners-up will have their times and distances compared, and the win-ners of that on-paper “meet” earn wild-card invitations to the True Team state meet. The Class 3A True Team meet starts at 4 p.m. Friday, May 20, at Stillwater High School. The Section 4 champion Trinity girls will be in the Class 1A meet at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 21. The Class 2A meet follows at 3 p.m. May 21.

Class 3A, Section 3 Rosemount’s boys finished 60 points behind Prior Lake in the Section 3 meet Tuesday. The Irish girls also were second in their meet to Prior Lake. In each case, the Irish were more than 100 points ahead of the third-place team. The Rosemount boys excelled in distance races. Zaffer Hussein won the 1,600 meters in 4 minutes, 23.14 sec-onds and finished fourth in the 800 in 2:02.67. The Irish took the top two plac-

es in the 3,200 with Caden Hill winning in 10:00.90 and Travis Lorch placing second in 10:04.10. Rosemount also was the boys 4x100 relay champion in 44.08 seconds. Alexys Berger of Rosemount won two girls field events, the high jump (5 feet, 2 inches) and pole vault (11-0). Also taking first were Shae Buchman in the girls 100 hurdles (15.24), Arianna Passeri in the triple jump (34-3.25) and the 4x200 relay (1:47.52). Buchman was second in the long jump and Josephine French was runner-up to Passeri in the triple jump. Burnsville placed fourth in the boys meet, led by two second-place individu-al finishers – Andy Samuel in the discus and Kain Kelling in the triple jump. The Blaze’s Emily Kauffman won the girls 300 hurdles in 48.18. Burnsville, seventh in the girls team standings, also won the 4x100 relay in 51.63 and had two sec-ond-place finishes from Sarah Gigstad in the throwing events. Eastview senior Natalie Manders swept the girls throwing events, winning the shot put with 40-9.5 and the discus with 139-2. Those victories helped pro-pel the Lightning to third place in the team standings. The Lightning’s Laura Bestul was runner-up in the 1,600. East-view was fifth in the boys team stand-ings, led by three athletes who placed second in their events – Darren Misiak (200), Timothy Morgenstern (800) and Emmanual Phoulom-Smith (300 hur-dles). The sixth-place Apple Valley boys team won three individual events. Isaiah Hall went 22-3 to win the long jump, and Kieran McKeag took the shot put (55-9.5) and discus (167-9). Apple Val-ley also was sixth in the section True Team girls meet, with Olivia Anger (1,600) and Amanda Sonnenburg (pole vault) placing third in their events.

Class 3A, Section 2 Eagan held off Stillwater by 20.5 points to win the girls team champion-ship in Section 2 and earn another trip to the state meet. Stillwater won the boys championship, finishing 34 points ahead of second-place East Ridge and 90.5 ahead of third-place Eagan. In-dividual results were not available at presstime.


Burnsville’s Andy Samuel throws the discus at the Class 3A, Section 3 True Team meet Tuesday at Apple Valley High School. Samuel finished second to Apple Valley’s Kieran McKeag and helped the Blaze to fourth place in the team competition. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Local athletes up for Lions awards by Mike Shaughnessy


High school athletes from Apple Valley, Lakeville North, Eastview and Rosemount are among finalists for the St. Paul Downtown Lions Club ama-teur athletes of the year awards. Winners will be announced at a banquet Tuesday, May 17, at Mendakota Country Club in Mendota Heights. Mark Hall of Apple Valley and Drew Stewart of Lakeville North are two of seven finalists for the male athlete of the year award. Hall, who has signed with Penn State, is the only six-time individu-al wrestling champion in Minnesota high school history and also helped Apple Val-ley win six team championships. Stewart has appeared in nine state tournaments or playoffs with North’s football, basket-ball and baseball teams. He signed with Augustana University to play football. Margie Freed of Eastview, Brittany McLean of Rosemount and Megan Wen-

man of Rosemount are finalists for the Lions female athlete of the year award. Freed won the state Nordic skiing pursuit championship in February and last fall helped lead Eastview to the state cross country meet. She will ski at the University of Vermont. McLean won the Ms. Volleyball award after leading Rose-mount to second place in the Class 3A, Section 3 tournament. Rosemount lost in five sets to Eagan, which went on to win the state championship. McLean will play volleyball at the University of Min-nesota. Wenman will swim at the Univer-sity of North Dakota after a decorated high school career that included second place in the 200-yard individual medley and fourth in the 100 butterfly at the 2015 state Class AA meet. This is the 72nd year of the Down-town Lions award program.


C.J. Smith Zach Vraa


Business BuzzChuck & Don’s events in Rosemount Chuck and Don’s Pet Food and Supplies, 3852 150th St. W., Rosemount, will host a farmers mar-ket event 12-3 p.m. Satur-day, May 21, for custom-ers to learn about local pet food companies. Free samples and cou-pons from Midwestern manufacturers will be of-fered at booths located in the store. Representatives from Tuffy’s Pet Foods, Sojos, Fromm Family Foods and Zignature will be available for questions. The store will host a Meet the Trainer event 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 22, for customers to ask questions and learn more about their dog’s behavior from a certified trainer. Tristan and Kra-tos from Dog Day Get-away will answer training questions and do some tricks and off-leash dem-os. Both events will be held during Chuck and Don’s 26th annual birth-day celebration, which runs May 21-24. Call 651-423-3774 for more information.

Chamber golf tourney in June The Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce holds its annual Golf Classic Monday, June 6, at Willinger’s Golf Course. Registration and lunch begin at 11 a.m. followed by a noon shotgun start and 6 p.m. awards and dinner. Cost is $165 and in-cludes lunch, dinner and golfer gift bag. Registra-tion is required. Sponsor-ships are available. Register online at www.lakevillechamber.org. Call 952-469-2020 for more information.

Governor’s Safety Award for Uponor Uponor North Amer-ica, Apple Valley, was recently awarded the Governor’s Safety Award for the second year in a row. Since 1934, the an-nual Governor’s Safety Awards program has honored Minnesota em-ployers with exceptional safety performance. Up-onor received an Out-standing Achievement Award based on continu-ous improvement in its Environmental Health & Safety programs and in-cident rate. The company was one of 77 businesses to receive the Outstand-ing Achievement honor this year. The Governor’s Safety Awards is coordinated by the Minnesota Safety Council.

Parkway Place building architect Roh Perera, owner of the Parkway Place build-ing in Burnsville, has se-lected Farid Jean Sabongi of Sabongi Consulting Group Inc., Eagan, as the building’s architect. He is the designer of the Medi-terranean Cruise Cafe. The proposed Park-way Place remodeling in-cludes space on the first floor for retail stores and offices plus a restaurant with patio seating for 60, a dining area for 180, and a banquet room that will accommodate 80 guests. The second floor is slated to be office space. The building’s exterior will be updated with new light-ing, landscaping and signage. For more infor-mation, email [email protected] or [email protected].

BCBS names executive Elizabeth “Betsy” Mo-ran has been named vice president and CEO of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Northern Plains Alliance, a consortium of six regional Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in seven states that provide Medicare Part D services. Moran also is assuming the role of chief operating officer for ClearStone So-lutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aware In-tegrated Inc., the par-ent company of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. Clear-Stone provides consult-ing, administrative and transactional services to Blues plans and other or-ganizations participating in managed Medicare or Medicaid programs. The Northern Plains Alliance is ClearStone’s largest cli-ent. Moran had served in an interim leadership role for ClearStone over the past six months. In her selection as perma-nent chief operating of-ficer, Moran will lead ClearStone’s strategic direction, working with the board and the health plans of the Northern Plains Alliance, and managing the strategy for its Medicare Part D offering, MedicareBlue Rx. She will work cross functionally and collab-oratively with Blue Cross leaders in legal, finance and actuarial. Prior to her new ap-pointments, Moran was vice president, legal af-fairs and Blue Cross gen-eral counsel, providing leadership and represen-tation on legal matters affecting Aware Integrat-ed Inc., Blue Cross and affiliate companies. She joined the company in 2013. Moran earned her law degree, with honors, from

the University of Minne-sota Law School and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Minne-sota.

Criswell joins Adams Radio Aaron D. Criswell has been named director of sales for Adams Radio of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Lakeville-based Ad-ams owns and operates KGRT FM, KSNM FM, KHQT FM, and KWML AM in Las Cruces. Criswell was previ-ously a senior account manager with CBS Radio in Sacramento, Califor-nia. In addition to CBS Radio, Criswell served as an account manager for KFOG in San Fran-cisco. From 2009 until 2015, he was vice presi-dent/market manager for Mapleton Communica-tions in San Luis Obispo. He began his career with Young and Rubicam as a senior media buyer after graduating from San Di-ego State University.

Hospitality award winners Lakeville Area Cham-ber of Commerce’s 2016 STAR Hospitality Award winners are: Above and Beyond Award: (Eric) Sebero Perez Nava, Minnesota Horse & Hunt Club. Top Shelf Award: Kyle Morris, Green Mill Res-taurant. Everyday Hero: James O’Meara, Brackett’s Crossing Country Club. Excellence in Leader-ship: Nicole Larson, Bay-mont Inn & Suites. Spirit of Family Award: Marie Danielski, Chart House Restaurant. These winners will be celebrated at the cham-ber’s May 17 Tourism Luncheon. Call 952-469-2020 for information.

Community shred event Better Business Bu-reau of Minnesota and North Dakota and Fire-fly Credit Union, along with Shred Right and Green Lights Recycling

Inc., will offer a shred event from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 21, at Firefly Credit Union, 1400 Riverwood Drive, Burnsville, and 17533 Ce-dar Ave., Lakeville. The fraud prevention event will help metro residents and small busi-ness owners dispose of outdated, unnecessary or sensitive financial docu-ments safely and securely. This year, electron-ics recycling will also be offered at Firefly Credit Union locations par-ticipating in the event. A complete list of no-cost and with-fee electronics recycling can be found online at fireflycu.org/events. BBB staffers will be on hand to provide informa-tion to participants on how to secure personal information and avoid fraud. Event attendees and small business own-ers can bring up to two boxes of documents or CDs for free shredding.


