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NOVEMBER 25, 2011 VOLUME 32, NO. 39

Apple Valley-RosemountApple Valley-Rosemount

by Tad JohnsonTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

While the phrase “holi-day extravaganza” often is tossed around this time of year, Christmas at the Stee-ple Center is one that truly will be an extravaganza. Nine performance acts, a Christmas tree lighting and Santa and Mrs. Claus will be at the Rosemount Area Arts Council’s event Satur-day, Dec. 3, which will be staged at both 2 and 7 p.m. at the Steeple Center. “Everyone we have invit-ed, they are excited, so that really helps in the planning,” council member John Loch said. The show will feature debut performances for the Rosemount Community Band and acting troupe the Rosemount Players. The 75-member band, which formed this fall, will let holiday favorites ring, while five actors will stage a play written by a Rose-mount resident. In addition to that, the event will showcase what RAAC members have known for quite some time – there is a tremendous amount of local talent itch-ing to perform. All they needed was a venue. Enter stage left, the city-owned and operated Steeple Center. “The more we talked about it, the more we said we gotta do this,” Loch said. Planning for the event started about a year ago after Jim Kotz brought the idea to an arts council meet-ing. The concept was to orga-nize a seamless performance, like that of a Perry Como or Andy Williams Christmas TV variety show. Three stages will ro-tate in the spotlight. Loch said there will be a surprise fourth staging area to be re-vealed on show night. “We think this is a unique opportunity to give a de-lightful show,” Loch said. Other performers each have their own story to tell at the event. Rosemount Middle School band teacher John Zschunke has organized what is expected to be a very professional musical treat from the Rosemount Com-munity Band (see story next week). “We heard part of it and it sounded very, very good,”

Loch said. “That could be a performance all of its own, but that wasn’t the idea of it.” Keith Reed, arts council president and owner of Mr. Mystery Productions acting troupe, will launch his ef-fort to form the Rosemount Players. “One of the things I no-ticed when I moved here 10 years ago was that Rose-mount was lacking a com-munity theater,” Reed said. While his Mr. Mystery work has consumed most of Reed’s time, he’s concentrat-ing more on launching the Rosemount Players. He said the effort of starting a community the-ater is tremendous, but it’s important to not only give people a way to act, but also be involved in all aspects of a production. He has rewritten an O. Henry short story, “Gift of the Magi,” into a short play with additional characters and action. The play tells the story of how a poor, young couple

attempts to buy secret gifts for Christmas. “We are looking forward to presenting this,” Reed said. Loch says St. Joseph Catholic Church’s the Rev. Paul Jarvis reading “The Christmas Story” is a great

match as the Steeple Center is the former home of the parish. Special Delivery, a Lakev-ille-based choir for special needs adults, and Rose-mount’s Dance Connection found their link to the event after both performed dur-ing Rosemount Leprechaun Days. Many of the arts council’s members are in-volved in Leprechaun Days. The city of Rosemount will be lending its hand to the event, too. Rosemount Mayor Bill Droste will give a reading of “The Night Before Christ-mas,” and the city is reviving an old Rosemount tradition of having a Christmas tree lit downtown. The tree cer-emony will proceed the eve-ning show. “It’s been a lot of work putting this together,” Reed said. “Already the reserva-tions are coming together. We are glad we added mati-nee.”

Tad Johnson is at [email protected].

Perry Como would be proud

Photo submitted

Singleton Street, which includes Rosemount resident and Rosemount Area Arts Council member Craig Evans (left), will perform at Christmas at the Steeple Center on Dec. 3.

Photo by Rick Orndorf

The Dance Connection in Rosemount, which gave a performance at the Central Park Amphitheater on July 26 as part of Leprechaun Days events, will be part of Christmas at the Steeple Center.

Christmas at the Steeple Center features host of artists

for holiday extravaganza

Christmas at the Steeple Center will fea-ture the Rosemount Community Band, Ter-zetto String Trio, The Dance Connection, Spe-cial Delivery Singers, Singleton Street blue-grass band, Joe Frep-pert on acoustic guitar, The Rosemount Play-ers presenting “Gift of the Magi,” Mayor Bill Droste reading “The Night Before Christ-mas,” the Rev. Paul Jarvis reading “The Christmas Story,” and a special appearance by Santa and Mrs. Claus.

Tickets for Christ-mas at the Steeple Cen-ter on Saturday, Dec. 3 are $12 (matinee at 2 p.m.) and $15 (evening at 7 p.m.). Tickets can be purchased at www.rosemountaac.org or by calling (651) 600-8693.

IN BRIEF

IN BRIEF

Breakfast will help fire victim

Photo by Laura Adelmann

A fast-moving fire destroyed Kerri Davis’ home, cars and belongings Nov. 4. A Dec. 11 fundraiser has been set to help her recover from her devastating loss.

by Laura AdelmannTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

A Knights of Colum-bus breakfast is dedicated to helping a local kindergarten teacher recover after losing her home, car and belongings in a fire. All proceeds from the Rosemount Knight of Co-lumbus’s Dec. 11 pancake breakfast, served for a free-will donation, will be given to Kerri and Mark Davis, Farm-ington residents who escaped their burning home Nov. 4, then watched in horror as all they owned was consumed by fire. “I lost my home, my cars, my clothing, but I’m alive,” Kerri Davis said of the ordeal, which has altered her life. A kindergarten teacher at St. Joseph Catholic School in Rosemount, Kerri Davis, wearing just a robe, escaped the rapidly moving fire that burned hot enough to inciner-ate golf clubs. With the help of family and neighbors, the family has received a few items of cloth-ing. They have found tempo-rary housing, but are grap-pling with the enormity of the loss, compounded by its tim-ing so close to the holidays. “It’s a devastating time, and the support of friends and family is huge,” Kerri Da-

vis said. She has recovered only a handful of family photos, and is especially mourning the loss of some family keepsakes. Kerri said they intends to rebuild the home, a process that they are working out with their insurance company. The public is invited to the breakfast from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 11 at St. Jo-seph Catholic School, 13900 Biscayne Avenue West, Rose-mount. The meal includes pancakes, ham, sausage links, scrambled eggs, coffee, juice and water. Restaurant and store gift cards and cash donations are being accepted at the St. Jo-seph Church Parish office, at-tention Paula Krekelberg.

Farmington Knights The Farmington Knights of Columbus Council 2400 also will host a pancake breakfast Sunday, Dec. 4, to assist the Davis family. The breakfast will be from 9 a.m. to noon at the Church of St. Michael, 22120 Den-mark Ave., Farmington. Pancakes, sausage links, and scrambled eggs will be served along with coffee, juice and water. Good-will offer-ings will be accepted.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

St. Joseph kindergarten teacher Kerri Davis lost her home, belongings, car in fire

by Andrew MillerTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

Some girls dream of be-coming a princess. Katie Lingen actually became one. It helped that she could land a triple axel. For the past decade the Apple Valley native and 2001 Eastview High School graduate has been a cast member with Disney On Ice, the touring production that features figure skaters dressed as popular Disney characters. She’s currently cast as the fairy tale princess Snow White in the company’s “Treasure Trove” show, which plays the Xcel Energy Center Dec. 8-11. The role comes with some unique fringe benefits. Young girls in the audience, thinking they’re in the pres-ence of the real Snow White,

Snow White in skatesApple Valley native Katie Lingen

tours with Disney On Ice

Katie Lingen

are quick to shower Lingen with their unabashed ado-ration. “When I come out on the ice and they start yelling ‘Snow White! Snow White!’ it’s the most amazing feel-ing in the world,” she said. Lingen, who first laced up a pair of skates at age 4, honed her skills and found success as a competitive skater as a member of the Burnsville Minnesota Val-ley Figure Skating Club, and later at SportQuest Skating Academy in Min-neapolis. In 2001, with encourage-ment from her SportQuest coach Page Lip, she tried out for Disney On Ice in an open audition at the Target Center in Minneapolis. She

Soccer showdown

Photo by Bill Jones

Dakota United’s Quintin Nicolay, a Rosemount High School student, keeps his eyes on the ball Nov. 19 at the 2011 Adapted Soccer Tournament-CI at Stillwater High School. The Dakota United CI (cognitively impaired) team defeated Burnsville/Farmington/Lakeville and South Suburban to capture the consolation-bracket trophy. In the PI (physically impaired) division, Dakota United defeated Park Center to take the third-place trophy. For more photos, go online to www.ThisweekLive.com.

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by Aaron VehlingTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

He may have stayed out of the spotlight, but Jeffrey Alan Belzer’s impact on Lakeville is eminently measurable. Belzer, 70, owner of the Belzer Chevrolet, Dodge, Kia dealership in Lakeville, died Sunday, Nov. 20. “He was a huge presence in anyone’s life he touched, de-spite being very private,” said longtime friend Bob Erick-son, a school board member and former city administrator in Lakeville. The Belzer family’s phi-lanthropy has extended to many areas in the community, including the Lakeville Area Arts Center, the Lakeville Po-lice Department and active involvement in the Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce. Erickson said Belzer was the first to step forward with a donation when the police de-partment sought to purchase a snowmobile. On the arts front, Erickson said Belzer was a major do-nor for each of the 10 years of the LAAC’s existence. The business community also honored him. “Belzer was a longtime member of the Lakeville Chamber, an active Lakeville community supporter and a successful business owner, serving the Lakeville area for over three decades,” wrote Lakeville Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Di-rector Todd Bornhauser in an email to members. “Our prayers go out to Gloria, his brother and sister, children

and grandchildren during this very difficult time.”

Road to car sales Belzer started his profes-sional life as an attorney, ac-cording to an obituary the family submitted to Hodroff-Epstein Memorial Chapels. After attending Washburn High School in Minneapo-lis in 1959, he headed off to college. In 1968 he graduated with a juris doctorate from the Drake University Law School in Des Moines, Iowa. He returned to the Twin Cities, becoming a senior partner at Belzer & Loewen-thal Law Firm on France Av-enue in Edina. Belzer represented several car dealers as part of his cor-porate law practice. The busi-ness intrigued him enough that in 1980 he was inspired to purchase the Todd Chev-rolet dealership in Lakeville. At first, he thought he would oversee the dealer-ship as he worked at the law firm. But he saw that this ar-rangement would need to be amended. Belzer sold his law firm and its building near I-494 and Highway 100 and moved to Lakeville to run the deal-ership. At the time, people had thought he had “gone over the edge,” according to his obituary, “but he felt people should have the fortitude to try a new career.” Belzer’s passion for the business only grew, and he bought the Haugen Dodge dealership in Farmington.

