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Eagan boy, 13, fatally shotSuhayb Hassan was accidentally shot by his 15-year-old brother.

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Blaze skier tames slopeBurnsville/Shakopee sophomore Jack Lindsay was the boys medalist Friday at the Buck Hill Invite.

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Decision time nears in District 191 Officials holding

info meetingsbefore Feb. 24

election by John Gessner

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Burnsville-Eagan-Sav-age School District 191 will look different in fall 2016 if voters approve a major redesign on Feb. 24. Breaking with decades of local tradition, Burns-ville High School will add ninth-graders, the three junior highs will become middle schools of grades

six through eight, and the 10 elementary schools will house kindergarten through fifth grade.

“I understand the rich history of 56-plus years of Burnsville-Eagan-Savage schools,” said Superinten-

dent Joe Gothard, whose year and a half in the job has been partly consumed by meeting with groups

and developing the new plan. “They’ve provided and prepared students in wonderful ways. They’ve been a great place for families to come and raise children and stay, and we recognized that. There are wonderful traditions in this district. “But there’s also an op-portunity for us to rede-sign our district to better meet the needs of today’s learners.” Gothard and his ad-ministrative team gave an overview of the new plan,

by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK

DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

As a former principal of Eagle Ridge Junior High, Dave Helke remem-bers his frustration at hearing some ninth-grad-ers dismiss their freshman

year as unimportant. “I don’t need those credits” was a constant refrain, Helke said. At the same time he’d hear from Burnsville High School colleagues wishing they could get their hands on those ninth-graders to

give them an extra year of academic and post-high school guidance. That’s the position Helke is in now as BHS principal. His hopes for a four-year high school

Times demand 4-year high school, BHS staffers say

Lego creations amaze

Members of the TwinLUG, the Minneapolis & St. Paul Lego User Group, demonstrated Lego creations Jan. 24 at Burnhaven Library in Burnsville. They include a robot (above) that can draw on paper and a fairy (at right) in flight in front of a waterfall. Little ones got to try their hands at building with Legos, too. (Photos by Tad Johnson)

District 196 considersreferendum

Would fund building

improvements, new school, technology

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


Officials in the Rose-mount-Apple Valley-Ea-gan School District are considering seeking bond referendum and capital projects levy totaling up to $180 million this Novem-ber to fund building up-grades, a new elementary school and new technol-ogy. At a Jan. 26 special School Board meeting, officials recommended adding onto the district’s three magnet schools and potentially building a new elementary school in the south-central portion of the district to meet the needs of rising enrollment. A potential bond ref-erendum would also pay for the second phase of an addition onto Parkview Elementary School in Lakeville. The first phase is already underway. The Minnesota Depart-ment of Education in No-vember listed Echo Park Elementary in Burnsville and Oak Ridge Elemen-tary in Eagan as racially identifiable schools. The

More liquor in Burnsville?City considers market

forces as it reviews off-sale ordinance



No growlers, no brewpub carryouts, no wine from Trader Joe’s. Burnsville allows none of these un-der its current off-sale liquor ordinance, which limits the number of licenses to the 12 already held by the city’s liquor stores. But the City Council, responding to

the evolving retail liquor business, is con-sidering ordinance changes that could bring the city more in line with current market forces. Options were presented to the council Jan. 27 as part of a monthslong review. The council will hear public comments on the ordinance Feb. 24 at 4:30 p.m. The city has been unable to grant sev-eral requests for nontraditional liquor sales in the past two years, including wine sales by gourmet food retailer Vom-Fass Oils and sales by a would-be vodka and gin distillery, according to city staff.

Eagan 11-year-old isa GlobeChanger

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK


At 11 years old, Mandi Simon has hosted hun-dreds of birthday parties. Not for friends, for chil-dren in need. The parties are a part of Simon Says Give, an Ea-gan nonprofit that Mandi founded nearly three years ago, which hosts birthday

parties and c o n d u c t s backpack drives for c h i l d r e n living in poverty. H e r nonprof i t has been

so successful, Mandi was

MandiSimon

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Child care costs are a burdenGuest columnist Cynthia Bauerly says middle class families paying for child care deserve a tax break.

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Valentine’s mysteryThe Eagan Theater Company is offering a macabre twist to Valentine’s Day with its dinner theater show “My Fatal Valentine.”

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Inside this edition is the sample ballot for the Feb. 24 special election for voters in the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District.

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Eagan police say boy died of gunshot wound by Tad Johnson


Eagan police have iden-tified the 13-year-old boy who died at about 11 a.m. Sunday as Suhayb Hassan who suffered an uninten-tional gunshot wound to his chest, according to in-vestigators. Hassan was shot by his 15-year-old brother, whom

police said thought the 9 mm handgun belonging to their father was unloaded. Upon their arrival po-lice officers, firefighters, and HealthEast paramed-ics attempted life-saving measures, but Hassan died at the scene. The boys found the hidden unloaded hand-gun while in their home at 1794 Silver Bell Circle

with their 11-year-old sis-ter. The children reported that cartridges for the gun were nearby. The gun was then loaded and thought to be unloaded by one of the boys when they began to chase each other while playing “cops and rob-bers.” The 15-year-old pressed the trigger and uninten-

tionally fired the weapon toward his brother, ac-cording to police. The one round that was fired struck Suhayb in the chest. The 15-year-old called police to report that his brother was unresponsive and bleeding. He told dis-patchers his brother had been running with a knife and had fallen when he ac-cidentally stabbed himself.

He later told respond-ing officers he lied to dis-patchers and admitted he accidently shot his broth-er. The 11-year-old was uninjured and did not wit-ness the incident. Police did not take any-one into custody. Police reported they do not an-ticipate any future arrests. The case continues to

be investigated with the assistance of the Henne-pin County Medical Ex-aminer’s Office. The facts will be pre-sented to the Dakota County Attorney’s Office for review.

Tad Johnson is at [email protected].

Police seek man who approached 6-year-old girl A possible child abduc-tion was averted Tuesday morning in Burnsville, say police, who are seeking the public’s help in finding the man involved. Police were called at 8:30 a.m. to the 2000 block

of East 117th Street, where an adult witness reported seeing what may have been an abduction attempt. According to police, the witness saw a man ap-proach a 6-year-old girl who was standing at her

school bus stop at about 8 a.m. The witness said the man approached in a silver compact car with uniden-tified white lettering on the passenger side. The man was seen

standing by an open car door, which the witness said “made it appear that the male intended to allow the child to enter the vehi-cle,” a police news release said. The man got back in his

car and sped off when he saw the witness had spot-ted him, police said. The driver was de-scribed as white and middle-aged, with a “beer belly,” balding on top and wearing a gray sweatshirt.

Anyone with informa-tion about the vehicle or the driver is asked to call Bryan Bye with the Burnsville Police Depart-ment at 952-895-4604.

— John Gessner

Officials confirm Apple Valley murder-suicideInvestigation into

shooting continues

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK


Officials confirmed that three people found dead at an Apple Valley home Jan. 17 died as a result of a murder-suicide carried out by David Crowley, 29. The Hennepin County

Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Crowley’s wife, Komel, 28, and their daughter, Raniya Crowley, 5, died of homicide, while David Crowley died of suicide. Investigators found a handgun next to David Crowley’s body when they entered the scene at 1051 Ramsdell Drive. Apple Valley police re-ported that the three bod-ies were found in close

proximity to each other in the front room of the resi-dence. There were no signs of intrusion or struggle. Investigators have de-termined the last verified activity from the residence happened in late Decem-ber. Investigators seized several personal electronic devices and computers from the residence. The Dakota County Electronic Crimes Task Force is com-

pleting forensic analysis of the devices. “The analysis of these devices could provide im-portant information about this incident,” said Apple Valley Police Capt. John Bermel, “but that analysis will take time.” The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Dakota County Sheriff ’s Office are assist-ing Apple Valley police with the ongoing investi-

gation. The bodies were discov-ered in the home Jan. 17 when a neighbor stopped by the house to collect packages that had accu-mulated near the front door, and saw the bodies inside through a window, according to police. David Crowley, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, worked out of the family’s home as a filmmaker and is

credited as director and writer of an unreleased film called “Gray State,” a trailer for which remains available for viewing on YouTube. Komel Crowley, a reg-istered dietitian, ran her own business called Mind-Body Dietitian.

Email Tad Johnson at [email protected].

Mid-Winter Fest returns to Apple Valley Feb. 7 by Andrew Miller


Winter fun is in store next weekend at Apple Valley’s Mid-Winter Fest. Now in its 38th year, the annual celebration hosted by the city’s Parks and Recreation Depart-

ment features family-oriented activities from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, centered at the Apple Valley Community Center in Hayes Park. The community center will take on a carnival-like atmosphere during the festival with face paint-

ing, cotton candy, inflat-able jumpers and balloon animals. Also planned are an ice carving demo, a DJ dance party, s’mores roasting and horse-drawn sleigh rides in the park. Guests can also try their hands at snowshoe-ing and cross-country ski-

ing in Hayes Park, with equipment provided. The medallion hunt, a perennial festival favorite, returns this year for teams of sleuths to search out a medallion hidden in one of the city’s 50 parks. Clues will be posted at the Apple Valley Com-munity Center starting at 9 a.m. the day of the fes-tival, with a $250 prize for the finder of the medal-lion. Admission is free to all

the events; there will be a charge for concessions and some activities such as the kids pizza lunch with city mascot Klondike, which costs $5. Guests who bring a non-perishable food item to the community center for donation to the food shelf will be entered in hourly prize drawings. More festival informa-tion, including details on Mid-Winter Fest’s ath-letic tournaments, is on

the city’s website at www.cityofapplevalley.org. Mid-Winter Fest was started in 1978 with only a few activities and about 100 participants its first year, according to city records. The festival has grown steadily since then, to a peak of about 5,000 participants in the early 1990s.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

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Local dentists offer free care through Give Kids a Smile Free dental care for up to 6,000 children in need will be available at dental offices across Minnesota during the Minnesota Dental Association’s 13th annual Give Kids a Smile event. Patients seeking ap-pointments should be 18 years or younger and be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. People interested in scheduling an appointment can call United Way 211 (just dial 2-1-1), or the statewide toll-free number 1-800-

543-7709. Local dental clinics participating in Give Kids a Smile include: The Dental Specialists.com, 40 Nicollet Blvd. W., Burnsville. Event date: Feb. 6. Office hours: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Services offered: Root canals. Phone: 952-746-4519. Park Dental Ridges, 40 W. Nicollet Blvd., Burnsville. Event date: Feb. 6. Office hours: 1-5 p.m. Website for direc-tions: parkdental.com/ridges#ad-image-0. Ser-

vices offered: Exams, cleanings, fluoride, seal-ants, X-rays, fillings, ex-tractions. Phone: 952-898-0990. Eagan Valley Dental, 4555 Erin Drive, Suite 180, Eagan. Event date: Feb. 5. Office hours: 2-6 p.m. Services offered: Exams, X-rays, cleanings, sealants, fluoride, fillings. Languag-es: Spanish. Phone: 651-681-9044. Park Dental Eagan, 1895 Plaza Drive, Suite 130, Eagan. Event date: Feb. 6. Office hours: 7-11

a.m. Website for direc-tions: www.parkdental.com. Services offered: Exam, cleanings, fluoride, sealants, X-rays, extrac-tions, fillings. Phone: 651-

454-2700. Metro Dentalcare Eagan, 1965 Cliff Lake Road, Suite 102, Eagan. Event date: Feb. 6. Office hours: 12-4 p.m. Services

offered: Exams, clean-ings, fluoride varnishes, sealants, X-rays, fillings, extractions. Languages: Spanish. Phone: 651-452-4828.

Fitness after 50 Local entrepreneur finds his mission after stroke



Jim Fisher used to be a fair-weather workout en-thusiast. He’d hit it hard for a month but backslide when the travel and de-mands of his job as a com-pany president mounted. In 2012, Fisher had a stroke. Through rehabilitation, he regained his ability to walk, drive and stand for long periods. And Fisher rededicated himself to physical and nutritional fit-ness. “I’m down about 60 pounds from my maximum weight,” the 56-year-old Apple Valley resident said. “I know that my joints and everything else benefitted greatly from that. I played softball a summer ago for the first time in 25 years and felt great doing that, and I’m able to spend time with my family and my friends doing things that I wasn’t able to do before.” Fisher also left his job with a sign and screen printing company to look for business opportuni-ties on his own. Through a franchise broker he learned about an Edina-based chain of health clubs called

Welcyon, Fitness After 50. In December Fisher opened the first Welcyon location south of the river. Welcyon is the Twin Cit-ies’ first health club chain for people 50 and older, he said. The new location is in the Summit Oaks Square mall at county roads 11 and 42 in Burnsville. “I was fortunate enough to have access to equip-ment to do it on my own,” said Fisher, who has two daughters, 17 and 24, with his wife, Teresa. “And I’m a self-driven person, and re-ally driven after my stroke. Not everyone can do it on their own. They need guid-ance.” Welcyon was founded by Tom and Suzy Boerboom. Tom is president and chief operating officer of Welcov Healthcare, which owns se-nior health-care facilities. Suzy is a former nurse, and the couple formerly owned some Curves health clubs for women, Fisher said. “Working in all those different environments, they found that the over-50 demographic is under-served from a fitness per-spective,” Fisher said. “No one’s focusing on them and providing them the high-touch, consultative ap-

proach to fitness.” His club is staffed by six Welcyon-trained coaches. Each new client gets three orientation workouts to ac-climate them to the equip-ment and set their resis-tance levels, Fisher said. Clients range from al-ready fit workout junkies to people who lapsed over the years to those who have never worked out and may have joint replacements, ar-thritis or coronary disease, Fisher said. “We’re here to help them digest this in bite-sized pieces and help them crawl at first, then walk, then walk faster,” he said. “Some of them may never run. They may never get to those stand-up ellipti-cals down on the end, and that’s OK.” Welcyon offers strength, cardio, balance, stretching and nutrition training. “The fact of the matter is, we lose 10 percent of our muscle mass every decade from 30 on if we don’t do anything to maintain it,” Fisher said. “And strength training isn’t something that the 50-plus demo-graphic tends to do.” Welcyon offers smart card-driven strength equip-ment that records resis-

tance levels and reps for each user and automatical-ly increases the resistance for the next session after a user exceeds the usual number of reps. “We work with a mem-ber to build their profile,” Fisher said. On average, he said, Welcyon members increase their strength by 50 percent in the first three months and double it in a year. “Doubling your strength can mean I can lift that bag of water-softener salt out of my trunk and carry it to the house now,” Fisher said. “Or it could mean I’m able to do things outside, garden, and do other things. It can mean a

lot of different things. But what it does mean is that my muscles aren’t continu-ing to atrophy, my bone density isn’t going down, and by building strength, you’re also increasing your metabolic rate at rest. If you add more muscles than you do fat, your body’s go-ing to burn more calories just at a resting heart rate.” Other club features in-clude low-impact cardio equipment (no treadmills, Fisher said), standing and seated elliptical machines and recumbent bicycles with video courses to fol-low. The club offers a regi-men of five stretching routines and a regimen

of balance exercises that strengthen ankle and leg muscles, Fisher said. Nutrition counseling is also provided. “You can’t treat one and not treat the other and get great results,” he said. “After 50 it is very hard to work out hard enough and long enough to be able to overcome a bad diet.” The Burnsville club is at 14635 County Road 11. More information is at www.welcyon.com/burns-ville.