LEGAL NOTICES

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTIFICA-TION OF THE ORIGINAL CREDI-TOR WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AF-FECTED BY THIS ACTION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That default has occurred in the conditions of the Mortgage dated May 7, 2009 executed by Susan Raye Moeller, as mortgagor, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for GSF Mortgage Corporation, as mort-gagee, recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Dakota County, Minnesota, on May 21, 2009 as Document Number T644271. Said Mortgage was assigned to Car-rington Mortgage Services, LLC by an assignment of mortgage record-ed on April 15, 2016 as Document Number 759492. The Property en-cumbered by said Mortgage has a street address of 4778 Galaxie Ave, Eagan, MN 55122, and Tax Identifi-cation Number 10-567501-01-070: Lot 7, Block 1, in Park Ridge, ac-cording to the recorded plat there-of, Dakota County, Minnesota.

That the original principal amount secured by said mortgage was $205,214.00; that there has been compliance with any condi-tion precedent to acceleration of the debt secured by said mortgage and foreclosure of said mortgage required by said mortgage, any note secured thereby, or any stat-ute; that no action or proceeding has been instituted at law to re-cover the debt remaining secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof, that there is claimed to be due upon said mortgage and is due thereon at the date of this notice, the sum of $187,876.63.

That by virtue of the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the said mortgage will be fore-closed by the sale of the above described premises with appur-tenances, which said sale will be made by the Sheriff of Dakota County, Minnesota, at Sheriff’s Of-fice located at 1580 Highway 55, Hastings, MN 55033, on June 21, 2016 at 10:00 o’clock a.m., at pub-lic auction to the highest bidder, to pay the amount then due on said mortgage, together with the costs of foreclosure, including attorney’s fees as allowed by law, in accor-dance with the provisions of said mortgage. The time allowed by law for redemption by the mortgagors, their personal representatives, or assigns is six (6) months from the date of said sale.

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

If the mortgage is not reinstated under Minn. Stat. §580.30 or re-deemed under Minn. Stat. §580.23, the mortgagor must vacate the property by 11:59 p.m. on Decem-ber 21, 2016, unless the foreclosure is postponed pursuant to Minn. Stat. §580.07, or the redemption period is reduced to five (5) weeks under Minn. Stat. §582.032.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COL-LECT A DEBT BY A DEBT COL-LECTOR. ANY INFORMATION OB-TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.Nicholas P. EdwardsShelton, Harrison & Pinson, PLLCAttorney for Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC701 Highlander Blvd., Suite 270Arlington, TX 76015P 817.522.7550F 817.375.2006

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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: CRI Environmental SolutionsPRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 101 Hagen DriveWoodville, WI 54028 USANAMEHOLDER(S): CRI Recycling Service Inc.11905 Highland View CircleBurnsville, MN 55337I, 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: May 5, 2016SIGNED BY: Draeke Weseman

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May 13, 20, 2016546706

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

This is a summary of the April 18, 2016 School Board meeting with the full text available for public inspection at www.district196.org or at the District Office or by stan-dard or electronic mail.

The meeting was called to or-der at 6 p.m. on April 18, 2016 at Dakota Ridge School followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Present: Albright, Coulson, Huusko, Mag-nuson, Roseen, Schutte and Supt. Berenz.

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Roseen and carried with a 6-0 vote to approve the agenda.

Students, staff and schools were congratulated on being national, state and local award recipients and champions. Berenz thanked teachers and school nurses for their work.

Motion by Roseen, seconded by Huusko and carried with a 6-0 vote to approve Consent items: board meeting minutes; claims; electronic funds transfer sched-ule; schedule of investments; gifts totaling $24,064.09; advertising revenue totaling $2,103; contracts with AFC Technologies LLC total-ing $208,860 and with Marschall Line, Inc. for supplemental trans-portation; personnel separations, leaves of absence and new staff, and resolution terminating certain probationary teachers.

The board heard a construction and preliminary design update for elementary school #19.

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Roseen and carried with a 6-0 vote to approve the 2016-17 capital budget.

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Albright and carried with a 6-0 vote to approve 2016-17 Overview of Student Rights and Responsibili-ties handbook revisions.

A proposal was presented to in-crease breakfast and lunch prices by $.10 each to take effect for the 2016-17 school year. The board is scheduled to take action on the in-creases at its May 9 meeting.

Motion by Roseen, seconded by Huusko and carried with a 5-1 vote (with Albright voting no) to approve the resolution establish-ing May 17-31 as filing dates for a special School Board election to fill the remainder of the four-year term expiring in Jan. 2020. Board mem-bers commented on the current law and pending legislation around fill-ing school board vacancies.

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Schutte and carried with a 6-0 vote to approve the resolution declaring April 18-22, 2016 to be Volunteers Appreciation Week.

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Schutte and carried with a 6-0 vote to approve the resolution declaring May 2-6, 2016 to be Teachers Ap-preciation Week.

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Roseen and carried, with a 6-0 vote to approve the resolution declaring May 2-6, 2016 to be School Nurses Appreciation Week.

Coulson invited the community to attend the Honoring of District 196 American Indian Seniors cer-emony on April 29 at the School of Environmental Studies.

Berenz responded to parent Lisa Anderson that the policy to not honor DNR/DNI orders in the school setting is upheld.

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Albright and carried with a 6-0 vote to adjourn at 6:58 p.m.

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May 13, 2016547863

CITY OF BURNSVILLE, MINNESOTA

ORDINANCE NO. 1385 SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE

AMENDING TITLE 10, CHAPTER 7 CONCERNING

RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY PARKING REQUIREMENTS AND TITLE 10, CHAPTER 22B CONCERNING HOC-2 PERMITTED USES CASE FILE NO. DEV2016-0011 On May 3, 2016, the City Council

of the City of Burnsville adopted an ordinance updating the ordinance concerning religious assembly parking requirements to address parking at religious institutions, es-pecially if there is no fixed seating and to amend the ordinance that would allow certain uses in HOC-1 into an integrated mixed-use build-ing located in HOC-2.

The proposed changes to HOC-2 uses will provide greater flexibility in the uses allowed in that district to supplement the entire HOC neighborhood. The changes to the parking are an improvement to how parking is calculated for religious institutions without fixed seating. Both are intended to be benefits to the how the ordinance is inter-preted.

A printed copy of the complete ordinance is available for inspec-tion by any person during regular office hours at the Office of the City Clerk at the Burnsville City Hall, 100 Civic Center Parkway, Burnsville, MN 55337.

APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION this 3rd day of May, 2016 by the City Council of the City of Burns-ville.BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUN-CILMACHEAL COLLINS, CITY CLERK

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May 13, 2016547147

MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE AMENDMENT

TO 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 consumers to be able to identify the true owner of a business.

ASSUMED NAME: CertWise PM Learning SystemsPRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 2975 Lone Oak Drive, Suite 180Eagan, MN 55121NAMEHOLDER(S): Holmes Corporation2975 Lone Oak Drive, Suite 180Eagan, MN 55121This certificate is an amendment

of Certificate of Assumed Name file Number 834655400037

Originally filed on July 30, 2015I, 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: March 31, 2016SIGNED BY: MaryBeth Anderson


May 6, 13, 2016543468



AMENDING TITLE 3, CHAPTER 25 AND TITLE

10, CHAPTERS 7 AND 22 OF THE BURNSVILLE CITY CODE RELATING

TO SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES CASE FILE

NO. DEV2016-0009 On May 3, 2016, the City Coun-

cil of the City of Burnsville adopted an amendment to the City Code Zoning Ordinance to update the or-dinance related to sexually oriented businesses that dates back to the 1990’s.

The most significant change proposed is to eliminate “acces-sory sexually oriented business”. The existing ordinance defines accessory sexually-oriented busi-ness up to 10% of the floor area (up to 1,000 sq. feet) and no more than 20% of sales. They are cur-rently only permitted in B-3 zoning districts. The proposed ordinance modifies the definition of a sexual-ly-orientated business to the extent that anything less than 20% of the floor area devoted to merchandise, devices, or other items of a spe-cific sexual nature is a permitted use. Further, said non-substantial (accessory) activities/sales for a business are permitted in any zon-ing district where other retail sales would occur. Therefore, it is not limited to only the B-3 as in the ex-isting ordinance.

The effect of this change is that any commercial business that is otherwise a legal operating busi-ness in the correct zoning district, can offer up to 20% of their floor area for sexually-oriented mate-rials. The change may result in some retail stores, including sexu-ally novelty stores, offering limited sexually oriented media where they previously did not. Remaining con-sistent with the 1995 ordinance, the draft ordinance does not pro-pose to include sexually oriented novelty retail stores as a sexually oriented business. They will remain permitted wherever general retail is allowed.




May 13, 2016547137

CITY OF EAGANPUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

DATE/LOCATION OF HEARING:Advisory Planning Commission

Meeting: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 6:30 pm, City Hall Council Cham-bers, 3830 Pilot Knob Rd

DEVELOPMENT/ APPLICANT:City of Eagan Property/EaganLOCATION/LEGAL DESCRIP-

TION:805 Yankee Doodle Road, Outlot

I, Gopher Eagan Industrial Park 2nd Addition

REQUEST(S):Comprehensive Guide PlanA Comprehensive Guide Plan

Amendment from P, Park to IND, Limited Industrial.

File Number: 11-CG-02-05-16RezoningA Rezoning of approximately 12

acres from P, Park to I1, Limited In-dustrial.

File Number: 11-RZ-05-05-16QUESTIONS:Call the Planning Department

at (651) 675-5685 or contact Mike Ridley, the Planner at (651) 675-5650 or [email protected] with the above information:CITY OF EAGAN Christina M. Scipioni, City Clerk


May 13, 2016547911



AMENDING TITLE 8 CHAPTER 14 SECTIONS 2

AND 33 OF THE BURNSVILLE CITY CODE RELATING

TO BUS BENCHES AND TRANSIT SHELTERS

On May 3, 2016, the City Coun-cil of the City of Burnsville adopted an amendment to the City Code to update the regulation of bus benches and transit shelters.

