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Dueling pianos in LakevilleMusical duo Deuces Wild! Dueling Pianos is bringing its fun-filled show to the stage of the Lakeville Area Arts Center next week.

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Wrestlers break new groundSending 14 individuals to the state tournament is a first, even for the Eagles.

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After losing daughter, parents look to help others ‘Make a Splash’ event March 3 is fundraiser for children’s hospital

Students create a peaceful retreat

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK

After the death of their 3-year-old daughter Mary from cancer in July 2009, Peter and Christine O’Keefe sought ways to channel their grief. In addition to grief counsel-ing, Peter worked on a basement remodeling project at the family’s Apple Valley home, while Chris-tine began making runs to a local arts and craft supply store, buy-ing hundreds of dollars worth of items. She’d then bring the art sup-plies to the Minneapolis hospital where Mary had been treated, in hopes of brightening the stays of other kids there. That altruistic effort has since blossomed into the Mary Moon Foundation, a nonprofit the O’Keefes created in Mary’s honor which conducts fundrais-ing events to help finance art sup-plies, toys and games for the Uni-versity of Minnesota’s Amplatz Children’s Hospital. (The founda-tion is so named because Mary’s nickname was Moon.)

“After you lose your daughter, you’re kind of left adrift,” Peter said. “Some people turn to bad habits. … We had a great support system while our daughter was

undergoing treatment, and we de-cided we wanted to give back.” During Mary’s long stay at the children’s hospital, a multitude of toys, craft projects and other ac-

tivities helped put the youngster at ease, and the O’Keefes decided that was the environment they wanted to help create for other families with a child receiving treatment. “We’re not giving to cancer re-search – we believe in that, and we’re glad it’s supported – but right now, today, there are chil-dren that are in the hospital, and we want to help those families,” Peter said. The Mary Moon Foundation will be hosting its second annual “Make a Splash” event at the Wa-ter Park of America from 4 to 8 p.m. this Sunday, March 3. The event features discounted admis-sion to the water park, games, en-tertainment and a silent auction. Tickets to the “Make a Splash” event can be purchased through www.marymoonfoundation.org, for $12. The foundation is also hosting an online auction in conjunction with “Make a Splash,” and details can be found on the website.

Andrew Miller can be reached at [email protected].

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK

Middle schools are places filled with youthful energy that feeds a fast-paced atmosphere. Recently a few stu-dents at Rosemount Middle School created an escape from that hectic schedule, albeit a temporary one. Under the direc-tion of art teacher Sue Schmidt, a crew of about 25 students turned her classroom into three-di-mensional scenes based on famous paintings. The result is a “sculpture garden” where everyday objects such as milk jugs, egg cartons and wheelbarrows have been turned into parrots, lions and sea turtles. A foot bridge juts out from a depiction of Claude Monet’s “Giverny Garden” to invite people in to walk through three other scenes based on Henri Rosseau paintings and a moving underwa-ter setting inspired by Christian Riese Lassen’s “Majestic King-dom.”

“My parents thought it was amazing,” eighth-grader Tyra Ho-recka said. “I told them they had to go through it to see what we used to make different things.” “They were surprised how we took ordinary things and turned them into art,” eighth-grader Ivy Frater said. The students have been working on the project in two classes and during 20-minute Irish Time sessions, which are similar to a homeroom but are geared toward intervention, remediation or

Middle school’s ‘sculpture garden’ reflects famous paintings

Photo by Tad Johnson

Rosemount Middle School students recreated a scene from Christian Riese Lassen’s “Majestic Kingdom” for the sculpture garden project.

Snowshoe adventure at Greenleaf Educatorstalk specialed funding,safety

U.S. Rep. Kline holds roundtable

by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK

In preparation for an up-coming congressional hear-ing, U.S. Rep. John Kline steered part of the con-versation to-ward school safety at an e d u c a t i o n roundtable Monday. But the p a n e l i s t s , mostly school officials from Kline’s 2nd District, seemed more interested in special education funding than in guards and guns. “For every dollar that has to go to special edu-cation that’s unfunded, it takes away from another

Photo by Rick Orndorf

Third-graders at Apple Valley’s Greenleaf Elementary strapped on snowshoes and hiked into the woods Tuesday, Feb. 26, as part of their physical education class. The weeklong unit led by physical education teacher George Beran also focused on teamwork, hiking and how snowshoes were used by different cultures throughout history. More photos are online at SunThisweek.com.

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Peter and Christine O’Keefe of Apple Valley say that a multitude of toys, craft projects and other activities helped lessen the unease of their daughter Mary’s long hospital stay. The mission of the nonprofit they started in her memory is to help create that calming environment for other youngsters undergoing treatment at the University of Minnesota’s Amplatz Children’s Hospital.

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The eighth annual South Metro Polar Bear Plunge was held Saturday, Feb. 23, at Crystal Lake Beach in Burnsville where hundreds of participants willingly jumped into the lake to raise money for Special Olympics Minnesota. After they took the plunge, groups had a chance to warm up in one of two hot tubs stationed on the shore. The event was organized by law enforcement agencies throughout the south metro. More photos are at SunThiweek.com.

Local teen to compete in ‘distinguished’ contestSES senior competes this weekend in Distinguished Young Woman competition for state title, college scholarship

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK

In a world bombarded by beauty pageants, one Eagan teen hopes to be crowned for her intelli-gence, poise and talents. Catie Deysach, 18, will compete on March 2 in the Minnesota Distinguished Young Women state finals at Eastview High School. “I’m nervous but ex-cited,” Deysach said. “There’s a lot of talented girls.” The competition is a part of the America’s Dis-tinguished Young Women program, which is one of the nation’s oldest and largest scholarship pro-grams for college-bound high school senior girls.

Deysach, a senior at the School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley, will compete against seven other girls from across the state and will be judged

on academics, interview, talent, fitness and self-ex-pression. Self-expression consists of several fac-tors including confidence, poise and eloquence. The fitness portion of the contest will test the girls’ strength, endurance and flexibility through solo and group routines. As Deysach prepares for Saturday’s competi-tion, she’s focusing on practicing the fitness por-tion. “I wasn’t as fit as I thought when I started,” she said. “It’s fun to see how far I’ve come since the local program.” As in most contests, contestants are able to perform the talent of their

choice. Deysach plans to perform a baton twirling routine. All contestants sub-mitted their high school transcripts, ACT or SAT scores and a recommenda-tion from their guidance counselor prior to the event. Deysach was a top fi-nalist in the local program called At Large, which enabled her to compete in the state finals. At Large is a local Dis-tinguished Young Woman program for teens who don’t have a distinguished program in their home-town. Deysach heard about the program from her church youth group lead-er, who encouraged her to enter. Deysach said she wasn’t sure about entering at first

but was intrigued by the contest’s focus on academ-ics and talents instead of beauty. “I like that I’m able to show who I am as a per-son,” she said. “This is more about being a good person who is smart, healthy and the best per-son I can be.” Although Deysach lives in Eagan, she and the other contestants will stay with host families in Burnsville. While there, the girls will be disconnected from the Internet and cellphones to rid them of all distractions from the task at hand. If Deysach receives the title of Minnesota’s Distinguished Young Woman, she will earn a college scholarship and advance to the national competition in June in Mobile, Ala. As of Feb.

27, the organization was in the process of collect-ing funds for the schol-arship and hopes to pro-vide $8,000 toward the winner’s college educa-tion, said Summer Cline, state chair of the Distin-guished Young Women program. On average, the winner receives a $3,000 scholarship. Deysach plans to use the scholarship to attend St. Mary’s University in Winona. Tickets for the state finals can be ordered by emailing [email protected]. For more informa-tion on the Distinguished Young Women program, visit www.ajm.org.

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

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Area BriefsFundraiser set for fallen police officer Law enforcement of-ficers from throughout Dakota County will par-ticipate in a basketball tournament to raise funds

for the family of Cold Spring Officer Thomas Decker, who lost his life in the line of duty on Nov. 29, 2012. The tournament will take place Saturday, March 16, starting at 9 a.m. at Apple Valley High School, 14450 Hayes Road. Members of the public are encouraged to attend the tournament. Admis-sion to the tournament is free. Those wishing to do-nate can make a donation at the tournament. Dona-tions can also be sent to: Tom Decker Memorial Fund, State Bank of Cold Spring, P.O. Box 415, Cold

Spring, MN 56320. For more informa-tion about the tourna-ment, contact Sgt. Booker Hodges at (651) 438-4750 or [email protected].

Fundraiser for Winter Guard The Rosemount High School Winter Guard will hold a spaghetti dinner fundraiser from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 10, at Rosemount VFW, 2625 120th St. W. Tickets are $8 in ad-vance. See a current Win-ter Guard member for tickets.

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Theft of husband’s ashes leaves woman grieving a second time by John Gessner

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Patricia Eriksen takes a trip this time of year to blunt the memory of her husband, Da-vid, dying at home on Feb. 6, 2010. On Feb. 11 she departed for Florida to visit her late hus-band’s cousins. Eriksen left her Burnsville home at 5:30 a.m. Her nephew and housemate, Tyler McLean, who had been staying with friends, arrived home about 13 hours later. The house had been burglar-ized. Eriksen said she can live with most of the losses, including a laptop computer, ruby and em-erald rings and a 4-gallon canis-ter of coins. But the theft of a silver-colored urn containing David’s ashes makes her heartsick — and determined to get it back. “It’s the last thing I have left of him, other than the spiritual connection I feel,” Eriksen said. “It’s the last physical connec-tion I have to him.” Eriksen, who’s lived at 1200 Echo Drive since the late 1970s, isn’t content leaving the case to the police, whom her nephew called immediately after discov-ering the burglary. She made fliers with a photo of the urn and posted them at places around Burns-ville, including the post office, Walmart, a Walgreens store and the Kwik Trip on County Road 11. She went to the Burnsville Pawn America to see if the

urn had been pawned. Erik-sen monitors Craigslist for any of the other stolen items that might lead her to the urn. She can’t imagine why any-one would take it. “They took coins. So maybe they thought it somehow con-tained coins or something,” Er-iksen said. “I’m not sure. They just didn’t know what they were doing.” Eriksen admits to leaving

her front door unlocked when she left for Florida, knowing her nephew would return home later that day. “I’ve always felt safe in Burnsville, and I’ve never locked my door in Burnsville,” she said. “Now it’s always locked, and I’m getting a home security system. When the cows are out of the barn.” The items were stolen from her bedroom except for a Dell

laptop that was in the family room, Eriksen said. Her neph-ew arrived to find the front door open and her bedroom drawers removed from the dresser and placed on the bed, she said. She reported stolen the glass canister of coins; a bag of coins; miscellaneous jewelry including a gold butterfly ring with three rubies (one missing), a gold butterfly ring with four emeralds and a silver bangle bracelet engraved with “To Mary from Bro. Bob;” a navy blue laptop with the Dell em-blem in the corner; and the urn. It’s a rectangular urn bear-ing a car-racing emblem with a steering wheel, checkered flags and a helmet. The urn is secured by four screws on the bottom. David Eriksen’s name is not engraved on it. The emblem marks the Er-iksens as a racing family. The

adult children in their blend-ed family, son Shannon and daughter Jennifer, did the driv-ing, Eriksen said. Their last en-deavor was racing sprint cars. David, who was 58 when he died of esophageal cancer, was the “crew chief,” his wife said. “He just got the power to the ground.” She wondered at first wheth-er David’s sister who lived in Apple Valley took the ashes for sentimental reasons. “I thought maybe she was feeling nostal-gic, coming up on his three-year anniversary,” Eriksen said. Tragically, the woman was found dead of a heart attack in her apartment on Feb. 17, Erik-sen said. “Everybody’s looked at all her stuff, and she didn’t take them,” Eriksen said. “It’s just some kid who didn’t know what they were.” Jennifer Eriksen, David’s 32-year-old daughter, picked out the urn for her father’s fu-neral. “This is the only thing I want back,” Patricia Eriksen said. “I describe all the other stuff, and that’s only to help me get back to this. Coin don’t mean any-thing. But this is my daughter’s last connection to her dad that’s still here.” Eriksen said anyone who might have information about the urn may call her cell phone at (651) 249-9163.

John Gessner can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/sunthisweek.

Photo by John Gessner

Patricia Eriksen of Burnsville is heartsick over the theft of an urn containing her late husband’s ashes and is determined to retrieve it.

Submitted photo

Patricia Eriksen provided this photo of the urn containing the ashes of her late husband, David.

Felony charge follows gunshots outside Apple Valley residence An Apple Valley man who allegedly fired off multiple rounds from a handgun outside his home has been charged with a felony in district court. Police say 56-year-old Richard J. Carothers ap-peared “extremely intoxi-cated” when he was taken into custody the night of Feb. 14 at his residence on the 200 block of Elm Drive. At about 9:30 p.m. po-lice were summoned to

the home after Carothers dialed 911 to report that his wallet and phone were missing. As officers were en route, one of Caroth-ers’ neighbors called 911 to report four or five loud “pops” that were either fireworks or gunfire. Upon arrival, officers positioned themselves outside the home; Caroth-ers stepped outside and reportedly told them they did not need to worry be-cause “I already cracked off some rounds, man.”

According to the crim-inal complaint, Carothers first told police he’d fired his pistol at “an unknown person running from his home,” but later admitted he had shot at a dog. In fact, earlier that day Carothers called police to report that a neighbor’s dog was in his yard and was acting aggressively toward him, the com-plaint said. Around 2 p.m. Carothers spoke with an Apple Valley officer and stated that the next time

the dog came into his yard he would use his 9 mm handgun. The officer informed Carothers it was illegal to discharge a fire-arm in the city. That night, police lo-cated six spent bullet cas-ings in the snow outside the front door to Caroth-

ers’ home, and found his pistol wedged behind a television in the bedroom. Carothers was trans-ported to a hospital to be medically cleared for al-cohol intoxication before being booked into the Dakota County Jail, po-lice said.