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

Jim Fisher is pictured on one of the workout machines at his Welcyon, Fitness after 50 franchise in Burnsville. (Photo by John Gessner)


Why a February levy election in District 191?To the editor: Most voters in Burns-ville-Eagan-Savage School District 191 are probably unaware that they are be-ing asked to head to the polls on Feb. 24 to vote on two new school levies that will increase property taxes yet again. Accord-ing to the school district’s numbers, the average hom-eowner in the district will pay an additional $144 per year if the levies are ap-proved. Didn’t we just head to the polls for a general elec-tion? A general election where we elected School Board members for Dis-trict 191? Yes, we did. Conveniently, however, the School Board waited to act on the levies until just days after the election. Call me a cynic, but it is hard to describe this unusual February vote

as anything other than a deliberate attempt by the School Board to find a time when few people would vote, making it eas-ier to pass their property tax hike. After all, we rare-ly have elections in Febru-ary, just months after the last one. In addition to the questionable timing, a separate vote is costly and a waste of taxpayer dol-lars. I’ve lived in District 191 since 2000 and have voted for nearly every levy increase the School Board has sought. Strong schools are the backbone of a strong community. But I voted no this time around, because the way the District 191 School Board is trying to pull the wool over taxpayers’ eyes with this February elec-tion is simply something I cannot in good conscience support. I encourage every voter in the parts of Burnsville, Savage and Eagan that are in District 191 to learn

more about this issue and to exercise their right to vote on Feb. 24 or ab-sentee beforehand. More information – and the polling places (which are different than where peo-ple voted in November) – can be found at www.isd191.org/referendum.

DANIEL WOLTEREagan

Sad about Haskell’sTo the editor: Although I knew it was coming weeks ago, I am still saddened to read in the Jan. 23 issue of Sun Thisweek that Haskell’s wine shop will be closing at the end of January. It is too bad that a national superstore with no local connection would drive a Burnsville family store out of business. Based on my research, Total Wine’s reputation and history precede it.

This was not an isolated in-cident. I support our local mom-and-pop businesses, not predatory chains such as Total Wine. I have not set foot in the Burnsville Total Wine store and have no desire to do so.

CHUCK ERICKSONBurnsville

Trail to nowhere To the editor: Lebanon Hills Re-gional Park is going to be bulldozed to make room for a County Board- and

staff-recommended 10-foot wide flat asphalt trail through the hills of the park with expanded devel-opment at every trailhead. The citizen panel proceedings have been concluded. The result, an eight-month-long, $200,000 process that was tightly controlled by staff, is that the proposed draft has become a final plan. Meetings were dominated by consultants with no op-portunity to implement any citizens concerns. I personally have al-most been run over by bi-cyclists going 20 mph on

these flat asphalt trails. I thought the park was sup-posed to be for people and nature. I hope that the county finds a way to use all the buckthorn trees that will be killing the natural vegetation of the park. I guess we do not need people, trees or ani-mals in our parks. BETTY FEDDEEagan

Trail plan needs to change

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Child care costs straining Minnesota families

Met Council has been effective despite complaints

by Cynthia BauerlySPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Child care strains the budgets of many families in Minnesota, where the average cost of all-day care for one child is $901 a month, or $10,812 per year. These costs make Minnesota the fourth-most expen-sive state in the nation for child care. Gov. Mark Dayton wants to cut taxes for working families who are struggling to afford quality care by expanding the state’s Child and Dependent Care Credit. We were able to meet some of those who would benefit when the governor an-nounced his plan last week. Tameya Clark was forced to make a tough decision a few years ago because she couldn’t afford the high cost of child care for her son, Diante. So, like many other Minnesotans, Tameya decided to leave her job as an executive assistant to stay home and take care of Diante, now 5. “With my son in child care full time, over half of my income was going to pay

child care costs,” Tameya said. “This left us very little money to afford family bills and expenses.” Michelle and Jake Steffan faced a similar choice last year when they had their second son, Linden. The Steffans decided Michelle would temporarily stop working as a physical therapist to stay home with Linden, now 9 months old, and his brother, Xavier, 3. Michelle wants to return to work part-time, but the $425 weekly cost for child care is a concern. “Anything I make working would go away immediately to put both boys into day care,” she said. “So I’ve been home for about a year.” The Child and Dependent Care Cred-

it helps working families pay for care by letting them claim part of the expense on their state tax return. Dayton’s plan ex-tends the credit to more families and in-creasing the credit for most who qualify. That would help the Steffans, who don’t qualify now but would receive a credit of $1,200 under the governor’s proposal. “I love what do. I am really ex-cited to go back to work,” Michelle Stef-fan said. “And this tax credit will really help make that possible.” The governor’s plan will save real money for thousands of Minnesota fam-ilies with young children or other depen-dents, such as aging parents and family members with disabilities. The plan: • Extends the credit to 92,000 new Minnesota households (for a total of 130,000) • Increases the maximum credit to $2,100 (from the current $1,440) • Puts an average of nearly $480 back in the pockets of families who qualify • Allows more middle-class families to qualify by increasing the income cap

from the current $39,000 to $124,000 (for those with two children) Strengthening our middle class in this way is good for everyone. Families win when parents and caregivers can balance their responsibilities – at work and at home – in a way that make financial sense for them. And we all win when Minneso-tans can keep working while they build a family and ensure their children are well cared for while they work. “Now that my son is in kindergarten, I will be able to go back to work,” said Tameya Clark. “The child care tax credit will offset the cost of before and after cost for Diante.” Dayton’s plan increases economic se-curity for thousands of Minnesotans. It is a $100 million investment in our work-ing families, and in the future of our state.

Cynthia Bauerly is the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Revenue. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

by Don HeinzmanSUN THISWEEK


You are going to hear a lot from leg-islators on how to fix the Metropolitan Council this session. It has limited power to tax, and it has power to run sewer, water, mass transit highways and parks systems and to help plan and regulate growth in the seven-county metropolitan area. The Met Council has around 4,200 employees, and in 2012 it had an ex-penditure budget of almost $780.31 million. If you live in Hennepin, Ramsey, Washington, Anoka, Carver, Dakota and Scott counties, the council’s deci-sions could affect you. The council has approved Thrive MSP 2040, which will guide the growth of the region. The sticky political point is the 17-member council and its chair are all appointed by the governor. You’ll hear that the council should be elected or at least it should have some elected offi-cials on it. Defenders of the appointed process say the council is accountable to an elected governor. It’s clear, however, that the concept of a regional planning council and its running of the transit, sewer, parks and

water systems has been accepted by most local governmental leaders and city staffs, with the exception, perhaps, of cities on the fringe. There are two uprisings against it now. One is coming from the influential Kenilworth corridor area in Minneapo-lis that opposes the proposed light rail line from Minneapolis to Eden Prairie that the council must approve to get federal funds. Proposals for the line, which would cross a channel connect-ing two lakes, suggest it could run in a tunnel or on a bridge. The other opponents are county commissioners from Scott, Dakota, Carver, Washington and Anoka coun-ties who are upset with the council’s transportation committee’s allocation of transit funds. How does the council affect you? Steve Dornfeld, former government re-porter for the Star Tribune and St. Paul

Pioneer Press and Met Council’s for-mer director of public affairs, recently described how the council and its influ-ence have grown since it was started in 1967. It operates the metro sewer system, which is far different today than in the 1960s when contaminated water was running into the Mississippi River and Lake Minnetonka, and private wells in the inner ring suburbs contained sew-age waste. The council operates the Metropoli-tan bus system, different than in 1970, when the council bought Twin City Lines and its 635 buses that were 15 years old; 86 were banned from public streets. It operates the regional park sys-tem that has saved valuable land near waters from being turned into housing developments, shopping centers and sanitary landfills. Through the use of an imaginary line, it has prevented housing develop-ments from leapfrogging all over the re-gion area and preventing urban sprawl. The opposition proposes that the council be elected and be more ac-countable to the public. They suggest perhaps a hybrid council of half elect-ed and half appointed, that terms be staggered and that local officials have

some say on the appointees. Meanwhile, the public, mostly un-aware of the council, is not pressing for a change. Why not? Because it’s working. If it were elected, it could become politicized and we’d have the gridlock as members would make decisions in-volving tradeoffs: I’ll vote for your park if you’ll vote against the South-west Light Rail, or I’ll vote for a road in your district if you’ll vote for extend-ing the sewer lines. Some, like Myron Orfield, who drafted the 1994 bill that created the current composition of the Met Coun-cil, says such horse trading is just part of the Democratic process. Gov. Mark Dayton has just ap-pointed a new council chair, Adam Du-ininck, who has the right credentials for this time in the council’s growth. He should realize that for the most part, the council’s job of coordinating and planning the growth of the region largely is accepted by the general pub-lic. Don Heinzman is a columnist for ECM Publishers. He can be reached through [email protected]. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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To the editor: In this and other news-papers there are more ar-ticles related to Dakota County trail plans that sound like a sales pitch to the public. The senior planner for Dakota County says that “sometimes it’s a little overwhelming.” What is overwhelming is the lack of honest and transparent communica-tion regarding the cost and funding sources for “Greenway Trail Plans.” The destruction and lack of attention to natural resources and wildlife and spending millions paving through natural resources is more than overwhelming. It may be as easy to bike around Dakota County as it is to drive – maybe six months a year. Current roads and bridg-es need development and repair more than we need miles of bike trails

that cost even more to build and maintain. Cur-rent parks and natural resource management should be a priority over development and de-struction for paved trails. Chris Hartzell, Da-kota County senior proj-ect manager, said: “It’s got some pretty crazy topography,” in regard to Spring Lake Park Re-serve and the plans to have trails go through prairie and wooded ar-eas, cross ravines and have two bridges (costing over a million each), add-ing to the cost that has not been clearly commu-nicated along with ongo-ing maintenance costs. There has been over-whelming negative public comments for years from past meetings regarding trail plans. Elected of-ficials who have made the decisions on the plan have ignored the 90-95 percent negative com-ments documented on the Dakota County website.

Some of the past articles published in the Star Tri-bune also have pages of negative comments re-garding the plans on their website. Joe Atkins did a Facebook poll about the plan for paving parks for bike trails that was com-municated to the coun-ty commissioners with many more (again 90-95 percent) negative com-ments and lack of sup-port. Please communicate honestly to our public citizens before it is too late for several of our county parks and before the continued overspend-ing continues on these project plans. Trust has been lost with the lack of attention to public citizens (the majority) who have been voicing their opinions and lack of support for this plan.

PATRICIA LUETHEagan

Lebanon Hills panel was effective To the editor: As a member of the Lebanon Hills Regional Park Master Plan Citi-zens Advisory Panel I feel compelled to respond to recent letters criticiz-ing the review process. I do not feel the scope of the panel was as limited as described. The County Board asked for review and comment on three major elements of the plan: trails; recreational use areas; and natural resources. We met 10 times, beginning with a review of the panel’s scope of work; an over-view of the park his-tory and issues related to its ecological health; use data and trends; and other background infor-mation. Staff and con-sultant information was helpful, not controlling. We then spent several meetings discussing the

main subject areas. Dis-cussions were open and civil and all members had an opportunity to ask questions and state their opinions. Members’ comments on the process at the last meeting were quite positive. Regarding the recom-mendations, we were able to reach consensus or near consensus on many items. On some issues there was disagreement. The board was given in-formation on the full range of panel responses. It should also be noted that the panel made sev-eral recommendations that varied considerably from the draft staff rec-ommendations, including the type and degree of development in use areas; the need to give greater priority to issues of natu-ral resource stewardship and habitat restoration, maintenance, funding, volunteerism, and educa-tion; and the routes and surfaces for several pro-

posed trails. Members represented a range of interests, expe-rience, backgrounds and viewpoints. The panel was meant to provide an additional opportu-nity for public comment and should be viewed in that context. I believe the group approached its job in a serious and thought-ful manner and its rec-ommendations ought to be respected and carry at least as much weight as those of the Stake-holder Master Plan Task Force of 14 years ago. Their ideas were not cast in concrete, nor will the recent panel’s ideas be considered sacred. The future of Lebanon Hills Regional Park will continue to involve a thoughtful balancing of competing needs and in-terests. I believe the panel made a positive contribu-tion to that discussion.

WAYNE SAMESEagan

LETTERS, from 4A

2nd District challengers line up Democrat Angie Craig, Republican David Gerson to run against Kline



Eagan resident An-gie Craig said on Mon-day that she would be stepping down from her leadership responsibili-ties as vice president of global human resources at St. Paul-based St. Jude Medical to focus on her campaign as a Democrat candidate for U.S. Con-gress in the 2nd District. On the same day, Re-publican activist David Gerson said he would be challenging U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Burnsville, for the party’s endorse-ment. Craig said she will re-main with St. Jude, focus-ing on key initiatives such as diversity and inclusion, veteran hiring and work-force development with key colleges and universi-ties. She has held her cur-rent job role for the past four years with respon-sibility for all aspects of

the 16,000 St. Jude M e d i c a l employees globally. C r a i g joined St. Jude Medi-cal in 2005 as vice

president of corporate re-lations with responsibility for health policy, govern-ment affairs, investor re-lations, public relations and internal communi-cations, according to the company. In 2010 that role ex-panded to include re-sponsibility for corporate human resources, and in 2012, she assumed her current role leading the newly centralized global human resources organi-zation. Craig has led numer-ous initiatives in human resources that St. Jude officials say have fostered collaboration and part-nership across the com-pany, strengthened the

company’s organiza-tional ca-pacity and reinforced the compa-ny’s culture around the globe. She was

credited for helping lead the company through sig-nificant growth and the integration of several ac-quisitions. Prior to working at St. Jude Medical, Craig spent more than 10 years at London-based ortho-pedics company Smith & Nephew. She led corpo-rate affairs in addition to communications, public relations and government affairs. She was based in London, and Memphis, Tenn., during her tenure with Smith & Nephew. Craig is a board mem-ber of Open Arms of Minnesota, Women Win-ning, and a member of the Eagan Rotary. She

also serves as a precinct chair in Senate District 51 for the DFL Party. She has served on the boards of the St. Paul Area Chamber of Com-merce, LifeScience Al-ley and the Twin Cities American Heart Associa-tion, as well as chairwom-an of the Twin Cities Go Red campaign. She is the current chairwoman of the Advancing Sciences Breakfast for the AHA. Craig has a bachelor of arts degree in journal-ism from the University of Memphis and began her career as a newspaper reporter in Memphis. She is married with four boys.Gerson Gerson, who lost the Republicans’ endorse-ment vote in 2014, said he has a plan in place to fundraise and win an ex-pected endorsement bat-tle with Kline. “I recognize that many will judge the strength of my campaign purely on

our ability to fundraise and I am building a plan to do exactly that,” he said in a statement. Among Gerson’s top priorities are repealing the Affordable Care Act, simplifying the tax code and eliminate special in-terest loopholes and rein-ing in out-of-control defi-cit spending. “People want an alter-native to politics-as-usu-al. They want a govern-ment that works for their families and their com-munities. They want a leader that will represent them,” he said. Gerson ran against Kline in the 2012 primary when the incumbent cap-tured 85 percent of the vote. Gerson, an engineer who works for aerospace company Meggitt PLC, portrayed himself as a more conservative candi-date than Kline. Kline, 66, a 25-year veteran of the Marine Corps and chairman of the Education and the

Workforce Committee, won his seventh term in the House in 2014 with 56.1 percent of the vote to former state Rep. Mike Obermueller’s 38.8 per-cent. Kline, who also serves on the House Armed Services Committee, first won election by defeat-ing incumbent Rep. Bill Luther in 2002. It was the third Kline-Luther matchup. He then defeated a string of Democrat can-didates that included former Burnsville City Council Member Teresa Daly, former FBI agent Coleen Rowley, Iraq War veteran Steve Sarvi, for-mer state Rep. Shelley Madore and twice defeat-ed Eagan attorney Ober-mueller.


Angie Craig David Gerson

Minnesota Chamber proposes alternative transportation funding mechanismby Cyndy Brucato

MINNPOST

Republicans in the Leg-islature and state business leaders aren’t even tak-ing Gov. Mark Dayton’s transportation proposal out for a test spin before declaring it unacceptable. But state business lead-ers do have a tax increase proposal of their own. Dayton’s plan calls for a 6.5 percent per gallon tax on gas at the wholesale level, an increase in license tab fees and registration fees, and a half cent sales tax increase in the seven-county metro area. The response from Sen-ate minority leader David

Hann: “The Legislature should take the time to adequately define our transportation needs, and then come up with solu-tions that actually address it, without raising taxes.” Legislative Republicans and the Minnesota Cham-ber of Commerce support plans to use general fund revenues and wring ef-ficiencies out of the cur-rent system, a proposal that critics say would fall far short of the $6 billion the state will need over the next 10 years. But the state Chamber of Commerce isn’t entirely opposed to raising taxes to fund transportation.