The ordinance amendment iden-tifies that Minnesota Valley Transit Authority (MVTA) is allowed to provide transit shelters at any bus stop. It also limits the number of private bus benches to 60 total within the City and specifies that they may only be located at exist-ing bus stop locations as desig-nated by MVTA.

Other minor ordinance modifica-tions include: defining bus benches as a privately provided and tran-sit shelters as a publicly provided (MVTA), updating of insurance re-quirements, and providing typical shelter sizes.




May 13, 2016547144




ASSUMED NAME: Splash ProductsPRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 1380 Corporate Center Curve, Suite 200Eagan, MN 55121NAMEHOLDER(S): Elliott Auto Supply Co., Inc.1380 Corporate Center Curve, Suite 200Eagan, MN 55121I, the undersigned, certify that


DATE FILED: May 3, 2016SIGNED BY: Elliott M. Badzin

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May 13, 20, 2016547987




ASSUMED NAME: Headband CreationsPRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 950 Rivage LaneBurnsville, MN 55306NAMEHOLDER(S): Morgan E. Duvall950 Rivage LaneBurnsville, MN 55306I, the undersigned, certify that


DATE FILED: April 6, 2016SIGNED BY: Morgan Duvall


May 13, 20, 2016547153


RETREAT MINUTESAPRIL 18, 2016

The retreat of the Board of Edu-cation was called to order by Chair Luth at 5:00 p.m. at the ISD 191 Administrative Services Center, 100 River Ridge Court, Burnsville, MN, 55337.

Members present: Directors VandenBoom, Alt, Currier, Schmid, Mackall, Hill and Chair Luth.

J. Gothard, C. Amoroso, R. Dunn, L. Rider, S. Sovine, S. Stan-ley, D. Lindsey, B. Nicol and P.

Leatherman were also present.The purpose of the retreat was

the Strategic Roadmap Scorecard/CPSS (Culturally Proficient School System) and 2016-17 planning.

The retreat adjourned at 9:15 p.m.Date Approved: April 28, 2016/s/ Jim Schmid Jim Schmid, Clerk


May 13, 2016546072




DEVELOPMENT/APPLICANT: FFC Properties/Daniel LodahlLOCATION/LEGAL DESCRIP-

TION:4100 & 4120 Lexington Way, Lot

1, Block 1, Soderholm 2nd Addition & Lot 1, Block 1, Eagan Evangelical Covenant Church Addition

REQUEST(S):Planned DevelopmentA Planned Development Amend-

ment to build an addition to an ex-isting building.

File Number: 23-PA-04-04-16A Conditional Use Permit to al-

low shared parking.Conditional Use PermitFile Number: 23-CU-04-04-16Variance to the required side

yard setback for parking and pave-ment.

VarianceFile Number: 23-VA-04-05-16QUESTIONS:Call the Planning Department

at (651) 675-5685 or contact Pam Dudziak, the Planner at (651) 675-5691 or [email protected] with the above information:CITY OF EAGAN Christina M. Scipioni City Clerk


May 13, 2016547889


2016 Wall Rehabilitation Notice is hereby given that

sealed bids will be received for the 2016 Wall Rehabilitation by Independent School District 196, hereinafter called the Owner, in the Coates Conference Room at the ISD 196 District Office located at 3455 153rd St W, Rosemount, MN 55068, until 10:00 a.m. local time on May 19, 2016, at which time and place bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

A pre-bid conference will be held on May 12, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. in the Coates Conference Room at the ISD 196 District Office located at 3455 153rd St W, Rosemount, MN 55068.

For complete instructions on how to obtain Bidding Documents, please visit our webpage at: http://www.district196.org/District/Legal-Notices/index.cfm.

If you should have any questions regarding this bid you may contact the Facilities Department at (651) 423-7706.Joel Albright, Board Clerk Independent School District #196

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May 6, 13, 2016545096

PUBLIC NOTICE TO TRANSPORTATION

PROVIDERS:ProAct, Inc. of Eagan, Minn.

Hereby provides notice that it in-tends to apply to the Minnesota Department of Transportation for the following transportation equip-ment to serve persons with dis-abilities in the cities of Apple Val-ley, Lakeville, Burnsville, Cottage Grove, Woodbury, Inver Grove Heights and Eagan, Minnesota; (A) One (1) medium bus (class 400) with 12 permanent seated posi-tions and 2 non-permanent flip seats to accommodate individuals in wheelchairs. (B) One (1) large bus (class 500) with 20 permanent seated positions and 4 non-per-manent flip seats to accommodate individuals in wheelchairs. Individu-als or agencies seeking to request transportation service, coordinate transportation with ProAct or com-ment about the application should contact Jane Snyder, Transporta-tion Coordinator, at ProAct, 3195 Neil Armstrong Blvd, Eagan, MN 55121, (651) 289-3159. The dead-line for submitting this application is July 1, 2016.


May 13, 2016546686


PROPOSED CODE CHANGE:An Ordinance Amendment to

Chapter 11 Section 11.60, Subd. 14 regarding composting in the Limited Industrial Zoning District.

WHEN: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 6:30 pm

WHERE: Advisory Planning Commission Meeting, City Hall Council Chambers, 3830 Pilot Knob Rd

ANY QUESTIONS:Call the Planning Department

at (651) 675-5685 or contact Mike Ridley, the Planner at (651) 675-5650 or [email protected] with the following information:

DEVELOPMENT NAME Ordi-nance Amendment - Composting

CASE #: 01-OR-01-05-16CITY OF EAGAN Christina Scipioni - City Clerk


May 13, 2016547898

PUBLIC NOTICENOTICE TO CREDITORS

AND CLAIMANTS OF THE INTENT TO DISSOLVE

NORTHERN PINES LAND COMPANY

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that in accordance with Minnesota Stat-utes 302A.727, Northern Pines Land Company provides the fol-lowing Notice to Creditors and Claimants:

1. That this corporation is in the process of dissolving.

2. That a Notice of Intent to Dis-solve was filed with the Minnesota Secretary of State on May 3, 2016.

3. That claims may be submitted to the corporate offices at 200 East Travelers Trail, Suite 215, Burns-ville, MN 55337; and

4. That all claims must be sub-mitted within ninety (90) days after the first publication of this notice.

Dated: May 3, 2016 NORTHERN PINES LAND COM-PANYBy: /s/ Dennis J. FelixVice President952-893-8380

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This is a summary of the May 2, 2016 School Board meeting with the full text available for public in-spection at www.district196.org or at the District Office or by standard or electronic mail.

The meeting was called to order at 4:38 p.m. at the District Office. Present: Albright, Coulson, Huus-ko, Magnuson and Supt. Berenz.

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Coulson and carried with a 4-0 vote to approve the agenda.

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Albright and carried with a 4-0 vote to approve a resolution to ex-pel a student immediately, through the second trimester of the 2016-17 school year, continuing through and including March 9, 2017.

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Albright and carried with a 4-0 vote to adjourn the meeting at 4:48 p.m.

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May 13, 2016547870




DEVELOPEMENT/APPLICANT:Ashcroft Properties / Max

Steininger Inc./Greg SteiningerLOCATION/LEGAL DESCRIP-

TION:Neil Armstrong Blvd, Lot 2,

Block 1, Amoco 2nd AdditionREQUEST(S):Conditional Use PermitA Conditional Use Permit to al-

low a contractors yard.File Number: 11-CU-05-04-16QUESTION(S):Call the Planning Department at

(651) 675-5685 or contact Sarah Thomas, the Planner at (651) 675-5696 or [email protected] with the above information:CITY OF EAGANChristina M. Scipioni City Clerk


May 13, 2016547916

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALESS MNRI, LLC, doing business

as Simply Self Storage intends to enforce its lien on certain personal property belonging to the following at the facility located at 4025 Old Sibley Memorial Highway, Eagan, MN 55122. The sale will take place (unless otherwise withdrawn) via an on-line auction at www.storaget reasures.com on Wednesday, May 25th, 2016 beginning at approxi-mately 10:00AM and concluding on Wednesday, June 8th, 2016 at ap-proximately 10:00AM. This public sale will result in the goods being sold to the highest bidder. Certain terms and conditions apply.

N. Clevenger, 612C – Kids golf clubs, stereo, totes, chair, misc.

D. Friendshuh, 286 – Safe, Tools, Furniture, Beds

C. Edwards, 430B – Boxes, Clothing, Misc.


May 13, 20, 2016544479

CITY OF BURNSVILLEPUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC HEARINGA Public Hearing will be held on

May 17, 2014, at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible by the Burnsville City Council, 100 Civic Center Parkway, in the Council Chambers to consider the applica-tion of Larkin Hoffman for an ap-peal to allow reasonable accom-modation for more than 6 disabled residents to reside at the group homes located at 716 & 720 151st Street East.

All persons desiring to be heard on this item are encouraged to at-tend. For more information, please contact the City of Burnsville at (952) 895-4490.Macheal Brooks, City Clerk City of Burnsville, MN


May 6, 13, 2016544837

Crosstown Liquor, out-side of the Burnsville Center area and part of a single multitenant build-ing with India Palace. City staff proposed re-

moving the .75-mile sepa-ration and the freestand-ing building requirement for brewpubs and tap-rooms that sell product brewed on the premises. The changes are en-dorsed by the city’s Eco-

nomic Development Commission, the Burns-ville Chamber of Com-merce and by at least two of Burnsville’s 11 off-sale licenseholders, who at-tended a meeting on the topic last month.

Just make sure the or-dinance requires that the product is 100 percent brewed on site, with-out ingredients that are brewed elsewhere, said Scott Hilla, owner of Crosstown Liquor.

Brewpubs and tap-rooms are popular with millenials and families — would-be residents Burnsville wants to at-tract, Council Member Dan Kealey said. “We want to encour-

age more brewpubs and taprooms to come into town,” he said.