The Dakota County Attorney’s Office has charged Carothers with reckless discharge of a firearm. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of two years in prison and a $5,000 fine.

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Violence Against Women Act deserves support To the editor: At the Domestic Abuse Luncheon on Feb. 15, Leigh Block bravely re-counted her story of how her ex-husband murdered their child, Mikayla Olson, after years of abusing both her and Mikayla (“A Mom Recounts Cries For Help” Feb. 22, 2013). Her story in itself is hor-rific enough but is unfortu-nately not unique. Almost 20 years ago Vice Presi-dent Joe Biden introduced a bill entitled the Violence Against Women Act in an attempt to bring support and justice to victimized women. The enormity of the passing of this bill can-not be underscored enough. The horror of the ex-ploitation that victims ex-perience in their abuse is incomprehensible to the av-erage person. Domestic vi-olence refers to the pattern of violence that affects the quality of life for all women – it encompasses not only physical violence but also includes pervasive emotion-

al abuse and threats, control over finances, manipulation of the children and the idea that a man has the right to control his partner. There has been argu-ment that this bill discrimi-nates against men but until we understand the essential basics of women’s rights in governmental laws, we can’t move forward in our fight against violence to-ward women. Previous ver-sions of the VAWA did not fully accommodate women in lesbian relationships or Native-American women on tribal reservations that are not necessarily covered under federal law. It also does not provide for im-migrant women afraid to report abuse for fear of de-portation. The updates to the law will enforce violence prevention laws, hold per-petrators accountable and care for victims. This bill is about real women being physically and mentally abused. That affects all of us. For the House members to not support this bill is an insult and injustice to all people, not just to those be-ing abused. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar has worked hard to pass this in the Sen-

ate. We need Congress to put the partisan differences aside and work together to make this act a reality for all so that there aren’t more children suffering needless-ly like Mikayla.

CINDY PRYZBILLALakeville

Rain gardens are greatTo the editor: Sometimes you just have to brag about something wonderful. Thank you to those who have made the Dakota County partner-ship with Blue Thumb pos-sible. Like many readers, I first learned about Blue Thumb from coverage in this news-paper. By teaming with ho-meowners, Blue Thumb has clearly documented that proper rain garden installa-tion significantly improves water quality in our county while adding beauty and benefitting wildlife. My husband and I de-cided to join the program. From the beginning, I was impressed. The staff taught us the hows and whys of rain garden design and in-stallation in well-organized

presentations with great documentation and plenty of humor. During the next phase where we met in smaller groups to design our spe-cific rain gardens, the lead-ers showed both expertise and patience. During instal-lation, our assigned staff members, Mike and Lacey, made multiple home visits

to guide us every step of the way. Their encourage-ment and experience was truly the best part of the program (even though the cost sharing part of the program covered almost half of our expenses for a larger than usual rain gar-den). Thanks to this pro-gram, I feel good know-ing less water is running into the street picking up contaminants on its way to the nearest wetland. I love having native species supporting migrating and permanent at-risk species. Instead of looking over my kitchen sink to see a soggy marsh for days af-ter a rain, I will now see a lovely garden that will continue to grow in beau-

ty in the coming years. Be-cause of Blue Thumb, this is happening in yard after yard in Dakota County, and the benefits are multi-plied. Blue Thumb took our sweat equity and turned it into a beautiful, practical garden. Classes are already starting, and I encourage homeowners who want an affordable way to keep Dakota County beautiful and healthy for generations to come to try out a Blue Thumb class. If your expe-rience is like ours, you will be glad you did.

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Sequestration equals frustrationTo the editor: The lack of discussion of sequestration, the threat in Congress of massive cuts that will come if representa-tives and senators don’t act, is a failure of elected offi-cials to govern and work for the good of all Americans. Low approval ratings for

Congress and state legisla-tors, 20 percent or below, show that citizens are dis-gusted with the crises gen-erated by elected represen-tatives. It wasn’t always like this. Before extreme stands by fringe groups, there were ef-forts to govern in an inclu-sive way. There were differ-ences but moderates sought mutual solutions. That’s not happening now. When congressional leaders made it clear their primary goal was to defeat the president, they set the stage for gridlock. Many filibusters later, after state government shutdowns, and failure to support relief for people suffering from Superstorm Sandy (includ-ing by U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Burnsville), it seems there’s insufficient interest in working for the Ameri-can people. It’s just about grabbing power, gerryman-dered districts, and voter suppression. It’s to protect the richest 2 percent, while seniors see cuts in Social Security benefits, and the unemployed lose support as

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OpinionKeeping government data open is an ongoing campaign

Tell the governor he can’t be pro-jobs and anti-business

Eight dollars to take a photo of a public document? Eight bucks, the district court admin-istrator’s office in Little Falls told a re-porter who requested not a copy of the document, but the mere “privilege” of shooting it. That’s a fanciful interpretation of Minnesota data privacy law, which clear-ly prohibits unreasonable charges for ac-cess to government documents. The public mustn’t nap when it comes to safeguarding its rights concerning public data and the overriding presump-tion of Minnesota law: that all govern-ment data are public unless expressly closed by law under exceptions that in-clude privacy rights for individuals. News organizations are usually the ones complaining when access to public data is barred or hindered, but Chapter 13 of the Minnesota statutes is for every-one. Data-practices experts outside the press include state Rep. Mary Liz Hol-berg, R-Lakeville. She recently intro-duced legislation to not only guard against public employees wrongfully ac-cessing data but to spread sunshine in the form of reports on violations. “We’re really, really tired of it,” Hol-berg said, referring in part to a former Department of Natural Resources em-ployee who improperly gained access to

5,000 Minnesotans’ drivers-license re-cords. Experts include citizen activist Rich Neumeister, who has waded into the one of the latest quagmires: buyouts of pub-lic school administrators under separa-tion agreements. Neumeister worked with state Rep. Pam Myhra, R-Burnsville, last year to pry open future government secrets after the controversial and mystery-shrouded $255,000 buyout of former Burnsville-Eagan-Savage school administrator Ta-nia Chance. Ever vigilant, Myhra is taking anoth-er crack this legislative session at tighten-ing the portion of data privacy law that stipulates what the public is entitled to know about such deals. Why? Because the West St. Paul School District recently paid Henry Sibley High School Principal Robin Percival $64,590 to resign without saying why she resigned or received a buyout. The fact that Myhra’s amendments from last year are not lawyer-proof shows that keeping government open and ac-countable is a continuous campaign. Her new legislation attempts to fur-ther clarify exactly which public offi-

cials are subject to disclosure edicts in $10,000-plus buyouts. It reinforces a re-quirement already on the books that spe-cific reasons for the buyout be disclosed. That requirement proved toothless in the Burnsville case, the details of which may never be known to anyone but insiders. Finally, Myhra’s amendments call for a description of the nature of the “acts, omissions, or other events that gave rise to potential liability, if the agreement re-leases the government entity from poten-tial liability.” In the Burnsville case, Tania Chance agreed to release her claims against the district as part of the separation. Myhra’s attempt to uncover the nature of such claims could be thought of as the “What part of tell us the truth don’t you understand?” clause. The clearer the disclosure require-ments are, the less school districts and other government entities will have to wring their hands over liability for re-leasing private personnel data. Everyone wins, especially taxpayers. State advisory opinions issued last year in 15 open records and data practic-es cases show that efforts to cover up are still routine and are routinely met with efforts to pry open. The opinions hold much good news for sunshine advocates. A sampling: The Minnetonka School District

erred when it provided only a summary of the superintendent’s contract to a citi-zen who requested the entire contract. The district had decided that only part of the contract was unprotected “public data.” The Minneapolis Police Department was wrong in refusing to provide a copy of a squad-cam video of a traffic stop. The department had claimed that the video was private personnel data because it showed the actions of an officer under internal investigation. The previously mentioned Burnsville-Eagan-Savage district was wrong to re-dact portions of the Tania Chance sepa-ration agreement based on the district’s claim that it contained private personnel data. But another portion of that advisory from the state commissioner of adminis-tration said the district was not required to “create data” in response to a data request, and therefore was not required to provide additional specific reasons for the separation agreement. We hope Rep. Myhra’s amendments are approved in the interest of less law-yering and more sunshine.

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by David C. Olson SPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEK

Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposed budget has put Minnesota in the national head-lines, and that’s not good. He proposes huge increases in taxes and spending with little reform in either. Policy-makers across the nation are seizing the opportu-nity to make a pitch to Minnesota busi-nesses. Rep. Erik Severson, a Duluth native now serving in the Wisconsin Legisla-ture, fired one of the first salvos with a press release inviting companies to cross the border. Many may scoff at his open letter to Minnesota businesses, calling it premature and nothing more than a pub-licity stunt. But the underlying message cannot be lost: Minnesota can expect more serious efforts to lure businesses away if the governor’s anti-jobs measures are passed. Rest assured, many are watching closely to see what happens.

From a Wall Street Journal editorial: “Washington may be a tax reform waste-land, but out in the states the action is hot and heavy. … This state reform trend is a rare bright spot in the current high-tax era, and it will further sharpen the contrast in economic policies between GOP reform governors and the union-dominated high-tax models of Califor-nia, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and now Minnesota, where Gov. Mark Dayton proposed a huge tax hike. Let the policy competition begin.” From Fox News: “A Florida Repub-

lican congressman is welcoming to his home state Minnesota residents who mi-grate south to escape the Midwest’s no-toriously cold, harsh winters – now that their governor is trying to impose a so-called snowbird tax on them. ‘Dear Gov-ernor Mark Dayton,’ Rep. Trey Radel wrote. ‘… As a Floridian, I am over-joyed to hear about your plan to raise taxes on Minnesotans, most especially the so-called snowbirds. Your proposal gives us a chance to shine here in the Sunshine State.’ ” In fact, I was personally approached by Florida Gov. Rick Scott during a meeting with my colleagues from around the country. He told me matter-of-factly, “I hope Governor Dayton’s menu of tax increases passes.” A day doesn’t pass that business own-ers don’t share their alarm over the gov-ernor’s measures. We hear your concerns loud and clear and are working full time to underscore your priorities with policy-

makers. There is no substitute, however, for business owners and managers bringing your message directly to those who make the decisions that impact your daily op-erations. We make it easy on March 13 at our 20th annual Business Day at the Capitol. The governor will be on hand to ad-dress the luncheon and field questions; then we’ll transport you to the Capitol for prearranged visits with your legisla-tors. Scott Wine, chairman and CEO of Polaris Industries, will deliver the key-note address. Please join us for what traditionally is the largest business lobbying day at the Capitol. A record-breaking attendance is more important than ever this year. David Olson is president of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce – www.mncham-ber.com. Columns reflect the opinion of the author.

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Good intentions, no price tag in new national education report

by Joe NathanSUN THISWEEK

There are good intentions but no price tag and too many priorities in a new na-tional Equity and Excellence Commis-sion report. Here’s a brief summary of the report and a few reactions. Several years ago, Congress created a 27-member group that included two na-tional teachers’ union presidents, college faculty, several lawyers and directors of education advocacy organizations. Per-haps the commission’s most powerful words describe inequities in U.S. educa-tion opportunities compared to many other countries. It describes the current system as “unjust and unwise … we take the extraordinary diversity that should be our strategic advantage in the interna-tional economy and squander it.” The 50-page report has dozens of rec-ommendations in five areas: • Improving school finance and effi-ciency • Teaching, leading and learning op-portunities • Ensuring access to high-quality early childhood education • Meeting the needs of students in high poverty neighborhoods • Governance and accountability to improve equity and excellence The report notes that many other countries ensure that high quality early childhood programs are available to all, that schools serving low-income students have higher funding, rather than less, as is the case in many states. The report praises other countries for doing a bet-ter job of recruiting and compensating teachers and school leaders. Commis-sioners call the U.S. “an outlier” among nations. Commission members insist we would have a much healthier economy if we dealt with these issues. They acknowledge that: “By some measures, we spend as much as or even more as a share of our gross domestic product than do other nations, which underscores that the amount of money spent is not the only factor affecting student achievement. … It is critical to spend money strategically on things that work.” The commission recognizes the value of research but again, nothing on how much or how to most effectively spend research funds. The report has a single sentence refer-ring to congressional promises regarding funding of students with special needs: “Financial support for these students (with disabilities) should meet the origi-

nal federal commitment promised.” Yes, it should. Commission members should make that commitment a priority. Congressio-nal funding for students with disabilities has never reached 30 percent of the over-all cost, much less the 40 percent funding that Congress promised. Here’s a link to the report: http://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/eec/index.html. As the report was released, I listened and asked two questions. Then via email, Minnesota Commissioner of Education Brenda Cassellius and I talked. “We did not provide input,” she said. That’s unfortunate, because the com-missioner and governor know that many of the report’s recommendations will cost a lot of money. I asked, and commission members acknowledged that their report included dozens of recommendations but not how much some would cost, or how to pay for them. Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposed edu-cation budget urges spending an addi-tional $300 million on early childhood and K-12 education. He suggests more funding for strong programs serving 3 to 4-year-olds, kindergarten students, students with special needs, and greater funding equity among districts, all of which the commission recommends. Moreover, the state has identified out-standing district and charter public schools, and plans to arrange for them to help other schools. Sharing takes some, but not a lot of money. Cassellius praised the report’s tone. “All children deserve an equitable op-portunity to succeed and excel,” she said. Agreed. Give the governor and commissioner credit for proposing a budget and taking other actions that help move Minnesota in the direction the national commission recommends.