Er i ckson remembers being im-pressed with a deal Bel-zer struck to combine those two c o m p e t i n g

brands into one dealership. Chevrolet is a General Mo-tors brand and Dodge is a brand of GM rival Chrysler. “His GM-Chrysler deal-ership in Lakeville was the first of its kind in the United States,” Erickson said. “I was so impressed and pretty ex-cited for the community to have a shared dealership like that under one roof.” The dealership’s most re-cent addition was the sale of Kia cars. Erickson said Belzer predicted the Korean-made vehicles would prove a formidable competitor to Toyota. One contributing trait to the success of his busi-ness was his work ethic. He worked six days a week, and if anyone wanted to have lunch while Belzer was at the dealership he was not willing to leave the office. “He brown-bagged his lunch,” Erickson said. Belzer would offer those looking to dine with him to stop by the dealership and join him for these lunches. The hard work paid off over the years. In 1991 the dealership took third out of the top 202 Chevrolet deal-ers in the country, and two years in a row he accepted the award for the No. 1 truck

dealer in the five-state area. Belzer also served on the General Motors President’s Board. When he was not work-ing, Belzer enjoyed playing golf, traveling, hunting, fish-ing and spending time with family and friends. “His children were his jewels,” according to the obituary, “and he was always there to teach the value of hard work and offer support and guidance.” Erickson and Belzer spent time together trading stock tips and books. “He was an avid reader,” Erickson said. “He certainly read just nonstop.” Erickson will miss his friend. “He and I shared many great moments together,” Er-ickson said. Belzer’s family will stay involved with the dealership, carrying on their patriarch’s legacy. Belzer is survived by his wife, Gloria; brother, Dr. Mi-chael Belzer (Ellyn Wolfen-son); sister Judi Belzer (Jerry Waldman) and families; his children, Steven (Kim), Mike, Kim, Jeff Jr. (Jamie) and Anna; and grandchil-dren, Brady and Blake. “Jeff, Dad, Pops, Papa will be deeply missed by his family and friends,” the fam-ily wrote in his obituary.

Aaron Vehling is at [email protected] and www.facebook.com/thisweeklive.

Local philanthropist, car dealer dies Family, friends say Jeff Belzer had a strong work ethic,

devotion to community stewardship Merchants Bank added its 18th location and its fourth in Dakota County on Friday when it completed its transaction with Central Bank, taking ownership of Central’s location in Rose-mount. “Adding Rosemount makes a great deal of sense for us,” said Richard Ma-honey, president and CEO of Merchants Financial Group, the holding company that owns Merchants Bank. “It provides greater coverage in the southern metro, giving our customers greater conve-nience. It is a great location with long-standing custom-ers, and it is in a commu-nity that values community banking.” The Rosemount loca-tion, at the corner of County Road 42 and Chippendale Avenue, joins Merchants of-fices in Apple Valley, Lakev-ille, Hampton and Hastings. Central had owned the Rosemount bank since April, when the former Rose-mount National Bank was closed by the FDIC and then re-opened as Central Bank. Rosemount National had been serving the community since 1982. “We are thrilled for our customers,” said Michelle

Selig, who remains as branch manager for Merchants. “It is clear that Merchants is committed to delivering services to customers in this area for years to come, and Merchants has shown that it believes in being a part of the communities it serves.” Merchants acquires just under $19 million in depos-its, plus the location in Rose-mount. The sale price has not been disclosed. Merchants Bank has more than $1.2 billion in as-sets. Its other locations are in Winona, St. Charles, Good-view, Rochester, Caledonia, La Crescent, Onalaska, Spring Grove, Cannon Falls, Red Wing and Cottage Grove. The “flagship” Merchants Bank in Winona was found-ed in 1875. All banks are Equal Housing Lenders and FDIC members. The com-pany also owns Merchants Capital Resources, a leasing company based in Edina. The ownership of Mer-chants Financial Group is made up of its employ-ees and approximately 450 shareholders, mostly indi-viduals and families from southeastern Minnesota and west-central Wisconsin.

Merchants Bank takes ownership of local bank

Parks and recreation programs Register for the following Rosemount Parks and Rec-reation programs online at www.ci.rosemount.mn.us/parks or at 13885 S. Robert Trail.

• Letter from Santa – Forms to receive a Letter from Santa can be found in the fall brochure or at 13885 S. Robert Trail. Completed “Santa Letter” forms and a check for $4 per letter (made payable to the City of Rose-mount) must be submitted by Wednesday, Dec. 7.

• Breakfast with Santa, 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at the Rosemount Commu-nity Center. Cost: $5. • Mummies, Mysteries and More, grades K-5, 9:30 a.m. to noon Friday, Dec. 2, at the Rosemount Commu-nity Center. Cost: $24. • Science Detectives,

grades K-5, 1 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, at the Rose-mount Community Center. Cost: $24. • American Red Cross Babysitting Clinic, ages 11 and up, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at the Rosemount Community Center. Cost: $65.

Jeff Belzer

Rosemount Briefs

Religion

Holiday depression The Depression Support Coalition, consisting of 12 area churches, will host speaker Lynne Silva-Breen, who will present “Expec-tations, the Holidays and Depression” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, at Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road, Burns-ville. Information: Julie Opheim, (952) 432-6351.

Community meals at Grace Lutheran Grace Lutheran Church in Apple Valley will serve free community meals on

Mondays, Dec. 5, 12 and 19. Dining hall doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be served from 6 to 6:30 p.m. The meals are for se-nior citizens, single-parent families, families in transi-tion and all others in the surrounding community seeking a healthy meal in a relaxed atmosphere. Al-though the meals are free, donations are accepted. Grace Lutheran Church is located at the intersection of Pennock Avenue and County Road 42. For more information, call (952) 432-7273.

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by John GessnerTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

An aging Burnsville ho-tel that opened as a Howard Johnson’s in 1973 and was later refashioned as a whim-sical romantic getaway has closed and will be demol-ished. The Burnsville Inn and Suites, located east of Inter-state 35W at 250 N. River Ridge Circle, closed Mon-day, said Jim Prince of LHR Hospitality, which managed the hotel after it was bought six months ago. The 90-room hotel, locat-ed south of a new Walmart store expected to open next year, will be demolished by January or February, Prince said. “Currently there are ten-tative plans to build another hotel on site, with the pos-sibility of a restaurant and maybe even a second hotel at this point,” Prince said. “All of that is currently in negotiations.” The six-acre property is owned Akota LLC of Dickinson, N.D. Akota purchased it from Royale Hospitality Group Inc. Royale introduced themed “Fantasuites” when it bought the hotel, then under the Ramada flag, in 1988. Themes over the years have included “Jun-gle,” “The Grecian,” “Cae-sar’s Court” and “Arabian

Nights.” About a third of the suites remained fantasy suites until the hotel closed, Prince said. It was previous-ly called the Select Inn and FantaSuite Hotel. A plan calling for two multistory office buildings on the highly visible freeway corridor property gained City Council approval in November 2008. Royale said at the time that the redevelopment by APPRO Development

could take a while, given the deteriorating economy. Any new plans will re-quire council approval of a planned unit development amendment, Burnsville Community Development Director Jenni Faulkner said. The city hasn’t received an application, she said.

John Gessner is at [email protected].

Hotel closed, will be torn down


This aging Burnsville hotel, a former Howard Johnson’s later known for its fantasy suites, has closed and is to be torn down, says an official of the hotel’s last management company.

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Will a union make a better day care?To the editor: Gov. Mark Dayton on Nov. 15 ordered a vote of thousands of family home day care providers on whether they want to form a union. Family child care pro-viders are self-employed business owners. As inde-pendent contractors, they develop the terms and con-ditions for the enrollment of children in their child care home and are able to individually set their fees, tuition and operating hours. The local economy dictates the appropriate fee structure for a provider business. Grants such as the Child and Adult Care Food Pro-gram are used by providers to augment their revenue stream. Continuing educational opportunities, yearly train-ing and support for the pro-viders are offered by scores of day care/early childhood industry organizations, col-leges and technical schools. Many of these opportu-nities are offered free of charge. Tax dollars provide for county health and hu-man service and licensing workers to provide addi-tional support and infor-mation to providers. For now, the proposed union vote will be limited to providers that accept state subsidies for child care. These subsidies are paid for by tax dollars and

available to families who meet economic criteria. The subsidy rates are set based on local economic market surveys. Family child care pro-viders are not employees of the state of Minnesota in an employment relation-ship that permits negotiat-ing over wages, and hours of operation. There is no precedent for an executive order of this type. Opponents of the union vote vow to file a suit claim-ing that the governor does not have the authority to authorize a union vote of independent contractors. Ballots will be sent Dec 7. This is a great time to talk to family home day care providers: “Will a union make this a better day care?” • Will your child care business be required to join the union? • Are you able to access the free training and sup-port you need from indus-try associations, colleges and county licensing staff ? • Will the costs of child care go up in order to ac-commodate the potential payment of union dues? • Who does the union-ization of providers ben-efit? My child? The provid-er? The union?