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

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Sunset Memorial, One Plot, Block 2, Lot 345. $2200. Call 763-537-0099

3600 MiscellaneousFor Sale

Two Wooden Playhouses w/wooden people and fur-niture. $210 for both. 763-535-4608 or 612-868-5826

4000 SALES

4030 Garage& Estate Sales

3 SistersEstate Company

helps seniors downsize, and/or prepares any es-tate for liquidation. Let’s meet! 763-443-0519

Anoka - ESTATE SALE 5/21-22, 9a-3p. SEE PICS AT: www.oldisknew.com/upcoming- Sales 927 South Street, Anoka

Apple Valley - 5/ 19 - 5/218a-5p -(5/19 & 20) 8a-3p-(5/21) Furn, HH, cloz, lotsof misc! 12968 Finch Way

Apple Valley Huge Mov-ing Sale-3 Families! Antiqs, furn, HH, tools, more! 5/20-21 (8-5) 14080 Friday Ln

Apple Valley, 5/13 & 14, 8-5. MOVING! Vintage glass, dolls & toys; HH, yard, furniture, sports memorabilia, tools. Pennock & 139th Ct

Apple Valley- 5/13 & 5/14, 9am-5pm. Moving Sale!

15875 Garrett Path-East of Cedar Ave off Cty Rd 46


AppleValley, 5/19-20, 9-4 & 5/21, 9-2, Multi-Family! HH, Vntge doll furn, La-dies & Kids Cloz, Toys! Doll House/Accs, Bird Cg, De-cor. 13865 Granada Ave.

Bloomington - 2 SALES!

5/19 (8-5); 5/20-21 (8-3)8312 Sheridan Avenue S.

2601 Sheridan PlaceFurn., antiqs, vinyl, HH items, sample & business clothes, tools, vintage, hard cover books, collectibles, outdoor. CASH ONLY

Bloomington - 5/12 - 5/149a-6p - 5 Family Sale!

HH, Antiques, linens, ruby glassware, Xercise equip,

books- 4317 W 91st St.

BLOOMINGTON

CitywideGarage SalesMay 19-20-21Sale list & maps avail. Wed, May 18 for $3 at:Haller & Associates

Heritage Plaza Shopping Center

10510 France Ave SInfo: 952-831-3798

Bloomington Multi-Family5/11-12 (8-5) HH items, cloz, furn., & much more!100th Street & 10th Ave.

Bloomington, Huge Sale! Thurs, Fri, Sat 8-5. Kids cloz (girls nb-6x, boys nb-18 mo) toys, books & more.

1 Sheridan Ave S

Bloomington, May 19, 20 & 21 , 9 AM to 4 PM. Furniture, desks, tools,collectables, desks, kitchen items and much, much more! 9526 Woodbridge Road

Bloomington- 5/12 - 5/14, Start at 9am. Multi Family! Spring Valley Dr- between Lyndale & Nicollet on bluff

Bloomington-5/13 & 5/14 9a-4p. Floral Craft Items!Vases, Yarns, Craft Books,

HH, Dish set, Stemware10914 Vincent Ave S.

Brooklyn ParkCity Wide Garage SalesThurs-Sat, May 12-14

Over 120 Sales!This is a great opportunity to meet your neighbors and score some deals!To view and/or download mobile maps of registered sales please go to: www.

brooklynpark.org/garagesale

Free printed maps for all registered sales are also available at the Commu-nity Activity Center.

Burnsville Gramercy Club15001 Burnhaven Drive5/19-20 (8-5). 1/2 price 5/21 (8-3). (Corner of 150th & Buck Hill Rd.) See signs!

BURNSVILLE, May 19-20-21, 8-5. Multi Home Sale!Toys, Furniture, Clothes SUMMIT OAKS

Burnsville- 5/21 & 5/22 10a-3p. Moving Sale!

Furniture & More! 77 Garden Drive

EAGAN 5/19-21, 8-53+ House Sale - HH items, x-mas items,old trunk,furn

4110 Blueberry Lane

EAGANLexington Square N’brhdSat, 5/14 (8-3) 35+ Homes!SE crnr of Lexington & Wescott

EAGAN, 5/12th to 15th, 8-5 Furn, HH items, bike, rug W clothes & wedding decor

1814 Taconite Trail

Eagan, 5/19-21, 8a-5p Kids & Womens Cloths, Tools Cake Decorating Supplies & Golf Clubs 2 Family Sale 1771 GABBRO TRAIL

Eagan: Moving Sale! Ev-erything must go! 5/13-14, (8-5) Furn, HH, bedding & more! 4557 Oak Chase Cir


EAGAN: May 19-20th, 9-5pm, Hawthorne Woods Neighborhood Sale - Lots of HH items, kids & adlt cloz, books, perennials & MORE! 4341 Dorchester Court (Signs @ Dodd & Diffley)

EDEN PRAIRIE Preserve Neighborhood 40+ homes! Sat., 5/14 Maps 5/10 @

preserveassociation.com11221 Anderson Lakes Pkwy

Eden Prairie, 5/19-21, 9-6 HH, office, Estee Lauder, M+W apparel S-L, books, music, tradeshow displays.13188 Cardinal Creek Rd.

Eden Prairie, May 19 - 20, 8am-5pm. Furn, grills, household, tools, equip-ment, cloz & more. 6996 & 7001 Royal Link Court

Eden Prairie: Kids Consignment Sale

200+ Families May 20-22, 10a-7p

Champions Hall7000 Washington Ave S.edenprairie.jbfsale.com

Eden Prairie: Lots of Kitch-en items! Patio swing, bar stools, lawnmower, kids wagon. 5/20 (8-5); 5/21 (8-12) 8596 Norwood Circle

Edina: Mega Church-wide Kids Rummage Sale 5/20-5/21 (7-3) www.normluth.org

Normandale Lutheran Church

6100 Normandale Road

Farmington- 5/19 - 5/218am-6pm - Clothes, Furn,

Jewelry, Lots of Misc! 19735 English Ave

Golden Valley2000 Wisconsin Ave. N.Multi-Fam Sales 5/12-13-14(8-6) HH, collctbls, furn, an-tqs, yard/guy stuff Must see! Hwy 55 & N. on Winnetka, W on Duluth, right on Wisc.

Golden Valley, 5/13-14, Fri. 8-5, Sat. 8-1, Antiques, Books, Purses, HH items. 6445 Hwy 55 (frontage rd)

HOPKINS

Annual Plant SaleHennepin County Master

Gardeners Sat., 5/21 (9-2) Indoor - Hopkins Pavilion 11000 Excelsior Blvd.

Lakeville, 5/19 - 21, 8-4Camping, Sports, Electron-ics, Laptop, Furn, LOTS HH 16245 Harmony Path

Lakeville, 5/19-21, Thurs 8am-7pm, Fri 8am-5pm, Sat 8am-2pm. Kids & More Sale! Save BIG on Everything for Baby, Child, Teen, Adults & Home. Quality New & Gen-tly Used Clothes, Shoes, Toys, Books, Games, Baby Gear, Costumes, DVDs, Sports, Furniture, Mater-nity, Home Goods, Purses, Crafts & Much More! Ames Arena, 19900 Ipava Ave.

Lakeville, Huge Sale!!5/18-5/21, 9-5 pm. Furn, cloz, home decor, much more! Jaeger Path

Lakeville, May 19, 20 & 21, 8-5. MOVING SALE-Antiques, Furniture, Household 17984 Fullerton Ct.

Lakeville, May 19-21, 8am-5pm. Serger & misc sewing supplies, Pfaltzgraff, col-lector toys, misc HH items. 19160 Inndale Court.

LAKEVILLE, Thur. May 19, Fri. May 20 & Sat. May 21, 8-4pm, ea. day. Dept 56 Snow Village, Byer’s Carolers, Luggage, Games, Cloths, Lot’s of Halloween Decorations from haunted house, kids toys, high chair, wagon, home decor, kitchen items, cycle helmet & fishing gear

18316 JUSTICE WAY

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Lakev ille-5/21-8a-2p. Moving Sale! Furn, HH, Bedding,Lots of misc. Cash Only! 20259 Hunter Ct

Medina, 5/19-21, 8 to 3 Huge 4 family sale!

HomeDecor, Furn, clothes, shoes, toys, books & more.

4495 Maple Leaf Court

Minnetonka Multi-Family,Moving Sale 5/20-21 (9-4) HH, tools, seasonal, furn.3739 Park Valley Rd.

Mtka: Huge Multi-Fam Sale! 5/12-14 (9-5). Antqs, HH, cloz, makeup samples, designer items & much misc. 13611 McGinty Rd E


Mtka: Moving Sale! 5/20-21 (9-5) Antqs, collect., HH, furn, chickens & misc. 10600 Belmont Rd

New Hope -Muti-Family! 5/19-5/21, (8a -5:30p.) An-tiques, Dept 56, quilting fab, womens cloz,dish sets, scrapbook paper & stamps

5417 Xylon Ave N

New Hope, 5/20-21, 9-5 HH, tools, golf, printer

womens clz reg/+ & misc. 4407 Independence Ave

PlymouthChelsea Woods Annual

Garage Sale Sat., 5/21 (8-4) Townhouse Community - Vicksburg & Cty Rd 6 -

20+ Families. Follow signs!

Plymouth ESTATE of Doll Collector 5/12-13 (10-6)1st bisque MA F&B, 40’s MIB BarB’s 11730 50th Av N

Plymouth Tiburon Assoc.Multi-Homes 5/19-21 (8-5)36th Ave No. & Pilgrim Ln.Antiqs., collectbls., unique decor, X-mas, books, tools, fish equip. 763-595-8880

Plymouth- 5/19, 5/20 & 5/21, 8a-4p. Moving Sale! Furniture, Tools, Decora-tions. 12400 48th Ave N

Plymouth: Kingswood An-nual Multi-Houses Sale! Cnty Rd 101 & 1st Ave N. 5/19-20 (8-5), 5/21 (9-3)

Richfield 5/19-20 (8-4); & 5/21 (8-1:30) Cloz $4 bag, all else 1/2 price. St. Nicholas Church Recycle/Bake Sale Also this year - Perennials! 7227 Penn Ave. South

RichfieldCity Wide

Garage SalesThursday - Saturday

May 19, 20, 21

FREE Sale Listfor buyers available

starting May 16th at:

Richfield City Hall6700 Portland Ave.