Joe Nathan, formerly a Minnesota public school teacher and administrator, direct the Center for School Change. Reactions welcome, [email protected]. Column reflect the opinion of the author.

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Barbara Johnson of Burnsville is the new owner of The Grant House Hotel & Eatery in Rush City, Minn.

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Barb Johnson wants the story behind The Grant House known to all who visit and treasure it. She’s inspired by the nostalgia, the architecture, the old brick and mortar, the French carpet, the his-tory — from the fire of 1895 to records indicating frequent visits by Presi-dent Ulysses S. Grant — and the people who take pride in its place in the Rush City community. They drive her to bring the establishment back to what it once was. Johnson, who lives in Burnsville, is in her third month of owning The Grant House Hotel & Eat-ery, 80 West 4th St., which was previously owned by Todd Johnston. She closed on the business last Nov. 29, which was not in her plans after retiring from a rewarding career as a flight attendant for the U.S. government. Johnson said she dis-covered the opportunity when her ex-husband in San Diego contacted her about a hotel and restau-rant business that was up for sale in a town north of

the Twin Cities. “I said to him, ‘Why in the world would I buy a hotel and eatery, and where is Rush City?’ ” she recalled. “He said to check it out and see.” So she made the trip north in June of last year and instantly fell in love with what she saw and felt upon setting foot in the front entry. “Right when I walked in, I knew I had to have it. It was mine,” she said with enthusiasm. “I remember saying, ‘This is beautiful, this is beautiful.’ It kind of spoke to me. The rest is history, and I jumped in with both feet.” In her first days as own-er, Johnson said she “Bar-bified” the place by dress-ing the dining room tables with fresh, new tablecloths and putting her collec-tion of antique china on display. Also helping out have been her daughter and son-in-law, Shannon and Dan Clarke, who are minor partners with a share of the ownership. In switching from the government world, which had Johnson serving thou-sands of troops being transported to the Middle

East earlier in her flying days, to small-town busi-ness ownership, she ad-mits she still feels stress, but in a different way. She consumed herself with thinking about the ho-tel and restaurant all last summer. And it has yet to stop. “I’m feeling more stress because I want to get The Grant House up to speed,” she said. “When I purchased it, I saw a lot of things I wanted to do immediately. For one, I wanted to redecorate all the rooms in the hotel.” Johnson calls herself a “repurposer,” meaning she likes to use things that are secondhand, things that had meaning in another’s life at some point. She began collecting and pur-chasing items reflective of the historic eatery and ho-tel and put them in storage throughout the summer. “I shared my vision with my good friends (one, an artist; the other, a pro-fessional floral designer) who helped redecorate the rooms,” she noted. “The first room took three days.” From the main dining area to the Rose Room to

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The Grant House Hotel & Eatery is a prominent piece of Rush City history.

the 11 renovated rooms that make up the hotel in the upper floors, her mis-sion has been adding the right touch that comple-ments the history, beauty and environment that make The Grant House so special to Rush City. In fact, she is planning a “history wall,” com-plete with old pictures and things to show people the historical path The Grant House has taken. “I want people to know where it started, how it got here and everything in between,” she explained. “It’s been traumatic for the old girl.” In her research of The Grant House, Johnson quickly became attracted to the interior’s fine wood-work, done by a gentle-man who spent around six years and likely seven figures on the renovations. “It took a lot of love and vision of grandeur to renovate this girl from the way she started out, and it took him four years to complete the woodwork,” she said. Yet it was never in good enough shape to open for him at the time, she added. She has learned about the unique relationship between The Grant House and the community that’s

housed it since 1880. “Rush City was an inte-gral part of the hotel, and the hotel was important to the town. It has stood the test of time, as other businesses have come and gone. The Grant House has survived. Somewhere in her bones she has the will to live in spite of all,” Johnson said. She’s proud of her staff, as all 14 employees who worked for John-ston are still on duty. The Grant House reminds her of growing up in a small town outside of Lakeville where her mom and dad were proprietors of a gas station. “I didn’t expect this kind of family environ-ment,” she said of the bond she has with the staff. “I’ve forgotten what this is like, what a small town really offers. We have each other’s back, even when life happens.” As for the commu-nity, “There are gracious people here in Rush City,” she said. “It’s a wonderful feeling to be here. There is a lot to the town that’s fun and vibrant. People care here.” She added of people’s feelings toward The Grant House, “People really love this place. There’s a lot of

pride with people here. It gives me motivation to do more. Customers can ex-pect great home cooking at a great price and great customer service. You just don’t find a Grant House anymore.” Johnson firmly believes The Grant House has a life of its own. “She has decided to survive. She found me. I had no intention of buy-ing anything. I was retir-ing and going to work part time and getting reac-quainted with family and all the special occasions,” she explained. Johnson is now cancer free after having been di-agnosed with breast can-cer four years ago. She had 17 surgeries. “The Grant House is a survivor, and I guess I am, too,” she said. “Maybe we can relate.” Johnson is optimistic with the direction The Grant House is taking un-der her leadership. This spring, she’ll plant flower beds and an herb garden outside to match the beauty on the inside. Always a “repurposer,” she even has a few iron bed frames with head and foot boards from the 1800s that can be used in the flower bed. “It was ready for the scrap yard,” she confessed. Down the road, John-son wants to install a stone pathway that will take her guests down to the two ponds in the back of the building. She likes the idea of a gazebo in that area, too, for people to dine, read a book and perhaps attend a wedding ceremony one day. She also wants to have a few old quilts on hand, so people can have a good old-fashioned picnic with kids running around or a romantic outing with wine and wine glasses. “This vision is in my head,” she said. “I know exactly what I want. I want people to enjoy the outside, too.” Johnson added, “I’m anxious to get started. I have people volunteering to help me plant flowers. People are so interested in donating things.”

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A computer printout tallying Carl Johnson’s volunteer hours at Fair-view Ridges Hospital in Burnsville runs four pages. Soon he’ll need a fifth, and surely more to follow. The 40-year-old Eagan resident has logged 532 hours over 202 visits since he started volunteering in October 2008. Johnson puts together education packets for pa-tients on the hospital’s third floor, which houses a medical surgical unit and the intensive care unit. Johnson, who has re-strictive lung disease and scoliosis, has been an ICU patient himself and con-siders his regular Wednes-day volunteer gig a way of giving back to the hospi-tal. “This is where I want to be,” Johnson said. “I like it. I blend in with ev-eryone. I know a lot of people here. They know me. It’s a nice place to vol-unteer, and a nice place to get treatment.” He first came to Fair-view Ridges in December 2006, with pneumonia fol-lowed by respiratory fail-ure. A ventilator allowed

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breathing. I don’t have to use as much oxygen as I used to. There’s not as much weight on my lungs.” Johnson is one of about 550 adult volunteers at Fairview Ridges and a “very dedicated” one, said Debbie Hummel, the hos-

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for incoming patients is indispensable, she said. “I don’t know how it would get done, I hon-estly don’t,” she said. “The nursing staff is here for patients. These are cleri-cal items that people just don’t seem to have the time to do, but they’re im-

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Eagan residents have a new choice when craving sandwiches – one that carries some unusual and varied op-tions. Which Wich Superior Sandwiches opened on Feb. 19 next door to Sports Clips at 2000 Rahncliff Court in Eagan. The restaurant, part of the Texas-based national chain, offers 51 named sandwiches and lets customers create any number of combinations from its 61 toppings. “We offer unique options that are very good but very different,” owner Jeff Eccles said. Its most unusual sandwich is the Elvis Wich, which con-

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Chiropractic, physical therapy help to heal injuries

Massage can provide pain relief

BY ROXI REJALICONTRIBUTING WRITER

Randy Miller doesn’t plan to let his body’s aches and pains slow him down.

The 60-year-old Lakev-ille resident likes to stay in shape by stay-ing active. In fall 2011, a year-and-a-half ago, he injured his left shoulder while playing golf.

“It only hurt really when I took the club back in my back swing and I’d just feel this kind of pulling,” he said. “I’d go out and play and be really sore for a couple of days afterwards.”

He was diagnosed with a slight tear in his shoul-der’s rotator cuff. After an MRI, a surgeon rec-ommended surgery but Miller decided to try chiropractic treatment instead.

Miller’s therapies in-cluded massage, stretch-ing exercises and treat-ment with a percussor, a hand-held tool that vi-brates against the body. With signifi cantly less pain in his shoulder, Miller has returned to the golf course.

“It’s kind of a lifestyle that I like to live, with being able to go play golf or play basketball

or lift weights,” he said. “It’s kind of my routine I do or try and do each week.”

Miller is just one of the many Americans who visit a chiroprac-tor to treat health con-ditions. A 2007 govern-ment study showed that 8.6 percent of American adults use chiropractic or osteopathic thera-pies. Some osteopathic doctors provide manual manipulation or mas-sage as part of their treatment, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Adults most often use complementary and alternative medicine treatments to treat back or neck pain, joint pain or stiffness as well as ar-thritis, according to the study by the Centers for Disease Control.

Miller was treated by Dr. Loren Stockton, chi-ropractor and owner of Health for Living Chiro-practic clinic in Burns-ville.

Stockton uses princi-ples of applied kinesiol-ogy and manual muscle testing to diagnose prob-lems. The chiropractic technique isolates indi-vidual muscles and tests them for resistance and strength. Stockton also

uses conventional di-agnostic tests, such as blood tests.

“Whenever there’s dis-turbance between the local tissues, whether it’s the vertebrae, the muscle, etcetera, there’ll be weakness associated with that,” he said.

Treatments include spi-nal or joint adjustments, myofascial therapy and nutrition counseling.

Applied kinesiology methods can also detect sensitivity or allergy to foods or environmen-tal chemicals, Stockton

said. He tests for aller-gies to wheat or dairy products by placing a small amount of gluten or dairy extract in the patient’s mouth and ob-serving how the body’s muscles react.

Muscle weakness shows a harmful reac-

tion to the substance, he said. “Something in the nervous system is adversely reacting to that substance,” he said. Treatment can include an elimination diet, which eliminates the harmful substance for a

few weeks, and then re-testing the patient.

Treatments are de-signed to help bring the body into balance, he said. “It’s about being able to pursue life vig-orously, enjoy it, being able to sleep at night and be a participant.”

Physical therapy of-fers another way to treat musculoskeletal and pain problems.

Treatment goals at Reynolds Rehab Physi-cal Therapy clinic are relieving pain, improv-ing function and allow-ing patients to resume activities of daily life, said physical therapist Jonathan Reynolds. Much of the therapy in-volves treating damaged soft tissue like muscles, ligaments or tendons.

Many patients have acute injuries like sprains or strains, said Reynolds, who owns clinics in Eagan and Minneapolis. Despite surgery or other treat-ments, others have chronic pain from head-aches, back or shoulder pain that has lasted for weeks, months or years.

Treatments include ischaemic compression, which involves applying pressure to a muscle’s

painful trigger points, helping to relieve pain and loosen muscles.

“Sometimes the treat-ments that we do are uncomfortable or some-times painful, but they actually help to relieve discomfort because of the fact that you’re free-ing up tension in the muscle and in so doing, you’re stimulating the blood supply,” he said.

Reynolds also uses joint mobilization tech-niques that involve gen-tly stretching adhesions or soft tissue bands that can develop around a joint after an injury. For example, he will manip-ulate a sprained ankle in different directions to break adhesions around the joint.

Minimizing pain al-lows patients to do the strengthening and stretching exercises that are so important to re-covery, he said.

“Relieving pain and re-storing mobility helps us to get them back to a functional level much, much quicker,” he said. “It gets them back clos-er to their normal ac-tivities of daily living, whether it’s walking or lifting 50 pounds to get back to work.”

BY ROXI REJALICONTRIBUTING WRITER

Think of massage and you might think of pam-pering, relaxation and stress melting away.

But massage can also be a way to relieve pain and muscle tension, im-prove blood fl ow and restore joint movement, according to the Mayo Clinic.

About 25 percent of adult Americans have had a professional mas-sage, according to a 2012 survey by the American Massage Therapy Asso-ciation. Of the respon-dents who had at least one massage in the last fi ve years, 43 percent re-ported that they received it for health conditions such as pain manage-ment, injury rehabilita-tion, migraine relief or overall wellness.

Massage therapists use a wide range of tech-niques.

Massage therapist Kar-

en Bauer often combines several treatments in a single session, match-ing the techniques to her clients’ needs. “My style is more integrative, so I do use a lot of different things at once. But then it just adds to the whole healing process,” she said.

The techniques are ef-fective with migraines, lower back and rotator cuff pain, tendinitis and sciatica.

Deep tissue massage is the mainstay of her business at Balancing Life’s Journey Massage in Eagan. Bauer uses deep pressure on the connective tissue and painful trigger points, sometimes using her el-bows and forearms.

“Trigger points are the main cause of pain in different areas,” she said. “I can essentially inactivate those trigger points,” she said. “A lot of people’s chronic back

or lower back pain or sci-atica can be just turned off, because the muscles are not tight anymore.”

During a session, Bau-er may also use refl exol-ogy with deep pressure on the feet, where refl ex points are believed to correspond to differ-ent parts of the body. She uses acupressure by pressing on the top of the shoulders or the thumbpad, the fl eshy area between the thumb and index fi nger. If she notices that a client’s breathing is congested, she might add aroma-therapy, using pungent eucalyptus.

v often works away from painful areas, to avoid aggravating in-juries and allowing the body to rest and heal itself. “You get the full benefi ts of a massage by doing the whole body be-cause then it can balance itself out,” she said.