It’s asking the Legislature to consider a “value cap-ture user fee,” essentially a property tax increase on properties that would be enhanced by transporta-tion improvements. “Think of it as a spe-cial assessment,” said Bill Blazar, the Minnesota Chamber’s acting presi-dent. “You would have to show that public improve-ment has raised the value of the property so it’s a benefit test, not specula-tion.” Blazar said there’s a number of legislators, both DFL-ers and Repub-licans, that “at a minimum see the need to look at the

alternatives.” In 2008, the last time gas tax was raised, the Minnesota Chamber was one of the major players in what eventually turned out to be a 8.5-cent gas tax increase. The Cham-ber even supported the override of Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s veto. That was then. “In the last seven years, I think the way we use the transportation system has changed fundamen-tally,” Blazar said. “Just the number of people who work at home. Secondly, the technological changes — the most prominent is the electric vehicle — and

then, third, the fact that you had such a big tax in-crease in 2013.” Move Minnesota, a co-alition of labor and inter-est groups, supports the governor’s plan. “A great first step,” is how spokes-man Darin Broton de-scribes it. Broton predicts move-ment on either raising the sales tax on fuel or a simple percent per gallon tax increase. Unlike Bla-zar, he sees similarities between 2008 and 2015. “This (opposition to gas tax increase) is how the chamber positioned itself in 2008. They didn’t come in until the last minute to

support the override,” he said. “What else is sort of similar, a number of regional chambers have been pushing for new rev-enue.” Blazar contends the new revenue is there in the value capture user fee. “We’re optimistic that val-ue capture or something like will be part of the fi-nal legislation.”

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College news Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, fall dean’s list, from Burnsville –

Emily Anderson, Laura Brown, Cally Caviness, Iver Cleveland, Jessica Craig, Stefan Decker, Joseph Gleason, Anna

Gravrok, Megan Hei-merman, Xeniya Konika, Brenna Lyden, Meghann Rudolph, Sydney Schalk, Alex Schams, Benjamin

Shimota, Larissa Stark-weather, Kathleen Wil-cox; from Eagan – Ryan Anderson, Daniel Ar-bogast, Davis Arbogast, Sarah Barclay, Daniel Bausman, John Bebel, Tess Bergman, Kara Ber-nstein, Nathan Chap-delaine, Sydney Chris-ten, Tyler Cobb, Nathan Conroy, Lauren Czar-netzki, Rachel Dubbink, Matthew Elert, Thomas Fredericks, Rachel Graff, Joshuah Grittner, Kelly Hanson, Alanna Hen-nen, Lindsey Hildebrand, Sarah Horak, Elizabeth Johnson, Rachel Johnson, Sarah Kelly, Kayla Knip-ping, Evan Kvittem, Janie Larson, Maggie Larson, Derrick Lockwood, Joel Lynch, Leah Lynch, Abi-gail Markland, Jessica Mazzio, Nicholas Mon-telibano, Andrew Moon, Andrew Muller Lockhart, David Murray, Eric Os-terhues, Kyle Osterhues, Elizabeth Petran, Olivia Prestrud, Alec Schmidt, Tyler Smith, Emily Steb-bing, Ben Taschner, Zach-ary Traeger, Benjamin Trebesch, Anna Under-hill, Phillip Weber, An-drew Zellar. St. Olaf College, Northfield, fall dean’s list, from Burnsville – Sophia Butler, John Holmstrom; from Eagan – Clare Fore-man, Jordan Pellegrom, Alexandra Rosati, Sarah Streed, Nicole Wagner, Julia Wolter. Midland University, Fremont, Neb., fall dean’s list, Ryan Novak, of Burnsville. University of Wiscon-sin-River Falls, fall dean’s list, from Burnsville – Si-rena Kisch, Jacob Larson, Mitchell Ronayne; from Eagan – Chloe Czaplews-ki, Elizabeth Derosier, Margaret Dodge, Abigail Fouts, Logan Hafstad, Miranda Martin, Audrey Meyer, Taylor Nelson, Natalie Oestreich, Alexa Rarick. University of Wiscon-sin-Stevens Point, fall honors list, from Eagan – Jennifer Hancock, Brett Klein, Marie Krengel, Marisa Otto, Glenn Ris-tow, Laura Schumacher. University of Wiscon-sin-Stevens Point, winter graduate, Kyle Politz, of Burnsville, B.S., biology. University of Wiscon-sin-Eau Claire, fall dean’s

list, from Burnsville – Kat-lyn Ayres, Katie Brellen-thin, Christina Doffing, Anna Lehnen, Katherine O’Halloran; from Eagan – Alissa Anker, Sarah Ber-ryman, Courtney Brock-man, Lucas Brunner, Eva Buchmayer, Lynn Cady, Courtney Companion, Elisabeth Dutcher, Sarah Faste, Katherine For-sha, Aubrey Goettsch, Landon Hafstad, Brianna Hedeman, Matthew Her-ro, Rachel Hlas, Jordan Jenkins, Tyler Johnson, Zachary Kelliher, Haley Kruenegel, Katie Larges, Katelyn McGowan, Kay-la Mulrooney, Alexander Plum, Leah Rolfzen, Eric Sipe, Sarah Tervo, Alanna Thelen, Weronika Trejo, Kaitlin Wegge, Mariah Yelle. College of St. Scholas-tica, Duluth, fall dean’s list, from Eagan – Wendra Goodman-Hemingway, Andrew Hiltner, Kenneth Jinkins, Hannah Lund, Alex Mangan, Carla Si-monson, Adam Wallenta. Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pa., fall dean’s list, Sarah Olson, of Eagan. Minnesota State Uni-versity Moorhead, fall dean’s list, from Burns-ville – Michael Hundevad, Madison Kramer, Sabrina Mayaan, Payton Schul-ze; from Eagan – Claire Grimm, David Juhl, Ag-nieszka Keefe, Lindsey Micheletti, Bailey Pakola, Ashley Rezachek, Jacob Rukavina, Trenton Smith, Katherine Sullivan, Linda Wetherall.

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District 196 Community Education classes District 196 Commu-nity Education will offer the following classes. To register, or for more infor-mation, call 651-423-7920 or visit www.district196.org/ce. Delectable Truffles: Chocolate Candies for all Occasions, 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, Scott Highlands Middle School, $27 plus $12 to instructor. Open Woodshop: All Ability Levels, 7-9 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 4 to March 18, Levi Dodge Middle School, 4200 208th St. W., Farmington, $72. Winter Workshop: Rustic Twig Furniture, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Satur-day, Feb. 7, Scott High-lands Middle School, $129, $15 each additional person. Photography Level 1: Peter Wong, 6:30-9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18 to March 11, Falcon Ridge Middle School, $99. Beginning Span-ish, 6-7:30 p.m. Mon-day, Feb. 9 to March 16, Scott Highlands Middle School, $65. Travel Showcase: Extended Tours, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, Scott Highlands Middle School. Free. Windows and Siding, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednes-day, Feb. 4, Scott High-lands Middle School, $15, $5 each additional per-son. Family Dance (parents and children ages 1-4), 10:30-11:15 a.m. Wednes-day, Feb. 11 to March 18, South Suburban Evangel-ical Free Church, $49, $25 additional child. Skippers (ages 3-4.5), 9:30-10:15 a.m. Wednes-day, Feb. 11 to March 18, South Suburban Evangel-ical Free Church, $69. Introductory Little Ninjas (ages 3-5), 5-5:30 p.m. Monday/Tuesday/Thursday, Feb. 2-26 (no class Feb. 12 and 16), Rosemount Middle School, unlimited atten-dance $59, one day a week $49..

BHS duo take third in stock market comp A team of two Burns-ville High School stu-dents placed third among 1,100 teams in the Fall 2014 Stock Market Game sponsored by the Securi-ties Industry and Finan-cial Markets Association. Kayla Williams and Carter Frey were honored at an awards ceremony at Wells Fargo in Minneapo-lis on Jan. 23. Both are members of the after-school Stock Market/Investment Club at Burnsville High School

Inside the mind of a student Class reveals what issues young people think are important



For many, life is about getting from one place to the next – home, school, work, hockey practice, the grocery store and home again. This past semester, Rosemount High School juniors in the College Writing and Research Class looked beyond the ordinary to analyze and develop solutions to problems or issues facing the community. Homelessness, ille-gal underage drinking and unhealthy eating were among the issues students had on display last week during parent-teacher conferences. The diverse project topics also examined stu-dent use of iPads, wheth-er or not Irish Field should be converted to synthetic turf and food insecurity. “We wanted them to select a topic that they care about,” said RHS English teacher Heather Traeger, who is teaching the college credit course with Inver Hills instruc-tor Derek Tellier. “I was impressed with the students and how much they took ownership of their projects.” In addition to mak-ing presentations, the students were required to write an informative essay, argumentative es-say and annotated bibli-ography. Some students created videos to accom-pany their project.

She said the class, in addition to teach-ing research and writing methods, aims to help them learn how to follow through on a large proj-ect. Traeger said one stu-dent, who is often ner-vous about public speak-ing, had no problem delivering his presenta-tion since he knew his material so well. The project aimed to help students go beyond their typical research methods after they had a chance to question com-munity leaders during a panel discussion and in-terview those in the com-munity, such as Rose-mount Middle School principal Mary Thomp-son, Mayor Bill Droste or even their own peers.

Another goal was to make the school and broader community aware of the issues. Samantha Kisner included information about her research re-garding community re-sources for those facing homelessness to the Irish Update. She said many people are unaware of the im-portant services avail-able for families in Rose-mount. Her goal was to spread the word about the work being done by the Rose-mount-Apple Valley-Ea-gan School District and 360 Communities Family Resource Center, such as their food shelf, counsel-ing services, clothing do-nations and much more. She hopes her mes-

sage will reach those who need help and encourage people to donate their time or money to those in need. She said district offi-cials told her that an es-timated 100 students in the district are homeless throughout the year. She said 50 percent of Da-kota County’s homeless population are children. Students Jenni-fer Busho and Sara Purfeerst said they did a lot of research and writ-ing for this project. Busho tackled the is-sue of unhealthy eating at fast food restaurants, hoping to get students and adults thinking about the choices they make. She said 41 percent of teens eat at least one

meal at fast food restau-rants each day. While she said that many restaurants are of-fering healthy choices, she said it’s not a guar-antee people will choose those items. “People should really think about not having the extra bacon or oth-er condiments,” Busho said. “Those are some of the big calorie stuff.” She said unhealthy eating has consequences other than health prob-lems heightened by obesity. She said it can contribute to depres-sion and take away from family time as it’s better to share home-cooked meals together. Purfeerst analyzed student use of district-issued iPads, which are being used in 46 District 196 classrooms as part of a beta project to test the device’s effectiveness in improving student learning. Of the 112 students she surveyed at Rose-mount High School and Scott Highlands Middle School, 78 said the iPads were very helpful, 20 said they were a little helpful, 14 said they could have done without an iPad, while no one said the iPads were not helpful. Purfeerst said she was surprised that the students used the iPads almost exclusively for school work, though some did occasional non-school related ac-tivities that are allowed. “I feel if they use it

correctly, the students won’t need to be off task,” she said. She attributed this ad-herence to school work to the rules of use that are clearly set forth by the district. Of the comments she received, most students said the greatest benefit was the iPad’s ability to organize their notes and assignments and keep track of deadlines. “It’s easier to get things (written) down for me,” Purfeerst said. “Without an iPad, I might forget the home-work.” She also said the abil-ity of teachers to com-municate with students was improved, especially on emergency snow days when classes are can-celed. Another student said that without a computer at his home, he was able to complete tasks on the iPad that he wouldn’t have been able to do oth-erwise. Other benefits includ-ed improved note-taking and access to informa-tion through Internet searches. Community members who are interested in finding out more about the research projects can contact Traeger at [email protected].


Rosemount High School students Jennifer Busho and Sara Purfeerst presented their projects in the College Writing and Research Class during parent-teacher conferences last week. (Photo by Tad Johnson)

Education

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coached by business edu-cation teacher Cindy Dra-hos. Through participa-tion in the Stock Market Game, students compete by managing an imagi-nary stock portfolio of $100,000. They improve their financial literacy skills through investment strategies and expand their ability to work as a team using decision-mak-ing and critical-thinking skills.

Franken nominates students to U.S. Service Academies U.S. Sen. Al Franken has nominated the follow-ing local students for ad-mission to a U.S. Service Academy. Jacob Biehn, of Burns-ville, U.S. Merchant Ma-rine Academy. He is the son of Brian Biehn and Kim Schueller and is cur-rently a senior at Apple Valley High School. He participates in both varsi-ty football and track and field. He also serves as a volunteer for Feed the Homeless. Andrew Carter, of Burnsville, U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He is the son of Pamela Jagow and is currently a senior at Apple Valley High School. He par-ticipates in varsity cross country, long distance track and Alpine skiing. He also serves as a volun-teer at Padraig’s Place. Morgan Hierlmaier, of Apple Valley, U.S. Air Force Academy. She is the daughter of Tim Hierl-maier and Jennifer Born and is currently a senior at Eastview High School. She participates in soccer and band, and is a mem-ber of the National Hon-or Society. She has served as a girls soccer coach and as a tutor at Scott High-lands Middle School. If chosen for an ap-

pointment, the students will enter this summer and be part of the class of 2019. Each year, Fran-ken nominates qualified young Minnesotans to the four U.S. Service Acad-emies. The individual service academies make the final admission deci-sions and begin notifying nominees of their status in February.

Open house at Saint Mary’s U Saint Mary’s Univer-sity of Minnesota will host an open house from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, at its Apple Valley Center at 14200 Cedar Ave. Saint Mary’s began offering graduate school courses in Apple Valley during the summer and fall of 2003. Since then, Saint Mary’s Apple Valley Center has expanded to include bachelor-comple-tion and master’s degree programs in business and police science as well as advanced degrees in edu-cation. For more information on the open house or

courses offered in Apple Valley, call 612-238-4551 or visit smumn.edu/ap-plevalley.

Parkview Elementary students receive hands-on engineering experience Hundreds Parkview Elementary School stu-dents and their fami-lies participated Jan. 20 in Family Engineering Night, an event presented by The Works Museum and sponsored by Flint Hills Resources. The event featured a variety of fun science, technolo-gy, engineering, and math (STEM) activities for families to do together. STEM educators from The Works Museum of Bloomington brought their programming and expertise inside the halls of the school in Lakev-ille that is part of the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District, where families partici-pated in kid-friendly en-gineering activities. Stu-

dents mastered the art – and engineering – of building bridges out of candy, constructing mini catapults and wiring cir-cuits. “Providing children and their families with a memorable hands-on learning experience is re-ally gratifying,” said Jill Measells, CEO of The Works Museum. “It’s a unique opportunity to keep our young learn-ers engaged outside the classroom. These special moments couldn’t hap-pen without the support of our generous sponsors. We’re proud to partner with them to help inspire the next generation of in-novators, engineers and creative problem solvers.” “Students have lim-ited in-class opportunities when it comes to learn-ing about the engineer-ing design process and how engineers use math and science to solve prob-lems,” said Scott Linde-mann, vice president and manufacturing manager at Flint Hills Resources. Lindemann started his career as a chemical en-gineer after receiving his degree from the College of Science and Engineer-ing at the University of Minnesota. “Flint Hills Resourc-es employs hundreds of Minnesota engineers and skilled workers and be-lieves in supporting qual-ity hands-on experiences for youth in our commu-nity,” Lindemann said. More information about the Flint Hills is at www.pinebendrefinery.com. More information about The Works Mu-seum is at www.theworks.org.

District 194 School Board

Agenda Following is the agenda for the 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, special meeting of the District 194 School Board in the Crystal Lake Education Center Media

Center.