Richfield Comm. Center 7000 Nicollet Ave S

Richfield Liquor Stores

Craig’s List & website: www.

richfieldrecreation.com

For more information612-861-9363

Robbinsdale, May 13, 8-6 & 14, 8-4. Big 2 family sale! Downsizing! Formi-

ca table, furniture, yard items and more. 1 block N of old Rdale Sr. High.

3840 Toledo Ave. N 55422

Rosemount

Rosemount UMC Sale!May 25-27 Wed (5-7); Thurs (8-7); & Fri (8-12) Cloz, toys, furniture, HH & more! Info: 651-423-247514770 Canada Ave. West

Rosemount, 5/19-21, 8-5 Lots of HH items, furn, clzrugs, toys, books & movies 13587 Crosscliffe Place(Crosscroft of Evermoor)

Rosemount- 5/18 - 5/21, 8a-6p-furn,cloz, Seasonal/home,scrap book supplies, toys, Longa Berger Baskets

14146 Abbeyfield Ave

Shoreview: 2 Day Garage Sale 5/20 & 5/21, 9-4. furn, cloz, lighting, kids toys, hh, snowblower, lawn mower, & motorcycle parts,

959 Scenic Dr.

Shorewood- 5/12, 5/13 & 5/14- 8am-4pm. Lots & Lots of Goods! Cash Only

5980 Glencoe Rd

St Louis Park Multi-Family5/14 (9-4) Toys, furn, HH, Patio set, Dollhouse, much more! 3900 Xenwood Ave. S.


St Louis Pk Neighborhood W. of Hwy 100, S of Hwy 7, N of Excel Blvd. Sat 5/14, 8-4. Furn, computer elec-tonics, toys, bikes, cloz, hh collectibles, much more!

To place your Classified Ad contact Jeanne Cannon at: 952-392-6875 or email:

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Wayzata/Mtka Estate Sale17404 Bay Lane

5/13-14 (9-5) Vintage, col-lectibles, furn. Cash only.

4500 RENTALS / REAL ESTATE

4510 Apartments/Condos For Rent

Apple Valley: 1 BR Condo, W/D,garage ,No pets. Avail now! $785 952-942-5328

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4520 Townhomes/Dbls/Duplexes For Rent

Lakeville: 3BR, 2.5 BA, TH. Off Dodd Rd & Cedar $1450 Avl June 1st. 612-868-3000

4530 Houses For Rent

Elko/New Market- 4Br,2Ba AC,W/D,DW,2 car htd gar, 3rd gar/storage, deck, lrg fenced yard. $1500+ util mo. Gary : 612-849-0473


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4570 StorageFor Rent

Lonsdale Mini-Storage7 sizes available. 5’x10’ to 10’x40’. Call 507-744-4947 leave message.

4610 Houses For Sale


[email protected]

5000 SERVICES

5080 Child &Adult Care

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5090 Asphalt/Black-topping/Seal Coating

30+ Years ExperienceAsphalt Paving & SealcoatQuality Work W/Warranty

LSC Construction Svc, Inc 952-890-2403 / 612-363-2218

Mbr: Better Business Bureau

Small Driveways

Parking Lots

5090 Asphalt/Black-topping/Seal Coating

H & H Blacktopping612-861-6009

M. Jones Asphalt Paving(Better Price)

☑ Sealcoating ☑ 2 Inch Overlays ☑ Resurfacing ☑ Sawcutting ☑ Driveway Replace- ments & Parking Lots

Licensed & Insured

5140 Carpet, Floor& Tile

Above All Hardwood Floors Installation-Sanding-Finishing

“We Now InstallCarpet, Tile & Vinyl.”

952-440-WOOD (9663)

Escobar Hardwood Floors, LLC

We offer professional services for your wood floors!

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

Professional w/15 yrs exp.

952-292-2349

SANDING-REFINISHINGRoy’s Sanding Service

Since 1951 952-888-9070

5160 Commercial &Residential Cleaning

Professional Cleaning w/o paying the high priceHonest, dep, reas. Exc. refs Therese 952-898-4616


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“THE MUDJACKERS”Don’t Replace it Raise it!Save $$$ Walks- Steps-

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Caulking Ins/Bond 952-898-2987

A+ BBB Member

Owners on job site952-985-5516• Stamped Concrete

• Standard Concrete • Driveways • Fire Pits & Patios • Athletic Courts • Steps & Walks • Floors & Aprons www.mdconcrete.net

CONCRETE & MASONRYSteps, Walks, Drives,

Patios Chimney Repair. No job to Sm.

Lic/Bond/Ins John 952-882-0775 612-875-1277

Concrete, Chimneys Drain Tiles, Brick, Stone.Custom, New or Repair. Christian Brothers

ConstructionMinn Lic. BC679768

612-716-0388


Concrete ExcellenceDriveways Patios

Sidewalks Garage Floors Aprons Steps

Brick Paving Retaining Walls

Decorative ConcreteTear Outs & Replacement

Free EstimatesContact Troy

@ 952 457-8504Concrete-Excellence.com

ConcreteServicePlus.comAll your concrete needs. 651-248-8380

DAN’S CONCRETEDriveways, Patios, Sidewalks, Blocks,

Footings, Etc. Insured26 Years of Experience

612-244-8942

Dave’s Concrete & Masonry

39 yrs exp. Free ests. Ins’d. Colored &

Stamped, Driveway Specialist, Steps, Side-walks, Patios, Blocks,

& Floors. New or replacement. Tear out

& removal. Will meet or beat almost any quote!

• 952-469-2754 •

*** HUBCRETE Inc. ***Drives, Patios, Walks

Steps, Walls & AdditionsStamped & Color avail.Chimney repair & blockNO $ dwn/CC acceptedIns./bonded 30 yrs exp.

CARL 612 979-3518

Kelly O’Malley “As owner,

I’m always on site!”Driveways SidewalksPatios StepsFloors Stamped

612-756-3060 - 30 yr [email protected]

Lowell Russell Concrete

BBB A+ Rating - Angies List Honor Roll

From the Unique to the Ordinary

Specializing in drives, pa-tios & imprinted colored & stained concrete. Interior

acid stained floors and counter tops.

www.staincrete.com952-461-3710

[email protected]

Rick Concrete & Masonry

All Types of Concrete Work! Additions, drive-ways, patios, stamped & colored. Tear out & replace

612-382-5953

St. Marc Ready Mix Concrete

1-100 yards delivered. Both small & large trucks. Con-tractors & Homeowners.

952-890-7072


5370 Painting &Decorating

5420 Tree Care &Stump Removal

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5190 Decks

DECK CLEANING

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◆651-699-3504◆952-352-9986 www.rooftodeck.com

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PINNACLE DRYWALL*Hang *Tape *Texture

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5220 Electrical

DAGGETT ELECTRICGen. Help & Lic. Elec.

Low By-The-Hour Rates651-815-2316Lic# EA006385

5260 Garage Doors

GARAGE DOORS & OPENERS

Repair/Replace/Reasonable

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www.expertdoor.com 651-457-7776

5270 Gutter Cleaning

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5280 Handyperson

0 Stress! 110% Satisfaction!Status Contracting, Inc. Kitchens & Baths, Lower Level Remodels. Decks.

Wall/Ceiling Repair/Texture Tile, Carpentry, Carpet,

Painting & Flooring#BC679426 MDH Lead Supervisor

Dale 952-941-8896 office 612-554-2112 cell

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Quality Work @ Competi-tive Prices! We do it All!

Ray 612-281-7077

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5280 Handyperson

All Home Repairs! Excell Remodeling, LLC Interior & Exterior Work

One Call Does it All!Call Bob 612-702-8237

Home Tune-up • Fix It • Replace It

• Upgrade It Over 40 Yrs Exp.

Ins’d Ron 612-221-9480

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5300 Heating &Cooling Services

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

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5340 Landscaping

E-Z Landscape Retaining / Blder Walls Paver Patio Rock & Mulch Bobcat Work

Call 952-334-9840www.e-zlandscape.com

Ken’s LandscapingWe Haul Brush & More...

612-402-9631

LANDSCAPES BY LORAlandscapesbylora.com

Quality work @ competitiveprices. 15+ yrs exp.!

612-644-3580

Modern Landscapes • Retaining Walls • Paver Patios • “Committed to

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Pavers PlusPaver Patios & DrivewaysRetaining Walls, Rock &

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763-420-3036 952-240-5533

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Mark 651-245-7876

All Your GREEN Needs:Mowing Lawn Care

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GARDEN TILLINGBILL WILL TILL

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Green & Black LLC Lawn Maintenance

• Fertilizer • Irrigation• Mulch Install 651-356-9193

JM Lawn & SnowWeekly Mowing, Core

Aeration, Fertilizing +more

Josh 763-400-1986


Lawn & TurfWkly Mowing, Power Rake, Aeration. 952-236-4459lawnandturfonline.com

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3 Interior Rooms/$275Wallpaper Removal.

Drywall Repair. Cabinet Enameling and

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Ceiling & Wall TexturesH20 Damage-Plaster Repair

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*A and K PAINTING*Schedule Spring Painting! Stain/Texturing. Free Est. 952-474-6258 Ins/LicMajor Credit Cards Accepted

Ben’s PaintingInt/Ext, Drywall Repair

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Will meet or beat any price! Lic/Ins

Complete Handyman SvcVisa/MC 952-469-6800

**Mike the Painter Interi-or/ exterior, Wallpaper, 35 yrs exp, Ins 612-964-5776

5380 Plumbing

SAVE MONEY - Competent Master Plumb-er needs work. Lic# M3869.