Many people live their lives suffering from low thyroid symptoms. This is espe-cially true for females. Thyroid hormones control all your metabolism, and when thyroid hormones are low they cause all the cells in your body and mind to slow down. These symptoms include fatigue, weight gain, mood swings, sweet crav-ings, depression, sluggish thinking, thin-ning hair or hair loss, and cold hands and feet. For some people digestive problems like constipation and acid indigestion may signal low thyroid.

Even when taking thyroid medication, many people continue to suffer from the symptoms of having low thyroid. Some people are even told their lab tests are normal but still continue to endure the symptoms of low thyroid. However, there can be a solution for symptoms from low thyroid!

Dr. Phil Gilman DC FMA FASBE, a pub-lished thyroid researcher and chiropractor, is holding a seminar to discuss low thyroid symptoms. His research shows that while blood tests are valuable in evaluating thyroid dysfunction, often the basic tests are inadequate in finding the underlying causes of low thyroid. For example Dr. Gilman’s published research showed that

liver function affects low thyroid. This research also showed that low thyroid persons have a observable posture and testable muscle weakness.

There are six patterns of thyroid dys-function and only one of them responds well to thyroid medication. That is why so many have been disappointed in their results.

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Preschool scholarship Grace Preschool will give a $300 scholarship in honor of Neoma Isaak, founder, teacher, and di-rector of Grace Preschool (formerly Grace Nursery School). The scholar-ship will be awarded this spring to an outstanding graduating senior who at-tended GPS and who will be continuing his/her edu-cation at a four-year col-lege next fall. Applications are available at area high schools, or at Grace Pre-school, 7800 County Road 42, Apple Valley. Applica-tion deadline is April 12.

Project Explore dance Teens ages 13 to 18 with disabilities are invited to Project Explore’s Teen St. Patrick’s Day Dance from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 15, at Valley Mid-dle School, 900 Garden View Drive, Apple Valley. Participants who require assistance must bring their parent or guardian. Cost is $5. Registration deadline: March 11. Information: (651) 423-7931.

Robert Trail Library The Robert Trail Li-brary in Rosemount has planned the following programs for youths. Call (651) 480-1200 for more information. • Blackout Poetry, 2:30 to 4 p.m. Friday, March 8. • Making Pin-Back Buttons, 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 28.

College news University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., fall 2012 honor roll, from Rose-mount – Megan Linde-mann, Heather Snay. University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, N.Y., fall 2012 dean’s list, Taylor Grzywacz of Rosemount. University of Dubuque, Iowa, fall 2012 dean’s list, Andrew Ma-licki of Apple Valley. Dartanion Walker of Rosemount is the recipi-ent of a Northern Illinois University Dean’s Award. The award is given to graduating students who demonstrate significant achievement and lead-ership in the areas of scholarship, campus and community activities, and professional service. He was also named to the fall 2012 dean’s list at NIU. University of Iowa, Iowa City, fall 2012 presi-dent’s list, Alexander Odendahl of Rosemount. University of Iowa, Iowa City, fall 2012 dean’s list, from Apple Valley – Kaitlyn Brennan, Eliza-beth Wolf; from Rose-mount – Kelly Birkholz, Erin Marshall, Alexander Odendahl. University of Wiscon-sin Oshkosh, fall 2012 dean’s list, Katherine Berkopec of Apple Val-ley. University of Wiscon-sin-Stout, fall chancel-lor’s award recipients, from Rosemount – Lilli Gray, Katelynn Selig, Teraisa Guarneros, Tyler Henkemeyer, Annie Fos-ter, Kyle Mills, Trenton Thompson.

EducationEducation Briefs

Parent training on mental health crisis The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Minnesota will hold a free parent training class from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, in the Lone Oak Room at the Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan. The topic will be “Men-tal Health Crisis 911.” It will help answer questions parents ask such as “Can I call 911 for my child’s mental health emergency? What will happen when the police arrive? Are they trained to deal with a men-tal health crisis? Will my child be arrested?” Free child care is avail-able in “The Blast,” but reservations are manda-tory. Call (651) 645-2948, ext. 300, to register.

Hope for Recovery workshop The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Min-nesota (NAMI Minne-sota) will hold a free, one-day education workshop that provides families and individuals with informa-tion on mental illnesses, practical coping strate-gies, and hope for recov-ery. The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at the Prior Lake Public Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave. Registration is requested. For information or to reg-ister, call (651) 645-2948.

Friends for life with Beta Sigma Phi Beta Sigma Phi is a non-college-affiliated interna-tional women’s friendship network. Learn more at an informational meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 6, at Al Baker’s Restaurant, 3434 Washington Drive, Eagan. RSVP to Lynda at [email protected] or (952) 431-2455 by March 26.

News BriefsDear Farmington and Rosemount Residents:The communities of Farmington and Rosemount are rich

in history and tradition playing key roles in the growth and

development of Dakota County. It is in that spirit that starting

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in the cities of Farmington, Rosemount and beyond.

Those households currently being delivered Sun Thisweek will

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served by ECM Distribution.

With this decision, Sun Thisweek and the Tribune will now

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services to you.

This is an exciting time for our newspapers and the

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We know these changes will help us better serve you.

Sincerely, Sun Thisweek and the Dakota County Tribune’s news staff:Laura Adelmann, John Gessner, Jessica Harper, Tad Johnson,

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Dakota County judge agrees to reopen drug lab hearing

Independent investigations find more problems by Laura Adelmann

SUN THISWEEK

A Dakota County judge has ordered a new hearing this spring to determine if laboratory equipment at the St. Paul Crime Lab could have contaminated other drug evidence used in multiple drug convictions. Dakota County Judge Kathryn Messerich on Feb. 21 granted defense attorney Lauri Traub’s motion to reopen the Fr-ye-Mack hearing to con-sider evidence of forensic investigative reports that found more problems at the St. Paul Crime Lab than had already been uncovered during testi-mony that started last summer. Dakota, Washington and Ramsey county at-torneys also announced an agreement to vacate drug convictions since July 1, 2010, if drug evidence retesting deter-mines a negative result or the drug evidence used in a conviction is unverifi-

able. All samples that retest negative or lack evidence will result in vacated con-victions. In cases where the evi-dence is destroyed or un-available, the files will be reviewed for corroborat-ing evidence. Dakota County court-room testimony last year revealed chronic and sig-nificant deficiencies in testing, procedures and training that led to the Minnesota Public De-fender’s Office recent request for retesting of prosecutions dating to 2001. Those problems were recently confirmed and heightened by two inde-pendent investigations that showed evidence contamination at the lab, reports that did not ac-curately represent written testing results, confusing and inconsistent evidence cataloging. “In one case, Wikipe-dia was used as a techni-cal reference,” Integrated

Forensic Laboratories’ report stated. That agency also found parts of the testing instruments “very dirty,” contaminated and “deg-radation past acceptable standards.” The report stated lab staff “demonstrated a lack of understanding of the basics of forensic chemistry and instrumen-tation.” “The St. Paul Police Department Crime Lab did not appear to follow good laboratory practices in general,” stated a re-port by Schwarz Forensic Enterprises. The Minnesota Public Defender’s Office is also reviewing past convic-tions for the possibility of seeking post-conviction relief. The hearing will be at 9 a.m. May 3 in Dakota County.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected] or facebook.com/sun-thisweek.

High-speed chase through Farmington ends in arrest A California man ac-cused of fleeing a traffic stop and lead-ing police on a high-speed chase through Farming-ton last week is now facing mul-tiple charges in district court. Jose Luis Ruiz, 34, of San Pedro, Calif., allegedly had a blood-alcohol level of 0.18 – more than twice the legal limit – when he was taken into custody in the early morning hours of Thursday, Feb. 21. The criminal com-plaint gives the following account: At about 2:30 a.m. Feb. 21, a Farming-ton police officer near Eighth and Ash streets observed Ruiz’s vehicle drive through two stop signs while traveling 30-35 mph. The officer pulled Ruiz over, and a driver’s li-cense check revealed that Ruiz’s license had been revoked for a DUI vio-

lation in January of this year. When the officer

asked him to step out of the vehicle, Ruiz sped off at a high rate of speed, first north on Fifth Street and then east on Main Street. As the officer gave chase, Ruiz allegedly drove

through several stop signs, extinguished his headlights and, at the roundabout at 190th Street, drove over the cen-ter curb and lost control of his vehicle. At that point, police said, Ruiz drive through the snow and onto a golf course before regaining control and continuing on Highway 3. After additional of-ficers joined in the pur-suit, Ruiz’s vehicle was eventually halted when “stop sticks” were laid on the roadway. Police estimate that throughout the chase Ruiz was trav-eling at speeds of more

than 100 mph. Ruiz had to be cut out of his seatbelt by ar-resting officers after he “failed to exit the vehicle or remove his seatbelt,” the complaint said. He al-legedly told police he fled the traffic stop because he was drunk, and officers noted that he was slurring his speech, had blood-shot eyes and was sway-ing back and forth during field sobriety tests. Ruiz has been charged with fleeing police in a motor vehicle, a felony punishable by up to three years in prison and a $5,000 fine. He’s also facing two counts of DWI; one count of driv-ing after revocation; and one count of failure to provide proof of insur-ance. He remained in the Dakota County Jail as of Wednesday afternoon with bail set at $50,000. His next court appear-ance is March 12.

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When Ralph Burnet hired Robin Peterson 36 years ago to sell homes out of his company’s Eagan office, Pe-terson didn’t see her career path in real estate. The former junior high school teacher from the East Coast saw the opportunity more as a way to try something new after Burnet sold the family a home in Eagan in 1976. Once she started selling homes, some-thing clicked. “I loved what I was doing,” she said. “I couldn’t get enough of it.” In each role the Apple Valley resident and this year’s Exceptional Businesswomen featured speaker has undertaken, she exhib-ited such talent and passion for her work that ad-vancement came calling for the Edina-based Coldwell Banker Burnet president since 2000. Her open and energetic leader-ship style has led her to become an assistant manager, branch manag-er, training director, regional vice president and executive vice presi-dent before rising to her current role. One of her biggest breaks in the business was when Burnet asked her to help manage the firm’s office in Apple Valley, the city in which she and hus-band Fran have lived since 1979. She told Burnet that she would accept the position, but the company didn’t have a management training program to help guide her into the new role. He then asked Peterson to create one. Using her teaching background and experience as one of the top sales asso-ciates in only a short amount of time, Peterson wrote the course and later be-came a training director focusing on pro-viding mentoring and shadowing opportu-nities for new agents. While rising through the ranks, she said it helped to have someone believe in her, and Coldwell Banker Burnet aims to provide a nurturing environment where associates can feel the same kind of support. “Ralph told me that I could do anything I wanted to do,” she said. That support is important because she says there’s a lot of rejection in her profession. She sees those moments as opportunities to solve why something didn’t work. She’s open to admitting her weaknesses, which she says

if people aren’t willing to share them, “they aren’t in touch with themselves.” In addition to launching a training program, she’s also

built an operation from square one. She opened a new Bloomington office, hiring 50 agents in nine

months. She says her hiring philosophy is to sur-round herself with “go-getters.”

“If you don’t love what you are doing … you need to be passionate about what you are doing,” she said. “I want people to come to me and say ‘I want your job.’ ”

Her role as a teacher continues as president.

Peterson is responsible for daily operations for the firm’s 36

sales offices, including near-ly 3,000 sales associates in Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Cloud, Rochester and in western Wisconsin. As one of three women in the company’s regional top roles, Peterson says she’s open to “crazy ideas” and encour-ages people to “let it rip” during brainstorming sessions. She said a workplace should be “fun” and that “creativ-ity drives activity” in business. She traces her work ethic to her father, who owned a textile busi-ness in New Jersey. Her father died when she was only 16, after which

she became even more involved in the family business. As for her positive attitude, Peter-son attributes that trait to her moth-er who “always looked for the good in people.” While the life of a real estate agent can blur the line between family and work life, Peterson’s No. 1 priority is her family.

When her children, daughter Dana and son Derek, were growing up they often would accompany Pe-

terson to open houses and when work needed to be done in the office. She said that taught them the

value of hard work, which seems to have stuck for the two Eastview High School graduates and standout tennis play-ers. Dana turned her passion for tennis into her profession-al work while Derek is attending pharmacology school in Vermont.

Tad Johnson is at [email protected].

Teaching others to realize their dreams Coldwell Banker Burnet president’s background in education informs her current work

Recognition event is Tuesday, March 5

by Tad JohnsonSUN THISWEEK

Eleven women will be honored with the 2013 Exceptional Businesswomen Award during a recognition ceremony and breakfast

Tuesday, March 5, at Lost Spur Event Cen-ter and Golf Course in Eagan.

This year’s winners in the fourth class of Exceptional Businesswomen are: • Sharon Hoffman Avent, Smead Manufacturing Company president and CEO, Hastings • Ruthe Batulis, Dakota

County Regional Chamber of Com-merce president

• Catherine Byers Breet, ARBEZ Inc. owner, Eagan

• Jeanne Hutter, Lakeville Convention & Visitors Bureau director • Rosealee Lee, Dakota County Technical College hospitality faculty member, Rose-mount • Debi McConnell, Medi-Car Auto Repair owner, Rosemount • Patti McDonald, McDonald Eye Care Associates business administrator, Lakeville • Susan McGaughey, Valley Natural Foods general manager, Burnsville • Kristina Murto, Ensemble Creative & Marketing owner, Lakeville • Linda Peterson, Beau Monde Salon own-er, Burnsville • Stacey Stratton, True Talent Group pres-ident, Apple Valley The award, which has been given by the Dakota County Tribune and Sun Thisweek since 2010, recognizes women who have dis-tinguished themselves in Dakota County business and community efforts. Nominations were reviewed by a panel of judges from the Dakota County Tribune, Sun Thisweek and the Dakota County Technical College Foundation. The event, which has previously been held in Lakeville, Apple Valley and Burnsville, will include a guest speaker and a chance to meet past and present Exceptional Businesswom-en. Profiles of the winners are posted at www.SunThisweek.com. A single ticket for the event costs $25. A table of eight may be purchased for $175. Tickets can be purchased online at www.SunThisweek.com/exceptional-businesswom-en.