1. Preliminary Actions a. Call to Order b. Roll Call 2. Discussion a. Long Term Facilities Com-mittee Discussion and Sub Com-mittee (Site Study for Impact Academy) b. Open Meeting Law Review c. Board Protocols, Policies Discussion d. Board Development 3. Future Topics for Consider-ation 4. Adjournment

EDUCATION, from 6A Clay creations

Sixth-grader Nora Murphy (left) of Burnsville and fifth-grader Norah Galvin of Minneapolis work on their clay projects during a field trip to KidCreate Studio in Eden Prairie. They are students at MTS Minnesota Connec-tions Academy, a tuition-free, K-12 online public school that students across the state attend from home. (Photo submitted)


News Briefs360 Communities hosts luncheon Burnsville-based non-profit 360 Communities is hosting its annual Domes-tic and Sexual Violence Awareness Luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, at Brack-ett’s Crossing Country Club in Lakeville. The event brings to-gether community lead-ers, law enforcement, and concerned citizens to shed light on the issues of do-mestic and sexual violence. Cost is $30. To register or for more information, visit www.360Communities.org.

Informational meeting for Lebanon Hills set Feb. 5 in Apple Valley A gathering of citizens is scheduled from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at Falcon Ridge Middle School, Lecture Room A, 12900 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley. The meeting is open to anyone concerned about the future of Lebanon Hills and will include in-

formation from the revised Lebanon Hills Draft Mas-ter Plan and how to pro-vide input to the County Board and Planning De-partment. The meeting is hosted by Wilderness in the City. For more information, email [email protected] or visit http://wildlebanonhills.org.

Hall hosts in-district hours State Sen. Dan Hall, R-Burnsville, will have in-district office hours from 5-6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, at Jo Jo’s Rise & Wine, 12501 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Fifteen-minute meetings are available. RSVP by calling Greg at 651-296-5975.

Citizens Climate Lobby meets Feb. 7 The next Citizens Cli-mate Lobby meeting is 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, at JoJo’s Rise and Wine Cafe, 12501 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. All are wel-come to learn about the carbon fee and dividend proposed by CCL. For information, call 952-250-

3320.

MVTA transit ridership strong The Minnesota Val-ley Transit Authority (MVTA) saw record rider-ship again in 2014, with a total of 2,812,265 rides, up 3.9 percent from 2013. “The MVTA is very pleased with our 2014 ridership growth,” said MVTA Board Chair and Apple Valley Council-member Clint Hooppaw. “There is terrific potential in our suburban areas and we provide an excellent service,” he said. “The ad-dition of such amenities as Wi-Fi on our buses, ad-ditional service to the Uni-versity of Minnesota and operation of the Metro Red Line have all contrib-uted to our growth.” Highest ridership routes are MVTA’s Route 460 (Burnsville to/from downtown Minneapo-lis), which accommo-dates some 15 percent of MVTA’s ridership; Route 477 (Apple Valley to/from downtown Minneapo-lis), which accommodates some 13 percent of MV-TA’s ridership; and Route 444 (local service between Burnsville/Savage/Cedar

Grove and Mall of Amer-ica), which accommodates just less than 10 percent of MVTA’s ridership. Two local routes (Route 438 – Eagan Circulator, and Route 440 – Apple Valley/Minnesota Zoo/Cedar Grove/VA Medical Center) and one all-day route (Route 475 between Apple Valley/Cedar Grove and the University of Min-nesota) experienced the greatest ridership growth. Route 438 ridership in-creased from 7,376 in 2013 to 12,996 in 2014 (up 76 percent); Route 440 rider-ship increased from 28,786 to 43,039 (up 50 percent) and Route 475 increased from 48,843 to 60,698 in 2014, up 29 percent. MVTA’s average daily ridership reached a high in September at 11,198 rides. Metro Red Line, ser-vice operated by the MVTA under contract to the Metropolitan Council and funded by the Coun-ties Transit Improvement Board, increased ridership from 130,733 in 2013 (with slightly more than six months of service since it opened on June 22, 2013) to 265,514 in 2014. “The economy proved stronger in 2014, and gas prices plummeted, but rid-ership remained strong,”

said MVTA Executive Director Beverley Miller. “We saw an increase in rides through the Cedar Grove Transit Station with the opening of Twin Cit-ies Premium Outlets,” she said, “and ridership to the University of Minnesota continues to grow.” Service changes in 2015 include the integration of the Prior Lake and Shako-pee BlueXpress Commut-er service and the Shakop-ee Circulator (Route 496), addition of service to the University of Minnesota from Prior Lake and Sha-kopee, new service to/from downtown Minneapolis from the Marschall Road Transit Station in Shakop-ee, additional peak-period service between the Rose-mount Transit Station to downtown Minneapolis, a potential-rider study of the entire MVTA ser-vice area, and a study of service needs in northern Scott County. MVTA is the public transportation provider for residents and busi-nesses of Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Prior Lake, Rosemount, Savage and Shakopee. Call 952-882-7500 for transit infor-mation or visit www.mvta.com.

Transit open

houses set The Dakota County Regional Rail Authority and its partner agencies are undertaking a compre-hensive review of transit service in the Cedar Av-enue Transitway. Open houses will be held: • Monday, Feb. 2, 3-5 p.m., Cedar Grove Tran-sit Station, 4035 Nicols Road, Eagan, MN 55122 • Wednesday, Feb. 4, 4-6 p.m., Apple Valley Transit Station, 15450 Cedar Ave. S., Apple Valley. Staff will be available to discuss the Cedar Av-enue Transitway Imple-mentation Plan, and input is welcome on existing and future transit needs in the Cedar Avenue Transitway. ADA complementary paratransit and dial-a-ride service is available. Riders can call 651-602-5465 to reserve a ride. Those who are unable to attend but would like to learn more about the proj-ect and provide feedback are encouraged to visit the project’s website, www.ce-dartransitway.com.

Dakota County Public Health seeks nominations for achievement awards The Dakota County Public Health Department is seeking nominations for the annual Public Health Achievement Awards that will be presented before the Dakota County Board on April 7 as part of Public Health Week. The awards recognize contributions of Dakota County residents who devote their time, en-ergy and talents in their communities to improve public health. Community health leaders are recognized in three categories: Youth, Individual and Commu-nity Group (coalition, partnership or organiza-tion). Winners are selected based on their leadership, contribution to solutions to public health problems, collaboration, advocacy, role modeling and evi-dence of impact. Nominations must be submitted by Friday, March 6. For a nomina-tion form and instructions on how to submit it, visit www.dakotacounty.us and search “Achievement Award” or call 651-554-6100.

FoodShare campaign kicks off at Cub Scott Swenson of Home Federal and Eagan

Cub Foods have partnered in a kick-off event to the MN FoodShare March Campaign. Local commu-nity leaders will bag gro-ceries for tips for people who shop at Cub East, 1020 Diffley Road (Diffley and Lexington) in Eagan on Saturday, Jan. 31, or Sunday, Feb. 1. Participating dignitar-ies include Eagan Police Chief Jim McDonald, District 196 Superinten-dent Jane Berenz, County Commissioner Tom Egan, Red Pine Elementary Principal Gary Anger, other Eagan school princi-pals and more. Cub Cares white food donation bags will also be for sale to help stock the shelves at The Open Door food shelf. For more information, visit www.theopendoorpantry.org.

Peterson introduces first bills at the Legislature First-term Rep. Roz Peterson, R-Lakeville, in-troduced the first bills of her legislative career dur-ing the Tuesday, Jan. 20, legislative session. The first bill, House File 258, would expand a research tax credit rate for small businesses and companies who invest in research efforts in Min-nesota. The second, H.F. 263, makes permanent a program that was set to expire later this year that provides financial assis-tance for extracurricular activities for low-income students using a portion of sales tax proceeds from high school athletic events. “As a former school board member, I know how valuable this program has been for schools, and for the students who are able to participate as a re-sult of this program,” Pe-terson said. H.F. 263 was referred to the Education Innovation Policy Com-mittee, where Peterson hopes it will receive its first hearing in the coming weeks. The bill has biparti-san support, co-authored by DFL Rep. Yvonne Sel-cer from Eden Prairie. H.F. 258 is co-authored by Tax Committee Chair-man Rep. Greg Davids, R-Preston. The bill was given its first hearing during a Jan. 22 Tax Committee meeting, and was laid over for possible inclusion in a future Tax Omnibus bill.

Dakota Electric offers students free trip to Washington, D.C. Dakota Electric As-sociation will provide five high school juniors or seniors the opportunity to win a trip to Washing-ton, D.C., as part of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s Youth Tour, June 13-18. Each June, more than 1,200 students from across the attend the tour. Dur-ing the trip they learn about electric cooperatives and government, meet elected officials and tour national monuments and sites, including the Smith-sonian, the FBI building and more. To apply, students who live in a household that receives power from Da-kota Electric can pick up an application from their high school guidance counselor, download it off the Web or pick one up at Dakota Electric’s Farm-ington office. To find the application online and to watch videos about Youth Tour, go to www.dakotaelectric.com, select “Teachers and Kids” from the “Safety and Edu-cation” menu at the top. Then select “Washington D.C. Youth Tour.” The application dead-line is Feb. 20. Interviews are scheduled for March 12 and 17. For more infor-mation, call Peggy John-son at 651-463-6110.

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Apple Valley seniors The Apple Valley Se-nior Center, 14601 Hayes Road, is home to the fol-lowing activities, which are organized and run by the Apple Valley Seniors and Apple Valley Parks and Recreation. The facility is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 952-953-2345 or go to www.cityofapplevalley.org. Monday, Feb. 2 – Blood Pressure Checks, 9:30 a.m.; General Meet-ing, 10 a.m.; SR Meet-ing, 11 a.m.; Zumba Gold Toning, 11:30 a.m.; Pool, noon; Defensive Driving, noon; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Happy Stitchers, 1 p.m.; Finance Committee, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3 – Quilt-ing Bees, 9 a.m.; Zumba Gold, 9:15 a.m.; Tuesday Painters, 9:30 a.m.; Pool, noon; Pinochle, 12:30 p.m.; Table Tennis, 1 p.m.; Hand & Foot Cards, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4 – Donated Bread, 9 a.m.; Yoga, 9:45 a.m.; Velvet Tones, 10 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Pool, noon; First Edition Book Club, 1 p.m.; Gather Around Music, 1 p.m.; Dominoes, 1 p.m.; Mah-jong, 1 p.m.; Oils Class, 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5 – Beg. Line Dancing, 9:15 a.m.; Computing 101, 9:30 a.m.; Int. Line Dancing, 10 a.m.; Pool, noon; Tap Dancing, 12:30 p.m.; Du-plicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m.; Hardanger, 1 p.m.; Recreated Cards, 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6 – Men’s Breakfast, 8:30 a.m.; Showcase Committee, 10 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Women’s Pool, 11 a.m.; Members Bingo,

12:30 p.m.

Burnsville seniors The Burnsville Senior Center is located in the Diamondhead Education Center at 200 W. Burns-ville Parkway. Call 952-707-4120 for information about the following senior events. Monday, Feb. 2 – Sun-rise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Cribbage, 11 a.m.; Pinoch-le, 12:45 p.m.; SS Flex. Tuesday, Feb. 3 – Cedar Lanes Bowling, 10 a.m.; Scrabble, 10:30 a.m.; Du-plicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Coffee Talk Honoring Choices, 2 p.m.; Evening Taxes, 5:30 p.m., Presbyte-rian Church of the Apos-tles; Line Dancing. Wednesday, Feb. 4 – Woodcarvers, 8 a.m.; Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Cribbage, 11 a.m.; Taxes, 9 a.m. to noon; Chair Tai Chi, 11 a.m.; 500, 12:45 p.m.; BABS, 1 p.m.; SS Flex. Thursday, Feb. 5 – Foot Clinic, 9 a.m.; Health In-surance Council, 9 a.m.; Crafters, 10 a.m.; Defen-sive Driving Refresher, 1 p.m.; Wood Carving, 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6 – Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Men’s Breakfast, 8:30 a.m.; Painting, 9 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 12:15 p.m.; Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; SS Flex; dead-line, Sheldon Theatre.

Eagan seniors The following senior activities are offered by the Eagan Parks and Rec-reation Department in the Lone Oak Room at the Eagan Community Cen-ter, 1501 Central Park-way. Call 651-675-5500 for more information. Monday, Feb. 2 – Zum-ba (Oasis), 9 a.m.; FFL+ (Oasis), 10 a.m.; FFL (Oa-

sis), 11 a.m.; Free Movie, 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3 – Quilt-ing, 9:30 a.m.; Euchre/500, 12:45 p.m.; Book Club No. 1, 1 p.m.; Yoga (Oa-sis), 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4 – Coffee & Conversations, 9 a.m.; Brain Fitness, 9:30 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 12:45 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5 – Dominoes, 9 a.m.; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Zumba (Oa-sis), 5:30 p.m.; Yoga (Oa-sis), 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6 – ESPAB Meeting, 9 a.m.; Zumba (Oasis), 10:15 a.m.; S/B/Yoga (Oasis), 11:10 a.m.; Bingo, 1 p.m. Movie Matinee, 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2. Laugh or cry along with friends with a good movie. Free popcorn and lemonade. Chocolate & Hearts Party, 3-5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13. Celebrate Val-entine’s Day at the Ames Center in Burnsville. In-cludes appetizers, games, chocolate fountains, enter-tainment and more. Cost: $12. Register by Feb. 6 by calling Eagan Parks and Recreation at 651-675-5500. St. Paul Union Depot and lunch at Christos, Tuesday, March 10. Coach bus trip to the Depot for a guided tour, buffet lunch at Christos and gangster tour of the St. Paul Land-mark Center. Cost: $39. Register by Feb. 27 by call-ing Eagan Parks and Rec-reation at 651-675-5500. The deadline to pur-chase Metro Dining Cards at the Eagan Community Center Senior Lone Oak Room is Feb. 1. Cost is $24.

Lakeville seniors All events are held at Lakeville Heritage Center,

20110 Holyoke Ave. Call 952-985-4622 for informa-tion. Monday, Feb. 2 – Com-puter Lessons, 9 a.m.; Wii Bowling, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Health-ways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Cribbage, 12:30 p.m.; Cards, 1 p.m.; Mahjong, 1 p.m.; dead-line, iPad Class. Tuesday, Feb. 3 – Yoga, 8:15 a.m.; Dominoes and Cards, 9 a.m.; Happy Feet, 9 a.m.; Tappercize, 9:30 a.m.; Scrapbook-ing, Recycled Cards, 9:30 a.m.; Book Club, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Weight Control Sup-port, 11:30 a.m.; Active Adults Advisory Commit-tee Meeting, noon; Party Bridge, noon; Zumba Gold, 3:30 p.m.; Pilates Mat Class, 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4 – Cards, 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 Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Pi-nochle, noon; Dime Bin-go, 1 p.m.; Chess, 1 p.m.; deadline, Church Base-ment Ladies. Thursday, Feb. 5 – iPad - Search, Share, Discover 5, 9 a.m.; “Classic Voices” Chorus, 9-10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Red Hat Chorus, 10:30 a.m.; Euchre, Hand & Foot, noon; Machine Sew-ing Group, 1 p.m.; Ping Pong, 1-3 p.m.; Red Hat Chorus at Trinity Care Center, 1:30 p.m.; Zumba Gold, 3:30 p.m.; Billiards, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6 – Yoga, 8:15 a.m.; Cards, 9 a.m.; Digital Photography, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Oil & Acrylic Painting Class, 1 p.m.

Seniors

Burnsville State of the City address is Feb. 11 at Ames Center Burnsville Mayor Eliz-abeth Kautz will deliver the annual State of the City address on Wednes-day, Feb. 11, at 11:30 a.m. at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Admission is free. The cost of a post-address

lunch is $25. Pre-registra-tion is required at least 24 hours in advance. The speech will also be shown live on Burnsville Civic Channel 16 (for ca-ble subscribers) and online at www.burnsville.org. The State of the City

is presented annually by the Burnsville Chamber of Commerce and the city of Burnsville. The event is also sponsored by Xcel Energy, Bolton & Menk Inc. and Pepsi Beverages Company. Advance registration

is available through the Chamber of Commerce website at www.burnsvil-lechamber.com. Registration questions should be directed to the chamber at 952-435-6000 or [email protected].


