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Charter school eyes locationA charter school for grades kindergarten through eight is eying a location somewhere among area cities.

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Zenner zips to state titlesEagan High School boys track star Sam Zenner helps his team win three events at state meet.

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A Burnsville High School graduate adjusted her tassel for a photo before crossing the stage to receive her diploma. About 650 members of the Class of 2015 received diplomas during the June 5 commencement ceremony at Pates Stadium. More graduation photos are on Page 10A and at SunThisweek.com. (Photo by John Gessner)

Graduation day

About 585 members of the Eagan High School Class of 2015 received diplomas on Saturday, June 6. The event was moved indoors to the high school gymnasium after inclement weather was expected to approach the area. (Photo by Jessica Harper)

Burnsville city levymay rise by 3.7 percent next yearBuilding programcould add to tax

hike by John Gessner

SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

The city of Burnsville needs $1.1 million more in taxes next year — a 3.7 percent increase — to maintain current services and cover planned spend-ing increases, City Council members were told June 9. That would raise city taxes on a median-valued home by $59, a 6.8 percent increase, according to the city. The median Burns-ville home value is project-

ed to rise by 2.7 percent, from $208,900 in 2015 to $214,700 in 2016. City taxes on $1 million in commercial property would fall by 0.7 percent. Residential property val-ues have continued to re-bound since the recession while commercial-indus-trial values have stagnated. A further tax increase to begin work on aging city buildings — including the outdated, undersized police station — could also emerge. The city should get started next year on $24.9 million in projects spread out over

District 196 eyesreserves, not cuts

by Jessica HarperSUN THISWEEK

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The Rosemount-Ap-ple Valley-Eagan School Board is considering a proposal to borrow from the district’s reserves again next school year to bal-ance the budget and avoid making cuts. The district’s general fund budget is expected to face a $4.07 million loss in 2015-16. Officials pre-dict general fund revenues will total $327.3 million in 2015-16 and expenditures will be $331.3 million. District officials pro-posed at a June 8 meet-

ing to absolve the deficit by reaching into district’s general fund balance. All Minnesota school districts maintain a general fund balance to assist with cash flow. After covering the loss, the general fund balance would total $26.4 million, which is 7.98 percent of general fund expenditures. Board policy requires a fund balance that is at least 5 percent of the gen-eral fund expenditures. If the plan is approved, 2015-16 will be the third consecutive school year

Eagan showcased in travel show premiere by Jessica Harper


While many travel shows on television fea-ture exotic destinations, one new show will highlight all the interesting and exciting plac-es right here in Minnesota. And it’s kicking off the series with a spotlight on Eagan. “The Minnesota Traveler” is a new travel and tourism show on FOX Sports North and Fox Sports Wisconsin that features popular and lesser known destinations as well as local eateries in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. In its premiere episode at 8:30 a.m. June 28, host Jennifer Mergen will visit popular

Eagan destinations such as Twin Cities Out-lets and Cascade Bay waterpark, and stop at local restaurants. “We try to convey what makes these loca-tions special,” the show’s co-executive pro-ducer John McCally said. “There’s lots of attractions, parks and things to do in Eagan, particularly from a sports perspective.” Brent Cory, president and CEO of the Ea-gan Convention and Visitors Bureau, said he is flattered Eagan was chosen for the show’s first episode. “When we learned of this opportunity, we thought, ‘Wow, what a unique opportunity to showcase Eagan,’” Cory said.

Each episode will air three times a week and will be broadcast throughout Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and the northern half of Iowa. The first episode will re-air on July 1 and 3. McCally said he believes the show will pro-vide a fresh look at travel and tourism. “We plan to take viewers on a journey. It will be things that may be familiar and other things that are new to them,” he said.

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

End of school bittersweetfor Teacher of the YearBohr moving on

from HiddenValley

by John GessnerSUN THISWEEK


Desks were stacked against a wall June 5 in Jennifer Bohr’s sixth-grade classroom at Hid-den Valley Elementary. A colleague stopped for a word and a hug. A stu-dent came to deliver the giant goodbye card, filled with individual salutations on sticky notes, that class-mates had intended to give their teacher a day earlier on the last day of school. Chosen last month as School District 191’s 2015 Teacher of the Year, Bohr may have spent her last day in front of a class on June 4. The 23-year dis-trict veteran will start a new career phase next year as a teaching coach in Burnsville-Eagan-Savage.

“I think I’m in a little bit of denial,” said Bohr, who finds the last day of school bittersweet enough already, especially for sixth-graders moving on to a new school. “There were lots of

tears yesterday,” Bohr said. “I teared up a couple times. It was just an emo-tional day. I was in bed at 8 o’clock last night, asleep by 9.”

Teacher of the Year Jennifer Bohr, pictured on the day after the last day of school, will work as a teaching coach next year instead of returning to her classroom at Hidden Valley Elementary. (Photo by John Gessner)

Man pleads guilty to murder in 4-year-old’s death

Boy’s mother pleads guilty to manslaughter by John Gessner


A 26-year-old man pleaded guilty to murder June 3 in the 2013 child-abuse death of a 4-year-old Burnsville boy. William Alphonso Warr, 26, pleaded guilty in the June 11 death of Key’ontay Miller Peter-son, who lived with his mother at 31 Horizon Heights Road in northeast Burnsville. Both Warr and the boy’s mother, Sha’reese Mo-nique Miller, were charged in the case of a boy whom authorities say lived in a violent household plagued by intimidation. He went untreated for serious inter-

nal injuries inflicted by Warr and died after Miller re-p o r t e d l y tried to cool his fe-vered body in the bath-

tub, authorities said. Charged with second-degree manslaughter, Miller pleaded guilty in March and will be sen-tenced on June 19, accord-ing to court records. As part of a plea agree-ment, Warr will serve 30 years in prison, Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said in a news release. The sentence is an upward departure from state sentencing guidelines because of the victim’s vulnerability, Backstrom

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Missed opportunityThe ECM Editorial Board says pet projects should not stall state budget negotiations.

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Music amid the animalsThe annual Music in the Zoo concert series kicks into high gear this month with concerts by Buddy Guy, the BoDeans and others.

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A city of Eagan public hearing notice for June 23 regarding rezoning of approximately 33 acres at 510 Lone Oak Road from Agricultural to Limited Industrial is inside this edition.

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Salon owner guilty of running marijuana growing operation by Jessica Harper


An Eagan business owner has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a large marijuana growing operation in two Eagan homes. Quang Khai Thai, 44, pleaded guilty on May 27 to a felony third-de-gree controlled substance crime. Thai, who owns Rosy Nails salon in Ea-gan, was charged in Sep-tember 2013. Thai’s two alleged ac-complices, 47-year-old Hoang Vu Le and 41-year-old Huy Vu Lee, were charged respectively with a third-degree attempted controlled substance crime and a fifth-degree con-trolled substance crime, both felonies. Jury trials against the two Eagan

men are expected to begin in the next two months. In July 2013, Thai, an Edina resident, attempted to have 30 seedling mari-juana plants delivered to his nail salon, located at 525 Diffley Road. The plants were discov-ered by the Airport Po-

lice Narcotic Unit, which searched the packages after finding them suspi-cious. The unit notified the Dakota County Drug Task Force, which con-ducted a controlled deliv-ery of the packages to the nail salon. Thai accepted the pack-age at the front counter and called a man to pick up the package at the sa-lon. After retrieving the package about five min-utes later, the man im-mediately left the parking lot and drove to an Eagan house owned by Vu Lee. Agents discovered Thai previously listed the resi-dence as his home address following a 2011 burglary at the nail salon. After being inside the home for about 10 minutes the man drove to a hardware store and purchased fluores-

cent grow lights, which he brought back to the home. During a warranted search of Vu Lee’s home, task force agents found 388 marijuana plants grow-ing in three rooms of the house. PVC pipes snaked around each of three bed-rooms that brought water to the plants for hydro-ponic growing. The entire house had undergone significant re-modeling, including the addition of elaborate vent-ing and watering systems, to assist in the growing op-eration. In addition to seiz-ing the marijuana plants, agents confiscated a large amount of equipment from the home, including hydroponic growing chem-icals, watering systems and notes on how to grow mar-ijuana.

Vu Le and Huy Vu Lee were inside the home dur-ing the search. Thai ar-rived a short time later and was detained in the drive-way. During a warranted search of Thai’s Eagan home on the same day, agents found 583 marijua-na plants growing in four rooms of the Eagan house. The house contained elab-orate venting and watering systems that appeared to be for growing marijuana. The electrical wiring in the house had undergone sig-nificant modifications to assist with power needed for cultivation, according to court records. In total, authorities seized more than 1,000 marijuana plants from the two homes. Upon being notified by police, someone from Da-

kota Electric inspected the wiring and determined the power for the house was illegally tapped into the main power line. A large amount of mold was dis-covered throughout the house and was likely due to the high heat and hu-midity caused by the grow-ing operation, officials said. Agents seized a large amount of growing equip-ment along with the plants. A sentencing hearing is schedules for Thai on Aug. 6 in a Dakota County court.


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Area cities eyed for charter school’s second location by Laura Adelmann


A new public K-eight charter school is planned to open in Dakota County in fall 2016. Representatives of Ath-los Leadership Academy have looked at several 10- to 12-acre sites in Eagan, Lakeville, Apple Valley and Burnsville, but have not signed a purchase agreement, said Athlos spokesman Claud Allaire of Inver Grove Heights. Allaire said the charter school is expected to serve 648 students the first year, but will be built with a ca-pacity to serve about 1,000 students. The Dakota County lo-cation will be Minnesota’s second Athlos Leadership Academy. The first is in Brooklyn Park and start-ed last fall. The Dakota County school will have a similar building design, operation, curriculum and philosophy. Athlos emphasizes three pillars in its ap-proach to learning: aca-demics, athletics and char-acter. The school describes its academic curriculum as “challenging,” with focus on fundamental skills stu-dents can use in daily life and “a teaching approach

that promotes curiosity, strategic learning routines and confidence that stu-dents can master the sub-jects they consider to be the hardest.” Physical education is emphasized as one-third of the curriculum. Ath-los cites numerous studies that have shown children who are physically active perform better in school, have improved mental health and fewer behavior-al issues in the classroom. The curriculum offers age-appropriate fitness goals to help children learn healthy lifestyles. “Our goal is to have phy-ed daily,” Allaire said. The activities are de-signed to apply to chil-dren at every athletic level, and “become an essential teaching vehicle to put the Athlos Character Curricu-lum into context,” accord-ing to the Athlos website. Athletics are used as a “tool” to teach character-istics that Athlos says will help children deal with life’s challenges, including grit, courage, focus and the virtues of competition. Through team sports, students are taught lead-ership, integrity, humility, and optimism, according to the Athlos website. “Since young children learn in a physical way,

athletics helps bridge play and lessons about these high-level concepts,“ the website states. Allaire said they have formed a School Board with eight local members. Allaire serves as board secretary. Ken Thielman of Woodbury serves as board chair. Other members are Edward Cassidy of Inver Grove Heights, Nancy Schneider and Paul An-derson of St. Paul, Charlie Reed of Woodbury, Jane Ehrhard of Northfield and Mark Cotton of Cot-tage Grove. Brooklyn Park Ath-los Leadership Academy School Board Chair Ann DeGroot said the national Athlos Academies group is interested in expand-ing in Minnesota because of the state’s long history with charter schools. According to the Min-nesota Department of Education, the first char-ter school in the nation, City Academy in St. Paul, opened in 1992. Charter schools remain public and tuition-free but are exempt from many regulations that public schools are under. To start one, a group of teachers typically apply to open under a charter or contract with the state or

local school board. The charter identifies student achievement goals that must be met to be al-lowed to renew the char-ter. Athlos Leadership Academy has state ap-proval to open in Dakota County in 2016, and is sponsored by Volunteers of America — Minnesota. Allaire said although Athlos’ Dakota County location will initially open as K-8, they have discussed expanding to include high school in the future. The added grades could be incorporated into ex-isting school buildings or other Athlos schools could serve as feeders for a satellite high school lo-cation that continues the Athlos curriculum, Allaire said.

In the works Athlos’ Development Director Aaron Carroll said they have explored building a new facility Lakeville on property in the Mattamy Homes’ Avonlea 472-acre housing development located off of Cedar Avenue. “We haven’t determined if we’re going to end up in Lakeville or not,” Carroll said. “We’re still looking for an actual site loca-tion.”

An engineer working for Mattamy Homes con-firmed they had “prelimi-nary discussions” with the developer about a poten-tial land sale but are mov-ing the development for-ward with housing plans only. Allaire said charter school organizers have looked for land in Apple Valley and Burnsville, but now are close to signing a purchase agreement to lo-cate in Eagan on Highway 3 off South Robert Trail. The school will hire teachers and be overseen by a principal who may also serve as a superinten-dent. Some charter schools hire an executive director to serve as the superinten-dent. There are more than 100 staff members serving about 1,000 students at the Brooklyn Park school in positions that include facilities director, special education teacher, Somali liaison teaching assistant, academic intervention specialist, social worker and technology teacher. Allaire said students will be able to apply for the school through an open enrollment process. If there are more stu-dents than the school has space, they will conduct a

lottery. Charter schools offer families a publicly funded educational choice in Min-nesota, according to the state Department of Edu-cation. They operate as their own independent school district, are non-union and cannot issue levy ref-erendums. Allaire said charter schools receive both per-pupil funding and lease aid from the state, since they do not have bonding authority to pay for facili-ties. There are currently 149 charter schools in operation in Minnesota serving more than 37,000 students, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. Questions about char-ter schools’ administration and performance surfaced through several analyses in 2008, and helped to spur legislative action that in-creased state oversight of charter school operations, according to the Minne-sota Legislative Reference Library.

Laura Adelmann is at [email protected].

Widening Dodd Boulevard in Lakeville to start next year Open house set

for June 16 by Laura Adelmann


After years of delays, Dodd Boulevard con-struction improvements near Lakeville North High School will begin in 2016. To address concerns over safety and increased traffic volumes, Dakota County and Lakeville plan to widen Dodd Boulevard to a four-lane divided highway between 185th and 194th streets. A public open house seeking public input and detailing the proposed project design is set for

4:30-7 p.m. June 16 at the Lakeville water treatment facility at 18400 Ipava Ave. Dakota County and Lakeville staff will have information available, but no formal presentation is planned. Officials will also pro-vide information on the right of way acquisition process and project sched-ule; a final design will be completed later this year. Road projects in Lakev-ille are generally conduct-ed as development occurs to help fund the work. Improvements to that section of Dodd Boule-vard had been discussed but delayed since 2006 as development in the area

stalled. Public safety concerns about the narrow, wind-ing road heated up after a December 2013 crash that killed LNHS junior Alyssa Ettl. Ettl had lost control of her car on the slush-cov-ered road and slid into on-coming traffic on her way to school. Friends and family questioned the road’s de-sign and cited concern about the speed limit in the area. From 185th Street to the high school entrance at 195th Street, Dodd Boulevard narrows to an undivided two-way rural design; the stretch has a

steep grade, curves, deep ditches lined with tele-phone poles and no shoul-ders. Speed limits on the road range from 45-55 mph and a 2014 study by the Minnesota Depart-ment of Transportation did not recommend any changes after performing a speed study. Officials examined driver behavior and crash data on Dodd Boulevard from 185th Street to 194th Street and found the set speed limits reflect actual travel speeds and are ap-propriate there under ideal driving conditions. According to MnDOT, speed limits are set based

on ideal conditions, and it is legally the driver’s re-sponsibility to travel at a speed reflective of weather and road conditions. County and city offi-cials have been working over the years to make im-provements to other por-tions of Dodd Boulevard. The city and county re-cently reconstructed Dodd Boulevard as a four-lane divided highway from 183rd Street to Hayes Av-enue near Lifetime Fitness and added a roundabout at nearby Dodd Boulevard and Highview Avenue to ease significant conges-tion. County and city of-ficials agreed in 2014 to

move the plans to widen the section of Dodd Bou-levard near LNHS ahead two years to the 2016 schedule, the earliest time-line technically possible. Moving the project for-ward also allows the road to serve as a north-south traffic detour in 2017 when County Road 50 is planned to be widened to four lanes. For more information about the project, go to dakotacounty.us, click on “transportation” and then click on “planned road construction.”


ECM Publishers to print the St. Cloud Times newspaper ECM Publishers Inc. has announced that it will begin printing the St. Cloud Times newspaper at its print facility in Princ-eton, starting this August. The announcement was made last week after Gan-nett Co., the parent com-pany of the Times, also announced it would soon begin printing the region-al version of its national newspaper, USA Today, at print facilities owned by the Star Tribune. “Everyone is excited

about the opportunity to work with the St. Cloud Times,” said Doug Wilson, ECM’s director of plant operations. “It’s a great publication and a great company that fits really well with the publications we are already printing.” The Times is published seven days a week, with its Sunday paper having the largest single day circula-tion at more than 24,000. ECM, which owns 49 print publications in cen-tral Minnesota and west-

ern Wisconsin including Sun Thisweek and the Da-kota County Tribune, also prints a number of publi-cations it does not own, including the New York Times. “We’re thrilled to be selected as the printer of choice for the St. Cloud Times,” said Marge Win-kelman, president and chief operating officer at ECM. “As publishers, we’ve always admired and respected the high quality of journalism that they

produce on a daily basis and we look forward to being their printing part-ner well into the future.” The announcement for the Times to print else-where comes on the heels of Gannett’s decision to close its offset printing plant in Maple Grove, where both the Times and USA Today are currently being printed. Gannett Offset has been in the pro-cess of reducing its work-force for several months. “Times Media is ex-

cited to partner with ECM for our print production for the St. Cloud Times starting in August,” said Melinda Vonderahe, presi-dent and publisher of Times Media. “ECM has a reputation for quality printing and a strong work ethic that matches the core values of the St. Cloud Times. We look forward to working with Marge and her team to provide the same great quality product that our readers are accus-tomed to receiving.”

ECM Publishers has one of the largest media footprints in Minnesota with its 49 print publi-cations and circulation that exceeds 650,000 each week, 23 online sites that generate an average of 500,000 unique visitors per month and a variety of commercial printing options at its print facility in Princeton.

Alumni, #Burnsvillestrong to host motorcycle run The Burnsville High School Black & Gold Alumni Foundation and #Burnsvillestrong will have a fundraiser June 28 for #Burnsvillestrong, an organization that has formed in memory of Burnsville High School students and alumni who

have died. The Motorcycle Run & Burger Bash will be 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Neisen’s, 4851 W. 123rd St., Savage. The Motorcycle Run will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with registration opening at 10 a.m. Cost to ride in the run will be

$15 per rider and $10 per passenger. Non-riders may ride in a bus. Tickets for the 2-6 p.m. Burger Bash are $10 each and includes a burger bas-ket. For more information, contact Jen Waller McDe-vitt at [email protected].


Smooth sailing? Not so much To the editor: It should have been a productive legislative ses-sion with a DFL Senate and governor. It was any-thing but. According to newspa-per reports, somewhere around 3 a.m. on the last day of the 2015 Legislative session, DFL Sen. Tom Bakk had, in effect, agreed to demands by the speaker of the Minnesota House to scuttle the office of the state auditor. A fortuitous confluence of politics (mostly) and bad policy for two leaders behind closed doors. Republicans wanted eviscerate as many environmental regulations as possible and privatize state auditing functions during the session. Add the Senate majority leader

from the Iron Range, will-ing to sacrifice almost any-thing (including unpollut-ed water in the Boundary Waters) for 350 jobs and reduce pollution control standards which copper and nickel mining might not be able to abide. On the sidelines, State Audi-tor Rebecca Otto who has garnered awards for excellence and national leadership for her work as state auditor … passion-ate about auditing, if you can imagine. And she cast the lone committee vote in opposition to the Polymet mining proposal. Voila! A perfect opportunity for the Republicans to enact bad policy and for the Senate speaker to enact political retribution. Perhaps taking a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook when he put environmental trasher,

James Watt, in charge of the federal Department of the Interior back in the 1980s, Speaker Kurt Daudt has spent the ses-sion bent on creating for Minnesota our own De-partment of the Inferior. Sen. Tom Saxhaug, DFL-Grand Rapids, and Senate Majority Leader Bakk, DFL-Cook, seem bent on creating 350 jobs, whatev-er the cost to water and air in the sensitive Lake Supe-rior watershed. It should have been dif-ferent. Republicans and the Senate leader managed to increase public disgust with government by mak-ing legislative sausage in the dark of night. The GOP relentlessly pushes the agenda of big business and undermines public confidence in government, the DFL leader sells out for temporary jobs and

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OpinionWill our legislative leaders miss a great opportunity?

360 Communities helps families take steps for success

Minnesota’s legislative leaders started 2015 with a pleasant conundrum: How to proceed through the biennial budget process knowing they had a $2 billion surplus. Dozens of uses for those billions quickly surfaced – from big ticket items like Gov. Mark Dayton’s pet project free, voluntary preschool for all 4-year-olds at $373 million to modest proposals, such as funding additional training for first responders to deal with potential rail di-sasters. Republicans touted the idea of expan-sive tax relief, giving back much of the surplus to the taxpayers. Senate Democrats added some prac-tical suggestions, including beefing up the state’s cash reserve and earmarking funds for transportation. Several significant pieces of legisla-tion did pass. A higher education bill offered additional funds to the Univer-sity of Minnesota system and to Min-nesota State Colleges and Universities. Child protection initiatives received $52 million. The omnibus Health and Hu-man Services policy bill will help nurs-ing homes by changing the way nursing

homes are reimbursed by Medicaid. An additional $42 million will fund initia-tives to help the mentally ill. At times during the session, three sides were at odds with each other. Day-ton stood firm to his pre-K proposal, even though he did not have solid sup-port from many DFLers and most Re-publicans. As the session deadline loomed, con-sensus was far away. Legislation required to keep the state running was pushed to the final few days – even into the final hours – of the session. After the dust cleared, Dayton vetoed three of the main funding bills, making a special session necessary to fund K-12 schools, the Department of Natural Re-sources and the Department of Com-merce. Everyone agreed that some type of preschool additional funding would be a good idea. Yet in the end, the agree-ment reached by the Senate and House on education was not enough to please the governor. Another Dayton initiative, buffer zones for all state waterways, was in-cluded in a modified version in the final environment bill, which Dayton vetoed

partly because the bill eliminated the Citizens Review Board of the Pollution Control Agency. Dayton objected to the economic and jobs bill partly because it did not allocate enough funds to help bring broadband Internet to rural areas. The vetoes sent our legislative leaders – Dayton, House Speaker Kurt Daudt and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk – into private discussions to wrangle over the details and find some common ground. They are struggling to find agreement on the three key bills that must be passed in the next few days in order to prevent a partial government shutdown. The public and the rest of our elected officials have been locked out of the pro-cess. Transparency is non-existent. We can only view the 2015 session with a sense of disappointment. Key measures that would have put our state on solid ground – such as increasing the cash reserve and expanding tax credits for low-income families – did not pass. The State Capitol renovation project is in jeopardy because necessary funding was not approved. And most frustrating of all, no prog-

ress was made on developing a long-range improvement plan and securing dedicated funding for state transporta-tion needs. The opportunity presented by an im-pressive budget surplus has been squan-dered. More than any other time, our leaders need to accept compromise and give up a few pet projects. Ideally, they will also take our disappointment to heart and resolve to “get it right” before the 2016 legislature convenes. At the beginning of the session, we said in an ECM Editorial Board edito-rial: “Let’s save a little, spend a little and give a little back. Common sense – not politics – should prevail.” We reiterate that statement and hope the next week will be filled with the com-mon sense compromise needed to keep Minnesota moving forward. Our leaders have one more chance to seize a great op-portunity for our state.