RUTHE BATULISDakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce, Eagan

Exchange ideology for evidence-based opinionsTo the editor: Joe Repya, a former Re-publican party leader, was featured on the front page of Thisweek recently. He left the party, he said, be-cause it was run by ideo-logues, bankers and lobby-ists. In support of Repya’s statement, here are sev-eral claims made by John Kline, our 2nd District rep-resentative, which have not been supported by facts. Kline states that gov-ernment-run health care is more expensive and less ef-ficient than private health care. Apparently Kline hasn’t read reports by the Government Accountabil-ity Office and the Congres-sional Budget Office that universal coverage would save more than it costs (full text available at www.gao.gov). Second, Kline states that private college educa-tion is more efficient and effective than public edu-cation. An article in Wash-ington Monthly, Feb. 7, 2011, states that online sys-tems like the University of Phoenix and Capella Uni-versity have much higher default rates than public universities. They fail to deliver expected jobs and are funded 90 percent with public money. Kline, who is the Republican Educa-tion Committee chair in

Congress, refuses to take action to curtail these abuses by the private sys-tem. Perhaps we can all state our positions on public concerns but make sure they are accompanied by the facts. BETTY MACKEYEagan

District 196 teacher contract votesTo the editor: Some of us voted in the School District 196 Board election, most did not. In either case, now the real work begins. Let’s watch the actions of the “new” board. Will the member that is a teacher in a neighboring school district continue to vote on teacher’s contracts instead of abstaining due to the obvious conflict of interest? I leave it to each of you to do your homework to find out who this member is and decide if this is ap-propriate behavior. While you’re investigat-ing, watch for any instance where the board vote is not

unanimous. The board’s job is to represent the pub-lic, not the unions, not the administration. Pay atten-tion! KEVIN SCHLEPPENBACHApple Valley

Invest in developing our children’s mindsTo the editor: As a schoolteacher, I am dismayed to see the “bor-rowing from next year” forced by the Republican leaders of the Minnesota Senate and House. Games of protecting the millionaires and bil-lionaires are not supported by the majority of citizens in our state. Nationwide polling shows support for equal tax rates for the wealthy held by over 60 percent of voters. Minnesota’s place among fellow states in quality of education is re-ally equal to our quality of life. And under budgets that have not kept pace with even the slow pace of inflation, our children’s classes have grown to ex-ceed 40 students.

Congress has not kept its promise to fund the cost of the special education it has mandated, and that has strained budgets. When we need skilled workers, and companies are not able to fill all their openings, we are pricing post-secondary education out of reach for many high school graduates. Still, the expectation that this under-funding could maintain our educa-tional quality fits right in with the definition of in-sanity, in my book. When we can again val-ue the preparation for life, that we give our children and grandchildren, then schools will begin to reflect that priority. Rather than a burden, we will see the cost of pub-lic schools as integral to the love we have for our children. Economists and re-searchers keep telling us it’s the investment we can make that has the highest rate of return. For too long we haven’t been investing wisely, and we are paying the price in lost opportu-nity. LARRY KOENCKEagan

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by Don HeinzmanTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

That rumble you hear may be a property tax up-rising that could be starting in the suburban communi-ties. The trigger well may be the property tax increases home-stead and commercial property owners will receive this month. The headline, according to some county administrators, is the property tax is up because the Minnesota Legislature, rather than increase a state-level tax, chose to eliminate the homestead tax credit. This credit was meant to level the playing field of taxpayers and give some relief to property tax-payers in the “have-not” commu-nities. This is part of the pain taxpay-

ers must feel as the state faces a deficit of $5 billion, Rep. Greg Davids, R-Pres-ton, chair of the House Tax Committee, said. District 53A Rep. Linda Runbeck, R-Circle Pines, said don’t blame the Legis-

lature. Blame those local-level of-ficials who won’t cut jobs and re-duce expenses to make up for the lost state aid. So far the property taxpayers have been silent. They don’t realize that Minnesota governments get 40 percent of their revenue from the property tax, compared to 33 percent from the income tax and 27 percent from the sales tax. Most counties, anticipating the loss of the credit, did cut expenses, but the loss of the tax credit, of course, affects not only counties,

but cities and school districts. In Dakota County, based on all 2011 property tax levies, a home with value of $164,200 would be taxed $51 more due to the loss of the tax credit; a home valued at $246,000 would be taxed an ad-ditional $86, according to a state study. Dakota County government has the fewest number of staff members per resident of the sev-en metro counties and hasn’t in-creased its tax levy for three years. In Anoka County, assuming all taxing jurisdictions did not in-crease the tax levy, a home valued at $177,000 would be taxed an ex-tra $77, due to the loss of the tax credit. That could vary from one city to another. Anoka County cut expenses by $8.15 million, which is roughly

what the county lost in homestead credit aid. This is the first time the levy has been reduced. Feeling the heat, Davids this week rolled out a plan he will pur-sue as House Tax Committee chair that he says will provide $80 mil-lion in property tax relief. His plan would give an 18 per-cent cut in statewide property tax for commercial and industrial properties. It would freeze the business property tax levy; provide property tax relief to homeowners whose local property tax went up by 12 percent or more and would increase the maximum reduction for eligible homeowners by 20 per-cent. Republicans who control both houses of the Legislature know a key campaign issue next year will be the policy question of forcing

property owners to pay more in property taxes while not increasing taxes on the wealthiest Minneso-tans. Already, DFL legislators are proposing legislation that would restore the homestead credit and increase the income tax on wealth-ier Minnesotans, as Gov. Mark Dayton has proposed. With both sides prepared to do battle over property taxation, the control of the Minnesota House and Senate will be at stake next November. Don Heinzman is chairman of the ECM Publishers Inc. Editorial Board. Thisweek Newspapers and the Dakota County Tribune are part of ECM. He is at [email protected]. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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Margaret"Peggy" Estill(Stauffer)

Of Millersburg, Ohio, passedaway peacefully at the home ofh e r d a u g h t e r a n d f a m i l y i nBurnsville, MN, after a short,intense, journey with cancer.Born January 31, 1930 in Toledo,Ohio to Dr. Neven Stauffer andDorothy Beachler Stauf fer ,Peggy, was raised in Killbuck andMillersburg, Ohio. She gradu-ated from Mil lersburg HighSchool and Ohio Wesleyan Uni-versity with a degree in botany.On September 15, 1952 she mar-ried James H. Estill who pre-ceded her in death in 1990. Peggytaught a variety of grade levels inthe Millersburg schools. She wasalso a dedicated volunteer as aGirl Scout leader, a coordinatorof Holmes County Red CrossBloodmobiles and a supporter ofthe Holmes County Library.Peggy also volunteered and sup-ported the Cleveland Orchestraand Blossom Women's Commit-tee for many years. She was amember of the Millersburg FirstPresbyterian Church where shehas served as an elder, a deacon, aSunday school teacher, and shepartic ipated in the Women'sGroup. One of the first ordainedwomen elders, Peggy served on avariety of committees for theMuskingum Valley Presbyteryincluding The Committee onMinistry. Peggy enjoyed bowlingand golf and she played in amonthly bridge club with hergood friends for over fifty years.She was a member of the formerS o r o s i s c l u b a n d h e r l o c a lAAUW chapter. Peggy is sur-v i v e d b y h e r d a u g h t e r a n dson-in-law, Susan Estill and ScottCuller; grandchildren, ChloeEstill Culler and Katrina EstillCuller; sister, Miriam StaufferPowell ; three nieces and onenephew. Preceding her in deathwere brother, Richard Stauffer;husband, Jim; grandson, CharlesEstill Culler; and nephew, BillPowell. A memorial service willbe held Saturday March 31, 2012at 3:00pm at the Millersburg FirstPresbyterian Church. In lieu offlowers, memorial contributionscan be made to the donor ' schoice: Fairview Hospice Fund;Holmes Co. Education Founda-tion; Millersburg First Presbyte-rian Church; or Holmes CountyRed Cross.

In Loving MemoryDarah Lyn Robertson

8-12-89 to 6-7-08To give thanks in solitude is

enough. Thanksgiving has wingsand goes where it must go.

-Victor Hugo

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Education

Gifted/talented parent info night Harriet Bishop Gifted and Talented Elementary School in Savage will host a parent information night on Nov. 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the school’s media center. The event is intended to give parents an opportunity to learn more about how the school’s gifted and talented magnet program can help their children realize their full potential. Harriet Bishop is part of Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191. It is located at 14400 O’Connell Road. Learn more about the school at www.isd191.org/harrietbishop or call (952) 707-3900.

City to hold budget open house Dec. 1 The city of Burnsville will host its second annual Budget Open House from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, at Burnsville City Hall, 100 Civic Center Parkway. Note: The 6:30 p.m. start time listed in the Burnsville Bulletin is incorrect. The open house will bring together city depart-ment leaders to answer questions in an informal format. No presentations are planned; residents are encouraged to drop by any time that is convenient. In addition to the open house, the city has devel-oped an informational por-tal at www.burnsville.org/budget (click 2012 Budget Planning Information), complete with an email feedback form for residents unable to attend on Dec. 1. The 2012 City Budget and Tax Levy is sched-uled to be approved by the Burnsville City Council at its 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, meeting.

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Savvy Traveler to speak at library Radio and television show host Rudy Maxa, aka The Savvy Traveler, will speak from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, at Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. Maxa will share stories of his travels and discuss how he has saved time and mon-ey while traveling over the course of his 20-year career. The program is free and all ages are welcome. Informa-tion: www.dakotacounty.us/library or (651) 554-6811.


SportsFootball

All ConferenceLakeville North: Trey Heid, Charlie Hayes, Joel Oxton, AJ Miller, Mitch Johnson, Alex Wood, Karl Finkel. Lakeville South: Mitch Leidner, Matt Heller, Dillon Lampert, Tom Ryan, Nevin Andreas.Eagan: Drew Bauer, Alex Mangan, Mitch Johnson, Connor Randall, Grant MatthewsRosemount: Andrew Gustafson, Henrik Byrlev, Matt Larson, Bryce Wilberding. Eastview: Zach Jonson, Aaron Wesser, Ryan Reger.Burnsville: Dan Motl, Chase Roullier, Michael Callanan. Apple Valley: Zach Martens, Mitch Hechsel, Harry Sonie

Honorable MentionLakeville North: Zach Ziemer, Austin Streit, Zach Creighton, Grant Erickson, Luke Goeman. Lakeville South: Devon Bzoskie, Eric Heintze, Nick Sanborn, Tom Petersen, Matt LeidnerEagan: Michael Busch, Mitch Knutson, Joe Machacek, Cody GrovensteinRosemount: Logan Lindberg, Nate LeMoine, Jacob O’Malley, Boden Silberg. Burnsville: Zach Gigstad, Dane Olson, Lucas Grossoehme, Brain VaderwoudeApple Valley: Dom McDew-Stauffer, Matt Gilberston, Blake Broberg, James Horton. Eastview: Greg Howard, Mitch Rechtzigal, Patrick Strey, Andrew Johnson.