SportsLindsay blazes winning trail at Buck Hill

Burnsville sophomore takes 1st at Alpine inviteby Mike Shaughnessy


Burnsville/Shakopee sophomore Jack Lindsay was the boys medalist and Lakeville North ninth-grader Bailey Servais was girls runner-up Friday at the Buck Hill Invite, a high school Alpine skiing meet that attracted more than 300 varsity competi-tors. Edina was the boys team champion and Still-water won the girls title. Stillwater also won the Varsity Cup, awarded to the top overall combined boys/girls program. Lindsay had the fastest time on each of two runs on the boys course, and his combined time of 44.73 seconds put him about half a second ahead of the runner-up, Edina ninth-grader Andrew Shideman. Eagan/Eastview ninth-grader Luke Doolittle (fourth, 45.65) and Apple Valley/Rosemount sev-enth-grader Croix Turner (seventh, 46.76) also fin-ished in the top 10 in the boys race. Chloe Townsend of Edina was the girls cham-pion with a combined time of 50.93. Servais was sec-ond in 51.53. Others in the top 10 included Eagan/Eastview ninth-grader Erin Burns, who was ninth in 53.55. Eagan/Eastview placed sixth of 22 boys teams even though its top skier, Tommy Anderson, did not race. Other top-50 finish-ers for Eagan/Eastview were Josh Doolittle, who was 27th overall, Austin Anderson, who was 38th, and Jesse Schnuckle, who finished 42nd. With his top-10 individ-ual finish, Turner led the Apple Valley/Rosemount boys to 14th in the team

standings. Aaron Ahlberg (47th) also placed in the top 50 individually. Burnsville’s boys team placed 15th, with Lindsay the lone Blaze skier among the top 50 individuals. Blaze senior Jon Garbe was fourth overall after the first run but missed a gate on his second run, costing him time and lead-ing to a 77th-place finish. Lakeville South was 19th in the boys team standings, with seventh-grader John Olson the Cougars’ top individual in 69th place. Cory Bock placed 22nd in 48.67 for Lakeville North, which has only six varsity skiers and placed 22nd among the boys teams. Eagan/Eastview was seventh in the girls team standings, with Burns (ninth) and Claire Hefko

(27th, 57.33) placing in the top 50 individually. Servais led Lakeville North to eighth place. Kathryn Kossack (47th, 1:00.77) was the Panthers’ No. 2 skier. Hannah Rost (14th, 54.47) and Ashlynn Baumgartner (25th, 57.03) were the Cougars’ top in-dividual skiers. Apple Valley/Rose-mount finished 15th in the girls team competition, led by Chelsi Serba (31st, 57.77) and Angela Bodine (45th, 1:00.58). Fiona Chow and Jay-na Adams were 49th and 52nd for Burnsville, which was 17th of 22 girls teams.

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Burnsville/Shakopee sophomore Jack Lindsay was boys medalist at the Buck Hill Invite last Friday. He also was first individually (with teammate Jon Garbe taking third) at the second South Suburban Conference championship race Tuesday, where Burnsville/Shakopee placed first as a team. (Photo by John Bloom)

Hannah Burns of Eagan/Eastview races in the Buck Hill Invite last Friday. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


Minnetonka won its second consecutive state Class AA True Team boys swimming and diving championship, while Ea-gan had the highest finish of the three South Subur-ban Conference teams in the meet. Eagan was fourth at Saturday night’s True Team finals at the Univer-sity of Minnesota Aquatic Center, moving up one spot from its finish in the 2014 state meet. The other two SSC teams to qualify for the finals, Prior Lake and Lakeville South, were seventh and eighth in the 12-team field. Stillwater and Eden Prairie placed second and third. Eagan scored 1,629 points, more than 300 behind Eden Prairie but about 35 ahead of fifth-place Edina. Eagan did not win any events at Saturday’s Class AA finals but had a strong showing in relays as well as a second-place finish in diving by junior Nic Lemieux. Lemieux scored 417.30 points in the 11-dive com-petition, trailing only Stillwater’s Colin Eason, who scored a meet-record 461.80. Eagan ninth-grad-er Jordan Nguyen finished sixth with 350.35. Parker Lemke, Quen-ton Steffen, Eli Broman and Sam Zenner finished third in the opening event, the 200-yard medley relay, finishing in 1:40.14. Jas-per Appleton, Lemke, Tal Shub and Broman were third in the final event, the 400 freestyle relay, in 3:15.61. Zenner, Apple-ton, Shub and Mac John-son added a fourth place

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Wildcats move up one spot at True Team


Winter slow pitch softball clinics The Burnsville girls slow pitch orga-nizations are sponsoring clinics at the Savage Dome from 4-6 p.m. Sundays through March.

Each girl’s first visit is free, and is $10 per session after that. All balls, bats, facemasks and other equipment will be included. Girls should bring their own gloves. For more information, go to www.bactravelingsoftball.org.

in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:29.46. The winning team in each relay – Eden Prai-rie in the 200 medley and Minnetonka in the 200 and 400 freestyle – set a meet record. In individual swimming events, Lemke tied for third in the 200 freestyle in 1:46.13 and placed third in the 100 backstroke in

53.87. Broman placed 10th in the 200 individual medley in 2:02.95 and eighth in the 100 butterfly in 53.56. Zenner was third in the 50 freestyle in 21.81, an event in which Jordan Greenburg of Eden Prairie set a meet record of 21.32. Appleton finished eighth in 22.45. Appleton added an eighth place in the 100 freestyle in 48.93. Zenner

finished 12th in that event. Steffen placed 11th in the 100 breaststroke. Eagan, which is unde-feated in South Suburban Conference dual meets, took on Farmington on Tuesday night at Dakota Hills Middle School. The Wildcats’ next meet is Fri-day, Feb. 6, at Rosemount.


SWIM, from 1A

Conference hoops leaders performing as advertisedAV boys,

Eastview girls hold 2-game

leadsby Mike Shaughnessy


Apple Valley’s boys and Eastview’s girls were the preseason favorites in South Suburban Confer-ence basketball, and so far neither has done anything to disprove the prognosti-cations. In fact, neither has lost a conference game. Both have two-game leads and, barring late-season slumps, are on pace to re-peat as league champions. Here’s a status report on the two leaders:

Eagle boys Apple Valley’s players and coaches have spent some time talking about avoiding a late-season malaise. Last year, coach Zach Goring said, the Eagles got a little stale and it might have been why they didn’t return to the state tournament. Apple Valley lost to Cretin-Der-ham Hall in the Class 4A, Section 3 championship game. “We’ve talked about staying sharp every game, no matter who we’re play-ing,” Goring said. “We’re going to get every team’s best effort, and we have to continue to get better at what we’re doing.” Goring has been look-ing for better defense from his team, because the Eagles have already estab-lished they can score. They might have hit a bench-mark in Tuesday’s 78-68 victory over Lakeville South. The Cougars have two dangerous scorers, guard Jack Sorenson and forward Brenon Larson-Gulsvig, and Goring said before the game his team’s goal was to hold the two to fewer than 40 points. So-renson led South with 22, but the Eagles were able to hold Larson-Gulsvig to 11. For one night, at least, mission accomplished.

Sophomore guard Gary Trent Jr. led Apple Valley with 28 points, almost ex-actly his season average. Tre Jones had 12 points, Riley Parham 11 and Brock Bertram nine. Apple Valley, 18-1 overall and 11-0 in the conference, has a power-ful starting lineup with Trent, Jones, Bertram, Jordan Bolton and Cam-eron Kirksey. The Eagles also have had contribu-tions from reserves such as Parham, Austin Korba and Steven Christiansen. Because they get valuable minutes from their re-serves, they’re able to play at a quick pace – their pre-ferred style – for a longer

time. “Riley Parham, for example, gives us energy. He’s a good defender and he can score,” Goring said. “That means if Kirksey gets into foul trouble we can go to Riley without a dropoff.” The Eagles hold a two-game lead over Shakopee in the South Suburban and are at least four games ahead of all the other teams. If there’s a poten-tial pitfall ahead, it’s that they will be on the road a lot. Six of their last seven regular-season games are away from home.

Lightning girls Eastview could have

fallen into a tie for first place in South Subur-ban girls basketball if it lost to Eagan last Friday, but the Lightning wasn’t about to let that hap-pen. Eastview raced to a 17-point lead by halftime and went on to win 75-42. After a 79-27 victory over Burnsville on Tuesday, Eastview is 16-1 overall and 9-0 in the league, two games ahead of Eagan and Lakeville North. Since a narrow escape against Rosemount (a 46-43 victory Jan. 6), the Lightning has won six in a row by an average of 33 points. Eagan likes to press whenever possible, but

that’s a strategy the Lightning has seen from opponents such as Hop-kins and Lakeville North. “Eagan does a good job with that full-court press,” Eastview coach Melissa Guebert said. “The key to handling it is for all five players on the floor to keep their com-posure. When we broke their press, we were able to get some good shots.” Like the Apple Valley boys, the Eastview girls are concentrating on im-proving their play regard-less of who they’re facing. Eastview also goes eight or nine players deep, giv-ing it the leeway to go to the bench to replace someone who’s strug-gling or in foul trouble. “That’s why I’m care-ful to talk about individ-uals who are playing well because right now, every-body is,” Guebert said. “I think I have eight or nine girls who can come

in. Allie Pickrain is some-one who gives us depth at guard, and Emma Sinn is a solid player. “Hana Metoxen, one of our starters, doesn’t have huge stats, but I’m telling you she’s someone I want on the floor in a close game.” The Lightning’s lead-ing scorer, senior guard Madison Guebert, dropped in 24 points against Eagan and 25 against Burnsville. In the Burnsville game, Madi-son Guebert made five three-pointers, Rachel Ranke made four and Erika Schlosser hit three. Eastview returns to action Friday at home against Lakeville North. The Lightning defeated North 49-37 in its first trip through the confer-ence schedule.


Eagan guard Amy Koenig handles the ball during the Wildcats’ 75-42 loss to Eastview last Friday. The Wildcats, who had a chance to tie for first place in the South Suburban Conference with a victory, instead saw their seven-game winning streak end. Eagan is 11-5 overall after defeating Shakopee 67-57 on Tuesday. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Sports Brief

It’s the South Suburban grind

Apple Valley’s Josie Segar (left) and Burnsville’s Sloane Taylor battle along the boards for the puck during a South Suburban Conference girls hockey game Tuesday night. The Eagles’ Rachel Goodman (17) moves in to collect the loose puck. Apple Valley won 4-1 and improved its record to 6-17-1. Burnsville, 7-16-1, lost its fourth straight. Both teams will be in the Section 3AA playoffs beginning next week. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Eagan’s Tamira McLemore tries to keep the ball away from Eastview’s Paula Garcia during last Friday’s game. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)


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At the same time, offi-cials have hoped to attract a Trader Joe’s store, which would likely come with a request to sell liquor. “As we all know, a num-ber of our citizens have consistently said they’d like to have a Trader Joe’s,” Economic Development Coordinator Skip Nien-haus said. Among 13 comparable metro cities, Burnsville is one of three that caps the number of off-sale licenses based on population. The city limits licenses to one per 5,000 people. Under current ordinance, the city of 61,434 couldn’t add an-other license until it reaches 65,000. Burnsville is also one of the most restrictive of the 13 cities in its location re-quirements. Liquor stores must be in freestanding buildings (the MGM store just north of County Road 42 was granted an exemp-tion years ago), and those outside the Burnsville Cen-ter retail area must be at least three-fourths of a mile apart. There are no spac-ing requirements within the city-defined Burnsville Center area. An option for loosening the ordinance is removing the cap of one license per 5,000 residents, Nienhaus said. That would allow more stores in the Burns-ville Center area or, under the spacing requirements, at Cliff and Diffley roads, in the old Red Hawk Li-quor building on Cliff Road and on Buck Hill Road south of Southcross Drive. “The liquor store own-ers are certainly opposed to this,” said Nienhaus, who has met with the interested parties. The city’s Econom-ic Development Commis-sion, which reviewed and voted on licensing options Jan. 14, favors the measure.

“This is their No. 1 rec-ommendation,” Nienhaus said. Neighboring Eagan lift-ed its cap on the number of liquor stores in 1993, said Christina Scipioni, the city clerk and administrative services coordinator, who was invited to speak at the Burnsville meeting. For the last seven years Eagan has had 16 or 17 liquor stores, and it has one brewpub that sells 64-ounce growl-ers off-sale, she said. The only spacing requirement is that stores be at least 200 feet from day care centers, churches and schools. Burnsville is considering other options. Adding off-sale licenses for growler sales only from brewpubs and taprooms faces little opposition from current store owners and is favored by the Economic Development Commission, the Burnsville Chamber of Commerce board of di-rectors and the chamber’s Public Policy Committee, Nienhaus said. Creating an “accessory” off-sale license for grocery stores with liquor faces lit-tle opposition from liquor store owners and is favored by the commission and the chamber groups. The accessory category would free up licenses now held by three stores in the Burnsville Center area — Cub Foods, Byerly’s and Costco — and would push the maximum number of licenses in Burnsville from 12 to 16 or 17, Nienhaus said. The commission and the chamber groups favor continuing to allow an un-limited number of stores in the Burnsville Center area, which now has six. Liquor store owners want the num-ber capped at six or fewer. The decisions rest with the council, said Frank Ball, executive director of the Minnesota Licensed Bever-age Association, which last

year led unsuccessful fights to keep national superstore Total Wine & More out of Burnsville and other metro cities. “It isn’t an open mar-ket,” Ball said. “This is con-trolled, and it’s controlled by you. It’s controlled by cities in the state of Minne-sota.” Council members with-held comment. Last April, four — Bill Coughlin, Dan Kealey, Mary Sherry and Suzanne Nguyen — voted for a li-cense for Total Wine, which opened in September next to Super Target on County Road 42. Nguyen, however, warning against an over-concentration of liquor stores in the Burnsville Center area, voted against a zoning measure allowing the store at that location. Mayor Elizabeth Kautz, citing the same concern, voted against both mea-sures. Total Wine became the sixth liquor store in the Burnsville Center area. One of them, Haskell’s Wine & Spirits, is now closing but hasn’t sought to terminate its license. City ordinance allows the store to retain the license for six months after closing. Many cities are re-exam-ining their off-sale licensing practices, Ball said, adding that breweries are “grow-ing in vast numbers” across Minnesota. St. Louis Park has passed a one-year mora-torium on new off-sale licenses while it decides whether to cap the number of licenses. That city has 21 off-sale licenses — 16 for liquor stores, three for gro-cery stores with liquor and two for businesses that sell growlers. Burnsville last revised its off-sale ordinance in 2009.


As a Jefferson Foundation GlobeChanger, Mandi Simon attended the the Nexus Youth Summit in Washington, D.C. From left are Elizabeth Kennedy, national director of GlobeChangers; Mandi Simon with two other GlobeChangers; and Sam Beard, co-founder of the Jefferson Awards Foundation for Public Service. (Photo submitted)

named a GlobeChanger earlier this month by the Jefferson Awards Founda-tion, a national organiza-tion founded by Jackie Kennedy that assists and recognizes community vol-unteers. It’s GlobeChanger program recognizes influ-ential young people and pairs them with mentors to launch their programs on a national scale. The Eagan resident is one of 25 young people to be named a GlobeChanger in 2015. “I think its really cool that I was able to be one of 25 people to get this chance,” said Mandi, a sixth-grader at Convent of the Visitation School in Mendota Heights. Simon Says Give of-fers two kinds of birthday parties: in person parties, which are hosted at local YMCAs and community centers, and parties in a box, which are delivered to local shelters. The orga-nization provides cake or cupcakes, activities and two presents. “I really like seeing the faces of kids who get the parties,” Mandi said. “Ev-eryone deserves one day to celebrate themselves.” The nonprofit has host-ed 500 birthday parties

since its inception in 2012 and hopes to host another 500 in 2015. Although Simon Says Give started with birthday parties, its backpack drives called High Five for Sup-plies has taken off. Over the past two years, the organization has do-nated 10,000 backpacks filled with school supplies to children in Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Da-kota. Simon Says Give puts collection bins in businesses across the metro each sum-mer for people to donate new backpacks and school supplies. The nonprofit also collects money to buy sup-plies. The backpack drives have expanded beyond the local area to include greater Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota. Mandi has carried a deep sense of philanthropy since she was 5 years old, her mother, Dina, said. While her peers looked for-ward to receiving birthday gifts, Mandi chose to forgo gifts to collect items and create birthday bags with friends for children in need. Simon Says Give was born out of Mandi’s desire to start a charity car wash to help local children. Soon the idea developed into a much bigger plan to create

an organization that en-abled children to help oth-ers. With Mandi’s concept in hand, Dina, who serves as president of Simon Says Give, created the organiza-tion and obtained nonprof-it status in May 2012. Though she wasn’t in-volved in the legal work, Mandi plays a critical role in the organization’s op-erations. She developed the name — a play on her last name and the game Simon Says — and decides where donations are directed. As with other nonprofits, Si-mon Says Give is overseen by a board of directors, which is comprised Dina and six members of the area business and educa-tional community. As as a Jefferson Award GlobeChanger, Mandi will have the opportunity to ex-pand her nonprofit nation-ally. To achieve that goal, Simon Says Give is seek-ing partners in other states to increase its High Five for Supplies program from 10,000 to 50,000 backpacks this year. Mandi has also taken on a public leadership role and recently spoke at a national conference on philanthropy.