This is an opinion from the ECM Publish-ers Editorial Board. Sun Thisweek and the Dakota County Tribune are part of ECM Publishers.

by Lisa LuskSPECIAL TO SUN THISWEEKDAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Sandra is a single mother raising three children. She is employed, but the income is not enough to support her family. Her estranged husband offered no financial support and her income was too high to qualify for government assistance. At the beginning of the school year, staff at her children’s school referred Sandra to 360 Communities Partners For Success fam-ily support worker Elizabeth. Partners For Success employs family support workers in 32 Dakota County schools in seven school districts to im-plement effective home-based strategies that stabilize families with connection to community resources, relationships that increase parental involvement, and support that improves academic perfor-mance for students. Elizabeth worked closely with San-dra to provide additional resources for her family such as school supplies, edu-cational enrichment opportunities, and food support through a 360 Communi-ties food shelf. The first-grade teacher shared with Elizabeth that he had con-cerns about the progess of Sandra’s son, Anthony. He said Anthony needed to

work on his high frequency sight words (the, it, and, etc.) and reading. Working with the teacher and Sandra, Elizabeth developed a family learning plan that helped Sandra to engage An-thony at home to support his academic goals. In the beginning, Sandra and An-thony would review the alphabet each night. Next, they worked on review-ing five sight words every day. Once the first five cards were mastered, then they moved on to five more. Elizabeth kept in regular contact with the teacher and San-dra, keeping an open line of communica-tion regarding Anthony’s progress in the classroom. According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, students who don’t read proficiently by the third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school than proficient readers. The same study says that one in six children who

are not reading proficiently by third grade do not graduate on time, a rate four times greater than that for proficient readers. At the end of the school year, the teacher reported that Anthony had made huge gains. When they began the family learning plan, he knew 10 letters of the alphabet and 20 sight words. By the end of the school year, he could recite the en-tire alphabet with letter sounds and he increased the number of sight words he knew to 150. Anthony has also shown a marked increase in confidence. In the past, an unknown word would shut him down, but today, based on his recent suc-cess, he understands that if he puts the work in, he will be successful. Sandra says that her other children have also improved their study habits and have had the best academic year she can remember. This is good news for Sandra and her children, and it underscores the sig-nificance of family support workers’ in-volvement in schools. When students lose confidence and drop out of school, the costs to students and society are steep. According to Princeton University, high school dropouts earn $260,000 less over a lifetime than high school graduates and

pay $60,000 less in taxes. In addition, a Wilder Foundation study found that the K-12 Minnesota school system loses about $42 million each year in per-pupil aid because of students dropping out be-fore high school graduation. You can help strengthen our schools and our communities. 360 Communi-ties is holding its first Steps for Success walk on Saturday, June 20, from 9 a.m. to noon on the campus of Thomson Re-uters in Eagan. The 1-mile walk will ben-efit our Partners For Success program, ensuring continued support of families in our schools. WCCO-TV’s Matt Brick-man will emcee the event that will feature music from The Divers and pizza from Green Mill. To register for the event, visit 360Com-munities.org. Please join us on June 20 and help us engage families to support their children in reaching their fullest po-tential.

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

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petty retribution. Can’t Minnesotans have both good jobs and a clean environment, and good government? Don’t we deserve that? JUDY FINGERApple Valley

Grace meets the mayorTo the editor: When our daughter, Grace Anderson came home from school and told us she invited the mayor to her graduation party, I said “What?” She said he had emailed all the Lakeville high school seniors and said he liked going to grad par-ties and if they would like him to come to theirs, just reply with their informa-tion. Grace did and Mayor Matt Little indeed showed up. He had just gotten back from a trip to China the night before. He stayed for over an hour and talked with the guests then off to more parties. It was a highlight for Grace to meet the mayor at her graduation

party. A big thank you to Mayor Matt Little.

WENDY ANDERSONLakeville

Grace Anderson with Mayor Matt Little at Grace’s graduation party. (Photo submitted)


Man facing charges for stabbing his mother by Andrew Miller


An Apple Valley man has been charged with at-tempted murder and as-sault after allegedly stab-bing his mother repeatedly at their home. Police were dispatched to a residence on the 6000 block of West 134th Street on June 1 after Tyler T. Christensen, 22, called 911 to report he had just killed his mother, the criminal complaint said.

Upon arrival, police found Christensen kneel-ing in the front yard with what appeared to be blood on his hands, arms and clothing, according to the complaint. Inside the home, police found Christensen’s moth-er in the kitchen, where she was unresponsive and covered in blood, with lac-erations on her head and multiple stab wounds to her neck, including a cut that had severed a blood vessel and caused internal

bleeding. Police located two steak knife-sized knives on the kitchen floor. The woman was taken to Fairview Ridges Hospi-tal in Burnsville and then transferred to another hospital, where she un-derwent surgery and was placed on a ventilator. The following day, June 2, police spoke with the woman after her breathing tube was removed. Still bleeding from the neck, she told police she

had gotten in an argument with her son that turned violent. The last thing she remembered was that one of them grabbed a frying pan, and she said that she has no memory of the in-cident, the complaint said. “When asked if the de-fendant (Christensen) did this, (she) stated of course he did, but he is mentally ill,” according to the com-plaint. Christensen was ar-rested and booked into the Dakota County Jail,

where he remained as of Wednesday morning with bail set at $300,000. He’s been charged with attempted murder, along with two counts of as-sault. If convicted of all three felony charges, he faces a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison and fines totaling $50,000. Christensen’s next court appearance is set for Aug. 3 in Hastings. Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Tyler Christensen

Charity bike riders greetedon return from long trip10th annual bike ride raises funds

for Kids ’n Kinship

by Andrew MillerSUN THISWEEK


There was plenty to celebrate Saturday morn-ing at Merchants Bank in Apple Valley. The bank hosted a wel-come-home celebration June 6 for riders partici-pating in the 10th annual Christian Elder Memorial 900, a charity bike ride that seeks to raise funds for Apple Valley-based youth mentoring non-profit Kids n’ Kinship. The 900-kilometer ride led by Twin Cities busi-nessman John Elder be-gan May 28 along south-ern Minnesota’s Root River Trail and Shooting Star Trail. The group of 10 cyclists headed north to the Paul Bunyan and Heartland trails, making their way toward Hinck-ley over the course of nine days. The bike ride raised more than $40,000 this year in donations in pledg-es, and the welcome-home event last weekend includ-ed a check presentation to Kids ’n Kinship. On hand at the wel-

come-home event was Apple Valley Mayor Mary Hamann-Roland, who presented Elder with a cer-tificate to recognize his 10 years leading the ride. This year’s group of riders included south-of-the-river cyclists Larry Koehler, of Burnsville, Justin Elder, of Lakeville, and Kyle Swartout, of Savage. The riders, who trained all year in preparation for the 900-kilometer trek, were joined on the road by support drivers Jay Sater-

bak, of Prior Lake, and Doug Gurholt and Matt Stepanek, of Shakopee. An online road diary, found at www.cem900.com, chronicles their jour-ney with photos and daily recaps of their adventures. The Christian Elder Memorial 900 is named in honor of John Elder’s son Christian, who died unex-pectedly in 2007.

Email Andrew Miller at [email protected].

Apple Valley Mayor Mary Hamann-Roland, left, pres-ents John Elder with a certificate of recognition for his 10 years of leading the Christian Elder Memorial Ride at the welcome-home celebration June 6 at Merchants Bank. (Photo submitted)

Sixty units of senior housing

are coming to Rosemountby Tad Johnson


A groundbreaking ceremony will be held this afternoon (June 11) at the future site of Cambrian Commons, the Dakota County Community Develop-ment Agency’s 60-unit senior housing building at the corner of South Robert Trail and Lower 147th Street West. The 3 p.m. event will include speak-ers Mayor Bill Droste and Dakota County and Community Development Agency commissioners Nancy Schou-weiler and Mike Slavik. The building will be the second CDA senior housing site in Rosemount and the 28th overall in Dakota County. The CDA’s other Rosemount build-ing is located a block to the west – Cameo Place. The site was the former location of some single-family homes and Genz Ryan Plumbing and Heating, which moved to Burnsville in 2005. The city of Rosemount’s Port Au-thority purchased the Genz Ryan site and sold the property in October 2013 to the CDA. The CDA work is another major project related to the city’s Downtown Redevelopment Framework completed in summer 2004. The first project was Waterford Commons – a 108-unit apartment building and 13,000-square-foot retail building between 146th and Lower 147th. Other additions include the Dakota County Robert Trail Library, the con-version of the former St. Joseph Catho-lic Church and School site to the city-

owned Steeple Center event venue and future activity center and senior hous-ing site. The 100,000-square-foot activity center under construction will provide space for senior programs, arts and cul-tural activities and other community groups. The Makado Group is building the memory care and independent and as-sisted living building north of the activ-ity center called The Rosemount. Other changes in the downtown area include the opening of Fluegel’s Farm, Garden and Pet’s new building across South Robert Trail from the fu-ture Cambrian Commons. Cambrian Commons will include 34 one-bedroom and 26 two-bedroom units, which will rent for $592 and $722, respectively. The site will have a community room with kitchen, club room, exercise room, screened porch, laundry facili-ties, storage lockers, elevator, secured entrances, emergency call system and underground heated parking. Applications for CDA housing are available at the Dakota County CDA office, 1228 Town Centre Drive in Ea-gan, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or call 651-675-4440 to request an application by mail. More information about the Senior Housing Program, including virtual tours of each development, is at the CDA’s website: http://www.dakotacda.org/seniorhousing_program.htm.

Tad Johnson is at [email protected].


EducationMetcalf Junior High announces ‘A’ honor roll The following students were named to the Metcalf Junior High School “A” honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2014-2015 school year by Principal Kelly Ronn. Seventh grade: Nadira Ali, Austin Aune, Ben-jamin Behme, Katherine Berge, Federico Bonilla Ortega, Bennet Botz, Kiah Christopherson, Ali-son Coughlin, Skyla Dao, Marcus Delius, Orianna Diaz, Ariana Driscoll-Cherland, Mitchell Drob-nick, Audrey Erickson, Sean Floersch, Kathleen

Fritz, Fatima Garza Ra-mon, Makayla Haddorff, Simone Hall, Morgan Hanson, Rebecca Hard-er, Markus Herrmann, Zoe Jackson, Joel Jou-bert, Aaron Kabat, Kon-nor Kirchoffner, Lauren Klein, Meghan Kuether, Ashley Leahy, Lyla Li-chliter, Ruoxin Liu, Ryan McCormick, Emma Meyer, Lillianna Murphy, Aubrey Nelvin, Matthew Nguyen, Caitlyn Outlaw, Garrett Peterson, Naome Peterson, Tian Pomonis, Allison Portwood, Amal Saeed, Carsten Sasse,

Kerrie Schaefers, Jessica Schmid, Charity Settell, Zachary Smith, Kailey, Stratton, Natalie Thore-sen, Alexa Tinder, Sara Tozier, Sierra Walker, Av-ery Ward, Emma White. Eighth grade: Arbaz Ansar, Jaelyn Baisch, Pey-ton Brewster, Jonathan Butler, Anna Cruz, Olivia Daniels, Makayla Del-ise, Cassidy Fox, Thomas Henke, Wesley Ho, Joshua Holtzleiter, Heidi Hulbert, Sarah Johnson, Gabriela Kauls, Maximus Kestell, Brendan Kielas, Brianna Kirk, Caitlyn Kloeckl,

Marta Komendant, Emma Kopp, Danielle Kurr, Hannah Lam, Elijah Le, Sharon Lee, Quinten Lindsay, Zachary Loge-lin, Mariia Lukyanchuk, Nathan Luu, Olivia Mat-thes, Nawal Maxamed, Soknary Men, Sokvan-nak Men, Emily Metzger, Manisha Mucherla, Pratik Nehete, Brady Neumann, Jessica Nguyen, Roland Nix, Cormac Pearce, Isaac Peterson, Tri-Nhan Pham, Sophia Piccolino, Jackson Reichert, Collin Ridge-way, Litzy Rios, Joana Romero Corona, Sumaya

Saeed, Joann Saeko, Anna Schaeffer, Mahlet Sinkie, Aric Stradtmann, Selena Sysourath, Brandon Tor-ralba, Ethan Troncosa, William Trussell, Liliana Valverde Ortiz,Sithisone Vixayvong, Ross Waataja, Grace Wenzinger Ninth grade: Eyerusa-lem Abebaw, Fiona Chow, Julie Dao, Katherine Do, Nate Drobnick, Matthew Fischer, Yariset Flores, Courtney Funk, Bran-don Gil Ballinas, Melanie Gomez Mejia, Alexander Gude, Luke Haddorff, Luke Hasslinger, Hope

Holbrook, Madeline Im-hoff, Justin Jasperse, Hay-ley Ladwig, Albert Liu, Elizabeth McCormick, Alyssa Mickle, Karla Na-jarro, Anna Nguyen, Bai-ley Pekar, Madison Pit-torf, Grace Raasch, Ranya Rashid, Luis Rumualdo Galicia, Thomas Ryan, Victor Sanchez Villegas, Martin Sandvig, Cassan-dra Schroeder, Samantha Stadick, Joshua Stebbins, Ireland Sullivan, Sarra Suphavong, Megan Web-ber.

Goeldner selected as principal at Red Pine Elementary Drew Goeldner of Lakeville will be the next principal at Red Pine El-ementary School in Ea-gan, according to an an-nouncement Wednesday from Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School Dis-trict Superintendent Jane K. Berenz. The School Board will take action on Goeldner’s hiring at its June 22 regu-lar meeting. He will of-ficially take over the Red Pine position July 1. Goeldner will replace Gary Anger, who is leav-ing the district to be super-intendent for Zumbrota-Mezeppa Public Schools. Goeldner has seven years of experience as a principal. For the past two years, he has led Sky Oaks El-ementary School in the neighboring Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Public Schools. Prior to that, he spent five years with the Rice Lake (Wis.) Area School District, first as an el-ementary principal from 2008 to 2010, then as a middle school principal for the next three years. Goeldner started his career as a fifth- and sixth-grade teacher for the Saint Paul Public Schools, from

1997 to 2008. Goeldner has a bach-elor’s degree in elementary education from the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-La Crosse, earned a master’s degree in teaching and learning from Saint Mary’s University and a special-ist’s degree in education administration from Min-

nesota State University, Mankato. “I am thrilled to be joining the Red Pine com-munity,” Goeldner said in a press release from Dis-trict 196. “I look forward to meeting students, fami-lies and staff, and working together to provide our children the best educa-

tion possible.” Goeldner is one of three new elementary principals in District 196. The others are Tina Haselius at Echo Park Elementary in Burns-ville and Cindy Magnuson at Oak Ridge Elementary School in Eagan.

New principal selected for Oak Ridge Elementary Cindy Magnuson of Superior, Wis., was select-ed to be the next principal at Oak Ridge Elementary School in Eagan, Super-intendent Jane K. Berenz announced on Wednes-day. The School Board will take action on Magnu-son’s hiring at its next regular meeting June 22. Magnuson will replace Kris Scallon, who is leav-ing the position to return to classroom teaching. Magnuson will officially take over the Oak Ridge position July 1. Magnuson has worked for the Superior School

District since 1997, when she was hired as an el-ementary school teacher. From 2008 to 2014, Mag-nuson was an elementary school principal and this past school year she served as Superior’s director of pre-kindergarten services. Magnuson earned her bachelor’s degree in ele-mentary education, a mas-ter’s degree in reading and principal licensure from the University of Wiscon-sin-Superior. “It’s clear from what I’ve seen and heard that the District 196 communi-ty is committed to provid-ing a world class education for their youth,” Magnu-

son said in a press release. “I am excited to be joining the team at Oak Ridge El-ementary and honored to have been chosen at such an exciting time as Oak Ridge prepares to become a magnet school.” In May, the School Board approved themes for Oak Ridge and Echo Park in Burnsville to be-come the next two elemen-tary magnet schools in District 196, beginning in fall 2016. Oak Ridge will have a theme of leadership and environmental and health sciences (as focus areas of STEM), and Echo Park will have a theme of en-gineering and technology (as focus areas of STEM) and leadership. Both schools were des-ignated “racially identifi-able” by the state last No-vember based on having enrollments of students of color that are more than 20 percent higher than the average for elemen-tary schools in the district. Converting them to mag-net schools is part of the district’s plan to improve racial balance at both schools. Magnuson is one of three new elementary prin-cipals in District 196. The others are Tina Haselius at Echo Park and Drew Goeldner at Red Pine Ele-mentary School in Eagan.

Writer in residence program

The Rotary Club of Eagan recently completed a “writer in residence” program in Pilot Knob, Rahn and Oak Ridge elementary schools. The club secured a grant from its Ro-tary district (5950) to support reading programs in each of the schools. With assistance from the Wescott Library, the club hired Alison McGhee, a nationally renown chil-dren’s writer, to provide a writing workshop in each of the schools. McGhee, a “Today Show” Book Club author and Pulitzer Prize nominee, worked with several hundred third-, fourth- and fifth-graders and their teachers on writing techniques and character development. Terry Creegan, one of the Rotarians involved in the development of the program, indicated that the staff in each school noticed increased student interest in reading as a result of this program. Pictured with author McGhee are students from Oak Ridge Elementary. (Photo submitted)

College News Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, spring dean’s list, from Eagan – Jennifer Rudnicki, Emily Sonneborn. Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, Slane College of Communica-tions and Fine Arts global scholar honoree, Jennifer Rudnicki, of Eagan. Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, spring dean’s list, Ryan Thompson, of Eagan. College of Saint Bene-dict, St. Joseph, spring graduates, from Eagan – Emily Gebhart, B.A., nutrition; Jennifer Husen, B.A., biology; Maren Iver-son, B.A., individualized, cum laude; Madeline Nor-gaard, B.A., environmen-tal studies, cum laude.

Saint John’s University, Collegeville, spring gradu-ate, John Carroll, of Ea-gan, B.A., economics. College of Saint Bene-dict, St. Joseph, spring dean’s list, from Eagan – Jalyn Britton, Wendra Goodman-Hemingway, Andrew Hiltner, Hannah Lund, Alex Mangan, Car-la Simonson, Adam Wal-lenta. William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, spring dean’s list, Cameron Van-Dyke, of Eagan. Wake Forest Univer-sity, Winston Salem, N.C., spring graduate, Sarah Hotvedt, of Eagan, B.S. South Dakota State University, Brookings, spring graduates, from Ea-gan – Sophia Conzemius,

B.S., college of agriculture and biological sciences; Rachel Hunt, B.S., college of education and human services. South Dakota State University, Brookings, spring dean’s list, from Burnsville – Alexandra Lunneborg, Kaylyn Lun-neborg; from Eagan – So-phia Conzemius, Rachel Hunt, Jasmine Sanders, Kelsey Sterrenberg, Josie White, Abby Zenner. Nicholas Csargo, Ea-gan native and University of Minnesota student, is one of two students na-tionally to receive a Ful-bright English Teaching Assistantship to Portugal. He has been placed at the University of Lisbon for the 2015-16 academic

year by the Portuguese Fulbright Commission. Csargo received a B.A. in Spanish and political sci-ence from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 2008. University of Wis-consin-Madison, spring dean’s list, from Burns-ville – Matthew Arnold, Maxwell Courtright, Alexander Ebertowski, Robinson Ewald, Lauren Fugh, Ryan Gigstad, Kyle Kauth, Katherine Knut-son, Marissa Lane, Devin Lowe, Lauren Schonberg; from Eagan – Shelby Braun, Casey Brown, Kyra Dahl, Danielle Day, Wil-liam Dyke, Melinda Fenn, Rachel Gagne, Samantha Gannon, Patrick Green-berg, Kyle Grieger, Kirsten

Haukness, Benjamin Hey-ing, Bradley Hogan, Dan-iel Holzer, Kevin Hsiung, Christopher Johns, Grant Jones, Joseph Keegan, Rebecca Kelley, Brianna Lange, Rachel Larson, Garrett Lukin, Kelsey Marti, Nicholas Martin, Tarryn Michelson, Mar-shall Mueller, Mikaela O’Keefe, Caitlin O’Shea, Mallory Raymond, Carter Rients, Daniel Schmitz, Amy Soeun, Mark Tervo, Jennifer Westlund, Mar-tin Wickham, Matthew Yetzer, April Zhao. Michael Dickens, of Burnsville, was inducted into membership of the Alpha Chapter of Wiscon-sin Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Megan Linder, of Ea-gan, has accepted mem-bership in The National Society of Collegiate Scholars. NSCS is an in-terdisciplinary honor or-ganization for first-year and second-year college students. Membership is by invitation only, based on grade point average and class standing. Linder ended her freshman year at the University of Ten-nessee, Knoxville, summa cum laude with a 3.81 GPA. To submit college news items, email: [email protected].


EducationRecommendation coming for Impact Academy

Snyder: Only viable site old

Best Buy building

by Laura AdelmannSUN THISWEEK


A Lakeville Area School District committee studying the future of Im-pact Academy is expected to issue its recommenda-tion to the Facility Com-mittee within a month. After weeks of commit-tee meetings and investiga-tion into the possibility of moving Impact Academy from Lakeville’s Orchard Lake Elementary, viable options have narrowed to one, according to District 194 Superintendent Lisa Snyder. She said the former Best Buy site is the only viable site currently in District 194 boundaries that could be considered to house the 450-650 stu-dents expected to enroll in Impact Academy when it is a choice school in 2016. “That’s the only build-ing that’s for lease that would be even big enough to consider,” Snyder said. “And of course, it would

take substantial construc-tion redesign costs.” The 206,114 square-foot-building at 18350 Or-chard Trail has been emp-ty since Best Buy moved out in 2012. It would re-quire extensive remodeling that includes adding bath-rooms and a kitchen. Snyder said the plan is to compare the Best Buy site to the rubric devel-oped by the committee before moving into a fea-sibility study to determine capital and lease costs. If it fares well against

the rubric, Snyder said the committee would move into a feasibility study to compare those expenses to the costs of keeping the program at Orchard Lake Elementary or moving it into another elementary school. Snyder said the work would provide a compari-son for the School Board, which has the ultimate de-cision of what to do with Impact Academy. Asked if remodeling the former Best Buy build-ing would be financially

possible, she said capital costs on a leased facility can be built into the lease. “It’s possible,” Snyder said. “But will it be an eco-nomically feasible option? That’s yet to be seen.” The School Board agreed in January to make Impact Academy into the district’s first choice school beginning with the 2016-17 school year. Impact Academy is a teaching model that swaps classrooms and desks for large gathering areas with comfy furniture and

eliminates grade levels for multi-age learning that groups students by ability level in various subjects. The program also em-phasizes service learning, helping students identify real-world problems then create ways to address them. It has been operating since 2013 as an optional learning path for Orchard Lake Elementary, where a group of teachers ral-lied around the idea and moved it forward. Orchard Lake Principal

Marilynn Smith has re-ported having two learning models in the same school has caused challenges and divisions among staff, stu-dents and parents. Along with Orchard Lake staff, Smith has pro-moted moving Impact Academy into a choice school model. Three potential sites for an Impact Academy choice school have al-ready been explored in a draft District 194 Choice School Business Plan and Proposal presented months ago to the board by Snyder and Smith. The proposal found keeping the program at Orchard Lake could ac-commodate 450-575 stu-dents with remodeling costs estimated between $450,000-$575,000. Other options includ-ed in the document are moving Impact Acad-emy to Christina Hud-dleston Elementary at ex-penses estimated between $389,000-$430,00 or from $523,000-$579,000 at Eastview Elementary.