Jason 952-891-2490


A Family Operated Business

No Subcontractors Used

Tear-offs, Insurance Claims BBB A+, Free Est. A+ Angies List Lic # BC170064 Certified GAF Installer - 50 yr warranty.

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Re-Roofing & Roof Repairs - 30 Yrs Exp

Insured - Lic#20126880 John Haley #1 Roofer, LLC.

Call 952-925-6156

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TOPSIDE, INC. 612-869-1177

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35 Yrs Exp. A+ Rating BBB


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Spring Discount - 25% Off Tree Trimming, Tree

Removal, Stump Grinding 612-644-8035 Remove Large

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◆ 651-338-5881 ◆Exp’d. Prof., Lic., Ins’d.

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BretMann Stump GrindingFree Ests. Best$$ Ins’d

Bck Yrd Acc 612-290-1213

Call Jeff forStump Removal

Narrow Access Backyards Fully Insured

Jeff 612-578-5299

Easy Tree Service, LLCTrim/Removal. Lic/Ins Eugene 651-855-8189

NOVAK STUMP REMOVALFree Ests. Lic’d & Ins’d

952-888-5123

Thomas Tree Service25 yrs exp./ Expert Climb.

Immaculate Clean-up! Tree Removal/TrimmingLot Clearing/Stump Removal

Free Ests 952-440-6104

5440 Window Cleaning

Rich’s Window Cleaning Quality Service. Afford-able rates. 952-435-7871

5500 EMPLOYMENT

5510 Full-time

Accounting Clerk- A/R-Office

Seeking a detail oriented individual for busy office. Benefits include health, life, 401k and profit shar-ing. Fax or email resume to

952-881-6480 [email protected]

Anchor Block Companyhas a full time opening for a Machine Operator/ 2nd Shift at our Shakopee facility. Become part of the Oldcastle team. Apply online at: www.oldcastle.com/careers/Search careers and enter job requisition #84687 to see full job description and apply.

Class A CDL Regional/OTR Flat Bed Drivers needed. Flat bed drivers home weekends. Min.1 yr. exp. preferred Will con-

sider new CDL Drivers.Commercial Transload of Minnesota Truck-lines, Inc. 7151 University

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

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

Fleet & Senior Fleet Technician

Dakota County is seeking motivated individuals to fill multiple Fleet & Senior Fleet Technician positions. The positions perform a va-riety of skilled tasks in the repair of autos, trucks, and equipment. Visit our web-site for a full job descrip-tion & to apply on-line:

www.dakotacounty.us

Receiving/Warehouse FT position available with great wages, health, life, 401k & profit sharing. Clean work environment & convenient Bloomington location Must be able to lift 75lbs. Fax or email resume to 952-881-6480. [email protected]


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Caregivers Neededfor gentleman in his home. 15-40 hrs a week. Contact son, John, 651-888-0225 or Father, Don, 651-307-1271

Delivery/Warehouse-PT position for an organized multi-tasker with attention to detail. Help pull orders.

Load/unload trucks. Delivery to metro area job sites. Requires valid D.L.

Apply in person Ben Franklin Electric 12401Wasburn Ave S. Burnsville.

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Great summer pool job!Pool technician to work at City of Apple Valley Pools. Responsible for pool clean-ing and chemical mainte-nance. We will train! Requires strong procedural and customer service skills and ability to work inde-pendently.Must be at least 18 years old and able to work out-side for long periods. Pay $13/hr!To learn more and apply: www.hawkinsinc.comEOE/AA:M/F/Disabled/Veteran Employer/Drug Free Workplace

Now Hiring / Training

School Bus DriversPT, benefits, paid holidays

$15.50 per hour$750 Hiring bonus

Call Denise

952-736-8004Durham School Services


Gate AttendantPT/FT positions currently open. Flexible scheduling, checking customers in & out of lumberyard. Starting

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Immediate Full/PT open-ing for Payroll Clerk. Col-lect, Calculate & enter data weekly. Prepare reports Tracks overtime, vacation, sick days & reimburse-ments. Maintains employ-ee confidence and protects payroll operations by keep-ing information confiden-tial. Light bookkeeping & general clerical duties Knowledge of ADP helpful.Email resumes: [email protected]

Temporary help want-ed, May through June 24. Assist with insect rearing. Call in after-noons. Crop Character-istics, Inc., Farmington. 651-460-2400.


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Family fun at Holz Farm The Holz Farm Spring Festival runs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 15, at Holz Farm Park, 4665 Manor Drive, Eagan. The 1940s restored park offers food, music and activities for all ages. Information: www.ci.eagan.mn.us/index.php/recreation/community-events.

‘The Producers’ in Lakeville The Play’s The Thing Productions will present the musical version of Mel Brooks’s classic comedy

“The Producers” May 13-22 at the Lakeville Area Arts Center. The show features a cast of about 20 adults and teenagers, with lead-ing roles played by Mat-thew Loyd of Burnsville; Max Mayleben, a Farm-ington High School ju-nior; and Maddie Railton, a 10th-grader at Lakeville South High School. Show times are 7:30 p.m. May 13-14 and 20-21, and 2 p.m. May 15 and 22. Tickets are $14 and are available at www.Lakevil-leAreaArtsCenter.com or by calling 952-985-4640. Tickets will also be avail-able at the door prior to performances.

Velvet Tones spring concert The Velvet Tones, a senior adult community chorus based in Apple Val-ley, will present their an-nual spring concert 3 p.m. Sunday, May 15, at the Apple Valley Senior Cen-ter, 14601 Hayes Road. The free, public concert by the 80-member cho-rus will include musical selections such as “Sweet Home Chicago,” “One Love,” “Footloose,” and “Fascinating Rhythm.” Twin Cities radio and TV personality Stan Turner is set to emcee the event. Refreshments will be served following the concert, and free-will do-nations will be accepted. For more information, call 952-432-1081 or visit www.velvettones.org.

Women of Note spring concert “The Sound of Si-lence,” “The Impossible Dream,” and “The Rose” are a few of the favorite songs the Eagan Women of Note will sing during their “Dream. Live. Sing.” spring concert 4 p.m. Sun-day, May 22, at Black-hawk Middle School, 1540 Deerwood Drive, Eagan. Tickets are $10 adults, $5 children under 12. Visit www.eaganwomenofnote.org for more information.

Paragon Theater summer offers Paragon Odyssey 15 Theater, Burnsville, offers a free kids summer mov-ies series 10 a.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thurs-days, June 21 to Aug. 18. The film lineup can be found at paragontheaters.com/promotions. The free

movies are for families only. Armed Forces Day. On Saturday, May 21, all ser-vice members will receive a free small popcorn (or $1 upgrade to a large). Also, from May 16-31, a percentage of all doubles combos sold will be donat-ed to fill the USO Feature Films Library. A sensory-friendly screening of “The An-gry Birds Movie” will be shown at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 21. Paragon The-aters will now offer one sensory-friendly screening a month for children with autism or other special needs and their families (low sound and lights on). Father’s Day. Treat dad to a hot dog and receive a free small popcorn Satur-day, June 18, and Sunday, June 19. Visit www.paragonthe-aters.com/promotions for more information.

‘The Abolitionists’ at Carmike Former CIA and Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard brings the battle against child sex-trafficking to the big screen in “The Abolition-ists” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 16, at the Carmike 15 Theater, 15630 Cedar Ave., Apple Valley. The film takes viewers behind-the-scenes as Bal-lard and his team of oper-atives risk their own lives to free innocent children from trafficking. A special, 30-minute panel discussion, includ-ing ideas and suggestions about what film attendees and others can do to assist with the fight, follows the feature with its executive

producer Gerald Molen. Call 952-431-4859 for information.

MMA at Mystic Lake Mixed martial arts makes its return Friday, July 15, to Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake. Doors open at 5 p.m. with fights scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. The main card, which will be broad-cast live on nationwide television via AXS-TV, starts at 9 p.m. The event will be regulated by the Minnesota Combative Sports Commission. Resurrection Fighting Alliance, one of the pre-mier MMA promotional companies in the United States, makes its fifth ap-pearance at Mystic Lake, this time presenting RFA 40. RFA 40 features the return of the “Bash Broth-ers.” Identical twins Mel-vin and Marvin Blumer, nicknamed the “Bash Brothers,” are two of the state’s top prospects, ranked No. 1 and No. 3 in Minnesota at 135 pounds. The event also marks the return of Minnesota Martial Arts Academy standout Dan “The Hit-man” Moret and Mario Roberto Jui-Jitsu product Chad “Blitz” Curry. The main, televised portion of RFA 40 also features the return of UFC veteran Chico Camus (15-7), who’s taking on Ce-sar Sklvavos (12-4) in a 125-pound showdown. Tickets range from $35-$100. Tables are $600 and $1,000. Contact the box office at 952-496-6563 or visit mysticlake.com for more details.

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Friday, May 13 Church of St. Michael’s Spring Fling, 5:30 p.m., 22120 Denmark Ave., Farmington. So-cial hour: 5:30 p.m. Dinner: 7:30 p.m., catered by Longbranch Saloon & Eatery. Games, silent auction, ’50s costume con-test, dinner, collectible cars on display 4-6 p.m. Tickets: $50. Information: www.stmichael-farmington.org.

Saturday, May 14 Metro Republican Women Mother and Daughter Break-fast, 8:30 a.m., Mendakota Country Club, 2075 Mendakota Drive, Mendota Heights. Speak-er: Smead Manufacturing CEO and President Sharon Avent. Cost: $18 members, $20 non-members, $10 students. Walk-ins welcome. Bike sale for Kids ’n Kin-ship, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 12738 Ethelton Way, Apple Valley. Prices range from $30 to $350. Information: www.ricksbikesale.com. Plant sale by the Dakota County Master Gardeners, 9 a.m. to noon, in the Horticulture Building at the Dakota County Fairgrounds, 4008 220th St. W., Farmington. Includes heir-loom tomatoes, sun and shade perennials, grasses, ground covers, vegetables and herbs. Information: www.DakotaMas-terGardeners.org.