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

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NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

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

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

DATE OF MORTGAGE: March 30, 2007MORTGAGOR: Paul N. Ber-

gener, a single person and Kristina Weier, a single person.

MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Systems, Inc..

DATE AND PLACE OF RE-CORDING: Recorded April 16, 2007 Dakota County Recorder, Document No. 2509881.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: Bank of America, N.A. successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP . Dated December 30, 2010 Record-ed March 8, 2011, as Document No. 2790054.

TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems, Inc.TRANSACTION AGENT’S

MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON MORTGAGE:

100053030011235018LENDER OR BROKER AND

MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE:

Aegis Wholesale CorporationRESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE

SERVICER: Bank of America, N.A.MORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-

DRESS: 1039 Aston Circle, Burns-ville, MN 55337

TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 02.84814.02.200LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF

PROPERTY: Lot 20, Block 2, Wood Park Plat 15

COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Dakota

ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $179,900.00

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

$254,837.53That prior to the commence-

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

PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the

above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: March 19, 2015 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Of-

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

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

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on September 21, 2015 unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next weekday, and unless the redemp-tion period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

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

“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”Dated: January 13, 2015Bank of America, N.A.Mortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688818 - 14-008588 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published inBurnsville/EaganJanuary 23, 30,

February 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015339616




DATE OF MORTGAGE: November 25, 2005MORTGAGOR: Walberto Al-

fredo Menjivar, a single person.MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-

tronic Registration Systems, Inc..DATE AND PLACE OF RE-

CORDING: Filed December 7, 2005, Dakota County Registrar of Titles, Document No. 580592 on Certificate of Title No. 138293.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York, as successor in interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Bear Stearns As-set Backed Securities, Bear Stea-rns ALT-A Trust, Mortgage Pass-through Certificates, Series 2006-2. Dated May 11, 2012 Filed May 24, 2012, as Document No. T696830.

Said Mortgage being upon Reg-istered Land.





MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE: 1st Mariner Bank

RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICER:

Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc.MORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-

DRESS: 14604 Greenridge Lane, Burnsville, MN 55306

TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 027120003080LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF

PROPERTY: Lot 8, Block 3 in Southcross Heights 1st Addition, Dakota County, Minnesota.






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



to pay the debt then secured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, including attor-neys’ fees allowed by law subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal rep-resentatives or assigns unless re-duced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat. §580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed under section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on September 3, 2015, unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next weekday, and unless the redemp-tion period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.


“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”Dated: December 22, 2014The Bank of New York Mellon, as TrusteeMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688838 - 14-008102 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

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DATE OF MORTGAGE: April 11, 2013MORTGAGOR: Brandon Coburn

and Elizabeth Coburn f/k/a Eliza-beth Skari, husband and wife.

MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Systems, Inc.

DATE AND PLACE OF RE-CORDING: Recorded April 22, 2013 Dakota County Recorder, Document No. 2945023.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: JPMorgan

Chase Bank, National Association. Dated October 22, 2014 Recorded October 29, 2014, as Document No. 3036321.





MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE:

Bell State Bank & TrustRESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE

SERVICER: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association

MORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-DRESS: 12973 Harriet Avenue South, Burnsville, MN 55337


PROPERTY:Lot 2, Block 3, Brittany Heights,

Dakota County, Minnesota.COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY

IS LOCATED: DakotaORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

OF MORTGAGE: $139,600.00AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED

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




DATE AND TIME OF SALE: February 24, 2015 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Of-



TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed un-der section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on August 24, 2015, unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next week-day, and unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.


“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”Dated: December 19, 2014JPMorgan Chase Bank, National AssociationMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688830 - 14-008012 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.


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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALENotice is hereby given that on

March 18, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. at 14750 W. Burnsville Parkway, Lot 141, City of Burnsville, County of Dakota, Minnesota 55306 the fol-lowing property will be sold by pub-lic auction by the Sheriff of Dakota County:

A 1970 REDMAN Manufactured Home, VIN number 190724

and any contents therein or about the premises.

This sale will be held to satisfy a claim upon the above described property held by Arbor Vista MHC. Upon information and belief, this property is owned by David Hofst-edt located at 14750 W. Burnsville Parkway, Lot 141, City of Burns-ville, County of Dakota, Minnesota 55306.

A Writ of Recovery of the Prem-ises was issued by the Dakota County District Court on Novem-ber 13, 2014, in favor of Arbor Vista MHC, and against Tammy Lynn Jackson, Spring Hofstedt, Starr Hofstedt, and Stone Putnam, the then current occupants of the Premises, and was executed by the Dakota County Sheriff. The amount of the claim against the above referenced property is $2,520.00 computed to the date of the sale at the rate of $20.00 per day, ex-clusive of the expenses of making said sale.

The grounds for the lien held by Arbor Vista MHC are as stated in M.S.A. §§514.18 (1) and (4), 514.19(2), and 504B.271(1), in that Arbor Vista is holding and storing the personal property described above to its preservation and care. Dated: January 27, 2015 CONLAN LAW GROUP, PLLCMick L. Conlan1600 Hopkins CrossroadMinnetonka, MN 55305

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THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS

NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that

default has occurred in conditions of the following described mort-gage:

DATE OF MORTGAGE: April 11, 2005MORTGAGOR: Layla Molloy, a single person.MORTGAGEE: First Residential

Mortgage Corporation.DATE AND PLACE OF RE-

CORDING: Recorded June 1, 2005 Dakota County Recorder, Docu-ment No. 2326793.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: Inter Savings Bank, FSB. Dated April 11, 2005 Recorded June 1, 2005, as Docu-ment No. 2326794. And thereafter assigned to: Minnesota Housing Finance Agency. Dated April 11, 2005 Recorded July 27, 2005, as Document No. 2344149.

TRANSACTION AGENT: NONETRANSACTION AGENT’S

MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON MORTGAGE: NONE

LENDER OR BROKER AND MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE: First Residential Mortgage Corporation


U.S. Bank National AssociationMORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-

DRESS: 159 Riverwoods Lane, Burnsville, MN 55337


PROPERTY:Lot 3, Block 12, Townhouse Vil-

lage at River Woods 3rd Addition, Dakota County, MN




$149,924.29 That prior to the commence-






TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed un-der section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on October 1, 2015 unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next week-day, and unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.


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

Dated: January 21, 2015Minnesota Housing Finance Agen-cyMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-6888135 - 14-008787 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

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CITY OF BURNSVILLEPUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC HEARINGA Public Hearing will be held on

February 9, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible by the Burnsville Planning Commission, 100 Civic Center Parkway, in the Council Chambers on the applica-tion of the City of Burnsville for a Conditional Use Permit for grading & filling in the Floodplain & Shore-land Districts for a regional trail along the MN River at 1400 Black Dog Rd.

The application will be sched-uled for the next appropriate City Council meeting following the Plan-ning Commission meeting.

All persons desiring to speak on this application are encouraged to attend. For more information concerning this request, please contact Planner Deb Garross (952) 895-4446 at the City of Burnsville.Deb Garross On Behalf of the Chair of the Burnsville Planning Commission


January 30, February 6, 2015342848



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

gage:DATE OF MORTGAGE: November 1, 2006MORTGAGOR: Daniel Nelson, unmarried.MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-

tronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for US Mortgage Invest-ments of New Prague, Inc. its suc-cessors and assigns.

DATE AND PLACE OF RE-CORDING: Recorded November 13, 2006 Dakota County Recorder, Document No. 2475076.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: U.S. Bank, N.A. Dated December 8, 2010 Recorded December 30, 2010, as Document No. 2775727.





MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE: US Mortgage In-vestments of New Prague, Inc.


U.S. Bank National AssociationMORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-

DRESS: 10900 Southview Drive, Burnsville, MN 55337


PROPERTY: Lot 1, Block 3, River Hills 2nd Addition, Dakota County, Minnesota.










TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed un-der section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on September 28, 2015, unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next weekday, and unless the redemp-tion period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.


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

Dated: October 30, 2014U.S. Bank National AssociationMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688819 - 14-006229 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.


January 30, February 6, 13, 20, 27, March 6, 2015

342813

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 917

REGULAR MEETING MINUTES

DECEMBER 2, 2014This is a summary of the In-

termediate School District 917 Regular School Board Meeting on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, with full text available for public inspec-tion on the district website at www.isd917.k12.mn.us or the District Office at 1300 145th Street East, Rosemount, MN 55068.

The meeting was called to or-der at 5:15 PM. Board meeting was held at 1300 145th Street East, Rosemount, MN in the 917 Board Room. Board members present: Dick Bergstrom, Bob Er-ickson, Ron Hill, Jill Lewis, Dan Cater, Deb Clark, Vanda Pressnall, Melissa Sauser, Joanne Mansur, and administrators were present. Also present Richard and Chelsie Saintey. Absent: none. Good news reports were presented. The following Consent Agenda items were approved: minutes, person-nel, donations, bills to be paid, in-vestment report, and wire transfers. Reports: Valerie Dosland, Lobbyist for the Intermediates reported on the upcoming legislative session. Overview of SUN Program present-ed by Melissa Schaller, Dave Stoll and Jennifer Hetland.

Adjournment at 6:45 PM.Published in

Apple Valley, Lakeville, Burnsville/EaganJanuary 30, 2015

341968


LEGAL NOTICES




DATE OF MORTGAGE: July 27, 2006MORTGAGOR: Kenneth Wash-

ington and Tracy Prater Washing-ton, husband and wife.

MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-tronic Registration Systems, Inc..

DATE AND PLACE OF RE-CORDING: Filed September 7, 2006, Dakota County Registrar of Titles, Document No. 597194 on Certificate of Title No. 140811.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: Bank of America, N.A. successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP f/k/a Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP. Dated January 29, 2009 Filed February 3, 2009 , as Document No. T638635 and by document dated October 20, 2011, filed November 1, 2011 as docu-ment no. T686384.

Said Mortgage being upon Reg-istered Land.





MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STAT-ED ON MORTGAGE: Bell America Mortgage LLC dba Bell Mortgage

RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICER: Bank of America, N.A.

MORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-DRESS: 3205 Jurdy Court S, Ea-gan, MN 55121

TAX PARCEL I.D. #:10.20960.04.250LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF

PROPERTY:Lot 25, Block 4, DonnywoodCOUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY

IS LOCATED: DakotaORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

OF MORTGAGE: $190,100.00AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED

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

$218,627.55 That prior to the commence-






TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed un-der section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on September 3, 2015 unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next week-day, and unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.


“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAG-OR’S PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMIN-ING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREM-ISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A

RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICUL-TURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”

Dated: December 23, 2014Bank of America, N.A.Mortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688818 - 14-008272 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.


January 9, 16, 23, 30, February 6, 13, 2015

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE SS 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.storage-battles.com on Wednesday, Febru-ary 11, 2015 beginning at approxi-mately 10:00AM and concluding on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at approximately 10:00 AM. This pub-lic sale will result in the goods being sold to the highest bidder. Certain terms and conditions apply.

D. Betts - Boxes, Totes, ClothesF. Smith – Record, Truck bed

Topper, Misc. WindowsA. Frazier – Totes, Couch, Fur-

nitureA. Remer – Tire Rims, Cycle Hel-

met, TransmissionT. Sullivan – Stereo Receiver,

Table, CD PlayerP. Martinez – Speakers, Floor

Tile, BikeL. Nelson – Table, Microwave,

BoxesJ. Roux – Stove, Furniture,

BoxesR. Kvam - Drill Press, Patio Fur-

niture, Curio CabinetJ. Krause – Boxes, Totes, Fish-

ing RodJ. Duffert – Bikes, Chair, BoxesM. Regehr – Couch, Loveseat,

TablesH. Chawich – Couch, Loveseat,

Coffee TableR. Koponen – Table, Chairs, Re-

clinerJ. Cortelli – Totes, Boxes, ToysC. Ellis – Speakers, Tool Boxes,

Misc. BoxesK. Syverson – TV, Bikes, Furni-

tureS. Roddy – End Table, Totes,

ChairsK. Herron – Weight Bench, Bar-

bell, ShelvingL. Rodriguez – Wheelchair, Lad-

der, ShovelsJ. Ostile, Boxes, Totes, End

TableA. Stender – Snowboard, Bike,

StrollerT. Hookah – Refridgerator, AC

Unit, TiresB. Szabo – Kayak, Totes, CouchS. Muckenheim – Boxes, Car-

pet, ToysP. Benitez – Truck Tires


January 23, 30, 2015328997

CITY OF BURNSVILLEPUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC HEARINGA Public Hearing will be held on

February 9, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible by the Burnsville Planning Commission, 100 Civic Center Parkway, in the Council Chambers on the applica-tion of Lintor LLC for a Planned Unit Development Amendment to construct the remaining four town-homes located at the northwest corner of 125th Street West and 1st Avenue South.

The application will be sched-uled for the next appropriate City Council meeting following the Plan-ning Commission meeting.

All persons desiring to speak on this application are encouraged to attend. For more information concerning this request, please contact Planner Chris Slania (952) 895-4451 at the City of Burnsville.Chris Slania On Behalf of the Chair of the Burnsville Planning Commission



CITY OF EAGANNOTICE OF PUBLIC

HEARING ON PROPOSEDIMPROVEMENTS IN THE

CITY OF EAGAN, DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA

PROJECT NO. 1175 NORTHWOOD PARKWAY & PROMENADE AVENUESTREET IMPROVEMENTSNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the City Council of the City of Ea-gan, Dakota County, Minnesota, will meet at the Eagan Municipal Center at 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan, Minnesota 55122, on Tues-day, February 3, 2015, at 6:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible. The purpose of the meeting will be to hold a public hearing on the improvements, known as Project No. 1175. The proposed project is in accordance with the preliminary engineering report dated January 6, 2015, prepared by the Assistant City Engineer.

The estimated cost of the fore-going improvement is as follows: $794,600.

The area proposed to be as-sessed for said improvements is described as follows:

The area located within the South ½ of Section 10, lying North of Yankee Doodle Road, East of I-35E, in Township 27, Range 23, in the City of Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota.