Best Buy closed its store at 18350 Orchard Trail, behind the Target store, in 2012. (Photo submitted)

Everest Path, Farmington, now closed during construction Too many

drivers ignoring stop signs

by Andy RogersSUN THISWEEK


Drivers looking to go north and south across 195th Street at Everest Path in Farmington will need to look elsewhere for now.

Everest Path is now closed and will remain closed through the second stage of the 195th Street reconstruction project. It was originally supposed to remain open, but when 195th Street closed on Monday, too many vehi-cles failed to stop. “There’s been a stop sign there since forever,” said Kevin Schorzman, city engineer. “There a

lot of (road construction) trucks that cross that need to cross through there ev-ery day.” During the first day, Farmington Police Chief Brian Lindquist said offi-cers pulled over more than 50 vehicles for running the stop sign. With the trucks travel-ing through the intersec-tion, it became a serious risk, so the city, county,

police department and contractors made the deci-sion to close the intersec-tion. “Something bad was probably going to hap-pen,” Schorzman said. “It just didn’t seem like a safe situation. There were too many close calls.” The project includes a reconstruction of 195th Street from Flagstaff Av-enue to Diamond Path.

Stage 1 began earlier this year from Akin Road to Diamond Path, which will remain closed. Stage 2 includes the closing 195th between Flagstaff Avenue and Everest Path. It began as soon as school closed to be complete before school starts in the fall. The third stage will be the reconstruction of the middle section of 195th

Street. It will also include the closing of the intersec-tion at Pilot Knob Road. Schrozman said drivers should get used to travel-ing north or south using Cedar Avenue. Email Andy Rogers at [email protected].

Farmers Market offered in Lakeville The St. Paul Farmers Market will be offered in Downtown Lakeville on Wednesdays and Sat-urdays beginning this month. The Wednesday market will run 12-5 p.m. June 10-Oct. 28 in Market Plaza

on 208th Street and Holy-oke Avenue. The Saturday market is open 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. June 20-Sept. 26 in the Lakev-ille Area Arts Center park-ing lot (210th Street and Holyoke Avenue. Both markets feature

locally grown fruits and vegetables, flowers, meat, honey and more. The markets are spon-sored by the Downtown Lakeville Business Asso-ciation.


SeniorsApple Valley seniors The Apple Valley Senior Center, 14601 Hayes Road, is home to the following activities, which are or-ganized and run by the Apple Val-ley Seniors and Apple Valley Parks and Recreation. The facility is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 952-953-2345 or go to www.cityo-fapplevalley.org. Monday, June 15 – Int. Line Dancing, 9:30 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Pool, noon; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Happy Stitchers, 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 16 – Quilting Bees, 9 a.m.; Bicycle Group, 9 a.m.; Tues-day Painters, 9:30 a.m.; Science Mu-seum Trip “Space,” 9:30 a.m.; Mys-tery Lunch, 10:30 a.m.; Pool, noon; Pinochle, 12:30 p.m.; Table Tennis, 1 p.m.; Hand & Foot Cards, 1 p.m.; Spanish – Intermediate, 1 p.m.; Spanish – Basic, 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 – Donated Bread, 9 a.m.; F.F. on Spokes, 9 a.m.; Yoga, 9:45 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Pool, noon; Domi-noes, 1 p.m.; Mahjong, 1 p.m. Thursday, June 18 – Beg. Line Dancing, 9:15 a.m.; Int. Line Danc-ing, 10 a.m.; FMSC, 11 a.m.; Pool, noon; Insurance Counseling, noon; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; 500, 1 p.m.; Hardanger, 1 p.m.; Recreated Cards, 1 p.m.; Try Tap, 1:45 p.m. Friday, June 19 – Men’s Break-fast, 8:30 a.m.; Women’s Break-fast, 9 a.m.; F.F. on Spokes, 9 a.m.; Morning Stretch, 10 a.m.; Women’s Pool, 11 a.m.; Members Bingo, 12:30 p.m.

Burnsville seniors The Burnsville Senior Center is located in the Diamondhead Edu-cation Center at 200 W. Burnsville Parkway. Call 952-707-4120 for in-formation about the following se-nior events. Monday, June 15 – Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Cribbage, 11 a.m.; Pinochle, 12:45 p.m.; SS Flex. Tuesday, June 16 – Scrabble, 10:30 a.m.; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m.; Defensive Driving Refresher, 5:30 p.m.; Line Dancing. Wednesday, June 17 – Woodcarv-ers, 8 a.m.; Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Tai Chi MS, 11 a.m.; Crib-bage, 11 a.m.; 500, 12:45 p.m.; Belle

Luncheon, St. Paul, 1 p.m.; Defen-sive Driving Class, 5:30 p.m.; SS Flex. Thursday, June 18 – Foot Clinic, 9 a.m.; Health Ins. Council, 9 a.m.; Belle Scrappers, 9:30 a.m.; Crafters, 10 a.m.; Defensive Driving Refresh-er, 1 p.m.; Wood Carving, 6 p.m. Friday, June 19 – Sunrise Stretch, 8:30 a.m.; Painting, 9 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 12:15 p.m.; SS Flex.

Eagan seniors The following senior activities are offered by the Eagan Parks and Recreation Department in the Lone Oak Room at the Eagan Commu-nity Center, 1501 Central Parkway. Call 651-675-5500 for more infor-mation. Monday, June 15 – Zumba (Oa-sis), 9 a.m.; Recycled Cards, 9:30 a.m.; FFL+ (Oasis), 10 a.m.; FFL (Oasis), 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 16 – Quilting, 9:30 a.m.; Euchre/500, 12:45 p.m.; Yoga (Oasis), 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 – Coffee & Conversations, 9 a.m.; Brain Fit-ness, 9:30 a.m.; Hand & Foot, 12:45 p.m. Thursday, June 18 – Dominoes, 9 a.m.; Bridge, 12:45 p.m.; Zumba (Oasis), 5:30 p.m.; Yoga (Oasis), 6:30 p.m.; Book Club No. 4 (Li-brary), 7 p.m. Friday, June 19 – Zumba (Oasis), 10:15 a.m.; S/B/Yoga (Oasis), 11:10 a.m.; Bingo, 1 p.m.

Farmington seniors The Rambling River Center is lo-cated at 325 Oak St. For more infor-mation on trips, programs and other activities, call 651-280-6970. Monday, June 15 – Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Welcome Coffee, 10 a.m.; Dulcimer Club, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10 a.m.; Dominoes, 10:30 a.m.; Recycled Cards, 12:30 p.m.; 500 Cards, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16 – Lady Slip-per Trip, 9 a.m.; Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Fitness Center Orientation, 9:30 a.m.; Chair Exercise, 10 a.m.; Community Connections, 10 a.m.; Wood Carving, 1 p.m.; Table Ten-nis, 2 p.m.; Yoga, 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 – Wii Games, 9 a.m.; Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10 a.m.; MusicianFest, 10 a.m.; Bridge, 1 p.m.

Thursday, June 18 – Coffee Guys/Gals, 9:30 a.m.; Pinochle, 12:30 p.m.; Table Tennis, 2 p.m.; EZ Play, 2 p.m. Friday, June 19 – Wii Games, 9 a.m.; Model Railroad Display, 9 a.m.; Coffee Guys, 9:30 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 9:30 a.m.; Beads, Bau-bles & Bangles Sale, 10 a.m. Happy Harry’s Furniture Fund-raiser – Stop by Happy Harry’s Fur-niture in Farmington and mention the Rambling River Center when ordering/purchasing your new fur-niture. Happy Harry’s Furniture will give 10 percent of the purchase to the Rambling River Center.

Lakeville seniors All events are held at Lakeville Heritage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Call 952-985-4622 for informa-tion. Monday, June 15 – Computer Tutoring, 9 a.m.; Financial Ad-vice, 9:30 a.m.; Wii Bowling, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Cribbage, 12:30 p.m.; Cards, 1 p.m.; Mahjong, 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 16 – Interval Walking, 8:15 a.m.; Dominoes and Cards, 9 a.m.; Tappercize, 9:30 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Zumba Gold, 10:30 a.m.; Party Bridge, noon; Pilates Mat Class, 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 – Men’s Golf at Gopher Hills, 8 a.m.; Health Angels Biking, 9 a.m.; Cards, 9 a.m.; Line Dancing, 9 and 10 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Pinochle, noon; Dime Bingo, 1 p.m.; Chess, 1 p.m. Thursday, June 18 – Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Red Hat Chorus, 10:30 a.m.; Euchre, Hand & Foot, noon; Quilting Group, 1 p.m.; Ping Pong, 1-3 p.m.; Zumba Gold, 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 19 – Yoga, 8:15 a.m.; Pickleball at Bunker Hill Park, 9 a.m.; Cards, 9 a.m.; Digital Pho-tography, 10 a.m.; Day Old Bread, 10:15 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 1, 11 a.m.; Healthways Flex Fitness 2, noon; Duplicate Bridge, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20 – Motorcycle Club Breakfast Ride, 9 a.m.

Benefit for Lakeville family to raise funds for in-home care A benefit to raise funds to help pay for in-home health care for Lakeville resident Amy Eggers, who suffered a stroke Nov. 30, 2014, will be 4-7:30 p.m. Saturday at Babe’s Music Bar in Lakeville. Tickets for the event are $25 for couples, $15 for adults and $5 for chil-dren. There will be unlim-ited food and beer from 4-6 p.m., a silent auction and raffles for many items, such as Twins tickets, car-pet installation and a spa day. Eggers’s stroke was caused by a blood clot in her brain. Eggers was in a medically-induced coma

for two weeks and in the intensive care unit for an extensive period of time. Eggers’s current condi-tion after spending months in multiple rehabilitation hospitals is permanent pa-ralysis to her left side. She is making leaps in recov-ery and is able to stand on both feet and “walk” with 100 percent assistance. She can speak, but the right side of her brain does not work. She has made 60 per-cent of the recovery that doctors believe she can make. She needs 24-hour care. Though doctors were unable to remove the

blood clot, Eggers recently had a successful surgery during which doctors re-placed part of her skull that had been missing since the initial surgery. Eggers most recently worked at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Prior Lake and was previously a food service worker at Kenwood Trail Junior High School and Rose-mount High School. Her husband, Mark Eggers, grew up in Burns-ville and works full time at LaMettry’s Collision and Mechanical in Lakeville to support the family. The Eggerses have four adult children.

Obituaries

Anniversaries

Jean and Donna Quinlan

Jean and Donna Quin-lan celebrated their 50thanniversary on June 5th.

A celebration with theirfamily is planned for laterin June.


Business BuzzDave Ramsey show added Eagan-based Salem Media Group Twin Cit-ies has added “The Dave Ramsey Show” to the Business 1570 lineup weekdays from 5-8 p.m. Ramsey talks callers through their financial questions and concerns of-fering support to the hurt-ing and guidance to the financially uncertain. Salem Media Group Twin Cities owns and op-erates AM 980 The Mis-sion, AM 1280 The Pa-triot, Business 1570, and stream-only station, The Fish Twin Cities.

GrandStay recognized GrandStay Hotel & Suites, Apple Valley, re-ceived the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence Award celebrating excel-lence in hospitality. The award is given to hos-pitality businesses that consistently achieve excel-lent traveler reviews on TripAdvisor.

Keil named CEO Lakeville native Dave Keil has been named the CEO of the newly formed Honey Baked Ham Com-pany, LLC. The company was created by consolidat-ing their previously inde-pendent divisions and will now operate as one uni-fied, national brand and company. Honey Baked Ham

continues to be a family-owned business. Linda van Rees from the Geor-gia division, Lou Schmidt from the Michigan divi-sion and Craig Kurz from the Ohio division, who are all grandchildren of Hon-ey Baked Ham founder, Harry J. Hoenselaar, now serve with other indepen-dent directors on a fidu-ciary board responsible for establishing the future direction of the company. Maggie DeCan serves as President and Chief Op-erating Officer. A 13-year Honey Baked Ham veter-an, she previously served as President and COO for the jointly owned Honey Baked Ham Franchise Company.

Name change

for therapy and

care center The Justin Kukowski Center, with locations in Burnsville and Chaska, has changed its name to the Cashman Center as of May 15. The change is part of a rebranding effort em-phasizing the center’s commitment to providing integrated therapies and coordinated care that ad-dress the mind-body con-nection. The Cashman Center offers mental health coun-seling for individuals, cou-ples, families, children and groups, while also provid-ing other complementary services not commonly of-fered under the same roof — such as medication

management, nutrition counseling, acupuncture, massage, healing touch and yoga. Cashman Center’s new name, identity and website reflect its recent expan-sion of services and staff, intended to meet growing public demand for integra-tive health care and per-sonal wellness services. “We intentionally added touches like com-fortable couches and a fireplace to help clients feel immediately at ease,” owner Kathryn Cashman said. Cashman said several new programs will be an-nounced later this year. The Cashman Center was founded in 2007 by Dr. Robyn Swenson Da-vid. During the course of her own cancer treat-ment, she befriended Jus-tin Kukowski, a 27-year-old Burnsville native who battled brain cancer for two years. Kukowski’s parents sought comple-mentary health care ser-vices and support but were unable to find them. Upon recovering from her cancer, Swenson Da-vid opened the center with the support of Kukowski’s parents, serving the grow-ing public demand for complementary care for cancer patients. Kathryn Cashman took over the center’s ownership in 2013 and extended the center’s services beyond comple-mentary cancer care. In 2014, the center ex-panded to its new Burns-ville location at 2100 County Road 42 W.

Business CalendarTo submit items for the

Business Calendar, email: [email protected].

Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce events: • Thursday, June 18, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Business After Hours, Superior Service Center, 14580 Glenda Drive, Apple Val-ley. Information: [email protected]. Dakota County Region-al Chamber of Commerce events: • Friday, June 12, 12-3 p.m., ribbon cutting and open house, Brookdale Eagan, Alzheimer’s & Dementia Care, 1365 Crest-ridge Lane, Eagan. Ribbon cut-

ting at 1 p.m. Free. Register at www.dcrchamber.com. • Monday, June 15, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., 2015 DCR Chamber Golf Classic, Mendakota Coun-try Club, 2075 Mendakota Drive, Mendota Heights. Registration/information: Chelsea Johnson at [email protected] or 651-288-9202. • Tuesday, June 16, 12-1:30 p.m., Meet the Chamber, DCRC Office, 3352 Sherman Court, Suite 201, Eagan. Learn about chamber membership. Registration/information: Kate Bowen at [email protected] or 651-2888-9200. • Wednesday, June 17, 8-9 a.m., Farmington Coffee Break,

Roundbank, 3380 Vermillion River Trail, Farmington. Open to all DCRC members. Registra-tion/information: Chelsea John-son at [email protected] or 651-288-9202. • Thursday, June 18, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., The womEn’s circle: Breaking A Glass Ceil-ing: Lessons Learned and Best Forgotten, Mendakota Country Club, 2075 Mendakota Drive, Mendota Heights. Speaker: Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president of Community Rela-tions and Government Affairs at Thomson Reuters. Registra-tion/information: Chelsea John-son at [email protected] or 651-288-9202.

Galaxie Library looking for Friends Community members interested in forming a Friends of the Galaxie Li-brary group are invited to a meeting from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, at the

Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Val-ley. Learn what it means to be a Friend to the Galaxie Library at this informa-

tional meeting. For more information, call Annemarie Robertson at 952-891-7173 or stop in at the Galaxie Library.


Area high schools celebrate graduation

Dayanna Guiracocha-Vinces, right, awaited her turn to cross the stage during Burnsville High School’s commencement ceremony June 5. (Photo by John Gessner)

The Eagan High School choir performed two songs during commencement June 6: “You’ll Never walk Alone” and “O Light, Awaken.” (Photo by Jessica Harper)

A Burnsville High School graduate posed for a picture before crossing the stage to receive her diploma. (Photo by John Gessner)

Rey Arellano and Sydney Arendt were among the Apple Valley High School graduates receiving diplomas during the school’s June 6 commencement. (Photo by Andrew Miller)

Burnsville High School graduates observed the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” during commencement June 5. (Photo by John Gessner)

Lakeville North High School graduates threw their caps at the close of commencement June 4 at Target Center. (Photo by Laura Adelmann)

Eagan High School senior class co-presidents Abby Gaedtke and Elizabeth Lyne delivered an amusing speech with fellow graduate Nicholas Saxton. (Photo by Jessica Harper)

Organic Valley’s farm tour set Organic Valley, a coop-erative of organic farmers, will host an interactive farm tour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at Zweber Farms, 25420 Natchez Ave. in Elko. The 2015 Farm Dis-covery Tour provides an educational way for adults and kids to better under-stand where their food comes from and how it is produced. The tour is free and open to the public. To re-serve space, find driving directions, and “meet” the farmer hosts by video, visit: http://www.organ-icvalley.coop/who-is-your-farmer/farm-discovery/midwest/.


Car Trouble? We Fix Everything.New Saturday Service Hours

Family CalendarTo submit items for the

Family Calendar, email: [email protected].

Friday, June 12 Nature Play Date, 11 a.m. to noon, Cleary Lake Regional Park, Prior Lake. Explore the park and meet other families interested in getting their children outdoors. Wear appropriate clothes and shoes. Free for all ages. Children 17 and younger must be accom-panied by an adult.

Saturday, June 13 Family archery, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Cleary Lake Regional Park, Prior Lake. Shoot stationary tar-gets and compete in fun shoot-ing games. Equipment provided. Cost: $7. Call 763-559-6700 to make a reservation, reference ac-tivity number 324501-01. Ages 8 and older.

Tuesday, June 16 Family Fun Tuesday – Young Dance Company: “Stories,” 10-11 a.m. in the Sculpture Garden at Caponi Art Park, Eagan. $4 per person donation suggested. Information: 651-454-9412 or

www.caponiartpark.org. Tuesday Evenings in the Garden – Luscious Tomatoes with Dave Olson, 6:30-8 p.m. in front of the red barn at the Dakota County Fairgrounds, 4008 220th St. W., Farmington. Learn about starting tomatoes from seed, choosing varieties, growing heir-looms and care of tomato plants. Class size is limited; register by calling 651-480-7700. Informa-tion: www.dakotamastergarden-ers.org.

Wednesday, June 17 Storytime in the Park with children’s librarian Cathy Mc-Guire, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Mead-owview Park, 5550 197th St., Farmington. She will read a few stories and Farmington Recre-ation staff will play parachute games and offer an art activity based on the theme of the day. Theme: Zoo. Free. Eagan Market Fest – Fam-ily Night Celebration, 4-8 p.m., Eagan Festival Grounds at Cen-tral Park, 1501 Central Parkway. Farmers market, entertainment by The Splatter Sisters, 4-5:15 p.m., and The Bazillions, 6-8 p.m.

Information: www.cityofeagan.com/marketfest or 651-675-5500.

Thursday, June 18 Bob the Beachcomber, 10 a.m. at Central Park Amphithe-ater, 2893 145th St., Rosemount. Part of the Summer Music in the Park series. Bring a blanket or lawn chair for seating. Free. Call 651-322-6020 and select option 6 to check for cancelation due to inclement weather. Thursday Rockin’ Readers, 11:15 a.m. at Nicollet Commons Park, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burns-ville. Tom Umhoefer, director of ISD 191 Community Education, will read books to children. Books are geared toward elementary and preschool children. Kidz Dance will perform at noon for the Thursday Rockin’ Lunch Hour concert at Nicollet Commons Park, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. Free.

Friday, June 19 Outdoor movie, “Malefi-cent,” rated PG, 7:30 p.m. seat-ing, dusk showtime, part of Burnsville’s “Flicks on the Bricks”

series at Nicollet Commons Park in the Heart of the City.

Saturday, June 20 Bike auction, 8-10 a.m. Rambling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington. Cat claw clipping clinic by Feline Rescue Inc., 2-4 p.m., Chuck & Don’s Pet Food Outlet, 1254 Town Centre Drive, Eagan. All cats must be transported in a carrier for their safety. Free. Infor-mation: http://felinerescue.org/. Movies in the Park, “Alex-ander and the Terrible, Hor-rible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” at dusk at the Central Park Am-phitheater near City Hall, Rose-mount. Bring blankets and lawn chairs. Weather-related updates: 651-322-6020, option 6.

Sunday, June 21 Father’s Day Chicken Cook-out, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., St. Nicholas Catholic Church, 51 Church St., Elko New Market. Tickets: $12 adults, $6 children under 12. Take-outs available. Shuttles to the church available around town – watch for signs. Information: 952-461-2403 or

www.stncc.net. Open house, 1-4 p.m., Lutz Railroad Garden, 2960 Egan Ave., Eagan. Visit Conductor Bud and his railroad garden. If raining, trains will not run. Free. Informa-tion: 651-454-3534, www.lutz-railroadgarden.net, [email protected].

Ongoing Marriage Encounter week-end, June 13-14, Mt. Olivet Conference and Retreat Center, Farmington. Information: www.marriages.org or 651-454-3238. Emotions Anonymous meetings, 7:30-9 p.m. Tues-days at SouthCross Community Church, 1800 E. County Road 42 (at Summit Oak Drive), Apple Val-ley. EA is a 12-step program for those seeking emotional health. All are welcome. Information: http://www.emotionsanony-mous.org/.

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. • June 12, 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Easter Lutheran Church – By The Lake, 4545 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan. • June 13, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Caribou Coffee, 14638 Cedar Ave., Apple Valley. • June 15, 12-6 p.m., Cul-ver’s, 15225 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. • June 16, 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Family of Christ Lutheran Church, 10970 185th St. W., Lakeville. • June 16, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., U.S. Army Career Center, 7672 160th St. W., Lakeville. • June 16, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Hilltop Family Chiropractic, 1121 Town Centre Drive, Eagan. • June 17, 1-7 p.m., Rose-mount Community Center, 13885 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. • June 17, 1-7 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 151 E. County Road 42, Burnsville. • June 17, 12-6 p.m., Cul-ver’s, 3445 O’Leary Lane, Ea-gan. • June 18, 1-7 p.m., Car-mike 15 Theatres, 15630 Cedar Ave., Apple Valley.