Sunday, May 15 Fields of Fire paintball event by the Lakeville Public Safety Foundation, 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., MN Pro Paintball, 22554 Texas Ave., Lakeville. In-formation: www.lpsfmn.org.

Holz Farm Spring Festival, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Holz Farm Park, 4665 Manor Drive, Eagan. Information: www.ci.eagan.mn.us. Free Supercharge Your Brain workshop presented by Mindful Health, 2:15-3 p.m., Platinum Yoga/USA Karate Burnsville, 509 E. County Road 42, Burnsville. Learn how super-foods can nourish the brain, how healthy fat can improve brain function, and how lifestyle plays a major role in brain health. All-levels yoga class prior to work-shop from 1-2 p.m., free for new students and members. Intro-duction to yoga class following workshop from 3:15-4 p.m., free for new students & members. RSVP: [email protected], 612-720-1335, or https://www.facebook.com/events/467934533406244/.

Saturday, May 21 Plant sale by the Dakota Gardeners, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Community of Christ Church, 5990 134th St. Court, Apple Valley. Perennials divided and donated by club members. A selection of annuals and veg-etables also included. Informa-tion: 651-455-2889. Plant sale by the Lakeville Area Garden Club, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., 9975 W. 194th St., Lake-ville (corner of County Road 50 and 194th Street). Selection of perennials, annuals, hanging baskets and garden miscella-neous. Plant sale by the Sweet Sioux Garden Club, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Faith Covenant Church parking lot, 12921 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Perennials divided and donated by club members. A selection of annuals and veg-etables also included. Sale pro-ceeds used for scholarships.

Beatles tribute band A Hard Day’s Night is set to perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at the Steeple Center in Rosemount. The Minnesota-based tribute band seeks to create a high-energy, authentic replication of a Beatles concert, with songs spanning the Fab Four’s catalog. Tickets for the event presented by the Rosemount Area Arts Council are $15 and are available in advance at www.rosemountarts.com. More about the band is at www.harddaysnighttribute.com. (Photo submitted)

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Auditions Children’s Castle Theater will hold auditions for “The Wizard of Oz” 6 p.m. May 16 and 17 at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. The retelling is a non-musical version with roles for approximately 100 ac-tors ages 5 through adult. The comedic tale follows Dorothy as she is swept away by torna-do to the colorful Land of Oz. All Dorothy wants is to return to her farm but she has one small problem – the Wicked Witch (who dreams of becoming a great dancer) cannot achieve her goal without the ruby red slippers Dorothy wears on her feet. Rehearsals will be in Farmington with performances June 24-26 in Lakeville. Infor-mation: www.childrenscastle-theater.org.

Books What Writers Should Know About Editors, Tues-day, May 17, meeting room at Perkins, 17387 Kenyon Ave., Lakeville. Program of the Ro-mancing the Lakes chapter of Romance Writers of America. The group meets the third Tues-day of the month at Perkins. Socialize, 6-7 p.m.; business meeting, 7-8 p.m.; program, 8-9 p.m. Information: www.romancingthelakeswriters.com. Author Jeffrey Burton, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 17, Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Bur-ton will discuss his novel “The Lynchpin” as part of the Meet the Author series. Free. Book sale by the Friends of the Elko New Market Library, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 20; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Satur-day, May 21, with a $7 bag sale 12-2 p.m. Book donations and volunteers needed. The li-brary is at 110 J. Roberts Way, Elko New Market. Information: http://tinyurl.com/gow6678.

Call for Artists The Dakota County Public Art Citizen Advisory Commit-tee is seeking original works of art for its sixth Community Art Exhibition. Theme of the ex-hibit is “Landscapes of Dakota County.” Artists 8 years old and older living in Dakota County can submit original two-di-mensional art that meets the committee’s criteria outlined online. One entry per person is allowed. The submission dead-line is July 8. For a complete list of criteria that submissions must meet, visit www.dako-tacounty.us and search “art exhibit.” To learn more, contact Jean Erickson at 651-438-4286 or [email protected].

Comedy Tracy Morgan: Picking Up the Pieces, 8 p.m. Friday, May 27, Mystic Lake Casino, Prior Lake. Tickets: $30. Informa-tion: 952-445-9000 or www.mysticlake.com.

Dance AVHS Danceworks 2016: Feel the Beat, 7:30 p.m. May 19-21, Apple Valley High School. Tickets: $7 adults, $5 students and senior citizens. The box office is open for ticket sales one hour prior to each performance. Information: 952-431-8200. RHS modern dance com-pany performance, 7 p.m. Fri-day, May 20, Rosemount High School. Information: 651-423-7501. EVHS spring dance show, 7:30 p.m. May 21-22, Eastview

High School. Information: 952-431-8900.

Events Impressions on Ice Skat-ing Show, 7 p.m. Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14, at the Burnsville Ice Center, 251 Civic Center Parkway. Re-served tickets: $16. General admission tickets: $8 adults, $5 students ages 5-17 and seniors ages 62-plus, free for ages 4 and younger. Informa-tion: www.burnsvilleicecenter.org. Barrel racing star Amber-ley Snyder will be the keynote speaker at a May 14 fundrais-ing event for the CanDoCowgirl Mentorship program, men-toring youth to achieve their equestrian dreams, at Corner-stone on the Vermillion, 4650 200 St. E., Hastings (6 miles east of Farmington). She will share her story of “Tragedy to Triumph.” Features food and beverage stands, silent auc-tion, photo opportunities. Doors open at 4 p.m. Tickets: $40 in advance at www.cando-cowgirl.com or $45 at the door. Taste of Lakeville, 5-9 p.m. Thursday, May 19, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holy-oke Ave. Ages 21 and older. Tickets: $35 in advance, $45 day of the event. Information: https://www.tasteoflakeville.org.

Exhibits The Rosemount Area Arts Council is hosting a gal-lery opening for works of Rita Corrigan and Cheryl Kluender, along with a photo exhibit from members of the Minnesota Valley Photography Club titled “Bridges,” 6-8:30 p.m. Tues-day, May 24, in the Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Free.

Music LSHS percussion and ensemble concert, “The Big Bang – Search for the Golden Cowbell,” 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 13, Lakeville South High School auditorium. Informa-tion: 952-232-3300. Eagan Men’s Chorus spring concert, 7:30 p.m. Sat-urday, May 14, Advent United Methodist Church, 3945 Lex-ington Ave. S., Eagan. Tickets: $10 adults, $5 students, free for those 12 and younger. In-formation: Tom Mullon at 651-683-9880 or [email protected]. Velvet Tones spring con-cert, 3 p.m. Sunday, May 15, Apple Valley Senior Center, 14601 Hayes Road, Apple Val-ley. Free-will donations accept-ed. Information: 952-432-1081 or www.velvettones.org. All Saints Music Festival, 6 p.m. Friday, May 20, Little Log House Pioneer Village, Hastings. Music by TC Cats and Hairball. Tickets: www.all-saintsmusicfestival.com. Gregg Allman, 8 p.m. Sat-urday, May 21, Mystic Show-room, Prior Lake. Tickets: $59 and $69. Information: 952-496-6563 or www.mysticlake.com.

Theater BHS Showcase, 7:30 p.m. May 12-14 and 19-21, Burns-ville High School’s Mraz Cen-ter. Information: 952-707-2100. “The Producers,” pre-sented by The Play’s The Thing Productions, 7:30 p.m. May 13-14 and 20-21, 2 p.m. May 15 and 22, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets: $14 at www.LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com, 952-985-4640 or at the door.

Workshops/classes/other Eagan Art House is part-nering with Minnesota Center for Book Arts to offer book arts

workshops. Teaching Book Arts to Youth: The Language of Books, 6-9 p.m. Wednes-day, May 18, at the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S.; Jill Weese, instructor. Cost: $45, including supplies. Call 612-215-2520 or register on-line at www.mnbookarts.org/ontheroad. Information: [email protected] or 651-675-5521. The Eagan Art House of-fers workshops presented by Wet Paint Artists’ Materials and Framing on preparing artwork for exhibit. Workshops are 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 21, and 6-8 p.m. Friday, July 22. All workshops are free and will be held at the Eagan Art House. Information: [email protected] or 651-675-5521. Watch Me Draw Art Stu-dio, 20908 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville, classes: Ladies Night Out, 6-8 p.m. the second and fourth Friday of the month, create a 9x12 acrylic painting, $30. Date Night Painting, 6-8 p.m. the first and third Friday of the month, choose to paint individual canvases or one large canvas, age 21 and older, $55 per couple includes light appetizers. Coffee & Canvas, 9-11 a.m. Wednesdays, create a 9x12 acrylic painting of sun-flowers (May 11), water lilies (May 18) and African splendor (May 25); $25 per class. Infor-mation: www.watchmedraw.net or 952-469-1234. Yoga classes at Preci-sion and Flow Pilates, 13708 County Road 11, Burnsville. Slow Flow Yoga, 7-8 p.m. May 14, $20; Candlelight Yoga, 7-8 p.m. Thursdays, $20. Drop in or sign up at www.precision-andflowpilates.com. Brunch Yoga, 11 a.m. to noon May 22 at Inspiration Design Center, 220 Highway 13, Burnsville, $10. Register at www.gos-wamiyoga.com. 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. Drawing & Painting (adults and teens) with artist Christine Tierney, 9 a.m. to noon Tues-days, River Ridge Studios, 190 S. River Ridge Circle, Burns-ville. Information: www.christi-netierney.com, 612-210-3377. Brushworks School of Art Burnsville offers fine art education through drawing and painting. Classes for adults and teens. Information: Patricia Schwartz, www.BrushworksS-choolofArt.com, 651-214-4732. Soy candle making class-es held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Ja-mie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota. Line dance classes Wednesdays at Lakeville Heri-tage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave., beginners 9-10 a.m., in-termediate 10 a.m. to noon. Information: Marilyn, 651-463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. In-formation: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected]. SouthSide Writers, Sat-urday workgroup for aspiring writers, offering critique, sub-mission and manuscript prep-aration information, support and direction, 10 a.m. to noon, Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. Information: 651-688-0365.