All persons who desire to be heard with respect to the question of whether or not the above im-provements should be made shall be heard at said time and place.Dated: January 6, 2014 BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL/s/ By: Christina M. ScipioniEagan City Clerk


January 23, 30, 2015334969

MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE

MINNESOTA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

/ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION

Minnesota Statutes, 322BThe individual(s) listed below

who is (are each) 18 years of age or older, hereby adopt(s) the following Articles of Incorporation:

ARTICLE I: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME:

SP Services L.L.C.ARTICLE 2: REGISTERED OF-

FICE AND AGENT(S): 1715 Slater LaneBurnsville, MN. 55337ARTICLE 3: DURATIONPERPETUALARTICLE 4: ORGANIZERS:Steven J. Persell1715 Slater LaneBurnsville, 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: February 11, 2013Signed by: Steven J. Persell


January 23, 30, 2015339233

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: Causy Taylor Literary PublishingPRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 1207 Spoonbill CircleEagan, MN 55123NAMEHOLDER(S): Catherine Dehdashti1207 Spoonbill CircleEagan, MN 55123I, 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: January 24, 2015SIGNED BY: Catherine Dehdashti



MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE MINNESOTA

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY /ARTICLES

OF ORGANIZATIONMinnesota Statutes, 322B

The individual(s) listed below who is (are each) 18 years of age or older, hereby adopt(s) the following Articles of Incorporation:

ARTICLE I: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME:

Sparkbook Publishing L.L.C.ARTICLE 2: REGISTERED OF-

FICE AND AGENT(S): 1546 East 88th StreetBloomington, MN 55425ARTICLE 3: DURATIONPERPETUALARTICLE 4: ORGANIZERS:Cedric Hohnstadt546 East 88th StreetBloomington, MN 55425I, 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: October 20, 2013Signed by: Cedric Hohnstadt

Published in Burnsville

January 23, 30, 2015340081

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 917

REGULAR MEETING MINUTES JANUARY 6, 2015

This is a summary of the Inter-mediate School District 917 Regu-lar School Board Meeting on Tues-day, January 6, 2015, with full text available for public inspection on the district website at www.isd917.k12.mn.us or the District Office at 1300 145th Street East, Rose-mount, MN 55068.

The meeting was called to order at 5:15 PM. Board meeting was held at 1300 145th Street East, Rosemount, MN in the 917 Board Room. Board members present: Dick Bergstrom, Bob Erickson, Ron Hill, Jill Lewis, Dan Cater, Deb Clark, Vanda Pressnall, Melissa Sauser, Joanne Mansur, and ad-ministrators were present. Absent: none. Good news reports were presented. The following Consent Agenda items were approved: minutes, personnel, donations, bills to be paid, investment report, and wire transfers. Recommended actions approved: Temporary Em-ployee Report; Accounts Receiv-able Aging Report; Revised Budget for 2014-2015; CTIC Agreement; Resolution for Paraprofessional Week; Superintendent’s Contract for 2015-2018; change start time for all future 917 School Board meetings to 5:00 PM, with the ex-ception of Board work sessions. Adjournment at 6:18 PM.

Published in Apple Valley, Lakeville,

Burnsville/EaganJanuary 30, 2015

341966


ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS2015 PAVEMENT

REHABILITATION, MULTIPLE SITES

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received for the 2015 Pavement Rehabilitation by Independent School District 191, at the Administrative Service Center Conference Room, 100 River Ridge Court, Burnsville, MN 55337, until 11:00 a.m. local time on February 23, 2015, at which time and place bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

In general, the Base Bid consists

of mill and overlay, crack seal, se-alcoat, and re-striping to parking lots and drives at multiple sites throughout the District. Concrete and guard railing repairs at loading dock is also to be included in the Base Bid.

Bidding Documents have been prepared by SRI Consultants Inc. (SRI), 3380 Annapolis Lane North, Suite #100, Plymouth, MN 55447 (telephone: 763-533-2727) and will be available on February 2, 2015, at 12:00 p.m. To order documents and view project information such as Drawings, Specification, updated plan holder list, addenda and bid results, visit the Franz Reprograph-ics web site at www.franzrepro.com and select the Franz Public Plan Room. Please login with your email address and password, or Register if this is your first time in the Plan Room. Select the project from the list of public projects. Once you have selected the project, please review the Bid Info for information on ordering documents. To receive Electronic Downloads, Bid Ad-denda and Shipped Order Confir-mations for this project, you must make the following email address a Safe Sender in your Outlook Email: [email protected] These notifications are sent from this email address, not from the email address of SRI Consultants or Franz Reprographics. If you do not do this, your email server may block the receipt of these notifica-tions. To make an email address a Safe Sender, please do the follow-ing: With the Inbox of Microsoft Outlook open, select the Actions drop-down menu across the top of the Outlook screen. Then select Junk E-mail, and then select Junk E-mail Options. Next select the Safe Senders tab and then select the Add button. You can then type in: [email protected] and click OK. There is a ? (Help) but-ton in the upper right hand corner you can select for assistance with using the Online Plan Room. If you still have problems, please contact Franz Reprographics by phone at 763-503-3401.

Documents may also be re-viewed at SRI, McGraw Hill Con-struction Plan Room, Reed Con-struction Data Plan Room and the Builders Exchanges of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

A pre-bid conference will be held on February 12, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. in the main office conference room at the Facilities and Grounds Office at 100 River Ridge Court, Burnsville, MN. Attendees are to meet at the front door. In the inter-est of all parties present at the pre-bid conference, cell phone use will not be permitted.

A Bid Bond or Certified Check for 5% of the maximum bid pay-able to Independent School District 191, is required as a guarantee that if the bid is accepted, the Bidder will execute and file the proposed contract and provide 100% Perfor-mance and Payment Bonds within ten (10) days after the award of the Contract. The Certified Check will be returned to the Bidder as soon as the Contract and Bonds are ex-ecuted. If, after ten (10) days, the Bidder shall fail to execute said Contract and Bonds, the Certified Check or Bid Bond shall be forfeit-ed to Independent School District 191, as liquidated damages.

The Owner reserves the right to waive irregularities and to reject any and all bids.

No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days after the date set for the opening thereof.

At the Owner’s discretion, liqui-dated damages in the amount of Five-Hundred-Dollars ($500.00) per day will be assessed against the Contract if the project is not com-pleted on the dates indicated.

This Advertisement for Bids is issued by the authority of Indepen-dent School District 191.




BURNSVILLE, EAGAN, SAVAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT

191 CALL FOR BIDS 2015 ROOF REHABILITATIONNotice is hereby given that

sealed bids will be received for the 2015 Roof Rehabilitation by Inde-pendent School District 191, at the Administrative Services Center, 100 River Ridge Court, Burnsville, MN 55337, until 10:00 a.m., local time on Monday, February 23, 2015 at which time and place bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

In general, the work consists

of the removal of the existing roof systems and associated materi-als on approximately 156,200 ft of the facilities and installation of new roofing systems as specified. It is the Owner’s intent to award the project to lowest responsive Base Bid. The Responsible Contractor that provides the lowest responsive Base Bid is required to provide a roofing crew for each of the schools included in the Base Bid working simultaneously within the District, fully equipped and staged at mul-tiple sites, consisting of 8 to 10 la-borers per crew until completion of the Contract or as directed by the Owner’s Representative.

Bidding Documents have been prepared by SRI Consultants Inc. (SRI), 3380 Annapolis Lane North, Suite #100, Plymouth, MN 55447 (telephone: 763-533-2727) and will be available on February 2, 2015, at 12:00 p.m. To order documents and view project information such as Drawings, Specification, updated plan holder list, addenda and bid results, visit the Franz Reprograph-ics web site at www.franzrepro.com and select the Franz Public Plan Room. Please login with your email address and password, or Register if this is your first time in the Plan Room. Select the project from the list of public projects. Once you have selected the project, please review the Bid Package Informa-tion for ordering documents. To receive Electronic Downloads, Bid Addenda and Shipped Order Con-firmations for this project, you must make the following email address a Safe Sender in your Outlook Email: [email protected] These notifi-cations are sent from this email ad-dress, not from the email address of SRI Consultants or Franz Repro-graphics. If you do not do this, your email server may block the receipt of these notifications. To make an email address a Safe Sender, please do the following: With the Inbox of Microsoft Outlook open, select the Actions drop-down menu across the top of the Outlook screen. Then select Junk E-mail, and then select Junk E-mail Op-tions. Next select the Safe Senders tab and then select the Add button. You can then type in: [email protected] and click OK. There is a ? (help) button in the upper right hand corner you can select for as-sistance with using the Online Plan Room. If you still have problems, please contact Franz Reprograph-ics by phone at 763-503-3401.

Documents may also be re-viewed at SRI, McGraw Hill Con-struction Plan Room, Reed Con-struction Data Plan Room and the Minnesota Builders Exchange. A pre-bid conference will be held on Thursday, February 12, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in Conference Room A, at the Administrative Services Center located at 100 River Ridge Court, Burnsville, MN 55337. At-tendees shall meet at the main en-trance.

All interested bidders must submit with their bid a statement signed under oath by an owner or officer verifying compliance with each of the minimum criteria in subdivision 3 of Minnesota Statute 16C.285.

A Bid Bond or Certified Check for 5% of the maximum bid pay-able to Independent School District 191 is required as a guarantee that if the bid is accepted, the Bidder will execute and file the proposed contract and provide 100% Perfor-mance and Payment Bonds within ten (10) days after the award of the Contract. The Certified Check will be returned to the Bidder as soon as the Contract and Bonds are ex-ecuted. If, after ten (10) days, the Bidder shall fail to execute said Contract and Bonds, the Certified Check or Bid Bond shall be forfeit-ed to Independent School District 191, as liquidated damages.

The Owner reserves the right to waive irregularities and to reject any and all bids.

No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days after the date set for the opening thereof.

As indicated in the Bidding Documents and at the Owner’s dis-cretion, liquidated damages in the amount of Five-Hundred-Dollars ($500.00) per calendar day will be assessed against the Contract if the project is not completed on the dates indicated.

This Advertisement for Bids is issued by the authority of Indepen-dent School District 191. Mr. Glenn Simon Independent School District 191



will come true if voters in Burnsville-Eagan-Sav-age School District 191 approve a $65 million building bond on Feb. 24. Adding classrooms and an activity center needed to accommodate grades nine through 12 is the single biggest set of projects in the bonding request. Ninth-graders from the district’s three junior highs would at-tend the high school beginning in Septem-ber 2016. The school’s Senior Campus at Dia-mondhead Education Center would be discon-tinued. Years ago, when high school’s emphasis was filling credits en route to a diploma, a compre-hensive nine-through-12 high school may not have been as important, Helke told the School Board Jan. 22. “But if you fast-

forward to today, when the whole high school experience is a lot more than just getting some credits and filling out a transcript so you can get a diploma — it really is about preparing your-self to be competitive in the global workplace, it’s really about prepar-ing yourself to move on to a career or college training — it becomes very important,” Helke said. “That one year can make a huge difference in terms of getting our students ready.” As part of the run-up to the Feb. 24 referen-dum, Helke and two of his staff members ad-dressed the board on the benefits of a four-year high school. District 191 is one of only a handful of Minnesota districts that still use the 10-12 model. The four-year model is “best practice,” best for post-high school planning and aligned

with state Department of Education expecta-tions, Helke said. A four-year program gives students the time they need to explore their aptitudes and prefer-ences and properly plan a high school program to fully prepare them for the next step, he said. “I feel that we are be-hind because we’re los-ing those ninth-grade development years, so we’re trying to play catch-up in 10th grade and 11th grade to start to get to know all of our students,” BHS guidance counselor Ashley Welke told the board. And things move quickly from there, with the ACT test in 11th grade, Welke said. “Adding another year would be huge for me and also my colleagues to make sure we get to build (students) even stronger and move them forward and write those letters of recommenda-

tion to move them to the next step,” she said. A four-year high school would open ninth-graders to a host of new classes and ex-tracurricular activities, from sports to Quiz Bowl, Helke said. They’ll get unprece-dented access to honors, College in the Schools and elective courses, and more “pathways” to post-high school prepa-ration, Helke said. Freshman will have upperclassmen to help guide their exploration, he said. “The fact of the mat-ter is, as you enter 10th grade, a lot of them have made decisions on what they like, what they don’t like, what they want to do with their time,” he said. “You end up re-ally kind of losing that year to get them excited about, to get them ex-posed, to activities that may be very beneficial for them.”

A three-year high school poses challenges for scheduling and pro-grams, said Tyler Krebs, a BHS language arts and business teacher and coach who spent 14 years at the four-year Eastview High School in Apple Valley. “Many of the chal-lenges deal with the fact that our school is di-vided (between the main campus and the Senior Campus), and there’s re-ally lots of things that make my job more dif-ficult and, I think, take away opportunities from kids,” Krebs said. He described his frus-tration at trying to ex-pand participation in the “Blaze Weekly,” a TV show produced by media production students. “I can’t tell you the number of kids I’ve talk-ed to that say, ‘I want to be in your class sixth hour, but I’m at the Se-nior Campus,’ ” Krebs said. “It’s really, really

difficult to build a pro-gram when half the se-niors are somewhere else. Obviously, we don’t have any ninth-graders to take our classes.” Ninth-graders who play football at BHS don’t arrive by bus from their junior highs until after 3 p.m. for practice that starts at 2:25 p.m., Krebs said. In the case of late-starting Eagle Ridge, arrival time is 3:30 p.m. “We have some kids that can’t miss sixth hour, so they can’t play football, which is obvi-ously a big deal,” he said. “If they don’t play ninth grade, we’re probably going to lose them for a long time.”


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called Vision One91, at a sparsely attended infor-mation meeting Jan. 20 at Metcalf Junior High. A second meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 5, at 6:30 p.m. at Diamond-head Education Center in Burnsville. Voters are being asked in a Feb. 24 special elec-tion to approve a $65 mil-lion building bond, most of which would pay for additional classrooms and an activity center at the high school. It’s the dis-trict’s first building bond request in 20 years. Other projects include remodeling some elemen-tary schools to enlarge some kindergarten and other instructional spaces, expanding early childhood space at Diamondhead, building secured entrances at four schools that lack them and remodeling and relocating some district of-fice spaces. Voters are being asked to approve a second ques-tion for technology. It would raise school taxes by $2.5 million annually over 10 years. Together, the build-ing and technology lev-

ies would raise taxes on an average-priced home (around $200,000) by $144 annually, according to the district. Among metro school districts, only Hopkins, Stillwater, Shakopee, Edi-na and Osseo still have 10-12 high schools, Gothard said, and Osseo is switch-ing to four-year high schools next year. The Burnsville High School expansion would accommodate up to 2,800 students. District officials say the proposed grade re-configurations at all three levels reflect current think-ing in education and Min-nesota state standards. “We want to focus and make sure that that four years (in high school) is truly meaningful in prepa-ration for what’s to come after high school,” Go-thard said. Ninth grade is a criti-cal year in which students sometimes struggle, said Gothard, who worked extensively with ninth-graders in previous ad-ministrative assignments in Madison, Wis. “If we’re able to move to a nine-12 (high school), there’s time for them to come back as a second-

semester freshman or a sophomore and really pick up the pieces and do some great work,” he said. “Right now if our stu-dents enter high school in 10th grade and have that same problem with that transition, time runs out very quickly.” A four-year high school would improve class scheduling, which for se-niors is now hampered by a two-campus high school, Gothard said. Under a four-year high school, the Senior Campus at Diamondhead would be closed. Because they shuttle between two campuses se-niors “have to make some pretty tough choices” in their course selection, Go-thard said. The activity center, to be used during the school day and for extracurricu-lars, would include three gym spaces, four class-rooms and an upper level with a fitness center, stu-dio and walking-running track, Gothard said. Meanwhile, some ele-mentary schools are “run-ning out of space,” he said. The district has removed most of its old portable classrooms and is seeing a

“resurgence” in K-two en-rollment, with “large kin-dergarten classes who are staying in our district for the most part,” Gothard said. Universal all-day kin-dergarten has stretched school spaces, and Go-thard said some indi-vidualized programs for students require more space than they did years ago. Going from K-six elementary schools to K-five should free up two to three sections per school, he said, noting that Ed-ward Neill Elementary in Burnsville had to rear-range spaces this fall to accommodate a section of third-graders. “The squeeze right now is in our elementary,” he said. “By moving everyone upstream, we build in ex-tra space to accommodate them.” District enrollment stood at more than 11,000 students two decades ago. After years of decline it’s reached a “flat line” phase, Gothard said. The Oct. 1 enrollment count was 9,265. The few people at the Metcalf meeting had few comments. One man said that $65 million “is a boat-

load of money” to spend on building projects “for enrollment that’s essen-tially flat K-12.” Projects also include repurposing the Senior Campus space at Dia-mondhead, moving all districtwide offices to Dia-mondhead and moving the BEST special-education transition program from leased space to the cur-rent Administrative Ser-vices Center building. The district would no longer lease space in Burnsville for BEST or at the Hamil-ton Building in Savage for early childhood and Adult Basic Education.