Celebration Church, Lakeville, hires pastor Derrick Ross to

start in July by Laura Adelmann


After months of searching following the dismissal of its married lead pastors, Celebration Church has a new leader. Derrick Ross, 33, was hired as the new pastor at the Assemblies of God church, founded in 1996 by Lowell Lundstrom who died in 2012. Ross, who is moving his wife Dana and their three preschool-aged children to Minnesota from North Carolina, will be the first leader at the church out-side of the Lundstrom family. He will be at the church’s July 5 service, which will honor the ser-vice of Dr. Gary Denbow, who served as interim pas-tor for several months. Ross will deliver his first sermon as Celebra-tion Church pastor at the July 12 service, which starts at 10:30 a.m. Ross said he comes from a long line of pas-tors, serving in the role for

the past 15 years. Includ-ing lead at Concord First Assembly in North Caro-lina for more than eight years.

At Celebration, Ross said he will be focused on community service. “We really want to be a blessing to our commu-

nity,” Ross said, “mean-ing that the hurting in our community are helped be-cause of us blessing them, so the underprivileged and those suffering injus-tice will all be helped by us.” He said he will seek op-portunities for Celebra-tion Church to partner with community agencies that help others. One of his biggest pas-sions is prayer for healing, because he said he was healed from throat cancer at 21 years old. Doctors discovered the cancer was gone three days before he was sched-uled for three months of chemotherapy, he said. “They ran one more set of biopsies and just couldn’t find anything,” Ross said. “They deter-mined all of their samples no longer showed cancer, so I never had any chemo at all. It was a big answer to prayer.” Ross said he also was healed from a stroke that occurred Feb. 22. “The whole left side was numb until the next day,” Ross said. “I couldn’t talk for seven hours and

the whole face was numb.” Now his tests all show complete healing, Ross said. “The doctors are call-ing it an aborted stroke, meaning that physically I had one, but … my brain shows no ill effects from one, so I don’t have to go to rehab or any of those things,” Ross said. “But, we really do believe … that God stepped in and inter-vened in (my) physical life and I was completely healed of those two prob-lems.” He said people’s lives can be changed with the power of God. “I tell people all the time, I’m not interested in anything weird, but I want anything from God that he has for us,” Ross said. He said he is also in-terested in learning more about the Branson-style Christmas productions Celebration Church used to hold. Ross said he is not cer-tain if he will start the huge productions again, but added his church has produced similar “really big” shows during Christ-mas and Easter.

The church also pro-duced a big summer pro-duction featuring children, Ross said. “We’re pretty excited to get up there and get to know people of Celebra-tion a little better and get to know the community to figure out what we can do to make a big impact,” Ross said. Celebration Church was led for about three years by Lundstrom’s daughter Londa Lund-strom Ramsey and her husband, Brent Clark Ramsey, until fall 2014. In separate actions, church leaders voted to dismiss both pastors after the church began investi-gating allegations about Clark Ramsey that were not publicized. Lundstrom Ramsey left her position last Septem-ber under a unanimous decision by church lead-ership, including her own vote. She has since started a new church, The Father’s House, meeting in Burns-ville.


Derrick Ross with wife Dana and children Madison, 5, Kennedy 3 and Lincoln, 1. (Photo submitted)


Sports

Lightning walks off with state championshipSoftball team

ends season on 20-game winning

streak by Mike Shaughnessy


When a game is for the state championship, “70 percent healthy” means “good enough to play.” If a championship is at stake, you ignore the pain and throbbing in your knee and give your team whatever you have. That’s the attitude Ker-rigan Hoshaw of Eastview and Amber Elliott of Ano-ka took into the pitching circle as their teams dueled in the Class 3A softball fi-nal Friday afternoon in North Mankato. Hoshaw, who has dealt with a troublesome back most of the season, woke up even more sore than usual after working 14 in-nings in the Lightning’s first two state tournament victories on Thursday. Elliott had pitched only a few innings since strain-ing a knee ligament while warming up before Ano-ka’s final regular-season game. They pitched their teams into the seventh in-ning before Eastview in-fielder Julia Luciano drove a double to right-center field, scoring Courtney Wissbaum from first base with the deciding run in the Lightning’s 2-1 victory. Eastview (24-3) won its second state softball championship. The other was in 2003 in the team’s only other state tourney

appearance. “I was probably about 70 percent,” said Hoshaw, who allowed three hits and struck out 10. “But I wasn’t in a lot of pain. It was up to me whether I wanted to pitch, and I def-initely wanted to pitch.” Elliott struggled with her control, walking four and throwing two wild pitches. But she held East-view to one run and five hits through 6 1/3 innings before Luciano’s game-winner. With her knee clearly troubling her, Elliott had to lean on teammates to stay upright during the awards ceremony. Anoka coach Toni Jesinoski said she checked with Elliott after every in-ning and the response was the same: Elliott wanted to

pitch. Eastview coach Trev-or Monroe said the two pitchers are examples of how successful athletes have to block out discom-fort. “Our girls had the atti-tude that ‘We’re sore, we’re tired, but we’re still go-ing to give 100 percent,’” Monroe said. “In the playoffs, even though we weren’t 100 percent physi-cally, we rarely made a mental mistake. We might have missed a sign seven or eight games ago, but that’s it.” Eastview took a 19-game winning streak into the state final, but that – and the Lightning’s cham-pionship hopes – were in jeopardy when Anoka outfielder Taylor Chell launched the first pitch of

the fourth inning about 50 feet beyond the outfield fence. “I was thinking, shoot, I gave up a run. If we lose, it’s going to be my fault. It was very frustrating,” Hoshaw said. A teammate reminded Hoshaw that the Light-ning hadn’t been shut out all season, and in the sixth Eastview struck back. Hoshaw walked and Jamie Reynolds singled to lead off the inning. Me-lissa Barry bunted and the Anoka throw to first base was wild, allowing Sydney Dose (a courtesy runner for Hoshaw) to score from second base. Moments later, the um-pires said Barry was out and motioned the run-ners back to their original bases. Monroe said the

umpires ruled Barry had dropped her bat on the ball while it was in fair ter-ritory. “I was mad,” said Hai-ley Monroe, the Light-ning’s next hitter. “But ac-tually, I didn’t see it. I was pretty determined to pick up Melissa.” Which she did with an RBI single to left field that tied the game. Wissbaum walked to lead off the seventh. Abby Lien flew out to center field. That brought up Lu-ciano, whose line drive just eluded Chell, who crashed into the fence. Chell’s foot appeared to get caught in the temporary fence and Wissbaum scored from first. “Taylor’s come up with

huge catches for us time and time again,” Jesinoski said. “Unfortunately, she just couldn’t get to that one.” Luciano sensed her op-portunity and took advan-tage. “I don’t really like extra innings, so why not me?” she said. Anoka (24-2-1), which defeated Chanhassen 3-0 and Becker 6-3 in the first two rounds of the tourna-ment, took second place in its second state appear-ance. The other was just two years ago.

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Eastview’s Sam Gall slides into third base in the seventh inning of a state Class 3A soft-ball tournament game against Maple Grove. In the fourth inning, Gall doubled to drive in Hailey Monroe with the only run in the Lightning’s 1-0 victory. (Photo by Bill Jones) Eastview’s celebration begins after the Lightning defeated

Anoka 2-1 in the state Class 3A softball finals. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Eagan relays are historically fastWildcat boys

break two state meet records

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


Josh Brown, Troy Brown and Dallas Krech have been teammates on an Eagan boys 4x100-me-ter relay for several years. The thing is, it takes four sprinters to run that relay. “We stuck with it, no one changed,” Josh Brown said Saturday. “We always tried to find the fastest runner we could to run the fourth leg.” Last year that was Jake Gourley, and even after Gourley went down with an injury, Joseph Williams filled in and the Wildcats got fourth at state in the 4x100. This year, however, they got their man. After sev-eral years of listening to his classmates plead with him to join the track team, Sam Zenner agreed to try it. The results were his-toric. In his only season of high school track and field, Zenner anchored two Eagan relays that set state meet records and won the 100 dash. Zenner, the South Sub-urban Conference’s lead-ing rusher in football in 2014 and a captain of Eagan’s state champion-ship swimming team last winter, previously played baseball in the spring. But he sensed he had plateaued in baseball and wasn’t like-ly to pursue that sport in college. He was ready for a change. “By the end of last sea-son, baseball wasn’t re-ally my thing. I wanted to switch it up a bit,” Zenner said. “I came into track with an open mind and let my teammates and coach-es mold me into who they wanted me to be.” In Saturday’s state Class AA finals at Ham-line University, Zenner won the 100 in 10.83 sec-onds, edging Evan Mc-Clellon of Robbinsdale Armstrong and Akeem Sirleaf of North St. Paul.

Later in the meet, Sirleaf and McClellon finished first and second in the 200 dash, an event Ze-nner didn’t run because he chose to run two relays for Eagan. In the 4x200, Josh Brown, Williams, Troy Brown and Zenner took first in 1 minute, 26.96 sec-onds. They ran 1:26.91 in the preliminaries Friday, breaking the all-time state meet record by one hun-dredth of a second. About 45 minutes af-ter Eagan won the 4x100, Josh Brown, Krech, Troy Brown and Zenner blazed to victory in the 4x100 in 41.52, breaking their state meet record of 41.70 from Friday’s preliminaries. Be-fore last weekend, an East-view relay had held the 4x100 state record for 12 years. The public address an-nouncer at Hamline Uni-versity pointed out that second-place Minnetonka would have broken the state meet record in the 4x100 – if, of course, Ea-gan hadn’t dominated that event all weekend. “We worked really hard for this,” Josh Brown said. “Our coaches worked us harder than we ever had before. “At the Hamline Elite meet (in April), we ran a time we never ran before and thought maybe we could get (the state record) if we improved our hand-offs. Then at the section meet we went 41.7 and were like, ‘Oh, we’re pretty close.’ ” Zenner said he went out for track in part because he thought it would be a good way to stay in shape for football (he has signed with South Dakota State) and in part because he wanted to see if he could help the team. First, Zenner’s team-mates said, he had to “fix” his stride. Nothing major, but he had a shorter, chop-py stride better suited for changing direction on the football field. “Mr. (Jesse) Madson (Eagan assistant track coach) said I had a short

stride length,” Zenner said. “He just told me to open up my stride and re-lax.” The Browns, Wil-liams and Zenner are the seniors in Eagan’s state championship sprint re-lay group. While Zenner would seem to have a fu-ture in track and field if he wanted it, he said he’s not likely to attempt it in college. Between an engi-neering major and Divi-sion I football, he said that probably wouldn’t leave enough time for a second sport. One day soon, Zenner might line up in the South Dakota State backfield and pursue school re-cords set by his brother. Zach Zenner had three 2,000-yard seasons with the Jackrabbits and signed with the Detroit Lions in April. Eagan scored 40 points in the Class AA boys team competition to place sixth. Also scoring for the Wild-cats were senior Derrick Griffin, who placed sev-enth in the 110 hurdles in 15.12, and the 4x400 relay of Thomas Jakkola, Ryan Steger, Williams and Troy Brown, who finished ninth in 3:35.99.

Eagan girls The Wildcats also placed sixth in the Class AA girls team competi-tion. They were the No. 2 South Suburban Confer-ence team at the state meet behind Lakeville South, which won by 3.5 points over St. Michael-Albert-ville. Eagan’s highest finish

in the girls meet was a sec-ond place by the 4x400 re-lay of Natalie Windels, Ol-ivia Mitchell, Kelli Praska and Maddie Gourley, who finished second in 3:53.29. Lakeville South won the event in a state meet record 3:50.12, and South’s vic-tory in that event clinched the team championship. Gourley was third in

the 200 (25.55) and ninth in the 400 (59.66). Praska was eighth in the 800 (2:21.47), Anna Van Wyk was seventh in the 3,200 (10:57.56) and Windels was seventh in the 100 hurdles (15.38). The 4x800 relay team of Van Wyk, Aryn Embret-son, Mitchell and Praska

Sam Zenner of Eagan (second from right) out-sprinted his competition to win the 100-meter dash at the state Class AA track and field finals Saturday at Hamline University. Zenner also anchored two Eagan relays that set all-time state meet records. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Eagan’s Josh Brown (left), Dallas Krech, Troy Brown and Sam Zenner pose with the medals after winning the Class AA boys 4x100-meter relay. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

See TRACK, 13A


“Professional Service at an Affordable Rate”

Nick Asta of Eagan hits a tee shot during the first round of the state Class 3A boys golf tournament in Coon Rapids. (Photo by Jason Olson)

Eagan’s Asta contends at state golf by Mike Shaughnessy


Despite having five players shoot in the 70s, Lakeville South stood in fourth place after Tues-day’s first round of the state Class 3A boys golf tournament. The final round of the 36-hole state tourna-ment was still in progress Wednesday afternoon at the newspaper’s print edition deadline. For an update, go to www.sun-thisweek.com. Edina, Wayzata and White Bear Lake all shot 302 on the first day of the boys Class 3A tourney. Lakeville South was at 309, two strokes ahead of fifth-place Buffalo.

South’s top player Tuesday was junior Trey Sheehan, who shot 76 and was tied for 12th in the individual competition. Junior Noah Rasinski and sophomore Tanner Sper-ling both shot 77. Senior Max Redetzke and soph-omore William Moore shot 79 and junior Matt Mills had an 85. A team’s top four individual scores count toward the team to-tal. Lakeville South, which won the South Suburban Conference and Section 1 championships, is at the Class 3A tournament as a team for the first time. Several local boys who qualified for state indi-vidually had completed their second rounds by

the newspaper’s deadline. Eagan senior Nick Asta, who was tied for second after the first round with an even-par 72, shot 80 in his second round for a 152 total. He was eight over par for his final nine holes. Eagan senior Phil John-son finished at 80-76–156, Apple Valley junior Jon Koenig shot 77-80–157 and Lakeville North soph-omore Max McGlade had 83-86–159. Lakeville North senior Eric Oberg shot 76 in his first round and still was on the course Wednesday afternoon. Lakeville North ju-nior Brianna Vetter was in fourth place after the first day of the girls tour-nament with a 75, putting her three strokes behind

the leader, Hannah Han-kinson of Edina. Vetter’s teammate, ninth-grader Megan Welch, shot 80 and was tied for 14th place. Other South Suburban Confer-ence players in the girls state tourney include Ap-ple Valley senior Rachel Harty (81), Rosemount ninth-grader Sydney Re-galado (83), Eastview ju-nior Holly McPhee (87), Lakeville South sopho-more Alexa Weber (88), Eastview junior Hayley Christensen (89) and Ea-gan senior Karli Simon (97).

Email Mike Shaughnessy at [email protected].

Eastview hires girls basketball coach Molly Kasper, varsity assistant girls basketball coach at Rosemount High School the last three seasons, has been named head girls basket-ball coach at Eastview. Kasper replaces Me-lissa Guebert, who re-signed after the 2014-15 season to spend more time with her family. In four seasons as head coach, Guebert coached the Lightning to four state tournament ap-pearances and the 2014 Class 4A championship. Kasper helped lead Rosemount to a 19-8 season in 2014-15. The Irish reached the Class 4A, Section 3 champi-onship game, losing to Eastview. “I am excited to join the Eastview family and girls basketball pro-gram. The tradition of excellence is one of the best in the state, and I am grateful to have the opportunity to continue the tradition that has been laid before me by previous coaches and players,” Kasper said in a statement. “Most importantly, I am grateful for the op-portunity to work with and mentor young, fe-male student-athletes, as they navigate through their high school ca-reers, both on and off the court. I look forward to the adventure and the progress to come.” A native of Eau Claire, Wis., Kasper was a four-year starter at Wi-nona State, leading the team to a school-record 24 victories in 2008-09 and its first NCAA Di-vision II tournament ap-pearance. Kasper graduated from Winona State with a degree in business edu-cation in 2009. She also holds a master’s degree in education leadership and sports management and recently completed her special education license. She is a special education teacher at Scott Highlands Middle School.

finished sixth in the 4x800 relay in 9:21.69.

Burnsville Kevin Kucera’s previ-ous experience at the state track and field meet was a “trainwreck.” Says who? Says

Kuchera, who said nerves affected him when he threw the discus at the 2014 Class AA meet. “Junior year I did this, and it was a trainwreck,” the Burnsville senior said after finishing second in the discus at the 2015 state meet. “It was horrible. The nerves get to you. This

place (Klas Field at Ham-line University, where the state meet is held) is so much bigger.” It should be noted that as poorly as Kuchera thinks he performed at state last year, he still came away with a seventh-place medal. It also helped him develop a game plan for this year’s meet, which in-cluded getting plenty of sleep. “I like to take a little nap before. That really calms me down,” he said. “Nerves were still a prob-lem, but not as big of a problem this year.” His best throw in Satur-day’s Class AA discus fi-nals was 161 feet, 10 inch-es, good for second place behind Terrance Howard of Park Center, who threw 176-05. Kucera’s performance exceeded at least some of his expectations. “I was expecting third, actually,” he said. “Kieran (McKeag of Apple Valley) was favored, but he had a tough day. I was expecting a 170 – that’s 10 feet more than I usually throw – but it still was a (personal re-cord).” Kucera, who has thrown since ninth grade, said better consistency has helped him. “This year my strength didn’t increase much, but my form got better,” he said. “I had one throw last year that was about the

same distance I’m throw-ing now, but I’m just a lot more consistent this year.” Kucera will attend the University of Wisconsin and said he will look into walking on to the track and field team. He scored 10 of Burns-ville’s 15 points in the

Class AA team competi-tion. The Blaze also had a fifth place in the 4x200 relay, where Oluwaseyi Aguda, Keenan Winge, Brett Shepley and Steph Olson ran 1 minute, 29.20 seconds.

TRACK, from 12A

Kaytlyn Larson of Lakeville South and Kelli Praska of Eagan run in the girls 4x400-meter relay at the state Class AA meet. Eagan finished second in the race, trailing only Lakeville South, which set a state meet record. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Burnsville’s Kevin Kucera lets loose with the discus at the state Class AA track and field meet. He finished second in the event. (Photo by Mike Shaughnessy)

Two Eastview athletes take home goldAV’s McKeag dominates in boys shot put at state

by Mike ShaughnessySUN THISWEEK


Two Eastview High School athletes returned home from the state track and field meet with first-place medals, fulfilling promise they had shown all year, if not longer. Lightning senior Leron Norton, who had been near the top of the state honor roll in the boys 400 meters, completed his per-sonal triple by adding a state Class AA champion-ship to his Section 3AA and South Suburban Con-ference titles. Natalie Manders, a ju-nior, was at the top of the state honor roll in girls dis-cus since the start of the

season and finished it with her first state champion-ship. Norton held off a chal-lenge from St. Michael-Albertville senior Josh Tracy to win the boys 400 in 48.26 seconds in Satur-day’s state finals at Ham-line University. Last year Norton did not qualify for state in the 400 after finishing third in the Section 3AA meet. “I just wanted to make sure I got here and wasn’t on the outside looking in at the end of the year,” he said. “I got a lot big-ger and stronger from my junior to senior year, and I think that was the differ-ence.” Norton ran 48.45 to

win the Section 3AA meet and had a 48.42 in the state preliminaries. In the Eastview girls’ first outdoor meet of 2015, Manders launched the discus 167 feet, 6 inch-es. Maggie Ewen, a former state champion from St. Francis who now com-petes at Arizona State, is the only Minnesota girl believed to have thrown it farther. Manders was first in discus at all of her meets this season, often by wide margins. At state, she needed a clutch throw on her final attempt to win the championship. Manders set the mark to beat of 145-3 in the first round of three throws. In

the finals, she fouled on her first two attempts be-fore making a throw of 153-3. She needed that to win because Blake ju-nior Cynthia Salone had thrown 146-3 on her final attempt. Manders also earned a medal in the shot put, throwing 41-10.5 to place sixth. She scored 16 of the Eastview girls’ 21 points at the state meet.

Apple Valley It’s fair to say Apple Valley junior Kieran McKeag dominated the Class AA boys shot put at last weekend’s state track and field meet. Not only did he have the winning throw (59

feet, 8.5 inches), McKeag had five throws that were longer than the best toss by anybody else in the competition at Hamline University. “It’s about 2 feet off my (personal record), but I’m definitely satisfied,” McK-eag said. “I was the top seed coming in here, so there was some pressure, but I was consistent with my throws.” McKeag fouled just once in six attempts. All of his measured throws were 57-1.5 or longer. Achieving consistency can be difficult in the shot put, “especially if you’re a ‘spinner’ like I am,” McK-eag said. “It takes years to get that technique down.”


LEGAL NOTICES

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NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

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

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

DATE OF MORTGAGE: May 2, 2014MORTGAGOR: Daniel Lennart-

son, a/k/a, Daniel W. Lennartson, and Aneta Lennartson, husband and wife.

MORTGAGEE: Fifth Third Mortgage Company.DATE AND PLACE OF RE-

CORDING: Recorded June 27, 2014 Dakota County Recorder, Document No. 3017447.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: NONE

TRANSACTION AGENT: NONETRANSACTION AGENT’S

MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON MORTGAGE: NONE

LENDER OR BROKER AND MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE:

Fifth Third Mortgage CompanyRESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE

SERVICER: Fifth Third BankMORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-

DRESS: 697 East Burnsville Park-way, Burnsville, MN 55337

TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 02.57200.00.028LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF

PROPERTY:Apartment No. 18, Building No.

5 Apartment Ownership No. 30, Burnhill Townhomes, Dakota Coun-ty, Minnesota.

COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Dakota

ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $102,150.00

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

$104,955.69That prior to the commence-

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

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

DATE AND TIME OF SALE: July 16, 2015 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Of-

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

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

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed un-der section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on January 19, 2016, unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next week-day, and unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.

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

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

Dated: May 7, 2015Fifth Third Mortgage CompanyMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688867 - 15-003511 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published in Burnsville/EaganMay 15, 22, 29,

June 5, 12, 19, 2015392246

CITY OF EAGANPUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

DATE/LOCATION OF HEARING: Advisory Planning Commission Meeting: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 6:30 pm, City Hall Council Cham-bers, 3830 Pilot Knob Rd

DEVELOPMENT/APPLICANT: MN Autism Center/Dan MuellerLOCATION/LEGAL DESCRIP-

TION: 3800 Tesseract Place, Outlot A, Tesseract Addition

REQUEST(S):RezoningA Rezoning of approximately 6.5

acres from CGD, Cedar Grove Dis-trict to PD, Planned Development.

File Number: 19-RZ-02-05-15Preliminary Planned A Preliminary Planned Develop-

ment of approximately 12.5 acres to create a school complex with an additional 47,500 sq. ft. building.

File Number: 19-PD-01-05-15Final PlatA Final Plat of approximately

12.5 acres.File Number: 19-FP-01-05-15QUESTIONS: Call the Planning

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

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DATE OF MORTGAGE: July 31, 2007MORTGAGOR: Rachel A. Schaf-

fer and David W. McDonial, wife and husband.