The Eagan Men’s Chorus will present its spring concert on 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at Advent United Methodist Church, 3945 Lexington Ave. S., Eagan. The chorus will be joined by the Augustana Trombone Quartet at the concert. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students and children under 12 get in free; tickets will be available at the door. Twice a year, the chorus performs a public concert to raise money to support its mission of providing entertainment at senior-living facilities, veterans homes and hospitals. More about the group is at www.eaganmenschorus.org. (Photo submitted)

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Beauty meets ballet in BurnsvilleMiss America in attendance at Ames Center performance

Twin Cities Ballet wel-comed a special guest to one of its performances of “Cinderella 1944: A Love Story” last weekend. Betty Cantrell, the reigning Miss America, rearranged her touring schedule to attend the show at the Ames Center in Burnsville. Cantrell is a longtime friend of Twin Cities Ballet company member Natalie Rossi, who danced the lead role of Cinderella in the pro-

duction. Rossi said she and Cantrell have been best friends since kindergarten. “This was the last show of the season, and it meant so much to me that she was able to make time in her busy schedule to come,” Rossi said. As Miss America, Cantrell serves as the Na-tional Goodwill Ambassa-dor for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. She was crowned Miss Geor-gia in 2015 before receiv-ing the 2016 Miss America title. Cantrell, who greeted and posed for photos with the public following the

performance of “Cinder-ella 1944,” said she was impressed with the show by the Lakeville-based dance company. “The choreography, the story, the dancers and the music made this show absolutely incredible,” she said. “Seeing my best friend in her element was such a wonderful experience for me. I enjoyed being in Minnesota and going to the ballet, and I can’t wait to come back for ‘Nut-cracker,’ ” which Twin Cit-ies Ballet stages annually during the holiday season.

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Miss America Betty Cantrell, left, stands with Twin Cities Ballet associate artistic director Rick Vogt and company dancer Natalie Rossi at a performance of “Cinderella 1944” at the Ames Center last weekend. (Photo courtesy Twin Cities Ballet of Min-nesota)

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made in this campaign, and I am proud to have it.” Before balloting began, Miller dropped out of consideration. Miller, who was endorsed by Kline in March, previously said she would be running in the primary. Howe has not made an announcement if he would run in the prima-ry. Lewis, known as “Mr.

Right” on his KTLK-ra-dio show for several years, is a resident of Woodbury. Woodbury is not in the 2nd District boundary, but candidates do not need to be residents of a House district to run in that dis-trict. The self-described Libertarian has run for Congress before – in 1990 when he lived in Colorado. “I want to unite this party like I want to unite

this country and this dis-trict,” Lewis said. He said the nation has had enough division the past eight years and “we don’t need any more of that.” He said he intends to protect the American dream, which is about ris-ing as high as one’s ability will take someone. He said he wants to have a positive message and stick to the issues.

Lewis said he wants to reform the budget process, re-enact budget sequestra-tion, reform the Federal Reserve, get rid of the na-tional debt and restore prosperity to the Ameri-can people. “I don’t care who you supported in this endorse-ment process,” he told the delegates. “You did your duty, your obligation to the Constitution, your state and your district and

everything that is impor-tant in America. If I can live by those standards, and I intend to, I will have served you proudly, and that is my goal. … I believe in faith, hope and charity. None of those are possible without freedom.” Kline said in Septem-ber 2015 he would not seek another term after first winning election in 2002. The Democratic Party

has endorsed St. Jude Medical vice president of global human resources Angie Craig, of Eagan. She was endorsed by 2nd District DFLers on May 7.

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without us,” Mark said, laughing heartily. “Fifty-five years or whatever — it’s time.” Mraz, who attended Vista View Elementary and Nicollet Junior High in Burnsville, took to boy-hood piano lessons more readily than his brothers, Mike and Monte. “It came relatively easy to me,” he said. “I didn’t practice a lot at all. I got really good at sight read-ing because I’d show up to the lesson unprepared. It was at some point in junior high, at Nicollet Junior High, where I sat down at the piano and was just banging around and the next thing I knew, two girls were sitting next to me. A light went on and I said, ‘This is a whole new motivation.’ ” In high school he was a member of Showtime, a widely known student variety troupe founded by his father to perform at state and federal pris-

ons across the Midwest. The Mraz sons, who later formed a now-defunct wedding band, provided some of the troupe’s musi-cal accompaniment. Mark, who earned a degree in music education at the University of Min-nesota and was a drum-mer in the marching band, was Showtime’s musical director from 1982 until it ended with his father’s re-tirement in 1991. He was hired to teach band at Nicollet in 1982. His father’s name prob-ably got him the inter-view but it brought extra on-the-job scrutiny, said Mraz, who played piano, saxophone and drums in his school days. In 1984 he moved to the high school to replace one of his old band directors, Don Gjerdum, who re-tired. School officials liked his experience in march-ing band and wanted to build a program in Burns-ville comparable to those at neighboring schools, Mraz said.

“I remember they tried to get it going when I was in high school,” he said. “They really had no one that had ever marched before. When I got there, I had marched. I came in and I wrote the choreog-raphy, I found the music, I wrote the drill. Nowadays there’s four or five people that do that.” Mraz left Burnsville for Metcalf after 10 years. He said he met resistance to some of his classroom and performance initia-tives and, by then a father, was tiring of the games, musicals and concerts that consumed 70 to 80 nights a year. Mraz reflected on his career after school Mon-day as a trio of ninth-graders he’s helping along banged away on guitar, bass and drums in the next room. “I know these guys,” he said. “They’re great young men. But they’re not the popular kids. And it wasn’t until they slung the guitar on that a cute girl

even looked twice at them. They figured that out in a hurry.” The school will change next year, as sixth-graders enter and ninth-graders depart under the district’s new middle school model. “We have to change repertoire. We have to change methods. They (sixth-graders) can’t do much of anything” musi-cally, he said. But the coming change isn’t driving Mraz — who has three grown children and lives in Lakeville with his wife, Patty, a St. Paul charter school teacher — into retirement at a rela-tively young age. “I do know that I’m young and healthy and I want to get out and do some playing, do my mu-sic jobs — the timing is good for that,” he said. “My kids are getting mar-ried and having kids. Ac-tually, when there’s major change I embrace it. I love getting out of the rut.”

New retirees Mraz is one of 29 Dis-trict 191 employees retir-ing this school year. The others are: Custodians: Howard Bennett at Edward Neill, Thomas Bergum at Wil-liam Byrne and Craig Leno, districtwide. Educational assistants: Mary Akkerman at Hid-den Valley, Gary Gingery at Burnsville High School, Lora Kennedy at ECSE, Diana Rasinen at William Byrne and Mariana Sc-hunk at Rahn. Clerical: Kathryn Cleveland at Eagle Ridge Junior High. Food service: Marcia Racette at Burnsville High School. Districtwide: Donley Johnson, operations su-pervisor. Teachers: Burnsville High School — Terry Wal-ters, language arts, and Jane Wegleitner, special education. Eagle Ridge Junior High — Leanne Banks, special education.

Metcalf Junior High — Mark Challgren, Spanish, and Sharon Shelerud, so-cial studies. Harriet Bishop El-ementary — Roely Law-rence, art. Hidden Valley Elemen-tary — Diane Miller, first grade; Lynn Pauly, art; and Beth Westerhouse, special education. Rahn Elementary: Lin-da Lange, special educa-tion. Sky Oaks Elementary — Mary Hatrick, special education. William Byrne Elemen-tary — Charlene Osten-dorf, first grade. Early Childhood Fam-ily Education — Marilee McLaughlin. Early Childhood Spe-cial Education — Pamela Hauer and Jean Jaeger. District — Lynette Boekhoff, psychologist, and Janet Johnshoy, occu-pational therapist.

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

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Over the past year, the Iron Maidens have held an estimated 80 events in the area to promote STEM education, and have lob-bied at the state Capitol in favor of expanding STEM programs. The team — which is comprised of six Apple Valley High School sophomores — testified at the Legislature in March in favor of a bill that, if passed, would have pro-vided $3 million to expand STEM education pro-grams across Minnesota.

That bill failed to pass the House and Senate. The teens also provided testi-mony in favor of expand-ing the First Robotics program in greater Minne-sota. In June, team members will travel to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress for funding more STEM programs. The program provides team members an op-portunity to design, build and program their robot, which then battles in tour-naments against other ro-bots. Competitions vary,

but often have robots place rings on a pole or compete in basketball-like games. Teams form alli-ances with competitors in which two teams compete against another group of two teams. Teams are also responsible for marketing themselves to one another and to sponsors. The Iron Maidens was formed last school year by five of its team members as a way to pursue their passion for science, sports-manship and engineering. “I thought it was a great way to meet people and

improve my programming skills, which I had a little experience with,” Atalanta Stoeke said. Connie Knipe joined that first year after a con-cussion forced her to drop out of high school sports. “At first I thought of it as something to do since I couldn’t play sports anymore, and I’ve always been interested in science,” Knipe said. “Now I can’t think of doing anything else. I’ve made so many friends here and learned so many valuable skills.” Iron Maidens team

member, Marie Pena, joined the team earlier this year. Pena said she has been interested in pro-gramming since she was a 3-year-old helping her fa-ther build computers. Some of the Iron Maidens, such as Knipe and Stoeke, plan to pur-sue careers in science and engineering, while others plan to pursue other fields. They all agree that the skills they acquire through FIRST Robotics can be applied to any career path. “I’ve realized that STEM is everywhere,” said

Pena, who plans to study business after high school. “Doing this can get you everywhere. It has aspects that apply to every field.” Team mentors are Nick Aarestad, Anne Marie De-Board and Jason Stoeke and sponsors include Da-kota Electric, Frontier Communications, Geny-sis Credit Union, Land o’ Lakes and Uponor. Jessica Harper is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

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