VolleyballAll conferenceApple Valley: Maren Loe, Natalee JohnsonBurnsville: Alli ButlerEagan: Cassie Weinberg, Taylr McNeil, Nicole JohnsonEastview: Alyssa Besch, Miquel GreenLakeville North: Nicole Latzig, Alyssa Goehner, Jessica WolffLakeville South: Monica Turner, McKell Anderson, Jazzmyn TingelhoffRosemount: Jaclyn D’Amico

Honorable mentionApple Valley: Aly Jonson, Shonotta BawekBurnsville: Greta Geist, Camille BensonEagan: Calleigh Steichen, Sarah Schuetz, Eastview: Taylor Schile, Lindsey RyanLakeville North: Kelly Nizzari, Abby MonsonLakeville South: Kaitlin Vanwinkle, Allie MosserRosemount: Natalie Busher, Mikaela Sullivan

Boys Cross CountryAll ConferenceBurnsville: Cole O’Brien, Faysol Mamoud, Abdullahi Salan, Eagan: Sydney SpeirLakeville North: Ben Saxton, Jason DawsonRosemount: Nathan Rock, Trevor Capra, Chandler Dye, Calvin Lehn, Nick Couillard, Tyler BlumkeEastview: Nick Oelke, Ken Hoffman, John Donlan, David SalterLakeville South: Mark Honetschlager, Jake Schneeman

Honorable mentionEastview: Joe Manders, Dan SpikaApple Valley: Alex Brandel, Nick HughesBurnsville: Shawn WongRosemount: Same Ivanecky, Joe CarlsonLakeville North: Spencer Castillo, Luke Anderson, Jason Windhom, Jack Brenner, Corey Peterson, Justin HansonLakeville South: Wade Durham, Noah Hanson, Joey MachajEagan: Nate Johnson

Girls Cross CountryAll ConferenceEagan: Danielle Anderson, Anna Van Wyk, Kelli PraskaLakeville South: Kaytlyn Larson, Annie Brekken, Megan Kilbride, Megan Lubow, Erin Kilbride, Jenny MachajEastview: Jena MoodyRosemount: Hannah Grimm, Taylor RamboBurnsville: Vivian HettLakeville North: Taylor Perkins, Emma Johnson

Honorable mentionLakeville South: Caraline Slattery, Mariah Gallagher, Erin MeyersEagan: Raissa Hansen, Alanna Stangl, Karina JohnsonApple Valley: Alexa Nelson, Natalie Webb, Meredith JonesEastview: Hana Metoxen, Lauren Herland, Brokke HaesmeyerLakeville North: Haley Eskierka.

Girls HockeyTeam Conference Overall W L T W L TLakeville North 1 0 0 2 1 0 Rosemount 1 0 0 1 2 0 Eagan 0 0 0 4 0 0 Apple Valley 0 1 0 4 1 0 B Jefferson 0 0 0 1 1 0 B Kennedy 0 0 0 1 2 1 Lakeville South 0 0 0 0 1 0 Burnsville 0 0 0 0 1 0 Prior Lake 0 0 0 0 2 0 Eastview 0 1 0 0 3 0

Friday, November 25 • Holy Angels at Prior Lake, 1 p.m. • Shakopee at Bloomington Jefferson,

2 p.m. • Eastview at Maple Grove, 5:30 p.m. • North at Bloomington Kennedy,

7 p.m. Saturday, November 26 • Lakeville South at North Wright

County, 1 p.m. • Centennial at Rosemount, 2 p.m. • Lakeville North at So. St. Paul, 3 p.m. • Northfield at Bloomington Kennedy,

3 p.m. • North at Bloomington Jefferson,

7 p.m. • Burnsville Park at Cottage Grove,

7:30 p.m. Monday, November 28 • Lakeville South at Owatonna, 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 29 • Prior Lake at Eastview, 6 p.m. • Bloomington Kennedy at St. Louis

Park, 6:30 p.m. • Burnsville at Minnetonka, 7 p.m. • Lakeville North at Rosemount, 7 p.m. • Eagan at Bloomington Jefferson,

7:15 p.m. • Rosemount at Breck, 7:30 p.m. • Eagan at Cretin-Derham Hall,

7:30 p.m. Friday, December 2 • Apple Valley at Lakeville South,

7:15 p.m. • Prior Lake at Bloomington

Jefferson, 7:15 p.m. Saturday, December 3 • Visitation/SPA at Bloomington

Kennedy, 3 p.m. • Burnsville at Eagan, 3 p.m. • Farmington at Lakeville South, 7 p.m.

Standings Area swimmers earn All-StateBurnsville finishes in 16th place at the Class AA state swimming championshipsby Andy RogersTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

The Burnsville girls swimming and diving team saved its best for the final meet of the year at the Class AA state championships last weekend at the Univer-sity of Minnesota. The Blaze swam to 16th place at state last weekend, placing ahead of the South Suburban Conference’s Lakeville South, which beat them in a dual earlier in the season, and Rosemount, which won a share of the conference title. The best Blaze finish was by Angela Le, who was seventh in the 100-yard but-terfly with a time of 58.97 seconds. She was the only Blaze swimmer to advance to the championship final round, but several others went to the consolation fi-nals. Anna Elling was 13th in the 100 butterfly and 15th in the 200 individual med-ley. Teresa DiGregorio had the 10th fastest time in the 100 butterfly. Le, DiGregorio and Elling joined forces with Alexis Dorbzynski in the 200 medley relay finishing in 10th place. The four were also part of the 14th-place 400 freestyle relay.

Rosemount Megan and Beth Wen-man were the stars of the show for Rosemount at the state swim meet. The two girls were part of nearly every point scored for the Irish. “Beth swam really hard and Megan did a phenom-enal job,” head coach Tami Carlson said. “In the 100 free, Megan was seeded 17th, placed eighth in pre-lims and seventh in finals to make All State.” Megan Wenman was the sole Irish swimmer to qual-ify for the championship fi-nal. She swam the 100 free-style in 53.51, which was seventh best in the state. She finished in 12th in the 200 freestyle and set a school record. Beth Wenman was 16th in the 200 IM and 12th in the 100 backstroke.

“Swimming is in the genes, both parents swam and all the kids do,” Carl-son said. “Beth has a great future ahead of her. She is going to swim at St. Thom-as, and Megan also has a very bright future ahead of her with high school swim-ming and beyond.” They both swam a leg of the 15th-place, 400 free-style relay along with Elyse Griffith and Olivia John-ston. Claire Toland had the 15th fastest time in the 500 freestyle. The girls placed 22nd overall. “They did really well,” Carlson said. “We were seeded after sections to place 25th and we moved to 22nd. We were also seeded to have four swimmers in the finals for state and end-ed up with five individual swims and two relays.”

Apple Valley The Eagles had one girl qualify for the champion-ship final. Delaney Mc-Donald placed eighth in the 200 IM in 2:09.37. Her teammate Katherine Wright was 10th in the 100 backstroke. Stephanie Bierman nearly made the cut for the finals in the 100 freestyle, finishing in 17th place in the preliminaries. Their scores added up to 18 points, which was good enough for 25th in the state.

Eagan Eagan’s Nicole Stevens qualified for the consola-tion final in the 100 back-stroke. She made the most of her opportunity, coming in ninth place overall, which was as high as she could have finished. She cut nearly a second off her preliminary time to clock 1:05.61. If she would

have qualified for the cham-pionship final, her time would have put her in fifth place. The 200 medley relay missed the finals cut by 10 seconds, coming in 17th place. Stevens missed the cut in the individual medley by one hundredth of a sec-ond.

Visitation’s Meg Foster, who lives in Eagan, placed fourth in the 100 butterfly, sixth in the 200 IM and an-chored the 400 freestyle re-lay that finished in second at the Class A meet on Sat-urday.

Andy Rogers is at [email protected].


Apple Valley’s Katherine Wright swims the 100-yard backstroke at state. To view more photos, see Page 16A and go online to www.ThisweekLive.com.


Eagan’s Nicole Stevens swims the breaststroke at the Class AA state meet last weekend.

Photo by Bill Jones

Blazing Cats’ Brendan Wong chases after the ball with Dakota United’s Tony Breyer. To view more photos, visit www.ThisweekLive.com.

Blazing Cats 0-2 at stateby Andy RogersTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

The Burnsville/Farming-ton/Lakeville Blazing Cats adapted soccer CI (cogni-tive impaired) team went 0-2 at the state tournament last weekend at Stillwater. The team lost in the first round to the eventual state

champions Anoka-Henne-pin 11-4 with goals scored by Jake Wilson (three) and Brendan Wong (one). Goal keeper Michael Burns kept the team alive with 36 saves. In the consolation brack-et, the Blazing Cats lost to Dakota United. Wong

scored twice and Jake Wilson once while Burns stopped 27 shots. Wilson was named to the 2011 CI Division Adapted Soccer All-Tournament Team.


Dakota United PI finishes third at stateHawks CI team wins consolation title

by Andy RogersTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

The Dakota United Hawks PI (physically im-paired) adapted soccer team had a thrilling week-end at the state tourna-ment in Stillwater. The Hawks defeated Park Center 4-3 in over-time to earn third place on Nov. 19. Grayson Nicolay scored with 43 seconds left in overtime to win with an assist from Jaayson Meyer. Dakota United held a 3-2 lead late in regulation, but Park Center scored with a second remaining to send the match into extra time. Lantz Estep and Meyer scored the other two goals for Dakota United. An-thony Vervais made 24 saves for the Hawks. The Hawks lost to Robbinsdale/Hopkins/MoundWest earlier that day in the state semifinal by a score of 5-2 with goals by Nicolay and Estep. To advance to the semi-finals, the Hawks defeated Mounds View/Irondale/Roseville in the quarterfi-nals 8-7 on Nov. 18. Nicolay had four goals in the win including the game-winner with 1:15 left. Vervais had 23 saves. Nicolay was named to the 2011 PI Division Adapted Soccer All-Tour-nament Team.