MORTGAGEE: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A..DATE AND PLACE OF RE-

CORDING: Filed October 23, 2007, Dakota County Registrar of Titles, Document No. 619191 on Certifi-cate of Title No. 158835.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: Countrywide Bank, FSB. Dated July 31, 2007 Filed October 23, 2007, as Docu-ment No. 619192. And thereafter assigned to: Bank of America, N.A. successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP f/k/a Coun-trywide Home Loans Servicing LP. Dated October 1, 2008 Filed Oc-tober 24, 2008, as Document No. T634904.

Said Mortgage being upon Reg-istered Land.

TRANSACTION AGENT: NONETRANSACTION AGENT’S

MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON MORTGAGE: NONE

LENDER OR BROKER AND MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE:

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE

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

DRESS: 4621 Penkwe Way, Eagan, MN 55122


PROPERTY: Lot One (1), Block Eight (8), in Johnny Cake Ridge 3rd Addition, CIC No. 341







DATE AND TIME OF SALE: August 6, 2015 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Of-



TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed un-der section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on February 8, 2016 unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next week-day, and unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.



Dated: June 4, 2015Bank of America, N.A.Mortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688818 - 15-003825 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published in Burnsville/EaganJune 12, 19, 26,

July 3, 10, 17, 2015406021

CITY OF EAGANPUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

CITY OF EAGAN DATE/LOCATION OF HEARING:

Advisory Planning Commission Meeting: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 6:30 pm, City Hall Council Cham-bers, 3830 Pilot Knob Rd

DEVELOPMENT/ APPLICANT: Wyatt Sharing and Caring/Peter Deanovic

LOCATION/LEGAL DESCRIP-TION: 510 Lone Oak Rd, Lot 1, Block 1, Gift of Mary

REQUEST(S):RezoningA Rezoning of approximately

33 acres from A, Agriculture to I-1, Limited Industrial.

File Number:12-RZ-01-05-15QUESTIONS: Call the Planning

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


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DATE OF MORTGAGE: July 1, 2005MORTGAGOR: Carol St. John, a single person.MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-

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

CORDING: Filed August 15, 2005, Dakota County Registrar of Titles, Document No. 572048 on Certifi-cate of Title No. 137105.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Dated January 12, 2015 Filed February 17, 2015, as Document No. T741732.

Said Mortgage being upon Reg-istered Land.

TRANSACTION AGENT: Mortgage Electronic Registra-

tion Systems, Inc.TRANSACTION AGENT’S

MORTGAGE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON MORTGAGE:

100137510000202533LENDER OR BROKER AND

MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED ON MORTGAGE:

Lakeland Mortgage CorporationRESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE

SERVICER: Nationstar Mortgage LLCMORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-

DRESS: 910 Travelers Trail East, Burnsville, MN 55337


PROPERTY:Residential Unit No. 74 and Ga-

rage Unit No. 74A, Condominium No. 56, Castle Crest Condomini-ums, located in the County of Da-kota, Minnesota.








fice, Law Enforcement Center, 1580 Hwy 55, Lobby #S-100, Hast-ings, MN to pay the debt then se-cured by said Mortgage, and taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, includ-ing attorneys’ fees allowed by law subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns unless reduced to Five (5) weeks under MN Stat. §580.07.

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed un-der section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on January 11, 2016, unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next week-day, and unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.



Dated: April 30, 2015Nationstar Mortgage LLCMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-688821-15-001093 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published in Burnsville/EaganMay 8, 15, 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2015

388942

PUBLIC NOTICE TO TRANSPORTATION

PROVIDERSProAct, Inc. of Eagan, Minn.

Hereby provides notice that it in-tends to apply to the Minnesota De-partment of Transportation for the following transportation equipment to serve persons with disabilities in the cities of Apple Valley, Lakeville and Burnsville, Minnesota; (A) One (1) Medium bus (class 400) with 12 permanent seated positions and 2 non-permanent flip seats to ac-commodate individuals in wheel-chairs. Individuals or agencies seeking to request transportation service, coordinate transportation with ProAct or comment about the application should contact Jane Snyder, Transportation Coordina-tor, at ProAct, 3195 Neil Armstrong Blvd, Eagan, MN 55121, (651) 289-3159. The deadline for submitting this application is July 31, 2015.

Published in Apple Valley, Burnsville/

Eagan, LakevilleJune 12, 2015

405133




DATE OF MORTGAGE: July 28, 2005MORTGAGOR: Lishianna M.

Rolbiecki, a single person.MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-

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

CORDING: Recorded August 9, 2005 Dakota County Recorder, Document No. 2349189.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as Trustee for the Cer-tificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2005-11. Dated August 18, 2009 Recorded September 10, 2009, as Document No. 2683442.






America’s Wholesale LenderRESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE

SERVICER: Green Tree Servicing LLCMORTGAGED PROPERTY AD-

DRESS: 1141 Aston Circle, Burns-ville, MN 55337


PROPERTY: Lot 20, Block 1, Wood Park Plat Sixteen









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

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed un-der section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on January 15, 2016 unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next week-day, and unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.



Dated: May 7, 2015The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York, as TrusteeMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-68888 - 15-001279 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published in Burnsville/EaganMay 15, 22, 29,

June 5, 12, 19, 2015391419




DATE OF MORTGAGE: October 11, 2013MORTGAGOR: Jason Orr, a single man.MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-

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

CORDING: Recorded October 24, 2013 Dakota County Recorder, Document No. 2983025.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: Green Tree Servicing LLC. Dated January 12, 2015 Recorded January 14, 2015, as Document No. 3047287.





MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR STATED

ON MORTGAGE: Quicken Loans IncRESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE


DRESS: 3240 Valley Ridge Drive, Eagan, MN 55121


PROPERTY:Unit Number 63, Common In-

terest Community Number 347, A Planned Community, Valley Ridge Townhomes







DATE AND TIME OF SALE: June 26, 2015 at 10:00 AMPLACE OF SALE: Sheriff’s Of-



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



Dated: April 20, 2015Green Tree Servicing LLCMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-68888 - 15-002766 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.

Published in Burnsville/EaganMay 8, 15, 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2015

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CITY OF BURNSVILLEMINNESOTA

ORDINANCE NO. 1343SUMMARY OF AN ORDINANCE

AMENDING TITLE 3, CHAPTER

1 – INTOXICATING LIQUOR AND

3.2 PERCENT MALT LIQUOR TO

ESTABLISH BREWER TAPROOM

AND COCKTAIL ROOM LICENS-

ES, TO REMOVE THE CAP ON

THE NUMBER OF OFF-SALE LI-

CENSES, AND MISCELLANEOUS

UPDATES TO BE CONSISTENT

WITH CURRENT POLICY, PRO-

CEDURE, AND LEGISLATION

On June 2, 2015 the City Coun-cil of the City of Burnsville adopted a City Code amendment to Title 3, Chapter 1 (Intoxicating Liquor and 3.2 Percent Marl Liquor).

The amendments address the following:

1. Definition of “Brewer Taproom License” has been added. This would allow a brewer to sell their beer in a taproom connected to the brewery. An off-sale license would be required to sell growlers.

2. Definition of “Cocktail Room License” has been added. This would allow for a distillery to sell their liquor for consumption on premise. An off-sale license would be required to sell a 375 milliliter bottle for consumption off premise.

3. Definition of Off-Sale Intoxi-cating Liquor License – this re-moves the limit of off-sale licenses, previously the limit was based on population. Removing the limit would allow brewpubs and tap-rooms to sell growlers since off-sale licenses would no longer be capped at 12.

4. Housekeeping amendments reflect current procedures, legisla-tion, and policy.

5. Incorporate legislation passed May 1, 2015 to allow growler sales on Sundays and on-sale alcoholic beverage consumption beginning at 8:00 am on Sundays (previously 10:00 am).

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

APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION this 2nd day of June, 2015 by the City Council of the City of Burns-ville.BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUN-CIL MACHEAL COLLINS, CITY CLERK


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DATE OF MORTGAGE: July 11, 2007MORTGAGOR: Caroline Schlu-

eter, a single person.MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Elec-

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

CORDING: Recorded August 15, 2007 Dakota County Recorder, Document No. 2537511.

ASSIGNMENTS OF MORT-GAGE: Assigned to: Green Tree Servicing, LLC. Dated July 28, 2014 Recorded July 29, 2014, as Document No. 3022075.






Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE


DRESS: 12930 Nicollet Avenue South #201, Burnsville, MN 55337


PROPERTY:Apartment No. 201, Apartment

Ownership 15, 12930 Nicollet Av-enue So. Ridgeview Condominium, Dakota County, Minnesota.









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

TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied, single-family dwelling, unless otherwise pro-vided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must va-cate the property if the mortgage is not reinstated under section 580.30 or the property is not redeemed un-der section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on January 11, 2016 unless that date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, in which case it is the next week-day, and unless the redemption period is reduced to 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs. 580.07 or 582.032.



Dated: May 1, 2015Green Tree Servicing LLCMortgagee/Assignee of MortgageeUSSET, WEINGARDEN AND LI-EBO, P.L.L.P.Attorneys for Mortgagee/Assignee of Mortgagee4500 Park Glen Road #300Minneapolis, MN 55416(952) 925-68888 - 15-002023 FCTHIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR.


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MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE AMENDMENT

TO CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAMEMinnesota Statutes, 333

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

ASSUMED NAME: Central Park CommonsPRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 3333 Pilot Knob RoadEagan, MN 55121NAMEHOLDER(S): CSM Central Park Commons, L.L.C.500 Washington Ave. S #3000Minneapolis, MN 55415-1151This certificate is an amendment

of Certificate of Assumed Name File Number 697532600022

Originally filed on August 30, 2013

I, the undersigned, certify that I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in


LEGAL NOTICES

both capacities. I further certify that I have completed all required fields, and that the information in this document is true and correct and in compliance with the appli-cable chapter of Minnesota Stat-utes. I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Section 609.48 as if I had signed this document under oath.

DATE FILED: June 2, 2015SIGNED BY: Eugene M. Bowar

Published in Burnsville/EaganJune 12, 19, 2015

404270

CITY OF EAGANNOTICE BY THE CITY OF EAGAN, MINNESOTA OF

ITS INTENT TO CONSIDER AN APPLICATION

FOR A FRANCHISENotice is hereby given that it is

the intent of the City Council of the City of Eagan, Minnesota, to con-sider the application for a franchise for the purpose of operating a cable communications system to serve the City of Eagan, Minnesota. This notice is given in accordance with the requirements of Minn. Stat. § 238.081.

Applications shall be submit-ted in response to this Notice and Request for Proposals available on request in the office of the Commu-nications Director, Tom Garrison at 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan, MN 55122.

A. The deadline for submitting applications is July 3, 2015.

B. Applications shall be in writ-ing, notarized, in a format consis-tent with the Request for Propos-als, and sealed with three (3) copies enclosed. Applications shall be delivered to the attention of Tom Garrison, Communications Direc-tor, City of Eagan, 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan, MN 55122. Two (2) additional copies shall be simulta-neously submitted to the City’s out-side legal counsel, Brian Grogan, Moss & Barnett at 150 South Fifth Street, Suite 1200, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402.

C. Pursuant to Minn. Stat. 238.081 subd. 8, Applicants will be required to reimburse the City for all necessary costs of processing a cable communications franchise. Each application shall include an application fee of Ten Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($10,000) in the form of a check made payable to the City of Eagan, Minnesota. Any unused portion of the appli-cation fee shall be returned to the Applicant and any additional fees required to process the application and franchise beyond the applica-tion fee shall be assessed to the Applicant.

D. Applicants are requested to be present at a public hearing be-fore the City Council that is pres-ently scheduled to be held at City Hall, beginning at 6:30 p.m. on July 21, 2015. Each applicant will be given time to summarize its appli-cation.

E. The Request for Proposals sets forth in detail the expecta-tions of the City of Eagan, Minne-sota and the requirements of the content of the franchise proposal and are made in conformance to the requirements of Minn. Stat. § 238.081, subd. 4.

F. The services to be offered are identified in the Request for Proposals and include a system providing public, educational and governmental access channels consistent with state law; a mix, level and quality of programs and services comparable to other sys-tems in the region serving similar sized communities and customer services and maintenance plans to ensure quality service to the sub-scriber. The Request for Proposals provides further details of the ser-vices to be offered.

G. The criteria for evaluating the applications and priorities for se-lection are as follows:

1. The completeness of applica-tions and conformance to Request for Proposals;

2. Customer service policies and system testing;

3. The legal, technical, and fi-nancial qualifications of the appli-cant; and

4. The proposal for community services, including public, educa-tional, and governmental access in accordance with state law.

H. Applications which meet the above criteria in the opinion of the City Council shall be considered for a franchise.

I. The applicant(s) selected by the City Council will be required to accept the franchise documents granted within thirty (30) days after adoption.

J. All questions concerning this request should be directed to Tom Garrison, Communications Direc-tor, City of Eagan, 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan, MN 55122; phone (651) 675-5008.

Date: June 12, 2015CITY OF EAGAN, MINNESOTABy: Christina M. ScipioniIts: Clerk


406019

MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE CERTIFICATE

OF ASSUMED NAMEMinnesota Statutes, 333

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

ASSUMED NAME: Verde TechnologiesPRINCIPAL PLACEOF BUSINESS: 517 West Travelers TrailBurnsville, MN 55337NAMEHOLDER(S): Verde Environmental Technolo-

gies, Inc.517 West Travelers TrailBurnsville, MN 55337I, the undersigned, certify that

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

DATE FILED: June 5, 2015SIGNED BY: Jason Sundby


405170

CITY OF BURNSVILLE MINNESOTA

ORDINANCE NO. 1344SUMMARY OF AN ORDINANCE

AMENDING TITLE 10, CHAP-

TERS 6 AND 8, TO CREATE A

NEW DRINKING WATER PRO-

TECTION OVERLAY DISTRICT

AND TO AMEND THE ZONING

MAP TO IDENTIFY THE LOCA-

TION OF THE DISTRICT AND

AMENDING TITLE 7 HEALTH

AND SANITATION ESTABLISH-

ING STANDARDS OF PRACTICE

FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE

DRINKING WATER SUPPLY

CASE FILE NO. DEV14-0010

On June 2, 2015 the City Coun-cil of the City of Burnsville adopted a City Code amendments to Title 10, Chapters 6 and 8, and Title 7. The amendments address the fol-lowing:

1) Provisions for new develop-ment, building expansions or land disturbance activities and uses lo-cated within the boundaries of the overlay district will be reviewed to determine if they will impact the drinking water supply. At the time of permit or land-use clearance ap-plication, the use will be reviewed and if needed to protect the water supply, special performance stan-dards may be required. The provi-sions include but are not limited to:

• Paving required• Floor drains• Grit traps• Wash Pads• Grading and Drainage Plans• Stormwater basins are lined• Evidence of required permits

for Regulated Substances2) Existing businesses located

within the boundary of the overlay district will also be inspected and may be required to implement cer-tain performance measures if regu-lated substances are used and/or if the business has the potential to negatively impact the drinking wa-ter supply. The provisions include but are not limited to:

• Regulated substances are properly secured and stored

• Commercial application of Regulated Substances shall meet requirements in code

• Provisions for secondary con-tainment

• Emergency Spill Response Plan required

• Evidence of required permits for Regulated Substances

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

APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION this 2nd day of June, 2015 by the City Council of the City of Burns-ville.BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUN-CIL MACHEAL COLLINS, CITY CLERK


June 12, 2015403951


ORDINANCE NO. 1345AN ORDINANCE AMENDING

TITLE 10 OF THE BURNS-

VILLE CITY CODE, BEING THE

ZONING TITLE OF THE CITY

OF BURNSVILLE BIDHIPUR

PROPERTIES INVESTMENT LLC


The City Council of the City of Burnsville ordains as follows:

Section 1. Title 10 of the Burns-ville City Code is hereby amended to allow and addition and brew pub in accordance with the Amended Planned Unit Development Agree-ment on file in the City clerk’s of-fice dated June 2, 2015, for the fol-lowing described property located within the City of Burnsville, Minne-sota:

Sgarlata Park 2nd Addition, Lot 1, Block 1

Section 2. The zoning map of the City of Burnsville referred to and described in said Title 10, shall not be republished to show the aforesaid rezoning, but the Com-munity Development Director or his/her designee shall appropriately mark the zoning map on file in the city clerk’s office for the purpose of indicating the rezoning provided for in this ordinance and all of the notations, references and other in-formation shown thereon are here-by incorporated by reference and made a part of this ordinance.

Section 3. This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its passage and publication according to law.

PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED THIS 2nd day of June, 2015, by the City Council of the City of Burns-ville. By: Elizabeth B. Kautz, MayorATTEST: Macheal Collins City Clerk


June 12, 2015403960

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 917

REGULAR BOARD MINUTESJUNE 2, 2015

This is a summary of the In-

termediate School District 917 Regular School Board Meeting on Tuesday, June 2, 2015, with full text available for public inspection on the district website at www.isd917.k12.mn.us or the District Office at 1300 145th Street East, Rose-mount, MN 55068.

The meeting was called to order at 5:00 PM. Board meeting was held at 1300 145th Street East, Rosemount, MN. Board members present: Dick Bergstrom, Bob Er-ickson, Ron Hill, Jill Lewis, Dan Cater, Deb Clark, Vanda Pressnall, Joanne Mansur, and administrators were present. Absent: Melissa Sauser. Good news reports were presented. The following Consent Agenda items were approved: minutes, personnel for 2014-2015, donations, bills to be paid, invest-ment report, and wire transfers. Recommended actions approved: New policy 427, Workload Lim-its for Certain Special Education Teachers; Resolution Terminating Probationary Support Service Staff; Personnel Recommendations for 2015-2016; 2016 Levies and Reso-lution Approving the Health and Safety Budget. Board went into closed session to review the super-intendent’s evaluation.

Adjournment at 6:31 PM.Published in

Apple Valley, Lakeville, Burnsville/Eagan

June 12, 2015404317


ORDINANCE NO. 1342AN ORDINANCE AMENDING

TITLE 10 OF THE BURNSVILLE

CITY CODE, BEING THE

ZONING TITLE OF THE CITY

OF BURNSVILLE WALSER

REAL ESTATE V LLC


The City Council of the City of Burnsville ordains as follows:

Section 1. Title 10 of the Burns-ville City Code is hereby amended to remodel the exterior of the exist-ing dealership with metal panels, in accordance with the Amended Planned Unit Development Agree-ment on file in the City Clerk’s of-fice dated April 21, 2015, for the following described property lo-cated within the City of Burnsville, Minnesota:

Lot 1, Block 1, DCH AdditionSection 2. The zoning map of

the City of Burnsville referred to and described in said Title 10, shall not be republished to show the aforesaid rezoning, but the Com-munity Development Director or his/her designee shall appropriately mark the zoning map on file in the City Clerk’s office for the purpose of indicating the rezoning provided for in this ordinance and all of the notations, references and other in-formation shown thereon are here-by incorporated by reference and made a part of this ordinance.

Section 3. This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its passage and publication according to law.

Passed and duly adopted this 21st day of April, 2015, by the City Council of the City of Burnsville.By: Elizabeth B. Kautz, MayorATTEST: Macheal CollinsCity Clerk


June 12, 2015403969

CITY OF EAGANORDINANCE NO.545

2ND SERIESAN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY

OF EAGAN, MINNESOTA,

AMENDING EAGAN CITY CODE

CHAPTER 11 ENTITLED “LAND

USE REGULATIONS (ZONING)”

BY AMENDING SECTION 11.70,

SUBD. 28 REGARDING NON-

COMMERCIAL SIGNS IN CITY

STREETS/RIGHTS-OF-WAY; AND

BY ADOPTING BY REFERENCE

EAGAN CITY CODE CHAP-

TER 1 AND SECTION 11.99.

The City Council of the City of Eagan does ordain:

Section 1. Eagan City Code Chapter 11 is hereby amended by changing Section 11.70, subd. 28 (A)(3)(d) to read as follows:

(d) Local street means a street within the city that is under the exclusive control and jurisdictional authority of the city.

Section 2. Eagan City Code Chapter 1 entitled “General Provi-sions and Definitions

Applicable to the Entire City Code Including ‘Penalty for Viola-tion’” and Section 11.99, entitled “Violation a Misdemeanor” are hereby adopted in their entirety by reference as though repeated ver-batim.

Section 3. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect upon its adoption and publication according to law.ATTEST: CITY OF EAGANCity Council/s/ Christina M. ScipioniIts: City Clerk/s/ Mike Maguire Its: Mayor


June 12, 2015405607

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 196

ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN

PUBLIC SCHOOLSMINUTES OF MAY 11, 2015

REGULAR BOARD MEETINGChairperson Rob Duchscher

called the regular School Board meeting to order at 6 p.m. on May 11, 2015 at Dakota Ridge School.

Present: Joel Albright, Rob Duchscher, chairperson; Gary Huusko, clerk; Jackie Magnuson, vice chairperson; Mike Roseen, Bob Schutte and Superintendent Jane K. Berenz.

Absent: Art Coulson, treasurer.The Pledge of Allegiance was

led by the School Board.Motion by Huusko, seconded by

Roseen and carried, with five mem-bers voting in favor and no member

voting in opposition to approve the agenda.

Schutte arrived at 6:05 p.m.Board members recognized:• Cedar Park Elementary STEM

School, Diamond Path Elementary School of International Studies and Glacier Hills Elementary School of Arts and Science on being named Magnet Schools of Excellence;

• Video production students from Eagan, Apple Valley, Rose-mount and Eastview high schools who were awarded 16 of 23 Crystal Pillar Student Production Awards from the National Academy of Tele-vision Arts and Science (NATAS) Upper Midwest Regional Chapter;

• Five students from Apple Val-ley and Eastview high schools who were Minnesota State Speech Champions, and

• Eagan High School members of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Tech-nology) Robotics Challenge (FRC) Team 2220 Blue Twilight who won the Peoria Regional Robotics Team Championship; members of FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Team 7190 Green Girls who earned the Min-nesota State Inspire Award, and members of the FTC Team 7655 The Q is Silqent who were Minne-sota State Champions.

Superintendent Berenz congrat-ulated 11 Destination ImagiNation teams from nine schools who quali-fied to compete at the Global Finals and Joseph Cunningham, Eastview High School, on being selected a Scholar of Distinction in Theater Arts by the Minnesota Department of Education.

Ann Knudson, resident of Burns-ville, and Dr. Shikha Jain Goodwin, requested the School Board start a Spanish immersion magnet school and shared a petition with the board.