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Eagan, Eastview advance to boys finalNeighboring schools battle for hockey section title

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK

Eagan last played in the state boys hockey tournament about 12 months ago. For East-view, the wait has been a little longer – say, 12 years. One of them was go-ing back after Thurs-day night’s Section 3AA championship game at the State Fair Coliseum. No. 1-seeded Eagan and No. 3 seed Eastview won semifinal games Saturday night to advance to the fi-nal. The championship game took place after this edition went to press; for an update, visit www.sunthisweek.com. Eagan was looking for a third consecutive trip to the state tournament after finishing third and sixth the previous two years. The Wildcats (23-3-1) defeated East Ridge 5-2 on Saturday for their 13th consecutive victory and 22nd in their last 24 games. Eastview (17-9-1) advanced with a 4-0 vic-tory over Apple Valley. Eastview was the last team to beat Eagan, win-ning 4-2 on Jan. 12 when Lightning goalie Zachary Driscoll made 64 saves. Eagan outscored op-ponents 83-23 over its next 13 games, including a 7-1 victory over East-view in a South Suburban Conference rematch Feb.

12. The Wildcats were dominant at times against East Ridge – particularly in the first period, when they outshot the Raptors 21-2 and took a 2-0 lead. They also scored early in the second before East Ridge came back with two goals and scrambled back into the game. “We did a very good job in the first period. It was one of our best periods of the year,” Ea-gan coach Mike Taylor said. “In the second, we decided we wanted to stickhandle a little bit, and they got back in the game.”

Eagan’s top line did most of the damage against East Ridge. Cul-len Willox had two goals and two assists, Zach Schultz scored twice and Zach Glienke had a goal and two assists. The Wildcats defeated Park of Cottage Grove 5-0 in the section quar-terfinals Feb. 21 as Josh Loew had two goals and one assist and goalie An-drew Lindgren made 21 saves. Eastview (17-9-1) had consecutive 4-0 shut-outs of Rosemount and Apple Valley in the first two rounds of the section tournament. The Light-

ning went into the section final seeking its second trip to the state tourna-ment and first since 2001. Eastview and Apple Valley split two one-goal games during the regular season, but the Lightning was off and skating after junior forward Cole Coo-per scored on a break-away at 11:37 of the first period. Mitch Beattie and Nick Abbott added goals in the second period and Ryan McNamara scored in the third. Jake Mc-Glocklin had two assists and Driscoll made 21 saves. Driscoll stopped 21

shots as the Lightning shut out Rosemount in the quarterfinal round. McGlocklin, John Snod-grass, Beattie and Abbott scored the goals. McNa-mara had three assists while Abbott and Pierce Erickson had two each. Senior goalie Austin Leslie made 34 saves for Rosemount, which fin-ished 10-16. Seventh-seeded Apple Valley upset No. 2 Cre-tin-Derham Hall on Feb. 21 in the only game of the first two rounds of the Section 3AA tourney that the lower seed won. Collin Trankel, Ja-cob Smith, Mason Pres-

ton and Logan Kohorst scored for the Eagles. Christian Smith had two assists and goalie Mac Wartick made 25 saves. The Eagles finished 6-21 after their semifinal loss to Eastview. The Section 3 cham-pion will play in the state Class AA quarterfinals March 7 at Xcel Energy Center. Seedings and quarterfinal pairings will be announced Saturday by the Minnesota State High School League.

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Photo by Mike Shaughnessy

Eastview’s Ryan McNamara (8) tries to knock Apple Valley’s Kevin Falteisek off the puck during the Section 3AA boys hockey semifinals.

For Apple Valley, a wrestling first

Eagles have state qualifiers at all 14 weights by Mike Shaughnessy

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Apple Valley’s 20 state team champi-onships and 30 consecutive appearances in the state tournament going into this season were unmatched in Minnesota high school wrestling history. But still, last week the Eagles found something to do that they had never accomplished before. For the first time in school history, Apple Valley qualified someone for the state individual tournament at every weight Saturday in the Section 3AAA individual tournament at Burnsville High School. They’ve come close to doing it be-fore. The last two years, the Eagles had state qualifiers at 13 of the 14 weight classes, Apple Valley High School ath-letic director Pete Buesgens said. The state Class AAA individual tournament starts at 5 p.m. Friday at Xcel Energy Center. Finals will be Sat-urday night. Apple Valley’s state qualifiers in-cluded three wrestlers who won individ-ual championships last season – Maolu Woiwor, Seth Gross and Mark Hall. Woiwor (37-5) was section champion at 113 pounds after winning state at 106 last year. Gross (19-1), who missed about half of the season because of an injury, won two matches by fall and one by technical fall on his way to the 132-pound section championship. His state title last year was at 120. Hall (41-1) will compete at 152 as he goes for a third consecutive state indi-vidual championship. The ninth-grader pinned two opponents at the section tourney and won the title match by technical fall. Also qualifying was Eagles senior Danny Woiwor (39-3), a state individ-ual champion two years ago. He was first at 160 in the Section 3AAA tour-nament, winning all of his matches by pin. Eighth-grader Zach Chytka (30-12) won the section title at 106. Junior Gannon Volk (35-7) was the champion at 120 after edging Reid Lyden of East Ridge 6-5 in the semifinals. Ninth-grad-er Brock Morgan (29-13) took first at 126. Sophomore Dayton Racer (26-1), a state runner-up last year, was section champion at 145. Apple Valley senior David Johnson (20-1) edged Rosemount’s Sam Moeller 2-1 in the section championship match at 182. Junior Trom Peterson (29-13) defeated Eastview’s Jack Buck 10-9 in the 195-pound final, and junior Paul Cheney (37-4) had a bye and two pins on his way to the title at 220. Three Eagles wrestlers advanced to state by taking second place. Senior Scott Mattison (22-18) defeated Austin

Swanson of Rosemount in the true-second match at 138. Jackson Graham (27-13), a junior, was second at 170 and junior Josh Hyeamang (28-16) won a true-second match to advance at 285. Maolu Woiwor, Gross, Hall and Danny Woiwor were first in their weight classes in the final Guillotine state rank-ings of the season, released last week. Apple Valley made its 31st con-secutive appearance in the state team competition and went for its 21st con-secutive title on Thursday. The team competition took place after this edi-tion went to press. For an update, visit www.SunThisweek.com.

Rosemount With Apple Valley wrestlers taking half of the available spots at the state tournament from Section 3AAA, it left the other eight schools in the section to scrap for the remaining 14 places. Rose-mount grabbed three of them. Adam Hedin (126), Sam Moeller (182) and Payton Otterdahl (220) all took second place in their weight class-es. Hedin, a freshman who missed part of the season because of injury, is 15-3. Moeller (36-6) lost 2-1 to Apple Valley’s David Johnson in the championship match at 182. Otterdahl (32-10) pinned Burnsville’s John Dahl in the true-sec-ond match at 220. The Irish hoped to get senior Dan Rosa (35-5) through at 120, but Rosa lost to Apple Valley’s Gannon Volk 9-2 in the championship match. Reid Lyden of East Ridge then beat Rosa 12-4 for true second. Jake Baker (113), Kwame Owusu (132) and Austin Swanson (138) also were third in their weight classes.

Eastview The Lightning had several wrestlers with a chance to make it to state, but only Jacob Rukavina advanced. Ru-kavina, who placed second at 160, is a two-time state qualifier. A key match for Rukavina at the section tournament was his 3-2 victory over Burnsville’s Lucas Grossoehme in the semifinals. Although Rukavina lost to Apple Valley’s Danny Woiwor in the final, he did not have to wrestle for true second because Grossoehme, a wrestler he already defeated, took the third-place match. Thirteen Eastview wrestlers placed in the section tournament. Third-place finishers were George Farmah (126), Anthony Munos (152) and Jack Buck (195).

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Irish relay sets records on way to state meet

Rosemount takes second in Section 3AA swimming by Mike Shaughnessy

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Rosemount qualified athletes for state in eight events and set one sec-tion record, but the Sec-tion 3AA boys swimming and diving championship slipped out of the Irish’s grasp. The team title went to Lakeville South, which scored 364.5 points in last Friday’s section finals at Hidden Oaks Middle School in Prior Lake. That was 14 points more than Rosemount, which fin-ished second. The Irish will go to this week’s state meet at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center with the second-fastest seed time in

the 200-yard freestyle re-lay. Andrew Urness, Kyle Bodine, Sam Kendall and Sheldon Hatlen won that event at sections in 1 min-ute, 26.84 seconds, break-ing section and pool re-cords set two years ago by another Rosemount relay. Hatlen also swam on the Rosemount team that held the previous section and pool records. Urness, Bodine, Ken-dall and Hatlen also fin-ished second in the 400 freestyle relay in 3:13.43 and advanced to state. Rosemount junior Daniel Monaghan was a section champion in div-ing with 416.10 points. The runner-up, Eagan se-nior Keith Krawza, was

less than six points behind. Urness qualified in the 200 freestyle by finishing third in 1:45.22 and beat-ing the state cutoff time. He also bettered the state cut in the 100 butterfly, where he finished sixth in 54.03. Hatlen was runner-up to Eagan’s Bill Leighton in the 50 freestyle and fin-ished in 21.80. He also was second in the 100 freestyle in 48.18. Ninth-grader Noah Pe-terson advanced in the 500 freestyle, finishing fifth in 4:52.01 and bettering the state qualifying standard. Rosemount, which fin-ished fourth at state last

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Photo by Mike Shaughnessy

Nick Abbott of Eastview carries the puck during the Lightning’s 4-0 victory over Apple Valley in the Section 3AA boys hockey semifinals.

Photo by Bill Jones

Rosemount seventh-grader Josey Schlie competes at the state Class AA gymnastics meet Saturday at the University of Minnesota Sports Pavilion. She finished 22nd all-around (36.175), eighth on vault (9.55), 22nd on uneven bars (9.00), 30th on balance beam (8.225) and 14th on floor exercise (9.40). Schlie’s teammate, ninth-grader Abby Nelson, won a medal on balance beam by placing third with 9.525. The top two gymnasts in that event scored 9.55.


Notebook: Rosemount Squirts win 128-team tourney by Mike Shaughnessy

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Rosemount’s Squirt A boys hockey team finished first in a 128-team field last weekend at the Squirt International Tournament in Fargo, N.D. The local team won six games over three days, beating Sioux Falls, S.D., Hermantown, Burnsville, Highland Central (St. Paul) and the Minneapolis Storm. The tournament bills itself as the world’s largest Squirt hockey tour-nament. Rosemount (34-0-1) is ranked first in the state in Squirt A. The team also won tournaments in Bloomington and Eden Prairie.

The team closes its sea-son with two games this weekend. There is no state tournament for Squirt players; Minnesota Hock-ey sponsors state boys state tournaments for Pee Wee-age players and older.

Oh so close Rosemount has not had an individual state high school gymnastics cham-pion since 1987, when Lisa McCrady won the all-around, uneven bars and floor exercise titles. The Irish came close to getting another Saturday night when ninth-grader Abby Nelson finished third on balance beam at the Class AA finals at the University of Minnesota.

Nelson scored 9.525 on her routine. The top two finishers, Northfield team-mates Bailey DuPay and Christy Anderson, each had 9.55. DuPay won the tie-breaker and the first-place medal.

Hoops playoffs start The Section 3-4A girls basketball playoffs started Wednesday with quarter-final games. Top-seeded Eastview (24-2) played Henry Sibley (5-21), with the winner to play fourth-seeded Eagan (13-13) or fifth-seeded East Ridge (12-14) in the semifinals Saturday at Hutton Arena on the Hamline University

campus. In other quarterfinal games, No. 2 seed Park of Cottage Grove (21-5) took on seventh-seeded Rose-mount (6-20), and third-seeded Apple Valley (15-11) played sixth-seeded Burnsville (5-20). Winners of those games meet in the other semifinal Saturday at Hutton Arena. Times of the semifinal games had not been an-nounced when this edition went to press. The champi-onship game will be 7 p.m. March 7 at Hutton Arena. Eastview defeated Park in the 2012 section final

Wrapped up At this time last week, the only pertinent ques-

tion about the South Sub-urban Conference boys basketball race was wheth-er Apple Valley would win the championship outright or have to share it. That question was an-swered last Friday when Apple Valley routed Rose-mount 86-61 to clinch the solo title, the Eagles’ first conference championship since 2007. The Eagles defeated Prior Lake 78-67 on Tuesday and will try to complete an undefeated run through the confer-ence when they play host to Lakeville South at 7 p.m. Friday. Apple Valley (24-1 overall, 17-0 SSC) has won 23 in a row since losing to Park Center in its second

game of the season. Junior forward Den-nis Austin led the Eagles with 24 points against Rosemount and added 16 against Prior Lake. Junior guard Tyus Jones and se-nior guard Dustin Fronk had 26 and 20 points in the Prior Lake game. Seedings for the Section 3-4A tournament haven’t been announced, although Apple Valley is a lock for the No. 1 seed. Quarterfi-nal games will be Wednes-day, with the higher seeds playing at home.


year, swims in the Class AA preliminaries at 6 p.m. Friday. Monaghan com-peted in diving preliminar-ies Thursday. Swimming and diving finals are 6 p.m. Saturday.