CI division The Dakota United CI (cognitive impaired) adapted soccer team won the state consolation title last weekend. Dakota United lost to Park Center, the eventual third-place winner, by a score of 6-2 in the state quarterfinal game on Nov. 18 sending the Hawks to the consolation bracket. Ricky Arends and Quintin Nicolay each scored for the Hawks as Ben Harmon stopped 20 shots in the loss. In the first consolation game, Dakota United de-feated Burnsville/Farm-ington/Lakeville 7-3. Nicolay scored three goals, Joe Sandey scored twice, and Arends and Carl Fagre each scored once while Harmon stopped 20 shots for the win. In the consolation fi-nal, Dakota United was all over South Suburban, winning 12-4. Sandey scored four goals while Nicolay, Ar-ends, and Austin Harmon each scored two in the win over the South Suburban Jets in the consolation championship. Harmon had 11 saves. Sandey was named to the 2011 CI Division Adapted Soccer All-Tour-nament Team.



Burnsville’s Angela Le swims the backstroke at state.


Megan Wenman from Rosemount swims the 100-yard freestyle at state.


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PUBLIC NOTICEWARNING

WATER AERATION SYSTEM OPERATIONCITY OF APPLE VALLEY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an aera-tion system, creating open water and thinice, will begin operating on Farquar Lake inthe City of Apple Valley, Dakota County,Minnesota; as early as December 1, 2011,and continue through March 30, 2012. Thesystem is installed at the southwest cornerof the lake, in Farquar Park, in Apple Valley.Weather conditions may cause the areas ofthin ice and open water to fluctuate greatly.Stay clear of the marked area!

If there are questions concerning thisaeration system, please call the Apple Val-ley Natural Resources Coordinator at952-953-2461.

/s/ Pamela J. GackstetterPamela GackstetterApple Valley City Clerk

2813404 11/11 & 11/25/11

PUBLIC NOTICEWARNING

WATER AERATION SYSTEM OPERATIONCITY OF APPLE VALLEY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an aera-tion system, creating open water and thinice, will begin operating on Lake Alimagnetin the Cities of Apple Valley and Burnsville,Dakota County, Minnesota; as early asDecember 1, 2011, and continue throughMarch 30, 2012. The system is installed atthe southeast corner of the lake, in Alimag-net Park, in Apple Valley. Weather condi-tions may cause the areas of thin ice andopen water to fluctuate greatly. Stay clearof the marked area!

If there are questions concerning thisaeration system, please call the Apple Val-ley Natural Resources Coordinator at952-953-2461.

/s/ Pamela J. Gackstetter Pamela GackstetterApple Valley City Clerk

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made the cut, and was soon performing professionally as part of the ensemble in the “Mickey and Minnie’s Magical Journey” show. She’s performed in five different Disney On Ice shows in the last 10 years – landing her first big role as a Disney character in the “Princess Wishes” show, in which she was Tinkerbell – and in the process has trav-eled the globe, with tour stops in Asia, South Amer-ica, Europe, Australia and Canada. Her upcoming Twin Cities performances hold a special significance – it’s been a while since she skat-ed on her home ice. “I love coming back and perform-ing for my friends and fam-

ily,” said Lingen, who now lives in Arizona and last performed in the Twin Cit-ies four years ago. Along with the adora-tion of young Disney fans, the job comes with one big perk: Lingen makes a living doing what she loves. She had two words to describe what she enjoys most about her job. “The skating,” she said, “I absolutely love skating and performing.” And for the boys and girls apt to hang on Snow White’s every word, she had this advice: “Dream big, work hard and be willing to make sacrifices. Anything is possible if you want it badly enough.”

Andrew Miller is at [email protected].

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An Apple Valley fire-fighter is accused of as-saulting another firefighter, stealing her cell phone and spraypainting the word “slut” on her car. Trudy Jean Hagert, 41, was charged with felony robbery and two misde-meanors – assault and criminal damage to prop-erty – after the Nov. 8 in-cident, which was alleg-edly triggered by Hagert’s disapproval of the other firefighter’s choice of boy-friend. The criminal complaint gives the following account: At about 9:30 p.m. Nov. 8, a firefighter reported she had just been assaulted by Hagert in the fire station’s parking lot. She stated she believed Hagert had tampered with her vehicle earlier in the week, and had subse-quently parked her vehicle at the fire station. She went to the fire station the night of Nov. 8 to pick up some personal items and, when she arrived, saw Hagert spraypainting “slut” on the vehicle. When the woman rolled down her window to take a photo with her cell phone of Hagert spraypainting the vehicle, Hagert tried to take

the phone, the complaint said. Hagert opened the car door and began hitting the woman, pulling her hair, strangling her and eventu-ally forcefully removing her from the vehicle; after tak-ing the phone Hagert fled the area on foot. The woman was sub-sequently treated at the hospital for a concussion. Police took photos of her injuries, including red marks and scratches on her hands, knees and neck. The woman said she believed Hagert was upset with her because she didn’t approve of her new boy-friend, a fellow firefighter. Hagert had paint on her fingers when police located her walking toward her home from the direction of the fire station, the com-plaint said. She told offi-cers she was walking home from the community center and declined to provide any further comment. If convicted of the felo-ny robbery charge, Hagert faces a maximum 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. The misdemeanor charges each carry a maxi-mum of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.


Felony charge follows scuffle at fire station

Firefighter allegedly assaulted colleague, spraypainted ‘slut’ on vehicle

A 34-year-old Rose-mount man was sentenced Nov. 21 in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme involving at least 200 properties, principally in north Minneapolis, and mortgage proceeds of ap-proximately $35 million. Nathan Daniel Jesh will serve three years of proba-tion for one count of con-spiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Jesh, who was indicted along with two codefen-dants in June 2010, pleaded guilty on Nov. 30, 2010. All three defendants will be required to pay more than $1.8 million in restitu-tion. In his plea agreement, Jesh admitted he agreed to close at least 175 real estate transactions, knowing that some loan applications had been fraudulently complet-ed as well as knowing that the seller was providing the investor with funds to pay the purchase price. The scheme was orches-trated by agents of TJ Wa-conia, a former Roseville real estate company.

In a related case, on Sept. 7, a 46-year-old for-mer mortgage broker from Eagan also was sentenced for his role in the scheme. Kerry Jon Quam was sentenced to three years of probation for one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. He was charged in September 2010, and plead-ed guilty on Nov. 4, 2010. In his plea agreement, Quam admitted processing numerous false loan appli-cations that were submitted to financial institutions. The falsifications in-cluded fraudulent apprais-als and concealed payments and other information from lenders. Quam admitted aiding others connected to the scheme in preparing fraud-ulent appraisals with false statements that fraudulently inflated the appraised value of the property, and closing fraudulent loans that mis-represented and concealed material information from mortgage lenders. For each transaction, Quam received a fee.

Rosemount man sentenced for obtaining loan proceeds in mortgage fraud scheme

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A pioneering nurse prac-titioner from Eagan has moved her clinic from that city to roomier — and less costly — quarters in Burns-ville. Originally known as Eagan Child and Family Care, the clinic is now called Eagan Child and Family Clinic. Previously located in a dental building at Pilot Knob and Diffley roads in Eagan, the clinic — now nearly 2,900 square feet — needed room to expand, said founder and majority owner Gretchen Moen, a pediatric nurse practitio-ner. The new address is 2530 Horizon Drive, in the Cliffview Plaza at the cor-ner of Highway 13 and Cliff Road. The clinic moved at the end of October. “They did a pretty nice deal for us (at Cliffview), and we got a lot more square footage — almost double what we had,” Moen said. Cost is no small consid-eration for a clinic that has never turned a profit while attracting a large under-served clientele. Forty-seven percent of Eagan and Child Family Clinic’s patients are on medical assistance or have no insurance, Moen said. “And we’re not going to cut them off if they lose their insurance,” she said. “Our philosophy is health care is expensive, so how can we make it less expen-sive for you and still provide high-quality care?” Clinics run by nurse-practitioners tend to gravi-tate toward underserved populations, Moen said. Proponents of such clinics say nurse practitioners — registered nurses who have earned an advanced nursing degree and gained profes-sional nursing certification from a national board — can respond to a majority of health care needs while making doctor referrals when necessary. “A nurse practitioner is all about working with the patient,” Moen said. “We’re kind of about preventing ill-ness and managing chronic disease.” The nurse practitioner model of care is 50 years old, with its roots in well-child care provided by nurs-

Clinic is nurse-owned, nurse-operatedPioneering nurse practitioner moves Eagan clinic to roomier location in Burnsville

es working with pediatri-cians in underserved areas, Moen said. The daughter of a small-town Minnesota doctor, Moen started her nursing career in pediatric oncology in Colorado Springs, Colo. She later worked as a pedi-atrics nurse for PACE Pedi-atrics Clinics in White Bear Lake. In 2002 Moen and an-other nurse practitioner opened Mendota Health in Eagan — the first nurse practitioner-owned and -operated clinic in the Up-per Midwest, Moen said. “But it’s very common on the East Coast and West Coast,” she said. “It’s very tied to what your state leg-islature allows you to do.” Today, Eagan Child and Family Clinic, which Moen opened in 2005, is one of four NP-owned and -oper-ated clinics in Minnesota, she said. “I would be a pioneer, yep,” Moen said. “I cer-tainly learned a few les-sons along the way. There certainly was pushback, I

would say (from) everybody – the public, providers, health plans, even hospitals. People didn’t know what to do with us.” A doctor’s counsel is never far away at Eagan Child and Family Clinic, whose patient rolls number about 3,200. Minnesota law requires nurse practitioner clinics to have “prescrip-tive” and “collaborative” agreements with physicians. Moen’s clinic, where pe-diatrics is about 70 percent of the business, has agree-ments with the pediatricians of Children’s Hospitals and with Dr. Sofia Ali, a fam-ily practitioner, Moen said. In fact, Ali practices at the clinic part time. “She believes in the same ideals we do,” Moen said. The pair say the clinic’s path toward profitability was waylaid by the reces-sion. Moen said she’s never even taken a salary from her creation, calling nurse prac-titioner care her “passion.” “We haven’t turned a profit, ever,” Moen said. “My husband (Dennis)

supports me, that’s all I can say. I have a wonderful hus-band.” She’s in the process of applying for nonprofit sta-tus for the clinic. “We’re doing it because we want to expand what we can offer,” Moen said. “It makes it easier to ex-pand your affiliations when you’re a nonprofit.” Moen has also done health outreach in Eagan and Burnsville, appearing at health fairs at the Eagan Community Cen-ter and local schools and meeting with members of the Somali community in Burnsville. The clinic has a number of Somali patients, Moen said. She is joined on the staff by two other nurse practi-tioners: Lisa Fahey Bleick (family) and Angelynn M. Grabau (pediatric). For more information, call (651) 209-8640 or visit www.eaganchildandfamily.com.