Motion by Huusko, seconded by Schutte and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition to approve the following Consent items:

• Minutes of April 27, 2015 regu-lar board meeting;

• Claims for April 22-May 5, 2015;

• Electronic funds transfer schedule for April 18-May 1, 2015;

• Schedule of investments for April 18-May 1, 2015;

• Gifts valued at $500 or more received by May 5, 2015 totaling $89,764.23;

• Advertising revenue received in April 2015 totaling $1,850;

• Grants valued at $500 or more received by May 5, 2015 totaling $3,500;

• Spring budget adjustments for 2014-15 to accurately reflect ap-proved grant awards and other ap-proved changes;

• Contract with Malloy, Mon-tague, Karnowski, Radosevich & Co., P.A. (MMKR) to conduct the 2014-15 financial records audit;

• Personnel separations, leaves of absence and new staff;

• Agreements for counseling services during 2015-16 between private counselors and Faithful Shepherd Catholic School, St. Jo-seph School and Trinity School;

• Settlement agreement with Lifespan of Minnesota, Inc. for $92,000;

• Resolution to expel a student immediately, through the remainder of the 2015 calendar year, continu-ing through and including Decem-ber 31, 2015, and

• Agreement with the Eagan YMCA and Burnsville YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities to provide school-age care for students in grades K-8 from June 19 through August 14, 2015.

Community Education Services Manager Barb St. Aubin reported on the success of 2014 summer programs and highlighted 2015 program offerings. She announced a new collaborative program that will provide a free meal for students throughout the district, Monday through Friday, July 6 through Au-gust 13 at Echo Park Elementary School and Cedar Park Elementary STEM School.

Director of Finance and Opera-tions Jeff Solomon asked the board to approve the $.10 increase to school lunch prices effective with the 2015-16 school year. He noted breakfast and milk prices would re-main the same.

Motion by Magnuson, seconded by Roseen and carried, with six members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition to ap-prove the increase.

Director of Community Educa-tion Khia Brown asked the board to approve a fee increase of 15 percent for Early Childhood Fam-ily Education programs, effective in 2015-16, and outlined in Admin-istrative Regulation 507.2AR, Stu-dent Fees and Fines.

Motion by Albright, seconded by Schutte and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition to approve the increased fees.

Brown asked the board to ap-prove certain fee increases in Ad-ministrative Regulation 801.5AR, Community Use of District Facili-ties.

Motion by Roseen, seconded by Albright and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition to approve the fee increases.

Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent Kim Craven asked the board to approve revisions to Policy 401, Employment, to align the policy with the Minnesota Hu-man Rights Act and other laws, and reflect current practices.

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Huusko and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition to approve the policy revisions.

Craven presented a revision to combined precincts and desig-nated polling places to move Com-bined Precinct #5 to Apple Valley Municipal Center due to construc-tion at River Valley Church in No-vember 2015.

The board is scheduled to act on

the polling place change at its June 8 meeting.

Solomon reviewed background on the Strategic Planning Facilities and Equipment Task Force that was formed and charged with identify-ing needs to support the district’s strategic goals over the next five to 10 years. The preliminary rec-ommendations included improve-ments in the areas of safety and security, space for learning and learning technology.

On March 9, 2015 the School Board was presented with the fi-nal recommendations estimated at $180 million, with approximately $35 million for safety and secu-rity improvements, $90 million for space for learning and $55 million for learning technology improve-ments. In compliance with state statute, Solomon noted that a Re-view and Comment report must be submitted to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) for approval and asked for authoriza-tion to submit a report based on the task force recommendations.

Motion by Magnuson, seconded by Huusko and carried, with six members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition to ap-prove submitting the Review and Comment to MDE.

Solomon reported the district plans to use professional services for construction management of a transportation hub facility and po-tentially for projects related to a successful bond election this fall and issued a Request for Propos-als. Four written proposals were re-ceived and three firms interviewed. Solomon asked the board for au-thorization to negotiate a contract for construction management ser-vices with Wenck Construction, Inc. Wenck Construction recently acquired Bossardt Corporation, the district’s current manager.

Motion by Albright, seconded by Huusko and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no mem-ber voting in opposition to approve contracting with Wenck Construc-tion, Inc.

Teaching and Learning Coordi-nator Cathy Kindem presented the School Board with the recommen-dations for magnet school themes for Echo Park and Oak Ridge el-ementary schools. In November 2014 the district received notifica-tion from the Minnesota Depart-ment of Education that Echo Park and Oak Ridge were racially identi-fiable schools with 20 percent more students of color than the district average of 35.4 percent. Echo Park was at 56 percent and Oak Ridge at 56.6 percent students of color this year. The Minnesota Desegregation Rule requires school districts to then develop a plan to create ra-cial balance in the district through educationally justifiable, effective, voluntary strategies that provide choice of integrated learning envi-ronments.

Kindem reviewed the timeline of meetings and surveys of staff and parents of preschool through grade 5 students to gauge inter-est in magnet themes and school calendar options. The districtwide survey was completed by 2,682 parents and 66 percent indicated interest in additional magnet pro-grams. Eighty-seven percent of parents indicated interest in STEM and 84 percent in Leadership. The STEM theme was defined as a fo-cus on inquiry and innovation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The Leadership theme was defined as combining academic excellence with devel-oping character – responsibility, respect, integrity and compassion. The top six of 24 other themes of interest were gifted and talented; physical health/wellness/fitness/movement, STEAM, language im-mersion, technology enhanced and special programs such as ADHD or autism.

Kindem reported there were 196 responses from Echo Park parents with 89 percent interested or very interested in STEM and 84 percent in Leadership. There were also 196 responses from Oak Ridge parents with 89 percent interested or very interested in STEM and 88 percent in Leadership. Seventy-six percent of Echo Park and Oak Ridge par-ents thought the district should develop more magnet programs. School calendar options survey results indicated 60 percent of par-ents were interested or very inter-ested in an extended school year; 53 percent in a year-round calendar and 50 percent in a year-round cal-endar with additional days for aca-demic enrichment.

Kindem said Echo Park staff in-dicated they were most interested in Leadership, 89 percent, and STEM, 84 percent. Oak Ridge staff indicated they were most interested in Leadership, 83 percent, and En-vironmental Sciences, 71 percent. Results of the school calendar op-tions by staff were 31 percent for an extended school year; 40.5 percent for a year-round calendar and 28.5 percent for a year-round calendar with additional days for academic enrichment.

In April 2015 survey results were shared at staff meetings at both locations and each school sent three staff members to the National Magnet School of America (MSA) Conference. After the conference, staff and parent/community en-gagement sessions were held at each school to explore proposed themes and gather input and im-mediate feedback. In addition to the survey results and input from staff and community meetings, recommendations for the two new magnet themes were based upon waitlist numbers at the three cur-rent magnet schools and the loca-tions of Echo Park and Oak Ridge schools.

Kindem shared the recommen-dation for magnet themes for Echo Park Elementary School as Engi-neering and Technology (as focus areas of STEM) and Leadership, and the themes for Oak Ridge Ele-mentary School as Leadership and

Environmental/Health Sciences (as focus areas of STEM). She noted the next steps include refining the magnet themes and school names; establishing magnet leadership teams; initiating the planning pro-cess, professional development, and application and enrollment process for operating as magnet schools in 2016-17.

Motion by Albright, seconded by Huusko and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition to approve the magnet themes and implementa-tion timeline.

Berenz reported there are more than 2,000 students who will grad-uate this year. She also noted she responded to Apple Valley resident James Blaz about his concerns with prayer in schools that he ex-pressed at the April 27 board meet-ing. She said the district, like all public schools, is required to per-mit private prayer by students of all religious faiths, provided that the prayer does not materially interfere with the discipline of the school.

Motion by Roseen, seconded by Schutte and carried, with six mem-bers voting in favor and no member voting in opposition to adjourn the meeting at 7:26 p.m.MINUTES OF MAY 18, 2015SPECIAL BOARD MEETING

Vice Chairperson Jackie Mag-nuson called the special School Board meeting to order at 5:03 p.m. on May 18, 2015 at the District Of-fice.

Present: Joel Albright, Jackie Magnuson, vice chairperson; Mike Roseen, Bob Schutte and Superin-tendent Jane K. Berenz.

Absent: Art Coulson, treasurer; Rob Duchscher, chairperson and Gary Huusko, clerk.

Motion by Albright, seconded by Roseen and carried, with four members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve the agenda.

Motion by Magnuson, seconded by Albright and carried, with four members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to close the meeting pursuant to M.S. 13D.05, Subd. 2(a)(3) for purposes of discussing educational data concerning a student.

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Albright and carried, with four members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to re-open the meeting.

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Roseen and carried, with four members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve a resolution to expel a stu-dent immediately through the first semester of the 2015-16 school year, continuing through and in-cluding January 28, 2016.

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Roseen and carried, with four members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to adjourn the meeting at 5:10 p.m.MINUTES OF MAY 18, 2015SPECIAL BOARD MEETING

Chairperson Rob Duchscher called the special School Board meeting to order at 4:45 p.m. on May 28, 2015 at the District Office.

Present: Joel Albright, Rob Duchscher, chairperson; Jackie Magnuson, vice chairperson; Bob Schutte and School District Attor-ney Jill Coyle.

Absent: Art Coulson, treasur-er; Gary Huusko, clerk and Mike Roseen.

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Albright and carried, with four members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve the agenda.

Motion by Magnuson, seconded by Albright and carried, with four members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to approve a resolution to expel a stu-dent immediately, through the first trimester of the 2015-16 school year, continuing through and in-cluding December 3, 2015.

Motion by Schutte, seconded by Albright and carried, with four members voting in favor and no member voting in opposition, to adjourn the meeting at 4:50 p.m.

Published in Apple Valley, Lakeville,

Burnsville/EaganJune 12, 2015

406559

CITY OF EAGANDAKOTA COUNTY,

MINNESOTA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PROPOSED EASEMENT VACATION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE City Council of the City of Eagan, Dakota County, Minneso-ta, will meet at the City Hall, 3830 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan, Minnesota 55122, on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, at 6:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible. The purpose of the meet-ing will be to hold a public hearing on the vacation of public drainage and utility easements and right-of-way over and across the following described property in the City of Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota:

Drainage and utility easements and right-of-way lying within:

Lot 1, Block 1, and Outlot A, TESSERACT ADDITION, Dakota County, Minnesota.

andAll of vacated Tesseract Place as

platted in the plat of TESSERACT ADDITION, Dakota County, Min-nesota.

andThat part of the Northeast Quar-

ter of Section 19, Township 27, Range 23, Dakota County, Min-nesota, lying Easterly of Old Ce-dar Avenue (now known as Nicols Road).

Dated: June 2, 2015/s/ Christina M. ScipioniEagan City ClerkDakota County, MN


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Heavy Duty Trailer, 5 x 10 Great condition! $1,500/BO. Call Mike 612-414-4893

1500 SPORTING

1530 Watercraft

16’ Lund, Spartan Trail, 35 hp, Johnson Mtr, w/elec- start+extras, 763-533-8061

2500 PETS

2510 Pets

Standard Poodle & Poodle/Newfy X Pups

2 litters, ready now! Call for details. 218-251-2356

3000 ANNOUNCEMENTS

3070 OrganizationalNotices

EG/BV & Savage AA MeetingsSun 6:30pm AA,

Mon 10am Alanon, & 6:30pm AA,

Tues 6:30pm & 8pm AA, Wed 12noon AA,

Thur 6:30pm Alanon& 8pm AA,

Fri 6:30pm AA,Sat 10am ACA,

Sat 8pm AA (Speaker) 3600 Kenebec Dr. 2nd floor, Eagan

(Off Hwy 13)

3500 MERCHANDISE

3510 Antiques &Collectibles

Budweiser Clydesdale Pool Table Light w/dual Clocks $350. Call 952-544-1094

Large China Cabinet made in 1950. Good condition! Asking $175. 763-390-1500

3520 Cemetery Lots

DAWN VALLEY (Peaceful Morning), 2 lots $2,300/ea. or best offer. 612-267-1483

3550 Give Away

Free! Many moving boxes, wardrobe boxes, & clean pack. paper 952-500-9785

3580 Household/Furnishings

18 cu ft refrig, excel cond, Fridgidair, $400 obo. You haul. 763-503-0348

3580 Household/Furnishings

Dining Rm Table & Chairs, China Hutch, Double Bed w/new mattress & box springs, Queen Bed set with mattress & box. 612-206-0145

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3600 MiscellaneousFor Sale

2012 Luxury Walk-In Bath System, no jets, geriatric/handicap accessible, like new! $1,995. 612-889-2867

Amana Portable Air Con-ditioner, 18,000 BTU, Re-mote, $350. 612-408-5997

DR Hutch, white w/light wood trim, $400; Media con-sole, wood, $250; ProForm Exercise bike (Sears) $150. All good cond! 952-736-8277

KILL BOX ELDER BUGS/BEETLES! Harris Asian Beetle/Box Elder Spray. Effective results begin af-ter spray dries. Available: Hardware Stores, The Home Depot, homedepot.com

Oak DR Set w/4 chrs $200; Qn. size bed set $100; 2 BR chest of drwrs $25 each; End tables $25-$50; TV media console $50; small TV stand w/TV $30; (2) tall garage shelving units $15 each. 763-550-9664

3610 MiscellaneousWanted

* WANTED * US Coins, Collections, Proof & Mint Sets. Also Currency

& Tokens & Gold Coins Will Travel. 30 yrs exp

Cash! Dick 612-986-2566

◆ ◆ WANTED ◆ ◆Old Stereo / Hifi equip.

Andy 651-329-0515

4000 SALES

4030 Garage& Estate Sales

3 Sisters EstateCompany helps seniors downsize, and/or prepares any estate for liquidation. LET’S MEET! 763-443-0519

Apple Valley Multi-Family6/18-19 (8-4); 6/20 (9-4) Lots of misc! Cash only.

13352 Hughes Court

Apple ValleySHEPHERD’S SALE

benefiting children in needJune 24-25-26

Wed. (3-7) - No strollers or price scanners on Wed.; Thurs. (9-7); Fri. (8-12)

* Friday Bag Sale *Funds supplemented by

Thrivent Financial.Shepherd of the Valley

Lutheran Church12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Rd

(East of MN Zoo)

Apple Valley, 6/11-13, 8-5. Huge Sale: Amer Girl cloz, cardstock, toys, seasonal & more! 6798 129th St. W.

Apple Valley, June 12 & 13, 8-4 Fri, 8-1 Sat. Baby, kitchen, and HH items, clothing for all, and more! 4904 Dominica Way West

Arden Hills, 6/20-21, 9am-3pm. MUST SEE www.oldisknew.com / upcoming-Sales 4534 Keithson Dr

Bloomington - 6/11, 6/12, & 6/13- 9am-5pm. Clothes, HH, Toys, & Misc! 1 blk off Nicollet & 95th E

Bloomington▶ ▶ ANNUAL SALE ◀ ◀8443 5th Ave. South

June 11, 12, 13 (9am-5pm)

Bloomington, June 13 Sat ONLY, 8-4. Kids Cloz, Furn, Small Appliance, Misc. Items. 9837 Cavell Circle


BloomingtonHeritage Townhomes

Garage Sales. Friday, June 19, 8:30 am - 5pm and Saturday, June

20, 8:30 am - 4pm. Located 1/2 mile south of

Old Shakopee Road & Normandale Blvd.

Bloomington, June 18-20, 8-5. MOVING SALE: Lawn & Patio items, Furn, Tools, HH items. 3609 W. 99th St.

Bloomington, Multi Family Sale!

Tools, Cloz, HH. June 12th & 13th, 9-5. 9225 4th Ave So.

Bloomington: Multi-Fam Sale! Sat. Only! 6/20, (8-4) Corner of Old Shakopee Rd & Normandale Blvd.

Brooklyn Center, June 11-12, 9-3. Awesome Church Rummage Sale: $4 Bag on 6/12. 59th Ave & Irving N.

Brooklyn Park 3 family sale! 6/11-13, Th/F 8a-6p, Sat 8a-1p, Infant toys, HH, wedding, furn, Mary Kay & Partylite, clothes (men, women, childen). 7455 Meadowwood Ct.

Brooklyn Park Estate Sale! 6/18-20, 8am. Lots of furni-ture, tools, gun safe, chair covers/patio umbrella, & more! 7940 June Ave N.

Brooklyn ParkSt. Vincent De PaulBargains & Beyond Sale! 6/11-12 (8-6); 6/13 (8-12) Bag sale 9100 93rd Ave. N.

Burnsville 1304 Forest CirNeighborhood sales 6/10-13 (8-5). Buck Hill (W) park entrance. See Craigslist post

Burnsville, Fri 6/12, 4-7 & Sat 6/13, 8-3, Multi SalesAnnual Garage SaleBirnamwood T-Homes Hwy 13 & Parkwood Dr

BURNSVILLE, Huge Sale!June 16-19, 9-5pm.

7 foot boat bookshelf, home decor, collectibles, ladies and mens cloz, Legos & much, much more!

Freemont Ave S.

Columbia Hts: Thrift/Craft Sale Immaculate Conception Church 6/18-20 Thurs & Fri 8-7; Sat. Bag sale 8-12. Craft Sale is Thurs/Fri only.763-788-9062 ICCSonline.org

4030 Jackson St. NE

Crystal: Sat., June 13 (8-4)Home gym, eliptical,

HH items, furn. & more! 6325 41st Ave. North

Eagan Craft / Boutique 6/25-26-27 (9-3) Cards, baby, kitchen, accessories, doll cloz 1770 Gabbro Trail

EAGAN, 6/11-12 , 9-3. Toys, books, games, puzzle, Cloz (baby, kids, maternity), DVD, CD. 741 Caribou Ln.

Eagan, Multi Family Sale!June 12, 13, 14; 9-6. Kids items, Designer Clothing, HH 1498 Woodview Av W

Eagan: 90 Unit Townhome Community Sale!

6/19-20, 8-4pm. On Cliff Lake Rd, Btwn Rahn & Blackhawk (across from Cub) HH, furniture, glass-ware, clothing, art & more!

Eden Prairie Downsizing!June 18-19-20 Toys, tools, Furn, HH items, & more!8629 Coachmans Lane

EdinaThe Colony at Edina Community Garage SaleBarrie Rd & Colony Way

Thurs-Sat, 6/18-20 (8-5)For map see:

www.colonyedina.com

Farmington Moving Sale6/11-13; 6/18-20 (9-4) DR set, TV stand, leathers, sea-sonal decor, wedding items, collectbls. 1012 Spruce St.


Excelsior, Moving SaleJune 11-13, 8-4. Office Furn, Pool Table, Bar, Ken-more BBQ, Bar Stools, Bed-room Sets, Couches, 2 Day Beds, Entertainment Ctr, Crib, Piano, Dishes, Rugs.

664 Glencoe Road

Farmington, 6/11-13, Thurs-Fri 9-6 Sat 9-12. Power & Hand Tools, 6 Ladders, Lawn Furn, Frig., HH, Antiques & Misc. 5325 & 5379 190th St. West (East of Pilot Knob Road)

Fridley 6/18-19-20 (8-5) Lots of kids cloz (sz 2-4) and misc. items Cash only.6230 6th Street NE

Fridley, 6/12-13, Fri. 2-6; Sat. 10-4. Antiques, collectibles, HH misc. 6114 Star Lane NE

Golden Valley, June 19, 20, 9-3. Multi-Family Sale! Kids, infant, & adults clothes, household goods, electronics, furniture, and more! 2500 Ensign Ave N

Lakeville - Moving SaleSat, June 13 (8-2) Variety of items - Household, Out-door, Books, Music, Mem-orabilia, Tools, and more!21620 Wagonwheel Trail

Lakeville, June 11-13, 9-4. MOVING SALE: HH, Furn, Linens, Books, Games, Misc 17095 Jackson Trail

Lakeville, Th & Fr, 6/18 & 19, 8-6. Multi-Fam. Games, kids clothes, H’Hold items, patio umbrellas, bedding. 11353 178th St W

Minnetonka, 6/11-6/13, TH & F 8:30am-5:00pm, Sat 8:30-1:00pm. Baby toys/stuff and household items- need to sell! 5301 Michaele Lane

Minnetonka, June 13, 9-3. Neighborhood Sale: Tons of Great Stuff! MTKA Blvd. to E. McGinty to Stone Rd. Follow signs. Woodruff Rd & Wellington Rd


New Hope- 6/13- 9a-3pBroadway Village Com-munity Annual Garage Sale! Food, Fun & Fantastic Finds! Lots & Lots of Lots for you & Walking Tacos too! 6046 W. Broadway Ave

Plymouth, Moving Sale, 6/11-6/13, 8-5. Antiques, yard & auto tools, furni-ture, games, decor, HH. 1515 Comstock Lane North

Plymouth: Estate Sale6/11-13, (9-6). Tools, books antq, toys, inside/outside furn. 3120 Holly Ln N

RICHFIELDSt Richard’s Catholic Church

Fri, June 12 (9-5);Sat, June 13 (9-12) $5 Bag day

7540 Penn Ave. Southwww.strichards.com

Roseville Moving Sale, 6/12-13, 9am-3pm. www.oldisknew.com/upcoming -Sales 1884 Alamada Street

Savage

St John’s ChurchSuper Sale

12508 Lynn Ave.Early Bird 6/24 (5-8pm)

$3 Admission;Sale 6/25-26 (9am-8pm);Bag sale 6/27 (9am-2pm)$5/bag or 5 bags for $20For info: 952-890-9465


St Louis Park, Sat. 6/13, 8-4. KID HEAVEN (cloz toys books+), 1st HH, FREE thgs. 3830 Woodland Dr.

St.Louis Park- 6/13-9a-5p. Vintage Toys,Kitchen ,HH,

Office, Linens, Books 2701 Yosemite Ave S.

SUMMIT OAKS, June 11, 12 & 13, 8am-4pm. MULTI HOME SALE BURNSVILLE

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

[email protected]

4500 RENTALS / REAL ESTATE

4510 Apartments/Condos For Rent

Elko New Market- 1Br suite approx 450 sqft- private en-try includs kitch, dining,W/D, all utils. $950 mo Call Tatyana 952-461-2197

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4570 StorageFor Rent

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

4570 StorageFor Rent

Mini Storage: 8 X 20’ and 8 X 40’ Great location! 612-889-8768

5000 SERVICES

5060 ProfessionalServices

Sewing Machine RepairTune Up $19.00

651-600-8291

5090 Asphalt/Black-topping/Seal Coating

30+ Years ExperienceAsphalt Paving & SealcoatQuality Work W/Warranty

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

Mbr: Better Business Bureau

H & H Blacktopping612-861-6009

5140 Carpet, Floor& Tile

Above All Hardwood Floors Installation-Sanding-Finishing

“We Now InstallCarpet, Tile & Vinyl.”

952-440-WOOD (9663)

Escobar Hardwood Floors, LLC

We offer professional services for your wood floors!

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

Professional w/15 yrs exp.

952-292-2349

SANDING-REFINISHINGRoy’s Sanding Service

Since 1951 952-888-9070

5160 Commercial &Residential Cleaning

Wkly/bi-wkly/monthly 10+ years exp., refs. Amber 612-245-3852

5170 Concrete/Mason-ry/Waterproofing

A+ BBB Member

Owners on job site952-985-5516• Stamped Concrete

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

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5370 Painting &Decorating

5350 Lawn &Garden Services

5390 Roofing, Siding& Gutters



5420 Tree Care &Stump Removal


5510 Full-time 5510 Full-time

5510 Full-time

Service Mechanic – Growing petroleum company is looking for a full time service mechanic to help main-tain fleet of trucks in Elk River. Experience required and must have own hand tools. Hours will be Mon-day – Friday from 3:30 pm to midnight, but training will be daytime hours. We offer competitive wages & benefits. No phone calls please!