Apple Valley Eagles senior Andrew France won the 100 free-style at the Section 3AA finals and leads a group of Apple Valley swimmers that qualified for state in seven events. France swam 47.99 in the Section 3AA finals, finishing about two-tenths of a second ahead of Rose-mount’s Sheldon Hatlen. In an unusual circum-stance, sophomore Aaron Olson qualified for state out of the section consola-tion finals. His preliminary time in the 100 butterfly was not fast enough to put him in the top eight, who advance to the champion-ship heat. But he swam 54.25 in the consolation final – almost 3.5 seconds faster than his preliminary time – and bettered the state qualifying standard. Apple Valley will send teams to state in all three relays. Aaron Olson, France, Jackson Scholberg and Derek Olson were fourth in the 200 medley relay in 1:39.91. Seth Ber-

ry, Scholberg, Alex Per-kins and France were fifth in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:29.98. Berry, Scholberg, Aaron Olson and Derek Olson advanced in the 400 freestyle relay by taking sixth in 3:20.81. France advanced in the 200 individual medley by placing fifth in 2:00.24. Berry had a couple of close calls in two sprint freestyle races but man-aged to advance in both. He finished fifth in the 50 freestyle but his time of 22.27 bettered the state cutoff by one hundredth of a second. He swam 48.92 in the 100 freestyle to place fifth but had about one-tenth of a sec-ond of breathing room. Apple Valley scored 179 points at the Section 3AA finals to place sixth.

Eastview The Lightning finished eighth with 139.5 points at the Section 3AA finals and did not have a state qualifier. Eastview came close in diving, where junior Tuck-er Hoffman scored 353.55 points, about 13 short of a place at the state meet.

Burnsville After finishing second in the 100 breaststroke at last year’s state meet, Burnsville senior Ben Al-

bert has his sights on the title. He has the top seed time in that event for this week’s state meet after winning the Section 3AA championship last Friday in 57.69. He’s one of only four swimmers to qualify in less than 1 minute. In the 2012 state meet, Albert was runner-up to Rosemount’s Jacob Stern, who now swims for Gusta-vus Adolphus College. Albert also was section champion in the 200 indi-vidual medley in 1:56.50 and is seeded fourth in that event at state. Charlie Kollasch, a se-nior, also advanced in the 200 IM by finishing third in 1:59.39 in the section fi-nals. He took third in the 100 backstroke in 54.22, beating the state cutoff time by more than 1 sec-ond. Kollasch, Albert, soph-omore Izaak Davison-Kerwood and freshman Adam Jarnagin were fifth in the 200 medley relay in 1:39.99, beating the state cut by about nine-tenths of a second. Burnsville was seventh in the Section 3AA team competition with 164 points.


SWIM, from 13ABlaze hockey gets another crack at Edina

Burnsville takes out Prior Lake in 2AA semifinal by Mike Shaughnessy

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Burnsville returned to the Section 2AA boys hockey final, and the Blaze saw a familiar op-ponent at Mariucci Are-na. For the third con-secutive year, Burnsville played Edina in the sec-tion championship game. The game took place af-ter this edition went to press; for an update, visit www.sunthisweek.com. Burnsville had some unpleasant recent history with Edina. Since being assigned to Section 2AA for the 2007-08 season, Burnsville has reached the section final three other times but lost each game to Edina. The Hor-nets won 6-3 last year and 3-2 the year before. The teams played a non-conference game Jan. 3 with Edina winning 3-2. Burnsville (17-9-1) de-feated Prior Lake 2-1 in a Section 2AA semifinal game Saturday at Brae-

mar Arena. Although the Blaze had finished sec-ond in the South Subur-ban Conference to Prior Lake’s fourth, the Lak-ers were seeded second and Burnsville third in the section. Prior Lake defeated Burnsville twice during the regular season, both by shutout. The Blaze ended the shutout streak against Prior Lake on junior for-ward Tyler Sheehy’s goal at 8:22 of the second pe-riod. Junior forward Dylan Weigel scored at 5:48 of the third period to make it 2-0. The Blaze defense and goalie Chris Mallon kept Prior Lake off the scoreboard until the final minute of the game. The Lakers (17-10) scored with 40 seconds remain-ing after pulling their goalie. Edina, 21-6 and ranked fourth in Class AA, came from behind to beat Bloomington Jeffer-son 5-4 in the other semi-final, scoring the winning

goal with 49 seconds re-maining. Sheehy had two goals and Brock Boeser had three assists as the Blaze defeated Bloomington Kennedy 3-0 in a section quarterfinal game Feb. 21 at Burnsville Ice Center. Mallon made 16 saves to earn a shutout and has stopped 52 of 53 shots during two section play-off games. The Burnsville-Edina winner advances to the state Class AA quarterfi-nals March 7 at Xcel En-ergy Center. Burnsville was try-ing to become the third South Suburban Confer-ence team to qualify for the state tournament. The SSC is already assured of having two teams at state because Lakeville North and Lakeville South will play for the Section 1AA title on Thursday, while Eagan and Eastview meet for the Section 3AA championship.

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student,” said Roz Peter-son, a Lakeville School Board member. Kline said funding to schools through the Indi-viduals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a perennial topic between local educators and the federal government. He urged local officials — and his colleagues in Washington, D.C. — to push for special educa-tion funding first before new programs such as the Obama administration’s Race to the Top or tech-nology purchases. School safety was on Kline’s mind because the Burnsville Republican chairs the House Educa-tion and the Workforce Committee, which was holding a hearing on the topic two days later in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut. “We can harden the schools all we want ... and it’s not going to stop the incidents from occurring,” Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Superintendent Randy Clegg said. Locking down schools and posting armed guards won’t solve deeper prob-lems in a country with

more such massacres than any in the world, he said. “We shouldn’t be looking at making our schools more secure than a prison,” Clegg said dur-ing the roundtable, held at Diamondhead Educa-tion Center in Burnsville. “They are a public institu-tion.” Some calls in the Min-nesota Legislature to arm teachers worry roundtable panelist Jim Meyer of Ed-ucation Minnesota. “Our members don’t want to carry guns,” said Meyer, a political orga-nizing specialist with the teachers union. Responded Kline, “I can’t imagine a piece of federal legislation that would mandate teachers carrying guns.” Lakeville School Dis-trict Superintendent Lisa Snyder said her district has focused on mental health and training staff to handle crises in the mo-ments before police arrive. Special education fund-ing under IDEA has long been considered an unful-filled promise by many ed-ucators. Congress prom-ised when it passed the act in 1975 to fund 40 percent of each state’s excess costs of educating students with

disabilities. Instead, the federal government pro-vides 17 to 20 percent of the funding, critics say. The special ed fund-ing gap costs Minnesota school districts $600 mil-lion a year, Northfield Superintendent Carl Rich-ardson told Kline. Talk of full funding has persisted for years but “doesn’t seem to move off the dime,” said Jane Berenz, Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan superinten-dent. “Then let’s do it first,” Kline told educators. “But that means not everything else is going to get the money you want it to get.” The commitment made in the law when it was passed in 1975 won’t be fulfilled, Wabasha-Kel-logg Superintendent Jim Freihammer said, adding that the nation is “sink-ing” in debt. “It’s a 40-year mandate and we haven’t done any-thing about it in 40 years,” he said. “It’s not going to happen.”

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enrichment activities. The short time frame was a challenge for the Irish Time students as they had to continually start and stop what they were doing over a series of days and weeks. Many of the stu-dents stayed after school to work on the project because they were so excited about it. “I’ve always been creative,” eighth-grad-er Grace Tinsley said. “I had fun with it and really enjoyed putting it together.” The students made animals using cardboard boxes, paper towel and bath-room tissue rolls, Styrofoam, plastic pop bottles and even a light bulb. A tree wraps around a pillar with willow-like

branches. A musical backdrop and strings of icicle lights set a mood that is peaceful. Students have been encouraged to sit in the “garden” and paint, read or just re-lax.

“It is our little retreat,” Schmidt said. “I will be sad when we have to take it down.”

The project is a fully-realized vision of Schmidt’s previous “Starry Night” mu-ral project based on Vincent Van Gogh’s famous work.

“I wanted it to move and be interac-tive,” Schmidt said.

The three-dimen-sion art installation includes paper fish hanging from strings that seem to swim in the “Majestic Kingdom.” A path lined with “bricks” encircles a small “pond” where paper lily pads and origami flow-

ART, from 1A ers float on the water. The students said working on the project changed the way they look at their world. Since they turned so many items that would have previously been thrown in the trash or the recycling bin into works of art, they are looking at ev-eryday objects such as facial tissue boxes, wrappers and bottles in a whole new way. Schmidt said the students were so cap-tivated by the project that they surprised her with something new every day. A new animal would appear on the scene or something would be rearranged to create

a humorous or harmonious effect. The students also tapped into the power of teamwork and artistic creation. “It allows me to express whatever was on my mind or emotions,” eighth-grader Brynn Sundgaard said. “It allows me to get my troubles or worries out and it’s a way to show your feelings.” More photos are online at Sun-Thisweek.com.

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2070

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•Sundays 6:30pm Closed Topic

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Notices &Information

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Evening Cleaner, Bloom-ington, Part time shifts (2)Mon thru Fri 7:00 to 10:00PM in a medical clinic inthe Oxboro area. Rotatingweekend shift required.$10/hr in a very nice andmodern facility. Apply on-line www.envirotechclean.com

Help Wanted/Part Time

9200

Automotive SalesBurnsville Volkswagon

Great opportunity to join the Luther family of deal-erships at our new state of the art facility. Sig-nificant income potential selling new and used ve-hicles at the metro’s #1 VW dealer in customer satisfaction for the last two years. VW is one of the fastest growing auto companies around.Our sales consultants averaged over 200 units each in 2012! Be proud of what you sell with Consumer Reports best picks, 40+ MPG die-sels, and IIHS top safety picks. Aggressive pay plan and great benefits including 401k, medical, and dental.Auto sales experience preferred. Call Tim Wilkins or Tom Walsh at 952-892-9400 or submit an application online at www. lutherauto.com and click on employ-ment.

Help Wanted/Full Time

9100


9200

Now Hiring!Warehouse/

Packaging/AssemblyAll shifts. Entry level toskilled positions avail-able.

Inbound Customer Service Representatives-Location in Chanhassen-Pay $11/hour-Monday Friday 6 am 6pm (8 hours within thattime)-9 Month contract position

Email resume to: [email protected]

or call (952)924-9000 for more info.

Maintenance Electrician, 3rd Shift

Truth Hardware, NorthAmerica's leader in de-signing & manufacturingof quality operating hard-ware for windows, patiodoors, & skylights, is look-ing for:

Maintenance Electrician, 3rd Shift

Perform all electrical in-stallations, maintenanceand repair of companyequipment; perform or as-sist in the installation,maintenance and repair ofmechanical, hydraulic,pneumatic and plumbingsystems. A Class A Min-nesota Master and/orJourneyman License is re-quired plus 2+ years in-dustrial maintenance ex-perience preferred.

Truth Hardware offers acompetitive salary andbenefit package and is anEOE. Qualified candidatesshould apply directly to:

Human Resources, Truth Hardware, 700 W.Bridge Street, Owatonna

MN 55060 or [email protected]

JOB FAIR!!McLane Minnesota, awholly-owned subsidiaryof Berkshire-Hathaway, iscurrently seeking quali-fied candidates to join ourteam! McLane, a whole-sale grocery distributor,has been in business forover 100 years and contin-ues to grow each year! OurMinnesota location has re-cently added to our portfo-lio of outstanding cus-tomers and must fill thefollowing positions imme-diately.

�DRIVERS - Class ACDL required. Mustmeet all DOT require-ments. Recent graduatesencouraged to apply!!�Full Case Grocery Se-lectors M-F 7:30 am start$13.30/hr�Sanitation Lead - Vari-ous shifts and hours, 4 yrdegree and sup exp req,$13.80/hr�Selectors (Candy/GMP)M-F 6:00 am start$11.25/hr�Cooler/Freezer selec-tors- M-F 5:30 am start$.35 extra premium/hr

We are seeking candidateswith a good work historyand a great attendancerecord. Must pass drugtest, physical screeningand background check.Some positions require ad-ditional skills.

If you are interested injoining the McLane Teamplease email or fax yourresume, or stop in to fillout an application or at-tend an upcoming jobfair!!

Saturday March 9,2013 8:00 AM to Noon

McLane Minnesota1111 5th Street West

Northfield, MN 55057Fax (507) 664-3042

[email protected]/M/F/D


9100

Trenchers PlusBurnsville

We are seeking FT Parts Person also FT Qualified Equip-ment Technicians.Send resumes to:terry@trenchers

plus.com

Night-time Operator- forlocal Sweeping Co. Must

have clean driving record.Call: 952-405-2440

Finish CarpentersSchwieters Companies ishiring entry level to expe-rienced finish carpenters.Please call 612-328-3140to schedule an interview.Top Benefits & Pay:tools/medical/dental/401kwww.finishcarpenters.com

Customer ServiceSmall Apple Valley sales

office seeks a depend-able person with excel-lent comm/customer

service skills. Must beorganized, able to workin a fast paced team en-vironment & have prob-lem solving skills. Re-sponsibilities include:Phones, AR, AP, email,data entry, order pro-

cessing, shipping. Willbe cross trained in allareas of office duties.