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Eagan Child and Family Clinic founder Gretchen Moen, left, and Dr. Sofia Ali are pictured in one of the children’s examination rooms. The clinic has moved from Eagan to Burnsville.


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People caring for aging parents have a new resource in Molly Cox’s short film “Note to Self.” The film’s topic – how c a r e g i v e r s must ad-dress their own well-be-ing – is one the Eagan resident and professional speaker and writer knows a lot about. She’s served as primary caregiver for her father, who’s suffered from Alzheimer’s for 14 years, and cared for her mother during her battle with cancer. She’s the first to admit it wasn’t easy. “It was an impossible situation – I wasn’t feel-ing good, I was exhausted, you just don’t sleep,” she recalled. “You just get to where you want to snap somebody’s head off.” “Note to Self” includes interviews with doctors and nurses, along with a segment on laughter yoga clubs. “Caregivers are stressed, burned out and often suffer from depression,” Cox said. The message of the film is “take care of yourself so you can care for others.” Cox describes the film as part inspirational documen-tary, part training film for caregivers. “I’ve done corporate comedy and corporate training videos for a while. This is my first foray into a longer training film,” said Cox, who’s credited as the film’s producer and is releas-ing it through her company, Strong Coffee Productions. Tickets for the Nov. 29 premiere of “Note to Self” at the Mall of America’s VIP theater are available at http://notetoselfmovie.eventbrite.com. To view the film’s trailer go to www.mollyspeaks.com.

—Andrew Miller

Documentary offers solutions for caregiversEagan’s Molly Cox

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Symphony presents Christmas classic The Dakota Valley Sym-phony will present “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Tickets range from $5 to $15 and can be purchased at the box office, by call-ing Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787 or at ticketmaster.com. More information is at www.DakotaValleySym-phony.org.

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Last Saturday, Andy Wilkins had his work cut out for him: It was his job to open a portal to the great beyond. In his first film role, the 27-year-old Lakeville actor is cast as a spirit-me-dium in the 1950s-style horror film “House of Ghosts.” “I get to be kind of creepy,” he said. “I’m a re-ally animated guy (in real life), so to take that and play sort of this creepy, dis-passionate character is re-ally challenging. I tried to channel a little bit of Rod Serling.” The four-hour shoot in-

side a Minneapolis home last weekend had Wilkins leading a seance-like scene, gazing into a crystal ball

and summoning the film’s titular spec-ters. It’s a choice role for Wilkins, a hor-ror film fan – and a gore/zombie make-up hobbyist – who’s a regular performer and director with the Lakeville-based

community theater group Expressions. Through one of the ac-tors in an Expressions play he directed earlier this year, Wilkins was introduced to Christopher Mihm, the Arden Hills-based schlock-horror auteur directing “House of Ghosts.”

Mihm, who works on a shoestring budget and doesn’t pay his actors, aims to achieve the feel – and campiness – of clas-

sic black-and-white horror films. For example, to com-plete the seance scene in “House of Ghosts,” after

the camera work wrapped up Wilkins headed to the home’s basement to re-re-cord his dialogue, as Mihm prefers to dub in actors’ lines to give his films that vintage eldritch aura. Wilkins, a 2003 Lake-ville High School graduate who works as a voiceover artist and copy writer for a Bloomington ad agency, said his first foray into film has been a positive one. “I’d love to do more film roles,” he said. “I’m having a blast with this produc-tion.” “House of Ghosts” is scheduled to premiere in the Twin Cities in May, and information about the film can be found on the direc-tor’s website, www.sainteu-phoria.com.


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“House of Ghosts” director Christopher Mihm, left, films Lakeville actor Andy Wilkins during a shoot Nov. 19 in Minneapolis.

Andy Wilkins cast as spirit-medium in 1950s-style horror film ‘House of Ghosts’

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Chinese acrobatics Dec. 16-17 “Fenmo: The Beauty of Acrobatics” will be pre-sented Dec. 16-17 at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Tickets range from $23 to $50 and can be purchased at the box office, by call-ing Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787 or at ticketmaster.com.

Eagan Women of Note set concert Eagan Women of Note will stage a winter concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, at Peace Church, 2180 Glory Drive, Eagan. The concert is free, but a $5 per person donation is requested. A cookie sale will follow the concert. Information is at www.eaganwomenof-note.org.

County seeks photo submissions Photographers looking to display their work can submit their original photos to be considered for a new exhibit planned for Febru-ary 2012. Photographers, age 8 and older, may submit up to two photos reflecting the theme Dakota County Outdoors. Photographers must live in Dakota County. Submis-sions are due by Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. The photographs will be displayed in public spaces in Dakota County service cen-ters. The exhibit will last for six months. Criteria for photos are at www.dakotacounty.us and can be found by searching photography exhibit. For more information, photographers can contact Jean Erickson, deputy di-rector of Dakota County’s Public Services and Revenue Division, (651) 438-4286 or [email protected].


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When Eagan native Nata-lie Darwitz was playing with the U.S. Women’s Hockey Team during an exhibition game prior to the 2001 World Championships, she fired the puck down ice ... then SLAM. A member of Team Can-ada bowled her over, sending the 18-year-old Darwitz to the ice. “The girl didn’t care too much about the puck, went for the body and ran me over,” said Darwitz, a three-time U.S. Olympic medal winner. As one of the smallest players on the ice ever since she was a youngster, Darwitz had become accustomed to being slammed to the ice, and, like the fiery competitor she is, picking herself up and continuing playing. “It was the sensation right afterward, remembering ex-actly what happened,” Dar-witz said of the hit. “After that five-second span, that was the most eerie.” She said she was foggy and dizzy but made it back to the bench at the end of her shift. When it was time for her line to return to the ice she skated around with legs that were uneasy underneath her. She had problems maintain-ing focus. Upon returning to the bench, coaches directed her to the team trainer, who saw that an eye test indicated she may have had a concussion. “Then the trainer said: ‘I’m going to tell you five words that I want you to re-member. I’m going to ask you what these five words are in 10 minutes, a half an hour, an hour.’ ” For the first time in her career, which has included hundreds of games of youth, Eagan High School, Univer-sity of Minnesota and inter-national hockey, Darwitz sat out the rest of the game with her first and only documented

concussion. “I believe I probably had a lot more,” she said. “Ten or 15 years back concussions were not a popular discus-sion medically or as a topic in hockey. Do I believe I had other concussions? Yes.” Now the topic of concus-sions in youth athletics is front and center in Minnesota and across America. New state legislation di-rected the Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League to craft a concussion awareness campaign, assemble train-ing materials, and establish a strict treatment protocol – one involving complete rest and a gradual increase in ac-tivities – in treating concus-sions in young athletes. New league rules require that an “appropriate health care professional” (a medi-cal professional functioning within the levels of his or her medical education, medical

training, and medical licens-ing) determine whether an athlete can return to the field of play. Concussion baseline test-ing is mandatory for all high school athletes competing in contact sports, and parents must complete an MSHSL eligibility form which has them sign off as understand-ing concussion management protocols. The MSHSL Sports Medi-cine Advisory Committee highly recommends that ev-ery student-athlete and par-ent successfully complete the “Heads Up: Concussion in High School Sports” course at www.cdc.gov/concussion.

The numbers An estimated 1.6 million to 3.8 million sports- and recreation-related concus-sions occur in the United States each year, with 50,000 occurring in Minnesota, ac-cording to the Brain Injury

Association of Minnesota. It is estimated that 1,000 Minnesota youths (ages 5 to 18) go to the hospital with sports-related concussions each year, according to a Minnesota Department of Health study. The association says be-cause sports-related concus-sions tend to be underreport-ed, the number may be much higher. Though Darwitz is no longer on the ice competing, she has been thrust into the issue as she has been entrust-ed with the care of a crew of high school girls hockey players as the new coach of the Lakeville South varsity team. “You have to protect their brains. It is a very delicate topic,” Darwitz said. “For me, I can only tell them that I want them to be tough and know the difference between an injury and an owie.”

Decision is fi nal In the past, that differ-ence was often determined by the athlete. The coach came up to you, asked you how you felt, and most young athletes – fearless, naive and willing to please – would say: “Put me in, coach.” That is no longer the case. The new power player on

the sidelines at contests and practices is the health care professional, often a trainer. That person will determine whether an athlete returns to a game or practice af-ter taking a hit. No matter what the coach, player or parents say, the determina-tion is final. Darwitz thinks the new rules with regard to concus-sion are positive, but is con-cerned about some aspects of their implementation. She raises the issue that some health care profes-sionals at league games will not be full-time trainers and as familiar with the players as the coaches. She asks, too, if they will have enough experience to make a determination about a concussion in the midst of competition. Darwitz, though, is con-fident of rule changes with regard to pre- and post-game concussion testing. “That is a great tool,” she said. “It’s a 15-minute test. … But that is not something you can automatically test them with during a game.” Darwitz was fortunate that her concussion was mild. She said when she took her post-concussion test, her eye test still indicated she had a concussion and her reaction time was slow.