Technology The district already spends about $2.5 million annually on technology, Gothard said. The levy would add another $2.5 million annually for 10 years. “We’re just barely able to make the kind of jump that we feel our students need, that our students are telling us they need, in terms of technology,” he said. New tech money wouldn’t mean every stu-dent gets an iPad, Go-thard said.

“We’re not ready for that kind of deployment at this time,” he said. “But we are ready to begin de-veloping student resources and classroom resources and making sure we can support our staff in how they can use technology in their everyday teaching.” Technology helps per-sonalize learning for stu-dents and allows teach-ing and learning to “take place anytime, anywhere,” according to a district fact sheet. It helps teachers be more effective and ef-ficient and quickly assess student progress, the dis-trict says. There’s an “expecta-tion” that students will be “ready to use technology in their everyday life,” Go-thard said. “Right now we’ve got wonderful examples in our schools,” he said, “but it isn’t consistent and it isn’t equitable.”

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state defines a racially identifiable school as one where enrollment of mi-nority students at the school is 20 percentage points higher than enroll-ment of minority students in the entire district. Officials are looking at possibly converting Echo Park and Oak Ridge into magnet schools to bal-ance minority enrollment. Magnet schools are free public schools but differ from other public schools in that they have a fo-cused theme and aligned curricula in science, tech-nology, math, fine arts, language and other areas. Minority students make up about 50 percent of en-rollment at Echo Park and Oak Ridge, and minority students make up 35 per-

cent of district enrollment. This would not be the first time the district turned to the magnet school model as a tool to balance diversity in its schools. Cedar Park and Glacier Hills elementary schools were converted into magnet schools in 2007 after they were added to the list of racially iden-tifiable schools three years earlier. “Both have been very successful and have been recognized nationally,” said Tony Taschner, com-munications director for District 196. “Magnets are often looked at by districts to create racial balance and offer more school choice options.” Since then both have become more racially bal-anced and experienced significant improvements

in student achievement, officials say. Cedar Park Elementary was one of 22 schools in the state to receive a Cel-ebration School designa-tion by the Minnesota Department of Education last December. The desig-nation is part of the state’s Multiple Measurement Rating system, which re-placed No Child Left Be-hind. All schools receive an MMR score, but only those that have higher concentrations of poverty and receive federal Title I funding may also receive an MMR designation as a Reward, Celebration Eligible, Continuous Im-provement, Focus or Pri-ority school. Last year, Cedar Park, Glacier Hills, Oak Ridge and Echo Park were

named as Celebration Eli-gible. Though officials are looking at potentially turning Oak Ridge and Echo Park into magnet schools, no official deci-sion has been made. Dis-trict officials have been meeting with parents to discuss whether they sup-port the idea of a magnet school and if so, what theme they prefer. Echo Park and Oak Ridge are not the only schools district officials hope to address with a po-tential bond referendum. Officials also recommend-ed upgrading security equipment at all schools, reconfiguring entrances or moving the main office at all 18 elementary schools and five middle schools to better route visitors, create a small greeter area at all

five high schools and Da-kota Hills Middle School, and expand parking lots at 16 schools. Officials also recom-mended technology up-grades to district build-ings including expanding Wi-Fi capacity, maintain-ing interactive classroom equipment and replacing outdated telephone sys-tems. Officials recommended spending an estimated $50 million to purchase ad-ditional tablets and other devices for students to use in the classroom. Officials are considering seeking a $40 million capital proj-ects levy to cover this cost. All of the district’s potential projects would need board approval be-fore moving forward. Dis-trict officials plan to sur-vey residents and collect

additional information before deciding whether to pursue these projects and a potential referendum. If the board decides to seek a referendum, it would likely go to voters in November. If voters approved a $180 million bond referen-dum and capital projects levy, homeowners would see a small increase in their property taxes, said Jeff Solomon, finance di-rector for District 196. Taxes on the average valued home of $250,000 would likely increase by about $144 between pay-able 2015 and payable 2016, which is about $12 more a month.

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Exhibits Art Fete, an exhibit by the Burnsville Visual Arts Society, is on display through Feb. 8 in the art gallery at Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Information: 952-895-4685.

Events Valentine’s Day Couple’s Dinner, Rosemount American Legion, 14590 Burma Ave., Rosemount. Cost: $40 in ad-vance, $45 at the event. Dinner available 5-8 p.m. Reservations requested. Information: 651-423-3380. Love Me Tender Weekend, Feb. 13-14, Mystic Lake Ca-sino, Prior Lake. Information: mysticlake.com/lovemetend-er15.

Music Caribbean Soiree with Socaholix, 7:30 p.m. Satur-day, Jan. 31, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets: $20 in advance, $23 at the door. Infor-mation: 952-985-4640. Marilyn Manson’s The Hell Not Hallelujah Tour, 8 p.m. Fri-day, Feb. 6, Mystic Showroom, Mystic Lake, Prior Lake. Tick-ets: $49 and $57. Contact the box office at 952-445-9000 or visit mysticlake.com for more details. Music from the Heart Con-cert by the Bells of the Bluffs Handbell Ensemble, 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, First Presby-terian Church, 503 W. Sixth St., Red Wing. Doors open at 1 p.m. for socializing and silent auction. Refreshments follow concert. Pure Classics Concert by the Dakota Valley Symphony & Chorus, 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, Ames Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Tickets: $5-$20 at the box office and Tick-etmaster.com.

Theater “Ole and Lena at the State Fair,” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6-7 and 2 p.m. Feb. 8, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets: $18. Infor-mation: 952-985-4640. “Honk!” presented by Chil-dren’s Castle Theater, 7 p.m. Feb. 13-14 and 20-21 and 2 p.m. Feb. 14-15 and 21-22, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets: $13. Information: 952-985-4640.

Workshops/classes/other International Festival of Burnsville Planning Commit-tee: Get involved with the July 2015 festival; choose from en-tertainment, marketing, public-ity, sponsorships, and general event planning. Visit www.in-tlfestburnsville.org or contact [email protected]. The Eagan Art House of-fers art classes for all ages,

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Friday, Jan. 30 Family fun night fundraiser for St. Joseph School, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Church of St. Jo-seph, 13900 Biscayne Ave. W., Rosemount. Information: http://school.stjosephcommunity.org/parish_family_fun_night.

Saturday, Jan. 31 Farmington Community Expo, 9 a.m. to noon, Farming-ton High School, 20655 Flag-staff Ave. Free admission. Clarity for the Chaos of Family Life parenting work-shop, 9 a.m. to noon, Trin-ity Evangelical Free Church, 10658 210th St. W., Lakeville. Cost: $10 per person or $15 per couple. Register online at www.trinityefc.net. Indoor winter farmers market, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ea-gan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan. Fea-tures winter produce, breads, meats, sweet treats and more. Information: Eagan Parks and Recreation at 651-675-5500.

Tuesday, Feb. 3 Open house, 1-3 p.m., Saint Mary’s University of Min-nesota, 14200 Cedar Ave., Apple Valley. Information: 612-238-4551.

Thursday, Feb. 5 Burnsville Park Nicollet’s Dementia Caregiver Support Group, 10 a.m., on the third floor in the administration con-ference room, 14000 Fairview Drive, Burnsville. No registra-tion required. Information: Con-nie at 952-993-8739. Adopted Friends open gym, 12-2:30 p.m., Saints Sports Academy, 9913 214th St. W., Lakeville. Friendship, support and fun for adoptive families. Information: www.ad-optedfriends.com or [email protected]. Free divorce clinic, 1-4 p.m., Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. Get help with divorce paperwork

using Minnesota I-Can. Pre-sented by the Dakota County Law Library, Legal Assistance of Dakota County, the Minne-sota Justice Foundation, and volunteer attorneys and law students. Registration required. Call 952-431-3200. Minnesota Native Plant Society meeting, 7 p.m., Dakota Lodge at Thompson County Park, 360 Butler Ave. E., West St. Paul. Topic: “Rare Plant Conservation at the Min-nesota Landscape Arboretum” by David Remucal, the Minne-sota Landscape Arboretum’s curator of endangered plants. Information: www.mnnps.org. Lebanon Hills informa-tional meeting, 7-8:30 p.m., Falcon Ridge Middle School, Lecture Room A, 12900 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley. Will include information from the revised Lebanon Hills Draft Master Plan and how to give input to the County Board and Planning Department. Hosted by Wilderness in the City. Infor-mation: [email protected] or http://wildleba-nonhills.org.

Friday, Feb. 6 Forever Wild Family Fri-day: The Man Who Loved Snow, 7-8:30 p.m., Lebanon Hills Visitor Center, 860 Cliff Road, Eagan. All ages. In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre shares the story of “Snowflake” Bentley, the first person to photograph a single snow crystal. Free. Registra-tion requested. Information: www.co.dakota.mn.us/parks. Course number 5049.

Saturday, Feb. 7 “Lose 20 lbs. in 30 days Weight Loss Challenge” by Essential Health Chiropractic, 9 a.m. to noon, 1964 Rahncliff Court, Suite 100, Eagan. Cost: $10-$25 depending on if you would like the book with the event. RSVP by calling 952-432-3833 or registering on eventbrite.com “Lose to Win-Health Makeover.” Citizens Climate Lobby of Dakota County meeting,

10 a.m. to noon, Jo Jo’s Rise and Wine, 12501 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Information: 952-920-1547 or [email protected]. Youth Ice Fishing Contest, noon to 2 p.m., Valley Lake Park, 16050 Garrett Path. For ages 13 and under. Bring your own fishing equipment and bait. Free. Sponsored by the Lakeville Knights of Columbus. Lincoln Day High Tea, 1 p.m., Mendakota Country Club, 2075 Mendakota Drive, Men-dota Heights. Speaker: Law professor and Lincoln scholar Michael Stokes Paulsen. Cost: $25. Reservations required by Feb. 1 to Kaki Frost via email at [email protected]. Spon-sored by Metro Republican Women (www.metrogopwom-en.org).

Ongoing Emotions Anonymous meetings, 7:30-9 p.m. Tues-days at SouthCross Commu-nity Church, 1800 E. County Road 42 (at Summit Oak Drive), Apple Valley. EA is a 12-step program for those seeking emotional health. All are wel-come. Information: http://www.emotionsanonymous.org/.

Blood drives The American Red Cross will hold the following blood drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit red-crossblood.org to make an ap-pointment or for more informa-tion. • Feb. 3, 12:30-6:30 p.m., Shepherd of the Valley Luther-an Church, 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley. • Feb. 3, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Threads & Inks, 20137 Icenic Trail, Lakeville. • Feb. 5, 1-6 p.m., Mt. Oliv-et Assembly of God Church, 14201 Cedar Ave. S., Apple Valley. • Feb. 5, 1-7 p.m., Berean Baptist Church, 309 E. County Road 42, Burnsville. • Feb. 7, 10:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville.

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


The Eagan Theater Company is adding a ma-cabre twist to Valentine’s Day with its mystery din-ner theater show “My Fa-tal Valentine.” The interactive play, which will be presented at Feb. 13-14 at Brianno’s Royal Cliff Center in Ea-gan, offers guests a night of comedic fun, a roman-tic Italian dinner and a chance to put their ama-teur crime-solving skills to the test, said Amy Kamarainen, the show’s director and an Eagan Theater Company board member.

The fictional setting for “My Fatal Valentine” is the Heartthrob Books ro-mance convention, where one author will be award-ed the “Loveknot Award” for romance author of the year. Things do not go as planned when the winning author is shot, and it’s up to guests to help solve the crime. Actors and audience interact throughout the performance, start-ing when guests walk through the door. After questioning characters and considering clues offered throughout the play, guests will fill out secret ballots with their guess as to who perpe-

trated the crime. “The character receiv-ing the most votes is elect-ed the ‘perp’ and deter-mines the surprise ending of the play,” Kamarainen said. Tickets for the play are $38 and are available on the theater group’s website, www.etc-mn.org. The ticket price includes a chicken and pasta din-ner; there also will be a cash bar. Show times are 6 p.m. both nights. Brian-no’s Royal Cliff Center is located at 2280 Cliff Road in Eagan.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Eagan Theater Group presents mystery dinner theater Feb. 13-14

April Bailey, left, and Oksana Steinke are among the cast of Eagan Theater Com-pany’s “My Fatal Valentine,” an interactive murder-mystery play written by Eileen Moushey. (Photo submitted)

A murder on Valentine’s Day


ThisweekendThisweekendFifth-grader in ‘Goodnight Moon’ Cole Spanovich, a fifth-grader at Cherryview El-ementary in Lakeville, performs as Mouse in the Stages Theatre Company’s production of “Goodnight Moon: The Musical.” Performances run through Feb. 16 at Stag-es Theatre in Hopkins. Tickets are $16. For more information, visit www.stagestheatre.org.

The Lakeville Area Arts Center is taking on the vibe of a Caribbean island party when it plays host on Jan. 31 to a concert by the Socaholix, a band specializing in high-energy soca, calypso and reggae. The event seeks to capture the atmosphere of a tropical night club with candle-lit tables, drinks and soca dancing. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. event are $20 and are available at www.LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com or in person at the arts center located at 20965 Holyoke Ave. in downtown Lakeville. For more information, call 952-985-4640. (Photo submitted)

Caribbean soiree

The Golden Dragon Acrobats will present their “Cirque Ziva” show on Feb. 13 at the Ames Center in Burnsville. The fast-paced and colorful show has been touring nationally since 2011, and showcases traditional Chinese acrobats, dance and costumes, ancient and contemporary music, and modern theatrical techniques. Tickets range from $20 to $40 and can be purchased in person at the Burnsville venue’s box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 and online at Ticketmaster.com. (Photo submitted)

Acrobatic wonders

Cole Spanovich

From the Archives

One lesson to be learned from the history of American science-fiction literature: Robots never go out of style. This photo from the Sept. 8, 1980, edition of Thisweek News shows the Nelsen family of South St. Paul standing happily beside a robot-themed mailbox built by Gerry Nelsen for a project in his apprentice plumbing class. While Nelsen’s facsimile of a mechanical man may not have been programmed to attend to the family’s every whim (like every good robo-butler should), a permanent smile plastered across the robot’s face at least gave the appearance of cheerful enthusiasm for its singular duty of housing the family’s daily deliveries.

Lakeville Parks and Recreation Lakeville Parks and Recreation will offer the following activities. Reg-ister at www.lakeville-rap-connect.com or in person at 20195 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Nickelodeon Universe Mall of America, Bloom-ington: Purchase all-day discount wristbands for $25 online at www.lakev-ille-rapconnect.com or at the Lakeville Parks & Recreation office in City Hall, 20195 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Pick up tickets at City Hall. Winter snowshoe hike, ages 6 and up, families encouraged, noon to 1:15 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, Ritter Farm Park, 19300 Ritter Trail, Lakeville. Snow-shoeing followed by hot cocoa. Snowshoes includ-ed. Cost: $8. Public skating sched-ule: Dec. 20 to Feb. 16 (weather permitting), 4-9 p.m. Monday-Fri-day; 2:30-9 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday (Dakota

Heights); 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday; noon to 8 p.m. Sunday. Holiday schedule: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Feb. 16. Map of outdoor rinks – A map of outdoor rinks is at www.lakevillemn.gov, or call 952-985-4600 to have a map mailed. Inclement weather – Call the hotline at 952-985-4690, option 1. A decision on the status of rinks will be made one hour before the scheduled opening of rinks. Snowshoe rental – Snowshoes are available to rent. Call 952-985-4600 to reserve a pair or for more information and availabil-ity. Cost: $3 per pair per day, three-day minimum on weekends. Deposit: $75 per pair. Three sizes to choose from (up to 150, 200 and 275 pounds). Pick up and return snowshoes at: Lakeville City Hall, 20195 Holyoke Ave. Mon-day-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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