Email resume to: [email protected] resume to: 763-441-1688 – indicate Service Mechanic

Send resume to: Beaudry Oil & Propane Service Mechanic 630 Proctor Avenue Elk River, MN 55330

Software Developer/.Net (OS150601) with Master’s degree in Comp Science, Comp Apps, Engg(any),Tech or related and 1 yr of exp. to develop, create and modify general comp apps s/w or specialized utility programs. Gather customer s/w req and develop related s/w apps and programs. Involve in req. gathering, preparing tech design document and dev using .Net Framework, ASP. Net and C #.Net , VB.Net. Include in SDLC, design, coding, testing, deployment and maint of s/w apps. Ensure compliance with the documented s/w processes and procedures throughout the life cycle of s/w products.

Work location is Eagan, MN with required travel to client locations throughout USA. Please mail resumes to 2121 Cliff Drive, Suite210, Eagan, MN 55122 or email it to [email protected]


B & D CONCRETE26 Years Experience

Tear outs, Driveways, Floating Slabs, Footings & Block Work, Mini Back

Hole digging. We except Credit Cards.Call 612-290-2516

CONCRETE & MASONRYSteps, Walks, Drives,

Patios Chimney Repair. No job to Sm.

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

DAN’S CONCRETEDriveways, Patios, Sidewalks, Blocks,

Footings, Etc.25 Years of Experience

612-244-8942

Dave’s Concrete & Masonry

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

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

& Floors. New or replacement. Tear out

& removal. Will meet or beat almost any quote! • 952-469-2754 •

Turn your unneeded items in to

$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $Sell your items in Sun•Thisweek Classifieds

952-846-2003

Kelly O’Malley “As owner,

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

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

Lowell Russell Concrete

BBB A+ Rating - Angies List Honor Roll

From the Unique to the Ordinary

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

acid stained floors and counter tops.

www.staincrete.com952-461-3710

[email protected]

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

612-382-5953

5190 Decks

DECK CLEANING & STAINING

Professional and Prompt Guaranteed Results.

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

Code #78

Deck Staining & Repair612-590-1887

Exp’d/Ins/MN Lic.#639793

5210 Drywall

PINNACLE DRYWALL*Hang *Tape *Texture

*Sand Quality Guar. Ins., 612-644-1879

5220 Electrical

DAGGETT ELECTRICGen. Help & Lic. Elec.

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

JNH Electric 612-743-7922Bonded Insured Free Ests

Resid, Comm & Service. Old/New Const, Remodels Serv Upgrades. Lic#CA06197

TEAM ELECTRICteamelectricmn.com

Lic/ins/bonded Res/Com All Jobs...All Sizes

Free Ests. 10% Off W/AdCall 952-758-7585

5240 Fencing

Troy’s Decks & FenceFree Est./Lic BC581059

New/repairs 651-210-1387

5260 Garage Doors

GARAGE DOORS & OPENERS

Repair/Replace/Reasonable

Lifetime Warranty on All Spring Changes

www.expertdoor.com 651-457-7776

5280 Handyperson

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

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

Painting & Flooring#BC679426 MDH Lead SupervisorDale 952-941-8896 office

612-554-2112 cellWe Accept Credit Cards

“Soon To Be Your Favorite Contractor!”

Statuscontractinginc.comFind Us On Facebook

100% Satisfaction Guaranteed952-451-3792

R.A.M. CONSTRUCTIONAny & All Home Repairs

�Dumpster Service�Carpentry

� Baths & Tile �Windows�Water/Fire Damage �DoorsLic-Bond-Ins Visa Accepted

952-484-3337 Call RayR & J

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

Free Quotes & IdeasA-1 Work Ray’s Handyman

No job too small!!Quality Work @ Competitive

Prices! Roofing & Roof RepairRay 612-281-7077

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

One Call Does it All!Call Bob 612-702-8237or Dave 612-481-7258

Home Tune-up • Fix It • Replace It

• Upgrade It Over 40 Yrs Exp.

Ins’d Ron 612-221-9480

Ron’s Handyman ServiceWe do it for you!

952-457-1352

5340 Landscaping

E-Z LandscapeRetaining/Boulder Walls,

Paver Patios, Bobcat Work, Sod, Mulch & Rock.

Call 952-334-9840

LANDSCAPES BY LORAlandscapesbylora.com

Quality work @ competitiveprices. 15+ yrs exp.!

612-644-3580

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

Excellence” •Spring Pricing 612-205-9953

modernlandscapes.biz

RETAINING WALLSWater Features & Pavers. 30+ Yrs Exp /Owner Operator

763-420-3036 952-240-5533

Offering Complete Landscape Services

apluslandscapecreations.com


Swede Outdoor ServicesServing Eagan - Com/Res

Lawn Service 612-810-9374

5370 Painting &Decorating

3 Interior Rooms/$250Wallpaper Removal.

Drywall Repair. Cabi-net Enameling and

Staining. 30 yrs exp. Steve 763-545-0506

612•390•6845Quality ResidentialPainting & Drywall

Ceiling & Wall TexturesH20 Damage-Plaster Repair

Wallpaper RemovalINTERIOR � EXTERIOR

*A and K PAINTING*Schedule Winter Painting!

Painting/Staining. Free Est. 952-474-6258 Ins/Bond

Major Credit Card Accepted

Ben’s PaintingInt/Ext, Drywall Repair

Paint/Stain/Ceilings. Visa/MC/Discvr.,

benspaintinginc.com

952-432-2605 DAVE’S PAINTING

and WALLPAPERINGInt/Ext • Free Est. • 23 Yrs.

Will meet or beat any price! Lic/Ins

Visa/MC 952-469-6800

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

Residential PaintingSince 1983One Room or Whole HouseFree Estimates952-334-5902Mike

5380 Plumbing

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

Jason 952-891-2490

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A Family Operated Business

No Subcontractors Used

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

Ins. 952-891-8586


Budget Roofs, Siding, Windows, Storm Damage. 32yrs, Exp. Lic# 20011251.

Theyson Construction952-894-6226

Re-Roofing & Roof Repairs - 30 Yrs Exp

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

Call 952-925-6156

◆ Roofing ◆ Siding Gutters ◆ Soffit/Fascia

TOPSIDE, INC. 612-869-1177

Lic CR005276 ◆ Bonded ◆ Insured

35 Yrs Exp. A+ Rating BBB

STORM DAMAGE? Dun-Rite Roofing/Siding Locally owned & operated!952-461-5155 Lic# BC177881

www.DunRiteMN.com


$0 For Estimate Timberline Tree & Landscape.

Spring Discount - 25% Off Tree Trimming, Tree

Removal, Stump Grinding 612-644-8035 Remove Large

Trees & Stumps CHEAP!!

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

Reasonable Rates. absolutetreeservicemn.com

Al & Rich’s Low CostStump Removal, Portable Mach. Prof. tree trimming

••• 952-469-2634 •••

ArborBarberMN.com612-703-0175 Mbr: BBB

Trimming, Removal & Stump Grinding.

BretMann Stump GrindingFree Ests. Best$$ Ins’d

Bck Yrd Acc 612-290-1213

Having aGarage Sale?

Advertise your sale with us

952-846-2003Call Jeff for

Stump Removal Narrow Access Backyards Fully Insured

Jeff 612-578-5299

Easy Tree Service, LLCTree Trim / Removal

Lic / Ins. Eugene 651-855-8189

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

952-888-5123

Silver Fox ServicesTree Trimming/RemovalFully Licensed & Insured

BBB AccreditedRegistered W/Dept of Ag.

Located in Bloomington Family Owned & OperatedFree Est. Open 8am-7pm

952-883-0671 612-715-2105

Tall Oaks Tree ServiceTree Removal & Trimming

Free Ests ◆ Fully InsuredAerial Lift 651 707 5074

Thomas Tree Service25 yrs exp./ Expert Climb.

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

Free Ests 952-440-6104


TREE TRUST LANDSCAPE SERVICESYour Tree Care Experts!

Removal & Pruning Emerald Ash Borer Trtmt952-767-3880 Free Est

TreeTrustLS.com Lic/Ins

5440 Window Cleaning

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

Sparkling Clean Window Washing Free ests. Ins’d. 952-451-1294

5500 EMPLOYMENT

5510 Full-time

Accounting Assistant / Entry Level

Accounting Assistant / Entry LevelFull-time Position. Pri-mary responsibility will be entering Purchase Orders and Sales Orders into our accounting sys-tem, posting invoices to Purchase Orders as well as A/P check runs. The ideal candidate will be organized with great at-tention to detail and the ability to multi-task. This position will serve as back up to the front desk when needed. Health Benefits, 401K and paid vacation. Ap-ply in person at: DIVERSIFIED DIST., INC.11921 Portland Ave S.

Suite A Burnsville, MN 55337

[email protected]

Anchor Block Companyhas a FT opening for a Gen-eral Laborer at our Shako-pee Plant. Must maintain clear communication with coworkers for efficient op-eration. Apply via email:[email protected] call Human Resources

at 952-933-8855

Burnsville Trailer Hitch hiring someone with me-chanical ability to install trailer hitches & wiring & related projects. Will train! Apply in person,see Frank

3550 W. Hwy 13

Finish CarpentersSchwieters Co. is hiring.

$1000 hiring bonus for Exp. Finish Carpenter

Great Benefits! Year round work throughout the metro

area. 612-328-3140 to schedule an interview.

Finishcarpenters.comEOE

HOUSE CLEANERS$80-$110/day FT/PT7:20am-3:00pm. We

provide CAR. Burnsville location. 952-432-2134

5510 Full-time

Cabinets/Countertops

BWS designs, fabricates and installs custom coun-tertops and cabinetry for the residential and com-mercial markets. We have openings in the following depts. Countertop Instal-lation for granite, laminate and solid surface, cabinet maker. Related experi-ence helpful. BWS offers competitive compensation in accordance with experi-ence. Benefits available.

Interested individuals can send resume or apply at:Bob’s Wood Specialties, Inc.

14200 Ewing Ave SBurnsville, MN 55306Phone: 952-890-4700

Fax: 952-890-6448EOE

5510 Full-time

General Manufacturing Laborers Needed At

El Dorado Shipping Sack! Would you like to work for a great and growing com-pany - check out the excit-

ing opportunities at El Dorado Shipping Sack (formerly Greif). All posi-tions are full time employ-ment with great pay and

excellent benefits.

Ready to apply?

You can apply at El Dorado 2750 145th Street West, Rosemount MN 55068: Tuesdays – Thursdays from 9 am to 3 pm or email us at [email protected]

with your resume or to request an application.

Laundry Help - Shirt Presser, M-F

Exp Pref. Will Train. Apply in person. Perfect Cleaners

2147 Cliff Rd Eagan


5510 Full-time 5510 Full-time

5520 Part-time

5530 Full-time orPart-time

Positions AvailableECM Publishers, Inc. is a publishing, printing, digital media and distribution company that operates in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Started in 1976 as the vision of founder Elmer L. Andersen, the Company has grown from one paid circulation weekly newspaper and shopper to its current operations which include 49 publications. Most of these newspapers are printed at the company’s Princeton web printing plant in addition to a number of other publications.

ECM Printing, a division of ECM Publishers, Inc., in Princeton, MN is looking for several new employees to meet the demands of our growing business.

ECM Publishers, Inc. offers a competitive salary, benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long-term disability, paid time off and a 401(k) retirement plan. Uniforms are provided. We are a drug free workplace and EOE employer. Employment is contingent on passing a pre-employment, post-offer drug screen.

Press OperatorsECM Publishers is looking for dedicated individuals that have experience in assist-ing or operating a web press. Your experience, skills and abilities will determine what position you would be eligible for. This is a safety sensitive position.

Roll Tender/JoggersWe are looking for individuals who are eager to learn. On-the-job training will be provided for this entry level position. Successful individuals will use this position as the first step to becoming a press-operator.

Mail Room Operators (Post Press)ECM Publishers is looking for organized and efficient individuals that have experience in tending and operating a variety of machines used in the final step of publication production. You must be a team player and be able to change tasks to get the job done on time with minimum waste and disruption to the process.

Mail Room Entry Level (part-time)ECM Printing also has entry level part-time openings in our mail room (post press). These positons are vital to the success of our high speed post press department and regular and reliable attendance is required.

Qualified candidates please submit your resume to JoEllen Lawler, Director, Hu-man Resources, at [email protected] or fax to 763-712-2482. To apply in person visit ECM Printing, 1201 14th Ave S, Princeton, MN 55371 or ECM Corporate Office, 4095 Coon Rapids Blvd., Coon Rapids, MN 55433.





5520 Part-time 5520 Part-time

Trinity Campus $400 Sign-on Bonus

Cook & Diet Aide – PT Positions: Duties include: preparation, serving and clean-up of meals. Ideal Cook candidate will have knowledge of food safety practices and recipe conversion. NAR / CNA – PT:Improve a senior’s quality of life by assisting residents with their daily grooming, dining, ambulation, etc. Candidates must be on the Minnesota Registry.Trinity, a five-star rated senior campus, offers an outstanding compensation package with scheduled pay increases and a fun & rewarding place to grow your career!

Apply online: www.sfhs.org/employment

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

5510 Full-time

** DRIVERS **Tractor-trailer drivers

needed for a Private Fleet delivery operation based in Burnsville, MN. Bridges-tone/Firestone is in the top 100 for private fleets. Driv-er will make hand deliver-ies within a regional area with 2-3 nights out a week.

Physical work required.

•Rate of Pay $0.4500 per mile $22.00 per hour – local $35.00 sleeper pay per night $800 weekly minimum guarantee

•Health Insurance with Dependent Coverage and Dental, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, and

Prescription Card

•401k Pension Program

•Paid Holidays & Vacation

•Work Week is Sun - Friday

•Excellent Bonus Program

•Excellent Equipment

Applicants must be over 24 years old, have a minimum of 2 years tractor-trailer experience and meet all DOT requirements. Please contact CPC Logistics at 1-800-914-3755 or email

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Mohawk Industries, Inc. a leading supplier of floor-ing for both residential and

commercial is currently accepting applications for:

Lift Truck Operator Warehouse

Mendota Heights Starting Pay $14.66 per

hour + shift differential3rd Shift (Sunday shift

starts @ 6pm)(Mon-Thurs shift starts @

8:30pm)

Individual will operate a gas or electric powered lift truck to transport, load/unload or store goods. Candidates must be at least 18 years of age, able to lift 85 lbs several times during shift and operate lift truck controls. Must be able to

Read & Write English.

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PAINTERS NEEDED!Experienced Professional Painters needed. Competi-tive wage. Start immed. 40+ hrs a week. 612-825-7316

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Precision Landscape & Tree is hiring for the fol-lowing full time positions: Heavy Equipment/Diesel Mechanic, Class A Tractor/Trailer Driver, Forestry Log Skidder Operator, Timber Buyer, Log Loader Opera-tor, Consulting Arborist, Climber/Ariel Lift Opera-tor. Please call 651-484-2726 to apply!

5510 Full-time

Optician/Exam Technician

20094 Kenwood Trail, Lakeville, MN 55044

Now Hiring: Busy private optometric practice look-ing for outgoing, confident, and dependable optician/exam technician. Experi-ence is a plus but we are willing to train this indi-vidual. At McDonald Eye Care Associates you are a part of a team provid-ing care to patients of all ages. We stay up to date on the latest technology and fashion trends. Full time benefits include employer contribution to health in-surance, paid vacation, and a retirement program. Also, enjoy every other weekend as a THREE DAY WEEKEND!

If you have had experience in the medical field or you are interested in gaining experience in the medical field, we’d love to hear from you! If you are interested in becoming an optician or exam technician contact us! Opticians work one-on-one with patients to meet their visual and cosmetic needs. Exam technicians perform pretesting for pa-tients prior to seeing the doctor. You may work with a child on their first pair of glasses, literally changing the way they see the world! You also may work with a first time bifocal wearer giving them their youth and near vision back! If you like to problem solve and have solid math skills, we can train you to help our patients see better!

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Set-Up Techniciansnd & rd shifts

Growing plastic molding company seeking career-minded individuals with 1-3 yrs exp in mold set-up and processing. Individu-als with strong mechanical backgrounds are encour-aged to apply. Competitive wages, excellent benefits.

Send resume to:Imperial Plastics, Inc

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Spectrum Landscaping,Inc, a small family owned Landscape Co. in business for over 10 yrs is seeking an energetic exp. Landscape Foreman to work along side the owner-operator. Must be available to work FT- April-Nov. Must have current drivers license with

clean driving record and current health card. Email:[email protected].

5510 Full-time

Receptionist / Administrative

Assistant

Full-time Position. Re-sponsibilities will in-clude directing calls, invoicing, posting A/P and general support functions. Qualified candidate must be posi-tive, have an excellent telephone demeanor, possess excellent verbal and written skills, be computer literate, wel-come responsibility and be motivated by service and quality. Health Benefits, 401K and paid vacation. Apply in per-

son at: DIVERSIFIED DIST., INC.11921 Portland Ave S.

Suite A Burnsville, MN 55337

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TRUCK DRIVERS-OTR/CLASS A CDL Ashley Distribution Services in Blaine, MN seeks: •TRUCKLOAD DRIVERS (No Touch) Earning poten-

tial avg. $68,000 year •LTL TRUCK DRIVERS (Multiple stop loads to re-tail stores!) Earning poten-

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Twin Cities Multi-million dollar Home Improve-ment Company ranked in the Top 100 largest remod-eling companies in the US. A great place to work & build a career. Due to an over-abundance of leads, we are in need of two more sales people to add to our siding & window division.

QUALIFICATIONS:*Desire to be successful

*Willingness to learn*Competitive nature

*Career oriented*Reliable transportation)

WE OFFER:*Qualified appointments

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potential*$1,000 Hiring Bonus

*Continuous training*Management Support

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Luke: 651-784-2646.

5520 Part-time

A/R Credit Assistant Part-time (25–30 hrs/week) Responsible for daily A/R and credit admin duties including but not limited to daily cash application, investigating and resolving short payments or credit requests, processing waiv-ers, collections. Part-time 3+ yrs A/R experience preferred. Qualified appli-cants can email resumes to [email protected] or fax

to 952-707-5291. EOETEMP-Air, Inc.

3700 W. Preserve Blvd.Burnville, MN

5520 Part-time

Caring People Needed to help the elderly with

non-medical care in their homes. PT, flex hours available for

loving, kind caregivers who want to make a

difference in the lives of others. No experience necessary - we provide training and support.

Call 651-212-4191

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Nursery / ChildcareCoordinator - PT

Glendale United MethodistChurch, Savage

Provide a safe & nurturing environment in the nursery room. Approx 12-18 hrs/mo., hrly pay. For detailed job description call church office at 952-894-5394 or send email inquiry to:[email protected]

Permanent PT TELLER

Provincial Bank, located near downtown Lakeville, is looking for an individual with great customer service skills and availability to work

approximately 20-25 hrs/wk. Hours are flexi-ble but typically require

2-3 days a week w/al-ternate Saturdays. Pick

up an application at any of our offices or call for more info 952-469-2265

PT Cleaning Evenings!

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Community Assisted Living in Apple Valley is looking for dedicated em-ployees to work as Certi-fied Nursing Assistants/Home Health Aides tak-ing care of Seniors. We are currently looking to fill PT & FT positions on Evenings, Nights and W/E Days. All shifts include E/O weekend. CAN/HHA positions start at $12.25/hr. Call 952-440-3955 for application address

Warehouse: Pull orders of pop/snack off iPad, load onto trucks, stock, general cleaning. Email [email protected] or fax resume: 952-707-1994


Community Living Options,

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programs &community integration.

Starting pay $11.05

FT/PT & Relief avail. 651-237-1087

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SHERWIN-WILLIAMS, a Fortune 500 Company is hiring Full & Part Time Drivers and Sales Assoc. in the Twin Cities Metro market. If com-petitive wages, excellent benefits, paid vacations and career advance-ment opportunities are important to you; Apply online today at sherwin-williams.comand then click on the “careers” tab to join the team.

5540 Healthcare

Regency Home Healthcare

has immediate opportuni-ties RN’s & LPN’s to join our team. Our agency is searching for nurses in St.Paul, Maplewood, Arden Hills, Blaine and Hastings area. All applicant must have current RN or LPN license. We welcome new graduates and experienced nurses. Regency provides services to all ages pediat-rics to geriatric. We special-ize in medically complex cases including vent de-pendant clients. This allows the nurses to experience ICU level care in clients home. Our nurses enjoy the benefit of full or part-time schedules. We have an excellent office staff that provides respectable customer service. Also, Regency provides extensive training with our veteran staff. If interested please submit online application at www.regencyhhc.com or fax resume attn: Brittni @ 651-488-4656. EOE

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District 196 planned to borrow from its fund bal-ance. The district planned to borrow from the general fund balance during 2014-15 but likely won’t need to, said Jeff Solomon, direc-tor of finance and opera-tions for District 196. The district was able to save $7.5 million dur-ing the current school year and will likely break even by the end of the fiscal year, Solomon said. The district’s prelimi-

nary budget plan assumes a 1 percent increase in state aid, which would provide a $1.6 million boost in rev-enue. The Minnesota Leg-islature ended its session without passing an edu-cation bill among other spending bills. As of June 10, the Legislature had not yet entered into a special session. District 196’s estimates are more conservative than a 2 percent increase that has recently been dis-cussed by legislators and Gov. Mark Dayton. The

School Board is scheduled to vote on the preliminary budget June 22. A final budget would go to the board this fall. In other news School Board members Rob Duchscher and Jackie Magnuson announced June 8 they plan to seek another term on the Dis-trict 196 School Board. Their terms expire in Janu-ary. Duchscher, a Rose-mount resident, was first elected on to the board in 1999 and serves as board

chairperson. He currently serves on the district’s Audit and Finance Committee and is chairperson of the Policy Review Committee. Duch-scher was also appointed as a board representative to the Minnesota State High School League. Magnuson, a Rose-mount resident, was first elected in 1989 and serves as the board’s vice chair-person. Magnuson serves on the district’s Legislative Committee and is chair-

person of the Curriculum and Instruction Commit-tee. She was appointed board representative to the Community Collabo-ration Council, Continu-ing Education/Vocational Relicensure, Metropolitan Educational Cooperative Service Unit, and Q Comp Educational Improvement Planning Team. Magnuson is past president of the Minne-sota School Boards Asso-ciation and serves on the board of directors for the National School Boards

Association. School Board Mem-ber Bob Schutte’s term on the board also expires in 2016. Schutte has not yet announced whether he intends to run for re-elec-tion. Candidates for the four four-year term seats can file from July 28 to Aug. 11.


said. “We are pleased to have brought William Warr to justice for this violent crime which claimed the life of a defenseless child,” he said. Warr pleaded guilty to second-degree mur-der while inflicting bodily harm on a person protect-ed by a protection order. In January 2014 a grand jury indicted him on four counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder. Key’ontay died of com-plications from blunt-force injuries to his abdomen and chest, the Hennepin

County medical examiner ruled. He was found to have multiple bruises in his head, face, arms, chest and back, and eight bro-ken ribs — breaks that oc-curred on at least two oc-casions. Police and paramedics responding to the fam-ily’s townhouse complex on June 11, 2013, found Key’ontay dead on the floor of his bedroom. Warr was allegedly trying to flee in a vehicle when respond-ers arrived. He struck the side of a garage while try-ing to leave the parking lot. He told an officer that the “sick” 4-year-old boy in the townhouse was his stepson, who needed to get

to the hospital. Warr fled on foot when asked for his car keys but tripped and fell near the townhouse complex, where he was arrested. In interviews with po-lice, Sha’reese Miller said the boy had been sick since June 6 with stomach pain and flu-like symp-toms. She said that just before she called 911 on June 11 she had tried to give Key’ontay a bath to reduce his fever. The boy was in the bath when he lost conscious-ness and stopped breath-ing, she told police. She also said Warr had physically assaulted her on multiple occasions.