At that point, she said the concussion played mind games on her, which led her to think about things like when she would play again or if she would play again. But two days later, Dar-witz passed the test and was cleared to play. “I was totally fine,” she said. “I put it in the rear-view mirror. It was behind me.” She went on to play in three Olympics (earning two silver medals and a bronze) and eight International Ice Hockey Federation world championships and was a captain of Team USA from 2007 to 2010. One thing that is for cer-tain is that concussions will still happen in high school sports. All of the proto-cols, new safety equipment, education and testing won’t prevent players from expe-riencing the collisions that result in concussions. But now players, parents, coaches and trainers are better equipped and aware of how to keep young ath-letes safe after a concussion has occurred.

Tad Johnson is at [email protected]. A longer version of this story appears in Focus, a south-of-the-river lifestyle magazine, on newsstands now.

Natalie Darwitz overcame a concussion to win three Olympic medals with the U.S. Women’s Hockey Team. Now the former Eagan High School hockey player has come full circle, working within the confines of new head-injury rules as a varsity coach.

What price for glory?


Lakeville South girls hockey coach Natalie Darwitz talks with players during her summer hockey camp this year at her high school alma mater in Eagan.


Natalie Darwitz of Eagan won three Olympic medals in her 12-plus years on the U.S. Women’s Hockey Team.


Natalie Darwitz was on the bench Oct. 18, 2010, as an assistant coach for the University of Minnesota when goalie Alyssa Grogan, a fellow Eagan High School graduate, suffered a severe concussion that has pre-vented her from returning to the ice. Grogan was participat-ing in a “race to the puck” drill when one player’s knee hit her forehead and anoth-er player fell on the back of her head. She wishes she had never poke-checked the puck that day because since then, her concussion has kept her from playing the game she loves and from completing that semester’s worth of classes at the university. Grogan, who never missed a game due to in-jury as a Wildcat varsity hockey player from 2004 to 2008, has needed all the support she’s received from her team, family, friends and her own faith as she’s endured headaches, uncer-tainty and countless visits

to a range of medical spe-cialists. “It has drastically hum-bled me and I have a much greater perspective for what is important in my life,” said Grogan, the daughter of Steve and Karla Gro-gan and sister to Derek, 23. “I want to get my degree. I want to be able to work full days in the future. I want to go a day without a headache. I want to be able to wrestle with my kids 10 years down the road. Those are the things that are im-portant to me.” For Grogan, who started playing hockey at age 8 and won a gold medal with the U.S. National Team at the 2008 World Champion-ships, the game is on hold. “There is a chance I will never play hockey again but am still optimistic I’ll have that chance again,” she said. “After almost a year of feeling crappy and being exhausted, my main focus is on getting back to feeling like myself and fully recov-ering from this very serious concussion.”

Road to recovery Since her concussion, she has seen a neuropsycholo-gist, neuro-opthamalogist, optometrist, vestibular therapist, and physical ther-apist, as well as a team phy-sician weekly and athletic trainer daily for visual and vestibular therapy. She’s had acupuncture, massage and chiropractic treatment on her neck. “What keeps me positive is knowing there is hope,” she said. “My doctors have not guaranteed me that I will play again, but they have told me that with the right treatment and more time I can fully heal from this.” The injury has forced Grogan to adjust the ath-lete’s mentality that if you push through and work hard, you will get where you want to be. Recovery from a concussion runs counter to that – too much activity will only set her back. “The most difficult part of this recovery is having no timeline and that there aren’t many people who can understand what you are

going through,” she said. She says she’s been given this injury for a reason. She’s been active with the university’s medical depart-ment, talking to medical staff and students about her injury and other pa-tients about living with a concussion. Grogan’s message to athletes is not to “mess

around” with a concussion and to take one’s recovery seriously. Winning and losing is inconsequential when com-pared with allowing one’s brain to recover, so “no matter what the pressure feels like, remember what is most important to you, and that is you. Don’t lose hope and persevere.”

Former Eagan High School goalie hasn’t returned to ice for U of M since suffering a severe concussion last October

Goalie’s hockey future is ‘on ice’ after injury


Former Eagan High School goalie Alyssa Grogan suffered a concussion during a practice with the University of Minnesota women’s team last year and hasn’t played since.

The concussion has not only been a setback in Gro-gan’s athletic career, but also her academic pursuits. She said she slept for 20 to 22 hours a day for the first six weeks of her recovery, and she was unable to finish her classes for the semes-ter. She can’t go to movies, concerts or anywhere that is loud and busy. “The thought of being an energized, headache-free self again keeps me moti-vated,” Grogan said. “The thought of being a normal college student who can cram for tests and stay up late studying is exciting to me. Whenever I get discour-aged, I remember that there are always people who are worse off.”

Tad Johnson is at [email protected]. A longer version of this story appears in Focus, a south-of-the-river lifestyle magazine, on newsstands now.


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After a multistate search, a Burnsville business is working to expand to the Farmington Industrial Park. If plans go as expected, Quality Ingredients, a man-ufacturer of powdered fla-vors, creamer, cheese pow-ders and whip topping, will expand into the old Perfor-mance Industrial Coatings building early next year, said Bob Freeman, general pro-

grams director with Quality Ingredients. Freeman emphasized that many details still need to be negotiated regarding the sale of the PIC building, but confirmed the company’s desire to expand its thriving business into Farmington. “We’re set on Farmington if all the due diligence and agreements are finalized,” Freeman said. “We are not looking anywhere else and are planning to expand.”

Company officials spent months researching poten-tial expansion sites in the upper Midwest region, he said. Quality Ingredients, founded in 1987 by Burns-ville resident Bob Thomp-son, has other locations in Burnsville and Marshfield, Wis. According the company’s business profile on www.manta.com, Quality Ingre-dients has estimated revenue

of $50 million to $100 mil-lion and employs approxi-mately 50 to 99 people. Farmington City Planner Lee Smick said if the expan-sion transpires, some of the company’s workforce would be transferred to Farming-ton, and about 15 skilled jobs may be opened up in the new location. At 61,500 square feet, the building Quality Ingredients is seeking to expand into has been empty for several years

and works well to accommo-date the company’s needs, Smick said. She said the company plans to raise part of the building’s roof from about 30 feet to 68 feet in height to accommodate business oper-ations and will utilize a vari-ance for the roof changes. Jason Bartholomay, a City Council member and chair of the city’s Economic Development Authority, called the company’s plans “a

perfect example of the city taking a step in the right di-rection.” Bartholomay said the City Council is dedicated to being more business-friendly. Smick said the city is excited for the company’s expansion plans and the po-tential for additional jobs for residents.

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Poke around the Burns-ville CommonPlace website and you’re almost sure to recognize a name or two. It could be a neighbor, one of your elected officials, a lo-cal restaurant owner or an apartment complex up the street. Launched Oct. 1, Burns-ville CommonPlace is a so-cial media site for Burnsville users only. It’s a place where civic clubs and nonprofits can announce upcoming events, businesses can post special offers and residents can compare notes on the quality of snowplowing. Burnsville is one of a se-lect few cities to have Com-monPlace, and local orga-nizers say it’s growing. A total of 550 members have registered, Julia Camp-bell, a community organizer behind the Burnsville proj-ect, said earlier this month. She and two other orga-nizers hope to have 1,500 members by the time they leave Burnsville on Dec. 15. CommonPlace isn’t a gaggle of online “friends” or a free-for-all portal for anonymous comments. It’s a collection of folks bound by one thing – their commu-nity, Campbell said. “When you’re wanting to promote an upcoming event or you’re new to the town, the only people you can reach out to are those you already know,” Camp-bell said. “This provides a platform to be connected with people specific to your neighborhood and your community, and also allows you to reach out to some that you may have never met before.” The brainchild of Har-vard political science majors Pete Davis and Max Noven-dstern, CommonPlace was

piloted in Falls Church, Va., Campbell said. It’s since been expanded to sites in Burnsville, Golden Valley, Chelmsford, Mass., Owos-so, Mich., and Clarkston, Ga. Burnsville is on the list because Mayor Elizabeth Kautz was approached by one of the founders at the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washing-ton, D.C., in January. Then conference presi-dent, Kautz liked what she heard. She introduced Com-monPlace organizers to civic leaders in Burnsville, helped arrange pre-launch teleconference meetings and publicly welcomed the crew to town. “The more our commu-nity can be engaged,” Kautz said, “the better it is.” Users must register with their full names and a Burnsville address (the boundaries of the Burns-ville-Eagan-Savage School District are included, Kautz said). All posts are monitored by CommonPlace organiz-ers. “These kids have a moral center, and we talked about monitoring the site for civil-ity,” Kautz said. Burnsville resident Nan-cy Banyard used the site to post her concerns about crime. She posted after a news story about rising

crime rates in Burnsville during the first half of 2011 confirmed her observation that break-ins and break-in attempts are up on her street. “I’m from the East Coast,” said Banyard, who thinks city officials have been behind the curve in alerting residents to crime problems. “I think the more well-informed you are, the safer your community is go-ing to be.” Burnsville resident Lee Ann Schultz Wahi has be-gun posting links from her local news blog, B-ville News, on CommonPlace. “Since I have linked to CommonPlace, my page hits have gone up,” said Schultz Wahi, a local news hound who edits the Minne-sota House of Representa-tives’ Session Weekly and is a former editor of the Prior Lake American newspaper. “And the other thing that I found is people are start-ing to respond to some of my blogs, either on the blog itself or emailing me. I find the engagement really good (on CommonPlace), and I also think here are some re-ally good story ideas start-ing to emerge on there.” Burnsville Common-Place is at www.Burnsville.OurCommonPlace.com.