M-F, 9:00-5:30.Email resume to

[email protected]

or fax to 952/431-6345

CUSTODIANNIGHT FOREMAN

Lakeville Area Public SchoolsApply online at

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FT-Hair Stylist, Rent alarge semi-private station.Operate your own chair.Set your own hours andpricing. Must have SalonMgr. License and clientelebase. Conveniently locat-ed in Burnsville of 35W.Call Stacy: 612-490-6937 [email protected]

Material Specialist,Burnsville, Nor-Tech hasan opening in our Ware-house. Must have prior ex-perience in Order pulling,Receiving and Shipping.Electronic Shipping Expe-rience is a plus. To applyfor position please fax re-sume 952-808-1001 or emailLarry Hanson [email protected]


9100

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BusinessOpps & Info

9020

Employment9000

Apple Valley/Lakevilleborder: 3 BR, many up-dates pets OK. $29,900 fi-nancing avl. 612-581-3833

ManufacturedHomes

8100

2BR, 2BA $850/1200SF,2 A/C units & DW

lge balcony,Garage $40m Brookside Apartments

16829 Toronto Ave. SE,Prior Lake MN

612-824-7554

Apartments& Condos For Sale

7400

Real Estate7000

SEE IT... LOVE IT...LIVE IT!!!

Come in to LakevilleCourt TODAY for

great specials!2 Bedroom Apartments

AvailableRent Starting At $912

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AvailableRent Starting at $986

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Apartments & Townhomes

20390 Dodd BlvdLakeville, MN 55044

952-469-1009*Income Restrictions Do

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AV- 1BR, 1BA, Private,Furnished 4 room apt. inmy home. $595 per month,plus util, NP, NS, Avail 2/1952-953-4317, or email:

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Apartments &Condos For Rent

6400


9100

All real estate advertisingin this newspaper is sub-ject to the Fair HousingAct which makes it illegalto advertise “any prefer-ence limitation or dis-crimination based on race,color, religion, sex handi-cap, familial status, or na-tional origin, or an inten-tion, to make any suchpreference, limitation ordiscrimination.” Familialstatus includes childrenunder the age of 18 livingwith parents or legal cus-todians; pregnant women;and people securing cus-tody of children under 18.

This newspaper will notknowingly accept any ad-vertising for real estatewhich is in violation ofthe law. Our readers arehereby informed that alldwellings advertised inthis newspaper are avail-able on an equal opportu-nity basis. To complain ofdiscrimination call HUDtoll-free telephone numberfor the hearing impairedis 1-800-927-9275.

RentalInformation

5500

Cabin Rental: Sugar Lakein Annandale, MN.

1 hour west on hwy 55.3BR, 2BA, dock, pontoon,$1500-$2000/mo. (6mo-2yrlease) Year round home.Call Mike for details. 612-987-1044

HousesFor Rent

5400

LV Compl. Remod. 3 BR, 2BA, TH. Bkgrd Credit chkreq. pd for by applicant.$1250 W/D 612-490-6292

Lakeville SPOTLESSBEAUTIFUL TH.

3BR, 4BA, finished LL Call 612-865-7124

Townhouse ForRent

5200

Rentals5000

LV: Lic/AAS Degree LL center curric. 2+yrs.Gr8 rate. 952-432-8885

ChildCare

4100

Family Care4000

Boutiques/Craft Shows & Gifts

3050

Pets3970

SeniorRentals

5100

GUN & KNIFE SHOWMarch 2 - 3 (Sat 9-5; Sun 9-3) Bloomington Armory

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SportingGoods & Misc

3810

Chrysler 17ft, fiber-glass open bow-tri hull,Good Cond. *New price

$875 612-825-6283

Boats, New& Used

3720

Leisure3700

MUSICIANS TRADE FAIRSat., March 9 (10am -3pm)EAGAN CIVIC ARENA

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MusicalInstuments

3280

Polaris Snowmobile &ATV's. Working & non-working, any cond. Willpick-up, will pay cash!Call 612-987-1044

Misc.Wanted

3270

Stanley dining rm set,oak, & china cabinet, $600.Stanley bedrm set, Qu for$300. B/O 763-559-9660

QN. PILLOWTOP SETNew In Plastic!! $150

MUST SELL!! 763-360-3829

Furnishings3160

To Place Your Sale AdContact Jeanne at

952-392-6875Deadline: Mondays at 3pm

EstateSales

3130

Bloomington CemeteryPlots priced at $1200 each

Call 1-954-850-5223

CemeteryLots

3090

Merchandise3000

Boutiques/Craft Shows & Gifts

3050

Pets3970

SeniorRentals

5100

Powerwashing2490

Window Cleaning

651-646-4000

WindowCleaning

2660

Al's Seasonal ServicesTree Trimming & Removal

Insured Call 763-498-9249We Accept Credit Cards

A Good Job!! 15 yrs exp.Thomas Tree Service Immaculate Clean-up! Tree Removal/Trimming

Lot Clearing & Stump RemovalFree Estimates 952-440-6104

952-883-0671 Mbr: BBBTree Removal

Silver Fox Services

20+ Yrs Experience Roggenbuck Tree

Care, LLC.Licensed-Bonded-Insured

Call (612)636-1442

$0 For Estimate Timberline Tree & Landscape.

Spring Discount - 25% Off Tree Trimming, Tree

Removal, Stump Grinding 612-644-8035 Remove Large

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SNOW PLOWINGCommercial & ResidentialDependable – Insured - Exp'dLSC Construction Svcs, IncMbr: Better Business Bureau Free Ests. 952-890-2403

Roof Snow/Ice Removal30 Yrs Exp – Insured

Lic#20126880 John Haley #1 Roofer,LLC. Call 952-925-6156

SnowRemoval

2570

Tear-offs & New ConstructionSiding & Gutters

Over 18 yrs exp. Free est.Rodney Oldenburg

612-210-5267952-443-9957

Lic #BC156835 • Insured

Why WaitRoofing LLC

Offering the Best ExtendedManufacturers Warranty

We Take Care of Insurance Claims

Re-Roofing & Roof Repairs – Snow & IceRemoval - 30 Yrs Exp Insured - Lic#20126880

John Haley #1 Roofer,LLC. Call 952-925-6156

A Family Operated Business

Roofing/Tear-offsNew Construction

BBB Free Est.MC/Visa

No SubcontractorsUsed.

Lic/Ins. 952-891-8586

Roofs, Siding,& Gutters

2510

Casey's Sm Engine Re-pair •Snow blowers •LawnMowers •Trimmers •Blow-ers •Blade Sharpening•Tune ups. PU & delivery. Casey 952-292-5636

Small EngineRepair

2495

Painting2420


2510

TreeService

2620

Powerwashing2490

SAVE MONEY - Competentmaster plumber needs work.Lic#M3869 Jason 952-891-2490

A RENEW PLUMBING•Drain Cleaning •Repairs

•Remodeling •Lic# 060881-PMBond/Ins 952-884-9495

Plumbing2470

l Interior / Exterior Paintingl Texturingl Drywalll Deck Stainingl Epoxy Resin Garage Floorsl Fine Finishing & Enameling

Fully Insured Free Estimates

952-500-1088

LLC

15% Off jobs$1600 or over!

•FREE ESTIMATES•INSURED

Full Interior & Exterior www.ktpainting.com 651-452-4802

Jasper Painting• 20 yrs exp. • Int/Ext.• Free ests. • Refs avl.Lisa 651-208-7838

DAVE'S PAINTINGand WALLPAPERING

Int/Ext • Free Est • 23 YrsWill meet or beat any

price! Lic/Ins Visa/MC952-469-6800

CR Services Int/Ext paint-ing, fully insured 20+ yrsexp. Joe 612-212-3573

•Ben's Painting•Will meet or beat prices!Int/Ext, Drywall Repair

Paint/Stain/Ceilings. We

accept Visa/MC/Discvr.

952-432-2605

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Q uality R esidential Painting & Drywall

Ceiling & Wall Textures H20 Damage – Plaster Repair

Wall Paper RemovalINTERIOR �EXTERIOR

4 Seasons PaintingFree Ests.

Int/Ext Comm/Res 952-997-6888 10% Off

3 Interior Rooms/$250Wallpaper Removal. Drywall

Repair. Cabinet Enameling andStaining. 30 yrs exp. Steve 763-545-0506

*A and K PAINTING*Int./Ext Painting/Staining &

texturing. Free Est. 952-474-6258 Ins/BondMajor Credit Cards Accepted

Painting2420

All natural, locally ownedprofessional green house-cleaning service. Qualityproducts, impeccable refs.Lic/ins. Melissa 612-910-0560 or

[email protected]

Housecleaning 2310


2510

TreeService

2620

Powerwashing2490

R & JConstruction

* Decks * Basements*Kitchen/Bath Remod*Roofing & Siding*All Types of Tile

Free Quotes & IdeasCall Ray 952-484-3337

Jack of All TradesHandyman�Specializing in

residential & commercialrepairs & maintenance.

Fully insured. Lic#20639540651-815-4147

Locally owned & operated

Home Tune Up

Fix It • Replace It • Upgrade It

Any Size ProjectOver 40 yrs experience

Ron 612-221-9480Licensed • Insured

Handyperson 2290

A Fresh Look, Inc.Interior/Exterior Painting by the Pros

Bonded & InsuredFree Est. • Senior Discounts

Lic. #BC626700Credit Cards Accepted

612-825-7316/952-934-4128www.afreshlookinc.com

TEST SCORERS NEEDED$13 PER HOUR

Apple Valley, Eagan, and Bloomington

For more information about the positionsand to sign up for a Recruiting Event, visit

www.questarai.com/aboutus/careers.

FT and PT positions available4-year college degree required

Trinity Campus

NAR – PT – PM & NIGHT SHIFTSWe are seeking nursing assistants to serve at our se-nior campus. Duties include assisting residents with their daily grooming, dining needs, ambulating and transferring residents. Candidates must be on the Minnesota Registry.

Trinity offers an outstanding compensation package in addition to a fun & rewarding work place

Apply online:www.sfhs.org/employment

Or at: TRINITY CAMPUS3410 213th Street WestFarmington, MN 55024

EEO/AA

DRIVERS WANTED

Schmitty & Sons Transportation (952) 985-7516

DO YOU LOOK GOOD IN YELLOW?COME JOIN YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS

DRIVING A SCHOOL BUS!

Great Pay - Training and Testing Provided

Visit www.schmittyandsons.comor apply in person at

22750 Pillsbury Avenue Lakeville, MN

Pre-employment drug screen required • EOE

• SCHOOL BUS DRIVERmorning & afternoon routes

• CHARTER BUS DRIVERprivate groups, school field trips

& after school activities

BCSI, a business stationery printing company in Burnsville, is looking for an Account Coordina-tor. We need someone who has graphics/printing education and/or experience with strong commu-nication, organizational and computer skills. Must be detail-oriented, able to work independently and multi-task while meeting deadlines! This is a full-time position, Monday – Friday. Competi-tive pay and benefits package. Call Stephanie at 952-895-6752 or fax to 952-736-8552 or email at [email protected]

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Dual Position Class B CDL Driver &

Concrete ManufacturerCompetitive Wages!

FULL BENEFITSFor more information Call (800) 672-0709

Monday thru Friday 8 am - 4 pm To Apply Submit resume to:

LAKEVILLE

Email: [email protected] orFAX: (651) 842.3493 orMail to: Brown-Wilbert, Inc. 2280 N. Hamline Avenue St. Paul, MN 55113

Required: 1st Class B Boilers License (Minimum)

Kemps, LLC a leader in the manufacture of Dairy Products, has an immediate opening for a Full Time Boiler Operator at our Farmington, MN plant.Responsibilities:

Mechanical and Refrigeration Experience a plusRotating Shift, 6pm-6am Union ShopKemps offers excellent benefitsInsurance, Pension and 401 Please apply at www.kemps.com

EOE

BOILER OPERATOR

• Daily operation of a High Pressure boiler & related equipment.• Daily testing and monitoring of water, sewer, gas, electrical and refrigeration system.• Weekly and monthly checks on various storage, emergency lighting & fire extinguishers.• Annual cleaning & Inspections of boilers including confined space entry of boiler drums and fire box.• Other duties as assigned

OUTSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVESIMMEDIATE NEED!

* BURNSVILLE BRANCH *ALL experience levels encouraged to apply!

Base Pay + CommissionBenefi ts:

• Can earn $65K+ in the fi rst year• Paid vacation & holidays

• Medical, dental, vision and prescription plans• 401(k) with company matching

• Year round/FT• Paid training

Required to pass:Drug screen, background & motor vehicle record checks

APPLY TODAY!Call Christy to schedule an interview at 612-490-5849 or

contact her via email at: [email protected]/EOE M/F/V/D

ATTENTION

SENIORS!

Spruce PlaceSenior

Apartments651-463-2511

2 BRs available

April has been in our rescue for about 3 months. She has a sweet, adorable, in-nocent little face. April is very outgoing, friendly, and affec-tionate. She is only 2 years old and is already spayed and declawed. We have

been amused by getting to know her and have found out that she is a kitten in an adult cat’s body and LOVES to play! April has spunk and personality galore and has a definite opinion about things! She is VERY affectionate and wants to be your constant buddy. Because April does not get along with other cats she has to be “locked up” to keep her separate from the others in her foster home. She desperately wants to be able to stretch her legs and enjoy her freedom again and to be able to warm your bed every night as she has been prevented from doing so for 3 months! If you are looking for just 1 cat then this is definitely a wonderful kitty worth looking at. She will cer-tainly thank you for being let out of prison/solitary confine-ment! April is very good with dogs in her foster home. She doesn’t interact with them but she doesn’t mind having them around. Adoption Fee $160. Contact Kathryn at 952-913-9295 or [email protected]. You can check out April and other cats and dogs on our website www.last-hope.org or see them in person at our adoption day at the Petco in Apple Valley Saturday from 11-3.