Further police inves-tigation revealed that in February 2012, a day-care employee had seen an injury on the back of Key’ontay’s head. He told the employee it was from a “whooping” that Warr had given him, according to Backstrom. The boy sustained a black eye in May 2013 af-ter being alone in the up-stairs of the townhouse with Warr. Warr told the mother Key’ontay had hit his eye on a toy box. But Key’ontay had told an-other family member that Warr “whooped” him, causing him to fall and hurt his eye. Warr had an ongoing

relationship with Sha’reese Miller despite an order for protection prohibiting him from contact with her, Key’ontay and the boy’s 2-year-old brother, au-thorities said. Miller was charged with three counts of sec-ond-degree manslaughter alleging child neglect, fail-ure to seek medical care, permitting physical abuse and child endangerment. The autopsy revealed that Key’ontay had an injury in his small intes-tine and was bleeding in his bowel area. He was “left with this injury long enough for him to develop sepsis and infection,” said the Hennepin County

coroner, whose findings included a contusion con-sistent with a human bite mark. “Had the injury been treated in a timely manner, it may not have been fatal.” Miller told police her son had been ill since June 6. He appeared to be im-proving, she said, but two days before his death was vomiting and having diar-rhea. Key’ontay had been dead for “some time” when responders got the 911 call, said the com-plaint against Miller.

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

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Lutheran Church of our Savior celebrates 50 years Lutheran Church of Our Savior in Rosemount is celebrating its 50th anni-versary with a special service at 10 a.m. Sunday, July 26, followed by a catered dinner. All current and former members are invited. To purchase the $15 dinner tickets, stop by the church office or call 651-423-2580 for more information. The church is at 14980 Diamond Path W., Rosemount.

Father’s Day cookout St. Nicholas Catholic Church, 51

Church St., Elko New Market, will host its 46th annual Chicken Cookout from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 21. Masses are at 8 and 10 a.m. Tickets are $12 adults, $6 children under 12. Take-outs are available. Shuttles to the church are available around town – watch for signs. The event includes children’s games, The Big Ticket Drawing at 3 p.m., bingo, crafts, baked goods, cake walk, refresh-ments and more. St. Nicholas Church is 2.5 miles west of I-35 on County Road 2, exit 76.

Tai chi and chai tea Grace United Methodist Church,

15309 Maple Island Drive, Burnsville, will offer the Arthritis Foundation’s Tai Chi Program. Classes will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesdays, June 23 to Aug. 4. Each class will be followed by a time for tea and conversation. Past participants in this program have reported decreased joint pain and stress, increased range of motion and improved balance. Cost is $35. Scholarships are available. To register, call Tracy at 952-215-7052 or visit www.apparentplan.org.

Vacation Bible School The Church of Christ will have a free Vacation Bible School at Camp Sacaja-

wea at Lebanon Hills Regional Park, 5120 McAndrews Drive, from July 13-16. The school for ages 4 years old through sixth grade will have the theme of “Team Possible - “With God all things are possible” Mark 10:27. Registration will be at 6:45 p.m. with activities from 7-8:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday. There will be a pro-gram for parents Thursday, July 16, from 7-8 p.m. The sessions will include Bible study, puppets, skits, refreshments and more. An adult class is available. Pre-register by phone at 651-452-1102 by leaving a voice mail with the partici-pant’s name and contact phone number.

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Yoga at Caponi Art Park Families and adults can experience the health and wellness benefits of yoga in the peaceful, tranquil outdoor setting of Caponi Art Park in Eagan. A yoga class open to families will be offered 2-3:15 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 2. All ages and genera-tions are encouraged to attend. Bring a yoga mat or towel and water bottle. Class size is limited to 10 families. Cost is $15 per family. Register at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1668585. An adult yoga class will be 10:30-11:45 a.m. Friday, July 24. Class is designed for all levels and is limited to 25 people. Register at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1668615. Cost is $10. Contact Caponi Art Park at 651-454-9412 or [email protected] with questions. Further details can be found at ca-poniartpark.org.

Local man designs for theater Burnsville resident Na-than Farley is the set, cos-tume and prop designer for Open Window The-atre’s summer production of “James and the Giant Peach.” He also plays the role of James as an adult. The play runs June 24-28 at Open Window Theatre (Metropolis Min-

neapolis Building), 1313 Chestnut Ave., Suite 102, Minneapolis. Visit http://openwindowtheatre.org/ for more information.

Fine Line concert features AVHS grad Burnsville resident and 2015 Apple Valley High School graduate Scarlett Koenig will be performing her debut concert as a solo vocalist this month at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis. Koenig, who performs under the name “Scarlett Taylor,” will be headlining the Fine Line on June 19 on a double bill with Lisa Lonewolf. Koenig released her debut album, “Lucid,” this spring. Samples from “Lucid” are available at https://soundcloud.com/scarlett-taylor-4. Tickets for the 7 p.m. concert are $10 and are available at www.fineline-music.com.

Eagan Art Festival The 21st annual Eagan Art Festival will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 27, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 28, at Cen-tral Park, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan. The free, family-friend-ly, juried art show will celebrate “Eagan Our Home” and will include food, entertainment and art activities. Visit www.

eaganartfestival.org for information.

Fourth of July celebration at Mystic Lake Mystic Lake’s Rock and Rockets Fourth of July Celebration returns this year with another spectacular fireworks display. The free all-ages event will take place out-side Mystic Lake begin-ning at 3 p.m. Saturday, July 4, and will feature live music, food trucks, games and giveaways. Local bands Viva Knievel and Maiden Di-xie will play from 4 to 10 p.m. A variety of food and beverages will be avail-able from food trucks and tents including The An-chor Fish & Chips, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Butcher Salt, Café Racer, Da-Lem-on, Gastrotruck, Falafel King, R.A. MacSammy’s, Ruhland’s Strudel Haus, Taqueria La Hacienda and Tiki Tim’s. Guests are invited to bring their own lawn chairs or blankets to the event, which will conclude with fireworks beginning at 10 p.m. The event will take place, rain or shine, in the lower lot near Mys-tic Lake Casino Hotel and The Meadows at Mystic Lake golf course in Prior Lake. Coolers, picnic bas-kets, umbrellas and out-side food and beverages will not be allowed. Visit www.myst ic lake.com/rockandrockets for more details.

To submit items for the Arts Calendar, email: darcy.

[email protected].

Books SouthSide Writers, Sat-urday workgroup for aspiring writers, offering critique, sub-mission and manuscript prep-aration information, support and direction, 10 a.m. to noon, Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan. Information: 651-688-0365.

Dance Heartbeat Performing Arts Center will present adaptations of three episodes of “Doctor Who” June 13-14 at Eastview High School, 6200 140th St. W., Apple Valley. “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship,” 1 p.m.; “Shake-speare Code” and “Closing Time,” 6:30 p.m. Call 952-432-7833 for tickets. Tickets also available one hour prior to per-formances at the Eastview box office.

Events/Festivals Farmington Dew Days, June 16-20. Information: www.farmingtondewdays.com. Rosemount ArtBlast, June 18-28. Information: http://www.rosemountarts.com. Hampton Community Days, June 19-20. Information: www.facebook.com/thehamp-tonnews. Eagan Art Festival, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 27, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 28, Central Park, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan. Infor-mation: www.eaganartfestival.org.

Exhibits “Committed,” an exhibit by abstract painter Lisa Anderson,

is on display through June 14 at Ames Center, 12900 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville. A watercolor exhibit by Rita Ryan runs 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays through July 31 at Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. An open-ing reception will be 6-8 p.m. Friday, June 5. Information: 952-985-4640.

Music Jay & Tammy Variety Mu-sic, 7:30 p.m. Friday, June

From the Archives

Does a kiss on the cheek from your big brother cause you to burst into laughter? Or does it make you want to scream? The girl’s facial expression in this photo, which was published in the Nov. 3, 1980, edition of Thisweek News, confounded even the photographer, Terry Kelley of Burnsville. Kelley, who earned a first-place prize for the image in Thisweek’s reader-submitted photo contest, said he was experimenting with a new flash attachment for his camera when his two kids — 4-year-old Jennifer and 5-year-old Sean — began joking around. He told the newspaper he couldn’t tell whether Jennifer was laughing with delight or crying out in exaggerated torment during the sibling smooch. Emotional ambiguity notwithstanding, the photo was striking enough to claim top billing in that week’s edition, splashed across the front page over headlines that included “Eagan woman visits Cuba” and “Rosemount actress has new role.”

The David Gonzalez Band is bringing its rhythm & blues and Latin music to Apple Valley on Friday, June 12, as part of the summerlong Kelley Park concert series hosted by the Apple Valley Arts Foundation. Admission is free to the 6-9 p.m. concert in the park located at Founders Lane and West 153rd Street in Apple Valley’s Central Village, and vendors will be on hand offering festival food along with wine and beer. The series continues June 19 with a performance by J.D. Steele and the MacPhail Commu-nity Youth Choir, followed June 26 by Twin Cities rock band Circle of Heat. More about the concerts is at Face-book.com/MusicInKelleyPark. (Photo submitted)

Concert in Kelley Park

12, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville. Tickets: $12.50. Information: 952-985-4640. Music in Kelley Park fea-turing The David Gonzalez Band, 6-9 p.m. Friday, June 12, at Kelley Park, 6855 Fortino St., Apple Valley. Free. Food and beverages available for pur-chase. Information: http://avar-tsfoundation.org/. Salsabrosa: Salsa Music and Dancing, 6:30 p.m. Sun-day, June 14, part of Caponi Art Park’s Summer Performance Series in the park’s Theater in the Woods outdoor amphithe-ater, 1220 Diffley Road, Eagan. Opening act: Theatre of Fools. A $5 per person donation is suggested. Information: 651-454-9412 or http://www.ca-

poniartpark.org. Los Lonely Boys with Rog-er Clyne & the Peacemakers, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, in the amphitheater at the Min-nesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $44, $56.50 VIP box seat. Informa-tion: http://suemclean.com/. Music in Kelley Park fea-turing J.D. Steele and MacPhail Center for Music, 6-9 p.m. Fri-day, June 19, at Kelley Park, 6855 Fortino St., Apple Val-ley. Free. Food and beverages available for purchase. Informa-tion: http://avartsfoundation.org/. Bodeans with GB Leigh-ton, 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 19, in the amphitheater at the Min-nesota Zoo as part of Subway

Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $37, $49.50 VIP box seat. Informa-tion: http://suemclean.com/. Michael McDonald, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20, in the amphitheater at the Minnesota Zoo as part of Subway Music in the Zoo. Tickets: $57, $69.50 VIP box seat. Information: http://suemclean.com/. Local Red Bulls military country band, 7-11 p.m. Sat-urday, June 20, Rosemount American Legion Post 65, 14590 Burma Ave. W., Rose-mount. Meet and greet post of-ficers. Taco bar fundraiser, 5-8 p.m., $10. South of the River Com-munity Band, 7 p.m. Thurs-day, June 25, at Central Park Amphitheater, 2893 145th St., Rosemount. Part of the Sum-mer Music in the Park series. Bring a blanket or lawn chair for seating. Free. Call 651-322-6020 and select option 6 to check for cancelation due to inclement weather.

Theater “Macbeth,” presented by the Northfield Arts Guild The-ater, 7:30 p.m. June 19-21 and 25-27 in Central Park, 421 Fourth St. E., Northfield. Tick-ets: $17 adults, $12 students and seniors at www.northfield-artsguild.org or 507-645-8877.

Workshops/classes/other International Festival of Burnsville Planning Commit-tee: Get involved with the July 2015 festival; choose from en-tertainment, marketing, public-ity, sponsorships, and general event planning. Visit www.in-tlfestburnsville.org or contact [email protected]. Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Bat-

tle, 4-5 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Apple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, 952-953-2385. Ages 12-18. Drawing & Painting (adults and teens) with Christine Tier-ney, 9 a.m. to noon Wednes-days, River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville. Information: www.christinetierney.com, 612-210-3377. Brushworks School of Art Burnsville offers fine art education through drawing and painting. Classes for adults and teens. Information: Patricia Schwartz, www.BrushworksS-choolofArt.com, 651-214-4732. Soy candle making class-es held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Ja-mie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota. Country line dance class-es on Wednesdays at the Lakeville Senior Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; Intermediate, 10 a.m. to noon. $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833. Line dance classes for intermediates, 1:30-4 p.m., weekly schedule to be deter-mined at American Legion, 14521 Granada Drive, Apple Valley, $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833 for details. The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640. Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. Infor-mation: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected].

Twin Cities dance company Young Dance is set to perform at Caponi Art Park on June 16 as part of the Eagan venue’s ongoing Family Fun Tuesdays series. The youth performers from Young Dance will stage excerpts from “Stories,” their annual spring concert which features tall tales and quirky characters explored through dance. Other June events for Family Fun Tuesdays include a concert by the Sisters of Swing (June 23) and Indonesian dance and music from Sumunar Gamelan Ensemble (June 30). All the Family Fun Tuesdays activities start at 10 a.m. and admission is free with a $4 per person suggested donation. More information is at www.caponiartpark.org. (Photo submitted)

Young Dance at Caponi


ThisweekendThisweekendWisconsin rock-ers the BoDeans are set to play the Minnesota Zoo’s Weesner Family Amphitheater on June 19. (Photo submitted)

Music amid the animals Music in the Zoo returns with three

months of outdoor concerts Music fans have plen-ty to look forward to this summer at the Minneso-ta Zoo in Apple Valley. The annual Music in the Zoo concert series, held in the zoo’s 1,450-seat Weesner Family Amphitheater, kicks into high gear this month with concerts by Buddy Guy, the BoDeans and others. More than two dozen concerts are scheduled throughout the summer. Between now and the series finale featuring Robert Randolph & the Family Band on Sept. 3, there’s something for music lovers of all stripes. The concerts started earlier this month with a double bill from Gram-my-winning singer-song-writers Marc Cohn and Shawn Colvin on June 6. Remaining concerts in June include Los Lonely Boys with Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers (June 16), the BoDeans (June 19), Michael McDon-

ald (June 20) and Buddy Guy with The Record Company (June 26). Other highlights of this summer’s series in-clude Salt-N-Pepa (July 9), Indigo Girls (July 17), Dave Koz (July 18), Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo (Aug. 11) and Tina & the B-Sides (Aug. 15). Tickets, which range from $20 to about $60, can be purchased by phone at 800-514-3849 or online at www.etix.com. VIP box seats along with 10-concert Stand-ing Room Only passes are available through the Etix site. The Minnesota Zoo box office sells available tickets after 6:30 p.m. the night of each con-cert, with concerts start-ing at 7:30 p.m. Concerts are held rain or shine, and there’s a $7 parking charge for the events. The full concert sched-ule is at www.suemclean.com/zoo.

—Andrew Miller

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10 or more years, council members said at a June 9 work session. To meet the most im-mediate needs, city staffers are suggesting $10 million in bonding to be repaid over 15 years. The city would need to raise an ex-tra $825,000 a year to re-pay the debt — a 2.7 per-cent annual levy increase. Staffers suggest the full amount be phased in over two years. A proposed $4.6 mil-lion police renovation is among $6.4 million in un-budgeted projects recom-mended by city staffers

and a consulting architect for completion within five years. Further recommen-dations on the building program and funding are expected in August during the council’s 2016 budget talks. “I see that as a sepa-rate deal,” said Council Member Dan Kealey, who agreed with his colleagues that spending on buildings should begin next year. That left for debate the 3.7 percent levy increase for ongoing city functions and a handful of planned spending increases. Kealey, who cast the lone vote last December against raising the 2015

levy by 4 percent, called for cutting about $350,000 out of next year’s proposed $1.1 million increase. That would cap the increase paid by current property owners to 2 per-cent instead of the pro-posed 3.2 percent, Kealey said. Under the 3.7 per-cent proposal, 3.2 percent ($906,000) would come from existing taxpayers and 0.5 percent ($150,000) from new construction. “I want to go on record early on and not come in late” in the budget talks, Kealey said. “I want to see a 2 percent or less increase on existing taxpayers. We can do that by cutting

about $350,000 from our budget, which is actually a number that’s been done many, many times.” Other council mem-bers defended proposed spending levels, includ-ing $316,000 in planned spending increases. The increases include restora-tion of past cuts in annual contributions to the parks capital and infrastructure replacement funds and a continuing annual outlay to prepare for an emerald ash borer infestation. Council members reached consensus on those items last year, council members Mary Sherry and Bill Coughlin

said. “I would not want to see a change at this point,” Sherry said. “I can’t see that we can delay any of these items,” Council Member Suzanne Nguyen said. “I think our taxpayers expect a certain level of service, and I think we need to continue to de-liver that.” The other $796,000 of levy increase is earmarked for ongoing costs, includ-ing employee pay and ben-efits. City staffers could whittle down the 3.7 per-cent increase as budget planning continues. The council will adopt a maxi-mum levy on Sept. 8 and

a final budget and levy on Dec. 8. “By December, who knows, with the analy-sis that they will do? But I don’t want to tie their hands at any point,” May-or Elizabeth Kautz said. The proposed 2016 levy increase is lower than the 4.6 percent projected last year. That’s mainly be-cause the city won’t yet be contributing to a Cliff Road/I-35W interchange project that’s been de-layed.

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

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She’s known to col-leagues as a teacher lead-er — restless to try new things, willing to take on new tasks and eager to pass on professional knowledge. “The greatest charac-teristic that separates Mrs. Bohr from other educators is that she is always figur-ing out a way to better her teaching practice,” wrote Hidden Valley fifth-grade teacher Abby Ertl, a first-year district teacher who considers Bohr a mentor. Bohr is an “inspiring leader” who “is consis-tently looking for ways to better herself as a learner and as a teacher,” wrote Hidden Valley fifth-grade teacher Beth Raebel in another testimonial for the Teacher of the Year honor, given annually by the Burnsville Education Association.

Bohr has spent her life in District 191. The daugh-ter of Bob and Judy Theis, who still live in Burnsville, attended William Byrne Elementary and Metcalf Junior High and gradu-ated from Burnsville High School in 1988. Her career choice al-ready solidified, Bohr excelled academically at Minnesota State Univer-sity Moorhead and started her career at Sky Oaks El-ementary in 1992. She taught fifth grade for nine years and fourth for one. For six years when her two children were younger Bohr was a part-time resource teacher at Sky Oaks. Returning to full-time teaching, she taught sixth grade at Sky Oaks and at Hidden Val-ley, where she’s been since 2012. Sixth grade is her teach-ing sweet spot. “Kids ‘get it’ in sixth

grade,” said Bohr, who lives in Lakeville with her husband, Fred, and their children, 15-year-old Rob-bie and 13-year-old Kelly. “They have a sense of humor. They know when they’re not doing some-thing they should be. I like the age. I feel like they mature a ton. ... It’s a great year to have an influence on kids.” Bohr has spent her ca-reer in the two schools that currently have the highest percentages of low-income students in District 191. “A teacher handed out a quote this morning that I really liked,” Bohr said. “It basically said that when kids come from homes where there’s a lot of support, it makes your job easier, and when they come from homes where there’s not as much sup-port, it makes it more im-portant. I think that’s how a lot of us feel.”

Bohr said she’s no te-chie, but she was an early adopter of touch-screen smartboards at both Sky Oaks and Hidden Val-ley. She has since trained other teachers in the use of smartboards, which she said are tools to en-gage students in learning through devices such as pictures and games. “I got addicted to it right when I started using it,” Bohr said. “You have to be willing to put in the time. Sunday was my les-son-making day. The year that I got the smartboard, every Sunday I would sit at home and just make les-sons for the week ahead. Now, besides modifying them, I’ve got stuff in place I can use.” Frequently moving on to something new, Bohr has been trained in a classroom-management philosophy called Respon-sive Classroom. From last

August through April, she and Hidden Valley col-leagues and fellow trainees Lori Briggs and Lisa Reid shared what they’d learned in sessions with 25 col-leagues from Hidden Val-ley and five from Harriet Bishop Elementary. Building classroom community is one plank of the philosophy, said Bohr, who used a morning meeting to foster commu-nity. “You don’t have to like everybody,” she said of relationships among stu-dents, “but you do have to be able to work with every-body, and you have to be respectful to everybody in the room. That is a core base. I think once you can establish that, teaching be-comes so much easier. Be-cause kids want to learn.” Bohr will begin work next year as one of 10 “continuous improve-ment” coaches in District

191, a role tied to the dis-trict’s performance-pay incentive plan. The expe-rienced teacher trainer will observe and give sugges-tions to colleagues. “I’ve always enjoyed working with teachers, too,” said Bohr, who isn’t sure whether she’ll return to the classroom herself. Bohr recently com-pleted the coursework for school administration cer-tification, and while she said she isn’t interested in being a principal, she’s open to other opportuni-ties. “I would like to do more with, like, curricu-lum and data at a district level,” she said. “That’s where I could see myself.”

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

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Kline’s Career & Jobs Fair to feature more than 80 employers More than 80 employ-ers with job openings will be attending U.S. Rep. John Kline’s Career & Jobs Fair 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, June 22, at the Eagan Community Center in Eagan. The fair is free and open to the public. “I am pleased to host a jobs fair that will con-nect Minnesotans who are looking for a job with

potential employers and with resources to enable a successful job search,” said Kline, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee. “I encourage constituents to attend my jobs fair or share the information with anyone they know who is looking for a job.” Scheduled to attend Kline’s career and jobs fair

are more than 80 private-sector employers who cur-rently have job openings in a wide variety of fields including the health care, technology, financial, and retail industries. Employment assistance organizations like the Da-kota County Workforce Center, and Minnesota Department of Employ-ment and Economic De-

velopment will be pro-viding workshops for job seekers. The Eagan Community Center is at 1501 Central Parkway. For more information, including a current list of businesses attending, visit Kline’s virtual “Jobs Search Toolkit” at http://kline.house.gov/jobs.

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