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by Aaron VehlingTHISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

This is an era in which in-novative business solutions abound to help compa-nies and em-ployees com-pete globally amid a le-gion of eco-nomic chal-lenges. Sometimes it takes a maverick to inject some cre-ativity into the mix. Marty Hebig owns Lakeville-based Maverick Software, an apt-ly-named company that pro-vides a way for businesses to save on technology costs while offering practical job experience and opportuni-ties to college students. The under-25 demo-graphic faces an unem-ployment rate of nearly 54 percent, according to Time Magazine, so Hebig’s ability to offer cost-effective soft-ware testing to companies, and provide well-paying jobs with real experience and job opportunities to students is a big deal. The Minnesota High Tech Association saw this, bestowing on Maverick the 2011 Innovative Collabora-tion of the Year during its Tekne Awards celebration on Nov. 3 in Minneapolis. “This collaboration cre-ates a motivated, skilled and productive workforce that sustains and expands Min-nesota’s technology-based economy,” the association said in a press release. To win is an honor, He-big said, but the ceremony itself also provides valuable exposure to his company. The event is the Oscars of the Minnesota technology industry, he said, and so large firms such as Oracle, 3M and Microsoft are well represented. The potential for networking exists in droves. Along with business partner Chuck Sherwood, Hebig accepted the honor

Tekne Award is among highest recognition a technology firm can receive

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Dilafruz Umarova works at Maverick Software’s University of Minnesota location. As a student, she earns a decent salary doing software work for big-name clients while gaining valuable practical experience in the field of information systems.

Maverick honored for its innovation

Driver improvement classes offered The Minnesota Highway Safety Center will offer 55-plus driver-improvement courses on the following days: • 1 to 5 p.m. Dec. 1 and 2 (eight-hour full course), Min-nesota Valley Family YMCA, 13850 Portland Ave. S., Burns-ville. • 6 to 10 p.m. Dec. 5 and 6 (eight-hour full course), Burns-ville Senior Center – ISD 191, 200 W. Burnsville Parkway, Burnsville. • 1 to 5 p.m. Dec. 6 (four-hour refresher), Burnsville Se-nior Center – ISD 191, 200 W. Burnsville Parkway, Burnsville. • 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Dec. 6 (four-hour refresher), Burnsville – AAA Minnesota/Iowa, 600 W. Travelers Trail, Burnsville. • 1 to 5 p.m. Dec. 8 (four-hour refresher), Commons on

Marice, 1380 Marice Drive, Eagan. • 6 to 10 p.m. Dec. 8 (four-hour refresher), Kowalski’s, 1646 Diffley Road, Eagan. • Noon to 4 p.m. Dec. 12 (four-hour refresher), Hayes Community & Senior Center, 14601 Hayes Road, Apple Val-ley. • 6 to 10 p.m. Dec. 12 (four-hour refresher course), Burns-ville Senior Center – ISD 191, 200 W. Burnsville Parkway, Burnsville. • 1 to 5 p.m. Dec. 15 (four-hour refresher), Southwest Area YMCA, 550 Opperman Drive, Eagan. The courses are open to the public; however, preregistration is requested. The fee for the four-hour refresher is $20; the eight-hour course is $24. For more information or to regis-ter, visit www.mnsafetycenter.org or call 1-888-234-1294.

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as a two-minute video pre-sented the history of Mav-erick. Through the program, Maverick sets up offices on-site at the locations of its university collaborators. Currently, it has six offic-es with 110 students at nine universities, Hebig said. Each site has a full-time of-fice manager. The company’s clients in-clude Digital River, Syman-tec, Merill Corporation and Thomson Reuters (which was the first), among others. Maverick’s student em-ployees earn on average about $13 an hour, far out-pacing retail and food in-dustry alternatives. Clients pay Maverick about $25 per hour for those students’ ser-vices, which center on soft-ware development testing, Hebig said. By managing the fixed costs associated with physi-cal locations, Maverick has been able to maintain prof-itability. “We don’t go out and set up offices, hoping clients will come,” he said. The offices come afterward. Maverick has been prof-itable since “day one,” He-

big said, adding that he anticipates his firm will see about $4 million in revenue this year. The company is trans-parent with its clients about its expenses, Hebig said. This builds trust when “we know they could go out and do this themselves. We want them to know it would be difficult for them to do it much cheaper.” Maverick draws on stu-dents who achieve high grades and exhibit excellent technological aptitude. “We get the best stu-dents,” he said, with assur-ances that he is not running a sort-of “IT sweatshop. These are high-paying, flex-ible jobs close to class.” The students get a lot out of the program. In addition to earning income, they get the opportunity to imple-ment theory in a practical setting, learning by doing. In addition, there are the opportunities for job place-ment with Maverick’s cli-ents. But there is more to it: Hebig and his staff also help the students with resumes, conduct mock interviews and encourage them to at-tend career fairs, he said.

“We do that because Thomson Reuters and oth-er clients might not be able to hire all the students,” he said. Maverick’s goal for the next three years is a dou-bling in size. To do this, He-big said, he is in the process of seeking more clients. Hebig said Maverick is currently working with Minnesota’s Department of Employment and Eco-nomic Development and Advance IT Minnesota to apply his company’s model to help the long-term un-employed. “We would get them some training and basi-cally have them do the same thing (as the students),” he said. “When they are fin-ished they could go on to full-time work.” When Hebig started his company in 2000, he chris-tened it after his high-school nickname, which he earned because of the model of Ford he drove back then. Little did his classmates know how descriptive that moniker was.

Aaron Vehling is at [email protected].

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A very special flock of 35 turkeys is being raised with care by a handful of Willmar, Minn., high school students, in hopes that one of the turkeys will be invited to make a special jour-ney to the White House in November to be presented as the National Thanksgiving Turkey to President Obama. One of those turkeys visited North Trail Elementary in Lakeville, courtesy of the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association. The MTGA hosted an informational program on turkey farming for the first and second graders.


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Apple Valley’s Delaney Mc-Donald swims the 200-yard individual medley at state. She placed eighth in the event. Rosemount’s Claire Toland swims the 500-yard freestyle at state. She placed 15th in the event. To view more photos, visit www.ThisweekLive.com.

Swimmers compete among the best

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Dakota United’s Jaayson Meyer fights for possession in the state adapted soccer tournament. To view more photos, visit www.ThisweekLive.com.

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Dakota United’s Austin Harmon and Quintin Nicolay take control in the state adapted soccer tournament. To view more photos, visit www.ThisweekLive.com.

Susan Furtney is named tennis pro of the year Susan Furtney of Apple Valley was named the 2011 Frank Voigt Pro of the Year at the at the 2011 USTA Northern Annual Award banquet Saturday, Nov. 19, at Minnesota Valley Coun-try Club in Bloomington. A USPTA professional, Furtney has worked with every aspect of tennis over the years, including adult leagues, adult and junior drills and lessons, high school tennis, junior team tennis, junior high perfor-mance and tournaments, Community Education, 10-and-under tennis and Special Olympics. She also served as the ex-ecutive director of St. Paul Urban Tennis from 2006-08. During her tenure, while she was fighting cancer, over 3,000 youths partici-pated in the program, as well as 60 instructors, at 30 sites around St. Paul. She was the winner of the 2002 Ward Burton Ju-nior Development Award.

Burkhardt inducted into Augsburg’s Hall of Fame Burnsville resident Mi-chael Burkhardt, a 1981 alumnus of Augsburg Col-lege, was recently inducted into the 2011 class of the college’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Burkhardt played two seasons of men’s hockey and baseball at Augsburg, after transferring from the University of Minnesota. In hockey, he was a goal-ie on two MIAC champi-onship teams (1979-80 and 1980-81), in addition to winning the NAIA national championship in the 1981 season. In baseball, he played two seasons as a catcher for the Auggies, serving as a team co-captain his senior

year. Burkhardt served as an assistant coach for Augs-burg’s men’s hockey team for four seasons (2004-08) and he has been a coach in several sports in Burnsville and throughout Minnesota for several decades.

Thompson named player of the week in NJCCA Division II Leading Dakota County Technical College basket-ball to the program’s first two wins, sophomore wing Kevin Thompson posted two double-doubles in the first two games of the team’s inaugural season and was named the NJCAA Divi-sion II Player of the Week. Thompson scored 16 points and pulled down 12 rebounds in an 89-78 win over North Iowa Area Com-munity College on Nov. 11 in Mason City, Iowa. The following day at Ellsworth Community Col-lege, Thompson totaled 17 points and 14 rebounds in a 70-61 victory. The Knights play Roch-ester Community and Tech-nical College (1–1) at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 in Rochester. The next day, DCTC fac-es St. Cloud Technical and Community College (1–0) in the program’s first home game, which tips off at 1 p.m. at the Salvation Army Community Center in St. Paul.

TAGS coordinator Linda Thorberg receives award TAGS Gymnastics Gym-Kids coordinator Linda Thorberg was named 2011 Educator of the Year by the national gymnastics govern-ing body USA Gymnastics. She was awarded the honor during the USA Gymnastics Congress and Visa Championships held in St. Paul in August. She also received a 20-year service award from

USA Gymnastics, as well as Regional Contributor of the Year. As a national instruc-tor for USA Gymnastics, she certifies gymnastics professionals to teach pre-school gymnastics, as well as educates judges, coaches and competitive athletes throughout the USA. Thorberg joined TAGS staff 33 years ago and lives in Farmington with her hus-band Gary.

Storm swim session beginson Nov. 28 The south metro Storm swimming and diving club will be starting its 14-week winter session Nov. 28. Registration is open on-line at www.mnstorm.org until Dec. 5 or at the first week of practice. Swim practices are regu-larly scheduled for all age groups, including adult masters at Hidden Oaks and Twin Oaks Middle Schools in Prior Lake, and Ken-wood Trail and McGuire middle schools in Lakeville. Summer diving will be up to three times a week for one to two hours. Learn-to-dive programs will be of-fered. Check the website for more information and prac-tice schedules: www.mn-storm.org. If interested, leave con-tact information on the STORM hotline: (952) 953-7789, or email [email protected].

Golfer Sara Detlefsen picks Florida Gulf Coast Eastview’s Sara Detlef-sen has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete in women’s golf at Florida Gulf Coast University. De-tlefsen was the runner-up at the Class AAA state girls golf tournament in 2010.

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