Last Hope, Inc.(651) 463-8747

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Our Montessori school is growing and we are seeking to hire a lead classroom teacher and classroom assistants for our 2013-2014 school year. Our school is in Northfield, MN with a lovely two classroom building on a 2 acre campus. Teacher candidates must have Montessori certification and should have minimum of 1-3 years of pre-school experience. Please apply with resume to:Megan Durkin, DirectorMontessori Children’s House2400 Division StreetNorthfield, MN 55057

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Seasonal JobsVALLEYWOOD GOLF COURSE

City of Apple ValleyThe City of Apple Valley is accepting applications for the following summer seasonal jobs.

Food & Beverage Attendant Bartender and/or Beverage Cart Food & Beverage Coordinator Food & Beverage Cook Recreation Program Supervisor Recreation Facility Attendant

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Enhancing the quality of human life through theprovision of exceptional healthcare services

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CITY OF LAKEVILLEPart-time Liquor Store

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Books Scott Dominic Carpenter, author of “This Jealous Earth,” will sign and read from his book at 6 and 8 p.m. Thursday, March 7, at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 14880 Florence Trail, Apple Valley, (952) 997-8928.

Call for Artists Savage Juried Art Show – Dates are April 26 to May 31. Entry fee: $15 for one entry, $25 for two entries. Deadline: April 12. Information/registra-tion: https://www.callforentry.org/fest ivals_unique_info.php?ID=1014. Minnesota River Arts Fair – Dates are July 20-21 at The Landing, Shakopee. Entry fee: $25 jury fee, $150 booth fee. Deadline: April 3. Information/registration: http://www.zap-plication.org/public_fair_pre-view.php?fair_id=2427.

Comedy Tracy Morgan will perform at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, at Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets are $49.50 and are on sale at http://tinyurl.com/TMorganPAC. Informa-tion: www.burnsvillepac.com.

Events Bite of Burnsville, 5:30 to 10 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets: $40 at (952) 435-6000 or biteofburnsville.org.

Exhibits A youth art exhibit is on display through March 10 at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Informa-tion: (952) 985-4640. Ten Brushes’s “Path of Light” exhibit runs through March 9 at Burnsville Perform-ing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Information: (952) 895-4685. Quilted Expressions, Ea-gan High School’s 18th annual quilt exhibit, will be available for viewing from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Friday, March 2-21, in the EHS Library at 4185 Braddock Trail, Eagan. The exhibit will be closed weekends and March 8. Ad-mission is free. The Shrine of the Stations of the Cross, a exhibition of photographs by Dave Kitchel, is on display through April 14 at Rosemount United Method-ist Church Gallery, 14770 Can-ada Ave. Hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to noon Sunday, and during all scheduled evening activities.

Music Apple Valley High School will present “Broadway 2013: Twilight Zone” at 7:30 p.m. March 1-2, and 2 p.m. March 3 at the high school theater. Information: (952) 431-8208. South Metro Chorale’s Cabaret 2013 will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 2, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 3, at Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Tickets can be purchased at (952) 985-4640 or [email protected]. Information: southmetrochorale.org. Velvet Tones, the senior adult community chorus of Apple Valley, will present its annual Spring Festival of Mu-sic at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 3, at Eastview High School, 6200 W. 140th St., Apple Valley. Free.

Theater “Eat, Drink and Be Mur-dered,” an Irish mystery din-ner theater, will be presented by Eagan Theater Company at 6 p.m. March 14 and 15 at the Eagan Community Center. Purchase tickets at www.etc-mn.org or at the Eagan Com-munity Center. Tickets are $40. Information: (651) 675-5500.

Workshops/classes/other “Let’s Paint Watercolors” class, 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesdays, March 5-26, at the Front Porch at Rosemount Steeple Center, 13885 S. Robert Trail. Cost: $40. Register at the Front Porch or contact instructor Cheryl Kluender at (651) 344-8475, [email protected]. Ukulele workshop for ages 13 and older, 4 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at Rosemount United Methodist Church, 14770 Canada Ave. W., Rosemount. Preregistra-

tion is required at [email protected]. “Juggling for Beginners” for third- through fifth-grad-ers in Lakeville, after school Mondays, March 4-18, at Oak Hills Elementary School; Wednesdays, March 6-20, at Lakeview Elementary School, and Thursdays, March 7-28, at Orchard Lake Elementary School. Information: Lakeville Community Education at (952) 232-2150. “The Beat Goes On” for students in kindergarten through third grade, 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays, March 5-19, at Eastview Elementary School in Lakeville. Information: Lakeville Community Educa-tion at (952) 232-2150. Spring Basket class, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 16, Eagan Art House. Cost: $56. Registration required. In-formation: eaganarthouse.org or (651) 675-5521. Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Battle from 4 to 5 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Ap-ple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, (952) 953-2385. Ages 12-18. Teen artist gathering at the Eagan Art House from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursdays, March 7 and April 4, and from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturdays, March 2 and April 6. Cost: $3. Informa-tion: (651) 675-5521. Family Sampler work-shops for adults and children ages 5 and older at the Eagan Art House from 1 to 3 p.m. and 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9. Cost: $15 per fam-ily, up to four people; $3 for each additional person. Sup-plies provided. Registration required. Information: (651) 675-5521. Adult painting open stu-dio from 9 a.m. to noon Fri-days at the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Fee is $5 per session. Information: (651) 675-5521. Music Together in the Val-ley offers classes for parents and their infant, toddler and preschool children in Rose-mount, Farmington, Lakeville and Apple Valley. Information: www.musictogetherclasses.com or (651) 439-4219. The Eagan Art House of-fers classes for ages 4 through adult. For a complete listing go to www.eaganarthouse.org or call (651) 675-5521. Dan Petrov Art Studio in Burnsville offers oil painting classes for beginners, interme-diate and advanced skill level painters, www.danpetrovart.com, (763) 843-2734. Teens Express Yourself with Paint, 5 to 7 p.m. Mon-days at Brushworks School of Art in Burnsville, www.Brush-worksSchoolofArt.com, (651) 214-4732. Drama/theater classes for ages 4 and up at River Ridge Arts Building, Burns-ville, (952) 736-3644. Show Biz Kids Theater Class for children with special needs (ASD/DCD programs), In the Company of Kids 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, (952) 736-3644. Broadway Kids Dance and Theater Program for all ages and abilities, In the Com-pany of Kids, 13710 Nicol-let Ave., Burnsville (Colonial Shopping Center), (952) 736-3644. Join other 55-plus adults at the Eagan Art House to create beaded jewelry. The Jewelry Club meets on the third Friday of each month from 1 to 3 p.m. Information: (651) 675-5500. Soy candle making classes held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Jamie at (651) 315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota. Country line dance class-es held for intermediates Mon-days 1:30 to 4 p.m. at Ram-bling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington, $5/class. Call Marilyn (651) 463-7833. Country line dance class-es on Wednesdays at the Lakeville Senior Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; Intermediate, 10 a.m.-noon. $5/class. Call Marilyn (651) 463-7833. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, (952) 985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets the second Tues-day of each month from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Robert Trail Li-brary. Information: John Loch, (952) 255-8545 or [email protected].

‘Charlotte’s Web – The Musical’ The Play’s the Thing Productions will perform “Charlotte’s Web – The Musical” Fridays and Saturdays, March 15-24, at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. at Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets are $13 and are available online at www.LakevilleAreaArtsCen-ter.com or by calling (952) 985-4640. For more information, go to www.chi ldrenstheatretptt .com.

Exultate to perform Mozart Eagan-based Exultate

Festival Choir and Or-chestra will perform Mo-zart’s “Grand Mass in C Minor” in a series of con-certs in March. Concerts will be 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 8, at Annuncia-tion Catholic Church, Minneapolis; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at Woodbury Lutheran Church, Woodbury; and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 10, at Benson Great Hall, Bethel University, Arden Hills. Tickets are $20 for general admission. In-formation is available at exultate.org.

Bite of Burnsville is March 14 The annual Bite of Burnsville will be 5:30 to 10 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at the Burnsville Per-

forming Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. The event includes cuisine sampling from more than 20 area res-taurants, a silent auc-tion, a live auction, and live entertainment by GB Leighton. Event tickets can be purchased at biteof-burnsville.com or by calling (952) 435-6000.

‘Disney’s Aladdin Jr.’ Kenwood Trail Mid-dle School will present “Disney’s Aladdin Jr.” at 7 p.m. Friday, March 8, and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9. The school is at 19455 Kenwood Trail in Lakev-ille. Tickets are available at the door and are $7 for adults, $5 for students

and senior citizens, and free for children ages 5 and under.

Dakota City youth camps Dakota City Heritage Village in Farmington will offer four-day ses-sions of day camp this summer. Day camp will run Mondays through Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Camps include: • Teen Volunteer Camp, June 17-20, for youths age 13 and older who would like to volun-teer in Dakota City. • Apprentice Day Camp, June 24-27, July 15-18 or July 22-25, for ages 6 to 12. Cost is $125. Informa-tion can be found at da-kotacity.org/education.html.

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Friday, March 1 World Day of Prayer ser-vice, noon, Church of St. Mi-chael, 22120 Denmark Ave., Farmington. Light lunch will follow. Information: Sandy at (651) 463-5228. Fish fry by the Dakota County Elks Lodge 2832, 5 to 7:30 p.m., Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville. Meals include wall-eye, baked potato, coleslaw, rolls, and a beverage. Cost: $13 for ages 12 and above, $5 for ages 11 and under. Fish fry by the Rosemount VFW Post, 5 to 8 p.m. Meals include potato, vegetables, and choice of soup or salad plus dinner roll. Information: (651) 423-9938.

Saturday, March 2 Spiritual Wellness Fair, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley. Free. Child care available 9 a.m. to noon. Information: (952) 432-6351. Citizens Climate Lobby meeting, 11:45 a.m., Burn-haven Library, 1101 County Road 42 W., Burnsville. Aman-da Staudt of National Wildlife Federation’s Climate and En-ergy Program, will speak via conference call on “How Cli-mate Change Affects Wildlife in America.” Information: Paul Thompson, (952) 920-1547.

Sunday, March 3 Pancake breakfast by the Farmington Knights of Colum-bus, 9 a.m. to noon, Church of St. Michael, 22120 Denmark Ave., Farmington. Menu: Pan-cakes, French toast, sausage,

scrambled eggs, coffee, juice and water. Good-will offerings accepted for local community needs.

Tuesday, March 5 Easter Job Transitions Group, 7:30 a.m., Easter Lu-theran Church, 4200 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. Speaker Anne Johnson will share “Healing Before Hiring.” Infor-mation: (651) 452-3680.

Thursday, March 7 Free Alzheimer’s work-shop, “Techniques to Handle Challenging Behaviors,” 6 to 7:30 p.m., Home Instead Senior Care, 1600 E. Cliff Road, Burnsville. RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4172185118# or (952) 882-9300.

Friday, March 8 Fish fry by the Dakota County Elks Lodge 2832, 5

to 7:30 p.m., Mary, Mother of the Church, 3333 Cliff Road, Burnsville. Meals include wall-eye, baked potato, coleslaw, rolls, and a beverage. Cost: $13 for ages 12 and above, $5 for ages 11 and under. Fish fry by the Rosemount VFW Post, 5 to 8 p.m. Meals include potato, vegetables, and choice of soup or salad plus dinner roll. Information: (651) 423-9938. Fish fry by the Rosemount Knights of Columbus, 6 p.m., Church of St. Joseph Social Hall, 13900 Biscayne Ave. W., Rosemount. Free-will offering accepted.

Saturday, March 9 Wild Turkey Hunting Clinic by the Dakota Strutters of the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Minnesota DNR, 9 a.m. to noon, Heritage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Cost: $10. Register

at www.lakeville-rapconnect.com.

Sunday, March 10 Free practice ACT test, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sylvan Learning, 170 Cobblestone Lane, Burnsville. Bring a cal-culator. Reservations: (952) 435-6603. To receive test re-sults, parents must be present at a follow-up appointment.

Thursday, March 14 WomEn’s Conference by the Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Lost Spur Golf and Event Center, Eagan. Cost: $149. Registration re-quired. Information: dcrcham-ber.com, (651) 288-9202.

Blood drives The American Red Cross will hold the following blood drives. Call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767)

or visit redcrossblood.org to make an appointment or for more information. • March 4, 1:30 to 6:30 p.m., Lutheran Church of the Ascension, 1801 E. Cliff Road, Burnsville. • March 5, 12:30 to 6:30 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church, 16725 Highview Ave., Lakeville. • March 7, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wings Financial Credit Union, 14985 Glazier Ave., Apple Valley. • March 8, 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., Easter Lutheran Church – By the Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. • March 8, noon to 5 p.m., Culver’s, 17800 Kenwood Trail, Lakeville. • March 9, 10:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., Burnhaven Library, 1101 W. County Road 42, Burnsville.

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The 60-member Minnesota Valley Men’s Chorale recently created the MVMC Scholarship Fund; proceeds from its March 9 concert in Apple Valley will go toward a scholarship that will be awarded later this year to one area high school choir participant.

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Comedian Michael Kosta, a repeat guest on “The Tonight Show” and star of the 2011 Comedy Central special “Comedy Central Presents: Michael Kosta,” is bringing his sarcastic stand-up act to Mystic Lake Casino’s comedy club this weekend. Kosta will be taking the stage for 7 and 9:30 p.m. shows on both Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2; comic Mike Stanley will also perform. The shows are for mature audiences. Tickets are $19 and are available at www.mysticlake.com.

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